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Last year, 27 lives were claimed by a COVID-19 outbreak at the Yukio Okutsu State Veteran’s Home in Hilo. Among them was Melvin “Mike” Tomita, the sixth resident to die of the virus. Tomita s family remembers him as a generous cook, who loved talking story and playing music. The decorated Vietnam War veteran s story will be part of a National Day of Remembrance event tomorrow, honoring nursing home lives lost during this pandemic.
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Experts say that immigrants can help bolster a community s declining population, but many small towns, which are common in the West, struggle to attract them. Gateways For Growth (G4G) is a national program that tries to help these towns become welcoming to immigrant populations. The program is a joint effort between the organizations New American Economy (NAE) and Welcoming America. We really focus on making the economic case for smarter immigration reform, said NAE s director of state and local initiative, Mo Kantner. So the way we do that is we have an amazing research team that can look at the role of immigrants within specific communities within specific industries and within sort of subsets of the quote-unquote immigrant population. So looking at those that are highly skilled and working in the STEM field or looking at refugees or looking at the DACA population. And we use this original research to really bring people together from both sides of the aisle