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FA I R F I E L D — January marked the 50th anniversary of the devastating oil spill that fouled the San Francisco Bay, killing thousands of seabirds. It was a tragic event that spawned the creation of a new branch of environmental science that continues to evolve today here in Solano County. Two Standard Oil tankers – the Arizona Standard and the Oregon Standard – collided in the bay near the Golden Gate Bridge on an early foggy morning, Jan. 18, 1971. The collision resulted in 800,000 gallons of caustic, sticky crude staining the bay and surrounding beaches and in
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FAIRFIELD — Solano County this week sent a letter to the governor’s office and the state Department of Public Health seeking a “risk-based� Covid-19 response – especially when it comes to local businesses. It is the third letter the county has sent to the governor – the first in July, the second in September – discussing the negative impacts on businesses and the lack of any evidence that businesses are spreading the disease. Dr. Bela Matyas, the county public health officer, also has reported the county has repeatedly made its position clear during discussions with the state. Since then and now, if anything, the state’s response tightened the grip on businesses and put more at risk of closing permanently. The latest letter begins by expressing the county’s appreciation for ending the stay-at-home order, which was based on intensive care unit capacity in state-drawn regions, and returning to the color-based tier system that relies on daily case and sevenday positivity testing rates. The letter states that returning Solano County to the purple
its wake, created a wildlife emergency like no other that led to the formation of International Bird Rescue in Berkeley. Only about 300 birds were successfully a nd rehabi l itated released – in part given the lack of established oiled bird rehabilitation practices at the time. Jay Holcomb, Bird Rescue’s longtime director – who died in 2014 – told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2012, “No one knew what to do. It was as horrible as you can imagine. . . . It was then that we realized there needs to be an organized attempt for their care.� The spill affected at least 7,000 birds. Nearly See Rescue, Page A9
Trump’s trial to be held with signs of siege all around Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s Senate trial will be enveloped by a thick security cordon of razorwire-topped fencing, National Guard troops and armed police officers protecting lawmakers – a stark reminder of the violent assault on the Capitol that touched off his unprecedented second impeachment. Walkways and green spaces around the Capitol and adjacent congressional office buildings that are normally plied by tourists and joggers have been off limits since the Jan. 6 riot. Instead, there are rifletoting National Guard
troops – part of a contingent of several thousand assigned to assist with security – stationed with Capitol police at a checkpoints for entry to the grounds. In addition there are 500 members of the District of Columbia National Guard on standby as a quick reaction force. “It’s surreal,� said Rep. Andy Kim, a New Jersey Democrat. “I’ve worked in a lot of tough areas before, it is very intense to see this level of structure with such a massive perimeter put forward.� Scenes from the siege that triggered the extra security will play a major part in Trump’s Senate See Trial, Page A9
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Some California churches will reopen Sunday after Supreme Court lifts ban Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — Some California churches on Saturday said they planned to reopen their doors this weekend after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted the state’s ban on indoor worship services during the pandemic, ruling that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s strict orders appear to violate the Constitution’s protection of the free exercise of religion.
Bishop Arthur Hodges, senior pastor of South Bay United Pentecostal Church in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista, called the ruling “a major victory.� “We are thrilled and excited to go back to church without legal threat of fines or arrest,� Hodges said in a television interview broadcast on Fox 5. “And it opens up churches in the entire state of California. So this is a win for every church, every house of worship and
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Here are three categories, where the cities, teams and players rank and who deserves more disdain. Dumb geography: As discussed last year in this space, there are two cities called Kansas City: One in Missouri, one in Kansas. Worse yet, they’re next to each other. How dumb! Meanwhile, Tampa Bay is not a town, but shorthand for a region: the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area in Florida. But the area is the Tampa Bay Area, not Tampa Bay. Calling the team the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is like calling the 49ers the San Francisco Bay 49ers. Absurd. Which is worse: Kansas City. Sick of seeing them: Tampa Bay’s Tom Brady played college football in the last millennium, which means he played at
Michigan in the same millennium that Columbus lived. He’s been winning Super Bowls since 2001. It’s time to go. Kansas City coach Andy Reid was named head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in 1999, meaning he coached in the league in the same millennium that the printing press was invented. This year marks his 16th playoff appearance. It’s time for both to go. Which is worse: Brady (Tampa Bay). He’s a player, for crying out loud! Cities’ other teams: The Tampa Bay area (all the teams insist on calling themselves “Tampa Bay�) has baseball’s scrappy Rays, who lost in the World Series. It has the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning, which won the Stanley Cup title last year. It is the home for the
Toronto Raptors NBA team this season (due to Canada’s tight travel restrictions), the same Raptors who beat the Warriors in the 2019 NBA Finals. In short, Tampa is Titletown USA. Kansas City has the scrappy Royals, who lost to the Giants in the 2014 World Series and won it in 2015. It’s the former home of the Sacramento Kings and has no NHL team. Which is worse: Tampa Bay, because we’re sick of them winning. The verdict: It’s tough to root for either team, but Tampa (with a bunch of good pro teams and with Brady at quarterback) is worse. We’ll hold our noses and hope Kansas City wins. Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@outlook.com.
Philadelphia Holocaust Memorial is reinvented with an antiracist mission Tribune Content Agency PHILADELPHIA — Hate crimes in the United States are at a 10-year high. Anti-Semitic and racist incidents have been on the rise in the pandemic, surveys have found. And the nation is still coping with the aftermath of an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, where blatantly anti-Semitic imagery abounded, right down to a man in a “Camp Auschwitz� hoodie. Against that daunting backdrop, the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation has launched a new endeavor to counter bigotry of all kinds with a curriculum the organization is calling “History is Now.� It highlights through-lines connecting Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany with the oppression facing marginalized groups to this day – including how misinformation and propaganda have fueled hate and sparked violence. The campaign includes an app-based walking tour of the memorial site at 16th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. It was the first Holocaust monument in the country when it opened in 1964 and received a $7 million makeover a few years ago, transforming the space into an open-air museum and classroom. It also has brought a new curriculum to Philadelphia public schools, teaching Holocaust education through a contemporary and intersectional lens. “Particularly within the younger generation, what we see is a lost connection to this history,� said Eszter Kutas, executive director of PHRF, citing a survey of millen-
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The Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza is shown on Arch Street, in Philadelphia, Penn., Wednesday. nial and Gen-Z Americans that found about one in five were not aware of the Holocaust, and half could not name a concentration camp. “And instead of foundational education being in place, there is a propaganda machine on social media. It’s hateful, it’s discriminatory. . . . Our foundation therefore decided to make a concentrated effort to bolster our education and apply it to present-day problems.� Recently, Kutas led a training for about 35 Philadelphia social studies and history teachers, walking them through detailed lesson plans the organization has developed. One is devoted to Leon Bass, a former principal at Benjamin Franklin High School who served in the segregated Army during World War II and helped liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp. The shocking conditions he witnessed, along with his own experiences of racism, led Bass to become a vocal human-rights activist. Another is a history lesson about the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, the international debate about whether to join, and the experiences of both Jewish and Black American ath-
letes. “It explores how both participation and boycott can be a form of protest,� Kutas said. Julie Webb, a history and Spanish teacher at Swenson Arts and Technology High School in Northeast Philadelphia, said the training was her first introduction to the memorial. “I was ashamed to say I never knew about it, and proud that so much thought and development went into its building,� she said. The renovations, completed in 2018, include informational signage, six pillars representing the six million Jews who were killed, and, embedded into the plaza, sections of train tracks that once led to the Treblinka concentration camp. The app, created in collaboration with the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation, allows visitors to hear the voices of survivors who rode that train. New interact ive tours, added as part of the “History is Now� campaign, include one on propaganda and another on contemporary anti-Semitism. One element of that tour is a video clip of an interview with Judah
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FAIRFIELD — Solano County saw a spike in reported Covid-19 cases Friday – 175, the most recorded on a single day this week. The daily increase came during a week Dr. Bela Matyas, the public health officer, had predicted the numbers would likely be in the low-100s as the county recovers from a surge of cases linked primarily to social gatherings during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Matyas was partly correct. Monday’s three-day weekend average was 162; Tuesday saw 99 cases; Wednesday had 120 new cases; and Thursday saw 101 cases reported. The update came on the first day of a two-day mass vaccination clinic at the county fairgrounds in Vallejo. The target is residents 75 or older and those who were part of the initial priority vaccination groups who had not yet received
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FAIRFIELD — New data shows the Federal T rade Commission received 202,866 fraud reports from California Consumers in 2020 and that consumers across the state reported losing more than $400.9 million to scams last year. The median loss is $407. Totals for the year were announced this week in a press release. The FTC’s Consumer Sentinel Network is a database that receives reports directly from consumers as well as from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, the Better Business Bureau, industry members and nonprofit organizations. This year the FTC welcomed the data contributions of the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection. Twenty-five states now See Scams, Page A5
their vaccinations. Both Kaiser Permanente and NorthBay Healthcare are partnering with the county to put on the event. The goal was to vaccinate 1,500 people Friday and to innoculate 2,000 more Saturday. The total number of cases in the county is now 28,686, the county reports. The number of deaths attributed at least in part to Covid-19 held firm Friday at 134. The number of hospitalizations continued
to fall, from 116 Wednesday, to 104 Thursday, to 97 Friday. The county’s sevenday positivity testing rate also continued to fall, from 14.7% Wednesday, to 12.65% Thursday, to 12.2% Friday, the county reports. Vallejo now has 8,455 confirmed cases, Fairfield has 7,844 and Vacaville has 7,586, the county reports. Suisun City has 1,925; Dixon has 1,693; Benicia has 819; Rio Vista has 278; and the
unincorporated area of the county has 86. The number of active cases dropped by 70 Friday to 1,101. A total of 201,636 individuals have been tested across the county since the start of the pandemic about a year ago. There had been 256,699 Covid-19 tests administered as of Friday, the county reports. The seven-day positivity testing rate has to get See Spike, Page A4
FAIRFIELD — Representatives from public service groups and nonprofits in both Solano and Yolo counties reacted with dismay Friday to news that nationally acclaimed auctioneer Joe Gates had died after being hospitalized due to Covid-19. Gates was hospitalized Jan. 22 after testing positive for Covid-19 and experiencing low oxygen levels, his family reports to the community in a private Facebook group. He was diagnosed with a type of pneumonia that’s related to Covid-19, was given medication and was feeling better, but his numbers were not improving and he was placed on a ventilator Jan. 26 and was sedated. Reports indicate that Gates died Friday morning. Gates had served
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Auctioneer Joe Gates takes bids during the Authors Luncheon 2015 at the Clubhouse at Rancho S o l a n o i n Fa i r f i e l d , Nov. 1, 2015. various services organizations and nonprofits for years as an auctioneer at fundraisers across the region. He had also served as auctioneer at fairs in both Dixon and Vallejo. See Gates, Page A4
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Obituaries Michael D. Woodruff
On Jan. 29, 2021, Michael D. Woodruff passed away peacefully, surrounded by the love of his family in his home in Fairfield. He served 31 years in the Navy and retired as an E-9, Master Chief Petty Officer. He was an active Freemason and member of the Mensa organization. Michael loved to be of service to anyone who needed it. He cared deeply about the well-being of others and helped out whenever he had the navy veteran opportunity. He lived a beautiful life and made an impact on so many. He stuck to his word and left this world a better place than when he entered it. We will miss him forever. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Pun; daughter, Nikki; and his granddaughter, Mia. Arrangements under the care of Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.
Irene Tritch
March 13, 1931 — Jan. 16, 2021
Irene C. Tritch died suddenly after a short illness the evening of Jan. 16, 2021, at NorthBay Hospital in Fairfield. Irene was born in Monkton, Scotland, on March 13, 1931, to William and Mary Carey. She married the love of her life, Eric Tritch, in Clear Spring, Maryland, on Jan. 25, 1958. They enjoyed many years together until Eric’s unexpected passing in 2004. Irene was an avid bowler. She loved bowling with her fellow retired military wives in their bowling leagues and tournaments. Also, on most Wednesdays she could be found at the Cache Creek casino playing slot machines and meeting her various friends there. When she was home, she enjoyed sewing and making quilts for friends and family members or watching the hummingbirds in her backyard. Irene was the loving mother to Avril (Tritch) Altman and her husband
Marvin of Fairfield; Roy Tritch and his wife Denise of Tucson, Arizona; devoted grandmother to Casey Altman of Fairfield; Paul Tritch, a U.S. Marine stationed at Quantico, Virginia; Amanda (Tritch) Hoobler of Tucson, Arizona; doting greatgrandmother to Aiden Tritch of Quantico, Virginia; Madison Hoobler of Tucson, Arizona. Unfortunately, due to Covid-19 restrictions, there will be no public memorial service. The family will attend a private interment service where she will be reunited with her husband, Eric, at the Fairmont Memorial Park in Fairfield. The family respectfully request memorial contributions in Irene’s memory be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, since anyone who knew her knew how much she loved all children. Arrangements are under the direction of Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.
Jasmine Destiny Morales Oct. 28, 1996 — Jan. 27, 2021
Jasmine Destiny Morales passed away on Jan. 27, 2021, in Fairfield, California. She was a longtime resident of California. She was an amazing person with a beautiful soul and had a free spirit. She was so full of life. She will be dearly missed by all. Jasmine is survived by her mother and stepfather, Lea Stewart-Fenn and Nathan Fenn; brother and sister, Agustin and Jennifer Enriquez from Utah; father and stepmother, Rodolfo and Patricia Morales; sister, Mariah Morales from California; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. Funeral service will be private.
Lois Makinster
April 22, 1933 — Jan 19, 2021
Lois Makinster passed away on the evening of Jan. 19th while resting comfortably at home. Her sister Janet O’Connell was with her. Lois was born on April 22, 1933, in San Francisco, California. She married Orin Makinster on June 25, 1953. They were married 63 years and 21 days. They moved to Fairfield in 1970. Lois was a devoted mother and belonged to many different organizations: Beta Sigma Phi; FairfieldSuisun Chamber of Commerce; chairman of the 4th of July Parade 1986 and 1987; Order of the Eastern Star; 46 years Past Worthy Matron Vacaville Chapter #28; Northern California Activity Coordinator; The Wednesday Club of Suisun Past President; Daughters of the Nile; Past Queen of Menzaleh Temple #16; Girl Scout Leader; and Association Chair of the Fairfield-Suisun Girl Scouts. She is survived by her sister, Janet O’Connell; son, Dan Makinster (Victoria); daughter, Pam Wright (Rick); grandchildren, Vanessa Galante (Jack), Samantha Regalado (Ricardo), Tiffany Hansen (Ben), Michael Wright (Kayla); and her great-grandchildren, Iris and Selina Regalado and Kennedy and Easton Galante. Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Feb. 10, 2021, at The Wednesday Club of Suisun, 225 Sacramento St., Suisun City, CA 94585. Burial is private. Arrangements under the care of Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.
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FAIRFIELD — The city’s code enforcement officers coordinated and conducted a complex abatement Jan. 25 through Tuesday at a residential property in the South Public Service Area. Code Enforcement officers were working with the homeowner and neighborhood to resolve a hoarding issue that not only affects the person living within what police described in a press release as a danger-
Gates From Page A3 B. Konard Jones, president and CEO of NorthBay Healthcare, cited Gates’ role in the success of events to benefit the hospital system. “Joe was a great friend and supporter of NorthBay Healthcare,” Jones said in a prepared statement.“As we grew over the years, Joe’s involvement in our foundation’s fundraising was a huge part of our success. It will be hard to imagine our world going forward with his Godgiven talent and wonderful sense of humor not being part of it. He loved his community, and his community loved him back a
Spike From Page A3 to below 8% in order for Solano County to go from the purple tier to the red tier in the state’s colorcoded Covid-19 tracking system, but that also would require a daily rate of fewer than 31 cases. California’s colorbased monitoring system designates the purple tier for counties where transmission of the novel coronavirus is considered to be widespread. Shutdown orders for counties in the purple tier are the most severe. The red tier is for counties with a substantial spread of the
ous environment, but also affecting the safety and quality of life of the entire neighborhood. Hoarding, as defined by the National Institute of Mental Health, is a human behavior that usually involves compulsive collecting. Compulsive hoarding is the acquisition of and the keeping of large numbers of seemingly useless possessions that causes significant clutter and the impairment to basic living activities such as mobility, cooking, clean-
ing, showing or sleeping. Collecting objects is known as compulsive hoarding and the compulsive collection and ownership of pets is known as animal hoarding. The department’s goal during the weeklong operation was to reduce harm and provide services to the owner of the home as well as improve the overall quality of life throughout the neighborhood, police report in the press release. While code enforcement officers addressed
the hoarding on the property, they also reached out to the department’s Crisis Intervention Team to support the homeowner, whom the department felt was in need of help, according to the press release. Crisis Intervention Team officers responded and were able to safely remove the homeowner from what authorities describe as unsafe living conditions while placing the homeowner into
hundred-fold.” Representatives from other organizations – Soroptimist International of Central Solano County in Fairfield and Suisun City, Soroptimist International of Vacaville, both the Future Farmers of America and the Police Activities League in Vacaville, Court Appointed Special Advocates of Solano County, among others both in Solano and in Yolo counties – offered similar remembrances. “For 18 years, Joe Gates had the third week of October on his calendar for our annual lobster dinner,” Lisa Hilas, past president of the Soroptimists in Vacaville, said in a prepared statement. “He was a giant, towering man who took command of the stage and had a
method to his madness. It really involved a personal touch. He knew people in the room. He’d use humor to get them to open their pocketbooks for a good cause. He made it a delight and joy to go to an event. Our hearts are broken. He will be deeply missed.” Hilas’ fellow Soroptimists in Fairfield and Suisun City also spoke of Gates’ ability to get top dollar for each and every auction item that went up for bid. “Joe Gates was like a superhero who swept in, using his magical voice and influence to create goodwill and amazing fortunes wherever he went,” representatives from Soroptimist International of Central Solano County said in a prepared statement. “Joe once auctioned
off three homemade apple pies for $700 each at one of our fundraisers. Only Joe could do that. This is a loss so enormous that we will feel it for years to come. There is a void that can’t be filled. “Joe will be forever in our hearts.” Local officials also shared their surprise at the news and their sense of loss. Fairfield City Councilman Chuck Timm described Gates as “a true gentleman, an advocate for all,” as well as a community partner who supported any program that helped those in need. “He was a friend, and his legacy will be that he helped everyone,” Timm said in a prepared statement. “God bless him and his family.”
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FAIRFIELD — Officers from the police departments in Fairfield, Suisun City, Vacaville, Vallejo, Dixon and Benicia, along with deputies from the Solano County Sheriff’s Office, joined forces to conduct three joint operations during the weeklong event targeting human trafficking. The operat ion resulted in more than 400 arrests statewide. Eleven people were arrested in Solano County for attempting to purchase commercial sex acts, three victims of crimes related to sex trafficking were rescued and the three suspects responsible for their victimization
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Scams From Page A3 contribute to Sentinel. The top category of reports received from consumers in California was identity theft, followed by imposter scams; credit bureaus, information furnishers and report users; online shopping and negative reviews; and banks and lenders. Consumers reported losing more than $3.3 billion to fraud nationally in 2020, up from $1.8 billion in 2019. Nearly $1.2 billion of losses reported last year were due to imposter scams, while online shopping accounted for about $246 million in reported losses from consumers. The FTC received 2.2 million fraud reports from consumers in 2020, with imposter scams remaining the most common type of fraud reported to the agency. Online shopping was the second-most common fraud category reported by consumers, elevated by a surge of reports in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Internet services, prizes, sweepstakes and lotteries, and telephone and mobile services rounded
were arrested. Ten sex workers were contacted and offered services and one trafficker was arrested for crimes related to human trafficking when he solicited an undercover officer. The trafficker was on parole for human trafficking of a minor. The operations in Solano County focused on identifying and locating victims of sex trafficking, offering services and resources to sex workers, arresting and identifying traffickers/pimps, and arresting suspects involved in the purchasing of commercial sex acts. If you, or someone you know, is the victim of human trafficking, call your local police department. fatigue, depression and schizophrenia. Code enforcement officers were able to remove 22 tons of trash and debris, five inoperable vehicles and an unstable carport that police report posed a danger to the homeowner and the neighborhood, police report. If you or your neighborhood have questions or concerns, call the Fairfield Police Department Code Enforcement unit hotline 248-7587. If you feel that a person is in immediate danger, call the police dispatch center by dialing 911.
out the top five fraud categories nationally. Sentinel received more than 4.7 million reports overall in 2020. Of these, nearly 1.4 million were identity theft reports received through the FTC’s IdentityTheft. gov website. The FTC in 2020 introduced ReportFraud.ftc.gov, an updated platform for filing reports with the agency. A full breakdown of reports received in 2020 is available on the FTC’s data analysis site at ftc.gov/exploredata.
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FAIRFIELD — The U.C. Master Food Preservers of Solano & Yolo Counties is offering a workshop on how to preserve citrus now that there’s a seasonal abundance. The virtual presentation will mix live
demonstrations with filmed presentations on how to make citrus products and to show participants how to preserve the fruit safely using preservation techniques of canning, dehydration and freezing. Participants will learn about candied citrus peel, dried and frozen citrus
zest, citrus curd, canned citrus segments, marmalade, dehydrated and candied slices, canned citrus juice, preserved lemons and citrus salt. The workshop is from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Feb. 13 on the Zoom teleconference platform. Register in advance at https://ucanr.zoom.
