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everybody else will, Gomez said.ogether they believe that the po-
tential o the Hispanic communityis very much there and the infu-ential Hispanic expo is a steppingstone in the right direction
I think when we celebrate our
success it makes us want to dobetter and when we do better wecan give back to our community soI think its a cycle, Gomez said.For next year Alvarez plans toopen a a ood estival at Harbour-ront centre while Gomez still con-tinues her research or her Spanishlectures
By Jabbari Weekes For one night differentfaces for the same underlying
basis surrounded the Hispanic
community from various plac-
es: success. While, a rhyming
scheme was denitely not a
factor, success and prosperity
certainly were central themes at
the 10 most inuential Hispanics
awards.
Two of the several recipients,
Francisco Alvarez, Managing
Director for the Institute of Con-
temporary Culture at the Royal
Ontario Museum and Dr. Rosario
Gomez, professor of language
and linguistics at Guelph Uni-
versity see the awards as a rst
step in representing a new face
in Toronto, Hispanics.As a Hispanic member its
gratifying to know that there are
people in different elds doing
what they love and doing it so
well, I think it has to be celebrat-
ed, Gomez said.
Created by Mauricio Ospina,
international market consultant,
inuential Hispanic Canadians
was formed in 2007. According
to Ospina, the ceremony pulls
from a variety of industry leaders
all over Canada in the Hispanic
community. With nominees rang-
ing from club owners to universi-
ty professors.
Were a young community that
has grown with a new wave of
thinkers and leaders and now wehave a night where the Hispanic
culture can focus on its success,
Ospina said.
According to both Alvarez and
Gomez, they were in fact part of
one of those waves, arriving in
Canada in the 1970s albeit from
different countries. Alvarez was
born in Columbia where Gomez
was born in Ecuador, with both
of their families moving to nd
greater opportunities.For both of them the awards
arent as important as the an-
nual progression of the grow-
ing community. To Gomez, the
community is still slowly nding
its voice.
Te thing is we know the workthat we do but I think its really im-portant to get the people out thereand recognize ourselves and then
An Investment in the infuence o HispanicsFrancisco Alvarez sits by the Royal Ontario Museum as passerbys enter the prestigious acility
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