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SUISUN VALLEY — Artists from all over California came out Saturday to share their work with visitors at the 23rd Annual Art on the Vine. The Fairfield-Suisun City Visual Arts Association hosts the event almost every year, except in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Organizer Dennis Ariza, who is an accomplished photographer, was thrilled to see so many come out for the two-day event. This year’s event is also a fundraiser for the Rodriguez High School Art Program. “Last year, before the breakout, I bought a truck to use to haul my art and I didn’t even get to use it,” he said. Ariza has been taking photographs during the pandemic, and was happy to finally get to use his truck for the art show this year.
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Art on the Vine continues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at BackRoad Vines. The Fairfield-Suisun City Visual Arts Association hosts the Art on the Vine event every year to give local artists an opportunity to show their new artwork to the public. Yuppie Liberation Front and the School of Rock House Band
performed throughout the afternoon Saturday. Yuppie Liberation Front will perform again at 10 a.m. Sunday, followed by Solid Gold, who will perform until 5 p.m. See Artists, Page A10
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VACAVILLE — Robert Larsen Jr. wasn’t feeling well when he arrived home from work. “He said he had been confused at work and his computer work was hard (that day),” Lisa Larsen said of that fateful evening Sept. 23, 2020, a day after her husband’s 57th birthday. “And he was dragging one of his legs, but he does that
when his back hurts,” she said. But something did not feel right, so Lisa Larsen made a small request of her husband. “I told him to smile,” she said. When he could not fully smile, she took his blood pressure, which was soaring. Larsen suspected her husband was having a stroke, so she drove him to the hospital. See Woman, Page A10
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