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FAIRFIELD — Trustees of Fairfield and Suisun City schools gave the goahead last week for a 2021-2022 budget priorities plan that was put on hold earlier this year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The projected budget for 2021-2022 includes nearly $203.183 million in attendance-based state revenue. That’s compared to just more than $195.561 million

for the current academic year that ends June 30. The district has identified $4.355 million in cuts that can be quickly implemented if needed at the start of the coming school year July 1. About $500,000 would come from what’s paid in retiree benefits. The district also reported some costs that were greater than anticipated and studentbased funding that will fall short of projections. Another $2.6 million See Budget, Page A8

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FAIRFIELD — Most of the youngest children attending school in Fairfield and Suisun City have received backpacks filled with school supplies, virtual learning materials and books to further their distance learning efforts amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Kris Corey, superintendent of the Fairfield-Suisun School District, called the backpacks a “midyear surprise” in a press release to announce their distribution. The backpacks – nearly 2,000 of them – came to the district through the Solano County Office of Education, which partnered with the First 5 Solano Commission and Solano County Library Literacy Services to provide the resource to the young students of Fairfield-Suisun and other school districts

in the county. Corey reports that the distribution of the backpacks was coordinated at each school site. Most hosted drive-thru pickup events while some included the backpack distribution with preplanned materials “pass out” days. A few will distribute the backpacks at future events. “ T h e majority of students receiving these backpacks have yet to step foot in a classroom,” said Truancy Prevention Specialist Antonio Gipson. “Being able to provide them with scissors, books, glue, whiteboards, crayons, flash cards and other supplies they would normally have at school gives them hands-on tools to connect them to their teacher and

replenish school supplies at home as many of these items have been used or lost. The backpacks also had wonderful books for students to read at home with family members. Supporting the education of our youngest learners only encourages them to continue on their literacy and academic journey.” Most public schools remain closed to in-person instruction after being shuttered in — Megan Thole, Cleo Gordon March 2020 at Elementary School principal the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic. further pleased the backSchools ended the packs were customized based on the student’s 2019-2020 academic year through distance learnspoken language. “Our families and stu- ing that relied heavily dents were so grateful on use of the internet. to receive such a gener- Schools opened last fall ous gift,” Cleo Gordon with similar online learnElementary School Prin- ing protocols in place. cipal Megan Thole said in Public schools across a press release. “This is the perfect time of year to See Backpacks, Page A8 classroom. We are hoping this helps build a foundation of excitement around positive school attendance now and in the future.” Corey said teachers and school staff were also thrilled to have this midyear surprise of resources. They were

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FAIRFIELD — Children and teens who attend school in Fairfield and Suisun City will have an opportunity to catch up this summer – at least somewhat – if they have fallen behind this year due to distance-learning strategies that MCCABE have kept schools closed throughout the Covid-19 pandemic – or for any other reason. Trustees with the Fairfield-Suisun School district gave the green light Thursday to plans for a number of summer school oppor tunities that begin in June and end in July. Sheila McCabe, assistant superintendent of Educational Services,

presented an overview of the plans for summer learning. The KinderReady Program will run July 5-30 and provides an introduction to school and routines instruction for children who have limited school experience or are English learners. It would serve approximately 5o children. The Elementar y “Learning Loss” Program is expected to serve about 1,250 students from all elementary schools. The program runs from June 14 to July 22. The focus of the program will be on the acceleration of children’s learning in English-language arts and math. Enrichment See Plans, Page A8

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OK, I admit it; old-school isn’t always better W hile I am proudly old-school, I still can honestly acknowledge that there are many 2021 things that are just simply way better than what we had back in the day. This is just a partial list.

‘Star Wars’

I have microfilm photos of the lines that wrapped around the Fairfield Cinema I theaters when “Star Wars,” “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi” played there. Tony Wade Back then we had The last laugh Amazon Prime waited three long years in between films so I used to laugh at when they were released, antichow Bugs Bunny would put a ipation was at a fever pitch. letter in the mailbox, the letter That anticipation was heightcarrier wouldn’t even pick it up ened when you were finally and yet moments later would outside of the building where deliver whatever it was Bugs it was being shown. When at had sent away for. But now last you made it inside, got your that is kinda what Amazon snacks and settled in and the Prime is like. I just click a few “20th Century Fox Fanfare” things on my laptop or smarttrumpeted the beginning, folphone and magically two days lowed by the iconic “A long time later a truck pulls up in front ago in a galaxy far, far away,” it of my house with my carefully was a beautiful thing almost too selected items. sublime for words. Ordering stuff back in the As a matter of fact, chill day was an arcane process for a second while my goosethat would involve a COD, or bumps settle down. cash on delivery, and then you OK. had to sign for it – it was a big That was all well and good hairy deal. Now some guy with a man bun flings your fragile when I was 13, but at 57 I’d items onto your porch seconds rather have an episode of “The before a porch pirate steals Mandalorian” streamed to my it. Progress! house every week.

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As a kid who was a comic book aficionado, it drove me crazy that whenever one got adapted to TV they screwed it up somehow. The Justice League was not called “Super Friends!” And where the heck was the Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Black Canary, The Martian Manhunter and others? I mean, Batman’s sidekick Robin made the Super Friends cut somehow but all of those didn’t? And then there were some teens and their stupid dog . . . I can’t even. The Incredible Hulk couldn’t even get Bruce Banner’s name right, and in the comics the Hulk could talk. Before the Lynda Carter series there was a “Wonder Woman” TV special and she was played by Cathy Lee Crosby. Uh, who is blonde. Wonder Woman ain’t blonde. There was also a terrible “Captain America” TV special where his costume was more inspired by Super Dave Osborne than the comic book hero. That’s why shows like “WandaVision” allow me to fist-bump 12-year-old me.

I used to go to the Wherehouse or Eucalyptus Records and Tapes and peruse the new releases. Now, sometimes you had heard a single on the radio and that was enough to buy the whole album – which you often regretted because, besides that one really cool single that had a good beat that you could dance to, the rest was garbage. Well, the actual term was “filler.” Filler tracks. However, filler tracks weren’t the equivalent of some slightly different starch at dinner besides potatoes or rice, like, say, millet. They were more a perfect nasty side dish that would accentuate the chilled monkey brains in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” If you happened to know someone who worked at the record store, they might let you sample the album before you bought it. If not, it was a crapshoot. Sometimes, you know what the criteria were as to whether you might like it or not? The album cover. I loved Rick James’ debut album, “Come Get It!,” and I would have bought his sopho-

more album, “Bustin’ Out of L Seven,” anyway, but what sold me was the Marvel Comics-like cover. That turned out to be the best part of the album. Now, just not liking an album after you bought it was not reason enough to return it. The record store clerks got wise real quick to people who would buy an album, take it home and record it on cassette and then try to return it. The policy was that if you returned an album because it was defective, you had to get the exact same album. So what dishonest people would do, so I hear, is have someone else go in and hide those albums before taking it back. Now with streaming music platforms, none of that is a problem. It is so much easier, even if it does take away the fun of getting one over on snobby record store clerks. Reach Fairfield writer Tony Wade at toeknee weighed@gmail.com.

Winter weather no match for rats in America’s ‘rattiest city’ Tribune Content Agency CHICAGO — Chicagoans hoping that brutal cold and epic snowfall would wipe out the rat population in America’s “rattiest city” should know: Rats are much tougher than that. Pest control experts told the Tribune a few more rats than normal might die this winter, but this spring we’ll still have a full crop of rattus norvegicus. After all, rats can survive a decade of bombardment by atomic bombs on Pacific atolls. What chance does a few extra inches of snow have? “Rats can survive in tough environments. They’re tough. They’ll burrow underneath the snow as deep as they can and they can survive this,” said Robert Villamil, owner of Chicago-based Crow Pest Control. “The smaller rats will die off. . . . But rats are going to make it through.” As the Covid pandemic took hold last year, forcing restaurants and bars to close, Chicago saw an explosion of rat complaints as the creatures scurried to find alternate dining, another rat expert said. This winter, there have been more calls, and more urgent requests, as the creatures have gone inside to escape the harsh conditions, said Janelle Iaccino, spokeswoman for Rose Pest Solutions in Chicago.

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A rat scurries near the Navy Pier Flyover in Chicago, Dec. 18, 2020. Exterminators even found fresh rat tracks – tail and all – in the snow that drifted through a crack in the shop’s garage floor, Iaccino said. That shows the importance of using weather stripping, door sweeps, and mesh screens to close any gap the size of a quarter or larger where rats can get in. “They’re trying to escape the elements,” she said. “They go wherever they can take advantage of human error.” She urged city residents to call 311 or use the CHI311App to report the rodents. Rats burrow in the snow, the same way they do

in dirt, digging up to 3 feet down, and then moving laterally under concrete slabs or into structures. The rats also pull material, such as newspaper or garbage bags, into their burrows for warmth. Come spring, Villamil warned, the rats that survive the winter and are looking to mate may get more aggressive and brazen. “Sanitation is key,” Villamil said. “Rats are only here because there’s food for them. They can’t survive here without humans.” The snow may also lull human beings into a key tactical mistake: not picking up dog poop. That could be a rat’s next easy meal. And if rats gets really lean? They’ll cannibalize other rats. Recent snow-delayed garbage pickup left extra meals for rodents. But the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation continues rat poisoning year-round, spokeswoman Cristina Villareal said. “The extreme cold helps to slow down breeding, but we will continue to aggressively bait,” she said. “Snow is helpful for our work, because we can track rodents easier and find their burrows. We recommend residents continue to clean up after their dogs and contain their garbage to help support our efforts.”

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FAIRFIELD — Brooke Schreier Ganz, the first genealogist to successfully sue a government archive to return records to public access, will present “Reclaim the Records: How Genealogists Can Use Freedom of Information Laws” at the next meeting of the Solano County Genealogical Society. The virtual presentation begins at 11 a.m. Saturday. Ganz’s nonprofit organization, Reclaim the Records, seeks to obtain copies of previously inaccessible records, which it then digitizes and puts online for free. Her presentation will explain how this is done and how ordinary citizens can use the FOI laws to obtain records that help document their family history. Guests are welcome to attend this free event. If interested, send an email to the society at scgs@scgsca.org no later than 4 p.m. Friday and request an invitation. More information on the event can be found on the society’s webpage at www.scgaca.org.

Various government meetings dot week’s calendar Several local government meetings are scheduled this week. They include: n Suisun-Solano Water Authority Board Executive Committee, 9 a.m. Monday, Suisun City Hall council chamber, 701 Civic Center Blvd. Info: http://ca-sid.civicplus.com/ AgendaCenter. n Solano County Board of Supervisors, 9 a.m. Tuesday, Government Center, 675 Texas St., Fairfield. Info: www.co.solano.ca.us. n Fairfield City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, remote access only. Info: www. fairfield.ca.gov/gov/city_council/. n Rio Vista City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, City Hall, One Main St. Info: www.riovistacity.com/city council. n Vacaville Parks and Recreation, 6 p.m. Wednesday, City Council chamber, 650 Merchant St. Info: ci.vacaville.ca.us. n Solano County Planning Commission, 7 p.m. Thursday, Government Center, 675 Texas St., Fairfield. Info: www.co.solano.ca.us.

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Her great-grandfather was in Tuskegee Study, but she’s getting vaccine Tribune Content Agency ATLANTA — Peggy Fitzpatrick Tatum recently spent two weeks trying to book an appointment to get the Covid-19 vaccine before eventually landing a date. Tatum’s decision to get the vaccine may raise some eyebrows. The 65-year-old retired federal employee is the great-granddaughter of one of hundreds of Black men in Macon County, Alabama, who were part of a controversial U.S. Public Health Service study on syphilis, commonly known as the Tuskegee Study or Tuskegee Experiment, which began in 1932 and lasted 40 years. Blacks and Latinos have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus in terms of hospitalizations and deaths, according to health experts. Yet, they’re also receiving Covid-19 vaccinations at significantly lower rates than whites. A big reason is lack of trust in medical research systems and the government. Some list the Tuskegee Experiment as reason for their hesitance. Ac c ord i ng to a June 2020 Pew Research Center study, Black adults were more hesitant to trust medical scientists, embrace the use of experimental medical treatments and sign up for a potential vaccine to combat the disease. “I do think they are using Tuskegee as an excuse, and it brings about fear and some anxiety for people,” said Tatum, who was raised in Tuskegee and now lives in metro Atlanta, in a recent interview with the AJC. In a recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll, 30% of Black respondents said the See Vaccine, Page A4

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Peggy Fitzpatrick, 65, stands for a portrait holding an image of her great grandfather, Willie Fitzpatrick, at East Lake Park in Atlanta’s East Lake community, Feb. 11. Willie was a victim of the Tuskegee Experiments, which was an unethical medical study that targeted Black men for more than 40 years.

TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT TIMELINE AND IMPACT • 1932: The “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” an experiment overseen by the federal government, begins. About 400 African American men in the Alabama community with syphilis are deliberately left untreated so doctors could study the disease. • 1940s: Some of the physicians involved in the Tuskegee experiment also take part in similar experiments in Guatemala, infecting prisoners and mental patients with syphilis. • July 25, 1972: An Associated Press article exposes the Tuskegee Experiment and a federal investigative panel is convened. The experiment is ended three months later. • 1974: $10 million settlement is reached with the Tuskegee victims and their families and offers to provide medical benefits. The U.S. government orders new guidelines to protect human subjects in government-funded research projects. • February 1997: HBO film “Miss Evers’ Boys” telling the story of the study is released. (The experiment is also mentioned in a 1992 song by rap artist C.L. Smooth and in a 2015 episode of the sitcom “Blackish.”) • May 16, 1997: Then-President Bill Clinton holds White House ceremony apologizing to five Tuskegee Experiment survivors and announcing plans to create Tuskegee University’s National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care. • January 2004: The last Tuskegee study participant dies. • 2010: Then-President Barack Obama apologizes for the syphilis experiments in Guatemala. • December 2017: Pew poll finds just 15% of Black people trust the government in Washington all or most of the time, lower than any other racial group. • December 2020: Pew poll finds just 42% of Black Americans said they would get a Covid-19 vaccine when made available.

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New research: Why Zoom can wipe you out Tribune Content Agency Covid-19 pandemic has moved our lives into a virtual space. Why is that so exhausting? The tiredness doesn’t feel earned. We’re not flying an airplane, teaching toddlers or rescuing people trapped in burning buildings. Still, by the end of the day, the feeling is so universal that it has its own name: Zoom Fatigue. Stanford University professor Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab, has some answers. In research published Tuesday in the journal Technology, Mind and Behavior, he describes the psychological impact of spending hours every day on Zoom, Google Hangouts, Skype, FaceTime, or other video-calling interfaces. It’s the first peer-reviewed article to analyze zoom fatigue from a psychological perspective. There are four major reasons, according to Bailenson, that video chats make us so weary. And he proposes some easy fixes.

We’re too close for comfort Think of the normal meeting. You might be looking at the speaker. Or maybe you’re noticing those fancy new window blinds, your colleague’s weekend tan or the traffic on the streets below. But on Zoom calls, everyone is staring at everyone, all the time. And our faces can appear too large. When so many faces are so close to ours in real life, our subconscious takes it personally. It tells us: They either want to pick a fight, or have sex. “What’s happening, in effect, when you’re using Zoom for many, many hours is you’re in this hyperaroused state,” according to Bailenson. Solution: Exit out of the full-screen option to shrink face size. Use an external

Vaccine From Page A3 main reason they wouldn’t get the Covid vaccine is they distrust the health system. About 22% were concerned about side effects. Thirty-seven percent said they wanted to know more about the vaccines’ effectiveness. Those facts are not lost on many in the community, as Black physicians, civic organizations and faith-based groups work to educate Black people about the vaccines. “We’re at a different place from Tuskegee and also from other injustices and unethical medical behavior as far as research goes on human subjects,” said Dr. Lilly Immergluck, a professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine. National and international guidelines have come from lessons learned in history. “The protections that humans have in clinical research, to me, evolved from that situation (Tuskegee) along with some others. “The way to be empowered is to get correct information,” she said. “We’re asking people to go to the people they trust in their communities, their circles, their networks and their health care providers.” But she makes it clear that it’s not just vaccine hesitancy that could account for lower numbers. “Is the root cause for the low number truly because people don’t want it or is it

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We really hate watching ourselves For most of us, that quick morning glimpse in the mirror is all we really need. After hours of self-gazing, we turn critical. We notice that sloppy shave job. The overdue haircut. The dead plant over our left shoulder. Or maybe the light’s all wrong, casting deep shadows, and we look like a member of the witness protection program. “It’s taxing on us. It’s stressful,” said Bailenson. “There are negative emotional consequences to seeing yourself in a mirror.” Solution: Use the “hide self-view” button, which you can access by rightclicking your own photo, once your face is framed properly in the video.

We’re trapped in a chair Humans are restless creatures. During phone calls, we like to wander around. Even if stuck at a meeting at a conference table, we find ways to stretch – leaning back in a chair or gazing penan access issue, a distribution issue or an inequality of distribution issue that needs to be addressed?” Tatum is a board member of the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit which was formed in 2014 to bring together Tuskegee Experiment descendants, provide scholarships, educate people about the study and tell the story of the men and their legacy. Several group members have spoken out recently about the Covid vaccines and shared that they plan to take them. Their work has been in the spotlight more as people debate whether to take the vaccines. Recently, Tatum and other descendants were part of a panel discussion on the syphilis study for a Chicago-based talk show when someone asked why, given their family histories, they would take the Covid vaccines. She told them she was raised by her grandparents and when she was younger, whenever a vaccine became available whether for mumps or chickenpox, they would go down to the community clinic and get the shots. “My grandmother never thought about any harm the vaccines would do to us, but she trusted in the Lord that it would do us all the good,” Tatum said. Many times, people on social media harken back to the syphilis study. Tatum doesn’t go as far as to encourage others to take the vaccines; she just wants them to educate themselves before making a decision. “Back then, they didn’t

At their best, meetings can act like subtle symphonies, with everyone harmonizing their postures, laughter and knowing glances. We read each other’s cues. Conversations have rhythm. Not so with Zoom. There’s a rigidity, with only one speaker at a time. We must listen closely for sentence completion, so we don’t interrupt. To make an important point, we must add drama and flair.

“If you want to show someone that you are agreeing with them, you have to do an exaggerated nod or put your thumbs up,” said Bailenson. “That adds cognitive load as you’re using mental calories in order to communicate.” Solution: During long stretches of meetings, give yourself an “audio only” break. Don’t just turn off your camera – turn your body away from the screen. Gaze at that wall that needs painting, or the birds outside the window. Maybe hang up a few clothes, even wash a few dishes. Want to measure your own Zoom fatigue? Because so many organizations – including schools, large companies and government entities – have reached out to Stanford communication researchers to improve videoconferencing setups, the team responded by devising the Zoom Exhaustion & Fatigue Scale, or ZEF Scale, to help measure workplace exhaustion. The goal is to help change video technologies, so stressors are reduced. To take the survey and participate in the research project, go to https://stanforduniversity. qualtrics.com/jfe/form/ SV_3xGmOOvQ5YZlaZM.

understand what was going on,” she said. “Now you can ask questions. You can watch experts on the news 24/7.” Tatum admits that she was hesitant at first, but the more she researched the vaccines, the more comfortable she felt. She was only 2 years old when her great-grandfather died and can only piece together what he was like from other family members. Papa Willie, as he was known, was a hardworking family man and sharecropper who lived right outside of Tuskegee in a community called Cotton Valley. Lillie Tyson Head’s father, Freddie Lee Tyson, was also part of the study. Today, she advocates for people, particularly Blacks, to get vaccinated. In Macon County, the men were not treated or informed they were in a study, said Head, 78, president of the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation and a Virginia

resident. “We, on the other hand, in this time and age, we have more information at our disposal about the vaccine. “I do hope my African American brothers and sisters will take the vaccine if they are able to do it,” Head told the AJC. The retired educator and her husband are scheduled to take their second Covid vaccine dose in March. Head was not born when her father, then a sharecropper, was in the Tuskegee Study. The family found out after her brother read about the study in the news. “Of course, you can imagine it was quite a shock. There were so many questions and Daddy didn’t know the answers either.” He only knew that a lady would come around and draw blood. Despite that legacy, Head is speaking out. “This is an opportunity for us to ensure that our safety and our health is being addressed,” she said.

sively at the ceiling. But with videoconferencing, we’re limited by the camera’s narrow field of view. This is both physically and mentally deadening. “There’s a growing research now that says when people are moving, they’re performing better cognitively,” Bailenson said. Solution: An external camera farther away from the screen lets you doodle, release neck tension, do a seated twist or fidget, just like you do in real meetings. Turning video off periodically during meetings is a good ground rule to set for groups, creating a brief nonverbal rest.

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David Lee Wiseman Sr. Sept. 14, 1946 — Jan. 1, 2021

On Friday, Jan. 1, 2021, David Lee Wiseman Sr., ‘Wiezer’, loving husband, father of two and grandfather to five, passed away while surrounded by his family, at the age of 74. Wiezer was born on Sept. 14, 1946, in Beckley, West Virginia, to Tillen and Emma Louise Wiseman. At a young age his family moved to St. Louis, where he attended and graduated from Mehlville High School in 1965. In 1977, he married Patricia Ann McDermott and moved to Vacaville, California, to begin his career at the opening Anheuser-Busch Brewery. A short time later they settled in Fairfield, California, where they stayed and raised their two children, David Jr. and Kathryn. He opened a new door in California where he met and held dear the many people he came to know. While in Fairfield and through his passion for bringing people together, he organized the Fairfield AB Brewery softball team that spanned decades, competing on a national level and continuing to create new connections. He and other brewers frequently organized group family trips to Candlestick, Tahoe and other destinations. He loved people, the blues, rock and roll, reading, football, softball, racquetball, golf, but he loved nothing more than spending time with his family. Although he left St. Louis, St. Louis never left him. He and his family frequently returned to

visit family, play golf with friends, socialize at preferred watering holes, have the occasional brain sandwich and, of course, visit his beloved Cardinals. He was known for his judgment, style, class, humor, friendship, honor, honesty, being sharply dressed, and most of all for his kind and generous spirit. He was a man who led by example of how one should carry themselves in this world. Although he has moved on from this world, his spirit lives on in those whose lives he touched. He is survived by his loving wife, Patty; brother, Tommy; sister, Connie; his two children, Dave Jr. and Katie; grandchildren; several cousins, nieces and nephews; and many close and cherished friends. Wiezer was preceded by his father, Tillen; mother, Emma Louise; and his brother, Richard. In accordance with his wishes, the family will hold a celebration of life, a more joyous occasion celebrating the times shared and the times ahead. However, due to current coronavirus concerns, the family has chosen to follow current health guidelines in order to protect the health and well-being of family and friends. As a result, the Mass service will likely be private, however Wiezer’s celebration of life will be held at the earliest opportunity for public gatherings. To be placed on the notification list, please contact Dave Jr. ‘Little Wiez’ at wisemanjr@ gmail.com.