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Solano DA releases new details in Harder faces anger intended for Missouri’s Hawley deadly CHP shooting along I-80 Tribune Content Agency
WASHINGTON — A California Democrat wants voters across the nation to know an important piece of information: He’s not Josh Hawley. Since Jan. 6, Rep. Josh Harder, a Democrat from California, has been besieged with phone calls, emails, letters and tweets excoriating him for voting against the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory. Harder voted to certify Biden’s win – along with every Democrat in the House and Senate. But the Modesto-area Democrat’s name is close enough to that of the Missouri GOP senator that he has become an accidental vessel for some voters’ wrath. “I would like to take this moment to remind Twitter that I am Josh Harder, not (Josh Hawley),” he tweeted in January. Harder’s staff provided a sampling of the misdirected feedback. “You are an idiot and an insurrectionist,” one email said. “You should be thrown out of the senate. Period.” Another said “Get out of here U racist hater,” and another simply called him a “fascist.” The tweets, emails, calls and letters that confused the two Joshes come “about every day,” according to Harder spokesman Ian Lee. “Things have slowed down since Senator Hawley has faded from the news, but we’re sure some folks are still confused about who’s who,” Lee said. Tweets have tagged Harder’s Twitter account alongside that of Sen. Ted
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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County District Attorney’s Office released new details this week about a deadly police shooting late last month along Interstate 80 that left one man dead. An outside review of the circumstances that led to the shooting continues. T wo C a lifor nia Highway Patrol officers investigating reports of a single-vehicle crash shortly after 10:30 p.m. Jan. 30 on westbound I-80 west of Dixon Avenue in the area of Oday Road, which fronts I-80 for a stretch between Dixon and Vacaville, shot the man in the vehicle after he pulled a loaded gun on them, authorities report. The names of the two officers were not released. District Attorney Krishna Abrams’ office issued an update Friday that states the man was armed with a handgun and drew it on the officers before they shot him. The officers, prior to their arrival at the scene, had received reports that the driver involved in the crash may have been driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, the District Attorney’s Office reports. The officers found the vehicle approximately 20 feet off the roadway, down the embankment facing the frontage road. It had damage to the back window, which was shat-
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Democratic Rep. Josh Harder of California has been besieged with phone calls, emails, letters and tweets meant for Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley. Cruz, a Texas Republican who also led efforts in the Senate to vote against certifying election results. Harder sent a fundraising email about the mix-up on Thursday, asking supporters to show that they “stand with the correct Josh H.” “As you know, Josh Hawley peddled election fraud conspiracies which led to the Capitol insurrection, and has refused to apologize or take any accountability for his actions,” the email said. “But Democrats are sending their anger to the wrong Josh! Our inboxes have been flooded with notes very upset with Josh Hawley.” A majority of House Republicans and a handful of Senate Republicans voted to block the electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania after Cruz and Hawley raised objections. The votes took place hours after a violent mob stormed the Capitol in
a riot that left five people dead, including one Capitol Police officer. Hawley was photographed raising his fist in solidarity to a crowd of former President Donald Trump’s supporters outside the Capitol shortly before the riot and faced widespread backlash in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection. His political mentor, former Missouri Republican Sen. John Danforth, has blamed him for the riot. Donors, such as Kansas City-based Hallmark’s corporate PAC, have asked for refunds. Democratic colleagues have called on him to resign and filed an ethics complaint against him in an effort to potentially expel him. But the Missouri Republican and potential 2024 presidential contender has been defiant in the face of criticism. He’s sent out a string of fundraising pleas related to his objection – which his
campaign says brought in nearly $1 million from small-dollar donors in January – and he’s repeatedly gone on Fox News to rail against his critics. “They want to silence and punish conservatives. They tried to do it with me – although I’m not going to be silenced . . . It’s unbelievable and we just have to stand up and say no,” Hawley told Sean Hannity during a Thursday night appearance. In the meantime, Hawley’s fellow Josh from California continues to face a portion of the backlash. “Please accept responsibility for your horrible crimes against the citizens of the United States and RESIGN NOW!” an emailer told Harder in late January in response to a New York Times story about Hawley.
tered and missing what authorities describe in the update as “a significant amount of glass.” Karl Walker, 29, of Sacramento, appeared to be intoxicated as he was getting out of the vehicle, the District Attorney’s Office reports. The officers tried to speak with Walker, who, according to the case update, was evasive and kept his hands in his sweatpants. The officers eventually asked Walker to show his hands, but he refused, according to the update. “I’m not going to do that,” Walker said, according to the update. Walker then pulled out a 9 mm handgun, according to the update. The officers “repeatedly” ordered Walker to drop the gun, but he refused, the District Attorney’s Office reports. Walker, who authorities report was in close proximity to the officers, pointed the gun toward one of them, according to the update. The officers “responded to the threat by discharging their firearms,” the District Attorney’s Office reports. Coroner and pathologist reports have not yet been completed. The incident remains under investigation. Anyone with information about what led to the crash or about what occurred immediately prior to the shooting is asked to call the Solano County Major Crimes Task Force at 784-1828.
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Inmates jump guard, set fires at downtown St. Louis jail Tribune Content Agency ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Inmates at the City Justice Center downtown smashed exterior windows and threw debris to the ground below in a disturbance that began about 2:30 a.m. Saturday after an inmate and a guard scuffled and the guard was then jumped by other inmates, authorities said. Law enforcement officers used tear gas to regain control and a spokesman for the mayor said all the inmates were “back in custody” shortly before 10 a.m. Jimmie Edwards, the city’s director of public safety, told reporters that the corrections officer was injured and taken to a hospital. That guard suffered bruises and contusions and was released later in the day. No other officers and no inmates were injured, he said. Jail officials since December have been contending with a locking problem that allows inmates to free themselves from their cells by tampering with the locks, Edwards said. The problem contributed to
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Inmates set bedding materials on fire, dropping them from broken windows at the St. Louis Justice Center, known as the city jail, after fires were set at the facility, Saturday. the mayhem that occurred early Saturday on the fourth floor of the CJC. After the initial confrontation with the guard, about 115 inmates on the floor set fires, clogged toilets and flooded different areas of the floor, said Jacob Long, spokesman for Mayor Lyda Krewson. After authorities regained control of the floor, about 65 inmates were transferred to the St. Louis Medium Security Institution, also known as the
workhouse, he said. Inmates were seen gathered at the shattered windows of the fourth floor about
6:30 a.m. They broke adjacent windows and threw chairs and other debris to the sidewalk below on Tucker Boulevard.
Flames could be seen just inside the windows and items appeared to have been set on fire before being thrown down to the sidewalk. Firefighters and emergency vehicles were at the scene shortly before 7 a.m. Dozens of people gathered to watch from the other side of Tucker and at least one live video of the disturbance was posted to Facebook. Long at one point called the situation a “very dangerous disturbance” and said both Krewson and Edwards were at the scene. There were more than 630 people in custody at the jail Saturday but the disturbance involved only those on the fourth floor. Cleanup and repair work began about 10 a.m., Long said. There are four units on each floor. On the fourth
floor, only one unit will be used for the time-being. The others will be operational again in three to four weeks, Edwards said. It was at least the third disturbance at the CJC in recent weeks. One occurred the last week of December and a second just days later. In those cases inmates had expressed concern about unsafe conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic. Dozens of inmates were transferred to the workhouse following those earlier disruptions. Edwards on Saturday said he did not know what prompted the latest incident. “This time, no reason was given,” Edwards said. He said there are currently no known cases of Covid-19 among inmates at the center.
FHP pilot temporarily blinded by a laser, lands his plane, makes arrest Tribune Content Agency ORLANDO, Fla. — Temporarily blinded Saturday morning by a laser pointed at him from 1,000 feet below, a Florida Highway Patrol pilot alerted other aircraft about the flying hazard then landed his plane and began an investigation that led to the arrest of a Kissimmee man at a multistory construction site. Guillermo Negron Roque, 47, was jailed pending a charge of pointing a laser light at a pilot, a second-degree felony. The bright flash of green light startled FHP pilot J.C. Pollock as he was flying west of Interstate 4 about 6:30 a.m. “At first I thought I was about to have a mid-air collision with another aircraft and the color green I was seeing was a navigational light from another aircraft,” Pollock wrote in a report. “The flash of green light was so bright that I temporarily experienced blindness.” refocusing, After Pollock traced the laser’s light trail that had flooded his cockpit to a work site at the Dr. Phillips Academic Commons on West Liv-
ingston Street, part of the University of Central Florida’s downtown campus. According to his report, Pollock landed at Orlando Executive Airport, hopped into his patrol car and drove to the area where he believed the beam had originated. A construction supervisor confirmed he had seen someone at the site using a laser but was unsure who it was. Other workers denied they had a laser. About three hours later, however, two construction supervisors provided troopers with a name of a worker, who had used a handheld laser to point out job locations. According to the report, Negron Roque was showing another laborer work that needed to be done between the 7th and 8th floors of a building under construction. He told troopers he saw a low-flying plane that flew in the path of the beam. Pollock noted in his report that he was flying “substantially higher” than the building and the beam was aimed at his aircraft twice – from different directions.
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Shooting during ‘large get-together’ leaves 1 dead CHICAGO — One man was killed and as many as five other people were injured following a shooting early Saturday at a hotel in west suburban Bloomingdale. The incident prompted the village to issue a statement that it has “begun the process of revoking all licenses for the hotel to operate” because of ongoing security concerns officials say have not been properly addressed. Officers responded about 2:35 a.m. to a report of shots fired on the fifth floor of the Indian Lakes Hotel, according to a news release from Bloomingdale police. Arriving officers saw several people fleeing the hotel and found “multiple apparent gunshot victims” during a search of the property, police said. Bloomingdale Public Safety Director Frank Giammarese said one victim, a man in his 20s, was taken from the scene by friends to St. Alexius Hospital in Hoffman Estates, where he later died. A spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office said the victim was pronounced dead at the hospital at 3:16 a.m. His identity was being withheld pending the notification of family. Four or five other shooting victims were taken by ambulance to area hospitals, according to Giammarese. Details on their conditions were not immediately available. Giammarese said the incident occurred during “some type of large get-together” among guests at the hotel, but it was unclear what sparked the shooting. He said there have been “ongoing concerns” about large gatherings at the hotel in the recent past. “This is not the first time we’ve been called out there,” he said. — Tribune Content Agency
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continued to lag. s Covid-19 began surging through California a However, when infection year ago, Gov. Gavin rates, hospitalizations and deaths Newsom declared a state shot upward again late in the of emergency and ordered year – thanks, probably, to too widespread restrictions on many holiday gatherings – personal and economic activNewsom clamped down again, ity to curb infection rates. businesses closed and joblessHis actions immediately ness again increased. triggered a severe economic The state’s official unemployDan Walters recession. California had been ment rate – the percentage of the enjoying record-low unemployment just labor force not working – edged upward before the shutdown, 3.9% of the labor in December to 9% but when those who force, but within weeks the jobless rate dropped out of the labor force or were quickly shot up to a record-high 16.4% as involuntarily working part-time are employers laid off workers. included, the real rate is more like 15%. Initially, there was a fingers-crossed Even without that adjustment, 9% is hope that the recession would be what still very high and, according to the economists call a “V” – a deep plunge federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, the followed by an equally rapid recovery. third-highest of any state. Only tourismHowever, as the public health crisis and dependent Nevada and Hawaii are the recession continued, it became higher, with South Dakota and Nebraska apparent that it would be a “U” – a steep at the other end of the scale at 3%. decline that reaches bottom, eventually Overall, California has lost followed by a gradual recovery. 1.5 million jobs in the past year of Employment actually rebounded pandemic and economic turmoil, leaving somewhat during the summer and a salient question hanging in the air: autumn months as Newsom loosened How long will California’s pandemicinduced recession continue? economic controls, although certain The answer depends on two unpresectors such as tourism and travel
dictable factors – when and if vaccinations can tame Covid-19 and whether President Joe Biden and Congress pump additional billions, or even trillions, of borrowed dollars into the nation’s economy. Newsom’s proposed 2021-22 budget projects, “Businesses are expected to continue to operate at limited capacity into 2021. Increased automation and a shift to online retailing will lead to permanent job declines in leisure and hospitality, retail, and other services.” The budget also implies that the bottom of the “U” will continue for some time, saying, “Nonfarm employment for California is projected to recover to pre-pandemic levels in 2025.” The millions of Californians affected by the pandemic’s economic fallout are understandably worried about their futures and their angst is one of the drivers of a petition campaign aimed at recalling Newsom. Whether from concern for his constituents or worries about a recall, Newsom is proposing “a broad-based recovery package to support businesses, individuals and job creation both during the pandemic and as the state recovers.
It totals $14 billion, including $3.5 billion in immediate relief for individuals and small businesses disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.” While Newsom wants fast action from the Legislature, its fiscal adviser, Gabe Petek, wants a more deliberate and skeptical approach, noting that “unlike the federal government – which can run a deficit to pay for fiscal stimulus – the state must balance fiscal stimulus with other one-time and ongoing spending priorities.” In other words, a dollar spent on Newsom’s economic recovery plan is a dollar that can’t be spent on something else – unless, of course, the governor and legislators are also willing to raise taxes. As the pandemic, the recession and the recall campaign evolve, big state stimulus expenditures will be one of the year’s more interesting issues.
the American government. Trump’s congressional cultists are both unrepentant and unwilling to shed the toxic cloak cast upon them by “Dear Leader.” For now, Democrats must do the work of governing America alone. There will be no meaningful “bipartisan” governing strategy until Republican leaders cleanse their flock of psychotics and anti-democratic demagogues.
It is very clear that these columns do little, if anything, to have a positive impact on the readers, unless it’s a positive to stay agitated. Things have gotten to a point where we are too quick to point out what’s wrong with the other side, or why “my logic” is clearly correct. We are now even resorting to comments like, “yeah, what we did might have been wrong, but look what the other guys did.” It’s time for all of us to reflect on what we are doing in our immediate surroundings to make things better for our family, friends and community and forget about national politics and all the rhetoric surrounding it. Turn off Fox and MSNBC now and take the time to find actual news, not talking heads. Then, if you are able, try to help in your immediate surroundings. You actually could make a difference. You’ll feel a lot better than staying agitated arguing about national politics, particularly when many of our “facts” are being delivered by the talking heads.
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Recall Vacaville elected officials The Vacaville City Council has betrayed the city it serves. Nolan Sullivan, Jeanette Wylie, Micheal Silva, Jason Roberts and Roy Stockton have joined with and encouraged the protesters who have terrorized our city for months. By meeting with, making concessions and having their photos taken with the protesters who have terrorized our city and then posting on their Instagram page dedicated to defunding the police, they have validated them. Their violent protest, break-in of the Vacaville Police Department, harassment of downtown business owners, graffiti on city buildings and open threats to police officers have escalated under their lack of leadership and cowardice. The past president was impeached for inciting violence in the city where he lived. Nolan Sullivan, Jeanette Wylie, Micheal Silva, Jason Roberts and Roy Stockton all need to be impeached, removed, recalled or resign because of the violence they have incited in our city. I know we can not start the recall process on the new council members until March 8, so we will wait until that date to start the recall process on Nolan Sullivan, Jeanette Wylie, Micheal Silva, Jason Roberts and Roy Stockton. Andy Brown Vacaville
It is who they are It’s time for the mainstream media and congressional Democrats to quit expressing outrage over the failure of Republican congressional leaders to condemn the unconstitutional and anti-American behaviors of Lauren Boebert, Mo Brooks, Madison Cawthorn, Ted Cruz, Louie Gohmert, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Green, Paul Gosar, Josh Hawley, Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy. While these contemptible “lawmakers” exemplify the worst of the worst, there are dozens more in Congress who malevolently and brazenly contributed to the noxious atmosphere of lies and conspiracy theories that fueled former President Donald Trump’s failed insurrection. In an inane daily ritual, media pundits continue to implore Republicans to get these evil authoritarians and malcontents to toe the line, to quit shoveling lies, to stop the insanity. The
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Left vs. right is just wrong When the DR reduced the number of comics it published, I started using the left and right opinion columns to replace some of the lost humor. But I believe it’s time to move on. I am not sure who originated the saying “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results,” but it is appropriate now. Unless, of course, the intent of these opinion columns is to simply keep “the other side” agitated.
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Trial From Page One trial, which starts Tuesday. The House impeachment managers, who will prosecute the case that Trump incited an insurrection, plan to show video recordings of the former president’s speech to a crowd of supporters and the subsequent riot, which left five people dead. The mob overwhelmed police, broke into the Capitol and breached the Senate chamber, where weeks later senators will be sitting as jurors. Kim, who served in Afghanistan as a civilian strategic adviser to Gen. David Petraeus and Gen. John Allen, toured part of the Capitol security zone with New Jersey Guard members this week. “We want to make sure that we’re safe, that we can do this work but we got to have some sense, very soon, of what this place is going to be like going forward,” he said. Christopher Rodriguez, the director of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, said at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing this week that while the fencing may eventually come down and the troops will be sent home, it’s unlikely to happen anytime soon.
“We must demonstrate an overt security presence in D.C., at least for now,” Rodriguez said. “We believe that this posture is essential to ensuring that the Metro Police Department can deploy resources to all parts of the city during an emergency.” Rodriguez said that Washing ton Mayor Muriel Bowser requested that a contingent of D.C. National Guard troops be on standby through March 12. The Defense Department said National Guard personnel will continue supporting federal law enforcement agencies with 7,000 members, drawing down to 5,000 through mid-March. A majority of Americans blame Trump for the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol, with two-thirds saying he bears at a least a moderate amount of responsibility, according to a Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey published Saturday. However, only 47% say that the Senate should convict Trump. All Democrats plus 17 Republicans are needed to cross the two-thirds of the Senate threshold to vote to convict Trump. A test vote in the Senate last month indicated that a few GOP members are willing to break with the former president, but far fewer than the level needed to bar him from serving in public office again.
From Page One tier did allow for some businesses to reopen with restrictions and for others to expand their customer capacities. The letter also emphasizes that small businesses are at risk of closing p e r m a n e n t l y, and some have already done so. “A s you r partner in these public health efforts, we, the local elected officials, are taking the brunt of your state guide- spering lines that are very difficult to justify and support, especially because according to our data, small businesses are not the problem,” states the letter signed by Board of Supervisors Chairman John Vasquez. The letter states that the county would prefer a risk-based approach, and asks the state if it has data that support its current policies and show small businesses are contributing to the spread of the disease. It also references using “customized local guidance to managing Covid-19 spread,” the closest language to seeking more local control. The position of the Public Health Division is that there is no evidence of business-tocustomer transmission in Solano County. Super v isor Jim Spering, who had called on his colleagues “to defy” the governor’s health order and “not enforce” the businessrelated restrictions, later
Rescue From Page One 4,300 oiled birds were collected by a group of dedicated volunteers. The gooey patients were pelicans, grebes, scoters and cormorants. They all ended up in makeshift area wildlife rehabilitation centers staffed by volunteers. “There were about 16 different treatment centers scattered around the Bay Area,” said Alice Berkner, founder of Bird Rescue, in a press release. “A friend of mine, who happened to be a veterinarian, asked me if I wanted to go to the hastily established Richmond Bird Center and help out. “Along the beaches, young school kids joined Standard Oil workers and adult volunteers from all walks of life,” Berkner said in the press release. “One newscaster noted that ‘hippies and longhairs’ were some of the most involved helpers cleaning beaches with straw to soak up the oil.” Susan McCarthy of San Francisco, author of “When Elephants Weep” and a current Bird Rescue volunteer, remembers the oiled birds like it was yes-
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said. “It really doesn’t satisfy the person of faith who’s needing their church.” South Bay United Pentecostal was one of two churches that challenged the state’s ban in separate lawsuits. The other, Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, said it would also hold indoor services Sunday. “While we have come under fire from some community members, we stand firm that the fruit of meeting in person lies in the spiritual, emotional and physical healing that worshipping the Lord
toned down his remarks and asked the county to send a “strongly worded” letter outlining the county’s position. He said in a phone interview Wednesday that he helped craft elements of the letter, and while the wording could be stronger, said he is satisfied with it. The request for the letter came a day after the state had lifted the stayat-home order and returned to the colorbased tier system. The letter states that the county had developed a risk-based plan in May, but it was never implemented because the state issued its own statewide mandates. The county health officials believed that except for large-crowd venues, businesses that follow safety protocols such as requiring face coverings, social distancing, plastic barriers and other steps could safely operate. The higher the risk for transmission, the more stringent the requirements. “Perhaps now, after months of additional information about the virus has become available and knowledge of sources of spread are more widely known, is the time to pivot toward risk-based review and modifications or other customized local guidance to managing Covid-19 spread,” the letter states. “The (state Blueprint for a Safer Economy) and associated tier categories have greatly impacted some types of businesses over others,” the letter states. terday. She was 15 years old and volunteered to help care for affected seabirds at the San Francisco Zoo. “At the zoo, they sent me to the Lion House. I had been in the Lion House, but hadn’t known it had a cavernous basement,” McCarthy said in the press release. “There were boxes of birds on the floor, tubs of water on tables, and so many harried people. One volunteer compared scenes at a bird cleaning center to a Crimean War field hospital.” To celebrate a half-century of rescuing wildlife, Bird Rescue will host a “Groovy Gathering” online event May 17. It will have a 1970s theme. The public is invited by visiting www.bird rescue.org/50th. International Bird Rescue was officially hatched in April 1971 as “International Bird Rescue Research Center” in the “little red house” at Berkeley’s Aquatic Park. Its team has worked on some of the largest environmental crises, including the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, helping lead a team to save 20,000 oiled African penguins in 2000, and assisting the wildlife response at the 2010 DeepJesus Christ has brought to so many throughout the world,” Che Ahn, the church’s senior pastor, said in a statement. He said the church decided to challenge the ban after it was singled out by “confusing California edicts” that give “firstrate essential preferences to abortion clinics, marijuana dispensaries, and liquor stores.” “While it is one thing to lock down based on data, it is an entirely different motive to allow some groups a right that is denied to others,” he said. Gov. Newsom’s office said Saturday it will issue revised guidelines for indoor church services. “We will continue to enforce the restrictions the Supreme Court left in
It goes on to state, “A major area of concern is the impact on small businesses, specifically service businesses that employ lower-wage earners who are highly dependent on their earnings month to month. “The impact on economically disadvantaged communities has been severe,” the letter states. “The customer volume of these types of businesses is typically low and they are generally able to apply effective mitigation strategies and measures more stringent than the big-box stores that have remained opened with little to no effect from your order.” “Is disease transmission any different for these types of businesses versus that of big-box retail that has been allowed to stay open throughout the pandemic, often with higher customer volumes due to other businesses being shut down?” the letter states. The county letter follows another in which Solano endorses a letter from a number of organizations, including the California State Associa- vasquez tion of Counties, seeking – among other things – more local input concerning the vaccination rollout. Other groups attached to the letter are the Urban Counties of California, the Rural County Representatives of California, the County Health Executives Association of California, the Health Officers Association of California and the Latino Caucus of California. The county letter states that Solano and other counties are not
just vaccine providers, but possess “expertise on special populations, effective logistics, specialized outreach strategies, and granular knowledge of the local provider landscape.” “Any state effort to achieve efficiency without consultation and collaboration with local health jurisdictions every step of the way will surely falter, if not outright fail,” the letter states. It also calls for “a steady supply (of vaccine) for local health jurisdictions” that “will help us continue to build momentum and leverage our months of planning and effort to vaccinate our communities,” and to “dedicate $1.2 billion to counties and local health jurisdictions to support critical vaccine, testing, contact tracing, public health equity, and support for the most vulnerable populations in the current year.” “ S o l a n o County agrees with (the California State Association of Counties) that counties embrace the single driving goal of vaccinating as many Californians as quickly as possible,” the county letter states. “However, while efficiency and constant improvement is required of all of us in this unprecedented pandemic, any changes must be considered with caution, thoughtfulness, accurate data, and constructive input. Like everything related to Covid-19, the easy route is often confounded, and the consequences can mean the difference between life and death.”
