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A demonstration against Covid-19 lockdown measures takes place in front of the Solano County Health and Social

Services Building in Fairfield, Thursday. The protesters say they are concerned about business closings.

Advocates for opening businesses stage protest

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FAIRFIELD — A small group of Solano County residents staged a demonstration Thursday, calling for the Board of Supervisors to defy the state and open area businesses.

“We are trying to get visibility to the fact that their public health orders are unconstitutional,” said Paul Hale, who helped organize the event that drew five others to the Health and Social Services Office on Beck Avenue.

“Their” refers to both the state and county public health agencies.

The constitutional issue, several members noted, is their right to peacefully assemble, a right they contend cannot be taken away from them by health orders.

Michele Guerra also sees those infringements growing as the novel coronavirus pandemic extends, and said she is worried about just how far the government is willing See Protest, Page A8

Virtual town hall on education, vaccines set for Tuesday Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — An update on the Covid-19 pandemic as it relates to schools and the rollout of vaccinations will be the topic of a virtual town hall scheduled Tuesday.

Tony Thurmond, superintendent of Public Instruction, and Dr. Allison Brashear, dean of the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, headline the meeting, which is hosted by Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa.

The town hall is scheduled for 6 p.m.

It will be streamed live over multiple channels and broad-

cast on KSVY Sonoma. Panelists will take live and submitted questions.

Live audio will be presented at KSVY. org, with video st rea ms at Dodd h t t p s : // s d 0 3 . senate.ca.gov; www.facebook.com/SenBillDodd; www. youtube.com/user/SonomaTV/; and SonomaTV.org. The event also will be broadcast on KSVY 91.3 FM. Questions can be sent by email to townhall@ksvy.org. To call in with questions, dial 933-9133.

Solano hospitalizations soar to another new high for pandemic Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County health officials have been surprised at the lower daily Covid increases this week – at least compared to a Christmas-driven surge over the weekend – but those daily numbers went up for the second straight day.

The officials are not as surprised with the increase in hospitalizations, which Thursday reached another pandemic record of 176, an increase of nine from the previous day’s update.

The intensive care unit capacity fell from 15% to 12%, while the seven-day positivity testing rate was

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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, in Washington, D.C.

Actions lead to resignations of more loyalists November, that Trump “will concede gracefully” WASHINGTON — if he lost the election.

P resident Dona ld Resignations have Trump’s incitement of been rare in Trump’s Wednesday’s mob attack orbit, despite the conon the U.S. Capitol has stant churn of hiring and sparked the firing that has departure of cha racter ized several loyalists the president’s who had stuck administration. with him through Top officials years of controdidn’t quit when versy and scandal.

Trump said there Mick Mulwere “very fine vaney, his former people on both chief of staff who Mulvaney sides” during has been serving racist violence in as a special envoy for Charlottesville in 2017, Northern Ireland, said or when police attacked he was departing on protestors in LafayThursday morning. ette Square so he could “I can’t do it. I can’t pose for pictures at a stay,” he told CNBC. It church near the White was a sharp shift from House in 2020.

Mulvaney’s rosy predicMu lva ney sa id tion, outlined in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in See Actions, Page A8

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WASHINGTON — C ong r ess’ D emo cratic leaders on Thursday demanded P resident Dona ld Trump’s removal from office – vowing a swift impeachment, if necessary – in an effort to stop him from unleashing more chaos in his final, rage-filled days.

Both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer called on Trump’s Cabinet to oust him by invoking the 25th Amendment, which was designed to remove a president who is incapacitated or unwell. They warned that the House would quickly consider impeachment articles if that does not happen.

Schumer said he and Pelosi tried to call Vice

President Mike Pence on Thursday morning to urge him to follow the 25th Amendment, but Pence would not take their call.

“While there are only 13 days left, any day could be a horror show for America,” Pelosi said, calling Trump “a very dangerous person who should not continue in office” and adding: “This is urgent, an emergency of the highest magnitude.”

Dozens of House Democrats, including some from conservative districts, echoed the call for a second impeachment and at least one Republican called for Trump’s removal by the Cabinet.

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What is the oldest business in Fairfield?

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ecently in the I Grew up in in business since 1951, after a Fairfield Too Facebook little digging it turned out that group, member Justea they only opened the Fairfield Blakely asked a question that location (behind Moorhead sparked a lot of interest. Justea Automotive – formerly Kinney’s wanted to know what the oldest Shoes – on the North Texas business in Fairfield was and Street elbow) since the 1980s. included three caveats: I decided to assemble some (1) That it never moved. possible contenders and I stress (2) That it hadn’t changed Tony Wade that this is not an exhaustive list. significantly.

Back in the day I would have liked to have (3) That it hadn’t closed. explored some other leads, but Answers flooded in from the more my column has a deadline and digging than 10,000 members and they were through resources I can use at the varied and thought-provoking. library – everything is not online – is Some were easy to knock down, like verboten during the pandemic. So Preston’s Furnishings, which was a haggling is definitely welcome. staple on Travis Boulevard since 1963: Fairfield Safe and Lock, 1957 but closed a couple of years ago 811 Missouri St.: Locals recall it being and is now a different business. Some just where it is now way back when. pointed to JCPenney, which opened in 1963: Dave’s Giant Hamburger, Fairfield in 1929 but is disqualified from 1055 N. Texas St.: This iconic Fairfield this query as it did move from downtown eatery was launched by Dave Heim after to become the anchor for Solano a different burger joint had first opened Mall in 1972. in 1959 at the same location called A couple of recent scratches, most Ronny’s Drive-In. It has not changed likely due to the current pandemic, significantly since then and is now run include the Cloud 9 Cocktail Lounge on

by Dave’s daughter, Lesa Gonzalez.

Walters Road (which locals remember 1962: Salsman-Engell Real Estate, going to in the 1950s and 1960s and now 900 N. Texas St.: Art Engell, patriarch has a for sale sign out front) and Napaof the local Engell clan, is still there. dashery, which recently closed after 1961: The Daily Republic, 1250 Texas 57 years in downtown Fairfield.

St.: So, here’s the thing, yes, the Daily One not so well-known contestant was Republic is kinda descended from print Ramos Oil. While the company has been predecessors that go back into the

mid-1800s, but they had a different name and were not daily. The newspaper it succeeded, the Solano Republican, is one that many longtime locals still remember. The very first issue of the Daily Republic was published Oct. 2, 1961. Circulation for the $1.50 a month paper was 4,532.

While the newspaper is still there – it has significantly changed. It is no longer daily. It ceased publication of a Tuesday paper back in 2013 and also stopped publishing Thursday and Saturday editions in September 2020.

1960: Chico’s Barber Shop, 1317 W. Texas St.: Sebastian “Chico” Madrigal retired in 2017 after nearly 60 years of serving the local community, all but six at the same location. His son Art Madrigal took over.

1960: Foster’s Lumber Yard, 1601 W. Texas St.: This has been in the same spot since then as evidenced by an ad in the 1961 Armijo High School La Mezcla yearbook.

1958: Andy’s Pawn Shop, 2385 N. Texas St.: This business has been in the same spot since people were wearing “I Like Ike” buttons and the building has been there even longer than the business, since 1951. According to the owner, originally it was a hot dog place.

1957: Hansen-Bryan Funeral Home, 1850 W. Texas St.: Now Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, this $85,000 building

with room to seat 135 people opened in July of that year.

1954: Pearson’s Appliance, 4685 Central Way: According to their website, Roy and Mickey Pearson founded Pearson’s as an appliance repair business which gradually extended into sales and became Fairfield’s largest independent appliance business. Pearson’s moved in 1984 to their low overhead warehouse in Cordelia at the I-80/I-680 interchange.

1953: Joe’s Buffet, 834 Texas St.: Joe’s Buffet was probably the answer most people gave to Blakely’s question.

However, using the criteria, it has changed . . . kinda. It was first called Fairfield Delicatessen in 1953 and only later became Joe’s. It also expanded into the Freitas Toggery next door for the dining area. Not sure that counts as a move, but still.

1902: Thompson's Corner, 2147 Cordelia Road: More than a few people gave this answer and while there is definitely a case to be made that technically it is in Fairfield, c’mon. Look, I seriously mean no offense by this, but many locals don’t really consider that to be Fairfield. Just sayin’.

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‘Great Decisions’ series starts Jan. 25 on Zoom Daily Republic Staff drnews@dailyrepublic.net

FAIRFIELD — The weekly Foreign Policy Association “Great Decisions” program begins Jan. 25.

The League of Women Voters Solano and the Benicia Public Library are cosponsoring the event locally.

To register and for more information, visit https://my.lwv.org/ california/solano-county/event/2021great-decisions-series.

The Zoom meetings will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. for eight consecutive Mondays.

“We plan to show the Foreign Policy Association weekly topic video as part

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of our Zoom meeting and follow the presentation with breakout discussions,” a statement released by the League of Women Voters states.

The topics area Global Supply Chains and National Security; Persian Gulf Security Issues; Brexit and the European Union; Struggles Over the Melting Arctic; China’s Role in Africa; The Korean Peninsula; Roles of International Organizations in a Global Pandemic; and The End of Globalization.

For more information about each topic, visit www.fpa.org/great_decisions/.

The 2021 “Great Decisions Briefing Book” can be purchased directly from the Foreign Policy Association.

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CHP report: More than 55 died in crashes statewide over New Year’s holiday weekend Daily Republic Staff

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Early morning crash in Fairfield A Fairfield Police officer and another driver were involved in an early morning crash about 1:30 a.m., Thursday, at Clay Bank Road and Quail Drive. The officer was attempting to catch up to a speeding motorist, police

Lt. Jausiah Jacobsen said. The driver, who was not the suspect, had a complaint of pain and was transported to a local hospital as a precaution. The cause of the collision is still under investigation, Jacobsen said.

Soroptimist Vacaville offers ‘Women Investing in Women’ business grant Daily Republic Staff

To qualify, the business must be owned by a woman and must be in Vacaville, or operated by a woman who lives in Vacaville.

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VACAVILLE — Soroptimist International of Vacaville is offering a little extra encouragement to women-owned businesses during Covid-19.

The club is offering a “Women Investing in Women” business grant.

“This is a one-time award that we’ve dreamed up to help a local woman in business continue to make their business dreams come true,” said chairwoman Lisa Hilas, in a press release.

Nominations are open

until Feb. 21.

To qualify, the business must be owned by a woman and must be in Vacaville, or operated by a woman who lives in Vacaville.

The winner will receive: n A business grant to be used on supporting their business.

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Suisun seeks feedback on city programs, parks SUISUN CITY — The Suisun City Recreation, Parks and Marina Department has an online survey to see the strengths and weaknesses of the city’s programs and parks.

It’s part of the development of the department’s Parks and Facilities Master Plan.

Those completing the survey will be entered into a drawing to win one of two $50 gift cards to a Suisun City restaurant.

Take the survey at https://sprw. io/stt-b2567a.

Area Agency on Aging seeks volunteers for advisory panel FAIRFIELD — The Napa-Solano Area Agency on Aging is seeking applicants to serve on its Advisory Council.

The council helps shape senior programs in the two counties, as well as advocate for senior issues and funding priorities.

The 16-member council consists of eight residents each from Solano and Napa counties. Applicants cannot be affiliated in a fiduciary manner with service providers that receive agency funds.

The council meets from 10 a.m. to noon the first Tuesday of each month. Those meetings are currently scheduled on the Zoom teleconference platform.

Applications are available at www. aaans.org/advisory-council.

Suisun City Police Department to celebrate 100th anniversary SUISUN CITY — The Police Department is making plans to celebrate its 100th anniversary.

The news was shared at a recent City Council meeting as well as the department’s Facebook page.

According to city records, the Suisun Board of Trustees, the body that was eventually renamed the Suisun City Council, appointed Anson Burdick as the Suisun night watchman in May 1919. The board voted in November 2021 to appoint and deputize Burdick as the Suisun town marshal, making him the first deputized law enforcement officer employed by the city.

Burdick was killed in the line of duty Sept. 1, 1927.

Subsequent appointments to his post were made, changing the position’s title along the way. But the decision to depu-

n Advertising on SI Vacaville’s website and in social media related to the award. n A one-year membership in SI Vacaville offering networking and support opportunities.

A Giving Tuesday campaign kicked off the fundraising for the grant in December. Donations of any amount are still being accepted and $250 sponsorships are available.

“Your contribution will help us support a woman-owned or womanled business right here in Vacaville,” said Hilas, in

tize Burdick was the beginning of what is now the Suisun City Police Department.

The department hopes to celebrate with another Pizza with the Police as Covid-19 restrictions are lifted, the city reports.

NorCal water conveyance topic of workshop next week FAIRFIELD — A virtual workshop on water conveyance, with a focus on Northern California, has been scheduled Tuesday.

It is part of a series of workshops held by the California Water Commission and are “not associated with the pending proposal to improve conveyance through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta,” the commission said in a statement.

“The commission’s goal with these workshops is to learn from diverse voices across the state. Participants from the region are encouraged to share their perspective on conveyance infrastructure needs and priorities, effective partnerships, public benefits of conveyance, possible criteria to assess resilience, efforts in preparing for changing hydrology, and effective financing mechanisms,” the statement said.

The workshop, set for 2:30 to 5 p.m., is co-hosted by the Northern California Water Association.

To register, go to https://zoom.us/ meeting/register/tJctcOispjgoGdZfwSHl8tYudPmKjhnjiQow. For information on the workshop agenda and workbook, call 916-834-3177 or send an email to cwc@cwc.ca.gov.

Solano County CHP hosts Start Smart class online FAIRFIELD — The Solano Area California Highway Patrol will conduct an online Start Smart class from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Start Smart is an education program for both teenage drivers and their parents. Statistics show that young drivers who have recently received their driver’s license are five times more likely to be involved in an accident than more seasoned, experienced drivers. Traffic collisions continue to be the leading cause of death for young people, ages 15 to 20.

Start Smart is a review of the rules of the road, some video clips and related movies designed to inform parents of the restrictions on teen drivers and give some important information to those teens that are about to or have recently received their license. There is no cost for the classes and parents are required to attend.

Contact the Solano Area CHP Office to sign up for the class at 428-2100.

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FAIRFIELD — At least 56 were killed in crashes on the state’s highways and freeways during a New Year’s holiday enforcement effort by the California Highway Patrol.

The 78-hour maximum enforcement period started at 6 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, ended at 11:59 p.m. Sunday and yielded 709 arrests for driving under the influence, the CHP reports.

Solano County CHP officers issued 266 citations to drivers during the holiday enforcement period, with 25 of those to people driving in excess

of 100 mph, the Solano CHP reports. There were 11 arrests of people suspected of driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

At least 38 people died in crashes across the state during the CHP’s maximum enforcement period over the Christmas holiday weekend when a total of 573 arrests were made across the state for driving under the influence, the CHP reports.

County’s Solano Christmas enforcement period saw 233 drivers cited, 22 for driving in excess of 100 mph, and nine arrests for suspected DUI, the Solano CHP reports.

Police to conduct DUI checkpoint Friday Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — The Police Department will conduct a DUI/driver’s license checkpoint Friday on the 1700 block of West Texas Street.

Checkpoints to enforce impaired driving and driving without a license are placed in locations based on collision statistics and frequency of DUI arrests, the Police Department said

in a statement.

The deterrent effect of high-visibility enforcement using both DUI checkpoints and DUI saturation patrols has proven to lower the number of people killed and injured in alcohol- or drug-impaired crashes, the statement said.

Alcohol-involved collisions in California led to 1,020 deaths and more than 20,000 serious injuries in 2017.

