Some Solano farmers markets open in April A3
friday | April 2, 2021 | $1.00
dailyrepublic.com | Well said. Well read.
Fairfield, Mission Samoa ink homelessto-work pact thansen@dailyrepublic.net
FAIRFIELD — Up to 16 homeless residents will be housed and provided job-skill training as part of a new Homeless-toWork Initiative. The city will pay Mission Samoa $80,000 to run the program, which the church-based community group will meld into its existing programs. The contract was completed this week. Cliff Parker, the program manager, said Mission Samoa will start looking for candidates next week and will start with eight unsheltered
Fairfield residents for the six-month program. The goal is to add eight more after that. Bill Way, the city’s communications director, said Mission Samoa has until March 31, 2022, to complete the program. Gene Ahu is the program director. He and Parker are former employees at Mission Solano with extensive backgrounds in homeless programs. “We actually have a program that does reentry work for people who have been incarcerated that teaches hard and soft See Pact, Page A9
covid-19 pandemic
Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic
Chamberlain University pharmacy student Aidan Turley gets ready to give a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to
Solano’s daily roller coaster case count more than doubles
Todd R. Hansen thansen@dailyrepublic.net
Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic
Fred Varner, left, works on an engine, Wednesday. Varner is one of the instructors for the Mission Samoa vocational program. Case manager Alfred Ledoux is at right.
SoCal gunman locked gates of office complex before killing 4 Tribune Content Agency ORANGE — The gunman who killed four people, including a 9-year-old boy, at an office park in Orange locked the gates to the complex with bike cable locks and was armed with a weapon as well as pepper spray and handcuffs, police said Thursday. Authorities said the shooting occurred inside a real estate and manufactured home business, Unified Homes, and the gunman and victims were connected through business and personal ties. Wednesday’s attack was
not random, they said. Officers received five calls about shots fired at the business in the 200 block of West Lincoln Avenue starting just after 5:30 p.m. The officers encountered gunfire when they arrived and opened fire, Orange Police Lt. Jennifer Amat said. Because the gates were locked, officers fired through them and wounded the gunman, Amat said. Police had to use bolt cutters to enter the complex. Officers found two victims in the courtyard, See Gunman, Page A9
Jirapa Craddock during a vaccination event at NorthBay Healthcare’s Green Valley location, Thursday, April 1.
FAIRFIELD — That thrill sensation of the sudden drop on the roller coaster that is Solano County’s coronavirus daily case count is over after one day. The Public Health Division reported 51 new cases Thursday after just 24 Wednesday. The confirmed cases took the pandemic
total in the county to 31,240. It was the third time in the past 29 days that the county recorded a count higher than 50 and comes on a day health officials released a statement urging area residents to follow Covid-19 safety protocols as the spring holidays near. There were positives in the report, however. There were no new deaths reported, still at 197, and the
number of residents hospitalized with the disease dropped from 17 to 16, the county reported. The sevenday positivity testing rate, reported at 6.6%, also dipped after three straight days of increases. Fairfield added 16 cases to bring its total to 8,526; Vacaville added 15 cases for a count of 8,171; and Vallejo’s tally went to See Count, Page A9
Solano officials urge residents to follow safety protocols during holidays Todd R. Hansen thansen@dailyrepublic.net
matyas
FAIRFIELD — Solano County health officials are urging area residents to guard against Covid-19 transmission by wearing masks and practicing social distancing during Easter and
other holidays. “The rising number of Covid-19 cases is concerning especially as we approach the holidays where the risk of spread can increase. Being in the red tier does not mean we can let our guard down,” Dr. Bela Matyas, the county public health officer, said in a
statement released Thursday by the administration. “Until a majority of our residents are vaccinated, we continue to urge everyone to take these precautions seriously – wear a mask in public, maintain physical distance See Safety, Page A9
murder trial of derek chauvin
Sergeant: Chauvin should not have knelt on Floyd’s neck after he stopped resisting The Washington Post MINNEAPOLIS — Derek Chauvin should not have knelt on George Floyd’s neck after he stopped resisting, a former supervisor testi-
INDEX Arts B4 | Classifieds B6 | Crossword A6, B4 | Comics A7, B5 Opinion A8 | Sports B1 | TV Daily A7, B5
?)6<-, A7=: *=;16-;; 76 <0-
.:76< 8)/- 67? A7= +)6
+)44 A7=: ;)4-; :-8 <7,)A )44 A )4 A7=: ; ;)4-; : :-8 <7,) 7: +)44 ̆ ̆ ! .7: 16.7
fied Thursday. Chauvin also failed to immediately tell the supervisor that he’d knelt on Floyd’s neck while restraining him during a police investigation – waiting more than
WEATHER 78 | 45 Sunny. Five-day forecast on B12.
1 VW 6XLWH % 'L[RQ &$
ZZZ GL[RQZHOOQHVVFROOHFWLYH FRP
2SHQ DP SP 'DLO\ &DQQDELV /DXJK 0RUH 6OHHS %HWWHU
30 minutes until he stood outside the hospital emergency room where Floyd remained unresponsive to disclose the information. David Pleoger, who was a supervisor in the city’s 3rd Precinct on
May 25, 2020, testified that he called Chauvin after getting a call from a concerned 911 dispatcher who was watching a city security camera and See Chauvin, Page A9
WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? Call 427-6989.
4ȃ8ǸɤȝȣɜɄȽ @ǸɑȰ
Todd R. Hansen
Armijo grad Day homers in 3 games for Hornets B1
KNKTHFKTJMFK
3338