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Photo from the 1971 San Francisco Bay oil spill. water Horizon Gulf oil platform blowout. Along the way, as they learned, they shared. Scientific papers were published to expand the knowledge of proper treatment of oiled wildlife. Bird Rescue’s intern program helped train wildlife rehabilitators from all over the world. “From an environmental tragedy 50 years ago, Bird Rescue was born to deliver on the promise of mitigating the human impact on seabirds and other aquatic species, through response, rehabilitation and research,” Executive Director JD Bergeron said in the press release. “Our 50th year promises to bring continued excellence in response and rehabilita-
tion, as well as renewed focus on research, education and outreach, especially to children, the next generation of wildlife stewards.” Today, Bird Rescue runs two full-time bird rehabilitation centers located in the San Francisco Bay-Delta (one is in Cordelia) and one in the Los Angeles area, as well as an as-needed oiled wildlife response facility in Anchorage, Alaska. It is a founding partner in California’s Oiled Wildlife Care Network and a founding member of the Global Oiled Wildlife Response System – a consortium of experts trying to solve the challenges of oiled wildlife. Learn more at https:// www.birdrescue.org.
place and, after reviewing the decision, we will issue revised guidelines for worship services to continue to protect the lives of Californians,” Daniel Lopez, Newsom’s press secretary, said in a statement. The justices in a 6-3 decision granted an appeal late Friday evening from South Bay United, which has repeatedly challenged the state restrictions on church services, including its ban on singing and chanting. The ruling set aside decisions by federal judges in San Diego and San Bernardino, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which upheld the state’s orders despite earlier warnings from the Supreme Court.
But the Supreme Court said the state may limit attendance at indoor services to 25% of the building’s capacity, and singing and chanting may be restricted as well. C a l i for n i a has enforced “the most extreme restriction on worship in the country,” the court was told by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. While several states set limits on attendance at church services, the group said, California is “the only state to ban indoor worship” in all but sparsely populated counties. The six conservative justices in the majority differed among themselves, but they agreed California had singled out churches for unfair treatment.
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$15 an hour wage Biden’s first big test with progressives Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — The battle over increasing the minimum wage is pitting President Joe Biden’s plea for bipartisanship against his relationship with progressives in his party. Progressives who have tried for years to get a federal wage increase view the $15 an hour proposal in Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic relief package as their best chance for that victory. But the Biden administration and his congressional allies are signaling that the higher wage is a bargaining chip that could be compromised or even abandoned in order to get Republican votes for a relief package. Progressives are warning Biden that it would be a political miscalculation to back down from increasing the minimum wage now. “It would not be a good way for Joe Biden to start off his relationship with the progressive movement by giving up on a core priority that we’ve been driving and that we’ve moved the Democratic Party on,” Our Revolution executive director Joseph Geevarghese told McClatchy. and Republicans some centrist Democrats want to yank the wage increase from the stimulus proposal that is under negotiation. They say they are willing to consider a higher federal wage, but they do not believe that it belongs in the emergency relief package. Activists fighting for an increase in the minimum wage see a narrow window for Biden to push one through at the beginning of his term, when there is still the political willpower and appetite to tackle big issues and Democrats have
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., sits in the bleachers on Capitol Hill before Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th President at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20. control over both chambers of Congress. “We’ve been deferring and deterring promises to working people for decades now. And I don’t think that we should have any confidence that the next promise that it will happen later is going to mean anytime soon. Later has meant decades at this point for a living wage,” said Joe Sanberg, a Californiabased activist and investor. Democrats are broadly supportive of a minimum wage increase though they have differing views on whether the mechanism for raising it should be the stimulus bill. A minimum wage increase would not directly affect most union members or their contracts, but labor groups also are advocating for the pay raise, saying it would raise the floor for all workers.
Biden received strong support from labor and liberals in the 2020 election. Network exit polls showed that he won 56% of the vote in union households, and 89% of liberals. His proposed American Rescue Plan gradually raises the minimum wage, now $7.25 an hour, to $15 an hour by 2025. “There should be a national minimum wage of $15 an hour. No one working 40 hours a week should live below the poverty line,” Biden said when he announced the package. “If you work for less than $15 an hour and work 40 hours a week, you’re living in poverty.” But the White House would not commit this week to its inclusion in a brokered recovery package, saying it was a matter that would be decided by Congress.
Jared Bernstein, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, told reporters that Biden believes a wage increase is “essential” for undercompensated workers, but he declined to say whether it would be part of the final package. Congress is moving ahead with its plans to pass the economic package by mid-March without GOP votes, but Biden is still hoping some Republicans can be persuaded to support it. One strategy for doing that is limiting who can get $1,400 stimulus checks, something the White House said Friday it would consider. Another is tinkering with the proposal for a higher minimum wage, which Republican leaders have made clear they
will not support. “It’s a federal mandate to small businesses that are struggling all across the country to double the minimum wage,” said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the Senate’s third-ranking Republican. Centrist Democrats and a group of Republican senators who met with Biden this week at the White House are also reluctant to back the $15 wage in this economic relief package. An alternative plan offered by the Republicans did not include a higher minimum wage. After the meeting with Biden, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told McClatchy that while she supports a higher minimum wage, “it doesn’t belong in the Covid bill.” The Republicans’ chief argument is that the higher pay will hurt the very interests that the legislation is trying to help, which are small businesses and service industries. “It would be very difficult for the hospitality industry, which has been particularly harmed,” Collins said. If Republicans stick together in opposing the minimum wage, it would take a single Democratic defector to scuttle the proposal because of the 50-50 split in the Senate. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia could be that Democrat. He said he does not support a $15 minimum wage, adding, “I’m supportive of basically having something that’s responsible and reasonable.” In his state, he said that would mean $11 an hour, which could be adjusted for inflation. The wage increase is expected to easily win approval in the House, where Democrats have a majority. The nonpar tisan
Congressional Budget Office offers both sides of the debate ammunition. CBO estimates that 400,000 jobs would be lost in 2023, and 1.2 million would be lost by 2029 if the wage is increased. But for lower wage workers who keep their jobs, “a higher minimum wage raises their families real income,” the report said. It would lift many of those families out of poverty, and a study from the University of California, erkeley Labor Center estimated that a higher wage would significantly reduce costs for federal safety net programs. “There’s a strong positive effect on lower-wage workers earnings. Strong reduction in poverty,” Ken Jacobs, the center’s chairman, told McClatchy. are Progressives issuing stark warnings that Democrats will have a difficult time winning next year’s elections if they do not pass the wage increase. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the new Senate Budget Committee chairman, said in an email to his supporters this week about the $15 minimum wage that Democrats would “get wiped out again during the midterm elections in 2022” if they did not deliver on the election promise. Sanberg, the California activist, said that if Biden wants to sustain support among working-class voters in the midterm elections he must prioritize a minimum wage increase over his quest for bipartisan support. “It’s his current political choice to seek out Republican votes,” Sanberg said. “When someone gets their wage raised, I don’t think they’re going to care if a Republican senator voted for it.”
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Proposal to increase income taxes not a long-term deficit fix
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Cable TV and internet customers will owe Comcast an extra $78 due to a price hike that went into effect last month.
Cable, internet costs heading higher Even cord-cutters will take a hit as more are homebound Tribune Content Agency Cable TV and internet customers will owe Comcast an extra $78 this year due to a price hike that went into effect in January. AT&T recently upped the price for its DirecTV satellite service, adding another $108 to customer bills. Hulu just jacked up its price by $10 a month, although many of its customers are families who switched to the streaming service in order to cut the cord from high-priced cable TV companies. Other popular video-on-demand services like Netflix and Disney also will charge more this year. The timing of the price increases couldn’t be worse for millions of Americans out of work, stuck at home and struggling to keep up with bills. But big media companies put the blame on the ever-rising cost of programming – most notably for broadcast TV and sports, which are the biggest factors driving the constant price hikes that get passed down to consumers. “It’s always more than inflation. They do it every January, and there’s absolutely nothing we can do to stop this,” said Mark Cooper, director of research at the Consumer Federation of America in Washington, D.C. Price hikes for cable TV and internet service have practically become an annual tradition over the past two decades – about as certain as death and taxes. The annual rate increase is part of an ongoing debate over competition and regulation in the cable/ broadband business, and there will likely be more efforts to revisit the issue in the near future.
‘What is becoming every household’s biggest utility bill’ Households are paying through the nose in order to watch their favorite TV shows, and a recent report by DecisionData.org illustrates it with a sobering conclusion. Using publicly available data from municipal utility providers and other sources, the home services comparison website found that the average household cable bill of $217 a month exceeds what families spend on most other utilities combined. Cable bills stay relatively similar across household sizes, whether it’s one person living in a small apartment or a family of 10 living in a large house. “It’s normal for the average consumer to look for ways to save money on things like their electric or water bills through conservation efforts,” the report said. “But what we still don’t hear discussed more frequently is how to cut costs on what is becoming every household’s biggest utility bill. “It’s not as if cable is optional anymore, with having internet access
at home being almost as important as electricity at this point.” But who’s responsible for the outof-control costs? Cable companies point to rising fees they pay to carry TV networks. Networks like ABC, Disney and ESPN require cable and satellite TV and streaming services like Hulu to pay for the rights to carry their channels. The networks have their own rising costs, but they are willing to pay more for sports. The big media companies that own the TV networks – like Warner Media, NBC Universal, Viacom CBS and AT&T – also are faced with higher price tags for creating and producing content. The final season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” cost parent company Warner Media $15 million per episode – in the neighborhood of a movie theater budget. Armstrong Cable, which serves residents in the North Hills of Allegheny County and in Butler County, is the only major cable TV and internet provider that hasn’t yet announced a rate increase for 2021. But that doesn’t mean one isn’t coming. Dave Wittman, vice president of cable marketing for Armstrong, said there will be no rate increases in 2021 for internet service, but there will likely be an increase for TV service this year. “The only increase will be what the content providers demand,” he said. “But there won’t be any increase for anything we can control as far as our equipment and service.” Jim Wilcox, an editor at Yonkers, N.Y.-based Consumer Reports, said when it comes to consumer choice, TV and internet are not in the same ballfields. While consumers have a lot of choice on how they get TV, there’s not a lot of choice on how they get online. “Now people have dozens of choices that replicate what you used to get from a cable company and deliver it through the internet,” Mr. Wilcox said. That doesn’t mean it’s easy. “Consumers have a lot of choice, but it can take a lot of work from them to put together a plan similar to what they used to get with a traditional paid TV cable package,” he said. “Internet hikes are something we can’t control because there’s not a lot of choice among providers,” he said.
‘Competition or regulation. Today we have neither of them’ Mr. Cooper at the CFA has been advocating for consumers against the telecom industry long enough to remember when Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed the industry to raise rates on customers with no oversight from government. From February 1996 to December 2020, he said, the prices charged
by cable companies have increased by 250%, which comes to 3.9% per year. The rate of inflation during that time frame was 2.2%. “Consumers have only two possibilities for defending themselves against rate increases,” Mr. Cooper said. “Competition or regulation. Today we have neither of them.” He said it’s important to stress that all cable companies deliver broadband, and more than half their income comes from broadband, which is astronomically profitable. Prices should be coming down, not going up. He said cable companies are earning 80% before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. The average for U.S. firms is about 20%. “That’s an enormously profitable service,” Mr. Cooper said. “It even beat Google and Facebook in terms of return. The reason they get away with this stuff is because there’s insufficient competition. They have market power and they abuse it.” His organization is gearing up for another showdown on the issue. “No doubt there will be a fierce debate among policymakers about how to fix it,” he said. “It will happen at the next Congress. People are angry about this.”
Change might be coming And as cable costs climb, it’s become more difficult to know how much the bill will actually be until it arrives because the advertised price hardly ever includes the laundry list of add-on fees that inflate the total price. Change, at least on that last point, might be coming. A law passed in 2019 – which went into effect this month – will usher in a new day for the telecom industry. The Television Viewers Protection Act requires cable TV service providers to give customers an itemized breakdown of the extra fees and charges, as well as a good faith estimate of the taxes that will be collected by the cable provider. New customers will be able to cancel a cable contract within 24 hours, without any charge, under the act. At a time when internet access is the key to having access to jobs, health care and education, no one can afford to be disconnected. There is some relief for people who can’t pay their cable, phone or internet bills. The program offered through the Federal Communications Commission called Lifeline provides up to a $9.25 monthly discount on service for eligible low-income households, and some may qualify for a free phone as well. The federal program helps ensure that low-income consumers can afford 21st-century broadband and stay connected to communications technology.
s Congress the numbers at grapples those levels were with the not larger. Clearly, proposed most taxpayers stimulus earn less than package for the $200,000. Covid-19 The other pandemic, interesting point is observers are that the total tax concerned about Mark Sievers paid by those top the staggering Wealth matters three tiers was total amount. more than 61% of Where does the money all the taxes collected. So come from? Already 5.5% of the tax filings various members of contributed about 61% of Congress and some all the money collected. governors are urging Clearly, the progressive an increase for income tax system works. What taxes. remains then is a debate Politicians promise about whether that lower taxes for some and proportion is too much also that those who are or too little. rich should pay their fair The small number of share. The assertion is taxpayers in the highest that, if only the rich paid tax brackets raises more, there would be another interesting enough money for all the question. How much programs the governmoney is actually there ment would like to fund. which could be subject to The mantra is that “The more tax? I calculated 1%” should do more. the amount remaining How do we reduce after tax in each of the complexity, reduce income categories. This taxes and ensure “fair represents the amount share” taxation? that could be Tough questions! subject to more tax. Certainly, any change In the category to tax law is soon to be a greater than $1 million, hot political topic. Now there is another $1.24 trilwould be a good time to lion which could be briefly review the actual taxed. At the $500,000 structure from which level another $191 billion income taxes flow. appears for a total of As the debate pro$1.43 billion. At the gresses, here are some $200,000 level another considerations starting $594 billion appears with definitions. At what for a grand total of level is someone rich? $2.03 trillion. How do you measure Again these numbers that level? Is it income, are smaller than I wealth, influence, or expected. They represome other measure? sent the amount that Does the current system might be taxed, not the accomplish this actual tax. Keep in mind objective? that some tax has We have had progres- already been paid on sive tax rates in this these amounts. Even if country since income tax the government taxed began. There are several these amounts at 100%, tiers (brackets) in the tax thus taking it all, the rate tables. As your extra amount barely taxable income increases meets the annual federal from one tier to the next, budget deficit and is the percentage rate of about what the stimulus tax increases. Some package would spend. would argue that a flat Then what? tax rate is better and A tax system at a more “fair,” but the 100% tax rate for income progressive system we over $200,000 would have is well established raise lots of money but and accepted. Then only in the first year again, the alternative because those people minimum tax, which has would adjust their existed for decades, is circumstances to avoid essentially a flat tax. So that tax pain again. After we actually have both all, why make more methods simultaneously. money if you cannot For insight, I went to keep some? the IRS website and used So far nobody has their historical data to seriously suggested such examine the inner a confiscatory tax policy workings of the tax but the numbers shed system. The IRS uses light on the whole certain dollar categories discussion. Simply put, for the detailed data at the amount of money in the top end: income from the top tax brackets $200,000 to $500,000, would not solve the then up to $1 million and federal budget deficit by finally above $1 million. itself. What other options The results are do we have? Promising interesting. Taxpayers lower taxes for some filed more than while shifting the tax 153 million tax returns. burden to richer taxpayOnly 540,960 tax filings ers may not be as easy as were for income over it sounds and still will $1 million and only not necessarily resolve 1,100,460 filings from the situation. $500,000 to $1 million. We should ask our As a percentage, these elected officials tough equate to only 0.35% and questions about how they 0.72% respectively, a propose to deal with the total of 1.05%. Clearly, tax and spending issues. there are not many taxpayers in this lofty Mark Sievers is a certiarea. Even adding the fied financial planner tier from $200,000 to with a master’s in busi$500,000 adds just 4.5% ness administration more. This means those from the University making more than of California, Berke$200,000 are just 5.5% of ley. Contact him by the taxpaying populaemail at mark@ tion. I was surprised that wealthmatters.com.
State sits on $10.2B in unclaimed property Tribune Content Agency California has more than $10.2 billion in unclaimed property, and the state wants to reunite that money with its owners. By law, property
holders are required to transfer property to the state controller’s office if a customer’s account has been dormant, usually three years. The searchable database can be found on the state controller’s website.
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Bible teaches mercy, not vindictiveness and revenge
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Romans 14:12 says, “So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.� Everyone has the responsibility to repent and accept or reject God’s provision of salvation. Every one of us will answer for the good and evil we have done. The Bible also teaches fairness in applying the law. In Leviticus 19:15 the nation of Israel was instructed, “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.� The purpose of the law is not to be vindictive or revengeful. The purpose of the law is to punish
ome of former which is good, and thou President Donald shalt have praise of the Trump’s supporters, same: For he is the though thankfully not minister of God to thee many, recently broke for good. But if thou do into the halls of Conthat which is evil, be gress and vandalized afraid; for he beareth public and personal not the sword in vain: property. While the for he is the minister of damage was minor, Art Zacher God, a revenger to Religious view there should be conseexecute wrath upon him quences for violating the that doeth evil.� seat of government. The question is, “What is the The Bible makes clear that proper response to those who those in leadership have have damaged public and a responsibility to maintain law private property, or attack and order. Romans others that resulted in bodily 13:3-4 declares, “For rulers are harm or death?� not a terror to good works, but The Bible teaches we all are to the evil. Wilt thou then not be personally responsible for our actions. afraid of the power? Do that
evildoers and promote a civil society. The Bible teaches proportional punishment. In other words, the punishment should fit the crime. A person who in simplicity merely walked through an open door and looked around Congress should be treated differently from someone who broke windows to get in, occupied offices and stole government or personal items. In Luke 12:42-48 there is a parable about being prepared for the Lord’s return. Luke 12:47-48 states, “And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many
stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.� Healing our society requires fairness in matters of punishment of transgressions but mercy toward those who didn’t understand the seriousness of their actions. Vindictiveness and revenge only bring future grievances and much unhappiness. The Rev. Art Zacher is pastor at Berean Baptist Church in Fairfield. He can be reached at artzacher@sbcglobal.net.
