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Charles Williams has been a Court Appointed Special Advocate since 2011.

Advocating for youth CASA volunteer Williams finds passion

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Prior to joining CASA, Williams was part of a program at the church he then attended that also worked with young people. Relationships, education and economics were some of the subjects upon which members mentored. Williams has mentored five young men with CASA and stays in touch with them. One entered the Job Corps. The most recent is now 19 and living in St. Louis, working with a relative. The team were paired up when the young man was 17. Williams said when they chat, he places an emphasis on encouraging the teen to think about the future, especially financially. Covid-19 has made personal interaction impossible. Williams said he’s adapted to virtual contact but feels nurturing is done best in person. The first meeting can be a challenge because many of the young men have traveled a rough road. “You have to find that niche,” Williams said. His commitment to them is that he’ll be there, unless he’s dead or in the hospital. Williams employs a reference sheet about listening skills to break

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FAIRFIELD — Charles Williams has invested the past decade in helping young men as a volunteer with Solano County Court Appointed Special Advocates. The father of five takes his responsibilities seriously. The soon-to-be 73-year-old also has a delightful sense of humor that enters the mix. Williams is one of 14 children and the youngest boy. His mother died when he was 14, but the family remained united. The Vallejo resident was working at Shell Refinery in Benicia when a co-worker told him about CASA, whose volunteers advocate for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system. Among the duties are acting as a liaison with, and at the direction of, the Juvenile Court judge. He stepped up to be part of the solution. “Instead of talking about the problem, do something about it,” Williams said. “Put up or shut up. You have to go do something to make positive changes.”

the ice. In a “disclaimer,” Williams said, “I still work on that.” Physical activity is also key to a successful relationship. One of Williams’ most humorous memories came from the time he took a young man swimming. The teen did not know how to swim. “I tried to help him,” Williams said. He’s also known to shoot hoops with the youth. Honesty is the key to a successful relationship, he said. “I won’t lie to them,” Williams said. And, in return, he asks that they be truthful. “You have a clean foundation and you build from there a level of trust that has to be earned.” Williams also encourages the young men to be individuals and to think for themselves rather than being followers. “To not be a sheep, more of a goat,” he said, in jest. CASA Solano County has 120 volunteers; 23 are male, said Candy Pierce, the organization’s executive director. She praised Williams for his dedication to the nonprofit. He was named the 2020 Volunteer of the Year.

If you would like to volunteer for CASA, learn more at orientations at noon and 6 p.m. Wednesday. Register at https://casasolano.org/volunteer. There’s also a drive-thru crab feed Saturday to benefit CASA. For details, visit https://casasolano.org/fundraisers. Learn more about CASA at https://casasolano.org.

FAIRFIELD — A review last week of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget by the FairfieldSchool School District shows both cause for optimism and concern. Staff shared highlights of the governor’s 2020-21 budget plan for the coming year at the school board meeting Thursday. The discussion was cut short due to time limits for virtual meetings. Michelle Henson, assistant superintendent of Business Services, gave the presentation, which showed that the past year’s $5.6 billion state surplus is gone and the budget reflects a $54.4 billion deficit. But the new proposal shows restoration of funding in the coming years, she said. There are many risks to California’s economy

from various factors for the coming year that include the novel coronavirus pandemic, lack of jobs, rising commercial vacancy rates, troubles in the residential rental real estate market, and a weakening in the ability of small businesses to continue to endure, along with the impact last year’s of wildfires. “These conditions will lead to a decline in revenue,” Henson said. “And budget shortfalls ahead.” School funding levels in California are codified by law. Proposition 98, passed by voters in 1988, establishes minimum school funding levels as a percentage of the state’s overall budget. The school funding law was revised in 1990 by Proposition 111. The Local Control Funding Formula was established in 2013 and, among other See Budget, Page A8

Biden health adviser warns of virus variants Bloomberg News A top health adviser to President Joe Biden warned Sunday that a new variant of the coronavirus circulating in the U.K. will likely become the dominant strain in the U.S. and may lead to future restrictions on inperson gatherings. Michael Oster- BIDEN holm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the nation’s health care

system must prepare for a surge in serious cases such as the one experienced recently in England. “What we have to do now is also anticipate this and understand that we’re going to have to change quickly,” said Osterholm, who’s a member of Biden’s Covid-19 advisory board. “As fast as we’re opening restaurants, we’re likely to be closing them in the near term.” His comments come as some locations, including See Variants, Page A8

Newsom’s virus response rankles fellow Democrats Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — There’s an unspoken rule in politics: Don’t publicly criticize your party’s leader. But more California Democratic lawmakers and allies of Gov. Gavin Newsom are beginning to break it as frustration grows nearly a year into the Covid-19 pandemic. “It’s like he’s putting us out to die,” said Sandra Díaz, vice president and political director of SEIU United Services Workers West, which represents janitors, security personnel and other essential workers who were recently removed from the state’s vaccine priority tiers by the Newsom administration. “It’s more important for us as a union to see this get better, no matter who

that upsets.” California Republicans have consistently blasted Newsom’s actions on the coronavirus as they wage a campaign to oust him from office. Yet increasing and loud disapproval from those typically aligned with the governor in response to his evershifting course on vaccine policy and regional stay-at-home orders, his inability to reopen schools and poor communication on major decisions has exposed a vulnerability for Newsom. With the potential of a statewide recall election looming, the unhappiness expressed by Democratic officials and interest groups could be an indication of dissatisfaction among his base. The presence of a campaign

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Here’s a column of some of my rejected column ideas

and he also founded ometimes I brainstorm ideas for this an online church that column and come up worships the Great Pumpkin. Frankwith sure-fire winners lin (bass), Schroeder that write themselves. (duh, piano) and Pigpen Other times I have to (drums) have developed painfully try to come up a jazz fusion classical with something and I do group called Ludwig mere seconds before deadline. Tony Wade Jam that rehearses and records on Zoom Then there are The last laugh and they are as awful some that I run with as you would imagine them to for a while and try to flesh out, be. Charlie Brown cracks wise but ultimately reject. That’s about the band and Franklin what I offer today. If, after you calls him out for wearing the read this, you feel as unfulsame freakin’ shirt for 70 years. filled as I do when I watch Snoopy and Woodstock suddeleted scenes from a movie denly Zoom bomb the meeting and say “Well, I see why they and Charlie Brown has to ban cut that scene out,” that is the them. Lucy tries to get Charlie correct reaction. Brown to click on www.kickthe football.com and . . . you know Peanuts during the rest. Charlie Brown asks Lucy if she has any new goals the pandemic in her psychiatric help career So the basic concept for this and discovers she is writing a column was a Zoom meeting book about the benefits of valwith the Peanuts gang and how iantly going through mourning. they are dealing with being It is called . . . wait for it . . . quarantined in the pandemic. “Good Grief.” Charlie Brown would be the host, of course, and would be I wonder going around the Zoom room checking in with each person. This is just a list of Linus developed a plug-in USB musings of mine. warming security blanket that I wonder why no one has proplays Vince Guaraldi tunes posed that the Village People

and Kiss team up and do a tour as “Kiss the Village People.” They could do mashups of songs like “God Gave Rock and Roll to San Francisco,” “Beth In The Navy” and “Rock and Roll All Nite at the YMCA.” I wonder why the president traditionally pardons some turkeys at Thanksgiving, but never some pigs at Christmas or Easter. I wonder why my blender has eight different settings on it when they kind of all do the same thing.

Stuff I believe This is a list of things that I believe even though a simple search on Google would show they are incorrect. I believe that some drunk Texan inadvertently invented the weird game of horseshoes one day when he was angrily looking for his lost snuff and started throwing stuff around his barn. I believe that if I could somehow just strap enough leaf blowers to me – somewhere north of 70 – I could create a workable jetpack. I believe that the Raiders still have a chance to make it to the Super Bowl this year.

Be a man Growing up, one of the worst things you could be called was a sissy. I apologize for how sexist it is now but saying someone threw a ball “like a girl” was a major insult. Well, I’m 57 now and in my closet I have: n A cheerleader costume I used to wear when I dressed up as Roxy Junktrunk the Relay for Life cheerleader. I can’t wear it now as she was 4XL and now I am just large. n A Sweet 16 light-up tiara given to me by a dear departed friend for an anniversary years ago. n Fishnet stockings and size 14 pumps that I’ve worn as Dr. Scott in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” shadow cast I am a part of. If anyone has a problem with any of that, we can arm wrestle.

Local book tour I finished reading the book “Just Around The Bend: My Journey for 9/11” by former Fairfielder and Super Bowl champion George Martin last week. Now, it was a really good read and I am a little embarrassed because he gave me

Baby panda makes debut – online The Washington Post WASHINGTON — The National Zoo’s giant panda cub made its debut Wednesday from the zoo in a five-minute explosion of cuteness confined to a live-stream due to the coronavirus pandemic. The zoo is closed because of the pandemic and has not said when it will reopen, but animal keeper Marty Dearie introduced a pre-taped tour of the panda habitat followed by a few moments with the main attraction: Xiao Qi Ji. Zoo officials said viewers would “experience an up-close, real-time look at Xiao Qi Ji as he walks, climbs, tumbles and explores his indoor habitat.” Xiao Qi Ji did not disappoint on Wednesday. Awakened from a nap, he appeared drowsy at first, but brightened up considerably when Dearie placed a few pieces of boiled sweet potato within reach. Though he mugged a bit for the camera, Xiao Qi Ji eventually ignored legions of online fans to enmesh himself fully in the sweet potato, smearing it all over a toy and himself. This dedication, Dearie said, is helping the panda cub gain a little more than pound per week. “Apparently, in order to eat sweet potato we need to stand in it,” Dearie said. Of another acrobatic panda maneuver, he added:

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Five-month-old giant panda cub Xiao Qi Ji takes his first bite of cooked sweet potato. “There’s nothing like eating your sweet potato upside-down.” When the potato was gone, Xiao Qi Ji played with toys and battled Dearie in a game of tug-of-war. Then, it was time to call it a day. Mama Panda was on her way, and Dearie had to make tracks, as animal keepers do not directly interact with adult pandas. Dearie acknowledged the toll the coronavirus pandemic has taken on panda lovers in the Washington region unable to commune in person with the animals. “We know this has been a difficult time for everyone,” he said. “We hope you have had some joy . . . around the birth of this animal.” The 21-pound panda turned five months old on Jan. 22. His mother is Mei Xiang and his father is Tian Tian. Experts called Mei Xiang’s pregnancy “a

miracle” because at the age of 22, she had a less than a 1 percent chance of having another cub. Zookeepers said the cub is “curious yet cautious” and is trying new foods, including the sweet potatoes. He liked them - a lot. When the sweet potatoes were put on a piece of bamboo, zookeepers said, he “grabbed the bamboo in his mouth, paused for a moment to take in the new taste, then lay back and licked the remainder. When we offered him more, he wouldn’t stop nibbling on it.” His main source of nutrition is still his mother’s milk. He may “comfort nurse” until he is 18 months old and often does it in the early morning and at night. By age 1, he will start eating more solid foods such as bamboo, carrots, apples and “nutrient-rich biscuits.” Soon he will try fruit and softened biscuits, zookeepers said. Like any baby, Xiao Qi Ji likes to play with toys, including a small red ball. And zookeepers gave him a giant hockey puck to play with one day to mark the Washington Capitals’ first game of the season. For those looking to catch a glimpse of the baby panda online, officials said he’s an early riser and is often seen in the morning and early afternoon while zookeepers are cleaning the panda area. Zookeepers have said

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Xiao Qi Ji “nibbles on everything from his paws and enrichment toys to mother Mei Xiang’s ears.” Often, when his mom is eating bamboo, he playfully bites at her. When his mom is outside in the panda area, Xiao Qi Ji likes to come out of the den and “supervise” the keepers “as they clean and get the habitat ready for Mei Xiang’s return,” officials said.

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my autographed copy back in 2017 when he spoke at Solano Christian Academy and I just now finally finished reading the second half of it. It made me want to do a sort of reading tour of local authors whose books I have sitting around waiting to be read. “The Great Silver Air Fleet” was written by Ted Shafer and Mary Lou Bowen let me borrow it to read years ago. Sadly he has passed since then. “The Secretary of War Shares Your Grief” by Fairfield longtimer Warren Sheldon is another I have on my on-deck circle. Now I did read my brother Kelvin’s collections of terrifying short stories “Morsels Volume 1” and “Morsels Volume 2,” but that was like 10 years ago so I ordered new copies and will revisit his psychosis. Oh, and Daily Republic columnistBrad Stanhope’s book “Not Quite Camelot” is one I have had since 2014 so it broke my shameful George Martin record. But I will read it. Just as soon as I find it. Reach Fairfield writer Tony Wade at toeknee weighed@gmail.com.

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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Suisun Rotary Club will soon host the inaugural “Fabulous Fundraising Feast Friday February Fifth.” The public can support the work of the Rotary Club by purchasing a take-out lunch or dinner Friday at La Cabaña Home Style Mex Bar and Grill, 325 Main St. in Suisun City (429-5871), according to a press release from the club. La Cabaña will donate 20% of the purchases from that day to the club if their patrons download and bring in a paper copy of the “Fabulous Fundraising Feast Friday February Fifth” flyer that’s available at www. fsrotary.org. The Rotary Club has focused this past year during the novel coronavirus pandemic on food insecurity issues by instituting a gleaning project to pick fruit and vegetables from the yards of community members and delivering it to the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano; purchasing food from local farmers for the food bank, The Salvation Army Kroc Center and Meals on Wheels; volunteering at the food bank and Meals on Wheels; and purchasing lunches for first responders. For more information about Rotary or this fundraiser, send an email to FSRotaryClub@gmail.com.

Age Well Drive Smart program continues T he C a l i for n ia Highway Patrol is continuing the Age Well Drive Smart program this year to serve drivers who are 65 or older. The next free class happens in early February. California’s senior population is proving to be one of the fastest-growing driving-age demographics in the state, the CHP reports. It is estimated there will be more than 6 million residents age 65 and older in California by the year 2020. The Age Well Drive Smart program targets those drivers. Age Well Drive Smart is an education program specifically designed to help seniors tune up their driving skills,

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refresh their knowledge of the rules of the road, and learn about normal age-related physical changes and how they affect driving ability. The program is supported by the Keeping Everyone Safe VI grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety and is free to participants. The next class is scheduled from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday on the Zoom teleconference platform. Those who would like to attend this class are asked to call the Fairfield CHP Office at 428-2100 to register. Zoom invitations will be sent by email the day before the class. Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Learn how to research Irish roots Cath M. Trindle, who specializes in Irish research, among other topics, will speak on “Irish Genealogy: Exploring Townlands” at the next meeting of the Solano County Genealogical Society. Historically, life in rural Ireland centered around the townland. Guests are invited to come and explore some online resources and those still hiding in repositories. The Genealogical Society’s virtual Speaker Series meeting begins at 11 a.m. Saturday. More information can be found on the society’s webpage at www.scgsca. org. Guests are welcome. If interested in attending, send an email to scgs@ scgsca.org no later than 4 p.m. Friday to request an invitation.

