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This photo of Cleo Patton, who became Fairfield's first Black police officer in 1968, is posted on the Fairfield Police Department's Facebook page. | |
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Cleo Patton
Black History Month Post Stirs Online Conversation
Amy Maginnis-Honey
AMAGINNIS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET
FAIRFIELD – A post celebrating Black History on the Fairfield Police Department’s Facebook page got about 75 replies, including an eye-rolling gif the department used in reaction to a post.
There were a few posts from the department telling posters to do some soul searching.
“How about just plain history??????” posted Dudley Owens. The reply: “Dudley Owens how is it that we post an observance every month, yet this is one that drew your negative comment? Perhaps something to reflect on.”
“I just learned about the Black Wall Street Massacre last year… seems like something that should have been taught all along. But it wasn’t. Still isn’t in many places,” CJ Johnson wrote, adding that his world history class in high school focused on Europe. “You might stop to reflect all that you don’t know about other cultures and stop bringing that negative energy into a feel good community enhancement post.”
“If you are triggered by a short Black History Month post, some self-examination may be in order, the department posted. The discourse began with a post saying all races, ethnicities, religions and countries have been oppressed throughout history. “Emphasizing or celebrating a specific race, ethnicity, culture or religion while ignoring others just creates more separation. “We are all part of the human race, the human experience and this variety, our differences is what is so beautiful about it.”
In its response, the department again noted posts about Black History Month are the primary ones to draw negative comments. Many of the commenters appreciate the department celebrating Black History Month.
“Thank you as always for the spot on commentary from ffpd. It’s one month, people! You can resume your normal racist behavior on March 1st. Let us have this month, the shortest month of the year,” posted Emily Chase-Gallagher. She also called Owens a racist.
The post featured a photo of Cleo Patton, who in 1968 became the city’s first Black police officer.
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Robert Dittmer
Nov. 11, 1920 — Feb. 1, 2024
Robert Dittmer, 103, passed away Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, at Paradise Valley Estates in Fairfield after a short illness.
Robert was born in Oakland on Nov. 11, 1920, to Frederick and Mabrey (Whitney) Dittmer. He grew up on the family ranch in Cordelia and was a local-area resident his entire life.
A member of the Greatest Generation, as a child he lived through the Great Depression. As the nation entered World War II, he joined the U.S. Army Air Forces at age 22 on Dec. 8, 1942, and became a bombardier on B-17s, successfully flying 35 combat missions over Germany. He was honorably discharged as a second lieutenant on June 9, 1944. He received an Air Medal for his service.
After the war in 1944, Robert entered the fire service and became an Assistant Chief of the Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base Fire Department (now known as Travis Air Force Base). In 1950, during the Korean War he was serving as the duty chief in charge, and he led his team to a crash and fire of a B-29 carrying Brigadier General Robert F. Travis that had crashed five minutes after takeoff.
They found out later the B-29 was carrying an unarmed Mark 4 nuclear bomb, and 5,000 pounds of fusing explosive. The fusing explosive exploded as they were attempting to make entry to rescue the crew. Almost all the other rescuers were killed, along with Gen. Travis and his entire crew.
Robert survived but he was severely injured and burned and spent many months in the hospital recovering. Much later in 1956, he received a commendation for entering the burning wreckage of another crashed aircraft and pulling out the surviving injured crew.
Robert met Lois, his future wife, while working at Travis. They wed in 1951 and were married and together for 72 years, raising son Jeff and daughter Suzanne.
After his father’s death 1957, Robert resigned from the Travis Fire Department to pursue business interests. He operated the family ranch, raising sheep and cattle. He owned and operated Fairfield Glass and Paint for more than 20 years with his friend and business partner Wilton Ward. He also had a few local real-estate ventures, some with his friend and business partner Mike McInnis. He was very involved in the downtown Fairfield business community for many years. He never really retired, actively working on business activities until shortly before his death.
