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Far From Home, Beauty Pageants Remain Popular

Posted on 18 November 2014. Tags: , , ,

Every Saturday morning, Marcela Barrera of Jackson Heights hair sprays her daughter’s ringlets, helps her pick out an outfit appropriate for the season, and then brings her daughter to a modeling class at Super Star Dance Studio. It is there that Barbara, 6, learns how to strut, pose and shuffle her feet to the quick beats of a Bachata tune.

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Sandy blasts Tri-State Area

At the Colombian Consulate

Posted on 02 November 2012. Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Trying to keep worried families connected during the storm and after.

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