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Local Churches Celebrating Saturday Saw Christmas: Online Snow in Dixon or Otherwise PAGE 2 PAGE 3 IIndependentndependentDixon VVoiceoice VOLUME 28 • ISSUE 51 DECEMBER 18, 2020 PO Box 1106 • Dixon, CA 95620 • (707) 678-8917 • email: [email protected] • Independentvoice.com SEE Small INSIDE Dixon Women Blanketing Business SCOUTS WILL Seniors for Christmas Owners RECYCLE Offered Help CHRISTMAS By Debra Dingman TREES DIXON, CA (MPG) - “Business owners are feeling over- whelmed, exasperated, frustrated, and heartbro- ken,” said Brianna Boyd Marketing Specialist for the Solano Small Business Development Center. “We hear from business own- ers who are at their wit’s end because they may see another stay-at-home order and are facing another PAGE 2 significant decrease in revenue.” The organization has JAHN TO RETIRE been providing assistance with the Solano County FROM COACHING Grant Fund, a program AFTER 2020-21 of thousands of dollars offered for relief to small business owners through- More than 60 lap blankets, mostly sewed, quilted, crocheted or tied, were made by Dixon Women's Improvement Club and SEASON Dixon United Methodist Church members for the Dixon Community Christmas Seniors Program. Photo by Debra Dingman out Solano County. “Every business sector By Debra Dingman first volunteering in this part of a leg. He was in worn out pajamas and in Solano has been affected large program for serving the needy the smell of the trailer was a mix of in some way – with some DIXON, CA (MPG) - It was a dark ‒ for children to seniors ‒ in Dixon at medicine and old food. It was hard on having no income or next December night, and the rain was Christmas. I don’t recall the first cou- me and I quietly observed the other to none for months, then still falling lightly when three of us ple stops but I’ll never forget the one two engaging him with chatter about they may have spent thou- got in the car to deliver gift baskets with the trailer. the weather and the holidays while I sands of dollars to improve to senior shut-ins. We had been given We had travelled to Dixon’s rural stood by the door. He insisted I move safety and sanitation to a run-down on length of visits and area and off a half-paved road to a some newspapers and take a seat but keep their businesses open some talk on the importance of not trailer. We got out and took the box of really, there was not an inch of room. and their communities rushing but taking our time to visit ‒ gifts – soap, towels, cookies, a couple We visited no more than 20 min- safe,” she said. that for some of these elderlies, this books, Chapstick, a thick neck scarf, utes, but it seemed like a long time. Many businesses con- PAGE 4 may be their only human contact in and some fresh fruit – and all three of I felt sad when we left. As we drove sider the holidays the weeks, maybe even months. us went to the door. The man rapped away, the headlights scanned the busiest and most prof- I sat in the back seat of the small on it and the whole trailer seemed to small trailer. It must have been very itable time of year that sedan and listened to the two, a man lurch a bit as a deep voice hollered to difficult for him to get around in there would make up for ear- and a woman, in the front as they ‘Come in.’ – but, that was his home. lier losses but that is not 47 were experienced, and this was my The man was heavy and had a bad Continued on page 2 happening, she explained. Boyd worked in Dixon as the Editor of the Dixon Tribune for many years and always had a healthy respect for small busi- New Pastor Equates Church to Community ness owners but admits that after listening and talking with so many of them about their struggles through this pandemic, she “really had no idea” of the huge responsibilities to run a business. More people need to know what is out there and that there is help – even dozens of online sources that give directions for finding financial help and emotional support as well. “I’m in a new position for the organization created with CARES Act funding to help businesses as they navigate and recover from COVID-19 and its impact on various industries,” she said. