5. The anti-gun violence movement affects those in area Hundreds of thousands of students joined the anti-gun violence March for Our Lives last March across the United States, including 800 locations globally and locally in Benicia and Vallejo. Hundreds of Benicia and Vallejo high school students recognized National School Walkout events in March and April.…
2018: A Year of Growth & Impact December 2018 Phoenix Rising Newsletter RPF 2018: A Year of Growth & Impact Dear Friends, It’s hard to believe that this is our second year-end newsletter — and we have so much to share! Just 22 months since its formation, the Robby Poblete Foundation has continued to forge…
Pati Navalta, executive director of The Robby Poblete Foundation, talks to Bay Area Focus host Michelle Griego about how the foundation’s Art of Peace program helps to heal those impacted by gun violence. Thank you: KPIXTV
Not that Buck Kamphausen would ever mock an award he was graciously handed. But even the Vallejo businessman and automobile collector couldn’t help but be playful accepting the Touro “Bull Award” at Thursday night’s Lamplighter Gala & Awards at the Farragut Inn on Mare Island. “I thought they forgot the other four-letter word that goes…
Another day, another chance for Pati Navalta Poblete to turn her son Robby’s tragic death into something meaningful. Not that the former Vallejoan-turned-Fairfield resident ever thought she would be in a music video. However, half-joking that she was worried she would have to dance, Navalta Poblete is thrilled that singer/songwriter Michael Franti tabbed her as…
VALLEJO — More than 100 firearms, including an assault rifle, were purchased as part of the second annual Solano County Gun Buyback held recently at the fairgrounds. Instead of having artists turn the metal from the guns into art, this year inmates at the county juvenile detention center will “transform” the metal into pieces of…
One hundred and fifteen. That’s how many firearms were surrendered Saturday during the Solano County Gun Buyback 2018 event held at the Solano County Fairgrounds in Vallejo. The buyback event was presented by the Vallejo Police Department in partnership with the Robby Poblete and Eric Reyes foundations. Pati Navalta-Poblete underscored what Saturday’s event truly meant.…
When Pati Navalta Poblete learned that her 23-year-old son Robby was shot and killed, she let out a sound she describes as a “primal moan.” “It was a guttural, wounded roar of a lioness losing her cub,” she writes in her book, A Better Place: A Memoir of Peace in the Face of Tragedy (Nothing…
It may be MTS Training Academy’s 18th annual commencement ceremony, but an event in Vallejo on Saturday marks the first one that includes a Robby Poblete Foundation scholarship recipients, organizers said. “Our foundation has partnered with Michael’s and this will be our first graduation with them that will include one of our scholarship awardees,” foundation…
Even though Robby Poblete was murdered just over four years ago, but his spirit shined extremely bright Saturday night at the second annual 5K Glo Run at the Vallejo Waterfront Weekend. For the second consecutive year the Robby Poblete Foundation put together a run that featured a few hundred participants, most of them dressed up…