Norman William Proebstel Oct. 4, 1927 — Feb. 18, 2021

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Spending 1 hour a month together is not a relationship Dear Annie: I have talk to the adults in his been dating my boyhouse because I can’t friend for two years. We financially continue to are both in our mid-40s. do this. He used But I feel as if we are stimulus money to get walking in opposite caught up on his directions on the mortgage because he road of life. was behind (I assumed He works two that he hasn’t paid since full-time jobs and has Annie Lane I stopped paying it). I Dear Annie several younger told him a year ago that children. He has so things would be so much many responsibilities finaneasier for us if we lived cially that he is stretched thin. I together. But I feel as though have never been invited inside that is not an option. And he his home. I have been outside says that he needs both jobs for the house, but that is it. I tell the foreseeable future. This him almost everything, while means that I see him roughly he keeps most things bottled an hour a month. And we have up. That is the biggest problem a date night maybe once every with our relationship. I try to five months, if he’s able to get discuss this, but he sweeps it the night off. He keeps apologizing for not being able to see under the rug. First, his daughter hates me. me. But every time we talk, he tells me about the bills he She refuses to meet me. She is behind on. cries and carries on. She’s And I am not sure how much 16 years old. So he makes more I can take. I love this man excuses for her. Secondly, I with every fiber of my being. recently found out that his He says he loves me and that I brother and his long-term should know how he feels about girlfriend are living there and me and it kills him that he can’t not helping with any of the spend too much time with me. household expenses. This Some days I just feel used to bothers me because, until recently, I have more often than help him keep his head above not covered his mortgage while water. How do I get him to see the big picture? Or do I just paying my own rent and fade away into the shadows and household expenses. tell him I can’t do it anymore? I told him that he needs to

Horoscopes ARIES (March 21-April 19). Most of the games do not follow a zero-sum model. Today’s situation will definitely have far more nuance, with hidden gems, trick doors, group wins, ladders disguised as chutes and chutes that pass for ladders. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Those who play it too safe wind up in familiar company and the circumstances they know best . . . which would be satisfying enough if not for the nagging feeling that what you’re supposed to learn is somewhere out there. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Guitar strings cause blisters; skiing will cost a few tumbles. Getting good at a thing often requires discomfort, and in the case of love, pain is mandatory and a given. Without a low, there is no high. CANCER (June 22-July 22). It is challenging to change modalities when you really enjoy and favor the role you’re playing. But no one gets to be the same person in every scenario. Today, you’re flexible and you will match your attitude as various roles demand. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Those who need a lot of control can become frustrated with anything that threatens their sense of being in charge. You’ll deal especially well with these types today, phrasing your

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– Lost and In Love Dear Lost In Love: I’m not sure that he is the one who needs to see the big picture here. That person is you. One hour a month of time spent together is not a relationship. Walk away – today. This does not sound like a good match. The sooner you leave, the sooner you can find someone who wants to make time for you. Dear Annie: I hope you will print my response to “Irked,” who had to convert milliliters to teaspoons. Any pharmacy would be glad to provide a dosing spoon, cup or syringe with your prescription. People often use regular spoons instead of more accurate measuring spoons. That’s a mistak because regular teaspoons and tablespoons are not standard. People could over- or underdose themselves. – Pharmacy Technician in NH Dear Pharmacy Tech: Thank you for your expert advice. I hope this will help anyone who is confused by dosing sizes. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

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Today’s birthday You embody the spirit of play! Playmates challenge you to new creative heights. As the energy gets lighter, the ideas flow stronger. Love becomes leisure; leisure becomes work; work becomes a joy. Many improvements come from subtracting instead of adding. Just let your emotional intelligence lead the way. Gemini and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 30, 9, 5 and 17.

ideas just right and earning trust. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’re brave, but it’s not always courage that causes you to move in a nonconforming direction. In fact, most times it’s been a curiosity that wouldn’t quit until it was satisfied. And that phenomenon continues now. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It could go a lot of ways, but right now you’ll do your best work when the stakes are low, not high. A relaxed feeling, your lack of defenses and a playful vibe all contribute to this brilliance. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When things change and you

don’t know why, it is only natural to want to find out. However, right now this will be best accomplished with deft observation instead of a direct line of questioning. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Maybe you didn’t consciously set out to test yourself, and yet here comes the pop quiz, handed to you from life. Don’t worry, you’ve been paying attention. You’ll do well, maybe miss a few . . . room to grow. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). You’ll benefit from being ever aware of who you’re trying to benefit, serve or influence. With the end user in mind, you’ll deliver a much different result than you would if you only had to please yourself. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). You’ll love the speculation that goes along with the events of the day, which serve to bring up a good point: Everything in life is a good news/bad news story, depending on where the thing ends. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You don’t always get to choose your teammates, but when you do have a choice, you’ll avoid people who require you to work harder than you should, especially emotionally.

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the opponents to help. Clearly, it is better to get the opponents to assist you. How should South plan the play in four hearts after West leads the spade jack? South’s jump to three hearts was a super-accept. It showed four-card support, a maximum or near-maximum opening and a doubleton somewhere. Declarer won the spade lead on the board, drew trumps in two rounds and played a diamond to his king. West won with the ace, cashed the diamond queen and exited with a spade. Now South had to find the club jack for his contract; as you have no doubt surmised, he didn’t do it. He took the spade return on the board, played a spade to his ace and led a club to the queen. But East won with the ace and returned his second club: down one. Declarer should have taken the simple precaution of eliminating the spades before playing a diamond toward his king. Then, after the LET THEM GUESS defenders have taken their two diamond tricks, they must either lead a A SUIT FOR YOU spade, conceding a ruff-and-sluff, or Christopher Morley, who was a journalist, novelist, essayist and poet, open up clubs, which saves South the guess. claimed that something “is a wonderful In his quotation, Morley was talking training for girls, it’s the first way you about dancing. On this deal, South learn to guess what a man is going to failed to step from trick to trick do before he does it.” What was he correctly. He trod on his own toes – talking about? and, effectively, those of his partner. In today’s deal, you can try to guess COPYRIGHT: 2021, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE what to do yourself, or you can call on

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on the left

That old time religion

ne of the great debates of the last, oh, 150 years is if capitalism should be regulated. The answer is staring us in the face – yes. The beginning of the latest debates began with Ronnie Reagan and may now end with the Great Freeze in Texas. I’m going to show that without regulation, capitalism becomes irresponsible and predatory. Fasten your seat belts! When it’s not morphing into monopolies (more on that problem another time), capitalism sets prices by competition. We all agree that the longsought “fair price” is the price Jack Batson set by competition. A good or service is worth whatever you agree to pay for it. Price is the biggest factor in most decisions to buy. Now comes the problem of costs. Capitalists watch costs like hawks. If costs can be cut, that company will have a price advantage and if it continues, will drive out competitors. The biggest cost is labor, often discussed at 70% of the cost of a product before shipping and retail costs. See the problem? There’s a huge incentive for businesses to cut wages. Profits and dividends will rise. Enter the Republicans and Ronald Reagan. Whamo! He busted the Air Traffic Controllers union and all strikers lost their jobs. That sent a big, big signal. Combined with packing the National Labor Relations Board with conservatives, union power collapsed. And guess what? For the next 50 years, wages stagnated. Hourly workers stayed even with inflation, including health care inflation, but that was all. Lower management salaries also suffered, too, because they are influenced by wages. Profits have gone up 800% since then, but workers didn’t participate. The capitalists did. Wealth shifted from workers to the top 20% who own 93% of all stocks. That’s why the government must intervene and support labor. If not, you get where we are today – a country where the rich get richer and everybody else is left behind. We should end this perverse conservative experiment. The second case for regulation is illustrated by the Texas Big Freeze. Conservatives, especially those in the South, are devoted to the old time religion of economics: governmentbad, private enterprise-good. Let’s all be rugged individuals. In Texas, these values have become enmeshed with God, America and apple pie. This crashed up against reality with the winter freeze in Texas. Texans couldn’t get much help from adjoining states because Texas is almost entirely independent from the nation’s other electric networks. Joining with other states would bring federal regulation, a sin. Rick Perry made that clear: “Texas would be without electricity for a lot longer to keep the federal government out of their business.” So there, Big Government! I wonder how many Texans would agree now. The mayor of Colorado City, Texas, would agree. As his city’s citizens’ pipes burst and people complained about the lack of heat, he scolded them. “Power providers owe you nothing . . . . I’m sick and tired of people looking for a handout. . . . If you don’t have electricity . . . you come up with a game plan to keep warm. . . . Only the strong will survive and the weak will perish. . . . This is the product of a socialist government. . . .” Wow! Rugged individualism! Gov. Greg Abbott covered himself with glory by trying to tell the world that the small amount of green energy Texas produces was the cause. He was mocked. Here’s the problem. In 1999, Texas deregulated its electricity grid almost completely. The free market would provide all the regulation needed. When the suggestion was made that utilities should really have a “reserve margin” of capacity for hot summers and cold winters, it was ignored. It would cost money. After a freezing storm in 2011, they were urged to winterize but that, too, would cost. Rates would go up, people would holler, profits and dividends would suffer. Nope. Now we see the tragic result. The lesson is clear: Capitalism has flaws that only government can address. Capitalists must be regulated to some degree in the public interest. Otherwise, workers get left behind and people freeze in Texas. Jack Batson is a former member of the Fairfield City Council. Reach him by email at jsbatson@prodigy.net.

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Reports reveal Capitol riot planning

The chief of the Capitol any events leading to the Capitol riots police force was also aware of Jan. 6 are well known the FBI report and requested but let’s start at the National Guard augmentation beginning of the preplanned six times but was denied each demonstration that turned time. By who and why? Not riot because the media only that question, but why has scarcely covered it. were the Capitol police The FBI reported social required to initially not carry message traffic that was weapons as the crowd Earl Heal intercepted more than two gathered? How encouraging days in advance that identified plans for a rioter to find only a few for the riot. Furthermore, Rep. unarmed policemen trying to stop Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has stated hundreds of rioters. that she was alerted a week before Some news sources are also Jan. 6. The rioters’ accumulation of terming this riot an armed insurrecdemolition equipment, helmets and tion. The definition of armed related clothing, communication insurrection, according to the U.S. equipment and maps to facilitate Department of Defense Dictionary of their penetration of the Capitol are Military and Associated Terms, is believed to have been well underway “An organized movement aimed at days before the planned rally and the overthrow of a constituted peaceful march of Jan. 6. government through the use of It is surprising, but fortunate, that subversive and armed conflict.” Of the rioters were dumb enough to the approximately 250 people expose their planning on social arrested in connection with the riots, media, but the critical question only two were arrested on firearmsremains of why authorities did not related allegations. These two were take advantage of the colnot inside the Capitol building and lected knowledge. did not discharge their firearms. The FBI, in accordance with Most of the arrestees were arrested established policy, was required to for trespassing. report the plans and security A review of our Constitution’s Bill concerns to the sergeants of arms of of Rights is interesting. Free speech both houses of Congress who in turn is the first designated right, but laws were obviously required to inform have been accepted to define and Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck limit hate speech. I am puzzled how Schumer. Pelosi and Schumer are the law is applied when comparing directly responsible for the Capitol recordings documenting political security in their respective areas. leaders and others proclaiming Perhaps President Joe Biden will desires to burn down the White request a public hearing to discuss House, to meet behind the gym to the lack of preparation against the punch out President Donald Trump, anticipated assault with the persons attaching name labels to many ultimately responsible. conservative such as Nazi, racist,

white supremacist (all without examples), promises to fight for political objectives, and march down to the Capitol to peacefully and patriotically make your feelings known. Do you see the hypocrisy? An equally important right, also in the Bill of Rights, is to assemble peacefully to redress the government for grievances. The words of Martin Luther King Jr., Louis Farrakhan, leaders of the Women’s March (January 2017) on Washington, and President Trump appealing for a large audience to show concern for a political objective, all sound equally passionate and nothing more. Each leader drew an audience of hundreds of thousands. The one difference is that the media and progressives have now universally labeled President Trump’s equivalent appeals to be riot inciting. To my knowledge, no evidence was ever produced to evaluate that allegation. Until the charges are investigated, both sides will continue to believe they are correct, and those on the other side are criminals. Serious questions are unanswered. Decisions were made against all logic that caused several deaths and major embarrassment of America to the world. The leaders who made these decisions must never lead another day. They can only escape with a coverup. Earl Heal is a retired Air Force officer, Vacaville resident and a member of The Right Stuff Committee of the Solano County Republican Party. Reach him at healearlniki@att.net.

