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‘We don’t want more death; we don’t want more sadness’: Man who yearned to become parent died of heat working to provide Oregonians with food, shade OregonLive.com 2 hrs ago April Rubin, oregonlive.com © Sean Meagher/The Oregonian A vigil is held for Sebastian Francisco Perez, a farm worker who died amid the historic heatwave that blanketed Oregon this week, at Ernst Farms and Nursery in St. Paul on Saturday, July 3, 2021. Sebastian Francisco Perez, a Guatemalan immigrant to Marion County, was working hard and saving money to become a father. He arrived in the U.S. on May 5 to work at Ernst Nursery and Farms in rural St. Paul so he could fund his wife’s fertility treatment in Guatemala, said Reyna Lopez, executive director of PCUN. He died less than two months later, on June 26, while working at the tree farm during the Pacific Northwest’s unprecedented heat wave.

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