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Bloomberg News WASHINGTON — A decision on how to resume vaccinating Americans with the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus shot will probably come by Friday, the top U.S. infect iou s - d i s e a s e s specialist said, a faster timeline than other health officials have indicated. “I doubt very FAUCI seriously if they just cancel” the J&J vaccine, one of three approved for use in the U.S., Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and

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The two-story “Faces of Fairfield” mural, painted in 2005, is shown on the side of the former Pepperbelly’s Comedy Club at the corner of Texas and Jackson streets after the interior of the club was gutted by a five-alarm fire, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. The site, including the mural, was cleared in the spring of 2017. The “Faces of Fairfield” mural was created by Benicia artist Lee

Wilder-Snider. It was the first major work commissioned by the Fairfield Mural Project and funded by local arts and civic groups. It was followed two years later by a 20-foot-high mural on the side of the former Bugambilias on Texas Street, facing Webster Street, “The Beauty of Solano County,” created by artist Cathy McClelland. That mural still exists.

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FAIRFIELD — The City Council on Tuesday will consider an Art in Public Spaces pilot project for the Heart of Fairfield program. The plan encourages the expansion of “public art through the Heart of Fairfield in order to highlight the city’s rich history and unique businesses,” a staff report to the council states. It outlines 16 strategies and incorporates four of these points: ■ Work with property

owners and the Fairfield Main Street Association to identify key areas/ locations in front of the landmark buildings and at interactions where art created by local artists can be showcased. ■ Integrate public art, landscape elements and seating to soften and enliven the underutilized plaza space at the Fairfield community theater. ■ Further enhance the median islands along Madison Street with additional sculptural element and other opportunities for art installations.

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FAIRFIELD — The City Council on Tuesday will consider increasing the number of retail cannabis permits it will issue, from two to as many as six. As part of the April 6 discussion on rebooting the evaluation procedures for awarding the permits, the "City Council provided further direction to staff to return with (a resolution) to allow an increase in the number of retailer permits to issue," the staff report to the See Pot, Page A7

■ Incorporate wall elements that enliven street facades. Staff recommends that a mural serve as the pilot project for the plan. Advantages of murals include that they are common for public art and are “shovel-ready,” they can be installed in a relatively short amount of time across a multitude of surfaces, they are naturally conspicuous and attract attention to the area; overall costs can adjust to the budget based on the desired quality of the end product, and

the mural artist can involve volunteers from the community – emerging artists, young adults and youth – to help paint and complete the project, according to the staff report. City staff identified four priorities for such a mural: ■ The mural must represent a theme tied to the culture, history and/ or people of Fairfield. ■ The artist must have local connections to Solano County in their

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FAIRFIELD — Two weeks after condemning acts of hate and discrimination against Asian Americans, the City Council on Tuesday will consider denouncing all acts of prejudice. "The proposed resolution will denounce acts of discrimination and violence against all persons and reaffirm the city's commitment to ensure all of our citizens are safe and welcome in our city," the staff report to the council states. "This resolution also encourages our citizens to join the city in condemning this type of behavior and conduct,"

the staff report to the council states. "Our city is committed to the inclusion and advancement of diversity and equity of all people, and this resolution is a statement of that commitment." The council is scheduled to meet in a closed session at 5 p.m. during which it will be updated on labor negotiations and on the status of Blackbird Special Project LLC v. Invitation Homes in San Diego County Superior Court. The regular council meeting follows at 6 p.m. To get access, go to https://fairfieldca. zoom.us/j/95380432132?pwd= djNPOTVsTS9ucEU5T1M0TWFPU0Q5Zz09. The passcode is 7074287400.

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structive in the sense that there is real effort underway there” and that world powers were focused on restoring the agreement on a “compliance for compliance” basis. His comments come after Iran’s lead negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, injected fresh hope into the process on Saturday, by saying that a “new understanding” was taking shape at the talks and that his country would start work on a full See Iran, Page A7

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is certainly not legal,” according to Riley. The veterinarian said the turtle that was hit by a car and found in Frederick County had to undergo a four-hour surgery with mounts and zip ties to stabilize its fractured shell. Riley said she found a pellet from an old gunshot wound behind the turtle’s skull when radiographs were done for the fractured shell. It wasn’t clear when the turtle had been shot. That turtle, she said, is still “pretty weak” from surgery but is expected to recover. For now, he’s being kept on “princess pillows” and out of the water so he doesn’t suffer further injury or infection, according to Riley. The other turtle found in Shenadoah County had also been shot just behind the skull. Riley said he had a gash through his head that showed he “must have pulled his head inside his shell rapidly.” Riley said the entry hole of the pellet was clear and had gone “across the top of the turtle’s head and caused a wound over his left eye before it lodged in the folds of the skin on the turtle’s neck.” “It implies that he already knew someone was threatening his life to pull his head in that quick,” Riley said. “It was very lucky timing on his part because it was less than 5 millimeters from destroying his left eye.” She said it is recovering and is in the water and eating. Once the turtles are rehabilitated over the next few weeks and months, Riley said, they will be released to the respective areas where they were found. Turtles don’t typically survive if “you put them outside their home ranges,” Riley said, adding that there are “location-specific diseases” that a turtle can have and that introducing them to a new area would bring those diseases into that new place and put “other turtles at risk.”

The two males were not the usual gunshot victims, so animal rescuers in Virginia were surprised when they got reports about two snapping turtles that had both been shot in the head. The Blue Ridge Wildlife Center in Boyce, Va., outside of Winchester, got a call earlier this week about a turtle that was found in Frederick County. The 25-pounder had been hit by a car and was found bleeding and walking in the road. When the turtle was brought in for treatment, the veterinarian also found he had an older gunshot wound. Then a few days later, the center got a call about another snapping turtle in Shenadoah County – a 15-pounder that had been shot in the head with what they speculated was an air gun pellet. They tagged him as #496 at the center. “These turtles will not chase you down to attack you, and their size makes them hard to miss,” according to the center’s Facebook page. Jen Riley, the veterinarian who treated them, said she believes they were intentionally shot, which is a crime in Virginia. Usually at this time of year, Riley said the center gets turtles that have been hit by cars as they come out to look for mates or places to lay eggs. They also see plenty of snakes in the spring that have gotten caught in garden netting in a shed or garage. But seeing turtles with gunshot wounds is rare, she said. “They were both shot in the head, so that’s obviously intentional,” Riley said. She said it was “bizarre” that the first two snapping turtles the center has helped treat this season were both shot. While it is not illegal to catch and eat snapping turtles in Virginia, there are strict regulations on doing so, and “shooting them and walking away

number of outside of it, that years ago I also need setwrote about tling, so I offer some of the the following for family peace consideration: treaties that I had The YouTube entered into. Music Accords: They included: I added Beth The Food in to my YouTube Fridge Accords Tony Wade music account so (1975): This stipshe could enjoy The last laugh ulated that food some streaming left in the refrigerator tunes. The only thing is, by me or my brothers our tastes are quite difwould not be eaten by ferent. In short, mine is others. A “trust but good and hers is not. That verify” measure included is (kind of) a joke, but she was that we all licked is into music that I ain’t our items before putting that thrilled about like them in the fridge. Celtic melodies and bagThe Toothpaste pipes and flutes and stuff. Treaty (1995): My wife I am more about in-yourBeth and I agreed to stop freakin’-face-rock ’n’ roll. sharing toothpaste and The issue is that wheninstead get his and hers ever I log into YouTube toothpaste tubes as she is Music, it keeps suggesta squeeze-the-tube-froming I listen to “Flute Jams the-bottom-only purist IV” or something. To and I am an I-am-grownbalance it out, I then add and-I-will-squeeze-thea bunch of rock, funk, tube-wherever-the-heckold school and then Beth I-want-to rebel. The Toilet Seat Treaty adds even more of that Zamfir stuff. I would love (1995): I agreed to put if we could have one of the toilet seat up before tinkling and Beth agreed those “you got chocolate in my peanut butter and that she will put it down. you got peanut butter in Oh and please don’t tell my chocolate” moments, anyone I used the word but it ain’t gonna happen “tinkling,” OK? until this is signed. The Fashion Inquiry Stranger See SomeAgreement (1998): After thing, Say Something much discussion, Beth Settlement: I have had and I agreed that she is free to ask my opinion on people I don’t know (pre-Covid-19) see that what she is wearing just my collar was wonky so long as she realizes I and kindly adjust it so I will only tell her what I didn’t continue walking think she wants to hear. around looking like a Now, there have been other skirmishes, some in doofus who doesn’t know the household and others how to dress himself.

It is common courtesy and I have done the same for others. I guess in 2021 that is out the window. Last week I returned to the Solano County Fairgrounds to get the sequel to my Moderna Covid-19 vaccination and it was only when I got back to my car that I realized the two Raiders masks that I was wearing were upside down. No one, including the guy who gave me a form to fill out, the woman who took the form, the guy who escorted me to my shot, the woman who gave me the shot, the woman who escorted me to the waiting area, no one, said a word! They just let me parade around with upside down Raiders logos on my face. Maybe they thought it was like when you hang the U.S. flag upside down – a cry for help. In that case, it should be been upside down for decades. Go ahead, Raider haters, make your own joke. Bright Line Eating Annoyance Agreement: I was thrilled when my wife Beth decided to do Bright Line Eating as she was inspired by my success. Since she started in July of last year she has released more than 75 pounds! Now, all that is great, I mean it is wonderful. I wanted her to start doing it and I did not push her in any way. But her

decision came with unexpected complications and minor annoyances. I mean, one day I go into the kitchen to make my lunch and she is in my spot using my food scale! Uh, no. And she preps her food at night when I am either watching TV or reading. The constant Chop! Chop! Chop! is not exactly like fingernails on a blackboard, but it’s close. The “Judge Judy” Treaty: I record a bunch of episodes of “Judge Judy” and then bingewatch/listen to them, usually when I am doing something else at the same time. My wife cannot stand “Judge Judy.” This is America, though, so she has the absolute right to be wrong. I have learned many valuable, practical things about how our civil courts work by watching the show over the years. That includes knowing that you have to be able to prove any allegations you make, that you are only entitled to the depreciated value of an item at the time it was lost, that when you come to court you have to have done nothing wrong – otherwise known as having “clean hands” – and that at some point in the trial someone needs to be called an idiot. Reach Fairfield writer and accidental historian Tony Wade at toekneeweighed@gmail.com.

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Isabel Luevano, left, and Michelle Bellizzi of International Bird Rescue release snowy egrets and black-crowned night

herons into the wild at the Arrowhead Marsh at Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline in Oakland, July 26, 2019.

