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Puerto Rican parade and fest to liven up downtown Orlando

Orlando Sentinel 22 Apr 2022
The mayor of Ponce, Luis Irizarry Pabón said he felt honored to be able to represent this Caribbean jewel and to be able to share again with the Puerto Rican diaspora in Central Florida ... So far, the presentations of Plenéalo, Los DPR and the Vejigantes de la Playa de Ponce, who will attend the event with the mayor of that town, have been confirmed.
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Op-ed: Flood survivors find common ground in a divided nation

Resilience 03 May 2021
The group also includes Frances Acuña, whose Austin neighborhood experienced several “100-year” floods in the span of a few years, and David Southgate, whose neighbors in Ponce Playa, Puerto Rico, face possible displacement because of coastal erosion and flooding from climate-driven storms.
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José Torres

The Guardian 26 Jan 2009
The win confirmed New York's love affair with its adopted son, who had refused to fight unless the Puerto Rican anthem were played alongside the Star Spangled Banner before the fight ... He was born in Playa Ponce, Puerto Rico, and started boxing after enlisting aged 17 in the US Army ... He moved back to Ponce in 2007, to concentrate on writing ... popular ... .
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Puertorriqueños se despiden de 'Cheguí' Torres

New York Daily News 23 Jan 2009
Al llegar al cementerio del sector Playa de Ponce, el público el féretro con aplausos y vivas ... un amigo se va", mientras ponceños integrantes de varias agrupaciones musicales entonaban una plena que decía "en la Playa de Ponce ha nacido un campeón que se llamaba Chegui Torres".
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Jose "Chegui" Torres, former boxing great, dead at 72

Newsday 20 Jan 2009
(AP File Photo / May 21, 1966). Jose "Chegui" Torres, former boxing great, state athletic commissioner and author, died Monday in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He was 72 ...   •.   • ...   ... Born May 3, 1936, in Playa Ponce, Puerto Rico, Torres joined the Army in 1954 at age 18 and won the junior middleweight silver medal at the 1956 Melbourne ... .
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Glaring absence at Stratton's campaign start

Times Union 15 Jun 2007
Mayor Jerry Jennings hasn't yet tasted "tostones" at the "playa" in Ponce, Puerto Rico ... Some folks want to make Ponce a sister city to Albany and floated the idea at the recent Somos El Futuro conference ... Albany would twin with Ponce -- Puerto Rico's second-largest city, founded in ...
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