5th Annual Cinco De Mayo Fiesta...Only a Few Days Left to Buy Tickets!

5th Annual Cinco De Mayo Fiesta 

Dinner & Dancing 

Live music presented by 

DJ Khaos

Hilton Garden Inn Fairfield

2200 Gateway Ct.

Saturday, May 4th, 2013

6pm - 11pm

Tickets $65. Available online at  http://mgfcincodemayo.eventbrite.com

Proceeds to benefit The Matt Garcia PAL Youth Summer Jobs Program

To nominate someone for the Billy Yarbrough Spirit of Community Award, go to

http://tinyurl.com/BillyYarbroughAward

Write Your Story, Change History - Brad Meltzer

The idea that youth is wasted on the young? Wrong. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the creators of Superman were all under 30 when they wrote themselves into history. In this inspirational TEDYouth 2011 Talk, Brad Meltzer encourages us to dream big, work hard, and stay humble. Talk by Brad Meltzer.

Recent Gun Buy-Back Program Very Successful

The Matt Garcia Foundation's Gun Buy Back Program

 “Help Stop the Violence. No More Children Minus.” Keep the Dream Alive Anthem

The gun that killed Matt Garcia was purchased at a garage sale for $50. In response to this tragic fact the Matt Garcia foundation has organized the The Gun Buy Back Program. Which allows people to turn in their old firearms in exchange for gift cards and a copy of the “Keep the Dream Alive CD.”

The program is an ongoing effort to keep guns off the streets of Fairfield. It is anchored by the annual Gun Buy Back Event.  However, you do not have to wait until the event to turn in your unloaded firearms. Please call the Matt Garcia Foundation at (707) 372-4160 or the Fairfield Police Department at (707) 428-7373 to learn more about taking the important action to keep our streets safe.

For more information, please visit http://www.mattgarciadreamteam.org/

Event For Yippie Yogurt Helping Disadvantaged Youth. Sat Apr 20th 12-2pm

 

RIBBON CUTTING CELEBRATION!

 

YOU ARE INVITED 

to the Yippie Yogurt® Job Training Center's

Ribbon Cutting Celebration

on Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 12noon - 2pm
with Ribbon Cutting at 1pm

 

There will be FREE small Yummy Yippie Yogurt

for the first 50 customers

Books and Stuffed Animals for the kids;

Face Painting, Cupcake walk, Balloons and More!

 

Yippie Yogurt® is a true community resource helping our most

disadvantaged youth gain employment skills and work experience.

  

"We hope you will come!"

 

Yippie Yogurt® is located at 1955 West Texas Street, #4 in Fairfield (Park in FoodMaxx parking lot).  Yippie Yogurt® is a program of the Yippie Foundation and is a true community resource helping our most disadvantaged youth gain employment skills and work experience.  Hope you will come!  Sponsored in part by Travis Credit Union and Dannon’s YoCream Yogurt.

 

 

 

5th Annual Cinco De Mayo Fiesta. Get Your Tickets Today!

5th Annual Cinco De Mayo Fiesta 

Dinner & Dancing 

Live music presented by 

DJ Khaos

Hilton Garden Inn Fairfield

2200 Gateway Ct.

Saturday, May 4th, 2013

6pm - 11pm

Tickets $65. Available online at  http://mgfcincodemayo.eventbrite.com

Proceeds to benefit The Matt Garcia PAL Youth Summer Jobs Program

To nominate someone for the Billy Yarbrough Spirit of Community Award, go to

http://tinyurl.com/BillyYarbroughAward

3rd Annual Earth Day Solano Offers Community Art Project On Huge Scale

Public welcomed to participate in Saturday, April 20th

experience with Solano County leaders

Suisun City, CA - Mission SOLANO, local artists from the Fairfield Visual Arts Association and the Lawler House Gallery, along with Earth Day Solano volunteers, will create six pieces of unique “garbage art”, created from the trash collected throughout Suisun City on Earth Day Solano, Saturday, April 20th from 10 am – 2 pm.

Three years ago the Earth Day Solano vision, inspired by the gorgeous downtown waterfront in Suisun City, blossomed:

You allowed us to clean up your discarded, thrown away,

trampled-on refuse; we recycled it and now present you with

a piece of art, more beautiful than you thought you could imagine.

This year’s Earth Day Solano art project – six pieces of original art created on the spot on Earth Day April 20th using trash collected from Suisun City targeted cleanup zones – glows as a tangible expression of the Mission SOLANO vision for recycling people. Inspired by the documentary “Waste Land” by artist Vik Muniz, artists came together under the leadership of artist, Aria Zuloaga to plan the art project. “

After watching the movie Waste Land, a group of us from Lawler House Gallery and the Fairfield Visual Arts Association collaborated to create the concept and images for six temporary live art installations on April 20th,” Zuloaga reflects. “We believed in this project from the beginning and after weeks of preparation we’re anxious to see the images and the art unfold. It is a labor of love for our community and for our planet.”

Art became a central part of Earth Day Solano in 2012, when Gilbert Rangel, local esteemed recycled materials artist, created a piece of recycled metals art now on permanent display in the city chambers of Suisun City (see below).

 

For additional details on the Earth Day Solano April 20th event, including trash cleanup, Kayaks 4 Kare sprint races, tree planting, Earth Day oratorical competition, 30 participating vendor booths and more, visit www.earthdaysolano.org

To learn more about Mission SOLANO programs, please visit www.missionsolano.org or call 707-425-FOOD (3663). Lawler House Gallery information can be found at http://www.lawlerhousegallery.org/.

Father Greg Boyle Talks About Giving Hope to Troubled Kids

Dr. Phil welcomes Father Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries to the show. Father Greg explains how the community needs to get involved to prevent gang violence.