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Members of the local alopecia support group show encourage those with alopecia to love themselves as they are.
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FAIRFIELD — Darlene Phillips chuckled Sunday as she shared the story of purchasing a wig, then sitting on the back floor in the car to put it on, so no one would see. Phillips has launched a local support group for people with alopecia, an autoimmune disease where the body attacks its own hair follicles. September is National Alopecia Awareness Month. Phillips wants people to know there is support and healing in Solano County. Along with friends who have alopecia, Phillips has launched Bald Life United 2 Empower. She has designed T-shirts featuring a bald silhouette and
matching masks. She tried a variety of hair products and styles when she notice her hair was thinning. Phillips was also contemplating a $15,000 investment for a hair plant. She decided against it. “I decided it wasn’t time for me to put hair back on my head,” she said. She chose to view her hair loss as a way to share her story and hopefully encourage and empower others with alopecia. “We are committed to bringing awareness and support to those who may be in a challenging stage, but would love to move forward to a happy place and live a purposeful life,” Phillips shared in an email to the Daily Republic.
Phillips has shared her story with Bald Life Magazine, which just released its fourth issue with Rep. Ayanna Pressley on the cover. Pressley went public with her story at the beginning of 2020. Charlotte Robinson, a paraeducator at Crescent Elementary School, noticed her hair was thinning about six years ago. She, too, covered it up with wigs until a woman at church offered to cut her hair. “I felt a little uncomfortable at first,” she said. As time went on, she began to get compliments. She was in a store Saturday when the clerk, Robinson estimated to be in his 20s, said, “Look See Bald, Page A7
Haitian migrants continue to flock to Texas border, some flown back Los Angeles Times DEL RIO, Texas — A week after Haitian migrant Junior Desterville, 30, and his family had made it all the way from Chile to the burgeoning migrant camp here on the U.S. banks of the Rio Grande, the darkhaired mechanic set back out to the Mexican side early Sunday to buy food for his hungry wife and 4-year old daughter, Nayalla. By noon, Desterville, garbed in a blue T-shirt and black shorts, had waded back north
through the chest-high water to return successfully from Ciudad Acuña as Mexican police and Texas state troopers sought to block ongoing river crossings by hundreds of incoming migrants. Making his way past a crowd of hundreds and up dirt trails along the riverbank that reeked of human waste, he found his wife, Stephanie, in one of the scores of huts that migrants have built from the carrizo cane lining the waters. They have slept in the dirt inside the hut since
making their way to this hot, chaotic camp of more than 10,000 migrants after a three-month slog, mainly by bus, through Chile, Central America and Mexico. Desterville said he can’t imagine returning to Haiti. “We don’t have a president or security,” he said. “Let’s get out of here,” said Stephanie, 24. “We’re hungry.” For many, however, crossing the Rio Grande appears likely to mean a one-way air ticket back to troubled Haiti. On Sunday, the Biden
administration began making good on its promise to send Haitian migrants in Del Rio back to their homeland, The Associated Press reported. The U.S. sent back three flights of migrants taken from the camp, and the number of flights is expected to reach at least six a day shortly, according to a U.S. government official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not allowed to discuss the issue publicly. The planes left from See Border, Page A7
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LOS ANGELES — Critical fire weather conditions are expected to persist through Sunday evening in Sequoia National Park, where hundreds of additional firefighters are now fighting a lightningsparked wildfire that has reached the Giant Forest, home to many of the planet’s tallest and longest-living trees. More than 600 firefighting personnel are now assigned to the KNP Complex fire, including 21 crews, 21 engines and eight helicopters. The fire, which swelled after the Colony and the Paradise fires merged
A gate is closed near the entrance to Sequoia National Park where the KNP Complex fire threatens giant sequoias, Friday.
Biden’s vaccine booster, export plans collide Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will set a new course for global vaccine allocation this week, hosting a summit on the shortage of shots in poorer countries even as the U.S. moves to give booster doses to millions of fully inoculated Americans. The U.S. plan for boosters will steer tens of millions of doses into the arms of many U.S. adults starting as soon as Friday. That has angered nations where many people are still struggling to obtain a first shot.
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