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LUBBOCK, Texas — For Natalia Salazar, community is not just where you live, it is who you are. Her story is rooted in the Hispanic values and families who helped shape Lubbock through service, hard work, and creating community.
Her roots in Lubbock trace back to her parents, Nasaria and Blas Mojica, who moved their family from Lockhart, Texas, in search of opportunity and stability.
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Salazar remembers her mother telling her stories about coming to work in Lubbock, weighing cotton in a ledger and how her father worked hauling trailers filled with bales to the gin…