LACEO Banquet 2010...
Over Mothers' Day weekend, the annual LACEO banquette promised to be a very nice three-generation family event. For those of you who don't know, LACEO is the Latin-American Cultural Exchange Organization. LACEO is a Philadelphia non-profit organization, dedicated to outreach to youth and the local community, located in Graterford Prison, Graterford PA. LACEO usually holds a banquet complete with guest speakers on the day before Mother's Day. The event went didn't turn out quite as expected... My brother, Tony, his daughter, Amanda, Mom, Christina, a long-time family friend, and I, got up early on Saturday and headed out for breakfast around 8:00am. With the banquette approaching, Tony decided to skip breakfast and just had coffee. After breakfast, we headed down to Sammy's place and arrived at the main road around 9:30am. We were greeted by the State Police who were conducting vehicle searches. Tony and Amanda were behind us in Tony's bright-blue "pimp...