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Obituary

Frank James Vaughn

dad, knew he On Dec. 24, 2020, Frank had a thing for James Vaughn outrageous passed peacefully socks, he was Air Force just one day after glad to raise his veteran his 93rd birthday. pant leg and Frank was born in show off his socks which Berkeley and grew up in many times was quite Birds Landing and Grizzly entertaining. His sense Island. He dropped out of humor went out to his of high school to enlist in kids and grandkids with the Army Air Force during a bone in his leg when he WWII. Of all the places didn't want to play. he could have been staFrank was truly a tioned, he ended up at blessed man. the Suisun Fairfield Army He is survived by three Base, now Travis AFB children, Linda Louise only 10 miles from his Hanek, Frank Clarence home.

Vaughn, Carol Ann LevasFrank lived most of his seur; 11 grandchildren; life in the Fairfield and 24 great-grandchildren; Rio Vista area making and five great-greatlots of friends Frank was very active grandchildren.

He was preceded in the Barean Baptist Church and also Odd- in death by his wife, LaGreta; and son, Mark. fellows lodge.

Services will be He retired from PG&E after 30 plus years where private for family on he worked as a meter Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, Berean Baptist reader, a truck driver, at A graveside lineman and finally at a Church. service will follow at desk job.

After retirement he 1:30 p.m. at Suisun-Fairand his wife, LaGreta field Cemetery.

Arrangements were able to travel to many places around the under the care of Fairfield Funeral Home, world.

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State tax board offers Covid-19, disaster program assistance Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — The state Franchise Tax Board kicks off its tax season with reminders that there are Covidand disaster-related programs available and free tax return preparation services available inperson and self-help services online. “We encourage all Californians to make use of our online services, including the ability to file a state return online for free and quickly secure a refund,� state Controller and Franchise Tax Board Chairwoman Betty T. Yee said in a statement. “More people than ever will qualify for key state tax credits, including the expanded California Earned Income Tax Credit and the Young Child Tax Credit. Combined, these refundable credits can total hundreds or even thousands of dollars,�

Yee said in the statement. “We hope more Californians will claim these credits, especially those who do not earn enough to be required to file.�

The tax board also is recommending residents to file early, and cautions residents to be aware of scams, especially when it comes to disasterrelief programs. “Taxpayers may claim a disaster loss in the tax year when the disaster occurred, or by filing an amended or original return from the year before the disaster occurred,� the Franchise Tax Board stated. “Upon request, FTB will provide replacement state tax documents for free for those who lost them due to a disaster.�

For more information and a complete list of all disasters declared by the governor, visit ftb. ca.gov and search for disaster loss.

The Franchise Tax Board as well as the Internal Revenue Service contacts taxpayers by letter first, not by phone, emails or texts, and the agencies never request instant payments from debit or credit cards or

any other source.

For free help with tax returns, and for a list of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program locations, go to ftb.ca.gov. “In-person VITA services may be limited and are subject to change due to Covid-19 safety measures. Please confirm your VITA site is open on the day of your planned appointment before arriving, and practice any public health measures in place at that time,� the Franchise Tax Board statement said.

The Franchise Tax Board also noted that there is a Main Street Small Business Tax Credit that provides financial relief to qualified small businesses due to the economic disruption in 2020. “Taxpayers can use the credit against income taxes, or can make an irrevocable election to apply the credit against sales and use taxes,� the Franchise Tax Board stated.

The credits are allocated by the state Department of Tax and Fee Administration on a first-come, first-served basis until the credits are exhausted. The agency will accept applications for a tentative credit reservation through Jan. 15.

New this year, eligibility for the California Earned Income Tax Credit expands to taxpayers with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number. “Additionally, taxpayers who qualify for CalEITC and have at least one qualifying child under the age of 6, can get up to a $1,000 Young Child Tax Credit,� the Franchise Tax Board stated.

Finally, the tax board reminds residents there is a $750 or more tax penalty for individuals who “do not maintain qualifying medical coverage.�

The penalty can rise to 1,500 or more for a married couple, and $2,250 or more for a family of four with two dependent children.

For more information on health coverage, visit ftb.ca.gov/ healthmandate.

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Report out on LNU fire victims’ reactions, wants Todd R. Hansen

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VACAVILLE — Solano County Supervisor John Vasquez announced Thursday that the report on fire victims’ comments during a series of “listening sessions� is out and will be presented Tuesday at the Board of Supervisors meeting. “The stories we heard were incredibly impactful and encompassed a wide range of unique perspectives from those that were forced from their homes on Aug. 18,� Vasquez wrote. “Comments received fell into four broad categories: The Night of the Fire; Repopulation and Re-entry; Recovery and Rebuilding Efforts; and Preparing for the Next Disaster.�

There were listening sessions organized by Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor and Winters Mayor Wade Cowan, followed by sessions Vasquez initiated.

The Board of Supervisors meets at 9 a.m. in

the first-floor chamber of the government center, 675 Texas St. in Fairfield.

The meeting can also be accessed virtually and by phone.

The agenda packet will be released Friday on the county’s website under Departments, and following the Board of Supervisors links. The agenda provides instructions on how to participate away from the chamber.

Vasquez also reminded property owners in the burn area that the deadline to file a right to entry form as part of the LNU Lightning Complex Fire Ash and Debris Removal Program is Jan. 15.

The LNU Lightning Complex Fire 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 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 (305,651acres)–65.625square 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 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. “Before cleanup can commence on your property, property owners must submit a Right of Entry application to allow local, state and federal contractors to perform the cleanup at no cost through a government-sponsored program,� Vasquez notes.

Forms can be found at https://solanocounty. com/depts/rm/lnu_fire_ cleanup_n_rebuilding/ right_of_entry_form.asp.

Completed forms can be submitted to LNU-ROE@ SolanoCounty.com.

For more information, call the Department of Resource Management at 784-6765. Additional information and resources may be found at www.SolanoCountyRecovers.org.

Dodd calls for establishing wildfire technology, R&D hub Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Legislation was announced Thursday that would create the Office of Wildfire Technology Research and Development under the California Office of Emergency Services. “The e s c a l a ting frequency and devastation caused by wildfires demands that we seek out emerging technology to address this urgent threat,� Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, said in a statement about his Senate Bill 109.

The bill was introduced Wednesday. “My proposal will help develop advancements and tap innovation from the public and private sectors.

It will allow us to work smarter to protect life and property,� Dodd said.

Seventeen of the 20 largest wildfires in California history have occurred since 2000, with six of the seven largest wildfires occurred in 2020 alone – including the LNU Lightning Complex Fire that raged through Solano and five other counties.

The fire, the fifth largest in state history and the worse in Solano

County history, charred a total of 567.53 square miles (363,220 acres), 65.63 square miles (42,000 acres) in Solano, and destroyed 1,491 structures, including 309 homes in Solano.

Six lives were lost.

Two of those were Solano County residents.

The estimated cost to Solano County is $8.77 million, of which an estimated $6.58 million will be covered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and $1.64 million by the state – leaving $548,008 for the county to pick up, the county reported. “Collectively, the fires have claimed hundreds of lives and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage. Wildfire response costs have strained state and local finances,� Dodd’s statement said.

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It notes, as an example, that the University of California, San Diego, designed WIFIRE to predict a wildfire’s path in real time. “Future examples may include swarms of fire suppression drones in the sky, sensing and adapting automatically to subtle shifts in the wind, able to detect the direction a fire is spreading or even using AI to predict where the fire will move, and contain it,�

Dodd’s office reported.

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Lack of intimacy could be part of larger medical problem early warning sign of Dear Annie: My cardiovascular probboyfriend and I have lems including been together for five endothelial dysfunction years. This last year, there has been no (damage to the lining of physical intimacy blood vessels) or between us at all. We atherosclerosis (the vibe very well in our buildup of plaque in the relationship being arteries). He might be partners in a small Annie Lane more receptive to you if business. He says he is you approach it that Dear Annie still attracted to me and way – out of concern for keeps on blaming our busy his whole-body health – and work lives for lack of sex. But offer to go with him to the we are usually home before appointment, to offer moral 10 p.m. and we rarely work on support. I hope he weekends. When we used to hears you out. have sex, he struggled with Dear Annie: I think you erectile dysfunction. might have missed a chance, I even asked him if he would recently, to help a woman who go to the doctor to see if he had had no sense of her own value, a problem. He agreed to make in your letter to “Lost.” Instead an appointment, but when the of referring her to a dating app day came he made excuses and in which she would latch on to did not go. Now it’s gotten to the another man who ignores her, point where I’ve stopped “Lost” might benefit from some trying, and he’s not trying therapy first. She was so either. Can you please help with desperate to continue contactsome advice here? — It’s ing a man who so obviously didn’t care about her. Her level Been a Year Dear IBAY: ED is extremely of desperation in continuing to pursue someone after being common, impacting an estiblocked is a sad example of a mated 30 million men in the U.S. While it shouldn’t be cause person with no sense of boundaries and no love of self. for embarrassment, it is cause I was in a similar headspace for concern, as it can be an

Horoscopes ARIES (March 21-April 19).

What happens all of the sudden is exciting for several reasons, the foremost being that you don’t have time to think. Your animal self takes over, and you do what you were designed to do.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

When the student is ready, the master appears. You feel ready, and yet there is still a piece you haven’t committed to yet. You’ll read it, work it or do whatever needs doing. Then your teacher will arrive.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

Make a decision and stick with it for three days. There is no such thing as a perfect choice.

Don’t waste energy trying to find it. You don’t know who is watching your bravery, but later, this will be significant.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Add heat or time and you’ll notice that the reduction of things is unique to the object.

Some things become more concentrated, some less, the universal principal being that everything changes.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). They love you, but they don’t know how to show you. This is a bittersweet theme that you can make all sweet by telling them what you want and need and making it easy for them to give it to you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

Asking for help when you need it isn’t a sign of weakness; rather, it’s the picture of effectiveness. Strength is the result

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many years ago due to my own poor relationship choices. My life decisions were the product of my low self-esteem and an upbringing that taught me that I needed a man to feel like I have value. I have since received much-needed counseling in self-compassion, self-worth, and healthy boundaries, as the result of having an emotionally unavailable parent.

These days, I know that I deserve a relationship in which I can express my needs to my partner. If they are not met, I can let go of that person, knowing that they are not for me. I trust myself and have erected boundaries that protect me, but also let the right person in. I wish her well. — No Longer Lost Dear No Longer Lost: You’re right. I focused on the wrong aspect of “Lost’s” letter, her dating life, rather than on her inner emotional life and sense of self-worth. Thank you for bringing it back to the heart of the matter. I’m glad to hear you found yourself.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday How are you putting your skills out there? This is the year that amplifies what you are good at, lifts your effervescent spirit into the ether and calls into the beauty of your kindreds.

Together, you will be like a wave, providing a voyage, a ride, a mix-up of energies and processes. You’re a proud pulse in the beautiful swell.

Aquarius and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 40, 22, 19 and 38.

of a willful force coming up against a worthy adversary.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Different forums have different structures. Sports favor the one with the most points. Entertainment favors the ones with the most followers. In the forum you’re navigating today, charm wins, so you have the hometeam advantage.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

There are so few people in the world who are actually funny.

You discount the gift because you were born with it and it is common to you. You won’t discount it today. Your humor helps people, and you’ll share it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). You don’t need to reinvent the wheel here. Figure out what you did right back there, and just do more of that. It’s not

hard to spot. What’s harder is taking the time to be with yourself, recognize and note it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Your people are coming out of the woodwork.

When you think about it, that is a slightly creepy concept, and yet it is the most fitting image.

You’re an organic creature calling to the same.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). You thought you had the time to work things out, and maybe you misjudged that. It’s a common problem.

Things can be worked out. Just know that everything you do is being counted.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

Test it. Go there. Something is going to happen – something uncomfortable, maybe even painful for a moment. But what if this is your one and only life? Whatcha got?

COUPLE OF THE WEEKEND: The Scorpio moon reflects the light of the Capricorn sun in the way a petulant child reflects the light of the authority figure she both idolizes and despises. Such is the complex intensity of the Scorpio/Capricorn coupling: Essentially, it’s a rage against the machine. Scorpio brings out the wild side of Capricorn, and Capricorn gives Scorpio muchneeded structures to succeed.

Passion ignites organically and lives eternally.

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Bridge

IF YOU BID ’EM UP, ALSO PLAY ’EM UP George C. Marshall, who was a soldier and the third secretary of defense, said, “If man does find the solution for world peace, it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”

Hasn’t happened yet! But one word in that sentence gives you the key to

Sudoku

by Phillip Alder the way to make seven hearts in today’s deal. What would you do after West leads the club four? Did West have a more effective lead?

After the transfer bid and natural rebid, hearts were agreed by South.

Then North’s four clubs and South’s four diamonds were control-bids. Note that the king in partner’s side suit is usually as useful as the ace. North then used Roman Key Card Blackwood to learn that his partner had two aces and the heart queen. Finally, he plunged into seven hearts.

South saw that he had seven side-suit winners: one spade, five diamonds and one club. So he needed six trump tricks. That would require taking three tops and three spade ruffs on the board.

Declarer won with the club ace, played the spade queen to his ace, ruffed a spade, crossed to hand with a trump, cashed his other high heart, ruffed a spade, led a diamond to the king, ruffed the spade 10 and, when that passed off safely, cashed the heart king and claimed.

The 13 tricks were one spade, three hearts, five diamonds, one club and three spade ruffs. It was a textbook dummy reversal.

A diamond lead is lethal, removing a vital hand entry.

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Trump officials followed the presiIf there are any diehard Trump dent’s encouraging them to ignore supporters still around, I’m wondercourt rulings and the election itself. ing how they feel about his At this point, I must confess again condemnation of “both political that I was thrilled that Trump beat parties, the electoral process and the Hillary Clinton in the November media.”

In other words, Trump is 2016 election and the first three asserting that he alone is the arbiter years of the Trump administration of truth and that those who insist gave me no reason to regret that Joe Biden will be the next that enthusiasm. president are either evil or ignoIf there’s one comment from Trump that made me feel blindsided rant – or both. Perhaps equally by him, it was when he said that Vice insulting is the comment from President Mike Pence was a coward Shannon Grove, the state Senate Republican leader from Bakersfield, for not helping him (illegally) who said of the riots in Washington, reverse his election loss.

D.C.: “Patriots don’t act like that.

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This was Antifa.”

Grove later deleted the comment, but the damage was done. It was Trump supporters, motivated by the message from Trump himself, to go to Washington, D.C. I found myself agreeing with the liberal San Francisco Chronicle whose editorial headline read “President incites attack on our democracy. He needs to go. Now.” On the other hand, many on the Democratic side who are rightfully condemning Trump were silent about the Black Lives Matter rioting and looting over the summer in major American cities.

Recall that Vice President-elect Kamala Harris set up a website to raise bail money for the looters in Minneapolis and other cities. There was scarcely a word of condemnation from the Democrats. In fact, Harris, not Biden, is the new Democratic celebrity.

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hen it comes to the propaganda of fallen heroes, the Islamic Republic is in a league of its own. But its capacity to squeeze blood from headstones is coming up against the law of diminishing returns.

Four decades after its war with Iraq, giant murals of Iran’s “martyred” soldiers still dominate its urban landscapes and their names mark streets, buildings, schools, parks and bridges. Their ranks are constantly topped up with the more recently deceased – even, on occasion, with the victims of the regime itself.

A year ago, the families of Iranians killed when a Ukrainian jetliner was shot down after taking off from Tehran received ghoulish phone calls from the Foundation of Martyrs and Bobby Ghosh Veterans Affairs, a giant organization controlled by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The callers offered not condolences or apologies for the killing of the passengers, but congratulations on their “martyrdom.”

Not long before that, Khamenei had declared that people killed during the regime’s brutal suppression of anti-government protests were also to be treated as martyrs, and their families compensated.

