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Solano fire victims want better emergency alert system

Todd R. Hansen

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VACAVILLE — Alexis Koefoed thought it oddly quiet the night of Aug. 18.

The owner of Soul Food Farms on Pleasants Valley Road said it is commonplace to have sheriff’s cruisers chasing through the area after someone up to some “country shenanigans.”

But not that night. No sirens. No one knocking on doors. Just quiet.

That would be called country quiet on most nights, but it became a much bigger concern later as the worst fire in Solano County history raged over Blue Ridge.

It tore through Mix and Gates canyons, charred 65.62 square miles (42,000 acres), destroyed more than 300 homes and claimed the lives of two residents.

One of the victims refused to leave, telling emergency officials the fire danger had passed his home. But the fire turned back.

The second man was in a shed, and as one official said, “We don’t knock on shed doors.”

“I think there are going to be a lot of people who are not going to leave next time; they are going to stay and defend their properties.

They don’t feel like anyone was out here helping them,” Koefoed said.

That is exactly what Koefoed and her husband, Eric, and their daughter did that night, shoveling dirt to save their home and other parts of their property. Still, 80% of the property was burned.

Jerry Iulliano was in Vallejo when the fire raged through the area. He got a call from his sister and tried to get back to his property, but to no avail.

“We lost the whole winery and most of the vineyard,” Iulliano said

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic file

Firefighters work at a burning house during the LNU Lightning Complex Fire along Pleasants Valley Road in rural Vacaville, Aug. 19. of his La Borgata Winery and Distillery operation. “We were going to open up to the public in 2021.”

“Maybe there was no way to stop the fire,” Koefoed concedes, “but there is no reason people could not be told to evacuate.”

‘A fire motivated by hell’ Experienced, longtime firefighters in the area said they had never seen a Solano County fire behave like this

one did, and with so many other fires burning in Northern California, the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection had no resources to help.

Howard Wood, the Vacaville Fire Protection District chief, essentially called off the fight before it got started, and focused on evacuations instead.

His second-in-command watched as pickups coming from Samuels See Alert, Page A12

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VACAVILLE — People and households with losses due to the LNU Lightning Complex Fire in Solano County have until Friday to apply for grants from FEMA or low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency awards help eligible survivors pay for rent, home repair/ replacement and many other serious disaster-related needs, including replacement or repair of vehicles,

funeral expenses, medical or dental expenses and miscellaneous other costs, FEMA reports.

To be reimbursed by FEMA, survivors should photograph damage and save receipts for repair work.

Survivors should contact their insurers and file a claim for the disaster-caused damage before they register with FEMA. Anyone with insurance should register with FEMA even if they aren’t yet certain whether they will be eligible.

FEMA may be able to help with costs that insurance doesn’t cover, the agency reports.

Todd R. Hansen

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The agency can determine eligibility once an applicant’s insurance claim is settled – but there won’t be any FEMA reimbursement for those who fail to register by the deadline Friday for those who had losses in the LNU Lightning Complex Fire, which started early Aug. 17 in Napa County and ultimately surrounded Lake Berryessa.

The Hennessey Fire, the largest fire of the LNU complex that ultimately scorched portions of six counties, is the fire that burned

FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors are scheduled Tuesday to conduct a public hearing and consider adopting fire protection district impact fees for the Cordelia, Dixon, Suisun and Vacaville fire protection districts.

They are also set to receive the Nov. 3 election certification report, and will be updated on a host of changes related to Covid-19.

Impact fees are charged to cover the costs for fire district services caused by new construction. If approved, the fees would go into effect Feb. 6.

Cordelia’s rates for new residential construction are $1.91 per square foot for a single-family homes; $2.24 for multifamily housing; and $2.22 for mobile homes.

The proposed rates for retail/commercial is $2.01 per square foot; $2.73 for office; $2.13 for industrial; $1.04 for agriculture; and $1.32 for warehouse and distribution.

Suisun rural district impact fee rates are proposed for $1.53 per square foot for singlefamily homes; $1.80 for multifamily housing; and $1.77 for mobile homes.

The retail/commercial rate is

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Deadlines loom for Solano residents to seek federal wildfire assistance Daily Republic Staff

Supervisors set to consider Solano fire district impact fees

Hernandez, Hudson take oaths of office at council session Daily Republic Staff

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SUISUN CITY — Two newly elected City Council members will take their oaths of office at Tuesday’s council meeting.

Alma Hernandez, a 20-year resident of Suisun City, won her first city race, earning her one of the two seats.

“My principal goal is to help Suisun City implement its plan of ‘providing

a safe, healthy, inclusive community so that our residents live an exceptional quality of life and likewise, our local businesses prosper’,” Hernandez said of her candidacy in February. “This is my

home; the place I share the values and integrity that make this city a great community.”

Hernandez has a bachelor’s degree in business administration management from California State UniverHUDSON sity, Sacramento, and is HERNANDEZ involved with the HisHernandez was the panic community. top vote-getter among She was endorsed the four people seeking

by Suisun City Mayor the two seats.

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man Mike Hudson earned the second seat, claiming a slim win over former Police Chief Tom Alder.

Hudson was endorsed by City Councilwoman Jane Day. He sought a fourth term on the council in 2018 and wasn’t elected, finishing third behind Day and Mayor Pro Tem Wanda Williams.

Hudson, a small-business owner, has lived in

Suisun City since 1996.

He will be the only male council member.

Hudson is calling for fiscal responsibility with the city coffers.

Those who wish to attend the council meeting must reserve a seat by sending an email to clerk@suisun.com.

Seating is limited.

The meeting can also be viewed at www.suisun.com under meeting videos.

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Having a smoking area near my desk seemed normal

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he good news: Only ress. Yes, the entire 14% of American sports staff at the DR adults are smokers, was subjected to hours down from 43% in 1972. of carcinogens every The bad news: The day, since any smoker number of smokers in the entire building – increased during the any reporter or editor, novel coronavirus panany advertising sales demic, even though representative, any Brad Stanhope front-office employee, Covid-19 harms your Like I was sayin’ anyone who smoked – lungs. Boredom and stress, I guess. stood and puffed next More bad news: The first to our desks. few years I worked at the Daily The weird thing? It didn’t Republic, the sports department seem weird. It seemed was the newspaper buildkind of normal. ing’s designated smoking area, Granted, this was in the so I inhaled enough burning mid-1980s, so everyone on the tobacco during that time to sports staff (there were five of qualify as a smoker. us in those glory days) likely Yes, my workspace was the grew up around smokers. My dad smoked cigarettes, cigars smoking area. and pipes for years – until he Yes, it seemed like prog-

got cancer and quit cold turkey.

(Decades later, the smell of cigars still makes me nauseous because I associate it with him smoking cigars on trips while I got carsick. I regale friends with an impersonation of my dad yelling over his shoulder for us to roll up our windows because “that just sucks more smoke back there, dammit!”).

Smoking areas were a reasonably new thing when I started at the Daily Republic, baby steps to treat nonsmokers as having rights to avoid cancer-causing chemicals.

Restaurants had no-smoking areas (usually a couple of tables surrounded by people who smoked like Don Draper).

People occasionally asked if it was OK if they smoked in your

house. Heck, it’s possible that by the time I was inhaling coworkers’ smoke, the cigarette machine at the pizza parlor where I worked in college was being loosely watched to ensure that a 10-year-old didn’t buy a pack of Camels.

Maybe.

My first few years at the Daily Republic – until the building was remodeled and had a second story added – were spent with people hanging out and smoking while I worked. For them, it was a nice break and a chance to visit. In the pre-internet era, they could talk sports with us and ask what happened during the day. The business writer nervously smoked while talking about what he had to finish that day. Several ad rep-

resentatives talked about the 49ers or Giants or A’s with us.

Others merely stood there, not acknowledging anyone as they blew their toxic smoke into the room.

And it seemed normal.

In 2020, as we wear masks to avoid being exposed to a dangerous virus – and as smokers are required to huddle a long distance from the rest of us – it seems insane that in the not-too-distant past, it was considered progress to merely expose sportswriters to cigarette smoke. All day. All night.

As the advertisements for Virginia Slims (women’s cigarettes!) used to say, “You’ve come a long way, baby!”

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Bus drivers plant garden at a school Tribune Content Agency NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Lisa Bares and Lou Mahone didn’t plan to spend fall outside.

They were supposed to be navigating narrow residential streets, sweeping the trash accumulated between routes, telling students to sit down and not to throw things out the window. But this year, their job kept them in one place, fixing up a courtyard at Palmer Elementary in Newport News.

“They’ve been a blessing,” said Assistant Principal Jeff Armstrong said.

When schools closed in March, districts mostly kept bus drivers on their payrolls. Schools couldn’t afford to lose drivers, perennially in short supply.

Newport News has cited a shortage multiple times as an obstacle to high school students returning to the school building.

In Hampton, about 15% of transportation department positions were vacant as of Nov. 2, according to the district’s reopening websites.

If schools let anyone go, it would take months to get a new hire trained and certified – and that’s if they can find someone willing to do a sometimes-thankless job, wrangling dozens of kids who don’t always want to be there.

“I miss the kids, although last school year, we were all just driving, and so I was tired,” Bares said. “I was exhausted.”

Most of the bus drivers knew what was about to happen before Gov. Ralph Northam ordered schools to close March 13.

Schools promised to keep drivers on the payroll through the summer at least, so Mahone and Bares weren’t too nervous about their jobs. But the early summer vacation got old

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Bus drivers Lou Mahone, left, and Lisa Bares stand in a courtyard garden at Palmer Elementary School in Newport News, Nov. 2. Mahone and Bares created the garden while students remain at home during remote learning. quickly. Mahone, who has driven for Newport News for about five years, spent a lot of time playing guitar and listening to music.

“At first it felt like, ‘Oh, wow, an early vacation!’” he said. “Then after a while you’re going . . .

‘I want something to do.’

You’ve got to have a reason to get up in the morning.”

Bares had worked with children most of her life, going back to her first babysitting job in fifth grade.

She started driving a bus in 2002 – she was in a small town in North Carolina where all teacher assistants were required to get certified to drive.

Concerned about the future, she briefly worked at Food Lion over the summer. That lasted about a month before she went on unemployment.

“It really wasn’t what I wanted to do,” Bares said.

She spent plenty of time around the house participating in one of her other passions: gardening. Bares has asthma and a heart condition, putting her at greater risk of serious illness if she contracts Covid-19, so she avoided going to a gardening store.

Instead, she used an old spoon to replant liriopes

behind her building.

“I love gardening,” Bares said. “I could be outside all day.”

Any hopes drivers had of hitting the road again at the start of the school year were mostly dashed by early August. But to keep them on payroll in fall, districts needed to find new assignments. Some helped with mobile meal pickup sites. Some were assigned to school offices and buildings.

Bares and Mahone found themselves at Palmer. Their first assignments kept them inside.

When an unexpected shipment of books arrived in the gymnasium a few days before Election Day, they helped get the books out of the way so poll workers could set up.

They returned student artwork hanging in the halls to teacher’s classrooms, distr ibuted textbooks for when students returned, cleaned out a shed of learning materials and sorted through the school’s learning library.

“We can’t just sit there hour upon hour,” Mahone said. “We have to find something to do.”

Then, Armstrong pointed them to

the courtyard.

The space had been mostly neglected. An unpruned grape vine had taken over a large swath of the concrete. Overgrown Mexican petunias and trees blocked the walkways. Stacks of bricks obscured a mural.

Bares took charge of the painting and planting.

The courtyard is now full of the school colors of red, white and black.

Mahone helped with the pruning and refurbished the picnic tables and benches that were falling apart, including one that almost immediately collapsed when he started to work on it.

“I haven’t pulled out my carpenter skills in twentysomething years,” Mahone said. “I had to go borrow tools to do it because I got rid of all of mine.”

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Solano will wait for governor to force tighter Covid-19 restrictions County reports 4 new deaths, plus 1 pending, linked in part to coronavirus Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Dr. Bela Matyas said he could not “in good conscience” follow the five Bay Area counties that are self-imposing more restrictive stay-at-home orders before required to do so by the state.

“I think they are jumping the gun, but they have been pretty conservative with their (Covid-19 response) all along,” Matyas said about the decision Friday by Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara and San Francisco counties to impose lockdown restrictions even though the Bay Area region is not yet required to do so.

Berkeley, which has its own Public Health Department, joined that group in self-imposing the more restrictive state order.

Matyas said by doing so, these jurisdictions are placing unnecessary hardships on small businesses that have shown little to do with the spread of the disease.

“I’m not comfortable doing that until the state makes (the county) do that,” he said.

Matyas said he believes to do so also would be against the consensus of the Board of Supervisors. He is scheduled to give the board an update Tuesday on the situation.

Matyas’ comments come despite Solano County adding a one-day, pandemic-high 294 new cases, many older residents who were exposed to the disease at Thanksgiving events.

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People walk through the Nut Tree retail shopping area in Vacaville while observing health and safety protocols that are in place to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19, Thursday.

It brings the total to 11,413, the Public Health Division reported Friday. Fairfield added 92 cases; Vallejo added 72; Vacaville added 68.

The county also reported four more deaths related at least in part to Covid-19, bringing the total to 85. Matyas said there will be one more announced next week.

The group of five includes four men; four of the five were older than 65. All had underlying health issues, and two likely would have died soon had they been infected by the novel coronavirus or not, said Matyas, the Solano County

public health officer.

“These are community acquired,” Matyas said, “(Three) linked to Thanksgiving events.”

The seven-day positivity testing rate also flared, going from 15.8% Thursday to 16.8% Friday. Hospitalizations were reported at 66, four more than Thursday, and active cases increased by 32 to 1,196, the county reported.

The number of completed tests went from 129,092 to Friday’s total of 130,372.

Gov. Gavin Newsom split

Numbers by jurisdiction Vallejo: 3,580 (+79) Fairfield: 3,430 (+92) Vacaville: 2,363 (+68) Dixon: 814 (+27) Suisun City: 789 (+19) Benicia: 300 (+7) Rio Vista: 97 (+2) County Area: 40 (+0) Source: Solano County Public Health for Dec. 4, 2020

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FAIRFIELD — One-time emergency aid to seniors or disabled adults is now available through the Napa/Solano Area Agency on Aging.

Seniors must be at least 60 years old.

“I am thrilled that we have obtained this funding,” Supervisor Monica Brown, who represents Solano County on the Area Agency on Aging Oversight Board, said in a brown statement. “This funding will allow us to help our seniors who are facing financial hardship because of Covid-19.”

Applicants must show they have unmet financial needs and are affected by Covid-19.

For more information or to obtain an application, contact the Benicia Family Resource Center at 746-4352 or send an email to klara@ci.benicia.ca.us.

The aid is available to residents of both Solano and Napa counties.

A total of 85 deaths have been attributed at least in part thus far this year to the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, Covid-19. County officials expect to report the 86th death early next week.

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Obituaries

Pamela Biesenthal

Nov. 15, 1944 — Nov. 22, 2020

Pamela was born in Welland, Ontario, on Nov. 15, 1944, and moved to Niagara Falls, Ontario, where she grew up with her younger brother, Don. Pamela left Niagara Falls and married her high school sweetheart, Ronald Biesenthal, in Hawaii on March 1, 1968.

Pam lived in Hawaii while her husband was serving the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. After the war was over Pamela and her husband Ronald moved to Vallejo, California, where they would start their family and had one son, Jeff Biesenthal.

Pamela completed nursing school and became an emergency room nurse at Vallejo General Hospital (now Sutter Solano Hospital). Pam, Ron and her son moved to Suisun City, California.

Pamela worked as an emergency room nurse for 30 years. She loved her job and spent a lifetime helping as many people as she could. Pamela was also a member of the SART team as well as an advice nurse, not to mention team nurse for her son’s hockey team.

No matter how hard she

worked she always made time for her family.

Growing up in Canada, Pam was a huge hockey fan. Her favorite team was the Toronto Maple Leafs.

She loved to knit and would make sweaters and blankets for her friends and family. Pam was also a talented painter and loved spending time with her friends at a painting club. Pamela loved the sport of curling and was president of the Wine Club Curling team. Pam loved to travel and visited places all around the world. She was also just as happy spending time in the woods camping with her family. Skiing, ice skating and wine tasting were other things Pam enjoyed.

Pamela Biesenthal was an amazing wife, mother and friend. She will be missed dearly and never forgotten.

Pamela is survived by her husband of 52 years, Ronald Biesenthal; son, Jeff Biesenthal and his wife, Tami; brother, Donald Price and his wife, Heather; as well as her two grandsons, Jakson and Jakob.

Arrangements under the care of McCune Garden Chapel, 707-448-6546.

James G. Shults

April 22, 1942 — Nov. 23, 2020

James Shults, of Fairfield, passed away Nov. 23, 2020.

He was born April 22, 1942, in Klamath Falls, Oregon, the son of late Gerald Shults and Juanita (Thompson) Shults.

He is survived by his three sons, Bryan, Brent and Brice and their families; 10 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and four siblings.

He was preceded in death by his father, mother and wife.

Service will be scheduled at a later date.

Friends may send their condolences to the family at www.bryanbraker.com. Arrangements by Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.

Solano: Covid-19 From Page A3 the state Thursday up into regions, and if those regions fell below 15% availability of intensive care unit beds, it would trigger the more restrictive stay-at-home order.

Solano is in a group of 10 other counties, including the five that opted into the more restrictive order.

Matyas had asked the County Counsel’s Office for an opinion on whether he could even issue such an order for Solano County, since it was tied to a regional matter.

“It turns out the governor will not make me order it; he will order it . . . and he is fully within his authority to do that,” Matyas said.

In addition to his concerns about businesses, Matyas said he also has reservations about the prohibition against private gatherings of any size.

He notes that Solano County has all along been urging local residents to avoid social gatherings, or at the very least, to take appropriate precautions such as social distancing and wearing face coverings.

The numbers show Solano County has had little success convincing the citizenry, especially

when it comes to holidays. Matyas said he does not think the new state order will have any real effect, either.

However, if Solano County does fall under the new restrictions, those include limiting restaurants to takeout services only.

It also would result in the complete closure of bars and wineries; and personal service businesses such as hair salons, barbershops and nail salons would also be closed.

Retail outlets would be limited to 20% customer capacity, a restriction many officials have said could devastate the holiday economy.

Most people who have Covid-19 experience only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. Some people, especially older adults and those with underlying health problems, experience more severe illness such as pneumonia and at times, death.

The vast majority of people recover. The World Health Organization reports people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover.

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Rededication of the Mare Island Naval Cemetery occurred on Veterans Day, Nov. 11.

Mare Island Cemetery transfer to VA may be getting closer Todd R. Hansen

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MARE ISLAND — The trigger that would allow the transfer of the historic Mare Island Naval Cemetery to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is heading to President Donald Trump.

Provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021, which were authored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Mike Thompson, would authorize Veterans Affairs to begin a cost analysis for the transfer.

House and The

Senate defense committees reached an agreement Thursday, and the bill was sent to each chamber for votes.

That still leaves the issue of Trump’s threat to veto the act unless a provision of the 1996 Telecommunications Act is repealed. That provision protects social media and other tech companies from liability for comments posted by their users.

If signed by the president, Veterans Affairs would have six months to complete the report, after which, it would have a year to negotiate with Vallejo.

One change to the language in past efforts by Feinstein and Thompson is a commitment from Vallejo “to provide in-kind nonmonetary contributions for the improvement and maintenance of Mare Island Naval Cemetery, including labor and equipment, to the extent practicable, to the Department of Veterans Affairs, following any transfer of the cemetery to the department.”

Nestor Aliga, a retired Army colonel who has been leading the charge for many years, said the veterans buried on Mare

Island deserves this.

“I am just so thankful for everyone’s support. . . .

It has been a long fight, and I’m so happy that all the veterans will get the same respect they get around the country and all around the world,” Aliga said.

He said the recent work on the cemetery should shave off a lot of the cost concerns Veterans Affairs might have, adding the VA also will find a willing partner in Vallejo.

“The place is already fixed up and the city of Vallejo is willing and able (to help maintain it),” Aliga said.

Suisun City man pleads guilty to federal narcotics, firearms offenses Daily Republic Staff

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SUISUN CITY — Jesus Heriberto Barajas, 29, of Suisun City, pleaded guilty Thursday to possession of cocaine and methamphetamine for distribution and possessing a firearm as a felon, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.

Police officers executed a search warrant April 11, 2019, at Barajas’ home in Suisun City. During the search, they found approximately 2 pounds of powder cocaine, 370 grams (0.8 pounds) of methamphetamine, a digital scale and a stolen .40-caliber handgun that had been modified to function as a fully automatic machine gun, according to court documents cited by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Barajas is not allowed to possess firearms or ammunition because he has previously been convicted of a felony offense.

The case was investigated by the Fairfield Police Department, with assistance from the FBI’s Solano County Violent Crimes Task Force, the

Solano County District Attorney’s Office and the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office.

