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Procedures for restricted pesticide permits change

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Agriculture Department is updating its procedures to obtain restricted use pesticide permits in 2021.

“The change is part of a statewide directive initiated by the Department of Pesticide Regulation in November 2020, requiring growers and pest control advisers to identify alternatives to pesticides specifically classified as restricted use materials prior to applying for a permit,” according to a Significant Issues report released by the county administration.

“This practice will assist Solano County agricultural biologists in evaluating potential adverse environmental impacts of restricted use pesticides, all while ensuring compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act regulations.”

There are about 175 growers in the county who will be affected by this change.

For more information, contact the department at 784-1310.

Also as part of the Significant Issues Report, the administration noted that County Administrator Birgitta Corsello signed several contracts within her authority:

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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 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, dodd which is hosted by Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, and Solano County’s representative.

The town hall is scheduled for 6 p.m.

It will be streamed live over multiple channels and broadcast on KSVY Sonoma. Panelists will take live and submitted questions.

Live audio will be presented at KSVY.org, with video streams at https:// sd03.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. New grief series begins this week

NorthBay Bereavement Center has released classes in the new year.

“Journey Through Grief” is an eight-week series of classes focused on healing and learning about grief. The class 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays.

Each participant must have been bereaved or in mourning for three months before registering for the class. Each session is facilitated by a grief

n A $69,168 contract with the Regents of the University of California, Davis, to provide staff development training for Employment and Eligibility employees through June 30, 2021. The funding source is Federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds. n A $60,000 revenue contract with Mendocino County to provide public health laboratory services to Mendocino County through June 30, 2021. The funding source is Mendocino County. n A $43,228 revenue contract with the state Department of Agriculture to provide winter detection and trapping of the Asian Citrus Psyllid through April 30, 2021. The funding source is the state Department of Agriculture. n A $32,700 contract with the California Mental Health Services Authority to serve as a primary suicide prevention hotline for Solano County residents through June 30, 2021. The funding source is a combination of Mental Health Service Act and Prevention and Early Intervention funds. n A $27,361 contract with Fairfield to provide the site and cleaning services for the Optum Covid-19 testing site from Nov. 17 to Dec. 30, 2020. The funding source was

Virtual town hall set to talk future of education, vaccines

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therapist and is offered free of charge to the people of Solano County. The class is limited to seven people. The 2021 schedule is: n Jan. 12 to March 2: “Journey Through Grief,” adult grief support class. n March 30 to May 18: “Journey Through Grief,” adult grief support class. n June 15 to Aug. 3: “Journey Through Grief,” adult grief support class. n Aug. 31 to Oct. 19: “Journey Through Grief,” adult grief support class. n Nov. 9 to Dec. 21: “Grief During the Holidays.”

Due to Covid-19 safety mandates, all grief support groups are offered online until further notice.

To reserve a place, call 646-3517.

Virtual workshop talks NorCal water

A virtual workshop on water conveyance, with a focus on Northern California, takes place 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 SacramentoSan 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

Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times/TNS photos in her free time, shay Rose practices aerial acrobatics, using a hoop and silks. 12-foot-wide dress creates a social distancing bubble

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LOS ANGELES — This wasn’t the first time Shay Rose went viral.

But it was the biggest.

In her 21 years, the social media star – Shay Rose is a pseudonym – has built a mammoth following on TikTok and Instagram with handmade whimsical costumes that re-create looks from Disney princesses to Lady Gaga.

When the pandemic began, Rose moved from the UCLA dorms back in with her family in Orange County. As cases climbed in September, she wondered: “Wouldn’t it be nice to have your own social distancing bubble?”

She had plenty of pink tulle on hand, and besides, wouldn’t it be fun to make a dress with a 6-foot radius?

By the end of November, the finished project had racked up 3.9 million likes and 16.8 million views on the social media platform TikTok. It took two months and more than 350 feet of tulle but, as Rose speculated on Instagram, sometimes creating is rewarding. Other times, it can be exhausting. And sometimes it’s both.

