A group of Latino merchants and entertainers is organizing a music, food and soccer event tomorrow to raise money for victims of Hurricane Ida in El Salvador. Mudslides and flooding nearly two weeks ago left about 200 dead and 15,000 displaced. Ida’s remnants dumped several inches of rain in the Richmond area last week, too. “The people need our help,“ said Demetrio Flores, one of the organizers. “We are asking the local people to give their economic support.“

A group of Latino merchants and entertainers is organizing a music, food and soccer event tomorrow to raise money for victims of Hurricane Ida in El Salvador. Mud slides and flooding nearly two weeks ago left about 200 dead and 15,000 displaced. Ida’s remnants dumped several inches of rain in the Richmond area last week, too. “The people need our help,“ said Demetrio Flores, one of the organizers. “We are asking the local people to give their economic support.“

Soldiers and townspeople dug through rock and debris Monday in hopes of finding dozens of people missing in a mudslide that swept down on a town, part of a wave of floods and landslides that killed at least 124 people in El Salvador.

Members of Virginia mission groups that traveled to El Salvador this year developed a lung disease usually caused by exposure to bird droppings. A Virginia Department of Health official said the episode is a reminder for people to be aware of health risks when working in areas where particular illnesses are more prevalent. Groups from Pennsylvania and Virginia affiliated with the mission traveled separately on three occasions to the Central American country to renovate a church. Public health investigators believe that while digging, sweeping and cleaning up they were exposed to fungal spores that cause the lung disease histoplasmosis.