Pope is a fan, but some U.S. Catholic leaders give president a frosty reception Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden – only the second Roman Catholic in U.S. history elected to the country’s highest political office – keeps a picture
in the Oval Office of himself with Pope Francis. No doubt Biden can count on partnership with the progressive pope as he reverses many Trump-era policies to battle climate change and
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recently had contact with three lovely women who have played important parts in my life. First, there was Gwen. She and husband Fred moved from Richmond to get away from the violence. They were my next-door neighbors for years when I lived in Suisun City. We helped each other when we could. Gwen was at my house probably more than her own during the final two years of my sweet wife Zella’s fight with Alzheimer’s. Gwen was a former nurse and was a great help to me and Zella. Gwen’s family is doing well. The move from Richmond was a good one. Gwen told me she had been at a rehab center preparing for a heart transplant. My prayers are with her. She is a wonderful person. Next, I had a phone call from Amy Wolf. Zella was a collector of Ranch Oak furniture. She loved it. Amy helped us buy and sell the furniture over the years. Amy called to tell me she had a buyer for my Ranch Oak hutch – for $1,800. I told her I was no longer interested in selling. I had promised her that she could have the hutch for $600 at my passing. I am planning to give it to her without cost at my death. I think Zella would want me to do that. We also exchanged information about the “virus” and she will be sending me materials on the subject. We made a pact to stay in touch with each other. Finally, I received an email from Brenda Moore. Brenda heads the Kids Educational Engagement Program Liberia (KEEP Liberia). Brenda promised as a young girl to work to help her country recover from a second revolution, which had killed more than 600,000 young men out of a population of fewer than 5 million. She then got married and forgot her promise until the Ebola pandemic spread over Liberia. She emailed me and asked about the Tools of Learning for Children to help teach Ebola orphans how to read. We helped her. I met her in person at a friend’s basement apartment in Manhattan. In the five years or so since our first See Bass, Page A14
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FAIRFIELD — It was not enough for Robin Leong to teach his 7-year-old daughter that that bird is a duck, and that one is a sparrow and that one is a hawk. “I wanted to teach her their (scientific) names,” he said. So Leong turned to the Audubon Society and soon found himself exploring the world of birds that has taken him around the globe. He takes about two or three trips a year. “I’m a guy (who) really thrives on setting goals,” Leong said. So when he learned, at the time, that there were about 10,000 bird species identified, he set one of those goals. “My goal was to see half of those species, which is 5,000,” said Leong, who figures he has seen about 6,200 during his travels. That leaves him about 2,300 shy of the halfway point of the American Museum of Natural History’s estimate of 18,000 bird species. Leong said he does not have any real favorite among all the birds, but he does have an affinity for owls. His adventures also include taking soccer balls to youth in nations where he has witnessed those children playing games with balls of twine – countries like Brazil and Peru. Many of those balls are “rescues,” balls found at various parks and recreation areas where staff and volunteers are cleaning up creeks and other waterways. A practically new red and black ball was given to Leong by
Robin Leong is an avid bird watcher and is on the Solano Parks and Recreation Commission. Leong is seen here with custom owl eye embroidery on his shirt. Doug Darling at a recent meeting of the Solano County Parks and Recreation Commission, on which Leong has served since May 26, 1998. He was appointed by the late and longtime Supervisor Barbara Kondylis. Darling found the ball as part of a cleanup effort by the Greater Vallejo Recreation District. This will be Leong’s last year on the commission, he announced at the same meeting, as he plans to return to his native Hawaii.
Eastward bound from the islands Leong, who will only admit to being older than 75, came to California in 1966 and moved to Solano County in 1971. “I worked for the Navy. I was
a civil engineer and naval architect,” Leong said. He worked at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco before coming to Mare Island. “I had a plan that I wanted to investigate the United States and wanted to go to the West Coast, Midwest and the East Coast,” Leong said. He made it to the East Coast but did not like it, so he came back to California. “I got into birding in 1978. My daughter was born in 1971 and I didn’t want to tell her that this was a dove and this was a duck. So I joined the Napa-Solano Audubon Society and started to do a lot more than birding,” Leong said. The group’s conservation work piqued his interest.
His former wife was active with the Sierra Club, but Leong said that organization was not very active in Solano County at the time. “At the time, the Audubon Society was fighting against gravel removal from Putah Creek,” he said. The Audubon Society also played a key role in stopping the Callahan Ranch along Highway 37, west of Vallejo, from becoming a residential development. The weapon was a court ruling that the project had an inferior environmental review document. The group helped secure $7.5 million to buy the property, which is now being restored to natural wetland and marsh habitat. “And now it is one of our favorite places to bird,” Leong said. “If there is any legacy, that is my legacy.”
Counting Solano’s birds Leong is a self-described “atlas freak,” an atlas, in this case, being books that identify the bird species in specific areas such as counties. He has been involved in several, including Alameda, Contra Costa and Sonoma counties. Marin County recently started work on one as well. “Right now we are recording all the birds in Solano County for a journal,” Leong said. “I think the leading birder has (recorded) 310 (species), but I think there is more than that.” He said he is particularly See Birds, Page A14
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o offense, but I would never want to see you in the hospital,” was a common pre-pandemic statement I used to get when I would attend cocktail parties. No offense taken, as that statement was usually followed by, “So what do I need to do to avoid heart disease?” Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which also reports that one person dies every 36 seconds from cardiovascular disease. With that said, taking control of one’s heart health is always possible. While I cannot go so far as to say “if everyone ate the perfect diet or exercised so many minutes, I’d be out of a job,” I can certainly attest to the fact that there are more factors within one’s control than previously thought. The caveat here is that it takes a partnership between a primary care physician and patient to ensure that the most efficient preventive strategy is employed and adhered to. These measures are especially important after age 50, when the risk of heart disease continues to increase. When discussing a heart-healthy lifestyle, I reference several evidence-based measures, such as the CDC’s “Million Hearts ABCs of Heart Health” or the American Heart Association’s “Life’s Simple Seven.” So what is the first thing I tell people at that cocktail party? Or in my office? Try and relax. Not just about achieving a heart-healthy lifestyle, but about keeping levels of stress to a minimum. Achieving a hearthealthy lifestyle begins with asking questions, lots of them, and finetuning the answers to fit your life. It goes without saying that we live in an unprecedented time, when levels of stress meet us at every turn. Keeping those stress levels down reduces blood pressure and, in turn, reduces our risk of heart attack and stroke. I continue with “know your numbers.” These numbers start with body weight. Achieving and maintaining an ideal body weight starts with stepping on a scale and tracking the numbers. Blood pressure con-
Mark Villalon Fit after 50 sists of two numbers that should also be tracked. If it were up to me, I would advise most people over 50 to have a blood pressure monitor at home (and correlate with one at a physician’s office). Knowing your average blood pressure is a great way to keep track of your heart. Knowing one’s cholesterol numbers is important, but knowing if they are abnormal (and how abnormal) helps fine-tune the way you minimize risk for heart disease. The last laboratory value to know is the hemoglobin A1c, which gauges your average blood glucose readings over the past two to three months. Diabetes has a profoundly negative impact on heart health and prevention remains key. Healthy eating habits are a must. There are myriad fad diets promoted on a regular basis, which I am (mostly) not a fan of. That said, I do my best to discuss broad strokes of what a very simple and hearthealthy diet consists of, which includes real food (not processed); mostly plants (minimizing red meats); and moderation (not eating too much). Physical activity is an underutilized tool in heart disease prevention. Training for a triathlon is not the standard of success here. It can be as easy as lacing up the shoes and walking each morning (rain or shine!) for about half an hour. Sleep is important to a heart-healthy lifestyle, even though most of the benefit is via indirect means. Nonetheless, most of us need at least seven hours of sleep at night to minimize the risk of worsening blood pressure or weight gain. Smoking has a multitude of adverse health effects. Just don’t do it and encourage others to do the same. Finally, it goes without saying that partnering with your doctor goes a long way to benefit you and your heart. So, yes, please go and see your doctor regularly. Dr. Mark Villalon specializes in interventional cardiology at NorthBay Heart & Vascular Center.
Bass: 3 friends From Page A13 contact, she has become the official spokeswoman for Literacy in Liberia. She created a dozen of what she called “Reading Rooms” across Liberia – small libraries with computers and reading teachers. She is a dynamo. I am really proud of her. I heard her speak to the Liberian legislature as their official literacy spokeswoman. I am a very lucky fellow to have such good friends who remember this old man. I wish them well. Please join me in a prayer for the success of Gwen’s transplant. It makes me understand just how lucky we are to
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PHILADELPHIA — A year ago, the job of activities directors at nursing homes and assisted living facilities was to get people out of their rooms and into their communities. People like Rachel Kaufman organized movie nights, card games, exercise classes, parties and happy hours. These activities directors, AKA life enrichment professionals or, in Kaufman’s case, escapades producers, tended to be outgoing, upbeat, infinitely patient people who could make the most of tight budgets, said Kirsten Jacobs, director of dementia and wellness education with the senior housing organization LeadingAge. The pandemic upended everything and stress-tested all their skills. Almost overnight last March, these under-appreciated workers became key players in the struggle to keep residents safe, but also happy. They visited residents’ rooms with carts loaded with things to do. They wore silly costumes and dispensed cocktails. They became technology whizzes who enabled virtual family visits and, also, witnesses to loneliness, suffering and immense love. They added arranging real family visits to their list of job duties and, more recently, helped organize vaccine clinics. Jacobs has seen boundless creativity: a poem that began in one room and grew line-by-line as a worker visited other residents, hallway Bible studies, window visits from llamas, balcony singing. “An already really intense role has become that much more intense,” Jacobs said. “It’s a lot.” Kaufman wouldn’t disagree. “I worked much harder this year – much harder,” she said. “I have felt every possible emotion there has been to feel over the course of this year, highs and lows. It’s almost indescribable. But I feel like we really took what could have been a horrible, horrible situation and made absolutely the best we could out of it.” Kaufman, 52, is a former preschool teacher who discovered her passion for older adults through inter-generational programming. She has been at Brandywine Living at Dresher Estates, a personal care
Rachel Kaufman is the activities director at Brandywine Living at Dresher Estates in Dresher, Pa. facility in Montgomery County, for almost 10 years. A warm, enthusiastic woman, she led the “soup squad,” a group of senior cooks who chopped mounds of ingredients for soups they gave to needier elders, before the pandemic. Brandywine had organized activities from 10 a.m. until 7 or 8 p.m. every day. In January, when there were about 90 residents, programs regularly attracted 20 to 30 people. Then, on March 13, as Covid-19’s terrifying ability to kill care home residents became clear, Brandywine locked its doors to outsiders. Later that month, residents were quarantined to their rooms. The center had a few cases in May, but got hit much harder later. “September was the worst, worst, worst,” Kaufman said. There was another outbreak in December. Overall, 45 residents and staff tested positive. Seven residents died. Kaufman learned she had tested positive while serving ice cream outside on July 4; follow-up testing was negative. She thinks she wasn’t really infected, but was worried for a few days that she might have unknowingly endangered others. While Brandywine has been in lockdown off and on, it now allows small, socially distanced activities involving no more than 10 residents. Family members who test negative can visit outdoors in a designated area near the lobby. In the early days, Kaufman and the other seven members of her team
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proud of the work that has greatly improved the populations of the bluebird, kestrel and other species, which includes habitat work on Mare Island and at Grizzly Island. Much of that work has been completed through the influence and funding from the county Parks and Recreation Commission. “That’s why I enjoyed being on the commission,” he said. Leong said it is “a shame” that California does not have its own bird atlas like other states. He said recording the species can be helpful in policy decisions. Leong noted, as an example, the spotted owl. When the controversy arose about the species being endangered, he said one of the flaws was that the count was limited to public lands and did not include private properties. “I think that kind of thing has to be done
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Leong said his daughter, Kristen, is not a birder – at least not in the sense that he has been over more than 40 years. She has been on several trips with her father, and “if she knows it is a new bird she has not seen before, she gets very interested,” Leong said. That said, her father’s interest in the natural world certainly influenced her life’s work. She had a career working for the national parks system, educating employees on a host of topics, and currently works for NOAA – the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – in Hawaii. Leong said his interest in birds has also expanded
took “escapades-to-go” carts loaded with supplies for activities to residents’ rooms. “We literally reinvented our activity program overnight,” Kaufman said. They had room-based tea parties and happy hours. On the Phillies’ opening day, they delivered peanuts, Cracker Jack and beer, along with baseball trivia. She picked movies – she has some serious John Wayne fans – and helped people watch them in their apartments. They did exercises, bingo and flower arranging in the halls. The escapades team sent snapshots in real time to residents’ families. They dressed as super heroes and characters from the Wizard of Oz. There were Eagles and Phillies spirit days. They had parking-lot concerts and watched the Philadelphia Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera online. Sometimes Kaufman would just stop and talk for 15 minutes with a resident. When some in the memory unit stopped eating, she brought them chocolate milkshakes in the afternoon. On a recent day, she made passion fruitmango margaritas at happy hour. In June, the men desperately needed haircuts after months without a hairdresser. Kaufman used a buzzer for the first time on Father’s Day, joking that she was offering a money-back guarantee for her cuts. “It actually went really well,” she said. The pandemic has been a crash course in technology. Most of the residents need help with FaceTime. Families sent many Echo and Alexa virtual assistants. But, Kaufman said, “Zoom was the absolute star of the year.” They used it for horticulture, art and exercise classes, for bingo at Thanksgiving, a service at Hanukkah, tree lighting and caroling at Christmas. “They were really great programs,” Kaufman said. “It was almost like a sense of normalcy.” There were also Zoom shivas and funerals. Even during the less restricted periods, she had much more work than usual. Smaller meetings meant more repetition. The need for cleaning and restocking supplies was relentless.
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BENICIA — Stephen Berry’s “The Blessings of Small Things” is the featured February exhibit at the Benicia Plein Air Gallery. Berry’s stepfather, Albert Bolter, died in June. Berry is sharing a series of memorial paintings and poems influenced by Bolter. “If you’ve lost someone, too, or if a parent has guided you with love as you both have aged, these poems and paintings may speak to you,” said a press release about the exhibit. “This show is something a little different for me, as I’ll be hanging some of the poetry I’ve written in conjunction with the artwork I’ve been producing,” Berry writes on his website. Berry writes much like his artwork; he doesn’t like to force things into a sequence when he writes. “As I work through things, my views slowly grow on their own. I let subject matter come out as it arrives, and sometimes, afterward, I find there was a natural syncopation that occurred as I created things in sequence,” he writes. “Some pieces fit, and so I share them. Others, just as it is with paintings, remain as fragments – private and less successful. I guess it all follows a process of grieving. I don’t know. How could it not be?” He also noted he does not write poems to speak to a specific piece of art. See Exhibit, Page B2
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VACAVILLE — Guess who is turning 100 this year? Solano County’s beloved original Nut Tree. The Power family started a roadside fruit stand in July 1921 that would become California’s favorite road stop and put Solano County on the map for travelers a ll Courtesy of the over the country. Vacaville Museum The Vacaville Museum is leading Volunteers Jeri the community cel- Inman, left, and ebration with an Shirley Moehrke exhibit and events clean the Nut Tree that will bring out archives for the the child in anyone. exhibit. The Nut Tree Centennial exhibit is in process and will be ready to open for visitors as soon as health regulations allow. The exhibit will feature all things See Stop, Page B2
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VACAVILLE — She did a duet with Andrea Bocelli and sang at the National Christmas Tree Lighting in 2007. And she has appeared at South by Southwest. Music still plays a key role in the life of Vacaville’s Holly Stell, now 27. Stell sang in the church choir as a child. When she was 9, she signed herself up to sing “Oh Holy Night” at the Christmas pageant. A few talent shows later, Stell was connected with a children’s charity that Hillary Duff belonged to. Stell sang at Duff’s 16th birthday party in Toronto. Her accompanist was a film composer who signed her when she was 11. Stell headed to Azusa Pacific University after finishing high school. She returned home after one year and attended Solano Community College, taking acting classes from George Maguire. She appeared in some local benefit shows and Solano College Theatre productions. Stell also worked with special needs adults through Dungarvin, a national organization of privately owned properties that serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She also recorded a new tune, “White Lighter,” based on an urban legend surrounding the deaths of Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain. The legend says all four rock stars were found to have had white lighters in their pockets at the time of their deaths. Stell headed to Los Angeles when she was 22. She recently returned to Solano County. “My sound has evolved a lot, especially within the last five years,” she shared in an email with the Daily Republic. “I think that the evolution of an artist is parallel to their acceptance of self. I was afraid to be myself for a long time. “After creating a SoundCloud a few years ago, I was introduced to a whole new world of producers and artists who created the music I had always envisioned myself singing in my head,” she wrote. “The music I am making now is inspired and produced by those producers who have become some of my best friends and is also a reflection of duality. See Stell, Page B2
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FAIRFIELD — A new online exhibition from the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa brings Peanuts fans inside the world of Charles M. Schulz – and beyond the walls of the museum – from the comfort of their home. “Hidden Treasures: Unseen Originals from the Schulz Museum” shares more than 65 rarely seen original Peanuts comic strips with new, exclusive audio and visual enhancements designed for online audiences. The original comic strips featured have been displayed only once during a 2019 exhibition of the same name at the museum. From Snoopy’s doghouse
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Scan of original Peanuts comic strip with a personal dedication written by Charles M. Schulz. This Peanuts comic strip was first published on April 26, 1970. to the Great Pumpkin, the exhibition explores the foundational themes of Peanuts and offers an intimate look at classic favorites.
Audiences are invited to zoom in closely on the original strips to view Schulz’s pen strokes, margin notes and other fine details that are
lost in newspaper and book reproductions. “The original Peanuts strips presented here have very rarely been exhibited to the public,” Exhibitions Manager Lauren Figueroa said in a press release. “This includes some consecutive storylines that until recently, likely had not been seen together since they left Schulz’s drawing board years ago.” The online presentation is also paired with new, behindthe-scenes commentary from the cartoonist’s widow, Jean Schulz, curator Benjamin L. Clark and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates staff members Alexis Fajardo and Justin Thompson. “To have the opportunity to listen to such See Peanuts, Page B2
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Gallery 621 features Sonia Gill’s ‘Light in Dark Times’ Daily Republic Staff
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BENICIA — Sonia Gill’s “Light in Dark Times� is the featured exhibit at Gallery 621 in February. A native of Wisconsin, Sonia Gill has lived in California since 1974 and maintains homes and studios in Berkeley and Yorkville (Mendocino County) with her husband, son and smiling yellow Labrador. One of her paintings on exhibit is “A Good Defense.� “Always attracted by light, I have learned to love the dark,� she wrote in brief about the exhibit. “Always passionate about color, I am developing a fondness for black and white. And always obsessed with values, I continue to be so.�
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“Around Town� is a paper collage from Sonia Gill. The show is a small sampling of her “Doing the Dishes� series where she employs oil, collage
and watercolor. “My dishes, like the people in my life, have been collected one at a time for a wide variety of reasons and needs,� Gill wrote. “Their visual relationship, as they are drying sinkside, brings to mind the relationships I have to and with the people of my life. Some stand by themselves, some lean on others, some block the light from their neighbors and some reflect the one next to them in a distorted yet pleasing way that enhances the composition and allows the viewer to find comfort in a visually complicated work.� The gallery is at 309 First St. and is open from noon to 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Gill’s website is www. soniagill.com.
Lucky Penny announces Stop ‘PlayDemic’ opening date
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FAIRFIELD — Lucky Penny Productions in Napa has begun remote rehearsals for “PlayDemic,� a series of short plays about these odd times within which we are living. The pieces will be filmed and ready for on-demand viewing Feb. 26. The Napa-based company is also planning a new music show, “In the Mood: A Virtual Concert Featuring Favorites from the 1950s Through Today.� It will feature the four women who were scheduled to be performing “The Marvelous Wonderettes� this month – familiar performers Jenny Veilleux and Kirstin Pieschke, and two new faces, Maeve Smith and Chanel Tilghman. The show should debut in mid-April. Lucky Penny’s Barry Martin and Taylor Bartolucci said they are hopeful with the Covid-19 vaccine
rollout and hope to be able to make plans to open the doors soon. They are exploring options for outdoor theater in the summer and fall that can be done in a way that is safe for audiences, performers and technicians. “When we return to live theater, we may need to approach things a little differently for some time – keeping things smaller to reduce risk,� Martin and Bartolucci said in a prepared statement. “That means we may have to postpone some of the bigger shows that are simply not feasible now. But we are committed to keeping our standards high. “We are very lucky to have had solid community support to survive this situation. We are continuing to pinch every penny and we feel confident we can make it through the woods.� For more information, send an email to info@luckypennynapa.com, call 266-6305 and leave a message or visit www.luckypennynapa.com.
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original Nut Tree, including displays of the restaurant, retail shops and the post office. The colorful art of Nut Tree graphic artists, led by Don Birrell, will be displayed throughout the exhibit. Seasonal events will recreate the year-round Nut Tree experience with plans to recreate the Pumpkin Patch and other Nut Tree originals. Tentative plans are: Spring: Exhibit opens and Nut Tree cookie baking contest and tasting. Summer: Musical Americana, Nut Tree-inspired Farm to Fork dinner and Nut Tree employee reunion. Fall: Pumpkin Patch, Pumpkin Carving Demonstration and Scarecrow Display. Winter: Nut Tree Display and A Night at the Museum: Nut Tree Dinner in the Museum Gallery. If you are interested in helping by donating or loaning Nut Tree memorabilia, or by sponsoring a Nut Tree Centennial event, call the museum at 447-4513.
Stell From Page B1 “Some of my songs have a very feminine energy while others embody more of my aggressive masculine side,� she wrote. Music and family have been her mainstays during tough times, Stell wrote. “Music has always been my life and the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do, but after going through some mental health issues it became even more real to me,� she wrote in an email. “I went through psychosis and was diagnosed with severe depression and OCD a few years ago while I was living in LA. I ended up having to move back home because of it. It was the scariest time of my life, but I’m doing much better and have a great support system.
Exhibit From Page B1 “However, as I reflect back on things, it’s very clear to me that the poems and paintings relate to each other in an organic, free-field sort of way,� he writes. “They
Peanuts From Page B1 personal insight from Jean Schulz and hear the group discuss the comic strips, themes and storylines is what makes this online exhibition truly unique,� Figueroa said in the press release. “It’s an entirely new experience that we’re excited
“Writing songs was my way of coping with everything and still is,� she wrote. “I will be releasing more music this year.� Stell recently worked with veteran DJ Darude on a song. A friend co-wrote the song and through them Stell was connected with the Finnish DJ and record producer. She released the single “Kamikaze� in 2019. Stell was featured in 2020 on Divine’s single of “Chains.� Stell said she misses Los Angeles, but not the traffic and parking tickets. “Solano Count y will always be home to me,� she wrote. Her favor ite musical artists today are Salem, Lil Peep, Hans Zimmer, Future, Corbin, Ghostemane and Barnacle Boi. Check out Stell on SoundCloud, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Spotify. all grew to maturity in close proximity to each other, and like siblings that grow up together and then leave the house, they are all individuals but also connected.� The gallery at 307 First St. is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Masks are required. to be sharing with the Peanuts fans.� “Hidden Treasures� also takes a deep dive into the anatomy of a comic strip and provides a close look at nearly a dozen objects from the museum’s archives and collection, including correspondence, sketches, animation cels and classic Peanuts products. Visit schulzmuseum. org for details on how to access the exhibit.
