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Registrar of Voters certifies election results (state) Secretary of State’s Office,” Flanagan said. The deadline is Dec. 11. FAIRFIELD — Two Flanagan also thanked final ballots were pro- the voters for their parts cessed Tuesday in ke epi n g morning, and at the election 3:30 p.m., Solano safe and secure. County Registrar The election of Voters Tim Flaset records in regnagan certified the istration, turnout, election results. vote by mail and The Board in the number of of Supervisors unique districts – is scheduled to Flanagan 82 – participating receive those in the election. results on Dec. 8. The The Registrar of cities also will receive Voters reported 80.7% of copies of the election the 258,850 registered certification. voters cast ballots, with “After a record 178,511 (85%) choosing turnout, we are very to use mail-in ballots, pleased to certify our and 30,488 voting in election (results) before the deadline set by the See Results, Page A10
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Volunteer Lavon Scott gives out Thanksgiving turkeys at the City Church 242 food distribution event, Tuesday.
City Church 242 provides holiday meals for those in need Susan Hiland
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FAIRFIELD — Churches are again helping those who are less fortunate this year with holiday food distributions throughout Solano County. City Church 242 offers meals for those who are homeless or in need of food every day of the week, but on Tuesday it was a special food giveaway with a few turkeys for those lucky enough to get in early, along with small bags of food. “We got a little extra today from the (Food Bank of) Contra Costa and Solano,” said volunteer Vandora Russell-Bradley. “They brought us
boxes of vegetables, too.” Not only did the food bank drop off food, but so did Costco and Safeway. Anyone picking up a bag or box on Tuesday was treated with at least enough food for the rest of the week. In just under an hour, 40 people had stopped in and the event still had two hours to go. “We always do a food giveaway about a week before Thanksgiving,” Russell-Bradley said. Apolonaria Chavez, of Fairfield,
doesn’t speak English, but Ray Lewis, who is living at the church and was helping out with the giveaway, translated for her. Chavez lives around the block from the church so she didn’t have far to carry her bag of food. Her family of five will be enjoying the food for a few days. “She was hoping for a turkey,” Lewis said. “But we are out.” The extra food for her family is treasured. “She doesn’t have words for what it means for them,” he said. The church will be hosting a Thanksgiving dinner from 2 to 5 p.m. on Thursday. It is located at 743 E. Tabor Ave.
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Tents are set up for pandemic-friendly outdoor dining at Los Reyes restaurant in Vacaville, Tuesday.
Solano has largest daily increase 2 days before holiday Todd R. Hansen
FAIRFIELD — The Rotary Club of Solano Sunset, as part of its Rotary Pandemic Grocery Delivery Project, completed more than 100 Thanksgiving food deliveries to families in need in Vallejo, Benicia, Fairfield and Vacaville on Monday. Each delivery – valued at $80 – included a shopping bag of holiday groceries and a 14- to 16-pound turkey. Rotary Club of Solano Sunset partnered with Grocery Outlet on Admiral Callaghan Lane in Vallejo to bring this service project to the community. Rotary Club of Solano Sunset, Vallejo’s Florence Douglas Center, Vallejo’s Fighting
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Rotary Club of Solano Sunset Pandemic Grocery Delivery Project See Rotarians, Page A11 provides food deliveries to needy families in Solano County.
FA I R F I EL D — Solano County reported on Tuesday the highest single-day increase in Covid-19 cases with 179, taking the county total to the brink of 10,000 cases with Thanksgiving looming. Dr. Bela Matyas, the county public health officer, said in a phone interview that he expects more serious hospital-
izations and deaths to rise if the kind of socialization going on outside of holidays continues on Thanksgiving. The reason is that Thanksgiving, Christmas and other winter holidays tend to be multigenerational events which put at-risk populations in danger. The county case total on Tuesday was 9,924, the Public Health See Increase, Page A11
Biden’s transition revs up as roadblocks begin to fall The Washington Post WASHINGTON — After weeks of delay, uncertainty and lawsuits, President-elect Joe Biden’s team plunged Tuesday into a formal transition, with Biden aides beginning to meet with agency officials in preparation for a head-snapping Trump-to-Biden shift throughout the vast federal bureaucracy. Uncertainty remains over how much cooperation the Biden team will get from Donald Trump’s political
appointees – some of whom are embracing the false notion that the president could somehow still win re-election – as Biden hopes to rebuild a demoralized federal workforce and prepare it to implement his drastically different agenda. But Tuesday marked a clear shift from delay to action. Following Monday night’s longpostponed decision by a key administration official to approve the transition, Biden aides held at least 20 meetings with Trump officials and were in active discus-
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sions with every federal agency, as well as the White House, preparing for the daunting task of taking over a crumbling economy and overseeing the distribution of a coronavirus vaccine. They have been in touch with Anthony Fauci, whom Biden has said he would keep as the nation’s top infectious-disease expert. The president-elect will begin receiving the President’s Daily Brief, a compilation of the most sensitive information affecting the nation, and the secure facilities that Biden’s team has set
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up in Washington and in Wilmington, Del., can now be used to review classified material. It was a pivotal moment in a transition that has been held up in unprecedented fashion by a losing president refusing to concede. The transition will be unusually challenging in part because the Trump administration wreaked havoc with many agencies’ procedures and ethics, and Biden aides signaled that the transition’s first job may be determining the See Transition, Page A10
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