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Welcome New Members!
We are pleased and grateful to welcome all members of Dixon’s Police Officers Association to membership in the 100 Club! As you know, our primary mission is to support your families should that need arise, and we appreciate the support that you show the club with your membership. We’ve got a lot going on, as you can see from the events listed in this newsletter. We look forward to having you at our events soon!
~Ron Turner
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Honoring the Memory of Officer Bradley Moody
End of Watch: October 4, 2008
Richmond Police Department
Shortly before 0800 on the morning of October 4, 2008, Officer Bradley Moody was involved in a single patrol-car accident on Marina Bay Parkway just north of Regatta Blvd. in the city of Richmond. The eight-year veteran was headed north on Marina Bay Parkway, answering an officer’s call for help during an assault. Moody lost control of his Ford cruiser and slammed sideways into a light pole, authorities said. It had been raining a short time before the call and roads were slick.
After heroic on-scene efforts by several members of the Richmond Police and Fire Departments, as well as several PG&E employees, Officer Moody was transported to John Muir Trauma Center in Walnut Creek.
Officer Moody had sustained catastrophic brain injury. After remaining on life support for three days, a determination was made that Officer Moody’s brain functioning was not compatible with life. His wish was to be an organ donor, so his family instructed the hospital to move forward with that process. Officer Moody was taken off life support and passed away at 2:45 a.m. October 7. According to Richmond police Lt. Mark Gagan, Moody’s organs were donated to a man in San Francisco who had 24 hours to live. “The last thing Brad did was to save a life,” Gagan said.
Officer Moody is survived by his wife, Susan, a former Richmond PD dispatcher, and their two young daughters, three-year-old Madison and one-year-old Emma. He is also survived by his parents, James and Elizabeth Moody, and siblings James Moody Jr., and Jennifer Moody.
“Brad was held in the highest regard by his peers,” Police Chief Chris Magnus said in a statement. “His work ethic was extraordinary, and his commitment to the community of Richmond and his profession unparalleled. Needless to say, this is a very difficult time for RPD and Brad’s many friends in the community.”
On October 14, over 1500 people filled Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord to honor and remember Officer Bradley A. Moody. He graduated in 2000 from the police academy at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, where he was named top athlete, top marksman and overall No. 1 in his class.
Moody was remembered as a dedicated K-9 officer. His dog “Rico” survived the accident with minor injuries. Now the family’s pet, Rico was on stage at the memorial service, along with more than 100 other police dogs sitting at attention at their handlers’ sides.
Just hours before the crash that ultimately took his life, Officer Moody received a commendation for apprehending and arresting two suspects carrying concealed weapons in separate incidents last August. “That’s a good example of his duality,” Lt. Gagan said. “He was able to fight crime and then turn around and do a K-9 demonstration at schools and be very engaging with kids. It shows his ability to be personal and very sensitive.”
“Bradley was a cop’s cop,” said Officer David Funk, recalling his patrols of the city’s Iron Triangle neighborhood with Moody. “He loved his job, as he did life.” After Moody died, a memorial sprang up on Nevin Avenue, placed there by the “very gangsters and dope dealers who Brad used to arrest,” Funk said. The gang members left signatures and positive messages for Moody. “It blew me away,” Funk said.
Showing remarkable poise, Susan Moody addressed those in attendance and thanked Rico. “Even after the crash, Rico tried to protect his daddy and was with him during the last moments of his life,” she said. As if almost on cue, a police dog began barking.
“Bradley, I am going to miss you each and every day that passes,” she said as she began crying. “I promise you that I will tell our babies how much you loved them.” With her children in tow, she placed flowers on her husband’s casket and
gave Rico a hug.
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Matt Bloesch
Matt Bloesch was a typical 13-year-old trying to find his place in the world. His dad was his best friend who he respected and looked to for guidance. Matt’s world was completely shattered on August 2, 1988, when his dad, San Francisco (CA) Police Officer James Bloesch, was accidentally shot and killed while on duty.
Through the rest of his teen years and into adulthood, Matt became fiercely independent and distracted himself with sports, partying, and eventually his career. “I was good at things like work because there was an instruction manual. But I never learned how to be a good dad, husband, or friend because I never learned how to deal with my emotions,” said Matt.
Matt’s world started to collapse around him and he knew he needed help. Matt said, “I was trapped for a long time because I thought I was the only one suffering and feeling the way I felt. When other people opened up to me about what they were going through, I no longer felt alone, and I felt safe talking about all of the dark things that had been running around in my head.”
Getting his life back on track meant Matt was ready to focus on his future. Wanting to be like his dad and work in a field where he could help people every day, Matt took courses in Administration of Justice. “Ten minutes into my first law class, I knew that law enforcement was my calling. I have loved every day of this career.”
