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A crew puts together a 64-square-foot shelter designed for temporary housing for homeless people behind
Mission Samoa in Fairfield, Wednesday. The small shelters are produced by a company called Pallet.
Mission Samoa, city show potential of
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FAIRFIELD — The city and Mission Samoa demonstrated a transitional home program Wednesday that will be able to provide temporary and safe housing for the homeless.
The plan is to build 12 Pallet Shelter homes that will sit behind Mission Samoa, just off of Western Street. Pallet Shelters are 64-square-foot structures with cooling, heating, lighting and beds for two residents in each small home.
Members of the Fairfield City Council must give the final OK on the project at a meeting in October and then the new “community” must pass city building and fire codes. Dawn La Bar, Fairfield’s Homeless Services manager, said See Housing, Page A8
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, confronted with a wave of bloodshed days U.S. forces before were expected to finish withdrawing from Afghanistan, pledged that he would retaliate against the terrorists who killed 13 American service members in Thursday’s attack on the evacuation operation at Kabul’s airport. “We will not forgive. We will not forget,” he said from the White House. “We will hunt you down and make you pay.” Biden said the Amer-
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FAIRFIELD — Clear skies experienced this week should end Friday when high-level smoke from various wildfires again drifts across the greater Bay Area region.
Officials with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued yet another air pollution advisory Thursday that’s in effect Friday and Saturday across the nine-county Bay Area region. Overhead smoke is expected
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icans who died were “heroes who had been engaged in a dangerous, See Kabul, Page A8
FAIRFIELD — Sacramento Municipal Utility District officials said they have followed the legal path for its new wind turbine project in the Montezuma Hills area. “The Solano County Airport Land Use Commission has authority under the California State Aeronautics Act to review local agency plans within an area covered by an ALUC-adopted
land use compatibility plan. SMUD has determined the ALUC’s authority does not apply to the Solano 4 Wind Project but nonetheless did decide to submit an application for an advisory determination by the ALUC that the project is consistent with the Travis Air Force Base Land Use Compatibility Plan. The ALUC determined that the project was not See SMUD, Page A8
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