Iran’s martyrdom machine was again cranked up last week to full capacity to commemorate the death anniversary of Qassem Soleimani, arguably the regime’s greatest hero since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini himself. Killed last year by an American drone in Baghdad, Soleimani was more than the leader of the elite Qods Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was, as I wrote at the time, Khamenei’s “most effective instrument of terror, a commander distinguished for his unquestioned obedience and apparently inexhaustible appetite for violence.”

Soleimani was commemorated in mural and song, even an English-language dirge. In a series of carefully choreographed events, Iranian leaders and commanders of proxy militias across the Middle East declaimed paeans to their slain hero and swore vengeance against the U.S. Soleimani’s successor, Esmail Ghaani, directed verbal salvos at President Donald Trump, warning that the instrument of revenge could be someone “from inside your own home.”

The head of Iran’s judiciary, Ebrahim Raisi, who is widely tipped to succeed Khamenei as supreme leader, promised that those responsible, including Trump, would “no longer be safe on the Earth.”

This would be stirring stuff . . . except we’ve heard it all before. And it does not conceal the inconvenient fact that, a year after his death, the Islamic Republic’s great champion remains unavenged. Khamenei’s refrain that it will strike “at the right time” has simply worn thin in the repetition.

Iranians tiring of such solemn pledges might also ask why scores have not yet been evened for other “martyrs,” such as the nuclear scientists assassinated a decade ago. That question will undoubtedly come up next week, at the end of the 40-day mourning period for Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the head of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, who was killed in November on the outskirts of Tehran.

The rude reality is the regime cannot take revenge for Soleimani. Its own overheated rhetoric has set the bar for retribution too high: The bloodlust stoked by the likes of Khamenei and Ghaani can only be slaked by American casualties, either prominent or numerous.

Tehran’s usual tricks – from rocket attacks on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad to missile strikes on Saudi oil installations – will not suffice.

But any attempt to top those stunts will bring a world of condemnation down on Khamenei’s head, and dash any prospects of the Joe Biden administration bringing the Iranian regime back in from the cold. Instead, Biden would likely have to respond with punitive measures. And not only would the country lose European support for an end to Trump’s sanctions on Iran and a return to the 2015 nuclear deal, it would also make it awkward for Russia and China to keep backing Tehran.

The regime has already stretched European patience to a breaking point by announcing it will ratchet up its uranium enrichment levels. And the IRGC’s capture of a South Korean-flagged tanker in the Persian Gulf – a transparent attempt to scare Seoul into releasing billions of dollars in frozen payments – will not win Iran any friends in the oil-thirsty Asian economies.

Retribution for Soleimani’s killing is the very last thing Iran can afford. The regime will have to make do with tough talk and hope that its martyrdom machine can cover up for the emptiness of its threats.

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However, during 2020, the state paid out more than $100 billion in benefits, about a quarter in employer-financed regular benefits and the rest in emergency federal aid. The state unemployment fund was more than $20 billion in the red at the end of 2020 and, EDD projects, will end 2021 with a negative balance of nearly $50 billion.

When state unemployment funds dry up, benefits continue with federal loans that states must repay.

California’s previous $10 billion debt took years to repay, and it now could face a $50 billion debt. The state may hope for loan forgiveness, but if it’s not forthcoming, employers will be saddled with new taxes that would make recovery from recession even more difficult.

If there’s a political price to be paid for EDD’s seemingly endless crises, it will fall on Newsom, especially if a pending recall drive places his career on the ballot later this year.

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to go to tighten the grip on the citizenry.

She noted that when Covid-19 started, residents were asked to stay at home for a couple of weeks to “bend the curve” of the disease’s progression. There was no protest then, or even when that guideline was extended a little longer.

Now, Guerra argues, the rules continue to change, the goals are altered and individual rights are being denied, even to the point of telling citizens who they can have in their own homes.

Such gatherings of friends and family, especially around holidays, the Public Health Division noted, have been the primary cause of transmission and spread of the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, Covid-19.

According to the Public Health Division, more than 21,500 Solano County residents have tested positive for the virus and the spread of the disease is now negatively affecting area hospitals and the local health care system.

Richard Robiak is among those who said he believes all those numbers are being tinkered with, and called for an independent audit to determine if the numbers are accurate, especially when it comes to the area hospitals.

Guerra further argues the Covid-19 response can be managed better without the personal restrictions.

“We have better data now. So when is the expiration date on this,” Guerra said. “Where do they draw the line in the sand?”

And to what level will the state be willing to go to enforce the orders, she asks.

Robiak said by focusing so much on the negative, the government – and the media – are creating and spreading an unnecessary level of fear.

He also protests the requirement to wear face coverings because many people like himself have health conditions that make that unhealthy. The health orders provide exemptions, but he said those are never considered no matter where he goes – including public government meetings.

Still, the biggest issue they were demonstrating about is the closing down of businesses and the threat of losing many of the area’s small businesses.

Members of the group argued the state Constitution provides a right to property, and it is their interpretation that by closing down businesses, the state and county are violating that right.

Moreover, they point to the inconsistencies of allowing large retailers and other businesses to stay open, and that somehow the risk of con-

tracting the disease in a grocery store is less than if going to a local restaurant or other small business that has been fully or partially shuttered.

The group called on Solano County health officials to be more transparent with the details of the novel coronavirus data that’s reported and to focus more on the successes of recovery.

As an example, they note that by classifying anyone who has tested positive for the virus, and then dies, as a Covid-related death misstates the truth about the real causes of many of these deaths.

Dr. Bela Matyas, the county public health officer, has stated that the virus is probably not the actual cause of death in many, if not most, of the fatalities recorded.

The group also is demanding the county publish information about the validity of the tests themselves, as well as information on therapeutics and other recovery resources that could help the public.

Members of the group carried signs that read, “Lockdowns are Unconstitutional,” “Stop Medical Tyranny” and “Recall the Tyrant.” The last is a reference to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Hale said he does not even think Covid-19 is an emergency any longer.

“Not that there isn’t a problem; I don’t deny that,” he said. “But the imminent peril or danger no longer exists.”

He said he believes the county has failed to re-examine its local emergency order to determine if it is still valid.

Hale, and many others, favor and would support a health directive that allows businesses to stay open, and to take steps to advise those residents who are most at risk of health problems if they contract the disease to take extra precautions.

They also urge residents who are sick to stay at home and take care of themselves just as they would if they had the flu or another health concern.

But the blanket health order troubles them.

Guerra said she hopes that others who agree with their position on opening businesses and their concerns about the state and county infringing on civil liberties will realize that they are not alone and can add their voices.

They got a couple of voices from the Board of Supervisors this week when Supervisor Jim Spering called on the county to “not support” and “not enforce” the state health order. Supervisor Mitch Mashburn threw in his support.

The group has a Facebook page, Open Solano County.

High: Numbers From Page One reported by the county to be 26.8%, down from Wednesday’s 28.1%.

The Public Health Division reported Thursday that the county had 335 new cases, bringing the total to 21,855.

That compares to the Friday-through-Monday daily average of 435.5, then daily increases of 270 Tuesday and 297 Wednesday.

Vacaville continues to be the hot spot, and with the 127 new cases Thursday, the city’s total is up to 5,665 cases, the county reported.

Vallejo added 78 cases to take its count to 6,315, and Fairfield’s 75 new cases raised its tally to 6,128.

The number of deaths attributed at least in part to Covid-19 held at 102.

Active cases were up

153 to 2,918.

The Thursday update showed 175,185 residents have been tested, and the total number of all tests is at 226,385.

Suisun City (1,520) added 16 cases to its total; Dixon (1,364) added 23; Benicia (593) added nine; and Rio Vista eclipsed the 200-case mark with seven new cases. The new total is 204.

There were not new cases added to the 67 reported in the unincorporated area of the county.

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.

a laborious, time-intensive process. And even if Trump were impeached again, removing him requires a two-thirds vote of the Republicancontrolled Senate, which acquitted him nearly a year ago, after his first House impeachment, and has shown no sign of openness to the idea now.

It was not at all clear Thursday if Trump could be prevented from serving out the remaining 13 days of his term, short of his resignation.

After a day in which pressure mounted to drive him from office before Jan. 20 – not just from Democrats but from some Republican governors and the conservative editorial board of The Wall Street Journal – Trump finally delivered what amounted to a concession speech to try to mollify the critics.

But his video statement was probably too little, too late to quiet the clamor.

To expedite impeachment, House Democrats were considering starting the process on the House floor, without waiting for the House Judiciary Committee to act.

As longtime supporters rushed to distance themselves from a lameduck president whose unhinged behavior has put the nation on edge, the political wreckage has left his party in distress and divided.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other White House officials resigned their posts, and Trump’s head of Homeland Security, his former attorney general and two former chiefs of staff condemned him.

Some allies who had been loath to criticize a

president who demands absolute loyalty broke ranks, calling his behavior indefensible.

“The president needs to understand that his actions were the problem, not the solution,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has been one of the most prominent apologists for Trump.

Graham said he is contemplating supporting the Cabinet’s resort to the 25th Amendment. “If something else happens, all options would be on the table,” he said, adding, “I am hopeful that the worst is behind us and that we can transfer power on Jan. 20.”

Former Trump chief of staff John F. Kelly has seen enough. He told CNN that if he were still in the Cabinet, he would be working with his colleagues to remove Trump immediately.

Whispers about the president being removed from office involuntarily ricocheted through Washington, as did grim assessments of Trump’s political future. But most Republicans were reluctant to talk publicly, continuing to hedge amid worries that Trump will prove resilient even from the fallout of his supporters’ riot Wednesday at the Capitol — as he has from so many other infamous episodes in his political career.

“A lot of people figure Inauguration Day cannot get here soon enough,” said a beleaguered House GOP leadership aide. “He certainly damaged himself.”

The bedlam in the Capitol also unsettled party leaders attending the winter meeting of the Republican National Committee in Florida.

When RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel addressed the riot, she was so upset she cried, according to two sources at the meeting.

But when Trump called into the meeting Thursday, he did not mention the violence. While some cheered him, others remained silent.

The quandary for Republicans was distilled on Wednesday during Congress’ session ratifying the presidential election results, when Trump allies challenged the outcome on his behalf.

More than 100 House Republicans stuck with the president even after the Capitol had been overrun by rioters just after Trump addressed the crowd and urged them to fight for him.

Yet the earlier speculation among some Republicans that Trump could win back the White House for them in 2024 had gone silent. Of his legacy, veteran Republican strategist Mike DuHaime said, “If it is not destroyed, it is very damaged.”

Even Pence, Trump’s staunchest loyalist, distanced himself from Trump after the president called the rioters “special people” and said “we love” them. Pence condemned the mob in sharp terms as he presided over the Senate late Wednesday night.

“The vice president demonstrated yesterday that he was in charge, that he was demonstrating leadership,” said Jon Thompson, a former Pence adviser. “I don’t think we can say the same thing for President Trump.”

The relief when Trump finally leaves office will be bipartisan, but many Democrats seeking his early removal privately are resigned they’ll probably have to wait until Inauguration Day. The House’s impeachment move is more symbolic – Democrats say they can’t let the account of the Capitol siege appear in history books without a response.

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., called it “important to show future generations that Congress didn’t just ignore what happened yesterday and that we put on record our efforts to try to remove a president that instigated an attempted coup.”

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said the articles of impeachment lodging charges against Trump should be brought to the floor immediately, bypassing his panel. With the House adjourned, members were discussing whether to try to convince Democratic leaders to call members back to vote.

The risk of House Democrats moving quickly to impeach the president is that it could tarnish the action if hearings are not held and Trump is not given time to respond.

There is also discussion about the House voting to censure the president. But Schumer touted impeachment as an opportunity to prohibit Trump from ever again occupying the Oval Office, saying, “That should be invoked.”

One prominent Democrat who was notably silent on the issue was the man who will replace Trump on Jan. 20.

Joe Biden angrily denounced Trump’s actions around the Capitol siege during an event to introduce his nominee for attorney general, Merrick Garland. But he announced at the top of the news conference in Wilmington, Delaware, that he would not address the movement to expel Trump. He and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris ignored shouted questions as they left the room.

A statement from Biden’s transition team said he and Harris “will leave it to Vice President Pence, the Cabinet and the Congress to act as they see fit.”

Actions: DeVos, Chao resign positions From Page One Thursday that some administration officials are reluctant to leave because they view themselves as a check on the president’s worst instincts.

“Those who choose to stay, and I have talked with some of them, are choosing to stay because they’re worried the president might put someone worse in,” he said.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao resigned her post Thursday, making her the first member of the president’s Cabinet to quit after his incitement of the Capitol Hill riot.

The long-serving Chao blamed Trump for the “traumatic and entirely avoidable” chaos that was unleashed with his fuel on the fire speech to angry supporters.

“It deeply troubled me in a way I simply cannot set aside,” Chao said in a statement.

Chao, who is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, becomes the highest ranking member of the government to quit after widespread bipartisan outrage over Trump’s behavior continues to spread.

Trump’s role in encouraging his supporters to storm and ransack the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday drew harsh criticism from once-loyal members of his inner circle who have already left, such as former Attorney General William Barr.

Barr issued a statement to The Associated Press saying “orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable,” and Trump’s actions were a “betrayal of his office and supporters.”

Congress had been in the process of formally announcing Biden’s win when the rioters forced lawmakers to flee, delaying the process for several hours. One woman was killed during the melee.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, another former Trump ally, said members of the administration need to carefully consider their next steps.

“Everyone has to think about what they’re going to do to be consistent with the oath they’ve sworn when they took their office, and there’s lots of different options for them to explore,” he said. “And I am sure that there are responsible members of the Cabinet who right now are thinking about what are their obligations under the oaths that they took.”

Betsy DeVos, the West Michigan political force who rose to secretary of education, resigned Thursday night, saying President Donald Trump incited a mob that invaded the Capitol Wednesday.

“We should be highlighting and celebrating your Administration’s many accomplishments on behalf of the American people,” DeVos wrote in a letter to the president. “Instead we are left to clean up the mess caused by violent protesters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undermine the people’s business. That behavior was unconscionable for our country. There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.

“Impressionable children are watching all of this, and they are learning from us. I believe we each have a moral obligation to exercise good

judgement [sic] and model the behavior they would emulate. They must know from us that America is greater than what transpired yesterday.”

Some members of the White House staff had already headed for the exits Wednesday after the riot. Stephanie Grisham, chief of staff for first lady Melania Trump, and Sarah Matthews, a deputy press secretary, quit their jobs.

Grisham’s departure was notable because she’s worked for the president since his 2016 campaign.

John Costello, the deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and security at the Commerce Department, announced his resignation Thursday morning and harshly criticized Trump.

“The president has long disregarded and diminished the rule of law and the Constitution,” he said in a statement. “Yesterday, that culminated in violent sedition against the U.S. Congress for the purposes of overturning a legally recognized and valid election.”

Matt Pottinger, the deputy national security adviser who played a key role during the novel coronavirus crisis, also resigned, Bloomberg reported. So did Ryan Tully, another member

of the National Security Council who worked on issues involving Europe and Russia.

Robert C. O’Brien, the national security adviser, reportedly considered stepping down. He voiced support for Vice President Mike Pence, who angered Trump by refusing to overstep his authority and block the formal announcement by Congress of Biden’s victory while he presided over a congressional debate.

Pence’s refusal to follow Trump’s lead marked a rare departure for the vice president, who otherwise had stood solidly behind Trump over the past four years through numerous other controversies.

The break with Pence was another sign of how isolated Trump has become, wrapped in a bubble of unfounded theories about a stolen election and relying on a tightening circle of loyalists who indulge his thoughts.

Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, the point person for some of Trump’s most controversial crackdowns on immigration and domestic disturbances, issued a statement Thursday urging “the president and all elected officials to strongly condemn the violence that took place yesterday.”