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FAIRFIELD — International Bird Rescue turns 50 Tuesday. But the group – founded by Alice Berkner, a local nurse, who came to the aid of oiled birds affected by an 800,000-gallon oil spill into the San Francisco Bay – is planning its party May 15. “Bird Rescue is widely recognized from the familiar duckling in the Dawn dish soap commercials. It continues using its vast experience to waterbirds in crisis all over the world. The organization operates two full-time wildlife centers in California and a rapid response center in Anchorage, Alaska. These centers offer expert care for injured, orphaned and oiled waterbirds,”

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Black crowned night herons are kept inside an incubator at the International Bird Rescue, San Francisco Bay-Delta Center in Fairfield, July 17, 2019. according to a statement announcing the anniversary event. One of the wildlife centers is located on Cordelia Road in Fairfield. Since that first oil spill event in 1971, Berkner’s vision of protecting wildlife has grown into a worldwide organization. Over the past

half-century, Bird Rescue has helped rescue and rehabilitate 125,000 birds on six continents. Bird Rescue has responded to more than 225 oil spills, including saving wildlife at the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, helping manage the rehabilitation of 20,000 oiled

When rare toads get thirsty for love, this tiny college helps set the mood Tribune Content Agency DEEP SPR I NGS VALLEY — When you’re as rare and vulnerable as a black toad, you can’t afford to be coy about romance. Surrounded by an unforgiving desert and forever isolated on a small patch of irrigated ranchland about 50 miles southeast of Yosemite National Park, black toads inhabit the smallest range of any North American amphibian. So when breeding season arrives, as it did last month, this high desert basin nestled between the Inyo and White mountain ranges resounds with the toad’s high-pitched chirrups, which are reminiscent of peeping of baby chicks. But this “toad heaven” would not be possible without the annual cooperation of the ranch owner, Deep Springs College. One of the smallest institutions of higher education in the United States, Deep Springs provides the amorous toads with all the basic creature comforts they will need to pair up and produce new crops of eggs and tadpoles. Among those necessary comforts are peace, quiet and plenty of room for the 2-inch-long black toads with warty skin and golden eyes to serenade each other. Cattle are kept away from the springs that ooze from the base of a nearby cliff from March through September – ensuring that courting toads don’t get trampled, said Tim Gipson, 63, ranch manager at the college. “My priorities are

cattle, toads, water and pasturelands,” Gipson said. “We only graze cattle by the springs in winter, when the toads are dormant and hibernating underground.” The college, a complex of low-slung buildings sur-

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penguins in South Africa and rescuing oiled wildlife during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. The public is invited to a virtual “Groovy Gathering” fundraising party from 5 to 8 p.m. May 15. The event has a 1970s theme. It is the first of two events planned. An in-person celebration is tentatively scheduled Oct. 7 at the Freight & Salvage venue in Berkeley. For more information on the May 15 event, go to www.birdrescue.org/ groovy. For more information about International Bird Rescue, go to www. BirdRescue.org.

FAIRFIELD — A weeklong digital event will mark the 51st anniversary of Earth Day. The events, organized by the Solano County Earth Cleanup, kick off Monday and include sustainable solutions and tips as well as an introduction of a community cleanup group daily. The finale is a selfdirected volunteer trash cleanup Saturday. These activities and how to get involved can be found at cleanupsolano.org. More than 5,000 pounds of trash and recyclables are typically recovered each year by Solano County Earth Day Cleanup volunteers. Volunteers who plan to celebrate Earth Day by picking up litter should wear safety gloves and follow Solano County’s public health guidelines for Covid-19. Organizers also encourage volunteers to download the Ocean Conservancy’s CleanSwell mobile app to record their trash collection data. According to the Ocean Conservancy, data recorded on CleanSwell is uploaded to a global database used by researchers and policymakers to inform trash management solutions, such as California’s plastic bag and straw bans. Organizers also encourage volunteers to collect clean beverage containers with the California Refund Value or CRV logo on them separately from regular trash.

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These containers can be taken to a participating CRV beverage container collection center that will buy back the cans and bottles for recycling. More information about the CRV program, including where to find a CRV recycling center, can be found at calrecycle. ca.gov.

NorthBay stroke survivors group to meet Tuesday Stroke survivors, caregivers, family members and friends are invited to share their accomplishments and struggles Tuesday during the virtual “New Beginnings” stroke support group meeting. The group meets from 10 to 11:30 a.m. the third Tuesday of each month. For more information, call Elizabeth Gladney at 646-4034 or send an email toegladney@ northbay.org.

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Reader writes a poem for people who feel alone in time of Covid Initially, I was very supportive, offering to do whatever she needed help with. I volunteered to act as a distraction I got your hugs today whenever she needed it. not with your arms Although her about my shoulders divorce was amicable at but with your first, it has started thoughts around my heart Annie Lane turning messy. She is the one who initiated they raised my Dear Annie the divorce, and her spirits and hopes high ex-husband is reacting in what they crushed the loneliness I would consider a reasonable and sadness of manner. For instance, she being shut down wanted to stay best friends, but a note to tell me that I am he did not. However, her loved and thought of reactions to these boundaries a moment of your time are shock and surprise, which I to make my day am having trouble understandI thank you friend for care and love ing. She gets angry with the that broke through that way he is acting and doesn’t barrier of aloneness seem to understand that, even that caused my heart to though she is fine, he needs remember that with time and space. friends, loved ones and It seems that all of our God in my life conversations have turned that I can go on and that I toward how much she hates am never alone — Hugs him. She displays their private messages, even when I don’t Dear Hugs: I have tears in ask about them. While I my eyes. Thank you for this understand this is a big part of wonderful poem. May it be an her life, I am over it. I offered inspiration to all those who feel my support initially, but I am alone – to know that finding it harder and harder to they are loved. do so. It is a constant negative Dear Annie: I find myself presence, which she brought on becoming apathetic toward my herself, and I don’t understand friend. We are both in our early why she can’t see that. to mid-20s, and where I have Are my thoughts unreasonnever been in a relationship, able, and, if so, what should I she is recently divorced. do about them? — AlignDear Annie: Here’s a poem I wrote called “In the time of Covid.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). When you are rooting for someone, you will give that person so many chances – second, third, fourth – because you sincerely believe that when they finally win, so will you. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). No one standing on the earth with the other gravity-bound earthlings can possibly have the all-seeing perspective (or even a “most-seeing” perspective). You never assume you’ve seen enough. Today brings new angles. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You have this way of making time stop; something you do for others without being remotely aware of it yourself. For that person who thinks the world of you, time stands still while you’re together. CANCER (June 22July 22). You’ve done a fair amount of living, yet there’s much you haven’t experienced. When you get a little bored today, it’s a cue to start up the old wonder machine and aim it toward all the new feelings you’ve yet to feel. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You will take action and move things forward – and probably without a plan, as planning feels entirely unnecessary to you. The route is already inside you, etched into the compass of your heart.

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ing With Apathy Dear Apathy: Try putting your thoughts down on paper and then expressing them to your friend. Being a good friend is not pretending that everything your friend is doing is OK. We all make mistakes, and sometimes it is up to our friends to point them out – lovingly, of course. But you are building up resentment toward your friend, and you run the risk of ruining your friendship. She is clearly struggling right, wanting to have her cake and eat it, too, with her ex-husband. And your instinct that that is not fair to him is a right one. But she probably doesn’t realize the extent of her negativity. That’s when a friend’s tough love comes in handy. Now, if she gets angry with you and continues on negative rants, then let her know that the toxic negativity cannot continue and that she has to accept her ex’s wishes to create boundaries with him. If she still gives you a hard time, then it’s time to give her some space and back away. But don’t back away before you have taken all the steps to try to help your friend first. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday Among the pleasurable challenges of the year will be the different roles you’ll get to play -- the leader, the healer, a beloved darling, a cheerleader, a student, a star. Sometimes, there are many roles within the same relationship. You’ll love what you learn about the breadth of your abilities, including the ability to love. Scorpio and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 4, 44, 38 and 20.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It is absolutely possible to adapt negative emotions into positive behavior. Getting good at this alchemical skill will change your attitude about shadowy feelings. Instead of dreading them, you’ll welcome the fuel. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You greatly underestimate the effect you have on others. While it’s better to err on the side of modesty, just know that how and when you show up matters greatly to someone. Your arrival will be gleefully anticipated. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). There are those who would lead you to believe that what you’re

trying to accomplish is complicated, when in fact it’s pretty simple. You’ve already nailed the hardest part – being brave enough to take action. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). If you are too literal, detailed and correct in your approach, it may make it difficult to do the most loving thing in the moment. It will benefit you to maintain an openness to other interpretations. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). You wish to give people a particular feeling. It’s not entirely in your power to do so (as people’s feelings are squarely within their own domain), but you’ll certainly create an environment conducive to the mood you’re after. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Extreme measures are not necessary. It’s true they will shake your life up, make a memory and cause a temporary change. But what will work for lasting change will be easy, incremental and repetitious. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). An adrenaline rush can be pleasant or unpleasant depending on your interpretation. Lean into the thrill when this kind of energy spike happens today. Memories will be made.

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with broken bones! Many would say that Terence Reese was England’s best-ever player. This deal was Board 87 of the 1955 Bermuda Bowl final between Great Britain and the United States. Both tables played in six clubs with the diamond-nine opening lead. (West was hoping East could win and deliver a heart ruff.) How should South have played? The American declarer won on the board, took a club finesse, drew trumps and lost one spade. Reese found a superior line, not needing the club finesse. He ruffed in hand at trick one, cashed his top trumps and the heart ace, then played the heart 10 to the king. The heart seven from the board was covered by East’s nine and ruffed by declarer. South exited with a trump. East played a diamond to the ace, on which one of South’s spades disappeared. Then came ACROSS THE POND the heart jack, covered by the queen and ruffed. Reese crossed to the spade THEY PLAY, TOO ace and, if the king hadn’t dropped, Being English by birth, I had to buy would have discarded his remaining a copy of “English -- The Story of spades on the high hearts. Marmite, Queuing and Weather” by The Brits won the match by Ben Fogle (William Collins). 5,420 points. I learned much about England that I I did have one regret with Fogle’s did not know. For example, every year book – that the author had not spelled in front of thousands of spectators, it “queueing,” the only word in the some 20 young men chase a nineEnglish language with five consecutive pound Double Gloucester cheese vowels. 200 yards down Cooper’s Hill. The winner gets the cheese, but several end COPYRIGHT: 2021, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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Biden bill mostly smoke, mirrors

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State reverses course, now shutting prisons

t was 1981 and Avenal, a tiny then-Gov. Jerry Kings County Brown had a community that problem. Calihad once been an fornia’s 12 prisons oil boom town. were bulging Despite the at the seams frantic pace of with more than prison construc28,000 inmates, tion, the inmate thanks largely to Dan Walters population still outpaced the tougher sentencing laws he signed, and he number of new cells and was told to expect another eventually grew to six times what it had been in 20,000 more inmates 1981, declining only when, within a few years. during Brown’s second The state hadn’t built a new prison in two decades, governorship, federal judges intervened and stretching back to when Brown’s father, Pat Brown, declared that the overcrowded conditions was governor. The were illegal. Department of CorrecOver the past halftions, as the prison system decade, thanks to more was then called, wanted lenient sentencing laws Brown to launch a major (some sponsored by prison construction Brown 2.0), diversion of program to handle its felons into local jails and rapidly growing inmate early releases due to load. Covid-19, inmate numbers The young governor, have declined sharply to nearing the end of his second and final term, was 94,000, scarcely half of the 173,000 peak and very reluctant to ask voters for close to the system’s billions of dollars in bond original design capacity. money to build new It’s now time, Gov. prisons. His state archiGavin Newsom says, to tect, Sim Van der Ryn, had start shutting down some even refused to endorse of the state’s three dozen plans for new prisons, prisons, citing the inmate reflecting opposition by those on Brown’s left flank. decline and billions of Finally, after months of dollars in looming costs to rehabilitate older facilities. negotiations and debate The first to go will be within his administration, the 68-year-old Deuel Brown took a minimalist Vocational Institution near approach, asking the Tracy. This month, it was Legislature to place a $495 million prison bond announced that the second will be the California issue on the 1982 ballot, Correctional Center in enough to build space for Lassen County. about 10,000 more The Legislature’s inmates, a fraction of the budget office projects projected need. that three more could be Voters approved the shuttered by 2025 and the measure, and over the local economic impacts next two decades the could be heavy, particunumber of prisons tripled. larly in rural areas. However, the state However, just as with the sidestepped the need for closure of unneeded voter approval with a military installations in clever, if deceptive, system the 1990s, that must be a of financing that borrowed secondary consideration. many billions of construc- It’s unfair to taxpayers to tion dollars. Under the keep obsolete facilities “lease-revenue” system, a open just because state agency legally of their jobs. separate from the prison That said, rural system issued bonds to communities accepted build prisons, then leased prisons that politicians them to the correcfrom urban areas refused tions department. and the state should foster Even though most the redevelopment of its inmates came from urban prison sites for positive counties, particularly Los purposes, rather than Angeles, their politicians leaving them as decaying resisted having new eyesores of a previous era. prisons. The single Los Angeles County prison CALmatters is a public was built in the remote interest journalism Antelope Valley. venture committed to Therefore, most new explaining how Califorprisons were located in nia’s state Capitol works rural communities eager and why it matters. For for the payrolls that the more columns by Dan human warehouses Walters, go to calmatters. generated, with the first in org/commentary.

