TREASURE VALLEY — Mari Ramos remembers from a young age watching her mother and father work to improve the circumstances for their neighbors in Nampa.
What her parents didn’t know is they were building a path for their daughter, a path from which she hasn’t wavered.
“Building community is something they always did, by helping people look for work, or helping them with food,” said Ramos, who was born and raised in Nampa. “Not that we ever had too much. I mean we were poor. And we would help people with rice and beans, or whatever it was we had. But we always shared.”…