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FLORIDA CONDO COLLAPSE
4 more bodies found; total now at 9 dead, 156 missing Tribune Content Agency SURFSIDE, Fla. — Rescuers have recovered another four bodies in the wreckage of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse, bringing the total to nine dead and 156 still missing since the Surfside building collapsed early Thursday. The latest victims were discovered along with “additional human remains” in a 125-footlong trench dug into the rubble to add rescue and recover teams – the newest tactic in the round-the-clock excavation of an unstable,
sometimes shifting mountain of debris. “We are making every effort to identify those others that have been recovered,” Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a Sunday morning news conference. Plans also were in the works to allow family members to get closer to the rubble sometime Sunday so they can pray and mourn. Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said he “believes arrangements are being made” that would address the pleas of grieving relatives. See Bodies, Page A7
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From left, June Johnsen, Kimber Smith and Gerry Raycraft are members of Fairfield Gleaners, a project
that picks excess fruit and other produce to share with the less fortunate.
From tree to table Volunteer gleaners get low, high hanging, fallen fruit
tive as part of Free Food Solano. Smith, who was just launching her business, went knocking FAIRFIELD — Amber Vilon neighborhood doors to introlarreal looked out a window duce herself. She also saw a into her backyard and saw a lot of fresh produce just laying plethora of plums. on the ground. “We will never be able to eat “That food needs to be all these plums,” she said. “We getting to someone,” she told couldn’t keep up.” herself and took on the task of She answered a post on making it happen. social media offering help The gleaning initiative was Kimber Smith of Fairfield Gleaners holds a to pick the produce and give launched in spring 2020 and has basket of peaches from her yard. it a new home. collected more than 6,000 pounds A handful of people, all local of fresh produce such as oranges. Rotarians, showed up Saturday Gerry Raycraft, Jason Perkins, lemons and persimmons that have Kimber Smith and Vicki Bailey been shared with local programs, morning at the Villarreal home. First, they picked up what had gently picked up the fruit. When including Free Food Solano, that fallen off the tree, which Villar- the job was done, the plums would feed the poor. real apologized for, noting strong go to the local food bank to be Raycraft brings the necessary shared with recipients. winds of late. tools, ladders, pickers and buckets. The all-volunteer work is done Reusable bags and plastic buckets sat on the ground while through the Solano Gleaning InitiaSee Table, Page A7
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Rescue workers dig through rubble at the 12-story oceanfront Champlain Towers South Condo at 8777 Collins Ave. in Surfside, Friday.
COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant spreading fast in California Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — Delta is now the variant of the coronavirus identified third most often in California, according to new data – underscoring that the variant is highly contagious, a danger to people who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19. The Delta variant now makes up 14.5% of California coronavirus cases analyzed so far in June, up from 4.7% in May, when it was the fourthmost-identified variant in California, according
to data released by the California Department of Public Health. Experts say the Delta variant poses a greater chance of infection for unvaccinated people if they are exposed to this version of the virus. The variant, first identified in India, may be twice as transmissible as the conventional coronavirus strains. The Delta variant has been responsible for the rise in cases recently in India, the United Kingdom and elsewhere. See Delta, Page A7
GOP senators say infrastructure deal back on track Tribune Content Agency
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President Joe Biden, center, joined by a bipartisan group of senators who reached a deal on an infrastructure package, at the White House in Washington, D.C., Thursday.
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