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Two Sonoma Valley projects will benefit from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants to restore river habitat and improve water quality in Sonoma and Napa counties.

Community Action Partnership, the Santa Rosa-based nonprofit organization, received a $5 million grant that will allow it to continue to promote school readiness among low-income children.

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, made the announcement Monday. The grant from the Department of Health and Human Services will go toward offering Head Start and Early Head Start services to more than 550 children from birth to age 5 at the group's dozen sites around the county, according to Thompson's office.

Saturday was a morning of plenty of prayers and — hopefully for the Global Success Center — plenty of money.

With a mission statement of teaching life skills, personal growth, health, wellness and employment, the Mare Island nonprofit again benefitted from the Mayor's Annual Prayer Breakfast at Dan Foley Cultural Center.

Vallejo's Springstowne Post Office will officially be renamed for the late Philmore Graham on March 14, U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson announced.

The event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.

Everything costs more in the Bay Area, which is why one-size-fits-all subsidies under the new health care law are leaving too many still unable to afford health insurance, U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson says. It's why he and Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Silicon Valley) reintroduced a bill on Friday to address this.

The measure was introduced at the last Congress, which ended before members could consider it, Thompson's spokesman said.

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson was appointed by Speaker of the House John Boehner to the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, Thompson's office announced Thursday. Thompson also announced on Thursday a Department of Health and Human Services Grant to Napa County's Child Start of more than $1.4 million.

Thompson represents all or part of Solano, Napa, Contra Costa, Lake and Sonoma counties.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Mike Thompson announced a $1,411,750 Department of Health and Human Services grant to Napa County's Child Start.

The goal of the Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership grant is to expand high quality early learning opportunities for Napa and Solano Counties' most vulnerable infants and toddlers.

The grant will be used to form collaborative partnerships between Child Start and local child care programs like Napa Valley Adult Education's Teen Parent Program and Solano Community College Children's Programs.

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was back on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to urge Congress to expand gun control laws and require background checks for all commercial gun sales.

"Now is the time to come together and be responsible. Democrats, Republicans, everyone," she said. "We must never stop fighting. Fight! Fight! Fight!"