A Man and a House WARDING OFF the Amazing Restoration of the Mccune Manor Needed the FINANCIAL for Traffic ABUSE of the ELDERLY Advisory
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Fireworks Buyers Guide HHGet the Most Bang For Your Buck! HH IIndependentndependentDixon VVoiceoice VOLUME 29 • ISSUE 26 JUNE 25, 2021 PO Box 1106 • Dixon, CA 95620 • (707) 678-8917 • email: [email protected] • Independentvoice.com SEE Citizens INSIDE A Man and a House WARDING OFF The Amazing Restoration of the McCune Manor Needed THE FINANCIAL for Traffic ABUSE OF THE ELDERLY Advisory By Debra Dingman DIXON, CA (MPG) - The City of Dixon needs you – espe- cially if you care about traffic safety like how long it takes your high school student to have emer- gency vehicles get to them, downtown parking, or the speed demons showing up PAGE 4 on Pitt School Road, for example. This is a board of local residents who learn to navigate the legalities of REMOTE traffic ebb and flow inside city limits. WORKERS: The bulk of those requirements are sup- OUT OF SIGHT plied by City staff, led by Deborah Barr, City COULD MEAN of Dixon Senior Civil Engineer but there is still a needed consensus as OUT OF JOB not all city staff may live Elena and Wes Standfill of Standfill Custom Construction pose in front of the restored Victorian Row Home originally built in about 1887 for the Senator McCune family. Photo by Debra Dingman in Dixon and may not be familiar with the reality of By Debra Dingman panels. Each has a different painting of precariously removing layers of wall- our town. redwood trees, a valley, and mountains paper. These are all slow and gentle This reporter served DIXON, CA (MPG) - The thick fingers in the background--like one might processes and finding the perfect paint a term on TAC and was of the burly man stroke the 1-inch- have viewed from the home built in match by helpful hardware stores to amazed at the complexi- wide bright gold strip--showing that 1873 by the McCune family before create history again is often difficult. ties that are involved and if you feel it, you can make out a other Dixon buildings lined the rail- Days stretch into months of labor learned much not only sandy texture. Upon closer inspec- road. Each small horizontal picture is that only one enamored by history about traffic and park- PAGE 9 tion, a small pattern is visible on the surrounded by pale blue walls lightly would sacrifice. That one would be ing but also about local ribbon that outlines the entirety of dusted with white looking exactly like Wes Standfill, 55, who has spent most government – despite not the bay window, a distinctive feature a blue sky on a spring day. of his working life building or remod- being an engineer nor an of Victorian-style “row” homes. The On the right and left sides of the eling homes and on the side, restoring elected official. Citizens hand-created stencil was applied more window are embedded 3-foot beveled the ones he loves. He boasts of being bring up concerns and 47 than a century ago. dowels painted a celery green and are a “3rd-generation construction guy” possible solutions are “Row” homes were built side by trimmed with white and brown cre- and credits his father and grandfather found and discussed then side with no space in between them ating a buffer of sorts from the sharp passing down the skills. He worked forwarded to the City and bay windows created the feeling corner of the walls. with his dad when he was young, and Council. The Commission of extra interior space and allowed The paints are the original col- they built more than a hundred homes. meets every other month more light into the building. Beneath ors discovered from ever-so-slowly When Wes was 26, he started his own inside the Council this Dixon window are three bordered scraping seven layers of paint or Continued on page 2 Chambers. After several deadline extensions, the City is still looking to fill three open positions and the appli- cation deadline has been extended to Friday, June Christina Garcia Chases Crime Data 30, by 5 pm. You do have to live in Dixon, but you By Debra Dingman do not have to have any experience – just a will- DIXON, CA (MPG) - From an ingness to serve your interest in law enforce- community. PAID The TAC is an advi- ECRWSS ment inspired by watching PRSRT STD PRSRT television shows like Law sory body to the City U.S.POSTAGE EDDM RETAIL & Order, America’s Most Council on matters Wanted, and C.S.I., pertaining to traffic, trans- Christina Garcia climbed portation, and parking her way to a place she’s