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appear to get a larger he $2.5 trillion infrastructure bill prochunk of the money. This posed by President Joe includes $174 billion to Biden has little infrapromote electric vehicles structure, more tax hikes and 500,000 charging and funding for Green stations (putting thouNew Deal, social welfare sands of gas stations out and government support of business). It also of private enterprise includes $400 billion in research and development. Roger Oberbeck clean energy credits It is like putting frosting promoting clean energy on stale bread and calling it cake, such as solar and wind power. The just like the $1.9 trillion majority of solar panel manufacCovid-19 relief bill. Approximately turers are outside the U.S. Jinko $631 billion is for infrastructure, (China), Panasonic (Japan), LG about 25% of the total cost. and Hanwha (South Korea), and The Merriam-Webster dictionSun Power (United States), which ary definition of infrastructure is primarily retails for“the system of public works of a eign-made panels. country, state or region also: the Where are American jobs? resources (such as personnel, Furthermore, wind generators buildings or equipment) required kill 200 species of birds including for an activity.” It is the basic songbirds, falcons, hawks and facilities and installations that eagles. Estimates are at least help a government or community 573,000 up to 1.17 million birds run, including roads, bridges, are killed each year by wind tunnels, mass transit systems, generators. How is that for railroads, airports, reservoirs and improving ecology? dams, schools, telephone lines, More than $600 billion is sewage treatment plants and earmarked for housing and health power generators and distributors. care (not infrastructure). That Biden’s $2.55 trillion infraincludes $213 billion for public structure bill proposes: housing, which includes building n $115 billion for 20,000 miles or repairing 2 million homes, and of highways, 10 major and construction or repair of 10,000 smaller bridges. 500,000 homes for low- and n $85 billion to improve middle-income owners. The bill public transit. also includes $400 billion to n $80 billion for railroads. improve access to quality affordn $80 billion for able homes or home health care Amtrak repairs. for the elderly and disabled. n $111 billion for clean drinkThis is social engineering ing water, replacing lead piping removing local control. That and building reservoirs. is socialism. n $100 billion for constructing Why are we financing manufacand modernizing public schools. turing? The bill would give n $12 billion for community $300 billion to support the produccollege infrastructure. tion of critical goods and n $18 billion for VA hospitechnologies (again, socialism). Want to help out multibillion-doltals and clinics. lar companies such as Intel, Green New Deal projects

Nividia and Micron (collectively capitalized at $750 billion)? This bill provides funds for semiconductor manufacturing and research, as if they haven’t been able to do that on their own. Again, socialism. Pay attention! Taxes will go up. Raising taxes on businesses and the middle class will pay for this $2.5 trillion infrastructure tax bill. Biden plans to raise corporate taxes from 21% to 28%. This will have a negative effect on small businesses and cause more job losses. The increased costs of doing business will in part be passed to consumers and will reduce wages and employment. Though Biden said he wouldn’t raise taxes on the middle class, that is not true. Inheritance tax law is also being modified. Presently, when someone inherits property or investments, they are not taxed on the appreciation that took place before they received the property. Biden’s plan would make heirs liable for taxes on the capital gains that accrued before they received the property. Most middle-class people will probably have to sell their inherited property as they will not have the money to pay the capital gains taxes on their inheritance. Progressives say with these tax increases, it will take 15 years to pay for the infrastructure bill. More likely our grandchildren will be stuck. Roger Oberbeck is a Navy veteran, guided missile system engineer, retired Navy nuclear engineer, author and biotech senior validation engineer. He is a member of The Right Stuff Committee and can be reached at rogeroberbeck@yahoo.com.

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US must make position clear as confrontation with China approaches

e live in dangerthe Taiwan Strait and ous times, not only throughout the free seas because of the panof the region. demic but also Economic sanctions because of the threat of milwill not work, not against itary aggression from the determined opponents of nation from which the virus any sort, but especially sprang and the Communist not against Xi and his Party that covered up the communist lethal nature of the disease. Hugh Hewitt hard-line allies. Reasonable people Beijing has stepped up disagree on when the People’s its rhetoric, too. Team Biden Republic of China and its leader Xi discovered that last month when Jinping will move militarily Secretary of State Antony Blinken against Taiwan, the democratic and National Security Adviser island nation 100 miles from the Jake Sullivan endured a 16-minute coast of the Chinese mainland. tongue-lashing by China’s top Some, like retired Adm. James diplomat at their Stavridis, believe that the lurch Anchorage summit. against Taiwan is a few years off. Chinese Communist Party Others, like China hawk Sen. Tom foreign affairs chief Yang Jiechi’s Cotton, R-Ark., believe it may harangue followed a less-aggresfollow China’s Winter Olympics in sive statement from Blinken early 2022, just as Vladimir mentioning a half dozen U.S. Putin’s annexation of Crimea objections to Chinese foreign and followed the Sochi Games of 2014. domestic policy. But Yang blisBut whenever it takes place, tered the U.S. delegation with a aggression against Taiwan will broadside in response, publicly pose the same dilemma to the telling the world that the days of West as Hitler’s militarization of Americans speaking to China in the Rhineland posed to the Allies an imperious tone were over. in 1936. Western democracies After first knocking the United blinked 85 years ago, and war States for its own alleged human engulfed the world shortly rights problems, Yang took off. “I thereafter. Threat followed threat, demand followed demand, and the think the problem is that the policy of appeasement of Germany United States has exercised long-arm jurisdiction and suppresfailed. What happened next was sion and overstretched the a catastrophe. China’s aggression has stepped national security through the use of force or financial hegemony,” he up of late. Chinese aircraft have been testing Taiwan’s air defenses said, “and this has created for weeks; the next step is possibly obstacles for normal trade activities, and the United States has also an encounter at sea or a move been persuading some countries to against Taiwan’s outer islands. launch attacks on China.” Whenever the escalation, the Upon returning to D.C., the United States and its allies will chastened U.S. team commenced sooner or later face a sudden, shadowboxing. A U.S. official inescapable choice: Defend suggested to reporters that the Taiwan or acquiesce. The United States is bound by a United States might boycott the 2022 Games, then the State combination of the Taiwan Department and the White House Relations Act and presidential clarified that quickly to say it was statements to defend Taiwan, but not being discussed. Now Presino one really knows what that dent Biden is sending an unofficial means anymore. It should mean delegation to Taiwan of former deploying U.S. troops and weapofficials: former Sen. Chris Dodd onry to assist Taipei in repelling and two former deputy secretaries any takeover attempt, meeting of state – Richard Armitage and force with force. It also means James Steinberg. working with allies now to form a This is a tremulous message visible and resolute coalition against Beijing’s aggression across from a confused administration.

While every American president – including the last one – embraced strategic ambiguity, some like President Donald Trump sent far more direct messages through administration figures, such as former Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray of resolve concerning a free Taiwan. The United States must wholly jettison the remnants of ambiguity after Yang’s throwdown. The Biden administration has begun its relationship with Beijing on its back foot and needs to step up and do it soon. Amid these developments, the first budget from Biden actually cut defense spending in real terms. At a minimum, Congress must boost the Navy’s top-line spending significantly if deterrence is to hold. Having just spent $1.9 trillion on stimulus – and it is absurd to call that measure “Covid relief” since relatively few of the dollars went to actual, direct Covid relief. Team Biden now seeks trillions more in “infrastructure” that includes nothing for such national security needs as expanding shipyards to build and repair submarines or a new class of frigates or the money needed to modernize the naval leg of the nuclear triad. The confrontation with China over Taiwan approaches. It is up to Biden to very clearly communicate that the United States will meet force with force and for our allies to back us up. This is not the time for diplomatic pirouettes about what constitutes “ambiguity.” It is a time for clarity. Its absence sends every signal the Chinese Communist Party needs. Hugh Hewitt hosts a nationally syndicated radio show on the Salem Network. The author of 14 books about politics, history and faith, he is also a political analyst for NBC, president of the Nixon Foundation and a professor of law at Chapman University Law School, where he has taught constitutional law since 1996.

DAILY REPUBLIC — Monday, April 19, 2021 A7

1 teen dies, 3 hospitalized after rural Solano crash Daily Republic Staff

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DIXON — Police are seeking witnesses to a single-car crash that happened Saturday night and left one teenager dead and three others hospitalized. The crash was reported at approximately 9:30 p.m. along Tremont Road east of Bulkley Road – northeast of Dixon and south of Davis. Authorities report that the driver of a black Ford Mustang was traveling east on Tremont Road at a high rate of speed when he made an unsafe turning movement and allowed the vehicle to travel into a field, where the vehicle flipped. The Mustang came to rest about 40 feet off the roadway and was on its wheels but was totaled, the California Highway Patrol reports. Two of the four passengers were still inside the vehicle and were conscious when emergency crews arrived at the crash site. The driver and the right rear passenger were not wearing seat belts and were ejected from the vehicle, the CHP reports in a press release issued

Sunday afternoon. The driver, identified by the CHP as an 18-year-old Woodland man, was pronounced dead at the scene. John Bowes, superintendent of the Davis School District, said in an email to families Sunday that the driver was Davis High School senior Ayush Shrestha. Two of the three teens in the vehicle were also Davis High School students, Bowes said in the email. The right rear passenger, an 18-year-old Davis man, had major injuries and was transported to the University of California, Davis Medical Center, the CHP reports. The two remaining passengers – both young women from Woodland, ages 16 and 17 – also had major injuries and were transported to Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Center. Alcohol impairment is a suspected factor in the crash, the CHP reports in the press release. Anyone who witnessed the crash or has information about the crash is asked to call the CHP Solano office at 428-2100.