Robert was preceded in death by his wife, Lois, in 2022; and is survived by son, Jeff (Leslie) Dittmer of Fairfield; and daughter, Suzanne (Dave) Benzel of Gilmer, Texas. He is also survived by grandchildren, Stephanie (Robert) Carpenter of Tucson, Ariz., Robert Dittmer of Seattle, Matthew (Sommer) Dittmer of Fairfield, and Joanne Canciglia of Houston; and great-grandchildren, Madeline, Hannah and (soon to be born) Cameron Carpenter.
A visitation will be held at Bryan-Braker Funeral Home on Tuesday, Feb. 13, and friends may call between 5 to 7 p.m.
Funeral service and a celebration of his life will begin at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 15, at the Rockville Stone Chapel. Burial with Military Honors will follow at the Rockville Cemetery, 4219 Suisun Valley Road in Fairfield.
Arrangements entrusted to Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, Fairfield. Please go to bryanbraker.com to sign the guestbook, leave condolences and/or get directions.
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Rotary Club Good Character Awards
SUISUN CITY — Several local teens were honored recently when the Fairfield-Suisun Rotary Club and NorthBay handed out the Good Character Youth Awards.
It was the ninth annual event. The students were nominated by their teachers, counselors and/or mentors as teens for showing good character, ethical behaviors or good deeds (e.g., helping younger students succeed in their studies, standing up to bullies, helping others in the community through volunteering).
The awardees are:
PAL Activiity Center: Annemarie Drake, Brandon Angulo, Diego Arista Rosales, Rasheed Mosby, Cesar E Perez-Sanchez, Rocco Polombo and Jasmin Ponce.
Fairfield High: Eli Iriarte, Amari Bryant, Jasmine Calderon, Kandamani Aniya Kiddings, Jessica Celeste Melchor, Jessica Rivas and Alexander Stock.
Armijo High: Manny Chizer, Malia Moli and Izabella Tisdale-Cisneros.
Public Safety Academy: Gabriel Cruz, Kanjot Kooner, Mir Shahmeer, Angel Molinero and Sabrina Pullin.
Early College High School: Kira Murphy.
Sem Yeto: Jesus Navarro.
Rodriguez High: Savannah J. Waring.
The youth were presented certificates of appreciation from congressional, state, city and school district officials as well as a cash award from Rotary.
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Congratulations, Brian!!
SUISUN CITY — Brian Kermoade spent 21 years as a volunteer for the Suisun City Fire Department.
He was hired in November 2022 as the full-time division fire chief of training. He retired in October.
Kermoade was honored at Tuesday's city council meeting and shared some of his story.
"Dearly beloved, we are here ..." he began. "Just kidding."
He credited his mother, Mary Kermoade, and wife Caroline Villareal for his dedication.
Kermoade said his time with the department had been "23 years of blood, sweat and tears." And, an experience he would not trade for anything.
Council members thanked him for his service and shared some personal insight.
Vice Mayor Princess Washington said Kermoade was the king of one-liners and she would miss that.
Councilman Amit Pal said there would be no way to pay him monetarily for his work. "I know you have mentored a lot of people at the fire house," he added.
Mayor Alma Hernandez thanked Kermoade for his assistance in explaining things at the fire department.
It's estimated Kermoade logged more than 10,000 hours of community service and responded to more than 7,500 calls for service.
In 2018, his peers named him Firefighter of the Year.
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Proposed ballot measure seeks to repeal Proposition 47
By Nicole Comstock
February 13, 2024 / 10:12 PM PST / KCAL News
A proposed new ballot measure may give Californians a chance to repeal the highly contentious Proposition 47, which lessened the charges associated with non-violent property crimes and drug possession.
"The law made some non-violent property crimes, where the value does not exceed $950, into misdemeanors. It also made some simple drug possession offenses into misdemeanors," according to the Los Angeles County Public Defender. "It also provides that past convictions for these charges may be reduced to a misdemeanor by a court."
