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Hudson happy to return to council; calls for fiscal responsibility Amy Maginnis-Honey
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SUISUN CITY — Who would occupy the second seat on the Suisun City City Council remained a mystery until the Solano County Registrar of Voters certified the Nov. 3 results on Tuesday. Alma Hernandez easily won one of the seats on election night. The second seat was decided hudson by just five votes as Mike Hudson returns to the council by edging out Thomas Alder. Hudson answered some questions via email after the certification. Q: Why do you think voters chose you? The voters chose me because they wanted accountability and transparency for the financial decisions made by the City Council, including Measure S accountability. This is also a response to a large increase in crime, the desire to keep the community safe. Q: What are your plans for working with a mostly female council? (Hudson will be the only male on the dais.) I will work with everyone on the City Council. Our success will be based on the ability to pull together, utilizing everyone’s gifts and talents to the fullest extent, and to rise above divisive politics to solve the city’s
many financial problems. I am looking forward to working with everyone on City Council. Q: What was it like waiting for the final results? That was a tough one. I had to put my pride in the back seat and relax while the Registrar of Voters finished their process. It was a little like riding a roller coaster! Q; What is the first thing you want to accomplish? I hope to add my voice to the call for fiscal accountability and community security. I hope to make a difference in strategies dealing with homelessness, how the city deals with trash, road maintenance, and to bring fresh ideas on how the city can expand services to citizens. I would like to see City Council become more effective at time management. Q: You will no longer be limited to three minutes during public comments. How will you use that extra time on the dais? I hope to bring better data analysis of actionable information to City Council for better policy decisions. My objective will be to make my words count, to acknowledge public concerns, raise unspoken issues and to push for more openness in city administration.
Travis physician deployed to UAE dies in ‘vehicle incident’ Daily Republic Staff drnews@dailyrepublic.net
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — A physician assigned to the 60th Medical Group at David Grant U.S. Air Force Medical Center died in a vehicle incident not related to combat while deployed at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates. The Department of Defense announced Saturday the death of Capt. Kelliann Leli, who was supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. Leli, 30, of Parlin, New Jersey, died Friday while deployed to Al Dhafra Air Base. The cause of the incident is under investigation. “Our entire Travis family is beyond heart-
broken over the tragic loss of our teammate, Kelliann,” said Col. Corey Simmons, 60th Air Mobility Wing commander. “We are thinking of and praying for all her loved ones during this unfathomable time.” Leli was assigned to the 60th Healthcare Operations Squadron at Travis Air Force Base. She arrived at Travis in June 2016. Leli was a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. She earned her commission in 2012 before continuing her medical program. She was assigned to the Family Medicine Clinic at David Grant Medical Center. This was Leli’s first deployment.
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Suisun Wildlife Center Executive Director Monique Liguori stands inside the center’s new Birds of Prey aviary.
Volunteers rebuild Birds of Prey home at Suisun Wildlife Center
More work remains as center recovers from fire Amy Maginnis-Honey amaginnis@dailyrepublic.net
SUISUN CITY — There was an uninvited – yet welcome guest the morning of Nov. 20 as the Suisun Wildlife Center showed off its rebuilt Birds of Prey aviary. Somehow, an American Kestrel had found its way into the building and entertained visitors with some fly-bys. “It’s completely rebuilt, much better than it was,” said Monique Liguori, the center’s executive director. On hand were the men who had volunteered their time and talents to rebuild the aviary after the windswept June fire that destroyed it. The blaze caused other damage
to the center, including the loss of animal life. It also destroyed nearby homes. Bob Southward and his brother, Mike Southward, were two of the volunteers. So were Jeff Collin and Chuck Moore, who were not able to attend the ceremony. Mike Southward said the volunteers would show up on weekends and often put in four hours a day. They started in mid-September and wrapped up early this month. He also had helped construct the education building at the center, among other things. “I like the location,” he said of helping out at the center. “I’ve lived here all my life.” “He’s good people,” Liguori said. It was a labor of love for
Bob Southward, who grew up in Fairfield. He was saddened by the destruction and was amazed to learn the center has 17 acres it calls home. Bob Southward tackled the job of trimming the fennel, which smells similar to black licorice. “It’s a wonderful day,” Liguori told the volunteers, adding there was no way she could thank them enough for their work. Lowe’s also made a generous donation, she said. It was critical to get the Birds of Prey aviary built as those birds arrive at the center all year. It was James Hinchman’s first time volunteering at the center. See Wildlife, Page A9
Women compile history of NorthBay Hospice and Bereavement program Amy Maginnis-Honey
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From left, Gloria Queen, Jennifer Flam and Lynn Gallagher are compiling a 33-year-history of the NorthBay Hospice and Bereavement department.
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FAIRFIELD — Three women volunteered their time to put together the 33-year history of NorthBay Healthcare’s Hospice and Bereavement program. The result is six binders full of stories, photos, tender moments and more. It’s the story of the community-birthed program that continues to grow every year, and learning to adapt in the age of the novel coronavirus.
Lynn Gallagher joined Hospice and Bereavement in the beginning and was a member of its first class of volunteer graduates. She, Gloria Queen and Deb Daniels launched the project in 2012. “We didn’t know how this would evolve,” Gallagher said. It started with FYIs, an in-house newsletter. Queen went through those and made copies of different things. See History, Page A9
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Hospitalizations worsen in state, raising new alarms Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — The number of people hospitalized with coronavirus infections in California has doubled in just the last two weeks and is rapidly headed to breaking past its summertime high, according to a Times analysis. The surge in hospitalizations came as California surpassed another bleak milestone: More than 19,000 deaths related to Covid-
19, according to The Los Angeles Times’ independent county-bycounty tally. There were nearly 6,650 people with coronavirus infections in California’s hospitals as of Thursday, double the number that existed on Nov. 11, when 3,300 people were hospitalized. Thursday’s hospitalization numbers were 93% of the peak of Covid-19 See Alarms, Page A9
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Scientists take leap in transition to monkeys ruling world
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in size. The growth was ’ve watched the “Planet of the Apes” in the areas that control movies a lot lately – cognition and language and not so much for growth, according to entertainment. a news release from I’m preparing last summer, that hapfor the future. pened by the 100th day I realized the need of gestation. to review those movies Scientists fooled a few weeks ago when around with genes . . Brad Stanhope I read an article that Like I was sayin’ . and created superdescribed how Japamonkeys who could nese and German researchers speak and read! injected a human gene into According to the report, scithe dark matter of monkey entists aborted the monkey fetuses. Fine, right? Good for fetuses due to “unforeseeable research, right? consequences.” Well, the gene they injected That’s where I stop believis the gene that directs stem ing them, because I’ve watched cells in the human brain. The enough movies to know while result was . . . research companies may say (Take a deep breath.) they have things under control, THE MONKEY but there is always a rogue sciBRAINS BECAME entist who is making really MORE HUMAN-LIKE. bad decisions. Monkey fetus brains doubled Also, I don’t think the conse-
quences are “unforeseeable.” The inevitable consequences of this are fourfold: n Monkeys will gradually realize they are equal to humans. n Monkeys will gradually realize they are more powerful than humans. n Monkeys will take over. n Charlton Heston will wind up in a cage. We all know it. We all realize that monkeys – all non-human primates – are better suited to be at the top of the food chain. We all realize that given the chance, they will enslave us. Why would scientists even consider helping them get there? What possible benefit is there to experiments to see whether monkeys can make the evolutionary leap to join us as the world’s most powerful species?
Listen, I like monkeys. I’ve long shared my dream scenario of having a monkey “butler” who wears a tuxedo, greets me with a drink on a platter and sleeps in a hammock in my living room. As a child, I’d stand in line at my hometown zoo to watch chimpanzees Bill and Ziggy poop in their hands and throw it at us. I enjoyed the work of Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Mike Nesmith and Micky Dolenz. But I know that given the chance, monkeys will take over, enslave us and we’ll wind up trying to keep our history alive by sharing stories during quiet chats at night in the cages. This may seem like science fiction, but let me remind you: We now have Dick Tracy-like mobile phones where you can see the person with whom
you’re talking, we have electric cars, we sent a man to the moon and Betty White has been given some sort of elixir that allows her to live forever. What seems insane to a previous generation often becomes normal to the next. So prepare for what’s coming. Watch the “Planet of the Apes” movies with me and have a plan. And since reading is among the skills that the monkeys kept by the presumed rogue scientists will develop, let me add this (humans can stop reading now): I’m willing to help you monkeys! I can be a useful spy. I know where bananas are kept at the store. Let me know if you need me. Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@hotmail.com.
After rehab, animals hurt by fires find new homes Tribune Content Agency California’s record wildfire season may not be completely over, but the trauma is ending for some of the state’s most vulnerable inhabitants: animals rescued from the blazes. Several animals found injured during wildfires this year have recovered and will soon be welcomed into new homes. One happy caregiver welcomed home her “semiferal” cat, Ned, after he spent three months recovering from burns to his feet, face, ears, hind leg and tail at the hospital at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. The cat was rescued at Linda Kearney’s property in Vacaville, where he escaped from the LNU Lightning Complex fire, according to a UC Davis news release. Kearney managed to save 12 other cats that had been on her property, but one died and another remains missing. She plans to build sheds to house the animals on her property, according to the release. “Being semi-feral, Ned was not always a cooperative patient,” said Kate Hopper, director of UC Davis’ Small Animal Clinic, in a statement. “His care team did a stellar job powering through that daily adversity to make sure he fully recovered.” UC Davis treated more than 1,000 animals, both wild and domestic, affected by the LNU Lightning Complex fire, according to its website. Spokesman Rob Warren said the hospital responded to another 1,200-plus victims of the
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After 47 days healing at the Oakland Zoo, Capt. Cal, a cougar cub, will move to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio, officials said. North Complex fire. Many of the animals evaluated were deemed to be healthy and were moved to evacuation centers or sheltered in place, Warren said. The worst cases were brought to the university hospital for treatment – a total of 97 from both fires, similar to numbers in previous years, Warren said. California Department of Fish and Wildlife treated fewer than 10 animals for burns this wildfire season, said spokeswoman Kirsten Macintyre. On the wilder side, a raccoon dubbed Burnie was rescued from the Blue Ridge fire near Anaheim. The raccoon, estimated to be between 2 and 3 years old, arrived at the Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach on Nov. 2 covered in smoke and soot, said executive director Debbie McGuire. A property owner had hired a trapper to catch another animal, but the raccoon had gotten stuck in it. McGuire couldn’t
confirm how long the raccoon had been stuck there, or how close the fire had come to it. “He was very lucky that he didn’t get burned or (die) because of being trapped, but he was pretty smoky,” McGuire said. Once the evacuation order for the area was lifted, the trapper went back, discovered the raccoon and turned him over to OC Animal Care, which handed him off to the Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center, according to McGuire. Burnie suffered firstand second-degree burns on his front legs and paw pads, plus minor abrasions to his nose. When staff conducted X-rays, they found he had also been shot, McGuire said. “I was like, ‘Great, and on top of everything else, somebody tried to shoot you!’” McGuire said. After treating his wounds for two and a half weeks, the center’s staff released Burnie back into the wild near where he was found. A trio of mountain lion cubs have also licked their wounds from the devastating Zogg fire and are headed for a new home in Columbus, Ohio. Firefighters found “Capt. Cal” wandering alone a month and a half ago in Shasta County with singed whiskers and burned paws. He was brought to the Oakland Zoo, where he underwent surgery, handfeeding and 47 days of round-the-clock care. Soon, twin female mountain lion cubs, estimated to be 5 weeks old when they lost their mother in the
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Small Business Saturday kicks off local holiday shopping season Susan Hiland
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VACAVILLE — Shoppers were out on Small Business Saturday looking for the perfect gifts for Christmas and enjoying the crisp winter morning in downtown Vacaville. “We are just trying to show some support for our local businesses,” said Brooke Fox, executive director of the Downtown Vacaville Improvement District. “It is a way to remember our hardworking friends and neighbors.” This Small Business Saturday was different from years past as several vendors were out on Merchant Street and the newly blocked off Main Street by Heritage House. “They are going to block that street off and create an area for people to bring out food and eat,” Fox said. Rise and Redemption opened its doors in 2018 and has grown this year, which was a surprise to owner Ashley Tapp. She will be expanding the business into the old Amphlett building next door to her little shop. Tapp hosted several vendors outside her old building and inside the newer building. “I started doing the vendors a few years ago with a few local makers and it kind of exploded,” she said. Tapp has done more business this year than
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Shoppers browse through products at the Solano Town Center on Black Friday.
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Small Business Saturday drew hundreds out for a day of shopping in downtown Vacaville, Saturday. Dana Fragoso, Phalicia Brazier and Sheila Oakes came out to enjoy some Christmas shopping. ever online, not from her brick-and-mortar shop. “I started with an Instagram account and that grew so I started a website, but I never thought I would be doing so much business from it,” she said. Her shop had a line of interested shoppers out front along with vendors. “I pushed the website to keep us afloat,” Tapp said. Dana Fragoso, Phalicia Brasier and Sheila Oakes were out for a day of Christmas shopping. “We are Christmas See Small, Page A4
Black Friday shoppers search for bargains, with masks on Amy Maginnis-Honey
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FAIRFIELD — An announcement interrupted the Christmas music Friday morning at Solano Town Center. It reminded shoppers to practice social distancing and wear masks. Black Friday looked very different in the age of Covid-19. Some shoppers showed up early to catch bargains. They were welcomed by the smell of coffee and cinnamon rolls. And, plenty of room
to move around. Daniella Santos said she contemplated whether to get out early and shop. “It’s really empty,” she said, standing outside JCPenney, one sack in tow. She had faith her fellow shoppers, as well as the family members shopping with her, would take the necessary precautions. The mall opened at 8 a.m. Alexis Barlas and Samantha Cowan had already explored Macy’s as they waited for Victoria Secret’s Pink to open. t hat it A f ter
would off to Ulta. “This is my first time ever going to Black Friday,” Cowan said. She expected a larger crowd, she said. “Last year, it was super different,” Barlas said. “The lines were really long.” Both were in search of good deals. They arrived about 6:30 a.m. Sharon Craig was first in line to shop at Bath & Body Works. She also had some coupons in hand, hoping to get an even deeper discount on sales. She was in search of gifts.
She arrived about 7:20 a.m. “I’m surprised,” she said. “I thought it would be packed.” Sheila Watson, a traveling nurse, waited patiently for Old Navy to open. She was on a mission to purchase some thermals for herself. “It’s cold,” she said. She was pleased the mall was not crowded. “It’s better for me, I can just zoom in and out,” she said. Common Grounds See Black, Page A4
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Coffee was ready with doughnuts, muffins and lemon squares, to name a few. Manager Sherrylee Luciano and one other employee were on hand at 8 a.m. The shop normally opens at 10 a.m. “This year has been a little hard to predict,” she said. She said she hoped business wou ld pick up later. The coffee shop was formerly housed with the Edge church. Ronny Ruiz made one purchase during the first 30 minutes. It was for him, he said. “I got here and waited for it to open,” she said
shopping today,” Fragoso said. “Just trying to support our local businesses.” Oakes said this year was different, not because of the virus but because of the new babies in the family. “We have a 9-month-old and another one on the way,” Oakes said. “Christmas is going to be a celebration of the new additions to the family with lots of food to eat and playing games.” Joshua Mendoza is the owner of Sonoma Brewing Company. He opened six weeks ago and was excited about the new opportunities for his business in Vacaville. The original brewery is in Sonoma but they decided to expand in Vacaville with a full tap room.
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Shoppers browse through products at the Solano Town Center on Black Friday. of the mall. “I needed the cold air.” Most of the stores had hand sanitizers at the front entrance. Some also had employees at the front door to keep track of the
Obituaries Karl Edward Wilson Aug. 26, 1951 — Nov. 18, 2020
Karl Edward Wilson, 69, of Fairfield, California, passed away on Nov. 18, 2020. Karl was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Robert L. and Marie Wilson, one of six siblings. He was raised in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. Karl called Fairfield home for over 45 years, having moved to Fairfield while stationed at Travis Air Force Base. He retired as a Staff Sergeant from air force the United States Air Force in 1980, veteran then spent the majority of his career as a truck driver. He retired from driving in 2013 and took on the most rewarding and gratifying job of his life, being Papa to his grandson, Owen. Karl was a devoted and phenomenal husband, father and papa, and a loyal friend to many. He was an avid fisherman and thoroughly loved being on his boat on the water. He enjoyed many years of playing softball and bowling with family and friends. Karl spent numerous years umpiring for men’s softball and girl’s fast pitch softball. He was involved with coaching his daughter’s softball and volunteering for local softball organizations in different capacities. He also enjoyed camping, scuba diving, traveling, watching all sports and was a race car enthusiast. He was the most selfless, incredible man you could ever meet and he was admired and respected by everyone. He had a great wit and sharp sense of humor, a hearty laugh, an infectious smile that would light up a room, endless compassion, an uncanny ability to fix anything around the house, and a deep knowledge of the world (he was our Alexa or Siri before there was an Alexa or Siri). Karl leaves behind the love of his life, and wife of 41 years, Dorothy; daughters, Carla (Josh) Rood and Melissa; grandson, Owen; brothers, Robert Jr. (Judy), Kent Sr. (Kathy) and Kirk; sister, Susie Jemelka; he is also survived by many beloved nieces, nephews and in-laws. He is preceded in death by his father, mother; sister, Patty; and sister-in-law, Carolyn. Due to Covid-19, the family will be planning a celebration of Karl’s life with family and friends in the future. Friends and family are encouraged to sign the guest book, leave condolences for the family and/or share a fond memory of Karl at https://www.bryanbraker.com. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Karl’s name to the American Cancer Society at https://www. cancer.org or the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery Wreath Project at www.RememberAVet.net. Thank you to family and friends for their love, prayers and support. Arrangements under the care of Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.
Mary Ann Rich
July 17, 1935 — Nov. 12, 2020
Mary Ann Rich died suddenly on Nov. 12, 2020. She went peacefully and with no pain. She was a strong-willed and strong-hearted woman who touched the lives of so many people. She loved the outdoors and was an avid hiker and walker, both in her youth and to the end. She was a Special Resources teacher for the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District close to 30 years where she found her passion working with disabled children. Her legacy of kindness, compassion and determination is still living in the hearts of everyone who had the pleasure of knowing her. Mary Ann was also active in her community and volunteered with the Wednesday Club, and with Rush Ranch for 30 years; helping the youth of Fairfield experience the outdoors and understand the cultural heritage of the area. She will be remembered as a good friend and loving mother by everyone including her sister, Helen Kiff; her six children, Stephen Rich, William Rich, John Rich, Kathryn Rich Epperson, James Rich and Leslie Rich; she will also be missed by her grandchildren, Alex, Caitlin, Davis, Theresa, Elizabeth, Jacob and Ben. She was a parishioner at the Holy Spirit Church in Fairfield for over 40 years. Her faith was intertwined with her character and the way she lived her life. There will be no funeral service, but a small graveside interment of her ashes at Rockville Cemetery at a later date. There she will be laid to rest with her husband, William James Rich. In place of flowers, her family asks that you donate to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in honor and memory of Mary Ann Rich.
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The same was true at the Ross store. Target and Walmart parking lots were crowded. Both stores had opened earlier.
Noble Michael Woodside Sept. 5, 1947 — Nov. 12, 2020
Noble Michael Woodside, 73, passed away Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, in Vacaville, California. Noble, who went by Michael, was born Sept. 5, 1947, in California to Ruth and Noble Woodside. He graduated from Armijo High school. He went on to marry Marion Wright and they started a family. He served in the Navy during Vietnam. He worked as an electrical con- navy veteran tractor with Golden Valley Electric for 15 years and he and his wife were the proud owners of Popcorn Video for 20 years. Michael worked for the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District as a supervisor where he retired after 21 years. Michael lived in Vacaville and enjoyed fishing, playing the guitar, hunting and teaching Tai Chi. He is survived by his wife, Marion Woodside; daughters, Kimberly Woodside and Kristine Woodside; grandson, Ric Herrin; nieces, Debbie Wink Murphy and Cheryl Buringrud; nephews, Rob Wink and Christopher Wink, and their families. A Celebration of Life will be held later in the Spring. Arrangements under the care of Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697, You can send condolences and share memories at www.bryanbraker.com.
Tony Antoine Chaloux Sept. 4, 1949 — Nov. 11, 2020
On Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, Tony “Antoine” Chaloux, loving husband, father of three and grandfather of eight, passed away at the age of 71, surrounded by his loving wife, his two daughters and extended son. Tony Chaloux was born on Sept. 4, 1949, in Hanover, New Hampshire. Tony served with pride and honor in the United States Air Force for 22 years. Tony started his military career air force as an Aircraft Maintenance Techniveteran cian and moved on to become and amazing Flight Engineer on three different aircrafts, the AC-119 (Shadow Gunship), the C-141 and the C-5 Galaxy. During his time in the Air Force, Tony received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his bravery and astonishing leadership skills while in Vietnam, along with numerous awards and medals. When Tony retired from the Air Force; he spent the next 28 years as a Flight Engineer Instructor at Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, California, there he passed on his knowledge and training onto the Flight Engineers that came after him. Tony has touched numerous lives and is a Legend to some, a hero to most. Tony will be missed terribly. As long as there’s a Flight Engineer in this world his legacy will live on. Tony is survived by the love of his life of 45 years, Gloria J Chaloux; his three children, Daniel Chaloux, Stephanie (Louis) Adams and Jennifer Chaloux; grandchildren, Mychal, Kaila (Gabriel) Agustin, Celsey, Arianna, Daniel II, Lana, Mary, Connor and Vincent; mother, Gloria B. Chaloux; four brothers; four sisters; and his loving extended family, Larry, James, Wendy and Chad. Tony will be laid to rest with full military honors at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, California. Arrangements under the care of McCune Garden Chapel, 707-448-6546.
