‘Buyback Our Future’ Nets More Than 157 Unwanted Guns It’s been four years since Vallejo had a gun buyback, and in that time dozens of lives have been lost in area incidents involving firearms — including Eric Reyes and Robby Poblete. Now the mothers of these two homicide victims — Isabele Reyes and Pati Poblete…
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Poblete Foundation event nets $32,000 It was a welcomed touch of irony noted Friday night when the Vino Godfather Tasting Room on Mare Island — named for the extremely violent movie — hosted a sold-out event that, hopefully, helps keeps unwanted guns from killing someone. The official launch party of The Robby Poblete Foundation —…
Poblete Foundation’s launch, gun buyback benefit a success at Mare Island Its membership is exclusive. The requirements are agonizing. And the dues aren’t monthly, they’re paid every day … for life. Yet, these “angel moms”— seven mothers who have lost children to gun violence — are grateful they have each other. “It’s a club that…
Poblete Foundation kicks off with party fundraiser VALLEJO — From something horrible, good things can come. Robby Poblete, 23, was killed in September 2014 by gun violence in broad daylight at a busy intersection in Vallejo. Poblete’s dreams of becoming a welder ended. His future was over before it began. His family, friends and neighbors…
Foundation looks to inspire hope on the wings of angels FAIRFIELD — March has become an important calendar point for Pati Poblete. Perhaps not as significant as Sept. 21, 2014, will be to her memory – but no date will likely rise to that relevance ever. That was the day her son, Robby, 23, was…
Gun buyback effort goes one step further with ‘Art of Peace’ Most weapons recovered at gun buy-back events are dismantled and discarded. Pati Poblete has other ideas. Hoping to turn a reminder of her son’s murder into an education tool, the woman behind the Robby Poblete Foundation is soliciting help from the Vallejo arts community…
Wednesday morning I, along with the rest of the country, woke up to two stories of gun violence — one in Virginia injuring at least five, and another much closer to home in San Francisco, injuring two and leaving four dead. We’ve been here before: outcry on social media; statistics; calls for action. Opinions on…