Barajas is scheduled to be sentenced May 20 by U.S. District Judge Troy Nunley.

For each of the narcotics offenses, Barajas faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison, a maximum statutory penalty of 40 years in prison and a fine of up to $5 million, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reports. For the firearm offense, Barajas faces a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The actual sentence will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the federal sentencing guidelines, which take into account a number of variables.

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a program that brings together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent

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FAIRFIELD — State Sen. Bill Dodd will host a virtual town hall session on the future of data privacy at 6 p.m. Tuesday and invites Solano County residents to take part.

Guests include Alastair Mactaggart, founder of Californians for Consumer Privacy and sponsor of Proposidodd tion 24, the recently passed ballot measure that expands consumer rights.

“We will discuss online threats, identity theft and how we can take back control of our personal data,” Dodd said in a prepared statement.

The town hall will be broadcast live on KSVY/ Sonoma TV and streamed across multiple channels. Panelists will join Dodd in answering submitted questions and calls from listeners.

Dodd represents the 3rd state Senate District, which includes all of Solano County.

How to take part • Streaming live audio: KSVY.org • Video: https://sd03. senate.ca.gov; www. youtube.com/user/ SonomaTV/; SonomaTV.org • Email questions to: townhall@ksvy.org • Call-in questions: 933-9133 (studio line)

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Travis Credit Union hosts ‘Finance U’ event to promote financial aid to youth Daily Republic Staff

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VACAVILLE — Travis Credit Union invites young adults to attend ‘Finance U,’ an interactive virtual event Thursday that’s designed to teach youth about financial aid opportunities for postsecondary education, choosing a school and preparing for campus life and admissions.

The program will include special guests and giveaways to engage youth interested in higher education after high school. All youth (ages 13 to 21) registered for the event will be entered in a drawing to win a new Chromebook.

Attendees can register at traviscu.org/finance-u.

Travis Credit Union has come together with community partners since 2006 to increase student awareness of available state and federal opportunities for financial aid.

These events exemplify the credit union’s mission to provide financial wellness in the community reflecting the credit union’s “Awesome Cause” of providing financial education, financial literacy and financial advocacy to all it serves, according to a press release from the credit union.

One of the goals of the event is to ensure students

learn about the available financial aid resources from financial aid experts. The California Student Aid Commission reported that only 54% of California’s public high school seniors completed a FAFSA or Dream Act application last year.

“By promoting a postsecondary education after high school, we are seeking to help youth avoid common financial vulnerabilities and build economic stability for themselves and the communities in which they live,” said Barry Nelson, president and CEO of Travis Credit Union, in the press release. “Ensur-

ing that our students know various forms of aid are available is more crucial than ever, especially during this ongoing public health and economic crisis,” said Marlene Garcia, executive director of the California Student Aid Commission, in the press release.

The ‘Finance U’ event is hosted in partnership with Sacramento Area Youth Speaks, the California Student Aid Commission, Immigrants Rising, the #WeBelongin College campaign and the Personal Statement film, featuring the event’s keynote speaker, Karoline Jimenez.

In brief Toys, coats campaign continues at mall

FAIRFIELD — A two-day toys and coats drive at the Solano Town Center mall continues from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

The Fairfield Community Services Foundation’s 8th Annual Toys and Coats campaign is a partnership with Macy’s, the mall, the Police Department, the Fire Department and Republic Services.

The campaign targets toys and coats for children and teens ages 3 to 15.

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Suisun plans ‘open house’ for potential commission, committee members Daily Republic Staff

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SUISUN CITY — Are you looking to make a difference in Suisun City but are not sure how to do so?

Mayor Lori Wilson and city staff will host an “open house� for any residents interested in possibly participating on a commission or committee.

The event is scheduled from 5:30 to 6:15 p.m.

Tuesday via the Zoom teleconference platform. Link to it at https://us02web.zoom. us/j/81780339948 using the webinar ID 817 8033 9948.

It can be also accessed by phone. Call 438-1720.

Suisun City is looking for interested residents to serve on various commissions and committees, including the Planning Commission, and the Recreation Parks, Marina and Arts Commission. Both are four-year terms.

There is also an opening for a Housing Authority tenant commissioner for a two-year post.

The Planning Commission meets at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesday of the month in the council chamber at Suisun City Hall.

T he commission reviews and makes recommendations on the community’s General Plan, development applications and policy proposals on current development as well as long-range plans for future development.

The Recreation, Parks, Marina and Arts Commission meets at 7 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of each month in the council chamber.

It serves as an advisory

Suisun council to consider new Adopt-a-Street program Daily Republic Staff

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SUISUN CITY — The City Council is asked Tuesday to spend an estimated $12,000 to launch an Adopt-a-Street program.

Funds will come from the general fund. “The city is always looking for ways to increase community engagement as this lends itself to a closer community and more community pride,� reads a staff report. “Residents continue to express a dissatisfaction with the increase in trash in the city. An Adopt-a-Street program will provide an avenue for enhanced community engagement and a meaningful opportunity for volunteers to remove trash and beautify the city in the highest visibility areas.�

F a i r f i e ld has implemented an Adopta-Street Program, the committee with issues that range from public parks and grants to unmet needs and beautification.

The Housing Authority Commission is the governing board of the Housing Authority and consists of the five City Council members and two tenant commissioners.

Meetings are at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday

report states, and proposes Suisun City base its program on Fairfield’s program.

The city will supply all materials, which include, but are not limited to, custom program signs, installation of signs, vests, trash pickers, re-usable gloves and buckets. “This program would address trash on highprofile streets such as Walters Road and Sunset Avenue with these streets most likely being segmented into sections for ‘adoption,’ � the report reads.

The concept was brought to the city by Amany Saeed and Gisell Mendez, both residents of Suisun City and University of California, Davis Aggies. They will do the presentation at the council meeting.

They would manage and run the program with support from Public Works staff. The city funds would be managed

by Public Works staff. of January, April, July and October.

Tenant commissioners must be tenants of the Housing Authority and at least one tenant commissioner must be 62 years old or older.

Applications are also being accepted for a twoyear term on the Senior Coalition of Solano County.

Other opportunities to

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Transferring the management to volunteer management may be explored after the initial start-up of the program.

The subject of trash has been addressed at council meetings during public comments. City surveys have also noted the residents want something done.

Program locations include Walters Road, Pintail Drive and Sunset Avenue, streets near schools, the waterfront and downtown area, and others identified by volunteers.

The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. at 701 Civic Center Blvd. Those who wish to attend in person need to RSVP to clerk@suisun.com.

It can also be viewed on the city’s website or via the Zoom teleconference platform.

The complete agenda along with access information can be found at www.suisun.com. serve can be found with the Solano Transportation Authority’s Bicycle Advisory Committee, the Solano Pedestrian Advisory Committee and the Solano Commission for Women and Girls. All are three-year terms.

Applications and more information is available at suisun.com under the government tab.

The U.S. Drought Monitor said 75% of California is experiencing droughtlike conditions.

SACRAMENTO — Winds are forecast to come to Northern California late Sunday and ramp up on Monday. The gusts, combined with droughtlike dry conditions, have prompted Pacific Gas & Electric to order shutoffs for thousands of Californians for a “public safety power shutoff,� for the sixth time this year.

A low-pressure zone is expected to come across the northern coast, bringing some precipitation and humidity to the Bay Area on Sunday, before the winds come into the coast and Sacramento Valley.

While the National Weather Service has not issued any warnings, the weather has created elevated fire conditions. Parts of Placer and El Dorado counties will experience some of the worst winds. Close to the Sierra Crest and in higher elevations within the counties, sustained winds of 15 to 30 mph will be accompanied by gusts between 30 and 45 mph.

The dry conditions across Northern California have placed this year’s precipitation levels anywhere from a quarterinch to 2 inches below the average rainfall by this point in the year. The U.S. Drought Monitor said 75% of California is experiencing drought-

like conditions. Much of the little precipitation Northern California has experienced this year has been due to one storm in November.

Southern California experienced its own wind event this week, when Santa Ana winds triggered red flag warnings and precautionary blackouts. Fires that broke out in the region led to evacuation orders for thousands in Orange and Riverside counties.

California has experienced its worst-ever wildfire season this year – but fire threats in December, though rare, are a reminder to residents that fire season is year round.

Wildfires have always been part of life in California. The past four years have brought some of the most destructive and deadliest wildfires in the state’s modern history.

Nearly 180 people have lost their lives since 2017.

More than 41,000 structures have been destroyed and nearly 7 million acres have burned.

That’s roughly the size of Massachusetts.

So far this year, 30 people have died, according to Cal Fire.

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FAIRFIELD â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Solano County Airport Land Use Commission will conduct a workshop Thursday to begin formulating its own workplan.

The commission meets at 7 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors chamber on the first floor of the government center, 675 Texas St. in Fairfield.

The workshop follows a public hearing to determine the consistency of the proposed Dixon 2040 General Plan with

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RIO VISTA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Caltrans has signaled motorists that the Steamboat Slough bridge on Highway 160 near Courtland will be under one-way traffic control next week.

Add it iona l c onstruction is needed to maintain and keep the bridge operational, Caltrans reports. Work will occur on the spans so they can be lowered properly. The bridge remains safe for travel.

Bridgework is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Saturday, with waterway traffic still having access.

The Paintersville bridge will not be closed at the same time as the Steamboat Slough bridge work, Caltrans reports.

The alternate route will be the remaining bridges left open while one bridge is being worked on.

California legal trucks having a kingpin-to-rearaxle of more than 30 feet are not recommended on Highway 160.

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the Travis Air Force Base Land Use Compatibility Plan.

A second public hearing is on the agenda, but Vacaville has requested the commission push back its review of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s updated development code until Jan. 14.

A consistency determination of the proposed Suisun City Cannabis Business Zone Overlay with the Travis Air Force Base Land Use Compatibility Plan is part of the commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consent calendar.

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New leads may hold the key in search for parents of 628 children separated at border Tribune Content Agency SAN DIEGO — The intensive effort to locate the parents of 628 children who remain apart from their parents after being separated at the border under Trump administration policies has been bolstered by new leads, attorneys reported this week.

A group of volunteers dedicated to the search have recently gained access to two additional databases – including one belonging to the federal government – that hold potentially new contact information for parents who up to this point have been unreachable.

While the development is promising, it is also drawing ire from attorneys who question why the government didn’t hand over its information sooner, despite repeated requests for help with leads.

“The fact they’ve been sitting on these phone numbers and addresses to us seems really outrageous,” American Civil Liberties Union attorney Lee Gelernt said in a hearing in San Diego federal court Friday.

This is the second massive search for

‘The fact they’ve been sitting on these phone numbers and addresses to us seems really outrageous.’

— Lee Gelernt, American Civil Liberties Union attorney

parents who were separated from their children under the current presidential administration, and that fact that hundreds remain missing continues to attract national attention, even surfacing as a question in the second presidential debate.

The first search occurred the summer of 2018 following a court order as part of litigation filed by the ACLU. Some 2,000 families – most of whom were still in U.S. detention centers or shelters at the time – were reunited under that effort.

It was only after that effort was winding down that attorneys were notified of another group of families who had been separated as early as 2017, as part of a pilot program in Texas.

The government, under a court order to also account for those separations, found 1,134 children, as well as an additional 64 that should have been

part of the first count.

But the search for that second set of parents has proven to be more complicated. The children are no longer in government care and have been placed with sponsors – often extended family – throughout the U.S. to proceed with their own immigration cases.

The parents are also out of immigration detention.

The search has been stymied by several other factors over the past year, including mistrust in the government, poor record-keeping when the parents and children were in custody, deportations, unstable living conditions, the global pandemic and now hurricanes that have ravaged parts of Central America.

A steering committee of pro-bono attorneys and nonprofits in the U.S., Mexico and Central America have reached the parents of 570 children – 41 more than reported at the last hearing in October.

The circumstances under which those families might reunite remain unclear.

Now, the focus is on 333 children whose parents are believed to have been removed from the United States by immigration authorities, and 295 whose parents are believed to be in the U.S. Government officials had previously turned over databases of migrant contact information from certain agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

On the day before Thanksgiving, the government handed over a database from a new source, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which is responsible for immigration court proceedings. The information, at first glance, appears to fill in a lot of gaps, the ACLU said.

“We hope we will find many families from these phone numbers now,” Gelernt said, noting he hoped the information wasn’t stale by this point.

Department of Justice attorney Sarah Fabian

told the judge that EOIR has not been part of the ongoing litigation and that it was only recently that federal officials, including herself, thought of the agency’s database during a brainstorming session.

“It’s something all of us wish we had thought of sooner,” said Fabian, who pushed back on characterizations that the government had knowingly withheld the information.

U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said he

found the situation “disturbing” but that he’d hold off further comment until he got a more complete explanation from the government in writing.

The other database that volunteers will also be sifting through comes from Seneca Family of Agencies, a nonprofit that has contracted with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide mental health support to some class members in the litigation.

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Jupiter, Saturn will create a wonder: A Christmas Star Tribune Content Agency The lousiest year in living memory will end with an offering of heavenly wonder: a Christmas Star.

It’s actually the alignment of two planets – Jupiter and Saturn – which happens every 20 years or so. But it’s not always in December and it’s been nearly 800 years – we’re talking Middle Ages – since they got this close. Technically, the two largest planets in our solar system will still be hundreds of millions of miles apart.

But Dec. 21, from our vantage point, they’ll look like they’re nearly touching, creating a radiant point of light that’s being dubbed the Christmas Star, or Star of Bethlehem,

for obvious reasons.

Making it even more special: Dec. 21 also marks the winter solstice – the longest night of the year, the tipping point where daylight once again starts gaining ground on darkness.

Gotta love the symbolism.

“A little bit of cosmic perspect ive,” sa id Justin Mason, director of Old Dominion University’s Pretlow Planetarium. Not to mention spiritual – a page out of the Bible, telling of an unusual star that led the wise men to the baby Jesus.

Astronomers have long theorized that the nativity star might have really been an alignment, known as a conjunction. Mason

says a rare conjunction of Jupiter, Venus and a bright star named Regulus occurred around 2 B.C. Even while the forces directing our universe remain full of mystery, planetary orbits are now predictable.

The last humans to witness Jupiter and Saturn get this neighborly lived in 1226, but the gas giants will stage another exceptional show just 60 years from now, in March 2080.

“Sometimes with celestial mechanics,” Mason explained, “things happen close together a couple of times and then that pairing won’t happen again for a long, long time.”

At least 20-are-you-kiddin’-me-20 will wrap up with a special bow.

Lander, aka Squiggy, dies at 73 Tribune Content Agency David L. Lander, the comic actor best known for his over-the-top portrayal of 1950s greaser Squiggy on “Laverne & Shirley,” has died at the age of 73.

Lander passed away Friday from complications from multiple sclerosis at a Los Angeles

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CALmatters Commentary

Covid-19 pandemic shapes legislative session

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dictable turmoil and uncertain he California Legislature will reconvene state revenues.

Monday for what may be The Capitol’s dominant its most unusual session Democrats hope that once Joe in the state’s 170-year history.

Biden is sworn in as president, Even the manner of its first another massive federal aid meeting of the biennial session package will be enacted to shore will be odd due to concerns up education, welfare and health about the surging Covid-19 spending that was curtailed in pandemic. The 80-member state Dan Walters the 2020-21 budget due to Assembly will initially gather in projections of steep revenue Sacramento’s Golden One basketball declines. arena because its Capitol chambers However, it turned out that revenues aren’t large enough for individual were less affected than feared because distancing. upper-income Californians, who pay During their fitful meetings in the most of the taxes, have maintained their summer, legislators experimented with taxable incomes by working from home. various alternatives to in-person Another pandemic-related issue committee and floor conclaves, such as hanging over the new session is whether telecommuting. But legislative leaders lawmakers will allow Gov. Gavin wrangled over what was and was not Newsom to continue running the state legal, and the unresolved conflict under an emergency decree, largely affected what happened during the bypassing legislative input. session’s final hours in August.

Legislators were willing to cede Even if they work out the mechanics authority in the initial stages of the of legislating during a pandemic, it will health crisis last spring, but as the year dominate what legislators do over the wore on, even Newsom’s fellow Demonext nine months – most obviously in crats began to complain about one-man writing a 2021-22 state budget that rule and Republicans challenged his authority in court with some success. accounts for a state economy in unpre-

Of course, the novel coronavirus pandemic did not erase issues that had been vexing the Legislature for years, such as the state’s housing crisis and its close relatives, homelessness and poverty. In many ways, Covid-19 has worsened them and other problems, such as the “achievement gap” in public schools.

Finally, the Legislature itself has changed as Democrats padded their already immense majorities in both houses. The Legislature’s most liberal members – they would say “progressive” – are becoming more vocal about using those supermajorities to remake California’s socio-economic matrix.

That intent was voiced last week in a New York Times interview with the Legislature’s youngest new member, 25-year-old Alex Lee of San Jose.

“I felt like we have a Democratic ultra, supermajority, right? We have all the executive positions. And yet we can’t seem to do the things that are big and progressive,” Lee told the Times. “We haven’t gotten universal health care, or even close to it. We haven’t guaranteed housing for everyone. Wealth inequality is out of control. There’s something

deeply wrong about that. And I think that frustration in the system drove me to run.

“On Dec. 7, which is swearing-in day, I’m going to introduce a bill to prohibit candidates in California from taking corporate money or business entity money and to build a publicly financed election system to incentivize people to opt-out.

“My ultimate goal is to lean on public social housing as a strong alternative means for the production of housing.

Right now, the for-profit market has basically a monopoly on housing production. And cities and localities basically can only negotiate within those confines.”

Whether Lee and like-minded legislators can advance their left-leaning agenda will be an interesting subtext to what already shapes up as a session for the history books.

attackers is a much different scenario than a suffocating death from invisible pathogens. But the outcomes of the two invasions are identical. Suffering is suffering and dead is dead – be it at the hands of gun-wielding killers or an airborne pathogen. The Covid-19 virus can kill you just as dead as an AK-47 bullet. The devastating impact on our society and the economy is the same.

There is no credible argument that justifies Donald Trump’s deliberate intransigence and callous indifference to the Covid-19 invasion of America. That Trump knew about the danger in January and for political reasons purposefully ignored the threat, failed to inform Americans and refused to craft a comprehensive and coordinated national plan to defeat the invading novel coronavirus is akin to negli-

gent homicide.

Importantly, all living organisms require nourishment to survive.

Covid-19 is no different; to live it feeds on the protein-making machinery of human cells. But when organisms starve, they die. There are two ways to eliminate Covid-19: (1) with a vaccine, (2) by withholding its food source.

Similarly, there are two ways to withhold Covid-19’s food source: (1) social distancing, (2) wearing a mask.

So the next time you decide not to wear a mask in public or to attend a crowded social event, remember that you are inviting Covid-19 home for dinner while subjecting others to an unwanted visit by your murderous dinner companion.

CALmatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more columns

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Let citizens decide I just learned today on a social media platform that our Waterfront Christmas Celebration is canceled.

So the Fourth of July celebration was canceled, now this too. Whelp, with all the budget expense being not spent, why doesn’t the Daily Republic ask the Suisun City citizens what they feel they’re unused tax money should go to.

Could it be road improvements, or socialized need – homeless, or Old Town downtown improvements?

Yes, DR, you should ask real “city folk” what should be done with that unused budget money.

Rob Thomas Suisun City

Solano needs more projects for homeless The Fairfield City Council has adopted an ordinance allowing for a streamlined permitting process for temporary houseless shelters on religious facilities. This is a great first step, but there’s still a long road ahead. Solano County must do more to support our homeless.

An amazing example of a community coming together to support the houseless can be found next door in the East Bay, where volunteers from various groups, both religious and irreligious, came together to construct a tiny house village for houseless youth on land donated by the city of Oakland to the nonprofit Youth Spirit Artworks.

Meanwhile, back at home, resident concerns led to the deaths of two attempts by Solano County to establish a tiny-shed houseless shelter in Vacaville.

More than 1,000 people are homeless in Solan,o according to the last point-intime count performed by Housing First Solano. That’s more than 1,000 people who are at greater risk of contracting Covid-19. More than 1,000 people who don’t have anywhere to go. More than 1,000 people who need our support.

Solano County residents need to be more welcoming and supportive of attempts to shelter our houseless. Our governments need to do more to attract and streamline both tried and innovative ways of providing housing and support.

We need to do more to support and take care of our own.

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Managing Covid-19 – food for thought Imagine if clandestine forces from a hostile foreign country infiltrated the United States and gunned downmore than 275,000 Americans. Without question, the federal government would marshal, coordinate and deploy every resource at its disposal to fight off the invaders. It would spare no cost and no effort until the foe was vanquished.

Americans would stand together in resolute resistance to the foreign invaders.

So, about 10 months ago a Covid-19 virus from China invaded America, multiplied exponentially, and has brutally killed 275,000 Americans.