“It is a challenging time, opening during a pandemic,” Mendoza said. “Most businesses have been limiting spending but I decided to open a tap room. I am just grateful we are able to open and expand.” The landlord of the old library building, where the brewery is located, has been supportive and understanding in this difficult time. “I’m just thankful for our landlord,” he said. Mendoza has plans for a summer with a new patio area, serving beer and eats. “Hopefully, in the summer we will have the ability to do that,” he said. The annual Christmas tree decorated the end of the street, reminding everyone that despite the changes this year, some traditions still remain, like family and supporting local businesses.
Milton Brewer
May 25, 1950 — Oct. 12, 2020
Milton Maurice Brewer, 70, died after a long and valiant fight against brain cancer. Milt was born at Hamilton AFB, California, and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He graduated in 1972 from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. While in college, Milt earned his Private Pilot’s License while in the two-year AFROTC air force program. veteran Following graduation, Milt attended Undergraduate Pilot Training at Laughlin AFB, Texas. He was a Distinguished Graduate of his class and his first Air Force assignment was as a combat-ready Forward Air Controller, stationed in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand, flying the OV-10A Bronco. Following this assignment, he was sent to Williams AFB, Arizona, as a T-37B Instructor Pilot. While there, he trained the first wave of women pilots for the Air Force. His follow-on assignment was to the C-5 Galaxy, twice based at Travis AFB, California, with a tour of duty at the Altus AFB C-5 schoolhouse sandwiched in between. He was an aerial refueling and low-level qualified Flight Examiner Aircraft Commander. In 1984, he went on to receive a Master’s Degree in Aeronautical Science and an MBA in Aviation from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University while serving in the USAF. His Professional Military Education included two senior service schools: National Security Management Course and Air War College. Of special note, in 1982, Milt was the recipient of the first-ever Lt. Gen. William H. Tunner Crew Award for Excellence in Airmanship. Milt served for 20 years, retiring as a Major from active duty. He was a combat veteran in the Persian Gulf War and served with valor as a Vietnam War Era vet, as well. In October 1992, he was hired by Southwest Airlines and flew for them for the next 22 years. He loved being a professional aviator. In retirement, he enjoyed power boating, primarily in the California Delta, and was a member of two yacht clubs. Milt loved listening to music, traveling and playing games with his grandchildren. He is survived by his beloved wife, Margo; their daughter, Kristen; grandchildren, Danielle, Benjamin and Caroline; brother, Keith. He was preceded in death by his parents, Jim and Marie Brewer. He was laid to rest at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to Milt’s favorite charity, Doctors without Borders, USA: https:// donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/.
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In brief Agency schedules grief support classes
FAIRFIELD — NorthBay Bereavement Center has released the schedule for upcoming classes in the new year. “Journey Through Grief” is an 8-week series of classes focused on healing and learning about grief. The class meets online from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Each participant must have been bereaved or in mourning for three months before registering for the class. Each session is facilitated by a grief therapist and is offered free of charge to the people of Solano County. The class is limited to seven people. The 2021 schedule is: n Jan. 12 to March 2: “Journey Through Grief,” Adult Grief Support Class. n March 30 to May 18: “Journey Through Grief,” Adult Grief Support Class. n June 15 to Aug. 3: “Journey Through Grief,” Adult Grief Support Class. n Aug. 31 to Oct. 19: “Journey Through Grief,” Adult Grief Support Class. n Nov. 9 to Dec. 21: “Grief During the Holidays.” Due to Covid-19 safety mandates, all grief support groups are offered online until further notice. To reserve a place, call Brenda at 646-3517.
Guest to talk about genealogy collection FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Genealogical Society will host a virtual Speaker Series meeting next week. The event will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday. Dvorah Lewis, genealogy and local history librarian for Sutro Library, will be the speaker. She will present “How Your Hard Work Can Conquer All at the Sutro Library” and will showcase the library’s genealogy collections. The Sutro Library, the San Francisco branch of the California State Library, has one of the largest genealogy collections west of Salt Lake City. Participants will learn about the highlights of the genealogy collection, how to search online and how to access on-site once the library is open again. Guests are welcome. If interested in attending, send an email to scgs@ scgsca.org no later than 4 p.m. Friday to request an invitation.
Second person dies after shooting at mall SACRAMENTO — A second person has died after being wounded in a shooting inside Arden Fair during the height of Black Friday shopping in what was described as a targeted and isolated attack. The victim, a 17-yearold male, was pronounced dead at a hospital several hours later, the Sacramento Police Department said Saturday morning. The other victim, identified by police as a 19-year-old male, was pronounced dead at the mall by Sacramento Fire Department personnel. On Friday night, shoppers and workers quickly evacuated the sprawling shopping hub following the shooting at 6:11 p.m., which took place near the mall’s southwest entrance, according to police. That entrance is between the Forever 21 store and the former Sleep Number location, and below the food court. In announcing the teen’s death, Sacramento Police Department said a suspect, described as a male in his 20s, remained at large. Police said they are still investigating the motive for the shooting. — Staff, wire reports
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Feast on lasagna, raise funds for emergency pet care Daily Republic Staff
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Lex is a cat that benefited from Saving Gracie, a nonprofit that helps people with major vet bills.
VACAVILLE — Join Saving Gracie and friends Dec. 16 for a Drive-Thru Family Lasagna Dinner Fundraiser and Raffle, hosted by Merchant & Main. You don’t have to get out the car and may even come home with new Acer Chromebook or gift. The meal includes a tray of “heat-and-eat” hearty meat lasagna, garden salad, garlic bread, fresh-baked brownies and a treat box filled with surprises for your furry family members, and one Acer Chromebook raffle ticket per dinner purchase. The proceeds benefit Saving Gracie, a local charitable foundation whose Angel Fund helps families avoid experiencing the heartbreak of losing their family pet.
Through community donations to their Angel Fund, Saving Gracie offers Solano County families a financial option to receive veterinary care that they could not otherwise afford. Because of Saving Gracie’s Angel Fund, dozens of family pets that have faced life-threatening injuries or illnesses have been saved when their families thought there was no hope. “I am very grateful to the Saving Gracie Foundation for funding a portion of Lucy’s surgery,” said dog owner and Angel Fund recipient Theresa Vogel-Millgard in a press release. “They gave sweet Lucy extra time to enjoy her life and for us to spend quality moments together.” “Now more than ever before, families need the bond, love, support and joy that their
furry family members bring to their lives. With the financial challenges we are all facing this year it is our goal to keep families together,” said Lisa Hilas, Saving Gracie founder and executive director, in the press release. “Your donations support families by giving the pet they love a chance to live a longer and healthier life.” Dinners are available for purchase online until noon Dec. 11 by visiting savinggracie.org/events. Dinner pickup will be in the parking lot behind Merchant & Main between 4 and 6 p.m. Time slots can be selected when placing the order. To donate, become a sponsor, read love stories from families or for more information, visit savinggracie.org, send an email to info@saving-gracie.org or call 469-3496.
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Trump’s plan to import drugs faces legal challenge Tribune Content Agency
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This picture was taken at the Fall Garden Recital for Young Artists Conservatory of Music. YACM and other
performance-based organizations are hoping for a generous Giving Tuesday.
On Stage Vacaville matching up to $5K in donations on Giving Tuesday Amy Maginnis-Honey
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VAC AV I LL E — Vacaville-based performance organizations are hoping for a generous Giving Tuesday. The Vacaville Ballet Company, Young Artist Conservatory of Music, Starbound Theatre, the Solano Symphony and others will be the beneficiaries of up to $5,000 in matching donations thanks to On Stage Vacaville. “We know there are many worthy causes and we thank you in advance for your support and consideration. We hope in the near future, Covid-19 restrictions will be lifted and once again enjoying live, local performances. Now on with the show!,� wrote Lisa Hilas, president of On
Stage Vacaville. The Young Artists Conservatory of Music has lost about 85% of program-related revenue, director Wanda Cook said in an email. “Like other so many businesses and NPOs, YACM is only surviving on the CARES Act relief funds that is allowing us to pay our rent and utilities and limited staff. We received a grant from Genentech, and a grant from California Arts Council is still approved and coming our way,� Cook wrote. Giving Tuesday is incredibly important to such organizations this year. Local nonprofits are the lifeblood of the community, Cook wrote. “We sustain culture and inspire hope. We intervene
in times of crisis and transform lives,� she wrote. “Today more than ever, children need experiences that pull them away from screens and develop their imagination, creativity and give them hope for the next day.� YACM is giving Covid-19 compliant inperson and remote private lessons for children 4 and older. “During a time when young people can’t play in band or orchestra at school, and who aren’t waiting for Covid to go away, donations today will determine the future musicianship and well-being of our community,� Cook wrote. YACM has built an outdoor stage on its property with hopes of performing small concerts, plays and hosting open mic
and improv nights. “Indoor concerts and musicals are still suspended until Covid is under control,� Cook wrote. “We anticipate a return to the VPAT (Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre) after Covid and with this continued support of the community. “There is nothing like live performances! Most of us have enjoyed the annual season of shows sponsored by OSV and the city of Vacaville,� Hilas wrote in the letter to potential donors. The goal is to raise funds to offset theater rental feels for the local arts groups once they are able to resume live performances. The donation link is https://givebutter.com/ on-stage-vacaville.
Trump vows to press on in Wisconsin Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump isn’t abandoning his drive to overturn the election results in Wisconsin, despite state officials announcing a recount in Milwaukee County had only added to Democrat Joe Biden’s lead. “ T he Wisconsi n recount is not about finding mistakes in the count, it is about finding people who have voted illegally, and that case will be brought after the recount is over, on Monday or Tuesday,� tweeted Trump on Saturday. T w it ter f la gged Trump’s tweet about “many illegal votes� for making a disputed claim about election fraud. Trump’s promise to bring another legal case in Wisconsin comes after recount results announced Friday in Milwaukee County – the state’s most populous – gave Biden a net gain of 132 votes, out of nearly 460,000 cast. The Democrat gained 257 votes to Trump’s 125.
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Election officials count absentee ballots in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Nov. 4. Presdient Donald Trump’s campaign is paying $3 million for an official request for a recount in the state. Recounts rarely show more than a small number of vote changes, and the Milwaukee effort was no exception. Biden won the state by more than 20,000 votes, an outcome that’s expected to be certified on Tuesday. Results are expected on Sunday from a recount in Wisconsin’s Dane county, which includes the Democratic-leaning state capital of Madison. The Trump campaign paid $3 million to the state of Wisconsin for recounts in the
two counties. Trump and his legal team, led by Rudy Giuliani, have made multiple assertions of election fraud on Twitter and while talking to the media. But those allegations haven’t surfaced in court, where evidence must be presented. On Friday, a Trumpappointed judge in
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Pennsylvania made note of that discrepancy in rejecting the president’s attempt to revive a lawsuit seeking to undo the state’s certification of Biden as the winner. “Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here,� wrote U.S. Circuit Court Judge Stephanos Bibas. Trump attorney Jenna Ellis quickly promised an appeal of the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump echoed that on Saturday, saying “we will appeal!� Another Trump tweet about Pennsylvania was also flagged by Twitter.
T A LL A H A S S E E , Fla. — An influential pharmaceutical lobbying group is suing to end the Trump administration’s plan to allow prescription drugs to be imported from Canada into the United States. That could have major implications for Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump have highlighted state and federal efforts to lower the cost of prescriptions. DeSantis announced last week that Florida’s importation plan had been submitted to the federal government. “For far too long, Floridians have been paying exorbitant prices for prescription drugs,� DeSantis said in a release announcing his administration’s plan. “Today, we take another step towards lowering those prices.� The lawsuit, filed on the same day of DeSantis’ announcement in the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., alleges that the federal government has not proven the program DeSantis hopes to participate in would be safe or cost effective – two standards required by federal law for commercial distribution of foreign prescription drugs. James C. Stansel, the executive vice president and general counsel for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, one of the groups suing the Trump administration,
said past administrations haven’t allowed states to import foreign drugs for a reason. “Every secretary that has looked at this in the past 20 years, Republican or Democrat, has said, I can’t certify to either one of these things,� Stansel said, referring to the cost and safety standards. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to requests for comment Friday. In the release announcing Florida’s plan, the governor’s office said the state would put measures into place that would “ensure counterfeit drugs do not enter the supply chain.� The release noted the state would start its program by importing a few different kinds of drugs for people with chronic illnesses. Florida’s drug importation plan was approved by the Legislature in 2019. It will be administered by Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration. Earlier this year, Kaiser Health News reported the agency was having difficulty finding a third-party vendor to operate the program. The debate over the cost of prescription drugs is highly political. President Donald Trump has long argued he’s fighting against the greed of the pharmaceutical industry, which spends tens of millions of dollars lobbying in Washington, D.C., every year.
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In brief Retired Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh dies at 46
Tony Hsieh, the former CEO of online shoe retailer Zappos, died from injuries sustained during a fire that ripped through a loved one’s home in Connecticut, the company confirmed. The iconic tech entrepreneur died Friday night. He was 46. “The world has lost a tremendous visionary and an incredible human being,” Zappos CEO Kedar Deshpande wrote on the company’s website. “We recognize that not only have we lost our inspiring former leader, but many of you have also lost a mentor and a friend. Hsieh’s cause of death remains under investigation.
Hurricane center monitors 2 systems ORLANDO, Fla. — Two systems in the Atlantic Ocean with potential to form into a tropical or subtropical depressions or storms are under close watch by the National Hurricane Center on Saturday, as the end of hurricane season grows closer. As of 7 p.m., one nontropical low pressure system was located about 700 miles east-southeast of Bermuda in the Central Atlantic. It poses no threat to Florida. In the eastern Atlantic, another nontropical area of low pressure off Portugal’s shores is moving southward this weekend. It could develop subtropical characteristics in a couple of days while it meanders just to the north of the Canary Islands, the NHC said. — Tribune Content Agency
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Western states call for massive rent relief – and political wins Tribune Content Agency SAN JOSE – The best hope for swift pandemic aid to struggling California tenants and landlords might come from Georgia. State lawmakers from California and three other Western states this week are urging their congressional delegations to step up with $100 billion for rent relief – an achievable goal, they believe, if Democrats win two seats in U.S. Senate elections in Georgia, seize control of the upper chamber, and push a significant stimulus bill through Congress. A ssembly member David Chiu, D- San Francisco, chair of the housing and community development committee, said the federal aid backed by President-elect Joe Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris could happen quickly if their party wins in the January special elections. Republicans hold a two-seat Senate majority with two Georgia seats at stake in the Jan. 5 runoff, and have held off on approving a large stimulus package. States do not have enough resources to stem the crisis, Chiu said. About 1.3 million tenant households in the U.S. will have piled up $7.2 billion in unpaid rent by the end of the year, according to a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. “Only the federal government has enough money,” Chiu said. Chiu and Sen. Scott Wiener, D- San Francisco, chair of the senate housing committee, along with elected leaders in Hawaii, Oregon and Washington
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State lawmakers from California and three other Western states this week are urging their congressional delegations to step up with $100 billion for rent relief. state, sent a letter to their congressional delegations this week urging passage of a rent relief bill. The push comes as Bay Area renters fall tens of millions of dollars behind in rent, and a state moratorium on evictions expires Jan. 31 – a date Chiu said was chosen with the hope that a Democratic sweep in presidential and congressional elections would make a robust stimulus bill possible. Chiu added he has been negotiating an extension to the moratorium if the crisis deepens without federal relief. Landlords and renter advocates have also urged a major relief package from Congress, saying the building crisis could spin into widespread evictions, mortgage defaults and a collapse of rental markets.
The four elected state leaders working with Chiu and Wiener also chair housing and community development committees, and all warned about a looming health disaster. “When renters are forced out of their homes, they either end up homeless, or are forced to move into overcrowded, temporary housing that does not allow them to follow the physical distancing urged by public health officials,” the lawmakers wrote. The Western states are facing a potential surge of evictions when emergency protections expire, lawmakers warn. Nearly 1 in 4 renters in the Western states told a U.S. Census survey in September they had little or no confidence in continuing to make rent payments. “While each of the
four states we represent have taken different approaches to preventing massive evictions during the crisis,” the lawmakers wrote, “our state and local governments lack the fiscal resources to prevent long-term financial damage to renters and landlords.” Real estate insiders credit federal stimulus payments with helping many tenants stay current on rent during the early months of the pandemic. The supplemental payments ended in July, and federal response since has been mired in Congressional bickering. The $2.2 trillion Heroes Act relief package passed the Democraticled House but has been stalled in the Republican Senate. A smaller,
GOP-backed Senate proposal would pump roughly $500 million into the economy. Biden’s housing plan supports additional funding for renter legal assistance during the pandemic, and long-term spending on affordable housing. As federal lawmakers continue the stimulus stalemate, property owners and tenants are feeling the grind of the monthslong economic slowdown. Sid Lakireddy, president of the California Rental Housing Association, said property owners are not looking to evict tenants. Small mom-andpop owners are struggling to pay their bills, and want to work with their tenants, he said. The Bay Area rental market has been hard hit. Vacancy rates have reached 30% in some parts of San Francisco, while rent collections have dipped as low as 80 percent, Lakireddy said. He’s hopeful a multibillion-dollar stimulus package can repair the industry. “Hallelujah,” said the Berkeley-based landlord. “We’ve been saying we need a renter relief package.” Chiu said advocacy groups have been warning the rental housing market is strained and could lead to a jump in homelessness and greater health risks for the entire population. “We are once again staring down the eviction cliff if action is not taken,” Chiu said. “The pandemic is not going to end any time soon.”
Opinion A8 Sunday, November 29, 2020 — DAILY REPUBLIC
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California must spend to manage forest health
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he uncontrolled wildfires that raged across California this year devastated lives, homes, forests and entire watersheds. We set a dubious record for most acres burned in a single year: 4.1 million and counting. Jeff Harris It takes a long time to recover from such intense fires. In 2014, the King Fire burned 97,000 acres of vital American River watershed in Northern California, and we’re still managing the consequences. As representatives of urban and rural communities in this watershed, we appreciate that our lives are interconnected by the effects of wildfire. We understand how uncontrolled fire in our headwater forests can trigger cascading negative impacts on our water supplies, environment, recreational resources and economy – from the Sierra foothills to Sacramento’s urban core into the Delta and beyond. We also know that the way we have historically managed our forests must change. Today, millions of acres of forest, too crowded with trees and brush, are primed for catastrophic fire with little or no resilience to accommodate our changing climate. For this, we can blame last-century practices of extinguishing every forest fire as rapidly as
possible. Lightningcaused fires and burning practices of indigenous people, which mitigated the risk of mega-fire, were stopped in the early 1900s. This allowed underbrush and small trees to crowd the Robert Dugan park-like spaces between big trees that once defined our forests. Forests can again function as they did historically and be more resilient to climate change, if Californians make several major shifts: Local agencies must take the lead on forest restoration efforts. State and federal agencies can provide vital money and technical support. But the pressure to act must arise from residents, elected officials and conservation organizations in fire-threatened watersheds. Also, each of us needs to accept that smallscale, controlled fires are a natural condition in California. After all, historical accounts tell us that smoky skies in the late summer were common long before the state was settled. We must support more funding for forest thinning and prescribed fire. Case in point: The King Fire turned sections of the American River watershed into a virtual moonscape. Later, tons of ash, logs and soil eroded into hydropower and water supply facilities owned by
Placer County Water Agency, threatening storage capacity and water quality for not just our Sacramento region but the Valley and Southern California as well. Ever since, the Placer County Water Agency, Placer County, The Nature Conservancy, U.S. Forest Service and other partners have progressed on a 20,000-acre forest restoration project at French Meadows Reservoir, a vital water storage facility on the American River’s Middle Fork. The project’s goal is to use small, prescribed fires to eliminate overcrowded trees and brush that could stoke an inferno. Getting there has required six years of planning and hard work to mechanically remove undergrowth – using saws and tractors – so that a prescribed burn could occur safely. Ultimately, we estimate the total project will cost $18 million. That’s a bargain when considering that federal officials spent $117 million fighting the King Fire in 2014 and the countless tons of carbon that was released into the atmosphere. Much more is needed statewide to address the tinderboxes like French Meadows that exist throughout California – up to $10 billion according to forest health experts. Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature were unsuccessful in their attempts earlier this year to boost funding for forest health projects. It’s
imperative that funding succeed in the year ahead. That may require broad public support for a bond measure – your support – for the many public benefits these projects could yield. For example, restoring the natural, open condition of our forests is more accommodating for recreation and native species. Remaining trees can grow bigger, making them more resistant to fires. And avoiding catastrophic fires prevents pollution caused by massive carbon release, post-fire storm runoff and sediment flows that shrink capacity in downstream reservoirs and impact cold water management to protect fisheries. The fires of 2020 showed all of us how daily life is affected by uncontrolled wildfire. Our long summer of record heat, deadly wildfires and smoky skies may have left many Californians feeling hopeless about the state we cherish. But the future is actually very bright, if we turn our focus to the forests. Robert Dugan is chair of the Placer County Water Agency Board of Directors and a board member of the Sacramento Regional Water Authority, District4@ pcwa.net. Jeff Harris is vice mayor of the city of Sacramento and a board member of the Sacramento Regional Water Authority, jsharris@ cityofsacramento.org.