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Strict absentee voting limits proposed after record Georgia turnout Tribune Content Agency ATLANTA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Voting was never easier in Georgia than in Novemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presidential election.

But it might not last.

Republican legislators plan to crack down on voting access after record turnout helped Democrat Joe Biden win Georgia, flipping the state after 24 years of GOP presidential wins.

They blame absentee ballots, used by 1.3 million Georgians who voted from home during the coronavirus pandemic. In all, 5 million people voted in the general election.

That era of widespread absentee voting will quickly come to an end if the Georgia General Assembly passes

Proposed voting restrictions â&#x20AC;˘ Require an excuse to cast an absentee ballot. â&#x20AC;˘ Ban absentee ballot drop boxes. â&#x20AC;˘ Mandate photo ID to be included when returning an absentee ballot. â&#x20AC;˘ Eliminate mobile voting buses during early voting. â&#x20AC;˘ Forbid governments and organizations from mailing absentee ballot applications.

laws this year to eliminate no-excuse absentee voting, ballot drop boxes and unsolicited absentee ballot application mailings, as Republicans have proposed.

When the legislative session begins Monday, Democrats are bracing for a wave of bills from the Republican majority that would make it harder to vote in the name of preventing potential

fraud. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no credible evidence of significant absentee ballot fraud in Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general election, according to state election officials. Isolated cases are under investigation by the secretary of stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They lost, and now they want to change the rules to give themselves a competitive advantage,â&#x20AC;? said House Minority Leader James Beverly, a Democrat from Macon.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The pendulum swings, and people can see through this foolishness in the truest sense of suppression and disenfranchisement.â&#x20AC;?

Republicans say they need to protect election integrity from the possibility of cheating. Some of the legislators seeking to limit absentee voting also signed onto a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the state of Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; failed lawsuit to overturn Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s election results.

State Sen. Burt Jones, a Republican from Jackson, said in-person voting is safer than depositing ballots in the mail or drop boxes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a secure chain of custody, particularly with drop boxes, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no reason for that to be in

the process,â&#x20AC;? Jones said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got three weeks of early voting and Saturday voting. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve given ample time and opportunities for people to get the effort to go in to vote.â&#x20AC;?

For Jones and his colleagues, the threat of illegitimate absentee voting outweighs the benefit of greater participation in democracy.

The popularity of absentee voting exploded last year amid the pandemic.

More Republicans than Democrats voted absentee as recently as the 2018 primary, when voting by mail was often used by older Georgians.

In Novemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s election, almost twice as many Democrats as Republicans returned absentee ballots after President Donald

Trump ridiculed them, even though he himself has voted by mail.

Former Republican U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently wrote that absentee ballot drop boxes â&#x20AC;&#x153;make it harder for Republicans to win,â&#x20AC;? a claim that Democrats attacked as an acknowledgement that restricting voting is the GOPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal rather than fighting fraud. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Expanding access to voting equals more people voting equals Republicans losing elections,â&#x20AC;? said state Rep. Bee Nguyen, a Democrat from Atlanta. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the reality in Georgia that for many years weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen more restrictive voting laws get passed, and that means Democrats need to work harder to overcome those restrictive laws.â&#x20AC;?

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Sharp hiring downshift projected with more risks on horizon Tribune Content Agency U.S. job growth probably suffered a sharp slowdown in December, with further weakness expected until Covid-19 vaccines reach a larger swath of Americans and restore broader economic activity.

Economists project the government jobs report on Friday will show the unemployment rate increased for the first time in eight months with employers hiring 50,000 workers, the fewest since payrolls started to recover in May. That pace, typically insufficient to reduce the jobless rate, would be lackluster growth even in pre-pandemic times, and more than a quarter of forecasters surveyed expect employment to decline amid soaring infections that have spurred states to tighten restrictions.

While economists expect vaccinations will result in a faster pace of job growth in the second quarter, the intervening months

Amazon pledges $2 billion to affordable housing Tribune Content Agency Amazon will direct $2 billion in loans and grants to secure affordable housing near three American cities where the company employs thousands of workers, the tech giant announced Wednesday.

In a first step in the Puget Sound region, Amazon is promising $185.5 million, mostly in loans, to the King County Housing Authority to help buy affordable apartments in the region and keep the rents low. The Housing Authority will use an initial portion of that money to help fund its recent purchase of three Bellevue apartment buildings.

Amazon will also direct about $382 million to a non-profit in Arlington, Virginia, and so-far unspecified amount to organizations in Nashville, Tennessee. Amazon said it selected the three areas where the company expects to have at least 5,000 employees.

In total across the three regions, the company projected the $2 billion would help preserve or create 20,000 affordable housing units over the next five years. The funding will “help local families achieve long-term stability while building strong, inclusive communities,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement.

The King County Housing Authority plans to pair bond funding with a portion of the $161.5 million in loans and $24 million in grants from Amazon to pay for the three Bellevue buildings with a total of 470 apartments.

As the region gentrifies, affordable apartment buildings are often renovated and their rents are increased, worsening economic and racial segregation, said Stephen Norman, executive director of the King County Housing Authority.

Without preser ving some of those more affordable buildings, “we’re dripping water into a bucket with a big hole in the bottom,” Norman said. “This is a long strategy ensuring . . . that this community doesn’t get hollowed out.”

The Amazon funding will cover roughly 45% of the cost of the buildings, Norman said. Amazon will charge 1.85% interest on the loans and require payments only on the interest for the first 20 years.

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Economists expect vaccinations will result in a faster pace of job growth in the second quarter. could bring more labor market pain until many more Americans are inoculated.

Essential workers and the elderly are first in line for the vaccine, which doesn’t result in job gains in the immediate term because those people tend to be either already working or retired, said Michael Gapen, chief U.S. economist at Barclays Plc, who projects a 50,000 decrease in December payrolls.

“We wouldn’t read a negative number in December as, ‘The

labor market is rolling over, we’re looking at another recession,’ ” Gapen said. “It’s probably more of a lull until vaccines give us critical mass and support for the labor market.”

December employment is expected to be stunted primarily by weakness in the service sector amid the surge in virus cases that led to new restrictions, most notably in California, said Aneta Markowska, chief U.S. financial economist at Jefferies LLC. She estimates that payrolls declined by 110,000 in December. Colder weather in some regions may have also held consumers back from dining out, another hit to the restaurant industry.

Manufacturing and construction may have boosted hiring as factories respond to depleted inventories and builders try to keep up with demand for homes.

Hiring in transportation and warehousing, which supports e-commerce, may have also ticked up as a result of

Americans doing much of their holiday shopping at home, said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpoint Securities LLC. The labor force participation rate may decline as more Americans leave the job market to limit virus exposure, care for someone with virus symptoms, or look after a child not in school or daycare. Those reasons have been keeping nearly 13 million Americans from work, according to Census Bureau survey data collected Dec. 9-21.

Data on Wednesday from ADP Research Institute showed private payrolls declined in December, while a Labor Department report Thursday showed applications for U.S. state unemployment benefits remained elevated in the final week of 2020. Another report Thursday indicated employment at service providers shrank last month.

January also brings other risks.

The new virus strain that led to new or extended lockdowns in the U.K. and Germany this week has been identified in the U.S. If states such as New York enter another full shutdown, as Governor Andrew Cuomo has suggested, there could be more layoffs in the coming months, Markowska said. In addition, U.S. vaccine distribution has been slower than planned, adding to headwinds for the recovery.

The labor-market pain contrasts with euphoria in the stock market. The S&P 500 has been hovering around a record high as investors look past the current economic difficulties, betting on greater stimulus and an end to the pandemic.

The recent passage of a new government stimulus package, which includes more funding for the Paycheck Protection Program, could limit dismissals in coming months, depending on the number of small businesses that can access the loans.

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What we’ve learned about W’s rotation over 8 games Connor Letourneau

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arriors head coach Steve Kerr entered training camp last month believing he’d need at least 20 games to firm up his rotation.

But eight games into the season, Kerr is already zeroing in on a rotation that he likes. Here are the big takeaways from Golden State’s lineups so far: James Wiseman will be playing 30 minutes a night soon: The Warriors are intent on easing Wiseman into a heavy workload, which is understandable given that he played only three college games, didn’t have a summer league and missed all preseason because of a positive coronavirus test. But little more than a half-dozen games into his NBA career, he is clearly Golden State’s franchise center.

Kerr recognizes that the best way to learn is through experience, and he plans to play Wiseman 30 or so minutes a night in the near future. This will allow Wiseman, who’s currently averaging 21.3 minutes, to iron out inconsistencies on the fly and help stabilize a center rotation that is without Marquese Chriss (broken leg) for the next few months.

Andrew Wiggins is the leader of the second unit: Kerr has identified Wiggins, not Kelly Oubre Jr., as the go-to option for the second unit. When Stephen Curry sits to start the second and fourth quarters, Wiggins is the unquestioned leader of a group that includes Brad Wanamaker, Damion Lee, Eric Paschall and Kent Bazemore.

This has been a fruitful decision in recent weeks because, in addition to being a proven scorer, Wiggins is a skilled playmaker. By calling a slew of high screens for Wiggins, Kerr has let him showcase his facilitating abilities. On numerous occasions, Wiggins has curled off a high screen, attacked the paint, drawn the defense toward him and kicked out to open shooters.

Bazemore has emerged as a key part of the wing rotation: Two weeks into his Warriors tenure, Bazemore has already experienced some ups and downs. After totaling just 16 minutes through the first four games, he cracked the rotation in Friday’s loss to Portland, posting eight points and two rebounds in 17 minutes.

Now, in the wake of three See Rotation, Page B10

ALUMNI UPDATE

Rodriguez grad Jason Verrett closes out solid comeback season with 49ers Paul Farmer

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The miraculous return of Alex Smith to quarterback the Washington Football Team will probably keep Jason Verrett from winning the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year, but the Rodriguez High graduate still had a most noteworthy season.

After being limited to six games over the previous four years because of injuries,

Verrett played in 13 games, all starts, for the San Francisco 49ers (6-10) in 2020.

He closed the season with seven tackles, six of them solo with one for loss, and a touchdown-saving defensed pass in a 20-12 victory over the Arizona Cardinals before making nine tackles, eight solo, in a 26-23 loss to the Seattle Seahawks.

Verrett finished the season with 50 solo, 10 assisted and 60 total tackles, all career

highs, tying for the team high with two interceptions and and adding seven passes defensed.

Mykal Walker (Vacaville) finished off his rookie year with the Atlanta Falcons (4-12) with four tackles in a 17-14 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs and two tackles in a 44-27 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Men’s basketball Jordan Adams (Vacaville,

Solano) scored three points to help William Jessup (1-2) top College of Idaho, 68-64. The same two teams met earlier with Adams missing all five of his shots, four from 3-point range and scoring three points in a 70-68 loss in overtime.

Sacramento State (4-1) fell 63-45 to Sacramento and rolled past Fresno Pacific, 85-54, with Teiano Hardee (Vanden) See Alumni, Page B3

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Marvin Bagley III of the Sacramento Kings controls the ball during the second quarter of a game against the Houston Rockets at

Toyota Center, Jan. 2, in Houston, Texas. Bagley has missed almost as many games as he has played during his career.

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Bagley Jr. isn’t so approachable. He draws no crowd. This is all by design. His tweets to the Kings were not impulse emotional reactions. They were calculated, by design, and it casts him in the image that most of us see him: glowering and disgruntled.

Bagley Jr. also believes in his basketball sons. He has three of them, the oldest being 21-year-old Bagley III of the Kings. You know him: second pick in the 2018 NBA draft, selected and signed for a fortune to be a differencemaker. But Bagley III has missed almost as many games as he has played, due to myriad injuries, and he has been more emphatic in his

Father of Kings’ Marvin Bagley III isn’t another LaVar Ball – he might be worse THE SACRAMENTO BEE

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ord is that Marvin Bagley Jr. is LaVar Ball all over again.

No. That wouldn’t be fair to Ball.

Bagley Jr. is worse.

Not as a dad, or a person, or a coach, but he is worse as a fan. Bagley Jr. is barreling down the wrong lane on social media, with tweets calling out the Kings, wondering first why the club would sit him and then later pleading for a trade under the Twitter name of Team Bagley.

That’s unusual for an NBA father, and a bad look for him and his son, Marvin Bagley III. Bagley, the father, is worse

ANALYSIS than Ball in that he wants to be relevant when he should be silent. This isn’t AAU ball and it’s not daddy ball. It’s the big time.

Ball has gone from boastful to silent, or a great deal more toned down in his basketball bluster. When this season’s training camps started, he had three sons in the NBA. LaVar is jovial and likable, even if some of his media takes on how great his sons figure to be were laughable, or that he could handle Michael Jordan on the court in his day.

LaVar is approachable. He will chat with fans, with the media, poke fun at himself.

misses than his in-game makes.

He has been benched in stretches for ineffective play.

His father is also a coach, having worked with his sons since they could walk and dribble. But as a coach, he somehow forgot it’s not about one guy. Bagley Jr. wants to have a say in his sons’ basketball lives because he has always had a say in their lives.

Bagley Jr. soured quickly on his son’s first NBA coach, Dave Joerger, once calling him “Yogurt” on Twitter. Bagley Jr. was delighted when Joerger was not extended. Now he’s soured on coach Luke Walton.

The father of Kings star See Bagley, Page B2

Katie Sowers parts with 49ers after 4 seasons in pioneering role

Ohio St. QB Justin Fields: ‘I’ll be good by Monday’ for title game

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Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields expects to play in the College Football Playoff championship game Monday against Alabama.

“I’ll be good by Monday night,” he said in a Zoom call Thursday afternoon.

Fields was injured in the second quarter of Ohio State’s 49-28 victory over Clemson in the College Football Playoff semifinals at the Sugar Bowl.

The quarterback took off on a scramble and as he tried to spin to absorb the contact from Clemson’s James Skalski, the linebacker lowered his helmet

Katie Sowers’ pioneering tenure with the 49ers is done after four seasons, she told this news organization Thursday morning.

Sowers served as the franchise’s first female assistant coach and the NFL’s first openly gay coach.

“I will sadly not be back,” Sowers confirmed in a text message, without further comment.

Sowers’ contact expired and she will now explore other opportunities for a chance

at an expanded role. As an offensive assistant, Sowers generally worked with the 49ers’ wide receivers under position coach, Wes Welker.

The 49ers had no comment, as has been their protocol regarding assistants leaving under Kyle Shanahan since 2017.

Sowers, 34, initially joined the 49ers as a 2017 summer intern in the Bill Walsh NFL Diversity Coaching Fellowship. Once that internship ended after See Sowers, Page B3

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and speared Fields in the back.

Skalski was ejected for targeting. Fields missed only one play before returning. Upon his return, he threw a touchdown pass to Chris Olave in the front corner of the end zone for the third of his six touchdown passes. He completed 22 of 28 passes for 385 yards.

After the game, Fields said he had not gotten a diagnosis from the team’s medical staff and that his body was “pretty messed up” but that he wanted to keep playing despite the pain.

He said he and coach Ryan Day discussed which play calls should or shouldn’t be used the

rest of the game. But Fields said he felt healthy enough to play.

“If I can’t protect myself then I don’t need to be out on the field, so I thought personally that I was able to go out there and protect myself if something bad would happen,” he said.

Ohio State team doctor Jim Borchers told The Dispatch on Wednesday that the medical staff did not pressure Fields to play after the injury.

“Ultimately, it is 100% the (athlete’s) decision,” he said.

“We never return anybody to play who doesn’t want to go back into the game.”

See Fields, Page B10

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CALENDAR Friday’s TV sports Note: Some events may be canceled or moved to different times and/or stations because of Covid-19 considerations

Basketball College men •Ohio at Toledo, CBSSN, 3:30 p.m.