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U.S. Army Air Corps 1st Lt. Gerald “Jerry” Solheid and his wife, Addie, in a photograph from the World War II era.

WWII bomber pilot marks 103rd birthday with Covid-19 vaccine Tribune Content Agency SAN DIEGO — On Jan. 25, World War II bomber pilot Gerald “Jerry” Solheid of San Diego marked his 103rd birthday with his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Family members who gathered to visit Solheid at Nazareth House in Mission Valley were grateful for the arrival of the vaccine. But if anyone could get by without the much-anticipated shot, it might be Solheid. In December, he survived a bout with Covid-19; in 2009, he beat lymphoma; and in 1944, he escaped four B-24 bomber crash landings with little more than a scratch. “He’s a very religious man, so we have always said he has an angel on his shoulder,” daughter-in-law Susan Solheid said on Monday. Because of Covid-19 safety rules at Solheid’s assisted living center, his family couldn’t have a party for him. They delivered cake, cards and balloons to the center, but were only able to speak to him through the window of his room. Dementia has robbed Solheid of his short- and long-term memories, but Susan said he still recognizes his family members and was in very good spirits on Monday. “He was very happy to see us all,” she said. Solheid, his late wife, Addie, and their three children moved to San Diego in 1956 when he was hired

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FAIRFIELD — Erica Nelson of Fairfield was named to the College of Charleston fall 2020 dean’s list. Nelson is majoring in history at Charleston, South Carolina. To quality for dean’s list (distinguished), students must earn a grade-point average of 3.6 or higher and complete a minimum of 14 semester hours. Nelson’s accomplishment was announced in a press release from the college.

Trantina graduates from Alabama FAIRFIELD — Kayla Trantina has received a bachelor of science in commerce and business administration from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama at the fall commence-

ment on Dec. 12. The u n iver s it y announced the accomplishment in a press release. Do you have some good

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World War II bomber pilot Gerald “Jerry” Solheid, pictured here on his 100th birthday, turned 103 on Jan. 25, at Nazareth House senior complex in San Diego. as a flight test engineer for General Dynamics’ missile program. After 67 years

of marriage, Addie died in 2011, but all of Solheid’s children – Roger Solheid, Cheryl Staples and Vicki Streetman – live close by. Solheid moved into assisted living in 2015 after he broke his hip while gardening. Susan said that when her husband, Roger, and his sisters were growing up, their father never talked much about his experiences in the war. It was only in 1999, when he sat for a recorded interview with Vicki’s father-in-law, Joe Streetman, that he shared the stories from his flying career. Solheid told Streetman that when he first arrived in South-

ern Italy, in mid-1944, the casualty rate for B-24 Liberator heavy bomber crews like his own was high. Only about 50 percent of the planes made it back. But his background as both a test pilot and an airplane mechanic may have provided the flying skills he needed to bring back all of his crews alive. A native of Fort Madison, Iowa, Solheid initially studied for the priesthood, but his real dream was to fly planes. So in February 1941, armed with his credits from a Catholic divinity school, he joined the Army. IniSee Pilot, Page A7

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rankenstein’s monster, made by Fox News, is still rampaging through our nation. I was too young to really understand the McCarthy hysteria although I recall a professor in the early 1960s telling that he was gassing his car up in a tiny rural town somewhere and the fellow serving up the gas (an attendant did that back then) was wearing a six-shooter. Asked why, the buckaroo seriously said, “I’m looking for communists.” I recall seeing Professor Richard Hofstadter’s famous book, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” in the college bookstore window. The political right is engulfed in paranoia again. We are living through another McCarthy period but the enemy isn’t communists hiding behind every bush, it’s Democrats “who are conspiring to surrender our Jack Batson nation to leftist forces seeking to establish a dictatorship void of all cherished freedoms and liberties.” That last came from the Oregon Republican Party that has adopted a resolution that calls the Jan. 6 Capitol riot a “false flag” operation by leftists. That’s the riot where rightest forces attempted to establish a dictatorship void of all cherished freedoms and liberties. And Oregon conservatives aren’t alone. The Arizona Republican Party has voted to censure former Sen. Jeff Flake, John McCain’s wife Cindy and Gov. Doug Ducey for various repudiations of Trumpism. The Texas GOP tweets about “the storm,” a QAnon reference about the expected jailing of Democrats and liberals by President Trump that never occurred. What accounts for widespread paranoia and hysteria? Gentle readers will know that I will attribute this monster to our reactionary media, starting with Sean Hannity. I’ve watched Hannity several times after the Capitol riots and he’s right back again darkly telling us about plots and massive voter fraud. He and Fox hosts Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs have been outdoing themselves in hysterics claiming absurd theories about how Donald Trump should have won the election, “by a lot,” according to our former president. So let’s revisit Ockham’s Razor. William of Ockham was a Franciscan brother living in England 700 years ago and he has a few words to share with us today. Recounting ideas developed by Aristotle and Ptolemy and others, he determined that “the best explanation for a controversial event is usually the simplest explanation.” Shave away the others. Pretty simple. You see, to prove that the former president won by “a lot” would require that six states submitted false election results. Such a claim requires us to stack far-fetched theory on top of far-fetched theory, each one making the whole more and more improbable. If one is false, the whole artificial structure falls, but the simplest one doesn’t. This state “stuffed the ballot boxes.” Consider that each contested state has 50 counties, the places where ballot boxes would be stuffed. There would probably need to be two or three conspirators working together to make that happen in each county, meaning hundreds of people involved. Yet no one overheard them speaking, winking, stealing anything. No angry patriotic wife or husband blew the whistle. No photo has been discovered of the foul deed. And in the next state, the microprocessors or whatever in the thousands of voting machines were replaced with other, nefarious microprocessors or whatever. And nobody caught the hundreds of such skilled experts bending over the machines with their toolboxes on the floors and wondered what they might be doing. Not one. And in Georgia, they counted the ballots twice and then again statistically and all counts came to the same statistical conclusion: Joe Biden won. But all counts were incorrect because . . . because . . . well, because. Now that Ockham fellow would point out that someone, somewhere would get a sniff of these thousands of irregularities and have proof. But when sixty-odd claims of such events were taken to court, not a single shred of real evidence was presented. An American wag restated it for us today: “When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.” Exactly. When you see millions of ballots counted in public, think “legal” rather than “hoax.” Jack Batson is a former member of the Fairfield City Council. Reach him by email at jsbatson@prodigy.net.

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resident-elect $250,000 are reduced 16% Bide appropriand families of four receiving ately announced the income below immediate goals for $48,000 pay no tax. America – restore bipartisanThe “Resistance” rejected ship to government and overevery proposal or President come the effects of Covid-19. Trump, e.g., they rejected Was anybody listening? funding for Trump’s border The precedence of security fence even though a bipartisanship was exhibited 2015 bipartisan vote of Earl Heal when the Senate, by PresiCongress, including Senator dent Barack Obama’s Schumer, had appropriated total 2009 Inauguration Day, had funding. Then came Covid-19. approved all but three cabinet Democrats exhibited no acknowledgnominees, including a proven tax ment of the looming pandemic for a dodger to become Secretary of month while President Trump the Treasury. promptly organized the most Bipartisanship terminated with intensive medical program in President Donald Trump’s election American history with daily public after Sen. Chuck Schumer’s declara- briefings by a professional team, tion of “Democrat Resistance.” quickly solved ventilator, hospital Democratic Party and independent bed and mask shortages and initiated senators utilized maximum filibuster the Warp Speed development of time against each Trump cabinet a vaccine. nominee to delay approval an The unrelenting response of average of 25 days, whereas Obama Democrats was to criticize the nominees were approved in two days. president for doing nothing. Joseph The Republican Senate majority Goebbels’ axiom of repeating big lies assured approval of each nominee. worked – many citizens believed it. Thus, the Democratic filibuster was More discretely, the Democratic only to delay the functioning of the Party, unchecked by Republicans, president’s Cabinet. accomplished a large expansion of That is the legal definition of vote-by-mail balloting, the most sedition. Will the present minority easily corrupted election method Republican Senate exhibit retaliation available. In many cases, this against President Joe occurred without legislation despite Biden’s nominees? the U.S. Constitution’s requirement When President Trump’s policies that the manner of holding elections awakened the economy, in contrast to must be prescribed by state legislaObama saying the norm for future tures. Legal challenges were too growth was stuck at 2%, Democrats little and too late. The Supreme recognized a campaign problem. Court refused to act a month prior to “Democrat Resistance” expanded. the election. They initially falsely complained that More than 2,500 affidavits have the tax cuts favored the rich. Sadly, identified many unlawful violations many believed the lie even though a but investigations to confirm or deny comparison of the 2016 and 2018 tax have not been conducted. Biden is schedules confirmed that high now our president, but that must not incomes over $250,000 had a 9% tax stop investigations of the many reduction, tax on incomes below criminal violations alleged. There is

always major concern to generate voting, but with the mistrust these reports have generated, how can Americans expect future citizens to vote? Refusal to admit that there is significant voter fraud can no longer be denied. The truth must be publicized. The Commission on Federal Election Reform co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James A. Baker (2005) identified vote-by-mail as the most probable source of voter fraud. A summary of their concerns is shockingly comparable to 2020 elections allegations: n Voter identification not consistently required. n Uncontrolled handling of VBM. n Ballot harvesting. n Duplicate voter registration across state lines. n Authority of election observers. n Unreliable voting machines. n Media prematurely calling elections. n Insufficient federal and state prosecution and monitoring of voter fraud. The need for change is irrefutable and is essential to restore bipartisanship and faith in elections. Because the Democrats state no fraud occurred, they should confidently demand a bipartisan investigation to remove any doubt of Biden’s legitimate victory. A refusal to do so by Democrats would only confirm guilt. Regardless of investigative findings, a bipartisan commission report is essential to restore the confidence of all voters in future elections. Earl Heal is a retired Air Force officer, Vacaville resident and a member of The Right Stuff Committee of the Solano County Republican Party. Reach him at healearlniki@att.net.

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Children sit home as politicians squabble

ad the official response could be offset by additional to Covid-19 been errorstudent study hours,” but free, it still would be added, “students are spendhaving devastating, lifeing less time on learning altering effects on California. activities on their own than However, management – they did before the panmostly by Gov. Gavin demic – only 38% now spend Newsom – has been erratic at as much or more time on all best and bumbling at worst, learning activities.” thus magnifying the pandem“These trends are cause Dan Walters ic’s impact on 40 million for concern as distance Californians and quite likely learning continues, threatening to costing human lives. widen racial and socio-economic The Employment Development disparities as many students fall Department’s mangled delivery of further behind,” the Public Policy unemployment insurance benefits is Institute of California concluded. one spectacular example – handing Newsom’s own children returned out billions of dollars to fraudsters to classes at a private school and he while amassing a huge backlog of often declares support for reopening legitimate claims. public schools, but he hasn’t made Newsom last week indirectly it happen. acknowledged his administration’s The governor seems to be caught equally bollixed management of between the obvious need for schools lifesaving vaccines by turning it over to reopen, supported by haggard to two big health care organizations, Blue Shield and Kaiser Permanente. parents, and the reluctance of the unions to have it happen, contending And then there are the schools. For nearly a year, most of Califor- that it would be unsafe. Last month, in a new state budget nia’s 6-plus million public school proposal, Newsom offered $2 billion students have been confined to in incentives for school systems to at-home instruction via the internet reopen soon with safety guidelines as officials and very influential such as levels of local infection, school unions sparred over how 4-foot gaps between student desks, they could be safely returned to and vaccinations. the classroom. However, local education officials “In fall 2020, fewer than 70% of complained that Newsom’s plan students had live instruction (by wasn’t fully baked. “The governor’s computer) at least four days a week reopening plan, combined with the and 18% had no live instruction at lack of vaccination coordination, has all,” the Public Policy Institute of set all school districts back to a California found in a recent study. weaker position than we were in The Public Policy Institute of California noted that “this decrease October,” Palo Alto School District

Superintendent Don Austin said at one legislative hearing. Meanwhile, teacher unions say Newsom’s safety standards are not strict enough. They are joined at the hip with the Legislature’s dominant Democrats, so the plan’s fate is uncertain. Indecision by Newsom and legislators is mirrored in the angst among local school officials, who are also being pressured by their unions to keep schools closed and by parents tired of nagging their children to attend internet classes and of ever-changing rules. Karen Combest spoke for many parents when she arose at a Roseville Joint Union High School District board meeting a few days ago. “My daughter started distance learning on Aug. 12, then hybrid two days a week on Oct. 12, then five days a week full-time on Jan. 5, and may now be forced to go back to two days a week due to the 4-foot rule? Where is the consistency? Where is the science?” she asked. Sponsors of a drive to recall Newsom are tapping into angry parents as they circulate petitions to force an election. But his fate is less important than the simple fact that the lives of millions of children are being adversely affected. CALmatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more columns by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/commentary.

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Wife gains weight, husband totally loses his desire for her Dear Annie: I met “stack” of things in my wife online 11 years the guise of tidying up, ago. Within six weeks throw out my things he of our marriage, I realdidn’t think necessary ized she was changing. and yet throw away She was trim and lovely nothing of his own. at the start, but I feared I asked him to let she would let herself me go through my own go – and that is exactly things. I asked him to what happened. Annie Lane only handle his things, She is now well over and I said that I would Dear Annie 30 pounds overweight, handle mine. Then and I can’t say anything about I told him flat out, “If something does not belong to you, it or it’s abuse. I’m 64 and I keep active and stay in shape. I you have no right to throw it have no desire for her at all. We away.” One day, I found in the trash can a small plastic bucket have been to counseling, but it didn’t help. I don’t know what to that I had bought awhile ago at the beach, as well as sea glass, do. — Frustrated Husband shells and rocks that I had colDear Frustrated Husband: lected for a craft project. I’m hearing complaints you I asked what right he had to have about your wife, but have throw it all in the trash when you looked at the reason she it wasn’t his. His answer was has put on 30 pounds? Is she happy in her life? Since you are that he thought they belonged to our granddaughter. What? active, is there any chance you Even if they were hers, they could persuade her to engage were not his. I told him, “You in physical activity with you? have no right to throw out Take your focus off of the something that’s not yours.” number on the scale and put it onto her health. Help her find a I said that when I start going through things, I will throw healthy routine that she would his things out as well. That enjoy with you. A healthy marriage is one in which you build worked. It stopped. up your partner, not find all of Maybe “Missing’s” husband his or her faults. has obsessive compulsive disorder or is ill, but two can Dear Annie: The letter play that game if he doesn’t you published from Missing get the point and stop. — Nip My Things reminds me very It in the Bud much of my husband and Dear Nip It in the Bud: me. He would go through my

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Everyone has their faults, though none more annoying than those possessed by your nearest and dearest. You’ll be wise to accept an unpleasant aspect of a loved one, as it’s going nowhere. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). People need. They think that fulfilling the need will bring happiness. Whether it is really so is beside the point. The point is asking yourself if you know the need. Can you address it? GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The root of all feelings is within. When we are upset, we tend to blame others. At least this makes it easier to articulate the problem. Once articulated, bring it back to yourself for solutions. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Those who’ve had adventures and can regale you with tales of survival are sources of inspiration. In-person contact makes the strongest impression, but the example of media role models can be surprisingly affecting. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The ego is a necessary and useful contributor to your survival, and yet it often contributes to a lot of unnecessary and useless noise. Keeping it in check is the name of the game today. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Friction polishes the jewel.