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Writer offers clarification This is in response to a letter that was in the Nov. 22 newspaper which referenced a letter to the editor (“Objections to Books Contents,”) which was in the Nov. 8 edition. The author of the letter “. . . sensed a bit of insensitivity . . .”. Where is that coming from and where is that writer’s sensitivity towards me? That conclusion is far from the truth. We all know that everyone is unique and have a God-given right in this country to pursue their lives and happiness as long as it does no harm to anyone else. I wholeheartedly agree with that, and certainly respect everyone’s right to be themselves. But, the point of letting children be children was missed by the writer. Adults can live their lives as they see fit; little children don’t have that luxury of being able to just be little children when things are thrust upon them. My point is to let children keep their innocence and learn at their own developmentally appropriate pace; don’t force feed them. Pat Sivigliano Fairfield
President Trump leaves toxic legacy Despite his epic corruption, dishonesty and ineptitude as president, Donald Trump will go down in history as one of America’s most consequential presidents. When I use the term consequential, I am not using it kindly. Trump’s legacy of chaos, megalomaniacal behaviors, sociopathic cruelty and utter contempt for the rule of law will forever “brand” Trump as the worst president in American history. Nevertheless, his toxic impact on the norms and practices of democratic govern-
ment provides vitally important lessons as America transitions to a new and more enlightened era of political leadership. n Lesson 1: The balance of power between the three branches of government is far more fragile and tenuous than Americans realized. n Lesson 2: There are few constraints to prevent and hold accountable misconduct by the president. Impeachment, absent conviction by the Senate, is largely symbolic. n Lesson 3: Our conceptions about the stability of the bedrock values and cultural traditions of the American presidency and democratic order have been largely illusionary. n Lesson 4: When repeated frequently and with conviction a lie becomes “truth.” “With sufficient repletion . . . a square is in fact a circle” – Joseph Goebbels. n Lesson 5: When politics becomes a zero-sum-game, inconvenient legal doctrines like the U.S. Constitution become irrelevant and constitutional transgressions like voter suppression are conducted with brazen defiance. n Lesson 6: In the hands of a corrupt president the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to effectively lead the most complex nation on earth become subordinate to the whims and fancies of an autocrat. n Lesson 7: That 73 million Americans cast their vote for Donald Trump underscores the extremely precarious condition of our democracy and amplifies the vast differences among citizens over conceptions of moral and ethical behavior, virtuous leadership, and fundamental American values. Joe Biden has his work cut out for him. Addressing a lethal pandemic is just the tip of the iceberg. Stephen Davis Fairfield
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Protesters’ arrests nothing new It was recently reported that several protesters interrupted the Fairfield City Council meeting after the police chief gave her report of a 2012 killing, stating that officers that were involved in the case were stated to “have no wrongdoing.” The article said that Vice Mayor Pam Bertani questioned why they were arrested and the City Manager responded, “They were allowed to speak and then asked to leave, lawfully as (a) lawful order; they refused to leave, refused to allow (the) meeting to continue.” Since the arrests, many in our community are upset as a video on social media reveals the protestors were never asked to leave after they spoke and were immediately arrested.
As a student studying history at Dominican University of California, I have researched other instances of wrongful arrests. One historical precedent is the Birmingham Campaign of 1963, a movement to desegregate in Birmingham, Alabama. This confrontation was a non-violent protest where individuals used their First Amendment right to speak against the segregation placed on their community. Despite this, many protesters were arrested and thrown in jail. An even more directly relevant precedent is Fane Lozman’s arrest in 2018 during a Riviera Beach City Council meeting in Florida. He was arrested during the public comment session after he continued to speak his opinion about government corruption after his time was up. A court ruled that he was wrongly arrested and awarded him
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$875,000 this past January. I wonder if the same thing will happen in Fairfield? Kayle Alyssa M. Tan Fairfield
Too much obvious news in paper We are at a loss to understand why so many obvious items are published in our local paper. Constant pictures of people sleeping on the streets is front page news. Crime log lists are half a page long. All fairly obvious stuff to anyone with eyes. Such wonderful, positive support for all of us longtime homeowners. Please consider this in the future, thanks. Steven Palfey Fairfield
Recently the Solano County health officer insisted that face masks slow the spread of the novel coronavirus: Here are some readers’ comments: n In two recent studies out concerning masks, one says they help; the other says they don’t. Regardless, as noted numerous times, the younger crowd needs to get on board with the precautions to slow the spread. n Good, thorough report! n Duh. We even wear one on our power walks, but there is plenty of space out there for those that don’t.
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Crime logs Fairfield Thursday, Nov. 26 1:11 a.m. — Drunken driving, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 7:38 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 800 block of CHADBOURNE ROAD 9:37 a.m. — Vandalism, 2700 block of SEABREEZE DRIVE 10:02 a.m. — Trespassing, 2200 block of CHANNING COURT 10:45 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:18 a.m. — Indecent exposure, CHADBOURNE ROAD 11:33 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:44 a.m. — Robbery, 1400 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 1:09 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 5000 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 1:35 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1600 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD 1:39 p.m. — Battery, 5000 block of LAKEVIEW CIRCLE 2:34 p.m. — Forgery, 1400 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 3:52 p.m. — Reckless driver,
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2400 block of WATERMAN BOULEVARD 5:58 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, EAST TABOR AVENUE 6:41 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 2100 block of MERRITT PLACE 9:25 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 3100 block of SHETLAND COURT 9:45 p.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, 1600 block of KIDDER AVENUE 10:02 p.m. — Drunken driving, 200 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE
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cardinals to carry out their duties correctly. “Let us ROME — Pope Francis think about the many kinds on Saturday named 13 new of corruption that exist in cardinals, including Wash- the life of a priest,” he said. ington Archbishop Wilton Two of the 13 new carGregory, the first Black dinals in the ceremony, U.S. prelate to known as a consisbe ad m it ted tory, both based in among the soAsia, missed the called Princes ceremony because of the Church. of coronavirus Gregory, who travel restrictions. turns 73 next The Apostolic month, leads an Vicar of Brunei, archdiocese rocked Cornelius Sim, by the scandal of and the Archgregory Theodore McCarbishop of Capiz rick, a former archbishop in the Philippines, Jose who was defrocked last Fuerte Advincula would year after being outed as a be appointed in absenserial sexual predator. tia, the Vatican said In June, Gregory made earlier this week. Their headlines after criticizing red hats and rings would outgoing President Donald be sent by special papal Trump for turning a visit envoys, according to The to the Saint John Paul II Vatican News. National Shrine as “a photo Because of pandemic opportunity.” risks, the audience at the He and other cardi- consistory was a much nals-elect were given the reduced number of around red hats and rings that 200 guests and cardinals. come with their titles in a Also, a customary hug service led by the pope in between cardinals was forSt. Peter’s Basilica. feited. Some guests joined Francis warned the new the event via video link.
Wildlife: Aviary From Page One He was recruited by Mike Southward as both have worked in construction. When he saw the burned building, he said he felt he must help. “I did the demolition, framing and put on the siding,” he said. He’s ready to accept another help request. “I’ll come back; it was a lot of fun,” Hinchman said. It’s been a challenging year, Liguori said. People at the center have learned how many good
friends it has. Suisun City Mayor Lori Wilson started an online group fundraiser for the center. Many people made donations in other ways. “All the people who have donated (did so) beyond our wildest dreams,” Liguori said. “It’s a huge undertaking. It’s a huge step forward.” The center still has a ways to go. Up next: the squirrel enclosure. It needs to be completed by spring. Learn more at w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / SuisunWildlife.
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From Page One Papers began accumulating in a box. T hen b er e ave ment coordinator Linda Pribble asked the women, “What are you doing with all that stuff?” A timeline was contemplated. It did not work at the time. The project became a historical overview. Gallagher decided it needed more graphics. Daniels took over that department. She told Gallagher, “I will make it look pretty.” The women even made a content page so those browsing the binders can look up a particular year and event to find what they are seeking. Next was a blueprint for the print project. Daniels has moved since the project kicked off. She continued her involvement through email. Pages were sent to her; Daniels created and returned them. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit earlier this year, the women found themselves with more time and were able to bring the project to completion. “We worked super hard,” Gallagher said. “When we were sheltered in, we focused on this.” Gallagher got involved with Hospice and Bereavement after her mother was in hospice care. When her mother told her she didn’t know dying could be so easy, Gallagher knew she wanted to be part of such a program. “It was amazing, my dad said,” Gallagher added. “It brought such a sense of calm. I could see my mom was
Alarms From Page One hospitalizations, which was recorded in mid-July, when 7,170 people were in the hospital. The extraordinary growth in hospitalizations is accelerating at a sustained pace that is unprecedented since the first months of the pandemic. In Los Angeles County, the total number of people who are in hospitals with coronavirus infections is jumping by roughly 80 patients a day on average over a sevenday period – a rate of increase not seen since the earliest weeks of the pandemic. By Thursday, more than 1,950 people with coronavirus infections were hospitalized in L.A. County. That’s more than 87% of L.A. County’s worst day for hospitalizations, in mid-July, when more than 2,200 Covid-19 patients were in hospitals. Health officials in Los Angeles County have sounded the alarm that they are on pace to see a shortage of beds – especially in intensive care units – over the next two to four weeks if these trends continue. Should the number of Covid-19 patients continue to rise, “people should be prepared to potentially have their nonessential surgeries or procedures canceled so that hospitals can make room,” Dr. Christina Ghaly, the county director of health services, said Wednesday. Though hospitals have plans in place to expand their capacity if necessary, Ghaly said the bigger challenge is staffing – particularly in intensive care units. There are only so many nurses, doctors and other staff properly trained to provide ICU-level care. San Diego County was on its sixth consecutive day of record numbers of hospitalized Covid-19 patients, with 563 people in its hospi-
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A binder contains articles telling stories and the history of the NorthBay Hospice and Bereavement department. very calm and not emotional like I was.” Queen’s husband was in hospice. After he died, she got involved, offering clerical skills. “NorthBay Hospice Through the Years” was most definitely a labor of love, Daniels shared in an email. She got involved and started helping Gallagher get the massive amount of information into some semblance of order. “I was also working with her to create a timeline of events,” Daniels wrote. “We quickly realized that a timeline was not the way to present the massive amount of data we had and started experimenting with various word processing layouts. Shortly thereafter, I moved to El Dorado.” Daniels wrote it was a project she didn’t want to turn loose as designing the layout was a creative outlet. “After many starts and stops, we finally came up with the final design,” she wrote. “Most files were sent back and forth tals as of Thursday. That’s already a 37% increase above its previous high of 411, set in the summer. San Bernardino County on Thanksgiving broke its all-time record for Covid-19 hospitalizations, with 656 people in hospital beds on Thursday – exceeding its previous record of 638 patients set in July. Riverside County reported 498 hospitalized patients Thursday, closing in on its all-time record of 550, also set in July. Covid-19 hospitalizations have doubled in Orange County in the last dozen days or so. More than 500 people with coronavirus infections were in Orange County’s hospitals as of Thursday; there were nearly 250 such patients on Nov. 14. Ventura County was in the same situation: There were 81 people listed in hospitals in the coastal county Thursday, up from 38 on Nov. 14. Other areas of California were also hit hard. Sacramento County on Thursday recorded 263 Covid-19 patients in its hospitals, close to its record of 281 hospitalizations set in the summer. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Clara County has surpassed its summertime record of hospitalizations. On Thursday, 230 infected people were in its hospitals, a 17% increase from its previous high of 196 from the summer. States across the nation were also reporting sharp increases in Covid-19 hospitalizations. “With only partial reporting today, and many states not submitting data, we are nonetheless seeing a staggering jump in total Covid hospitalizations nationally; reflecting the sharply rising new infections we’ve seen in recent weeks and delay between diagnosis and hospitalization,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, tweeted Thursday. Epidemiologists have also started to raise concerns about an increasing
several times via email. “I’d enter the data, Lynn would edit it, send it back to me, I’d make the changes and return it to her. “Often what she saw and what I saw on the screen were not the same. The problem was incompatibility between her Mac and my PC. I often had to take screenshots so that she could see what things really looked like.” The binders contain a wealth of information. Gallagher and Queen said they hope the binders will educate and show how death and hospice are no longer a stigma for some. Each woman did a dedication page, sharing why they were involved and more details about their efforts. Jennifer Flam, chaplain and bereavement volunteer coordinator, came on board a few years ago. The binders have offered her a look at the program since its inception. “We are continuing on with our work,” Flam said. “It looks a little
different now.” The stories have rekindled a sense of hope, she said. Part of the story also is the calendar created by Dr. Terrell Van Aken. It features a monthly story on hospice patients who had a dream granted by the program. NorthBay Hospice and Bereavement’s Dream of a Lifetime program was launched in early 2009. It is designed to offer hospice patients joy, contentment and a sense of completion near the end of their lives. Another program is the annual Hospice Tree of Memories. It’s a virtual event this year at 10 a.m. Dec. 5 when hospice volunteers hang the ornaments on the tree. For more information, call 646-3517. November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month. For more information on hospice and bereavement services, visit www. northbay.org/services/ hospice-bereavement.
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People wait in line for a free Covid-19 test in front of a closed Taix French Restaurant in Echo Park, Wednesday. trend of restaurants beginning to erect sheets of plastic surrounding their outdoor dining areas to protect diners from the wind. Surrounding a dining area with plastic sheeting or other material blocking air flow helps keep the coronavirus floating inside what’s basically a tent, instead of the tiny respiratory particles being blown away by the wind. That makes it more probable that other people will breathe in larger quantities of the virus and be infected by their dining companions. On Wednesday, state officials issued a memo that says outdoor restaurants can have a canopy or other type of shelter from the sun, but no more than 50% of the outdoor dining area’s perimeter can be surrounded by impermeable walls. In California, tough pa ndem ic c ont r ol measures have twice successfully driven down infection rates and daily death numbers, in large part by finding ways to keep people from different households from mixing with one another. But pandemic fatigue that has emerged in the last couple of months is probably resulting in more people deciding to ignore recommendations to stay home as much as possible. Health officials say they suspect the recent surge in coronavirus cases is related to things such as holiday celebra-
tions; gatherings to watch games and celebrations of the Lakers and Dodgers winning the NBA Finals and World Series, respectively; increased outbreaks at workplaces; increased travel by people coming from or returning from areas with high transmission rates; and cooler weather, which tends to result in people staying indoors more. There is worry that many people ignoring recommendations to stay at home this Thanksgiving will give rise to an even worse surge of hospitalizations and deaths in December and January. One influential model forecasts that, based on current policies, California’s cumulative pandemic death toll would double, to more than 37,000 dead, by the end of winter. Epidemiologists have long said that any activity in which people don’t wear masks and are located close together places them at risk for contracting the coronavirus. The virus can be spread by coughing, talking and even breathing. The daily number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported on Thanksgiving and the rest of the holiday weekend is expected to be lower than usual, a result of many counties not issuing reports over the holiday weekend. Only 10 of California’s 58 counties released new case and death numbers on Thanksgiving.
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Iranian president points finger at US, Israel for murder of physicist Tribune Content Agency TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s arch-enemies, the United States and Israel, are behind the fatal attack on nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, President Hassan Rowhani said on Saturday. “Once again, imperialism and its Zionist mercenaries caused bloodshed and the death of an Iranian scientist,� he said. According to Rowhani, this “terrorist attack� merely proves the fear of Iran’s enemies about the country’s technological progress. However, the murder will not prevent the country from continuing Fakhrizadeh’s path with even greater commitment, the president said on state television. The head of Iran’s nuclear agency, Ali-Akbar Salehi, has vowed that the killing of the nuclear physicist will neither stop nor impair progress in the country’s nuclear program. Communications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi made a similar statement. “Thousands will grow back for the one flower that is torn out,� the minister tweeted. Israel raised the level of alert at its embassies around the world on Saturday morning in the face of a possible revenge attack, according to Israeli Channel 12’s N12 website.
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Iran’s defense ministry released a statement to the media confirming the death of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, saying that he died of his injuries in the hospital, Tehran, Iran, Friday. Various Jewish communities also increased their security measures, N12 reported. A spokeswoman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry declined to confirm or deny the report, telling dpa: “We are not commenting on security related issues.� Fakhrizadeh was shot “by terrorists� in Absard, a suburb in eastern Tehran. Local authorities confirmed Fakhrizadeh’s death and also that several attackers were killed. However, Iranian Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz initially Kamalvandi denied the reports, saying, Iran’s “nuclear scientists are all well,� in remarks to ISNA news agency. Fakhrizadeh had been a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and was
an expert in missile production. Fars news agency said this was why Israeli secret services had long sought to eliminate him. The New York Times cited a U.S. official and two other intelligence officials as saying that Israel was behind the attack. The secret service and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard have already started investigations into the attackers. Like Rowhani, however, the Iranian leadership has already determined that “agents of the Zionist regime are behind the terrorist attack.� Fakhrizadeh had been on Israel’s blacklist for years. In addition, only Iran’s arch-enemy would benefit from the death of the physicist, Tehran argues.
Afghan, Taliban teams agree on terms for conducting peace talks Tribune Content Agency K ABUL, Afghanistan — The government of Afghanistan and the rebel Taliban movement have agreed on procedural rules for peace talks to end the country's 19 years of conflict. The terms, which consist of 21 articles, have been "approved" by both parties to break weeks of stalemate, Mohammad Naeem, a spokesman for the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, where they have a political office, said on Twitter.
its troops to 2,500 from 4,500 by Jan. 15, with more scheduled leave by May. The Afghan government expressed concern over what it considers a premature withdrawal that could leave the country in civil war. The United Nations has noted a dramatic surge in violence by the Taliban since the talks began on Sept. 12, ranging from attacks on Afghan army bases to attempts to capture key cities including Kandahar.
The Afghan government hasn't commented. A key disagreement has been whether the U.S.Taliban deal should serve as the basis for the AfghanTaliban talks, a position rejected by the government. The peace deal the U.S. signed with the militants on Feb. 29 requires the Taliban to cut ties with all terrorist groups, including al-Qaida, in exchange for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The U.S. has started withdrawing forces from the country and will reduce
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UK poised to be first to approve Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine Tribune Content Agency LONDON — The U.K. is poised to become the first country to approve Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccine, ahead of a long line of countries waiting for protection from the coronavirus. Clearance is possible as soon as early next week, according to a person familiar with the situation, who asked not to be identified because the process is confidential. The U.K. had long signaled it would move fast on any promising vaccine candidate. Russia and China have cleared vaccines for general use, but they’re unlikely to be adopted in the U.S. and Europe. British doctors were put on standby for a possible rollout before Christmas. The government invoked a special rule allowing the U.K. drug regulator to bypass its European Union coun-
terpart as the country prepares for the Brexit transition period to conclude at the end of this year. And the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency started its own accelerated review. Earlier this week, the MHRA said it had the data it needed to assess whether the Pfizer vaccine meets required standards and would “make a decision in the shortest time possible, without compromising the thoroughness of our review.� The shot was 95% effective in a clinical trial of almost 44,000 people, with no significant safety problems so far. On Saturday, an MHRA spokesperson declined to comment. A BioNTech representative didn’t immediately have a comment. Pfizer said in a statement that it doesn’t speculate on how long the review process will last or how it will end.
The first injections could take place from Dec. 7, the Financial Times reported earlier. The news that the U.K. could approve a vaccine comes as Nadhim Zahawi, a junior minister for the Department of Business, was appointed as minister overseeing the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. The U.K. has ordered enough doses of the twoshot Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to immunize 20 million people, though that volume almost certainly won’t be available right away. The companies also have deals to supply hundreds of millions of shots to Europe, the U.S., Japan and elsewhere. The Pfizer-BioNTech shot has raced to the head of the line after delays to trials of a vaccine from AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford, which has also shown some promising signs in preliminary results from broad studies.
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Isoo O’Brien takes a walk in Jackson Park for bird watching in Chicago, Nov. 16. The Evanston high school senior is expected to break the Cook
County record for individual bird species spotted in a year, clocking 282 species by the end of October.