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the purple tier of our â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blueprint e have been asking ourselves that same question for a Safer Economy,â&#x20AC;? our special about everything this celebrations in the church of year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Easter, Memorial Day, Advent and Christmas will be Fourth of July, Sundays . . . the much different. list goes on.

But we will celebrate!

What will Christmas look like Because no matter what is in the midst of a pandemic? going on in the world, we will None of us have experienced take time to remember and Karen Stetins rejoice because, â&#x20AC;&#x153;For unto you is this before. We have historical Religious view records and a few (very few) born this day . . . a Savior.â&#x20AC;? first-hand recollections of the This day and that day pandemic of 1918. and every day.

But for the vast majority of us, this is The celebration of Jesus, Emmanuel all new territory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;God with Usâ&#x20AC;? is not tied to a specific The health professionals told us not to day or tradition. God is indeed with us have large gatherings for Thanksgiving yesterday, today and tomorrow. and Christmas.

Christmas carols will still play on the With Solano County reverting back to radio reminding us that our â&#x20AC;&#x153;Joy to the

Worldâ&#x20AC;? comes again and again. We will celebrate that little town of Bethlehem and the manger that cradled our Lord.

We will celebrate the waiting and hope of Advent and Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming again to bring all Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children to himself.

No matter what the world says, we have a different message â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one of joy, hope and most of all the peace of Christ that passes all human understanding.

We will know that peace this Christmas just like Christmases past and future. The peace does not come from Christmas plays and concerts, it does not come from large gatherings of people or crowded shopping malls. It comes only from our heartfelt trust that God will never leave us alone or without

reason to celebrate life.

Perhaps this year when it may be a little harder to focus on the gifts and the gatherings, our focus can be the amazing God we worship and all that God does for us even in the midst of pandemics and whatever else the world has to offer.

St. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offers live-streaming worship at 9 a.m. each Sunday on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/ channel/ UCzf60vRl9n7f9XxXTMQaznw.

I wish you a joyous Advent and merry Christmas.

The Rev. Karen Stetins is senior pastor at St. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lutheran Church in Fairfield. She can be reached at pastorkaren@stmarksfairfield.org.

Biden, new cardinal share a mandate of healing, reconciliation The Washington Post When Pope Francis needed a leader to help heal Catholics in the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital recovering from the latest round of clergy sex abuse that had engulfed now former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, he tapped Archbishop Wilton Gregory as its new

president in April 2019.

This January, when Joe Biden becomes only the second Catholic president in U.S. history, the politician who pledged to heal America amid a global pandemic, economic dislocation and a racial reckoning will have Gregory as his local pastor.

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Denise Kirnig is the senior health services manager at Solano County Public Health.

Desire for something new lands Solano nutritionist

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olano County was in its third month of dealing with Covid-19 – but the unknowns far outweighed what the Public Health Division had in its grasp.

So as some Bay Area counties began closing their schools March 16, and just a little more than two weeks into its local emergency, Solano County waited.

It was then the pressure began to rise.

“I think the hardest day for me was when the schools wanted to close and (Dr. Bela Matyas) took a few days before he made the decision to close them,” Denise Kirnig, 55, the Solano County senior Health Services manager, said in a phone interview.

“And those three days were the worst,” Kirnig said.

She said school districts and the public were inundating the Public Health office with calls.

There was a lot of panic at the time, and even a level of hostility.

But there were other pressures as well. Many of the Bay Area counties that had declared a stayin-place order as part of their decision, and Solano County emergency service officials were insistent that was the wrong language.

Stay-in-place language

is typically used during an incident with an immediate danger to residents, such as an active shooter situation or a chemical spill.

Following that lead, Solano County issued a stay-at-home order. The schools closed March 27.

Matyas is the county’s health officer.

Kirnig inspired by science, business in high school Kirnig was born in Bakersfield but raised in the Fresno County town of Sanger, The National Christmas Tree City,

located about 15 miles southeast of Fresno, with its orange groves and vineyards and downtown park where locals gather.

It was while she was a high school student Kirnig read “Toward an End to Hunger in America” by Peter Eisenter, which inspired her to pursue a career in nutrition.

“It was about how many people, especially kids, were going to bed hungry,” said Kirnig, and that despite America’s bounty.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in nutritional science at California Polytechnic State Uni-

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Kirnig is also a registered dietician, who came to Solano County from Tulare County.

“I started off with the county 29 years ago as an extra help public nutritionist,” Kirnig said.

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hat happened?

It’s not a long story. It does have a moral, though: God will reward stupidity with pain. I can testify to that.

I’m the stupid one.

The title of this column should or could be, “How unsmart can one person be?” You decide.

It all started with my iPhone. All of a sudden it wouldn’t accept calls or let me answer them.

Some old woman’s voice kept talking to me. “I can fix that,” I said to myself. More wrong buttons. Things then went rapidly downhill.

“OK,” I thought, “I’ll let iPhone fix it. That’s what they do.” I called my dear friend Larry Welch and we went off to the Apple store at the mall.

That’s where the real trouble began. That’s where I demonstrated my highly developed stupidity.

I had been told that the store was on the first floor of the mall. I was standing on the first floor looking up at the store on the second floor above me. The escalator was running in front of me going directly to the iPhone store. Perfect!

A simple solution right in front of me. So I took my walker and hopped on the escalator for a short ride.

Short it was. The escalator quickly bucked me off and banged my head and arms up in the process. Blood was everywhere – mine.

Some remarked that I was a really colorful old man. Several mall employees were there and stopped the escala-

Murray Bass Plan to live tor before it could make me a “Bass burger.”

In case anyone should ask, this was nobody’s fault but my own. Too much ego. Medic Ambulance arrived for my ride to the emergency room at Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Center. Talk about new experiences. Ambulance and emergency. First time for both for me.

This ride confirmed that it was the right thing to be among the Solano County folks who fought the governments – the city of Fairfield’s and Solano County’s – attempt to take ambulance service away from Medic Ambulance, but that’s another story. We arrived after a short ride at the Kaiser Permanente ER. First step: Find out how bad the hurts are. I hope they aren’t as bad as they feel.

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ortic stenosis is a serious type of heart valve disease that is estimated to affect more than one in eight people over the age of 75. As our population in Solano County ages, this disease truly affects us all close to home.

The aortic valve needs to open and close properly to allow blood to efficiently leave the heart. Aortic stenosis occurs when the aortic valve becomes too narrow to open properly. This causes the heart to work harder and, ultimately, develop heart failure. Initial symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, passing out and, less frequently, sudden death.

While untreated aortic stenosis can lead to congestive heart failure and, ultimately, death, it certainly is a disease that easily can be discovered and managed by a team of doctors.

The most important preventive tool is to have regular visits with your primary care physician or provider. Aortic stenosis is often found when a doctor listens to the heart and hears a murmur. Not all heart murmurs are life-threatening, but the vast majority of them should be managed by a cardiologist.

The most common cause of aortic stenosis is the buildup of calcium on the valve as we age. Less likely causes include congenital causes (e.g. bicuspid valve) and rheumatic heart disease.

While most people are initially able to do well with aortic stenosis, the disease process ultimately worsens over time. A strategy of “watchful waiting” is employed early on, but once symptoms (e.g. shortness of breath, passing out, chest pain) develop, replacing the aortic valve should be considered.

Prior to 2011, the only treatment option available in the United States was surgical replacement. This approach requires a sternotomy and a heart-lung bypass machine.

With the advent of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), we are now able to replace the aortic valve via a minimally invasive approach.

The procedure is carried out under monitored anesthesia care (as opposed to general anesthesia). The new valve is positioned via a catheter inserted through a small cut in the femoral artery.

A balloon on the catheter’s tip is inflated to expand the replacement valve into the appropriate position. Once in place, the new valve begins to normally function. The patient is expected to spend two nights in the hospital for monitoring purposes prior to being discharged home.

Recovery time, in general, is minimal, but depends on one’s baseline functional capacity. Although a relatively safe procedure, there are still small risks to the TAVR procedure. Inserting the new aortic valve can damage the heart’s electrical wiring and result in the need for a permanent pacemaker. Inserting a new aortic valve can also disrupt the calcium on the old valve, which can then lead to stroke.

Although the risks are low, several precautions are taken to minimize them.

Not everyone is a candidate for TAVR, however, and this is why people with valvular heart disease should be thoughtfully evaluated by a cardiologist who specializes in valvular heart disease.

Dr. Mark Villalon specializes in interventional cardiology at the NorthBay Heart and Vascular Center.

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Kenny Turck in his garden near Litchfield, Minnesota, Aug. 13.

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he decades may have helped the wound to close over, but you can still feel the hurt under his words.

Gardener and social worker Kenny Turck was in grade school when his big sister committed suicide at 21. An outspoken daughter of Litchfield, Minn., the Crow River community that her family had called home since 1875, Kathy Turck was gay and the victim of a horrific assault.

“She was raped by four men, and the judge blamed the assaults on her lifestyle,” Turck said, his eyes falling away.

That compound tragedy devastated his family and set him on a course to find and provide healing, Turck, 54, said while standing in his vegetable garden as his boisterous pooch, Woke, bounded around.

He had a twin brother who struggled to deal with the emotional trauma. “He was plagued with recurring dreams and thoughts and later on went on to use chemicals to self-medicate.

I worked to help people belong.”

Turck’s garden outside his Litchfield home was selected by a panel of judges as one of six winners in the Star Tribune’s annual Beautiful Gardens contest, chosen from more than 380 nominations from readers.

In this unusual year, the contest was changed a bit.

We invited readers to nominate gardens that are beautiful in spirit and contribute to the greater good.

Digging in dirt Most people look at a row of cabbage or carrots and think of savory things that they can make. Turck looks at crops and thinks of therapy. They are a gateway into mind and heart and soul.

Middle From Page A10 A year later, she signed on full-time and began her climb through the ranks, which included supervisor of a WIC clinic three years into her tenure.

She later became manager of Nutrition Services.

Two years ago, with retirement in mind, she became the county’s senior Health Services manager.

“I just wanted to do something different, and I wanted to train the person who would be taking my position in Nutrition Services,” Kirnig said.

What she could not plan for was the Covid-19 pandemic.

“I oversee the epidemiologists and all their outreach investigations,” Kirnig said. “I’m also in

In 2010, he founded Dirt Group, a hands-on social skills group that combines farming with therapy. His clients come from many backgrounds and represent many ages, but he has a special fondness for young people, especially those at-risk youngsters suffering from trauma or feeling displaced.

The work they do with Turck includes group sessions and gardening. They plant heirloom tomatoes, as well as an assortment of basil, corn and squash.

“As a kid growing up, I loved harvest season, especially digging carrots or unhusking the decorative corn,” Turck said. “I didn’t realize at the time that nature is full of fractals, and those repeating patterns cause our nervous system to be soothing and calm. The Japanese refer to it as forest bathing.

It’s ecotherapy, getting us back into balance.”

Each youngster has a treatment plan that has identified a medical reason for them to be in the group, which, before the pandemic, met twice a week for two hours each time. They would start out with a talking circle before going into experiential activities. They would cook together and eat together. The treatment can last anywhere from three months to a year.

“Most of the kids have complex trauma histories,” Turck said. “Everybody thaws out differently from their trauma.”

Beyond healing But digging in the dirt is not just for therapy. The gardening that the young people do also is practical. The clients harvest and keep the food that they plant for their tables.

“Our food system is based in capitalism, but food to me seems to be the most basic human right,” Turck said. “We have enough knowledge that nobody charge of all the testing sites . . . and I also manage the wholeperson care program.”

In the early part of the novel coronavirus pandemic, one of her jobs was to help develop a question-and-answer program for callers, and to train those taking calls from the public.

Each of those calls also had to be logged.

“I think the county has done a really good job. It’s not easy, and you are trying to do your regular job, too,” Kirnig said.

Now she describes her job as “making sure the team has what they need and nothing gets in their way.”

She said she has always been a pretty good multitasker, but that has been tested during the pandemic. There is always more to do than time to do it.

She said the staff will do just about anything to break the stress, but more than anything,

should ever go hungry – hunger is unconscionable.”

His clients, ages 4 to 12, come from across the nation.

He describes Dirt Group as “a resiliency and trauma-informed mental health application.” Gardening and farming are joined with creative arts projects.

“We grow food with kids with mental health issues,” Turck said. “We help them develop social competency. We help them heal.”

Passionate about his work, Turck, who is working on a doctorate, easily goes deep into his discipline, discoursing on polyvagal theory (about how human emotions are expressed in facial cues) and the autonomic nervous system that regulates bodily functions.

All those things come into play as he leads groups populated with youngsters with autism.

“The exercise that happens when we look at each other’s faces, what I refer to as cranial nerve interaction – the intensity, volume, cadence of our voices, this is where we learn empathy and learn social and emotional intelligence,” Turck said.

Peggy Robbins, a foster mother who lives 10 minutes away from Turck in Kingston, oohed over the cabbage, zucchini and cinnamon basil in the garden on a recent visit.

Over the years, Turck has worked with many of the young people she fosters.

“Kenny is really good with the kids,” Robbins said. “He gets them digging in the dirt and opening up into a good place.”

Ready to roll Intense and focused, Turck sports a buzz cut that suggests a Marine’s discipline. But his aura is more rock ‘n’ roll. That’s appropriate, given he once made a go of a musician’s life.

A vocal performance major at the College of St. John’s, she said, humor helps a great deal. Still, finding time off for everyone is essential, too.

She recalls early on that some of the staff were working 120-hour weeks.

“It has been very stressful, especially in the beginning when we didn’t know (much about the disease),” Kirnig said.

And just when the county thought it had turned the corner, this latest spike has been even more troubling.

“This surge has been tough.

It’s actually more than we had in July,” Kirnig said.

She said the case numbers are at a point that Matyas “will have to make some decisions . . . about how to manage this.”

Manage this means setting priorities for the staff’s time.

Some things might not get the same attention as before.

“But what can you do, the cases are high,” Kirnig said.

Turck initially thought the way to help people find their place in the world was to give them music. He became a singersongwriter, spending 2 1/2 years on the road as the lead singer of a band that kept changing its name. It started out as Toy Menagerie but later became Boo Radley (after a character in “To Kill a Mockingbird”) and, later, Strickland, after a band member’s New Jersey home.

“We played with Kansas and REO Speedwagon,” Turck said.

“Everybody I met on the road was seeking the same thing, which was to belong.”

Even before college, he was giving presentations on suicide awareness and prevention. But being in the music world helped crystallize his calling.

“I bopped around with a guitar and would sing with my eyes closed,” conjuring visions, Turck recalled. “That’s when I would see my twin brother, and my cousin and my sister underneath the couch. There’s something powerful about music that was helping me to heal.”

After college, he worked in a residential treatment center.

Even as he enjoyed the rush he got from performing in front of thousands of people, he longed to do work that was less noisy, more sensitive and a lot more focused. That meant going to graduate school to try to work out the ghosts of his own past and to help young people find their place in the world.

“When the kids come here, they have new experiences to help them in ways that even I sometimes don’t know,” Turck said, smiling. “Some kids really get into our blue and purple potatoes. Some go nuts making cinnamon basil cookies. We grow all of that right here, by their hands.”

Hands that farm sweet helpings of organic produce, with big sides of healing.

Change of plans Kirnig and her husband, Steve, have an adopted 14-yearold son, Jordan, who is a special needs student.

Her plan was to retire in December so she could spend more time with their son as he moved into high school. That changed with the pandemic.

“It is really hard to leave my staff in the middle of the pandemic. So it’s March, but I haven’t filed any papers,” Kirnig said.

When she is not working, Kirnig said she enjoys a variety of activities.

“I recently took up Pilates; it really calms my nerves,” she said.

Kirnig and her husband also enjoy cycling, gardening and home projects. The family, which lives in Vacaville, also hosts foster dogs.

Some have ended up as pets.

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A Vacaville foothills resident said, “it was a fire motivated by hell.”

Don Ryan, manager of the Solano County Office of Emergency Services, said the first evacuation warning was issued at 8:30 p.m. Aug. 18 for the area between Highway 128 and Mix Canyon Road.

It was issued by Calfire.

Wood issued an evacuation order at 11:30 p.m. for Highway 128 to Gates Canyon Road, and 15 minutes later, Calfire issued the same order.

More orders would be issued in succession into Aug. 19 as the fire threatened residential neighborhoods in Vacaville and Fairfield.

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It doesn’t take long to learn what the residents in the fire area want most – and first. They want a better alert system.

Despite the Alert Solano system that sends emergency messages to cellphones and other devices, and despite efforts by fire and sheriff’s personnel to warn residents – including some using the new high-low siren – many residents did not get the message to get out until the fire was basically right on top of them.

“There were some serious tragedies that happened out here,” said Koefoed, who also wants to hear county officials take responsibility for the missteps.

“The county seemed to be completely unprepared . . . despite all the fires going on in the state,” said Dan Schwartz, who lives on Blue Ridge Road on Mount Vaca.

His wife, Denise Revel, had her Girl on the Hill lavender farming operations completely destroyed, though the family home was spared.

“One of the biggest issues is the kind of notifications. It was almost completely dependent on neighbors contacting neighbors,” Schwartz said. “Denise and I were already in bed when a neighbor from Pleasants Valley called us and asked if we knew we had to evacuate.”

He said the fire was on his property when they left.

It is hard for residents to understand how these issues have not

Wildfire From Page One into Solano County late Aug. 18 and early Aug. 19.

Six people died as a result of the fire, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reports. Five people were injured, including one first responder.

A total of 309 single-family homes were destroyed by the fire in rural Solano County. A total of 1,491 structures were destroyed across the larger fire complex.

Hennessey, eight fires that sparked in Napa County and quickly merged into one megafire, also burned across portions of Yolo, Lake and Colusa counties, charring nearly 477.58 square miles (305,651 acres) – 65.62 square miles (42,000 acres) in Solano County.

The larger fire complex includes two smaller fires in Sonoma County and charred more than 567.53 square miles (363,220 acres). The fire burned until Oct. 2. The complex fire is the fifthlargest fire in the state’s

been resolved before this.

After all, everyone knows what happened in Paradise and Santa Rosa and in other areas.

And, of course, they know Solano County has had bad fires, too. Some quite recently.

Schwartz said he had this very discussion with county emergency service officials a year ago at a Calfire meeting held at Green Valley Country Club.

“We asked why we didn’t have a fail-safe siren system,” Schwartz said.

He said he felt like his questions were dismissed.

Ryan remembers the meeting. He said no one’s comments were dismissed. But there are budget and other issues involved in these decisions.

Is anyone listening?

Super visor John Vasquez said he wants residents to know the county is listening.

He expects to have a report out in January that reflects the comments by fire area residents during a series of six “listening sessions” held over the past few weeks – three organized by Yolo County officials and three by Vasquez.

“I think there are a number of things we have to address,” Vasquez said Friday during a phone interview. “One of the ones that we heard about most was (the need) for a more robust alert system.”

Ryan agreed there were a number of problems.

“But it wasn’t a complete failure,” Ryan said.

“Am I happy with the results? No, but some got the (Alert Solano) alerts, so it wasn’t a complete failure.”

Ryan also noted that what has been learned in the aftermath of the fire is that some people turn their phones off at night; others hung up when the alert came in because they thought the calls were a prank.

Other people thought they had signed up for Alert Solano, but Ryan said checks on those names and addresses showed they were not in the system.

Additionally, the wildfire created its own weather, with tornadoes actually forming, and that affected connectivity in some areas. And, of course, the cell tower eventually burned down.

As for the police and fire crews that were driving through the fire area to alert residents, even knocking on doors, “there are going to be priority areas,” Ryan said.

So, yes, some areas farther from the immediate threat did not modern history, dating back to 1932.

It’s the 11th mostdestructive fire of the modern era and is tied for 11th as the most-deadly fire, Cal Fire reports.

Hennessey by itself would rank seventh on the list of the state’s largest fires.

There are three ways for survivors to register: online at Disaster Assistance.gov, with the FEMA Mobile App on a smartphone or tablet, or by or by calling the FEMA Helpline at 800-621-3362 (TTY 800462-7585) between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. Pacific time.

Those who use a relay service such as a videophone, Innocaption or CapTel should provide FEMA with the specific number assigned to that service when they register. Multilingual services are available on the helpline and specialists can answer most questions about FEMA assistance and registration.

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Denise Revel of Girl on the Hill stands in a patch of lavender near her home in Vacaville, June 16, 2017. have emergency crews going through their neighborhoods.

Ryan also defends those firefighters and sheriff’s deputies who risked their lives. He does not think the criticism is fair.

“No, I don’t think it’s fair when you consider what they had to do, and some of the rescues that were done up there were heroic,” Ryan said.

Ryan said maybe the county has become too reliant on technology, and the best alert system would be one that is actually layered with the best camera, sensor and other technologies and oldstyle radio-wave sirens, maybe even spotters – though he cannot recall the idea of watchtowers being discussed.

“I would love to have someone up on the hill,” Ryan said.

He noted, again, that all of that comes with a price tag, sometimes a heavy price tag, and those decisions will have to be made by policymakers.

