After her family moved to Chula Vista when she was 10, she no longer took lessons, but she never gave up her love for the dances of her native culture. It's bedtime in Poway. Children are in their pajamas, snuggling with their favorite teddy bears and listening quietly to a story. But they're not at home. They're at the library.
Kids play piano, cello, violin, and sax.
They sing and dance. Ruecker selects 20, with great difficulty, from the hundreds of performers. P-FLAG stands for Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. Instead, Carl Jerry Burke, driving with more than four times the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream, struck an Escondido man who was walking across a street. She had mastered a handful of English words, her family said, and was learning simple, routine activities such as riding the bus.