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Dixon ceremony remembers those who gave all Susan Hiland

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Bliss Urban Art Center students dance their way along the Fiesta Days Parade route in Vacaville, Saturday.

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Floats, cars, marching bands and more take part in the annual Fiesta Day Parade in downtown Vacaville, Saturday.

VACAVILLE — The big draw for the Fiesta Days celebration always has been the parade, and that certainly was the case again this year, with hundreds of people lining Merchant Street to watch friends and family walk, dance and ride through

DIXON — The Memorial Day weekend was marked by several ceremonies throughout the county on Saturday. The Sacramento Valley National Cemetery welcomed hundreds out to the green lawns to place flags in remembrance for those soldiers and their widows laid to rest there. The Band of the Golden West opened the ceremony, then came the presentation of colors by the Fairfield High School JROTC students, who brought in the flags. There was a flyover of five planes by retired pilots along with speeches by the keynote speaker Col. Derek M. Salmi, commander of 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis

Air Force Base, and Dixon Mayor Steve Bird. “It is a great honor to be able to pay tribute to those men and women who gave their all,” said Will Pickard III, director of the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery. “We care for those soldiers who fell in battle, and the widows. They have not been forgotten and they will never be forgotten,” he said. Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. “It was over 150 years ago this started as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. service members who died while in the military service,” Salmi said. First enacted to honor See Dixon, Page A9

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Solano County pushes forward its support for LGBTQ community Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — A board member for the Solano Pride Center this week said that LBGTQ residents are once again having to hide their sexual orientation as they age and enter care facilities. “Many of our seniors who have had to go into assisted living (centers) or nursing homes, they are having to go back into the closet – after all this fighting, after coming out and being so proud

and strong – now they are afraid of the staff and their fellow residents,” Donna Harris, a Pride Center board member since 2006, told the Solano County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The story hit much closer to home following a litany, but mostly distant examples of how the LGBTQ community has come under attack in recent years, and particularly by legislative bodies across the country. “A tidal wave of antiLBGTQ legislation have

been introduced across the U.S. in 2023. Over 400 bills have been introduced, primarily targeting trans and nonbinary people, drag shows and healthcare for

LBGTQ people,” Pride Center Executive Director Jonathan Cook said. “Even this year, the California Assembly introduced a bill See Support, Page A9

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Fairfield High School JROTC presents the flags at the Memorial Day remembrance and flag placement ceremony at the Sacramento National Cemetery in Dixon, Saturday.

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