Grace Vargas, first female and first Latina mayor of Rialto, dies

Grace Vargas, first female and first Latina mayor of Rialto, dies

Grace Vargas, the first female and first Latina mayor of Rialto, died Sunday, Aug. 14, after a long illness, according to a news release.She was 81.Decades before serving as an elected official, Vargas moved to California as a young single mother of seven.She began working in the City Clerk’s Office in the late 1970s, and later worked in the Rialto Police Department and the City Treasurer’s Office. In 1979, she became the city’s licensing inspec…