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Your direct approach with your husband was the key to your success. Congrats on taking charge. Dear Annie: As a therapist specializing in eating disorders for 30-plus years, I’d like to weigh in about the mother worrying about her adolescent daughter’s eating and weight. This is a very common dynamic: A mother who struggles with her own weight passes her distress down to her child by being critical about her size and food intake. Making it an issue is the surest way for the daughter to develop an eating problem, and it sounds as if she may already have. Children also often use their eating and size as a way to rebel against their parents. Suggesting that Mom invite her daughter to do more things with her may or may not be right for this young woman. She might want more independence and less contact with Mom. Dear Therapist: Thank you for your letter. I love hearing from professionals on specific topics, and I hope it helps other mothers and daughters in similar situations. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

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Today’s birthday Complications dissolve. Simplicity sets you free. Be decisive and you’ll create astounding success as you frame problems in practical terms, find solutions and repeat them hundreds of times. The answers that work best will be very specific and unique to you. Work what works, and if it’s not working, try something else. Libra and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 33, 8, 20 and 12.

Nothing shines without it. So don’t be afraid to clash with others. If done well, it will make both of you better. If done badly, the outcome will be the same, only more painfully accomplished. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Of all your choices, none is so clear an indicator of how you think about yourself than your choice of company. Self-love is surrounding yourself with supportive, encouraging, inspiring people who get you. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You don’t like wasting time. Once you’re at that irritated feeling that your time is being

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Mary Susan Zialcita June 9, 1948 — Jan. 3, 2021

Mary Susan Ziálcita née Pickard, known to her family and grandkids as Mema, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021, of stage 4 breast cancer. Born June 9, 1948, in Birmingham, Aalabama, Susan was the eldest child and only daughter of Reverend Dr. William Pickard and Mary Ann Martin. Along with brothers, Henry, Marshall, James and Paul, her family served as Methodist missionaries in Tuguegarao, the Philippines. While studying at the University of the Philippines on a Study Abroad Program, she met the love of her life, Lorenzo Ziálcita, on a blind date. Though they were separated for 13 years, they were reunited in 1981 and were married on Aug. 8th of that year. She was a leader in every community she called home. Susan remained an active alumna of Agnes Scott College, from which she graduated in 1970. In the 1970s, she was instrumental in organizing public renovation programs to restore a Piedmont Park neighborhood of Atlanta. In the 1980s, she led the relocation of families during the restoration of the historic Suisun City Harbor and Marina in California. She was a civil servant for the city of

Suisun and city of Vallejo and retired from the Department of Health and Social Services at Solano County in California after decades of service. She was also active in Real Estate, both early in her career and in retirement, helping people and families find houses to call home. Susan taught Sunday school at the Community United Methodist Church of Fairfield for many years. More recently, she served on the church finance committee. Susan is survived by her mother; and brothers; husband, Lorenzo; son, Gerald, daughter-inlaw, Kim, and grandsons, Jacob and Stevie; her daughter, Susana, son-inlaw, Austin, and granddaughter, Thomasina; and her daughter, Patricia, son-in-law, Art, and granddaughter, Anahita. Susan’s father preceded her in death. A memorial service was held for immediate family members on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. In lieu of flowers, those wanting to commemorate Susan’s life are encouraged to make donations to the Community United Methodist Church of Fairfield, The American Breast Cancer Foundation, or St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. Arrangements under the care of BryanBraker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.

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Jerry and wife Addie (Adeline) with their children Roger Solheid, Vicki Streetman and Cheryl Staples.

Pilot From Page A3 tially he was trained as an airplane mechanic and later worked as an instructor. But after the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941, he started pilot training in California, and later in New Mexico, where he met his future wife. His first real brush with death came during pilot training on July 4, 1944. While practicing formation flying with two other B-24s in the skies over Palm Springs, the plane flying beneath Solheid’s struck the bottom of his plane at an altitude of 10,000 feet. Solheid and his co-pilot were able to pull their crippled plane out of a spin and give the crew enough time to parachute to safety before they landed safely near Palm Springs. Assigned to the Ninth Air Force, 464th Bombardment Group, Solheid was shipped to Italy, where he and his crew were assigned to bomb bridges and marshalling yards to disrupt Germany’s ability to get its troops and planes back to safety within its borders. During two months in fall 1944, Solheid went on multiple bombing runs to Vienna, Austria, where his plane was repeatedly hit with flak shells by anti-aircraft artillery guns. In his interview with Streetman, Solheid said the Germans would blanket the skies over Vienna with exploding shells that were impossible to avoid. “You had to fly right through that black box. That was where the target was,” he told Streetman. “The night before you used to sweat blood, but on the run you didn’t have any thought at all. You just went and did it.”

During three of those missions, flak took out one or more of his engines, so he had to find a place to force-land the planes either behind enemy lines in Austria or in what is now Croatia. In one of those ill-fated runs on Oct. 17, 1944, the plane’s windshield was shot out and a piece of flak slashed Solheid’s chin: “It just went right on by. If it’d been a little closer, it would have decapitated me,” he said. Solheid would finish out the war as an air inspector in charge of bomber maintenance. Then he spent six months as a test pilot in Trinidad before returning to the United States where he trained at Air Force colleges in Orlando and Alabama. But because there was little work for military pilots after the war, he decided to leave the service and he earned a degree in physics from DePaul University in Chicago. Then married with a son, Solheid moved his family west to Portland, Ore., where their two daughters were born. He was later drawn to San Diego in the mid-1950s because his widowed mother and several siblings had relocated here. In San Diego, Solheid worked for General Dynamics and then ran his own AAMCO transmission shop on Kettner Boulevard. Addie worked as a physical education teacher. They retired in their mid-50s and spent their retirement years traveling the Southwest and Baja on camping, hunting and fishing trips. Susan said her father-in-law has always been a positive, upbeat person who makes the best of his life. “He is very happy where he lives, never a complainer, with a good upbeat attitude. Everyone likes him and says what a dear man he is,” she said.

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Ideas to help people in nursing homes dealing with isolation amid pandemic Tribune Content Agency Older Americans were already in an epidemic before the pandemic began. In 2018, the AARP released a report about the mental and physical effects of social isolation on older Americans, particularly those living in skilled nursing facilities. “A lot of people, as they get older, their social circles decrease quite a bit. Family moves away from many of them, and family and friends begin to die,” said Lori Smetanka, the executive director of the nonprofit advocacy organization National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care. Some residents may have moved to skilled nursing facilities, assisted living residences or senior living communities in part to make new friends and spend more time around other people, sharing meals and organized activities. Now they find themselves more isolated than ever. As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, they’re dealing with chronic loneliness on top of the fear of a deadly disease that primarily kills people like them. “There’s the isolation and then also the dual terror of how this disease has just torn through nursing homes,” Manuel Eskildsen, a clinical associate professor at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine who treats older patients. “I think everybody’s scared right now. But it’s even scarier to know you’re in the absolute most vulnerable group and you can’t get away from it.” The effects of loneliness are mental and physical. And they can spiral: Feeling lonely and isolated might make you move around less and not eat as frequently or as much as you should, Eskildsen said, which leads to decreased quality of life and physical health, which can make you depressed, which leads to moving around and eating less. Part of the problem is the ways many of us have adjusted to the new normal might not be available to older people. Figuring out video calls can be tricky, and they’re difficult to participate in if eyesight or hearing isn’t great. Many facilities have enacted strict rules about visitors, so even if someone’s offering a masked outdoor visit, they might not be allowed to do it. Even the brief socialization of a grocery store trip or walk in the park is not possible for people with limited mobility or who don’t drive anymore, or whose facilities won’t allow them to leave and come back. Inside the facilities, group meals and activities are canceled, and staff interaction is limited to food and medication delivered in full PPE. Effectively, older adults in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities have been trapped in solitary confinement in their rooms as coronavirus has swept through the places they live. Smetanka called it a “triple whammy” of trauma: the fear of getting sick and dying, the isolation from protecting yourself from getting sick and dying and the high likelihood that your friends, relatives and the people who live and work

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The effects of loneliness are mental and physical. in your facility are getting sick and dying around you. “When you think of the number of people who have died in long-term care facilities, residents are losing whole support systems in there; the residents, the one they would sit in the dining hall with or see in activities, a lot of those people have died. And so it really has been very traumatic, the sense of loss, the sense of grief that they’re experiencing along with the loneliness and isolation,” Smetanka said. And the impact is grim: “There are, even beyond Covid, a lot of excess deaths [in nursing homes] that would not have occurred” if the pandemic hadn’t happened. Even outside skilled nursing facilities, it’s a scary time for older people, said Kimberly Lewis. She’s the executive director of the I Did Something Good Today Foundation, a nonprofit that creates programs to help older people combat social isolation and other problems. The foundation runs the chat and crisis line GoldenTALK, where seniors anywhere in America can call and ask for help or just find a friendly person for a conversation. GoldenTALK is available from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Pacific time at 888-604-6533. She said something a lot of volunteers have been hearing from callers is that they’re afraid to go out and do the basic, normal things they didn’t think twice about doing a year ago. “You’ve got people who are used to going out and getting things on their own, having their freedom and independence. Now they can’t,” Lewis said. For older people and for everyone else, help is on the way. The vaccine rollout is now taking place, albeit haltingly: L.A. County has authorized vaccinations for people 65 and older. But it will likely be at least a couple of more months before that group is all vaccinated, and longer before their family members are able to get the vaccine and safely visit. In the meantime, here’s what you can do to help ease the effects of loneliness and isolation if you’re an older person or someone who loves one.

need it, whether it’s telling family you’d like to hear from them more often or telling the staff at your facility that you need help or reaching out to your longterm ombudsman to get access to services like counseling. Make a call. The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health has a program for adults 60 and older called GENESIS (Geriatric Evaluation Networks Encompassing Services Intervention Support Programs). The program can connect you with individual and family counseling, medication services and education and support. Phone number: 213-351-7284. L.A. County also runs a warmline you can call to talk to someone about whatever is on your mind. Phone numbers: 855-952-9276 for English, 888-448-4055 for Spanish. Available 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Pacific time Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. the GoldenTALK, program run by Lewis’ foundation, is available to help find resources and programs or just to talk with someone. Phone number: 888-604-6533, available from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Pacific time. If you’re experiencing a serious mental health crisis, the Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24 hours a day at 800-273-8255. Try to recreate your favorite pre-pandemic activities. Were you a regular churchgoer? Find out if your church is offering services online. If you enjoy listening to music, try an internet radio station or a service like Spotify.

Don’t be afraid to ask for help. “Nobody wants to be a burden,” Eskildsen said. But you have to be willing to overcome that reluctance to reach out and ask for help if you

Reach out. It really can be as simple as a phone call, Lewis said. “That voice means everything to them. . . . They want to know that they’re not forgotten and that they’re still loved.” If they can’t speak on the phone, send emails or arrange video chats (keep reading for more on how to make that easier). Smetanka said she knew of one person whose father was in a longterm care facility who sent the staff a short 15- or 30-second greeting to play for him every day. Send cards, letters and drawings so they know you’re thinking of them. Set them up with something fun to do. Puzzles, large-print books, music, knitting, crafts – “send them those things and then talk to them about

those things,” Smetanka said. Whatever their favorite social activities were before the pandemic, help them find ways to do them virtually. That can mean sending a link to virtual religious services, setting them up with music streaming or introducing them to online bridge or other games and activities. Lewis said she was working on a pilot program to get more Amazon Alexa-enabled devices to older people to make it easier to make phone calls, create grocery lists, play music and do other things for people who aren’t computer-savvy. Tools like an Amazon Echo Show or Facebook Portal will enable them to make a video call just using their voice. Provide a tablet preloaded with video chatting apps. A lot of care facilities launched pilot programs last spring to get residents connected with Zoom and similar programs, Eskildsen said, but the problem is that staff is stretched so thin that it’s tough to carve out time to walk someone through a tutorial on video chatting. Make it as easy as possible for everyone by sending a tablet with the apps installed and an account logged in so all the recipient has to do is click a button to connect. Talk to the staff. Yes, resources may be stretched thin in skilled nursing facilities right now. But if your loved one is having a hard time with their mental health, make sure the staff is aware, Eskildsen said. “The squeaky wheel does get the grease,” he said. “If they have that person who’s constantly on their case to provide the opportunities for human interaction and decreasing loneliness . . . they’ll probably be more attentive to that person.” Work on ways to visit. Stay in touch with the facility to learn about anychanges to visitation policy and to ask about ideas for connecting. Could you do an outdoor masked distanced visit? Can you arrange to have them by a big window where you can stand outside and wave? An abbreviated visit is better than no visit. Volunteer. Get involved and help people in your community stay connected. GoldenTALK is looking for volunteers, Lewis said, and it can all be done virtually. You can learn more about that and more in our database of volunteer opportunities in and around Southern California. There is plenty that can be done without leaving the house.

n Suisun-Solano Water Authority Board Executive Committee, 9 a.m. Monday, Suisun City Hall council chamber, 701 Civic Center Blvd., Suisun City. Info: http://ca-sid.civic plus.com/AgendaCenter. n Solano County Board of Supervisors, 9 a.m. Tuesday, Govern-

ment Center, 675 Texas St., Fairfield. Info: www. co.solano.ca.us. n Fairfield City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, 1000 Webster St. Info: www.fairfield.ca.gov/gov/ city_council. n Rio Vista City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday,

City Council chamber, City Hall, 1 Main St. Info: www.riovistacity.com/ city council. n Vacaville Parks and Recreation Commission, 6 p.m. Wednesday, via teleconference. Info: www. ci.vacaville.ca.us.

