Growing Sikh Population in Solano County, CA

June 12, 2003

Source: Daily Republic

http://www.dailyrepublic.com/articles/2003/06/12/news/news1.txt

On June 12, 2003 the Daily Republic reported that "as a young girl growing up in Fairfield, Inderpal Biring remembers seeing only a handful of East Indian children like herself in elementary school... While out in the city's shopping centers with her parents, she remembers spotting only a few East Indians, young or old... Now at the age of 25, Biring, a University of California, Davis graduate who will be starting medical school at Touro University in the fall, said she has seen the East Indian community - some who practice the Sikh religion - increase in numbers in Solano County... Over the last decade, this change has become more evident through an increase in worshipers at the Guru Nanak Sikh Temple on Rockville Road. Biring, her parents and her two younger brothers are members of the temple... Currently there are more than 700 Sikh families in the county, said Gurpreet Dhugga, spokesman for the Punjabi-American Cultural Association in Solano County. In the early 1990s, there were less than 100 Sikh families in the county, he added."