In rare feat, teen expected to break birding record:
‘Say a rare bird shows up. You have to drop everything and get in the car’ Tribune Content Agency For some teens, getting a license means offering rides to friends, taking trips to the mall, freedom. For one Evanston, Illinois senior, it was mostly about the birds. Isoo O’Brien, 17, is expected to break the Cook County record for individual bird species spotted in a year, clocking 282 species by the end of October. With a little more than a month left before 2021, O’Brien is still working to check off a few final species in the hopes that his record holds for years to come. Topping the record was a big deal for O’Brien, and for other birders, who banded together to offer tips so O’Brien could drive – or sometimes sprint – to a yet unseen bird. O’Brien hoped to hit 270, maybe 275 species this year. “But in the back of my mind all I really wanted to do was to break the record,” which was 281, he said. “The record was so high that I just was like, I don’t want to set that expectation for myself and be disappointed it doesn’t happen. But it ended up happening.” O’Brien got into birding through his grandparents. Swapping stories of birds was a way to stay in touch. Then came field guides, databases, apps and a club for fellow fledgling ornithologists. “This might be kind of shocking,” O’Brien said. “But there’s actually enough young birders in Illinois that there’s a club called the Illinois Young Birders.” In the last year, O’Brien finally had his driver’s license. And he had only one year left before college. So he decided to embark on what is known as a “big year” – a challenge for birders that entails finding as many species as possible in a specific geographic area. “Let’s say a rare bird shows up,” O’Brien said. “You have to drop everything and get in the car and go get the bird.” Undertaking a big year requires a serious commitment, said Carl Giometti, a board member of the Chicago Ornithological Society. “You need the birds to show up,” Giometti said. “And you need to be lucky enough to get
ABOVE: Isoo O’Brien takes a walk in Jackson Park for bird watching in Chicago, Nov. 16. LEFT: O’Brien look for birds with his binoculars in Jackson Park.
there in time. “The key is just to always be birding.” Giometti said one birder’s quest for rare birds can inspire the larger community, and “Isoo covered every corner of Cook County imaginable.” “Yes, it’s one person’s achievement, but it’s really only achievable, especially in a place like Cook County, if everyone chips in and reports rare birds quickly and gives good locations and helps out,” Giometti said. When Giometti saw a prairie warbler one day in Grant Park, he was happy to pass along the tip. “I texted him right away, like, ‘Hey Isoo, we’ve got a prairie warbler right here.’ “ Dozens of people from the
birding community have helped in some way, O’Brien said. “And also my family as well. They let me take the car a lot and they’ve really understood that this is a passion.” The key to breaking the record was putting in the work for rare birds, O’Brien said. There’s a limit on the birds likely to fly by, and O’Brien expected to hit the majority of the species he might see in the first half of the year. By the end of May, O’Brien had counted just over 250 species. There’s a gradual slowdown after June and it’s tougher to make substantial progress. While balancing Zoom classes, family time and a social life during the pandemic, O’Brien also contended with the
lakefront shutdown, a challenge some birders thought would pose a threat to breaking any record. But O’Brien has a unique focus, said Matthew Cvetas, former president of Illinois Young Birders. Cvetas came to accept that the young birders were likely to be chattier than some of his adult counterparts, who were generally more mindful not to spook the birds. O’Brien, however, was quiet and watchful. Cvetas remembers a trip to northern Illinois to spot snowy owls. The group found one, sitting on railroad tracks. O’Brien hunkered down on the ground to get the perfect shot. “I don’t think there’s any question that Isoo is having a phenomenal year,” Cvetas said. “I think it just shows his intensity, his focus, his skill, his perseverance.” O’Brien’s level of dedication is emblematic of a strong group of young birders coming up, Cvetas said. “Not only are they interested in the hobby, but they’re really good at it,” he said. “To the point
where they’re already leaders in their community. You’ll find many of them leading volunteer bird walks, or discussions on social media about complex identification issues.” The Cook County record was last broken in 2013, also by a teenage birder. Before that the countywide record had been in place since 1990. The statewide record was also broken this year, with 335 species spotted all over Illinois. A black tern – a smoky-colored seabird – was O’Brien’s favorite find of the year. It was September, late in their migration. “So I was expecting, ah, I think I might have missed this one,” O’Brien said. But a friend working along the lakefront saw some birds flying by and alerted O’Brien, who booked it a few blocks over and glimpsed the species before they were gone. O’Brien reports his sightings on eBird. At the end of the year, a committee with the Illinois Ornithological Society will review records from those who have reported high numbers and flag any particularly unusual birds. “No one’s going to question if you saw a really common bird, like a mallard or a house sparrow,” O’Brien said. But for more uncommon ones he’s careful to snap a photo or make sure he has a second witness. O’Brien’s looking forward to meeting more birders in college – and hopefully seeing new birds. He’ll be ready for the return of warblers in spring migration, his overall favorites. As for advice for young birders, O’Brien recommends not rushing into anything and getting to know one habitat really well. “Take your time with learning the birds,” he said. “There are a lot of people that, when they’re first starting out, will overestimate their abilities and they’ll say, ‘oh I saw this and this and this and that,’ and the best way to get into it is just study the birds. Learn them. Look at them as much as you possibly can.” There’s no reward for breaking the county record, other than the personal reward of finding the rarities and having an excuse to get out and see as many birds as possible. But, O’Brien said, “birders all get it.”
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Covid-19 concerns affecting holiday plans Dear Annie: What and silent treatment advice would you and will see them in share for families who person anyway. This is are grappling with usually as a demand to members who have babysit. By doing this, differing opinions without any expectaabout what is considtion or give from my ered safe behavior for sister’s side, or her Covid-19 and protocols showing empathy for for how to interact Annie Lane my mom’s reasoning over the holidays? for wanting to follow Dear Annie Since the start of the recommended the pandemic, my older sister Covid-19 guidelines, the and her husband have had a situation has grown provery laissez-faire approach to gressively worse. their safety, refusing to wear As my mom tried to make masks, limiting time with a schedule to alternate others indoors and in public between families to show fair places, and to socially disand equal time around the tance, saying the virus is here holidays, my sister reacted and we all just have to learn to and has somehow positioned live with it. herself as the victim in the Although it is their prerog- situation. She says she is ative how they choose to wronged by the fact that it behave within their bubble, as includes no contact periods so my sister continues to partici- my mother can quarantine pate in high-risk activities, between our schedshe also demands that other uled activities. people in our family disregard Besides dropping our own their own level of comfort and level of safety and comfort to safety to interact with them align with her high-risk and their young daughter in lifestyle, which we will not do person, including our mother, because of my older son’s who is nearly 70. health risks, how would you When we ask her to limit suggest families like ours activities or enforce basic navigate this situation? Please guidelines like delaying help. — Frustrated Brother scheduling family time after Dear Frustrated Brother: they participate in high-risk Families like yours all across activities – such as attending a the world have to remind large wedding or planning to themselves that this is host visitors from overseas in temporary. If you don’t feel their home – my sister lashes comfortable seeing your sister out at my mother for making and her family, or if your such requests. She demeans mother’s behavior – forced by her for attempting to limit her your sister – makes you interaction with them, saying nervous, then don’t see them it is showing favoritism to my for the time being. Continue to family, which does not talk to your mother about your participate in high-risk concerns for her safety and activities. She says that my tell her how much you love mother is intentionally her and don’t want anything ruining her relationship with to happen to her. her own granddaughter. Try the same approach Of course, my mother with your sister. Remind wants to see both my sister yourself that, if you peek and her granddaughter, so she below the surface of your is incredibly hurt by these anger and frustration at your accusations, but she also mother and sister’s family, it wants to stay healthy and comes from an incredible love follow recommended safefor them and their safety. guards and guidelines, When you come from that especially given her age place, conversations seem to and risk level. go more smoothly. Best of luck Over the past several to you and your family during months, my mom has mainthis time, and stay safe. tained her level of comfort and safety most of the time, Send your questions for but she’ll eventually get worn Annie Lane to dearannie@ down by my sister’s guilt trips creators.com.
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ARIES (March 21April 19). It will be interesting how you resolve what is requested of you. The vaguer the request, the more creative you get. You’ll take all the independence and freedom the situation affords and run with it. TAURUS (April 20May 20). Most people are not where they are. The secret to your charisma and to your special relationships is that you are hyper-present in a world where distraction is the norm. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You are more objective about what happens to you than others in your position would be, and this allows you to learn quickly and make plans based on more than just your emotional response. CANCER (June 22July 22). The way you listen to and admire others is rare, and the subjects of your attention may not be used to it, but that won’t stop them from being flattered to the point of utter intoxication. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You will sacrifice something you previously attained in order to get this new thing you want. You’ll be surprised at the cost of your fresh desire – not by the monetary cost but the nature of what’s exchanged. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It will feel as though you’re taking a test. A high level of focus is necessary, and you’ll do very well with this, too, rising to the occasion, eyes exclusively on your own paper. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’re even more sensitive than usual to the energy of places. Go where the atmosphere is welcoming. If you’re uncomfortable in a place, don’t wait to figure out why. Move along to where the vibrations feel good to you.
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f it's true that clothes make the man, which in my case is far more likely than the man making clothes, because I can't sew and would have to go around in my birthday suit, risking either pneumonia or arrest, then I definitely have a fashion plate in my head. Still, I have to wear something, even if, as a retiree, I don't have to dress for success anymore. Not that I had much success when I was working, but at least now I can lounge around the house in sweatshirts and sweatpants (in fall and winter) or T-shirts and shorts (in spring and summer). To steal a lyric from the Byrds, because I'm for the Byrds, there is a season (turn, turn, turn). No, I don't know what the heck it means, either, but I do know that, according to my wife, Sue, who is very stylish, I should change my seasonal wardrobe twice a year, putting my summer clothes away and taking out my winter clothes when the weather gets cold and putting my winter clothes away and taking out my summer clothes when the weather gets hot. And, of course, vice versa. I never used to do this because I worked in an office where the temperature fluctuated wildly, leading to the terrible realization that there is no such thing as climate control. It got so bad that I once tried to have the National Weather Service declare my desk the coldest spot in the United States. And this was in the summer. So why put away my winter clothes? Another reason I
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Working from home allows Jerry Zezima to lounge around the house in sweatshirts and sweatpants (in fall and winter) or T-shirts and shorts (in spring and summer). have never made the seasonal switch is that my entire wardrobe is made of approximately eight yards of material. This explains why it is contained to one small closet and three bureau drawers. On the other hand, which requires a glove, Sue has a wardrobe large enough to clothe Luxembourg. I don't mind because: (a) she looks beautiful in anything she wears, even sweatshirts and sweatpants, since she's now retired, too, and (b) she buys my clothes, thus saving me the horror of having to get dressed up to go shopping. This year, however, it has been suggested that because I am no longer working (not that I ever did any real work in the first place), I should put away my
summer clothes. I said to Sue, the person who suggested this bold move, "With global warming, why bother?" But even I have to concede that it's worth the trouble, if only to get a large plastic bin full of clothes out of my already cluttered office and into the attic, a large space as empty as my skull. Sue pulled out another bin of clothes from the closet in my office. "Whose are those?" I asked innocently. "Yours!" she responded sharply. "You didn't even know they were here." And there is a pile of unboxed and unfolded clothes on the shelf in my bedroom closet, stuff I have ignored for God knows how long, including ties, which I have seldom worn
because they cut off the air supply to my brain (see: empty skull, above); swim trunks, which I should keep in the trunk of my car for when I go swimming; and a pair of paper pants I had to wear several years ago when I got an X-ray for a kidney stone. So I am now in the process of finally making the seasonal wardrobe switch. I might even find that some of my duds are so old and unstylish, like the guy who owns them, that they can be given away, thrown out or, if I break out the fire pit, burned. Still, sadly, no matter what the season, clothes make this man look like a dweeb. Jerry Zezima writes a humor column for Hearst Connecticut Media Group and is the author of five books.
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Today’s birthday You’ll become fascinating to yourself and to the world this year as mild curiosities develop into full-on pursuits, projects and even quests. Cancer and Capricorn adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 2, 22, 19, 38 and 5.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 21). Say yes to the location change. You don’t know what can be seen from that place until you go there. A change of vantage will lead to more ideas and broaden the scope of a relationship or project. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Hunger can be satisfied by a meal, but desire will increase as it is fed. Each taste intensifies need. Beware of situations in which you are unlikely to be content with moderation. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Emotional responses are our earliest teachers but not always the best ones, since young feelings can be so volatile. You’ll question what fear taught you, bringing maturity and reason to bear on the situation. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). If you can’t figure out how to go faster, consider cutting the amount you’re asking yourself to do in half and then taking your sweet time with that. Going slower will be interesting today, and you’ll look cool doing it. PISCES (Feb. 19March 20). The more comfortable you feel with who you are and what you’re doing, the less a favorable response matters to you. You’ll use feedback as information, not as emotional sustenance.
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World AIDS Day opportunity to leverage community solidarity to fight global epidemic Robertson Somuah Special to the Daily Republic
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ec 1 is World AIDS Day. It is an opportunity for people to unite in the fight against HIV/AIDS and show their support for people living with HIV and AIDS, and to commemorate those we have lost in this global epidemic. This year’s theme, “Global Solidarity, Shared Responsibility,” like the years prior, focuses on how teamwork and solidarity can stem the tide of the global spread of HIV. The advancements that the global community has made in preventing and treating HIV is something to be proud of. The year’s theme also focuses on the work we need to continue doing, considering the stalling downward trend of HIV infections. An estimated 1.8 million adults have become infected with HIV every year for the past five years. HIV Prevention efforts must be evaluated and improved to help identify HIV-positive individuals early, link them to medical care and supportive services, and decrease the spread of HIV in our communities. One of the biggest successes HIV programs worldwide has had is with a pill, when taken, can prevent a person from getting HIV. This medication is called Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis or PrEP for short. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP) is a way for people who do not have HIV but who are at very high risk of getting HIV to
Local community organizations such as Solano Pride Center, Mercury Pharmacy, Community Medical Centers, and Solano AIDS coalition have stepped up to be a beacon of light to help some of the most vulnerable and underrepresented in our community to access some of these lifesaving services. prevent HIV infection. The drug (brand name Truvada) contains two medicines (tenofovir and emtricitabine) used in combination with other medicines to treat HIV. When someone is exposed to HIV through sex or injection drug use, these medicines can work to keep the virus from establishing a permanent infection. When taken daily, PrEP is highly effective for preventing HIV. Studies have shown that PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV from sex by about 99% when taken daily. Among people who inject drugs, PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV by at least 74% when taken daily. PrEP is much less effective if it is not taken consistently. As PrEP only protects against HIV, condoms are essential for the protection against other STDs. Proper use of condoms is also an important prevention strategy if PrEP is not taken consistently. Communities contribute to the HIV/AIDS response in many ways. Their leadership and advocacy ensure that the answer remains relevant and grounded, keeping people at the center and leaving no one behind. Communities include
peer educators, networks of people living with or affected by HIV, such as gay men and other men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs and sex workers, women and young people, counselors, community health workers, door-to-door service providers, civil society organizations and grassroots activists. World AIDS Day offers an important platform to highlight the role of communities at a time when reduced funding and 2020’s global pandemic limits access to HIV testing in many locations throughout the world. Local community organizations such as Solano Pride Center, Mercury Pharmacy, Community Medical Centers, and Solano AIDS coalition have stepped up to be a beacon of light to help some of the most vulnerable and underrepresented in our community to access some of these lifesaving services. Solidarity and Shared responsibility are how we will rid the world of this global Epidemic. Robertson Somuah is a Senior Health Education Specialist from Communicable Disease Program/Bureau in Solano Public Health.
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VACAVILLE — Jim Brickman is ready to bring some comfort and joy into your home. At the same time, the musician will raise funds for the Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre. “The live entertainment industry has been particularly impacted by the pandemic and lovers of live entertainment and the arts are hungry for opportunities to engage,” said VPAT’s Judy Barkett and Annie Morris in an email. “We feel very fortunate that due to a long-standing relationship with Jim Brickman’s management, we were offered the opportunity to bring a wonderful live, but virtual, holiday experience to our patrons, and for the Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre to benefit from a portion of the proceeds.” Brickman’s virtual Christmas in July was successful, paving the way for a holiday show at holiday time. “We wanted to try something different,” Brickman said on a phone call from Florida. This isn’t like the standard stream that many artists are doing. “We took the places that were already on the tour that we had to cancel (due to the pandemic), and we went to them and said, ‘Why don’t we keep the concert date and do it just for your audience and give the money to you?’ ” Brickman said in press materials. “Then as word spread about it, more theaters came to us and said, ‘Would you be able to include us?’ So now, there are like 80 theaters (on the tour).” The goal is to make viewers feel like they are sharing the same space as Brickman. “It will have wonderful stuff to get ready for the holidays,” he said. This ambitious project, which includes Zoom meet and greets as well as gifts, comes on the heels of Brickman’s release of “Soothe Christmas, Vol. 6,” in October. There will also be a time to make requests. This is his 23rd annual Christmas show. Asked if he thought this would be an event closing in on a quarter century, Brickman said he’s never given it much thought. See Brickman, Page B2
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was, frankly, too old to pay much attention to “Saved by the Bell,” a multiple-camera teen sitcom that ran Saturday mornings on NBC from 1989 to 1993, spawned the prime-time sequels “Saved by the Bell: The College Years” and “Saved by the Bell: The New Class” (along with two TV movies and various stunt reunions) and was the primordial soup from which crawled “ Hannah Montana,” “That’s So Raven,” “iCarly” and other similar creations – to which I did pay attention, being by then a professional thinker about television. But it obviously exerted the same magnetic pull on its target audience that “The Brady Bunch” did for an Trae Patton/Peacock earlier generation, settling in deep Elizabeth Berkley, Mario Lopez, Tiffani Thiessen and Mark-Paul Gosselaar reunite within its collective cerebral cortex. on Peacock’s “Saved by the Bell” reboot. And as that series begat the big-screen deconhave only good things to say about it. reboot, aimed at the nowSTREAMING struction that was “The At once ironic and sincere, mocking grown kids who watched it Brady Bunch Movie,” so and affectionate (as one might be, back when – just about the has “Saved by the Bell” looking back on one’s own youth), it age of Tracey Wigfield, 37, come back to life again – ‘Saved by the Bell’ the “30 Rock” and “ Mindy starts out well and just gets better. but in a postmodernist, We are back at Bayside High, Anytime Project” vet who developed self-aware form – as a where original characters A.C. Slater Peacock the new series. (Though, series from Peacock, (Mario Lopez), the affable athlete, generally speaking, it is Rated TV-14 which premiered Wednesand Jessie Spano (Elizabeth Berkley), still safe for children. The day. “When I was a kid,” smart and political, are now on staff, language is mild, no one recalls the now-grown as the school coach and guidance is having sex and the only drug joke Zack Morris (Mark-Paul Gossecounselor respectively. (The great is about caffeine pills.) The happy laar), “I did a PSA with the president John Michael Higgins, new to the mix, upshot of this is that, although there of NBC that solved drugs.” And plays the principal, who is kindly and are plenty of references laid on for the cowardly.) Old classmate Zack, a horindeed he did. fans, including that caffeine joke – I Unlike Netflix’s “Full House” monal prankster who I believe was sequel, “ Fuller House,” which contin- have done my research – you needn’t to be regarded as cool – though he ued in the spirit of the original, “Saved have watched the old shows to underby the Bell” is both a revival and a stand or enjoy the new one. Indeed, I See Saved, Page B2
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Benicia Plein Air hosts group show, paintings sale
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BENICIA — A group show is on tap at the Benicia Plein Air Gallery in December. It will feature paintings of the Carquinez Strait and surrounding areas. The popular mini paintings, pieces under 4 inches square, are on sale at the gallery. The tiny canvases are perfect for gifts and decorations, and can be framed as wall pieces. Stephen Berry’s watercolors will be part of the December group show. The gallery, at 307 First St., is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. In member news, Catherine Fasciato and Carol Tarzier have been accepted into the California Art Club virtual show “Welcome to California.” The paintings are Catherine Fasciato’s “China Cove Morning,” and Carol Tarzier’s “Mendocino Sunset.” For more information go to https://artist ssunday.com/toolkitforpartners2020/ or www.californiaartclub.org/exhibition/ welcome-to-california-preview.
VALLEJO — Six Flags Discovery Kingdom is hosting a new, modified holiday event – Holiday in the Park Lights. A seasonal mix of the animal-focused Marine World Experience, Holiday in the Park Lights is an outdoor event that features themed marine animal presentations, millions of twinkling lights, decorations around the park and festive food offerings, in a safe and fun environment. Six Flags worked in partnership with its health and epidemiologist consultants to create a holiday experience that meets or exceeds federal, state and local guidelines. Guests must make res-
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Holiday in the Park Lights at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom operates select days through Jan. 3. ervations to visit and park attendance will be carefully monitored to avoid overcrowding and ensure safe social distancing. Per state requirements, rides will not be in operation.
“Visiting Holiday in the Park has been an annual tradition for families all across Northern California for many years,” said Park President Janine Durette in a press release.
