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Candidates emphasize experience, ties to community Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — Experience in the ways of government is an emphasized response to why each of the candidates for the 3rd District seat on the Solano County Board of Supervisors believes he or she should be elected. Except for Joe Joyce, who has positioned himself as an outsider who wants the ways of government to be the ways of residents. “So often our elected officials enter public office with good intentions, and after years of service, sometimes only after a very few, they forget that they are there as representatives of the people. Their role is to be in service to the people who elected them. To safeguard, oversee, limit and improve the quality of life for the people of the community they were elected to serve,” Joyce wrote in response to the Daily Republic. “Somehow, we have allowed our elected officials to believe they can rule, dictate, mandate or profit from their roles. An elected position should never be designed as a lifetime appointment or one you retire or die in office,” he wrote. “I think my ability to speak the truth, work with others openly, agree to disagree when needed and ensure that the people of Solano County will be my priority makes me the most qualified.” The other candidates would certainly say that shows a clear lack of understanding and perspective about the job of supervisor. They think experience is a must, though experience has different forms with two of the remaining now four
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SCC graduate Roselene Gabun receives her diploma during the drive-thru graduation ceremony, Thursday.
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Youth Coalition members get lessons on how elections work Daily Republic Staff
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FAIRFIELD — Fifteen students from the Solano Youth Coalition recently participated in a voter registration training. The training was coordinated by the Solano County Office of Education, the League of Women Voters of Solano County and the Solano County Registrar of Voters. “Using voter iPads to simulate the registration process, students checked voter status and ‘registered’ new voters. They also used training ballots to learn how ballots are counted at polling centers,” a statement released by the Office of Education said. The groups also hosted a voter registration booth at the Solano Student Art Showcase on May 21 at the Solano County Fairgrounds in Vallejo. On Election Day, coalition members will be working at the polling center at Cordelia See Youth, Page A10 INDEX Arts B4 | Classifieds B6 | Comics A8, B5 Crossword A7, B4 | Opinion A9 Sports B1 | TV Daily A8, B5
Solano Community College faculty and staff cheer for graduates during the drive-thru graduation ceremony, Thursday.
ROCKVILLE — Solano Community College brought the pomp and circumstance to the parking lots of the rural Fairfield campus Thursday as graduates from the past three years were invited to celebrate in a “Car-Mencement.” “It’s a big party and that’s what we wanted to make this,” said Celia EspositoNoy, the college’s president and superintendent. “We
took this option not knowing what Covid would be like, and I’m glad we did.” Some 300 students signed up to participate from the classes of 2020, 2021 and 2022. A disc jockey was present, vendors were selling flowers and governing board trustees, faculty and staff were stationed throughout the parade route as graduates drove by to collect their diploma cases that will eventually display See Special, Page A10
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Uvalde gathers to mourn, remember Tribune Content Agency In a uniquely American scene of mourning, community members in a small Texan town where 19 elementary school children were fatally shot in their classroom gathered the following night in a bull-riding ring beneath the Texan and American flags to put their faith in Jesus – and one another. Religious leaders, speaking in turns in English and Spanish, urged the townspeople of Uvalde to hold one another tight and trust in their God, even in the face of so much horror. “God still loves these little children,” said Tony WEATHER 81 | 55 Mostly sunny. Five-day forecast on B12.
Gruben, pastor of the Baptist Temple Church. “We don’t understand it, but he does.” The vigil at the Uvalde County Fairplex on Wednesday night was a coming together and a communal letting of sorrow and emotion, as mothers of children lost in the shooting at Robb Elementary School squeezed their other children, and family and friends wept in the bleachers. In addition to the children, two teachers were killed. Laid bare here was the devastation begotten by the worst of American culture, the gun violence that bursts
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