Matt and his wife, Karen, attend the C.O.P.S. Adult Children’s Retreat each June. In 2022, Matt was grateful for the opportunity to serve as a mentor at both Kids Camp and Young Adults Camp. Matt said, “They were both great experiences, but I related more to the young adults because I remember being that age and trying to navigate life without my dad. Life between the ages of 15-20 were the hardest years of my life. I talked about some of the things I dealt with at that age, the mistakes I made, where I wish I would have zigged instead of zagged, and the things that really helped me through those years.”
Knowing how lonely losing a parent at that age can feel, Matt wants every surviving child to know he is at least one person who truly “gets it.” The advice he gives is this, “Be good to yourself. Your parent that you lost loved you very much. The best thing you can do to honor them is to live a whole and happy life and carry on the legacy. This is something I learned along the way, after having my own kids. I want them to be happy and healthy. If anything ever happened to me, I would still want them to be happy and healthy, and to remember me by doing their part to make the world a better place.”
Matt Bloesch
Surviving Adult Child of
Officer James Bloesch
San Francisco (CA) Police Department
EOW 8/2/1988
#SurvivorStories
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Welcome to Our
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St. Patrick-St. Vincent High wide receiver Josiah Jones (left) battles at the line of scrimmage on Friday night against Salesian. (pictured below) | |
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St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School
The St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School football team’s fans and students had their party at halftime of Friday night’s game against rival Salesian. After all, it was Homecoming.
Salesian decided to throw its own party soon after in the third quarter.
The Bruins only trailed their rival by a point at halftime, but the Pride shut down St. Pat’s in the second half on their way to a 47-19 win. Salesian outscored St. Pat’s 20-0 in the third quarter and 27-0 in the second half for the victory.
The two teams are each 4-1 on the season.
“I think what killed our spirit was an opening kickoff in the second half,” St. Pat’s head coach Dominguez Dickerson said. “That’s something we work on every week. It wasn’t anything new. We knew Salesian had been doing that for years but it was a mental mistake that we had.
“We need to work on toughness — mental and physical,” Dickerson said. “We knew coming into this game that Salesian was going to bring it. Definitely from their offensive line and we needed to match it. Tonight we didn’t.”
St. Pat’s wide receiver Josiah Jones — who had four catches for 107 yards and two touchdowns — blamed himself for a collapse that began with his fumble on the second-half kickoff.
“I think that team that hurt us was something that I did. The first play of the kickoff when I just let it bounce,” Jones said. “They came and got it and that was a momentum changer for us. I take accountability for that. I take full responsibility for that change in momentum and us losing. It is what it is and we move on to the next game.”
The Bruins struggled with ball control all night. Salesian recovered two onside kicks of its own as well as forcing Bruin quarterback Trevor Moelk to throw four interceptions.
“I don’t think he looked new, especially with those interceptions late in the game,” Dickerson said. “We were trying some stuff at that point and trying to find some spark. We were telling him to force the throw in certain spots, so I’ll take the blame for that. He played a hell of a game as we dropped a lot of passes in the first half.”
A’Million Morgan got Salesian on the scoreboard first with a two-yard touchdown run to put the Pride up 6-0 in the first quarter.
St. Pat’s answered at the end of the period with a touchdown of its own, as Moelk ran in a quarterback keeper himself, with his being from five yards out to make it 7-6.
Moelk then began to continually find Jones open. With 11:07 remaining in the second quarter Jones caught a pass and then broke a tackle down the sideline for a 32-yard score to make it 13-7 in the Bruins’ favor.
The St. Patrick-St. Vincent High football team huddles in the first half of its game against Salesian on Friday. The Bruins lost 47-19. (Thomas Gase – Times-Herald)
After Salesian tied the game, Jones was up to breaking tackles for scores again, this time with just over five minutes remaining in the half. Jones caught a pass at the
two-yard line and then fought to break a tackle, plunging into the end zone to
make it 19-13.
“It was really just about who wanted it more,” Jones said. “They ripped my shoe off and I was able to get it and ran into the end zone. It was a cool moment, but it was clearly wasn’t enough to win.”
Salesian took a 20-19 lead going into the second half after Nizam Bean ran in a score from five yards out to make it 20-19. Bean finished with 115 yards on 18 carries. He scored three times.
The Pride extended the lead with 10:43 left in the third quarter when Marco Turqueza ran in a three-yard score. Turqueza scored again just three minutes later on a 15-yard rushing touchdown to make it 33-19.
Down two scores, the St. Pat’s coaching staff then began to get frustrated with a few calls, including one that took a passing touchdown to Jones off the scoreboard. The game came to a halt for nearly 10 minutes as the officials and Bruins coaches argued. Dickerson believes despite his frustration, it did not rub off onto his team.
“I don’t think so. That’s how we coach,” Dickerson said. “We coach with passion and want our boys to play with passion. That’s not something that they’re used to but I don’t think it rubbed off on them.”
