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Do you need a ride?

Limited Fixed Route Service to Workers Memorial Event
Monday, April 28, 2014

For more information, visit www.soltransride.com or call Customer Service at (707) 648-4666
OUTBOUND (to Concord BART): Going to the Event in Concord
Suisun Train Station
Vallejo Transit Center
Benicia (East 5th St.)
Concord BART
3:00 PM
3:30 PM
3:43 PM
4:20 PM
3:40 PM
4:10 PM
4:23 PM
5:00 PM

INBOUND* (to Suisun City): Depart back to Benicia/Vallejo/Suisun
Concord BART
Vallejo Transit Center**
Suisun Train Station**
6:20 PM
6:55 PM
7:35 PM
7:00 PM
7:35 PM
8:15 PM

Times above indicate bus departure times. Passengers must be ready to board 5 minutes prior to the listed departure time, and any member of the general public is permitted to ride on all SolTrans buses.

FOOTNOTES:
* Inbound buses will stop in Benicia (East 5th Street) before heading to Vallejo, only if requested by a passenger. Driver will announce this before leaving the Concord BART station.
** Drop-off only. No passenger boarding’s allowed.

Reporter staffer wins award for schools coverage – By Reporter Staff

For the second time in as many years, Reporter Staff Writer Richard Bammer has been named a winner of a writing competition sponsored by the California Teachers Association.

A panel of professional journalists cited his six stories as examples of continuous coverage of educational news for a John Swett Award for Media Excellence. He competed in the category of Community Daily Newspaper, publications with up to 100,000 subscribers.

Bammer submitted articles that gave a wide-ranging snapshot of where his beat takes him, from a financial literacy program and Vacaville Unified School District’s hostile act drill to VUSD’s Early College High School program and the shocking rise in the number of Solano County students technically classified as homeless.

Additionally, he submitted stories about Vacaville High’s physics students putting their applied science and mathematics skills to work by building trebuchets, or medieval siege machines, and the struggles of Fairfield parents Debbie and Sydney Salazar, whose son, Joshua, faces a lifelong challenge with dyslexia and the couple’s hope to form a Solano County chapter of the Decoding Dyslexia support group.

“To be honest, I am never certain, day in and out, what kind of impact my education beat reporting has on the local community,” said Bammer, a Reporter staff writer for nearly 20 years. “Of course, it’s nice to be honored, and I am grateful to the CTA for the recognition and especially grateful for careful editing on deadline.”

He will receive his latest Swett Award, the highest honor the CTA can bestow for excellence in educational reporting, during a ceremony and reception May 30 in Los Angeles.

Last year, Bammer won a Swett Award for a series of columns on educational issues.

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