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Natalie’s Corner
Central Park Splashpad
Kicks off with Groundbreaking Ceremony
on September 14
The City of Davis and the Natalie Corona Committee invites the community to the groundbreaking of Natalie’s Corner Splashpad in honor of Police Officer Natalie Corona who was killed while on duty in 2019. The event will take place on September 14 from 10-10:30 a.m. in Central Park near the stage by the carousel. Members of the Davis City Council, the Corona family, and the Natalie Corona Committee will be on site to share an update and celebrate this milestone.
The project will create a splash pad surrounded by lawn and art reflecting the spirit of Officer Corona. Construction will run through June 2025.
Natalie’s Corner will feature:
· Free splash pad water feature and gathering space for all ages.
· Ultraviolet water treatment and landscaped bio-filtration system.
· Water-efficient landscaping, including new pollinator gardens.
· Native and drought-tolerant plant identification signs and an educational display.
· Added benches, picnic tables, low-wall seating, shade structures and public art.
· Educational signage.
These improvements are funded by a $2.784 million Statewide Park Development and Community Revitalization Grant, City Park Impact fees and community donations. The water feature will be accessible to persons with disabilities and will complement the existing universal playground located adjacent to the
new water feature.
The City of Davis created the Natalie Corona Committee to recommend a place of remembrance for Davis Police Officer Natalie Corona and to secure the necessary community donations to complete the remembrance. The Committee is a community-based group led by former Senator and Mayor Lois Wolk. The Committee has set a fundraising goal of $500,000 from community donations.
If you would like to help build Natalie’s Corner, there are two ways to donate. You can donate funds via the Yolo Community Foundation. All donations over $500 will be listed on a
permanent Donor Wall.
Donors to date: https://nataliescornerdavis.com/donor-wall/
Donate to Natalie’s Corner: https://nataliescornerdavis.com/donate/
Another fun way to donate to the project is buying a personalized brick. For $224 you can buy a brick and honor her lasting legacy. The number, 224, is Natalie’s City of Davis Police Badge number. Your brick can be personalized with your family’s name, someone you wish to honor or a personal message. Brick sales are ending soon, as construction is beginning. Get yours now!
Buy-a-Brick: https://nataliescornerdavis.com/buy-a-brick/
More information on Natalie’s Corner: https://nataliescornerdavis.com.
Natalie’s Corner Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Natalies.Corner.Davis/
KCRA Report – Remembering Officer Natalie Corona:
https://www.kcra.com/article/natalie-corona-davis-officer-remembered-for-her-integrity/25864888
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Medic Ambulance introduces Molly,
the Medic Service Dog!
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We're thrilled to announce that our very own @Mollythemedicdog, has officially graduated and earned some impressive accolades! 🎉 Molly received the AKC Urban CGC ribbon, the Good Canine Citizen ribbon, and the AKC Community Canine ribbon. These achievements recognize her outstanding behavior, adaptability in urban environments, and her ability to serve as a comforting presence in our community. Molly's training and dedication make her a vital part of our team, helping to bring comfort and support to those in need. Congratulations, Molly!🐾
#TherapyDog #GoodCanineCitizen #MedicAmbulance
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On August 21, 2024, at 8:30 am, the Public Safety Academy (PSA) held the first formal inspection of the 2024-2025 school year.
The Fairfield Fire Department, Fairfield Police Department,
and California National Guard joined PSA staff in
conducting the inspection.
Inspections are conducted every Wednesday during the morning formation, and we have to say this first inspection bodes well for the remainder of the year. Looking sharp, everyone!
Our thanks to the Public Safety Academy for a strong and continued partnership that makes regular interactions with students like this possible!
