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Fairfield school district gets ready for new year with resource fair, backpack giveaway
Susan Hiland
Mount Calvary hosts drive-thru backpack giveaway
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FAIRFIELD — The start of the school year is near for students in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District. To help them get ready, the district on Saturday hosted a Back To School Resource Fair at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church to give away backpacks filled with school supplies. Juanita Domingued, 18, who graduated from Armjio High School last year, was back again, this time to help support her siblings getting ready for the school year. “I’m ready for them to be out of the house,” she said. With more than 1,000 backpacks to give away at St. Mark’s, the line outside wound around the parking lot with hundreds of eager students waiting for organizers to open the event. “Usually we have 1,200 backpacks,” said Sheila McCabe, assistant superintendent of Educational Services in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District. “This year, the numbers have fluctuated from 1,200 to 2,000 because of donations. Anything we have left over we will keep at the Family Resource Center for kids. If they need one and we have extras, they can
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FAIRIFELD — Mount Calvary Baptist Church offered a drive-thru backpack giveaway Saturday with tons of school supplies for the coming year. The line of vehicles wrapped around the block with drivers eagerly waiting to get the backpacks. Several tables were set up outside the church with piles of backpacks broken down by age groups. Parents just had to drive up and pop open the trunk and volunteers would place them inside. See Calvary, Page A11
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Benjamin Rosales, 9, of Fairfield, eagerly receives his new backpack during the Back to School Resource Fair at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Fairfield, Saturday. come and get one.” The goal every year is to make sure every child is prepared for school. Staff and families seemed pleased to be able to greet each other in person. “It just feels so good to be going back to a normal
Rushdie stabbing suspect charged with attempted murder, assault Tribune Content Agency LONDON — The man suspected of stabbing British author Salman Rushdie has been charged with attempted murder and assault and has been remanded in custody without bail. New York state police said on Saturday that 24-year-old Hadi Matar of Fairview, New Jersey, was being detained at Chautauqua County Jail. The 75-year-old Indian-born author is on a ventilator and may RUSHDIE lose an eye and has sustained nerve damage to his arm and damage to his liver following the attack on Friday, his agent has said. See Rushdie, Page A11
activity,” McCabe said. “We get to see them early and we all can’t wait to see them next week.” “Last year, we did a drivethru event at the mall; it was very different than this,” said Laura Bowles, co-organizer of the event. “The last
two years it was there. It is good to be back here at the church.” There were 34 community partners and 10 district organizations and departments participating this year. See Fair, Page A11
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A volunteer hands a backpack to a driver at the Mount Calvary Baptist Church backpack giveaway in the church parking lot in Fairfield, Saturday.
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Council to consider water conveyance agreement to Middle Green Valley Todd R. Hansen THANSEN@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET
FAIRFIELD — The City Council on Tuesday will consider an agreement with the Solano Irrigation District to convey water to the Middle Green Valley Specific Plan area. The SID water would come into the city’s water system, be treated and then conveyed to the project area. All costs are covered by the irrigation district, the city documents state. The council also will consider an indemnification agreement with SID
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to remove the city from any legal liability. The council meets at 6 p.m. in the council chamber at City Hall, 1000 Webster St. Also on the agenda is a public hearing and formal consideration of the 2022-23 budgets and assessments for a host of lighting and landscape maintenance districts. A public hearing on the creation and enforcement of “minimum standards on vacant commercial spaces downtown.” The staff report to the council states that it “is critical to revitalizing the district. Poorly maintained
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properties deter prospective tenants, prolong vacancy, drain limited public safety resources when quality-of-life issues become chronic, discour-
age pedestrian activity and patronage, and hinder future economic activity and investment. See Council, Page A11
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