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Newsom: Fighting Military detains Myanmar leaders From Page One gathering signatures to force a special election in the fall has placed enormous pressure on Newsom and left his frustrated allies in a no-win situation. They can continue to privately voice frustrations over Covid-19 response to an administration they say doesn’t listen, or publicly call out Newsom and run the risk of adding fuel to the recall campaign. Some like Díaz feel the governor’s changing positions on his vaccine plan, which has de-prioritized many groups of essential workers who would have otherwise been toward the front of the line, have life and death consequences for their members. Others are repeating many of the same concerns they’ve voiced throughout the pandemic and during Newsom’s first year in office – that the governor and his inner circle often make far-reaching decisions without taking into account the concerns of affected parties. Several lawmakers publicly criticized Newsom on Twitter last week for again giving them little notice before rescinding the regional stay-at-home orders Monday, rules put in place in December to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Assemblywoman Laura Friedman (D-Glendale) said that while the Newsom administration has started to collaborate more frequently with the Legislature in recent months, many legislators have been left in the dark regarding the governor’s response throughout the pandemic. A small group of legislators was warned at 6 p.m. Jan. 24 that the Newsom administration would lift the stay-at-home restrictions – just a couple of hours before news broke of the decision. “I would have loved to have a better understanding of the rationale behind a lot of these decisions and the data behind them, and I think the public should know that data as well,” Friedman said. “It would make people feel much more comfortable with the different executive actions that are handed down and the different orders. I would have loved it if months back, we really understood what was coming and that the public understood a little bit more.” Friedman said she’s not concerned that, by criticizing the governor’s actions, she could be boosting the recall campaign against Newsom. She opposes the recall and supports her fellow Democrat, but said she also has a responsibility to “voice the concerns of my community.” “I think that what’s going to hurt Newsom in the end more than anything is not people speaking out, but him failing,” Friedman said. “So the best way that I can keep him from being recalled is to help him succeed.” Kimberly Nalder, a political scientist at Cal State Sacramento, said recall proponents could try to tap into discontent among some organized labor groups, Democratic lawmakers and others, but noted that will be extremely difficult because many perceive efforts to oust Newsom solely to be the work of far-right groups. If that perception changes, however, Newsom’s base of support could erode. “People want someone to blame for how uncom-

fortable their lives are right now,” Nalder said. Newsom’s political advisors and the California Democratic Party have attempted to paint the recall as a partisan effort funded and led primarily by extremists. Though the early roots of the recall effort have ties to fringe groups and supporters of former President Trump, the effort has since been adopted by mainstream California Republicans who formed their own parallel campaign led by some of the same strategists who helped oust former Gov. Gray Davis in 2003. Michael Trujillo, a Democratic strategist who has helped run campaigns for former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, said it’s accurate for the governor to brand the recall backers as highly partisan, or some as extremists. But he said that message is undercut when the left is voicing criticism too. “I think a lot of rank-andfile Democrats see Gavin Newsom as a combination of Charlie Brown and Lucy, where he wants to kick the football but he pulls it out himself before he can do it,” Trujillo said. Regardless of its prospects, an active recall campaign also opens up Newsom’s every decision to speculation that it was driven in part by an instinct for self-preservation. The governor’s political motivations have been questioned on actions related to issues that are both critical to California’s pandemic response and top of mind to voters. Karen Smith, a communicable disease physician and former director of the California Department of Public Health, said the governor could avoid the perception that he has been influenced by political concerns if, in the days leading up to future announcements, he clearly articulates the reason why his administration is considering a major change. “This guy’s worst problems, even including politically, come from the fact that they just don’t communicate well and they certainly don’t take the time to communicate in a way that introduces people to something, gives them more information, and then you effectuate it,” Smith said of Newsom’s administration. “It’s crazy, because that’s sort of basic and how you talk to people when you want to get them on your side.” Democratic strategist Katie Merrill said the criticism of Newsom’s actions by labor groups and other political allies was inevitable because of the gravity of the Covid-19 pandemic and the dramatic impact it has had on the lives of Californians. She likened the situation to the governor having to respond to a 7.5-magnitude earthquake in Los Angeles every day. She doesn’t believe, however, that the dissension will boost a Republican-led recall campaign in a state where voters overwhelmingly approve of Democratic policy positions. “He’s going to get criticism from all sides with a lot of the decisions he’s making. But I don’t think for most voters this is going to rise to the level of removing him from office,” Merrill said. “I think that kind of chaos, added to the chaos we’re experiencing right now and the stress that everyone’s experiencing right now, is not what the majority of California voters want.”

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YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior civilian leaders were reportedly detained by the nation’s military in early-morning raids Monday. The arrests come after days of mounting tension between Suu Kyi’s ruling National League for Democracy party and the military, raising expectations of a coup. Myanmar’s military, known as the Tatmadaw, has claimed irregularities in a Nov. 8 election that resulted in a landslide victory for the NLD. The country’s election commission said there was no evidence of fraud.

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Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, meets with Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe at a cocktail party before a banquet hosted by Abe and his spouse Akie Abe in Tokyo, Oct. 23, 2019. Suu Kyi was detained by her country’s military, Monday. The poll was only the second free general election since the end of four decades of military

rule in 2011. Though Suu Kyi’s reputation overseas has been tarnished by the mas-

sacre and displacement of Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya, she remains deeply popular in the country of 54 million. The relationship between the NLD and Tatmadaw has deteriorated as Suu Kyi sought to expand civilian control by amending a constitution that guarantees the military one-quarter of representation in the country’s parliament. Despite giving way to a civilian government, the Tatmadaw still dominates Myanmar’s business interests, such as mining. The streets of Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, showed no outward signs of a military takeover Monday morning.

Budget: Projected to increase to $3B From Page One things, allows local school districts greater flexibility in how money is spent to address specific local needs. The state has a history of withholding required school funding to help balance its overall budget, but that money must be repaid. School districts across the state are in the midst of one such withholding of funds. Newsom’s K-14 education budget covers a period of three fiscal years. The budget year minimum guarantee is based on current estimates of state revenue and other factors, but the slow start of the school year is affecting that estimate, Henson reports. The 2019-20 increase was estimated at $1.9 billion and is projected to increase to $3 billion over the next three years. The projected increase in guaranteed money for public schools is not as it seems because schools are being expected to spend their own money on public health administration and not on the core service of instruction, which was the true purpose of the guarantee, Henson reports. Newsom has proposed a 3.84% cost of living adjustment applied to the Local Control Funding Formula and a 1.50% funded COLA for special education and

other categories. The 2020-21 budget that’s now in place includes almost $13 billion in K-12 Local Control Funding Formula deferrals – money that was to be directed to schools but was withheld until the future, Henson reports. The governor is proposing a partial paydown of deferrals next year. This eliminates the ongoing deferrals for February 2022, Henson reports. The paydown does not affect current deferrals for February through June 2021. The next month of deferrals called for in the current budget will begin in earnest with approximately 60% of the district’s annual portion not being paid on time, causing the district to look into borrowing cash, which includes grants, Henson reports. T wo grade-span adjustments are applied as percentage increases to the base grants. Kindergarten through third grade receive a 10.4% increase for smaller average class sizes and ninth through 12th grades receive a 2.6% increase in recognition of the costs of career technical education coursework. Supplemental and concentration grants are calculated based on the percentage of a local educational agency’s enrolled students who are English

learners, eligible for the free and reduced-price meal program, or foster youth – the unduplicated pupil percentage. What this all means for the FairfieldSuisun School District is $10,000 per student in average daily attendance for a total Local Control Funding Formula revenue of approximately $203 million based on enrollment projections, about $7.6 million more in Local Control Funding Formula funding than projected from last year. Also included in the governor’s budget proposal is $250 million to cover upfront costs of voluntarily expanding transitional kindergarten programs and $50 million to train transitional kindergarten and kindergarten teachers. There is also $200 million (nonProposition 98) included for construction and retrofit to existing facilities, to support expanded transitional kindergarten and to support full-day kindergarten programs. The base special education funding formula, which provides $625 per ADA for most Special Education Local Plan Areas, will receive the estimated statutory COLA of 1.5% that will bring the new base funding rate to $634.38. The governor also proposes $300 million in ongoing funds for the Special Education Early

Intervention Grant. These grants were also provided in the 2019-20 budget based on the latest data available. Utilizing the same funding methodology as in 201920, estimates indicate that local educational agencies will receive roughly $5,900 per resident preschooler with disabilities, Henson reports. The budget also includes $264.9 million for community schools; $450 million for mental health programs and $10 million for school climate surveys. Also budgeted is $540 million in one-time Proposition 98 money to support professional learning and teacher support. Finally, in December, then-President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 into law, which includes the $900 billion Covid-19 relief package, w h i ch earmarks $82 billion for education, $7 billion to expand broadband access, $10 billion for child care, and continued funding for school meal programs. The bill also includes an extension of the CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Fund expenditure deadline to Dec. 31, 2021. Members of the school board tabled talk on the current budget until the next meeting due to time constraints.

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California and the region of Illinois that includes Chicago, are starting to relax virus-related restrictions as new infections fall. Osterholm added that the vaccines being distributed now have been shown to prevent the most serious health consequences of being infected by the socalled B.1.1.7 variant. “Fortunately, that one

has not shown its ability to evade the protection from the vaccine,” said Osterholm. “But its ability to cause many more infections and much more serious illness is there.” Estimates released Friday suggest coronavirus infections have leveled off across the U.K, but are not falling fast. Caseloads remain high – meaning that a high rate of hospitalizations and deaths will

continue in the short term. In t he U. S., Covid-19 cases are likely going to recede during the summer but certain regions – such as Southern California and southern Florida – are likely going to experience “epidemics” because of the new variant, said former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb. “As we immunize more

of the population and if people continue to wear masks and be vigilant in these parts of the country, we can keep this at bay,” Gottlieb said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” New U.S. coronavirus infections were slowed markedly in January, with hospitalizations also declining but at a slower pace. Reported deaths, which lag both measures, remain near record levels.

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Wayne Taylor Racing wins 3rd straight Rolex 24 Tribune Content Agency DAYTONA BEACH — Wayne Taylor’s race team has now won three straight Rolex 24s and four of the past five, which suggests he might’ve accepted Sunday’s trophy with little more than formal gratitude. Instead, the normally buttoneddown sports-car veteran seemed to speak for all – especially those who took part in an altered Rolex weekend and, by and large, were very glad they did. “This is (bleeping) awesome,” Taylor said in Victory Lane, just as the TV cameras were panning away but not before the microphone was killed. Perhaps it was the difficulty factor – Taylor’s No. 10 made the switch to Acura in the offseason and scrambled just to be race-ready by late January. Or maybe it was fatherly pride – son Ricky was part of the winning four-man driver lineup, while son Jordan helped pilot the Corvette that won the GT Le Mans class. No, in the end, it must’ve been

simple relief – with a mix of disbelief. Taylor’s age-old winner’s exclamation was likely fueled by one of racing’s age-old truisms: It’s all fun and games until someone blows a tire. 5 instant takeaways: Wayne Taylor Racing wins 3rd straight Rolex 24 after Ganassi blows tire More: Driver Antonio Garcia tests positive for Covid-19 during Rolex 24 At Daytona After some 23 hours and 53 minutes of the usual stress, fatigue, anxiety and yet more stress, Taylor’s anxiety was given temporary relief when the right-rear tire of the arm’s-length pursuer blew apart. “I could see his eyes in my mirror,” said Filipe Albuquerque, Taylor’s final Sunday driver. Instead of a bare-knuckle finish between Taylor’s Acura and the No. 01 Cadillac of Chip Ganassi Racing, with speedy Renger van der Zande aboard, Albuquerque only needed consistent lap times to maintain a fairly decent lead that ended up as a 4.7-second margin of victory for himself and co-drivers Taylor, Helio

Castroneves and Alexander Rossi. Oh, that’s all? Albuquerque called it “the hardest race of my life.” Ricky Taylor thought back to the 24 hours of constant pressure in a group of prototypes that enjoyed that modern mechanical combination of speed and dependability. “We were thinking, ‘when is this race going to slow down?’ ” said Taylor. “It never slowed down.” As usually happens at the Rolex, the winning lineup represents multiple international flags. Wayne Taylor is a native of South Africa who long ago put down American roots just two counties over, in Apopka, where both of his sons were raised. Albuquerque is from Portugal, while Castroneves is from Brazil and Rossi from California. Each now owns a new Rolex watch, which on every continent where racers race, symbolizes the ultimate achievement in North America’s ultimate test of man and machine. More: Rolex 24 At Daytona 'eyeopening' for NASCAR stars Jimmie Johnson, Chase Elliott

an’t blame Jared Goff’s small hands or troubles throwing downfield anymore. This is now on Sean McVay. General manager Les Snead found McVay a quarterback on Saturday night, sending Goff and a package of draft picks to the Detroit Lions in exchange for Matthew Stafford. No question, trading a couple of future first-round picks represented a gamble. But the Rams are wagering on McVay as much as they are on Stafford. If McVay could build a high-powered offense around Kirk Cousins, as he did as the Washington Football team’s offensive coordinator, he should be able to do so with Stafford. If he could reach a Super Bowl with Goff as his quarterback, as he did two years ago, he should be able to do so with Stafford.

So long as he really is the coach the Rams believe he is. In the crowded social media universe, only a few platforms have a chance to dazzle a global audience and rise above the competition. One of those rising stars is Bigo Live, a rapidly growing streaming-first social network. The Rams have placed massive bets on McVay before. Such as when they made him the youngest head coach in NFL history at 30. Or when they signed Goff to the record-breaking contract that basically forced them to pay the Lions to take the former No. 1 overall pick off their hands. When the Rams signed Goff to the deal in the days leading up the 2019 season, the question was whether they had guaranteed $110 million to a system quarterback. The answer to the question didn’t feel See Trade, Page B8

MLB proposes delayed start, 154-game plan Los Angeles Times Could opening day be a May day? Major League Baseball has proposed delaying the season by about a month and playing the World Series in November, said people familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak publicly Sunday. The schedule would be shortened to 154 games, but players still would receive the required 162 games of pay. The owners also asked the players' union to approve a designated hitter and 14-team expanded playoffs this season, a

proposal the union previously has declined. The proposal was sent to the union Friday, with a request for a response by Monday. Players and union leaders are discussing the proposal this weekend. The league previously floated the concept of starting the season a month late but declined to extend the season into November or pay players for games lost to a shortened season. The league said then that its television partners preferred that the See Plan, Page B8

Reed captures Farmers as US Open return looms Tribune Content Agency It wasn’t just Patrick Reed against Torrey Pines. It wasn’t just Reed versus the field, although one by one the contenders slowly faded out of view. It wasn’t just Reed fending off nerves and fickle breaks that make winning so hard on the PGA Tour. In the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open on Sunday, it felt like Reed against absolutely everyone – from La Jolla to Long Island. The rules tsunami swirling around an embedded-ball ruling in the middle of Saturday’s third round hardly faded a day later. The heat of it still felt fresh and warm to the touch. With a greenside cap tip to The Who … meet the new villain, same as the old villain. “I was allowed to kind of put it behind me when the head