“In these uncertain times, we believe that it is even more important to create an atmosphere where family and friends can enjoy the magic of the holiday season. The health and safety of our guests, team members, and animals remains our highest priority as we open our gates to welcome guests for Holiday in the Park Lights,” Durette said. Six Flags Discover y K ingdom has successfully been operating as The Marine World Experience since July 2 with comprehensive safety measures including: All team members (including holiday characters), and all guests 3 and older, are required to wear masks covering the nose and See Lights, Page B2
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Cher visits Pakistan to save ‘loneliest elephant’ Brickman Tribune Content Agency She believes in life in the wild. Pop goddess Cher met with the prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, on Friday, to help save Kaavan – known as “the world’s loneliest elephant.� The legendary singer and Oscar-winning actress was celebrating the departure of Kaavan, who’ll soon leave a Pakistani zoo for an animal sanctuary in Cambodia. “Just came from meeting to thank Prime Minister Imran Kahn for making it possible for me to take Kaavan to Cambodia,� the 74-year-old Grammy Award-winner tweeted. “Kaavan will be
Saved From Page B1 inspired a Funny or Die series, “ Zack Morris Is Trash,� that argued convincingly otherwise – has accidentally become the governor of California “as part of a scheme to get out of a $75 parking ticket.� Voted “second hottest governor in America after Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer,� he’s still married to erstwhile head cheerleader, the former Kelly Kapowski (Tiffani Thiessen). Their son, Mac (Mitchell Hoog), carrying on his father’s hair and pranks, now attends Bayside – as does Jessie’s son, Jamie (Belmont Cameli), a dim but sensitive jock who partially occupies the old Slater role and whose pep talk to the football team he captains goes, “Winning does not matter; what matters is having fun, spending time together, getting some exercise. And let’s not forget that the players on that other team have inner lives that are just as rich and complicated as our own.� Obviously, they lose a lot. As is typical in primetime high-school shows, the students are sophomores when we meet them and, unlike the original cast, played by actors who have been out of high school a few years. A joke in which seniors are played by really old people – “There is no way that guy goes to our school, he is literally wearing cataract glasses and a Desert Storm hat� – is purest “30 Rock.� As governor, Zack has cut $10 billion from the budget, closing schools as
Lights From Page B1 mouth while in the parks. A limited number of holiday characters will always remain at least six feet away from guests and each other. Guests viewing outdoor entertainment will be separated by at least six feet. Decorations, tables, benches, handrails, and all dining and restroom facilities will be cleaned and sanitized regularly. Multiple hand-washing and alcohol-based hand sanitizer stations will be located throughout the park for guest and team member usage. Holiday in the Park Lights operates select days through Jan. 3. The park has partnered with The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, a member of Feeding America, to accept canned food donations in exchange for an admission ticket valid for use the same day. Six Flags Members and Pass Holders who donate will receive a Holiday in the Park mug or ornament while supplies last. For full details, visit sixflags.com/ discoverykingdom.
able to leave for Cambodia on the 29.� Four Paws International, an animal welfare organization, has been trying to rescue Kaavan since 2016. Cher, a co-founder of the Free The Wild foundation, an international charity created “to overcome the mistreatment of wild animals in captivity,� also joined the efforts, and she has used her celebrity to bring attention to the issue. Kaavan came to Pakistan in 1985 as a gift from Sri Lanka – and has spent the last 35 years in captivity. After he lost his partner in 2012, he started gaining weight due to a poor diet,
and he now suffers from behavioral issues, shaking his head back and forth for hours. A team of veterinarians has attributed the behavior to his isolation. Earlier this year Pakistan’s high court ordered the closure of Marghazar Zoo in the capital of Islamabad – where Kaavan has lived for much of his life – due to its terrible living conditions. In September, after a veterinarian examination, Four Paws determined that the elephant needed to go through a long-term foot care program, which cannot be performed in Marghazar Zoo.� “Due to malnutrition and lack of physical exercise Kaavan shows visible
signs of obesity. Also, his nails are cracked and malformed which can be attributed to the inappropriate flooring and structure of his enclosure,� Dr. Amir Khalil, a Four Paws veterinarian, said in a statement. Since then, the organization has been working with the Islamabad Wildlife Management Board to get Kaavan ready to be relocated. A documentary following Cher in her quest to save the “world’s loneliest elephant� to a new home, was announced earlier this month – currently titled “Cher’s Elephant Airlift� – is set to air in 2021 on the Smithsonian Channel.
a consequence. Shamed at a news conference, he promises to send kids from the closed, poor schools to posher schools, including his alma mater. And so students from inner city Douglas High, where the library was “a Bible and bunch of Army pamphlets� and the guidance counselor a Magic 8 Ball, are bused to Bayside. There’s Daisy (Haskiri Velazquez), who is serious, motivated and an echo of Jessie, who tells her her, “I was you in high school – ambitious, stressed, I hadn’t figured my hair out yet�; Aisha (Alycia PascualPena), competitive as well but at sports (she is also partially Slater); and Devante (Dexter Darden), who is taciturn and mysterious and has no counterpart in the earlier series. (Darden plays his character almost completely straight; you could strip out everything else and fill in a drama around him.) At Bayside they will be thrown together with Mac and Jamie and Lexi (Josie Totah), the campus queen and part-time mean girl. Totah is a transgender woman – as J.J. Totah, she played a lot of male parts – as is Lexi. “Have you seen my reality show, ‘Becoming Lexi: I Am Me’?� she asks Devante. (“It’s about Lexi’s life being transgender,� Mac explains, “her journey of self-discovery and the hot friends who support her.�) The subject is otherwise left alone, except to make some points about fear and acceptance when the story needs them. Well before the sea-
son’s end, they will have become a gang. Lark Voorhies, as Lisa Turtle, the original show’s one regular Black character as well as its designated rich girl, will make a cameo appearance – “I’ve got to go, my lovers are waking up� is one of her lines. Screech, the old series’ not-hot nerd, played by Dustin Diamond, is mentioned but absent. To some extent, the series is a clash of realities. The Douglas High kids, Black and brown, are traveling not only to somewhere white and wealthy but from someplace more or less real to somewhere quite improbable. The plots recall the original – the school play, a student body election, a big dance, a party out of bounds – but with absurdist (rather than merely absurd) twists. (Surviving intact, as if preserved in amber, is the Max, a snack shop of late New Wave design where, Daisy is told, “we like to hang out after school – also before and during.�) There are schemes and pranks, romantic alignments, misalignments and realignments. There are messages, of a sort, and they are essentially those of the original: Be true to yourself, be true to your friends, be true to your school, be good and if you can’t be good be careful and, the new series would add, if you can’t be careful be rich. “Having money can make you act like a jerk,� Mac tells Daisy, “but fortunately you can just use more money to clean up the mess you made. It’s
the circle of wealth . . . You look conflicted. Let me give you some money.� The returning cast fits the new mood ably. The younger players are first-rate – even better than one might notice at first, given the general air of nuttiness. But they play different levels with great skill, resolving the character and the joke about the character in people you can authentically care about, at least a little, even as the metafictions remain legible. It’s like Brechtian distance – we laugh not at the stupid character but the idea of A Stupid Character – if Brecht were an old softy who wanted to fill you with feelings. In a later episode, Mac wonders why he feels bad for his friends when nothing bad is happening to him. “It’s called empathy, Mac,� Lexi replies. “I have it now too.� “Empathy?� says Mac, alarmed. “Did I get it from you?�
From Page B1 “I’d be there if there was just one person there to see me perform,� he said. The “Comfort and Joy� theme came from a CD he released a few years ago. It’s perfect, he said, as the nation deals with separation and shutdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic. He had a hard time choosing his favorite Christmas tune to perform. “There are so many I like playing,� he said. Narrowing it down, he chose “The Gift� because, “It feels like it says so much about my music.� He credits his “amazing staff� with helping execute the show, which will be done live each night from his festively decorated 4,000-square-foot studio loft in Cleveland. Each show will last about one hour and 15 minutes to one hour and 30 minutes. “There will be no intermission,� Brickman said. Brickman also has another major holiday project this year. His “Brickman for Broadway� Christmas
album and livestream show benefits The Actors Fund. It was streamed Saturday. Brickman will connect Dec. 10 with Vacaville. He has many memories of the town to share during the performance. Brickman is one of the best-selling solo pianists. He has garnered two Grammy nominations, gospel music’s Dove Award and the Canadian Country Music Award, to name a few. Brickman jumped from a career as a jingle writer of famous tunes for advertising, to reviving the romantic standard of the popular song. His first album release was 1995’s “No Words.� He has written three best-selling books, starred in five TV concert specials, and is in the 22nd season of hosting “The Jim Brickman Show,� a popular syndicated radio show. He has added a Brickman Bedtime Story podcast every Tuesday night this year on Facebook Live as well as Pandora, Apple, Spotify and iHeart podcasts. For more information and tickets, visit https://vpat.net.
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How W’s plan to mold Wiseman to help immediately Tribune Content Agency With Klay Thompson expected to miss the season with a torn Achilles tendon, some wondered if the Warriors would rely on 19-yearold rookie center James Wiseman more than they probably should. The short answer is: No. Wiseman, the 7-footer who the Warriors selected with the No. 2 pick in the draft, is certainly brimming with potential, but Golden State won’t hop-
step his development in search of a quick fix. Replacing Thompson in the starting lineup will be Kelly Oubre Jr., while free-agent additions Kent Bazemore and Brad Wanamaker will fill out minutes on the wing. They, along with Wiseman, will try to do what Thompson was supposed to do – help lift the Warriors back to the playoffs following a disappointing 15-50 season. But Wiseman’s role as a rookie will be simple. Run the floor, rebound and
defend the paint. That last part may sound difficult, but it helps that Wiseman is so large. Assistant coach Jarron Collins, listed at 6-foot-11 during his playing days, admits his measure is “a little fudged.” Wiseman, though? “He’s definitely a legitimate 7-footer,” Collins told me. After losing Kevin Durant, Andre Iguodala and Shaun Livingston in the 2019 offseason, the Warriors have addressed their need for size and
athleticism by acquiring Andrew Wiggins, Wiseman and Oubre within the last year. That group, plus Stephen Curry and Draymond Green, will anchor an aggressive defensive scheme – headed up by Collins – that aims to create turnovers that lead to easy offense. “We’re going to scramble, we’re going to fight, we’re going to compete,” Collins said. Wiseman’s role in that defense, according to Collins, will be determined
in training camp. During his short time at Memphis, Wiseman struggled to guard on the perimeter, recognize opponents’ basic pick-and-roll actions and, as a result, was often out of position and in foul trouble. Having played just three collegiate games before leaving the program due to a dispute over his eligibility, Wiseman spent the better part of the last year training in Miami. In pickup games, he challenged himself to defend NBA guards John
Wall and D’Angelo Russell. “We did a lot of switching,” Wiseman said at his introductory press conference. “I felt comfortable guarding the guards.” Should he look comfortable in training camp, the Warriors could open up the playbook for him and let him switch onto guards. If not, they’ll ask him to drop in their coverage and use his 7-foot-6 wingspan to defend the rim. “You want to play See Wiseman, Page B5
Does the 49ers’ defense have an inside edge on Rams? Tribune Content Agency
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Rodriguez High football coach David Fishleigh celebrates with quarterback Michael Johnson after the Mustangs defeated SCAC rival Bethel of Vallejo 42-13 to win the
Sac-Joaquin Section Division III championship at Oakmont High of Roseville, Dec. 1, 2007. It was the first section football title for Rodriguez and the fifth in city history.
Giving thanks for football A closer look at the four city teams Paul Farmer
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Thanksgiving weekend is traditionally when the Daily Republic releases its annual all-city football team. The way things are looking, it may be put off until around April Fool’s Day. But it’s still a good time to look back, even if it’s not always at something good. In a time of recounts and questioned tabulations, there is one thing beyond dispute: The 2010s were not kind to city football teams. How bad was it? It was the worst decade in the history of all four football squads – even Vanden, which has yet to come close
to having a losing decade. For Armijo, Fairfield and Rodriguez, it wasn’t even close, though in defense of the Mustangs, they have only two decades to chose from. Even in “struggling” through the 2010s, it was still the third-winningest decade in school history for Vanden at 65-48, just five shy of the 70 wins in the ‘90s. The difference is in winning percentage, because while there were fewer wins in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, there were also fewer games played with nine-game seasons instead of the current 10-game slates. While taking a close look at each of the four teams, some interest-
ing numbers emerge. Here are a few: n While Armijo has struggled more than the other three city schools, it boasts of having by far the best decade in terms of winning percentage – .779 by going 55-12-10 in 1930s – and most unbeaten teams – four, all in the ’30s. n The decade with the most wins was turned in by Fairfield at 74-35-1 in the 1990s, which is the second-best winning percentage at .677. Vanden was next in wins in a decade at 70-38-0 – also in the ’90s. n The then-Indians also had the coach with the highest winning percentage – Buck Bailey,
who had a .741 mark after going 58-17-10 in 11 seasons. n Armijo’s high-water mark in 1952 happened with Mike Diaz, who went on to set the state singlegame and single-season boys basketball scoring records, at quarterback. You can imagine hoops coach Ed Hopkins bending the ear of football coach Ed Hopkins about not getting his star scorer hurt. n Not included below are categories for consecutive winning seasons and consecutive non-losing seasons, which would be held, respectively, by Vanden (12, 1970-81) and See Thanks, Page B5
Raiders must meet expectations of a winner, and beating Atlanta is first step Jerry McDonald MERCURY NEWS
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ow comes the hard part for the Raiders. Exceeding the expectations of a loser is easy compared to meeting the expectations of a winner. The Raiders are coming off a 35-31 to the Kansas City Chiefs, a defeat that enhanced their reputation nationally. A lot of the good things the Raiders have done seemed to gain notice. They’re 6-4, nearly swept the defending Super Bowl champions and have played one of the toughest schedules in the NFL. The punch line status of coach Jon Gruden is giving way to the recognition he and general manager Mike Mayock have built a team worthy of the playoffs. Nowhere to go but downhill. The Raiders visit the Atlanta Falcons Sunday ( 10 a.m.), an underachiever that fired its head coach Dan Quinn and elevated Raheem Morris, the man who took Gruden’s job when he was relieved of his command
ANALYSIS at Tampa Bay. Gruden called Atlanta “the best 3-7 team I’ve ever seen” and said the Falcons are dangerous, although to be fair, he thinks the opponent is dangerous every week. “They’re flying around, they have a lot of talent,” Gruden said. “This team was recently in the Super Bowl, they had a tough start, they lost some games in head-scratching fashion but they’re still playing hard and they’re still a formidable opponent. We have to get ready for them.” The Super Bowl season was the 2016 season and the infamous 28-3 lead (and collapse) against the New England Patriots – an eternity ago in a league where roster turnover rivals a fast food restaurant. Quarterback Matt Ryan, the NFL Most Valuable Player that year, is still around. So is wide receiver Julio Jones. It begins a six-game stretch for the Raiders against opponents with a 23-38 record that will make or break the season. They were also 6-4 last year,
went on an an East Coast trip and took on the 3-7 New York Jets. The Raiders lost 34-0 and won just one more game the rest of the season. Quarterback Derek Carr said Mayock reminded him of their identical record through 10 games a year ago. “I said, ‘Yeah, but this is different,’ and he said he agreed,” Carr said. “There’s just something about this team, the teams we’ve lost to, how we’ve lost, things like that. The teams we’ve played with and beat. We’re definitely a better team. But we have to finish better than we did last year, and I believe that we will . . . I feel it’s different, but time will tell.” Defensive tackle Johnathan Hankins said “We’re a totally different team,” and cornerback Trayvon Mullen added, “this year, it just feels better.” Four ways the Raiders can beat the Falcons and show those good vibrations mean something:
1. Wake up early It’s the first of back to back See Raiders, Page B5
Moments after the 49ers beat the Rams in October, head coach Kyle Shanahan noted the victory was like the defensive-led triumph they’d enjoyed against their NFC West rival 12 months earlier. “That game reminded me of exactly how it was last year down in L.A.,” Shanahan said to his players, via a lockerroom video on 49ers. com. “We held them the whole game.” Indeed, the 49ers beat the Rams 20-7 on the road last year while limiting Los Angeles to season-lows in points, first downs (10) and total yards (157). This season, in their 24-16 win at Levi’s Stadium, the 49ers held the NFL’s sixth-ranked offense to its fewest points and second-fewest first downs (17) and yards (311) this season despite playing without five season-opening defensive starters. Those two wins prompted a question to inside linebacker Fred Warner this week as the 49ers readied to visit the Rams on Sunday: Are
the 49ers, whose offense is similar to the system run by Los Angeles head coach Sean McVay, on to the Rams’ highpowered attack? “Are you trying to put words in my mouth, man?” Warner said, laughing. “What are you asking?” Say this: If the 49ers stymie McVay’s potent offense for the third time in 13 months Sunday, many people will be talking about how they must have access to Los Angeles’ playbook. McVay, after all, is a Shanahan disciple who spent four seasons working under him when Shanahan was Washington’s offensive coordinator from 2010-13. That gives both defenses a level of familiarity with the opposing of fense. However, 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh attributed the recent success against the Rams to the typical familiarity division opponents develop. Sunday will mark the sixth time Saleh has gameplanned for McVay’s offense since 2017. See 49ers, Page B5
Health orders could prompt 49ers to move final home games Tribune Content Agency SANTA CLARA — The 49ers just became a team without a county to call home. They may have to move their final three home games, not to mention all of their practices, under Santa Clara County’s stricter health mandate amid a “severe surge” of Covid-19. Professional sports, along with those in the youth and college ranks, are banned for a minimum of three weeks under the county advisory announced Saturday. “For those teams, they will not be able to play games or have practices where they have direct contact, within the county,” County Counsel James Williams said Saturday. The 49ers issued a twosentence, tame response without revealing what contingency or relocation plans are in the works. “We are aware of the Santa Clara County Public Health
Department’s emergency directive,” a 49ers statement read. “We are working with the NFL and our partners on operational plans and will share details as they are confirmed.” The NFL, per its spokesman, is in touch with the 49ers but declining further comment. The 49ers (4-6) have three home games remaining this regular season: Dec. 7 against the Buffalo Bills, Dec. 13 against the Washington Football Team and Jan. 3 against the Seattle Seahawks. The 49ers had a seasonhigh nine players on the NFL’s Covid-19 reserve list earlier this week, reflecting the county’s surge in cases that spiked to a single-day record of 760 cases Saturday. The 49ers play Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams (7-3) at SoFi Stadium. In outlining the county’s new mandates, See Orders, Page B14
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Aldon Smith went past rock bottom. Now, the Cowboys DE is telling story of how he climbed out Michael Gehlken
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The package arrived in February, delivered to Yves Cachuela about a decade after the explosion. He held the envelope with a nerve-damaged grip and unsealed his Purple Heart, the medal providing a sense of validation for the medically retired Marine corporal. Cachuela then passed it forward. On May 4, he gave his Purple Heart to a civilian whose strength and resilience inspired him. Aldon Smith. The Cowboys defensive end’s bedroom in the Dallas area displays all the standard insignia of an NFL athlete. But near a trophy and decorative game balls, there sits a Purple Heart. It reflects the adverse path he has walked, a journey to overcome alcohol dependency, childhood trauma and depression that Smith hopes can inspire others. B efore presenting Smith the emblem, Cachuela wrote him a lengthy text message, conveying his desire to give Smith the medal. It is typically reserved for military members injured or killed in combat. “As I explained it to him,” Cachuela said, “even though he didn’t go through combat like we do, you experienced the misery, the hurt, the pain that we do go through. He has that courage to get back up and not give up.” On Thanksgiving, Smith is thankful to be back from where he’s been. He often tells people he didn’t hit rock bottom when out of the NFL the previous four-plus years. He hit rock bottom and kept plunging, reaching a depth below the surface where light cannot reach. He sank into darkness without tools to resurface. “I was in a bad place,” Smith said. “For anybody who listens to this story, who reads it, if you have been in a place where you can’t see anything other than the situation you’re dealing with and then things just pile up to a point where you lose hope, that’s what happened. I lost hope. “Being in a place now where I have everything back and it’s better than it was before, I’m just grateful for being able to see the light.” n n n Smith was 20 years old when the San Francisco 49ers drafted him in 2011 with the No. 7 overall pick. His 14 sacks set a rookie franchise record. Fans purchased his No. 99 jersey in droves. Often around town, strangers excitedly approached him for photos and autographs, calling him by his first and last name. It didn’t take long for Smith to convince the Bay Area he was worth embracing. He could not convince himself. Certain life experiences hampered his capacity to view himself as someone worthy of others’ love, Smith said. Success inspired public adoration. That only widened the divide between how he viewed himself and how others did. Alcohol emerged as a go-to coping method. Smith bottled up emotions. “When I drank, it was always to numb,” Smith said. “It was to not be anxious. It was to be liked. It was for me to like myself because I didn’t know who I was, and my selfesteem was all (messed) up. I was this guy who was this superstar, but I didn’t feel like that. When
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Defensive end Aldon Smith of the Dallas Cowboys warms up on the field prior to the game against the Philadelphia
Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field, Nov. 1, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
I would be around people, I would have to get myself into that type of zone to feel like that. “And if I was going through something, I didn’t know that what I was going through was fear and unresolved trauma. I just associated it with anger, and I didn’t want to be angry, so (drinking) was my way of just trying to escape it. That was the tool I was using.” He felt like the world failed to see him for who he was. Negative media attention only exacerbated that. Smith was 21 when, according to accounts from multiple attendees, one of his roommates organized a party at his San Jose home on June 29, 2012. Jon Hannah, a childhood friend of Smith’s, estimated “200-plus” people were there, “98%” of whom they didn’t know. That included some people allegedly connected to a gang. One documented gang member stabbed Smith early on June 30, once in the chest – about an inch from Smith’s heart – and once in his lower abdomen. Outside, shots later were fired into a crowd. Laurie Smith, Sheriff of Santa Clara County, publicly called Smith a “victim” in the matter. But headlines about a party Smith “threw” lingered for years. Two people struck by the gunfire sued Smith as the homeowner. After authorities helped dissolve the crowd, they discovered guns that Smith legally purchased in Arizona but had illegal specifications in California. The local district attorney did not file gun-related charges until October of the next year, shortly after Smith was arrested for a DUI. The case didn’t resolve until 2014. That year, Smith told a reporter he is not a “thug.” Even today, he is mindful of how his character is perceived. “I had a role in the situation, and I could have done things differently,” Smith said. “But at the end of the day, I didn’t write the story, and I didn’t create the narrative of how they wanted to portray me. That was the thing that was wrong. Because that’s not the only story that’s just been totally incorrect. I would like people who don’t know Aldon, or would like to get to know Aldon – obviously, I can’t sit down for five minutes with everybody – but if they would actually take a chance to get to know me, these writers, if you wanted to talk for five minutes, have some coffee or go out to eat. . . . “I’m a person who has feelings, and I’m a caring person, and I want this
time felt different. Unwilling to keep going like this, he was surrendering. Smith considers himself to be a people person. He enjoys listening to others’ stories. What happened upon arrival reinforced that faith in humanity. “I was completely defeated,” Smith said. “I’m broke as hell. I’ve completely lost everything, and I’m at rehab again. . . . I’ll never forget, in the detox when you first get there, I remember sitting in front of the fireplace, just kind of isolating. And this girl made me a plate of food without me even asking. And gave it to me. “That was like, ‘Somebody cares who doesn’t
world to be a better place. I’ve made my share of bad decisions, but my intentions were never, ever to harm anybody. And I just want what’s best for people in this whole world that we live in.” Before Smith could help others, he needed to help himself. n n n Smith is technically 31 years old. He believes his life experience push him closer to his late 50s. “I don’t know anyone who has gone through what I’ve gone through,” Smith said. He has been a wealthy man, indulging as a selfdescribed “foodie” and gallivanting around the world. He has been broke and famished, unable last summer to purchase the cheapest food item he could find inside an airport. He contemplated stealing a snack. “There were too many damn cameras,” Smith said. He received a $9 million bonus upon signing his 2011 rookie contract, and he played in the Super Bowl his second NFL season. Last year, he worked in Kansas City – as the Chiefs prepared their Super Bowl title run – detailing vehicles at a car dealership. He struggled to deposit initial paychecks; a passport was his only form of identification, and it had expired. He knows loss. Smith estimates more than 30 people he’s cared for have died over the past handful of years to suicide or overdose. Among them was a woman he dated who took her own life in 2018, he said. That year was perhaps his darkest. Smith was arrested four times. In April 2018, due to a violated court order pertaining to an alcoholintake ankle monitor, he spent 11 days in solitary confinement inside San Francisco County Jail 4, a facility so dilapidated it was shut down this year. He was allowed to read books and take an occasional three-minute shower. When he called his mother, he asked her what day it was. He spent one night beneath his car. He owned a home and had a second place at which to stay but felt too low and lost for sleeping arrangements to matter. Smith had an extremely close bond with his grandmother. During their final encounter in 2018, she implored him to straighten out his life. She died in August 2019 from ALSrelated complications. Now more than ever, it felt like time for a change. He made the aforementioned trip from Kansas City to Arizona. After checking into rehab on a number of occasions, this
even know me.’ Having somebody who doesn’t even know me care, make me a plate and give it to me, that was special.” n n n At a Los Angeles gym in October 2019, Cachuela knew him when he saw him. That’s Aldon Smith. The San Francisco native and lifelong Niners fan sustained various injuries in 2009 when an Improvised Explosive Device detonated near a seven-ton truck by the Iraq-Syrian border. Aboard as a machine gunner, Cachuela required hip replacement surgery in 2011. His recovery period coincided with Smith’s NFL debut.