Iran: Wants clarity from US in talks From Page One draft text for negotiators to discuss. Negotiators, which include the European Union, Russia and China, have said the talks will continue this week. World powers have been meeting in Vienna since April 9 to help the U.S. and Iran map a path back to a restored nuclear deal and reduce tensions in the energy-rich Persian Gulf. The talks were almost derailed last week after Iran’s biggest uranium enrichment facility was severely damaged in an attack it blamed on Israel. In response, the Islamic Republic dramatically increased the levels at which it is enriching uranium – to 60% from 20% – meaning that it is closer than ever before to obtaining weapons-grade fissile material. President Joe Biden sharply criticized the move but pledged to continue talks. Iran wants the U.S. to remove hundreds of sanctions that former President Donald Trump imposed on its economy after he took office in

January 2017, including those that he reinstated when he broke away from the nuclear deal. Araghchi said on Saturday Iran wants all the penalties that it expects the U.S. to remove, to be formally listed and agreed on. Tehran insists that the U.S. must take these measures before Iran agrees to scale back its atomic activity back to within the original terms of the nuclear deal. On Sunday Sullivan said sanctions would be lifted once the U.S. has “clarity and confidence” that the Islamic Republic will reduce its nuclear work, heavily curtail enrichment and atomic activity. “Until we have confidence in all of those things the United States is not going to make any concessions at all,” he said. The nuclear deal, which imposed strict limits on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief, was a signature achievement of the Obama administration. Abandonment of the accord by Trump kept relations between the longstanding foes close to breaking point and

convulsed the Persian Gulf with assassinations, attacks on energy installations and tanker seizures. The Islamic republic began in 2019 to gradually increase its atomic activity – enriching uranium beyond the limit of 3.67% allowed in the deal – in response to Trump’s soca l led “ma x imum pressure” strategy. “The drafting of the text can begin now, and the Iranian delegation has prepared and presented its text on the nuclear sphere and the lifting of sanctions,” Araghchi told Iranian state TV, cautioning that serious disagreements remained. In an apparent further sign of easing tension, the Financial Times reported Sunday that senior officials from Saudi Arabia and Iran have been holding talks to repair relations. The newspaper cited three unidentified officials. The meeting in Baghdad on April 9 included discussions about recent attacks and would be followed by another round of talks, it said. Reports of the meeting reflect how a major shift

in U.S. policy under Biden and his intention to re-enter the original 2015 nuclear deal sent a “clear signal” to Saudi Arabia that it has to scrap demands to expand the terms of the nuclear accord to address its own rivalry and conflict with Iran over regional influence, according to Joost Hiltermann, program director for the Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group. “That fact made the Saudis realize that they wouldn’t have the type of diplomatic protection from the U.S. early on that they were looking for,” he said, adding that if the nuclear deal is successfully restored, preliminary talks could pave the way for higher level dialog between Iran and Saudi over regional matters. Araghchi said last week that Washington and Tehran had to specify the steps they would each need to take in order to restore the 2015 deal, including a tally of all Trump-era sanctions that Iran says the U.S. would need to remove.

Rapper Black Rob dies at 51 Tribune Content Agency Black Rob, the East Harlem rapper whose “Life Story” stirred and inspired listeners, died Saturday. He was 51. The artist, whose legal name was Robert Ross, was battling kidney failure, according to accounts from longtime friends DJ Self and Mark Curry. He died in an Atlanta hospital. “A story teller. An MC. A gentleman every time I saw him,” LL Cool J

wrote in a tribute. “Rest in power my brother.” Black Rob’s debut album, 2000’s “Life Story,” went platinum that year on the strength of its hard-charging lead single, “Whoa!” The album was praised for its storytelling, which drew heavily on the artist’s own life. Rob was in and out of detention centers beginning at age 12, and earned an associate’s degree while locked up.

Art: Local flavor From Page One education, family and/ or art career. ■ The mural must align with the plan’s goal to revitalize downtown Fairfield. ■ The mural must involve the participation of the community: business owners, community groups, local artists and youth. Staff identified the intersection of Madison and Texas streets as “a key strategic placement site” for the mural, in part because the Fairfield community theater’s parking and exits lead out to Madison Street and the Mosaic Poppy sculpture stands at the median island immediately north of the intersection. The new mural would essentially replace the twostory “Faces of Fairfield” mural, painted in 2005, on the side of the former Pepperbelly’s Comedy Club at the corner of Texas and Jackson streets. That mural was created by Benicia artist Lee Wilder-Snider and a workforce of about

20 volunteers. The interior of Pepperbelly’s was gutted by a five-alarm fire, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. The mural survived with only minor damage. The site was cleared four years later and the mural was lost. “Faces of Fairfield” was the first major work commissioned by the Fairfield Mural Project and funded by local arts and civic groups. The last public art project was the “The Beauty of Solano County” mural, created in 2007 by artist Cathy McClelland and located on Webster and Texas streets, facing Webster Street. That mural, also part of the Fairfield Mural Project, still exists. The regular council meeting begins at 6 p.m. To get access, go to https:// fairfieldca.zoom.us/j/9538 0432132?pwd=djNPOTV sTS9ucEU5T1M0TWFP U0Q5Zz09. The passcode is 7074287400. Glen Faison contributed to this report.

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Shots: Decision on booster shots ‘soon’ From Page One rare side effect. Six U.S. women who received the shots developed a severe form of blood clotting six to 13 days after vaccination. On Thursday, public health officials concluded a meeting on the vaccine without a vote. Advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they lacked adequate information to make recommendations on how to respond to reports of the clots. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is set to resume on Friday, according to Rochelle Walensky, the agency’s director. “I would think that we’re not going to go beyond Friday in the extension of this pause,” Fauci said on ABC’s “This Week.” On Thursday, though, the head of the CDC panel that’s expected to make a recommendation on the whether the

J&J shots should resume said more data is needed and that it was possible the pause could last for several weeks. “If we make a wrong decision about this, it will impact our credibility and credibility of the vaccine safety system,” Jose Romero told Bloomberg News in an interview. “So it’s very important that we get this right.” Fauci said on CBS that any new guidance on the vaccine “could be” gender-based, “but we don’t know that” yet. “You don’t want to jump ahead of yourself and assume you know the total spectrum of this,” he said. The six cases under investigation were reported in women between the ages of 18 and 48, raising questions about whether the primarily syndrome affects females or young people generally. “I do think that there will likely be some sort of warning or restriction or risk assessment,”

Fauci said on NBC. South Africa’s health regulator asked its government on Saturday to lift a pause on the Johnson & Johnson shots provided certain conditions are met. Separately, Fauci, a top adviser to President Joe Biden, said officials would determine “soon” – likely by the end of summer – whether people who’ve been vaccinated against Covid may need to get booster shots or new vaccines aimed at emerging strains. Officials with vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer have indicated that a booster dose may be required, or that the Covid-19 vaccines become annual events like flu shots, but Fauci on NBC said that such a call would be a “public health decision.” “It’s not going to be a decision that’s going to be made by a pharmaceutical company,” he said. “We’re partners with them because they’re

supplying it. It’ll be an FDA-CDC decision.” On CNN, Fauci added that the U.S. will be prepared for coronavirus variants “either by boosting with the current vaccine, or boosting with a variant-specific vaccine.” He spoke as the U.S. approached another milestone in its monthslong push to inoculate most A mericans against the coronavirus. Some 49.7% of people in the U.S. age 18 and older have had at least one vaccine dose, the CDC said Saturday on its website. Almost 32% in that age range are fully vaccinated. Among older people, who are at the most risk for complications if they contract Covid-19, almost 81% have had a first vaccine dose and over 65% are fully vaccinated, the CDC said. The U.S. should be able to vaccinate children “of virtually any age” by first quarter of 2022, Fauci said on CNN.

Pot: Council ponders street names plan From Page One council states. That option modifies the "types and number of commercial cannabis business permits that may be issued at any given time in the city." "As such, staff recommends the number of retailer permits not exceed six in total," the report states.

Financial reports, contracts, street-naming plan up for consideration In other matters, the council will consider approval of the 2019-20 Comprehensive Annual

Financial Report and the Federal Grants Awards Report. It also will sit as the Paradise Valley Maintenance and Monitoring District board to consider two professional services agreements with Cal Engineering & Geology: one for on-call geologic and geotechnical engineering consultation services, the other for review and evaluation of Plan of Control, Engineer's Report, and Reserve Study. The council also will discuss the possibility of naming streets for former Councilwoman Robbieburr Berger, former Councilwoman and Mayor Karin MacMillan, former Councilwoman Joy Pettygrove and former Councilman and Mayor

George Pettygrove. The staff report states there is no fiscal impact. It is not immediately clear how new street signs would be paid for. The council is scheduled to meet in a closed session at 5 p.m., during which it will be updated on labor negotiations and on the status of Blackbird Special Project LLC v. Invitation Homes in San Diego County Superior Court. The regular council meeting follows at 6 p.m. To get access, go to https://fairfieldca.zoom.us/j/9538 0432132?pwd=djNPOTVsTS9ucEU 5T1M0TWFPU0Q5Zz09. The passcode is 7074287400.

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Daphne Michelle Brown July 24, 1967 — April 12, 2021

Monday, April 12, 2021, Daphne went to eternal rest with our Lord Jesus Christ. She passed peacefully at home. Daphne was born to parents, Lynda and Kenneth Brown, in Salisbury, North Carolina. Daphne was a loving mother of four, and an accomplished welder/ ironworker for the Ironworkers Local 378 for 29 years. She was the first female welder to work on a suspension bridge and was included in the calendar published for the newly constructed Carquinez bridge. She worked on the windmill farm on Highway 12, many high-rise buildings in San Francisco, and Chevron refineries to name a few. Daphne enjoyed fishing, reading the Bible, walking her dog, playing on the floor with her two beloved grandsons, dancing and singing along with Senior Edition, her stepdad’s band. She is survived by her mother, Lynda Brown Tornay; stepfather, Bernard Tornay; children, Zachery Lopez, Jessie Naval, Molly (Codi) Gardner, Sheldon Peters; grandsons, Maximilliano Naval, Kaeden Naval; brother, Marc Brown Reid; nephew, Alexander Brown; nieces, Sophia Brown, Anjelica Brown; favorite uncle, Morris Hendrix, wife, Venus, their sons, Jess and Nolan Hendrix; aunt, Karen Wright (Thom Singleton); companion, Jesse Guerrero; and dog, Levi; she will be greatly missed by her many coworkers, friends, neighbors and family whom loved her dearly. Daphne was preceded in death by her father, Kenneth Brown; fraternal grandparents, Johnnie Brown, Emily Brown Hendrix and husband, Wilburn Hendrix; maternal grandparents, Homer and Mary Hendrix. Celebration of Life will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 18, 2021, at the Fraternal Order of Eagles, 77 Marina Center, Suisun City, California, to honor her full and blessed life. Daphne’s ashes will be buried next to her father’s in Salisbury, North Carolina. In lieu of flowers, please donate online to Marina Church, Suisun City, California, or to your favorite charity.

share their stories in a program called “Storytelling is in Our Blood” to mark the 40th anniversary of the Solano County Genealogical Society. Peña Adobe Historical Society docents will share their family histories and paths to the Peña Adobe. The California historical landmark No. 534 is located in what is now Peña Adobe Park in Lagoon Valley in Vacaville. It was built in 1842 by pioneer Juan Felipe Peña, one of Solano County’s first settlers. The virtual presentation begins at 10 a.m. Saturday. 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 website at www.scgsca.org.

Talk with Solano poets goes virtual The Solano County Library Foundation is sponsoring “How Poetry Heals” at 1 p.m. Saturday. Poet Suzanne Bruce is the emcee of the virtual event. Joining her is Johanna Ely,

former Benicia poet laureate; Mary Susan Gast, current Benicia poet laureate; Genea Brice, former Vallejo poet laureate; and Jeremy Snyder, current Vallejo poet laureate. Bruce and fellow poets will reflect on how poetry has helped through stressful times and how it can help in moving forward. Funds raised by this program will go to support Solano County Library literacy programs that cannot be funded by taxpayer dollars. Each ticket purchase will include three tickets for a prize drawing. For more information and tickets, visit solanolibrary foundation.org.