Iulliano said a better fire water system needs to be developed with Solano Irrigation District, with fire hydrants in areas where there are clusters of homes.

And while he thinks it is unlikely to happen, he would like to see PG&E put its power lines underground, so power would not have to be shut off during these emergencies.

Then there is this scenario: a lightning strike hits inside Solano County, so that would allow for even less time to respond.

“One thing that has been proved is there is never enough time,” Vasquez said. “And minutes matter, seconds matter,” Vasquez said.

What are the next steps?

Vasquez said it is unlikely anything will be done until the final report is completed and the Board of Supervisors gets a chance to review the information, discuss it and make decisions.

Budgetary concerns are bound to be part of that discussion – including the idea of some kind da maged pr ima r y dwelling. n A description of disaster-caused damage and losses. n Current mailing address. n Current telephone number. n Total household annual income. n Routing and account number of your checking or savings account (for direct transfer of funds to your bank account).

After you register online or with the FEMA app, you can create your own account. This will enable you to check the status of your application, view messages from FEMA, update your personal information and upload documents that may be necessary to determine your eligibility for aid.

If you are unable to upload your documents, mail them to FEMA at P.O. Box 10055, Hyattsville, MD 20782-8055 or fax them to 800-827-8112.

U.S. Small Business Administration Friday is also the deadline to apply for a disaster loan from the U.S. Small

of new funding source that could be linked to the ongoing consolidation effort of rural districts.

But Vasquez said there has to be a first next step.

“For us, it is looking into a pretty robust tower we can put all the cell providers on, and won’t burn up. Another is to look at sirens,” the supervisor said.

“I think they are some things we can get to easily,” Vasquez said.

He said he also would like to see some fire safety councils develop in neighborhoods, each with a phone tree of its own, so when an alert is received, that council system would also be engaged, and maybe it reaches more people.

Vasquez agrees with Ryan that a camera system and sensors need to be explored, too.

Residents have some responsibility Vasquez said the story that sticks with him most right now is about a former firefighter who was helping save his neighbors’ homes while his own burned.

He had cleared defensible space around his home, but failed to put his propane tank far enough away, and it sat under a tree.

When the tank went up, the resulting fire took the home, and less replaceable, the family photographs and other items that had been passed down from one generation to another.

“And (his wife) said, ‘It was almost like I lost my life, my soul,’ ” Vasquez said.

The supervisor urges residents to make their properties as safe as possible. He also urges all of them to sign up for Alert Solano, but to remember they cannot turn off their phones at night.

And while it is not spoken out loud a lot, residents may have to be willing to tax themselves to bring safety measures to fruition, especially since fire season may now be a year-round threat.

“Fire season is forever anymore,” Vasquez said.

Business Administration.

Grants from FEMA are meant to give eligible survivors a start on their road to recovery. The primary source of recovery funding for many, however, is a loan from the SBA, which makes disaster loans to individuals and businesses of all sizes.

Survivors can find out more and apply for a loan at DisasterLoan Assistance.sba.gov/. For additional assistance, contact the SBA’s Virtual Disaster Loan Outreach Center. Customer service representatives are available to assist individuals and business owners, answer questions about SBA’s disaster loan program, explain the application process and help each person complete their electronic loan application.

The Virtual Disaster Loan Outreach Center is open from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific time daily.

Call 800-659-2955 or send an email to FOCW Assistance@sba.gov.

These services are only available for the California disaster declaration as a result of the wildfires and not for assistance related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Even with vaccines, airport testing here for long haul Bloomberg Even as the race to approve and distribute covid-19 vaccines is entering its final stretch, parts of the travel industry are sprinting to a different finish line: airport testing.

In hubs large and small, from JFK to Boston to Frankfurt, Germany, a variety of companies are figuring out how to scale preflight rapid and PCR Covid testing in hopes of facilitating safe air travel and lessening quarantine requirements for anyone who isn’t first in line for a shot.

The leaders of that effort may come as a surprise.

In the U.S., it’s XpressSpa, the purveyor of quickie mani-pedis and travel pillows. It’s currently operational in four major U.S. airports, with more to come in December.

In the U.K., Collinsonthe parent company of the Priority Pass airport lounge network-is the testing partner for London Heathrow and Virgin Atlantic, which recently began offering free tests for passengers on flights to select Caribbean destinations. This effort expanded to three additional U.K. airports this week. Collinson also announced a partnership in midNovember with American Airlines, British Airways, and the Oneworld airline alliance that will bring testing to select flights and hopefully lead to the creation of an “air bridge.”

In other words: Momentum is building.

“We went from concept to pilot in 75 days,” says XpressSpa Chief Executive Officer Doug Satzman of the effort’s early days; the company’s first Covid-19 testing facility opened at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport in June. But

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Travelers wearing protective masks receive nasal swabs from nurses at a Covid-19 test site at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Nov. 22. expanding has been slow work. “Operating in airports is a difficult, highly complex, highly regulated environment-just getting an electrician in to fix something in your store is kind of a pain,” Satzman explains.

“It’s been a tiring journey, I won’t deny it,” says David Evans, co-CEO of Collinson, whose company got into the testing game due to its knowledge of airport operations and its history as a purveyor of travel insurance. While its Heathrow effort has grown from testing 25,000 passengers per day to testing more than 1 million, some challenges to scaling up are hard to overcome.

Difficulties have little to do with square footage or money. Creating airport testing sites, Evans says, is a low-cost proposition that can fill any empty or under-utilized space, of which there are many in airports today. It’s the lack of coordinated policy around testing requirements that has thwarted any type of global (or even country-wide) expansion.

“If they rolled out a national testing mandate for air travel, we’d be there to support in as many airports as possible,” adds Evans, who has been lob-

bying vociferously for that exact approach to “get the world moving again.”

Both Satzman and Evans think their efforts will pay off, whether they’re the turtle or the hare in a race with vaccines. After all, both executives are of the mindset that airport testing will be a long-term need, relevant for at least the next two years and possibly far longer.

For both Satzman and Evans, providing airport testing is less a way to compensate for Covid-related losses than a means to get air travel-and therefore their core businesses-back on track. As Satzman puts it, “It’s not a big money thing, it’s a service you offer to let people back in so you can make money off your other businesses. “ The same could be said about Lufthansa, which in mid-November started to roll out free and rapid preflight testing for certain flights between Munich and Hamburg in collaboration with the German biotech firm Centogene. “Successful testing of entire flights can be the key to revitalizing international air traffic,” says Christina Foerster, Lufthansa Group’s executive board member for customer, IT, and corpo-

rate responsibility.

There’s data to support the idea that testing could reestablish consumer confidence. In a study published by the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) in October, 76% of respondents said that rapid testing prior to departure-with waived quarantining requirements for those who test negative-would be the best way to open up international travel.

The barrier is a patchwork approach to entry requirements across state, regional, and international levels, and the lack of a unified system to verify results. In Hong Kong, for instance, travelers need to present a “physical, stamped, paper copy of

long-awaited holiday travels stick, and you have demand boiling over from passengers who are less concerned about quarantine requirements than keeping their relatives safe.

Against all these odds, airport testing efforts are gaining liftoff, thanks to a few recent developments. First is the recent, increased availability of rapid tests, which have allowed companies such as XpressSpa to think a bit further outside the box. .

Then there’s interest from airlines, who are seeing wide adoption of a vaccine as too far-off to suit their financial hopes.

“Airlines are the ones stringing together the air bridges,” says Satzman.

results,” says Collinson’s Evans; travelers to other destinations need only log into a health portal for an agent to review.

Satzman doesn’t see much of that changing. In the U.S., as in other countries, coordinated policy for airport testing would require unprecedented cooperation among agencies as wide-ranging as the Federal Aviation Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Health and Human Services. But with infections in the U.S. reaching an all-time high, and Europe batting down its second wave, the need for testing has become more urgent.

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UK officials tell doctors, nurses they won’t get priority for vaccine The Washington Post LONDON — The first doses of the newly approved coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer arrived in Britain on Thursday night, the shipment packed in dry ice and traveling by truck from the company’s manufacturing plant in Belgium through the Eurotunnel to England.

Yet excitement over next week’s planned launch of a mass immunization program was tempered Friday by frustration over a late decision to exclude front line health workers from the first round – though many had already booked appointments.

Priority will go to people over 80 years old and to nursing home caregivers, and public health officials conceded that demand could quickly outstrip supply in the early months, even for those groups. The 800,000 doses Britain expects to get this month “could be the only batch we receive for some time,” warned Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers.

Britain’s early launch makes it the first country to confront the challenges of rolling out a vaccine that uses revolutionary technology and requires extremely careful handling.

The United States isn’t far behind in its approval decision, and experience here could inform U.S. efforts – though the United Kingdom’s universal health-care system allows a more centralized approach.

The U.S. government plans to ship 6.4 million doses of Pfizer’s vaccine to states within 24 hours after an expected emer-

gency-use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration, Army Gen. Gustave Perna, chief operations officer for Operation Warp Speed, said this week.

While the United States may also start slow in the early weeks, like Britain, Perna told reporters the numbers will quickly grow. The White House vaccine czar predicted the United States should be able to distribute enough vaccine to immunize 100 million people by the end of February.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel on Tuesday voted to recommend prioritizing health-care workers and residents of long-term care facilities first. That’s in line with the priority lists in many countries around the world.

But Britain shocked its National Health Service medical workers Thursday evening by revealing that, contrary to long-held assumptions, they would not be among the first to get an injection.

Frontline nurses and doctors have been regularly hailed as national heroes in Britain. In the early months of the cresting pandemic, citizens filled the streets banging pots and pans, blowing horns and clapping in weekly displays of appreciation for their courage.

But now, along with much of the country, they will be expected to wait.

Mike Adams, director for England at the Royal College of Nursing, said that in the past few weeks, “the messaging from politicians has been focused on ‘the NHS staff will get it,’ and so some of the narrative from politicians has

been unhelpful in raising expectations.”

Adams told The Washington Post, “We want to see our members have access to it for their own safety and to prevent further outbreaks in the areas they are working, but we appreciate that with limited supply of vaccine, you understand why the most vulnerable are being prioritized. But the confusion is the most unhelpful part.”

Instead of ICU nurses, ventilator specialists and emergency room physicians, NHS officials and vaccine task force members said they wanted to prioritize the elderly and nursing home caregivers – because the highest mortality and the largest number of hospitalizations have come from that age group and sector.

Unfortunately, however, NHS officials conceded they do not yet have a protocol nor approval from drug regulators to offer Pfizer injections within nursing homes.

The vaccine is built on tiny bits of messenger RNA, which encourage the body to produce antibodies to repel the spike protein on the surface of the coronavirus. RNA vaccines need to be stored and shipped at seriously cold, sub-Antarctic temperatures of minus 75 Celsius, and so they require special handling.

British regulators, in granting emergency approval for the Pfizer vaccine, said it cannot be moved more than four times and that the trays of 975 doses cannot be split apart – meaning a tray cannot at this time be broken up to give injections in the typically smaller nursing homes.

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FAIRFIELD — Dec. 8, 1980.

John Lennon was murdered as he was returning home to the Dakota in New York City.

As he and his wife, Yoko Ono, stepped out of a limousine and walked toward the building’s entrance, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon four times in the back.

Chapman, 25 at the time, remained at the scene and let police take him into custody. Lennon was dead on arrival at Roosevelt Hospital. He had just celebrated his 40th birthday in October.

Author Tim English takes the reader on a John Lennon journey in his third book,

“John Lennon: 1980 Playlist,” which looks at the music this legendary figure was listening to in the year of his creative rebirth, and how that music affected his life.

In a phone interview from the East Coast, English talked about researching the book, some interesting things he learned and his love of The Beatles and Lennon.

His goal was to write about the part of Lennon’s life “no one knew that much about” and the “songs of the day that impacted his (Lennon’s life),” English said.

Lennon, he said, stopped making original music in the fall of 1974 and the release of his only solo No. 1 single in the United States, “Whatever Gets You Through the Night.”

A year later, Sean Lennon was born and

John Lennon’s record contract expired.

He was a stay-at-home dad, most likely because he was an absentee father to his older son, Julian Lennon.

There was also Lennon’s connection to the late Bing Crosby.

“Bing’s songs were on his jukebox at the Dakota,” English said.

Crosby’s song, “Please” inspired one of The Beatles’ first hits, “Please, Please Me,” released in 1963, English said.

“Bing had a role in The Beatles’ first hit,” English said.

English was introduced to The Beatles in the mid-1970s. At the time, there was a lot of nostalgia for the 1960s, he said, See Author, Page B2

Musicians recall Lennon’s influence on their music, life Amy Maginnis-Honey

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FAIRFIELD — Two local musicians reflected recently on their love of John Lennon.

Darrell Lee Echols Sr. was an active-duty Army soldier coming home on holiday leave from his second tour of Korea when he heard about Lennon’s death.

“I remember grieving with old friends Rick Whedbee, Michael Walls and others as they were performing at the old Tony Roma’s House of Ribs near where Solano Mall (Solano Town Center) is.

“Lots of drinks, tears, disbelief and shock.”

“The Beatles and John Lennon were huge influences for me musically as well as most of my friends while growing up in the ’70s and I still have their individual solo works in my steady music listening rotation to this day that I go to for inspiration (‘Imagine,’ ‘Walls And Bridges,’ ‘Double Fantasy,’ etc ).” Echols wrote.

“John, in my opinion of modern rock songcraft, is still heard to this day stylistically living in many music artists as well as an overall ‘Beatles’ vibe in music from the ’80s and beyond.”

“I get to say something about John Lennon? Cool,” responded Jeff Curtis to his thoughts about Lennon.

“I probably would not be a musician if it weren’t for him. I will never forget going to the movie, ‘Help!’

After I saw the opening of that movie when the

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ABOVE: “I probably would not be a musician if it weren’t for (John Lennon)),” local musician Jeff Curtis, center, said.

LEFT: “John, in my opinion of modern rock

songcraft, is still heard to this day stylistically living in many music artists as well as an overall ‘Beatles’ vibe in music from the ’80s and beyond,” Darrell Lee Echols Sr. said.

See Musicians, Page B2

Disappointing sequel embraces the dying fall in ‘Godfather Coda’

D’Agostino, VOENA pair up for holiday live-stream show

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t’s a little better now.

In “The Godfather Part III,” recut and retitled “The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone,” the flashes of greatness periodically illuminate the general, frustrating fog of not-badness. Never was there a sequel so unlucky in following such singular predecessors.

And rarely has a director tested the limits of reshaping his own material across multiple versions.

The third “Godfather” movie never had a reason for existence beyond its financial one. The 1990 film reteamed director Francis Coppola with his co-writer, Mario Puzo, whose pulp bestseller “The Godfather” got the whole thing going in 1969.

Written by Coppola and Puzo in a collective sweat, in between losing bouts at the casino tables in Reno, Nev., the “Godfather III” dialogue keeps coming back to money worries, debts and obligations. It’s strictly business, not personal, following the old Corleone ethos. The storyline fixates on the

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Diane Keaton and Al Pacino star in “The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone,” in limited theatrical release and streaming, Tuesday. cost of regaining an image of legitimacy, both Michael Corleone’s and Francis Coppola’s.

After a string of disappointments, Coppola accepted Paramount Pictures’ unrefusable offer to See Godfather, Page B2

FAIRFIELD — Nearing two decades of working together, guitarist Peppino D’Agostino and the VOENA children’s choir are ready to treat audiences to a live stream performance Saturday.

D’Agostino met Annabelle Marie and VOENA in the early 2000s when his daughter, Aleza D’Agostino, joined the choir and performed with them for a decade.

His wife heard about the choir first and he scheduled a meeting with Marie to talk about her approach.

“She was very, very good at explaining her

techniques,” he said.

“Annabelle was so clear in her explanation.”

Aleza D’Agostino had been blessed with a wonderful voice. Her father credits Marie with helping her “improve dramatically.”

Peppino D’Agostino became part of VOENA’s annual holiday show. He traveled last year to Croatia with them performing at a two-week music festival that was televised to about 4 million homes.

He’s adjusting to the world of live streaming.

“It’s strange,” he said.

“You sit in front of the camera and you’re the only one in the room. You have to See Holiday, Page B2

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Lucky Penny offers Transcendence Theater offers Author: Lennon ‘No Place Like Home’ Broadway Holiday Experiences From Page B1

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NAPA — Lucky Penny Productions will present an all-new music variety show as its video theater offering for December.

“No Place Like Home for the Holidays with Lucky Penny” will be available for viewing online starting Dec. 18.

Drawing on the tradition of Christmas specials from the golden era of television, the show will feature the musical talents of many Lucky Penny fan favorites, including Daniela Innocenti Beem, Andrea Dennison-Laufer, Vivian McLaughlin and daughter Julien McLaughlin, Kirsten Pieschke, Karen Pinomaki, James Raasch, with Craig Bur-

dette on the keyboard.

Virtual tickets for the show are available at www. luckypennynapa.com on a pay-what-you-can basis.

Donations to the company’s Pandemic Survival Fund are welcome.

All virtual ticket purchasers will receive a link to the online performance that will be usable from 7 p.m. Dec. 18 through the end of the year.

Lucky Penny’s “PlayDemic” Festival of short plays was originally set for November but has been pushed back to production in January, with on-demand viewing in February.

For more information, contact Lucky Penny by email at info@luckypennynapa.com or call 266-6305.

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SONOMA — Transcendence Theatre Company is celebrating the holiday season with Broadway Holiday Experiences, festive nights of seasonal song and dance, at the drive-in and online.

Transcendence has put together a collection of performances from the past five years of their annual Broadway Holiday Spectacular, and woven it into one experience.

Broadway Holiday at the Drive-In is scheduled Dec. 11-13 at Sonoma Raceway.

The company will also offer Broadway Holiday Online from Dec. 18-23 on its YouTube page.

Broadway Holiday

at the Drive-In will also feature a holiday singalong, in-car activities for the whole family and Covid-friendly entertainment, culminating in the screening of Broadway Holiday.

Cars can begin arriving at 5 p.m. for pre-show activities and dining in cars. Performance festivities begin at 6:15 p.m.

Broadway Holiday Online will start at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 18, and 4 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 19-23.

For more information how to be a part of Transcendence Theatre Company’s Broadway Holiday Experiences or to purchase tickets, visit www.bestnightever. org or call 877-424-1414.

Online shows are free.

Donations are welcome.

Doja Cat has most popular TikTok dance song in state Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — Love TikTok? You’re not alone.

Across the world, app users are scrolling, recording, filtering and, of course, dancing.

TikTok is estimated to have more than 100 million users in the United States alone.

That means, across the country, millions of Americans are twerking, hitting the “woah” and “throwing it back.”

Some users have risen to immediate internet fame, with TikTok dancer Charli D’Amelio raking in so many views on her caffeine-fueled dances that Dunkin’ Donuts decided to add “The Charli” to its

drink menu nationwide.

Other Gen Z TikTok influencers have joined forces, moving into LAbased TikTok houses to collaborate on creating viral content for the social media platform at scale.

Spruce, a family business that produces American-made, highquality, lab-grade CBD, decided to take on the task of finding the best TikTok dance song.

“We love how the platform’s viral dances encourage users to connect online as well as get in some fun exercise in their own homes. Plus, we’re definitely guilty of trying to master a few dances ourselves. Still, there’s one thing that we can’t agree on: which TikTok dance

song is the best?” a press release said.

To find the answer, Spruce turned to the TikTok-obsessed Americans searching Google for dance challenges, using Google Trends to search volume data to analyze 35 different dances that have gone viral over the past 12 months.

According to Google Trends, online interest in popular TikTok dances varied quite a bit, state by state.

Favorite dance songs spanned everything from “Savage” by Megan Thee Stallion to “Rockstar” by DaBaby & Roddy Rich.

So, what are the most popular dances in the hub that many TikTokers call home: California?

The most popular TikTok dance song in the Golden State is “Boss Bitch” from Doja Cat. The dance has taken on a movement of its own since being featured on the “Birds of Prey” soundtrack.

Doja Cat’s popularity on TikTok inspired her and singer Bebe Rexha to make a new, readyfor-TikTok song that features popular TikTokers Charli D’Amelio and Nikita Dragon.

According to Google Trends, other popular dance songs overall were “WAP,” “Boss Bitch,” “Rockstar” and “Blinding Lights,” all winning the top searched dance song in three or more states.

Godfather: Remake is slightly better From Page B1 create a sequel to “The Godfather” (1972) and “The Godfather Part II” (1974), critical and popular smashes as well as top Oscar winners. The second film, especially, is a stunner – a toughminded, grandly expansive portrait of American corruption.

Rewatch those earlier films in relation to Coppola’s somewhat revised third film, now in theaters (where allowed) and streaming Tuesday, and you’ll experience confident, big-budget studio filmmaking as it was possible nearly a half-century ago.

At the end of “Godfather II,” his marriage ruined and having just ordered his brother’s murder, Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone transforms fully into a sinister hollow man. The ending was chilling and perfect.

