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War in Iraq affects local family
Bibiana Rivera / STAFF
Manuel and María Denogean await the rsiuni of
their injured family member from the war in Ira q.
Joven cantante
vive su sueño
Por Jul jan Temblador
ESCRITOR
Mientras que otros niños juga-ban,
Suzette Marquez de siete
años cantaba.
Hoy, Marquez tiene 17 años y
ha desarrollado talentos artísticos
extraordinarios que ella descubrió
hace 10 años. Se ha convertido en
una de las estrellas más brillantes
de la industria.
"El cantar es mi vida," Marquez
dijo. "Creo que define el tipo de
persona que soy porque es trabajo
dificil y toma dedicación y esos
son rasgos que llevo dentro de mi.
Soy dedicada, trabajo duro y no
aceptaré menos."
Una de las primeras canciones
que Marquez canta cuando era
chica en el sistema de karaoke de
su familia era "Wind Beneath My
Wings," o "Viento debajo de mis
alas," por Bette Midler. Marquez
ha utilizado el viento debajo de
sus alas como cantante para ele-varse
en una carrera prometedora
de música.
Marquez utiliza su talento en
español e inglés, cantando baladas
en español, mariachi, norteño,
música pop y muchos otros estilos
de música.
"Estoy aprovechando de las
bendiciones que tengo," Marquez
dijo. "Creo que Dios me dió esta
bendición por
una razón, y es
mi trabajo com-partirlo
con
otros que lo
aprecien."
Marquez está
en su último
año de prepara-toria
en Pueblo
High School y
tiene experien-cias
impresion-antes
en su car-rera
como can-tante.
En el 2000,
Marquez cantó
en Orlando,
FIa., en el centro
de Epcot del
mundo de Walt
By Irma L. Bravo
STAFF WRITER
Maria Denogean could
hardly speak as she sat
quietly in her South
Tucson home. Her son
was injured in an
ambush near the Iraq-
Kuwait border Saturday,
March 22.
Master Gunnery Sgt.
Guadalupe Denogean,
42, received injuries to
the right side of his body
and head from an Iraqi
grenade that hit his
Marine vehicle.
Guadalupe Denogean
was in an intensive care
unit on a hospital ship
for several days because
his injuries were so
extensive he couldn't be
moved, said his sister,
María del Carmen
Denogean.
Two other injured sol-diers
had already been
taken to hospitals in
Disney y en 2001, ella cantó en
Los Angeles,Calif., en el festival
de los E.E.U.U. dei mariachi enel
tazón de fuente de Hollywood.
Recientemente ella también
asistió a la liga de la Conferencia
Americana Latina Unida de la
juventud de los ciudadanos en
Washington, D.C., donde ella
cantó en la Embajada Mexicana.
Marquez ha estado en televisión
muchas veces, cantando en
Sábado Gigante de Univision
donde ganó el premio de segundo
Germany, she said.
Sunday, March 30
Guadalupe Denogean
was taken to a hospital in
Germany.
"He still can't speak or
hear, but he is stable,"
she said.
"We feel very frustrat-ed
because we want to
be next to my brother
because we think he is
there alone," Maria del
Carmen said.
María and her husband
Manuel Denogean
received a letter from
their son two days after
he was injured. In the
letter, which was written
before the ambush, he
said he was doing well
and there was nothing
much happening in
Kuwait. He said it was
very windy with sand-storms
in Kuwait and it
seemed he would be
there for a couple more
Bibiana Rivera / FOTÓGRAFA
Suzette Marquez le canta a un público en Rigo 's.
lugar.
"Me siento muy emocionada y
feliz que mi hija es cantante," dijo
Clara Marquez, la madre de
Swette Marquez. "Es dificil para
mi describirlo. Quisiera ver a mi
hija ser una estrella. Si ella traba-ja
duro cualquier cosa es posible."
Suzette Marquez también ha
lanzado su álbum de principio con
los expedientes de BMC, titulado
"Con Amor," que ya ha vendido
más de 500 copias.
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months.
Denogean, a mainte-nance
chief with the U.S.
Marine Corps Ist Tank
Battalion, also went to
Kuwait during the Gulf
War in 1991, said Maria
Denogean, a South
Tucson resident of about
26 years. Guadalupe
Denogean's son, CpI.
Adam Jovan Denogean,
21, is also in Kuwait.
Both serve in the same
Marine battalion and
saw each other there,
María del Carmen
Denogean said. She said
her nephew married
right before being
deployed to Kuwait.
"He went to take care
of his son," she said of
her brother.
Both Maña and Maria
del Carmen said they are
against the war in Iraq
because President Bush
By Peggy Brown
StAFF WRITER
Some residents of
South Tucson were
unaware of a $150,000
grant from Pima County
to build a basketball
court and community
garden within South
Tucson.
City Manager
Femando Castro said the
neighborhoods dis-cussed
plans for the bas-ketball
court and garden
during Weed and Seed
meetings.
The basketball court
will be built on Second
Avenue, between 34th
and 35th streets, Castro
said, because there are
no recreational facilities
on the east side of South
is fighting the war for oil
and not respecting
another nation's territo-ry.
"He should not be
fighting for something
that is not his," Maña
Denogean said.
1st Sgt. Alex Lee
Romero, 70, the club
manager of the Marine
Corps League Tucson
Detachment on East
29th Street, visited the
Denogeans' home. He
said he knows how hard
it is for families to
endure the pain of hav-ing
a loved one fight in
war.
Romero, a Vietnam
and Korean war veteran,
also adorned the
entrance of the Marine
Corps League with U.S.
flags and burning can-dles
to depict the first
casualties in the war
with Iraq.
Plans for ball
court, garden
Tucson.
Residents say they did
not know about the
plans.
SuzyAlzua, 31, a sin-gle
parent, said she did
not know there was
going to be a basketball
court on her street.
"Santa Rita is a crack
park so I go to Reid Park
and Kennedy just to
have a place for the kids
to play on the swings.
The children would def-initely
use the basketball
court," she said.
"South Tucson doesn't
offer very much for
youth with activities,"
Jerry Obregon, 42,
mother and student,
said. "I think the basket-
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