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MEL releases schedules for abbreviated seasons Paul Farmer
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FAIRFIELD — Weather permitting, the Monticello Empire League will begin its Covid-19 pandemicdelayed sports year with three girls tennis matches on Feb. 15 – Fairfield at Armijo, Rodriguez at Vacaville and Wood at Vanden. In a pair of meetings last week, the league put together schedules for each of its sports with girls tennis, boys golf and cross country – three of the seven
sports allowable under the California Department of Public Health’s Purple Tier – kicking things off in February. “As far as all the schools in the MEL are concerned, we’re looking forward to getting sports back on track again,” said Joan Mumaugh, league commissioner. “Even though this year won’t look like a normal year because we’re doing all sports in the next few months, the goal is to get as many of the sports a chance to play
and the students a chance to play more than one sport during this period of time. “We know it won’t be normal, but at least it will get the students reconnected – reconnected to their schools and reconnected to their classmates.” L eague competition would be with single-, double- or triple-round robins with the possibility of league championship tournaments in some sports should conditions permit and approval be given. There will be
no Sac-Joaquin Section of CIF State championships, though teams would be able to have nonleague competitions that don’t interfere with their league commitments after receiving site and district approval. “They have their league commitment (for most sports) of two days a week,” Mumaugh said. “They have the other days of the week plus Saturday to do any nonleague competition.” By setting up the schedules the way the MEL did,
many of its athletes would be able to compete in more than one sport. “Covid color tiers played the main factor in deciding when each sport could possibly play,” said Melissa Wilson, Armijo athletic director and softball coach. “We started with Purple Tier sports, spaced sports to minimize overlap, and then (put them into) groups evenly. Equity and our multi-sport athletes were at the forefront.” Unless changes come down from the state, tier
improvement is necessary for some sports to get underway. Unless state officials allow all sports to be played in the Red Tier, as many around California have requested, football would need Solano County to move up two tiers to Orange for the sport to be played. Mumaugh is hopeful, but has her doubts. “Unless things change drastically, which they could, (football) probably won’t See MEL, Page B14
Kings win again to reach .500 despite Jokic’s 50-point double-double Tribune Content Agency
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Quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, left, and Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers present
a dream matchup in Super Bowl 55. Brady is looking for his seventh Super Bowl victory, Mahomes his second.
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NFL’s best run defense this season, giving up 80.6 yards per game. What’s more, defensive tackle Vita Vea was coming back from injury in the Green Bay game and logged a robust 33 plays. He’s a brick wall. The Chiefs have a good rookie back in Clyde Edwards-Helaire, and they have so much speed that they can do big damage running Tyreek Hill and Mecole Hardman on jet sweeps. Still, their passing game is their bread and butter, so the short-passing game will replace the running game to some degree. Linebackers Lavonte David and Devin White will present problems for Chiefs. EDGE: Buccaneers
Chiefs vs. Buccaneers: How the Super Bowl LV teams match up LOS ANGELES TIMES
Breaking down the on-field matchups for Sunday’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs (16-2) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (14-5) in Super Bowl LV at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., at 3:30 p.m. (TV: CBS)
Chiefs pass offense vs. Buccaneers pass defense The biggest key for the Chiefs is they can’t go backward. That means no giving up sacks, and no holding calls. Not easy when the Buccaneers apply pressure off the edge with Jason PierrePaul and Shaq Barrett,
ANALYSIS and Kansas City is playing with two backup tackles. Patrick Mahomes can drop way back, extend plays, then throw on a rope with the flick of a wrist. The Chiefs will look to take the edge off that pass rush by emphasizing the quick-passing game, meaning the ball is thrown within 2.5 seconds, and with an up-tempo offense that will cause that pass rush to wane in the fourth or fifth play of a drive. EDGE: Chiefs
Chiefs run offense vs. Buccaneers run defense Tampa Bay had the
Buccaneers pass offense vs. Chiefs pass defense Tampa Bay’s pass game is predicated on the running game‘s success. If the Buccaneers can run enough for the Chiefs to commit resources, Tom Brady is going to get 6-foot-5 Mike Evans in one-on-one coverage, and Evans isn’t a receiver who needs to be entirely open to reel in passes. Speedster Scotty Miller will be more of a factor than Antonio Brown, who hasn’t been part of what’s made the Buccaneers good. Like the Chiefs, the Buccaneers have many capable targets, among them Chris Godwin as See Teams, Page B4
HOF welcomes 49ers’ GM John Lynch; Alex Smith’s wins Comeback POY Tribune Content Agency Eight was enough. John Lynch, in his eighth straight year as a finalist, broke through Saturday night and was named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Now entering his fifth year as the 49ers’ general manager, Lynch made it to Canton for his 15-year career as a hard-hitting and leadership-oozing safety, having excelled for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1993-2003) and the Denver Broncos (2004-07) as a Stanford product. He was a nine-time Pro Bowler and three-time All-Pro. Lynch’s induction was announced late in Saturday’s NFL Honors program, during which former 49ers quarterback Alex Smith won the Associated Press’ Comeback Player of the Year award for his return to the Washington lineup after a catastrophic leg injury. Smith received 49 of 50 votes, with the other going to the Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger. A year ago at this time, Lynch was named NFL Executive of the Year by the Pro Football Writers of America while presiding over
Raiders’ Woodson, Flores elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame Tribune Content Agency The coach and the cornerback will be in Canton. Saturday was a big day for the Raiders as Tom Flores, who led the franchise to two of its three Super Bowl titles, and defensive back Charles Woodson, the only player in NFL history with at least 50 interceptions and 20 sacks, were elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. ESPN reported Flores’ election. an NFC Championship roster with coach Kyle Shanahan. “Fortunately my mind is occupied and I have a lot of other duties, so I haven’t thought about it a whole lot, but I have thought it could be a very special weekend,” Lynch said a few days prior to missing last year’s final cut, before the 49ers’ lost in
Flores and Woodson, who spent 11 of his 18 seasons in Oakland, share a Raiders connection. However, they took far different paths to the Hall: Flores, 83, coached his last NFL game in 1994 and Woodson, 44, was a firstballot selection. The selection of Flores, one of the 13 coaches to win multiple Super Bowls, has historical significance. In 1960, with the See Hall, Page B5 Super Bowl LIV in what wasn’t such a special weekend. Both Lynch and Shanahan signed contract extensions prior to last season that lock that tandem in through 2024. Also part of this year’s Hall of See HOF, Page B4
SACRAMENTO — Nikola Jokic might lead the Denver Nuggets to another deep playoff run and he might even win his first MVP award, but he can’t seem to beat the Kings. Jokic turned in another monster performance with a 50-point doubledouble, but the Kings beat the Nuggets for the third time this season, winning 119-114 at Golden 1 Center on Saturday afternoon. Harrison Barnes had a team-high 28 points and seven rebounds for the Kings (11-11), who have won six of their last seven games to get to .500. “We’re in a good groove right now,” Barnes said. Jokic had a careerhigh 50 points, 12 assists and eight rebounds for
the Nuggets (12-10), extending his streak of consecutive double-doubles to start the season to 22 games. Jokic made 20 of 33 field-goal attempts and 3 of 6 from 3-point range. According to Basketball-Reference, Jokic became the first center to post at least 50 points and 10 assists in a game since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Jan. 19, 1975. “Jokic is one of the front runners for MVP this season,” Kings coach Luke Walton said. “There’s not much you can do. If you double him, he throws it to an open cutter, and if you guard him one-on-one, he scores, so you’ve got to give him a lot of credit, but I think our guys really battled. See Kings, Page B14
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The Oakland Athletics’ Khris Davis hits an RBI double in the first inning against the Texas Rangers, April 14, 2019, in Arlington, Texas.
A’s acquire shortstop Elvis Andrus, send Khris Davis to Rangers in trade Tribune Content Agency The A’s filled their biggest need, shortstop, acquiring Elvis Andrus from Texas in a trade Saturday that included sending designated hitter Khris Davis to the Rangers. Oakland acquired A ndr us, for mer Giants catcher Aramis Garcia and cash from Texas for Davis, catcher Jonah Heim and right-handed pitching prospect Dane Acker, the teams said. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported the A’s were receiving $13.5 million in the trade. Andrus, 32, is a .274 career hitter who has logged 145 or more games in 10 of 12 MLB seasons but dealt with injuries in
2018 and 2020. He’ll be the A’s everyday shortstop, general manager David Forst said, replacing Marcus Semien, the 2019 MVP finalist who recently signed with Toronto. Forst said he first talked to the Rangers about Andrus in November and after “Plan A” of re-signing Semien didn’t happen, the deal with Texas came together in the last week. “This was a position we were going to have to piece together, but instead you (add) a guy who wants to play every day, who plays excellent defense, who has hit in the leadoff spot,” Forst said on a video call with reporters. “Obviously has not been the offensive player See Davis, Page B5
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Sunday’s TV sports
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Note: Some events may be canceled or moved to different times and/or stations because of Covid-19 considerations
NFL Playoffs
CALENDAR Basketball College men •Iowa at Indiana, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 9 a.m. •DePaul at Marquette, FS1, 9 a.m. •Georgetown at Villanova, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 11:30 a.m. •Temple at Wichita State, ESPNU, noon •Boise State at Nevada, FS1, 1 p.m. •VCU at Duquesne, NBCSN, 1 p.m. •California at Stanford, FS1, 7 p.m. College women •Missouri at Auburn, SEC, 10 a.m. •Florida State at Miami, ESPNU, 10 a.m. •North Carolina State at North Carolina, ACC, 11 a.m. •Notre Dame at Louisville, ESPN, 11 a.m. •Indiana at Iowa, ESPN2, 11 a.m. •Arkansas at Texas A&M, SEC, noon •Utah at Stanford, PAC12, P12BA, 1 p.m. NBA •Boston at Phoenix, NBATV, 11 a.m. •Sacramento at L.A. Clippers, NBCSCA, noon (Vacaville only) Football NFL •Super Bowl 55, Kansas City vs. Tampa Bay, Chs. 5, 13, 3:30 p.m. Golf •European Tour, Saudi International, final round, GOLF, 12:30 a.m. •PGA Tour, Waste Management Phoenix Open, final round, GOLF, 10 a.m. •PGA Tour, Waste Management Phoenix Open, final round, Ch. 3, GOLF, noon Gymnastics College women •Michigan State, Illinois at Ohio State, BIG TEN, 1 p.m. Hockey NHL •Philadelphia at Washington, Ch. 3, 9 a.m. •Carolina at Columbus, NHL, noon Lacrosse College men •Denver at North Carolina, ESPNU, 8 a.m. •Robert Morris at Duke, ACC, 1 p.m. Soccer •Serie A, Benevento vs. Sampdoria, ESPN2, 3:25 a.m. •Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur vs. West Brom, NBCSN, 4 a.m. •Premier League, Wolves vs. Leicester City, NBCSN, 6 a.m. •FIFA Club World Cup, fifth-place match, FS1, 7 a.m. •La Liga, Athletic Bilbao vs. Valencia, BEIN, 7:05 a.m. •Premier League, Liverpool vs. Manchester City, NBCSN, 8:30 a.m. •La Liga, Osasuna vs. Eibar, BEIN, 9:20 a.m. •FIFA Club World Cup, semifinals, Palmeiras vs. Tigres UANL, FS2, 10 a.m. •La Liga, Real Betis vs. Barcelona, BEIN, 11:50 a.m. •Ligue 1, Marseille vs. Paris Saint-Germain, BEIN, 3 p.m. (taped) •Super Lig, Malatyaspor vs. Trabzonspor, BEIN, 7:55 a.m. (Monday) Tennis •Australian Open, first round, ESPN, 4 p.m. •Australian Open, first round, ESPN2, 6:30 p.m. •Australian Open, first round, ESPN2, midnight (Monday) Volleyball College women •Oregon at USC, PAC12, 3 p.m. Wrestling •Iowa at Purdue, BIG TEN, 8:30 a.m. •Iowa vs. Ohio State, BIG TEN, 11 a.m.
HOF: Lynch picked From Page B3 Fame class are firstyear eligible inductees Pey ton M a nn ing, Charles Woodson and Calvin Johnson, along with former Raiders coach Tom Flores and two Steelers greats, guard Alan Faneca and scout Bill Nunn. Lynch’s playing career covered 224 games (191 starts), 1,059 tackles, 13 sacks, 26 interceptions, 16 forced fumbles, nine fumble recoveries, 100 passes defensed, and, countless punishing hits that balanced his heady leadership. His final tackle came in a New England Patriots uniform, albeit unofficially because it came in a 2008 exhibition finale (against New York Giants quarterback David Carr on a 5-yard scramble). Other defensive backs who were Hall of Fame finalists this year: Woodson (Raiders, Green Bay Packers 1998-2012), LeRoy Butler (Green Bay Packers, 1990-2001) and Ronde Barbers (Bucs, 1997-2012). Only eight Pro Football Hall of Fame
Lynch’s playing career covered 224 games (191 starts), 1,059 tackles, 13 sacks, 26 interceptions, 16 forced fumbles, and nine fumble recoveries. members were finalists more often than Lynch: Lynn Swann (14 times), Carl Eller (13), Paul Hornung (12), Jerry Kramer (11), Tom Mack (11), Willie Wood (10) and former 49ers running back John Henry Johnson (9). Lynch became the eighth Hall of Famer to enter as an eight-time finalist, joining Ray Guy, Don Maynard, Art Monk, Andre Reed, Pete Rozelle, John Stallworth and Jack Youngblood.
Wild card Round Saturday, Jan. 9 Buffalo 27, Indianapolis 24 L.A. Rams 30, Seattle 20 Tampa Bay 31, Washington 23 Sunday, Jan. 10 Baltimore 20, Tennessee 13 New Orleans 21, Chicago 9 Cleveland 48, Pittsburgh 37 Divisional Round Saturday, Jan. 16 Green Bay 32, L.A. Rams 18 Buffalo 17, Baltimore 3 Sunday, Jan. 17 Kansas City 22, Cleveland 17 Tampa Bay 30, New Orleans 20 Sunday, Jan. 24 Conference championships NFC, Tampa Bay 31, Green Bay 26 AFC, Kansas City 38, Buffalo 24 Sunday’s Game Super Bowl 55 At Tampa, Florida Kansas City vs. Tampa Bay, 3:30 p.m.
HOCKEY NHL Colorado St. Louis Vegas Minnesota Arizona Anaheim SAN JOSE Los Angeles
West Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 11 7 3 1 15 38 24 12 7 4 1 15 40 39 8 6 1 1 13 28 19 11 6 5 0 12 30 30 11 5 5 1 11 30 30 12 4 5 3 11 23 33 9 4 5 0 8 27 35 10 3 5 2 8 28 34
North Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 12 9 2 1 19 45 33 12 8 2 2 18 48 31 11 7 3 1 15 39 32 12 6 6 0 12 42 43 15 6 9 0 12 49 60 10 4 5 1 9 27 27 12 2 9 1 5 28 52 East Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 11 8 1 2 18 36 24 Philadelphia 12 7 3 2 16 39 37 Washington 11 6 2 3 15 40 38 Pittsburgh 11 5 5 1 11 33 41 New Jersey 9 4 3 2 10 23 26 N.Y. Islanders 10 4 4 2 10 23 27 N.Y. Rangers 10 4 4 2 10 29 28 Buffalo 10 4 4 2 10 30 32 Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 9 7 1 1 15 32 18 Florida 8 6 0 2 14 29 23 Columbus 12 5 4 3 13 31 37 Carolina 8 6 2 0 12 26 19 Chicago 12 4 4 4 12 35 39 Dallas 8 5 2 1 11 32 21 Nashville 11 5 6 0 10 29 36 Detroit 12 2 8 2 6 22 43 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs. Friday’s Games SAN JOSE 5, Anaheim 4, SO Boston 2, Philadelphia 1 Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 1 Florida 2, Nashville 1 Vegas 5, Los Angeles 2 Saturday’s Games SAN JOSE at Anaheim, (n) N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, ppd. Montreal 2, Ottawa 1 Arizona 3, St. Louis 1 Colorado at St. Louis, ppd. Arizona at Minnesota, ppd. N.Y. Islanders 4, Pittsburgh 3 Toronto 5, Vancouver 1 Buffalo at Boston, ppd. Edmonton at Calgary, (n) Sunday’s Games Philadelphia at Washington, 9 a.m. Los Angeles at Vegas, noon Colorado at St. Louis, ppd. Arizona at Minnesota, ppd. Chicago at Dallas, noon Detroit at Florida, noon Carolina at Columbus, noon Toronto Montreal Winnipeg Edmonton Vancouver Calgary Ottawa
Monday’s Games Buffalo at Boston, ppd. N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m. Carolina at Columbus, 4 p.m. Edmonton at Ottawa, 4 p.m. Vancouver at Toronto, 4 p.m. Tampa Bay at Nashville, 5 p.m. Tuesday’s Games SAN JOSE at Los Angeles, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 3 p.m. Philadelphia at Washington, 4 p.m. Detroit at Florida, 4 p.m. Edmonton at Ottawa, 4 p.m. St. Louis at Minnesota, ppd. Tampa Bay at Nashville, 5:30 p.m. Chicago at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Arizona at Colorado, ppd. Anaheim at Vegas, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at Calgary, 7 p.m.
BASKETBALL NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Philadelphia 17 7 .708 — Boston 12 9 .571 3½ Brooklyn 14 11 .560 3½ New York 11 13 .458 6 Toronto 10 13 .435 6½ Central Division W L Pct GB Milwaukee 15 8 .652 — Indiana 12 11 .522 3 Cleveland 10 14 .417 5½ Chicago 9 13 .409 5½ Detroit 5 17 .227 9½ Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 11 12 .478 — Charlotte 10 13 .435 1 Orlando 9 15 .375 2½ Miami 8 14 .364 2½ Washington 5 14 .263 4 WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division W L Pct GB Utah 18 5 .783 — Denver 12 10 .545 5½ Portland 12 10 .545 5½ Oklahoma City 10 12 .455 7½ Minnesota 6 17 .261 12
Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Lakers 17 6 .739 — L.A. Clippers 17 7 .708 ½ Phoenix 12 9 .571 4 GOLDEN STATE 12 11 .522 5 SACRAMENTO 11 11 .500 5½ Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 13 10 .565 — Houston 11 11 .500 1½ Memphis 9 9 .500 1½ New Orleans 10 12 .455 2½ Dallas 10 14 .417 3½ Friday’s Games New Orleans 114, Indiana 113 Orlando 123, Chicago 119 Toronto 123, Brooklyn 117 Milwaukee 123, Cleveland 105 Utah 138, Charlotte 121 Miami 122, Washington 95 Minnesota 106, Oklahoma City 103 Phoenix 109, Detroit 92 Boston 119, L.A. Clippers 115 Saturday’s Games SACRAMENTO 119, Denver 114 Dallas 134, GOLDEN STATE 132 New York 110, Portland 99 Chicago 118, Orlando 92 Philadelphia 124, Brooklyn 108 Atlanta 132, Toronto 121 Milwaukee 124, Cleveland 99 San Antonio at Houston, 5 p.m. Oklahoma City 120, Minnesota 118 New Orleans 118, Memphis 109 Detroit at L.A. Lakers, (n) Sunday’s Games SACRAMENTO at L.A. Clippers, noon Portland at Charlotte, ppd. Washington at Charlotte, 10 a.m. Utah at Indiana, 10 a.m. Miami at New York, 10 a.m. Boston at Phoenix, 11 a.m. Monday’s Games GOLDEN STATE at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m. Houston at Charlotte, 4 p.m. Washington at Chicago, 5 p.m. Toronto at Memphis, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Cleveland at Phoenix, 6 p.m. Milwaukee at Denver, 6:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 7 p.m. Tuesday’s Games GOLDEN STATE at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m. Philadelphia at SACRAMENTO, 7 p.m. Brooklyn at Detroit, 4 p.m. New York at Miami, 4:30 p.m. Houston at New Orleans, 4:30 p.m. Boston at Utah, 7 p.m. Orlando at Portland, 7 p.m.
