Salvation Army Today - April 25, 2013

On this episode of Salvation Army Today we cover a earthquake in China, a devastating explosion in Texas and a building collapse in Bangladesh.

5th Annual Cinco De Mayo Fiesta For The Matt Garcia Foundation

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

Today Is A Day For Fun And Helping Disadvantaged Youth! 1:00pm At Yippie Yogurt!

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 1:00pm

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.

Earth Day Solano Has Public Participation with 8 Artists Tomorrow, Sat. April 20th, 10am-2pm

 
April 15, 2013, Suisun City, CA - Catt Sundell grew up in San Rafael where she worked for close to 20 years at the Swedish bakery owned and operated by her father. She picked up her father's talent for drawing and was soon offering custom hand painted murals on the cakes in food coloring on marzipan. She has created cakes for the Golden Gate Bridge Transit District, The Grateful Dead, George Lucas and Mick Jagger.

Catt became part of the Fairfield Visual Arts Association (FVAA) five years ago and has had entries in the last three FVAA juried art shows. Her acrylic on canvas painting "Eyes From The Darkness" won the People's Choice Award (see image attached).

Catt has volunteered her talents for the largest artistic endeavor she has ever been involved with: guiding the creation of one of the 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. The piece Catt has taken leadership over portrays the sinking Titanic. Catt and her son Taylor sketched out the canvas on April 13th on a typically windy Suisun City morning.

An Academy Of Art University, San Francisco alum, Catt moved to Suisun City 19 years ago when she was expecting her twin sons, Taylor and Tyler. She looks forward to working with the public in creating the Titanic piece of art on Saturday, April 20th.

"Creating works of art, especially on such a grand scale, and only using refuse collected on Saturday – wow, that can really be an eye opening experience. I'm looking forward to seeing how our pieces will evolve and how other people engage in the artistic process," Catt commented.

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 inserted image of Gilbert’s Earth Day Solano work).

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/.

Playing For Change - Chanda Mama

Music video by Playing For Change performing Chanda Mama. (C) 2009 Concord Music Group, Inc.

Bike Donation Day scheduled in Vacaville

If you have unwanted bicycles in your garage, you can give them a new home on April 20, the city's Bicycle Donation Day.
Between 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the drop-off sites will be the parking lots at Vacaville High School, 100 W. Monte Vista Ave., and Will C. Wood High, 998 Marshall Road.

All bike sizes are accepted, including those with training wheels, and donations may be bicycles, tricycles, scooters and pushbikes, even if they need repair.

Organizers -- including Vacaville Unified, Vacaville REACH Youth Coalition, California Medical Facility, The Father's House and Ray's Cycle, among others -- also seek cash donations to buy helmets and bike pumps.

The day is an offshoot of the school district's Summer Community Feeding Program, which delivers lunch meals to low-income children throughout Vacaville.

"This year our program hopes to once again promote fitness by providing bicycles to kinds in those areas who need one," said Judith Franco, a REACH program coordinator.

For more information about bike donations, contact Franco, call 449-1859.

http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_22994468/bike-donation-day-scheduled-vacaville

The Inside Scoop: Yippie Yogurt's Ribbon Cutting Celebration Event

 

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 1:00pm

 

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.