Anne Schrager May 23, 2021
NASA special projects manager and retired Army Sgt. James Schwab lays a wreath at last year’s Memorial Day ceremony at the San Francisco National Cemetery. Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle 2020
Celebrated on the last Monday in May (this year, May 31) Memorial Day arrives with outdoor services and presentations to honor American soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. To mark the occasion, Bay Area organizations plan to host wreath-laying ceremonies, cemetery-side memorial services and more events to attend in person or to view online.
Along with the solemnity of the federal holiday, the three-day weekend in late spring is also full of opportunities to relax and enjoy as summer approaches.
Staying with family
LGBTQ-owned vacation options in Texas (and Eureka Springs)
If you are looking for someplace relatively close to home as in, say, somewhere in Texas to go on vacation, and you really want to spend your money at an LGBTQ-owned venue, here are a few options to choose from, offering everything from lap of luxury resort-style accommodations to primitive camping (in alphabetical order):
ABUNDANCE RETREAT
Houston power couple Tina Sabuco and Shellye Arnold celebrated their 8th anniversary with a relaxing getaway at a beautiful spot in Wimberly, Texas. They loved it so much, they purchased the property and named it Abundance Retreat.
Heirlooms stolen from Warren family located at pawn shop
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“I was angry at first. Some of it’s my moms. Some of it was my grandma’s. It was gifts from people,” Marilyn recalled.
The burglary was captured on camera. Not even a week later, that same man seen in video, 31-year-old Trevor Shanks, along with Julie Charbeneau have been arrested for pawning some of the jewels. Turns out Shanks has a long rap sheet with a history home invasions and armed robberies.
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Most of the groundwork to identify the suspect was from Marilyn’s son, Matthew, who ended up calling every pawn shop in the area.
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The panel tasked with redrawing the political boundaries for California s legislative Assembly and Senate districts, as well as the state s 53 congressional House seats, based on the 2020 census is revving up its work as it strives to send the final maps to the secretary of state in time for next year s elections. It is expected the Golden State will lose at least one congressional district when the census bureau releases the results from the decennial tally of the country s population this summer.
Most of the 14 members of the 2020 Citizens Redistricting Commission have begun holding town halls in their regions of the state to educate the public about its work and how they can get involved. People can submit their own district maps for the panel to consider via the website www.drawmycacommunity.org before it tackles drawing the new boundaries in the fall.