Leon Spinks, who beat Muhammad Ali in historic upset, dies at 67 The Washington Post Leon Spinks, who unexpectedly defeated Muhammad Ali to win the world heavyweight boxing championship in 1978, only to lose his title seven months later and become something of a cautionary tale for the dangers of his sport, died Feb. 5. He was 67. The death was announced his publicity company, Firm PR. Complete details were not immediately available. He had battled prostate cancer and other ailments for several years. During the seven glo-
rious months that he held the heavyweight crown, Spinks tasted the greatest success his brutal sport had to offer. He had fought in the Marine Corps, he had won a gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1976, but he was not considered a leading contender for the heavyweight title when he stepped into the ring against Ali in Las Vegas on Feb. 15, 1978. It was only his eighth professional fight. Spinks was 24 at the time and had grown up in poverty in St. Louis idolizing the man he was fighting for the title. Ali was 36 and already a
legend in the sport. That night in the ring, Ali was sluggish and, at 224 pounds, a little overweight. But no one expected the reigning champion to have much trouble with the unproven and unpolished Spinks, whose smile outside the boxing ring revealed a huge gap where his front teeth had once been. Ali was careless in the early rounds as the lean, 197-pound Spinks built an early lead. Later in the fight, Ali tried to knock out his inexperienced challenger, but Spinks summoned an inner determination. Amid the
punches he was absorbing and delivering, he said he had a momentary flashback to his childhood. “My dad had gone around and told people I would never be anything,” he told Sports Illustrated after the fight. “It hurt me. I’ve never forgotten it. I made up my mind that I was going to be somebody in this world. That, whatever price I had to pay, I was going to succeed at something.” He battled back, shaking off Ali’s desperate punches and fighting with a renewed strength, See Spinks, Page B5
Teams: Bucs picked to pull off upset From Page B3 well as tight ends Rob Gronkowski and Cameron Brate. EDGE: Buccaneers
Buccaneers run offense vs. Chiefs run defense Leonard Fournette and Ronald Jones are good, not great, but they get the benefit of going against a so-so Kansas City run defense. The Chiefs are surrendering 122.1 yards per game on the ground. That’s somewhat deceptive, though, because Kansas City is so explosive in terms of scoring, opponents often have to abandon the ground game to start slinging it. The Buccaneers need to establish the run to get the Chiefs to play them honest, and to set up one-on-one matchups against their receivers. So Brady will be handing it off a fair share in hopes of keeping Mahomes on the sideline. EDGE: Buccaneers
Special teams Both teams have good kickers. Tampa Bay’s Ryan Succop has made all eight of his field-goal attempts this postseason, and eight of nine pointafter tries. Kansas City’s Harrison Butker had the most accurate field goal season of his career (92.6%) but missed a couple of PATs in the playoffs against Cleveland. The scale-tippers are Hill and Hardman, both of whom are capable of being big-time returners for the Chiefs. EDGE: Chiefs
Coaching The needle points to
Kansas City, both because the Chiefs won the Super Bowl last year, and Andy Reid is particularly tough after a week off. Even though he’s a quarterback whisperer coaching the best to ever play the position, Bruce Arians had some rough spots getting in rhythm with Brady. An X-factor: Kansas City defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo beat Brady in a Super Bowl, when Spagnuolo was with the New York Giants. EDGE: Chiefs
Three Buccaneers who must come through Donovan Smith, left tackle – He protects Tom Brady’s blind side. If Brady has time, he wins. Defensively, you don’t have to hit home runs with sacks. If you make Brady see and feel pressure, the football doesn’t come out the same way. Shaq Barrett, outside linebacker – Barrett is the kind of defensive talent who can take over a game, and he needs to get to Patrick Mahomes. Barrett had eight sacks this season, and is the type of player who can force critical turnovers. Leonard Fournette, running back – Fournette was on thin ice earlier this season, but he has come through in the playoffs, and he’s solid in pass protection, which is key when you have a 43-year-old quarterback.
Three Buccaneers you should know Tristan Wirfs, right tackle – Wirfs , a Pro Bowl snub, has been spectacular in his first season, giving up just one sack this season. The rookie from Iowa will
have his hands full against the Kansas City defensive front but he’s up to the challenge. Antoine Winfield Jr., safety – The secondround pick is the son of a former NFL player, a tape junkie and workout warrior who shows up to do extra work with defensive coordinator Todd Bowles. Missed NFC title game with bad ankle. Scotty Miller, wide receiver – So much focus is on the speed of Tyreek Hill and Mecole Hardman, but Miller is lightning quick too. He scored a big, and demoralizing, touchdown at the end of the first half against Green Bay.
Three Chiefs who must come through Tyreek Hill, wide receiver – Even if he doesn’t catch a bunch of passes, Hill can impact this game because he’s always a threat. The Buccaneers are going to have to double-team him, and that’s going to create opportunities. Travis Kelce, tight end – Kelce is a force in the middle of the field, where he can sit down in the middle of the defense and cause problems. He’s a sure-handed security blanket for Mahomes, and the Buccaneers will struggle containing him. Frank Clark, defensive end – This could just as easily be defensive tackle Chris Jones, but Brady has a hard time with defensive linemen caving in the pocket and moving him off his mark. Just look when he’s struggled in Super Bowls.
Three Chiefs you should know Demarcus Robinson,
wide receiver – If Hill attracts double-teams, another receiver will be expected to step up. Mecole Hardman and Sammy Watkins are obvious choices, but it could be Robinson, who missed the week of practice while on the Covid-19/reserve list. Clyde EdwardsHelaire, running back – The Buccaneers have a smothering run defense, so it might not be on handoffs that Edwards-Helaire shows his worth. Dating to his days at Louisiana State, he has been terrific catching passes out of the backfield. Juan Thornhill, safety – Fellow safety Tyrann Mathieu gets the bulk of the attention, and for good reason since he’s excellent. But Thornhill will play a key role against Tampa Bay’s towering receivers such as Mike Evans and Chris Godwin.
Sam Farmer’s prediction The Chiefs are a zombie team in that they relentlessly come at you with waves of explosive offensive players. Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback in a generation. But the Buccaneers will apply a lot of pressure up front to an offensive line that has backups at the tackle positions. Seven times this season, the Chiefs failed to score 30 points. Tom Brady isn’t shabby in Super Bowls – check out his six rings – and for the first time he’s playing one at home. Tampa Bay pulls off the upset in a shootout. Buccaneers 31, Chiefs 28
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Giants outfielder Spinks: Defeated Ali on split decision LaMonte Wade Spinks received $3.75 million for the rematch (with Muhammad Ali), but it was Jr.’s skills include the end of a dream, and the beginning of a ping-pong prowess long, steep descent. He would never wear From Page B4
Tribune Content Agency The Giants’ newest outfielder gets in a lot of work on his hand-eye coordination with a robot. A ping-pong robot, to be exact. “You can play all day and all night if you want to,” LaMonte Wade Jr. said with a laugh. Acquired in a trade with the Twins this week, Wade is a ping-pong fiend, and back home in Baltimore, where he lives in the offseason, his family is also into table tennis. His mom, Emily, “takes it seriously,” he said. Wade potentially represents the Giants’ final move going into spring training, with pitchers and catchers reporting Feb. 15. The team had wanted to add a left-handed hitting outfielder and dealt right-hander Shaun Anderson to Minnesota in exchange for Wade on Thursday. Wade, 27, hit .231 in 16 games with the Twins during the shortened 2020 season, and spent time at the team’s alternate site, which made it difficult to stay in a rhythm, but he’s not complaining. “It definitely had its challenges, but that was the case for everyone,” Wade said. “I feel like I did a good job staying prepared and we had a great coaching staff at the alternate site, so when I did go back down I had great guys to work with. Not seeing a lot of pitching, it’s tough to get into a groove, but I wasn’t the only one who had to do that so I’m not going to make any excuses.” Instead, Wade used his time at the alternate site to work on his hitting, tweaking his set-up some and making a few other adjustments in order to make contact out front more often, which could
allow for more power; his top home-run total came in 2018, when he hit 11. The Giants also like his patience and walk-to-strikeout ratio: in five minor-league seasons, Wade has a .389 on-base percentage and fewer strikeouts (281) than walks (303). He also has some speed, and he can play all three outfield spots and first base. “I never played one position every day, so I’m equally comfortable at all of them,” Wade said. “I don’t have a specific spot I say I like the most.” Wade was surprised to get dealt but he’s excited for the opportunity, though he has had to cancel travel plans and leases for spring training in Florida and make arrangements for Arizona. Luckily, his younger brother Jamal, a reliever in the Mariners’ organization, already has a place to stay Scottsdale, Ariz. Wade is looking forward to seeing San Francisco for the first time. That might come in the Bay Bridge series against Oakland, because he’s in the mix for the final roster spot. Though, with an option remaining, Wade also provides some roster flexibility. He’ll know quite a few former Twins on the roster, including outfielder Jaylin Davis and pitchers Zack Littell and Matt Wisler, plus new assistant pitching coach J.P. Martinez. They know better than to challenge Wade at the ping-pong table. He’s competed in tournaments, and when he takes on teammates, Wade usually has the upper hand. “I didn’t lose too often,” Wade said. “I’m not going to say I never lost, but let’s say when I did, I always got my revenge.”
Hall: Flores gets in From Page B3 Raiders, he became the first Latino quarterback in NFL history. He later became the first minority head coach to win a Super Bowl and was the league’s first minority general manager when he joined the Seahawks’ front office in 1989. Flores also won a Super Bowl as a backup QB with the Chiefs and as wide receivers coach with the Raiders. Only Flores and Mike Ditka have won Super Bowl rings as a player, assistant coach and head coach. Flores’ 10-year playing career, the first seven of which were spent with the Raiders, bolstered his candidacy. He was one of 20 players to be in the AFL for its entire existence and ranks fifth in AFL history in passing yards. However, Flores’ crowning football achievements came as the Raiders head coach. He is the second-winning coach (83-53) in franchise history behind John Madden, had an 8-3 postseason record and was the AFC Coach of the Year in 1983. Flores had been one of five of the 13 coaches to win at least two Super Bowls who was not in the Hall. The others are the 49ers’ George Seifer t, M ike Shanahan, Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick, who is active. Flores, who was named a finalist by the Hall’s Coach Com-
Flores had been one of five of the 13 coaches to win at least two Super Bowls who was not in the Hall. mittee, received some notable public backing leading up to his election. It included a series of commercials and an online petition by Coors Light and a resolution by the California Latino Legislative Caucus. Meanwhile, there was no such buildup to Woodson’s election, which was a formality after his decorated career. Woodson, who spent seven seasons with the Packers between stints with the Raiders, is tied for fifth in NFL history in interceptions (65) and is tied for first with Rod Woodson and Darren Sharper in defensive touchdowns (13). Woodson, a ninetime Pro Bowl selection and a four-time, firstteam All-Pro, was the 1998 Defensive Rookie of the Year and the 2009 Defensive Payer of the Year. He was named the NFL’s 2000s All-Decade team. Woodson, the No. 4 pick in 1998 from Michigan, is the 10th Heisman Trophy winner in the Hall of Fame.
despite his near exhaustion. In the end, after 15 rounds, the judges awarded Spinks a victory by split decision. It was one of the most stunning upsets in boxing history. “I recall thinking,” Ali said after the fight, “ ‘That kid is a tough son of a bitch.’ “ After the fight, Spinks praised his opponent, saying of Ali, “He’s still the greatest, I’m just the latest.” Exulting in his unlikely victory, Spinks wore the championship belt around his waist in his hotel room, then used his earnings to buy two Cadillacs, a Lincoln Continental, two houses and thousands of dollars of jewelry. One of his bodyguards later became known as the actor Mr. T. Spinks signed a contract to meet Ali in a rematch seven months after their first fight. “He’s still my idol,” Spinks said of Ali. “He always will be. But in the ring, when he throws a punch, I get to throw a punch back. In the ring he’s just another guy between me and me doing my thing.” Training halfheartedly, Spinks drank late into the night, cavorted with women who were not his wife – he was then on the first of his three marriages – and burned through his cash. “People don’t like the way I spend and spend my money, and that hurts me,” Spinks told Sports Illustrated. “They don’t understand that I ain’t never had nothing, so I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.”
the championship belt again. The fight took place in New Orleans before a crowd of 63,000, with 2 billion more people watching telecasts around the world. Spinks lost the one-sided bout by unanimous decision. It was the third time Ali had won the heavyweight title, securing his legacy as the preeminent boxer of his era. Spinks received $3.75 million for the rematch, but it was the end of a dream, and the beginning of a long, steep descent. He would never wear the championship belt again. In 1979, he was knocked out in the first round of a fight in Monte Carlo by South African Gerrie Coetzee. Afterward, Spinks broke into a closed hotel bar, doing so much damage that his manager received a bill for $12,000. Two years later, Spinks had climbed back into contention and met Larry Holmes for the heavyweight championship. The fight was stopped in the third round, with Spinks being helplessly pummeled. Later that year, he was robbed in Detroit, with the muggers taking his $45,000 fur coat - and his false front teeth. Still, he fought on, losing weight to compete in the cruiserweight division, only to lose a title bid to Dwight Muhammad Qawi in 1986.
By then, Spinks was the forgotten member of the Spinks family. In 1985, his younger brother, Michael, the onetime lightheavyweight champion, defeated Holmes for the heavyweight title, avenging his brother’s loss of four years earlier. Michael Spinks held the heavyweight title for three years before losing to Mike Tyson in a brutal, one-round knockout in 1988. Michael Spinks never boxed again, but his older brother fought on, searching for a big payday and hoping to recapture the moment of glory he had known in 1978. He kept returning to the ring into his 40s, long after his speech had begun to slur. He lost his final fight to a little-known opponent in 1995, ending his career with a record of 26 wins, 17 defeats and 3 draws. Spinks briefly tried professional wrestling, racked up one drunk-driving arrest after another, moved to Detroit, later to Chicago and then, when his money ran out, stayed in a dank room at a boxing a gym. By 2005, he was living in Columbus, Neb., the hometown of his third wife, and supporting himself by unloading trucks and working as a janitor at the YMCA. “Well I’m still breathing, still making money,” he said. “I ain’t giving up on life.”
Leon Spinks Jr. was born July 11, 1953, in St. Louis, the oldest of seven children. His father abandoned the family, and Spinks did not finish high school. He took up boxing at a young age, then served in the Marine Corps, where he lost his front teeth in a boxing match. (He later lost two more teeth.) As the culmination of a 185-bout amateur boxing career, he won the lightheavyweight gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. His marriages to Nova Bush and Betty Wilson ended in divorce. He had three sons from an earlier relationship with Zadie Mae Calvin, all of whom became boxers. One of his sons, Leon Calvin Spinks, was shot to death in 1990. Spinks occasionally appeared at autograph signings and was part of a 2009 documentary, “Facing Ali,” featuring interviews with Ali’s opponents. He lived near Las Vegas in recent years. Survivors include his wife, the former Brenda Glur; two sons from his relationship with Calvin, Darryl Calvin Spinks and Cory Spinks, who was the undisputed welterweight champion from 2003 to 2005; his brother, Michael Spinks; and other siblings. A grandson, Leon Spinks III, was a professional light-heavyweight boxer. “What I wanted was to make the Spinks name stand up and mean something,” Spinks told the New York Times in 1981. “Well, I can tell my grandkids that, hey, one time at least, we used to be the tops.”
Davis: Struggled after injury in 2019 From Page B3 the last two years that he wants to be and that he’s capable of being. He told us when we talked to him . . . he has a lot left in him, he wants to go out and get his career back on track.” Davis, 33, led the majors in home runs (133) from 2016 to 2018 with the A’s and signed a two-year, $33.5 million extension in 2019. He totaled just 25 homers over the past two seasons -effects of a collision with the wall in Pittsburgh in May 2019 lingered that season – and he lost his everyday DH role in 2020. But he remained a popular teammate. Forst said trading Davis was “not an easy thing to do” and Davis “handled it like a pro, as you imagine he would.” “What Khris has brought to the organization and the city really over the last five years is hard to put into words,” Forst said. “He got here when we were on a down cycle. He gave us all something to sort of look forward to and aspire to and he kind of was the leader of this group now that has gone to the playoffs three (straight) years.” On a call with reporters, Andrus said it was “a little shock” being traded, but with the Rangers in a rebuild he welcomed joining an A’s team that won the AL West in the shortened 2020 season. Andrus knows the A’s well as a division rival and said: “I really admire the team, especially the last two years, because it’s really hard to have such young players be that mature like the A’s have right now, guys like (Matt) Chapman, ( M a t t ) O l s o n , (Jesús) Luzardo.” Andrus likened playing with Chapman to playing next to former Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre. Andrus also had praise for A’s manager Bob Melvin, saying: “I love that dude. Playing against
him, I hate him because he’s so smart. So now, playing for him I’m really excited to see what’s next in my career.” Financially, the deal makes sense for the A’s, who have spent little so far this winter following a short 2020 season with no ticket revenue. Davis is due $16.5 million in 2021. Andrus is due $14 million in base salary each of the next two seasons, per Spotrac. The money the A’s receive in the deal helps offset that, while Forst said it will also allow Oakland to explore other moves in the coming weeks – especially adding to a bullpen depleted by free agency. Andrus is signed through 2022 with an option for 2023 that would vest if Andrus reaches 550 plate appearances in 2022 or 1,100 total plate appearances in 2021-22, according to Spotrac. The option was to become a player option if Andrus was traded, per Spotrac,
though it wasn’t clear if Andrus still must reach the plate appearance totals to trigger the player option. After a strong 2017 season – a career-high 20 home runs, 100 runs and .808 OPS – Andrus suffered a fractured elbow on a hit-by-pitch in April 2018 and landed on the injured list for the first time. He played in 97 games that season, hit .275 in 147 games in 2019, then played in 29 games in 2020 due to back issues, batting .194 with a .582 OPS. Andrus, an All Star in 2010 and 2012, said his back hampered him badly last year but he lost 10 pounds this winter and focused on speed and agility work. Forst said Andrus “got a clean bill of health” from a back specialist and the A’s “feel good about the medical reports.” “I feel a lot faster – I’m moving in the infield like when I was
20 again,” Andrus said. The A’s avoid going into spring with inexperience at shortstop and won’t have to rush prospects Nick Allen and Logan Davidson, who haven’t played above A-ball. Oakland also lost second baseman Tommy La Stella to the Giants in free agency, but Forst said he’s confident with Tony Kemp, Chad Pinder and Vimael Machin as inhouse options at second and added Sheldon Neuse will “get a long look” this spring. Heim, 25, debuted last season and was the A’s backup catcher for the second half and playoffs. Forst said the Rangers had been asking about Heim for two years. Backup catcher candidates this spring will include lefthanded hitting Austin Allen, Carlos Perez and Garcia, a 2014 secondround pick by the Giants who played in 37 games with San Francisco from 2018-19, hitting .229 with six home runs.
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Spotlight on Travis Airman 1st Class Alana Willms 60th Surgical Operations Squadron Hometown: Gig Harbor, Washington. Duty title: Surgical services. Time at Travis: Two years. Family: None. Goals: To become a surgeon. Hobbies: Hiking, reading, paddle boarding. Greatest achievement: Maintaining a 4.0 grade-point average while working full time.
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Officers of the 370th (Old 8th Illinois) stand on the deck of the La France IV before landing in New York City. From left, 2nd Lt. Lawson Price, 2nd Lt. L. W. Stearls,
2nd Lt. Ed. White, 2nd Lt. Eli F. E. Williams, 1st Lt. Oasola Browning, Capt. Louis B. Johnson, 1st Lt. Frank Bates and 1st Lt. Binga Desmond.
Uncovering history Black officers led unit in World War I
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In brief B-52s arrive at Guam for operations A N DERSEN A IR FORCE BASE, Guam — Four U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress returned to the Indo-Pacific region Jan. 28 for a Bomber Task Force deployment, conducting operations out of Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. The bombers, from the 96th Bomb Squadron at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, deployed in support of Pacific Air Forces’ training efforts with allies, partners and joint forces. These strategic-deterrence missions reinforce the rules-based international order in the Indo-Pacific region. “Deploying as a Bomber Task Force exercises our ability to produce agile, combat power in any location we are needed,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Duff, 96th Bomb Squadron commander. “Our strategic bomber missions demonstrate our always-ready global strike capability. We remain ready to deploy to reach anywhere in the world at any time.”
Navy vessel sails into Indo-Pacific Command The USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is departing the Central Command area of responsibility and moving into the U.S. IndoPacific region, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby announced Feb. 2. “We want to thank all the men and women aboard the ships in that strike crew and the squadrons who supported Central Command now for more than 270 days, ensuring our national security and deterring conflict in a very critical region of the world,” Kirby said. The carrier is homeported in Bremerton, Washington. It is now in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility and can be called upon for operations, training or humanitarian exercises there. The Nimitz’s departure means there is no U.S. carrier operating in the Central Command area of operations. Kirby said Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III believes America has “a robust presence in the Middle East.” U.S. service members are based in many nations in the Persian Gulf and there is more than enough airpower to counter any adversary. — Daily Republic wire services
ROCK ISL A N D ARSENAL, Illinois — The 370th Infantry Regiment, 93rd Infantry Division during World War I stands out as one of the fascinating accounts and lessons that can be found in history. Its history and contributions are often lost in the confusion of the war; however, some physical traces of its legacy remain. The 370th is one of few African American regiments that served in combat in World War I and notably was the only regiment commanded entirely by black officers. Yet few people know about this unit of young Black men, which served alongside the First Army during World War I. The unit’s lineage is tied primarily to the 8th Illinois Regiment, originally formed in 1898 by Gov. John R. Tanner of Illinois. Tanner authorized the formation of a regiment of Black soldiers recruited from communities in Chicago and Springfield. The regiment was making history as it was the only unit to be led by Black officers to fight in the Spanish American War. The 8th Illinois regiment was mobilized in October 1917 and redesignated as the 370th Infantry Regiment and shipped south by train to Camp Logan on the outskirts of Houston, Texas, as this was the usual training camp for Illi-
Soldiers of the 370th Infantry Regiment are seen during World War I. nois Guard units. The regiment was nearly 3,000 strong at the time of mobilization. After completion of training in March 1918, the regiment shipped out to Newport News, Virginia, where the 370th first met the other 93rd Division regiments (369th, 371st and 372nd Infantry Regiments). The rest of the soldiers were comprised of National Guard units from the states of New York, Illinois, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Ohio, Tennessee, the District of Columbia and from Black men drafted in South Carolina. Upon arrival in France, the 93rd Division and its regiments were assigned to the French army. At the time, it was said to be a temporary arrangement with the plan that they would be regrouped as an American division. This was never done, as the regiments remained with the French army until the close of hostilities. The men of the 370th
fought with distinction in France and Belgium during the war. The soldiers fought hard, so hard that the Germans who fought them gave them the nickname “Schwarze Teufel,” translating to “Black Devils,” for their ferocity in combat. The 370th Infantry served with distinction along with the French 34th, 36th and 59th Infantry Divisions, earning streamers for the battles of Lorraine and Oise-Aisne. Sectors occupied and engagements participated in were Saint Mihiel with the French in 1918, Argonne Forest, St. Gobain Forest, Bosi de Mortier, Mont des Signes, Oise-Aisne Canal, Laon, Grandlup, Soissons, and Oise-Aisne and Lorraine offensives. One battalion of the regiment, under the command of Lt. Col. Otis B. Duncan, was engaged in the pursuit of the retreating enemy far in advance, when halted by the armistice. For its actions during the war, the members of the 370th received
21 Distinguished Service Crosses, one Distinguished Service Medal and 68 Croix de Guerre. Notably, Duncan was awarded a Croix de Guerre of the 370th and was additionally the highest-ranking African American officer to serve in World War I combat. The regiment would wear the distinctive blue helmet patch denoting the wearing of French equipment during the war. Immediately upon the 370th’s return from France, the Black communities of Chicago began fundraising to erect a monument to the 370th Regiment, “Black Devils.” The monument was completed in 1928 and dedicated Nov. 11, which is Armistice Day. The legacy of the 370th Infantry is borne today by the 178th Infantry Regiment, Illinois National Guard. In 2008, the unit deployed to Paktia Province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The soldiers returned home in 2009.
