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Cannabis debate returns to Suisun council – again Amy Maginnis-Honey
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A piece titled “What’s in a Word,” by Fairfield artist Ken Chew, is on display at the 57th Annual Nor-Cal
Regional Juried Art Show at the Solano Town Center Gallery in Fairfield.
Juried art show entries reflect on interesting year
Amy Maginnis-Honey
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FAIRFIELD — The (juried art) show had to go on. Artists for the first time in its 57-year history didn’t take their artwork before a panel of judges. Instead, they logged on to www. entrythingy.com and submitted a photo of their creation. A panel of three judges, via the Zoom teleconference platform and the entrythingy website running at the same time, perused more than 250 works of art and narrowed the field to 94. “It was a learning experience,” said Dennis Ariza, president of the Fairfield-Suisun Visual Arts Association. His tasks included setting up the entry portion in entrythingy.
“It was a long day,” he said of judging. About 10 hours, said Janet Barnes, vice president and gallery curator. She said she prefers the old method, even though that was often a long day, too. Looking at the works online didn’t do many of them justice, Barnes said. For the time being, the winning entries can be viewed at the Solano Town Center Gallery. Among them is cardboard caved into the word Zap, the work of Ken Chew. His interest in art using recycled materials started about five years ago. “It was then that I became aware that this type of artwork has a long history of ridicule from the establishment as a ‘waste’ of time,” Chew shared in an email. “Times have
changed as we are in the midst of an environmental crisis.” Chew was enrolled in an art class at Solano Community College when the instructor walked in one day carrying a large piece of cardboard that was saved from a Dumpster. He asked the class if anyone wanted the cardboard to create. “The cardboard was part of a large box used to envelop something that had an irregular outline and therefore had interesting nooks and crannies,” Chew wrote. “I took it but never did anything with it for many years. And then one day the art association had a show with a theme that made me think of using the cardboard. Then, my interest began.” Chew made an effort to read See Juried, Page A7
UNC expert: Covid-19 deaths may double over the winter Tribune Content Agency
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Nurses with Wake County Health and Human Services prepare to administer Covid-19 tests at a drive-thru testing site in Raleigh, North Carolina, July 6.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — You should be nervous about this upcoming winter, with Covid-19 surging across the U.S., says Ralph Baric, a UNC professor who is one of the world’s preeminent researchers of coronaviruses. Things are likely to get much worse before they get better. “We are looking at five months of extensive
and rapid virus spread,” Baric said in a phone interview with The News & Observer. “The good news is there is a light at the end of tunnel.” That light appears to be a new vaccine by Pfizer, which delivered promising results on its experimental vaccine this month. A number of other vaccines are being tested as well. But they won’t be See Deaths, Page A7
Homeless shelter urgency ordinance returns to Fairfield City Council Todd R. Hansen thansen@dailyrepublic.net
FAIRFIELD — The City Council will make a second attempt at an urgency ordinance that would allow places of worship and other assembly halls to provide temporary shelters for the homeless. The council did not have the four members
present at its last meeting – with Mayor Harry Price and Councilwoman Catherine Moy each having a health issue – to consider the ordinance. The council meets at 6 p.m. in the FairfieldSuisun School District board room, 2490 Hilborn Road, in Fairfield. The council also will consider a $2.02 million contract with Dyett
& Bhatia to prepare a General Plan, Housing Element update, Environmental Impact Report, and Climate Action Plan for the General Plan Update Project. Dyett & Bhatia is based in Oakland. The funds would come from the city’s Intergovernmental Loan Fund, the staff report states. There are also two
Heart of Fairfield matters on the agenda, including the proposed development strategy for 421 Madison St., the former Sem Yeto school site. The other matter is consideration to let expire the consulting services agreements with the Fairfield Main Street Association for downtown promotions and other services as of Dec. 31.
SUISUN CITY — The cannabis conversation continues Tuesday at the City Council meeting. Council members will be asked to direct staff to work with recommended operators and begin processing a CCBP application. An ad hoc committee selected Element 7, 300 Railroad Ave., as the top applicant. The proposal is to operate initially from the existing building while constructing a new building on site. The location is somewhat isolated in that existing roadways and the railroad tracks separate the parcel from any other property. According to its application, Element 7 has been issued cannabis
At a glance What: Suisun City Council meeting When: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Where: 701 Civic Center Blvd. Info: www.suisun.com
permits in eight communities with operations in Walnut Creek and South San Francisco opening by the end of this calendar year. Two members of the leadership team are existing Suisun City business owners. Cannabissary, at Humphrey Drive and Railroad Avenue, was chosen as the second operator. See Debate, Page A7
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The SpaceX Crew-1 team makes its way to the launchpad, Sunday, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida: Shannon Walker, from left, Soichi Noguchi, Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins.
SpaceX speeding astronauts to space station in milestone flight Bloomberg Four astronauts are cruising to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX capsule in the company’s first regular NASA mission to the International Space Station. The Dragon capsule is scheduled to arrive at the orbiting lab at about 8 p.m. Monday, more than 27 hours after blasting off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully landed on a drone ship about nine
minutes after lift off. The Crew-1 mission marks a crucial milestone in the development of a space industry in which private-sector companies provide business and tourism services in lowearth orbit. Following the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Boeing Co. nearly $7 billion in contracts to build new transport systems to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew program.
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