The Reporter: School is out, but Vacaville Unified School District, nonprofits deliver free lunches

By Richard Bammer/ RBammer@TheReporter.com

By 12:20 p.m. Tuesday, the children and a few mothers gathered in small clusters under shade-giving sycamore trees in the cul-de-sac on Scoggins Court in Vacaville.

Residents of Lincoln Corner, a Section 8 housing area, or from a nearby mobile home park, they kept an eager eye out for the large, white Father’s House van they have come to know since June 11, when the Vacaville Unified School District’s annual summer feeding program began.

At 12:30, the van, driven by Father’s House volunteer Gene Braden, trundled up the roadway, parked, and Braden, his 17-year-old son, Samuel, also a volunteer, and school district employee Marie Pate set up their small A-frame “Free Lunch” signs in English and Spanish and began handing out the day’s

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