The proposition was passed by voters in 2014, and since then has been a hot button topic for debate amongst Californians, many of whom believe it was the spark in a notable rise in the crime rate and drug use over the past decade.
"It's been 10 years and we're markedly worse than we were 10 years ago in terms of crime and lawlessness and disorder," said Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin. "Something's gotta change."
Those who oppose Prop 47 say that it emboldened people who believe they can steal over and over again without facing real consequences. "The public has figured out and certainly criminals know that they can steal in California and there's not gonna be any jail time for them. No consequences and they can keep doing it," Hestrin said.
He's the president of the California District Attorney's Association, which is behind the proposed ballot measure, called the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, which aims to repeal Prop 47. "It returns teeth back into the criminal justice system. It returns consequences." The act would allow prosecutors to aggregate, or add up, charges so that a third misdemeanor could become a felony and a fourth could come with prison time, which they hope would deter people from repeating crimes.
A similar set of circumstances would follow drug charges, although a fourth would only come with prison time if the offender refused entry into a drug treatment program. "If you go to treatment, the case goes away," Hestrin said. "It's not on your record."
However, people who support the proposition say that the real root of the crime issue is a growing rate of poverty in the United States. They also say that the original purpose of Prop 47 was never to reduce theft and drug use, but rather to reduce mass incarceration. "We've been able to cut the number of people that are going into prison, increase the number of people that are in careers and enhance our public safety," said Sam Lewis, the CEO of Anti Recidivism Coalition, which uses funds from Prop 47 for prison rehabilitation programs and reentry services. "It's a red herring, it's a way to scare people to want to change something."
Lewis says that the proposed ballot measure is unnecessary and doesn't target the root of the problem. "The driver of mass incarceration is poverty," he said. "The driver, when we look at some of these retail thefts, is poverty. People are struggling so what do we do as a community, as a society, as a government, as a country, to shift that?" He argues that overall theft is down. Hestrin disagrees, saying it’s become so commonplace that not every case is reported. "Many business owners just don't bother," he said.
Walmart and Target, two of the United States' largest retail chains, are major funders behind the proposed measure. Both are donating so that they can reach enough supporters to qualify the measure for the ballot in November.
#California #Crime #RetailTheft #Fentanyl #FixProp47
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A shout-out about our new Pop-Up tents,
donated by Stanley Davis - thank you, Stanley!!
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Vacaville Girls Wrestling has First North Champion; Area Athletes Advance to Masters
FAIRFIELD — Kaelena Ahrens earned Vacaville High School's first girls Sac-Joaquin Section North Division Wrestling Championship in history Saturday in Sacramento, while Will C. Wood was second as a team.
Ahrens won at 105 pounds. Wood scored 176.5 team points to finish as the runner-up to Del Oro. The top eight individual finishers earned trips to the Section Masters in Stockton Friday and Saturday.
Will C. Wood's Sophia Villoria (third) and Armijo's Karissa McDaniel (fifth) move on at 100 pounds. Will C. Wood's Madison DeValle (sixth) advances at 115 pounds, Will C. Wood's Levi Crabtree (fourth) moves on at 120 pounds, Will C. Wood's Casey Fuller (eighth) goes on at 125 pounds, and Will C. Wood's Josie Mays (second) advances at 130 pounds.
Vanden's Elena Mendoza (fourth) and Will C. Wood's Nyima Trevino (eighth) are the area athletes at 135 pounds. Wood's Abigail English-Reed (fifth) moves on at 145 pounds. Rio Vista's Chloe Goddard (second) will represent the Rams at 170 pounds. Fairfield's Isabel Dahlen (eighth) will also be at 170. Will C. Wood's Djesire Emerson (second) will be at 190.
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The 100 Club of Solano and Yolo Counties
Community Uplift
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Congratulations, Luis Rivera!
