Task force picked to speak for all

People from all corners of Dade County have been selected to serve on the Immigration Emergency Fund Advisory Committee. Vidal will chair the committee.

Of the 17 members, there are four activists working in the Haitian community: the Rev. Thomas Wenski, who heads Notre Dame D'Haiti Catholic Church; Rudolphe Moise, a doctor with a health clinic in Little Haiti; Cheryl Little, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center; and Jacques Despinosse, president of the Haitian-American Democratic Club.

The first meeting is Wednesday, when Lt. Gov. Buddy McKay is expected to attend, said Virginia Sanchez, director of Metro-Dade County's Governmental Affairs. It is now unclear whether the public can attend the meeting, she said.

The committee's task will be to recommend to Gov. Lawton Chiles how to spend the money and whether it should go to agencies that already help immigrants.

Alejandro Aguirre, Oscar Bustillo, Cynthia Curry, Maria Dominguez, Rabbi Simcha Freedman, Sandra Gonzalez-Levy, Dewey Knight III, Joseph Lacher, Cristina Mendoza, Carlos Palomares, Ruth Shack and Dorothy Weaver.