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HHS nominee short on public health experience

ordinary that Biden would ven some progressives were perplexed when pick a Health and Human President Joe Biden nomServices nominee who has an inated California Attorexpansive view of abortion ney General Xavier Becerra rights and a cramped one of to be secretary of Health religious liberty. That’s what and Human Services. you’d expect in a Democratic “I would have liked to see administration, and it was the HHS secretary have true of Obama’s two HHS public health experience,” Ramesh Ponnuru secretaries as well. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, What’s novel is choosing D-Wash., told Politico. The New York someone whose principal recommenTimes reported that it was “a dation for the job is his culture war surprise” and summarized his health zealotry. It’s as though President experience as being “at the forefront Donald Trump had chosen Rick of legal efforts on health care” and Santorum to run HHS – except that being “vocal in the Democratic Party Santorum has actually done a lot of about fighting for women’s health.” work on health policy over the course In other words: As California’s of his career. attorney general he opposed the Opposing Becerra makes political Trump administration’s long-shot sense for Republicans. Social effort to get courts to strike down conservatives are a crucial part of “Obamacare,” and as a congressman the Republican coalition, but a part he earned 100% from NARAL that has long had doubts about the Pro-Choice America. party’s commitment to defending In his long career as a Democratic their interests and values. Challengcongressman and as California’s ing a nominee who was selected more attorney general, Becerra built a or less to be a thumb in their eye is strong record as a progressive, one way to reassure and especially on social issues, which mobilize them. delights some Americans and appalls Explanations for Trump’s strong others. During the Biden transition, support from Republican voters have, Becerra had been mentioned as a over and over, found that many of possible secretary of Homeland them wanted someone who would Security or attorney general. In 2008, fight. The Becerra nomination President-elect Barack Obama presents a chance for Republican reportedly considered him for U.S. senators – whether they were trade representative. foursquare behind Trump, ambivaWhile Republicans might have lent or opposed – to show that they dreaded seeing him in those posiare willing to fight. tions, he was arguably It’s also an opportunity to make a qualified for them. broader point about today’s DemoRunning the largest department of cratic Party. Biden campaigned on the federal government is another waging a war against Covid-19 as story. Becerra has experience in much as on anything else. In office, battling Catholic nuns over their though, he has selected a general who employee health plans. (And in losing may be more eager to fight another to them.) But as someone without war altogether. Public health meamuch background in health or health sures need buy-in across the breadth policy, he’s an odd pick to fix the of our population, including from Centers for Disease Control people who will see Becerra as and Prevention. a bitter foe. Of course, it’s not out of the If they decide to make a campaign

of opposition, Republicans should find themselves relatively unified. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, often breaks with her party on votes related to social issues. But she too has expressed concern about Becerra’s lack of health care chops. Republicans could at the same time find fissures among the Democrats. Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Bob Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania, both Democrats, sometimes vote with opponents of abortion, although Casey also tries to be a team player for his party. If Republicans can’t get Democratic votes, they can at least make voting politically costly. Yet Republicans have been slow to engage against Becerra, focusing their opposition instead on Neera Tanden, Biden’s nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget. Her nomination appears doomed since Manchin announced he will oppose her, citing the “overtly partisan attacks” she made on several senators. It seems curious that the senators’ hurt feelings matter more than their voters, their positions on moral issues or health care. There are any number of people who could plausibly serve as HHS secretary in a Democratic administration. Plenty of former governors and prominent physicians would bring executive experience or knowledge of health care – or even both – to the job while satisfying the interest groups that have informal veto power over any Democratic president’s nomination for it. The Senate’s power of advice and consent would be well used prodding Biden to pick one of them. Ramesh Ponnuru is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is a senior editor at National Review, visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and contributor to CBS News.

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Billy Porter, Joel McHale, Christopher Meloni, Jenna Elfman and Steven Yeun. On March 4, CBS All Access will transition to Paramount+. “Jordan Peele, [executive producer] Simon Kinberg and the entire production team truly reimagined The Twilight Zone for the modern age,” the streaming platform’s programming chief Julie McNamara said in a statement to TVLine. “They upheld the classic series’ legacy of socially conscious storytelling and pushed today’s viewers to explore all new dimensions of thoughtprovoking and topical themes that we hope will resonate with audiences for years to come.”

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program provides a bridge for ninth- and 10th-graders, focusing on social-emotional learning and connectedness. It will also provide a Math 1 program for English learners. The middle school program focuses on math and literacy. The district expects around 500 participants. In addition, the Secondar y Enrichment Program will take place from June 14-25 online only for about 80 students. The STEAM Minecraft Camp for students in sixth through eighth grades will engage students in activities with themes incorporating STEAM, language arts, history, architecture, coding, leadership, character education, physics and more. The final program is Extended School Year, which is designed for students with specific services identified through their Individualized Educational Plans. It will run from June 16 to July 14 at Crescent Elementary School, H. Glenn School, R ichardson Crystal Middle School and Armijo High School and is expected to serve approximately 100 students. Fairfield-Suisun School District campuses remain closed to in-person instruction after being shuttered in March 2020 at the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Schools ended the 2019-2020 academic year through distance learning that relied heavily on use of the internet. Schools opened last fall with similar online learning protocols in place. The Fairfield-Suisun district is working on plans to reopen campuses to some sort of in-class instruction, starting with hybrid models, with the goal of a return to full-time classroom instruction. Most people who have Covid-19 experience only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. Some people, especially older adults and those with underlying health problems, experience more severe illness such as pneumonia and at times, death. The vast majority of people recover. The World Health Organization reports people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover. Glen Faison contributed to this report.

Pool: Moratorium From Page A1 Ser v ices, cr im ina l justice reform activists have recommended for the job candidates including a district attorney who has stopped seeking the death penalty in murder cases and elected officials who have backed unsuccessful ballot measures to repeal capital punishment. “I’m certain the governor will be looking for an attorney general who shares his opposition to the death penalty,” said Cristine Soto DeBerry, executive director of Prosecutors Alliance of California, a group that opposes capital punishment. “I would hope that we would have an attorney general that’s seeking to move us toward aboli-

tion of the death penalty.” Newsom staked out his position in 2019 when he issued an executive order placing a moratorium on executions, despite the death penalty remaining legal and part of the state Constitution. The order at the time affected 737 inmates on California’s death row. “Our death penalty system has been – by any measure – a failure,” Newsom said at the time. “It has discriminated against defendants who are mentally ill, Black and brown, or can’t afford expensive legal representation.” Under state law, all death sentences are automatically appealed to the California Supreme Court for review.

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Backpacks: 2,000 filled with goodies From Page One the county – to include the Fairfield-Suisun district – are working on plans to reopen campuses to some sort of in-class instruction, starting with hybrid models, with the goal of a return to full-time classroom instruction. Most people who have Covid-19 experience only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. Some people, especially older adults and those with underlying health problems, experience more severe illness such as pneumonia and at times, death. The vast majority of people recover. The World Health Organization reports people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover.

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Budget: 2023 eyed for well-being plan From Page A1 to $3.6 million in cost cuts are also identified and could be implemented if necessary. Some highlights from the discussion of required spending goals include a plan to create equitable, high-quality educational programs and provide educational options to ensure every student graduates ready for either college or a career. The district also plans by June 2023 to have fully implemented a tiered, integrated, socialemotional program to support the well-being of all students and staff by promoting prosocial behavior, teaching coping and decision-making skills and modeling positive relationships. District officials also hope by June 2023 to implement and refine a staffing plan that focuses on recruitment and professional learning to hire and retain staff. Another budget priority is to create a safe environment within which students can learn and

teachers can work. The district also wants to create programs to improve communication with parents and caregivers. Michelle Henson, assistant superintendent of Business Services, who gave the presentation, acknowledged that like everything else, plans for the budget will change. Possible cost cuts if needed for 2021-2022 include suspension of other postemployment benefits contributions for future retirees to save approximately $500,000. Other possible cuts include: ■ Reduce technology replacement, approximately $655,000. ■ Reduce spending on campus safety for such things as fencing, surveillance cameras and radios, approximately $500,000. ■ Reduce planned playground equipment upgrades, approximately $500,000. ■ Suspension of defer r ed ma i nte nance contribution by 0.25%, approximately $500,000 (approximate allocation of $2.4 million).

■ Reduce a portion of department and site budgets, approximately $200,000. ■ Reduce the planned adoption of new textbooks, approximately $1.5 million. Some issues that are changing the budget are the first interim costof-living allowance for 2021-22 was anticipated to be 0% but it is actually 3.84%. Enrollment also came in lower than previously estimated. Other possible cuts include $1 million to $2 million in staff salaries and benefits based on actual staffing levels; $300,000ingeneral fund dollars from various department budgets; $100,000 in cuts to NEWSOM the cost of paying substitute teachers and providing professional development to staff; and $1.2 million in reduced funding to various restricted programs. Funding will be influenced by federal CARES Act expansion, the second

federal stimulus relief bill that was approved late last week by the House of Representatives and now moves to the Senate for consideration, and various Early Learning grants. The budget development calendar includes required authorization and preliminary layoff notifications in March, with a review of enrollment projections and staffing by March 9 and a deadline of March 15 for delivery of preliminary layoff notifications. Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to unveil a state budget revision May 20. The school board is scheduled May 27 to review how that budget plan affects the distr ict, and is scheduled to adopt the 2021-2022 budget after a public hearing that’s scheduled June 24. The board unanimously approved the proposed budget priorities plan Thursday. Glen Faison contributed to this report.

Trump: Says he won’t launch new party From Page A1 “We’re not starting new parties,” he said. “I am not starting a new party.” Trump spent much of the speech criticizing the Biden Administration for its policies on immigration, energy and other issues, which he called “a destructive agenda.” In a straw poll of CPAC attendees revealed just before Trump’s address, 68% said they wanted Trump to run again in 2024, a smaller number than expected considering his 97% job approval participants. among The other 32% either said he shouldn’t run or had no opinion. In a separate poll of potential 2024 GOP nominees for president, Trump was the choice of 55% of attendees. Gov. Ron DeSantis came in second at 21%, with all other candidates in single digits. With Trump out of the mix, however, DeSantis was first with 43%. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem came in second with 11%; Donald Trump Jr. got 8% for third. The results highlighted the Florida governor’s difficult path of laying the groundwork for a potential campaign while at the same time still being seen as a loyal Trump acolyte. U.S. Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio both got 1% or less in both polls. Hours earlier, thousands of people both inside and outside the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference eagerly waited for the

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Former President Donald Trump speaks during CPAC at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Florida, Sunday. remarks from Trump, She said she hoped who was closing out an Trump would declare event indelibly marked his candidacy for presby his election falsehoods ident in 2024. and grievances. “I want to hear from Crowds grew through- him how he’s going to out the day starting with come back,” Mospaw said. dozens in the morning, to “I think he’s going to back thousands by 1:30 p.m., Biden down. He has to. It’s about three hours before in his DNA. Of course, we Trump was due to speak. all feel the same way, and Most were not registered he’s going to try to lift us with the conference, so up at the same time.” they wouldn’t be able to Some signs along witness the speech. International Drive harAmid blaring car horns kened to the QAnon along International Drive conspiracy theory, with and speakers on adja- one saying “Fear less, cent sidewalks blaring LQve more,” and another Trump anthems such said “GQP.” Others waved as “YMCA,” Jeanette Trump 2024 flags, one Mospaw of Winter Haven said “He’ll be back,” and found a shady spot in the merchants sold shirts disheat to wave her “Keep paraging President Joe America Great” flag. Biden and Vice President “There’s nothing better Kamala Harris. than all the Trump people Inside the confertogether,” said Mospaw, ence, former acting who traveled with a friend Attorney General Matt to Orlando for the day. Whitaker falsely claimed She said she’d been to the election was stolen two Trump rallies, and from Trump and warned was in Washington, D.C., that Democrats sought on Jan. 6, coming within to extend the countfeet of the U.S. Capitol as ing period after Election insurrectionists breached Day to “find” ballots. The reason that many the building.

states didn’t finish their counts for days, however, was because Republican legislatures mandated mail-in ballots couldn’t be counted early. Robert Unanue, the CEO of Goya Foods, called Trump “the real, the legitimate, and the still actual president of the United States.” Goya’s board of directors has mandated that Unanue not speak to the news media without its approval following his repeated false claims of voter fraud. The speakers have mostly been overshadowed by the swirl of activity in and out of the Hyatt Regency Orlando, including a golden statue of Trump, the Proud Boys promoting their alternate, far-right conference across town and pardoned Trump associate Roger Stone dancing with supporters. Mask-wearing and social distancing have been spotty, with attendees booing organizers asking them to follow Hyatt’s policies. One credentialed media member, a YouTube personality, was asked to leave by security on Friday for repeatedly refusing to wear a mask. Ora nge Count y, though, said Friday it sent task force members to the hotel and confirmed that Hyatt was attempting to enforce the rules. The Hyatt hotel chain has faced increasing criticism for hosting the event, with “#boycotthyatt” trending on Twitter.