SCFD 2023 Firefighter of the Year Engineer, Luis Rivera. Rivera joined the SCFD in 2020 and has been instrumental in a number of projects including preserving the department's history, updating training resources, and is described by his peers as a leader to model. Congratulations Engineer Rivera!
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Congratulations, Jayden Ayers!
Today, Solano Community College (SCC) student, Jayden Ayers, was commended by Chief Brian Travis and Officers Gray and Roberts for his composed and decisive response on February 1, 2024, during a medical emergency at the Fairfield campus. Witnessing a fellow student in serious medical distress in building 400 at the Fairfield campus, Jayden acted swiftly, preventing the student from falling to the ground and providing immediate assistance. With calm reassurance, he supported the student and promptly summoned help. Jayden remained by the student's side, offering comfort until DPS officers and the Fairfield Fire Department arrived. His demonstration of compassion, level-headedness, and care for a peer in need earned him recognition from the SCC Department of Public Safety with a Challenge Coin.
Jayden's exemplary conduct reflects positively on SCC, showcasing the strength of its student community. We extend our gratitude to Jayden for his outstanding character and assistance to others in a time of need. SCC is privileged to have students like Jayden contributing to our campus community.
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What a blessing of an evening as Gabriel was recognized for his efforts and dedication to the citizens of Fairfield. Thank you Fairfield Fire Department for a wonderful event! It was very classy and truly shows the caliber of all the Department personnel. Stay safe!
Congrats to all the recipients and our very own Gabriel Totah in receiving the Meritorious Commendation & Reserve Fire Fighter of the Year 2023! 🚒🔥🏆
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We Need Your Support!
As we start a new year, don’t forget to pay your annual dues to continue your membership in the 100 Club of Solano and Yolo Counties!
Many members have let their membership lapse, so now is a good time to renew!
The 100 Club has ongoing costs for supporting family members of fallen officers, as well as the need to support our scholarship fund, and other activities.
The pandemic has restricted our fund-raising activities and we really need your support! We’ve made it easy for you to renew. Just go to the Membership page of our website and scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Please use the family and friends' option when donating - no charges!!
100 Club Membership
Thank you for your continued support of the 100 Club of Solano and Yolo Counties!
Use the Code Below to Give to the 100 Club - Non-Specific Giving
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Commitment to Community
Medic Ambulance has a rich history of providing quality advanced life support ambulance services in the North San Francisco Bay area. We are the exclusive 911 ambulance provider for all of Solano County with the exception of Vacaville.
Medic offers an array of services ranging from EMT/BLS level of care, to Paramedic/ALS care, as well as emergency or non-emergency transportation. Medic has been proudly offering these services as company staples for over 40 years.
Medic Ambulance is a family business with strong ties to the community. We support our community in a variety of ways, including offering ambulance stand-by services for special events.
Visit us at https://www.medicambulance.net
Locations
506 Couch Street
Vallejo, CA 94590
3300 Business Drive
Sacramento, CA 95820
Tel: 707-644-1761
Fax: 707-644-1784
Dispatch: 707-644-8989
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Fishing Boat Charter
$400 per person - Tuna
$200 per person - Rock Cod
For more information on this event or any of the others listed - please click the link below to be brought to Ron's Email
Email Ron Turner for more Information.
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Trail Rides for our Cowgirls & Cowboys!
Send an email to info100clubsyc@gmail.com to participate in any upcoming trail rides.
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Stay Prepared
Learn how you can prepare at www.ReadyForWildfire.org
Stats and info above from CAL FIRE
Sign up for emergency alerts and notifications
Sign up for a community notification system to stay in the loop regarding critical information about emergencies and other public safety information
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About Us
Citizens Financial is proud to be your real estate finance brokerage with offices located in both Northern and Southern California.
Company NMLS# 2503947
DBA: The Badges Broker, The Crown Group, The Hinton Group, The Bell Group, Citizens Financial Home Services, California Forever Homes, California Home Loans, California Forever Down Payment Assistance, California Forever First Time Home Buyer Program, Adobe Mortgage, Superior Home Loans, & Biotech Mortgage Company.