And that’s why the somewhat altered “Godfather Coda” can’t fix what’s wrong at the story’s center: Turning Michael into a softer, more sympathetic tragic figure feels like a cop-out – a deal made with the feds, or at least the studio heads.

There were always things to like about “Godfather III,” starting with Andy Garcia. In one of many lifts from Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” Garcia plays the illegitimate outsider Vincent Mancini, eagleeyed hothead among the new “Godfather” characters. He’s all nerve and no patience, and Garcia’s wonderful in the role. At one point in “Godfather Coda,” in the Atlantic City scene prior to the movie’s least effective bloodbath, Garcia tilts his head and catches Michael’s eye, and you’d swear it was Robert De Niro or James Caan making a guest appearance. The movie’s worth seeing just for the way

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Garcia smiles and says “Zasa!” as he takes care of the greedy mob thug played by Joe Mantegna another standout.

Coppola’s revisions begin at the beginning.

Instead of the wordless glide through the nowempty Corleone home on Lake Tahoe, full of bloody memories of misdeeds past, “Godfather Coda” starts with Michael negotiating with the desperate Vatican banker played by Donal Donnelly.

We no longer spend any time at the Catholic ceremony honoring Michael for his quasilegitimate charitable work.

The new version shaves about five minutes from the original “Godfather III” running time of 2 hours, 42 minutes. Some changes are tiny; the murder-by-eyeglasses shot, late in the action, is perhaps two seconds longer and 40 times bloodier than the one used in the original. The ending is substantially new. The 1990 version ended with a montage of Michael, near death and recalling better times with his ill-fated daughter, Mary ( Sofia Coppola, the director’s daughter), his ill-fated first wife Apollonia ( Simonetta Stefanelli) and his second, remarried wife, Kay ( Diane Keaton, perpetually stronger than her material). This is followed by a fade-out in the Sicilian sun. Coppola has refashioned the coda in “Godfather Coda” to focus on memories of Michael and his daughter only, followed by a death

more obliquely suggested than realistically rendered.

The tweaks are interesting, even if they can’t do anything about larger narrative frustrations. The Vatican/ Mafioso entanglements remain murky and a little flat. Too many of the new characters are pretty pale, as written and acted, compared to their rough equivalents from the first two “Godfather” pictures.

George Hamilton, in other words, as Michael’s legal eagle, is no Robert Duvall; he’s essentially a zero-gravitas science experiment. The muchmaligned performance of Sofia Coppola – often touchingly unaffected as Mary, in love with her first cousin, Vincent – remains a diffident element in a movie rife with mixed blessings.

(She was always a director, not an actress, in the making.)

In the introductory video to the recut “Godfather Coda,” director Coppola talks about what it meant to him to restore the original screenplay’s title, in order to ramp down expectations for a conventional sequel. The title’s a nice change. But what’s missing here is the sheer visual beauty of the first two “Godfather” films. With his crack team of production designers, and with the brilliantly daring, shadow-hungry cinematographer Gordon Willis (who shot all three movies), Coppola clearly relished the opportunity to recreate vanished eras on lavish budgets. He created fantastic illusions of 1940s New York in the first “Godfather,” and of 1917 New York in the second, along with Havana, Lake Tahoe and Sicily. “The Godfather Coda” settles, proficiently but without magic, for a less alluring era: New York circa 1979-1980, along with location filming in Rome and, once

again, in Sicily.

It was probably too much to ask: “The Godfather Coda” is nothing like the recent Coppola redux with “ The Cotton Club” (1984), now known as “The Cotton Club Encore.” That’s a significantly changed and improved movie now, however flawed on the story level and in spite of some of the casting. The recut “ Cotton Club” does some justice to the Black half of the storyline, blatantly marginalized in the release version. The two “ Cotton Club’s” are very different; “The Godfather Coda,” by contrast, involves small shifts and some intriguing tinkering, nothing less or more.

Coppola has tinkered with the films before. A 424-minute chronological version of the first two “Godfather” outings (without the intercutting between past and present) aired on network TV in 1977. A mondo 583minute chronological edition of all three, with scenes cut from the original release versions, came out on VHS and laserdisc in 1992. Whatever the medium, some artists paint and move on; others return, obsessively, to the same canvas.

So the movie doesn’t work a miracle in this new version. How could it? Besides, lightning had already struck twice with same crime family, the first time revitalizing the gangster genre, the second time with the reigning king of all sequels. In the 1980s, director Richard Brooks was approached by Paramount to try a third “Godfather” movie, when Coppola was still refusing the offer he ultimately couldn’t refuse forever.

When asked, Brooks declined. It seemed foolhardy, he later said, to “continue a story that had already ended.”

along the lines of the 1960s being the golden age of optimism.

President Richard M. Nixon had resigned, America was just getting out of the Vietnam War and the country was dealing with a recession.

It was probably a look through rose-colored glass, English said.

“I remember buying red and blue double record sets,” he said, referring to the “Red and Blue” albums.

The records are a reaction to a four-record bootleg compilation that was sold on TV in 1972.

With the original masters at their disposal, compiled by The Beatles’ manager, Allen Klein. they had a handful of cuts – including “From Me to You” and the single version of “Let It Be” – that were never released on The Beatles’ official albums.

English would also go to the library and check out copies of “Yesterday and Today.”

“It was my time to discover what I felt I missed out on in the 1960s,” he said.

With the 1980s came the introduction of New Wave music. English said he feels Lennon

would have found his voice in that era.

Lennon grew tired of being asked about a possible Beatles reunion, English said.

“He probably figured you can’t put your hand in the water twice,” English said.

The book came out in September. For fans of The Beatles, English said, it offers some new insights into Lennon as well as interesting stuff, such as the fact Lennon liked disco.

English dug deep into the archives of The New York Times and Rolling Stone for research.

“It was a lot of drudgery and painstaking research,” he said.

And, that was just fine with him, he said.

English has also authored “Popology: The Music of the Era in the Lives of Four Icons of the 1960,” which looks at how the music of those days affected the lives of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy and Thomas Merton.

His “Sounds Like Teen Spirit” took a look at hundreds of pairings of songs that appear to have “borrowed” their melodies from earlier songs.

All are available on Amazon.

Muscians: Reflect From Page B1 Beatles began singing the title song, I was never the same.

“It was a peak moment in my life. Something clicked. From then on, all I did was listen to music. I was a Beatle maniac, but over time I branched out.

The transistor radio was under my pillow every night, against my ear all day and I just soaked it in.

“The Beatles felt, to me, like part of a huge extended family. John Lennon was like an ultracool older brother.

“Over the years I learned all their songs, sang and played them all the time (as well as I could.)

“In 1980, I was in a band called Laser Boy. We had a great time singing the music of the day and harmonizing on some of the songs we’d loved growing up.

Of course, some of that was The Beatles’ music,

too. We all loved singing their songs.”

Curtis got word of Lennon’s death just as Laser Boy was getting ready to start a set at what was then the Holiday Inn. “Everything stopped for a good while. We were all in shock, but after all we decided to play it, though. It was an emotional night,” he wrote.

“It seemed incomprehensible to lose someone you’d gotten to know for so long in such a special way. Understand: We grew up with that guy.

We studied his songs, his mannerisms, his speech, his thoughts, his actions, but above all the songs – every word, every chord, every melody, every part.

“Musicians really do develop emotional attachments to their heroes. We grieve them very much like family. I still grieve John Lennon, and I will be grateful for him until the day I die.”

Holiday: Event From Page B1 imagine people are clapping. You don’t have the dynamic you have with a live audience.”

He will be a special guest at Saturday’s show along with Carlos Reyes. D’Agostino said he’ll probably do one solo number and join the Benicia-based choir for two or three.

The tune may be “The Blue Ocean,” which he composed and for which Marie wrote the lyrics.

It’s sung in Swahili.

“It’s a pleasure for me. Even in this pandemic Annabelle has done so much to keep this together,” he said.

D’A gostino just wrapped up a ukulele master class online for VOENA members and their parents.

VOENA is an acronym for Voices of Eve ‘N Angels.

He left Italy more than 30 years ago with the dream of “playing with the greatest guitarists.”

“My dream has come true. I’m very humbled. It’s been quite a journey,” he said.

The longtime Benicia resident began playing

guitar when he was 10.

In his teens, he began making a living in music.

“Slowly I got different people to notice me,” he said. That was followed by “Hey, I really like this.”

He got his first record contract in 1986 and went on to make a signature model guitar.

D’Agostino emerged on the acoustic guitar scene in the early 1980s as a leading member of the second wave of the great finger stylists who helped redefine the instrument in the 1990s.

He has performed in more than 30 countries, sharing the stage with Leo Kottke and Eric Johnson, to name a few.

When time permits, he enjoys cooking, making his own pasta and coming up with his own recipes.

In Italian fashion, he loves to eat with family and friends, sharing a nice glass of wine.

Sheltering at home during the novel coronavirus pandemic has also given him the opportunity to learn music software.

For information on the live stream, visit w w w. d o w n t o w n t h e atre.com. D’Agostino’s website is www. peppinodagostino.com.

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5-point plan to make sure Raiders aren’t upset by Jets Jerry McDonald MERCURY NEWS

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he circumstances are less than ideal, but if there was ever a week to be missing two key players, it would be against the New York Jets.

Running back Josh Jacobs and safety Johnathan Abram remained behind to watch on television as the Raiders (6-5) fight to remain in the wild card playoff chase on the road Sunday against an 0-11 Jets team

ANALYSIS that is five games from the second 0-16 season in NFL history.

Given that New York’s final five opponents are the Raiders, Seattle, the Los Angeles Rams, Cleveland and New England, you’ve got to like their chances.

The Jets have the NFL’s 32nd ranked offense, are averaging 13.8 points per game and have the 28th-ranked defense. They’ve been

outscored by 170 points and are due a thorough housecleaning as soon as the season concludes.

Raiders coach Jon Gruden won’t hear of it.

“They’re a handful,” Gruden said. “This will be a fistfight, no doubt about it.”

Sounds over the top, but Gruden is wired that way. He goes into every game seeing losing as a possibility and every game as a fight to the death. His team is another matter, but Gruden has

two things going in his favor in terms of the Raiders taking the Jets seriously. The first is last week’s 43-6 loss to the Atlanta Falcons, a pummeling that brings home the reality that any week is a potential loss with the requisite amount of turnovers (five) and penalties (11 for 141 yards).

Gruden wants to see some fire.

“I don’t really worry about anyone else’s mindset; I worry about

our mindset,” Gruden said. “We have to have a starving-to-death mentality to get back in the postseason and the Jets are going to play hard.”

The second source of motivation is last year’s 34-3 loss to the Jets in Week 12, the game that began the unraveling of a once-promising season that finished at 7-9.

“If we don’t bring it on Sunday, they’re going to get after us again,” quarterback Derek Carr said. “We have to

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make sure that we bring it and we’re ready to fight come Sunday or else they could possibly get their first win and I know that they are hungry for it.”

Five ways the Raiders avoid a third straight loss and improve to 7-5:

1. Dominate up front The biggest reason Carr and the Raiders offense was such a disaster against Atlanta is See Raiders, Page B14

Battles between Hubbard, Richmond went into college Rivals each surpassed 2,000 yards in high school Paul Farmer PFARMER@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

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Fairfield High’s Alex Hubbard evades a tackle while playing Armijo at Brownlee Field, Nov. 14, 2009. Hubbard finished

the game, his last in the regular season, with eight catches for 116 yards and two touchdowns.

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FAIRFIELD — The list of city top-10 receptions leaders is an exclusive club, as most top 10s are, but there’s an even more exclusive club within this club – those with 100 career receptions.

That club has just three members, with the next closest falling a dozen catches short.

All four city schools are represented on the list, led

by Vanden with four, followed by Fairfield with

three, Armijo with two and Rodriguez with one.

Here’s a look at the top 10 receptions leaders in city history:

1. Alex Hubbard, Fairfield, 2007-09 — 117 catches With 68 receptions in his junior year, it’s no surprise that Alex Hubbard finished atop the city’s alltime career receptions list with 117. A big question is how many more catches he would’ve had had he not

Coronavirus was 49ers’ Williams’ toughest opponent in career that included cancer bout Tribune Content Agency Left tackle Trent Williams called his Covid-19 battle last month “the toughest thing I ever had to do in my career.”

For perspective, Williams did not play last season after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous growth from his scalp.

“The first week, it was more taxing on me mentally than it was physically, just not knowing the depths it could go to,” Williams said via video conference from Glendale, Ariz., where the 49ers relocated this past week amid Santa Clara County’s Covid-19 guidelines banning contact sports.

“And coming off the year I had in ’19 where things didn’t really go my

‘Luckily I’m blessed, man. I got through it with little to none effects from it now.’

— Trent Williams

way, I was kind of expecting this Covid deal to take the same turn.

“Luckily I’m blessed, man. I got through it with little to none effects from it now,” Williams added. “I’m just thankful, because I know there are a lot of people out there who battled this virus and it didn’t end so well See 49ers, Page B5

missed three games and most of a fourth his senior season because of injuries. Another question is how big his lead would be over runner-up Dion Williams of Vanden. It ended up being just one.

Hubbard’s 3.9 catches per game ranks third in city in the top 10 but isn’t the Fairfield record. That belongs to Kirk Broussard with 4.2 from 1981-82.

To show his toughness, Hubbard twice caught 10 passes in a game – against powerhouses Grant of Sacramento and Pleas-

ant Grove of Elk Grove in the playoffs.

2. Dion Williams, Vanden, 2011-13 — 116 catches Dion Williams wound up with two city singleseason records that likely won’t be broken – most receptions (87) and most touchdown receptions (24). To show how impressive the latter is, in more than half the seasons since 1986 – 17 of 33 – Vanden’s See Catches, Page B5

FAIRFIELD — If there’s an exclusive club for those who top the city’s receptions list for the three who have more than 100, there’s an even more exclusive club for its receiving yards leaders.

It has just two – Fairfield’s Alex Hubbard and Rodriguez’s Cameron Richmond – and they faced off against each other twice.

It didn’t stop there.

They also played against each other in college with Hubbard’s Cal Poly Mustangs waxing Richmond’s Idaho State Bengals 70-14 on Nov. 10, 2012, in San Luis Obispo.

Hubbard contributed to the rout by returning an interception 15 yards for a touchdown late in the third quarter, adding seven tackles, five of them solo, including a sack.

Richmond caught three passes for 36 yards that day and enjoyed a 2-0 record against his crosstown rival in high school.

Here’s a look at the city’s top-10 receiving yards seasons:

1. Alex Hubbard, Fairfield, 2007-09 — 2,249 yards Alex Hubbard has a little more breathing room atop the receiving yards list (227 yards) than his edge as the receptions leader (1).

Hubbard’s phenomenal junior season in which he rolled up a city-record 1,478 yards with 14 touchdowns and 21.7 yards per catch is the reason why.

He set the record while catching five passes for 62 yards in a 45-17 playoff victory over Rosemont of Sacramento – the Falcons’ last postseason win – Nov. 20, 2009.

Hubbard wound up with city records with 10 100-yard games and an average of 75.0 yards per contest with his 25 receiving touchdowns ranking second.

2. Cameron Richmond, Rodriguez, 2006-08 — 2,022 yards En route to becoming one of two players in city history with more than 2,000 receiving yards, Cameron Richmond See Yards, Page B5

Warriors schedule highlights: Kevin Durant’s return, most critical stretch Tribune Content Agency

off the rust. Right away, a young Warriors team will have a sense of where they stack up in the NBA and a chance to build some muchneeded confidence.

The Warriors announced the first half of their 2020-21 season schedule Friday, with the second half of the schedule expected to be released near the All-Star break in March. Here are some takeaways from the first 37 games of Golden State’s slate.

National demand for more Warriors

No relief early With four road games to start the season, the Warriors won’t play at Chase Center until New Year’s Day, and their first two games are against Eastern Conference contenders in the Brooklyn Nets (tipping the season on Dec. 22) and Milwaukee Bucks ( Dec. 25).

More, 10 of their first 14 games are against teams that made the playoffs last season, highlighted by a nationally televised matchup with the Lakers in Los Angeles on Jan. 18.

Fortunately for them, they’ll return to San Francisco after the fourgame trip for a seven-game homestand that features mini-

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The Golden State Warriors’ Kevin Durant shoots the ball against the New Orleans Pelicans’ Jrue Holiday, right, during their NBA game at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Oct. 31, 2018. series against the Portland Trail Blazers ( Jan. 1 and 3) and Los Angeles Clippers ( Jan. 7 and 8).

After a nine-month break between last season and this, the Warriors won’t have time to shake

Despite Klay Thompson expected to miss his second straight season with an Achilles tear, Stephen Curry and his new-look supporting cast will be featured on national television in 14 of their first 37 games (plus five more on NBATV), starting with the first game of opening night and a marquee matchup on Christmas Day. They’ll also be part of the NBA’s Martin Luther King Day showcase with a game against the defending-champion Lakers ( Jan. 18) on TNT. Also part of their nationally-televised lineup is a prime time matchup against the Nets, marking Kevin Durant’s return to the Bay Area, on Feb. 13 on ABC. See Warriors, Page B4

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Sacramento Kings head coach Luke Walton, left, talks with Buddy Hield during a game against the Los Angeles

Lakers at The Field House at ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex, Aug. 13, in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

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SACRAMENTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sacramento Kings guard Buddy Hield addressed his relationship with coach Luke Walton, his future with the franchise and his mindset entering a new NBA season Saturday during a 10-minute Zoom session with reporters.

Hield vowed to compete at the highest level whether Walton puts him back in the starting lineup or not. The 27-yearold shooting guard said he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t regret making public demands last season and does not believe any work is needed to repair the relationship with his head coach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have no regrets,â&#x20AC;?

Hield said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing to be worked on. I never had a problem with nobody here, so everything that was being heard, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put out by me. I love everybody here in this franchise and this organization, so I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t regret nothing I said. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to keep it 100.â&#x20AC;?

Hield was his usual playful self while bantering with reporters during his first media availability since the Kings opened training camp Tuesday, but he struck a different tone on some of the more sensitive subjects. Earlier in the week, Walton wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t commit to the idea of starting Hield this season, even after Bogdan Bogdanovic left to join the Atlanta Hawks. Hield didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem bothered by that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything in life, we all have to earn,â&#x20AC;? Hield said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to earn your job. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing free in this world. I came from the Bahamas to play in the NBA. That was my dream. I beat those odds, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a fighter. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Everything in life, we all have to earn. You have to earn your job. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing free in this world. I came from the Bahamas to play in the NBA. That was my dream. I beat those odds, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a fighter.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Buddy Hield

to compete for whatever is supposed to be mines, and if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not mines, it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be.

So this is fun for me. I just love competing.â&#x20AC;?

Hield said he is â&#x20AC;&#x153;locked inâ&#x20AC;? as the Kings prepare for preseason play and their season opener against the Denver Nuggets on Dec. 23. He said he will not be distracted even as trade rumors swirl around him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m here to play basketball,â&#x20AC;? Hield said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Win games and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my main focus, you know, trying to turn things around. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been focused on, trying to win games, so everything will come with it that comes with it, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just locked in on that.â&#x20AC;? n n n Hield has been the subject of trade rumors since last season, when he publicly demanded a new contract and questioned some of Waltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decisions.

Ian Begley, who covers the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets for SportsNet New York, reported Friday the Kings have asked other teams for draft compensation in trade discussions involving Hield. Begley noted the Knicks have significant draft capital in the coming years, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unclear if they are interested in acquiring Hield or willing to include future draft picks

in such a deal.

Sources around the league have offered mixed reviews of Hieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trade value. Some believe Hield and his new contract will be difficult to trade, but others disagree.

One general manager from another organization said Hieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elite shooting ability is valued â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not just in Sacramento, but elsewhere in the NBA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; adding the Kings would likely be seeking â&#x20AC;&#x153;a good young player or players and draft picksâ&#x20AC;? in return.

All of this talk started last season as Hield went through ups and downs in his outlook, optimism and relationships within the organization. He started the 2019-20 season by publicly demanding a new contract days before the deadline for his rookiescale extension, telling The Sacramento Bee: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m ready to get this s--- done. . . . If it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get done, things could go the other way.â&#x20AC;?

Hield hinted multiple times he might request a trade if the Kings didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meet his demands.

Former general manager Vlade Divac was unhappy with Hieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public demonstrations, but the two sides ultimately agreed to a four-year, $86 million deal with $20 million more in incentives. Hield will make $24.4 million this season in the first year of his new contract.

Hield expressed more

Warriors: 37 games in 71 days From Page B3

Back-to-backs The Warriors will play on consecutive nights seven times as the NBA tries to fit 37 games into 71 days. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one more back-to-back game than they had in the first half of last season, and ranks in the middle of the rest of the NBA this season. Also worth noting is that only the Raptors (playing home games in Tampa Bay this season) will travel more miles in the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first half than the Warriors.