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MLB winds up for 2021 O’s Mancini returns after colon cancer Tribune Content Agency SARASOTA, FLA. — In his first live at-bat in nearly a year, Orioles first baseman Trey Mancini marked his return to baseball after missing all of 2020 because of stage 3 colon cancer with a base hit in the team’s spring training opener Sunday against the Pitts-

burgh Pirates. through the All morning to the standing ovation before his first at-bat and his hit to cap it off, Mancini reflected on the moments from this past year that he’s attempted to move past as baseball takes over his life yet again. “All day, [I’ve] just kind of been running through

the last year and everything that me and Sara [Perlman, Mancini’s girlfriend] and my family have been through,” he said. “It’s almost been a year to the day, a couple days off since I was last in a game. It definitely was a moment where it felt like it maybe came full circle a little bit. “I thought more about

everything that happened today than I have in a long time. I’ve mostly tried to in a lot of ways just move on and not think too much about last year, but I ran through all the tough days that we had and I really tried to appreciate and cherish today. I definitely did that.” See Mancini, Page B8

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — When Buster Posey stepped into the batter’s box and received his customary ovation from the crowd at Scottsdale Stadium Sunday, it all felt so normal. Baseball is back, Posey is donning orange and black again and fans were scattered around the seats on a brisk afternoon at the Giants’ spring training home. It didn’t necessarily feel like the Giants’ 5-2 loss to the Angels was taking place during a pandemic – particularly because roughly half the fans ignored a stadium mask mandate – but there was one not-so-subtle reminder that Sunday’s game was hardly business as usual. “You can hear people’s comments,” Posey said. From fans who barked like a dog when Giants outfielder Darin Ruf came to the plate to another

MESA, Ariz. — Tami Soderstrom teared up when she walked into Hohokam Stadium on Sunday afternoon with her family. It had just hit her that her son, A’s first-round pick Tyler Soderstrom, would be participating in a big league camp. “He’s learning so much. It’s been an amazing experience for him,” Tami said. She and her husband, Steve, have been calling with questions – wanting to know who he’s met, what he’s learned. Finally able to watch their son live from a pod of seats on the first-base side, they couldn’t keep their eyes off their 19-year-old son as he warmed up with the pros. “Such a huge transition from a year ago playing high school baseball to this,” Steve, a former big leaguer himself said. “Pretty amazing how

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Contact tracing halts NBA game Tribune Content Agency The NBA postponed Sunday’s matchup between the Chicago Bulls and Toronto Raptors due to the league’s health and safety protocols for COVID-19. The Raptors played Friday night against the Houston Rockets without their head coach Nick Nurse, five assistant coaches and forward Pascal Siakam, and would not have been able to field the minimum eight players required for a game due to contract tracing issues. The Bulls flew to Tampa, Fla., where the Raptors are hosting their home games this season because of border restrictions in Toronto during the pandemic, on Saturday night, but never even made a film session scheduled for Sunday morning before the game was called. The team is scheduled to return to Chicago later Sunday in advance of hosting the Denver Nuggets on Monday night at the United Center. This marks the fourth time the Bulls have had a game postponed by the league’s health and safety protocols during the first half. They rescheduled one game against the Detroit Pistons to lighten their second half schedule a bit, but teams will be running a gauntlet heavily

The Warriors may have thought they answered questions about inconsistency with their first threegame win streak of the season but, if Sunday’s 117-91 loss to the Lakers proved anything, it is too early to dispel those concerns. With a convincing win over the Hornets Friday, the Warriors had an opportunity Sunday at Staples Center to extend their seasonbest winning streak and earn a statement victory over the reigning champions. Instead, they lacked energy, allowed themselves to become discouraged by missed shots and trailed by 29 points by halftime. The final moments of the first half were especially demoralizing. Second-year guard Talen Horton-Tucker easily barreled through guard Damion Lee, sending Lee flying past the stanchion, for a layup with 4:23 remaining to put the Lakers up by 29 points. Seconds later, forward Draymond Green sprained his left ankle while contesting a layup and exited the game with 4:15 to go. Then, LeBron James walked into a 3-pointer at the buzzer that felt like a dagger despite there being two more quarters to play. At

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Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse looks on during a game against the Philadelphia 76ers at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, Feb. 21. with back-to-backs and three games in four nights to try and complete this condensed 72-game schedule. If the Bulls can successfully play their final two games before the All-Star break, which runs from March 5-10, they will have played 34 games in the first half. That leaves 38 games to complete before the end of the year. “Everybody’s dealing with this in terms of trying to play a condensed schedule in a short period of time,” coach Billy Donovan said earlier this week.

“There’s a lot of challenges with it on a lot of fronts. Very, very limited practice times. We have three segments throughout those games where there’s actually two days in-between a game. So I think the balance of the rest and recovery, how well those guys take care of themselves, what we can get done in shootarounds, how can we continually progress and get better with limited practice time. A lot to juggle, really challenging, but I think everybody’s kind of dealing with the same circumstances.”

halftime, the Warriors announced Green would not return. At that point, it was clear there was no reason to risk Green’s long-term health for a lost cause. Until Sunday, the Warriors (19-16) were playing their best basketball of the season. The defense, ranked fourth in rating, gave up few open shots and gave Golden State a chance each night. Green (six points on 3-for-5 shooting, one rebound and two assists in 13 minutes) was thriving as a playmaker. Stephen Curry (16 points on 5-for-13 shooting and seven assists in 26 minutes) was playing at an MVP level and the starting lineup with center Kevon Looney back from injury was establishing early leads. However, the Warriors’ starters were thoroughly outplayed, giving up a season-high 41 first-quarter points to the Lakers. For the game, the Warriors were outscored by 24 points when Curry was on the floor. That’s a losing formula no matter what Golden State gets from his teammates. Not that those teammates did much better. The Warriors shot 40% overall, went 8-for-34 from 3-point range, were outrebounded 60-35 and coughed up 20 turnovers thatledto22Lakerspoints.

Tiger Woods broke his silence Sunday to say he’s going through a “tough time” after his near-fatal car crash but was deeply moved by fellow pro golfers and fans wearing his trademark red. “It is hard to explain how touching today was when I turned on the tv and saw all the red shirts,” he said in a Twitter post Sunday evening, the first post on his account in his own voice since the rollover crash. “To every golfer and every fan, you

are truly helping me get through this tough time,” he tweeted. Rory McIlroy, Patrick Reed, Tommy Fleetwood and Cameron Champ were among the many players and fans to wear red shirts and black pants to show their support for Woods on the final day of the WGCWorkday Championship at The Concession. Woods, 45, has been recovering from emergency surgery after his terrifying Tuesday morning crash on the border of Rancho Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills See Tiger, Page B8

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How inclusive are Netflix shows, movies? Now we know Tribune Content Agency Netflix received broadly high marks for diversity and inclusion in its movies and TV shows when it came to gender and people of color, compared to the broader entertainment industry, according to an extensive new report. But the streaming giant fell short in its representation of certain groups, including the LGBTQ community and people with disabilities. The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which regularly takes Hollywood studios to task for their shortcomings on diversity, on Friday published a detailed report studying representation on and off camera for 126 U.S. Netflix movies and 180 scripted shows in 2018 and 2019. The report, led by USC professor Stacy L. Smith, compared Netflix’s numbers to figures from the broader industry as well as the U.S. population. Netflix executives said they will use the 36-page report, which addressed gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability, to serve as a benchmark to measure progress toward greater representation. The Los Gatos company, which commissioned the study, said it will release similar reports with USC every two years through 2026. “We’ve released this report in the interests of transparency,” Netflix co-Chief Executive Ted Sarandos wrote in a blog post. “Because without this kind of information it’s very hard to judge whether we’re improving or not. And the report makes clear that while Netflix has made advances in representation year-over-year, we still have a long way to go.” The report comes after a year in which the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the resulting protests revived criticism of the entertainment industry for its shoddy track record of giving opportunities to people of color. Multiple studios and media companies

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donated money to anti-racist organizations and promised programs to break down barriers to inclusion. Netflix, which has worked with filmmakers from underrepresented groups including Dee Rees, Laverne Cox and Yance Ford, on Friday said it will invest $100 million dollars over the next five years in groups that help underrepresented communities in TV and film as well Netflix programs to find, train and hire new talent. The creation of the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity follows the company’s commitments to Ghetto Film School, Film Independent’s Project Involve, Firelight Media and Black Public Media. The USC report, found that on-camera representation of racial and ethnic groups improved over time in key areas. The percentage of leads and coleads in Netflix shows and movies from underrepresented groups rose from 26.4% in 2018 to 37.3% in 2019. During those two years, Netflix’s percentage of nonwhite leads and coleads in movies (35.7%) was greater than the 100 top grossing box office films during the same period of time (28%). Behind the camera, however, only 16.9% of Netflix film directors were from underrepresented groups, compared to 20.5% for the top 100 theatrical movies. There was no significant change from 2018 to 2019, the report stated. Of TV series creators, 12.2% were from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group, roughly in line with the broader industry (10.4%). The percentage of nonwhite Netflix creators rose from 7.6% in 2018 to 15.9% the following year. About 15% of TV producers were underrepresented, which was less than the industry average according to USC, citing Writers Guild of America figures. The study also found that women of color from specific groups were absent from much

of Netflix’s content. Latinas were not seen in 72.2% of Netflix films, while 56.3% lacked Asian women and girls. In series, Latinas were nowhere to be seen in 65.6% of shows, and 42.2% were missing Asian women. Broadly, women were proportionately represented in Netflix movies and shows, with 52% of stories driven by women and girls on camera, though just 38.8% of all speaking characters identified as female. Of film directors, 23.1% were women, which was significantly higher than for the top-grossing box office movies in 2018 and 2019. For LGBTQ-identified characters, there was significant room for improvement, the report noted. In film and TV, 2.3% of Netflix content had LGBTQ leads or coleads, while about 12% of the U.S. population identifies as LGBTQ. “Netflix substantially underrepresented this community in its storytelling,” the report read. Only 5.3% of Netflix stories centered on leads or coleads with disabilities, though more than 27% of the U.S. population lives with a disability, USC’s study said. Just 2.1% of speaking characters were shown to have a disability. In a Thursday webinar discussing the findings, Netflix executives said they expect the numbers to improve with future reports. The company has released a substantial number of films and shows since 2019 centering on nonwhite characters, women and LGBTQ people, including “Bridgerton,” “Never Have I Ever,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “The Old Guard” and “Da 5 Bloods.” “I feel like we’re moving in the right direction, but the whole auspice here is not to pat ourselves on the back,” said Netflix Vice President of Global Film Scott Stuber. “It’s to say publicly ‘Here’s what we’re trying to accomplish, and we’re going to be held accountable and have a benchmark that we constantly try to improve on.’”

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FAIRFIELD — Movie viewers will have their choice between coming of age and Coming 2 America in this week’s new film offerings. Opening Tuesday is “Sophie Jones,” which is inspired by true experiences of grief, girlhood and growing up. A 16-year-old is struggling with the untimely death of her mother while navigating the challenges of teendom. Jessie Barr directs. Her cousin, Jessica Barr, stars. It’s not rated. “ Moxie” opens Wednesday and centers on a teen who anonymously publishes an underground zine sharing bias and wrongdoing at her high school. Amy Poehler is featured. It’s not rated. brings Thursday Spongebob and friends back to the screen in the animated “SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.” In this outing, SpongeBob’s beloved pet snail Gary goes missing. A path of clues leads SpongeBob and Patrick to the powerful King Poseidon, who has Gary held captive in the Lost City of Atlantic City. Friday brings a bevy of new movies. “Boogie” is the coming-of-age story of Alfred “Boogie” Chin, a basketball phenom living in Queens, New York, who dreams of one day playing in the NBA. His parents pressure him to focus on earning a scholarship to an elite college. His new girlfriend and on-court rivals are also placing a burden on him. It’s not rated. “Boss Level,” coming to Hulu, stars Mel Gibson as a retired special forces veteran trapped in a never-ending loop resulting in his death every day. It’s not rated. “Chaos Walking,” stars Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley in the story of a mysterious girl who crash lands on a planet where all the women have disappeared and the men are afflicted by “the noise” – a force that puts all their thoughts on display. It’s rated PG-13. “Coming 2 America” takes newly crowned King Akeem and his con-

fidant on a new adventure traversing the globe and finding themselves back in Queens, where it all began. Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall star. Find it on Amazon Prime. It’s not rated. “Crisis” brings three stories about the world of opioids, a drug trafficker, a recovering OxyContin addict and a university professor who learns the truth behind his research employer, a drug company. It’s rated R. “Dreamcatcher” is about a disc jockey on the brink of stardom who indulges at an underground music festival that results in two days of violence and mayhem. It’s not rated. “Pixie” is the story of a girl out to avenge her mother’s death. She masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters. It’s rated R. “Raya and the Last Dragon” is an animated film set in a fantasy world where humans and dragons lived together long ago in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil has returned and it’s up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the legendary last dragon to restore the fractured land and its divided people. It’s rated PG. “Sometime Other Than Now” stars Donal Logue, who finds refuge in a small New England town after a motorcycle crash. It’s discovered that his estranged daughter lives there – the daughter he hasn’t seen in 25 years. It’s not rated. “Stray” follows three strays as they embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society. It’s not rated. “The Affair” is set in 1930s Czechoslovakia, where newlywed are filled with optimism and happiness in their new home. But all too soon, extramarital temptations bring out their darkest secrets and desires. It’s not rated. Check with streaming services to see which movies they are offering.