•Youngstown State at Wright State, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

•North Texas at Texas-San Antonio, ESPNU, 4 p.m.

•Purdue at Michigan State, FS1, 4 p.m.

•Dayton at Davidson, ESPN2, 6 p.m.

•Utah State at New Mexico, FS1, 8 p.m.

College women •Oregon at Stanford, PAC12, P12BA, 11:30 a.m.

•Colorado at UCLA, PAC12, 4 p.m.

•Utah at USC, PAC12, 6 p.m.

•Arizona at Washington, PAC12, 8 p.m.

NBA •Charlotte at New Orleans, ESPN, 4:30 p.m.

•L.A. Clippers at Golden State, NBCSBA, ESPN, 7 p.m.

•Toronto at Sacramento, NBCSCA, 7 p.m. (Vacaville only) Golf •PGA Tour, Sentry Tournament of Champions, second round, GOLF, 3 p.m.

Gymnastics College women •Arkansas at LSU, SEC, 5:30 p.m.

•Kentucky at Alabama, ESPNU, 6 p.m.

Hockey College •St. Cloud State at Minnesota-Duluth, CBSSN, 5:30 p.m.

Motorsports •Dakar Rally, Stage 6, NBCSN, 3:30 p.m.

Rugby •Guinness Pro14, Leinster vs. Ulster, ESPNEWS, 11:30 a.m.

Soccer •La Liga, Celta Vigo vs. Villarreal, BEIN, 11:50 a.m.

•Liga MX MD1, Club Tijuana Xolos vs. Pumas UNAM, FS2, 7 p.m.

Tennis •Center Court, WTA, Abu Dhabi, early rounds, TENNIS, 2 and 3 a.m.

•Center Court, ATP, Delray, early rounds, TENNIS, 9:30 a.m.

•Center Court, ATP, Delray, early rounds, TENNIS, 3 p.m.

•Center Court, WTA, Abu Dhabi, early rounds, TENNIS, 10 p.m.

Wrestling •College, Michigan at Rutgers, BIG TEN, 4 p.m.

•College, Minnesota at Nebraska, BIG TEN, 6 p.m.

•WWE, Friday Night SmackDown, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 8 p.m. (taped)

Saturday’s TV sports Basketball College men •Alabama at Auburn, ESPN2, 9 a.m.

•Wake Forest at Duke, ACC, 9 a.m.

•St. John’s at Creighton, FS1, 9 a.m.

•George Washington at St. Bonaventure, NBCSN, 9 a.m.

•Richmond at George Mason, CBSSN, 9 a.m.

•Ohio State at Rutgers, BIG TEN, 9 a.m.

•Texas at West Virginia, ESPN, 10 a.m.

•Mississippi State at Vanderbilt, SEC, 10 a.m.

•Tennessee at Texas A&M, ESPN2, 11 a.m.

•Virginia at Boston College, ACC, 11 a.m.

•Fordham at Duquesne, NBCSN, 11 a.m.

•Rhode Island at VCU, CBSSN, 11 a.m.

•Seton Hall at DePaul, FS1, 11 a.m.

•Michigan at Penn State, BIG TEN, 11:15 a.m.

•Baylor at TCU, ESPN, noon •Washington at California, PAC12, P12BA, noon •Georgia at Arkansas, SEC, 12:30 p.m.

•Texas Tech at Iowa State, ESPN2, 1 p.m.

•Tulane at Houston, ESPNU, 1 p.m.

•UNLV at Colorado State, FS1, 1 p.m.

•La Salle at UMass, NBCSN, 1 p.m.

•UConn at Butler, CBSSN, 1 p.m.

•Oklahoma at Kansas, Chs. 5, 13, 1:30 p.m.

•Kentucky at Florida, ESPN, 2 p.m.

•Washington State at Stanford, PAC12, P12BA, 2 p.m.

•Oklahoma State at Kansas State, ESPN2, 3 p.m.

•Saint Louis at St. Joseph’s, NBCSN, 3 p.m.

•South Carolina at Ole Miss, SEC, 3 p.m.

•Saint Mary’s at Santa Clara, CBSSN, 3:30 p.m.

•Clemson at North Carolina, ESPN, 4 p.m.

•USC at Arizona State, PAC12, 4 p.m.

•Georgetown at Syracuse, ESPN2, 5 p.m.

•LSU at Missouri, SEC, 5:30 p.m.

•UCLA at Arizona, ESPN, 6 p.m.

•Nevada at San Diego State, CBSSN, 6 p.m.

•Pac-12, teams TBA, PAC12, 6:30 p.m.

College women •Iowa at Northwestern, BIG TEN, 4 p.m.

NBA •Denver at Philadelphia, NBATV, noon •Miami at Washington, NBATV, 4 p.m.

•Portland at Sacramento, NBCSCA, 7 p.m. (Vacaville only) Football NFL Playoffs •AFC Wild Card, Indianapolis at Buffalo, Chs. 5, 13, 10:05 a.m.

•NFC Wild Card, L.A. Rams at Seattle, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 1:40 p.m.

•NFC Wild Card, Tampa Bay at Washington, Ch. 3, 5:15 p.m.

Golf •PGA Tour, Sentry Tournament of Champions, third round, GOLF, 3 p.m.

Hockey College •Michigan at Michigan State, BIG TEN, 1:30 p.m.

Rugby •Guinness Pro14, Connacht vs. Munster, ESPNEWS, 11:30 a.m.

Motorsports •Drone racing League, Ch. 3, 1:30 p.m.

•Dakar Rally, rest day, NBCSN, 7 p.m.

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Who’s trending upward, and who’s fading for 2021 Curtis Pashelka MERCURY NEWS

San Jose Sharks coach Bob Boughner likes where things are headed with his team’s training camp.

“Today was our best day of camp,” Boughner said Tuesday after the Sharks held an intrasquad scrimmage. “The pace was better. It was more physical. You could see the guys were thinking and executing within the system a heck of a lot better.”

The Sharks, who were off Wednesday, will have more formal scrimmages on Friday and Sunday night. They’ll go through a typical game-day routine: A morning skate, followed by lunch and a pre-game nap at the team hotel, with an intra-squad game that evening.

With no preseason games being played, and without seeing it firsthand ( Bay Area News Group is covering the Arizona camp remotely), it’s tough to tell how exactly everyone is doing at camp.

But based on what Boughner has said the last few days, and how line combinations and defense pairs are playing out, we can perhaps glean at least a little bit of information on how certain players are performing.

Here’s a look at where things stand at the moment.

Forwards (24) Locks: Logan Couture, Ryan Donato, Dylan Gambrell, Tomas Hertl, Evander Kane, Joel Kellman, Kevin Labanc, Patrick Marleau, Timo Meier, Matt Nieto, Stefan Noesen, Marcus Sorensen Trending up: Noah Gregor, John Leonard Status uncertain: Fredrik Handemark, Antti Suomela Taxi squad/Barracuda candidates: Lean

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Zach Parise of the Wild looked to score against San Jose Sharks goalie Martin Jones during a game at Xcel Energy Center, Feb. 15.

Bergmann, Joachim Blichfeld, Sasha Chmelevski, Kurtis Gabriel, Jayden Halbgewachs, Maxim Letunov (unfit to play), Alexander True (injured), Jeffrey Viel.

Analysis: Boughner has had positive things to say about Gregor, Leonard and Handemark. Tuesday, he mentioned that the line of Chmelevski, Halbgewachs and Blichfeld also played well in the scrimmage. Generally speaking, it appears the Sharks are happy with how the younger players have performed in camp.

Leonard is up in the Sharks’ top six forward group at the moment, and Gambrell and Gregor are both getting looks at the third line center role. Will they be there longterm? Who knows.

Where do Handemark and Suomela fit in right now? Kellman would require waivers, and we’re guessing the Sharks do not want to risk losing him for nothing. Maybe from that standpoint, Kellman stays and Handemark, who is waivers-exempt, is assigned to the taxi squad. Suomela would require waivers to be sent down. But if he’s being outperformed by Gregor and Leonard in

camp, it would be tough for the Sharks to keep him on the active roster.

One possible option is to keep 15 forwards, six defensemen and two goalies. If and when they need another defensemen, the Sharks can recall someone from the taxi squad fairly easily.

But that assumes everyone is healthy right from day one of the season.

Defensemen (12) Locks: Brent Burns, Mario Ferraro, Erik Karlsson, Radim Simek, MarcEdouard Vlasic Status uncertain: Ryan Merkley. Jake Middleton Taxi squad/Barracuda candidates: Trevor Carrick, Nick DeSimone, Nikolai Knyzhov, Nicolas Meloche, Brinson Pasichnuk Analysis: Until we hear otherwise, it appears Middleton has the inside track to become the Sharks’ sixth defenseman this season.

The Sharks have liked what they have seen at times with Merkley and Pasichnuk, but are they ready for the big stage?

The Sharks have to look at what is in their best interests long-term.

Those decisions on who

to keep as their sixth and seventh defensemen will presumably become clearer after the two upcoming scrimmages.

Although Boughner has expressed confidence that Simek will be ready for the Jan. 14 season opener against the Arizona Coyotes, there is reasonable cause for concern, seeing as he’s still having some issues with his right knee. Keeping seven defensemen from the start of the season seems prudent.

Goalies (4) Locks: Devan Dubnyk, Martin Jones Taxi squad/Barracuda candidates: Josef Korenar, Alexei Melnichuk Analysis: Clearly, barring injury or being otherwise unavailable, Jones and Dubnyk will be the Sharks’ two goalies at the start of the season. The question is who the Sharks will keep as their taxi squad goalie, the one who will travel with the team and be available on short notice should anything happen to one of the top two guys.

Our guess is that it’ll be Melnichuk, who will then still be able to work closely with Evgeni Nabokov on a daily basis.

Bagley: Father unhappy with coverage From Page PB De’Aaron Fox, Aaron, may have soured on Bagley Jr., tweeting that the Kings should trade Bagley III. Or he’s in on the fun.

Kings fans are too pained to be amused by all of this. They’re tired of being a national punchline, of missing the playoffs every season since 2006. Tweets have put the Kings in the national spotlight for all the wrong reasons, dulling a promising start that now includes four losses in the last five games entering Wednesday’s home contest against the Chicago Bulls. n n n Bagley Jr. knew me before I knew him.

He approached in good spirits after his son was introduced to the media for the first time, having signed his rookie contract at Golden 1 Center in 2018. Bagley Jr. was friendly and curious. He knew I covered high school sports for years at The Sacramento Bee and wanted to know about the top basketball programs in the region, saying, “We’re a close family.

We’ll be moving up here as a family from Southern California, and my middle son, Marcus, will

be a junior.”

We talked about area schools, the region in general, then I said, “Mr. Bagley, I’m working on a story on who your son is as a person, beyond the player. Can you offer some insight and background?”

“No. I don’t talk to the media,” he offered, citing trust concerns.

OK then.

Bagley Jr. regularly attended Sheldon High School games, sometimes with Bagley III in tow.

Marcus quickly emerged as a star, a hard-working, hard-charging 6-foot-8 forward now on scholarship at Arizona State.

The Bagley boys are polite, well-liked. They have a unique family bond. The boys have spoken glowingly of their parents, including mother Tracy.

Marcus had to be pulled out of the gym after some practices, he cared so much. Marvin Bagley Jr. sometimes cared too much, too sensitive about how his son was used. A year ago this month, Bagley the dad was so irked with Sheldon coaches for how they used or didn’t use his son in the final quarter of an upset loss that he didn’t allow Marcus to travel with the team to a

national tournament.

That the Bagley family donated thousands of dollars to the program was a kind gesture, but does it include making the call on if the best player in town travels or not?

Sheldon got Marcus back in the lineup and finished the season ranked No. 1 in Northern California.

Marvin Bagley Jr. called The Bee to speak to management, to express disappointment in how his sons have been covered by the local press. He did not think the coverage was favorable. He was friendly, even jovial, I’m told, a father protecting his boys.

Truth is, the Sacramento media market remains a friendly lot.

The coverage and critique has been more than fair on Marvin III – and it’s been glowing on Marcus, who was a co-Bee Player of the Year as a junior and who made our Bee All-Decade team.

Bagley Jr. made it known at Kings home games during his son’s first two NBA campaigns that he wasn’t pleased with the coaches. His expressions said as much. Fans could overhear him saying changes could be coming,

including a trade.

Now it’s continued via tweets. Wishful thinking like that doesn’t help the cause. It makes one a target. Sports KHTK 1140 morning radio host Carmichael Dave refers to Bagley Jr. as “Marvin Dadley” – and Dave is a Kings fan to the core.

Wears Peja jerseys to church, to bed, or both.

During Saturday’s loss to the Houston Rockets, Bagley Jr. tweeted, “PLEASE trade Marvin Bagley III ASAP” and he ended it with “Love - Coach Bagley” The Kings soon made Bagley III available to the media, a prime chance for the power forward to settle this fracas once and for all. He declined to talk about what his father tweeted, and he did not address if he wanted to be traded or remain put, stressing that he would only talk about the next game.

That next game was Monday, a complete dud.

Bagley III had 1 point, two turnovers and no impact in the first half at Golden State, and he finished by shooting 1-for-9 from the floor as his struggles continued.

He blew layups. He ran over people and turned the ball over. He forced See Bagley, Page B3

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Atlanta at Charlotte, 4 p.m.

Phoenix at Indiana, 4 p.m.

Miami at Washington, 4 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

San Antonio at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Philadelphia 7 2 .778 — Boston 6 3 .667 1 New York 5 3 .625 1½ Brooklyn 5 4 .556 2 Toronto 1 6 .143 5 Central Division

W L Pct GB Indiana 6 2 .750 — Milwaukee 5 3 .625 1 Cleveland 5 4 .556 1½ Chicago 4 5 .444 2½ Detroit 1 7 .125 5 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Orlando 6 2 .750 — Atlanta 4 4 .500 2 Miami 3 4 .429 2½ Charlotte 3 5 .375 3 Washington 2 6 .250 4 WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Utah 4 4 .500 — Portland 4 4 .500 — Denver 3 4 .429 ½ Oklahoma City 3 4 .429 ½ Minnesota 2 6 .250 2 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Phoenix 6 2 .750 — L.A. Lakers 6 3 .667 ½ L.A. Clippers 6 3 .667 ½ GOLDEN STATE 4 4 .500 2 SACRAMENTO 4 4 .500 2 Southwest Division

W L Pct GB New Orleans 4 4 .500 ­— San Antonio 4 4 .500 — Dallas 3 4 .429 ½ Houston 2 4 .333 1 Memphis 2 6 .250 2 Wednesday’s Games SACRAMENTO 128, Chicago 124 L.A. Clippers 108, GOLDEN STATE 101 Indiana 114, Houston 107 Orlando 105, Cleveland 94 Philadelphia 141, Washington 136 Charlotte 102, Atlanta 94 Boston 107, Miami 105 New York 112, Utah 100 Milwaukee 130, Detroit 115 Oklahoma City 111, New Orleans 110 Phoenix 123, Toronto 115 Thursday’s Games Brooklyn 122, Philadelphia 109 Cleveland 94, Memphis 90 Dallas at Denver, (n) San Antonio 118, L.A. Lakers 109 Portland 135, Minnesota 117 Friday’s Games L.A. Clippers at GOLDEN STATE, 7 p.m.

Toronto at SACRAMENTO, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Detroit, 4 p.m.

Washington at Boston, 4:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at New York, 4:30 p.m, Charlotte at New Orleans, 4:30 p.m.

Orlando at Houston, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Memphis, 5 p.m.

Utah at Milwaukee, 5 p.m.

Chicago at L.A. Lakers, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Portland at SACRAMENTO, 7 p.m.