Solano Dems schedule virtual fundraiser The Solano County Democratic Central Committee is holding a virtual fundraiser, “Rally Up,” at 4 p.m. Saturday. U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, will be a keynote speaker, as well as California Secretary of State Shirley Weber. A number of local elected officials also are expected to speak. Reserve a spot by going to https://secure.actblue.com/ donate/scdccrallyup2021. Single tickets are $35. There will be a virtual auction of donated items, including

Toads From Page A3 alluvial fans, the area is the very definition of “remote.” Grazing cattle and saving black toads have been dominant forces on campus operations for half a century, and a conservation success story at a time when amphibians are facing declines and extinctions across the United States and around the world. Once abundant across the vast floodplains of the Great Basin, only about 8,500 black toads cling to existence by their

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The endangered black toad has the smallest range of any amphibian in North America: a mere 400 acres in Inyo County. stubby little toes at the college, a relic population isolated about 12,000 years ago when things were starting to heat up. The toad’s first scientific name, Bufo exsul, acknowl-

special baskets of local wines and other products. For more information, visit the Central Committee website at www.solanodemocrats.com or call 446-8339.

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Training classes for anyone operating a Class C vehicle and carrying hazardous ag materials are available in English and Spanish. Training is required within 90 days of hire and is renewed every three years. Upon completion of the class, attendees will need to submit their own application with a certificate of training to the California Highway Patrol, which will then issue the Hazardous Agriculture Materials certificate. Once the certificate is obtained from the CHP, it must be submitted along with a medical certificate to the state Department of Motor Vehicles with applicable fees. The English session is set for 9 a.m. Thursday at the Nut Tree Airport, 301 County Airport Road. The Spanish session is set for 1 p.m. the same day and at the same location. For more information, including how to register, contact the Solano County Farm Bureau at 449-8044. Refreshments will be available.

A number of local government meetings will occur this week. They include: n Suisun City Council, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, 701 Civic Center Blvd. Info: www.suisun.com/ government/city-council. n Fairfield City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, 1000 Webster St. Info: www.fairfield.ca.gov/gov/ city_council. n Rio Vista City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, City Hall, 1 Main St. Info: www.riovistacity.com/ city council. n Solano Irrigation District, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Lake Berryessa Room, 810 Vaca Valley Parkway, Vacaville. Info: ca-sid.civicplus.com. n Vacaville Planning Commission, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Vacaville City Hall, council chamber, 650 Merchant St. Info: www.ci.vacaville.ca.us. n Suisun City Parks and Recreation Commission, 6 p.m. Wednesday, 701 Civic Center Blvd. Info: suisun.com. n Fairfield-Suisun School District, 6 p.m. Thursday, first floor board room at Central Office, 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield. Info: www.fsusd.org. Check with each agency for attendance options and required safety protocols.

edges its extreme isolation. It means “exiled toad.” Greg Pauley, herpetological curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, was a graduate student when he first ventured to Deep Valley Springs two decades ago. “It was a bit of a shock to see how desolate, isolated and critically important their habitat is,” he recalled. “What’s terrifying now are the increasing demands for use of the desert aquifers that sustain such sites.” It is one of several genetically distinct toad species that exist only in highly restricted spring-fed habitats and are prone to disease, inbreeding,

predation, development and groundwater pumping. Now, longer droughts and rising temperatures from climate change are also upsetting the delicate balance between life and death in those habitats, too. “These imperiled creatures face a staggering number of threats to their persistence,” said C. Richard Tracy, 76, a professor emeritus at the University of Nevada Reno. The threats, he said, “are compounded by their remarkably small range.” “The situation requires urgent attention and strong conservation initiatives to protect and monitor these species,” Tracy said.

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FAIRFIELD — Hazyl Gray fired a one-hit shutout and the Vanden High softball team clinched a tie for the Monticello Empire League championships and moved closer to its first outright MEL title with a 10-0 blanking of Armijo, Friday. Tai Wilson, Sonya Rodgers, Keira Cahalan and Cassandra Zapata each had two hits with Cahalan ripping a triple and

driving in five runs. Shawnese Hogue-Lacy also tripled and Rodgers doubled, with Mia Santos getting two RBIs. Gray fanned eight while walking one in, picking up the victory. Vanden (9-0, 8-0 MEL) can clinch the outright MEL title at Wood on Wednesday.

Vacaville 7, Rodriguez 5: At Rodriguez, the Mustangs (7-2, 5-2) dropped a key MEL decision despite getting two doubles from

Cynthia Caughman and Annelise Gregory with the former also driving in a run. Brooklyn Denina and Desirae Bailey also had two hits with the former getting a double and an RBI and the latter plating three runs. Kate Tobola added a double. Jordan Gutierrez started and went the first three innings, allowing three runs with one strikeout, while Denina tossed four innings in relief, yielding four unearned runs with two strikeouts. Rodriguez’s JV team eased past Vacaville 13-0 in five innings behind the no-hit pitching of Denina, who struck out five and was 2-for-2 at the plate. Also on offense, Kiah Silva was 3-for-4, Katelyn Kilgore was 2-for-2, Jade Babas was

2-for-3 and Emma Barrington was 2-for-2.

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Bottom of ladder helps Armijo get by Vacaville VACAVILLE — The back end of the ladder came through in a big way for the Armijo High badminton team in a 6-3 Monticello Empire League road victory over Vacaville, Friday.

The Bulldogs (4-3) won three of the first four matches with the Royals (6-1) taking the final five. Winning for Armijo were Faustina Wan at No. 3 (21-15, 21-17), Monica Braun at No. 5 (16-21, 21-12, 21-8), Julianna Delmendo at No. 6 (21-12, 21-4), Danielle Fafalla at No. 7 (21-14, 8-21, 21-17), Jessica Dang at No. 8 (21-7, 21-15) and Janna Mislang at No. 9 (21-14, 24-22). Vacaville’s wins were by See Local, Page B8

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Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors blows a kiss after he made a basket to pass Wilt Chamberlain as the Golden State Warriors all-time leading scorer during the

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HILADELPHIA — Even with the high standards he has set, this has been quite a week in the career of seven-time Golden State Warriors All-Star Stephen Curry. Since last Monday, Curry has passed Wilt Chamberlain on the franchise scoring list and matched Kobe Bryant in the record books, while continuing a run that he admits is statistically the best of his career. Whether Curry suits up when the Warriors visit the Sixers on Monday at the Wells Fargo Center remains to be seen. With 6 minutes and 57 seconds left in Saturday’s 119-114 loss at Boston, Curry rolled his left ankle. He was in noticeable discomfort, but stayed in the game and would

make three more three-pointers, finishing with 47 points. When asked if he would play against the Sixers, he said in the post-game Zoom interview, “Honestly, I have no idea. I am hopeful though, obviously.” Regardless of his status, it’s been quite a week for a player who is on an unprecedented career roll. Last Monday, he became the all-time leading scorer in Warriors history, surpassing Chamberlain, who held the mark at 17,783 points. Curry passed him by scoring 53 points in the 116-107 home win over the Denver Nuggets. “It’s crazy,” Curry said after that game via Zoom. “Anytime you hear [Chamberlain’s] name it is kind of daunting because you know his records are so hard to earn, some of them are even impossible to eclipse.” Curry, the son of former NBA

sharpshooter Dell Curry and brother of Sixers guard Seth Curry, surely knows his NBA history. “You understand how great of a player he was,” Curry said, referring to Chamberlain. “Anytime his name pops up, you almost redefine the respect level for him and what he has been able to accomplish. I can’t remember exactly how many games he played as a Warrior and how many I have played, but to be anywhere near him in any record book and now be on top it’s surreal and it’s wild. “ For the record, Wilt Chamberlain played 429 games for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors and scored 17,783 points while Curry has played 748 games with the Warriors and now has See Curry, Page B8

Marleau set to pass Mr. Hockey Tribune Content Agency Nothing is going to diminish Patrick Marleau’s historic achievement Monday night when the Sharks play the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena and he becomes the NHL’s sole career leader in games played. With 1,768 regular season games to his credit by that point, Marleau will be setting a new standard for durability and perseverance in the NHL that may never be surpassed. It would be preferable from the Sharks perspective, though, to at least show up with a more complete performance for three periods than they did against the Minnesota Wild on Saturday night, when Marleau tied Gordie Howe on the NHL’s all-time list with his 1,767th career game.

NHL all-time leaders in games played 1. Gordie Howe 1,767 1. Patrick Marleau 1,767 3. Mark Messier 1,756 4. Jaromir Jagr 1,733 5. Ron Francis 1,731 6. Joe Thornton 1,668 7. Mark Recchi 1,652 8. Chris Chelios 1,651 9. Dave Andreychuk 1,639 10. Scott Stevens 1,635 Source: Tribune Content Agency

Once again, the Sharks could not prevent the Wild from scoring another barrage of goals in a short amount of time, allowing three in just a 72-second span midway through the

first period. Predictably, the Sharks never recovered and were pasted 5-2 by the Wild at Xcel Energy Center, suffering their season-worst fifth straight loss. “Obviously, you want things to be going well, you want your team to be winning all the time, regardless of milestones or not,” Marleau said. “It would be nice to get back on track, get in the winning books and feeling good about ourselves as a club. “We’ve shown at times some pretty good hockey, the right way to play, and now we just have to make sure we do that for a full 60 (minutes).” The Sharks are at the low point of their season. And if Marleau’s historical moment Saturday wasn’t enough to give the Sharks a lasting emotional

boost, will it be any different Monday? We’ll see. But it won’t be any easier, that’s for sure. Vegas has owned the formerly competitive rivalry over the past two seasons, going 3-0-1 against San Jose last season and 5-0-0 so far this season. Prior to its game with the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday, the Golden Knights had won five straight and six of seven to remain two points back of the Colorado Avalanche for first place in the West Division. “Monday, there’s going to be two separate kind of feelings,” Sharks coach Bob Boughner said. “It’s going to be the honor of being in that game and watching Patty set history. The other part is us playing well with him, and being proud of ourselves for the way we played.”

MIAMI — With a one-run lead and his starter cruising after five innings, Giants manager Gabe Kapler made the risky decision to put the game in the hands of a short-handed bullpen that had been shaky in back-to-back losses against the Marlins. Despite his closer being unavailable and several arms needing a breather, Kapler’s bullpen delivered, recording the final 12 outs of a 1-0 victory to salvage the series finale in Miami. An unearned run that scored on an Alex Dickerson RBI single in the third inning proved to be the difference for the 9-6 Giants, who have now shut out their oppo-

nents in three of their last four victories. After missing the first half of April while rehabbing a back injury he dealt with during spring training, left-hander Alex Wood made his Giants debut on Sunday in Miami and tossed five scoreless innings against the Marlins. The lefty only allowed three hits and didn’t surrender a walk as he turned in an efficient outing on a day the Giants were hoping for length from their starter. “What Wood does very well is he’s funky, unorthodox, works fast, pounds the strike zone and executes three pitches and he was able to do that effectively today,” Kapler said. See Giants, Page B8

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San Francisco Giants players celebrate after defeating the Miami Marlins in the third and final game of the three-game series at LoanDepot Park in Miami, Sunday.

A’s win eighth straight with sweep of Tigers Tribune Content Agency Tigers center fielder Victor Reyes ran in, looking skyward, then toward the infield, then back up. He crouched and covered his head. Matt Olson’s flyball, lost in the afternoon glare, fell some 15 feet in front of him. Olson sprinted into second base with a double. Little went right for the A’s the first week of the season. In the last week, little has gone wrong. Olson reached as the potential winning run in the ninth inning. Three batters later, Olson scored when Mitch Moreland’s sharp grounder shot past third baseman Jeimer Candelario.