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People work out inside Boulevard Fitness in San Diego in July in defiance of Covid-19 health orders.

The underground Covid economy

Businesses say they sidestepped rules to survive Los Angeles Times The businesses appeared closed, but there were telltale signs of life: light seeping out from behind boarded-up windows, customers coming and going through employee entrances, Instagram posts alluding to in-home appointments. The Covid-19 shutdown orders imposed in March and again during the holidays crippled large swaths of the California economy. But even before an easing of restrictions announced this week by Gov. Gavin Newsom, some business owners continued to carry on covertly. In Los Angeles and other counties with forced closures, you could still get your nails done and your hair trimmed, practice Pilates inside a studio and eat a restaurant meal with a group of friends – no takeout containers involved. By continuing to serve customers, the businesses violated the spirit – and in some cases the letter – of public health orders and complicated efforts to stem the spread of the coronavirus, health officials said. But those who have been operating for months under the radar say their decision isn’t a repudiation of face masks, social distancing or government overreach, or about enabling parties during a pandemic. It’s simply to make ends meet, and in the absence of sufficient financial assistance and clear guidance, they have been relying on themselves – and discreet customers they can trust – to do it. “I have a son to feed and to support, and rent to pay, and it was just getting too hard to not work at all,” said hairstylist Joanna Ho, 40. “Even when the government was giving us stimulus and unemployment, it wasn’t enough.” Despite the lifting of statewide stay-at-home orders Monday, business owners remain uneasy. In Los Angeles County, personal care services were allowed to open immediately and outdoor dining can resume Friday. But with still-high infection rates, low hospital bed availability and new, more dangerous coronavirus variants, many are skeptical about how long this reopening will last. “Maybe it’s best to not open right away and gauge the scene,” said Kevin Meehan, chef-owner of Melrose Avenue restaurant Kali. “Laying off staff for the

fourth time would be brutal.” Many business owners said they could not afford to be sidelined. A year ago, Ho tended to dozens of clients a week at a beauty salon in Pasadena. When the shop closed last summer, she moved into a downtown Los Angeles loft and set up a station at home, borrowing a professional salon chair, buying air filters and only accepting current clients or referrals, masks required. Bookings fell by about 75% – “I’m getting by with credit cards and whatever I saved up” – and Ho grappled with whether she should even be working at all. “I keep going back and forth: Should I, or should I not?” she said. “It’s a gray area for sure. How do you tell? You just try to do the best you can.” A nail salon in Saratoga continued to serve customers during the most recent stay-at-home order but kept the blinds drawn, the door locked and a “Closed” sign on the window to maintain a low profile. “I need to work. I need to eat. I need to fight for rent,” said the owner, a single mom from San Jose who declined to give her name and asked that the shop not be identified. “If I don’t work, me and my daughter won’t have a home.” When customers called for appointments, she’d group them on the same day to avoid having to go into the salon too often. She permanently closed her second studio in Los Gatos and became a one-person operation – all of her nail technicians left weeks ago for other jobs, unable to wait around any longer for restrictions to lift – buffing and polishing nails behind a plexiglass divider. Business compliance during the pandemic “is essential” to slowing the spread of Covid-19, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said in an update this month. The department declined requests for an interview, instead referring to a media briefing and a news release that said teams of enforcement officials “continue to visit businesses across the county every day” to ensure rules were being followed. From Jan. 3 through Jan. 11, 83 citations were issued to restaurants, gyms, personal care salons, places of worship and other businesses in the county;

more than 600 have been handed out since the end of August. For those that remain out of compliance, citations can be as high as $1,000 per occurrence. The county has been going after repeat offenders in other ways as well, such as shutting off the gas at a Long Beach restaurant on Saturday after the owner continued to offer outdoor patio dining. Those are serious penalties, but many small-business owners believe the risk is worth it. They point to ever-changing and arbitrary rules about what’s allowed to be open and under what conditions, and say they have been disproportionately affected while big businesses such as supermarkets, mall operators and major retail chains are open with few limitations. If it’s legal to spend all afternoon browsing for shoes and jewelry at Macy’s surrounded by other shoppers, they wondered, why couldn’t they let their customers sit on the terrace or come inside for a quick wax? The banning of outdoor dining has been among the most controversial of the myriad Covid-19 safety regulations, and restaurants around the state – including in Orange County, Pasadena and Long Beach – made no secret of defying the orders. SideTrack Bar + Grill in Pleasanton continued offering outdoor dining for a few days in January, posting about its decision on Facebook. The city “looked the other way, and I appreciated that,” owner Todd Utikal said. After reopening at 11 a.m. Monday, the restaurant had a line out the door and its patios were full. “There is no proof, over and over again, that outdoor dining is the cause of this,” he said. “Granted, we had some angry people who felt we were breaking the rules. But we had logic behind it and it was not greed.” Some owners came up with workarounds to supplement takeout revenue. Beverly Hills ramen shop Kazan has been hosting private dining experiences inside or on its patio for small parties. Meehan of Kali said on Instagram in December that he was available to cook “a small dinner party in the safety of your home” at $300 per person. Public and private gatherings with non-household individu-

als have been prohibited in Los Angeles County since November (except for faith-based services and protests), and Meehan’s Instagram post upset a few followers who accused him of being irresponsible. But he said taking his restaurant to customers’ homes has kept his business afloat during a tumultuous time for the industry: “I think I’m doing the right thing.” “I’m legally allowed to cater in people’s homes, and people are entertaining,” he said. “I don’t feel like I’m doing something where I’m exposing myself: I come in and I wear a mask; I bring a cooler full of food; and I’m in some beautiful home in Malibu cooking dinner for four people.” During the shutdown, downtown L.A. restaurant Rossoblu hosted several multi-course virtual dinners: Participants received food to eat in their own homes while interacting with chef-owner Steve Samson and other diners on Zoom. That netted enough revenue to help the Italian restaurant get through the holiday season. But co-owner Dina Samson drew the line when customers inquired about having Rossoblu participate in in-home gatherings. “There was one lady – she was basically having big dinner parties at her house and paying chefs to come cook,” she said. “She told me a bunch of restaurants that were doing that, and I told her, ‘I’m sorry, we can’t.’ It’s really crazy – there is that whole underground economy for sure.” Even though the customer was willing to pay “a lot of money,” Samson said turning the offer down was an easy decision. “We’re really rule followers, and our team, the people who work for us, are rule followers too, so there was no way they’d let us get away with that,” she said. “We want to be an example, right?” Health officials have identified indoor dining and gyms as vectors for Covid-19 infection – both settings put customers in proximity for prolonged periods of time, often with masks off – and have served closure notices and cease-and-desist orders to fitness facilities for violating orders during the pandemic. Gyms remain limited to outdoor operations only. In some cases, fitness studios have faced scrutiny for holding workouts in

spaces with a loose interpretation of the word “outside.” “Nice space in the valet of the parking garage, but so walled in that you feel like you’re inside,” one attendee wrote in an online review after a recent Barry’s boot-camp class at the Beverly Center, where the company has temporarily set up classes. Other studios found ways to sidestep outdoor-only rules. Pilates studio owners said a light pivot meant they were allowed to offer private sessions inside. Many teamed up with healthcare professionals and began referring to their businesses as “satellite clinics” offering “wellness classes” instead of fitness studios offering workout classes. “Wellness Reformer Classes are being run and operated under medical supervision and require a physician’s prescription,” DR Pilates in Larchmont Village said in an Instagram post last month. “Strict adherence to all current CDC guidelines are being held in the studio.” Another studio, Balance Reform, partnered with a licensed chiropractor, which allowed its clients to “return to your favorite physical exercise worry-free,” according to an email last year. Michelle Marshall, the chiropractor, said she reached out to the Melrose Avenue studio owner to help the business survive the lockdown. Balance Reform clients had to undergo an initial consultation with Marshall, and, if she found them to be suffering from neck or back issues, she’d recommend oneon-one Pilates sessions. Balance Reform even touted a “bonus”: “If visits are deemed medically necessary, your health insurance may cover the cost of your visit.” But the partnership was short-lived. “It was a little too complicated,” Marshall said. “We couldn’t figure out a model that worked during the pandemic.” In December, Balance Reform announced that it was shutting its doors for good. “Covid-19 has brought an unprecedented toll on our new small business and through many sleepless nights, we have been forced with the decision to close,” the studio said. “We hope that you understand and respect the difficult choices we’ve had to make throughout this process.”

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Fasolada is a Greek soup of dry white beans, olive oil, and vegetables.

Upgrade your winter soup with beans Arthi Subramaniam

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well-cooked pot of beans can be summed up in two words – humble and hearty. Dried or canned beans don’t need many frills to provide warmth and comfort or extra trips to specialty stores. Toss in aromatics like garlic and onion along with herbs, if you have any, and seasonings like salt, paprika, ground turmeric or garam masala. To bulk up the dish, please vegetarians by adding carrots, peppers, tomatoes and/or greens. For a double dose of protein and flavor, simmer the beans with smoky ham hock. If you add ground meat or chunks of chuck roast or sausage, you would have a pot of chili. For a more wholesome meal, scoop the beans over some cooked rice. Beans are rather unique as they are embraced by both the protein and vegetable food groups. Regular consumers of meat or fish consider them to be vegetables, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but vegetarians count them first in the protein group and then in the vegetable group. Like vegetables, beans are a good source of fiber, vitamins and minerals. But unlike vegetables, they have a substantial amount of plant-based protein. An easy way to incorporate beans is to use the canned version, and that is fine in my opinion. Canned does not mean inferior. If you want to reduce the sodium content, rinse the beans in water to get rid of the gooey liquid. Beans are canned with salt and water to create a brine to keep them fresh. With time, however, starch from the beans makes the brine slimy. If you are like me and have a stash of dried beans, remember it is just as effortless to cook with them. It requires only one additional step – soaking them in water. But it is often debated: to soak or not to soak. There are those who swear against soaking beans in water, saying it is a waste of time and worse, robs them of color, flavor and nutrients. I staunchly belong in the other camp and soak them, especially ones like red kidney beans, chickpeas and fava beans, before they are cooked. The soaking not only softens and plumps up the beans but also helps to shorten their cooking time. A multigenerational tip that has been passed down in my family is to replace the water at least three or four times, while the beans soak, to alleviate flatulence. Natural gas-producing sugars from the beans are leached out into the water and so it is best to get rid of the liquid. When cooking dried beans with thicker skins, I also

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Tortilla soup with red kidney beans, above, and green curry soup with black beans, broccoli and bell peppers.

add a pinch of baking soda to soften them. However I don’t presoak the split yellow mung, brown or orange-hued lentils and don’t always soak blackeyed peas either. Once you have the beans softened to your liking, use them in any aspect of a meal. When mashed, beans can be made into dips like hummus or become the backbone for a burger patty. Refried beans can add flavorful weight to burritos or be spread over toast. Rice dishes, pastas and cassoulets are studded with black-eyed peas, cannellini beans, kidney beans and black beans and so are salads with pinto beans, chickpeas and white beans. Even desserts embrace beans. Little red ones often show up in Malaysian shaved ice, Japanese honeyed pancakes, moon cakes and Chinese rice and coconut puddings. Then there are the soups, which speak in global accents and especially embraced during these wicked cold days. Beans are reliable team players that remind you of the Campbell jingle, “M’m! M’m! Good!” For many Italian-Americans in Pittsburgh, you understand them better when you understand greens and beans. The one-pot favorite is traditionally made with cannellini beans and the greens vary from escarole to kale to spinach to a blend.