Eight years later, Cachuela made an introduction, explaining how watching Smith dominate as a rookie lifted his spirits. “I became like a little kid,” Cachuela said. The interaction was their first of many. From the Arizona rehabilitation center, Smith moved into a Los Angeles sober-living facility and became a regular at the Unbreakable Performance Center, which is owned by Fox NFL insider Jay Glazer. Glazer oversees a support group called Merging Veterans and Players. MVP meets Wednesday evenings, starting with a 30-minute workout (when no Covid19) and leading into a 60- to 90-minute group therapy period. A typical turnout has about 70 military veterans and ex-athletes. Glazer has found there to be mutual respect between veterans and athletes and an interest to hear each other’s stories. In his first MVP meeting, Smith didn’t say anything. Or his second or third. Eventually, upon gaining a feel for the room, Smith told the group that this was the first time he felt worthy of love. From there, he continued to display vulnerability. He talked about his own past. He asked questions of others. “It was like, ‘Holy (expletive), he can talk,’” Cachuela said. “His (message) was relatable to us.” Meanwhile, as he progressed in the mental health huddles, Smith See Smith, Page B14
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Raiders: Can’t afford letdown vs. Atlanta Wiseman: Rookie From Page B3 games set at a 10 a.m. body clock against teams with losing records. Come out firing and ready to go. The surest way to make a 3-7 team remember its record is by taking a quick lead and building on it. If the Raiders are as angry as they say they are, and that was the prevailing post-Chiefs theme, it shouldn’t be a problem. Johnathan Abram said said they were mad. So did defensive coordinator Paul Guenther and offensive coordinator Greg Olson. No hanging of heads, just an edge and determination to come back strong. It’s a sterile, indoor, non-hostile environment. There won’t be a crowd whipping the home team into a frenzy. Limited attendance at the Falcons’ last home game, a 34-27 win over Denver on Nov. 8, was 7,665.
2. Get after Ryan Hard to imagine the Falcons winning unless Ryan has a big day, and he’s a good
enough passer to put up numbers against anybody. The last time Ryan played the Raiders in 2016, he was 26 of 34 for 396 yards and three touchdowns. This year, he’s passed for 2,978 yards and 15 touchdowns with seven interceptions. But Ryan has also been sacked 27 times, the seventh-highest figure in the league. That figure was inflated by getting sacked eight times in a 24-9 loss to New Orleans last week, but Ryan has been sacked in every game – twice in seven of them and four times once. The Raiders have 11 sacks in 10 games. Only the Jacksonville Jaguars (nine) have fewer. Two years ago the Raiders had 13 and last year got all the way to 32. It’s going to take a strong finish to break into the 30s in 2020. Maxx Crosby is getting more attention than ever since he’s got six sacks and no one else has more than 1½. Having Maurice Hurst back could help the interior push. Pressure up front gives Ryan less time to find dangerous wideouts Julio
Jones and Calvin Ridley and benefit corners Mullen and Damon Arnette.
3. Let Carr attack The Raiders have been like a metronome in terms of balance and that’s a good thing. Josh Jacobs and Devontae Booker need their carries. Yet if there is a circumstance to have Carr let it fly for reasons other than playing with a deficit, this is it. Against Atlanta, Russell Wilson of Seattle was 31 of 35 for 322 yards and four touchdowns, Dak Prescott of Dallas was 34 of 47 for 450 yards and a touchdown, Aaron Rodgers of Green Bay was 27 of 33 for 327 yards and four touchdowns, Matt Stafford of Detroit was 25 of 36 for 340 yards and a touchdown. Taysom Hill went 18 of 23 for 233 yards in his first start for New Orleans. Carr is coming off what might be his best game in his best season and he’s completed 69.8 percent of his passes for 2,427 yards with 19 touchdowns and three
interceptions. There are holes in the Falcons’ secondary and Carr could have a field day finding Darren Waller, Hunter Renfrow, Nelson Agholor and maybe even Henry Ruggs III.
4. Avoid defensive penalties An easy way to be victimized by Jones, Ridley and the Atlanta passing offense is to keep giving them second chances. Or third chances. The Raiders gave Patrick Mahomes four defensive first downs and their mistakes let the NFL’s most dangerous player have additional chances to do damage. The Raiders defense simply gives up too much ground in normal circumstances to be giving it up additional plays during the course of a game. “We’ve got to do a better job eliminating the defensive penalties and we got to improve our down-to-down discipline, and that will be a big assessment that we make with our players,” Gruden said.
49ers: Rams coming off win over Bucs From Page B3 “You get enough reps against a certain player, you know how they play,” Saleh said. “But these division games are always tight. They’re always tough – both opponents know each other very, very well. And I just feel like it’s always a grind.” Still, considering the direction each team is headed, something beyond Saleh’s explanation will presumably be at play if the 49ers put the wraps on the Rams again. Consider: Los Angeles (7-3) will arrive after a dominant road perfor ma nce aga inst the NFL’s sixth-ranked defense. Quarterback Jared Goff threw for 376 yards and had 39 completions, the second-most of his 64-start career, in a 27-24 win over Tampa Bay on Monday. His favorite
The 49ers have allowed an average of 32.7 points during their threegame losing streak. targets were wide r e c eiver s R ob er t Woods and Cooper Kupp, who became the fourth pair of teammates in the past 70 years to have 11-plus catches and 130plus receiving yards in the same game. Meanwhile, the 49ers (4-6) have allowed an average of 32.7 points during their three-game losing streak and could again face the Rams without at least five season-opening starters on defense. A lack of linebackers could be one of their issues.
Warner was the only linebacker on their active roster who was available to practice on Thursday or Friday because Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles (hamstring) is out and Dre Greenlaw and Azeez AlShaair had to quarantine because of non-Covid-19 illnesses. Both players, who have to be asymptomatic in order to play, are questionable for the game. The 49ers finished the week with Warner, strong safety Marcell Harris and practice-squadder Jonas Griffith, an undrafted rookie, playing linebacker. However, Griffith wasn’t moved from the practice squad Saturday, which suggets Greenlaw and AlShaair will be available. The 49ers were also shorthanded in October when Goff had the fifth-lowest completion percentage (50.0) of his career and his second-lowest passer
rating (72.0) of the season. Among the areas the Rams couldn’t exploit: Kupp, who often matched up against backup slot corner Jamar Taylor, had three catches for 11 yards. Taylor, 30, an eight-year veteran who also faced the Rams last year as a member of the Seahawks, expects McVay to unveil a new wrinkle in response to the October loss. Last season, in the Rams’ 34-31 loss to the 49ers in December, they had far more offensive success. That was partly because Goff, who is not known for his mobility, often rolled out of the pocket. “You never know what McVay is cooking up,” Taylor said. “I think he’s one of the top offensive (play-callers) in the game, right along with Kyle. Those guys are masterminds. So you never know what you’re going to get.”
From Page B3 people to their strengths,” Collins said. “So we have to see him matched up against guards in practice, and then that will help formulate our defensive coverages with him. “But at the end of the day he’s got to be able to do both, quite frankly.” There’s a steep learning curve ahead for Wiseman. It’s one thing to be able to slide with guards and dash back to defend the rim. It’s another to learn the various coverages and calls of a team’s defense and opponents’ tendencies. His propensity for chasing blocks and picking up fouls will need ironing out, too. He will have Collins, assistant Ron Adams and Green, a former defensive player of the year, to learn from. Wiseman’s development is vital to the Warriors’ future. Despite teams increasingly going small, the Warriors believe big men like Wiseman, who can play up-tempo and score at the rim efficiently, still have a place in the league. Impressed with his size, athleticism and character, Golden State’s front office ranked Wiseman as the top prospect in last week’s draft. “My favorite part of James was we went to a very socially distant outdoor, safe meal with him and he showed up by himself,” general manager Bob Myers said at Wiseman’s first press conference. “He handled himself well. We got up from that dinner and we said what a pleasant young man.” Growing up in Nashv i l le, Ten nessee, Wiseman aspired to emulate game-changing big men Chris Bosh and Kevin Garnett. He spent the summer working on his 3-point jump shot to become a floor-spacer like Bosh. Coach Steve Kerr will empower Wiseman, as well as other centers Marquese Chriss and Kevon Looney, to take that shot. “(Shooting 3-pointers) is sort of automatic these days for big guys who have decent touch, which all of our centers
have,” Kerr said. “Let’s work at it and get to the point where we can make the defense pay if the paint is packed.” The Wa r r io r s would not have drafted Wiseman had they not been bullish on his potential, but they aren’t asking him to do an impression of Bosh or Garnett anytime soon, nor ever. “We can talk about whose game he seeks to emulate, but we have to make him the best version of James Wiseman,” Collins said. “Obviously there’s a really high ceiling, but we have to get him there. I know that he’s willing to put in the work.” SOURCES: KINGS AMONG TEAMS SHOWING SIGNIFICANT INTEREST IN GLENN ROBINSON III Kings general manager Monte McNair might be considering another move in free agency before he finalizes his roster for the start of training camp Tuesday. The Kings are one of four teams showing the most significant interest in free agent small forward Glenn Robinson III, league sources told The Sacramento Bee. McNair and assistant general manager Wes Wilcox have been forthright and diligent throughout the process in talks between the two sides, sources said. The most likely suitors at this point appear to be the Kings, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers and Utah Jazz, sources said. The Kings could be looking for depth on the wing after they declined to match Bogdan Bogdanovic’s offer from the Atlanta Hawks. Sacramento has Harrison Barnes and DaQuan Jeffries, who officially re-signed with the Kings on Saturday, but Robinson would come in with an opportunity to compete for the backup small forward spot. Robinson, 26, is a 6-foot-6, 222pound small forward with a 40-inch vertical leap. He was the 2017 NBA Slam Dunk Contest champion. The Minnesota Timberwolves selected him with the 40th pick in the 2014 NBA Draft. He played modest roles for the Timberwolves, Philadelphia 76ers, Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons before getting a bigger opportunity with an injury-depleted Golden State Warriors squad in 2019-20. Robinson started 48 games for the Warriors, averaging 12.9 points and 4.7 rebounds while shooting 48.1% from the field, 40% from 3-point range and 85.1% at the freethrow line. He had a career-high 25 points against the Oklahoma City Thunder and later matched that total against the San Antonio Spurs. The Warriors traded Robinson and Alec Burks to the 76ers for three second-round draft picks in February. Robinson appeared in 14 games for Philadelphia, where he averaged 7.7 points and 3.1 rebounds.
Thanks: Vanden low-water mark was after first two games From Page B3 Fairfield (20, 1983-2002). n Take out David Fishleigh’s tenure as coach (27-9 from 2006-08) and Rodriguez’s already anemic .396 all-time winning percentage plummets to .311. Under Fishleigh, the Mustangs had three of their four winning seasons, three of their six playoff appearances, two of their four league championships and their only Sac-Joaquin Section title. n Who would’ve thought that Rodriguez’s high-water mark – and the only time in school history the Mustangs would be above .500 – was after winning their first game in their inaugural season, a 40-0 drubbing of Burton of San Francisco. The team came close at 37-38 in 2008, but lost the next week in the SJS Division III quarterfinals to Casa Roble in Fishleigh’s final game as coach. n In similar fashion, Vanden’s low-water mark happened in its first season after the Vikings started out 0-2 in 1964. They went 5-2 the rest of the that year and had winning records in their next four seasons and 16 of their next 17. n Armijo has more .500 seasons (17) than Fairfield, Rodriguez and Vanden combined (12). Yet the Falcons, Mustangs and Vikings have each
had at least one .500 campaign since the Indians/ Royals last broke even in 2006. n In a sign of changing times, for all four schools, their all-time rushing leader played or started his career before it’s alltime leading passer. Here’s a closer look at each of the four football teams:
Armijo All-time record: 339-451-48 in 96 seasons (.433 winning percentage). Best decade: 1930s (55-1210, .792 winning percentage). Worst decade: 2010s (18-810, .182 winning percentage). Number of winning seasons: 34. Number of .500 seasons: 17. Number of unbeaten seasons: 4 (1930, 1932, 1935, 1936). Number of league championships: 10. Number of playoff appearances: 5. Number of section championships: 1 (1936). Winningest coach: Buck Bailey, 58-17-10 (1929-39). All-time rushing leader: Chuckie Baglin, 3,363 yards (1997-99). All-time passing leader: Brian Wilson, 3,590 yards (2008-10). All-time receptions leader: Jared Richard, 82 receptions (2004-06). All-time receiving yards leader: Dearic Jackson, 1,430 yards (1986-88). All-time total offense leader: Chuckie Baglin, 3,363 yards (1997-99). All-time scoring leader: Chuckie Baglin, 268 points (1997-99).
Number of 1,000-yard rushing seasons: 16 by 11 players. Number of 1,000-yard passing seasons: 14 by 11 players. Number of 1,000-yard receiving seasons: None. Number of NFL players: 3 (George Martin, Doug Martin, Rudy Sylvan). High-water mark: 111-62-26 (.623 winning percentage) after 34-6 win over Rio Vista, Nov. 7, 1952. Indians/Royals have gone 228-389-22 since (.374 winning percentage). Low-water mark: 338-451-48 after 23-2 loss to Rodriguez, Oct. 25, 2019. Longest winning streak: 7 (1936 and 2003-04). Longest losing streak: 17 (2009-11). Most decisive victory: 63-0 over Fairfield, Nov. 1, 2019.
Fairfield All-time record: 234-303-10 in 54 seasons (.437 winning percentage). Best decade: 1990s (74-35-1, .677 winning percentage). Worst decade: 2010s (19-780, .196 winning percentage). Number of winning seasons: 21. Number of .500 seasons: 8. Number of unbeaten seasons: 0. Number of league championships: 4 (1998, 1991, 1997, 2001). Number of playoff appearances: 11. Number of section championships: 0. Winningest coach: Jim Sykes, 110-69-2 (1981-97). All-time rushing leader: Desmond Bishop, 2,407 yards (2000-01). All-time passing leader: Tra’Mayne Bondurant, 5,619 yards (2008-10).
All-time receptions leader: Alex Hubbard, 117 (2007-09). All-time receiving yards leader: Alex Hubbard, 2,249 yards (2007-09). All-time total offense leader: Tra’Mayne Bondurant, 7,715 yards (2008-10). All-time scoring leader: Alex Hubbard, 218 points (2007-09). Number of 1,000-yard rushing seasons: 18 by 17 players. Number of 1,000-yard passing seasons: 14 by 10 players. Number of 1,000-yard receiving seasons: 3. Number of NFL players: 2 (Desmond Bishop, Quinton Ganther). High-water mark: 186-175-10 (.515 winning percentage) after 38-18 win over Benicia, Sept. 27, 2002. Falcons have gone 48-128-0 since (.273 winning percentage). Low-water mark: 234-303-10 after 63-0 loss to Armijo, Nov. 1, 2019. Longest winning streak: 11 games (2001). Longest losing streak: 19 games (2018-current). Most decisive victory: 62-0 over Vintage, Oct. 23, 2009.
Rodriguez All-time record: 74-113-0 in 18 seasons (.396 winning percentage). Best decade: 2000s (42-45-0, .483 winning percentage). Worst decade: 2010s (32-680, .320 winning percentage). Number of winning seasons: 4. Number of .500 seasons: 1. Number of unbeaten seasons: 0. Number of league championships: 4 (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010). Number of playoff appearances: 6. Winningest coach: David Fish-
leigh, 27-9 (2006-08). All-time rushing leader: Geno Escalante, 3,090 yards (2006-08). All-time passing leader: Jackson Troutt, 3681 yards (2018-19). All-time receptions leader: Cameron Richmond, 103 receptions (2006-08). All-time receiving yards leader: Cameron Richmond, 2,022 yards (2006-08). All-time total offense leader: Myles King, 2,685 yards (2007-09). All-time scoring leader: Geno Escalante, 378 points (2006-08). Number of 1,000-yard rushing seasons: 3 by 2 players. Number of 1,000-yard passing seasons: 6 by 5 players. Number of 1,000-yard receiving seasons: 1. Number of NFL players: 4 (Stevie Johnson, James-Michael Johnson, Marcel Jensen, Jason Verrett). High-water mark: 1-0 after 40-0 win over Burton in the first game in school history, Sept. 14, 2002. The Mustangs lost their nine remaining games that season. Their next highest-water mark was 37-38-0 (.493 winning percentage) after 21-6 win over Woodland, Nov. 21, 2008. Mustangs have gone 37-75-0 since (.330 winning percentage). Low-water mark: 72-111-0 (.393 winning percentage) after 42-10 loss to Vacaville, Oct. 4, 2020. Longest winning streak: 8 (2008). Longest losing streak: 10 (2002-03). Most decisive victory: 49-0 over Armijo, Oct. 1, 2010.