Critical stretch Though the opponents may not be as daunting as the as the crunch against contenders to start the season, the Warriors shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overlook the

end of its first-half schedule when they play a pair of back-to-back road games on the East coast.

After playing the Magic in Orlando on Feb. 19, the Warriors will travel to Charlotte to face the Hornets on Feb. 20.

They then play the Knicks in New York on Feb. 23, followed by the Pacers in Indiana on Feb. 24.

Soon after, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll wrap up the first half with prime-time games against the Lakers in Los Angeles ( Feb. 28, ESPN) andtheTrailBlazersin Portland ( March 3, ESPN).

This will be a chance for the Warriors to enter the revised All-Star break with confidence, or questions.

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unhappiness during the season, first when Walton left him on the bench in the fourth quarter of some close games and again when Walton moved him into a backup role in January. Hieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hot shooting helped the Kings win 13 of their next 20 games to get back into playoff contention before the Covid-19 shutdown in March, but he quietly brooded over Waltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision for months.

When Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season ended in August after eight games in the NBA bubble, Hield was asked if he would be content moving forward in a backup role for the team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;all know me,â&#x20AC;? Hield said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;all know how I talk. Yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;all know how I feel with a lot of stuff.

Yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;all can read me well, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll let yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;all answer that for yourselves.â&#x20AC;? n n n The Kings seemingly cleared the way for Hieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s return to the starting lineup when they let Bogdanovic go to the Hawks, but Walton wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ready to commit to that idea at the start of training camp. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a lot of new faces here, so we have to continue to look at whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be best for our team,â&#x20AC;? Walton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even last season, Buddy started more than half of the season, and when he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start, he played a huge rule for us coming off the bench and being a dynamic 20-point-anight scorer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every decision is always based on what I feel is best for the group and best for the team, and with this training camp, this is part of what we have to see. What do we have? What groups are See Hield, Page B5

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Catches: Richmond caught 103 passes From Page B3 receptions leader didn’t get to 24. His 87 catches his senior year are the biggest reason he landed as high as No. 2. And while one wonders how many more catches Alex Hubbard would’ve had without injuries, how many more would Williams have had had he played three years on the varsity – as did seven members of the top 10 – instead of two.

Williams’ 5.0 catches per game and 30 touchdown receptions for his career are city records and he had 11 catches in a game three times in his career.

3. Cameron Richmond, Rodriguez, 2006-08 — 103 catches Cameron Richmond had a decent junior season for Rodriguez, setting a school record with 37 catches. He broke that in the ninth game of his senior campaign and 11 catches in the playoffs helped set a new school record – by 20 receptions.

Richmond finished with 103 catches, 22 of which went for touchdowns, and averaged 3.1 receptions per game.

4. Christian Basden, Vanden, 2010-12 — 88 catches While he played three

seasons with the Vikings, Christian Basden made more than half of his receptions as a junior with 50.

That was a Vanden record for two seasons until Dion Williams broke it in 2013.

Basden had the good fortune of being thrown to by the top two quarterbacks in city history, Ben Scott his first two years and Jadon Brisendine as a senior, averaging 2.7 catches per game.

5. James Lake, Fairfield, 2005-07 — 87 catches If James Lake had been able to play in the five games he missed because of injury and his average of 3.5 catches per game held, he would’ve joined the 100-catch club. He wound up with 43 receptions in his nine-game senior season in 2007, an average of 4.8 per contest.

6. Kirk Broussard, Fairfield, 1981-82 — 85 catches With a few exceptions, the Daily Republic’s complete season stats started in 1986. That didn’t help Fairfield’s Kirk Broussard, who is credited with 85 catches from 1981-82, but his receiving yards stats are incomplete.

Using the average yards per catch for the others in the top 10 (16.5) and multiplying that number by

Broussard’s 85 catches comes out to 1,403 receiving yards, which would put him sixth on that list.

7. Jared Richard, Armijo, 2004-06 — 82 catches One way to become your school’s all-time receptions leader is to be the only one with two seasons with more than 30 catches. Jared Richard did that with 31 grabs in 2005, 40 in 2006. He finished with 82, topping Wesley Williams by six with school records for touchdown receptions in a season (10 in 2005) and for a career (20).

8. Cody Holbein, Vanden, 2009-11 — 79 catches Of the 10 different players in Vanden’s top 10 single-season receptions list – all with 40 or more – Cody Holbein sits at No. 10 with 40. He’s also the next in line at No. 11 with 38. The two seasons account for all but one of his 79 career receptions, the other coming as a late-season call-up his sophomore year. He also had 20 TD catches, which ties him with Armijo’s Jared Richard for fourth all-time.

9. Tony Terry, Vanden, 2012-14 — 78 catches Though he was fleet of foot and as a member of Vanden’s boys basketball team had no trouble dunking the ball, statistics show that Tony Terry excelled as a possession receiver. His 78 catches rank ninth alltime, but he’s the only one in the top 10 not to crack 1,000 receiving yards and his 11.0 yards per catch is the lowest by 2.3 yards, though his 3.0 catches per game ranks sixth.

The year after Terry led the Vikings with 42 catches for 443 yards as a senior, next year’s leader had 25 fewer catches and 150 fewer receiving yards.

As with others, Terry’s total would be higher had he not missed five games as a sophomore because of an injury.

10. Wesley Williams, Armijo, 1997-99 — 76 catches When Wesley Williams wrapped up his stellar career at Armijo, he was second in the city with 76 all-time receptions.

Over the past 21 seasons he’s dropped eight spots to No. 10. He had a schoolrecord 40 catches as a senior in 1999, a total that was matched by Jared Richard in 2006 and topped by one by David Chavez in 2018.

Yards: Thompson a dynamo for Falcons From Page B3 put together the top two seasons in that category by a Mustang. He followed his modest 273 yards amassed as a sophomore with 735 as a junior and 1,014 as a senior, breaking the city record when he caught five passes for 99 yards and a touchdown in a 48-19 win over Armijo, Oct. 10, 2008.

For his career he averaged 19.6 yards per catch and 61.3 receiving yards per game with seven 100-yard efforts.

3. Dion Williams, Vanden, 2011-13 — 1,695 yards Image how many receiving yards Dion Williams would’ve had if they’d just told him to “go long” a little more often.

The Vikings weren’t afraid to go to him when he was double- or triple-teamed and he wasn’t afraid to go up for the ball in traffic. In his 2013 megaseason, Williams caught a city-record 87 passes, 21 more than runner-up Alex Hubbard of Fairfield in 2008, but Hubbard wound up with 218 more yards and averaged 21.7 yards per catch to Williams’ 14.5.

Williams set a city record with 30 TD receptions and his 73.4 yards per game and eight 100yard efforts rank second.

4. Cody Holbein, Vanden, 2009-11 — 1,578 yards Vanden’s list of alltime great receivers is a long one – Dion Williams,

Carlos Prince, Brandon Neveadomi, Chris Broadnax, Christian Basden and Tony Terry, to name a few – but Cody Holbein is the only one to have two seasons in the Vikings’ top 10 for single-season receiving yards.

Holbein, who had 100 yards in a game four times, had 860 yards as a junior in 2011 and 686 as a senior in 2012, averaging 20.0 yards per catch and 65.8 yards per game.

5. Dearic Jackson, Armijo, 1986-88 — 1,430 yards It’s doubtful Dearic Jackson knew he was the city’s all-time receiving leader when he finished his three-year varsity career at Armijo in 1988.

Fairfield’s Kirk Broussard, who played in 1981 and 1982 might have held the record, but stats were only available for his receptions (85), not his receiving yards. Or it might have been future NFL standout George Martin of Armijo, whose stats are missing from his sophomore year and had 552 his final year. Regardless, Jackson, who had five 100-yard games, held the record for 20 years when Rodriguez’s Cameron Richmond broke it midway through the 2008 season.

Jackson averaged 20.7 yards per catch and 47.7 yards per game.

6. Jared Richard, Armijo, 2004-06 — 1,388 yards Jared Richard wound

up one long pass away – 42 yards – from beating Dearic Jackson as Armijo’s all-time receiving yards leader. But long passes weren’t his thing. Catching them was. Richard wound up with 82 receptions, 13 more than Jackson, for 20 touchdowns, averaging 16.9 yards per catch, 46.3 receiving yards per game.

est season for an Armijo receiver as a senior in 1999, setting school records with 689 yards, that still stands, on 40 receptions for nine touchdowns, both of which have since been broken.

He wound up with 1,322 receiving yards, averaging 17.4 yards per catch, 45.6 yards per game and had three 100yard contests.

7. James Lake, Fairfield, 2005-07 — 1,383 yards

10. Larry Thompson, Fairfield, 1987-88 — 1,192 yards

Winning the Monticello Empire League Player of the Year award for boys basketball his senior season is an indication of how talented James Lake was. He didn’t do too badly on the football field, either, rolling up 1,383 yards while averaging 15.9 yards per catch and 55.3 per game with four 100-yard efforts.

8. Chris Broadnax, Vanden, 2008-09 — 1,336 yards Where Dion Williams rarely went long for the Vikings, Chris Broadnax did it often, averaging 31.1 yards per catch, the most by a top-10 receiver by 9.8 yards. Among his 62 catches he scored 18 touchdowns and amassed 1,336 yards, 58.1 per game with four 100-yard outings.

9. Wesley Williams, Armijo, 1997-99 — 1,322 yards Wesley Williams had arguably the great-

Larry Thompson is clinging to the final spot in the top 10 – he was second on the list to Armijo’s Dearic Jackson after his time at Fairfield – but may be the most talented receiver in city history.

Certainly its most versatile. Playing for Jim Sykes, a coach who rarely liked to see the ball in the air, Thompson led the Falcons to their first Monticello Empire League title and was named MEL Player of the Year in 1988. Along the way he had an 83-yard run, an 80-yard reception, a 95-yard kickoff return, a 95-yard punt return and a 91-yard interception return – all for touchdowns.

He finished his receiving career with 1,192 yards and 15 touchdowns on 56 catches, rolling up five 100-yard games and averaging 21.3 yards per grab and 54.2 per reception.

He went on to become Solano Community College’s all-time leading receiver and had a lengthy career in the Canadian Football League.

Hield: Looks forward to competition From Page B4 playing well together?

Who complements who?

And at the end of the day, every decision that gets made will come down to what I feel as the head coach is best for this team and giving us the best chance of winning.”

When Hield was asked about Walton’s remarks on Saturday, he said he welcomes the competition and will do whatever his coaches ask of him.

“To be honest with you, I always love competing and it doesn’t matter,” Hield said.

“That’s not my job. I don’t control that. The head coach controls that.

They brought me here to play basketball and win basketball games, so whatever they need me for, I’m going to do it and try to compete at the highest (level) I can.”

The Athletic reported in October that Hield refused to accept Wal-

ton’s phone calls during the offseason. Walton declined to address that subject.

“I’m not going to get into in-house stuff of who I’ve talked to and this and that, but Buddy’s a very talented player,” Walton said. “I’ve always had a good relationship with him and we’re excited that he’s part of the group.”

New Kings general manager Monte McNair indicated he had reached

a level of understanding with Hield. McNair said he had spoken to Hield and his representatives, adding that he believes Hield will excel in the team’s new system.

“I’ve talked with Buddy as well as his agent, and I think we’re all on the same page, and I think we’re really excited to see Buddy kind of let free in this system,” McNair said. “I think he’s going to be fantastic.”

49ers: In Arizona healthiest stable of running backs available for them. I never want to since the season’s first overlook that.” couple weeks, and that Williams surprised could bode well when even himself that he they try ramping up that played in the 49ers’ last offensive component game, a Sunday win Monday night against over the Los Angeles the Buffalo Bills’ 25thRams, after going two ranked run defense. weeks since last putting After getting Raheem on his helmet.

Mostert and Jeff Wilson With “little to none” Jr. back for last Sunday’s after-effects from Covid- win over the Los Angeles 19, Williams will be in Rams, the 49ers can suit the 49ers’ lineup again up Tevin Coleman for Monday night when they only the fourth time this host the Buffalo Bills at season, along with leading State Farm Stadium in scorer Jerick McKinnon.

Glendale, Ariz.

Coleman’s Week Williams, 32, was 2 knee sprain has limited riddled with anxiety him to just 21 carries over the uncertainty (50 yards) but he is not on of what to expect this week’s injury report when he went on the and was not limited in NFL’s Covid-19 reserve practice. A year ago, he list Nov. 20; he was one was the team’s primary of nine 49ers placed on it starter at running back after their Nov. 15 loss at before Mostert essenNew Orleans, and all have tially would take over and been activated since then. lead one of the NFL’s top A perennial Pro ground games.

Bowler from 2012-18, Mostert and Wilson Williams got cleared each ran for just 43 yards off the Covid-19 list last and each lost a fumble Saturday. While hoped last game. McKinto play in the next day’s non had three carries game at Los Angeles, he for 21 yards. thought medical protoCoach Kyle Shanacol might prevent that. It han cautioned against did not and he played all getting overly optimis72 offensive snaps in the tic in facing the Bills’ 23-20 upset win. run defense, saying: “If Not bad for someone you’re not on your game, who’s overcome cancer it’s like running into in the past year and also a brick wall.” has asthma issues that put him at greater risk of respiratory compli- Cornerback report cations with Covid-19.

Slot cornerback His 10 days of county- K’Waun Williams is the mandated isolation only 49ers’ player ruled was no vacation. out for Monday night “I wasn’t just sitting because of injury, at on the couch and having least among those on the ice lemonade and just active roster. enjoying the newspaper,” Likely filling in Williams said. “It was a at Williams’ old role stressful time because is Emmanuel Moseley, you never know how who was limited in practhat’s going to affect you, tice with a hamstring and nobody knows until it issue and is listed as runs its course. questionable. Shanahan “The time it took to wouldn’t reveal what mentally prepare and the 49ers’ other options then to get my body are at slot cornerback over it, it took seven but sarcastically noted or eight days.” that starting cornerWilliams finished out back Jason Verrett’s been his Washington tenure cross-trained at all last year without playing 11 spots defensively. because of his cancer One cornerback who surgery and conflicts will be active for the with the Washington first time after multifranchise. He got traded ple healthy scratches to the 49ers in April. is Ahkello Witherspoon.

“The last couple years He was inactivated have been pretty chal- the past three games, lenging but I’m standing benched in favor of Ken here so I’m blessed,” Webster and Jamar Williams said.

Taylor, who went on He noted that it was Injured Reserve because “definitely tough to get of injuries last game. it back” and he credited his teammates and Sweet home Arizona coaches for helping him The 49ers plan on through Sunday’s game holding their day-beforeat Los Angeles. walk-through Wide r e c eiver game Brandon Aiyuk went on practice Sunday on the Covid-19 reserve list the same fields they’ve the same day as Wil- been at this week neighliams, but Aiyuk did not boring State Farm gain medical clearance Stadium in Glendale, until Wednesday and Ariz. It didn’t dawn on he’s set to play against Shanahan until Saturthe Bills. Aiyuk and day, however, that they’ll Williams had to miss a have company in the Nov. 5 loss to Green Bay complex as the Cardinals because they were placed host the Rams.

How has Shanaon Covid-19 reserve after being identified han passed time in the as high-risk contacts to nearby hotel? He watches Kendrick Bourne, who videos — of other football had a positive test Nov. 4; teams. “I’d rent movies all subsequently tested but no new movies are negative and came off coming out,” Shanahan said. “It’s the same that list Nov. 6.

Coach Kyle Shana- stuff on there since last han blamed a 30-minute year’s hotel.” get-together among some players after the New No fines Orleans game for how Rams running nine 49ers landed on Covid-19 reserve after- back Malcolm Brown was ward. Others to go on it not fined (nor penalized) were defensive linemen for his blindside hit on Arik Armstead, D.J. 49ers cornerback Jamar Jones, Jordan Willis; line- Taylor, who sustained an backer Joe Walker; center ACL tear on the play (per Hroniss Grasu; and, tight league source).

Also, Arik Armend Daniel Helm. stead was not fined for roughing the quarterReady to run back (penalized) on The 49ers have their the same play.

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Service reaches record retention Spotlight on Travis Tech. Sgt. Danielle Lever 21st Airlift Squadron Hometown: Sacramento.

Duty title: Noncommissioned officer in charge of squadron aviation resource management.

Time at Travis: Six years.

Family: Spouse, DeAnte; two children, Aiden and Jonathan.

Goals: To finish my Bachelor of the Arts degree next year.

Hobbies: Hiking and sports with the kiddos.

Greatest achievement: Making technical sergeant.

In brief C-130J refuels F-22s using bulk system JOINT BASE PEARL H A R B OR-H IC K A M , Hawaii — A C-130J Super Hercules conducted a hot-pit refuel of a pair of F-22 Raptors Nov. 24 at Koror Palau International Airport using an Aerial Bulk Fuel Delivery System.

This mission was one of a series of operations associated with Westpac, a dynamic force employment of the 94th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron to the U.S. IndoPacific Command’s area of responsibility.

According to the Air Expeditionary Force F uels Management Pocket Guide, Aerial Bulk Fuel Delivery System is an aerial, fuels-delivery system that enables aircraft to transport fuel rapidly to locations close to or behind enemy lines.

This system is normally installed on C-130s but can be used on C-5 Galaxies and C-17 Globemaster IIIs, two of the aircraft in the fleet at Travis Air Force Base.

Pegasus hangar receives final beam JOI N T BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. — Units at Joint Base McGuire-DixLakehurst took another step forward in preparing for the KC-46A Pegasus after the final steel beam of a new hangar was set into place Nov. 25.

The completion of the framework marks a significant milestone for the project that will support operational readiness for the Air Force’s newest tanker.

“This is an exciting milestone for us as we continue to prepare for the KC-46A Pegasus,” said U.S. Air Force Col. Scott Wiederholt, 305th Air Mobility Wing commander. “There are various training and infrastructure requirements needed for our maintainers, aircrew and airmen as we enter a new era of refueling. This significant moment puts us one step closer to supporting rapid global mobility through the new airframe.”

The project started in December 2018 and is expected to complete in July 2021. The hangar will feature two bays, a wheel and tire shop, support office spaces and a tool room.

— Daily Republic wire services

Air Force News Service

Nicholas Pilch/U.S. Air Force file photos (2020)

Nicholas Pilch, a public affairs photographer at Travis Air Force Base, receives a transfusion of chemotherapy, May 12, at the hematology/oncology clinic at David

Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis. While the world was beginning to grapple with Covid-19, Pilch underwent chemotherapy for testicular cancer.

A shot of gratitude Photographer feels lucky after cancer fight

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ancer is scary, treatment is chilling and nothing about cancer is fun. Every November is Men’s Health Awareness Month, but this “Movember,” it hit so much closer to home.

Thanksgiving, we’re told, is a time to take inventory of what we have in life, to give thanks and be grateful. I am grateful for my family, friends and co-workers, but most importantly, my health.

I discovered a lump on one of my testicles in 2011. The doctor treated it as an infection, and I was given antibiotics. It wasn’t until eight years later that I was sent to get an ultrasound.

Jan. 9, when I had my first computerized tomography scan, my urologist wanted to remove the tumor immediately. A few days later, on Jan. 16, my doctor at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Martinez removed the tumor via orchiectomy. This felt like I was losing a part of me, though I was happy to have the tumor removed.

For what felt like an eternity, I waited for the call that delivered my biopsy results.

The call came. It was a germ cell tumor that came with a diagnosis of stage IIIA testicular

Nicholas Pilch, a public affairs photographer at Travis Air Force Base, takes a picture of himself in the mirror, March 31, at the hematology/oncology clinic at David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis.

COMMENTARY cancer. For nine years, from 2011 to the time it was removed in January, cancer was spreading through my body. Being fraught with anxiety and worry about so many other things in my life, this added stress turned my life upside down.

I had swollen lymph nodes everywhere, and the cancer spread from my groin to my neck, but thankfully it hadn’t spread to my brain. The first thing I did was search Google for my chance of survival, which was just under 70% with a 10-year survival rate.

This put me in a terrible place, a place my mind goes still, even after all this time.

I never thought I would find myself in an oncologists’ office wondering what stage of cancer I had or having to determine potential treatment plans.

I had two chemotherapy treatment options.

Option one was a cocktail of three drugs over nine weeks – one week on, two weeks off, rinse and repeat – and I’d be in the hematology/oncology clinic Monday through Friday. A side effect for this option was the possibility of long-term lung damage and, though I’ve never had the desire to skydive or scuba-dive, I didn’t want to take those experiences off the table.

I decided on option two, which was two drugs, etoposide and

cisplatin. I’d have to undergo 12 weeks of chemo – one week on, two off, rinse and repeat – for four cycles. This was still a stressful decision because I was adding an extra treatment cycle. I had to get a chemo-port installed in my jugular vein, in my chest, which made me feel part robot.

Additionally, I’d still have a slew of sideeffects to manage, including a decrease in appetite.

