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Satterell Singh in the Community Garden in Oakland’s Fairfax neighborhood. Photo by Wanda Ravernell.
Satterell Singh is looking forward to the day the water system he is creating at the Community Garden at Ygnacio and Congress in East Oakland is ready.
Toting 5-gallon bottles from the back of his station wagon into the small lot across from Horace Mann Elementary School in the Fairfax neighborhood is wearing Singh out. “I’m invested in getting rid of this method,” quipped the son of an African American woman and a Punjabi immigrant who met in college in the 1970s.
The 2005 graduate of Castlemont High School is a former linebacker who carries the bottles with ease. He explains that, so far, everything that comes into the garden is either by his hands or one of the two wheelbarrows in the center of the patch.
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Freeman, who has been chief since 2016, will leave in May.
Credit: FOX61 Author: Doug Stewart (FOX61) Updated: 1:03 PM EDT April 21, 2021
HARTFORD, Conn Hartford Fire Chief and Director of Emergency Management Reginald D. Freeman will be resigning in order to take the job of fire chief for the Oakland Fire Department in Oakland, California, officials said Wednesday.
Freeman, who has been Hartford s fire chief since 2016, will leave in May. Twenty-five-year veteran firefighter Assistant Chief Rodney Barco will serve in the interim.
Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin called the news bittersweet.
“Chief Freeman has led our fire department with great distinction, and he has earned the trust and respect of all of us in city government, as well as residents across Hartford, Bronin said in a statement. He has been an incredibly effective advocate for our firefighters, hiring new classes of diverse recruits, making sure we’re training our firefighte