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…
Grass not guns? Dispensaries chip in to help Solano Gun Buyback The slogans come simply. Grass Not Guns. Pot Not Pistols. Reefer Madness Not Rifle Madness. To Hakeem Brown, however, it’s more than a slogan for his Life Enhancement Services and two other local dispensaries supporting the Solano Gun Buyback on Aug. 26 at the…
The Vallejo school board will be asked during a special Wednesday meeting to pass a resolution endorsing the Solano County Gun Buyback Program slated for August. The program is organized by the Robby Poblete Foundation, the Eric Reyes Foundation, Solano County Sheriff’s Office, and the Vallejo Police Department. view article
Pati Poblete: author, columnist, mother, and now the founder and executive director of the Robby Poblete Foundation. The organization and Pati are on a mission to keep unwanted guns from falling into the wrong hands, and Pati joins us to talk about how they’re doing it, and paying tribute to the son she lost to…
Vallejo mothers of slain sons eye gun buy-back at fairgrounds Robby Poblete was gunned down in broad daylight in a Vallejo hotel parking lot, Sept. 21, 2014. He was 23. Eric Reyes was shot twice in the back while driving Feb. 6, 2016. He was 18. view article
