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Tuesday 21 October 2014

Person of Interest: Hard work and good luck go together for Cambodian couple

Person of Interest: Hard work and good luck go together for Cambodian couple
Om, Nara and his wife, Soshi, run the Hartz Chicken Buffet in Liberty, Texas.
Posted: Monday, October 20, 2014
Two Kansas City engines pulled a half-mile of graffiti-covered tanker cars and shipping containers through Liberty, Texas, just after 5 p.m. Sunday evening, Oct. 19, hauling who knows what westward and sounding the lead engine’s air horn almost continually from the bypass to the river.
Many people in Liberty no longer notice it, and inside a restaurant kitchen, sitting between the tracks and U.S. 90, among the noise of fryers and fans, workers may hardly be able to hear the train at all and are usually too busy to notice anyway.
In that busy kitchen Sunday evening were the Dayton News’ two Persons of Interests for this week. They are a young couple, in their mid-20s, who operate the Hartz Chicken restaurant in Liberty — Om, Sovannara, along with his wife, Soshi. Om is the surname, and if Sovannara is too much for an East Texas mouth, he will let you call him Nara for short.
Asked who is the boss, Soshi answered, “You can say he is.” So, we will say he is.
They are Cambodian. Soshi was born in Arizona to parents who came to the United States as refugees from the Khmer Rouge and the civil war that followed the Vietnamese occupation, but Nara lived in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, until he immigrated at the age of 21.
In Cambodia, his parents ran a hardware store, and Nara says some of his earliest memories are of watching his father work.

“He used to work hard for his family,” Nara says, and listening to these two young people, hard work seems to be the ongoing theme of their lives.
To read the rest of this Person of Interest article, pick up a copy of the Oct. 22 edition of the Dayton News, which are available at news stands around southern Liberty County, and at the Dayton News/Cleveland Advocate office at 106 W. Hanson St., Cleveland.

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