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From high school dropout to trustee, Robinson supported children

From high school dropout to trustee, Robinson supported children

Eileen Robinson will step down after 16 years on the Board of Education
Eileen Robinson dropped out of high school as a teen but eventually became a Chico Unified School District (CUSD) trustee as a single parent. After some 16 years on the CUSD Board of Education, she’s stepping down. Robinson found her life path when she volunteered in her children’s classrooms in 1975. There, Robinson realized her passion for working with children alongside …

ICE detains Chico man

ICE agents arrested a Mexican immigrant at his Chico home the morning of Oct. 9, and according to neighborhood sources, was taken to Sacramento and then transferred to the California City Immigration Processing Center in Kern County.

ICE agents also reportedly went to Citrus Elementary School, where the man had dropped his daughter off, according to a source who asked not to be identified. ICE agents were reported driving five black SUVs.

NorCal Resist Chico posted the morning of Oct. 9 that its Migra Watch team confirmed that ICE had detained a person after arriving at a West 4th Avenue apartment complex. Chico State University officials broadcast an email alert to the campus community in the afternoon.

A neighbor described the man who was detained as “a hard-working person” who provides for his family and “didn’t bother anybody.”

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