The walk-off 3-2 win, on an error, was the A’s eighth in a row. It marked their first sweep of a four-game series at home since 2017. Continuing that streak required a rally. Sean Murphy hit a game-tying home run in the eighth inning. That erased the lead Detroit had seized in the sixth against starter Chris Bassitt. “We feel pretty good about the way we’re playing right now,” manager Bob Melvin said. “We weren’t getting a ton of good swings. But as long as we’re close, we feel like we find a way to win the game.” Moreland hit the first pinch-hit walk-off for the A’s since July 2015.

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rue story: We never got to cut the cake on our wedding. Instead, we got so carried away dancing with our friends and family, the tradition slipped our – and everyone else’s – minds. The cake in question was a homey, three-layer carrot cake, my husband’s favorite. When we discovered it sitting there untouched, Andrew and I were relieved. Having everyone watch us feed each other cake was never our idea of fun. Instead, we repurposed the cake at the post-wedding brunch the following day and presented it as a birthday cake for Andrew’s grandfather. It wound up being a win-win. It wasn’t until this assignment that I really went down the delicious carrot cake rabbit hole. Sure, I had made it from time to time, but it was always in a hurry to deliver a cake for a special occasion: a birthday, a Father’s Day celebration or random joyful moments we wanted to commemorate. I didn’t have a go-to recipe, and while the cakes I was making were fine, they weren’t extraordinary enough to be bookmarked. I moved from recipe to recipe, hoping to strike gold with one but not succeeding. I was looking for more in my cake: It needed to be sufficiently (but not overly) carroty and moist, with a delicate crumb and varied textures. I opted for plump golden raisins, with their sweet honey notes, and toasted pecans, very finely chopped. To bump up the rich, warming flavors, I chose a symphony of spices: cinnamon, cardamom, allspice, nutmeg and ginger, both fresh and powdered. For a bit of tang, I added buttermilk. The resulting cake layers are everything I wanted them to be and more. Friends and colleagues who tried it said the texture was perfect and the flavors balanced. With the cake layers done, I moved on to the frosting. Inspired by a few recipes, including those from Jocelyn Delk Adams and Claire Saffitz, brown butter-cream cheese frosting sounded like an excellent idea. Melt and brown the butter – no need to wait for it to soften – then stir it over an ice bath until it is the texture of solid room-temperature butter, a process that takes about 25 minutes. Then, proceed to make the frosting as usual. To get the most consistent results, I recommend sticking with Philadelphia cream cheese (the full-fat kind). When a grocery order went awry and only one package of Philly cream cheese was delivered, I made the frosting using

my 8 ounces of Philly and an 8-ounce pack of a generic cream cheese from a national grocery store chain. (I was making the cake for the photo shoot – a detail that becomes relevant in a moment.) I sent off the cake layers and frosting to our saint of a food stylist with nary a thought, but the following day during the photo shoot, we discovered the frosting was too soft and slid off the cake. After retracing my steps, with the help of my colleagues Becky Krystal and G. Daniela Galarza, we deduced that the culprit was the generic brand cream cheese. Daniela explained that the stabilizers in cream cheese vary from brand to brand, and the one nationally available name that will get you consistent results is Philadelphia. While I’m not big on hot takes, here’s one: Cream cheese frosting is the best part of carrot cake. In fact, it happens to be our family’s favorite frosting, and I make it so often, I forget its softer, more spreadable texture compared with its buttercream cousin. Keep that in mind when making it: If the frosting seems softer than usual, that’s normal. Too soft? Chill it for 20 minutes or so. And depending on how generous a layer you want, you’ll likely have leftover frosting. I prefer a conservative approach, wanting the cake layers and frosting to complement one another. I freeze the excess frosting for next time I’m making a cake and reduce the next batch of frosting by about a third so I don’t wind up with too much again. In our house, we love this carrot cake so much, we decided it’s our go-to cake for birthdays, Mother’s Day – any celebration, big or small. My 6-year-old declared it “the best cake ever,” and to quote the Eurythmics, who am I to disagree? Carrot Cake With Brown Butter-Cream Cheese Frosting Active time: 1 hour 30 minutes; Total time: 2 hours 30 minutes, plus 2 hours to cool the cake layers 14 to 16 servings; makes one 8-inch layer cake Here is a classic carrot cake that, with its few fun twists, will astound you with its exceptional crumb and taste. A blend of fragrant warming spices – cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, allspice and nutmeg – delivers an aromatic bouquet, while finely chopped toasted pecans add sweet nuttiness and vary the texture without disrupting it. Golden raisins contribute gentle honey notes and moisture throughout. What takes this cake into a different stratosphere is the brown butter-cream cheese frosting, which is at once familiar and unexpected; you may never go back to regular cream cheese frosting after this.

Be sure to sift your baking soda to get rid of any clumps. If not wellblended, baking soda may turn your carrots green; the cake will still taste fine. We got the most consistent results using Philadelphia cream cheese for our frosting; other cream cheese brands might use a different combination of stabilizers and may result in a frosting that weeps and may slide off your cake. Keep in mind that cream cheese frosting is less stiff than its buttercream counterpart, however, if your frosting is too soft to spread, refrigerate it for about 20 minutes to firm it up. Make Ahead: The cake may be prepared, tightly wrapped and refrigerated, up to 1 day in advance. The frosting can be prepared up to 5 days in advance. Storage Notes: The assembled cake can be refrigerated, properly covered, for up to 5 days. The cake layers may be tightly wrapped in plastic wrap, then foil, and frozen for up to 3 months; defrost overnight in the refrigerator. Leftover frosting may be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 5 days or frozen for up to 3 months. For the cake: 1 ⁄2 cup (120 milliliters) wellshaken buttermilk 2 teaspoons finely grated fresh ginger 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup (110 grams) pecan halves, plus more for decorating the cake (optional) 3 ⁄4 cup (180 milliliters) canola oil or another neutral oil, plus more for greasing pans 1 1⁄2 cups (190 grams) allpurpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda, sifted 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground ginger 1 ⁄2 teaspoon ground cardamom 1 ⁄4 teaspoon grated nutmeg 1 ⁄4 teaspoon ground allspice 3 large eggs, at room temperature 1 cup (200 grams) granulated sugar 1 ⁄4 cup packed (55 grams) dark brown sugar 11 ounces (310 grams) carrots (4 to 5 medium), scrubbed and trimmed 3 ⁄4 cup (105 grams) raisins, preferably golden For the frosting: 1 1⁄2 sticks (6 ounces/170 grams) unsalted butter 12 ounces (340 grams) cream cheese, at room temperature 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 ⁄4 teaspoon kosher salt 3 1⁄2 cups (1 pound/454 grams) confectioners’ sugar, sifted if very lumpy Make the cake layers: Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees. In a liquid measuring cup, combine the buttermilk, fresh ginger and vanilla. Spread the pecans out on a small, rimmed baking sheet and toast in the oven for about 10 minutes, shaking midway through, until the nuts are deep golden brown and fragrant.

Remove from the oven (leave the oven on) and transfer the nuts to a plate to cool. Once the nuts are cool, transfer to a food processor and pulse until very finely chopped. While the nuts are toasting, lightly brush the bottom and sides of two (8-by-2-inch) cake pans with oil. Line the bottom of the pans with parchment paper and brush the paper with oil. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ground ginger, cardamom, nutmeg and allspice until combined. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, combine the eggs with the granulated and brown sugars and beat on medium-low speed to break up the eggs. Increase the speed to medium-high and beat until the mixture forms thick ribbons as it falls off the whisk, about 5 minutes. While the eggs and sugar are being whipped, grate the carrots. When the egg-sugar mixture is ready, slowly add the oil in a thin stream and beat until the mixture is glossy, plush and emulsified. Switch to the paddle attachment and add about a third of the flour mixture to the egg mixture. Mix on low speed just to combine. Stop the mixer, add half of the buttermilk mixture and then return the mixer to low speed just to combine. Add the remaining dry ingredients in two more additions, alternating with the remaining buttermilk mixture. When the last whisper of flour disappears, stop the mixer and use a spatula to scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl, then fold the batter to ensure it is evenly mixed. Add the carrots and mix on low until just combined. Unlock the mixer bowl and, using a spatula, gently fold in the pecans and raisins. Evenly divide the batter between the cake pans. (Each portion should weigh around 700 grams, depending on the weight of your carrots.) If needed, smooth out the tops of the cakes with a small offset spatula. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted into the middle of the cakes comes out clean, and the cakes spring back when lightly pressed on top and start to pull away from the sides of the pan. Transfer the cake pans to a wire rack and let cool completely. Run a thin offset spatula or butter knife around the perimeter of each pan, place a plate over each cake layer and gently invert. Discard the parchment paper. Make the frosting: While the cakes are baking, in a medium bowl, prepare an ice bath. In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter and cook, stirring and scraping the bottom and sides constantly, until the solids turn brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Scrape the butter with the browned bits into a bowl and set the bowl over the prepared ice bath; stir every couple of minutes until the butter returns to solid, 13 to 15 minutes. Do not let it get too hard; you want the consistency of room-temperature butter. In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese and butter on medium-high

speed, stopping the mixer and scraping down the sides and bottom of the bowl from time to time, until the mixture is completely smooth, about 2 minutes. Add the vanilla and salt and mix on mediumhigh to incorporate. Turn off the mixer and add about a third of the confectioners’ sugar. Start with the mixer on low to incorporate the sugar, and then add the remaining sugar in two more increments, pausing the mixer between additions and scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl. Once all of the confectioners’ sugar has been incorporated, increase the speed to medium-high and beat until the frosting is smooth, thick and fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes. Check the bottom of the bowl to make sure all of the confectioners’ sugar has been incorporated; if not, briefly beat to recombine. The frosting will be soft and spreadable; if it feels too soft for spreading, refrigerate for about 20 minutes to firm it up. Assemble the cake: If your cake layers have prominent domes, use a long, serrated knife to trim the tops (you can eat them as a cook’s treat), so the layers are even and level. Place a cake layer bottom side down on a cake stand or serving plate, and slide strips of parchment paper partially underneath and all around the cake to keep your work area neat during frosting. Using a small offset spatula, place about 1 cup of frosting in the center and spread it out to the edges. Place the second cake layer, bottom side up, on top of the first and top with another 1 cup of the frosting in the center. Using the offset spatula, spread the frosting in a thin layer over the top and sides of the cake to form a crumb coat, adding a little more frosting at a time as needed. Transfer the cake to the refrigerator and let the coating set up (it will be soft and somewhat tacky), about 30 minutes. (You can leave the remaining frosting at room temperature in the meantime, though if it gets too soft, refrigerate it as well while the crumb coat chills.) Remove the cake from the refrigerator and use more frosting to generously cover the top and sides of the cake. (Leftover frosting can be frozen.) To make decorative swirls, move the offset spatula in a figure-eight shape all over the frosting. Refrigerate the cake just until the frosting is set, at least 1 hour and up to 1 day in advance, then slice and serve. Variation: To make traditional cream cheese frosting, follow the instructions above, skipping the butter browning process. Be sure to have the butter at room temperature. Nutrition (based on 16 servings) | Calories: 549; Total Fat: 32 g; Saturated Fat: 11 g; Cholesterol: 82 mg; Sodium: 323 mg; Carbohydrates: 63 g; Dietary Fiber: 2 g; Sugar: 60 g; Protein: 6 g. Recipe from food writer Olga Massov.

Olga Massov is a food writer and editor, recipe developer and cookbook collaborator.