This was one of the worst side effects, and, because I wasn’t hungry, eating wasn’t on my to-do list. My diet was no more than broth, the occasional craving for a grilled cheese sandwich or nachos, and a ton of ice See Pilch, Page B7

A R L I N G T O N , Va. — The Department of the Air Force is seeing its highest retention levels in 20 years, second only to rates recorded shortly after 9/11 in 2002.

However, as hundreds of members who were previously planning to retire or separate in 2020 withdrew or delayed their departures amid Covid-19 concerns, it led to fiscal year 2021 endstrength numbers that already exceeded the projected end-of-year goals.

“Congress delivered immense help, increased our numbers and helped us make real readiness improvements after sequestration reductions,” said Lt. Gen. Brian Kelly, deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel and services. “Increased recruiting and retention efforts helped restore the size of the force by nearly 23,000 over the last five years. We also closed a 4,000-person maintainer gap and increased the manning levels of many career fields.”

Now, Kelly said, the challenge for the Department is to keep the size of the force balanced for the future.

To get that done, teams are reviewing voluntary opportunities to allow for even more flexibility as airmen make long-term career choices.

These will involve waivers of some active duty service commitments, particularly focused on expanding opportunities to affiliate with the Guard and Reserve.

“We want airmen to know their expertise is incredibly valuable, and we are reviewing steps to make it even easier to either transition to Guard or Reserve service or explore other career fields,” he said.

Kelly also noted the service may no longer need all the retention bonuses the force is currently using, and will “shape the force to better match our requirements by facilitating re-training from some over-manned (Air Force specialty codes) to those with lower manning levels.”

Kelly said involuntary programs are not being considered for fiscal year 2021.

Mobile lactation pods can provide privacy Air Force News Service LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. — One of three mobile lactation pods arrived, Nov. 12, at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, to provide a private room equipped with the resources needed for women to safely breastfeed and pump breast milk regardless of the work location.

The Air Force released a memorandum that requires bases to establish lactation rooms for nursing mothers within unit facilities. The memo identified the requirements for the lactation pods, such as having a private, secure and sanitary area.

The results of a base-wide survey distributed in 2017 determined a need for lactation rooms, said Sharon Kozak, 56th Fighter Wing community action team executive director.

Beforehand, women were often using public restrooms to pump or their spouse or child’s caretaker would bring their child to the workplace to feed, with little to no convenient options for privacy.

Luke responded to the Airmen’s needs by implementing several lactation rooms in 2019 at

multiple locations.

“I think that having a safe, clean, private place to pump, whether it be a lactation pod or lactation space (office or room with a locking door), helps allow working mothers to be significantly more productive,” said Maj. Valerie Wetzbarger, 62nd Fighter Squadron assistant director of operations. “There are studies that show breast milk delays and prevents illness for babies, which allows the mother to take less days/time off to be at home with a sick child. We’ve had mothers wean their children off breast milk before they were ready because they didn’t feel they had a space to pump.”

Although the lactation rooms are convenient, lactation pods are necessary as well, Kozak said.

Most lactation rooms are in locations that are only available during daytime operating hours; airmen who work after daytime duty hours need other solutions, she said. The lactation pods are open 24/7 for use and can be moved to locations they’re needed in the future.

“We probably won’t get pods for every building,” Wetzbarger said.

U.S. Air Force file photo (2020)

A red indicator above the door handle indicates somebody is using the Mamava Lactation Pod, Nov. 17, at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona.

“But that doesn’t mean that people nal indicator showing “vacant/in shouldn’t be thinking about and use” and more.

“The pods can be put outside designating a lactation space for their airmen who may be expect- the building or inside the building,” Kozak said. “The lactation ing or nursing.”

The lactation pods are equipped pods are very sterile. All you need with a table, two built-in benches, is to just plug them in, and they’re an external numeric keypad lock, mobile. It’s not like a room over in internal deadbolt with exter- the corner. It’s an actual pod.”

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Pilch: Prognosis promising for photographer after treatment From Page B6 cream. I lost almost 20 pounds.

The anxiety about impending hair loss wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t something I was excited about, so I thought I would be proactive and shave my head. I wanted to be in control of something.

After my first treatment, I shaved all my hair off, but it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start falling out until about halfway through my second treatment. It fell out so quickly, too. I still remember lying in bed while short little pricks of hair stabbed me all over.

This was a scary time for me, and the rest of the world, because I started chemo the second week of March, just as Covid-19 shut down everything and forced people into quarantine.

My oncologist, Maj.

Matthew Shupe, a hematology/oncology physician at Travis, cautioned me on the dangers of gathering with others. My white blood cell count was so low that even the smallest infection could result in a disastrous threat to my health.

Chemotherapy was rough, but the nurses who were with me throughout my treatments were rock stars. My treatment days would start at 7:30 a.m. at the hematology/oncology clinic inside David Grant U.S. Air Force Medical Center. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d start my drip, or transfusions, and I was given four transfusions for about four hours each visit.

To keep me hydrated, they gave me a bag of saline before each chemo transfusion. This always went right through me â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so many bathroom trips. I

always tried to get a chair as close as I could to the restroom.

The encouragement from family, friends and co-workers made soldiering through nausea and exhaustion bearable. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be more grateful for the 60th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs team at Travis. Everyone was a huge cheerleader during my treatment and wanted to know how they could help. They offered meals, assistance with cleaning my home and a lot of encouragement. Everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support was something that helped me get through these hard times.

The status of my health is not the worst news of 2020 and I feel mostly good about it. I am currently going in for regular check-ups to analyze my cancer

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I encourage you to get checked regularly by health professionals any time you feel something that is even just a little off.

My lump never went away, but I assumed things were good to go and it was just a part of my body. Things arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t good to go unless you get an all-clear. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a 100% all-clear, yet, but I hope within a couple of years I will. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re good, then be thankful for that.

For more information about the different forms of cancer, as well as signs and symptoms, visit www. cancer.org. If you have a similar story, I want to hear from you. Send me an email at nicholas. pilch.1@us.af.mil..

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Family fails to show their gratitude for girlfriend’s generosity Dear Annie: My her text messages and confronted her about girlfriend has done a it. She admitted to it lot for my family and but said that it has not me, but they show gotten more physical little enthusiasm for than kissing. Now we her. How can I get are separated because them to appreciate her she wouldn’t end it, but more and to reciproI still love her. cate what she has I am alone now, and done? I live in fear of Annie Lane she, of course, is still them attacking her or Dear Annie in her relationship being cynical about outside our marriage, but I romance itself. would really love to have my She has helped me to get a family back together. She said raise, helped me get a job, that the reason she did it is written letters to my family, because she just doesn’t love gotten me a huge discount on me that way anymore. I am so rent, given my family free confused how someone can food and done other great give up on a marriage that things. — Lazy and they have been in for half of Ungrateful In-laws Dear Lazy and Ungrateful their life. I have my faults, but I am certainly a good man In-Laws: Your girlfriend and have sacrificed so much sounds wonderful and very for my family. generous with both her time She has agreed to go out to and finances. Congrats on dinner with me, and I am so finding what sounds nervous and excited that I like a keeper. don’t even know what to talk As far as your ungrateful about at dinner. Any advice as parents are concerned, you to what to do? — should speak with them Alone and Confused directly and express your Dear Alone and Confused: concerns. If they continue to I am so sorry you are going be ungrateful, then it might be through this. It is understandtime to pull back on your able that you still love her. girlfriend’s generosity.

When you have dinner with Instead of focusing on your her, ask if she would be open parents, try and focus on your to going to marriage counselgratitude toward her. I can ing to try to save feel your love and appreciayour marriage. tion through this letter.

If she says no and that she Let go of your expectations wants to stay in her affair, it is of your parents and spoil her. time for you to walk away.

Take her out to a nice dinner Seek the help of a professional (or, since we’re still in therapist for yourself. You lockdown times, cook her a sound like a wonderful, nice dinner), or surprise her thoughtful and loving man with flowers. Just something with a great deal to offer. I to tell her you love and have no doubt you will either appreciate her. rekindle with your wife or Dear Annie: I have been find true love with married for 24 years, and I someone else. found out in August that my Send your questions for wife has been involved in an Annie Lane to dearannie@ affair since last January. I creators.com. found out by going through

Horoscopes ARIES (March 21April 19). As proven by Sylvester and Tweety, where natural enemies meet, there are endless possibilities for entertainment. There will be no need to take sides today, but do stand ready to intervene.

TAURUS (April 20May 20). Action geared toward creating stability down the line is favored. Think into the future. What could you start now that would grow to serve you in bigger and more beautiful ways?

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

You’ll decide on what standards you need to meet, and you’re really the only one whose opinion matters here.

Others may expect or even pay for things, but ultimately, you are the boss of you.

CANCER (June 22July 22). While it’s nice to be complimented – awarded, even – it’s of no benefit unless it comes with opportunity. It’s the opportunities that give you a chance to build, create and contribute. Make it known; that’s what you’re after.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

You’ll be making choices having to do with your personal expression and projection. Style is tricky and personal. What’s natural to one person is pretentious to the next. A controlled stretch is better than an impulsive reach.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

Those who care to receive the approval of a leader will compete for favoritism and position. Steer clear of such games. Focus on doing work that could make you indispensable, not just in this group but in any group.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

To rely on someone is to be susceptible to their control.

You’ll find a partnership in which you can work together for the greater good, neither party needing the relationship too much and both benefiting from it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 21). Today, you respond well to the rules you make for yourself. You have

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday You’ll grow in power and defend against the abuse of it. It will feel wonderful to do for yourself what you long ago wished someone else would have done for you.

Furthermore, you’ll get to pay it forward. You’ll create a presentation of sorts, and it will bring you money and other resources needed to launch a new venture. Leo and Libra adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 6, 44, 12 and 20.

greater powers of self-control at your disposal, in part because certain aspects of your process are starting to become automatic.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). It is dangerous to allow yourself to sail on the winds of compliments or fly on the uplift of accolades. If you can’t deflect, accept graciously, and then put it up on a high shelf. It has nothing to do with the work at hand.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). You’ll solve a problem and gain followers. People who are confused are easily led. You won’t take advantage. You’ll do some high-level thinking about how to avoid a codependent dynamic.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Power dynamics get worked out. Relax; don’t compete. There’s nothing to prove. You walk with confidence as the commander of yourself, not with arrogance as the commander of the whole world.

PISCES (Feb. 19March 20). The beauty in having limited experience in an area is that the early experiences glow with specialness.

There’s nothing to compare that would tell you otherwise. You’ll move quickly through this phase, so enjoy it while it lasts.

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Caregiving for parents is delicate balancing act Judi Light Hopson, Emma H. Hopson and Ted Hagen Tribune News Service

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re you juggling work and taking care of your elderly parents? Maybe on top of this, you’re also raising kids or dealing with a spouse who is ill.

Your mind is on other people’s needs 24 hours a day.

In the midst of this stress, you’d like to take care of yourself. But, the problem is there’s no time for your own needs. As a caregiver, you’re suffering from personal neglect.

A friend of ours described it this way: “While I’m figuring out if mom needs groceries, I’ll be trying to plan a sales meeting. At the same time, my brain is telling me my spouse has a doctor’s appointment this week. He is a cancer patient.

My aerobics class is a thing of the past. My weight and blood pressure are up.”

One woman we know told us this: “I used to keep a to-do list on my bedside table. I would wake up in the middle of the night thinking of a caregiving task I’d forgotten. After about three years of this, I finally figured out what I’d truly forgotten. I’d forgotten myself.”

Pushing your own needs away, so you can struggle to shop, drive, cook, plan, and worry for someone else

will backfire. You’ll come to the end of your own coping mechanisms.

Caregiving can build relationships or destroy them.

Here are some tips that can help: n Tell yourself the truth.

This helps you define options.

For example, maybe you have to work overtime this weekend.

Your mother will be lonely sitting at home. Could your niece drop in for a visit and take her some lunch? n Plan ahead constantly.

Pencil in quiet time for yourself, a small amount of exercise every day, and one “reward” for yourself every week. This reward might be a novel you’ve been wanting to read or a nice Italian meal you’ll order for delivery. n Build a reliable emotional support system. There’s no substitute for caring people who will help fix your problems. For example, text your closest friends a couple of times a day just to chat and unwind. Or ask your cousin to help you find a good car repair person. Make sure you find a good doctor or medical clinic for yourself, too. nLook for every time-saving technique you can find. Utilize delivery options from local stores or online providers. Have your groceries and your elderly parents’ groceries delivered.

Order basic household items online, so you can save driving time every week. And, could you pay someone to cut your hair and your mother’s hair in the same visit?

“When I took my sister and my aunt for chemotherapy last year, I got very angry,” says a friend of ours we’ll call Nick. “I started resenting other family members for not helping.

Finally, I started asking family members to make a few calls to my sister and my aunt. I told my relatives that they needed cheering up and they surely could do that.”

Nick got cooperation in that regard. His family members started to get involved. Some wanted to know the real problems and how they could help.

“People will chip in time, money, and other resources if you encourage them to get involved,” says Nick. “Don’t back yourself into a hero’s corner on caregiving. Let people know that a little help goes a long way.”

Judi Light Hopson is the Executive Director of the stress management website USA Wellness Cafe at www.usawellnesscafe.com. Emma Hopson is an author and a nurse educator. Ted Hagen is a family psychologist.

For your health

Telehealth provides health care solutions during pandemic, beyond Blanca Gutierrez

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he Covid-19 pandemic has changed mundane activities, including the way in which we receive health care services.

In accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Covid-19 guidance, the majority of health centers, hospitals and other health care providers had to act quickly and establish remote methods of communication with patients to ensure the continuation of health care delivery while lowering the risk of spreading Covid-19 in their facilities.

The answer for most was providing telehealth services; the use of digital technologies by health care providers and patients to communicate remotely, which may include video calls, text messages, phone calls and emails. Almost a year out from the initial declaration of the novel coronavirus pandemic, analysis has begun to demonstrate the effectiveness of telehealth services that could extend its use beyond the pandemic.

The pandemic has affected all of us in different ways and as Damian Barr’s poem notes, “We are in the same storm, but not in the same boat.”1 Low-income and racially diverse communities are at a higher risk of disproportionately experiencing adverse mental health condi-

tions during the pandemic than socially advantaged groups.2 This year, their stress and anxiety were exacerbated by financial hardship and insecurity and grieving the death or illness of a loved one.

Behavioral health specialists saw an increased demand for telehealth appointments during the pandemic, followed by an increased rate of patients keeping their appointments.

A California Health Care Foundation survey found a high level of satisfaction by patients and providers when using telehealth services, with 72% of patients stating they were just as or more satisfied with a phone appointment than with their last in-person visit.3 Most patients with low income believed their experience with telehealth was better than expected and it was easier to attend their telehealth appointment. Patients and providers support the use of telehealth and view it as an essential tool in the health care delivery system.

Beyond the pandemic, telehealth services are a lifeline for those living in rural areas where there is often a shortage of providers and a lack of public transportation options, which make the process of going to a doctor’s appointment more difficult for those without vehicles. Patients can usually take a call from home or during their lunch break, without

worrying about transportation, parking, or needing to request time off from work.

Telehealth services have been used to effectively promote health education in rural areas that empower patients to self-manage chronic conditions with the help of their providers.

A 2012 initiative by the Eastern Montana Telemedicine Network found a 30% increase in diabetic patient’s ability to check their blood sugar correctly after six months of program participation.4 The initiative demonstrated significant gains in diet and other self-management behavior of patients as well.

For diverse communities, individuals with low income and those living in rural areas, telehealth facilitates access to quality health care services as it eliminates the need for transportation, helps stop the propagation of Covid-19 and reduces the amount of time needed to take off from work to see a provider. Due to its widespread support and success, the continuation of telehealth services as we have come to know it this year, could be retained if there is legislative commitment to continue telehealth flexibilities past the Covid-19 pandemic response.

Blanca Gutierrez is a project manager at the Community Clinic Consortium, which is a member of the Solano Coalition for Better Health.

REFERENCES: 1 https://www.damianbarr.com/latest/tag/We+are+not+all+in+the+same+boat.+We+are+all+in+the+same+storm 2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7298157/ 3 https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/PatientsLowIncomeProvidersContinueTelehealth.pdf 4 https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/factsheets/telehealth-in-rural-communities.htm

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Muslims reel over prayer app that sold user data

‘A betrayal from within our own community’ Tribune Content Agency Five times a day, tens of millions of phones buzz with notifications from an app called Muslim Pro, reminding users it’s time to pray. While Muslims in Los Angeles woke Thursday to a dawn notification that read, “Fajr at 5:17 AM,” users in Sri Lanka were minutes away from getting a ping telling them it was time for Isha, or the night prayer.

The app’s Qibla compass quickly orients devices toward the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia – which Muslims face when praying. When prayers are done, the in-app Quran lets users pick up reading exactly where they left off. A counter tallies the days of fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. ListMark Boster/Los Angeles Times/TNS file (2015) ings guide users to halal food in their area.

Orange County Muslims gather in prayer in the parking lot of Angel Stadium in Anaheim for Eid al-Adha These features make it to mark the end of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca known as Hajj, Sept. 23, 2015. easier to practice the many daily rituals prescribed in said an investigation into the stints at major tech companies part of a wrong pattern of crackIslam, turning Muslim Pro into data broker industry showed like Google, Akamai and Nokia- downs and all sorts of violations the most popular Muslim app that as of September, X Mode owned Alcatel. BitsMedia of our civil liberties that have in the world, according to was “selling data collected from built and developed apps for preyed on our most basic functhe app’s maker, Singapore- phones in the United States to corporate clients and an app-dis- tions as Muslims.” based BitsMedia.

Muslims in the United U.S. military customers, via covery service called Frenzapp, But revelations about the defense contractors.” but Muslim Pro is far and away States and abroad have been app’s data collection and sales the subject of mass govern“Every single American has the company’s biggest success. practices have left some users the right to practice their reliMace told the site TechinA- ment surveillance for years, at wondering if the convenience is gion without being spied on,” sia that he launched Muslim times, for simply practicing their worth the risk.

Wyden tweeted. “I will continue Pro in 2010 after noticing faith or participating in faithBitsMedia sells user location to watchdog this announcement how his Muslim friends had based activities. data to a broker called X Mode, and ensure Americans’ constitu- to turn to the radio, the local The New York Police which in turn sells that infor- tional rights are protected.” mosque or the newspaper to Department demographmation to contractors. X Mode’s X Mode did not respond find out what time to break ics unit – a counter-terrorism client list has included U.S. mil- to requests for comment, but their fast during Ramadan. By group launched in response to itary contractors, the tech reportedly ceased working with 2017, Muslim Pro had been down- 9/11 – surveilled Muslims in publication Motherboard first two specific defense contrac- loaded 45 million times, piquing and around the state to weed reported last week. tors named in the Motherboard the interest of private equity out radicalization based on indiMass calls to delete Muslim report. Muslim Pro did not firms Bintang Capital and CMIA cators that the ACLU said were Pro and a separate Muslim respond to questions about Capital Partners. The firms “so broad that it seems to treat matrimony app called Muslim whether executives were aware acquired BitsMedia for an undis- with suspicion anyone who idenMingle have since echoed across of what X Mode did with user closed amount and Mace left the tifies as Muslim, harbors Islamic social media, resonating among information after its purchase. company two years later. beliefs, or engages in Islamic communities that have long Muslim Pro offers two ver- religious practices.”

Muslim Pro is trying to win been the target of government back users worried about their sions of its product: a free app that Muslim commusurveillance. privacy. Upon downloading the is supported by advertisements nity leaders point to the Majlis Ash-Shura, a lead- app, users now see a pop-up that and a paid subscription service expansion of the U.S. drone ership council that represents says, “media reports are circu- for those who prefer to avoid program under President Obama, 90 New York state mosques, sent lating that Muslim Pro has been seeing pop-ups for businesses which used drones for surveila notification urging people to selling personal data of its users to such as Doordash and Western lance and targeted killings in delete Muslim Pro, citing “safety the US Military. This is INCOR- Union under verses for the Muslim-majority countries and data privacy.”

