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50 Destination San Anselmo 2019 Funeral Home • Cemetery • Crematory • Reception Center All of your service needs in one location. Respectful, traditional, contemporary, simple pre-arrangement counseling and insurance funding of future expenses. Marin's most unique, locally-owned cemetery, funeral home with a reception center and on-site crematory. 415.897.9609 valleymemorialpark.com • 650 Bugeia Lane • Novato, CA COA#377 • FD#2295 C E M E T E R Y & F U N E R A L H O M E VALLEY MEMORIAL PARK By Keri Brenner kbrenner@marinij.com @KeriWorks on Twitter A recall effort targeting Marnie Glickman, a trustee in what was up until recently called the Dixie School District, was called off after organizers failed to gather enough signatures. "The committee to recall Di- xie School Board Trustee Marnie Glickman announces that it fell just shy of the 2,851 signatures required for the recall election," said organizer Laurie Pirini in a written statement. "The recall ef- fort was a great success in edu- cating the community about Ms. Glickman's actions and how she has failed our children." The recall drive was launched af- ter Glickman led the ultimately successful ef- fort to remove the name Dixie from the dis- trict because of its ties to slavery and the Civil War-era South. The district's board of trustees voted July 9 to rename the district Miller Creek Elementary Scho ol District and to rename Di- xie Elementary School as Lucas Valley Elemen- tary School. For almost a year prior to that, district resi- dents were embroiled in their own civil war on the issue, attacking public officials and each other in person at meetings, via email and texts, in scathing posts in social media and with signs. "The committee filed the intent to recall in order to put a stop to (Glickman's) complete dis- regard for her financial responsibility," Pirini said in the statement. SAN RAFAEL Recall bid over Dixie uproar called off School trustee was targeted during name change battle By Brady McCombs The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY » The Trump administration is pro- posing an ambitious plan to slow Western wild- fires by bulldozing, mowing or revegetating large swaths of land along 11,000 miles of terrain in the West. The plan that was announced this summer and presented at public open houses, including one in Salt Lake City this week, would create strips of land known "fuel breaks" on about 1,000 square miles of land managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in an area known as the Great Basin in parts of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada and Utah. The estimated cost would be about $55 mil- lion to $192 million, a wide range that illustrates the variance in costs for the different types of fuel breaks. WESTERN STATES Trump's wildfire proposal gets mixed reviews Plan would attempt to slow blazes through 'fuel breaks' Obituaries .......A8 Opinion ............ A9 Movies .............B5 TV ....................B6 Sports...............C1 Classifieds .......D1 INDEX Find additional photos, albums and links to our videos that can enhance local stories. MARINIJ.COM ONLINE Find more of the story by going to our website Eugene Scalia has a decades- long record of challenging Labor Department and other federal regulations. PAGE A7 WASHINGTON Scalia has long record of opposing regulations Trump can tell Rep. Ilhan Omar to "go back" to Somalia, but indications suggest she's not going anywhere. PAGE A6 POLITICS Omar is building strength at home By John Glidden Vallejo Times Herald Three men have been ar- rested in connection with a 2016 Vallejo pawnshop robbery which left a San Anselmo man and his dog dead, and a Fairfax man se- riously injured, Vallejo po- lice announced Wednesday. Amonie Summerise, 24, Elijah Summerise, 21, both of Vallejo, and Kashius Nel- son, 22, a former Vallejo res- ident, are facing murder, at- tempted murder and rob- bery charges. Vallejo police responded at about 3:10 p.m. Dec. 20, 2016, to reports of a possible robbery in progress at the Pawn Advantage Store, lo- cated at 2581 Springs Road in Vallejo. Pawn shop owner Tim- othy Pult, 49, of San An- selmo, and shop employee Josh Poole, 45, of Fairfax were found inside suffer- ing from gunshot wounds. Pult's dog Copper, a Ches- apeake Bay retriever was found shot to death near the shop's entrance. 