Military interpreters restart their lives in upstate, others still at risk

On one of the year’s first perfect spring days, Aziz trolls the Wegmans supermarket parking lot for stray shopping carts. Despite sometimes erratic weather, he doesn’t mind logging long hours walking the asphalt. It’s nothing compared to the hiking he used to do in his native Afghanistan. Compared to the mountainous terrain, Aziz calls being on his feet all day in the flat parking lot, “a picnic.”…

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Rochester Prayers For Nepal

Rochester’s Bhutanese Nepali community turned a celebration of Buddha’s birthday Sunday into a chance to support victims of the recent earthquake in Nepal. Buddhist chants filled Jones Square Park as women in long red dresses picked white blossoms from the trees to lay at a shrine…

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