“Bang the gavel and it’s official,” San Joaquin County Judge Danielle Ramirez told the children inside her courtroom Saturday morning.
The banging of the brown-and-gold gavel marked the finalization of adoptions during San Joaquin County’s 26th year participating in National Adoption Day.
The annual event, typically held the Saturday before Thanksgiving, raises awareness of the more than 108,000 children waiting to be adopted from foster care in the United States…