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Rest in Peace, David Talley
My dad gained his wings as he was surrounded by family and friends, while his preacher’s wife sang Amazing Grace, and he let go of my mom’s hand on their 45th wedding anniversary. That song will forever have a new meaning to me. There will be more fish in the stream this year. Our hearts are deeply saddened. Dad always believed in faith and family; he always said family is not always blood and it was proven several times. A tailgate, ice chest and a trout in his hand with a huge smile is how I will remember him! The man never met a stranger. His gate was always open with a beer and an ear for whoever needed it. Life's problems were always solved on his tailgate. Say a prayer for the ones left behind. I will continue to teach my family to follow your path of God, family, and friends because in the end, that's what matters. "It doesn't matter what's at the table, it matters who's at the table” was his favorite saying.
~Richard Diaz
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The 100 Club of Solano and Yolo Counties Club President Ron Turner was interviewed by KCRA Channel 3 at a fundraiser for the family of Officer Matt Bowen who was killed in the line of duty in July. | |
Volunteer Engineer Rich Anderson hung his helmet after serving nearly 22 years with the Suisun City Fire Department. Rich was recognized with a Proclamation for his dedicated years of service to the Suisun community and SCFD given by Mayor Alma Hernandez. “The heart of a volunteer is never measured in size, but by the depth of commitment to make a difference in the lives of others,” said DeAnn Hollis. “Rich Anderson exemplifies this quote in his service. We wish Rich and his family well and thank him for his service to the community and SCFD.” | |
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Please join the Solano County Sheriff’s Office in congratulating our three graduates from the Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff, Basic Academy Class 200. Be sure to say “Hi!” when you see them in the community.
#DedicatedtoCommunityService
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Congratulations to a new Sergeant and welcome to some of our new team members!!
Brian Halley was promoted to the rank of Sergeant earlier this week and has been working at Vacaville PD for a little over 10 years after lateraling over from UC Davis PD. He has gained valuable experience with many years on the SWAT team and as a Crime Impact Team (CIT) Detective and will be an excellent tactical resource for his patrol officers.
Public Safety Dispatcher (PSD) Faith Campbell learned a wide variety of skills during her time with CHP Dispatch and recently returned to her hometown to join our Dispatch crew.
Police Records Specialists Adriana Gonzalez-Powles has over a decade of experience working with the Contra Costa County DA Office, and Maria Tialigo has almost two decades of experience with the Transportation Security Administration and San Diego PD. We are very happy to have them both join our Records team!
Congratulations and welcome to all in their new spots with the Vacaville PD team!
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Solano County Probation is proud to introduce Shawna Albright as our new Chief Deputy Probation Officer! In her new role, Shawna will assist Chief Farrah in overseeing all aspects of the Probation Department, including adult and juvenile supervision, investigations, and rehabilitation programs.
Shawna has been with the Department for 29 years and has worked every area of the agency, starting in the Juvenile Detention Facility and having worked in both Adult and Juvenile divisions in Court and Field supervision assignments. Shawna has 10 years of Probation Management experience including being the first Deputy Director in 2018 with responsibility over the Court and Field managers, before her reclassification to Division Chief in 2022 where she spent most of that time operating as the Superintendent of the Juvenile Detention Facility.
Please join us in congratulating Shawna on this well-deserved promotion! We look forward to her continued contributions to Solano County Probation and the community we serve!
#SolanoCountyProbation #Leadership #Probation
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Sheriff’s Office begins Doe Cold Case Project
The aim is to re-open and re-investigate cold cases by
using the latest technology.
By RICHARD BAMMER | rbammer@thereporter.com | Vacaville Reporter
PUBLISHED: August 22, 2024 at 4:38 p.m.
The Solano County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday announced it has begun the Doe Cold Case Project, aided by Solano County Coroner’s Office, with an aim to re-open and re-investigate cold cases. A Coroner cold case is one in which a deceased person — known only as John Doe or Jane Doe — has remained unidentified for several years.
According to a press statement issued by the Sheriff’s Office, the Coroner, starting in July 2023, began exhuming unidentified remains in an effort to use new advancements in science and technology to identify them.
In the prepared statement, Sheriff-Coroner Thomas A. Ferrara expressed hope that, through up-to-date identification methods, investigators will be able to give their “names and identities back and provide their families some form and level of closure.”
