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Rebuilding Together Solano County Provides Food, Shelter to People in Need

In partnership with Vallejo Costco and the Solano Contra Costa Food Bank (as part of Feeding America), RTSC’s food pantry opens at 12:00 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays at the Vallejo Community Presbyterian Church (2800 Georgia St.) for low-income veterans, seniors, and disabled homeowners. If there is still food at 12:30 p.m., other community members may get food, too.

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4 years ago

August 6, 2021

Isabelle Price

Rebuilding Together Solano County logo. Photo courtesy of organization’s website.

Low-income individuals and families, veterans, seniors and disabled persons dominate Vallejo’s population, making them disproportionately vulnerable to food and housing/shelter insecurity, both of which have only increased since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Responding to those needs is a nonprofit called Rebuilding Together Solano County, which opened their pantry doors in April of 2018. They offer food to low-income residents every week and twice a year they rebuild and rehabilitate homes for disabled homeowners, fulfilling their mission of repairing homes, revitalizing communities, and rebuilding lives.

RTSC also provides free home repair and rehabilitation services for low-income homeowners, as well as community facilities. According to their website; “In the past 25 years, more than 2.5 million Rebuilding Together volunteers rehabilitated more than 150,000 homes and several hundred community facilities.” While Rebuilding Together is not currently offering their Home Rehab Program for 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns, they are hoping to have the program back up and running in 2022.

For more information on programs and services, ways to donate, or get involved, contact Executive Director Elizabeth Hoffman at 707-580-9360, by email atehoffman.rtsc@gmail.com or visit their website. You can also contact Hoffman at ehoffman.rtsc@gmail.com for additional details on volunteer opportunities at the supply warehouse.

All information directly sourced from https://rebuildingtogethersolanocounty.org/

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Mural showing the portrait of George Floyd in Mauerpark in Berlin. To the left of the portrait the lettering "I can't Breathe" was added, on the right side the three hashtags #GeorgeFloyd, #Icantbreathe and #Sayhisname. The mural was completed by Eme Street Art (facebook name) / Eme Free Thinker (signature) on 29 May 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)

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“The president’s been very clear he has no intentions of pardoning Derek Chauvin, and it’s not a request that we’re looking at,” confirms a senior staffer at the Trump White House. That White House response results from public hope, including from a close Trump ally, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. The timing of Greene’s hopes coincides with the Justice Department’s recent decision to end oversight of local police accused of abuse. It also falls on the fifth anniversary of the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25th. The death sparked national and worldwide outrage and became a transitional moment politically and culturally, although the outcry for laws on police accountability failed.

The death forced then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to focus on deadly police force and accountability. His efforts while president to pass the George Floyd Justice in policing act failed. The death of George Floyd also put a spotlight on the Black community, forcing then-candidate Biden to choose a Black woman running mate. Kamala Harris ultimately became vice president of the United States alongside Joe Biden. Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison prosecuted the cases against the officers involved in the death of Floyd. He remembers,” Trump was in office when George Floyd was killed, and I would blame Trump for creating a negative environment for police-community relations. Remember, it was him who said when the looting starts, the shooting starts, it was him who got rid of all the consent decrees that were in place by the Obama administration.”

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