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There are days in journalism you get excited about. Sunday was one of those days, as we published a project that started in November when a local man was taken by U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and later deported. Grace Chinowsky and former Lookout photographer Isaac Wasserman spent this year documenting what happens when a father is taken away from a family and how that family handles that adversity.
Their reporting included a trip to Santa Ana Ahuehuepan, Mexico, where they spent time with Misael Garcia Lopez as he rebuilds his life and was briefly reunited with his daughter Jasmine, who traveled from Eugene to see her father for the first time since his detainment.
This story has also been translated into Spanish, and we made it available for free, as this story needs to be read.
About four weeks remain before attention shifts from summer and back to school, work and everything that happens after Labor Day. But that means there’s plenty of time to enjoy the warm weather, and Lilly St. Angelo has a collection of ways you can do just that without breaking the bank.
Dorcas Smucker recently attended a tea party that reminded her how genuine connections with others are things that cannot be replicated. As she writes: “Everyone who loves me brings a blessing to my life that no one else can duplicate.”
The world is in Eugene this week. I ran across a group of guys wearing Great Britain shirts at Target over the weekend, shortly before I saw a couple of women in Sweden gear running towards Autzen Stadium. Owen Murray has this preview of the World Athletics U20 Championships, which start Wednesday at Hayward Field.
Multiple people were displaced after a fire at Bridges on Broadway, an affordable housing complex that opened less than a year ago in downtown Eugene. Snowden interns Leo Heffron and Brooke Taché were at the scene.
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A dad deported. A family fractured.
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Misael Garcia-Lopez built a life in Eugene. An ICE arrest sent him back to Mexico. His family had to decide where to call home.

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