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Patrick Reed hits a shot on the 12th hole during the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines South in San Diego, Sunday. rules official comes up and says you did everything you were supposed to do,” said Reed, who cruised – controversy notwithstanding – to a 72-hole total of 14-under 274 and a five-stroke

win. “When you do everything you’re supposed to do, at the end of the day that’s all you can control. “Going into today, I . . . plugged in my headphones and

just kind of got in my world.” Normally, a golf tournament splinters into cheering sections like the New Hampshire primary. By Sunday, the Farmers felt like two entrenched camps: Those related to Reed by blood or paycheck, pitted against those rooting for anyone and everyone else. CBS began its broadcast with Jim Nantz conducting a “Face the Nation"-style roundtable, quizzing everyone in camera reach. Reactions were seasoned with dashes of skepticism, with words like “questionable reputation” sprinkled across the conversations. Analyst Nick Faldo mentioned on Golf Channel that it must feel, paraphrasing, like an anvil across the scapulas with competitors in all directions whispering about Reed in the wings. Clouded thoughts threaten

to torpedo chances on a track as unforgiving as Torrey Pines South. Yet, Reed survived and thrived. Challenges to the lead came. Reed swatted them away. Down the stretch, he steadied himself amid unsteady circumstances and left with $1.35 million worth of proof that he’s resilient, regardless of any other labels people choose. “I knew . . . today was going to be a grind,” he said. The dust-up began Saturday in a sand trap on No. 10: Reed hit a shot into deep rough on the left side of a greenside cart path. He was awarded relief for an embedded ball. What happened in between was what created, as Nantz phrased it, a firestorm. If the ball had plugged on the fly, USGA Rule 16.4 clears the way for Reed to do what he did next. He picked the ball up to See Reed, Page B8

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FAIRFIELD — This week’s new movies are brought to screen by the letter “M.” Five have the letter in their titles. “A Glitch in the Matrix” is a documentary from filmmaker Rodney Ascher, who employs a noted speech from Philip K. Dick to dive down the rabbit hole of science, philosophy and conspiracy theory. It features interviews with real people shrouded in digital avatars and a wide array of voices, expert and amateur alike. It’s not rated. “Bliss” is a science fiction/drama that brings Luke Wilson and Salma Hayek to the screen in the story of a recently divorced man who meets a woman who lives on the streets and is convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is not real. It’s rated R. “Dara of Jasenovac,” set in the 1940s, follows Dara in Croatia as she comes face to face with the horrors of the Holocaust era after she is sent with her mother and siblings to the concentration camp complex known as Jasenovac. It’s the only operational death camp during World War II not created or run by the Germans, but its overseers were no less ruthless or cruel. As unspeakable atrocities unfold all around her, young Dara must summon tremendous courage to protect her infant brother from a terrible fate. It’s rated R. “Falling,” with Viggo Mortensen, centers on a man who lives with his partner and their daughter in California. It’s very different from the traditional rural life he left behind years ago. When his father begins to show signs of early dementia, he moves to California but does not want to change his way of life. It’s rated R. “Little Fish” is set in the aftermath of a pandemic in which victims begin to lose their memories. It affects one newlywed couple not long after they’ve first met and fallen in love. It’s not rated. “Malcolm & Marie” is the story of a filmmaker and his girlfriend who return to their hometown from a movie premiere.

A discussion about their past relationships takes an unexpected turn, testing the strength of their love. Zendaya stars. It’s rated R. “Minamata” is a drama about war photographer W. Eugene Smith and his battle against a corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, a Japanese fishing village, in 1971. It’s rated R. “Payback” is the story of a young stockbroker at a mob-controlled Wall Street firm who is betrayed and imprisoned for six years. After his release, a deadly quest for vengeance begins. It’s not rated. “The Mimic” is a comedy based on a true story about the main character – the Narrator – who is befriended by his young new neighbor, the Kid, after he joins the local newspaper team. Obsessed with the idea that the Kid may be a sociopath, the Narrator goes to extreme lengths to uncover the truth about him and his wife, a woman he ultimately begins to fancy. It’s not rated. “The Reckoning” centers on a woman accused of being a witch and placed in the custody of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter. It’s not rated. “The Right One” is a romantic comedy about a novelist struggling with writer’s block. She finds inspiration when she meets Godfrey, a downon-his-luck oddball who constantly changes personas in order to cope with a traumatic past and avoid reality. He discovers that she’s been using him as inspiration for her next novel, and he vanishes from her life. It’s rated R. “Two of Us” centers on two retired women who have been secretly in love for decades. Everybody thinks they are neighbors. An unforeseen event turns their relationship upside down and leads one woman’s daughter to gradually unravel the truth about them. It’s not rated. Check with streaming services to see what films they offer.

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Carlile looks to family, guiding lights around us all for ‘Onward’ song

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Tribune Content Agency When the makers of Disney/ Pixar’s “Onward” approached five-time Grammy winner Brandi Carlile to write an endcredits song, they didn’t need to give her much direction. “This song wrote itself based on it being such a great film, plus the themes of loss, grief and emotional reconciliation, familial connection and a theme that I constantly return to: chosen family or family in nontraditional roles,” Carlile said of “Carried Me With You,” which is nominated for a 2021 Grammy. “When I look at families that way, songs just come out of me.” “Onward” is an animated road movie set in a world populated by mythical creatures (unicorns-pegasi eat out of trash cans; some cops are centaurs). Two blue elf brothers (Ian, voiced by Tom Holland, and Barley, voiced by Chris Pratt) go on a magical quest in their sketchy van to cast a spell that will allow them to visit with their long-dead father for one day. Carlile praises the film’s final reveal about the true nature of the family’s bonds (not spoiled here): “I could get emotional just thinking about it . . . I mean, you can almost write a song about it without being a songwriter. It’s just so beautiful. It’s so beautiful.” Though Carlile and her wife have two young daughters and she acknowledges that was a main motivator for taking a Pixar gig, she didn’t turn to her kids for inspiration. “I just really thought about the boys in the film. I thought about grief and nontraditional family structure. I thought about that mom trying to raise those two boys without any help, and what kind of characterbuilding love that was formed during that time. “I’m glad I didn’t think of my kids, because I probably would have projected. They would have called me: ‘This is Pixar. This really sounds like a lesbian melodrama,’ ” she says with a jolly laugh. One of her favorite lines to make it into the song is “Like a lighthouse in a storm/you were always guiding me,” because, she says, “we all have a lighthouse somewhere, and it’s out there trying to bring us to shore, trying to make us realize we’re not alone. But you have to seek it out. It doesn’t really find you; you find it. “I love that theme, because the boy in the film was seeking out a light that was gone. And when he opened his mind to the light that was there, that’s what really brought him back to shore.” “Carry Me With You” is a country-pop road song, with driving drums and a big chorus. Carlile is a powerful songwriter and singer, with a unique voice featuring an enviable high-end range. She’s probably best known

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Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile arrives for Disney Pixar’s “Onward” premiere at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Feb. 18, 2020. in the alt-country space but has released songs in many other genres, such as the seductive ballad “Throw It All Away” and the stirring, towering empowerment anthem “The Joke.” “I’ve got a lot of lanes out in front of me for songwriting. I’ve got, like, deep, dark, lesbian, introspective folk music. I’ve got kind of punk rock – you know, Amy Ray’s solo record-kind of thing. I’ve got Diane Warren, Elton John, ultimate diva, power-ballad obsessions. But then I’ve got this kind of like, forward-moving, aggro kind of folk thing,” she says with a sly smile. “When you say ‘road song,’ I think you mean that kick drum that’s just ahead of the beat the whole way through. It just keeps moving forward, keeps the wheels turning. I picture a big tractor. We always double the bass, because it brings up this bottom end, and that kick drum’s pulling you forward, and you’re kind of hanging on every word because you gotta keep up. It’s like a ball rolling down a hill. “I wanted it to feel like this forward-moving road song that causes you to take pause in the choruses to kind of appreciate the beauty and look around. And then the chorus ends, and you’re

back on the road.” Carlile was happy to hit the road herself to take her family to the movie’s premiere. “We traveled to L.A., we got styled, and we walked the red carpet, which for ‘Onward’ was blue. There’s all these things laid out for the kids, and they honestly thought the whole thing was just for them, this big party. And then we’re in the movie theater, and [the actors] got up and thanked us for writing our song, and my daughter is looking at me like,” she imitates her kid’s drop-jawed amazement, “making the connection. I finally achieved peak coolness with the kids. “We pointed out that there is a gay character, and word is that was the first LGBTQ+ character in a Pixar-Disney film. And they didn’t think anything of that, because they don’t even really understand ‘gay.’ I mean, they’re the only ones they know, really, with two moms. But in subtle ways, it did help our family to have representation in that film. “It was very cool watching the credits of that song roll down the screen and for them to make the connection: ‘Hey, that’s Mama, but for the first time she’s singing to us.’ ”

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An increase in relocations during the coronavirus pandemic has opened up opportunities for shady moving operations.

Complaints about movers soar

As millions relocate because of pandemic David Lazarus

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Alex Beckers and his wife, Gina, moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore., in November – two of the millions of Americans who have chosen to relocate amid the pandemic. However, much of the Beckerses’ stuff still hasn’t joined them, including a computer, furniture, sensitive documents and photo albums. And they say the Northridge moving company that has their possessions – and is seeking thousands of dollars in extra cash – keeps giving them the runaround. “Having to deal with this has been one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences of my life,” Beckers, 44, told me. Unfortunately, he and his wife aren’t alone in coping with such a headache. Mover-related hassles, including some movers holding people’s belongings hostage unless they receive more money, aren’t new. I first wrote about the problem in 2007. But the danger to consumers has grown more pronounced during the pandemic as millions of Americans have sought to relocate to places they deem safer, or to cut costs amid job losses and the nationwide shift to remote work and schooling. Roughly 16 million Americans moved from February to July, according to an analysis of changeof-address forms submitted to the U.S. Postal Service. About 22% of U.S. adults either moved or know someone who did since the start of the pandemic, according to Pew Research Center. United Van Lines says Idaho was the state many of its customers headed to last year, followed by South Carolina, Oregon, South Dakota and Arizona. California was among the states “experiencing the largest exoduses,” the company said. All this migration has created a unique opportunity for unlicensed or fly-by-night moving companies, officials say, as well as for firms looking to take advantage of people. The California Department of Consumer Affairs looked into mover-related complaints at my request. It found that 445 complaints were filed from March to December of last year, more than double the same period a year earlier. And this could just be the tip of the iceberg. A spokesman acknowledged that because the Department of Con-

Consumer Confidential sumer Affairs only started regulating movers in 2018 – the industry was overseen previously by the California Public Utilities Commission – many people may not know where to report problems. “California consumers need to be very cautious when hiring a moving company,” said Nicholas Oliver, who oversees the department’s Bureau of Household Goods and Services. “Consumers should research the moving companies thoroughly prior to hiring them.” The American Moving & Storage Association, an industry group, warned last August that while incidents involving “scam artists” represent only a small fraction of annual moves, “they can create hassle and worry for consumers, sometimes resulting in lost or damaged possessions as well as thousands of dollars in extra fees.” Beckers, who works for a Culver City video game developer, and his wife, who works for a consulting firm, realized that remote work was an opportunity to trade up, lifestyle-wise. They’d always liked Portland. So last fall they decided to rent out their house in L.A. and lease a place up north. “We’re spending less now on rent than we did on our mortgage,” Beckers said. “And now we have three bedrooms instead of two.” The couple hired a moving broker, Express Moving Consultants, a Florida outfit that says online it can make a long-distance move easy by handling everything – the hiring of movers, the scheduling, the avoiding of any unexpected charges. Beckers said Express quoted a price of about $4,000 for the move. He agreed to pay the company nearly $1,300 upfront, with the remainder to be paid after delivery. A truck was supposed to arrive for pickup on Oct. 29. It didn’t. Express told Beckers the truck it hired had broken down. It said a different moving crew would arrive the next day. It didn’t. Express said the driver was in the hospital. By this time, Beckers and his wife were already in Portland. They arranged for friends to oversee things at the L.A. end. A truck from Northridge-based Speed Way Movers pulled up at the L.A. house on Nov. 1. Beckers said the crew took a look at the job and immediately said $4,000 wouldn’t cut it.

They demanded about $8,200 – more than double the original estimate. “At this point,” Beckers told me, “I had my suspicions. But I still wanted to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” He also knew he was in a tough situation. He was in Oregon. His stuff was in L.A. His new SoCal tenants were ready to move in. Beckers agreed to pay an additional $3,475 upfront, with an understanding that Speed Way Movers would be paid the remainder, in cash, once the delivery was completed. He said about two-thirds of their belongings arrived in Portland on Nov. 6. The rest is still in a Southern California storage facility because Speed Way told Beckers it’s having trouble finding a truck to complete the job. Beckers said both Speed Way and Express told him for weeks that everything would be taken care of. Now, he said, neither company is responding to his calls. Nor mine. I reached out by phone and email to both Express and Speed Way. No one got back to me. Beckers said he contacted the police but was told nothing could be done because this was “a business dispute.” He contacted his insurer, but it said a claim couldn’t be filed without a police report. The couple is now considering whether it’s worth the money to hire a lawyer. A nasty situation all around. Here are some moving tips from the state Department of Consumer Affairs: n Research all movers before signing a contract. “When possible, visit the company’s place of business.” n Verify that the company is licensed by calling 916-999-2041 or checking its status online at www. bhgs.dca.ca.gov. n Check the company’s complaint history with the Better Business Bureau. n Photograph or videotape your belongings before they’re loaded on the truck. “These companies know how stressful a move is,” Beckers said. “They might try to take advantage of you.” His main advice for others: Don’t give anyone the benefit of the doubt. “If anything seems fishy,” he told me, “it probably is.” David Lazarus, a Los Angeles Times columnist, writes on consumer issues. He can be reached at david.lazarus@latimes.com.

G eneral Motors “aspires” to have all of its global new light-duty vehicles, including fullsize pickups and SUVs, be zero emission by 2035. It also targets 2040 for its global products and plants to be carbon neutral. GM made the announcements Thursday, stopping short of saying all of its vehicles will be zero emissions, which means either battery-electric or hydrogen fuel cell propulsion. Carbon neutral means that all vehicles and plants will be zero emissions and GM will buy carbon credits to offset those that are not. “ ‘Aspire’ is a great word because it helps us work toward our vision,” said Dane Parker, GM’s chief sustainability officer. “We’re taking action to have our vehicles be zero emissions by 2035. This is going to take the effort of a lot of people and a lot of governments to get there. So we have a vision, we have a plan and we’re taking action today to get there.” Parker said GM’s global plan for zero-emission vehicles includes heavy-duty pickups by 2040. Put simply. Parker said, “By 2040, 100% of our portfolio will be fully electric and that’s the vision we’re setting out.” Parker said GM also signed the Business Ambition Pledge for 1.5degree Celsius, which is a call by a global coalition of United Nation agencies, business and industry leaders to protect the environment. “General Motors is joining governments and companies around the globe working to establish a safer, greener and better world,” said GM CEO Mary Barra.

