Wading In

Thursday, September 19, 2013 FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Finders are not keepers By Kelvin Wade From page A7 | September 19, 2013 | 4 Comments Imagine you’re walking through the mall parking lot and you find a wallet. You open it up and it’s stuffed with $2,000. Also in that wallet is the driver’s license of the owner, with his address clearly printed on it. What would you do? A 19-year-old Fairfield man faced a similar scenario and is now in court over it. Daniel W. Holochuck and a friend allegedly found an envelope with $1,900 in cash in Costco’s food court. The envelope, lost by a clerk, contained a transaction receipt. Since Holochuck and his friend didn’t turn in the envelope, Holochuck has been charged with a felony under an 1872 law requiring people to turn in found property when one has knowledge or means of inquiry to the owner. All I know of the case is what I’ve read, but setting aside the Holochuck case, what would you do in this instance? Glen James, a homeless man in Bos...

Time to get a library card By Kelvin Wade From page A7 | September 05, 2013 | Its National Library Card Sign-up Month and we have work to do. If you have a child or you know of a child who does not have a library card, it’s time to get them signed up for one. If there’s no library card in your wallet, you need to get signed up, too. I’ve always loved libraries. My parents took my brothers and me to the library often when we were kids. It was most likely because with five boys, anything you can do for free was a no-brainer. As a teen, I spent more hours at the Fairfield-Suisun library than I did pumping quarters into video games at the Gold Mine in Solano Mall. When I first started this column way back when George H.W. Bush was president, researching a column was a much different process. If I wanted the most basic facts on a given issue, it meant a trip to the library. It meant accessing newspapers, magazines and books. Tracking down specific information on a given subject was often a...