Cannellini beans again speak loud and clear in a fasolada (Greek white bean soup) without over dominating. A punchy green curry soup with black beans is the kind of soup that makes winter bearable. Red kidney beans add heft and texture to a steaming bowl of tortilla soup. That’s why we say cool beans to winter soups. FASOLADA Don’t disregard the direction to mash 1 cup of cannellini beans when making this Greek white bean soup. The mashed beans not only thicken the soup but also give it a desired creamy texture. 4 (15.5-ounce) cans cannellini beans, rinsed and drained, divided 6 tablespoons extravirgin olive oil, divided, plus more to serve 1 large red onion, chopped 3 medium celery stalks, chopped 3 medium carrots, peeled and chopped Kosher salt 4 medium garlic cloves, minced ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes 3 tablespoons tomato paste 1 ½ quarts low-sodium chicken broth 4 teaspoons red wine vinegar Black pepper to taste ½ cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley ¼ cup pitted Kalamata olives, chopped ½ cup feta cheese, crumbled In a medium bowl, add 1 cup of

beans. Mash with a fork or potato masher to a paste. In a large pot over medium heat, add 3 tablespoons of the oil and heat until shimmering. Add onion, celery and carrots and ½ teaspoon salt. Cook until vegetables begin to brown, about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add garlic and red pepper flakes and stir until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the tomato paste and cook, stirring, until the paste begins to brown, about 2 minutes. Stir in the remaining canned beans along with the mashed beans. Add chicken broth and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Then reduce heat to mediumlow, cover pot and cook until carrots are just tender, about 20 minutes. Turn heat off and stir in vinegar. Then vigorously whisk in the remaining 3 tablespoons of oil. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Ladle into bowls and top with parsley, olives and feta. Makes 6 servings. – Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Magazine (2018) RED BEAN TORTILLA SOUP I used juicy Campari tomatoes here because they are naturally sweet, but any juicy variety will work. To add color, I cut spinach and jalapenocheddar wraps into strips and bake them to stand in for the tortilla. 1 cup dried red kidney beans Coarse kosher salt, divided ¼ teaspoon baking soda 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 large white onion, thinly sliced 3 garlic cloves, minced 3 tablespoons fresh cilantro, minced, plus more for garnish 4 cups Campari tomatoes, diced 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 ½ teaspoons cayenne pepper 4 cups chicken or vegetable broth 2 large tortillas (spinach and jalapeno-cheddar)

cut into strips Diced avocado for garnish Sour cream for garnish (optional) Soak kidney beans in water for about 5 hours. Change the water at least 3 or 4 times. Rinse the beans and drain the water. In a heavy pot, cook beans with 3 cups of water, a little salt and baking soda, over medium heat, uncovered, for 20 minutes. In a heavy pot over medium heat, warm the oil. Add onion and saute until just tender. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Add cilantro and turn off heat and let the aromatics cool in the pot for about 10 minutes. Add the aromatics and tomatoes to a blender and puree until smooth. Transfer the mixture back to the pot, over medium heat. Add cumin and cayenne and stir well. Add cooked beans and broth. Then add salt to taste. Once the soup comes to a boil, turn heat down to medium-low. Cover and cook for 25 minutes, stirring occasionally. If the soup is too thick, add more broth. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 250 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil. Place tortilla strips on the sheet and spritz them with cooking spray. Then sprinkle some salt on top. Bake for 10 minutes or until the strips are crisp, rotating the sheet halfway through and stirring occasionally. Remove from the sheet and let tortilla strips cool. Ladle soup into 6 bowls. Garnish with tortilla strips, avocado, cilantro and sour cream, if desired.. Serves 6. – Arthi Subramaniam GREEN CURRY SOUP WITH BLACK BEANS This soup has all the qualities that distinguish a good green curry: It’s creamy but not overbearing, elegantly fiery and soothing. 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 2 large garlic cloves, finely minced 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, peeled and finely minced 1 cup small broccoli florets 1 cup yellow bell pepper, thinly sliced 1 cup orange bell pepper, thinly sliced 1 can (13.5 ounces) unsweetened coconut milk 2 cups water 2 ½ tablespoons green curry paste, store bought Kosher salt to taste 2 cans (15.5 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lime juice Cilantro for garnish, optional Heat oil in a large saucepan. Saute the garlic and ginger until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the broccoli, yellow and red pepper slices, coconut milk, water and curry paste. Add salt to taste. Stir together and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low. Stir in black beans and let it all simmer for 10 to 15 minutes. Add lime juice, stir and turn the heat off. Garnish with cilantro, if desired. Serves 5. – Arthi Subramaniam

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The land application of Biosolids is to occur between April 15th, 2021 and October 15th, 2021 near Creed Road, Lambie Road, Flannery Road, Robinson Road, Goose Haven Road and Little Honker Bay Road in Suisun City, CA as well as Birds Landing Road, and Currie Road in Rio Vista. The name of the applicator is Synagro and they can be reached at (916) 8629300. If there are any questions or concerns you may contact the applicator or the Administrative Authority, Solano County Department of Resource Management Environmental Health Services, at (707) 784-6765 located at 675 Texas Street, Suite 5500, Fairfield, CA 94553. Biosolids are sewage sludge that has been treated, tested, and shown to be capable of beneficial use and legal use as a soil amendment for agriculture, silviculture, horticulture, and land reclamation activities as specified under 40 CFR Part 503. DR# 00045067 Published: March 1, 2021

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Section 00 1100 - NOTICE TO BIDDERS ARTICLE 1. GENERAL Section 1.01 Notice is hereby given that the Board of Education of the Vacaville Unified School District of Solano County, hereinafter referred to as "District," will receive sealed Proposals for: Bid Package # 21-03: 621 Orchard Avenue – New Modular Classrooms (Re-Bid) Notice is hereby given that the Project is a public works project within the requirements of Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1 of the California Labor Code, and that each Bidder and all Subcontractors are required to be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 at the time of bidding. Failure of the Bidder or a listed Subcontractor to be registered at the time of bidding shall render the Bid nonresponsive and unavailable for award. Notice is hereby given that the Project is not subject to the requirements of Public Contract Code section 20111.6. The project will be funded from local sources and will not require Bidders to be prequalified by the District. Proposals are due: BID INFORMATION Location: Vacaville Unified School District, 401 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville, CA 95687 Contact: District Representative: Steven McGuckin, Capital Program Management, Inc. (916) 833-6371 Date: Thursday, March 18, 2021 Time: No later than 2:00 PM At this time such proposals will be opened and publicly read. Due to Current COVID-19 Requirements, Bid Proposals will be received at the main entrance to the building between 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM on the day of the bid. Contractor License Classification Required: Class B Section 1.02 Mandatory Pre bid conference will be held at: MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE INFORMATION Location: 621 South Orchard Avenue – South Parking Lot Contact: District Representative: Steven McGuckin, Capital Program Management, Inc. (916) 833-6371 Date: Thursday, March 3, 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Attendance for duration of meeting is mandatory and each prime contract bidder (referred to as “Bidder” or “Bidders”) shall be required to certify, as part of its Proposal Form, that it attended the entirety of the Pre-Bid conference. Failure to include the certification will render the bid non-responsive. Failure to attend the mandatory, Pre-Bid conference waives the right to submit a bid. For all Pre-Bid visits (other than the Pre-bid conference), Bidder must make an appointment with the District Representative prior to visiting the Site. Appropriate COVID-19 protocols will be required. Section 1.03 Overall coordination of the Project will be the responsibility of the District Representative. All inquiries regarding the bid are to be directed to District Representative, Steven McGuckin, StevenM@capitalpm.com. Section 1.04 Contracts for construction will be direct prime contracts with the District. All Project procedures and documents are designed to facilitate delivery of the Project through prime construction contracts. The District's forms shall be used for all documents. Bidders shall read and review the Bidding Documents carefully, and shall familiarize themselves thoroughly with all requirements. Section 1.05 Each bid proposal shall conform to the requirements of the Contract Documents. The bid documents may be obtained at bidder’s expense from Signature Reprographics, (916) 454-0800 or electronically at https:/signaturerepro.com. Section 1.06 No bid will be considered unless it is accompanied by Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Bid Bond from a surety authorized to do business in California for ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the Combined Base Bid Amount, including additive Alternate Bids, made payable to the District. 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The District has set an overall goal for this Project that Bidders obtain a minimum of 3% of their bid amount in participation by certified Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (“DVBE”). The participation may be through work or supply of materials. If a Bidder is unable to obtain the full 3% participation by one or more DVBEs, then the bid may be found responsive only if it establishes “good faith efforts” to meet the goal. The requirements for good faith efforts are set forth in Special Provisions Section 00 8000, Article 4 and the attachments thereto. Section 1.09 The successful Bidder shall be required to pay its workers on this Project a sum not less than the general prevailing rate (applicable at time of bid advertisement date) of per diem wages and not less than the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work for work of a similar character in the locality in which the Project is performed, as provided under California Labor Code Sections 1726-1861. Copies of the prevailing rate of per diem wages are on file at the Vacaville Unified School District, 401 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville, CA 95687, and shall be made available to any interested party upon request. They may also be obtained on the internet at http://www.dir.ca.gov/OPRL/DPreWageDetermination.htm Refer to General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 7. The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. Section 1.10 The governing board of the District reserves the right to reject any and all proposals and to waive any irregularity in any proposals received. Section 1.11 At the request and expense of the successful Bidder, eligible securities shall be accepted in lieu of retention payments to insure performance under the Contract, pursuant to California Public Contract Code Section 22300. Refer to Exhibit H and General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 12, Section 12.05. 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APN: 0034-150-130 T.S. No.:2019-1898 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 9/25/2017. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Will sell at a public auction sale to the highest bidder, payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Trustor: THE VINES AT TABOR, LP, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP Duly Appointed Trustee: S.B.S. TRUST DEED NETWORK, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION Recorded 10/19/2017 as Instrument No. 201700090120 in book XX, page XX of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Solano County, California, Date of Sale:3/8/2021 at 10:30 AM Place of Sale: AT THE SANTA CLARA STREET ENTRANCE TO THE CITY HALL AT 555 SANTA CLARA STREET, VALLEJO, CALIFORNIA Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $1,376,520.57 Property being sold "as is - Where is" Street Address or other common designation of real property: 200 EAST TABOR AVENUE FAIRFIELD, CA 94533 A.P.N.: 0034-150-130 EXHIBIT "A" LEGAL DESCRIPTION Parcel One: Portion of Lot 18, as shown on the Map of LockePaddon Colony, No. 5, filed on December 6, 1911 in Book 4 of Maps, Page 17, described as follows: Beginning at the Southwest corner of Lot 28, as the same is shown on the Map of Locke Paddon Colony, No. 5 herein above referred to; Thence from said point of beginning South 89° 27' East along the South line of said Lot 18, a distance of 95 feet; Thence leaving the South line of said Lot 18, North 00° 52' West a distance of 268.20 feet to the Northwest line of said Lot 18, being on the Southeast line of the Sacramento Northern Railroad Right of Way; Thence South 60° 26' West along the line of the Railroad right of way 105.44 feet to the Northwest corner of Lot 18, as herein before referred to; Thence South 0° 12' East along the West line of said Lot 18 a distance of 215.23 feet to the point of beginning. Parcel Two: An easement for ingress and egress, as reserved in the Deed from Hermosa Homes, Inc., to Walter C. Klien, et ux., dated June 15, 1959, recorded June 18, 1959 in Book 980 of Official Records, Page 91, Instrument No, 12600, over the following described Parcel of land: A portion of Lot 18, as the same is shown on that certain Map entitled "Locke Paddon Colony, No. 5", which Map was filed for record December 6, 1911 in the Office of the County Recorder of Solano County, California, in Book 4 of Maps, Page 17, described as follows: Beginning at a point in the South line of Lot 18, as herein above referred to, which point as South 89° 27' East 95 feet from the Southwest corner of said Lot thence North 00° 52' West to a point in line which is parallel with and distant 1 foot Southeasterly at right angles from Northwesterly line of said Lot 18, Thence North 60° 236' East along said parallel line to a point in a line which is parallel with and distant 12.5 feet Easterly at right angles from the course first herein above mentioned as having a bearing of North 0° 52' East to said South line of Lot 18 Thence North 89° 27 West along said South line 12.5 feet to the point of beginning. THE BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT, IN ITS DISCRETION, TO EXERCISE ITS RIGHTS AND REMEDIES IN ANY MANNER PERMITTED UNDER THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE, OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECTION, AS TO ALL OR SOME OF THE PERSONAL PROPERTY, FIXTURES AND OTHER GENERAL TANGIBLES AND INTANGIBLES MORE PARTICULARY DESCRIBED IN THE DEED OF TRUST, GUARANTEES, UCC'S, SECURITY AGREEMENTS. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call FOR SALES INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL (855) 986-9342 or visit this Internet Web site www.superiordefault.com, using the file number assigned to this case 20191898. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: 01/28/2021 S.B.S. TRUST DEED NETWORK, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION. 31194 La Baya Drive, Suite 106, Westlake Village, California, 91362 (818)991-4600. By: Colleen Irby, Trustee Sale Officer. WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. (2/15/2021, 2/22/2021, 3/1/2021 TS# 2019-1898 SDI-20252) DR# 00044744 Published: February 15, 22, March 1, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MORRISON LANE MICROFARMS, MORRISON LANE MICROGREENS LOCATED AT: 2417 Morrison Lane, Fairfield, CA 94534 Solano Mailing Address: 2417 Morrison Lane, Fairfield, CA 94534 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Lisa A Pearson 2417 Morrison Lane Fairfield, 94534 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 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/ Lisa A Pearson 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 10, 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 11, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000053 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00044813 Published: Feb. 8, 15, 22, Mar. 1, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS ADT PROTECT YOUR HOME LOCATED AT: 995 Oliver Road Suite 9 Fairfield CA 94534 Solano Mailing Address: 3750 Priority Way S Dr Indianapolis, IN 46240 Marion (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Defenders, LLC IN 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/ Defenders, LLC James Bake - President IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION January 19, 2026. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: JAN 20, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000136 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00044814 Published: Feb. 8, 15, 22, Mar. 1, 2021

