You Can't Lock Her Up

Food Pantry Kiwanis Helps Children’s Feels the Love Hospital PAGE 10 PAGE 2 IIndependentndependentDixon VVoiceoice VOLUME 29 • ISSUE 29 JULY 16, 2021 PO Box 1106 • Dixon, CA 95620 • (707) 678-8917 • email: [email protected] • Independentvoice.com SEE Zealous 4th INSIDE You Can’t Lock Her Up Sparks New YOUTH IN Fireworks THE NEWS Discussion By Debra Dingman DIXON, CA (MPG) - If you thought you might have heard more booms, bangs, and crackles this last holiday, you were right alongside most other Dixonites who voiced their concerns about 4th PAGE 4 of July fireworks on social media, to their council representatives, and to this newspaper. Some COMMITTEE might say after a year of pandemic-induced gov- APPROVES ernment restrictions there was much to celebrate, DISASTER and if you’re from Dixon, there have been two years PREPAREDNESS Emily Kincheloe, 26, of Bob’s Safe and Lock in Dixon replaces a mailbox lock after keys were lost at an old building in downtown without a display in Hall Dixon. Photo by Debra Dingman Park so residents might have taken celebrations BILLS By Debra Dingman unhinge a jam, and in some cases, in Vacaville, started working week- more seriously to their even save a trapped dog or child. ends to help out when suddenly the neighborhoods. DIXON, CA (MPG) - The slim blonde Emily is the granddaughter of Bob business “exploded,” said the elder “It was a bad year [for woman jumps out of a big old, white Kincheloe who started Bob’s Lock Bob. Independence Day,]” truck and slings on her tool belt like and Safe back in 1967 after work- Emily would come along with said Dixon Police Chief a western cowboy putting on his pis- ing 38 years at UC Davis starting as her Dad on some of the calls and in Robert Thompson after tols. But, it’s just Emily Kincheloe, an apprentice and later running the high school expressed an interest in he supplied a report on resident locksmith, and the dozens whole shop. Then Robert, Bob’s son the field. the past three years over of tiny tools that will pick a lock, who was working for Vault Security Continued on page 2 4th of July Police and Nuisance Activities at the last City Council Meeting held via Zoom. Despite PAGE 10 that they had twice as many officers and started the evening with an aver- Everyone Deserves a Great Park age response time of 17 minutes, by 10 pm that response time extended to 47 42 minutes. By Debra Dingman “Everything went wrong,” he said with DIXON, CA (MPG) - A simple not one but two struc- drive at lunch time around ture fires--one a small one of Dixon’s large parks‒ apartment complex with Hall Park‒one can see a three families inside-- variety of uses by a variety and officers were forced of people. There is a cou- to become “traffic war- ple playing tennis, someone dens” with street closures guiding swimmers in the due to the responding fire aquatic center, a couple of fighting vehicles. The young skateboarders nav- building, carport, and cars igating turns and twists on were destroyed but the the concrete hills; two older families escaped unin- women talking about their jured. Whether or not dogs as they stand in the fireworks played a role in shade of the large trees, and the blaze has not yet been a mommy pushing a baby in determined. a stroller. If you look closer But, in comparison in the far back of the expan- with last year and the sive grass and past the Little year before, in the way of League fields, you can even police issues, there were see a couple seeming to City of Dixon Recreation Supervisor Austin George earned a degree in Economics but found more details to analyze. his dream job two and half years ago being outdoors and near the pools. Photo by Debra Dingman meet for a secret romance. “Was it the worst year?” Perhaps the pandemic asked the Chief. “In the gave us all a boost of aware- is Recreation Manager Jean are holding a meeting next Commission that meets larger national narrative, ness of the value of parks Houseman. She came from week with the senior club monthly would also be wor- is it an anomaly? Was it and recreation in our com- Vacaville starting in 1993 and starting from scratch thy to mention. They are because the Rotary didn’t munity, but it is a fact that but soon moved to Dixon as and seeing what they would Jocie Bair, Mark Cooley, have a display and the more and more, the public it is after all, a much shorter like to do. I hope to have Loraine Hernandez-Covello, City didn’t have a place is realizing how parks