Denver at Philadelphia, noon

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W L T Pct. PF PA xz-Pittsburgh 12 4 0 .750 416 312 xy-Baltimore 11 5 0 .688 468 303 xy-Cleveland 11 5 0 .688 408 419 Cincinnati 4 11 1 .281 311 424 South

W L T Pct. PF PA xz-Tennessee 11 5 0 .688 491 439 xy-Indianapolis 11 5 0 .688 451 362 Houston 4 12 0 .250 384 464 Jacksonville 1 15 0 .063 306 492 West

W L T Pct. PF PA txz-Kansas City 14 2 0 .875 473 362 Las Vegas 8 8 0 .500 434 478 L.A. Chargers 7 9 0 .438 384 426 Denver 5 11 0 .313 323 446 National Conference East

W L T Pct. PF PA xz-Washington 7 9 0 .438 335 329 N.Y. Giants 6 10 0 .375 280 357 Dallas 6 10 0 .375 395 473 Philadelphia 4 11 1 .281 334 418 North

W L T Pct. PF PA txz-Green Bay 13 3 0 .813 509 369 xy-Chicago 8 8 0 .500 372 370 Minnesota 7 9 0 .438 430 475 Detroit 5 11 0 .313 377 519 South

W L T Pct. PF PA xz-New Orleans 12 4 0 .750 482 337 xy-Tampa Bay 11 5 0 .688 492 355 Carolina 5 11 0 .313 350 402 Atlanta 4 12 0 .250 396 414 West

W L T Pct. PF PA xz-Seattle 12 4 0 .750 459 371 xy-L.A. Rams 10 6 0 .625 372 296 Arizona 8 8 0 .500 410 367 SAN FRAN 6 10 0 .375 376 390 t-clinched top seed x-clinched playoff berth y-clinched wild card z-clinched division title

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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger looks for wide receiver Diontae Johnson against the

Indianapolis, Dec. 27, 2020, at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh.

Both teams advanced to playoffs with veteran QBs.

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backs from the highly touted 2018 draft class in the playoffs.

Josh Allen of Buffalo is playing Rivers. The No. 7 pick of the ’18 draft, Allen guided the Bills to six consecutive victories to end the regular season and overtook the Steelers for the No. 2 seed in the AFC. Lamar Jackson of Baltimore, the final pick of the first round that year, will lead the Ravens into Tennessee, where he hopes to avenge a loss to Tannehill and the Titans in last year’s playoffs.

In Seattle, it could be John Wolford for the Rams against Wilson if Jared Goff can’t play due to his thumb injury.

Wolford, 25, made his NFL debut last week when he beat the Cardinals to get the Rams into the playoffs. He also entered the league in 2018, as an undrafted free agent out of Wake Forest.

Roethlisberger remembers well his first playoff experience. It came in his rookie season after the Steelers earned the No. 1 seed in the AFC. He was on a team full of veteran players such as Jerome Bettis and Hines Ward. Now he’s repeating the same advice they gave to him.

“There are a lot of guys who don’t understand what it’s all about,” Roethlisberger said.

“I get it. When I was a young guy and they tried to explain it to me I was thinking, ‘I’m young. I’ll get back.’ But it’s not guaranteed. All the veteran guys, as we’re winding down our careers, we don’t know if there’s going to be a next time for some guys. We want to make the most of this opportunity and emphasize to those guys how important this time is.”

To drive that point

NFL wild card weekend: Old quarterbacks still rule the roost are 32 or older, and five of them are over 35. Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is 38 and Phillip Rivers of the Colts is 39. They were part of the same 2004 draft class that also included former Giants quarterback Eli Manning, who retired last year.

Washington quarterback Alex Smith was the No. 1 overall pick the following year. He’ll turn 37 in May. Russell Wilson and Ryan Tannehill, the youngest of the old guard, are 32 and members of the 2012 quarterback class.

And don’t forget about Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who at 37 is the frontrunner for NFL MVP. The Packers earned a bye as the NFC’s No. 1 seed and don’t play until next week.

“It’s cool,” Roethlisberger said Wednesday afternoon. “It’s fun to be a part of it with them. Obviously, if we were sitting at home and people were talking about the old guys and ‘Why aren’t you a part of it?’ Then you’d be disappointed. But to be a part of it, to be in the tournament, it’s an honor and a pleasure to be able to do it.

I’m hoping we’re not oneand-done. We’re going to give it everything we have so I can be the last old man standing maybe.”

Part of the intrigue this weekend is the competition many of these older quarterbacks are facing. Some young guns are trying to knock the venerable quarterbacks out of the tournament, and perhaps, end an era in the process.

At Heinz Field on Sunday night, it will be Roethlisberger against Baker Mayfield, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 draft, who will be competing in his first playoff game. He is one of three quarter-

home, Roethlisberger gathered the team Wednesday morning to make sure they know how to approach the week.

Even though the Steelers have a veteran roster they could have as many as 10 players making their first playoff start against the Browns.

“I think every player should approach this playoff game like it could be their last playoff game ever,” he said. “We used examples of players and coaches that have been in this league for a long time and have never been to a postseason or never been to a Super Bowl. I think it’s prudent for every player to take that mindset and that approach. I know I am.

Nothing is guaranteed in this game or this world.

“I think they took it to heart. I hope they did.

The sole intention was to let them know how important every play is, every rep in practice is. I felt like today we could reemphasize that and let people know how special this is. Half the teams in the NFL aren’t playing this week. It’s an honor.”

This is Roethlisberger’s 11th postseason appearance. He’s won two Super Bowls and carries a 13-8 playoff record into the Browns game. He can tie Terry Bradshaw, Peyton Manning and John Elway for the thirdmost playoff wins all-time with a win Sunday night.

With a Super Bowl victory, he can pass Joe Montana (16) for secondmost postseason victories all-time, but that’s as far as he’ll go. Brady will carry a 30-11 playoff record into his first playoff game against Washington on Saturday night.

That’s why they call Brady the GOAT.

the 49ers’ exhibition in her native Kansas City, she was retained as a full-time coach.

“I’m going to miss you SF. Let’s see what 2021 has in store,” Sowers captioned a picture of Levi’s Stadium’s façade in an Instagram story Wednesday night.

Sowers came to the 49ers after interning with the 2016 Atlanta Falcons. She followed the NFL leads of Jen Welter (Arizona Cardinals intern) and Kathryn Smith (Buffalo Bills posted a video of walking special teams assistant).

In an Instagram post onto the 49ers field). I am Thursday to 49ers’ fans, forever grateful for my time in SF . . . until we meet Sowers wrote: “Dear Faithful, We again. #foreverfaithful” Sowers became the first have been through so much together over the female to coach in a Super last 4 years and words Bowl last season. She has will never express how taken part in forums and much your love and accep- spoken up for equality, tance meant to me. I will and she’s received multiforever cherish the mem- ple honors in recent years, ories and hearing your including being named stories throughout the Outsports 2020 Person of years. Together, we made the Year last week.

“This has been a year a difference in this world.

You were there every step full of ups and downs,” of the way, from my first Sowers told Outsports. day at Levi’s, to the super com. “From going to the bowl, and even when my Super Bowl, to the pandad passed away. You all demic, and to losing my supported me through it dad – this award has been all. Change in inevitable a reminder that we all in this life . . . Enjoy every have the ability to make minute and cherish the a difference regardless of memories because time the circumstance and I will pass you by faster am honored to know that I than you know. One last join a list of such amazing walk out of the tunnel (she ‘agents of change.’ ”

PITTSBURGH — Out with the old and in with the new. Well, not so fast in the NFL, where some of the quarterbacks competing in the playoffs this weekend were born during the Carter Administration.

Wild card weekend might as well be sponsored by AARP. The elder statesman is sixtime Super Bowl winner Tom Brady, the 43-year old ex-Patriot who was born in August of 1977, one year after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers came into existence. Now he is trying to lead the Bucs to the Super Bowl after 20 years as New England’s quarterback.

Brady will become the oldest quarterback to ever compete in the playoffs.

Fifty years ago, George Blanda quarterbacked the Oakland Raiders in a playoff game at the age of 43, but Brady will best him by a few days. Blanda, who relieved starter Daryl Lamonica in the 1970 AFC title game, fell short of the Super Bowl.

Brady will be gunning for his seventh Lombardi trophy in a year his new city is playing host to Super Bowl LV. Drew Brees was born in 1979, six days before the Steelers won Super Bowl XIII over the Dallas Cowboys. He turns 42 in 10 days and came into this world the same month “Dukes of Hazzard” premiered on CBS and The Village People, Eric Clapton and the Bee Gees had top-10 singles.

These guys just aren’t “Staying Alive,” they’re thriving in a game where many of their teammates and opponents are half their age.

More than half of the starting quarterbacks this weekend (7 of 12)

Alumni: Update

Bagley: Kings bought in ’85 for $10.5M

NFL Playoffs Wildcard Round Saturday’s Games Indianapolis at Buffalo, 10:05 a.m.

L.A. Rams at Seattle, 1:40 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Washington, 5:15 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Baltimore at Tennessee, 10:05 a.m.

Chicago at New Orleans, 1:40 p.m.

Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 5:15 p.m.

Sowers: Leaving From Page B1

From Page B1 getting a combined two points, five rebounds, one assist and one block.

Jay Nagle (Wood) played twice for UC Santa Barbara (6-3, 2-2 Big West), scoring two points as the Gauchos lost twice to UC Irvine and took two from Cal State Fullerton.

Dunnell Stafford (Solano) had three points, three rebounds and two assists as Fort Lewis (2-3, 1-3 RMAC) lost 84-79 to South Dakota Mines in overtime.

Women’s basketball Houston (5-3, 2-2 AAC)

Sowers became the first female to coach in a Super Bowl last season. She has taken part in forums and spoken up for equality, and she’s received multiple honors in recent years.

defeated Memphis, 75-63, and Wichita State, 79-65, before losing to Central Florida, 55-46 and Tulane, 76-62. Julia BlackshellFair averaged 6.3 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.8 rebounds and2.3stealsfortheCougars.

Jada Scott (Solano) recorded four points, one rebound and one assist for College of Saint Mary (1-7, 0-5 GPAC) in a 77-40 loss to Morningside.

Midway (2-5), coached by former Vacaville and Vacaville Christian coach Chris Minner, was outscored 57-27 over the second and third quarters in falling 81-53 Mt. Vernon Nazarane.

From Page B2 things. The Warriors sought him out to exploit him on defense and switches. Golden State rolled 137-106.

Players afterward insisted tweets did not lead to such erratic play, with Fox, the speedy guard, saying, “I don’t think anybody’s out there playing

basketball worried about two tweets, and if you are, this ain’t what you should be doing because motherf-----are going to tweet you every day of your life while you’re playing in this league.”

Bagley III did not speak to the media afterward, though he might have offered, “I’m not talking about my

We want your

game. I’ll talk about my dad only.”

Bagley III has to play better. His dad has to tweet better. Bagley III will make $11.3 million next season and $14.7 in 2022-23, the final year of his rookie contract. The Kings were purchased from the Kansas City ownership group in 1985 for $10.5 million, so longtime Kings fans have

every right to be irked with the early returns on the investment.

Bagley III hasn’t played like a franchise savior. He needs to be more Anthony Davis than Willie CauleyStein. If he plays well, Bagley Jr. will let everyone know, and we look forward to those tweets.

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on’t miss: “WandaVision”: We don’t really know what to expect from this trippy new series, but we’re definitely intrigued.

“WandaVision” takes characters from Marvel’s superhero comics and movies and plops them in retro locales reminiscent of those in TV classics such as “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Bewitched” and “The Brady Bunch.” Picking up after the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” it reunites Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) with the android Vision (Paul Bettany). Together, these super-powered beings live idealized suburban lives, but begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.

(Friday, Disney+).

Other bets Sunday: “Tiger” is a torrid, two-part documentary that chronicles, in extraordinary detail, the amazing highs and stunning lows of golf superstar Tiger Woods.

Among the film’s revealing interviews is one with Woods’ former mistress Rachel Uchitel who, for the first time, speaks publicly about their relationship.

(9 p.m., HBO).

Sunday: James Herriot’s adventures as a veterinarian in 1930s Yorkshire are given a colorful new adaptation for “All Creatures Great and Small.” Nicholas Ralph stars as the iconic country vet in this seven-part “Masterpiece” series based on the beloved stories.

(9 p.m., PBS).

Monday: Gridiron superiority is on the line in the College Football Playoff National Championship. No.1-seeded Alabama (12-0) takes on No. 3 Ohio State (7-0) in Miami. (5 p.m. PT; 8 p.m. ET, ESPN).

Monday: The documentary series “American Experience” returns with “The Codebreaker.” It’s the fascinating story of cryptanalyst Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who took down gangsters and Nazis and laid the foundation for modern

codebreaking. A suburban wife and mother, she led a secret double life that only come to light decades after her death.

(9 p.m., PBS).

Tuesday: The season premiere of “The Resident” finds Conrad and Nic preparing for their wedding day.

Meanwhile, flashbacks to the early days of the Covid-19 crisis shine a light on the heroism of the doctors and the toll the virus took on everyone at Chastain Memorial. (8 p.m., Fox).

Tuesday: As Season 2 of “Prodigal Son” begins, Bright’s personal life is in disarray after his sister’s shocking actions during the Season 1 finale. Now, he has to “take care” of her and protect his mother from a secret that could tear the family apart all over again. (9 p.m., Fox).

Wednesday: Kyra Sedgwick returns to series television in the sitcom “Call Your Mother.” She plays Jean, a lonely empty-nester mom whose children live miles away. Seeking a change, she decides her place is with her family and it’s time to reinsert herself into their lives.

(9:30 p.m., ABC).

Thursday: As Season 4 of the acclaimed comedy thriller “Search Party” begins, Dory is being held prisoner by her psychotic stalker Chip, who is determined to make her believe they are best friends. Can her real pals put their traumatic pasts behind them and come to her rescue? (HBO Max).

Friday: In Season 3 of Matt Groening’s animated adult comedy “Disenchantment,” princess Bean continues to grow into her power and own her destiny. But as she and her friends venture to new worlds, they might just find there really is no place like home. (Netflix).

Saturday: “One Deadly Mistake” is a new true-crime series that follows various homicide investigations that ultimately hinge on a surprising, or unlikely, piece of evidence that exposes the killer. The opener focuses on a 2014 case in Austin, Texas.

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North Dakota man gathers stories from elders in every town in state Pamela Huey Star Tribune

The stories are different, but the themes come through clearly – deprivation, family, patriotism and faith.

Some 617 stories, many from the Great Depression and World War II, were gathered by one man who took 14 years to drive 113,000 miles over North Dakota’s gravel roads and paved highways to every town in the state – from Abercrombie to Zeeland, from the Red River Valley to the western Badlands.

“There was an untapped resource out there,” said Jim Puppe, who grew up on North Dakota State University a Pembina County farm. “I Bookstore/TNS was able to capture remark- “Dakota Attitude” by James Puppe. able stories, tons of wisdom, and appreciate the resiliency. I entire life on the same Bottincould not stop.” eau County farm where he was While not a writer, he turned born in 1926, shared his Depreshis labor of love into a book, sion-era memories with Puppe.

“Dakota Attitude,” self-pub- “Well, I can tell you this much, lished in December 2019 and we had absolutely nothing. It in its fourth printing as of last was just grasshoppers as big as month. Each story, with a photo birds. I’d shoot grasshoppers taken by Puppe, fits on one page. with my BB gun. Oh, yeah, I was The germ for his audacious particular. I only shot the big project came from his childhood. ones. I couldn’t waste my BBs.” “Living in North Dakota all And Jim Hanson, who was my life, I heard of my parents’ born in 1931 and grew up on a generations going through Cass County farm near Hickson tough times,” he said. “I wanted in the Red River Valley, had one to hear how they survived the overriding heartbreak. “I can Dirty ‘30s, Depression, bliz- remember waking up on Christzards, and other hardships. I mas morning and my mother wanted to hear not only from crying because she couldn’t those in the larger cities, but afford to buy us presents.” from every community on the map. I was curious.”