RECT and UNTRUE. Muslim Quran. The company says the like Yemen, Pakistan, AfghanThe Council on American- Pro is committed to protect- app has been downloaded more istan and Iraq and resulted in Islamic Relations, the nation’s ing and securing our users’ than 90 million times on iOS hundreds of civilian deaths. largest Muslim civil liberties privacy. This is a matter we take devices, and it has tallied more That’s why it’s so troubling and advocacy group, sent letters very seriously.” than 50 million downloads on that data showing how often to three U.S. House committee Imam Omar Suleiman, a Android devices, according to Muslims engage with their faith chairs asking them to investi- prominent Muslim scholar and the Google Play store. and where they are could end up gate the U.S. military’s purchase the founder of Yaqeen InstiIn the world of free apps and in the hands of the U.S. military, of location and movement data tute for Islamic Research, felt internet services, the sale and said Zahra Billoo, a civil rights of users of Muslim-oriented the company’s statement was exchange of personal informa- attorney and executive direcapps. CAIR called for legisla- a deflection. tion are not unusual. In fact, in tor of CAIR’s San Francisco Bay tion prohibiting government “There has to be some humil- most cases it’s what keeps free Area chapter. agencies from purchasing ity to accept their responsibility,” apps free. Facebook, Google, “This feels like a betrayal user data that would otherwise said Suleiman. “They should Twitter and practically every from within our own commurequire a warrant. have said, ‘Look, we totally other company sell ads against nity,” said Billoo. “People feel In a statement, Muslim messed up. We should not have personal user information in that they should have been able Pro denied that it sold user data done that. We need to be more order to help advertisers better to trust a company that markets directly to the U.S. military but careful. And these are the target potential customers. and serves specifically the confirmed that it had worked steps that we’re going to take to But for many Muslims, the Muslim community – a comwith X Mode. Muslim Pro said it remedy the situation.’ Instead, it sale of personal information by munity that has been under always anonymized the user data seems like the response was just an app that helps them interact incredible attack domestically it sold, and said that the company very defensive.” with their faith in the privacy and abroad – to keep that data planned to terminate its relationBitsMedia was founded in of their own homes feels like a private, to be incredibly diligent ship with X Mode and all other 2009 by Erwan Mace – a Singa- greater personal violation. about who they were selling it to, pore-based iOS developer whose data brokers.

“This is not taking place in a if they would sell it at all.”

While Muslim Pro’s data polSen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., LinkedIn profile shows previous vacuum,” Suleiman said. “This is

icies are broadly in line with the rest of the tech industry, the use of the app is an indicator of faith and religiosity in ways that few others are, Billoo said.

“Our religion cannot be assumed from some of the other software,” she continued. “But if I’m checking Fajr everyday on Muslim Pro, then that tells the U.S. military something specific about me.”

Billoo said CAIR is asking for a congressional inquiry – one that might get answers from the U.S. military about why the data were acquired and how they are being used.

In New York, where NYPD surveillance remains top of mind in the Muslim community, members of the Majlis Ash-Shura, the Muslim leadership council in New York, say the app scandal has inspired them to begin discussing lobbying for statewide consumer privacy legislation, akin to California’s Consumer Privacy Act. Members of the leadership council are no strangers to the idea of government surveillance – the group’s former president, Imam Talib Abdur Rashid, sued the NYPD for surveillance records on himself – but this is the first time it has considered steps to curb potential government surveillance through private businesses.

In the last week, many Muslims have sought out more alternatives to Muslim Pro, but given the importance of geography in calculating prayer times, it’s hard to find apps that won’t need to access location information. Islamic prayer times hinge on the position of the sun, with each prayer corresponding with different positions. It’s why prayer times change throughout the year as days get shorter or longer and vary from location to location.

Calculating prayer times requires inputting the longitude and date into a formula called the equation of time, which determines solar time, according to Omar Al-Ejel, a computer science major at the University of Michigan who built a prayer time app in 2015 that he continues to update. For example, solar noon – which is when the sun is at its highest point – is not always at 12 p.m. Knowing exactly what time solar noon is helps Muslims know when to pray Dhuhr prayer.

However, Al-Ejel said while the security of the data is not guaranteed, apps that do ondevice calculations tend to be more trustworthy because location data aren’t automatically being sent to a remote server where it would be impossible to tell whether the data are being sold or misused.

“When it comes to anything religious,” Al-Ejel said, “I feel like it should just be implied that you’re not selling any kind of information.”

Era of emotional support animals on flights to end with new DOT rule Tribune Content Agency For years, travelers with the right certification have been allowed to fly with animals that provide emotional support and alleviate mental distress.

But, for the airlines, it’s been anything but a smooth ride.

They’ve heard thousands of complaints from other passengers who don’t want to sit near animals on their flight. And airline executives believe many of the pets, flying at no extra charge because of their designation, aren’t there to provide any therapeutic benefits at all. A cottage industry has emerged to sell certification to travelers who are trying to avoid paying extra fees.

Under a new federal rule announced Wednesday, emotional support animals will no longer receive special access to airplane cabins. Neither will service animals – those specially trained to perform a task to help someone with a disability – that aren’t dogs.

The proliferation of animals on planes

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Under a new federal rule, emotional support animals will no longer receive special access to airplane cabins. prompted backlash from other passengers. For years, the U.S. Department of Transportation required that emotional support animals be recognized as service animals for passengers with disabilities who are protected from discrimination under the Air Carrier Access Act. The DOT has received more than 15,000 comments submitted online, by mail, fax, hand delivery or courier on the proposed rule.

More than 10,000 of the comments con-

cerned emotional support animals. Some came from airline industry groups and thousands of individuals who want them to be treated as pets instead of service animals. But more than 6,000 commenters wanted emotional support animals to continue to be recognized as service animals or as a separate accommodation for those with disabilities.

The new DOT rule will recognize only dogs as service animals, not exotic animals like peacocks and rabbits.

That wouldn’t preclude airlines from allowing passengers to travel with uncertified animals as pets. But Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines charges $125 each way to bring a pet in the cabin, and it must be in a carrier that fits under the seat.

Southwest, the second-largest carrier in Atlanta, charges a $95 pet fare each way. Delta and other carriers have not yet announced what their new policies will be under the new rule.

But Delta has been vocal about its concerns about emotional support animals on flights after several incidents, includ-

ing an emotional support dog mauling a passenger. The passenger filed suit. The airline applauded the DOT for acknowledging concerns it and others had raised.

Delta, Southwest and other airlines over the past few years have put new restrictions on emotional support animals and service animals on flights in response to the problems and complaints.

“This rule will allow airlines to put safety first for all of our customers and employees, while protecting the rights of customers who have disabilities and need to travel with trained service animals,” Delta said in a written statement.

Delta said it is reviewing the new rule and will work with its advisory board on disability to implement it.

Industry group Airlines for America said the number of passengers traveling with emotional support animals has skyrocketed in recent years, and that the misbehavior of some emotional support animals “has ranged from mauling and biting to urinating and defecating.”

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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

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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11/29, 12/6/20 CNS-3417366# THE DAILY REPUBLIC DR# 00043323 Published: Nov. 29, Dec. 6, 2020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MAMAYO'S PERUVIAN DELIGHTS 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

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.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS FITPRO HEALTH

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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: 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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aCross 1 Nicaraguan president Daniel 7 Elaborate dos 12 Complicated situations 18 Brit’s editorial 19 Formally disciplined 21 Clothing 22 Disney dog serving in Congress?

24 Nova __ 25 “Ah, me!”

26 Spring zodiac sign 27 Mil. decorations 29 Put up 30 Dorm, briefly 31 Part of FNMA? 32 Assumed the role of 34 Dale’s brother, away from their home turf?

42 Name near the top of a “Citizen Kane” movie poster 43 Bed-andbreakfast, maybe 44 Lord’s Prayer start 45 “If all __ fails ... ” 49 One of Snow White’s pals acting shellfish-ly?

54 Surveillance tactic 56 Photo __ 57 City near Provo 58 Arch type 60 O, The __ Magazine 61 Fernando’s fire 62 URL intro 64 Suffice 65 Trendy berry 68 Franchises owned by Donald’s girlfriend?

73 Line holder 74 Gets thinner 76 Big name in pet food 77 Sweatshirt options 79 Bear 80 Egyptian Christian 82 Sign of cooking 83 Well put 86 Games category 88 Kitchen cooker belonging to 22-Across’ beau?

93 “Night” author Wiesel 94 Baseball card stat.

95 Trick taker, often 96 “Rolling in the Deep” singer 97 Plans made by Bambi’s skunk buddy?

104 Subject of 2001’s “Blow” 107 “Bravo!”

108 Tide competitor 109 Battery part 110 Chowder order 112 Informal byes

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114 Heave-ho 118 Enigma 120 Hoggett’s pig strolling on a forest path?

123 Feral feline 124 Developing 125 Perfect spot 126 Moistens overnight, maybe 127 Backgammon piece 128 Quarterback, at times 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 23 28

Down Cantina cooker Authentic “Et voilà!”

Big name in ice cream Old Metro maker Sounds from a kennel Manitoba tribe Fireworks reactions “Who am __ judge?”

Like some laws or lords Figured (out) More, in Madrid “And so on and so forth,” for short Shop owners Located “Fear of Flying” author Jong Capacity count Bridge ancestor Ab neighbor Not kosher Manual gesture

of respect 31 “__ Lisa” 33 “Cooking From the Hip” chef Cat __ 34 Silver salmon 35 ‘60s civil rights activist __ Brown 36 Xfinity and MSN 37 Suddenly appear, with “up” 38 “This round’s __” 39 Minute Maid brand 40 Blowup: Abbr.

41 Audio giant 46 “Casablanca” actor Peter 47 Urbane 48 Singing Merman 50 Cézanne’s “Boy in __ Vest” 51 Dreamcast maker 52 Mine, in Metz 53 Closet pests 55 Ali’s 37 59 3.0, e.g.: Abbr.

61 Nonsense 62 Marriott rival 63 Channel showing many old MGM and RKO films 65 Let up 66 Plotting ring 67 One can help you get off 69 Bit of a draft 70 Its four-word name was reduced to four letters in 1973

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71 Okays 72 Sweep’s target 75 “Comprende?”

78 King’s iconic vision 80 All-natural flytrap 81 Five-year-old Ron Howard first played him in 1960 83 “Absolutely!”

84 Bombard 85 Chic modifier 87 1982 Disney scifi film 89 Red inside 90 Unlike this ans.

91 __ culpa 92 Citrus drink suffix 98 Hide 99 Mountain ash trees 100 Nearly entirely

101 “Cool!”

102 David who played Rhoda’s husband Joe 103 Relax 104 Chocolate substitute 105 Chilled 106 In need of deciphering 111 Kimono sash 112 Diez squared 113 About, on a memo 114 Barrage from bleacher “birds” 115 “Uh-oh!”

116 Yellow comics dog 117 Bygone despot 119 UFO crew 121 DDE’s WWII domain 122 Org. for the Williams sisters

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B14â&#x20AC;&#x192; Sunday, December 6, 2020 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; DAILY REPUBLIC

Raiders: Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look past woeful 0-11 Jets Scoreboard FOOTBALL From Page B3

the Falcons dominated at the point of attack. Two of Carrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three lost fumbles came on hits he never saw. Jacobs (7 carries, 27 yards) and Devontae Booker (5 carries, 6 yards) couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get on track. Keep in mind Jacobs had a 16-yard run, so the Raidersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; other 13 carries went for 24 yards.

Despite all the issues at left guard and right tackle, the Raiders were whipped up front in a way they hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been since a 46-20 loss to Tampa Bay on Oct. 25. And in that game, there was a legitimate excuse â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the entire line didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t practice all week for purposes of contact tracing after Trent Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bout with Covid-19.

Against the Falcons, it was an old-fashioned thrashing, and it was stunning to watch because the Raiders line had played so well all year it was taken for granted.

2. Rediscover the run Without Jacobs, the Raiders could go centipede with rotating backs Booker, Jalen Richard and Theo Riddick. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve rushed for just 139 yards in the last two games against the Chiefs and Falcons.

The Jets happen to be pretty good against the run and are ranked 11th

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in the NFL at 111.0 yards per game and are giving up 3.8 yards per attempt.

The Raiders donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to run wild, just far enough forward progress to stay in reasonable down and distance and set up Carr to complete high percentage passes.

Get somewhere near the 50-50 run/pass split Gruden likes to see in his offense. And if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having a good day on the ground, they can keep at it. Persistence is a big factor in any running game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think there are still creases, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still room,â&#x20AC;? Carr said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any time we go three-and-out, or turn the ball over, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of shortened possessions which equals a lot of yards and not a lot of touches.â&#x20AC;?

3. Play a clean game Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not necessary to play as they did against the Chiefs (either time) on offense or as they did against Denver on defense. The Raiders donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to look great.

Methodical and mistakefree will work just fine.

Avoid the mistakes that lead to upset losses.

The surest way to give the Jets life is through more turnovers and penalties. The penalty problem has really gotten out of hand the past couple of weeks, giving the Chiefs and Falcons nine free first downs.

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4. Get after Sam Darnold The third overall pick of the draft in 2018, quarterback Sam Darnold, according to coach Adam Gase, is finally healthy and has all his receivers available for the first time.

Darnold is mobile, still only 23, and can be dangerous in a rhythm.

He could be a coveted reclamation project for some team if the Jets blow everything up following the season.

Last season against the Raiders, Darnold had the best game of his career in a win, going 20 of 29 for 315 yards, two touchdowns and a 127.8 passer rating. He also ran for a score. The Raiders sacked him only once.

Therein lies the key to Darnold, who has been known to â&#x20AC;&#x153;see ghostsâ&#x20AC;? when protection breaks down and pass rushers are coming in from all angles. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s problem-

5. Find Darren Waller for big yards Waller has 64 catches for only 542 yards. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8.5 yards per catch and four or five yards shy of where a player of his skill set should be. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got five touchdowns and has proved adept at the tight throws in the end zone that Carr throws well.

Someone of Wallerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s size and skill should be involved in more big plays. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost impossible to match up with, with the agility of a wide receiver that linebackers canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cover and the size of a tight end that should be a problem for defensive backs 6-foot and under.

Waller has just a single 100-yard game, with 105 yards against New Orleans in Week 2. And it took 12 receptions to get there.

New England at L.A. Chargers, 1:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Green Bay, 1:25 p.m.

Denver at Kansas City, 5:20 p.m.

Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Buffalo vs. SAN FRANCISCO, at Arizona, 5:15 p.m.

Washington at Pittsburgh, 2 p.m.

Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Game Dallas at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Byes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Tampa Bay, Carolina Thursday, Dec. 10 New England at L.A. Rams, 5:20 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 13 Washington vs. SAN FRANCISCO at Arizona, 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.

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.

Green Bay at Detroit, 1:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 5:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 14 Baltimore at Cleveland, 5:15 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 17 L.A. Chargers at Las Vegas, 5:20 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 19 Buffalo at Denver, 1:30 p.m.

Carolina at Green Bay, 5:15 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 20 SAN FRANCISCO at Dallas, 5:20 p.m.

Seattle at Washington, 10 a.m.

Cleveland at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 10 a.m.

New England at Miami, 10 a.m.

Jacksonville at Baltimore, 10 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 10 a.m.

Detroit at Tennessee, 10 a.m.

Houston at Indianapolis, 10 a.m.

Philadelphia at Arizona, 1:05 p.m.

Kansas City at New Orleans, 1:25 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at L.A. Rams, TBA Monday, Dec. 21 Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 5:15 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 25 Minnesota at New Orleans, 1:30 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 26 SAN FRANCISCO at Arizona, 1:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Detroit, 10 a.m.

Miami at Las Vegas, 5:15 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 27 Carolina at Washington, 10 a.m.

Indianapolis at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m.

Atlanta at Kansas City, 10 a.m.

Chicago at Jacksonville, 10 a.m.

Cincinnati at Houston, 10 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at Baltimore, 10 a.m.

Cleveland at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m.

L.A. Rams at Seattle, 1:05 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Chargers, 1:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 1:25 p.m.

Tennessee at Green Bay, 5:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 28 Buffalo at New England, 5:15 p.m.

NFL American Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA 8 3 0 .727 299 282 7 4 0 .636 284 205 5 6 0 .455 229 255 0 11 0 .000 152 322 North

W L T Pct. PF PA Pittsburgh 11 0 0 1.000 317 188 Cleveland 8 3 0 .727 265 286 Baltimore 6 5 0 .545 282 214 Cincinnati 2 8 1 .227 230 289 South

W L T Pct. PF PA Tennessee 8 3 0 .727 324 285 Indianapolis 7 4 0 .636 302 253 Houston 4 7 0 .364 267 297 Jacksonville 1 10 0 .091 227 325 West

W L T Pct. PF PA Kansas City 10 1 0 .909 348 238 Las Vegas 6 5 0 .545 292 319 Denver 4 7 0 .364 209 298 L.A. Chargers 3 8 0 .273 277 300 National Conference East

W L T Pct. PF PA N.Y. Giants 4 7 0 .364 214 253 Washington 4 7 0 .364 241 243 Philadelphia 3 7 1 .318 237 277 Dallas 3 8 0 .273 251 359 North

W L T Pct. PF PA Green Bay 8 3 0 .727 349 283 Minnesota 5 6 0 .455 292 305 Chicago 5 6 0 .455 216 250 Detroit 4 7 0 .364 252 328 South

W L T Pct. PF PA New Orleans 9 2 0 .818 326 225 Tampa Bay 7 5 0 .583 344 280 Atlanta 4 7 0 .364 295 281 Carolina 4 8 0 .333 280 300 West

W L T Pct. PF PA Seattle 8 3 0 .727 341 304 L.A. Rams 7 4 0 .636 263 215 Arizona 6 5 0 .545 304 258 SAN FRAN 5 6 0 .455 261 254 Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games Cleveland at Tennessee, 10 a.m.

Las Vegas at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m.

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.

Buffalo Miami New England N.Y. Jets

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Statistics for Travis Air Force Base for yesterday through 5 p.m.

Temperature High/Low.............................64°/33° Average high .......................... 57.4° Average low............................ 39.9° A year ago...........................59°/53° Barometric pressure............30.24 Humidity...................................48%

Air Quality Index 41 Precipitation 0-50 51-100 101-150 151-200 201-300 Last 24 hours................................0â&#x20AC;ł Good Moderate Unhealthy Unhealthy Very sensitive unhealthy Month-to-date.............................0â&#x20AC;ł Normal Dec. rainfall ............. 4.30â&#x20AC;ł Source: Bay Area Air Quality Management District Season-to-date...................... 1.71â&#x20AC;ł Normal seasonal rainfall....24.81â&#x20AC;ł UV Index This date last year........................0â&#x20AC;ł 2 Source: NWS and NOAA <2 3-5 6-7 8-10 11+ Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency

atic for the Raiders, who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the sacks to show for it but have at least slightly upgraded their pass rush in recent weeks. Abram, who wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play, has been deployed often as a blitzer by Paul Guenther.

If Darnold has ample time, he can be dangerous. Carr needs to be better than Darnold and the Raiders need to be better than the Jets on third down.

Pass interference, defensive holding, roughing the passer, unnecessary roughness . . . the Raiders have had them all. A solid blueprint would be the Raidersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; road win in Cleveland, which they won 17-7 in bad weather. They avoided mistakes, played efficiently and won without bells and whistles.

Sun and Moon

Regional forecast

Davis 64|45 Dixon Santa Rosa 65|45 66|38 Vacaville Napa 65|50 65|38 Fairfield/Suisun City 66|46 Vallejo Benicia 57|45 Rio Vista 62|47 64|44 Concord 66|43 Richmond 63|46 Walnut Creek 66|44 Oakland 63|45 San Francisco 63|48

Shown is todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weather.

Temperatures are todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highs and tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lows.

Sunrise..............................7:11 a.m.

Sunset...............................4:48 p.m.

Moonrise....................... 10:58 p.m.

Moonset.............12:44 p.m. (Mon. San New First Qtr. Full Last Qtr. Pablo Today

Monday Dec. 14 Dec. 21 Dec. 30 Dec. 8

Source: U.S. Naval Observatory

San Mateo 63|45 San Jose 63|38

Tides (feet) Low

5:44 a.m.

3:57 p.m.

6:31 a.m.

5:12 p.m.

4.83 5.04 5.04 4.67

(feet)

10:35 a.m. 3.03 10:56 p.m. -0.03 11:57 a.m. 2.67 11:53 p.m. 0.26

National forecast

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Palo Alto 62|43

High

Flight 1 1st: Marsha Berry, 31 putts 2nd (tie): Karenann Evans and Lynn Traver, 32 putts 4th: Denise Sargent-Natour, 34 putts Flight 2 1st: Diane Scholz, 34 putts 2nd: Nancy Weaver, 35 putts 3rd (tie): Vivian Bedwell, Sue Clark and Chris Sabye, 38 putts

Flight 3 1st: Alma Renko, 32 putts 2nd: Suzi Masterson, 36 putts 3rd (tie): Jan Benner and Joan Rexford, 37 putts Flight 4 1st: Roni Teixeira, 33 putts 2nd: Paula Davis, 34 putts 3rd: JoAnne Smith, 35 putts 4th (tie): Marilyn Rogers and Darl McCarthy 36 putts Broke 100: Pam Fashing, 94; Sandy Smith, 94; and Marsha Berry, 99 Chip ins: Paula Davis, Nos. 1 and 18; Loretta Ortenblad, Nos. 7 and 10; Joan Rexford, No.7; Lynn Traver, Nos. 9 and 13

Suisun High Today 7:49 a.m.

5:56 p.m.

Monday 8:34 a.m.

7:12 p.m.

(feet) Low

4.15 4.77 4.28 4.36

(feet)

12:58 a.m. -0.16 1:13 p.m. 1.91 1:48 a.m. -0.10 2:28 p.m. 1.63

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