Daily Archives: December 14, 2019

Organizers: Guns taken off street will make measured difference

VALLEJO — An art project started by the Robby Poblete Foundation will have some new materials for more projects in the coming year, thanks to the third installment Saturday of the Gun Buyback program in Solano County. The Art of Peace project comes out of another tragedy caused by gun violence: the death of Robby Poblete,…

The ‘art’ of stepping away from gun violence in Vallejo

For over two years Pati Navalta could not get herself to go to Vallejo. And who could really blame her? After all, it’s where her son, Robby Poblete, was killed by gun violence in broad daylight at a busy intersection on Sept. 21, 2014. But like a phoenix, Navalta has risen to help carry on…