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Matilda V. Olivarez, 84, and Delfina Abundis, 83, were among 50 guests marking a first for Fuerza Unida — the nonprofit’s inaugural Mother’s Day celebration. As the sun beat down Saturday, they sat in the shade of a canopy of tree branches spread over the backyard the nonprofit had transformed into a community garden.
The pair enjoyed the view of the new space behind the headquarters of the nonprofit founded in 1990 by garment workers displaced when the Levi Strauss plant transferred jobs to Costa Rica. The flames of votive candles flickered at serape-covered tables. A statue of Virgen de Guadalupe prayed over cinder-block garden beds flush with spinach, mixed greens, basil, rosemary and rue.