The Doe Cold Case Project has been underway for more than a year, with detectives, Coroner investigators, forensics staff, and law enforcement partners working to ID the dead. The cases span many decades, and each case has unique challenges, but all options are used to identify them, Sheriff officials said. In the coming days, weeks and months, Ferrara hopes to share information about the project and its latest successes.
Investigators likely will seek the public’s help, hoping someone in the Solano community will recognize one of the John
or Jane Does.
The project’s announcement comes as Fred Marion Cain III, 70, faces a murder charge for the death of Jeremy Floyd Stoner, with special circumstances. They include kidnapping, sodomy, and a lewd and lascivious act on a child under 14. Jail records show Cain was arrested near Medford, Ore., on a warrant served Sept. 27, 2023, in Red Bluff by Solano County Sheriff’s deputies.
He was booked into custody in Fairfield without bail shortly
after noon that same day.
Shortly afterward, during a press conference announcing Cain’s arrest, Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams named Stoner, who, according to the criminal complaint, was killed on or about Feb. 21 in Solano County. Additionally, Abrams cited previous felony convictions against Cain in Contra Costa County Superior Court on May 22, 1979. He was found guilty of sodomy, rape by the use of an intoxicating substance, burglary, and
first-degree burglary.
Abrams also noted she reinstated the Cold Case Unit in her office after being first elected in 2014 and credited new DNA analysis and two cold case investigators, Steve Howisey and Kevin Coelho, for “working tirelessly” to solve a case she described as “every parent’s worst nightmare.” Stoner’s death “wracked” the Vallejo community, she added.
Howisey, said Abrams, “took another look at the case” in October 2022, obtaining evidence that showed a match for the initial suspect in the case, Shawn Melton. However, after a trial and retrial, with juries unable to reach unanimous verdicts, he was released from custody and eventually exonerated.
So, investigators determined DNA could lead to another suspect, and it led to Cain, who, Abrams said, was initially interviewed after the killing, on March 3, 1987, but was not taken into custody.
Cain, she said, “did know the child” and was not living in Vallejo at the time of the alleged killing.
A former Vallejo police officer, Coelho described the investigation as “very lengthy,” recalling that the case has been “talked about for years” by Vallejo officers and others. He said he “took a personal interest in this case.”
In the initial press statement, Abrams noted Stoner, 6, was abducted near his home in Vallejo. Four days after he went missing, his body was discovered on Sherman Island in Sacramento County. An autopsy revealed that the boy had been sexually assaulted. If convicted at trial, Cain may face
the death penalty.
Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019 signed an executive order halting executions in California while he’s in office, but capital punishment convictions remain possible in the Golden State.
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Wood’s Janaun White tries to bring down Fairfield’s running back Tre’von Moten during the Wildcats’ 26-14 loss to the Falcons on Friday. (Chris Riley/The Reporter) | |
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Prep football: Wood gets late start in road loss to Fairfield
Wildcats can’t stop Moten, have trouble on offense in first half
Although the Monticello Empire League has been restructured for the 2024 season, Will C. Wood High School still made a point to schedule old foe Fairfield.
However, if the Wildcats never see Tre’von Moten again they’ll be just fine with it. Moten had two interceptions on defense and ran wild on offense for 185 yards on 15 carries and three touchdowns in Fairfield’s 26-14 win in the season opener for both teams. All three of his scores were for at least 32 yards, with his longest one — a 74 yarder — clinching the game with under a minute left.
The game was the first at Will C. Wood for new head coach Cha’pelle Brown, who took over after a heart attack claimed the life of Jacob Wright last year.
After Friday’s loss, Brown gave credit to Fairfield.
“It’s football. You don’t tackle and the other team forces more turnovers than you do, most time that team wins the game,” Brown said. “It wasn’t complicated. The more and more our team plays they will realize and understand the smaller things matter. But you have to give credit to the other team, because they played their butts off and played to the end and we didn’t. Now, we fought to the end, but we didn’t execute.
