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Volume 10 | Issue 23 June 9, 2022
Excessive Heat Warning With the summer months upon us and the current excessive heat warning from the National Weather Service (scheduled to last through Saturday June 11, 2022) we must all plan ahead to prevent heatrelated illness or worse.
PEOPLE AT HIGH RISK FOR HEATRELATED ILLNESS AND EVEN DEATH: • Seniors • People with jobs that require physical exertion • Infants and young children • Animals and pets • People with medical conditions like diabetes, respiratory problems, heart disease, obesity, or alcoholism
PRACTICE HEAT SAFETY • Go to a cool place like an indoor shopping center or another airHEAT-RELATED ILLNESS conditioned public place like your • Heat cramps are muscular pains local library. Visit a neighbor, friend, or and spasms due to heavy exertion. family member with air conditioning. Generally, loss of water and salt from heavy sweating can cause cramps. • Stay in the shade. Direct sunlight can • Heat exhaustion occurs when body speed up the effect heat has on your fluids are lost through heavy sweating. body. • Heat stroke can cause the body • Wear (broad-spectrum) sunscreen temperature to rise so high that brain and sunglasses to protect your skin damage and death can occur. and eyes. •
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Avoid outdoor activities during peak times, and stay indoors during the hottest time of the day (10 am-4 pm) if possible.
SIGNS OF HEAT EXHAUSTION • Cool, moist, pale, flushed or red skin • Very high body temperature (over 105°F) • Increased sweating, tiredness Stay hydrated even if you're not • Rapid pulse thirsty. Avoid drinks with caffeine or • Headaches alcohol. • Shallow breathing Take a cool shower if you're feeling • Fainting, nausea, or vomiting overheated. • Hot, red, dry skin • Fast, shallow breath, dizziness Limit physical activity and take • Confusion breaks throughout the day. Wear light-colored and lightweight • Muscle cramps, weakness • Throbbing headache clothing • A weak, rapid pulse Look before you lock! Never leave • Failure to sweat children or pets inside your vehicle. • Unconsciousness Be a good neighbor and check in with • Seizures those most at risk, like the elderly, If you or someone you know is children, and pets. experiencing symptoms of heat-related illness or signs of heat exhaustion, do not hesitate - Call 9-1-1 immediately.
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The Vallejo Police Department is undergoing a cultural shift to 21st Century Community Policing. The Cadet Program is intended to provide young men and women with an opportunity to learn police operations with that philosophy in mind, and in preparation for pursuing a career with the Vallejo Police Department. VPD is seeking individuals interested in making a difference in the community, and who are eager to participate
in a high level of community collaboration! Join them on Saturday, July 16, 2022 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. to meet with VPD officers, view live demonstrations, learn more about the Vallejo Police Cadet program, and how YOU can begin your career in law enforcement! The registration deadline for this event is June 26th - space is limited!
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The Solano County Fair Returns June 16-19
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Great News! The Solano County Fair Returns June 16-19, 2022 After a Two-Year Virtual Hiatus. The Fair is currently accepting entries from adult and child exhibition competitors. So, whether you arrange flowers, raise livestock,
decorate cakes, are a TikTok phenom or work a mean piece of wood...there are over 60 categories you can check out HERE. If you have questions you can email entries@ scfair.org or call the Fair's office at (707) 5512002. Solano County residents are a talented bunch! Let’s see what you’ve been up to this year! The deadline to enter is May 20, so don’t delay.
California State Parks Week California State Parks Week is an exciting new annual event that celebrates the amazing diversity of California’s State Park System and the people who visit and help protect these iconic places!
Each day has a special theme and activities for you and your family to enjoy. • Tuesday, June 14: Land Acknowledgement Day • Wednesday, June 15: Kids Career Day • Thursday, June 16: Health and Wellness Day • Friday, June 17: Stewardship Day • Saturday, June 18: Partnership/Volunteer Day
Modeled after National Parks Week, California State Parks Week advances the “Outdoor Access for All” initiative championed by Governor Learn more and join the celebration at Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel castateparksweek.org. Newsom. The first ever California State Parks Week will take place next week - June 14-18, 2022.
Units in the Sacramento Street apartment complex in Vallejo were constructed by Factory_OS (as in Off-Site) in Building 680 on Nimitz Avenue, the former home of a World War II era ship repair facility at the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard. (Ken Elliott Photo)
75 Vallejo apartments are 1st local project for Solano County modular factory
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Ken Elliot May 19, 2022
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Starting May 3, shrouded blocks the size of city buses began arriving at a future apartment site at 2118 Sacramento St. in the Solano County city of Vallejo only to be hoisted by crane an placed onto a site-built, ground floor podium, like Lego blocks.
housing shortage. They are manufactured by Factory_OS (as in off-site) in Building 680 on Nimitz Avenue, the former home of a World War II era ship repair facility at the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard. Factory_OS began operations in 2017 and since then has built over 1,500 modules. Many go to house workers or as low-income housing throughout the Bay Area, including The Union, a 110-unit project near the West Oakland BART Station, and the 156-unit Mayfair Project, part of a transit-oriented development next to the El Cerrito Del Norte BART Station.
The 70-foot-long blocks, shrouded in white vinyl for protection against the elements, represent The Sacramento Street Apartments is the the future of affordable housing construction first housing project in Vallejo to be built with and offer a partial solution to the Bay Area’s
Factory_OS’s modules. The Sacramento Street project will provide 75 units of long-term, affordable housing with supportive health and social services for chronically homeless adults and families.
Pace is the founder and president of Cannon Constructors North, a leader in prefabricated housing construction techniques.
The company is the shared vision of company co-founders Rick Holliday, CEO, and Larry Pace, chief operating officer. Both are veteran multi-family housing developers and innovators. Holliday helped form Eden Housing in 1978 and later joined with Don Terner to create San Francisco-based BRIDGE Housing. Both firms continue to build and operate affordable housing projects throughout California and are among the nation’s most successful non-profit housing developers.
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A McKinsey & Company Report released June 2019 found that off-site modular construction can produce finished housing units, ready for The project is being developed in partnership occupancy, 40% to 50% faster (because site with Eden Housing a developer of affordable, work and off-site fabrication of the modules multi-family housing based in Hayward. can be done at the same time) and at a 20% lower cost than conventional, on-site, stickThe general contractor is James E. Robertsbuilt construction. Obayashi Corp., headquartered in Danville; building designer is David Baker Architects, The McKinsey Report concluded that with offices in San Francisco, Oakland and modular construction achieves greater Birmingham, Alabama; and Fletcher Studio of certainty in both cost and schedule, less San Francisco. disruption of neighborhoods surrounding the project site, reduced materials waste, The project will include 51 studio and higher quality building connections and apartments, 18 one-bedroom, and 5 twofinishes, leading to improved energy and bedroom apartments on three levels above seismic performance. the ground floor. The complex is comprised of two buildings, linked by an aerial bridge A 2021 case study published by UC Berkeley’s over a landscaped plaza. The buildings Terner Center for Housing Innovation found will also house a property manager's unit, that the per unit cost of 145 affordable support service offices, and a community housing units at 833 Bryant St. in San meeting room. Outside amenities for Francisco (also manufactured off site by the apartment residents will include a Factory_OS) was $382,917, or 25% less per community garden, orchard, play area, dog unit than similar projects in San Francisco. run and patios. The project was also completed 30% faster Factory_OS did not respond to press than the other projects studied. inquiries as to the unit cost and total project cost of the Sacramento Street Apartments
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Photo: Walter Gutierrez
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