Latinos to get a councilor in Hillsboro - Oregon

W hen Olga Acuna moved to Oregon, the 15-year-old could speak no English.

Her father was a single parent, trying to raise seven children on what they could make picking berries and working in the fields.

They made ends meet by living with members of their extended family, by scrimping and saving and doing without what many others considered necessities.”*

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