‘Extraordinary step forward’ GM will offer zeroemissions vehicles across a range of prices and it is working with all its stakeholders, including suppliers and the Environmental Defense Fund, to build charging infrastructure and promote consumer acceptance. Parker said this path will not eliminate jobs. “We plan on using the resources we have and allocating them in

a way that supports our EV future and bringing the high-paying jobs we have today into the future,” Parker said. Also, GM foresees today’s gas stations converting to tomorrow’s charging stations. Already in other countries, gas stations are being repurposed to public fast-charging points, and “that’s a trend that I would see growing,” Parker said. The Environmental Defense Fund calls GM’s move an “extraordinary step forward.”

GM’s investment in electric GM is working to cut emissions from its global manufacturing plants. It is investing $27 billion in electric and autonomous vehicles by 2025, up from the $20 billion GM had planned to invest before the pandemic. This investment will pay to further develop GM’s Ultium battery technology, which will underpin its new electric vehicles. Also, it covers updating GM factories such as Factory ZERO in Detroit and Hamtramck where GM is planning to build at least five electric vehicles in the future, the first being the 2022 GMC Hummer EV pickup due out later this year. Also, GM is retooling its Spring Hill Manufacturing in Tennessee to build electric vehicles from globally sourced parts. GM is investing in new factories too such as Ultium Cells LLC near its former assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio. GM sold the Lordstown plant to electric pickup maker Lordstown Motors, which will launch the Endurance pickup. Beyond environmentally friendly cars and factories, GM plans for 100% of its electric vehicle batteries to be reused as other forms of energy storage. The Ultium system, for example, is designed to be repairable, so “we don’t intend for any of our batteries to be disposable,” Parker said. GM said more than half of its capital spending and product development team will be devoted to electric and electric-autonomous vehicle programs.

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FAIRFIELD — Partnership HealthPlan of California has received accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. “This distinction from NCQA acknowledges both the high quality of care that we provide to our members and the hard work and dedication of our entire staff and our providers that was required to attain this national recognition,” Elizabeth Gibboney, chief executive officer of Partnership HealthPlan of California, announced in a statement. The National Committee for Quality Assurance evaluates how well a health plan manages its delivery system, including phy-

sicians, hospitals, other providers and administrative services. Partnership HealthPlan administers MediCal benefits for more than 590,000 members across 14 counties in Northern California. It was founded in Solano County in 1994. The accreditation started five years ago, and achieved interim accreditation status in 2019. Partnership HealthPlan California will be surveyed for renewal in three years.

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0900 PUBLIC NOTICES ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRE-QUALIFICATION PROCEDURES AND OPEN DATES FOR ANNUAL PRE-QUALIFICATION Notice is given that the Suisun Resource Conservation District (SRCD) has determined that all bidders on public works to be undertaken by SRCD must be pre-qualified prior to submitting bids. It is mandatory for all Licensed Contractors who intend to submit bids fully complete the prequalification questionnaire, provide all requested materials, and be approved by SRCD to be on the final Bidders list. No bid will be accepted from a Contractor that has failed to comply with these requirements. I. Pre-qualification Questionnaires can be obtained by contacting SRCD at 2544 Grizzly Island Rd., Suisun, CA 94585 or downloaded at http://www.suisunrcd.org/ II. Paper or digital filled questionnaires will be accepted until 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time on Friday, 12 February 2021, at Suisun Resource Conservation District, 2544 Grizzly Island Rd., Suisun, CA 94585 III. SRCD reserves the right to waive minor irregularities and omissions in the information contained in the pre-qualification application submitted, to make all final determinations, and to determine at any time that the pre-qualification procedures will not be applied to a future public works project. For additional information or questions, please contact John Takekawa at jtakekawa@suisunrcd.org or 707-4259302 x2. DR# 00044556 Published: Jan. 29, 31, Feb. 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 2021

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0900 PUBLIC NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: VANESSA BROUSSARD CASE NUMBER FCS055803 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Vanessa Broussard filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Vanessa Broussard Proposed Name: a. Vanessa Torres Marquez 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.

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2. Sealed Bids will be received until 2:00 p.m., March 3, 2021 at the office of the Facilities & Construction Department, located at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, California, after which time the bids will be opened and publicly read aloud, in conference room #102 at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, CA 94533. Any claim by a bidder of error in its bid must be made in compliance with section 5100 et seq. of the Public Contract Code. Any bid that is submitted after this time shall be non-responsive and returned to the bidder.

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Upgrading the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment and disconnecting and re-connecting existing controls.

1) Demolition and off-site disposal of existing bark play boxes and associated structures, curbs, foundations, fill and adjacent paving and other items 2) Preparation of site for, and the installation of, new concrete curbs, play surfacing, patch paving, and fencing. 3) Installation of Owner-Supplied play equipment. 4) Installation of new resilient, poured-inplace, playground safety surfacing 5) Installation of new irrigation and landscaping.

4. All bids shall be on the form provided by the District. Each bid must conform and be responsive to all pertinent Contract Documents, including, but not limited to, the Instructions to Bidders. 5. To bid on this Project, the Bidder is required to possess one or more of the following State of California Contractor Licenses:

4. All bids shall be on the form provided by the District. Each bid must conform and be responsive to all pertinent Contract Documents, including, but not limited to, the Instructions to Bidders.

A (General Engineering), B (General Building) and/or C20 (Warm-Air Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning

5. To bid on this Project, the Bidder is required to possess one or more of the following State of California Contractor Licenses:

The Bidder's license(s) must be active and in good standing at the time of the bid opening and must remain so throughout the term of the Contract.

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6. As security for its Bid, each bidder shall provide with its Bid form • a bid bond issued by an admitted surety insurer on the form provided by the District, • cash, or • a cashier's check or a certified check, drawn to the order of the FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid price. This bid security shall be a guarantee that the Bidder shall, within seven (7) calendar days after the date of the Notice of Award, enter into a contract with the District for the performance of the services as stipulated in the bid.

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 29, 2020 /s/ Christine A. Carringer Judge of the Superior Court FILED: JAN 4 2021 DR# 00044212 Published: Jan. 11, 18, 25, Feb. 1, 2021

7. The successful Bidder shall be required to furnish a 100% Performance Bond and a 100% Payment Bond if it is awarded the contract for the Project.

LOCATED AT: 2425 Morrison Lane Fairfield Mailing Address: 2421 Morrison Lane Fairfield (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Jill K. Strickland 2421 Morrison Lane Fairfield 94534 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 09/07/2019. 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/ Jill K Strickland 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 29, 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 30, 2020 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2020002268 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00044185 Published: Jan. 11, 18, 25, Feb. 1, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS PRONTO INSURANCE AGENCY LOCATED AT: 180 Serrano Drive, Suite C Fairfield, CA 94533 Mailing Address: 1403 N Tustin Ave. Ste. 280 Santa Ana, CA 92705 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Pronto California Agency 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 01/22/2020. 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/ Michael Weinstein 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 January 19, 2026. 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: JAN 20, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000130 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00044638 Published: February 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021

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2. Sealed Bids will be received until 2:00 p.m., March 2, 2021 at the office of the Facilities & Construction Department, located at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, California, after which time the bids will be opened and publicly read aloud, in conference room #102 at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, CA 94533. Any claim by a bidder of error in its bid must be made in compliance with section 5100 et seq. of the Public Contract Code. Any bid that is submitted after this time shall be non-responsive and returned to the bidder.

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8. The successful Bidder may substitute securities for any monies withheld by the District to ensure performance under the Contract, in accordance with the provisions of section 22300 of the Public Contract Code. 9. The successful Bidder and its subcontractors shall pay all workers on the Project not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, State of California, for the type of work performed and the locality in which the work is to be performed within the boundaries of the District, pursuant to sections 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code. Prevailing wage rates are on file with the District and are available to any interested party on request or at www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/statistics_and_databases.html. Bidders and Bidders’ subcontractors shall comply with the registration and qualification requirements pursuant to sections 1725.5 and 1771.1 of the California Labor Code. 10. A mandatory pre-bid conference and site visit will be held on February 9, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. at Oakbrook Academy of The Arts, 700 Oakbrook Drive, Fairfield, California, for the purpose of acquainting bidders with the bid documents and the work site. Please meet in front of the school office. 11. Contract Documents can be downloaded from the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Website at https://www.fsusd.org/Page/16402 12. The District’s Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids and/or waive any irregularity in any bid received. If the District awards the Contract, the security of unsuccessful bidder(s) shall be returned within sixty (60) days from the time the award is made. Unless otherwise required by law, no bidder may withdraw its b id for ninety (90) days after the date of the bid opening. 13. The District shall award the Contract, if it awards it at all, to the lowest responsive responsible bidder based on: The base bid amount only. DR# 00044520 Published: February 1, 8, 2021 DOCUMENT 00 11 16 NOTICE TO BIDDERS / INVITATION TO BID 1. Notice is hereby given that the governing board (“Board”) of the FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (“District”) will receive sealed bids for the following project: BID #21F-130 FAIRFIELD HIGH SCHOOL CULINARY ARTS REMODEL 2. To bid on this Project, the Bidder is required to have been prequalified by the District. In addition, if components of the Project will be performed by electrical, mechanical, or plumbing subcontractors performing under the following license classification(s), then each of those subcontractors that intend to bid as a first-tier subcontractor to a general contractor (prime contractor) are required to have been prequalified by the District: C-4, C-7, C-10, C-16, C-20, C-34, C-36, C-38, C-42, C-43, and/or C-46. All prequalification questionnaires will be received until 5:00 p.m., Friday, February 5, 2021, on the District Office website: https://www.fsusd.org/Page/16414 3. Sealed Bids will be received until 2:00 p.m., February 23, 2021 at the office of the Facilities & Construction Department, located at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, California, after which time the bids will be opened and publicly read aloud, in conference room #102 at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, CA 94533. Any claim by a bidder of error in its bid must be made in compliance with section 5100 et seq. of the Public Contract Code. Any bid that is submitted after this time shall be non-responsive and returned to the bidder. 4. The Project consists of:

The Bidder's license(s) must be active and in good standing at the time of the bid opening and must remain so throughout the term of the Contract. 6. As security for its Bid, each bidder shall provide with its Bid form • a bid bond issued by an admitted surety insurer on the form provided by the District, • cash, or • a cashier's check or a certified check, drawn to the order of the FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid price. This bid security shall be a guarantee that the Bidder shall, within seven (7) calendar days after the date of the Notice of Award, enter into a contract with the District for the performance of the services as stipulated in the bid. 7. The successful Bidder shall be required to furnish a 100% Performance Bond and a 100% Payment Bond if it is awarded the contract for the Project. 8. The successful Bidder may substitute securities for any monies withheld by the District to ensure performance under the Contract, in accordance with the provisions of section 22300 of the Public Contract Code. 9. The successful Bidder and its subcontractors shall pay all workers on the Project not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, State of California, for the type of work performed and the locality in which the work is to be performed within the boundaries of the District, pursuant to sections 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code. Prevailing wage rates are on file with the District and are available to any interested party on request or at www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/statistics_and_databases.html. Bidders and Bidders’ subcontractors shall comply with the registration and qualification requirements pursuant to sections 1725.5 and 1771.1 of the California Labor Code. 10. A non-mandatory pre-bid conference and site visit will be held on February 9, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. at Sheldon Academy, 1901 Woolner Ave, Fairfield, California, for the purpose of acquainting bidders with the bid documents and the work site. Please meet in front of the school office. 11. Contract Documents can be downloaded from the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Website at https://www.fsusd.org/Page/16402 12. The District’s Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids and/or waive any irregularity in any bid received. If the District awards the Contract, the security of unsuccessful bidder(s) shall be returned within sixty (60) days from the time the award is made. Unless otherwise required by law, no bidder may withdraw its b id for ninety (90) days after the date of the bid opening. 13. The District shall award the Contract, if it awards it at all, to the lowest responsive responsible bidder based on: The base bid amount plus the alternates. DR# 00044564 Published: February 1, 8, 2021 DOCUMENT 00 11 16 NOTICE TO BIDDERS / INVITATION TO BID 1. Notice is hereby given that the governing board (“Board”) of the FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (“District”) will receive sealed bids for the following project: BID #21F-132 CLEO GORDON INCREMENT 1 - INTERIM HOUSING & PARKING LOT 2. To bid on this Project, the Bidder is required to have been prequalified by the District. In addition, if components of the Project will be performed by electrical, mechanical, or plumbing subcontractors performing under the following license classification(s), then each of those subcontractors that intend to bid as a first-tier subcontractor to a general contractor (prime contractor) are required to have been prequalified by the District: C-4, C-7, C-10, C-16, C-20, C-34, C-36, C-38, C-42, C-43, and/or C-46. All prequalification questionnaires will be received until Wednesday, February 8, 2021, on the District Office website: https://www.fsusd.org/Page/16414 3. Sealed Bids will be received until 2:00 p.m., February 24, 2021 at the office of the Facilities & Construction Department, located at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, California, after which time the bids will be opened and publicly read aloud, in conference room #102 at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, CA 94533. Any claim by a bidder of error in its bid must be made in compliance with section 5100 et seq. of the Public Contract Code. Any bid that is submitted after this time shall be non-responsive and returned to the bidder. 4. The Project consists of:

Remodel of a 2,368 sq ft classroom into a culinary arts classroom. Work is in existing building and includes (4) ceiling hung exhaust hoods, new accessible restroom, modifications to existing restroom, new plumbing, and new electrical. Construction also includes modification of fire alarm system, new fire sprinklers, installing new fire sprinkler service line to building, and concrete replacement walk.

Relocation of (9) relocatable classroom buildings within the existing site. Site improvements consisting of new staff/visitor parking, student drop-off, dedicated bus drop-off, and site utilities for increment two scope.

5. All bids shall be on the form provided by the District. Each bid must conform and be responsive to all pertinent Contract Documents, including, but not limited to, the Instructions to Bidders.

6. To bid on this Project, the Bidder is required to possess one or more of the following State of California Contractor Licenses:

A (General Engineering) or B (General Building) The Bidder's license(s) must be active and in good standing at the time of the bid opening and must remain so throughout the term of the Contract.

7. As security for its Bid, each bidder shall provide with its Bid form • a bid bond issued by an admitted surety insurer on the form provided by the District, • cash, or • a cashier's check or a certified check, drawn to the order of the FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid price. This bid security shall be a guarantee that the Bidder shall, within seven (7) calendar days after the date of the Notice of Award, enter into a contract with the District for the performance of the services as stipulated in the bid.

8. The successful Bidder shall be required to furnish a 100% Performance Bond and a 100% Payment Bond if it is awarded the contract for the Project.

9. The successful Bidder may substitute securities for any monies withheld by the District to ensure performance under the Contract, in accordance with the provisions of section 22300 of the Public Contract Code.

10. The successful Bidder and its subcontractors shall pay all workers on the Project not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, State of California, for the type of work performed and the locality in which the work is to be performed within the boundaries of the District, pursuant to sections 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code. Prevailing wage rates are on file with the District and are available to any interested party on request or at www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/statistics_and_databases.html. Bidders and Bidders’ subcontractors shall comply with the registration and qualification requirements pursuant to sections 1725.5 and 1771.1 of the California Labor Code.