So, when he retired from Languages learned, stolen the VA in 2004, the Fargo resPuppe interviewed North ident started his journey in his Dakotans of Norwegian, 20-year-old van packed with a Swedish, German and Irish recorder, camera, sleeping bag, heritage, among others, some thermos of coffee, loaf of bread, of whom couldn’t speak English a jar of peanut butter and home- when they went off to one-room made strawberry-rhubarb jam. schoolhouses. Carl Skarphol, His goal was to talk to someone who grew up a quarter-mile from every town shown on the from Canada in Bottineau North Dakota road map.

County on the farm his immiHis modus operandi: grant father homesteaded, was After arriving in a town, he one. “When I started school, I approached anyone he thought talked Norwegian. I had to learn might be local and introduced English. My mother never really himself as a native North spoke English.”

Dakotan. He asked that person Puppe talked to others who to identify someone in town lost their language, like Eugene who portrayed “human spirit, Hale, a Native American who optimism, good morals, values was born in 1949 and grew up on and integrity.” the Spirit Lake Dakota Reserva“It did not take long before tion in the northeastern part of I realized I was hearing great the state. “When I was going to personal stories that were price- school at St. Michael’s, if I spoke less,” said Puppe. one single word of the Dakota In Loma, along the Canadian language I would get punished border, Mary Mann had stark for it. They would put us down.

Depression memories of her We couldn’t speak our language. father going into town with his They took the language away.” team of horses. “He’d buy sugar Though Puppe gathand coffee,” she said in the book. ered many heartbreaking “That’s about all the money you stories, it only fed his desire to had. My mother sewed most all visit every town. our clothes ‘cause there was “Actually, the more I traveled nine of us kids.” and the more visits conducted, Rueben Bjokne, who lived his my passion to complete the

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interviews only intensified,” Puppe said. “People were so friendly and willing to share. I was treated like a long-lost relative or as a neighbor. I felt like one of them.”

War and faith The book’s dedication reads: “To all North Dakota servicemen and women who died fighting for our freedom.”

That would include his father’s first cousins, brothers Lester and Elmer Puppe, who died in combat just 69 days apart in Sicily and Italy.

While at the VA, Puppe developed a passion for working with former prisoners of war.

On his trip, he interviewed five former POWs. One was Maurice Bonemeyer, who was fighting in the Argonne Forest in 1944 when the Germans took him prisoner. “Guys were dying, some were losing their minds. I knew I couldn’t survive.” So Bonemeyer, who later became a dentist, faked an ear infection and ended up in the prison hospital. “That saved my life,” he said. “I didn’t get any more to eat, but at least I didn’t have to go out in the cold and dig graves.”

And on the day he was freed, Bonemeyer said, “here comes this Sherman tank. That was the greatest sight I ever saw.”

Over the years, many North Dakotans have pulled up stakes to relocate in neighboring Minnesota, including Paul Presthus.

Presthus was Rugby’s star basketball player who led his team to the state title in 1962 and went on to become a captain of the Minnesota Gophers and raise a family in Edina.

Puppe said that when he visited Rugby — which proudly calls itself the Geographical Center of North America — there was no doubt among the locals that Presthus was the one to interview for his book.

The former player talked about his basketball memories and what his faith meant to his sport and to his life. Before each game, Presthus prayed and afterward, “I thanked the Lord.”

In the book, he also had this advice: “Follow your dream; don’t let anybody deter you from that. I’ve been fortunate.

I’ve had great family, great friends, and great relationships through it all.”

In an interview with the Star Tribune this month, Presthus took a moment to contrast his Edina life with small-town North Dakota.

“I loved growing up in North Dakota, and I love it just as much today. If I was a little younger, I would move back. I love the pace of life.”

Word Sleuth

Bridge

by Phillip Alder

five clubs. What did they do?

The auction contained a few debatable choices. West opened one heart because, not unreasonably, he thought his hand was too good for a four-heart opening. (If he had opened four, and the opponents had entered the auction, he would have doubled to tell his partner that he thought he could win 10 tricks and was not making an out-and-out pre-empt.) East responded with a weak jump shift, dangerously leaping with no known fit.

South, holding 16 points, overcalled three clubs despite only a five-card suit.

West, warned by his partner’s response, settled for three hearts. North clearly took his partner’s bid very seriously (and might have bid three no-trump, which could have been made). He cue-bid and still went to game when partner signed off.

West led the spade ace, and East signaled with his queen as a suit-preference signal for hearts. Getting the GOOD DEFENSE IS message, West shifted to the heart HEARTWARMING king. East ruffed away dummy’s ace and gave his partner a spade ruff. West William Blake, an English poet, cashed the heart queen and continued painter and engraver, wrote, “When I with the heart two so that partner tell any truth, it is not for the sake of would ruff dummy’s jack. The defenders convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who still had a diamond trick to come for down three and 100% of the matchdo.”

I hope this deal correctly describes points.

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Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9, with no repeats.

That means that no number is repeated in any row, GOOD DEFENSE column or box.IS Solution, tips and computer program at HEARTWARMING www.sudoku.com William Blake, an English poet, painter and engraver, wrote, “When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it,

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Vaccine rollout hindered by faulty coordination, messaging Tribune Content Agency As the U.S. grapples with record hospitalizations and deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic, a crucial vaccination rollout campaign is being impeded by inconsistent messaging and myriad state strategies as a new variant of the virus drives up infection rates, according to public health experts.

The missteps have put the number of vaccinations well behind targets set by the Trump administration’s U.S. Operation Warp Speed effort. About 5.46 million doses have been administered in the U.S. since mid-December, or 32% of those that have been distributed across the country and well below the Trump administration’s goal of 20 million by the end of 2020, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News. Vaccination rates have ranged significantly across states, with South Dakota using 69% of the doses sent to it and Georgia just 22%, according to Bloomberg’s data.

“The next couple of weeks are going to be really critical to see how we can get this distribution system up and going more smoothly,” National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins said Wednesday in an interview with the Washington Post. “It certainly has had a rocky beginning.

But I’m not entirely surprised by that, when you consider that it’s only been three weeks” since the shots were cleared for emergency use.

Months of work anticipating the vaccine rollout have been squandered because of a lack of coordination and gaps in planning. Bloomberg’s reporting shows missed opportunities at every

counsel. Hospitals in Michigan are receiving a delivery window to plan around, said Michigan Health & Hospital Association spokeswoman Ruthanne Sudderth.

O r ga n i z i n g t he Covid-19 clinics is a more complicated process than for seasonal flu shots or other drives that aim to immunize many people at once. Hospitals must Ethan Miller/Getty Images/TNS file (2020) schedule appointments, Student pharmacist Wilbur Quimba dilutes vials of the doctors say. Formulas Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at University Medical from Moderna Inc. come Center of Southern Nevada, Dec. 16, 2020, in Las Vegas, frozen, and those of the partnership of Pfizer Inc. level of government, from have been administered, and BioNTech SE must a laissez-faire approach as well as Canada, Spain, be kept at a sub-Arctic in Washington to local Germany and Italy when minus 94 degrees Fahrhospitals where harried comparing the number of enheit, with strict storage health-care workers shots given per 100 people, requirements. were left trying to make according to Bloomberg’s When OneWorld Comlast-minute decisions vaccine tracker. munity Health Centers without guidance.

U.S. officials have in Omaha, Nebraska, Among the issues that pledged that vaccinations received some vials of have contributed to the will accelerate in coming Pfizer’s vaccine from rollout’s jumbled start, weeks, with a more coor- a nearby hospital, they according to interviews dinated program to were kept cold during the with state, federal and hos- administer vaccines in 10-minute drive but were pital officials: nursing homes and the not transported in the n Reductions in the holiday season coming to a initial packaging. number of shots states close. But the earliest days OneWorld was notiwere told they would could be the easiest, inten- fied on a Monday morning receive, along with limited sifying pressure to identify at 7:30 a.m. that the vials notice as to how many does the weaknesses and fix would need to be used by would arrive, and when. them before trying to reach 9 a.m., said Chief Execn Complicated logistics millions more Americans. utive Officer Andrea of storing and administerSkolkin. The health center ing the vaccines. able to vaccinate Allocation headaches was n Lack of uniform mes130 people in about an Planning has been dif- hour before discarding a saging and education to ficult because of the tight handful of doses that did encourage vaccination. n A disjointed approach time lines and shifting not make it into arms fast across states and counties. numbers. In the earliest enough, she said. n Little transparency days of the campaign, state At Utah-based Interwith providers and the leaders were shocked to mountain Healthcare, find they would receive far clinics have had shots public on what to expect.

Vaccinating every eligi- fewer shots than expected left over at the end of the ble U.S. citizen is already from the federal govern- day, said Tamara Shefan enormous effort, espe- ment. States receive a field, medical director of cially when coupled with new batch every week and community health and preanother surge in coro- divvy them up, giving pro- vention. They have sought navirus cases that has viders little notice. to find people around the Southeast Georgia hospital who could use the strained some hospitals to the point of turning Health System has been shots, an option that other away ambulances. The given only a day’s notice facilities may not have.

U.S. has performed better of receiving shots, said Reports of doses being than some other coun- Christy Jordan, vice tossed are emerging, as are tries, including France, president of govern- stories of people walking where just 20,000 doses ment affairs and general into pharmacies and being

asked if they want a shot before it expires.

introduce the public to the vaccines?” Kuppalli said.

Mixed messaging

Disjointed approach

Some health care workers have been reluctant to be vaccinated, with skepticism over the speed of development a common reason for wanting to wait.

About 44% of Southeast Georgia Health System’s 2,629 eligible workers have opted for vaccination, Jordan said.

That’s lower than executives expected, though some people who wanted to wait are already starting to change their minds, she said.

Hospitals are spending enormous amounts of time walking employees through clinical trial data, answering questions and trying to combat misinformation.

If they are hesitant, even more issues persuading people to get vaccinated may lie ahead.

José Romero, chair of the CDC’s Advisory on Immunization Practices Committee and secretary of health in Arkansas, said the most surprising piece of the rollout has been seeing how many healthcare workers don’t want to be vaccinated.

“I did not expect to see as much as we’re seeing, at least in my state,” he said.

The federal government should have invested more money and started educating the public earlier, said Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious disease doctor at the Medical University of South Carolina. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services started a vaccine education campaign in December and plans another push later this month.

“We spent $10 billion months ago to develop vaccines; why were we not spending money to

Each state and even some counties have their own rules on who to vaccinate when, making it difficult for health systems to create uniform strategies. Providence health system, which runs 51 hospitals plus doctor’s offices, is trying to navigate the web of rules across seven states in which it operates.

In California, counties have leeway to veer from the state’s priority groups.

Providence may receive shots from the state and some from counties, each of which might have slightly different rules as to who can receive them, said Chief Clinical Officer Amy Compton-Phillips.

“We can’t keep straight that this vial is supposed to be used for these people and this vial is supposed to be used for those people,” Compton-Phillips said. “We get in trouble because we’re not using it fast enough or we’re giving it to the wrong people.”

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar urged governors to offer vaccination to more people if shots are sitting in freezers. Some states have already announced they would start widening their targets, but the abrupt shifts resulted in chaos in some places. In Florida, seniors have camped out overnight, phone lines have been overwhelmed and health departments have relied on ticketing websites like Eventbrite to schedule appointments.

On Wednesday, U.S. officials declined to provide estimates for the number of vaccines they are giving every day and how many they expect to administer by the end of January.

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The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: BAY AREA ESCROW SERVICES, 2817 CROW CANYON RD, STE 102, SAN RAMON, CA 94583 and the last date for filing claims by any creditor shall be date on which the notice of the liquor license is received by the Escrow Agent from the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

Buyer(s): BRAR GREWAL CORPORATION ORD-148096 DAILY REPUBLIC 1/8/2021 DR# 00044160 Published: January 8, 2021

LOCATED AT: 750 Kellogg Street, Suisun CA 94585 Solano Mailing Address: 750 Kellogg Street, Suisun CA 94585 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Rochelle Kontogiannis 760 Kellogg Street Suisun, 94585 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/ Rochelle Kontogiannis 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 December 8, 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: DEC 09, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002186 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00044137 Published: January 8, 15, 22, 29, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: SERGIO BORRAYO CASE NUMBER FCS055639

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: ERIC GRAYDON HARRIS CASE NUMBER FCS055709

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS NO LIMIT KREEATIONS

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS SPECIALTY TAX

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Sergio Borrayo filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Sergio L. Borrayo Proposed Name: a. Sergio Michael Borrayo THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Eric G Harris filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Eric Graydon Harris Proposed Name: a. Eric Graydon Kelly THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: JAN. 22, 2021; Time: 9:30 am Dept.: 22 ;Rm.: III The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: JAN. 29, 2021; Time: 9:00 am Dept.: 4 ;Rm.: 305 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Hall of Justice 600 Union Ave. Fairfield, CA 94533

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Fairfield Republic Date: NOV 30, 2020 /s/ Alesia Jones Judge of the Superior Court FILED: DEC 8 2020 DR# 00043831 Published: Dec. 18, 25, 2020, Jan. 1, 8, 2021

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Republic Date: DEC 3, 2020 /s/ Bradley Nelson Judge of the Superior Court FILED: DEC 16 2020 DR# 00043904 Published: Dec. 25, 2020, Jan. 1, 8, 15, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS GOT THE GOODZ

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS I WOKE UP LIKE THIS, BROWS BY MADDY

LOCATED AT: 1624 Harrisburg Ln, Suisun City CA 94585 Solano Mailing Address: 1624 Harrisburg Ln, Suisun City CA 94585 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) No Limit Kreeations LLC CA THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 12/14/2020.

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/ Bernard McBride 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 December 13, 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: DEC 14, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002217 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043798 Published: Dec 18, 25, 2020, Jan. 1, 8, 2021

LOCATED AT: 737 Jefferson St, Fairfield CA 94533 Solano Mailing Address: 737 Jefferson St, Fairfield CA 94533 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Lisa Medinas 7900 Timm Rd Vacaville, 95688 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business n a m e o r n a m e s l i s t e d ab o v e o n 02/01/2010.

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/ Lisa Medinas 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 24, 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 25, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002120 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043828 Published: Dec. 18, 25, 2020, Jan. 1, 8, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS BUDGET COURIER SERVICE

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS HONEYCOMB SALON

LOCATED AT: 1028 Westwind Way, Suisun,CA 94585 Solano Mailing Address: PO Box #1334 325 Merganser Dr, Suisun,CA,94585 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Eric O. Williams 1028 Westwind Way Suisun, 94585 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/ Eric O. Williams 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 December 16, 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: DEC 17, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002237 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043937 Published: Dec. 25, 2020, Jan. 1, 8, 15, 2021

LOCATED AT: 1333 Oliver Rd, Fairfield CA 94534 Solano Mailing Address: 1333 Oliver Rd, Fairfield CA 94534 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Fabiola Rodriguez 2454 Old Sonoma Rd Apt 2 Napa, 94558 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/ Fabiola Rodriguez 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 December 13, 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: DEC 14, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002218 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043801 Published: Dec. 18, 25, 2020, Jan. 1, 8, 2021

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: FEB. 19, 2021; Time: 9:00 am Dept.: 4 ;Rm.: 305 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Hall of Justice 600 Union Avenue Fairfield, CA 94533

LOCATED AT: 906 Longspur Dr, Suisun City, CA, 94585 Solano Mailing Address: 906 Longspur Dr, Suisun City, CA, 94585 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Richard Sanz 906 Longspur Dr Suisun City, 94585 2) Erica Sanz 906 Longspur Dr Suisun City, 94585 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a General Partership 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/ Erica Sanz 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 December 13, 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: DEC 14, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002221 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043821 Published: Dec. 18, 25, 2020, Jan. 1, 8, 2021

LOCATED AT: 857 Turquoise St, Vacaville, CA 95687 Solano Mailing Address: 857 Turquoise St, Vacaville, CA 95687 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Madysen Solomon 857 Turquoise St Vacaville, 95687 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Madysen Solomon 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 December 10, 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: DEC 11, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002208 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00043842 Published: Dec. 18, 25, 2020, Jan. 1, 8, 2021

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: MAR. 12, 2021; Time: 9:30 am Dept.: 22 ;Rm.: 3 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Republic Date: DEC 15, 2020 /s/ Alesia Jones Judge of the Superior Court FILED: DEC 16 2020 DR# 00044052 Published: January 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021

Classifieds: 427-6936

AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: TRINA DEON RENEE MARROW CASE NUMBER FCS055490 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Trina Deon Renee Morrow Proposed Name: a. Katrina Deon Renee Morrow THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: JAN. 28, 2021; Time: 9:00 am Dept.: 8 ;Rm.: I The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Republic Please file of publication at least 2 court days before hearing; ok to appear via zoom - invite will be emailed.

