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Octavio Dominguez, owner of Grizzly Home Inspections, checks a window frame for rot on Tuesday while inspecting a house on Cook Avenue in Meriden. Photos by Dave Zajac, Record-Journal.

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Home Inspection Business Owner Benefited From Early Days at SCOW

WALLINGFORD — Growing up in Wallingford in the late-1990s through the early 2000s, there weren’t a lot of Latinos like Octavio Dominguez, who’s of Mexican origin.

However, it wasn’t until Dominguez started attending the Spanish Community of Wallingford’s programs that he was able to find his community and build a foundation for his future career endeavors such as his own home inspection business, Grizzly Home Inspections, and his record label, Resalta Records, at only 25 years old.

“Growing up in Wallingford as a Latino, there weren’t a lot of Latinos there,” Domingez said. “All the Latinos that were there, we were pretty united … SCOW helped form the big part of that because there were a lot of people from our same town (in Mexico) that we wouldn’t know and wouldn’t hang out with until SCOW. We started building friendships through them.”

Read the full story by the Record-Journal’s Latino Communities Lab at:

www.myrecordjournal.com/latino-news


Publisher’s Note: CTLatinoNews partners with the Latino Communities Reporting Lab in best serving the Hispanic-Latino communities of Connecticut.

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