“This game will allow us to get better for the next one and that’s what’s it all about.”
Wood was without the services of returning quarterback Kimani Dokes, currently ineligible according to Wildcats’ coaches.
“He needs to take care of some business, that’s what he
needs to do,” Brown said.
In Dokes’ place was Kandon Olivera, who threw a first-quarter, 16-yard touchdown to Lacorey Collins to give Wood a 7-6 lead.
Olivera completed 12 of 22 passes for 171 yards and two touchdowns, but was intercepted three times.
“I thought he was awesome. Look we don’t get to make an excuse,” Brown said. “Everybody has to do a job and guess what? We all need to figure things out. I thought he came out here and did a heck of a job for the circumstances we put him in.”
Wood went up 13-7 with 8:19 remaining in the second quarter when Moten rushed 60 yards for a touchdown. Jaiden Lewis-Chandler previously scored the first touchdown on a one-yard run.
Moten gave Fairfield some breathing room with 4:35 left in the third quarter when he scampered 32 yards for his second
score to make it 20-7.
Fairfield looked ready to put the game away in the fourth quarter with a three-score advantage, but Gavin Kruszka forced Lewis-Chandler to fumble on the goal line. Two plays later Olivera found Collins more open than a 7-Eleven, hitting the wideout caught the ball in the flat for a 91-yard score. Collins finished with four catches for 126 yards.
Kruszka was at it again on the next defensive series, intercepting a pass by the Falcons’ Tristen Smith to give the Wildcats a chance to claim the lead with just under seven minutes remaining.
“I just busted outside and the ball came loose and I just took it,” Kruszka said. “I knew we needed a turnover there,
so I just took it.”
Kruszka said the wideout he was defending did a “stop and go” so he followed him and “baited the quarterback into throwing it.”
Kruszka said he likes playing for Brown, but still thinks about his former coach Wright.
“I 100 percent think about Coach Wright all the time,” Kruszka said. “He’s one of the reasons I play. I think of how he put a lot into the game and told us to act like you love it all the time.”
Wood had a chance to take the lead with about a minute left, but Olivera’s fourth-down pass sailed out of bounds, thanks in large part to tight coverage by Fairfield defensive back Izel Jackson. Davion Johnson and Janaun White also had key sacks for the Falcons on the drive.
Wood needed to strip the ball and force a turnover, but instead Moten ran the ball 74 yards for a touchdown that was the dagger in the Wildcats’ heart.
“We just need to study and get ready for the next game, but we also got to have that fight when playing,” Kruszka said.
Wood plays at home next week against American Canyon in the Wolves’ season opener. The game is slated for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff. Fairfield plays at Rodriguez.
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Vacaville JV: Your freshman dogs played hard and left it all out on the field against Bradshaw Christian, but fell short 7 - 28. Keep working hard...getting better every day and let’s go get those Granite Bay Grizzles next week!! | |
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Legislature Approves Sen. Dodd’s
‘Willie Mays Highway’ Bill
SACRAMENTO – The California Legislature approved a resolution from Sens. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and colleagues statewide to name a portion of Interstate 80 in San Francisco after the late baseball icon, Willie Mays.
“This is an absolute homerun,” Sen. Dodd said. “Willie Mays endeared himself to generations of San Francisco Giants fans, including myself, so naming a street near the ballpark after him is the perfect tribute. Now generations to come will travel along Willie Mays Highway on the way to watch the Giants while the
all-time great in a No. 24 jersey is beaming down from
heaven at a grateful city.”
Willie Mays, who died at 93 on June 18, played in the major leagues for 23 seasons, most notably for the New York and San Francisco Giants, and in his final two years, the New York Mets. He began his playing career in the Negro Leagues, served in the Army during the Korean War, and was among the first African American players to get called up to the majors. Nicknamed the Say Hey Kid, Mays was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1979 and was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2015. His Say Hey Foundation continues to provide underprivileged youth with the chance to play baseball.
