Need funds? Bring your guns, we’ll buy ’em, says Richmond PD RICHMOND — Need funds for the holidays? The Richmond Police Department will buy back your guns Sunday, no questions asked, as part of an art project to promote peace — up to $100 in gift cards for each rifle, shotgun and handgun; up to…
My Story of Hope I have not been a full-time journalist for a number of years. I think about my time as a copy editor, first at the Vallejo Times-Herald, making $9.75 an hour, where I eventually became the Community Editor. At the time, the city was facing a record number of homicides, which we…
RFP was a 2017 beneficiary of Vallejo Waterfront Weekend, a two-day community event that included live music, food, boat races, a triathlon, Glo Run, and numerous other activities. The event took place on October 7 & 8.
The Robby Poblete Foundation hosted the 4th Annual Glo Run event on Oct. 7, 2017. Nearly 300 people participated in the evening 5K run, which started on the Mare Island Waterfront and ended at the Vallejo Waterfront Festival grounds. The event began with a ferry ride at 6:30pm from the Vallejo Waterfront Terminal to the…
High school students to tour ‘apprenticeship centers’ in Solano, Napa FAIRFIELD — About 150 area high school students will pile into five buses and tour five union apprenticeship centers Friday – a tour designed to give the teens a first-hand look at possible construction careers as an alternative to going to college. “This partnership is…
Poblete: Losing a child is unbearable, but we will make it count Today, September 21, 2017, marks three years since my son, Robby, was taken from us in a senseless act of gun violence. Our family marked the first anniversary of his death by having a ceremony at his favorite beach in Hawaii. The somber…
A day after Kian’s funeral, Fil-Am mom buys guns for peace Last week, as thousands were marching for 17-year-old Kian delos Santos, Pati Poblete of Vallejo, California, was getting ready to buy guns. No, she wasn’t building an arsenal. She wasn’t preparing for war. Buying guns was an act of peace for the Filipino American…