issues. Commissioners always wanted. She’s serve 4-year terms, with the new Police Services a maximum of two con- Analyst with her own secutive terms. All three office inside the Dixon vacancies are four-year Police Department. terms expiring on June 30, Starting with the City 2025. The TAC meets at 7 of Dixon as a part-time pm on the third Wednesday Recreation Specialist and of even-numbered months. working part time in the A stipend of $75 per meet- after-school kids camps ing attended is paid to each while going to college, she Commissioner got her foot in the door, Interested Dixon res- she said. Watching for idents may obtain an opportunities, after grad- Christina Garcia is Dixon’s new Police Services Analyst. Photo by Debra Dingman application at City Hall, uating, she moved up to 600 East A Street, by Recreation Coordinator, need,” she said, referring to to be leaner and more have posted about robber- calling 678-7000, or by then Community Service Chief Robert Thompson’s aggressive. We’ve never ies, for example, she can visiting the City’s website Officer, then cross-trained department overhaul to had to forecast before.” put out bulletins to Dixon’s at www.cityofdixon.com. in Code enforcement. prepare for a “period of Some of the things that officers as it will most For more information or “Chief pushed for this exceptional growth.” Garcia does is look for likely happen here. questions, contact: Lupe position because he knew “We have to make smart trends and activities on “Criminals have a ten- Ruiz, Administrative City we needed it. We need the decisions based on data,” social media. If people dency to do similar kinds Clerk at (707) 678-7000, statistics to convince the Thompson said. “We have in Fairfield and Vacaville Continued on page 2 Ext. 1116. H Dixon Independent Voice - Dixon's ONLY Family Owned Newspaper For Over 25 Years Local Customer Postal **********ECRWSS********** 2 • JUNE 25, 2021 Dixon Independent Voice A Man and a House Continued from page 1 construction company – and developed the love to restore. “I get my joy from re- purposing or recycling. When I do a job, I feel like I saved something,” he See my Smile and Read my Lips said. His wife of 34 years, Elena, knows this. “They become his trea- By Debra Dingman I expect that someday in saying a few times (it was sures,” she said, adding a few short years, they loud and echoing inside the wifey comment that he This may seem like will figure out how great Bud’s Pub,) Raffi said he does bring his work home. I’m a heretic but think America is as well. thought people don’t real- “He brought the wood what you will. I have my My take on all this is ize how much we read slats for the porch home own way of dealing with that we have forgotten lips and we haven’t been and cut each ‘S’ design at John and Deal Kilkenny and their children Kathryn, James, life after weeks of cra- how to be social, accept able to study them for a our kitchen table. He is a Watson, Leo, and Ed in front of their home circa 1913. Photo provided by Dixon Historical Society ziness about who can be differences, and by not year and a half. When we perfectionist and his eye mask-free and who can- being together, we have talk to each other and see is very attuned to what would love to burn it all three bedrooms and two not, Cal-Osha saying one failed to see the humanity lips move, you can figure other people don’t see.” down, he said, and his heart baths; a back residence thing, and the governor in each individual. Take out what you can’t hear. She does give her sugges- woke with a passion to that had numerous addi- saying another. Here it is: a long breath and slow Makes perfect sense! Of tions but leaves it up to save it. tions built between 1884 I’m living free. I’m not down into the immersion course, that is the prob- him whether or not he’ll “I don’t know why and 1895 and is 2400 sq. looking for trouble with of freedom. lem. We are all going to use them. everyone wanted to burn it ft. and a 2-bedroom, 2-bath anyone but I’m not wear- Forgive me if I ask you have to learn these vital This particular home is down,” he shook his head cottage built around 2010. ing a mask anymore. I’m if you’ve gotten your vac- communication skills all a bit shrouded in the trees sadly. “It’s odd to me that The restoration which not wearing a green band cine when you’re talking over again. that look like the ones in the people don’t respect his- involved hoisting the house or tattooing my forehead to me through your cloth I know I can never hear paintings and is located on tory.