COVID-19: Case updates for the Navajo Nation and San Juan County in May 2021 © Randolph County Public Health COVID
Friday, April 30, marked the day that San Juan County returned to Green Level state restrictions after New Mexico health officials changed the formula used for determining when counties can relax restrictions on certain businesses and events, and at what level of occupancy.
On May 5 San Juan County graduated to Turquoise Status, allowing more people to attend mass gatherings and many venues to expand seating areas for customers indoors. A list of Turquoise Level restrictions is included in the May 5 blog entry below.)
Chinese nationals victims in labor trafficking pot bust
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Coppell teens bridging language and culture gaps between Asians and Latinos through weekly storytelling
The two friends read to Coppell ISD students multiple times a week, translating Indian stories into Spanish for the bilingual classes.
Coppell high school juniors Aarushi Jaiswal, left, and Veda Kanamarlapudi, read an Indian folktale titled Sukhu and Dukhu via Zoom, to a dual language elementary students at W.H. Wilson Elementary in Coppell, on Monday, April 19, 2021. The Coppell high school juniors are translating Indian children stories into Spanish so dual language students can understand it.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor)
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Veda Kanamarlapudi and Aarushi Jaiswal grew up in immigrant households where grandparents and other relatives shared old Indian stories such as the
A bizarre tale of cannabis boom and bust © BBC
In the pandemic, hundreds of Chinese migrants who lost their jobs moved to a remote city on the Navajo Nation Indian reservation in New Mexico, to do what they thought was legal agricultural work. Instead, they and the local Native community found themselves pitted against one another in a bizarre cautionary tale about the boom in cannabis production in the US, and the impact on Asian migrant labourers.
When Xia (not her real name) first heard about the job as a flower cutter , she pictured roses.
Details were scant, but a roommate told her it was 10 days work for $200 a day, room and board included. Unemployed in the pandemic and unable to send money back to her adult children in southern China, Xia had been living at one of the crowded boarding houses common in the large Asian immigrant enclave of LA s San Gabriel Valley. The job sounded like a fine temporary solution.
FARMINGTON Public vaccination clinics will happen next week in Shiprock and in two other county locations.
Two public vaccination events sponsored by the state health department will happen next week in San Juan County.
On Tuesday, May 11, at McGee Park vaccines will be given for free from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m.
On Thursday, May 13, a clinic will open at the San Juan College Health and Human Performance Center from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Those seeking vaccines may pre-register at vaccinenm.org to reserve a vaccine dose. On-site registration and walk-up appointments will be based on remaining available doses, according to a state health department press release.
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