Ida Perez

• 
  www.rochesterconxion.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/7/2008    Last Visited: 9/6/2008  

  President-elect Orlando Ortiz was working alongside outgoing President Ida Perez and the rest of the board to ensure the festival ran smoothly.
  ...
  In fact, Perez said the beer vendors sold more beer in one day than in the entire festival three years ago.
  ...
  The festival would not be complete without a final tribute to outgoing festival President Perez.She was presented with a plaque recognizing her years of service at the festival's closing ceremonies.

• 
  www.thelatinscene.com/op-ed.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/11/2008    Last Visited: 4/19/2008  

  According to current festival President Ida Perez, during the past ten years of her affiliation, "we've had no incidents on site… I think someone was escorted out once."

• 
  www.rochesterconxion.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/5/2007    Last Visited: 7/22/2007  

  "We've mixed it up a bit more this year," said Perez about the musical acts that will also offer festival goers an ample sampling of merengue-salsa and tipico flavors.
  ...
  Held at the Civic Center Plaza since the mid-1990s, the new festival location is 1 Morrie Silver Way in the V.I.P parking lot at Frontier Field, moving it away from a setting criticized by some for its proximity to the Hall of Justice and Public Safety Buildings, according to Ida Perez, festival board president.
  
  "People would tell me that they weren't coming because of the location, so we found a new place," Perez said.
  ...
  "The reason we're holding it in the parking lot is because of a contractual agreement between Frontier and its vendors," Perez said.
  ...
  "It's not fair to link us with things that are out of our control," Perez said.
  ...
  "I think our community is large enough that we shouldn't have to struggle to make this possible," Perez said."Instead of us knocking on people's doors, they should be knocking on ours."

• 
  www.rnews.com/Story_2004.cfm?ID=50523&rnews_story_type= - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/28/2007    Last Visited: 6/28/2007  

  "Wanting to do this here on this site, I have to say it's important for our community, because it's going back to what started and what our pioneers did, many many years ago," said Ida Perez of the Puerto Rican Festival.

• 
  www.rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/20/2007    Last Visited: 7/20/2007  

  (July 20, 2007) - Serving the community comes naturally to Ida Perez.Her parents, one of the local Puerto Rican community's founding families, regularly housed relatives, friends and even strangers who relocated here from the island.
  
  The clan, which moved to Rochester in 1952, brought food and clothing to migrant workers at local farms on the weekends, among other good works.
  
  And they were there with other volunteers to help organize the first Puerto Rican Festival, the longest running ethnic celebration in the area.
  
  That could explain why Perez, festival president now for four years, is devoted to keeping the event alive even as the community itself is changing.
  
  This week, Perez announced that the 38-year-old festival would move from its location for the last several years at Civic Center Plaza to a parking lot at Frontier Field.Vendor issues prevented the festival, this year Aug. 3-5, from moving onto the field.
  
  She's hoping the shift will assuage complaints about the festival being held near the Monroe County jail at the plaza, while appeasing those who remember the good old days when the event was held at Brown Square, not far from Frontier Field.
  
  But as we chatted this week about the changes, what became clear is that the festival will never be the same because the community is not the same.
  
  Think about it.The event, modeled after celebrations on the island that honored the patron saints of towns called fiestas patronales, was begun by people longing for their roots.
  
  "Our parents didn't have the opportunity to get on a plane when they got homesick," Perez says, as many Puerto Ricans do today.
  ...
  Perez, one of nine children, knows about music.

• 
  www.rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/18/2007    Last Visited: 7/18/2007  

  "We invite everybody to be part of this parade," Ida Perez, president of the Puerto Rican Festival's board, said at a news conference at Upper Falls Boulevard and North Clinton Avenue.
  
  "This will be our opportunity to beep our horns, wave our flags, play our music and yell 'Boriqua' in an organized manner," Perez said.

• 
  www.rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/17/2007    Last Visited: 7/17/2007  

  The parades are a throwback to the earliest days of the festival, which started more than 30 years ago, said Ida Perez, president of the Puerto Rican Festival Board of Directors.
  
  "This will be our opportunity to beep our horns, wave our flags, play our music and yell ‘Boriqua,' " Perez said, using the Spanish idiom for descendants and natives of Puerto Rico.

• 
  www.whec.com/article/stories/S531954.shtml?cat=566 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/1/2008    Last Visited: 8/2/2008  

  It has been going on for 39 years it's the longest festival in Monroe County," said Ida Perez, Board President for the Puerto Rican festival.

• 
  senorboriqua.net/Puerto_Rican_Parade_2005/Schedule.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/24/2005    Last Visited: 8/21/2008  

  Ida Perez, President
  
  585.234.7660
  
  IPerez@abcinfo.org

• 
  www.aleida.net/nhhodir.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/11/2008    Last Visited: 7/5/2008  

  Ida Perez President:

Page:  1 2 3 4