With the approval of Senate Concurrent Resolution 169, the portion of I-80 where the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge enters the city near Oracle Park is now officially the Willie Mays Highway. Signs will be paid for with private funding. SCR 169 is co-authored by numerous members of the Senate and the Assembly, “even including some Dodgers fans,” Sen. Dodd said.
“Willie Mays was a San Francisco original,” said Sen. Wiener. “A peerless talent and unforgettable presence on the field, he dedicated untold hours to serving his community and empowering young people from humble beginnings to play sports. He broke barriers as one of the first Black players in Major League Baseball, empowering generations of athletes to follow their dreams. It’s only right that we honor him publicly, in the community he loved, and I’m thrilled to present this resolution to do so.”
“It is an honor to join Sen. Dodd and my colleagues in introducing this resolution to name a portion of I-80 in San Francisco after the legendary Willie Mays,” said Assemblywoman Lori D. Wilson, D-Suisun City. “This dedication will serve as a daily reminder to Californians of the great Willie Mays, celebrating his immense contributions and long list of achievements both on and off the field. As chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus, I am proud to recognize and honor his enduring legacy and the significant impact he has had on our cultural
and historical heritage.”
“Willie Mays is a legend in our city,” said Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, who grew up going to baseball games with his parents in the city. “He played his last game in 1973, but every kid in San Francisco still knows his name. Naming this highway after our local hero is a just one small way
we can honor this giant.”
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Congratulations to my Son-in-law, Jose Masis, on his promotion to Sergeant at Sacramento Police Department. Today, Alexandra and Kennedy pinned his badge in a promotion ceremony where twenty other promotions occurred. We are so proud of Jose’s hard work and accomplishments during his service for the past six years in Sacramento. 💙 ~Suzanne Lacy | |
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Deputy Robert Harbaugh (pictured on the left) started his career with the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office as a Deputy Sheriff on December 19, 1994, serving with distinction for over 30 years. Throughout his tenure, Deputy Harbaugh held various roles, including Security & Investigations, Court Services, Transportation, Field Operations, and Marine Patrol. He also took on additional responsibilities as a Field Training Officer, Officer in Charge, and Instructor for Baton & Impact Weapons, Weaponless Defense, Boat Operations, and Firearms.
Among his notable achievements, Deputy Harbaugh received a Certificate of Commendation for “Distinguished Service” in 2003, the Safe Driving Award in 2013, was named the Field Operations “Employee of the Month” for January 2017. He has also been honored with numerous letters of appreciation and commendation from community members and other Law Enforcement Agencies.
Captain Gary Hallenbeck (pictured on the right) began his career with the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office as a Deputy Sheriff on December 28, 1998. Over the years, Deputy Hallenbeck worked in various roles including Transportation, Court Services, Field Operations, and Investigations. He was involved in specialized units such as YONET, Cannabis Task Force, and Ag Task Force. Additionally, he took on collateral assignments of Court Services Training Officer, Field Training Officer, Range Instructor, and Yolo County Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team Leader.
On April 29, 2018, Hallenbeck was promoted to the rank of Sergeant, followed by a promotion to Lieutenant on September 13, 2020. He advanced to the rank of Captain on
November 21, 2021.
Captain Gary Hallenbeck has earned several accolades, including Commendations for “Distinguished Service” in 2006 and 2008 for his work with YONET, was awarded a Commendation for Dedicated Service in 2013, and recognition as part of the 2023 “Team of the Year” awarded to the SWAT Team. He has also received numerous Letters of Appreciation and Commendation from community members and other Law Enforcement agencies.
Please join us in extending your best wishes for a fulfilling retirement to Deputy Harbaugh and Captain Hallenbeck, and in thanking them for their combined dedication of over 45 years of service to the residents of Yolo County. May your retirement be filled with the well-deserved rewards of your hard work.
#YoloCountySheriffsOffice #HonoredToServe #YoloCountySheriff #HappyRetirement
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The Cool Patch Pumpkins is located at
6150 Dixon Avenue West, Dixon.
Thank you to Fairfield Subaru for donating 24 seats for Club members to attend this excellent event!
