A solemn crowd gathered inside Orchard Avenue Baptist Church Thursday night to face the reality of homelessness and the lives it claimed this year. While the church’s interior still bore the tree displays of the holiday season, the atmosphere was undoubtedly tinged with mourning. Beginning at 5:30 p.m., city council members, chief of police and relatives of the deceased joined others to pay their respects to the 11 unhoused persons who died on the streets this year. The Vacaville service takes place a week after the nationally recognized “Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day” on Dec. 21 the longest night of […]
A solemn crowd gathered inside Orchard Avenue Baptist Church Thursday night to face the reality of homelessness and the lives it claimed this year. While the church’s interior still bore the tree displays of the holiday season, the atmosphere was undoubtedly tinged with mourning. Beginning at 5:30 p.m., city council members, chief of police and […]
Andrew Price, Jr. died peacefully in hissleep on October 20th, 4 months shy of 101. Born in Seattle, his family moved to the Island during the Depression. Those years gave him the most memorable experiences of his long life. Whether it was the Puget Sound he sailed on; the land he hiked, managed, and gathered fruit from; the generations of friends he loved here; its history; and its geological features, it all refreshed and nourished him like nowhere else.