by Myrna Hayes | Jul 8, 2022 | News, Press Releases
EVENT ADVISORYJuly 8, 2022For immediate releaseContact: Myrna Hayes, President, Mare Island Heritage Trust Former Founding Volunteer Preserve Manager, 2007-2019 CELL PH: 707-249-9633 EMail: myrnahayes@mac.com 105th Anniversary Remembrance at the Mare Island Shoreline...
by Myrna Hayes | Jun 22, 2022 | Frontpage, News
The phone, email, text and PM have been “ringing off the hook” this week, as the word gets out throughout the Bay Area that we ARE holding our 10th Annual San Francisco Bay Osprey Days, June 24-26, 2022. And, friends have been posting and telling us where...
by Myrna Hayes | Jun 17, 2022 | Frontpage, News
Hi and good afternoon, My Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve Users! We are so close, we are holding our breath (well, almost). Think about starting out in December of 2019 when we started this online effort with one, just one signature to return our nonprofit...
by Michael Setty | Jan 10, 2020 | News
Are you as absolutely astonished as I am at how our petition to the Mayor and City Council of Vallejo, asking them to help us Reopen our Mare Island Preserve Now, is resonating with thousands? More than 3,200 of you have signed the Preserve the Mare Island Preserve as...
by Myrna Hayes | Dec 11, 2019 | Events, News
Only Free Bird-Watching Festival in U.S. with More Than 1.25 Million Migrating Birds Falls Victim to Vallejo & Developer Dealing, Charge Environmentalists VALLEJO – The 25th annual San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival, the only free bird watching festival in the...
by Myrna Hayes | Oct 26, 2019 | Commentary, History, News
By Michael D. Setty Between 1854 and 1996, Vallejo was the prototypical “Navy town” as the home of Mare Island Naval Shipyard. For 140 years, Vallejo was a financial ward of the federal government, prospering on annual federal appropriations for Mare Island. Life was...