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Tonneson Appraisal
Established in 1984!
OVER 15000 APPRAISALS ...
Tonnesen Appraisal Service has provided high-quality service and fair market valuations of residential real estate since 1984. We reside and appraise properties in the North Bay area exclusively. This results in knowing firsthand the market changes and identifying reliable comparables. Our expertise is built on our varied assignments, current and/or retrospective, from typical tract homes to custom build, atypical, country, and investment properties.
1.Estate Settlement Appraisals
2.Divorce Settlement Appraisals
3.FSBO Appraisals and Real Estate Appraisals
4.Expert in Solano and Napa County Real Estate
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JN&K Restaurant
Engaging and energetic food service and hospitality executive with pointed and progressive experience pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors that offer meaningful opportunity to enhance communities while adding practical value. Known for applying strong penchant for treating others with dignity, care and respect to foster cultures of excellence both professionally and personally. Highly regarded for community engagement, public presence, and commitment to creating opportunities for at-risk youth.
Come visit our Beck Avenue location, Fairfield, CA
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Hoppy Monday Blue Note!
Welcome to another fun week at Blue Note, take a look at what we have coming up.
1/19, 11:30-10 p.m.: It’s Friday, we made it to the weekend! Treat yourself to a great time with us at Blue Note. Blue Flame is open 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. & 4-9 p.m.
1/20, 12-10 p.m.: Live Music Saturday! Check out local favorites, The Truckaderos! Who doesn’t love diesel country? Can’t wait to check them out, 6-9 p.m.
Blue Flame is open 12-3 p.m. & 4-8 p.m.
1/21, 12-7 p.m.: Sunday Funday! Live Music Sunday is here with a live performance by The Teds (classic covers)! 3-6 p.m., all live music events are free, all ages and pet friendly!
When are you stopping by? See you soon!
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A Bit About Us
At Cimico Signs, we’re driven by our dedication to offer a superior, personalized service. We smile with pride every time someone walks into our store excited about the great selection, and walks out satisfied. It means we’ve done our job right.
Ever since we’ve founded our store in 2000, we had one goal in mind: ensuring a permanent variety of fantastic items along with unique limited edition and seasonal merchandise that fit any budget.
Get in touch with us to learn more about our store, or come on over and say hi in person!
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Sourdough & Co - Napa
201 W Napa St | Unit 8 Sonoma
CA 95476
(707) 938-7061
Visit Our Website!
Thank you, Romy, for supplying sandwiches to the Fairfield Record Support Personnel.
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739 Texas St, Fairfield, CA 94533
(707) 434-1313
https://www.saffron-fairfield.com
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VACAVILLE, Calif. (KGO) – You may not have heard of the name CC Yin, but chances are, you’ve been to one of his restaurants. The Vacaville resident runs a fast-food empire with 30 McDonald’s branches in Northern California, 16 in Solano County. Now, in addition to Happy Meals, he’s serving up PPE. | | | |
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Enterprise Holdings is proud to announce it has received a 2023 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA) – an accolade that spotlights the most engaged workplace cultures in the world. According to Gallup, GEWA winners are recognized for their ability to challenge the status quo and “transform workplaces by putting people at the heart of their business strategies.”
This year, Gallup selected just 57 companies worldwide to receive the prestigious award. This year’s meta-analysis included over 2.7 million employees across 54 industries and utilizes criteria from Gallup's Q12 survey, which ranks employee engagement, specific business metrics and commitment to the organization.
"We are incredibly honored to be recognized among the top organizations in the world for providing an exceptional workplace for our more than 80,000 Enterprise Holdings employees across the globe," Enterprise Holdings Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources Shelley Roither said. "Jack Taylor founded this organization on the lasting idea to ‘take care of your customers and your employees first, and everything else will follow,’ so this award is fitting recognition for our continued focus on creating an exceptional place to work and grow your career.”
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