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‘People are going to die’ Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET
FAIRFIELD — Negotiations with the state on what is being described as a life-and-death situation by at least one Solano County official has gained little traction. “People are going to die, and I’m not being overly dramatic about that,” assistant county administrator Debbie Vaughn, the former assistant director of the Department of Health & Social Services who
oversaw behavioral health and finance divisions, said in an interview Friday morning. Her background is why Vaughn is a point person for the county regarding ongoing talks with the state Department of Health Care Services about how to provide specialty mental health services to nearly 2,100 Solano County residents who currently receive treatment through Kaiser Permanente. See People, Page A9
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Alex Lam, 15, front, and Zeddrick Mendoza, 14, help with Earth Day Cleanup along the Suisun City marsh, Saturday.
Earth Day brought out plenty of volunteers for cleaning up Susan Hiland SHILAND@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET
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Officials check out a bedroom while touring the new Solano County Mental Health Residential Treatment Facility in Fairfield, Dec. 13, 2022. Among those to be housed there will be speciality mental health service clients, the kind of individuals caught in the middle of a state and county dispute about care and funding.
Why are strangers shooting people who are in the wrong place? Gun experts weigh in Tribune Content Agency Whether it’s due to anger or fear, gun experts worry America is becoming a “shootfirst” country. A 16-year-old Kansas City honors student was shot in the head by a complete stranger last week for ringing the wrong doorbell while trying to pick up his younger brothers from a sleepover. Two days later, a 20-year-old woman was shot dead by a homeowner after she and her friends pulled into the wrong
driveway in Hebron, upstate New York. And on Tuesday, two Texas cheerleaders were struck by gunfire after one of the young women opened the door to a car she mistook for her own. According to Josh Horwitz, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, unless Americans are willing to get serious about modern-day gun culture, the senseless shooting of innocent people in the wrong place
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Ag and Art Earth Day Celebration offers ideas for helping the Earth Susan Hiland
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VACAVILLE — The world bounced by with two little girls giggling the whole way down the hill. One of the organizers, Brooke Fox, watched the inflated balloon go by with a bright smile on her face because the Ag and Art Earth Day Celebration was getting off to a good start. “I was hoping that would happen,” she said.
Adults, children and a few dogs came out Saturday for the all-day event at Andrews Park. Margi Stern of Vacaville said she tries to do her best to help keep the Earth clean, including recycling her trash into ecobricks. Ecobricking is a simple way to take personal responsibility for your plastic by keeping it out of industry and out of See Ideas, Page A9
A smaller version of Earth took a spin around Andrews Park during the first Ag and Art Earth Day event in Vacaville, Saturday.
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Karen Reese of Fairfield uses a grabber tool to pick up trash along the marsh in Suisun City, Saturday.
SUISUN CITY — Earth Day Cleanup brought thousands of people across the nation out for a day dedicated to Mother Earth. Hundreds of people turned out from Vallejo to Dixon to clean up Solano County. Hailey Lam, 16, came out for the first time as part of her Vanden High School Inter-
act Club. She came with her brother, Alex, 15, and friend Haley Morris, 17, to the Suisun waterfront for a morning of plucking trash from the area. “It is just nice to finally get out of the house and do something,” Hailey said. Her friend Haley agreed; she, too, was tired of not going out and doing things. “I don’t know why but I feel
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