and commute, she laughed. She regular activities starting Charles King, April Seto, for people to go?" After recreation facilities have worked her way up and in a couple weeks. I’m so and Angelic Villalpando. his presentation, Dist. a positive impact on the about 2010 became the excited,” she said. They are an advisory body 3 Representative Kevin quality of life in our com- Recreation Manager. In the past, the center to the City Council on mat- Johnson asked for the munities, according to the “I love my job. It’s great offered numerous activities ters pertaining to recreation issue of fireworks to be National Recreation and here. I’ve never wanted to including classes such as programs and park facilities. agendized. Parks Association. work anywhere else. I can art, writing, and exercise but Commissioners serve two- “Let’s talk about it,” During July, marked for go anywhere in town and also offered a weekly lunch, year terms, with a maximum he said, not differentiat- Park and Recreation Month, see my seniors or people Bingo games, and other of three consecutive terms. ing between enforcement the organization encour- from activities here,” she social activities. City residency is required of current statutes or aged appreciation for park said. “It’s more than just Houseman keeps the and hopefully the pleasure changing the ordinances and recreation agencies work; it’s a lifestyle.” She Senior/Multi-Use Center of using our parks and rec- of California’s Safe and staff who provide services works with new Recreation located at 201 South reation services have been Sane Fireworks. “Last that make our community Supervisor Austin George. 8th Street open Monday experienced.For more infor- year was out of control a better place to live, work, “We are basically start- through Friday from 9:30 to mation, call Houseman at and this year was out of and play. ing over after COVID,” 2:30 pm. the Senior/Multi-Use Center control times ten. I don’t For Dixon, one of those explained Houseman. “We The Parks and Recreation at (707) 678-7022. H Continued on page 4 Dixon Independent Voice - Dixon's ONLY Family Owned Newspaper For Over 25 Years 2 • JULY 16, 2021 Dixon Independent Voice You Can’t Lock Her Up Continued from page 1 “She’s just a real sweet girl and likes to learn,” the grandfather said. “She picked it up really fast. Robert took a little longer because he was hard-headed,” he added with a chuckle. On one Why is City Landscaping call he went on with Emily when Bob was ill, she had the locks off the doors Neglected and Shameful? before he barely got out of the truck. “She’s very efficient,” he said and explained that he wasn’t surprised when she expressed an interest of learning the trade. She is the last of the five sib- lings and was extra close with her Dad, the elder explained. Emily is now 26 and admitted there are a lot of details in the work and that she is still learning. The Emily Kincheloe is a 3rd generation locksmith, following the first call she went on with- steps of her grandfather Bob Kincheloe and her Dad, Robert out her Dad was “nerve Kincheloe. Photo by Debra Dingman wracking” but she knew she had him via phone to call and ask me, ‘when will only fair-priced, they do walk her through it. he be here?’and I say ‘No, business with most of the “It’s hard. There is still it's just me.’ They often realtors here and are the so much I don’t know but think I’m the receptionist,” contact for Fidelity Home my Dad is a good teacher The City of Dixon collects assessments from most property owners for landscaping and she said, understandably. Warranty. lighting maintenance but for the past two years the landscaping along the sidewalks and and he’s patient,” she said. The industry reports 88 “They keep us real street mediums have been neglected. Photo by Debra Dingman She started working week- percent of locksmiths busy,” said Emily. ends with him while still in are men and only 12 per- As electronic devices By Debra Dingman MOW THE DARN LAWN?” I lamented. high school and it’s been cent are women. Fifty-six entered the picture, the But, I know why I moved to Dixon 30 11 years now, she says percent of locksmith com- Kincheloes learned how to At the last City Council Meeting I years ago (it was a small community of proudly. panies do not have any use them as they came on brought up Dixon's landscaping issues as people who cared) and what it looked like “I’ve been working full females on staff.

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