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Suheera Solomon shows a scoop of dirt she dug in the garden at the Rio Vista Habitat for Humanity veterans

home, Saturday. The garden is a project of the group Sustainable Solano.

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Sustainable Solano, Travis install landscape at Rio Vista Habitat home Amy Maginnis-Honey

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RIO VISTA — A group of 20-plus volunteers worked Saturday through a strong breeze and a near ear-piercing squeaky wheelbarrow at the Rio Vista Habitat for Humanity veterans home. The second of three workdays had representatives from Sustainable Solano, Travis Air Force Base and Berkeley Food & Housing, to name a few. Berkeley Food & Housing operates the home, located right next to the American Legion post. Reggie Sironen was a homeless veteran who began working with Berkeley Food & Housing in 2015. He lived for a time at the former Mission Solano in Fairfield and attended Solano Community College and Brandman University thanks to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Grant and Per Diem program. Today, he’s a program manager

for the Berkeley agency and was among the volunteers digging up the earth and planting. John Davenport, of Cali Ground Troops based in Brentwood, has spent almost every day at the home for the past month. He, too, was a homeless veteran. Prior to work getting underway, Davenport shared the challenges of the task, noting at the first workday, big bricks were being pulled out of the ground. Nicole Newell, program manager for Sustainable Solano, spoke of the Patwin Indians, who were among the area’s earliest inhabitants. “They didn’t stay here,” she said in jest. “They were smart. It’s too windy.” Davenport took that into consideration in designing the garden. He’s a recent graduate of the Permaculture Design Certificate program offered by Sustainable Solano and Vital Cycles in Benicia.

Davenport teamed up with two fellow students in the certificate program to create the design as their final capstone project. The soil was given a probiotic boost to help the plants help each other. The goal is permaculture, where the target is to eventually cut off the irrigation. The garden will conserve water on-site. It also aims to create natural, healing space where the residents can relax and reflect, and to serve as an opportunity for growing food on the site. Funding is from the Solano Sustainable Backyards program, which is funded by the Solano County Water Agency. Newell said Sustainable Solano usually works on backyard projects covering about 1,300 square feet. The Rio Vista project has more than 5,000 square feet, she said. The day’s youngest volunteer See Garden, Page A7

Earth Day cleanup amid Covid draws hundreds across Solano Susan Hiland SHILAND@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The various Earth Day cleanups across Solano County saw a host of people come out to help clean things up in and around each of the county’s communities. Organizers report that

more than 2,300 pounds of litter and illegally dumped debris was collected by more than 225 volunteers. Earth Day trash cleanups occurred in Fairfield, Suisun City, Vacaville, Dixon, Vallejo and Benicia, according to cleanup organizers

and data reported using the Ocean Conservancy’s CleanSwell mobile app and as reported in a press release. B en ic i a L it ter Pickers, a trash cleanup group with around 300 members, had 84 participants finish their day with 1,081 pounds of trash

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Patients suffering from Covid-19 are treated with free oxygen at a makeshift clinic outside the Shri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara in Indirapuram, Uttar Pradesh, India, Sunday.

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India saw its deadliest day of the pandemic yet with 3,689 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, as the caseload surged to 19.5 million with 392,488 fresh infections, government data showed Sunday. This is the fourth straight day India has recorded more than 3,000 deaths as the second wave of the pandemic carries on unabated and keeps setting grim new records. Altogether, 215,542 people have died from Covid-19. India became the first country to cross 400,000 daily cases on Saturday. It recorded

6.6 million infections and 45,000 deaths in April, compared to the little over 1.2 million cases and 5,417 deaths in March, broadcaster NDTV reported. Health care systems are overwhelmed, and a shortage of medical oxygen has emerged as the most serious challenge. Thirty-four patients died for alleged want of oxygen in hospitals in the national capital, New Delhi, and the states of Andhra Pradesh and Haryana on Saturday, the Times of India reported. Thirty-one more with Covid-19-like symptoms and “breathing difficulties” died in a hospital in

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