Vanden All-time record: 358-213-7 in 56 seasons (.625 winning percentage). Best decade: 1990s (70-38-0, .648 winning percentage).
Worst decade: 2010s (65-480, .575 winning percentage). Number of winning seasons: 44. Number of .500 seasons: 3. Number of unbeaten seasons: 2 (1984, 1995). Number of league championships: 15 (1965, 1975, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2015, 2016). Number of playoff appearances: 31. Number of section championships: 3 (1975, 1984, 1995). Winningest coach: Ed Serpas, 108-56-4 (1964-81). All-time rushing leader: Pat Haines, 5,022 yards (1994-96). All-time passing leader: Ben Scott, 7154 yards (2009-11). All-time receptions leader: Dion Williams, 116 receptions (2011-13). All-time receiving yards leader: Dion Williams, 1,695 yards (2011-13). All-time total offense leader: Ben Scott, 7,287 yards (2009-11). All-time scoring leader: Pat Haines, 452 points (1994-96). Number of 1,000-yard rushing seasons: 20 by 16 players. Number of 1,000-yard passing seasons: 18 by 8 players. Number of 1,000-yard receiving seasons: 1. Number of NFL players: 3 (Carter Campbell, Rudy Sylvan, Deone Bucannon). High-water mark: 358-212-7 after 56-14 win over Nevada Union, Nov. 8, 2019. Vikings have gone 0-1 since. Low-water mark: 0-2 after 39-14 loss to St. Helena, Sept. 25, 1964 (first 2 games in school history. Longest winning streak: 14 games (1995-96). Longest losing streak: 8 games (2006-97). Most decisive victory: 69-6 over Mira Loma, Oct. 10, 1998.
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Doctor retires after 48 years Air Force News Service
Spotlight on Travis Senior Airman Lindsey Bone 60th Dental Squadron Hometown: Traverse City, Michigan. Duty title: Dental assistant. Time at Travis: Four months. Family: Spouse, Brian Bone; dog, Tucker; expecting a baby boy in March. Goals: Gathering everything for my baby’s arrival and finishing prerequisites for dental hygiene school. Hobbies: Spending time with my husband and dog, Tucker, while preparing for my baby. Greatest achievements: Bachelor’s degree, surviving husband’s short tour and making staff sergeant on the first time.
In brief Air Force restores education funds WASHINGTON — The Department of the Air Force restored military tuition assistance to $4,500 per fiscal year and Air Force Credentialing Opportunities Online preparatory course funding for fiscal year 2021, effective immediately. The Air Force noted increased usage of tuition assistance since the start of Covid-19 and continuing into the new fiscal year. “We are excited our members are taking advantage of their time under Covid(-19) to improve themselves and pursue education. The Department of the Air Force was able to reprioritize funding to encourage our service members to maximize their development through these educational benefits,” said Lt. Gen. Brian T. Kelly, deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel and services. “The Department of the Air Force is committed to education and to the continued professional and personal growth of our Airmen and Space Professionals in support of our nation’s defense.” For more information, consult Air Force Instruction 36-2670, “Total Force Development.”
Wyoming ANG, Airmen help move 18 patients FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. — Airmen from Fairchild Air Force Base’s 92nd Air Refueling Squadron, Not only did Fairchild Air Force base airmen ensure the safety and care of patients and their families, they delivered more than 2,000 pounds of cargo to additional units across the Pacific. Ninety-Third Air Refueling Squadron, 384th Air Refueling Squadron, 97th Air Refueling Squadron and 92nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, conducted an aeromedical evacuation mission Nov. 7-13, bringing 18 patients in need of medical care across the Pacific Ocean back to the United States. — Daily Republic wire services
Academy class. He’s a Federal Aviation Administration Safety Team representative, the only one at Travis, giving him the opportunity to host and teach safety seminars for the base’s aviation community. The “Red” Erwin Award is an Air Forcelevel honor given annually at the junior enlisted, noncommissioned officer and senior noncommissioned officer tiers to airmen with outstanding accomplishments in the aircrew operations career fields with significant results, major mission impact, demonstration of outstanding leadership and professional qualities, and superior contributions to the roles and missions of the Air Force. The award is named for an Army Air Forces radio operator whose quick thinking during
EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska — When Craig Thomas enlisted as an Aerial Port Squadron Technician in the U.S. Air Force in December 1971, he never imagined he would become a doctor, let alone that he would go on to serve for more than 48 years. “It’s been quite a journey,” said Thomas. He retired this past spring with little fanfare, as the entire Department of Defense medical community was engaged in response to the Covid-19 national emergency. For his final assignment, he served as commander and a chief flight surgeon for the 168th Wing in the Alaska Air National Guard. Before assuming command of the medical group, Thomas was the state air surgeon for Alaska at Joint Forces Headquarters Alaska, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. His first duty assignment at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino would eventually lead to a congressional appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. After graduating and commissioning as a second lieutenant from the academy in June 1977, he went on to become a communications-electronics officer and was station at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida; and Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, Texas. Thomas stated that his time at the Air Force Academy helped him be prepared for medical school rigors and balancing his new military career as a communications officer in the Air Force Reserve. Upon graduation from medical school at the University of North Texas in 1990, Thomas reentered Air Force active duty, accomplishing his residency at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas. His first assignment as a primary care doctor was at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, where he became a flight surgeon and return to the reserves to pursue a civilian career as an anesthesiologist. After finding his way to Alaska in 1997 for
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Senior Master Sgt. Marcus Hewett, a squadron superintendent and flight engineer with the 6th Air
Refueling Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, performs a preflight inspection, Nov. 5, at Travis.
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Ask Senior Master Sgt. Marcus Hewett’s colleagues about him and they practically throw a dictionary at you. Selfless. Phenomenal. Leader. Servant. Sharp. Enabler. Friendly. Kind. The descriptors just keep flowing. “I’m happy to talk all day about Senior Master Sgt. Hewett,” said Lt. Col. Justin Alberico, commander of the unit in which Hewett serves, the 6th Air Refueling Squadron at Travis Air Force Base. “If I could impress anything on you about him, about his personality, it’s the desire to serve, the kindness and the goodness that he displays. He’s a selfless servant.” Chief Master Sgt. Jess Reeson, the squadron’s chief enlisted manager, agreed, noting that Hewett always seems to go the extra mile to help, to teach and to lead. “When you’re watching him interact with airmen, he’s asking them questions about flying, asking, ‘hey, what can I do to better myself?’ (He does) anything to take care of people,” Reeson said. “He is the epitome of service before self.” Hewett enjoys making jobs and lives easier. It’s a key component of how the 6th Air Refueling Squadron superintendent views his role in the Air Force and a fundamental reason why he was selected as the Staff Sgt. Henry E. “Red” Erwin Award for Career
U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Marcus Hewett, 6th Air Refueling Squadron superintendent and flight engineer, was recognized for helping others. Enlisted Aviator of the Year on Sept. 18. It’s not the first time Hewett has been recognized for helping others. His Air Force career started in 2001 as a security forces airmen before cross-training to become a firefighter paramedic. At Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, in 2008, Hewett was part of a team that used the Hurst Jaws of Life to save a 5-year-old child after a three-car vehicle collision. For their efforts, the Shaw fire department was awarded the 2008 Green Cross Rescue of the Year Award. “We truly made a difference that day and saved that 5-year-old’s life, thanks to Hurst tools,” Hewett said in 2009. Though he said he loved being a firefighter paramedic, his career field faced manning overages, so Hewett changed gears again, becom-
ing a KC-10 Extender flight engineer. There, as he added more stripes to his uniform, the 6th Air Refueling Squadron superintendent focused on looking out for airmen. “I care,” Hewett said. “I care. I care about people. I care about taking care of others.” The investment in the lives of his airmen isn’t exclusive to duty hours. As a private pilot and certified flight instructor, Hewett prioritizes safety while also trying to pass on his passion for aviation. “It’s one reason I became a flyer,” he said. “We’re gatekeepers. If we can (make an impact on) someone at an early age in their flying career, that ripples throughout the rest of their career.” Hewett has other notable marks as well. He was a distinguished graduate in his Senior Noncommissioned Officer
Computerized canines to join base’s ranks Air Force News Service TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Over the last year, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, airmen and members of its 325th Security Forces Squadron have worked with Ghost Robotics to develop a system to enhance security and safety for the base population. Tyndall will be one of the first Air Force bases to implement semi-autonomous robot dogs into their patrolling regiment. These computerized canines demonstrated their abilities Nov. 10 at an event attended by Maj. Gen. Tom Wilcox, Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center commander, and leadership from the 325th Fighter Wing and the Tyndall program management office. “We are very excited,” said Maj. Jordan Criss, 325th Security Forces Squadron commander. “We are the first unit within the Department of Defense to use this technology for enhanced security patrolling operations.” While these robots walk on all fours and resemble a dog, they are
not intended to replace the military working dogs. Instead, they will aid in patrolling operations and, in doing so, allow Tyndall’s defenders to focus their efforts on security actions that require a physical presence. “These robot dogs will be used as a force multiplier for enhanced situational awareness by patrolling areas that aren’t desirable for human beings and vehicles.” Criss said. Criss explained that the robot dogs will be given a patrol path which will be set and monitored by the Security Forces Electronic Security Sensor System noncommissioned officer in charge. “We will be able to drive them via a virtual-reality headset within our base defense operations center,” Criss said. “We will be able to see exactly what the robot dog is detecting through its mobile camera and sensor platform if desired, we will also be able to issue verbal commands to a person or people through a radio attached to the dogs.” The semi-autonomous canines allow airmen who would other-
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An unmanned ground vehicle is tested, Nov. 10, at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. Tyndall is one of the first military bases to implement the semi-autonomous UGV’s into its defense regiment. wise be patrolling these areas to focus on training, security and overall situational awareness across the base. “These dogs will be an extra set of eyes and ears while computing large amounts of data at strategic locations throughout Tyndall Air Force Base,” Criss said. “They will be a huge enhancement for our defenders and allow flexibil-
ity in the posting and response of our personnel.” This technology has the potential to replace and exceed the capabilities of certain static defense equipment especially in a contingency, disaster, or deployed environment. This makes Tyndall, post-Hurricane Michael, the perfect home for the Air Force’s newest computerized canines.
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a World War II mission after a white phosphorous bomb ignited prematurely saved the lives of his crew while he sustained lifelong wounds that required dozens of surgeries. In keeping with his personality, Hewett insists he didn’t earn the award on his own, thanking his spouse, Capt. Christina Hewett, who serves in the 349th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, as well as his leadership. Alberico took leadership of Hewett’s squadron in July. While only serving as his commander for four months, Alberico said Hewett’s reputation preceded him. “Before I had the opportunity to meet anybody in the squadron, one person who was singled out as one of the hallmarks of
the squadron was Senior Master Sgt. Hewett,� Alberico said. “I absolutely could not say enough about things he’s doing. He invests in his airmen and subordinates underneath him.� Hewett’s wingmen, Reeson and Alberico both bet on Hewett promoting to chief master sergeant someday. Reeson said there is “no doubt in (his) mind� it would happen. “He’s a leader among leaders,� Reeson said. “One of the biggest things I talk about is there’s this quote from Gen. Mark Welch, former Air Force chief of staff. He said, ‘Leadership is a gift. It’s given by those who follow. You have to be worthy of it.’ Senior Master Sgt. Hewett has plenty of followers and he is very much worthy of being a leader. That expression fits him perfectly.�
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Senior Master Sgt. Marcus Hewett, 6th Air Refueling Squadron superintendent and flight engineer, performs a preflight inspection, Nov. 5, at Travis Air Force Base.
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Grocery store rationing is back But relax, supply chain is doing fine Tribune Content Agency
Hard times have returned to the nation’s toilet paper aisles. With coronavirus cases and lockdowns once again on the rise, shoppers are reverting to the panicbuying patterns of the early days of the pandemic. In response, grocery companies such as Target, Kroger and Albertsons have reinstated purchase limits on toilet paper, paper towels and cleaning supplies. But this time, the grocery companies say, they’re putting limits in place specifically to avoid the empty shelves many consumers faced in the spring – and industry experts say the grocers and suppliers are prepared for the winter wave. “We put the limits on out of caution,” said Kevin Curry, president of Albertsons’ Southern California division, who noted that the current uptick in demand is nowhere near what he saw in March and April. “The supply chain’s in a better position to handle this rush.” Over the summer, the industry put a number of measures in place to adjust to a new normal of high-volume grocery shopping and waves of lockdown-related shopping sprees. Among them, stores and suppliers have started keeping more inventory on hand, when possible, to prepare for unpredictable spikes in demand. The industry has “gone from a just-in-time mentality to a just-incase mentality,” said Willy Shih, a professor at Harvard Business School who studies manufacturing supply chains. Companies have spent the last few decades trying to reduce inventory, in pursuit of a world in which raw materials arrive at factories in the morning, leave as finished goods at night and are sold out on store shelves the next day, with no surplus lying around at the end of the process. The just-in-time model relies on
using past data to forecast demand and flexible logistics networks to adapt to predicted shifts. It falls apart, however, when the unpredictable strikes on a global scale. Nick Green, chief executive of Thrive Market, which sells mostly organic food and health products, said he has laid in extra supplies to prepare for this new wave of shopping. “In an ideal world, and nine months ago, we were holding tens of millions of dollars less inventory than we are today,” Green said. But the world changed in March. “We went through six months of toilet paper in about six days back in the first surge,” Green said. This time around, he has seen demand more than double just in the past week. To prepare, Thrive went vertical in its warehouse for the first time. Historically, Green said, “our product is on the ground” for easy access. Now, “we not only need to use the 700,000 square feet of ground space but have stacked up multiple stories of pallets.” Retailers have also gotten creative, cutting deals with lesserknown manufacturers that typically produce toilet paper and cleaning products for restaurants and office buildings to make more store-brand products, which can fill the shelves when name brands sell out. “There’s a tremendous shift by the smart, strategic retailers in source of supply, drawing from excess inventory that was choking the food service and institutional manufacturers,” said Burt P. Flickinger III, managing director of the retail consultancy Strategic Resource Group. With most restaurants, hotels, offices and large venues closed due to the pandemic, that pivot has allowed the paper-goods market to meet elevated consumer demand. The same holds true for cleaning
products, according to Curry at Albertsons. Popular name-brand items, such as Clorox Disinfecting Wipes, have remained in short supply all year, so the grocer has started sourcing more of its own. But the logistical difficulties of getting all that product from regional distribution centers to stores can pose a challenge. The disruptions to the global supply chain that began when the coronavirus first triggered lockdowns in China are still working their way through the system today, altering the typical delivery and shipment calendar for all sorts of consumer goods. The Port of Long Beach in Southern California notched record-high volumes in October and into November, when in a typical year, the holiday shipping rush would have wound down earlier in the fall. “Whether it’s imports going to distribution centers or food logistics, they spill over into each other,” said Shih, as businesses compete for space on ships, trucks and trains. The downturn in the restaurant and institutional food service industry, however, has again proved a godsend for the grocery business. When consumer demand for fresh produce spiked at the beginning of the pandemic, “refrigerated warehouses and refrigerated trucks were all kind of bulging in capacity,” said Michael Castagnetto, president of the produce division of logistics company C.H. Robinson. His company was able to tap into small regional warehouses typically used to store restaurant supplies, a strategy that helped grocers ride out the first wave. The same customers that needed that extra cold storage in the spring got back in touch just last week, Castagnetto said, saying they need help again, “probably through New Year’s.”
4,000 more Disney park employees losing jobs Tribune Content Agency ORLANDO, Fla. — On the day before Thanksgiving, the Walt Disney Co. revealed 4,000 more layoffs are coming in its theme parks division, bringing the total number of announced layoffs to 32,000 across the company. At least 18,000 of the total jobs lost belong to cast members at Walt Disney World, though the SEC report filed Wednesday did not specify how many of the Orlando resort’s employees are included in the most recent round of layoffs.
This year, the resort has already lost nearly a quarter of its reported 2019 workforce of 77,000. A spokeswoma n for Walt Disney World did not immediately respond to questions about the announced layoffs, including how many Orlando employees would be affected. The notice said about 32,000 employees in the company’s Parks, Experiences and Products division will be laid off in the first half of the 2021 fiscal year. This number comprises nearly 21% of the 155,000 reported employees of the Walt
Disney Co.’s theme parks division as of Oct. 3. The company partially attributed the job losses to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. “Due to the current cl imate, includ ing Covid-19 impacts, and changing environment in which we are operating, the Company has generated efficiencies in its staffing, including limiting hiring to critical business roles, furloughs and reductions-in-force,” the filing said. As of early October, nearly 37,000 theme park employees companywide were furloughed but not
scheduled for termination, according to the document. The Walt Disney Co. employed a total of nearly 203,000 people last month, 80% of which were classified as full-time workers. Wednesday’s filing is the latest in a series of mass layoffs in Disney’s theme parks division and comes just two months after 28,000 theme park, merchandising and cruise line workers lost their jobs across the company. Of the 18,000 Disney World cast members affected during that round, 8,857 were part-time union employees, the Orlando Sentinel found.
n important ment. The U.S. characterisunemployment tic of the rate rose as high as 14.7% and now U.S. economy is is 6.9%, higher that everyone than Europe. For tries to take example, German actions which unemployment improve their rate rose only to own personal economic Mark Sievers 4.4% during the situation. Wealth matters pandemic by using a centuryEven in the old program called current situation with high unemployment and Kurzarbeit, in which the government comes in fundamental changes in and helps businesses pay the business environtheir workers in order to ment, people want to keep the improve their own workers employed. situation. Indeed, the But Germany is not turbulent times may creating new businesses even create more focus at the same rate as the and attention to such US. Kurzarbeit and efforts because, quite simply, people are afraid other efforts to prop up existing businesses and and worried about prevent creative destructheir own future. We are already seeing tion may be a reason for this. One German evidence of such efforts economist comments because America is currently experiencing a "that Germany has done a better job than the US "startup boom." Even at protecting existing with a raging pandemic jobs, but one problem and an ugly recession, that will be with us in the creation of new Germany for quite a long businesses is surging. time is the low rate of Researchers at the new jobs that are being University of Maryland created." The lower job have worked with the creation rate especially U.S. Census Bureau to hurts young Germans measure new business and those workers who creation for decades. Every new business that get Kurzarbeit benefits during the crisis but are hires workers must laid off after the crisis. apply for a government A UC Berkeley employer identification economist has written number. When the that the U.S. system of coronavirus pandemic began, the data showed a letting people lose their collapse in new business jobs and get unemployapplications. Then, about ment insurance is most adapted to the current six weeks into the situation. If the panpandemic, the numbers demic is short, started rising, a fact Kurzarbeit makes more which startled sense because it prethe researchers. serves The new business employer-employee applications continue to matches and allows rise with the third companies to rebound quarter of 2020 being quickly in the recovery. the highest since the researchers started their However, the longer the pandemic goes on, the data collection. more appealing flexiMost of these new bility becomes. businesses are seizing Whether the German opportunities created by the unusual coronavirus or American approach is economy, where face-to- better depends on what the world looks like after face interaction is not common. Online retail is the pandemic ends. If we revert to a world where the largest new area, people want to shop in while traditional brick-and-mortar stores brick-and-mortar retail and eat in restaurants has collapsed. Whether with the same frequency, these new businesses will offset the job decline then maybe much of the creative destruction we and unemployment is unclear. Many of the new are seeing in the US is not that creative or businesses are just people who were laid off robust. Many pandemic startups might not and forced to make survive if the former their own way. pattern returns. Then all The good news may the economic destrucbe that new businesses tion would be like paying are emerging out of the the costs of moving to a remnants of new town only to turn old businesses. around and move back to Economists have a your old town. term for this, "creative However, if the destruction." The term is environment really drawn from the work of changes, and many Harvard economist indicators support a Joseph Schumpeter permanent change, then published in 1943. a Kurzarbeit approach He described it as a risks the existence of process of "industrial businesses that should go mutation . . . that away but limp along incessantly revolutionbecause they are izes the economic consuming and depenstructure from within, dent on taxpayer money. incessantly destroying That inefficient use of the old one, incessantly money can hurt innovacreating a new one." He tion, productivity and placed it at the center of economic growth in capitalism, arguing that the longer term. it was a force that made The University of capitalism much more Maryland research innovative than shows that new busisocialism. nesses create the The U.S., with a more majority of new jobs in hands-off approach to the U.S. The lack of the economy than business creation during Europe, has long been the Great Recession was the model of creative a big reason for such a destruction. Many long recovery. economists argue this is Honestly, the best the fundamental reason path to a solid recovery the U.S. economy starts with ending the produces new inventions, pandemic. Please be products and technolosafe and be well. gies. The Economist recently reports the U.S. Mark Sievers, president of Epsilon Finanleads other rich councial Group, is a certified tries in new business financial planner with creation during the a master’s in business pandemic. administration. Contact There is a downside him by email at mark@ to the U.S. approach, wealthmatters.com. namely unemploy-
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be new to your understanding. For this new revelation sent from God will always be presenting a new reality, a new awareness, a new dimension and a greater promise as it reads in 2 Chronicles 7:14. The world is growing dark, and this greater promise is needed now. We must return to God on his terms. The terms must be comprehended, as they truly are and are intended to be. God is moving humanity in a new direction: Can humanity move? Can people respond? Can you respond? Can you accept
od is moving It is at this great humanity in a new threshold in humanity’s direction, a direchistory that a new tion it has not had to revelation has been move in before. given into the world. For the world has People do not see, do not changed, and humanity hear. They are strangers is facing a new revelato themselves. And their tion in the universe – a native skills of discerngreat change, a great Steve Haynes ing the environment, for threshold in humanity’s many, have lost and Religious view evolution, a time of are undeveloped. immense upheaval and uncerGod is moving the world tainty, a dangerous time for the in a new direction. It is a human family, a time that will direction that was always be moving with events intended, but it will be new for unfolding quickly. the people of the world. It will
that you are living in a time of a new revelation and to consider what this means for your life and the challenges this places before you? How humanity responds and prepares will make the difference. What individuals decide will make the difference. What voice will they listen to, whether it be the power and the presence of God or will it be the voice of their culture or the voice of fear or the voice of anger and ambition. This message is to people not
to the leaders of nations. For leaders are free. They are bound by their office and to those who got them elected, to the expectations of others. That’s why this message is coming to you and to all people. It is our decisions and determination that will make all the difference. The Rev. Steve Haynes is the pastor of Community Christian Church in Fairfield. He can be reached at communitychristian churchjohn15@gmail.com.