Please leave a positive Google review for Fairfield Subaru.
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NAMIWalks Solano - For Our Community
The countdown is on! We are 55 days away from our first NAMIWalks Solano - Walk for Mental Health, scheduled for Saturday October 19, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. at Lagoon Valley Park, Vacaville.
What is the purpose of this event?
- We are walking to promote mental health awareness and to reduce stigma.
- We are walking to raise funds for our free, top-rated mental health programs.
We are walking to build community and let people know they are not alone.
Join us!
By joining our team, you — like thousands of others across
the country — are bringing us closer to our goal of
“Mental Health for All.”
We have an impact to make, and the larger our team, the bigger our effect as we raise money and supercharge awareness to power NAMI and its free, life-changing programs.
Register to walk here:
NAMIWalks
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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 above - please click the link below to be brought to Ron's Email
Email Ron Turner for more Information.
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We Need Your Support!
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.
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.
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 -
General Donation.
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Pan-Seared Mediterranean Cod in Tomato Basil Sauce
From Bobby Flay
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
3 large cloves garlic, finely minced
1 pint cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
1/4 cup vegetable broth
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (divided as 1 tbsp for sauce, 2 tbsp for seasoning)
1/2 cup fresh basil, finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon salt (more to taste)
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper (more to taste)
1 and 1/2 pounds fresh cod, cut into 4 fillets
Additional salt and pepper for seasoning
Directions:
For the sauce, heat olive oil in a large sauté pan over medium heat. Add red pepper flakes and garlic, sautéing for 1 minute. Add cherry tomatoes and cook until soft and blistering (9-12 minutes).
Stir in vegetable broth and 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Let it simmer gently. Then, add basil, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, zest, salt, sugar, and black pepper.
Cook for 2 minutes, then set aside.
For the cod, heat olive oil in another pan over medium heat. Season cod with salt and pepper. Cook until golden brown (about 3 minutes each side).
Pour the tomato basil sauce over the cod,
warm up for a minute, then serve.
Editor's note: I made this recipe and it was excellent!
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Medic New Hires
The future of emergency care is here. Welcoming both our Solano and Sacramento New Hire Academies, as they had the opportunity to wrap up training together! We're thrilled to have you all on board and look forward to the incredible impact you'll make!
#MedicAmbulance #CaringIsOurCore #NewHires #NowHiring
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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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ANSON GRAY BURDICK
Rank: Constable
Department: Suisun City, California, P.D.
End of Watch: September 1, 1927
Cause: Gunfire
Age: 66
Years of Service: Unknown
Description: Investigating suspicious persons. Shot while checking on a transient he had found earlier.
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Charles M. Hayes
Last Alarm: September 1, 1961
Vallejo
Description: Lt. Hayes suffered a heart attack after working long hours fighting one of Vallejo’s worst fires ever: a 10,000-15,000-acre grasslands fire from Napa Junction to Glen Cove.
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Clarence Thomas and William Fox
Last Alarm: September 22, 1922
Benicia
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DAVID NEECE
Rank: Sergeant
Department: San Pablo, CA
End of Watch: September 28, 2019
Cause: Long-Term Stress
Age: 37
Years of Service: 13
Over the course of David’s more that 13-year career in the San Pablo Police Department he developed as one of the most influential officers in the organization. Some of the assignments David held included: Field Training Officer, Detective, Master Sergeant, Peer Support, and Supervisor of Code Enforcement, School Resource Officers, and Tobacco Enforcement. He also served as the San Pablo Police Employees Association Vice-President and President.
The professional passion in David’s career rested in his role with the SWAT Team. In 2009, David was selected to join the inaugural team to form the Special Entry and Apprehension Team. He advanced to Team Leader. Under David’s leadership, the team evolved into the first fully operational SWAT Team in the department’s history. David was recognized as the heart of the team.
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Godfrey Daniel Priddy, Jr.
Last Alarm: September 30, 1956
Dixon
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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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