La Gran America Trilingual newspaper of Willmar celebrating its first year anniversary is pleased to invite you to the Trilingual Latino-Somali community resources fair.

We understand how quickly your schedule fills, so please plan to hold the date. We will email you in the next few days.

 The purpose of this fair is to provide the families of Willmar with resources and information on health, housing, education, Job opportunities, Willmar lawyers, nonprofit organizations and  state institutions services among others to Latino community and the  Somali located in Willmar MN. 

Date: Saturday, August 15, 2009Time: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Place: Civic Center Arena, Willmar MN

Title of Event: Latino-Somali community resources fair

Marian Sánchez the president of the Tilingual newspaper La Gran America is a Colombo-American journalist, who came to the United States 2 years ago. She arrived with the idea of learning English and continuing her career. After working in different places and many job applications she had an interview for the chain television station “Univision” in Minneapolis, where she started working as a reporter. She later worked as an editor and journalist for El Heraldo. This newspaper covered the areas of Melrose, Long Praire, Willmar and Sauk Centre, in which it was stationed at. Unfortunately this newspaper shut down because of the high costs of running the paper. Marian however, decided to pursue this difficult task. That is how La Gran America was initiated. Although it was created on such a small budget, Marian has much enthusiasm and dedication. People like the former president of El Heraldo and the president of La Voz Libre of Long Prairie were of great support. Below we will see how this story develops up to the birth of the bilingual news paper La Gran America of Willmar Minnesota.