The event is set to highlight local businesses, both big and small, while celebrating the SCV community.
“Because we have had such a rough year, we deserve a day,” organizer Laura Munoz said of the event’s name.
Munoz got the idea to host a job fair to help get the community back on its feet after the pandemic, then thinking to also include vendors who were also financially impacted by the shutdowns, she said.
“It’s just putting everyone in the same place at the same time,” Munoz said. “That’s where it started, but it just blew up.”
Family and friends are mourning the loss of 17-year-old Landon Lucas after he died unexpectedly June 21.
Described by many as a “pure soul,” Landon was set to start his senior year at Canyon High School in the fall and return to the swim team, which he’d been a part of in 10th grade, according to his mother, Kelli Lucas.
“He was 6-foot-5 and like 240 pounds, so he was man-sized, but still a little boy inside,” Kelli Lucas said, adding she was almost worried about him going out into the world because he was so kindhearted. “He told me he loved me probably a thousand times a day.”
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hen Laura Sandoval said goodbye to her husband, Eduardo, in August, she thought he d return home to Mexico in three months. She trusted that the fruit farm that hired him Washington Fruit and Produce would protect Eduardo from COVID-19. Instead, he got a case of COVID that will cripple him for life. And when Laura flew to Spokane to care for her husband, she thought the company would at the very least provide the workers compensation that Eduardo legally was entitled to for catching COVID-19 on the job. But to this day, she hasn t seen a penny. I don t know how they can sleep at night, knowing the situation we re in, Laura tells the