Sports

B8 Monday, March 1, 2021 — DAILY REPUBLIC

Giants: Target 50-60 at-bats for Posey From Page B1 who yelled, “Four more years” when backup catcher Chadwick Tromp took an at-bat, it was easy for players and coaches to hear exactly what fans were saying. Scottsdale Stadium is typically packed with 10,000-plus fans for the Giants’ Cactus League home opener, but with protocols in place to encourage social distancing, the club announced a paid attendance of 863. “The Angels’ first baseman was saying it kind of felt like a high school game,” Posey said. “It was different.” Giants center fielder LaMonte Wade Jr. said a sold-out stadium often produces “white noise” that makes it difficult for players to hear what individual fans are yelling, but that wasn’t the case Sunday. The reduced capacity set-up might make focusing more challenging, but players who spent the 2020 season

performing in front of empty stadiums prefer the soundtrack from Sunday to the void they experienced last year. “It’s good to have them in there,” Wade said. “It’s better than dead silence and fake noise coming in so I appreciate the fans coming out.”

Posey shines in debut When Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi discussed all of the transactions the team made during the offseason at a press conference last month, he was quick to point out that the biggest addition to the club wasn’t a free agent signee or a player acquired via a trade. It was Posey. Nearly a full year after he took his last Cactus League at-bat, Posey returned to the Giants’ lineup Sunday against the Angels. In two plate appearances, the starting catcher drew a walk and ripped an opposite-field single for the team’s first hit of the spring.

“It felt good to be back,” said Posey, who chose not to play last season after he and his wife Kristen adopted newborn twin girls. “It’s a game I’ve loved to play since I was a kid so being able to get out and compete and get on the field was great.” In a game filled with some sloppy defensive mistakes, shaky pitch command and some awkward swings, Posey’s play was the obvious bright spot. “I thought he looked great on both sides of the ball,” manager Gabe Kapler said. “It was actually the most encouraging part of the day. High quality at-bats, saw the ball well, thought he did a nice job receiving, worked with the pitchers well and had the nice clean knock to right field. He looked like Buster Posey.” Posey caught three different pitchers – Conner Menez, Zack Littell and Jay Jackson – and was forced into high-stress situations as all three allowed the leadoff batter to reach base. The Angels scored four

runs with Posey behind the plate as Littell and Jackson each gave up hard contact, but the catcher said he felt strong. “I mean you can never replicate game speed obviously but it felt like I got some good work in this winter,” Posey said. “And, but it’s definitely nice to be out and have, you know, a little bit of adrenaline going with the game and come out of it feeling good.” Kapler mentioned last week the coaching staff wants to get Posey 50-to-60 at-bats this spring to prepare for the regular season after such a long layoff, but Posey said he’ll continue to evaluate how he feels with his timing and rhythm at the plate. “I think coming into it my thought is to try to get some more (at-bats than usual),” Posey said. “But also if we get two to three weeks out from now and I feel like I’m at a really good place at the plate, I’m not going to grind through spring training unnecessarily.”

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Baseball Spring training

•Atlanta vs. Boston, MLB, 10 a.m. •Chicago White Sox vs. L.A. Angels, MLB, 1 p.m. (taped) •Detroit vs. N.Y. Yankees, MLB, 5 p.m. (taped) •Colorado vs. L.A. Dodgers, MLB, 8 p.m. (taped) Basketball College men

•Washington State at Arizona State, PAC12, noon •Dayton at St. Bonaventure, ESPNU, 2 p.m. •Massachusetts at Saint Louis,CBSSN, 3 p.m. •Miami at Virginia, ACC, 3 p.m. •North Carolina at Syracuse, ESPN, 4 p.m. •Rutgers at Nebraska, BIG TEN, 4 p.m. •Oklahoma at Oklahoma State, ESPN, 6 p.m. •Arizona at Oregon, ESPN2, 6 p.m. •Air Force at Colorado State, CBSSN, 7 p.m. College women •Baylor at Texas, ESPN2, 4 p.m. •Seton Hall at St. John’s, FS1, 4 p.m. NBA •Utah at New Orleans, NBATV, 5 p.m. •Charlotte at Portland, NBATV, 7:30 p.m. NBA G League •G League Unite vs. Delaware Blue Coats, ESPN2, noon Hockey

Athletics: Dodgers eke out win in debut From Page B1 fast it goes.” The Soderstroms weren’t the only fans in seats, of course. Though, they were some of only a few A’s fans spotted in a sea of Los Angeles Dodgers blue spattered across Hohokam’s seats in Mesa, Arizona. The Dodgers won 2-1. For the players, even the harsh sting of a heckle was music to their ears. “I don’t think we realized how much we missed it,” Daulton Jefferies, the A’s starter said. Buddy Reed, an A’s prospect who started in right field, said a Dodgers

fan was chirping all game – clearly anxious to let the pent-up fan energy out. “Some guy from the Dodgers (a fan) was saying some stuff, it was like wow, you couldn’t wait how many days to chirp at us,” Reed said. “It was good to hear, all that stuff gets you hyped up. I was never as nervous as I was in the past. Today I was nervous, but it was a lot of fun hearing people talk smack.” The A’s spring home stadium is allowing fans at 20% capacity and, Sunday, sold out with 1,998 in attendance. “What was it, 20%? It felt like there was more than 20%,” manager Bob Melvin said.

For some A’s fans in attendance, coming to spring training during a pandemic was a no-brainer. Matt Simeone, an A’s fan Roseville who moved to Arizona six months ago, checked the ticket site every day hoping to land tickets for a spring training game. He picked up tickets to watch four games with his son, Sean. This is the first spring training he’s been to since he was 12 years old – he hopes this year will start a tradition. “I’ve been sending pictures and texts to my friends,” Simeone said. “They’re all so mad at me.” The anger stemmed from jealousy, to be clear. Franie Homen, a life-

long A’s fan, flew from Dublin, Calif. to Spokane, Wash., to pick up and bring her grandsons Ezekiel and Malachi, to Arizona for their annual spring training trip. Her husband, Mark Homen met them at the Phoenix airport. The family spans different fandoms – her husband, Mark, is a Giants fan, as are their grandsons. Even though they had to buy tickets in different pods in different rows, they relish the opportunity to continue a family tradition. “It’s been over a year since we’ve watched baseball,” Mark said. “We’re just so excited we’re able to be here.”

Woods: Tweets appreciation for support From Page B1 estates in Los Angeles County left him pinned in a badly mangled 2021 Genesis GV80 SUV. The golf legend was driving from his hotel to a morning photo shoot when he lost control of the vehicle traveling down a steep hill, hit a median, crossed two lanes of oncoming traffic and rolled multiple times before finally coming to a stop on an embankment. The cause of the wreck remains under investigation, Los Angeles

County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said during a Facebook Live chat. “We don’t contemplate any charges whatsoever in this crash,” Villanueva said “This remains an accident. An accident is not a crime.” Authorities have said Woods did not appear intoxicated at the scene, so investigators will need to come up with probable cause to get a search warrant to test any blood drawn from Woods at the hospital, Villanueva said. Medical exper ts, meanwhile, believe

Woods’ recovery will be long and arduous, likely taking a year. Woods’ official Twitter account previously said he suffered “significant” injuries to his right lower leg. “Comminuted open fractures affecting both the upper and lower portions of the tibia and fibula bones were stabilized by inserting a rod into the tibia,” the statement said. “Additional injuries to the bones of the foot and ankle were stabilized with a combination of screws and pins,” it said, adding that surgeons had to

“release” pressure caused by trauma to his muscles and soft tissue. “I think he’s probably in for a long recovery. Any time somebody has this type of open fracture that’s comminuted and requires a fasciotomy to release pressure on the muscles, it signifies how much trauma there was to the limb,” Dr. Jeremy Podolnick, an orthopedic surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, told The News. “It could take a year for Tiger to return to his prior function,” Dr. Podolnick said.

Mancini: Notches first hit in over 1 year From Page B1 Mancini got a smattering of applause as he walked to the dugout from his pregame stretch on the outfield grass and got a nice ovation during the announcement of starting lineups. After outfielder

Cedric Mullins singled to open the Orioles’ first inning, Mancini soaked in nearly a minute of applause before he stepped in the batter’s box. Mancini worked the count full before singling to center field for his first hit of the spring.

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Soccer •Premier League, Everton vs. Southampton, NBCSN, 11 a.m. •La Liga, Real Madrid vs. Real Sociedad, BEIN, 11:50 a.m. Volleyball Athletes Unlimited

•Team Sybeldon vs. Team Clark, FS1, 6 p.m.

Tuesday’s TV sports Baseball Spring training

•Tampa Bay vs. Boston, ESPN, 10 a.m. •Houston vs. N.Y. Mets, MLB, 1 p.m. (taped) •L.A. Angels vs. Cincinnati, MLB, 5 p.m. •L.A. Dodgers vs. San Francisco, MLB, 8 p.m. (taped) Basketball College men

•Wake Forest at Pittsburgh, ACC, 3 p.m. •Arkansas at South Carolina, SEC, 3:30 p.m. •Xavier at Georgetown, FS1, 4 p.m. •Illinois at Michigan, ESPN, 4 p.m. •SEC teams TBA, ESPN2, 4 p.m. •Tulsa at Central Florida, ESPNU, 4 p.m. •Fresno State at Boise State, CBSSN, 4 p.m. •Indiana at Michigan State, BIG TEN, 5 p.m. •Vanderbilt at LSU, SEC, 5:30 p.m. •Marquette at DePaul, FS1, 6 p.m. •Big Ten teams TBA, ESPN2, 6 p.m. •SEC teams TBA, ESPN, 6 p.m. •Memphis at South Florida, ESPNU, 6 p.m. College women •Penn State at Rutgers, BIG TEN, 2:30 p.m. NBA •L.A. Clippers at Boston, TNT, 4:30 p.m. •Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, TNT, 7 p.m. Hockey NHL

•Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, NBCSN, 4 p.m. Soccer •Super Lig, Malatyaspor vs. Besiktas, BEIN, 7:55 a.m. •German Cup, quarterfinals, Borussia Monchengladbach vs. Borussia Dortmund, ESPNEWS, 11:30 a.m. •Copa Libertadores, Universidad Catolica vs. Liverpool, BEIN, 4:20 p.m. •Super Lig, Ankaragucu vs. Galatasaray, BEIN, 7:55 a.m. (Wednesday)

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“It meant the world to me. It was a really, really cool moment and one of the favorite moments of my baseball career. I think it was a huge day for me, personally, getting back in a game. Just another kind of milestone that I can check off here.”

•Carolina at Florida, NHL, 4 p.m. •Colorado at San Jose, NBCSCA, 7:30 p.m.

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“It was amazing,” Mancini said. “I almost teared up a little bit, I’m not going to lie, when I was up there and everybody gave me a standing ovation and I saw all the guys on the field clapping on the Pirates, clapping in the dugout, our team and all our fans.

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