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Mark Rippee rests on the ground holding a cigarette in Vacaville, July 27. Rippee died Tuesday.

Beloved Vacaville man who battled homelessness has died Tribune Content Agency James Mark Rippee grew up in Vacaville. At 24, he was involved in a motorcycle accident that took his sight, his frontal lobe and resulted in mental illness and other health issues that led to 35 years of homelessness. On Tuesday, he died at a local hospital surrounded by family including his mother and two sisters. He was 59. “This was always our biggest fear,” said Catherine Rippee-Hanson, one of his sisters. “We tried so hard just to keep him alive. There was always a chance he’d die on the streets. He was beaten up, abused, hit by a car, robbed.” Known fondly by his middle

name, Mark had turned up in an emergency room during the weekend. He was diagnosed with pneumococcal pneumonia and multiple organ failure due to delayed hospitalization. “I was holding his hand when he died,” Rippee-Hanson said. Who dropped him off at the hospital remains a mystery, as does most of the last week of his life. Rippee-Hanson and her twin, Linda Privatte, are slowly but surely piecing together answers that the family sorely needs. To understand the magnitude of the family’s despair requires dialing back to the past. The Rippee family has lived in Vacaville for 55 years. Mark and his sisters were close,

and shared a lot of happy memories. As Rippee-Hanson recalls, Mark was always happy and extremely friendly. At 24, his motorcycle crashed into a grain harvester and forever changed his life. He lost both eyes and the part of his brain that regulates impulse control, reactions and emotions. He would later develop paranoid schizophrenia, experience bouts of psychosis and develop anosognosia, a condition where he is unable to understand that he has mental illness. “He had more than 60 surgeries,” Rippee-Hanson said. “His accident was so horrible his doctors said he was a walking miracle.” Mark would later take to the See Man, Page A7

SUISUN CITY — The Solano Land Trust invites the community to take part a pair of outdoor activities Saturday. The offerings include a workday in the Suisun Marsh and a hike through the Rockville hills. One is an open space cleanup volunteer opportunity from 9 a.m. to noon at Hill Slough Bridge on Grizzly Island. This is a quarterly activity hosted by the land trust, which this time focuses on the area around the Hill Slough Bridge – from the area of 3532 to 3594 Grizzly Island Road. There is no parking lot. Participants will park off the side of the road and are asked to look for signs and orange cones for where to park, and to carpool if possible. Those who take part are asked to dress for the

Tribune Content Agency The operations of Iran’s “morality police” have effectively been suspended, a top official said, after months of widespread anti-government protests over the death of a young woman in its custody. Officially called the Guidance Patrol, the police unit has for years stalked major intersections and thoroughfares in Iranian cities, arresting those it determined were flouting the Islamic Republic’s strict religious dress codes.

The patrols seemed to disappear from Tehran’s streets soon after nationwide protests erupted in mid-September over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, who fell into a coma after being detained for her attire. “The Guidance Patrol has nothing to do with the judiciary; it was suspended by the same institution that formed it in the past,” the semiofficial Iranian Labour News Agency reported, citing Chief Public Prosecutor Mohammad See Iran, Page A7

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SUISUN MARSH — California State Parks has full reopened of Brannan Island State Recreation Area after moving to reduced operations earlier this year. All areas of the park will opened to the public Thursday. The public may begin booking camping reservations starting Jan. 1. Park Delta Bay will operate the state recreation area, which includes day-use areas, a boat launch ramp and campground sites. Brannan Island is a maze of waterways through the SacramentoSan Joaquin Delta located northeast of the San Francisco Bay in the Suisun Marsh. The park unit has countless islands and marshes with many wildlife habitats and opportunities for recre-

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weather – specifically, clothing for cold and/or windy conditions, closedtow shoes, a hat and work gloves – and to keep in mind the hazards that come with cleaning these areas. The land trust will provide trash-grab sticks, trash bags and buckets, latex-free gloves, water, and snacks. Participants should bring sunscreen and bug spray. Anyone younger than 18 who participates must be accompanied by a parent, guardian or an adult chaperone from the organization with which they are associated, such as a scoutmaster or similar adult leader of a Scouting organization, or the adult leader of a church youth group or volunteer organization. Questions about the outing should be directed to Andrés Velez at andres@solano

ation, including boating and swimming. Hours of operation are from sunrise until one hour after sunset, seven days a week. “Thank you to the public for their patience as State Parks searched for a new park operator at Brannan Island State Recreation Area,” Clint Elsholz, Diablo Range District acting superintendent, said in a press release. “We’re excited for the partnership with Park Delta Bay to bring camping and day-use opportunities back to Brannan Island.” Park Delta Bay, based in Isleton, currently operates 120 campsites and 120 slip marinas at Delta Bay. The facility has been around for about 30 years with the current ownership for seven years. State Parks earlier See Parks, Page A7

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