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Vincent Silva
April 12, 1918-Feb. 16, 2012
Longtime Pittsburg resident and native son of the State of New Mexico Vincent Silva left this world on Feb. 16, 2012 to reunite with wife Rose and son Ri...
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U.S. Army Private Second Class Brendan Walker, a 2011 graduate of Heritage High School, is starting the second phase of his AIT training for EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) at Eglin Air Force Bas...
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A memorial service will be held Friday at 7 p.m. in the Lone Tree Golf and Event Center for Air Force Airman 1st Class Kyle Truitt, a 2006 Liberty High School graduate. Truitt, 23, died in a car cr...
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Master Sgt. Lawrence J. Polk recently retired from the Air Force after 28 years of service.
Polk was born on March 14, 1955 in San Francisco. He graduated from Del Valle High School in Walnut Creek...
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Oakley’s Cmdr. Alexandra Luckhardt, a nurse in the United States Navy Reserves, is presently deployed in Kandahar, Afghanistan at the Nato Role 3 Hospital, assigned to the Intensive Care Unit. She ...
Jan 19, 2012 | 0 | 5 |
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The community recently welcomed home U.S. Army PVT3 Cody Lightfoot home to Discovery Bay after his return from Iraq. Trained as a driver/gunner, he spent most of his tour manning a gun atop a Humve...
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Walking around Camp Eggers, Antioch resident and contracted linguist Rafia Yusuf is flooded with pleasant memories of the pre-soviet Kabul she grew up in, a Kabul she hardly recognizes now.
She rem...
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Cpl. Michael Alexander Holzer has been named the Soldier of the Month at Fort Drum, N.Y. Holzer is a scout sniper with the 10th Mountain Division and a veteran of Afghanistan. He graduated from Lib...
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Lt. j.g. Joshua Moody recently returned to San Diego after a six-month deployment in Panama. While deployed, he passed his qualification for surface warfare supply corps officer and was pinned as a...
Dec 01, 2011 | 0 | 18 |
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For wounded Iraq war veteran Ricky France and his family, Nov. 5 was a major roller coaster ride. The home he and wife Shannon rented in Loomis had been lost to foreclosure and, unable to find an a...
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Troops deployed overseas will soon receive more than 175 pounds of candy thanks to local school kids, residents and Brentwood dentist Tracy Benhamou.
For the second year, Benhamou’s Oak Street Fami...
Dec 01, 2011 | 0 | 10 |
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Congratulations to my son Hector E. Perez. He has been a Brentwood resident for 19 years and he graduated from Liberty High School in 2011. I never thought he would come home one day to tell me th...
Nov 17, 2011 | 0 | 6 |
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About 200 people came together to honor our nation’s veterans with a ceremony that ended with a bang. Three bangs, to be precise.
The shots rang out from a trio of Civil War cannons provided by Ame...
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Congressman Jerry McNerney recently announced the beginning of the fifth annual Holiday Cards for Our Troops program. Last year, McNerney’s office collected more than 7,000 cards from the community...
Nov 16, 2011 | 0 | 6 |
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Though many of the participants of Antioch’s annual Veterans Day parade were soaked to the skin, their patriotic spirit shone through.
More than 1,000 people braved the wet stuff to witness Antioch...
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The memories come slowly to Jack Papazian. Settled deeply into a comfortable chair at Cortona Park, the 90-year-old veteran’s eyes gaze out from beneath a black ball cap that reads “USS Putnam, DD-...
Nov 03, 2011 | 0 | 10 |
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An emotional Kevin Graves pauses while composing a message to his son, Joey, on a steel beam that will become part of the new gymnasium at Excelsior Middle School.
The signing ceremony took place ...
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Vietnam veteran Phil Ehrhorn will visit the Brentwood Library, 104 Oak St., to share his war experiences in a free one-hour program on Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 4 p.m.
Brentwood resident Ehrhorn served on...
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PV2 Brendan B. Walker, a 2011 graduate of Heritage High School, recently completed basic combat training for the U.S. Army at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
Walker will begin 39 weeks of advanced infantry...
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Nominated by the Summerset Volunteer Program, Summerset III resident Len Bregman was honored on Oct. 16 at the Culture to Culture Foundation gala event in Walnut Creek.
Bregman was one of 12 to win...