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Fewer than 1 in 4 workers has gone back to the office as businesses plot a wider reopening Tribune Content Agency People had started showing up to the office again in greater numbers, but fled for home as the recent coronavirus surge shook the region, fresh data show. Still, employers and landlords are betting that workers will want to return as vaccinations increase and virus fears recede, even though demand to rent space in office buildings continues to shrink. “By the stats, it’s not that encouraging,” said broker Todd Doney of real estate services company CBRE. “We certainly have work ahead of us to get through this. . . . But when the governor announced no more Covid restrictions on June 15, that’s light at the end of the tunnel for me.” An average of 24% of employees in 10 major U.S. cities were back to the office as of April 7, down nearly a full percentage point from the week before, according to Kastle Systems, which provides keycard entry systems used by many companies and tracks patterns of workers’ card swipes. In Los Angeles, the average at Kastle’s 148 buildings was 22.1% and, like the national average, took a significant dip during the winter Covid surge, but had been rising again before the latest virus resurgence. Although beneath the U.S. average, L.A.’s offices were more full than five other cities tracked by Kastle, including San Jose at 16.7% and San Francisco at 13.4%. As employees were trickling back to some

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Saul Mendoza, with building maintenance, walks with disinfectant while cleaning a common area at Hudson Pacific Properties, a big office landlord on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. Arrows taped on the floor are to maintain one-way foot traffic to guard against the spread of the coronavirus. offices, other workplaces were turning off the lights and turning over the keys. Overall non-rented office space in Los Angeles County reached 17.2% in the first quarter, the highest vacancy level since early 2012, CBRE reported. That reflected a net loss of 1.6 million square feet of leased space, nearly matching the worst quarterly loss during the Great Recession. Signings of office leases have been falling for about a year as companies sent employees home to work or laid them off in the face of a sharp economic downturn spurred by the virus. Many tenants reduced their office footprints as their leases rolled over, while others put their unused space on the market for sublease. Tenants looking to get some money for offices they were not using had 7.3 million feet available for sublease in the first

quarter, about 15% of the total space available for rent – high by historic standards. The number of leases being signed remained low, as tenants avoided longterm decisions in favor of short-term renewals when their leases expired. Despite the economic headwinds, the average asking rate climbed slightly to $3.90 per square foot per month in the first quarter, reflecting higher quality space coming available and the reluctance of landlords to drop their rates. Instead, landlords offered tenants inducements to sign leases such as months of free rent or generous allowances to build out their offices. Uber, Google, Facebook and Microsoft are among the companies that have reopened offices or are on the verge of doing so, according to media reports. And recent surveys have shown that

many companies and their workers are eager or at least willing to get back to the office. A February survey commissioned by software company Eden Workplace found 85% of office workers are looking forward to being back at work, with many of them saying that they miss socializing with their colleagues. A customer poll by marketing data provider ZoomInfo in February found that more than half plan to be back in the office by June, with IT firms leading the way. The worry for landlords is how much space tenants think they need going forward and whether they still want to work in city centers that many can reach only by long commutes. It is a given among industry observers that remote work has been normalized to the point that white-collar companies will commonly allow their employees to work from

home a few days a week in the future. Some workers may no longer have to come to the office at all. That’s a substantial change in the office world from previous recessions, which also produced dramatic cutbacks in space leasing as companies went under or contracted their staffs. Recovery from this downturn will look different as companies reevaluate their needs. A big unknown is how businesses will configure their office space in a postpandemic world. Will companies need less room if people are working at home sometimes, or must they have a devoted desk waiting for each worker when they do come in? Will workers still be seated close to each other as they have been in many offices in recent years, or must they have more elbow room to feel safe from viruses? “Most of our tenants are making some changes to their physical office layouts,” landlord Bert Dezzutti said, but the longterm impacts of those changes on building occupancy “haven’t sorted themselves out yet.” Flexible work schedules “are here to stay,” said Dezzutti, head of Southern California operations for Brookfield Properties, the dominant office landlord in downtown Los Angeles. Many bosses, nevertheless, remain keen on preserving the office footprints they have. A recent survey by consulting firm KPMG found that only 17% of chief executives are looking to downsize their office space as a result of the

pandemic, a steep drop from August, when 69% said they planned to shrink their offices. Before they return to the office, though, the majority of chief executives would like to see more than 50% of the general population vaccinated. They especially want to see their own employees get Covidpreventing shots – 90% of bosses said they are considering asking employees to report to them when they have been vaccinated, which may guide decisions on when companies return to their offices. For the last six months or so, tenants in Brookfield’s high-rises have been inhabiting about 12% to 16% of their space, Dezzutti said. He expects that number to climb now that local officials have doubled office population allowed for nonessential businesses to 50% as part of easing Covid restrictions. Doney predicted that many companies will reduce the size of their offices in the future as remote labor becomes routine, but that they will return to working together for the most part. “As more people get vaccinated and get more comfortable, they will do more things, including going to the office,” he said. “Zoom meetings are terrific, but sometimes that magic occurs in person before a meeting starts or after it ends.” People will come back to the office over the summer, he said, but the return will be substantial after Labor Day when the working-age population is largely inoculated and children are back in school.

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What is so good about being bad? We root for James Bond and “Alien’s” Ripley to win, but they’re at their best when they’re matched with a charismatic baddie. Sure, we know Bond will triumph in the end, but we need to believe – at least for a couple of hours – that the villain will get close to shutting down the power grid or laser-beaming the Earth’s core or whatever it is he wants to do. Bond doesn’t mess with gray areas; we always know the titular Goldfinger and Le Chiffre from “Casino Royale” are rotten to the core. They’re the kinds of bad apples we hope will be devoured by wild boars, a boldly hissable form of villain that can be loads of fun. But so can a more human kind of evil. Think of Barbara Stanwyck’s Phyllis Dietrichson in “Double Indemnity.” She’s up to no good but Stanwyck is so seductive and funny that we’re almost willing to overlook that she wants her inconvenient husband and dopey lover dead. Part of the kick of the movie is that nobody can keep up with Phyllis, so in some skewed moral universe, we cheer for her. The bad guy is often more mysterious than the good guy, so rooting for them can be a fun way to watch a movie. What if I understand where the “Mean Girls” are coming from when bland Lindsay Lohan walks into their lunchroom? What if I was ignored for so long that it was hard to relinquish the little power I finally acquired, like Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”? What if, like Norman Bates, my “villainy” is a product of abuse suffered since the day I was born?

Cruella de Vil, ‘101 Dalmatians’ (1961) My favorite villain is also

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my first. I have vivid childhood memories of Cruella, with her slash of red lipstick and evil couture, terrorizing a kind family and their puppies. Being literally a cartoon makes her glamorously awful; obviously, an actual dog-killer is grotesque. All I know is that we’re supposed to love to hate her but that’s not how I feel. I unreservedly love every drag-queen-inspiring, command-barking, cocktail-swilling inch of her.

over-the-top nastiness of abusive mother Mary would feel at home in a Bond film, but the pain she reveals in scenes with desperate daughter Precious (Gabourey Sidibe) is real. Ultimately, those forces come together in Precious’ determination to break a cycle of villainy the movie implies is much like a cycle of abuse.

Darth Vader, ‘Star Wars’ (1977)

James Bond faced plenty of top-notch lowlifes, but Christopher Lee’s “most dangerous man alive” goes on the Mount Rushmore of maniacs because of his elegance, wit and iconic voice.

The late David Prowse gets little credit for the physical presence of the obsidian supervillain, but it’s hard to imagine Vader with anyone other than James Earl Jones’ voice. The actor, who almost always plays good guys, adds layers of possibility with his authoritative bark. We’ve learned more about Darth in subsequent “Star Wars” movies, but that sound anchors him somewhere between known and unknowable.

Anton Chigurh, ‘No Country for Old Men’ (2007) Oscar winner Javier Bardem makes hushed, calm Chigurh the anti-Norman Bates, terrifying because we know nothing about him (the same was true of Bardem’s “Skyfall” villain). Seeming to have materialized out of nowhere in both Cormac McCarthy’s novel and Joel and Ethan Coen’s movie, he appears human but his interactions with others make us wonder how anyone could turn out like this. As a result, Chigurh underscores the scariest thing about evil: We don’t know where it comes from.

Mary Lee Johnston, ‘Precious’ (2009) The genius of Mo’nique’s Oscar-winning performance is how it straddles a line. The

Scaramanga, ‘The Man With the Golden Gun’ (1974)

Mr. Potter, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ (1946) Hear me out: Lionel Barrymore created the template for Bardem’s blank nastiness. As he tries to suck the life out of a New York hamlet and its middle-class residents, Potter owes something to the silentmovie tradition of villains who delight in their evil. Director Frank Capra knows Potter horrifies us because, like Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey, we can’t comprehend how he sprang from the same world we did. There’s probably a Potter origin story to explore in a latter-day “Wonderful Life” prequel; let’s hope no one makes it.

The Joker, ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008) There’s a reason both Joaquin Phoenix and the late Heath Ledger won Oscars playing this Batman foe (and Jack Nicholson should have): He looks like a cartoon but his psychology is so rich (“I’m not a monster. I’m just ahead of the curve”) that he forces his way to the forefront of every story he’s a part of.

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LOCATED AT: 149 Summertime Ln Suisun City, CA 94585 Mailing Address: 149 Summertime Ln Suisun City, CA 94585 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Duy Nguyen 149 Summertime Ln Suisun City 94585 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 04/01/2021. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Duy Nguyen 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 March 29, 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: MAR 30, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000689 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00045946 Published: April 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021

LOCATED AT: 1313 Callen Street, Unit A, Vacaville CA 95688 Solano Mailing Address: 1313 Callen Street, Unit A, Vacaville CA 95688 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Paul Avakian 677 Sweet Bay Circle Vacaville, 95687 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 12/10/2015. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Paul Avakian 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 March 31, 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: APR 01, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000700 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00045973 Published: April 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS V. THERAPY SPA

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS THE DOG TRAINING CONNECTION

LOCATED AT: 2619 Sonoma Blvd, Unit A Vallejo, California 94590 Mailing Address: 2619 Sonoma Blvd, Unit A Vallejo, California 94590 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Alloan P. Nuttall 204 E 2nd Avenue, Unit 514 San Mateo 94401 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/ Allan P. Nuttall 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 April 14, 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: APR 15, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000825 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00046223 Published: April 19, 26, May 3, 10, 2021

LOCATED AT: 321 Dodini Ct, Suisun City, CA 94585 Solano County Mailing Address: 321 Dodini Ct, Suisun City, CA 94585 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Mariah Klein 321 Dodini Ct Suisun City, 94585 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/ Mariah Klein 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 March 29, 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: MAR 30, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000687 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00045930 Published: April 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS 10-4 TOW OF VALLEJO

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS EL REY

LOCATED AT: 301 Georgia St Suite # 350B, Vallejo, CA 94590 Solano County Mailing Address: 301 Georgia St Suite # 350B, Vallejo, CA 94590 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) 10-4 Tow LLC CA THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 04/01/2021. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Gavriel Taub Manager 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 April 8, 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: APR 09, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000780 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00046211 Published: April 19, 26, May 3, 10, 2021

LOCATED AT: 4301 Somoma Blvd, Vallejo CA, 94589 Solano Mailing Address: 12 Sharon St., Vallejo CA, 94589 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Manual Baltazar 12 Sharon St. Vallejo, 94589 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 03/10/2021. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Manual Baltazar 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 March 24, 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: MAR 25, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000655 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00045766 Published: March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS SOULIDIFIED

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS THE UNDERGROUND

LOCATED AT: 1922 Broadway St, Suite 5 Vallejo, CA 94589 Solano Mailing Address: 2462 Whispering Oaks Dr Fairfield CA 94534 Solano (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Crystal Jones 195 Carnival Ct Vallejo 94589 2) Denise Kimble 2462 Whispering Oaks Dr Fairfield 94534 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a General Partnership 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/ Denise Kimble 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 March 23, 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: MAR 24, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000654 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00045769 Published: March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2021

LOCATED AT: 1890 Dover Ave Apt C8, Fairfield CA 94533 Solano Mailing Address: 1890 Dover Ave Apt C8, Fairfield CA 94533 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Shawn Wilkerson 1890 Dover Ave Apr C8 Fairfield, 94533 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 03/24/2021. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Shawn Wilkerson 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 March 23, 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: MAR 24, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021000653 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00045771 Published: March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2021

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Local: Bulldogs drop Vikings in 3 sets delivered 16 digs and four assists, while Kelly Solis had six kills to lift the Rodriguez High volleyball team to a 25-17, 25-15, 25-13 Monticello Empire League win over Wood, Friday. The Mustangs also got five kills from Stephanie Lott, Briana Davisson and Kaili Angulo, with Emalie Depew and Bryanna Lott contributing four each. Peyten Briscoe added 12 assists and four kills, while Khaycee Jamia Cadenas had 11 assists and three aces.

