January, 2020

Happy New Year! It's a New Year and a New Decade

Thanks to all the wonderful volunteers and supporters of The Matt Garcia Foundation. With your incredible help we have been able to support youth in our community. This was very important to the late City Councilman Matt Garcia. The foundation is made up of all volunteers. We proudly come together to live out Matt’s mission by Supporting youth, Helping stop crime and Strengthening our Community. A special thanks to Alex Meza, Community Service Clean-up Volunteer of the Year. He showed up for every single monthly clean-up during 2019!

Upcoming Events

Monday, January 20, 2020 The Matt Garcia Foundation will be joining Rebuilding Together Solano County for their Fairfield workday on Dr. Martin Luther King Day. On this day volunteers will work at Fairfield High School providing interior cleaning, constructing minor renovations in the faculty lounge, creating both an interior and exterior wall mural, constructing garden boxes, and landscaping/weeding. Workday: Monday, January 20, 2020. 8:30am – 3:00pm Location: Fairfield High School, 205 East Atlantic Ave, Fairfield, CA 94533 Note: All volunteers are required to be 14 years of age or older unless affiliated with Kaiser Permanente For more information visit their website: www.RebuildingTogetherSolanoCounty.org

Saturday, January 25, 2020 Matt Garcia Foundation Monthly Community Clean-up: Workday: January 25, 2020 Time: 9:00 am – 11am. Lunch provided after the clean-up. Where: Meet in front of Starbucks (700 Texas Street, Fairfield). For more information visit www.FFINEST.org

Students can earn community service hours. Gloves, buckets and trash pick up tools will be provided.

To receive information on our volunteer opportunities: Through text-message Enter this number: 81010 Enter this message: @mgfv Through Email Send an email to mgfv@mail.remind.com

PG&E Scholarship Opportunity

PG&E to offer scholarships More than 150 scholarships totaling nearly $500,000.00 are available to high school and college students for tuition. Pacific Gas & Electric Company is accepting applications through February 7, 2020. Students must live in Northern and Central California. Information, including criteria and application is available at pge.com/scholarships

Writing 2020 Tip

Tip: When signing or dating legal documents don’t use “20” as the year. For example: March 3, 2020. DON’T write it as 3/3/20. The reason being is someone can modify it to 3/3/2017 or 3/3/2019.  Always write out the year completely to protect yourself.

If you get a chance, take it.

“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.” - Harvey MacKay

Did you know?

You can support your local small business without spending a cent? Like or love their post – Tag friends who would enjoy their product or services – Share their post – Join their Facebook group and like the page - Tell your friends!

Everyday we learn something new. Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day… It doesn’t have to be an “A” the next day, but let’s hope it improves. -Matt Garcia

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MATT GARCIA FOUNDATION P.O. Box 3301 Fairfield, CA 94533 DIRECT: 707.372.4160 EMAIL:  info@ffinest.org

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