11. A mandatory pre-bid conference and site visit will be held on February 3, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. at Fairfield High School, 205 E. Atlantic Ave, Fairfield, California, for the purpose of acquainting bidders with the bid documents and the work site. Please meet in front of the school office.

11. A non-mandatory pre-bid conference and site visit will be held on February 3, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. at Cleo Gordon Elementary, 1950 Dover Ave., Fairfield, California, for the purpose of acquainting bidders with the bid documents and the work site. Please meet in front of the school office.

12. Contract Documents can be downloaded from the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Website at https://www.fsusd.org/Page/16402

13. The District’s Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids and/or waive any irregularity in any bid received. If the District awards the Contract, the security of unsuccessful bidder(s) shall be returned within sixty (60) days from the time the award is made. Unless otherwise required by law, no bidder may withdraw its b id for ninety (90) days after the date of the bid opening.

14. The District shall award the Contract, if it awards it at all, to the lowest responsive responsible bidder based on: The base bid amount only. DR# 00044373 Published: January 25, February 1, 2021

14. The District shall award the Contract, if it awards it at all, to the lowest responsive responsible bidder based on: The base bid amount only. DR# 00044372 Published: January 25, February 1, 2021

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0900 PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS COMMONWEALTH REALTY

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0900 PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE CITY OF FAIRFIELD ZONING ADMINISTRATOR

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE ZONING ADMINISTRATOR OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD will hold a public hearing on the following item: SHELTER SOLANO DINING HALL – Minor Development Review (MD2021-001) Public hearing on request by Shelter Solano to construct an approximately 10,000 square foot dining hall and commercial kitchen for use by Shelter Solano in the existing Shelter Solano complex located at 310 Beck Avenue, Fairfield. (Planner: Brian K. Miller, 707428-7446, bkmiller@fairfield.ca.gov) NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN THAT said public hearing will be held on Thursday, February 11 beginning at 1:15 p.m. via teleconference, at which time and place any and all persons interested in said matters may appear and be heard. Consistent with the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 regarding public meetings during the COVID-19 emergency, the City Council meeting is not physically open to the public and the meeting will be held by teleconference. Members of the public may access the public hearing online at: https://fairfieldca.zoom.us/j/96090734162?pwd=c3N0REJZK1Z5emd6cUFsM1VGaVZ5Q T09 or by calling 408-638-0968 US and entering the Meeting ID: 960 9073 4162 and Password: 45132535. Written comments may be submitted to the Zoning Administrator by email at planning@fairfield.ca.gov, or by US mail to the address at the top of this notice. Comments received prior to the close of the public hearing will be forwarded to the Zoning Administrator to be read out loud for a maximum of 3 minutes during the hearing period and included in the public record. Oral public comments will not be accepted as a part of the hearing. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, please contact the Planning Division at planning@fairfield.ca.gov or 707-428-7461. A copy of the project plans under review at this Zoning Administrator hearing will be available for public review by FEBRUARY 1, 2021 at: http://www.fairfield.ca.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=19400 If you challenge any of the above-cited items in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Community Development Department at, or prior to the public hearing. Any party aggrieved or affected by a decision or determination by the Zoning Administrator in the administration of the City’s Development Regulations may file an appeal within 14 business days of the decision or determination using the appeal form available from the Community Development Department. To file an appeal, complete the form and submit it with the appropriate fee to: Community Development Department, 1000 Webster Street, 2nd Floor, Fairfield, CA 94533 no later than 14 business days from the date of this hearing. Postmarks will be accepted. For additional information, please contact the Community Development Department, City Hall, 2nd Floor or phone 707-428-7461. The City of Fairfield does not discriminate against any individual with a disability. City publications will be made available upon request in the appropriate format to persons with a disability. If you need an accommodation to attend or participate in this meeting due to a disability, please contact Lucia Morales, Administrative Assistant, 707-4287466, lmorales@fairfield.ca.gov, in advance of the meeting. DR# 00044663 Published: February 1, 2021 Section 00 1100 - NOTICE TO BIDDERS ARTICLE 1. GENERAL Section 1.01 Notice is hereby given that the Board of Education of the Vacaville Unified School District of Solano County, hereinafter referred to as "District," will receive sealed Proposals for: Bid Package # 21-02: 100 McClellan Street Improvement Project and New Multipurpose Room • Parking lot upgrades, site work and utilities, ADA upgrades, new hardscape, landscaping and irrigation, new marquee sign. • New Multi-Purpose Building that includes two Robotic Classrooms. • Modernization to existing classroom buildings, restrooms and administration offices, convert the existing multi-purpose building into a choral room. • New modular science classrooms building pad preparation (modular building-NIC). Notice is hereby given that the Project is a public works project within the requirements of Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1 of the California Labor Code, and that each Bidder and all Subcontractors are required to be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 at the time of bidding. Failure of the Bidder or a listed Subcontractor to be registered at the time of bidding shall render the Bid nonresponsive and unavailable for award. Notice is hereby given that the Project is subject to the requirements of Public Contract Code section 20111.6 as a project funded under the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 or a project that involves a projected expenditure of one million dollars ($1,000,000) or more and is funded from a state school bond. As such, the District will accept Bids only from Bidders prequalified by the District. In addition, any electrical, mechanical, and plumbing subcontractors (as defined by Public Contract Code section 20111.6(k) and all subcontractors holding a class A or B license that will perform any type of work covered by the specialty licenses listed in section 20111.6(k)) must be prequalified by the District. The type of work for which subcontractors must be prequalified is the work encompassed in the following license classifications: C-4, C-7, C-10, C-16, C20, C-34, C-36, C-38, C-42, C-43 and C-46, whether performed by a contractor with a Class C license or a Class A or B license. A list of prequalified contractors and electrical, mechanical, and plumbing Subcontractors is posted on the District’s website at http://measurea-vusd-ca.schoolloop.com. Contractors and subcontractors that are required to be prequalified are required to submit prequalification packages no later than thirty (30) days prior to bid date or within five (5) days of the last bid advertisement if advertised less than thirty (30) days before bids are due, but no later than ten (10) business days before bids are due. The District will not consider any Bid in which the Bidder, or any Subcontractor that was required to be prequalified, is not actually prequalified within five (5) days before the bid date. The District’s Prequalification Application is available on the District’s website at http://measurea-vusd-ca.schoolloop.com. Proposals are due: BID INFORMATION Location: Vacaville Unified School District, 401 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville, CA 95687 Contact: District Representative: Windy Buller, Capital Program Management, Inc. (916) 779-5911 Date: Thursday, March 11, 2021 Time: No later than 2:00 PM At this time such proposals will be opened and publicly read. Due to current COVID-19 requirements, Bid Proposals will be received at the main entrance to the building between 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM on the day of the bid. Contractor License Classification Required: Class B Section 1.02 Mandatory Pre bid conference will be held at: MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE INFORMATION Location: 100 McClellan Street, Vacaville, CA 95688. Administration Office Contact: District Representative: Windy Buller, Capital Program Management, Inc. (916) 779-5911 Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Attendance for duration of meeting is mandatory and each prime contract bidder (referred to as “Bidder” or “Bidders”) shall be required to certify, as part of its Proposal Form, that it attended the entirety of the Pre-Bid conference. Failure to include the certification will render the bid non-responsive. Failure to attend the mandatory, Pre-Bid conference waives the right to submit a bid. For all Pre-Bid visits (other than the Pre-bid conference), Bidder must make an appointment with the District Representative prior to visiting the Site. Appropriate COVID-19 protocols will be required. Section 1.03 Overall coordination of the Project will be the responsibility of the District Representative. All inquiries regarding the bid are to be directed to District Representative, Windy Buller, windyb@capitalpm.com.. Section 1.04 Contracts for construction will be direct prime contracts with the District. All Project procedures and documents are designed to facilitate delivery of the Project through prime construction contracts. The District's forms shall be used for all documents. Bidders shall read and review the Bidding Documents carefully, and shall familiarize themselves thoroughly with all requirements. Section 1.05 Each bid proposal shall conform to the requirements of the Contract Documents. The bid documents may be obtained at bidder’s expense from Signature Reprographics, (916) 454-0800 or electronically at https:/signaturerepro.com. Section 1.06 No bid will be considered unless it is accompanied by Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Bid Bond from a surety authorized to do business in California for ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the Combined Base Bid Amount, including additive Alternate Bids, made payable to the District. The above-mentioned check or bid bond shall be given as a guarantee that the Bidder shall, if selected by the District, execute the Contracts, in conformance with the Contract Documents. For more information, refer to Section 00 2000, Article 1, Section 1.06. Section 1.07 Bids shall not expire for a period of 90 days after the date set for the bid opening. Within ten (10) days after notification of the District’s Notice of Intent to Award the Contracts, the successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Labor and Material Bond and a Faithful Performance Bond for each Contract. For further information, refer to Sections 00 6113.13 and 00 6113.16. Section 1.08 The District is an equal opportunity employer. Refer to General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 7, Section 7.10. The District encourages the participation of DVBE businesses. Refer to Special Provisions Section 00 8000. The District has set an overall goal for this Project that Bidders obtain a minimum of 3% of their bid amount in participation by certified Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (“DVBE”). The participation may be through work or supply of materials. If a Bidder is unable to obtain the full 3% participation by one or more DVBEs, then the bid may be found responsive only if it establishes “good faith efforts” to meet the goal. The requirements for good faith efforts are set forth in Special Provisions Section 00 8000, Article 4 and the attachments thereto. Section 1.09 The successful Bidder shall be required to pay its workers on this Project a sum not less than the general prevailing rate (applicable at time of bid advertisement date) of per diem wages and not less than the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work for work of a similar character in the locality in which the Project is performed, as provided under California Labor Code Sections 1726-1861. Copies of the prevailing rate of per diem wages are on file at the Vacaville Unified School District, 401 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville, CA 95687, and shall be made available to any interested party upon request. They may also be obtained on the internet at http://www.dir.ca.gov/OPRL/DPreWageDetermination.htm Refer to General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 7. The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. Section 1.10 The governing board of the District reserves the right to reject any and all proposals and to waive any irregularity in any proposals received. Section 1.11 At the request and expense of the successful Bidder, eligible securities shall be accepted in lieu of retention payments to insure performance under the Contract, pursuant to California Public Contract Code Section 22300. Refer to Exhibit H and General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 12, Section 12.05. Said securities shall be deposited prior to the submission of the successful Bidder’s first progress payment application. Section 1.12 The successful Bidder shall have at least one supervising technician on call in the event that the existing fire alarm, security clocks, intercom, telephone and data systems are damaged during the course of construction or the Contract requires relocation of existing devices. The supervising technician is required to be on Site during all aspects of repair, modifications and testing. For fire alarm modifications and repairs the supervising technician is required to have at a minimum NICET LEVEL 2 Certification or equal. The District may consider optional Underwriters Laboratories Certification, factory training or contractor demonstrated equal experience/training with prior approval. The supervising technician must also have a minimum 5 years installation experience. DR# 00044549 Published: February 1, 8, 2021