It was never easy being an interfaith couple in India - now some states are making it harder The Washington Post NEW DELHI — Marrying across religious lines has always been a challenge in India, a vast multifaith democracy where the pull of family and tradition remains strong. Now politicians in India’s ruling party are
contemplating laws to thwart such unions, driven by a conspiracy theory that views them as a tool for conversions. At a rally last month, the leader of the country’s largest state warned of the danger of “love jihad,� an inflammatory slur referring to an alleged plot by Muslim men to
convert Hindu women through marriage. Men who “conceal their names and play with the honor of daughters and sisters� should prepare for their final journeys, thundered Yogi Adityanath, the radical Hindu monk who leads the state of Uttar Pradesh. The “love jihad� smear
is baseless, but it has become common parlance among members of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. In recent weeks, four state governments have promised to enact new laws to combat the purported threat. On Tuesday, the cabinet in Uttar Pradesh – home to more than 200 million
people – approved an order criminalizing religious conversions “by marriage� with jail terms of between one and 10 years. The order, once it’s signed by the state governor, would also nullify unions in which a woman changes her religion solely to marry. The new laws will deepen concerns that
under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India’s Muslim minority is increasingly subject to suspicion, discrimination and even violence. Couples belonging to different religions or castes have long faced hurdles in India that range from familial opposition to death threats.
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PROPERTY NOTICE OF SEIZURE AND NOTICE OF INTENDED FORFEITURE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that property was seized, pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 11470, in the following cases, and the District Attorney of Solano County has initiated proceedings to forfeit this property, pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 11488.4. The case number and property description for each case is set forth below. If you wish to contest the forfeiture of this property, you have until thirty (30) days from the date of the last publication of this Notice to file a claim opposing forfeiture with the Court, unless you have received actual notice. You may obtain a “Claim Opposing Forfeiture” form (MC-200) from the Office of the Clerk, Civil Division. The claim must state the nature and extent of any interest you hold in the property, must be verified, and must be filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court, Civil Division, 580 Texas Street, Fairfield, CA 94533. You must serve a court-endorsed copy of your claim on the District Attorney of Solano County, 675 Texas Street, Suite 4500, Fairfield, within thirty (30) days of the filing of your claim. If no claim is properly filed and/or served on the District Attorney within the time permitted by law, the property will be ordered forfeited to the State, to be disposed of according to law, without further notice or hearing. If your claim is properly filed and served, the District Attorney will decide whether to file a Petition for Forfeiture with the Superior Court to contest said claim. In the case where a Petition is filed and a contested hearing is held, you will have the following rights which include but are not limited to: you have the right to use the subpoena powers of the court and order witnesses to attend, you have a right to testify on your own behalf, submit evidence showing the legitimacy of the seized assets, and a right to cross examine the petitioner’s witnesses. This is a civil action, you have the additional right to represent yourself or hire your own attorney, and there is no right to appointed counsel in this case. AF20-3901. On January 9, 2020, Special Agents of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation seized $40,718.13 U.S. Currency (Chase Bank account ending in 6952) and $18,076.02 U.S. Currency (CashApp Accounts-Cashtag “$SAUCEDRIPPA26”/”GRAMMIE” at or near 4026 Sunrise Blvd., Rancho Cordova, CA and 1455 Market St., San Francisco, CA (respectively) in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC § 11351 and/or 11359. The seized property has an estimated or appraised value of $58,794.15. AF20-3908. On May 13, 2020, Fairfield Police Department officers seized $10,706.00 U.S. Currency at 5101 Business Center Dr., Fairfield, CA in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC § 11351 and/or 11359. The seized property has an estimated or appraised value of $10,706.00. AF20-3910. On June 15, 2020, Solano County Sheriff’s Office deputies seized $8,280.00 U.S. Currency at 400 Lincoln Rd. E., Vallejo, CA in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC § 11378 and/or 11379. The seized property has an estimated or appraised value of $8,280.00. AF20-3911. On June 18, 2020, Fairfield Police Department officers seized $680.00 U.S. Currency at Confidential Location in connection with a controlled substance violation(s) of HSC § 11351.5. The seized property has an estimated or appraised value of $680.00. AF20-3912. On July 3, 2020, Vacaville Police Department detectives seized $9,020.00 U.S. Currency at the intersection of WB I80 and E. Monte Vista Ave. Onramp, Vacaville, CA in connection with a controlled substance violation(s) of HSC § 11351. The seized property has an estimated or appraised value of $9,020.00. Date: 11/24/2020
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LOCATED AT: 1801 Brook Falls Drive Fairfield, CA, 94534 Mailing Address: 1801 Brook Falls Drive Fairfield, CA, 94534 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Violeta E. Saavedra 1801 Brook Falls Drive Fairfield 94534 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 11/07/2020. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Violeta Saavedra IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION November 17, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: NOV 18, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002068 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043379 Published: Nov. 22, 29, Dec. 6, 13, 2020
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS COOL AUTO AC SERVICE LOCATED AT: 551 Lupine Circle, Vacaville CA 95687 Solano Mailing Address: 551 Lupine Circle, Vacaville CA 95687 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Maychoolt N Urrutia Almendarez 551 Lupine Cir Vacaville, 95687-7236 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Maychoolt Urrutia Almendarez IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION November 05, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: NOV 06, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002002 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043378 Published: Nov. 22, 29, Dec. 6, 13, 2020
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MILLION DESIGN LOCATED AT: 1450 West Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 Mailing Address: 1961 Aletha Ln Apt 4 Vacaville, CA 95687 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Jorge Barajas Linan 1961 Aletha Ln Apt 4 Vacaville 95687 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Jorge Barajas Linan IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION October 28, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: OCT 29, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020001950 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043181 Published: November 8, 15, 22, 29, 2020
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LOCATED AT: 5161 Freitas Way, Fairfield CA 94533 Solano Mailing Address: PO Box 802, Vacaville CA 95686 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Arveanka Duchaussee 5161 Freitas Way Fairfield, 94533 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Arveanka Duchaussee IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION November 2, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: NOV 03, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020001973 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043182 Published: November 8, 15, 22, 29, 2020
LOCATED AT: 5059 Oakbrook Cir, Fairfield CA 94534 Solano Mailing Address: 5059 Oakbrook Cir, Fairfield CA 94534 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Felicia Jennings 5059 Oakbrook Cir Fairfield, 94534 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Felicia Jennings IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION November 9, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: NOV 10, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002019 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043264 Published: Nov. 15, 22, 29, Dec, 6, 2020
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LOCATED AT: 703 Forest Ridge Cir. Vacaville, CA 95687 Solano Mailing Address: same as above (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Corbin Martin 703 Forest Ridge Cir. Vacaville, CA 95687 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Corbin Martin IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION November 17, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: NOV 18, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002069 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043380 Published: Nov. 22, 29, Dec. 6, 13, 2020
LOCATED AT: 602 Cherry Ct, Fairield CA 94534 Solano Mailing Address: 602 Cherry Ct, Fairield CA 94534 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Rhonda Ware 602 Cherry Ct Fairfield, 94534 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Rhonda Ware IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION November 9, 2025. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: NOV 10, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002017 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043265 Published: Nov. 15, 22, 29, Dec, 6, 2020
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B14  Sunday, November 29, 2020 — DAILY REPUBLIC
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NFL American Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA 7 3 0 .700 272 265 6 4 0 .600 264 202 4 6 0 .400 209 238 0 10 0 .000 149 302 North W L T Pct. PF PA Pittsburgh 10 0 0 1.000 298 174 Cleveland 7 3 0 .700 238 261 Baltimore 6 4 0 .600 268 195 Cincinnati 2 7 1 .250 213 270 South W L T Pct. PF PA Indianapolis 7 3 0 .700 276 208 Tennessee 7 3 0 .700 279 259 Houston 4 7 0 .364 267 297 Buffalo Miami New England N.Y. Jets
1 9 0 .100 202 298 West W L T Pct. PF PA Kansas City 9 1 0 .900 321 214 Las Vegas 6 4 0 .600 286 276 Denver 4 6 0 .400 206 267 L.A. Chargers 3 7 0 .300 260 273 National Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA Washington 4 7 0 .364 241 243 Philadelphia 3 6 1 .350 220 254 N.Y. Giants 3 7 0 .300 195 236 Dallas 3 8 0 .273 251 359 North W L T Pct. PF PA Green Bay 7 3 0 .700 308 258 Chicago 5 5 0 .500 191 209 Minnesota 4 6 0 .400 264 278 Detroit 4 7 0 .364 252 328 South W L T Pct. PF PA New Orleans 8 2 0 .800 295 222 Tampa Bay 7 4 0 .636 320 253 Carolina 4 7 0 .364 253 272 Atlanta 3 7 0 .300 252 275
Jacksonville at Minnesota, 10 a.m. Cincinnati at Miami, 10 a.m. Indianapolis at Houston, 10 a.m. Detroit at Chicago, 10 a.m. New Orleans at Atlanta, 10 a.m. N.Y. Giants at Seattle, 1:05 p.m. L.A. Rams at Arizona, 1:05 p.m. New England at L.A. Chargers, 1:25 p.m. Philadelphia at Green Bay, 5:20 p.m. Denver at Kansas City, 5:20 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7 Buffalo at SAN FRANCISCO, 5:15 p.m. Dallas at Baltimore, 2 p.m. Byes — Tampa Bay, Carolina Thursday, Dec. 10 New England at L.A. Rams, 5:20 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13 Washington at SAN FRANCISCO, 1:25 p.m. Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. Arizona at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m. Kansas City at Miami, 10 a.m. Tennessee at Jacksonville, 10 a.m. Green Bay at Detroit, 10 a.m. Dallas at Cincinnati, 10 a.m. Houston at Chicago, 10 a.m. Denver at Carolina, 10 a.m. N.Y. Jets at Seattle, 1:05 p.m. Indianapolis at Las Vegas, 1:05 p.m. New Orleans at Philadelphia, 1:25 p.m. Atlanta at L.A. Chargers, 1:25 p.m. Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 5:20 p.m. Monday, Dec. 14 Baltimore at Cleveland, 5:15 p.m.
West W L T Pct. PF PA 7 3 0 .700 318 287 7 3 0 .700 243 192 6 4 0 .600 287 238 4 6 0 .444 238 234 Thursday’s Games Houston 41, Detroit 25 Washington 41, Dallas 16 Baltimore at Pittsburgh, ppd., Covid-19 Sunday’s Games SAN FRANCISCO at L.A. Rams, 1:05 p.m. Miami at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m. Arizona at New England, 10 a.m. Carolina at Minnesota, 10 a.m. Cleveland at Jacksonville, 10 a.m. Tennessee at Indianapolis, 10 a.m. N.Y. Giants at Cincinnati, 10 a.m. L.A. Chargers at Buffalo, 10 a.m. Las Vegas at Atlanta, 10 a.m. Baltimore at Pittsburgh, ppd., Covid-19 New Orleans at Denver, 1:05 p.m. Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 1:25 p.m. Chicago at Green Bay, 5:20 p.m. Monday’s Game Seattle at Philadelphia, 5:15 p.m. Tuesday’s Game Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. Byes — None Sunday, Dec. 6 Cleveland at Tennessee, 10 a.m. Washington at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. Las Vegas at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m.
Seattle L.A. Rams Arizona SAN FRAN
Orders: Include ban on games, practices From Page B3 Williams noted: “All recreational activities that involve physical contact or close proximity to persons outside one’s household, including all contact sports, will be temporarily prohibited. People can continue to engage in outdoor athletics and recreation where social distancing can be maintained at all times.� Santa Clara County health official Dr. Sara Cody said: “We’ve come to a place where our cases and hospitalizations are so high we have to do something to settle them down. We are now at a critical inflection point.� County health orders have prevented the 49ers from hosting fans at Levi’s Stadium this season, even though the state
Weather 5-Day Forecast
FOR FAIRFIELD-SUISUN CITY
Today Sunny
65
announced last month that fans could attend outdoor sporting events. While Saturday’s announced ban of games and practices is set for a minimum of three weeks, it’s unlikely to lift in time for the 49ers’ regular-season finale Jan. 3; Cody noted that trends point to the county running out of hospital beds by the third week of December. Earlier this year among the county’s shelter-in-place lockdown, the 49ers looked into alternative sites to hold training camp outside the county. The 49ers, however, were cleared to hold camp and work at their facility in late July once the county approved the team’s Covid-19 safety measures, including daily testing of players and staff that remains in place.
Almanac
Statistics for Travis Air Force Base for yesterday through 5 p.m. Temperature High/Low.............................67°/30° Average high .......................... 59.8° Average low............................ 41.3° A year ago...........................57°/33° Barometric pressure............30.18 Humidity...................................36%
Air Quality Index 55 Precipitation 0-50 51-100 101-150 151-200 201-300 Last 24 hours................................0″ Good Moderate Unhealthy Unhealthy Very sensitive unhealthy Month-to-date....................... 1.71″ Normal Nov. rainfall ............. 2.75″ Source: Bay Area Air Quality Management District Season-to-date...................... 1.71″ Normal seasonal rainfall....24.81″ UV Index This date last year........................0″ 2 Source: NWS and NOAA <2 3-5 6-7 8-10 11+ Good Moderate
High
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Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency
Tonight Partly cloudy
38
Monday Sunny
66|45
Sun and Moon
slated to fly out of Los Angeles shortly after their game on Sunday night, arriving in San Jose just before the quarantine ordinance. The new directives will go into effect on Monday at 12:01 a.m. and last until at least Dec. 21st, a time period of three weeks. A curfew will meanwhile be put in place starting Monday night, which would bar nonessential travel between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. Added Cody: “Today we are announcing a tightening of our directives. This is not a shelter in place order, as I issued in March. The broader message is simple, and that is we urge everyone to stay home to the greatest extent you can.�
It’s unknown what alternative sites could be in play for the 49ers’ remaining home games. The closest facility outside Santa Clara County capable of hosting a NFL game is Oakland’s Coliseum, which the Raiders left after last season in relocating to Las Vegas. The 49ers moved their headquarters in 1988 from Redwood City to Santa Clara. Levi’s Stadium opened in 2014 to host 49ers games after their previous stints in San Francisco at Kezar Stadium and Candlestick Park. Santa Clara County’s new restrictions will include a 14-day quarantine for all those traveling to and from the county from more than 150 miles away. The 49ers are
Regional forecast
Davis 62|35 Dixon Santa Rosa 63|36 66|34 Vacaville Napa 64|40 65|35 Fairfield/Suisun City 65|38 Vallejo Benicia 56|40 Rio Vista 63|41 63|35 Concord 64|37 Richmond 64|42 Walnut Creek 65|37 Oakland 65|42 San Francisco 63|45
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Sunrise..............................7:05 a.m. Sunset...............................4:48 p.m. Moonrise..........................4:36 p.m. Moonset.............. 7:20 a.m. (Mon.) San New First Qtr. Full Last Qtr. Pablo Today Monday Dec. 14 Dec. 21 Nov. 30 Dec. 8 Source: U.S. Naval Observatory
Palo Alto 63|37
San Jose 66|30
(feet) Low
(feet)
4.55 6.09 4.62 6.12
2.37 -0.22 2.62 -0.38
5:05 a.m. 6:04 p.m. 5:39 a.m. 6:35 p.m.
National forecast
Basketball College men •Massachusetts-Lowell at Ohio State, BIG TEN, 9 a.m. •Richmond at Kentucky, ESPN, 10 a.m. •Hall of Fame Classic, third-place game, ESPN2, 10 a.m. •Florida A&M at Georgia, SEC, 11 a.m. •Mount Saint Mary’s at Maryland, BIG TEN, 11 a.m. •Hall of Fame Classic, championship, ESPN2, 12:30 p.m. •Hofstra at Rutgers, BIG TEN, 1 p.m. •Houston Baptist at Arizona State, PAC12, 1 p.m. •North Dakota State at Creighton, FS1, 1:30 p.m. •Texas Tech at Houston, ESPN2, 2:30 p.m. •Rhode Island vs. San Francisco, ESPNU, 2:30 p.m. •North Florida vs. Miami, ACC, 3 p.m. •Oakland at Michigan, BIG TEN, 3 p.m. •UTEP at Arizona, PAC12, 3 p.m. •Eastern Illinois at Butler, FS1, 3:30 p.m. •Virginia Tech vs. South Florida, ESPN2, 5 p.m. College women •Western Carolina at Duke, ACC, 9 a.m. •Georgia at Georgia Tech, ACC, 11 a.m. •Miami (Ohio) at Notre Dame, ACC, 1 p.m. Figure skating •NHK Trophy, ladies and men’s free skates, Ch. 3, 1 p.m. Football NFL •Las Vegas at Atlanta, Chs. 5, 13, 1 p.m. •San Francisco at L.A. Rams, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 1 p.m. •Kansas City at Tampa Bay, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 1:25 p.m. •Chicago at Green Bay, Ch. 3, 5:20 p.m. Horse racing •America’s Day at the Races, FS1, 8:30 a.m. •America’s Day at the Races, FS1, 1:30 p.m. Motorsports •Formula 1, Bahrain Grand Prix, ESPN2, 6:05 a.m. •Pro Watercross, World Championships, CBSSN, 3 p.m. Rugby •Guinness Pro14, Cardiff Blues vs. Glasgow Warriors, ESPNEWS, 11:30 a.m. Soccer •Premier League, Southampton vs. Manchester United, NBCSN, 6 a.m. •Super Lig, Fenerbahce vs. Besiktas, BEIN, 7:55 a.m. •Premier League, Chelsea vs. Tottenham Hotspur, NBCSN, 8 a.m. •La Liga, Celta de Vigo vs. Granada, BEIN, 10 a.m. •Premier League, Arsenal vs. Wolves, NBCSN, 10:30 a.m. •La Liga, Real Sociedad vs. Villarreal, BEIN, 11:50 a.m. •MLS Playoffs, conference semifinals, New England vs. Orlando City, Chs. 7, 10, noon •Ligue 1, Saint-Etienne vs. Lille, BEIN, 3 p.m. (taped) •MLS Playoffs, conference semifinals, Columbus vs. Nashville, ESPN, 5 p.m. •Ligue 1, Olympique Lyonnais vs. Stade de Reims, BEIN, 5 p.m. (taped) •Premier League, Leicester City vs. Fulham, NBCSN, 9 a.m. (Monday)
From Page B4
Tides 12:22 a.m. 11:10 a.m. 1:06 a.m. 11:39 a.m.
TV sports
Smith: A Cowboy
San Mateo 65|39
High
CALENDAR
Suisun High (feet) Low Today 2:18 a.m. 3.98 7:34 a.m. 12:56 p.m. 5.53 9:20 p.m. Monday 3:06 a.m. 4.05 8:08 a.m. 1:19 p.m. 5.71 9:57 p.m.
(feet)
1.71 -0.07 1.97 -0.07
Forecast for Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020
Tuesday Sunny
67|44 Wednesday Sunny
66|40
physically trained for an NFL return. Glazer speaks in no uncertain terms. He believes Smith has saved lives. Smith makes welfare checks on different members of the MVP community, sending occasional text messages or other check-ins to gauge how they’re doing. He shows up for them when needed. He has supported the program’s expansion into new cities. Soon, a Dallas chapter may begin development. “Some of our veterans have been in dark places,� Glazer said. “He
lifts them up.� In early May, the NFL scheduled an appointment with Smith to hear his case for potential reinstatement. Cachuela was proud of the progress he’d seen Smith make. He was proud of him for positioning himself to re-enter the league, for gaining a handle on the drinking, for no longer shunning the light that his own presence has brought to others. He wanted to give Smith his Purple Heart as a reminder to keep going. “It gives me a confidence,� Smith said. “A sense of pride.�
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