From Page B1 Katelyn Crismon at No. 1 (21-14, 21-8), Kelly Han at No. 2 (19-21, 21-19, 21-14) and Nia Macay at No. 4 (21-16, 21-10).

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Mustangs use balanced attack to sweep Wood FAIRFIELD — Lauryn Cruz

Rodriguez also won the junior varsity match, 25-15, 18-25, 15-7.

Vacaville 3, Vanden 0: At Vacaville, the Vikings (4-2) fell 25-16, 25-16, 25-22 despite getting nine kills and five blocks, three of them solo, from freshman Anaya Thrower. Mariah Navat added 11 digs, while Mora Braggs had five kills. Vanden’s JV team improved to 6-0 with a threeset victory. Breanna Davis was 11-for-11 with two aces on serves with three kills and 13 assists, while Elina Rodriguez was 12-for-14 with two aces to go with two kills and one dig. Jada Cuffie was 7-of-8 with nine kills, four blocks and one dig, while Esther Khartoum was 6-of-6 with four assists.

Curry: 30 points or more in 10 straight From Page B1 17,940 points. Curry, who turned 33 on March 14, has now scored 30 or more points in 10 consecutive games. According to Elias Sports Bureau, that ties Kobe Bryant for most consecutive 30 point games by a player age 33 or over. Before this current streak, the most consecutive 30-point games Curry had was five. During this run, he is averaging 39.1 points and shooting 54.6% from the field, including 48.6% from three-point range. Golden State (28-29) is 6-4 during the 10 games. When asked to explain Steph Curry’s excellence, Warriors coach Steve Kerr kept things in simple terms. “He is just Steph Curry,” Kerr said after

Saturday’s loss. “It is not just the skill level, it is the confidence, the bravado, the willingness to fail and not to think twice about it. He goes for it every time, every play, competes, is not afraid of failure and trusts his skills because he has worked his whole life for this.” Curry, a three-time NBA champion and a two-time MVP, was asked Saturday if the last 10 games have been the best stretch of his 12-year NBA career. “I mean, statistically, it is for sure,” he said. “This season has required a little bit, something different,” Due to injuries to veteran teammates, Curry is playing with a relatively young cast at Golden State. He is needed to carry the offense each evening and has obliged, averaging

30.1 points, while shooting 49.1%, including 42.7% from three-point range. He has missed eight games and the Warriors are 1-7 in those contests. “I have been blessed with a very special skill set that I am trying to continue to master and own and get better at, and that is showing,” Curry said. “The work is showing. I am trying to obviously sustain that for this season because it is required for us to get to where we want to go.” What makes Curry so amazing is not just that he hits shots from deep range. According to Elias Sports Bureau, he is shooting 31-for-69 (44.9%) on three-pointers from 30 to 39 feet. What is truly impressive is how the 6-foot-3, 185-pound point guard is able to take so much contact each game from multiple defenders.

“I think he is always in great shape, which is why he has always been able to move around the way he does on the court, he never stops moving,” said Warriors teammate Draymond Green. “But I think the most important thing is how strong he is and that increases his stamina because all of a sudden you are taking all these hits and you can actually withstand those hits ... I think the most incredible thing about his stamina is his strength.” In their previous meeting on March 23, the Sixers beat host Golden State, 108-98. Curry missed that game with inflammation in his tailbone. The Sixers (39-17) have won four in a row following Friday’s 106-103 home win over the Los Angeles Clippers.

Giants: Bullpen rides to Giants’ rescue From Page B1 Wood likely could have returned for the sixth inning as he only threw 61 pitches, but with the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the sixth, his spot in the lineup came up. With the Giants hoping to take advantage of a rare scoring opportunity against Marlins starter Pablo López, Kapler sent Wilmer Flores to the plate to pinch-hit for Wood, but the decision didn’t pay off as Flores hit a routine flyball to right field to end the inning. Kapler’s desire to put Sunday’s outcome in the hands of his bullpen was a mild surprise considering the struggles his relievers dealt with in the first two games of the series. Aside from allowing go-ahead hits in Friday and Saturday’s losses, the Giants also entered Sunday’s game without closer Jake McGee, who was placed on the Covid-19 injured list due to lingering side effects after receiving a second vaccine dose earlier this week. Lefties José Álvarez and Caleb Baragar each worked an inning while right-hander Tyler Rogers picked up the save in place of McGee, but the most impressive performance in the late innings belonged to a pitcher the Giants had never used before. It’s possible the most important near and longterm development of the day for the Giants took

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Miami Marlins outfielder Starling Marte is called safe at first base against the San Francisco Giants at LoanDepot Park in Miami, Sunday. place in the bottom of the end the inning. seventh when rookie right“Ninety-seven/ninetyhander Camilo Doval eight (miles per hour) with entered to make his big a nasty slider plays, so our league debut. The 23-year- goal for him is just to get him old Dominican Republic in the zone,” Kapler said. native has never appeared For a bullpen in search in a minor league game of consistent right-handed above the High-A level, but relief options, Doval could he looked like a veteran quickly emerge as a pivotal major leaguer by retir- piece if he’s able to build ing three straight Marlins off of Sunday’s impreshitters in a dominant sive performance. “He’s got a special arm, seventh inning. “I felt very happy, there’s no doubt. It was especially when I got to nice to get in there and get the dugout,” Doval said. his feet wet,” Wood said. “Everybody was hugging “Getting thrown into the me and congratulating me fire in a 1-0 ballgame, he to finally get it over with looked great.” and I’m grateful to the The Giants broke a Giants organization for scoreless tie in the third giving me an opportunity inning against López after to get to the big leagues.” Marlins first baseman Doval struck out two, Jesús Aguilar extended the flashed a 98-mile per hour frame with a fielding error fastball and unveiled a on a two-out grounder from sharp slider that gener- Brandon Belt. Left fielder ated three whiffs and and Alex Dickerson capitalized also froze Marlins left on the mistake by sending fielder Adam Duvall to a 108.1 mile per hour single

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through the right side of the infield to score Tommy La Stella, who opened the inning with a single off of López. Dickerson helped keep the Marlins from tying the game in the fifth inning with the second outfield assist of his career and the first by a Giants outfielder this season. The play made Dickerson a hero in the box score, but it began when he misplayed a looping liner from Miami second baseman Jazz Chisholm and ended when Chisholm lost contact with the second base bag after sliding in safely. Second base umpire Tim Timmons saw Donovan Solano hold his tag on Chisholm while the speedy infielder momentarily slipped off the base, so he made the split-second call on the field without any assistance from a replay official. Instead of pitching with one out and a pair of runners in scoring position, Wood was able to work out of a two-out jam thanks to help from Dickerson on another day when the Giants’ offense failed to give its pitching staff much margin for error. “It was a tough ball to (Dickerson) in left field and he kept it in front of him and stayed with it,” Wood said. “You’ve got a speedy runner in Jazz, but he came up and made a good throw and with a good tag, that’s a huge play in a game, especially in a 1-0 ballgame.”

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CALENDAR Monday’s TV sports Note: Some events may be canceled or moved to different times and/or stations because of Covid-19 considerations

Baseball MLB •Chicago White Sox at Boston, MLB, 8 a.m. •St. Louis at Washington, MLB, 4 p.m. •San Francisco at Philadelphia, NBCSBA, 4 p.m. •Minnesota at Oakland, NBCSCA, 6:40 a.m.

Basketball NBA •Golden State at Philadelphia, ESPN, NBCSBA, 4:30 p.m. •Utah at L.A. Lakers, ESPN, 7 p.m.

Field hockey •Teams TBA, BIG TEN, 10 a.m. Hockey NHL •Detroit at Dallas, NBCSN, 4:30 p.m. •San Jose at Vegas, NBCSCA, NBCSN, 7 p.m.

Softball •Tennessee at South Carolina,SEC, 4 p.m. Surfing •World Surfing League, Championship Tour, Narrabeen Classic, Day 4, FS2, 2 p.m. Tennis •Center Court, ATP Barcelona, ATP Belgrade, WTA Stuttgart, WTA Istanbul, TENNIS, 1 and 3 a.m. Volleyball NCAA Tournament •Regional finals, ESPN2, 9 a.m. •Regional finals, ESPN2, 11:30 a.m. •Regional finals, ESPNU, 3:30 p.m. •Regional finals, ESPNU, 6 p.m.

Tuesday’s TV sports Baseball College •Louisville at Kentucky, ESPNU, 2 p.m. •Coastal Carolina at North Carolina, ACC, 3 p.m. •Clemson at Georgia, SEC, 4 p.m. •Oklahoma at Texas Tech, ESPNU, 5 p.m. MLB •L.A. Dodgers at Seattle, MLB, 1 p.m. •San Francisco at Philadelphia, NBCSBA, 4 p.m. •Minnesota at Oakland, NBCSCA, 6:40 p.m.

Basketball NBA •Brooklyn at New Orleans, TNT, 4:30 p.m. •L.A. Clippers at Portland, TNT, 7 p.m. •Minnesota at Sacramento, NBCSCA, 7 p.m. (Vacaville only)

Boxing •PBC Fight Night, Frank Martin vs. Jerry Perez, FS1, 5 p.m. Hockey NHL •Boston at Buffalo, NBCSN, 3:30 p.m.

Soccer •Super Lig, Sivasspor vs. Besiktas, BEIN, 8:55 a.m. •Premier League, Chelsea vs. Brighton, NBCSN, 11 a.m. •Copa Libertadores, Santos FC vs. Barcelona, BEIN, 3:05 p.m. •Copa Libertadores, Sporting Cristal vs. Sao Paolo FC, BEIN, 5:20 p.m. Softball •Oklahoma vs. Georgia, SEC, 2 p.m. Surfing •World Surfing League, Championship Tour, Narrabeen Classic, Day 5, FS2, 2:30 p.m. Tennis •Center Court, ATP Barcelona, ATP Belgrade, WTA Stuttgart, WTA Istanbul, TENNIS, 1 and 3 a.m. •Center Court, ATP Barcelona, ATP Belgrade, WTA Stuttgart, WTA Istanbul, TENNIS, 1 and 3 a.m. (Wednesday)

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