QUANTICO, Va. — Two years ago, Patrick Pipkins, Air Force Office of Special Investigations special agent, did what his chief of the OSI Cold Case Team called “some amazing work” to locate an Air Force deserter who went missing in 1984. At the time of her disappearance, it was believed the airman took off with a married man who had parentally kidnapped his 4-year-old son. Neither the airman, the man, nor the son were heard from since 1984. The Air Force, the airman’s family and the son’s mother were left with unanswered questions about the trio’s fate. Fast forward to 2019, when Pipkins, through some innovative data mining, determined all three missing people had assumed new identities and settled in Little Rock, Arkansas. Unfortunately, all three died of natural causes within a two-year span dating back to 2007-09. “We also learned prior to his death, the son fathered two children,” said John Fine, OSI Cold Case Team chief. “As part of our efforts to confirm the identity of the Air Force deserter, we partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to conduct DNA testing.” One of those tests confirmed the son’s identity, so 35 years later, his mother finally had some answers. Despite the sad news, she also learned she had two new grandchildren. “We learned from (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children) that in the very near future the grandmother will meet two of her grandchildren for the first time,” Fine said. According to the center, “The children were found in Little Rock, Arkansas, in a loving foster home.” The team involved with the care of the grandchildren – the case workers, doctors supervisors, and therapists – met to discuss reuniting the children with their biological grandmother and their consensus was yes. The grandmother was See Case, Page B7
Extremism sparks Defense to down day Department of Defense News WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered a Department of Defense-wide stand-down to discuss the problem of extremism in the ranks, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said Wednesday. Austin and Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with service civilian leaders and service chiefs to discuss the problem of extremism. Kirby noted that some of the extremists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 were active-duty service members and others were military veterans. Kirby was quick to say that “the vast majority of men and women who serve in uniform and the military are doing so with honor, integrity and character, and do not espouse the sorts of beliefs that lead to the kind of conduct that can be so detrimental to good order and discipline and in fact is criminal.” Still, Austin said in the meeting
with military leaders that while the numbers may be small, they are not as small as anyone would like. “No matter what it is, it is . . . not an insignificant problem and has to be addressed,” Kirby said during a press gaggle in the Pentagon. The stand-down will occur during the next 60 days, Kirby said. This is so “each service, each command and each unit can take the time out to have these needed discussions with the men and women of the force,” he said. There is much that needs to be hammered out, including the details of the training that will go along with the stand-down and what the secretary and all in the military want to accomplish. The stand-down is similar to safety stand-downs that units may have, Kirby said. Austin called extremism in the ranks a leadership issue, and “it’s got to be a leadership issue down to the lowest levels, small unit leadership all the way up to him,” Kirby said. “So if you consider it a leadership issue, then
U.S. Marine Corps file photo (2018)
An aerial view of the Pentagon, Oct. 28, 2018. maybe there will be some potential solutions there to allow us greater visibility.” This is a thorny problem, one that has raised its head in the past. There is a Department of Defense Instruction aimed at this very problem – DODI 1325.06 “Handling Dissident and Protest Activities Among Members of the Armed Forces.”
The DoD Instruction expressly prohibits military personnel from actively advocating for and participating in supremacist, extremist or criminal gang doctrine, ideology or causes, Kirby said. Austin made it clear that he is still mulling over how he wants to organize the effort to attack the problem from an institutional perspective, the press secretary said.
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US, Russia extend treaty to curb arms Case: Over Department of Defense News WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States and the Russian Federation have agreed to extend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty for five years, U.S. officials announced Thursday. The treaty was due to expire Friday. “Extending the New Start Treaty ensures we have verifiable limits on Russian (intercontinental ballistic missiles), (submarine-launched ballistic missiles) and heavy bombers until Feb. 5, 2026,� Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken said. “The New Start Treaty’s verification regime enables us to monitor Russian compliance with the treaty and provides us with greater insight into Russia’s nuclear posture, including through data exchanges and onsite inspections that allow U.S. inspectors to have eyes on Russian nuclear forces and facilities.�
Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said the extension of the treaty requires no changes in the Defense Department as the United States is in compliance with all its treaty obligations. “President (Joe) Biden’s decision to seek a five-year extension of New Start advances the nation’s defense,� Kirby said during a January briefing. “Russia’s compliance with the treaty has served our national security interests well, and Americans are much safer with New Start intact and extended.� The treaty went into effect in 2011 and put in place intrusive inspection and notification tools for both nations. “Extending the treaty’s limitations on stockpiles of strategic nuclear weapons until 2026 allows time and space for our two nations to explore new, verifiable arms control arrangements that could further reduce risks to Americans,� Kirby said.
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B-52 Stratofortress bombers are dismantled in 2017 in accordance with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. “The department stands ready to support our colleagues in the State Department as they effect this extension and explore those new arrangements.� NATO welcomes the extension. In a statement from the North Atlantic Council, offi-
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Mother of groom’s late wife wants to be invited to wedding Dear Annie: My mother – Hank’s daughter is marrying a mom – and comwidower, “Hank,” with plained to her three children. The for 40 minutes. problem is with “Gail,” The wedding had to the mother of be rescheduled due to his late wife. Covid-19, and the My daughter delay has put the issue includes Gail in the back to square one. daily household Annie Lane Gail has started all activities, including over, assuming she Dear Annie holidays and birthwill get an invitation. days. The children have Is my daughter wrong to pictures of their mom (Hank’s exclude her? — Wedding late wife) hung up in their Drama home and speak often about Dear Wedding Drama: If her. you have to ask the question, Gail is not very nice to my you probably know the daughter. She purposely calls answer. Yes, it is wrong for her the wrong name. She says your daughter not to invite the she does this because my grandmother of her stepchildaughter’s name reminds her dren to the wedding. Your of her daughter. daughter is not starting fresh Gail has done other with Hank; she’s marrying a things – such as pull the man who comes with a family children out of school after that suffered a tragedy. While being told not to. She has Gail’s behavior does sound a taken them to doctors and bit intrusive, try to remember dentists for appointments where she is coming from. without talking to my daughShe lost her daughter. She is ter or their father. She has probably devastated, and her been asked to back off some. daughter’s children are going My daughter understands that to be another woman’s Gail jumped in and helped for stepchildren. Try to show a year and that it might be compassion for Gail. You and difficult for her to turn over your daughter don’t have to these responsibilities, so she love her, but you certainly has been patient with Gail. have to learn to be kind and But they have been together gracious to her. She should for 18 months now and live continue to be a part of your together as a family. stepchildren’s lives – hopeThe issue is that my fully forever – and I think it is daughter decided not to invite up to your daughter and Hank Gail to the wedding. This is to facilitate that. intended to be a special day As far as the negative talk about the bride and groom. about your daughter, no one My daughter was concerned needs that at their wedding. that Gail might speak ill of Your daughter and Hank her to other guests, as has should have a very direct happened on other occasions. conversation with Gail, The invitations were sent out, explaining that they will not and Gail immediately wanted tolerate drama on their to know where hers was. My special day and that she is daughter explained, as nicely invited only on the condition as possible, that she was not that she meet their kindness invited. My daughter was with kindness. immediately met with mean, hateful comments. Send your questions for Gail then called the Annie Lane to dearannie@ grandkids’ paternal grandcreators.com.
Horoscopes
ARIES (March 21April 19). Because there is only one of you in all time, you were born with the responsibility of bringing that precious rarity to task, contributing the gem of your you-ness as purely as you can. TAURUS (April 20May 20). As the investor of your time and money, you’ll put it all into goodness, and in this, you cannot go wrong. Whether it pays dividends or it’s a sunk cost, you’re fortified. Right is might. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It’s not the fight that defines you; it’s your grace in the fight and, hopefully, your perseverance. Do not personalize the ups and downs. Events are not your identity. How you teach yourself to react is closer to who you really are. CANCER (June 22July 22). Systems matter more than goals. Most goals can’t be accomplished without them. And yet it’s pretty pointless to figure out a system that has no goal. The goal and the system need each other, so don’t set one without the other. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). If you think you’re happy, you probably are. If you think you’re rich, you definitely are. If you think you’re in love -also a no-brainer. But if you think you’re wise, get humble (the wise always are). VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The action that is most involving, satisfying and fruitful is that which is in the service of others and on their behalf. You’ll be most successful when you remind yourself of this several times a day. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). At times, you have been resistant to feedback for various reasons: you didn’t trust the source to have the knowledge you needed, their style was mismatched to your receptivity, etc. That’s changed. Today’s feedback is golden. SCORPIO (Oct. 24Nov. 21). Here comes the uncanny feeling that you’ve attracted the same person
by Holiday Mathis
Today’s birthday You’re a shooting star in the shape of a person. The massive energy that propels you is a reactive process having to do with timing, chemistry and a lack of environmental resistance. You’ll land in a new place, and then the real work begins, putting together feel-good routines and establishing your role in the territory. Libra and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 21, 33, 38 and 40.
with a new face. You could be right. There’s an anchor that keeps pulling you back to the dynamic. There’s a chain to be broken. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Even the most beautiful dream can look uninspiring in dreary weather. Take a breath. Put on the happy music, and deal with the day-to-day while the sun burns off these low clouds. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). There are three simple rules to follow that will keep you in good energy. 1). No complaining, only figuring it out. 2). No fighting reality. Accept what is and go from there. 3). Lighten up. Lighter things rise. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Events that call up your inner fire are not the sort you’re keen to welcome, and yet they are very much the sort you look back on and thank your lucky stars it happened to you. PISCES (Feb. 19March 20). Looking back at the “bad old days,” you’ll take particular notice of the remarkable hero of the story who carried you out of danger and pushed you into new circumstances. That hero was you, and it won’t be the last time. Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.
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Finding supportive people helps power your life Judi Light Hopson, Emma H. Hopson and Ted Hagen Tribune News Service
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f you want your life to flow more smoothly, take a close look at your “support system.” This system is comprised of those people who help you get things done. Do you have enough dependable, stable people to help you in lots of ways? Or, do you cope by relying on one or two friends too much? While health, money, and education strengthen our efforts, we all need supportive people to get things done. These individuals include: a dependable auto mechanic, doctor, hairdresser, babysitter, and more. “These people don’t magically show up,” declares a mother of four we’ll call Jennifer. “I have actively started looking for people I need.” She goes on to say, “I used to look and feel twice as good as I do now. I had a stellar hairdresser. She could cut and style like nobody’s business. But, she moved away to another state. Since then, I’ve been cutting my own hair.” Jennifer knows it takes effort to locate the right hair care person. So, she did some research by asking friends in her city on social media who they’d recommend. She’s located two great hair
Person to person stylists to try in the near future. She also found a math tutor for her son online and a new doctor for herself. Here are tips for finding supportive people: n Scan local newspapers. Look for local home remodelers, lawn services, and affordable restaurants. Local restaurants are truly support for all of us in today’s busy world. Look for reviews online connected to services you need. n Ask your close friends about possible contacts. For example, your son-in-law might know of an affordable car repair person. Or, your best friend might connect you to a good babysitter. n Grow some new friendships. If you’re depending on one or two people, this is shaky ground. All of us need at least five or six friends in our close circle. Use casual texting to inquire about someone’s favorite dessert place or call an acquaintance to ask about community colleges for your niece. Open new conversations to initiate future friendships. n Go the extra mile to help someone. If your computer repair person does a great job, offer to give this person a generous tip. Be good to people who make your life easier, so they’ll feel enthused about helping you.
“I’ve learned to really thank those who give me support,” says a retired teacher we’ll call Becky. “People respond to your calls faster, if they know you care about them. Feeding the spirit of those you depend on will energize them, so they’ll pour energy into your efforts.” “My computer repair person helped me on a Sunday afternoon,” says Becky. “This guy had fallen the day before and really hurt his leg. However, he called me back, asked me to bring my laptop to his house, and I was able to finish my documents on time.” “Always be thinking about how to build people up,” says a life coach we’ll call Phil. He emphasizes, “I have clients who, I can tell, have drained the life out of those around them.” Phil makes it a point to work on his clients’ support systems, first and foremost. “If someone has no close friends, no strong family members, no good dating partner, I start right there. I explain to them that they will be stronger with a team of people. Some have relied on themselves too much, and for too long. They are so broken, I have a hard time building them back up.” Judi Light Hopson is the Executive Director of the stress management website USA Wellness Café at usawellnesscafe.com. Emma Hopson is an author and a nurse educator. Ted Hagen is a family psychologist.
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Childhood immunizations important during the Covid-19 pandemic Harveer Gill
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ovid-19 has changed the lives of almost everyone in the United States. This is especially true for families. Parents of young children have seen their lives disrupted and priorities shifted, and many have isolated themselves for months to avoid exposure. One result is that parents across the country have canceled pediatric checkups – and immunization levels for vaccine-preventable diseases have plummeted, raising the risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks. Many Solano County health care providers are concerned about this trend. “For many reasons, during the pandemic many children have fallen behind on their routine immunizations,” said local pediatrician Dr. Tami Hendriksz, who is also professor of pediatrics at Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine and medical director of the Vallejo school district’s school-based clinics. “In October, Vallejo City Unified School District had over 400 students missing some required vaccinations. If school-age children are behind on their shots, we can assume
that younger children are as well. The babies are the population I’m really concerned about. That’s when you get your immunity from some of these serious diseases, by getting your shots at the right time in infancy.” Babies are born with a limited amount of protection from diseases through the immunity they get from their mother. This protection wears off during the first months of life, particularly if the baby is not breast-fed. This is why vaccinating young children for diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria and polio is essential. Solano County doctors and pediatricians have taken steps to ensure that their patients are safe during in-office visits. Some clinics have offered drive-thru vaccination clinics, or combined telehealth visits with shorter office visits. “We’ve made many changes since the beginning of the pandemic. We wear masks, we are cleaning rooms more thoroughly, cleaning frequently touched surfaces. We have screening checklists to check for symptoms before people come into the building. We’ve changed how people come through the clinic – it’s unidi-
rectional, to keep people from congregating too closely,” Hendriksz said. “I want parents to know that it is safe to bring their kids in for their routine immunizations.” With vaccines for Covid-19 now available, parents should get themselves and their children ready for reintegration into the world. At home, children are less susceptible to disease, but when schools meet in person again, they will become more vulnerable to acquiring all types of diseases. For parents who are concerned about their children’s health during the pandemic, it’s now more important than ever to stay up to date with shots. Families who don’t have a doctor for their children or who need help finding insurance can call Help Me Grow Solano, a free information service that helps link families with children from birth to 5 years old to the resources they need. They can be reached toll-free at 844-501KIDS (5437) or at http://www. helpmegrowsolano.org/ get-connected-parents-caregivers/. Harveer Gill is a master of public health student at Touro University California, a partner of Solano Public Health.
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How is Alaska leading in vaccinating residents? With boats, ferries, planes and snowmobiles The Washington Post Alaska, the state with the largest land mass in the nation, is leading the country in a critical coronavirus measure: per capita vaccinations. About 13% of the people who live in Alaska have already gotten a shot. That’s higher than states such as West Virginia, which has received a lot of attention for a successful vaccine rollout and has inoculated 11% of its people. But the challenge for Alaska has been how to get vaccines to people across difficult, frigid terrain – often in remote slivers of the state? “Boats, ferries, planes, snowmobiles – Alaskans will find a way to get it there,” said the state’s chief medical officer, Anne Zink, 43. Alaskans are being vaccinated on fishing boats, inside 10-seater planes and on frozen landing strips. Doctors and nurses are taking white-knuckle trips to towns and villages across the state to ensure residents are protected from the coronavirus. Contributing to Alaska’s quick speed in getting the vaccine to its residents is a federal partnership that allows the state, which has more than 200 indigenous tribes, to receive additional vaccines to distribute through the Indian Health Service. Other reasons include the state’s small population of 732,000, as well as a high number of veterans, Zink said. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ensure that high-risk veterans receive priority for the vaccine. But one big reason is the state is practiced in delivering precious cargo by transport not often used in the Lower 48. Sometimes that even means adventures by sled. a l l-fema le One medical crew of four in December used a sled pulled by a snowmobile to deliver vaccine to the village of Shungnak in the state’s remote Northwest Arctic Borough. “It’s just an easier way to get around when you don’t have a lot of roads,” said Kelli Shroyer, public communications director for the Maniilaq Health Center in Kotzebue, Alaska, where the crew started their journey. Shroyer added that people sometimes get picked up from the airport in a sled, and high school sports teams will at times travel to one another’s gyms by sled, too. Zink was so impressed by the sled crew’s delivery in December that she posted about it on her Facebook page. “I love the pictures of vaccination distribution
Alaskans are being vaccinated on fishing boats, inside 10-seater planes and on frozen landing strips. Doctors and nurses are taking white-knuckle trips to towns and villages across the state to ensure residents are protected from the coronavirus. in Alaska,” she wrote. “Recipients expressed how grateful they were that even though they are so remote, they are getting this vaccine. They are not forgotten.” Elders from some tribes recall stories about the 1918 flu pandemic, which decimated entire villages, she said. “The stories have lived on,” Zink said. “One chief told me how his grandmother took his mother out to the wilderness for a year so that she would be safe. When they returned, they learned that most of their village had died.” “We are stronger as a state because of that history,” she added. “For me, the way that villages were able to recover from that trauma speaks to what we need to do to keep moving forward.” Thousands of Alaskans are playing a role in getting people vaccinated, Zink said. Curt Jackson used to employ his water taxi, the Orca, to shuttle tourists from the small city of Homer to villages across Kachemak Bay that aren’t accessible by roads. In late December, Jackson received a request to take three nurses across the bay to Seldovia, a town with about 450 residents, including members of the Seldovia Village Tribe. Planes couldn’t fly that morning because of weather, and the water was rough. When the women climbed aboard his 32-foot aluminum landing craft and took seats in the windy darkness, Jackson said, he noticed that the woman in the middle, Candace Kreger, was clutching a bright blue cooler. That was when he realized that the women were traveling with the precious doses. “I asked them, ‘Is that the vaccine?’ and they told me that it was,” said Jackson, 46. The nurses were going to vaccinate the first group of medical workers in the village. Although the harrowing 15-mile trip across the bay took more than an hour instead of the usual 30 minutes, Jackson safely piloted his boat through strong winds and choppy, four-foot waves. At the end of the See Alaska, Page B10
Katrina Bengaard
An all-female medical crew from Alaska’s Maniilaq Health Center took a sled to deliver vaccine to the isolated village of Shungnak in December.
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The White House Oval Office in January 2021.
