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Vicente s Supermarket in Brockton, Massachusetts. The international grocer plans to open a store in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. (Google Maps)
PAWTUCKET, RI The vacant Ocean State Job Lot building on Pawtucket Avenue will soon see new life as the home of the first Vicente s Supermarket in Rhode Island.
Vicente s, with two stores in Brockton, Massachusetts, offers specialty foods from Cape Verde, Africa, Central America, South America, Haiti, and beyond. Its shelves are stocked with typical American groceries as well as international items.
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Chest X-rays showed doctors what they were up against.
Healthy lungs full of air look black on the image. In Jason Barbosa s lungs, inflamed and filled with fluid, it looked like a whiteout.
Barbosa was 24, a dad, a husband and a gym buff who liked to lift weights. He was strong, but he wasn t invincible against COVID-19 and a litany of complications.
Doctors had tried everything possible to keep him alive. His ventilator had been turned to the highest setting. It still wasn t enough.
Three times, Barbosa s condition seemed so dire that doctors told his family to say goodbye. It takes a lot for me to call a family and say, I think this is the end, said Dr. Jonathan Tomasko, a cardiac surgeon at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield.
PAWTUCKET – A small Massachusetts-based grocery chain is expanding to Rhode Island, bringing a new market to a city with few to its name.
Vicente’s Supermarket, of Brockton, will open at 470 Pawtucket Ave., the former Ocean State Job Lot, says owner Jason Barbosa.
Asked why he sees Pawtucket as the right spot to expand his stores with the slogan “where you feel at home,” Barbosa was quick with an answer.
“I think it fits who we are as a business and the customers we’re looking to serve,” he said. “This is the right opportunity.”
He described Vicente’s, also known as Vicente’s Tropical Market, as a traditional supermarket that specializes in international items, including African, Portuguese, Central American and Colombian foods.
DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) Jason Barbosa met the doctor who saved his life for the first time Monday.
In fact, the last time Dr Jeffrey Huml treated Barbosa, he was unconscious; COVID-19 forced him into a coma for six weeks.
Barbosa said his entire body shut down and the virus nearly killed him on several occasions. They told my family to say goodbye to me three times. They told them they were gonna disconnect me, he said.
But Barbosa survived and is on the long road to recovery. I am amazed. This is truly a miracle, said Dr. Huml of Northwestern Medicine.