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PLANT CITY (AP) — During the last two years, Isaret Jeffers has worked more than ever around the fields of Plant City donating food to farm workers, organizing vaccination drives and giving notebooks and backpacks to low-income students.

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Monica Semington, owner of Monash Natural Blends, works with a client.
If you assume the COVID-19 pandemic was tough for every entrepreneur, Monica Semington is at least one business owner who proves that presumption wrong.  Even on a fuzzy Zoom interview, her face lights up when…
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If you assume the COVID-19 pandemic was tough for every entrepreneur, Monica Semington is at least one business owner who proves that presumption wrong. 
Even on a fuzzy Zoom interview, her face lights up when reflecting on the past year for Monash Natural Blends, her essential oil business.

After more than a decade of work, Nancy Hernandez is finally celebrating her organization’s first official location.

The tacos at Naco’s Mexican Eatery are some of the best I've tried this year—and they’re refreshingly simple.

Once maligned, immigrants deemed the pandemic’s ‘essential workers’ may find a citizenship path
‘I have worked so hard in this country, giving it my all for 25 years.’
Jacoba arranges the rosaries hanging next to the altar that she has in her living room. She is one of an estimated 4 million to 5 million unauthorized immigrants who are essential workers.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
Jacoba has sliced and packed chicken fillets at a processing factory and cooked savory stews in a restaurant kitchen, keeping people fed at her two jobs.
But for the past 24 years, the Mexican immigrant, who asked that her last name not be published because she lacks legal immigration status, has feared a deportation agent might pop up at any time.

Joe Hernandez
Albert Lea – Joseph “Big Joe” Hernandez of Albert Lea, passed away unexpectedly Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020 at the age of 51. Joe was born Aug. 3, 1969 in Winnebago, and graduated from Blue Earth Area Senior High School in 1988.  
Joe was a free spirit who enjoyed many different activities. His favorite hobby was hanging out with friends and family and no matter where “Big Joe” went, he knew someone or was sure to quickly make a new friend. He was a loving parent that worked hard to provide for his family, through various employers. Most recently he worked as a Direct Care Professional for REM, following a position at St. John’s nursing home in Albert Lea. In his early working career, Joe excelled at manufacturing and leadership roles. No matter where he worked or what his position was, Joe always seemed to earn the respect and friendship of his co-workers, supervisors and pretty much everyone he met with his patience and wonderful sense of humor. If there was one thing Joe excelled at more than any other, it was making you laugh and “go with the flow.”