Presidents come and go, but
these curtains are forever The Washington Post Do those gold silk curtains in President Biden’s Oval Office look familiar? They should. They were designed for Bill Clinton’s Oval Office in 1993 by Little Rock decorator Kaki Hockersmith. But they have turned out to be one of the constants in our democracy, gracing the most powerful windows in the land during the administrations of four of the last five presidents. Talk about a backdrop to history. “The curtains in the Oval Office are so important,” Hockersmith says. “This design in the yellow damask has a sort of timelessness about it. The most photographed or filmed view of that room is the president sitting at his desk working. People have that as the image of the seat of power.” The White House is a place of history that reflects every presidential family that has lived there. It’s constantly undergoing preservation and redecoration. And arguably, the Oval Office is the most important and iconic room, where presidents address the nation after terrorist attacks or talk on the phone with world leaders. Each president makes their own design statement there. “Everyone now personalizes it,” the late historian William Seale once told me. “They usually don’t change much right away. But then they might change the curtains, and everyone eventually gets a new rug.” “The curtains are important because they become synonymous with the president and quickly
identifiable,” says Michael tains also have become for Inauguration Day, S. Smith, the Obamas’ presidential pop culture usually relying on what is decorator, who used a tra- props: They were copied available in storage. Later, ditional barn red wool in the Oval Office of fic- if they chose to, they could for the Obama Oval tional President Jed install new curtains, rugs Office windows, harking Bartlet, played by Martin and upholstery as soon back to a red curtain Sheen on the NBC series as they could be custom color he saw in portraits “The West Wing.” made, things usually paid But how do newly for by private donors or of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. elected presidents decide the White House HistoriSmith, who recently pub- on their look? Betty cal Association. (President lished “Designing Biden and first lady Histor y: The Jill Biden have These floor-to-ceiling curtains with blue not yet officially Extraordinar y banding and six curved Empire valances, Art and Style in named a decorator. the Obama White The White House installed on Bill Clinton’s Inauguration curator’s office and House” says HockDay, have garnered bipartisan support other staff would ersmith’s curtains have assisted them “feel sunny and for the past 28 years. with their selection light.” He added, “I of the Clinton draplike seeing President Biden with what looks Monkman, former White eries and Clinton’s blue like warm sun coming House curator, says rug with the presidential every president is given seal.) “This Oval is an Oval through the windows.” For the past 28 years, the option of choosing for Day One,” Ashley Wilthese floor-to-ceiling cur- from curtains already in liams, the deputy director tains with blue banding the White House collec- of Oval Office operations, and six curved Empire tion, or having their own told The Washington Post valances, installed on Clin- designed. “The curator’s on an Inauguration Day ton’s Inauguration Day, office would have given the tour. “It was important for have garnered biparti- Bidens notebooks of the President Biden to walk san support. Hockersmith Oval Office draperies and into an Oval that looked watched as her curtains carpets and desks that are like America and started remained in place during in storage, says Monkman, to show the landscape the first year of the George who is the author of “The of who he is going to be W. Bush presidency, until White House: Its Historic as president.” Hockersmith is the first his decorator Ken Blas- Furnishings and First ingame replaced them Families.” There are cur- decorator in modern times with a bronze set that he tains in an off-site storage who was able to install new and Laura Bush decided facility going back to at custom made curtains on a would complement a new least the 1960s, she says, new president’s Inauguralighter Oval Office rug carefully preserved and tion Day. This was because they commissioned. The wrapped in muslin. A little she was able to measure in gold curtains were put into known fact, she says, is that advance, due to the access storage and stayed there the day John F. Kennedy George and Barbara Bush during the Obama years. was assassinated, his gave to the Clintons after Hockersmith watched Oval Office was already Bill Clinton was elected. the coverage of Presi- undergoing a redecoraHockersmith recalls dent Donald Trump the tion, including changing her first visit to the day he arrived at his Oval the grayish-green cur- White House, not long Office in 2017. She hadn’t tains he inherited from after the 1992 election. expected to see the cur- Eisenhower to a simpler “I was invited to come tains she designed, but white. These then became with Hillary to the White after counting the swags the curtains in Lyndon B. House. We were escorted and zooming in on the Johnson’s office. up and introduced to The president-elect has [Barbara Bush] and I custom banding, she knew they were hers. They have traditionally used a deco- remember the Bushes’ dog rator of their choice to put hung there ever since. Hockersmith’s cur- together the Oval Office See Curtains, Page B10
Survey: Global vaccine trust on the rise The Washington Post A growing number of people around the world say they are willing to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to a survey of global vaccine confidence. More than half of respondents in 15 countries said they would get immunized if they were offered the shot next week. The survey by market research firm YouGov and Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation measured people’s attitudes toward coronavirus vaccines, including potential side effects and trust in governments to provide the shots. The survey took
place from November to mid-January. Two-thirds of people questioned said they trust the vaccines and that it was important to get vaccinated, with Italians reporting the greatest levels of trust (82%) followed by Britain (81%). More than half of respondents said they believed that government health authorities would provide them with effective shots. One of the major exceptions was Japan, which has not yet started its immunization campaign. There, just 16% of respondents said they strongly agreed that government health authorities would secure and distrib-
ute an effective vaccine. But while confidence in coronavirus vaccines has risen since November, skepticism surrounding the vaccine and potential side effects remained high. France, for example, reported the highest share of respondents (35%) who said they strongly disagreed when asked if they would get the vaccine if it were offered next week. Forty percent of people surveyed in France also said they strongly agree that they are worried about vaccine side effects - but that rate decreased significantly since respondents were asked in December. In Ukraine on Thursday, Prime Minister Denys
Shmyhal said that half of the country’s 41 million people are not willing to be vaccinated. The government plans to start its vaccine rollout in mid-February. The YouGov survey reported that a majority said it was not easy to obtain the vaccine in their respective countries, despite people’s willingness to get it. Norway, Sweden and Denmark had the highest share of respondents who stated it would not be hard to access the vaccine. More than two-thirds of respondents in South Korea and Japan said that it would be difficult to obtain the shots.
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Seldovia is a waterfront village with 450 residents, including members of the Seldovia Village Tribe. Boat
captain Curt Jackson took three nurses to Seldovia to give medical workers there their first vaccinations.
When the weather is especially cold, said Hodges, medical crews
often upgrade to 10-seater planes so people can climb aboard and get inoc-
ulated inside. “If you turn around the last two seats in the
plane, it works out perfectly,” she said Tribal leaders say they
are appreciative of the creative approach the state has taken – resorting to planes, sleds and snowmobiles. “You have to be resilient and self-sufficient to live in Alaska,” said Crystal Collier, president and CEO of the Seldovia Village Tribe. “We have a lot of multifamily households, so we’re extremely grateful to see these vaccines arrive.” Collier, 61, was not at all surprised to learn that Jackson had piloted his boat through heavy seas to get the first vaccines to her village. “People here look out for each other,” she said. Jackson has a new nickname since his turbulent voyage across the bay, he said. Some of his friends are now calling him “Captain Balto.” Balto was a lead sled dog for a team in 1925 that made a heroic transport of diphtheria vaccine across nearly 700 miles of Alaska, from Nenana to Nome. The Iditarod Trail was the only accessible route at the time during winter. “I was glad I didn’t have to go that far,” Jackson said. “But when we made it across [the bay], I got a little choked up, happy that I helped play a part in it.”
eration for the Oval Office on the big kitchen island in the Arkansas governor’s mansion. Bill Clinton liked her pick for the curtains: Scalamandre’s Newport Damask, a historic fabric design Hockersmith had researched. She had discovered that a fragment of a red damask in the same pattern was found in the Philadelphia house occupied by George Washington when he was president. The fabric would go perfectly with her color scheme of red, blue and gold. “He wanted a change in look in his office that would envision his personality,” she recalls. “He
loved the energy of the patriotic colors.” Hockersmith worked quickly so she could have the curtains made in time to be installed on Inauguration Day, immediately signifying a change in power. Her yellow curtains replaced the neoclassical pale blue draperies designed by Mark Hampton for George and Barbara Bush. Late Washington upholsterer Nelson Wurz, whose firm Nelson Beck had made the curtains for Hockersmith, waited at the West Gate of the White House for Bill Clinton to be sworn in. Then he rushed to the Oval
Office, as he had only a few hours to complete his job. Wurz recalled the frenzy for me in a 2001 interview for The Washington Post. “You could hardly move around the room. There were about 28 people in there,” he said. “There were telephone people, Secret Service, window washers, picture hangers and movers.” The curtains were installed just before the Clintons arrived. And the rest is history. Former White House decorators, an exclusive club, are intrigued to see what future presidents choose from the growing stacks of presidential rugs
and curtains in storage. Blasingame calls Biden’s look of yellow curtains and blue rug “bright and refreshing.” He is always amused when he sees his designs pop up in other administrations. “You go into this job knowing that your work isn’t going to last forever,” Blasingame says. “So it’s fun to see something that you designed that has been repurposed.” The two beige linen damask sofas he designed for George W. Bush’s office later served Obama for almost two years and Trump for four years. Now they are in Biden’s Oval Office.
“We tested the sofas with different seat cushions to be sure that the seats were conducive to office comfort, not home comfort, and that guest or staff could rise up without struggling from a soft cushion,” Blasingame says. “I guess that’s working.” Meanwhile, Hockersmith had the chance to remake the gold curtains a second time: an exact copy hangs in the full-size replica of the Oval Office at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock.
From Page B9 journey, he posed for a photo with the medical crew, who thanked him profusely for getting them there. “With a strict time frame [for the Pfizer vaccine], there was no option for us to postpone vaccinations,” said Kreger, 40, a licensed nurse care coordinator from Homer. “On any other day, the rough ride would not have been as nerve-racking if [the] vaccine hadn’t been involved,” she said. For Ellen Hodges, a doctor from Bethel, Alaska, the coronavirus vaccination effort is the most rewarding project in which she has been involved, she said. Hodges, 46, has flown to several villages in a six-seater plane to vaccinate medical workers and elders, who meet her on the runway. “We land in the isolated tundra, and they’ll be lined up waiting,” she said. “Some places have up to 30 people, and some have only one.” Even if there’s just one person, the trip is worth it.
Curtain From Page B9 running around my feet,” she says. After the tour, Hockersmith was invited to come back whenever she needed for planning and measuring. “I made two or three more trips during the transition,” she says. “We had a lot of access that the Bidens weren’t afforded. They didn’t have a chance to think about those kinds of things.” She recalls spreading out her fabric swatches and paint chips for consid-
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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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS TASTEE TAM'S LOCATED AT: 1001 Broadway St. Apt.#10, Fairfield CA 94533 Solano Mailing Address: 1001 Broadway St. apt.#10, Fairfield CA 94533 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Tamara Lewis 1001 Broadway St. Apt 10 Fairfield, 94533 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Tamara Lewis 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 February 01, 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: FEB 02, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000264 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00044799 Published: February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021
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Notice of Self Storage Sale Please take notice Central Self Storage East Travis 837 E Travis Blvd Fairfield CA 94533 intends to hold an auction of the goods stored in a self-service storage unit by the following persons. The sale will occur as an online auction via www.storagetreasures.com on 2021-02-17 at 12:00 PM. Unless stated otherwise the description of the contents are household goods and furnishings: Dominick Lopez Suramid Lertpaichaiyon Mitzy Torres Alisha Jordan Vincent Canale Lasandra Wickware Arika Guy All property is being stored at the above self-storage facility. This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply. See manager for details. 1/31, 2/7/21 CNS-3434149# THE DAILY REPUBLIC DR# 00044387 Published: Jan. 31, Feb. 7, 2021
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LOCATED AT: 3120 Puffin Circle, Fairfield CA 94533 Solano Mailing Address: (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Sheneen Brown 3120 Puffin Circle Fairfield, 94533 2) Ann Groux 3120 Puffin Circle Fairfield, 94533 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a General Partnership The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 10/15/2015. 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/ Sheneen Brown 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 12, 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 13, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000079 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00044815 Published: February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021
LOCATED AT: 827 Missouri St Suite 4, Fairfield, CA. 94533 Solano Mailing Address: 827 Missouri St Suite 4, Fairfield, CA. 94533 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Raquel Rios 2091 Bluebird Way Fairfield, 94533 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/10/2005. 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/ Raquel Rios 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 25, 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 26, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000185 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00044779 Published: February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MONTHA JENKINS Case Number: FPR050510 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Montha Jenkins A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Titus A. Jenkins in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Titus A. Jenkins be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: MAR. 17, 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 statues and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: M. Kendall Hillman (SBN: 125135) Hillman, Lucas & Canning, P.C. 2420 Martin Road, Suite 300 Fairfield, CA 94534 (707) 427-7377 DR# 00044667 Published: Jan. 31, Feb. 3, 7, 2021
LOCATED AT: 543 Mountain Meadows Dr. Fairfield CA 94534 Mailing Address: (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Bay Area Goat LLC California #202101310917 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 N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Jamar Williams Officer for Bay Area Goat LLC. 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. 2021000114 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00044665 Published: Jan. 31, Feb. 7, 14, 21, 2021
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS G&F CONSTRUCTION LOCATED AT: 5475 Lyon Rd, Fairfield,CA,94534 Solano Mailing Address: 5475 Lyon Rd, Fairfield,CA,94534 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Conrad Bouchard 5475 Lyon Rd Fairfield, 94534 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business n a m e o r n a m e s l i s t ed a b o v e o n 01/21/2021. 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/ Conrad Bouchard 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 February 02, 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: FEB 03, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000274 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00044804 Published: February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED SERVICE AJUSTMENTS TO SOLANOEXPRESS GREEN EXPRESS AND BLUE LINE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on February 10, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. the Solano Transportation Authority (STA) Board will conduct a virtual public hearing via Zoom (log in information will be provided on the agenda cover to be posted on STA’s website one week prior to the meeting) to consider proposed service adjustments to the SolanoExpress Green Express and Blue Line. The proposed changes are available for public review on SolanoExpress’ website at www.solanoexpress.com Interested parties may provide input on the proposed changes by submitting written comments and/or speaking at the public hearing. Submit comments by mail to Solano Transportation Authority, One Harbor Center, Suite 130, Suisun City, CA 94585, by fax to (707) 424-6074, by email to bthomson@sta.ca.gov, in person or by phone to STA Transit Mobility Coordinator Brandon Thomson at (707) 399-3234. Written comments must be received no later than the close of the public hearing. Dated: January 27, 2021 //s// Johanna Masiclat, Clerk of the Board Solano Transportation Authority DR# 00044660 Published: January 31, February 7, 2021
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PUBLIC NOTICE City of Fairfield Fairfield Forward 2050 – General Plan Advisory Committee
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The City of Fairfield has begun work on an update of our General Plan, known as Fairfield Forward 2050. As part of this work, the City will be creating a General Plan Advisory Committee (GPAC) made up of Fairfield residents to help shape the plan by providing informed and innovative input to the project team. The City is now soliciting applications from residents interested in becoming a member of the General Plan Advisory Committee.
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The General Plan is the City’s primary guide for development, housing, transportation, environmental quality, public services, and parks and open spaces. The purpose of the GPAC is to provide input, feedback, and recommendations to city staff, the consultant team, and ultimately the City Council on key components of the General Plan as they are developed. The GPAC can help shape the goals and policies of the General Plan through recommendations, recognizing that the final determination ultimately rests with City Council. GPAC meetings are intended to build knowledge, trust and understanding of the plan's purpose, process and potential effects. Committee members will be expected to participate in up to 10 meetings during the course of the project. Committee members must be residents of the City of Fairfield. The application period is now open. Applications must be received by Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 5:00pm. Apply for the GPAC today by emailing your information to: Amy Kreimeier, Senior Planner, at akreimeier@fairfield.ca.gov. Your email must include your name, age, address, and a short description of yourself and why you are interested in participating in the GPAC. Responses must be limited to 300 words or less. Applications received after Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 5:00pm will not be considered. Questions on applying for the GPAC can be sent to akreimeier@fairfield.ca.gov. Please visit www.fairfieldforward.com for more information on the General Plan update process. About Fairfield Forward 2050 Fairfield Forward 2050 is the name of the City’s General Plan update project, an interdepartmental effort led by the Community Development Department. Dyett & Bhatia, Urban and Regional Planners is the consultant team hired to assist the City with this update. State law mandates that each city and county in California adopt a “comprehensive, long-term general plan.” The plan is the basis for land use decision-making used by policymakers such as the Planning Commission and the City Council. Please visit www.fairfieldforward.com for more information on the General Plan update process. DR# 00044809 Published: February 7, 2021 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: (c)2021 Tribune content agency, llc. all rights reserved.
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INNOVA CHADBOURNE 2 – Minor Development Review (MD2020-004), Use Permit (UP2020-004), Lot Line Adjustment (LLA2020-001), and Environmental Review (ER2020-007). Public hearing on request by Innova Equity to consider a request to construct a 45,056 square foot industrial warehouse building with associated site improvements at 510 Chadbourne Rd (APNs: 0028-761-320, -350). A Use Permit is required to permit a Warehouse, Storage, or Distribution – Light or Medium use on sight. A Lot Line Adjustment is required to construct the building as proposed. The project has been deemed Categorically Exempt under CEQA per Section 15332 In-Fill Development. (Amy Kreimeier, 707-428-7450, akreimeier@fairfield.ca.gov) NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN THAT said public hearing will be held on February 16, 2021 beginning at 1:30pm, 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 Zoning Administrator 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/93517076533?pwd=eVlKT1l0c1B0NnBuc3lQNFBwQTRyQT0 9 or by calling 669-900-6833 and entering the Meeting ID: 935 1707 6533 and Password: 69601343 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 Sunday, February 7, 2021 at: http://www.fairfield.ca.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?t=63244.4&BlobID=19441 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# 00044808 Published: February 7, 2021
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MEL: Teams must transport themselves From Page B3 occur,� she said. The first game is scheduled for March 19 with the season concluding April 16. Other sports, such as basketball and wrestling, need improvement to the Yellow Tier, which is why they were placed at the end of the sports calendar. “Purple tier sports are a go with all three school districts and the county,� said Matthew Bidou, Vanden athletic director. “If there is going to be more than two schools attending the same venue, we have to get that separately approved by the county at this time. For example, (the) girl’s tennis end of season singles and doubles MEL meets have to be approved.� Seven sports – football, swimming and diving, badminton, girls volleyball, baseball, softball and track and field – would have start dates ranging from March 19 to March 24. The remaining eight sports – boys tennis, girls golf, girls basketball, girls soccer, boys basketball, boys soccer, wrestling and water polo – would have start dates from April 27 to April 30. “What we tried to do
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is approach each of those periods of time as equal in terms of the time each sport had,� Mumaugh said. “We ended a group when the next group started so if had we students who wanted to go to the next one, they could have that opportunity. I don’t know how many that will be, but it doesn’t matter – whether it’s one or 100 they’ll have the opportunity if that’s their choice.� Condensing what normally takes place over a nine-month school year into roughly 3 1/2 months wasn’t easy. “The league came up with a five-week season for each sport, which allows athletes to complete one sport and move on to the next sport at the start of that sport without being in violation of the state’s cohort guidance,� Bidou said. “All sports are playing and competing with equal time from start to finish.� Wilson agreed. “I think the schedule we came up with is the best for the situation we are in,� she said. “It gives our athletes the best possible chance to play multiple sports based on the color tiers. We essentially took
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not ideal, the ADs feel the scheduling plan can work and that it’s important that it move forward. “No matter how much work is required because of all the additional guidelines and regulations put in place because of the Covid situation, we are so committed,� Bidou said. “At the end of day it’s all about our students. Sure, every coach at Vanden wants to win every contest and will train to compete at that level. As athletic director with support from the school admin we are focused on providing the safest environment for the student-athletes and at this unusual social distance learning that no studentathlete is left behind.� “Things have been incredibly busy and the ADs are putting in lots of time and effort to make sure we are giving all athletes a great and safe experience,� said Tracy Cordes, Rodriguez athletic director and softball coach. “I am just so happy for the possibility of returning our athletes to sports.�
one season of sport and split it into three fiveweek groups.� The fact that all six schools in the MEL are within Solano County made scheduling easier – the Sierra Delta League, of which Rio Vista and Vacaville Christian are members, and the Sacramento Metro Athletic League, of which Buckingham Charter is a member, each have schools within five different counties. Even with that bonus, getting teams to road competitions will take some work. There will be “no school transportation at least for the schools in the MEL,� Mumaugh said. “None of the districts are going to provide transportation. It’s up to parents and the students.� “Transportation is going to be tricky with social distancing and is going to require support from families to get their students to and from,� Bidou said. Ironically, with no spectators allowed, those parents would have to sit in their cars or find something else to do until the competitions are over. While they know it’s
Statistics for Travis Air Force Base for yesterday through 5 p.m. Temperature High/Low.............................68°/35° Average high .......................... 58.9° Average low............................ 41.0° A year ago...........................67°/33° Barometric pressure............30.04 Humidity...................................37%
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They tried to make it tough on him, which is all you can do against superstars sometimes.� De’Aaron Fox had 24 points and five assists for the Kings. Tyrese Haliburton came off the bench to post a careerhigh 23 points and six assists. Richaun Holmes recorded a doubledouble with 21 points and 10 rebounds. Hassan Whiteside had 11 points, 11 rebounds and four blocked shots, recording his first double-double for the Kings. Buddy Hield’s league-best streak of 87 consecutive games with a 3-pointer came to an end as he finished 0 of 9 from 3-point range, but he had seven assists with zero turnovers and made a number of unselfish plays to contribute to the win. The Kings beat the Nuggets twice in the first week of the season, picking up two early wins over a team that reached the Western Conference finals last season. They did it again in a matinee affair Saturday despite the best efforts of Jokic. Jokic, who had a 47-point game against the Utah Jazz last weekend, has established himself as an early MVP candidate along with LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, Joel Embiid and Kevin Durant. The 284-pound Serbian center came into the contest averaging 26.1 points, 11.6 rebounds and 8.4 assists. His
streak of 22 consecutive double-doubles to start the season is the secondlongest in league history, behind only Bill Walton (34) in 1976-77. Sacramento led 26-25 at the end of the first quarter and carried a 53-52 lead into the halftime break. The Kings shot just 44.4% from the field, but they recorded 15 assists on 20 made baskets with only three t u r nover s wh i le holding the Nuggets to 43.8% shooting. The Nuggets went ahead on a couple of occasions early in the third quarter, but a series of baskets by Holmes and Barnes helped the Kings reclaim the lead. They went up 74-71 on a 3-pointer by Barnes, extended the lead to eight on a basket by Whiteside and went into the fourth quarter with an 87-81 advantage. Sacramento went up by as many as 14 in the fourth. Jokic helped the Nuggets cut the deficit to six with 4:27 to play, but a big 3-pointer by Haliburton ended the run, putting the Kings up 105-96 with four minutes remaining. Hield could have taken a contested shot in search of his first 3-point basket, but he passed to Haliburton, who was open in the corner. Jokic made a couple of long 3-pointers in the final minute to get his team within four, but the Kings knocked down their free throws to secure the win.
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