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In This Issue

• From the Desk of the CEO
• Friday Night Dinners: Food for the Soul Church Outreach Allows Physical Therapist to Nourish the Needy
• Neonatal Resuscitation: Saving Babies Around the World, One Breath at a Time
• Around the World, Two Nurse Practitioners Are Welcomed With Open Arms
• ER Nurse Volunteers in Bolivia
• Racing to Help
• Cardiac Cath Lab Makes History With First Laser Treatments
• Sentenced to Serve, Financial Counselor Becomes Safequest’s Volunteer of the Year
• In Grief, Two Mothers Reach Out to Others
• Children’s Network Leader Helps Families in Need
• Twenty Years with Mark’s Learning Center
• RN Rolls Up Her Sleeves in Nicaragua
• Siblings Support a Medical Clinic in India
• Social Worker Volunteers at Oncology Camp
• Mentor Mom: Passing on Parental Knowledge
• Family Bonds: Fund-raising for Muscular Dystrophy
• Clearing the Air for Kids: Coalition Teaches Families About Asthma
• Fancy Food Show Feeds Solano’s Hungry
• Family Finds Strength Working, Praying Together
• Chief Nursing Officer Takes Her Caring Touch to Kenya
• Classical Music, Close to Home
• Engaging Minds: Certified Activity Director Aids Solano’s Memory-Impaired
• NorthBay Adult Day Center – A Needed Service
• Great Wonders, Great Jubilee: Bill Seiden, Solano Wine & Food Jubilee volunteer
• Guild’s New Leader
• Welcome New Physician
• HERO Fund: Employees Help Patients in Need
• Cancer Survivors Day ‘Celebration of Life’ is June 7
• Golden Honors
• NorthBay Center for Primary Care Now Offers After-Hours Urgent Care
• NorthBay Hospice Makes a Vacaville Man's Dream Come True
• Community Support Strong for 2009 Jubilee
• A Life of Service

Twenty Years with Mark’s Learning Center

May 18, 2009 · No Comments

Janice Colomb, clinical systems analyst for NorthBay Healthcare, and her husband, David, have been involved with Mark’s Learning Center in Vacaville, an organization for developmentally disabled adults, for more than 20 years. The center operates two group homes, Mustard Seed House and Hope House, as well as a retail store called Yellow Brick Road. The Colombs befriended the organization’s founder, Anne Francis, 26 years ago, when the Colombs were running a restaurant on Merchant Street in Vacaville, just doors away from Yellow Brick Road.

“Anne used our commercial kitchen to make salsas and other food items to sell in the store,” Janice explains. “Some of her clients needed jobs so we hired them to wash dishes at the restaurant.”

Over the years, the Colombs’ involvement increased to include volunteering to fix broken fences or vans, to repairing leaking roofs, and even to organizing field trips, crab feeds and golf tournament fund-raisers. David now serves on the organization’s board of directors, while Janice says “I’m a worker bee at some of their events.

“NorthBay’s corporate mission of ‘Compassionate Care, Close to Home’ is so true in a situation like this.”

“We can see so many have needs, and if we can better their lives, we better ours, as well.”

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