Pledges worth thousands of dollars starting rolling in, sometimes more slowly than the dreamers hoped. Doors opened in October that year and classes have been streaming through by the hundreds ever since. Vacaville sent its second class to the interactive museum Monday, but it takes financial help from people like Minkler to make it happen. Businesses, private foundations and individuals have funded more than 370 field trips for classrooms from Sacramento and Solano counties and as far away as Fresno. Teachers say the missions make a powerful impression on their students' attitudes toward subjects that used to bore them.
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Solano County Superior Court Judge Luis Villarreal was to have heard testimony Monday about alleged misconducts during jury deliberations in the case against David Moreno and Justin Pacheco. Instead, he said he would subpoena the jurors this week and postponed the hearing until 9 a.m. April 14 in his Fairfield courtroom. Moreno and Pacheco, both 20, were convicted of murder Nov. 6 for the death of their friend Jeremiah English, 17. He died during a street brawl in Vacaville on Nov. 3, 1997. Neither man wielded the knife that killed English, but prosecutors argued they incited the deadly fight and should therefore be held responsible for the resulting death.