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was passed by Congress with Mike Tadlock brings a wealth of church growth experience to his new post as Pastor at Dixon Community Church which he will share with Pastor Mike Farias. Photo by Debra Dingman overwhelming, bipartisan support and signed into By Debra Dingman changes people's lives." congregation at 955 East including trips to Mexico law by President Donald he said from the Pastor's A Street alongside Senior to build homes for the Trump in March 2020. It DIXON, CA (MPG) - Since the study at Dixon Community Pastor Mike Farias. Like poor. is a $2.2 trillion economic new Pastor Mike Tadlock Church. "I have a vision Farias, Mike is ordained The Spirit line goes stimulus bill created in believes church is another that we will see people through the Assembly of back for generations for response to the economic word for community, he get saved in our doors but God and has been Lead both. Her Dad was a fallout of the COVID-19 should fit in just fine in our will share the gospel out- Pastor of Real Life Church Youth Pastor in Northern pandemic in the United small one. side of them. We so desire in Fairfield since 2007 with California. His grandfather States. "I'm passionate about for God to show up," he his wife Renee serving was a Colorado Pastor and In addition to accessing community and people. We said. "Instead of programs, beside him. They have also his parents were active in information on CARES, should be pastoring whole we want a presence-driven been a part of establish- a Bay Area Church when business owners can cities. We want people church." ing a successful Christian his father, a Machinist access the best of SBDC’s to meet Jesus, not pro- Mike has accepted School, other churches, who worked in Benicia, recorded trainings and the grams, because that's what the offer to help lead the and many ministries Continued on page 3 Continued on page 3 Dixon Independent Voice - Dixon’s ONLY Family Owned Newspaper For Over 25 Years 2 • DECEMBER 18, 2020 Dixon Independent Voice Saturday Saw Snow in Dixon Children Are Natural Mood Elevators By Debra Dingman Christmas cookies. Kaiser and New Norm The ping of the phone sounded over my Did I say “cookies?” This past week, sink full of dinner dishes and there was Kaiser offered an online course, “Survival notice that my oldest son had shared a pic- Kit for the New Norm; Fighting the ture with his wife’s title, “On Mondays, Quarantine 15.” I knew immediately it we wear capes.” was talking about pounds because lots of When I opened it, I saw a 3-year-old us are looking a little thicker these days. I Snow flurries were blown onto the path of vehicles at Grace Fellowship Church last Saturday boy perched on the edge of his parent’s had a shocking revelation this morning as as they headed to the drop off point for their food donations for the Cornerstone Church Food couch with his hands spread wide and a I was reviewing the class in my mind this Pantry. Three churches collaborated on the event to successfully restock groceries for needy bright red cape flowing behind him, obvi- morning. Yes, I have gained 15 pounds. I Dixon families.Photo by Debra Dingman ously powered by a fan. His short-cropped thought for sure it was only ten but when hair was blowing back from his little head. I first moved back from El Segundo, I By Debra Dingman could enjoy the smell of garage-sized tunnel strung Then I heard the music from the Superman weighed a full 15 pounds less. Yikes! popcorn and cotton candy with a massive amount of screenplay and the adorable boy smiled so So I put on my thinking cap in the DIXON, CA (MPG) - With before Santa hollered Christmas tree lights, vol- big as he checked to make sure both sides middle of the night (because that's what headlights peering through “Merry Christmas” and unteers took your bags of of the cape were outstretched. They were, women my age do in the middle of the the snow flurries, one waved at you. Volunteers groceries and loaded them so he let go and made two tight little fists night,) and thought of where in my new, might have thought they were plentiful and jovial on a large truck to take and locked his elbows, thrusting his arms downsized home can I scrunch a treadmill. were on their way to Lake and Christmas music over to the Cornerstone in front of him and for just a moment, I You probably remember that I already Tahoe but no, these cars played in the background Food Pantry just in time for knew I was watching Superman. have an exercise bike that I got from my were just on their way of the giant inflatables. the cold winter months. The next click showed a boy just a bit neighbor five weeks ago and yes, I got on to drop off groceries at “We didn’t know what The purpose of the food older also perched on the couch corner it for the first time this morning.

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