2016 VALLEJO SHOOTING Three arrested in slaying of Marin man YOUCARING.COM/THEPULTFAMILY-721130 Timothy Pult of San Anselmo, owner of a Vallejo pawn shop, was shot and killed during a robbery in 2016. By Matthew Pera mpera@marinij.com @MatthewRPera on Twitter Sandi Olson remembers watching dozens of rock- ets launch into space dur- ing her stint as a fifth-grade teacher in Cocoa Beach, Florida, but none of those memories are quite as clear as Apollo 11's blast for the moon on July 16, 1969. "We went wild," said Ol- son, recounting the mo- ment of liftoff 50 years later. Olson, who grew up in Mill Valley and now lives in Novato, stood on the sand at Cocoa Beach that morn- ing, surrounded by thou- sands of other spectators. Her husband, Doug Olson, was a communications offi- cer at the time for the U.S. Air Force, stationed at Pat- rick Air Force Base. Together, they'd often watch from a VIP area at the nearby Kennedy Space Center when spacecrafts would blast off. But that day, Olson was among the crowd. " T here's nothing I've seen like it in my life," she said. "It's hard to even ex- plain it. It was what I call 'the good old days,' because the whole town, that whole area, just all rallied around these astronauts." Neil Armstrong, Buzz Al- drin and Michael Collins took off at 9:32 a.m. from the Kennedy Space Cen- ter — just a few miles from where Olson stood watch- ing — and landed on the moon on July 20. Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of that first successful mis- sion to the moon. "We didn't know if it was possible," Olson recalled. "It was just a huge deal." Hundreds of millions of viewers watched the flight on television. It is esti- mated that roughly a fifth of the world's population was watching when Arm- strong set foot on the moon. It was one of the first global news media spectaculars. "I don't think we ever turned the TV off," Olson said. The moon landing was not only a historic media event, but a giant leap in science. For example, rock sam- ples brought back by the astronauts helped scien- tists determine the moon is nearly as old as the Earth and the solar system, which formed 4.5 billion years ago. MOON LANDING — 50 YEARS LATER 'WE WENT WILD' Marin woman recounts witnessing Apollo 11 launch GETTY IMAGES The Saturn V rocket with the Apollo 11 crew lis off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 16, 1969. JEREMY PORTJE — MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL Sandi and Doug Olson reminisce about watching Apollo launches from a beach across the street from their former Florida home, while looking through a photo album Friday In Novato. CRIME » PAGE 2 APOLLO 11 » PAGE 2 Glickman DIXIE » PAGE 2 FIRES » PAGE 2 San Anselmo shop owner slain, Fairfax man injured in robbery P.M. SUN High: Low: 76 54 » PAGE C6 D Dow Jones 27,154.20 (-68.77) D S&P 500 2976.61 (-18.50) D Nasdaq 8146.49 (-60.75) BUSINESS » marinij.com Saturday, July 20, 2019 $1.50 FACEBOOK.COM/MARINIJFAN TWITTER.COM/MARINIJ Today's web bonus » Photos: Sausalito slide cleanup delayed. marinij.com Follow the Marin Independent Journal on Twitter to keep pace with breaking news and events @MARINIJ FOLLOW US ON TWITTER Volume 158, issue 120 0 40901 29001 8 NEWS Marinwood mourns death of neighbor Local » A3 MASTER GARDENER Here's how to fight the blight H&G » B1 VOLAIN'S VIEW Why Giants should still sell at trade deadline Sports » C1 Covering Marin for 158 years Real News By Keri Brenner kbrenner@marinij.com @Ker @Ker @K iWor iWor iW ks on Twitter A recall effor ffor ff t targeting Marnie Glickman, a trustee in what was up until recently called the Dixie School District, was called off afte afte af r organizers failed to gather enough signatures. "The committee to recall Di- xie School Board Trustee Marnie Glickman announces that it fell just shy of the 2,851 signatures required for the recall election," said organizer Laurie Pirini in a written statement. "The recall ef- ef- ef fort was a great success in edu- cating the community about Ms. Glickman's actions and how she has failed our children." The recall drive was launched af- af- af ter Glickman led the ultimately successful ef- ef- ef fort to remove the name Dixie from the dis- trict because of its ties to slavery and the Civil War-era South. The district's board of trustees voted July 9 to rename the district Miller Creek Elementary School District and to rename Di- xie Elementary School as Lucas Valley Elemen- hool si- SAN RAFAE RAFAE RAF L Recall bid over Dixie uproar called off School trustee was targeted during name change battle LD' ch PENDENT JOURNAL former Florida Glickman » marinij.com » Follow the Marin Independent Journal on Twitter to keep pace with breaking news and events @MARINIJ FOLLOW US ON TWITTER VOLAIN'S VIEW Why Giants should still sell at trade deadline Sports » C1

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