Date: DEC 2, 2020 /s/ Wendy G. Getty Judge of the Superior Court FILED: DEC 8 2020 DR# 00043838 Published: Dec. 18, 25, 2020, Jan. 1, 8, 2021

Online: dailyrepublic.com/classifieds

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: DAMONE LORENZO WALTHALL CASE NUMBER FCS055720 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Damone Lorenzo Walthall filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Damone Lorenzo Walthall Proposed Name: a. Damon Walthall THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: JAN. 25, 2021; Time: 9:00 am Dept.: 8 ;Rm.: 1 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Republic Please file proof of publication at least 2 court days before hearing; ok to appear via zoom. invitation will be emailed to you 1-2 days before.

Date: DEC 2, 2020 /s/ Wendy G. Getty Judge of the Superior Court FILED: DEC 8 2020 DR# 00043830 Published: Dec. 18, 25, 2020, Jan. 1, 8, 2021

NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE Notice is hereby given pursuant to Sections 21700 through 21716 of the California Business and Professions Code, Section 2328 of the UCC, Section 535 of the Penal Code, the undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding on FRIDAY,JANUARY 22,2021 commencing 10:30 AM @ALMOND TREE STORAGE, 725 RAILROAD AVE, SUISUN CITY, CA 94585 the following delinquent tenant’s items described as; miscellaneous furniture, tools, household items, appliances, electronic equipment, toys, clothing, luggage, boxes & bags- contents unknown: SPACE B101 C37 C90 C91 C97 C100 G37

NAME Star Dawson Roberta Campos Ciara Curtis Javon Carrington Tamika Artis Victoria Geneva Jenkins Saul Gomez-Arreola

Purchases must be paid for at the time of sale in cash only. All purchased goods are sold “as is, where is” and must be removed at the time of the sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and tenant. Almond Tree Storage reserves the right to dismiss any unit from the auction.

Auctioneer: Storage Auction Experts, Bond #5860870 Site Manager: Lara Smith, Phone (707) 425-4520 DR# 00044130 Published: January 8, 15, 2021 [RECORDING REQUESTED BY] ZBS Law, LLP [WHEN RECORDED MAIL TO:] ZBS Law, LLP 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450 Irvine, CA 92606 ______________________________________________________________________ T.S. No. 20-61481 APN: 0181-562-140 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 9/20/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

Trustor: LOUDIESA FLANAGAN, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN Duly Appointed Trustee: ZBS Law, LLP Deed of Trust recorded 9/26/2006, as Instrument No. 200600121533, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Solano County, California, Date of Sale:1/22/2021 at 10:30 AM Place of Sale: At the Santa Clara Street entrance to the City Hall 555 Santa Clara Street Vallejo, CA Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $517,126.18 Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt owed.

Street Address or other common designation 1950 BRAMBLEWOOD CT of real property: FAIRFIELD, California 94534-6723 Described as follows: As more fully described on said Deed of Trust A.P.N #.: 0181-562-140 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale.

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (714) 848-9272 or visit this Internet Web site www.elitepostandpub.com, using the file number assigned to this case 20-61481. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

Dated: 12/23/2020 ZBS Law, LLP , as Trustee 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450 Irvine, CA 92606 For Non-Automated Sale Information, call: (714) 848-7920 For Sale Information: (714) 848-9272 www.elitepostandpub.com _________________________________ Michael Busby, Trustee Sale Officer This office is enforcing a security interest of your creditor. To the extent that your obligation has been discharged by a bankruptcy court or is subject to an automatic stay of bankruptcy, this notice is for informational purposes only and does not constitute a demand for payment or any attempt to collect such obligation. EPP 32291 Pub Dates 01/01, 01/08, 01/15/2021 DR# 00043990 Published: January 1, 8, 15, 2021

AMENDED NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF LATASHA M. FREEMAN-WILSON CASE NO. P050532 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: LATASHA M. FREEMANWILSON A Petition for Probate has been filed by DOUGLAS M. WILSON in the Superior Court of California, County of SOLANO. The Petition for Probate requests that DOUGLAS M. WILSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court on 1/28/2021 at 9:00 A.M. in Dept. 22 Room N/A located at OLD SOLANO COURTHOUSE, 580 TEXAS STREET, FAIRFIELD, CA 94533.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: PATRICIA A. SIMMONS, ESQ., POST OFFICE BOX 231981, LAS VEGAS, NV 89105, Telephone: 707-422-8800 1/8, 1/10, 1/17/21 CNS-3430019# THE DAILY REPUBLIC DR# 00044135 Published: January 8, 10, 17, 2021

Daily Republic - Friday, January 8, 2021

AMENDED NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF TOM REDELL KING CASE NO. P05031 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: TOM REDELL KING A Petition for Probate has been filed by LEONARD A. KING in the Superior Court of California, County of SOLANO. The Petition for Probate requests that LEONARD A. KING be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court on 1/29/2021 at 8:30 A.M. in Dept. 4 Room N/A located at 600 UNION AVENUE, FAIRFIELD, CA 94533.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: PATRICIA A. SIMMONS, POST OFFICE BOX 231981, LAS VEGAS, NV 89105, Telephone: 707-4228800 1/8, 1/10, 1/17/21 CNS-3430017# THE DAILY REPUBLIC DR# 00044136 Published: January 8, 10, 17, 2021

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF KING, JUVENILE DEPARTMENT IN RE THE DEPENDENCY OF: TRESSA RENEE KNIGHT DOB: 12/07/2006 JOSSELYN KAYLE KNIGHT DOB: 6/23/2005

NO: 20-7-01315-1 KNT 20-7-01316-0 KNT NOTICE OF HEARING

TO: * Mother, Monica Jean Simpson, A/K/A Monica Jean Knight, A/K/A Monica Jean Fiedler; Father, Charles Paul Knight, and/or anyone claiming parental/paternal rights or interest in the children and to All Whom It May Concern: On November 19, 2020, a petition for Termination was filed in the above entitled Court, pursuant to RCW 13.34.080 and/or RCW 26.33.310 regarding the above named children, whose parents are *.

[FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CALL 253-372-5738, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.]

Said Petition will be heard on February 11, 2021, at the hour of 8:30 a.m., at Regional Justice Center Courthouse, Rm 1-L, 401 4th Ave North, Kent, WA 98032. Appearance at this hearing is required and may be in person or by telephone. Parties may appear by telephone by calling 206-263-8114 and using the following PIN number to join the call: for Kent cases – 1216606#, before a judge of the above entitled court, at which time you are directed to appear and answer the said petition or the petition will be granted and action will be taken by the court such as shall appear to be for the welfare of the said children.

DATED this 18th day of December, 2020.

BARBARA MINER KING COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT CLERK BY: KAB, Deputy Clerk DR# 00043891 Published: December 25, 2020, January 1, 8, 2021

COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT NO. 2012-2 (PUBLIC SAFETY SERVICES OPEN SPACE OPERATION AND PARK MAINTENANCE) NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Fairfield will hold a public hearing to consider the annexation of a property (“Annexation No. 49”) to the City of Fairfield Community Facilities District No 2012-2 (Public Safety Services Open Space Operation and Park Maintenance) (“CFD” or “CFD 2012-2”).

The public hearing will occur at the following date, time, and place: Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 Time: 6:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard.

Place: In accordance with Executive Orders N-25-20 and N-29-20 City of Fairfield City Council meetings will be held via teleconference/virtual meeting, without a physical location from which members of the public may attend.

Members of the public may access the meeting on Comcast Cable Channel 26, AT&T U-Verse 99, or streamed live at www.youtube.com/user/FFCATV/live and at www.fairfield.ca.gov/live.

Please see the meeting agenda for further information.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that on December 1, 2020, the City of Fairfield adopted Resolution No. 2020-231 declaring its intention to annex certain property (Accessor’s Parcel Numbers 0170-032-010, 0170-032-020, 0170-032-030, 0170-032-040, 0170-032050, and 0170-032-100) to CFD 2012-2, to authorize the levy of a special tax (“Special Tax”) therein to finance certain services (“Services”) pursuant to the terms and provisions of the Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982 (“Act”), as amended, per Chapter 2.5 of Part 1 Division 2 of Title 5 commencing at Section 53311 of the California Government Code, and set January 19, 2021, at 6:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter, as the date and time for a public hearing to consider the annexation of the property to the CFD. At the Public Hearing, the testimony of all interested persons or taxpayers for or against Annexation No. 49 into the CFD, the extent of the CFD, and the levying of the Special Tax or furnishing of the Services within the annexation area of Accessor Parcel Numbers 0170-032-010, 0170-032-020, 0170-032-030, 0170-032-040, 0170-032-050, and 0170-032-100 will be heard. If a majority protest against Annexation No. 49 to the CFD as filed, as determined in accordance with Section 53339.6 of the Act, no further proceedings for the annexation or to authorize the Special Tax upon the property proposed for annexation shall be taken for a period of one year from the date of the decision of the City Council. If the majority protests are only against the furnishing of a specified type or types of services within the proposed annexation area or portions of the Special Tax within Annexation No. 49, those services or portions of the Special Tax shall be eliminated.

If the City Council determines to annex the property into the CFD and to levy the Special Tax upon the annexation area, the City Council will submit the levy of the Special Tax to the qualified electors of the annexation area of the CFD. The vote will be by the landowners of that property proposed to be annexed to the CFD, with each landowner having one vote for each acre or portion of an acre of land owned within the annexation area of the CFD. The election will be conducted by the City Clerk in conformance with the provisions of Section 53339.7 of the Act and pursuant to the provisions of the California Elections Code, insofar as they may be applicable. The election will be conducted as a mail ballot election. Reference is made to the Resolution of Intention on file in the office of the City Clerk for details about the extent of Annexation No. 49 to the CFD, the Services, the Special Tax, the protest proceedings, and the proposed voting procedure. A copy of the Resolution of Intention and the associated staff reports are on file and available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, located at 1000 Webster Street, Fairfield, California.

Karen Rees, City Clerk DR# 00043897 Published: January 8, 2021

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LEONCIA JOYA PILA Case Number: P050516 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Leonicia Joya Pila, Leonica Pila, Leonicia J. Pila A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Reynaldo J. Pila, Jr. in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Reynaldo J. Pila, Jr. be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: JAN. 22, 2021 TIME: 8:30 a.m.; DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Hall of Justice 600 Union Avenue Fairfield, CA 94533 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1)four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: Julie Fiedler (SBN: 224855) Horizon Elder Law & Estate Planning 2333 San Ramon Valley Blvd. Suite 145 San Ramon, CA 94583 (925) 244-1185 DR# 00043903 Published: January 1, 4, 8, 2021 THIRD AMENDED NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LYNNE YATES-CARTER Case Number: P050308 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Lynne Yates-Carter A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Carlo Teresi in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Carlo Teresi be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: JAN. 29, 2021 TIME: 8:30 a.m.; DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Hall of Justice 600 Union Avenue Fairfield, CA 94533 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1)four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: Stephen A. Montagna, CFLS (SBN: 283810) Montagna Family Law, APC 727 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 (707) 419-4809 DR# 00043993 Published: January 1, 4, 8, 2021

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Rotation: Paschall has helped at center From Page B1 more solid outings, Bazemore appears entrenched as the Warriorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; seventh or eighth man. Though he isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t flashy, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a savvy wing who limits mistakes, defends multiple positions and knocks down open 3-pointers. That type of reliability is much appreciated for a team with so many new pieces.

Paschall is moonlighting as a small-ball center: Sometimes injuries can be somewhat of a positive because they allow a player to show a part of his game that perhaps even he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know was there. After Chriss suffered a high right ankle sprain with a fractured right fibula during practice last month, Kerr started

giving the 6-foot-6 Paschall minutes at center out of necessity.

What Kerr found was that the new position is an ideal fit for Paschallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skill set. He has the strength to guard big men in the post, and his scoring ability and ballhandling make him a mismatch for traditional centers on offense. Kerr appears pleased enough with a center rotation of Wiseman, Kevon Looney and Paschall for Golden State to hold off on using its $9.3 million disabled player exception.

Jordan Poole is behind Mychal Mulder on the depth chart: Much of the offseason chatter coming out of Warriors camp centered on the behindthe-scenes strides of Poole, who had started to

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son went from getting cut to starting at power forward for an injured Draymond Green. Kerr has been so impressed by ToscanoAndersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy and feel for the game that he has gone out of his way multiple times in recent days to proclaim Toscano-Anderson a bona-fide NBA player.

Though ToscanoAnderson doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide much offensively, he makes sound decisions, finds Curry off screens and plays hard on defense. That might be enough for ToscanoAnderson, whose two-way contract limits him to 50 of a possible 72 games, to maintain his rotation spot when available and average 12 or so minutes a night.

excel as a shooter and playmaker toward the end of his rookie year.

What few could have anticipated, however, was that the emergence of Mulder would make it tough for Poole to find meaningful playing time.

Mulderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shooting ability â&#x20AC;&#x201C; through eight games, he boasts a 50% clip from 3-point range on 2.5 attempts per game â&#x20AC;&#x201C; has offered the Warriors much-needed floor-spacing. Though Poole has flashed promise when on the floor, he still isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a reliable enough shooter or defender to mandate a spot in the regular rotation.

Juan Toscano-Anderson will play meaningful minutes when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s available: Within the span of a week, Toscano-Ander-

Fields said Thursday he was happy with his treatment from the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medical staff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think what I said after the game was kind of taken out of context,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just want to make one thing clear: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that I have my full trust in the trainers here at Ohio State and Dr. Borchers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hesitant on taking anything that they

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would give me, but I was just trying to do whatever I could do to get back on the field. I think those guys handled it the way I would have wanted it to be handled.â&#x20AC;?

On Tuesday, Ohio State coach Ryan Day said Fields told him he felt better than he had anticipated when the quarterback awoke the morning after the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the day after the game I woke up

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come Monday night.â&#x20AC;?

Day didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reveal much about Fieldsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; status. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No real update,â&#x20AC;? Day said on the conference call, citing his policy on not providing daily details about injuries.

Fields has thrown for 1,906 yards and 21 touchdowns with six interceptions this season.

He has completed 73.4% of his attempts and also has run for 316 yards and five scores.

definitely better than expected, but the days that I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect to wake up kind of hurting were two or three nights after the game,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t thought about how this injury is going to affect how Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to play.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just thinking about getting as much treatment as possible and trying to get my body right so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 100% to be able to perform at a max level

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