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View Comments More than 100 people died in Oregon’s historic heatwave last week, including a Marion County farmworker named Sebastian Francisco Perez. The 38-year-old from Guatemala died after collapsing in a field at Ernst Nursery and Farms near St. Paul. Prior to the record-breaking hot days, farmworker advocates had urged Oregon Occupational Safety and Health to pass emergency rules they say would have better protected agricultural workers like Perez in extreme heat. “This is something that we were all aware of and something that could’ve been prevented,” said Elizabeth Heredia, a program coordinator at CAPACES who attended a vigil for Perez. ....
View Comments Sebastian Francisco Perez arrived in the U.S. on May 5, hoping to save money so his wife at home in Ixcan, Guatemala, could begin fertility treatment. “He came with many hopes to this country, without knowing that he wouldn’t return,” a pastor said at the beginning of a vigil for Perez, a 38-year-old nursery worker who collapsed in a field at Ernst Nursery and Farms during last weekend’s record-breaking heatwave. Reyna Lopez, executive director of PCUN, the farmworker union that coordinated the vigil on the edge of a hazelnut grove just outside Ernst Nursery and Farms in St. Paul, described Perez as “one of ours – he was a farmworker, Indigenous,” who arrived in the U.S. to fulfill his family’s dreams. ....
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