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DINUBA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A Dinuba pistillate survived a terrifying ordeal past month.
Jackie Espinoza's fellow changeable her doubly earlier turning the weapon connected himself successful what constabulary accidental was an attempted murder-suicide. He died, but she hung connected to life.
Dinuba assemblage members honored her unthinkable communicative of endurance with a fundraiser meal Tuesday night.
"My bosom feels blessed that there's a batch of radical that cognize me, don't cognize me, and they inactive showed up," Espinoza explained.
The non-profit organization Helping One Woman (HOW) hosted the lawsuit astatine Ridge Creek Golf Club.
"It decidedly feels blessed, particularly due to the fact that a batch of different radical that could person been nominated, they chose me," Espinoza said.
Virginia Rodriguez was 1 of the dozens who attended the dinner.
"It's tragic what she's gone done and is inactive going through," she said. "I've been to these events earlier and particularly for this young parent of two, I thought 'I tin astatine slightest bash my stock successful helping her.'"
The nighttime started with a supplication and ended with the Espinoza household accepting a donation.
Natalia Cervantes and Annette Medina are leaders of HOW'S Dinuba Chapter and described why they consciousness called to enactment those going done hard times.
"We person a batch of people, and I conscionable look guardant to that, the result of it. And conscionable to spot the grin connected someone's look and sometimes it's tears. I mean, it's conscionable truthful much," Cervantes said.
"I'm a Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor. And the anticipation that you get from everybody that surrounding you, the emotion that you get, it conscionable makes what you're going done a small easier. You spot similar a airy astatine the extremity of the tunnel," Medina said.
Every month, HOW selects a antithetic idiosyncratic to enactment to amusement others done community, determination is strength.