DOCUMENT 00 11 16 NOTICE TO BIDDERS / INVITATION TO BID 1. Notice is hereby given that the governing board (“Board”) of the FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (“District”) will receive sealed bids for the following project: BID #21F-131 Sullivan Phase 1: New Restroom Building, Remodel & Parking Lot 2. To bid on this Project, the Bidder is required to have been prequalified by the District. In addition, if components of the Project will be performed by electrical, mechanical, or plumbing subcontractors performing under the following license classification(s), then each of those subcontractors that intend to bid as a first-tier subcontractor to a general contractor (prime contractor) are required to have been prequalified by the District: C-4, C-7, C-10, C-16, C-20, C-34, C-36, C-38, C-42, C-43, and/or C-46. All prequalification questionnaires will be received until 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 8, 2021, on the District Office website: https://www.fsusd.org/Page/16414 3. Sealed Bids will be received until 3:00 p.m., February 24, 2021 at the office of the Facilities & Construction Department, located at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, California, after which time the bids will be opened and publicly read aloud, in conference room #102 at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, CA 94533. Any claim by a bidder of error in its bid must be made in compliance with section 5100 et seq. of the Public Contract Code. Any bid that is submitted after this time shall be non-responsive and returned to the bidder. 4. The Project consists of: Construct a new parking lot and parent drop-off lane. Construct a new restroom building. Renovation of existing classroom into a library. Install owner-supplied playground equipment and additional site work as described in the plans and specifications. 5. All bids shall be on the form provided by the District. Each bid must conform and be responsive to all pertinent Contract Documents, including, but not limited to, the Instructions to Bidders. 6. To bid on this Project, the Bidder is required to possess one or more of the following State of California Contractor Licenses: A (General Engineering) or B (General Building) The Bidder's license(s) must be active and in good standing at the time of the bid opening and must remain so throughout the term of the Contract. 7. As security for its Bid, each bidder shall provide with its Bid form • a bid bond issued by an admitted surety insurer on the form provided by the District, • cash, or • a cashier's check or a certified check, drawn to the order of the FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid price. This bid security shall be a guarantee that the Bidder shall, within seven (7) calendar days after the date of the Notice of Award, enter into a contract with the District for the performance of the services as stipulated in the bid. 8. The successful Bidder shall be required to furnish a 100% Performance Bond and a 100% Payment Bond if it is awarded the contract for the Project. 9. The successful Bidder may substitute securities for any monies withheld by the District to ensure performance under the Contract, in accordance with the provisions of section 22300 of the Public Contract Code. 10. The successful Bidder and its subcontractors shall pay all workers on the Project not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, State of California, for the type of work performed and the locality in which the work is to be performed within the boundaries of the District, pursuant to sections 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code. Prevailing wage rates are on file with the District and are available to any interested party on request or at www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/statistics_and_databases.html. Bidders and Bidders’ subcontractors shall comply with the registration and qualification requirements pursuant to sections 1725.5 and 1771.1 of the California Labor Code. 11. A mandatory pre-bid conference and site visit will be held on February 3, 2021 at 10:30am at Sullivan School Site, 2195 Union Ave, Fairfield, California, for the purpose of acquainting bidders with the bid documents and the work site. Please meet in front of the school office. 12. Contract Documents can be downloaded from the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Website at https://www.fsusd.org/Page/16402 13. The District is implementing a Project Labor Agreement on this Project 14. The District’s Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids and/or waive any irregularity in any bid received. If the District awards the Contract, the security of unsuccessful bidder(s) shall be returned within sixty (60) days from the time the a ward is made. Unless otherwise required by law, no bidder may withdraw its bid for ninety (90) days after the date of the bid opening. 15. The District shall award the Contract, if it awards it at all, to the lowest responsive responsible bidder based on: The base bid amount only. DR# 00044371 Published: January 25, February 1, 2021 Section 00 1100 - NOTICE TO BIDDERS ARTICLE 1. GENERAL Section 1.01 Notice is hereby given that the Board of Education of the Vacaville Unified School District of Solano County, hereinafter referred to as "District," will receive sealed Proposals for: Bid Package #: 21-01 Orchard Elementary School – Flooring Replacement Project Notice is hereby given that the Project is a public works project within the requirements of Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1 of the California Labor Code, and that each Bidder and all Subcontractors are required to be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 at the time of bidding. Failure of the Bidder or a listed Subcontractor to be registered at the time of bidding shall render the Bid nonresponsive and unavailable for award. Proposals are due: BID INFORMATION Location: Vacaville Unified School District, 401 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville, CA 95687 Contact: District Representative: Cassie Baugher, Capital Program Management, Inc. (916) 779-5927 Date: Thursday, February 18, 2021 Time: No later than 2:00 PM At this time such proposals will be opened and publicly read. Due to Current COVID-19 Requirements, Bid Proposals will be received at the main entrance to the building between 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM on the day of the bid. Contractor License Classification Required: Class B or C15 Section 1.02 Mandatory Pre bid conference will be held at: MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE INFORMATION Location: Orchard ES, 805 North Orchard Avenue, In Front of Admin Office Appropriate COVID-19 protocols will be required. Contact: District Representative: Cassie Baugher, Capital Program Management, Inc. (916) 553-4400 Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 Time: 3:00 PM Attendance for duration of meeting is mandatory and each prime contract bidder (referred to as “Bidder” or “Bidders”) shall be required to certify, as part of its Proposal Form, that it attended the entirety of the Pre-Bid conference. Failure to include the certification will render the bid non-responsive. Failure to attend the mandatory, Pre-Bid conference waives the right to submit a bid. For all Pre-Bid visits (other than the Pre-bid conference), Bidder must make an appointment with the District Representative prior to visiting the Site. Appropriate COVID-19 protocols will be required. Section 1.03 Overall coordination of the Project will be the responsibility of the District Representative. All inquiries regarding the bid are to be directed to District Representative, Cassie Baugher, CassieB@CapitalPM.com. Section 1.04 Contracts for construction will be direct prime contracts with the District. All Project procedures and documents are designed to facilitate delivery of the Project through prime construction contracts. The District's forms shall be used for all documents. Bidders shall read and review the Bidding Documents carefully, and shall familiarize themselves thoroughly with all requirements. Section 1.05 Each bid proposal shall conform to the requirements of the Contract Documents. The bid documents may be obtained at bidder’s expense from Signature Reprographics, (916) 454-0800 or electronically at https:/signaturerepro.com. Section 1.06 No bid will be considered unless it is accompanied by Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Bid Bond from a surety authorized to do business in California for ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the Combined Base Bid Amount, including additive Alternate Bids, made payable to the District. The above-mentioned check or bid bond shall be given as a guarantee that the Bidder shall, if selected by the District, execute the Contracts, in conformance with the Contract Documents. For more information, refer to Section 00 2000, Article 1, Section 1.06. Section 1.07 Bids shall not expire for a period of 90 days after the date set for the bid opening. Within ten (10) days after notification of the District’s Notice of Intent to Award the Contracts, the successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Labor and Material Bond and a Faithful Performance Bond for each Contract. For further information, refer to Sections 00 6113.13 and 00 6113.16. Section 1.08 The District is an equal opportunity employer. Refer to General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 7, Section 7.10. Section 1.09 The successful Bidder shall be required to pay its workers on this Project a sum not less than the general prevailing rate (applicable at time of bid advertisement date) of per diem wages and not less than the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work for work of a similar character in the locality in which the Project is performed, as provided under California Labor Code Sections 1726-1861. Copies of the prevailing rate of per diem wages are on file at the Vacaville Unified School District, 401 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville, CA 95687, and shall be made available to any interested party upon request. They may also be obtained on the internet at http://www.dir.ca.gov/OPRL/DPreWageDetermination.htm Refer to General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 7. The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. Section 1.10 The governing board of the District reserves the right to reject any and all proposals and to waive any irregularity in any proposals received. Section 1.11 At the request and expense of the successful Bidder, eligible securities shall be accepted in lieu of retention payments to insure performance under the Contract, pursuant to California Public Contract Code Section 22300. Refer to Exhibit H and General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 12, Section 12.05. Said securities shall be deposited prior to the submission of the successful Bidder’s first progress payment application. Section 1.12 The successful Bidder shall have at least one supervising technician on call in the event that the existing fire alarm, security clocks, intercom, telephone and data systems are damaged during the course of construction or the Contract requires relocation of existing devices. The supervising technician is required to be on Site during all aspects of repair, modifications and testing. For fire alarm modifications and repairs the supervising technician is required to have at a minimum NICET LEVEL 2 Certification or equal. The District may consider optional Underwriters Laboratories Certification, factory training or contractor demonstrated equal experience/training with prior approval. The supervising technician must also have a minimum 5 years installation experience. DR# 00044410 Published: January 25, February 1, 2021

LOCATED AT: 525 Merchant Street, Vacaville, CA 95688 Solano Mailing Address: 660 Cordelia Circle, Vacaville, CA 95687 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Real Estate Celebrations, Inc CA THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Corporation The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 06/01/1994. 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/ Linda Lossmann, President 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 January 26, 2026. 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: JAN 27, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000192 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00044639 Published: February 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS BRISTOL.BULLYS LOCATED AT: 1134 Sanderling Drive, Fairfield, California, 94533 Solano Mailing Address: 1134 Sanderling Drive, Fairfield, California, 94533 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Terry Renee McClure 1134 Sanderling Drive Fairfield, 94533 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 08/03/2020. 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/ Marquia E. Jones 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 January 18, 2026. 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: JAN 19, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000123 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00044642 Published: February 1, 8, 15, 22, 2021 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JOHN GARY ANDRAKIN Case Number: P050566 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: John Gary Andrakin A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Catherine Stacey Drohan in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Catherine Stacey Drohan 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: FEB. 25, 2021 TIME: 9:00 a.m.; DEPT.: 22 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO 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. Petitioner: Catherine Stacey Drohan 5242 Swindon Rd. Rocklin, CA 95765 (916) 747-2585 DR# 00044523 Published: Jan. 29, Feb. 1, 5, 2021

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Reed: Sand trap pickup causes dust up From Page B1 examine the resting spot, then held it until the rules official arrived. If the ball bounced, slowing the speed dramatically and making an embedded lie nearly impossible, play on. Television cameras showed the ball did indeed hop, but no one else saw it as Reed asked the nearest volunteer and playing partners. The rule in those conditions? Fine. Checking with volunteers, players and a rules official? Fine. Touching the ball and poking around in the cavity it created like a dentist polishing off a root canal? Um … “That was the very strange part, that he picked the ball up, moved it over there and then he’s messing around, prodding

the grass,” Faldo said on CBS. “That for us is what’s caused the gray area.” Fellow analyst Frank Nobilo argued he would never pick up the ball before getting more eyes on the situation. “If there’s a problem, a gray area, just leave everything alone,” he said. “Then let the rules official determine. If that had happened, not only would it be a free drop, he would have gotten off scot free. It didn’t happen that way.” Further compounding things was the fact Rory McIlroy did essentially the same thing during the same round without consulting an official. The Tour released a statement saying both players handled things properly, given the conditions. “Seemed to me like it was a bit of a storm in a teacup,” said McIlroy, who

tied for 16th. There’s a huge difference and distinction, though. McIlroy owns a sterling reputation and the respect of those slogging across fairways with him. Reed was dogged by questions about theft, cheating and character in college. Among other situations as a pro, Reed was assessed a two-stroke penalty at the 2019 Hero World Challenge for not once, but twice, improving his lie by moving sand behind a ball in the bunker. Optics matter. History matters. No Tour player is more scrutinized. “Obviously, the talk amongst the boys isn’t great,” San Diegan and San Diego State alum Xander Schauffele said. Reed needed to be smarter. He knows his game must stay squeaky clean, from tee to green.

He moved the ball, poked around in the rough, pushed the limits and kicked open the door to doubt and questions about intent. He was asked directly about people who feel he cheated. “I’ve already said anything I need to say about what happened yesterday,” Reed said. “All I can really do is focus on today and just listen to what the rules officials said, and they said that I didn’t do anything incorrect.” The reason decisions like those matter is because golf finds itself more rattled than other sports because of its unique DNA. The PGA Tour fancies itself a gentleman’s game. Sportsmanship and selfpolicing rule. No fist fights on greens, like baseball. No one is sent to the penalty box for high-sticking.

Plan: Fall classic could slide to November From Page B1 postseason conclude in October, but Fox is amenable to a postseason that lasts one week into November. This proposal does not include a neutral-site postseason – either in warm-weather climates or in a dome – which would make scheduling easier for the television networks. Since then, the Cactus League has asked MLB for a month's delay, citing the high rate of coronavirus cases in Arizona. As cases decline and vaccinations increase, more fans would be able to attend games in spring training – and in the regular season. In order to start the season about a month later than usual but finish about a week later than usual, the schedule would need to be compressed, with fewer off days and more doubleheaders. That would raise concerns about health and safety, with MLB coming off a 60-game season, but also about completing the schedule in the event of coronavirus outbreaks. The union would be concerned that Commissioner Rob Manfred could unilaterally leverage such outbreaks to suspend the schedule, meaning the 162-games pay would

particularly important at the time. If he was a system quarterback but the system in question remained, what was the problem? The Rams had already signed McVay to an extension, which ensured he would be around through the 2023 season. Goff’s deal went only a season beyond that. “He joked that I’m stuck with him,” Goff said at the time. No quarterback drafted first overall had become a Super Bowl starter as quickly as Goff, who did so in only his third season. The distinction was viewed as a credit to McVay, considering Goff was 0-7 as a rookie starter under thencoach Jeff Fischer. Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford holds the ball while followed by Houston Texans

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The Dodgers and the Rays in Game 3 of the World Series at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, Oct. 23, 2020. not be guaranteed. The two sides last year reached agreement on a 2020 season in which Manfred was granted "the right to suspend or cancel games." The league would suggest the 2020 season was completed, despite outbreaks on the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals, and so the language should be

linebacker Nate Hall But Goff and McVay failed to recapture the magic of the 2018 season, which ended in a Super Bowl loss to the New England Patriots. Goff passed for a career-low 20 touchdowns this season. McVay lost confidence in him to where he opted to start backup John Wolford in the playoff opener even though Goff said his thumb was sufficiently recovered from a late-season operation. The Rams reached the postseason not because of their offense, but in spite of it. In Goff’s defense, the team around him changed over the last couple of years. The loss of Brandin Cooks deprived him of a deep threat. More critical was the slowing down and eventual departure of Todd Gurley. In retrospect, the primary reason for Goff’s

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success was perhaps not McVay, but the All-Pro running back. The threat of Gurley is what made Goff an effective playaction passer. Gurley wasn’t the same after his arthritic knee started bothering him. Goff wasn’t, either. Was Gurley why McVay looked like a genius? The Rams are counting on that not having been the case. They think McVay can win without a running back of Gurley’s caliber. They trust he can triumph without a receiver who can stretch the field the way Cook did. They believe the offense stalled because Goff regressed, not because the league figured out McVay. By paying as much as they did to acquire a quarterback who turns 33 this week, the Rams essentially doubled down on the bet they made

when they acquired Jalen Ramsey. They are looking to take advantage of Aaron Donald’s prime and win now. In theory, Stafford will be the most talented quarterback with whom McVay has ever worked. He has a strong arm. He has a commanding pocket presence. Without much talent around him, he passed for more than 4,000 yards this season. He is also 0-3 in postseason games. McVay will be under intense pressure to change that. Reaching the postseason won’t be enough. Advancing to the divisional round won’t be, either. They did that with a diminished version of Goff. Only a Super Bowl victory will justify the bounty for Stafford and restore McVay’s reputation as an offensive visionary.

Basketball College men •Oregon at UCLA, ESPN2, 2 p.m. •Duke at Miami, ESPN, 4 p.m. •Notre Dame at Syracuse, ACC, 4 p.m. •Oklahoma at Texas Tech, ESPN, 6 p.m. •South Carolina State at North Carolina Central, ESPN2, 6 p.m. •SMU at Houston, ESPNU, 6 p.m. •Georgia Tech at Louisville, ACC, 6 p.m. College women •Southeast Missouri State at Tennessee-Martin, ESPNU, 2 p.m. •North Carolina State at Louisville, ESPN2, 4 p.m. •Baylor at Iowa State, ESPNU, 4 p.m. •Ohio State at Northwestern, BIG TEN, 5 p.m. NBA •Sacramento at New Orleans, NBCSCA, 5 p.m. (Vacaville only) •Phoenix at Dallas, NBATV, 5:30 p.m. Hockey NHL •Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, NBCSN, 4 p.m. Soccer •Super Lig, Besiktas vs. Trabzonspor, BEIN, 7:30 a.m. •La Liga, Real Betis vs. Osasuna, BEIN, 11:50 a.m. Tennis •Center Court, ATP Cup, Day 1; Murray River Open; Great Ocean Road Open, Gippsland Trophy and Yarra Valley Classic, early rounds, TENNIS, 3 p.m.

Basketball College men •Michigan State at Iowa, FS1, TBA •Wake Forest at Notre Dame, ACC, 2 p.m. •Butler at Marquette, FS1, 2 p.m. •Baylor at Texas, ESPN, 4 p.m. •Tennessee at Ole Miss, ESPN2, 4 p.m. •North Carolina at Clemson, ACC, 4 p.m. •Penn State at Wisconsin, FS1, 4 p.m. •Georgia at Auburn, SEC, 4 p.m. •Purdue at Maryland, BIG TEN, 5 p.m. •SEC teams TBA, ESPN, 6 p.m. •Big Ten teams TBA, ESPN2, 6 p.m. •Dayton at Duquesne, ESPNU, 6 p.m. •Florida State at Boston College, ACC, 6 p.m. •USC at Stanford, FS1, 6 p.m. •UNLV at Nevada, CBSSN, 6 p.m. •Mississippi State at Arkansas, SEC, 6 p.m. NBA •L.A. Clippers at Brooklyn, TNT, 4:30 p.m. •Boston at Golden State, TNT, 7 p.m. NHL •Buffalo at N.Y. Islanders, NBCSN, 3 p.m. •Minnesota at Colorado, NBCSN, 5:30 p.m. Soccer •Super Lig, Galatasaray vs. Basaksehir, BEIN, 7:55 a.m. •Super Lig, Hatayspor vs. Fenerbahce, BEIN, 10 a.m. •Super Lig, Antalyaspor vs. Besiktas, BEIN, 7:55 a.m. (Wednesday) Tennis •Center Court, ATP Cup, Day 2; Murray River Open; Great Ocean Road Open, Gippsland Trophy and Yarra Valley Classic, early rounds, TENNIS, 3 p.m. LAW OFFICES OF

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