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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Day 40 of the authorities shutdown has arrived, and national workers successful the vale are feeling the pinch without aggregate paychecks. Now, 1 vicinity successful West Fresno rallied down a antheral who says it’s been a pugnacious clip for him and his coworkers.
33-year-old Albert Alltamirano has been going to enactment each week contempt not getting paid. He told his ma astir his struggles with market shopping, and his ma decided to get assistance from her community.
"It's conscionable been a struggle, not conscionable for myself, but a batch of my chap coworkers,” Plumber for the Federal Government, Albert Altamirano said. "This is going to beryllium our 3rd paycheck now. Just past Friday that we didn't receive."
The authorities shutdown is making beingness hard for Albert.
"My lad called maine 1 nighttime and said that they were going to spell market buying and it was going to beryllium precise hard for them because, you know, they were connected constricted funds," Albert’s Mom, Doreen Bower, said.
But Albert’s ma came up with an idea.
"I said, you cognize what? I person a batch of friends successful my neighborhood. I've lived present for 31 years. We're each precise bully friends, we're family. And I cognize that they're going to assistance us," she said.
Doreen posted dozens of flyers astir her vicinity and started a canned nutrient thrust for her lad connected Nov. 6.
"I got a flier connected my door, and erstwhile I saw it, it was Doreen and her family. Immediately, we knew we were going to travel into action,” Neighbor Sevag Tateosian said.
He tells YourCentralValley that he’s known Bower’s household for much than a decade.
"People emotion this family. And truthful we're going to beryllium collecting arsenic galore cans arsenic we can," helium said.
Tateosian and his 3 sons made definite to driblet disconnected canned nutrient implicit the weekend.
"Whenever there's a large boxing combat oregon there's a large shot crippled oregon the Dodger game, this store gets unfastened and everybody's invited and it turns into a potluck,” Tateosian said.
Now, their location is filled with capable nutrient for galore potlucks, and Doreen said she is grateful.
"It was conscionable specified a blessing. It brings tears to my eyes,” she said.
The assemblage donated truthful galore goods that Albert made definite his coworkers were besides taken attraction of.
"He had said to me, Mom, my coworkers are besides suffering and immoderate we collect, I'm going to stock with them,” Doreen said.
Albert said connected Veteran’s Day, helium volition instrumentality the boxes of goods to enactment due to the fact that during a authorities shutdown, everyone chips in.
"I person a batch of coworkers who some of their incomes travel from our job, and they're not getting it astatine the moment. They person kids. We've each got bills. I mean, there's adjacent to 100 of america that travel to enactment each time that would payment a lot,” Altamirano said.
Albert besides has a GoFundMe acceptable up to assistance him, his household and his coworkers navigate these hard times. You tin find that GoFundMe here.
