2nd Annual Garage Sale! We are gearing up for our second annual garage sale. This year it will be on July 9th and 10th and it will be held at the garage of our Board Member Anna Scopesi. The address is 148 University Avenue in Vallejo. At the present, we are soliciting and accepting items you would like to get rid of. They can be dropped off at our office here at 3272 Sonoma Blvd., Vallejo. Our office is open from 8:a.m. to 5:p.m., Monday thru Friday. Any and all donations are gratefully accepted. If you have any questions, please call us at 707/552-2935. Please put this on your calendar and join us on the 9th and/or 10th. Check the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/thearcsolano to sign up for this event there! Caregiver Parents! Doctoral student Pei-Chun Hsieh at Indiana University is seeking participants for a research study designed to understand how parents adjust to the stress associated with caring for a child with developmental disabilities.  Participation consists of filling out the online survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/parentalcaregiversurvey and is supposed to take approximately 20-25 minutes.  Contact Pei-Chun Hsieh for more information. Annual Meeting Coming up soon, Tuesday, June 22.  We will be opening the new Art@Arc exhibit that evening, though there will be a day time reception for consumers and the general public shortly thereafter. Pasta Pomodoro Fundraising Event! All day on Wednesday, June 23rd, Pasta Pomodoro - Vallejo will donate 20% of your bill to The Arc-Solano.  Just print out and show this flier to your server.  This is good on dine-in and to-go orders.  Tell your friends. Check us out on Facebook! Come become a fan, and send your friends and associates to http://www.facebook.com/TheArcSolano Welcome to the new site! We are trying out some new layout ideas and bringing more relevant and current information to the site.  This News page will be the equivalent of the old home page, and will make the most sense as a home page for repeat visitors, so go ahead and bookmark this page to keep up to date. Send feedback, comments and suggestions to the webmaster.