St. Pat’s was thwarted on offense by four Moelk interceptions. The first time led to a Salesian touchdown by Bean from two yards out to make it 40-19. Salesian’s scoring was capped off in the fourth quarter by a Cahmari Blakely rushing touchdown from a yard out to make it 47-19 — the eventual final.
“We need to go back and look at some film. We weren’t aggressive enough,” Jones said. “They ran it down our throat in the middle of the field so we need to look ourselves in the mirror and see if we’re as good as we think we are.”
St. Pat’s is at Richmond on Friday, while Salesian plays at Pinole Valley
on Thursday night.
By THOMAS GASE | tgase@timesheraldonline.com | Vallejo Times Herald
PUBLISHED: September 30, 2023 at 1:09 p.m. | UPDATED: September 30, 2023 at 1:20 p.m.
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Vacaville High School vs. Armijo High School - Girls Golf
The Vacaville High girls golf team defeated Armijo on Thursday afternoon at Paradise Valley Golf Course.
Armijo only had one golfer, but the two teams kept track of individual scores.
Erica Villegas shot a match-low 37 for Vacaville, while Grace Kramer shot a 49. Raquel McGrath shot a 50, Rossy Gonzalez-Reyes had a 64, while Sophia Stanley had a career-best 58. Mya Faris also shot a career best 59.
Girls Volleyball
Vanden 3, Fairfield 0
The Vanden High girls volleyball team defeated Fairfield in a sweep on Thursday night, winning 25-10, 25-9, 25-7.
The Vikings improved to 4-5 and 3-0 in the Monticello Empire League with the win.
Anaya Thrower had 11 kills and three assists. Jasmine Ting and Izzy Taylor each had five digs, while Danica Rubi and Piper Olson had 11 and eight assists respectively.
Rodriguez 3, Wood 0
The Will C. Wood girls volleyball team lost to Rodriguez in three games
on Thursday night.
The Wildcats fell to 0-2 in the Monticello Empire League with the loss. They play next Tuesday at home against Fairfield.
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Welcome Medic Ambulance New Hires!
Please join us in welcoming our newest hires! These EMS professionals, both veterans and recruits, are already showing great promise! We can't wait to get them into the family and out in the field!
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Fire Hosts Open House
October 12, 2023
5:00-8:00 p.m.
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Fishing Boat Charter
October 21, 2023
$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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Please 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.
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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.
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Lois Audel McIntosh
Last Alarm: October 4, 1953
Mare Island
A 15-year veteran of the Mare Island Fire Department, Lois Audel McIntosh was a fire captain, who was assigned to the fire boats. On October 4, 1953, smoke was reported from the freight pier and crews were called to the scene. During the firefighting operation, Lois fell from one of the 40-foot fire boats and drowned. He was 48.
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Yin's McDonald's
VACAVILLE, Calif. (KGO) -- You may not 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.
Millions of surgical masks, goggles, gowns, face shields and hand sanitizers are a gift from Yin's non-profit to frontline workers in the Bay Area and nationwide in Vacaville, Vallejo, Fairfield, Suisun City, Sacramento and even Seattle and New York.
The 83-year old says his desire to give back stems from his gratitude for the opportunities that America has given him.
Born in China, he fled to Taiwan during World War II and immigrated to the U.S. in the 60's, with $100 in his pocket. Yin worked as an engineer until getting laid off at age 48. That's when he stumbled upon a chance to buy a failing McDonald's in Oakland.
But getting the franchise was a challenge. Yin says, "McDonald's didn't want me because I was not qualified. I was not good at speaking English. And so the court says 'McDonald's, you cannot judge the immigrant as your standard. The guy might be good for you. So give him a chance and tell me he's no good.'"
But as it turns out, he was good. A year later, Yin turned that branch profitable for the first time. And more McDonald's followed.
The entrepreneur says the key to success was and still is, working with local organizations and supporting the community. Last year, when Yin's Vallejo branch had a grand re-opening, he donated to the local Humane Society. Vallejo Mayor Bob Sampayan was at the ribbon cutting.
"He's provided employment for our local youth, scholarships through his foundation for college-bound seniors, and he's just been nothing but generous to our community in times of need, " Sampayan said.
The community is often invited to Yin's thriving Yin Ranch in Vacaville. It's his home, but it's also a conference center, a venue for weddings, Lunar New Year and an amusement park complete with a McDonald's racetrack.
Here, Yin often hosts events for his non-partisan APAPA organization, Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs. With 30 chapters across the country, its mission is to increase Asian American civic engagement and political leadership. '
California State Treasurer says APAPA's support has been instrumental "for being leaders in our community and giving folks like me the opportunity to network, to be educated and to grow as leaders."
Yin may have written his own rags to riches story through the Golden Arches, but lives by his golden rule. "America taught me how to give back, how to work with community. Everybody should step up, everybody should share, good or bad."
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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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