“Virality is really just what people want to see,” Rose told The Times. “For me, it’s making the stuff that I’m curious about 2020 was filled with unprecedented uncertainty for people around the globe, and many are eager to see what the new year brings. The Covid-19 pandemic, racial unrest and contemptuous political elections are some of the stresses that have affected people throughout the year.

Dr. Craig Sawchuk, a Mayo Clinic psychologist, says it’s OK to 2020 has been filled with struggles and losses. “We’re all human. And we’re all struggling in our own ways.”

Throughout the difficult year, many positive the development, authorization and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines.

“We’ve seen a lot of altruism. We’ve seen a lot of people doing really good things for their family, neighbors, colleagues and friends,” says Dr. Sawchuk. “We’ve also seen some tremendous shay Rose poses in the casual look she might wear to virtual classes or her internship. she divides her week between school days and workdays, fitting her crafting and sewing in between.

and the stuff that I want to make. Usually people want to see it too.”

Of course, she qualified, there’s a lot more to a viral secret sauce than that, including the behindthe-scenes technicalities, formatting and editing of content. Rose joins a wave of teens and 20-somethings who dedicate themselves to creating – content, clothes or both.

“But in the end, it’s just like: If you make stuff that you’re curious about, there’s usually a niche for it,” Rose said. “Other people are curious about it too.”

Luckily, she lives in sunny Orange County, because the dress was so enormous (12 feet in diameter with a 113-foot surface area) that she had to work on it outside. The advances in technology and ways of doing things, whether it be health care or schooling, or work in new ways that we will carry with us into the future. When we actually do look into the future, we do have to acknowledge that this has been a tough time on us, and all of us in our community.” Looking into 2021 with optimism

“It’s important to have a positive outlook,” says Dr. Sawchuk. “The brain is naturally hard-wired to pay attention toward threat. That’s actually superadaptive for our brain to do, in that it helps with our survival mode. But what’s been happening over the course of 2020 has been one threat after another, after another, after another. We actually have to work harder to shift that focus. It’s not trying to ignore the fact that we’ve had a lot of struggles, and there’s a lot of things that we’re dealing with. design breaks down into two pieces, the bodice and the base; the latter includes a PVC grid for the dress to sit on, complete with wheels.

“There’s no way it can fit through a door, so it’s in no way ever going to be practical,” Rose said. “But my idea behind it was just that question of, ‘Oh, what if? Would this even work? What would it look like?’”

The short answer: Yes. It would work, after countless attempts at making the base stable enough to stop caving in. And it would look like something out of a 2020 fairy tale, a billowing, bubblegum-pink gown with a mask to match.

Rose documented the process from start to finish on her social media accounts. That translates But trying to maintain an upbeat positive attitude is extremely important. You can be optimistic, and you can also be realistic at the same time.”

Positive thinking also affects the mind and body. Health benefits that a posto two TikToks, three Instagram Reels, seven Instagram posts and no fewer than 72 Instagram Stories, carefully curated in a Highlight.

The communication studies major is a digital native. While the debate over the Gen Z/millennial cusp rages on TikTok, Rose falls solidly into the first camp. She’s spending quarantine at home, where she balanced part of her last year of school with a six-month internship at TikTok, which she recently finished during finals week. In other words, she understands the ins and outs of the internet. “Whenever you know a platform and you love a platform,” she said, “it’s so easy to be passionate and love to go to work every day.”

Her first cosplay was a happy accident: In eighth grade, she dressed as a character from the novel series “The Lunar Chronicles” to attend a book signing – without realizing that it was “cosplay,” or performance art through dressing as a character. In 2015, she re-created Anna’s coronation dress from “Frozen” using what she had around the house: her brother’s old curtains and gold Christmas ribbon.

Lessons from 2020, approaching the new year with optimism

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