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Hermie Sunga, the Vice Mayor of Vallejo, attended Solano Green Alliances Solution Salon to present a letter that was written by the Mayor of Vallejo, Osby Davis, to me, supporting this mission!!! I was so moved. I read the letter to the group. The Human Relation Commission representative from the City of Vallejo, Donald Chun also attended the Solution Salon, he was going to read the Mayors pledge, but since the personal letter arrived from the Mayor, he did not. Earlier this week, I had also rec… Continue

It took me forever to get the website up, because I had to build it myself, and of course, being GREEN at that too, it was quite an undertaking. This is all a work in progress. But we have a TRAINING page thanks to our partners at Green edu.net and offer can now offer training courses to those who are interested. There will me more courses made available soon. We are preparing for the final March Solution Salon, and it should be pretty good. bp solar, Fighting Back Partnership, and the Human Rel… Continue

I almost cancelled the third event, because I have a bad case of bronchitis. We thought some people would still show up and some did. It was FREEZING cold outdoors . So we met indoors. Even though I was sick I went to the Vallejo Saturday Farmers Market that morning and bought vegetables for the soup . While there, I met a singer who had a beautiful voice. A blues band was playing and he was singing to them from across the crowd. His name was Squeeze. I asked him to come to the next event and he… Continue

3/14/09 was a freezing cold blustery day. The weather was not condusive to an outdoor meeting. So we met indoors. We served vegetable soup and hot tea. Although we are certain the weather dissuaded many people from attending, we had a solid group of caring individuals that did attend. We did not have any musicians or other entertainment , but this is a work in progress and we expect this to change. We provided information on going Green and had printed information for people to read up on from t… Continue

We opened our doors to the community, but had not done a press release , invitations, or any other advertising so our turn out was very small. I thought, well, if one person shows up, then that is a success... and well, two people showed up. So it may have been a small success... but I wasn't feeling very successful. But realized the errors we had made. Duh, you have to invite people, not just announce it to the Nation on-line. Thank goodness I made soup for about a hundred... so that was sort o… Continue