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Recovery Ride celebrates grand re-opening of Unity Hall Susan Hiland

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FAIRFIELD — The 75-mile motorcycle ride through Solano County on Saturday was a celebration of the newly renovated Unity Hall, which was closed through last year because of the pandemic.

The ride took about 15 riders through Winters and around Lake Berryessa.

Deanna Allan, program director at Unity Hall, welcomed everyone back in the afternoon for a barbecue and fundraising prize drawing.

“It has been difficult because we have not been able to get together and we lost folks to overdoses

and suicide, and we didn’t get to grieve,” she said.

The hall was closed but that didn’t mean that the work stopped.

The multiple recovery meetings went virtual, which was a boon for some because they couldn’t physically get to meetings.

“Some people with mobility problems were able to join the meetings who otherwise wouldn’t have,” Allan said.

It had been a long time since Unity Hall had any improvements so with the doors closed she decided to do some renovating.

“I want it to feel like a cafe,” she said.

The feedback is that See Unity, Page A12

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Igal Koiman stands in front of his car with a smashed-windshield at his home in Fairfield, Wednesday.

‘Reign of terror’

Fairfield man frustrated with police as neighborhood dispute escalates Todd R. Hansen

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About 15 riders went for a 75-mile motorcycle ride through Solano County, Saturday, as part of the grand re-opening of Unity Hall, which hosts meetings for those in recovery. It has been a year since everyone got together in the hall. A barbecue and prize drawing took place after the ride.

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Visitors to Los Angeles’ Chinatown wear masks outdoors after L.A. County began requiring them to be worn in public indoors.

A growing number of public-health experts are urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recommend that even fully vaccinated people wear face masks in public amid the resurgence of virus cases fed by the delta variant.

Doctors including former surgeon general Jerome Adams say the CDC acted prematurely in May when it announced that fully inoculated Americans See Experts, Page A12

FAIRFIELD — Igal Koiman woke up July 15 to find a rock, perhaps 10 or 12 pounds, had been used to smash the windshield of his car.

A note read, “Punk Bitch.”

He later learned that three of his neighbors – each with a family member who is of Asian descent – also had their windshields smashed with a similar kind of stone. Koiman said he is the only one to contact the Fairfield Police Department.

“They said they don’t trust the police,” Koiman said of his neighbors’ response to his urging them to contact the department.

The Police Department also encourages those individuals or anyone else in the neighborhood who may have information to contact the department.

‘The reign of terror started about 10 minutes after I called the police.

Phone harassment, text harassment.’

— Igal Koiman

Police officials said they work with residents of that area and were surprised to learn of the stated lack of trust. But even Koiman, a former police officer in Tel Aviv, after more than two months of what he described as an inadequate response to what he calls a “reign of terror” has also lost nearly all his faith in the department, too.

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Lt. Jausiah Jacobsen, the public information officer for the department, said the department is aware of the neighborhood dispute, but said without more concrete evidence, there is little the department can do.

He said a patrolman was initially assigned to the case, and now two detectives are involved.

And while the department has contacted the individual Koiman believes is involved, that person denies any involvement.

“My wife is terrified,” Koiman said. “She is afraid to go outside.”

Koiman and his wife, Jossie, are concerned that the harassment will escalate.

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Making a spectacle: When I fell down and literally hit the ‘ooof’ T

I checked to ensure he most distinctive thing was not the I was OK. Then I rarity or that it looked around to see hadn’t happened if I’d made a spectain decades. cle. Then I realized the The most distincsound I’d made. tive thing wasn’t the I heard myself public setting or the proclaim “ooof!” as embarrassment.

I fell, as if I were a The most distinctive Brad Stanhope cartoon character. thing was the sound.

Like I was sayin’ Ooof.

“Ooof.”

I immediately I was walking a couple of jumped up. Only one person weeks ago from the parking seemed to notice – an older lot toward my local grocery man who asked if I was OK. store. My mind was presum“Yeah, I’m fine,” I told him. ably wandering – my workday “I don’t know what happened.” was over and I was picking up I checked my wrists. some food to bring home to Fine.

My hands were slightly Mrs. Brad. Who knows what skinned and my knees were else I was thinking: about sore, but I was good. the weather, my workday, Then I wondered if he the Giants, Paul Anka heard me say “ooof.” songs. Who knows?

We fall down a lot as kids.

All of a sudden I was on my At least I did. hands and knees, sprawled Skinned knees were on the sidewalk. I had tripped common. As a youngster, I over the curb and fell down consistently picked gravel out in public for the first time of my hands and occasionally in decades.

What? banged my elbows. Perhaps I

was a clumsy child, but there was rarely a three-month period in the years before I turned 10 during which I didn’t fall down.

I fell down at school. I fell down on the street. I fell down in my yard or while playing sports.

It stopped as an adult.

I have fallen a few times, but generally while playing sports. I got knocked down a few other times, or stumbled and caught myself – but it was usually when something unusual happened.

Not this time.

I was walking through a parking lot. The sidewalk was marked. I’d entered the store many times before. I wasn’t shuffling my feet.

I was going into the store to buy two or three items at the end of a workday and suddenly I was on the ground.

Having loudly said, “ooof!”

Who says that?

The next day, my right

knee was skinned, but my hands weren’t sore and my wrists were fine. I had no injuries from my mishap, other than my pride.

It was a reminder of my clumsy childhood. One moment, you’re walking along, enjoying a fine day. The next moment, you’re splayed on the ground, embarrassed and afraid that you’re hurt.

You’ve said “ooof.”

Someone asked if you’re OK. You get up and insist things are OK before you start walking and confirm that you’re indeed OK. The bad news: I fell down in public.

The good news: As far as I can tell, no one noticed.

The likely news: Some people went home that day, telling their friends and family about the guy who fell down at the grocery store and shouted “ooof.”

Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@outlook.com.

UC Davis researchers discover new way to test effectiveness of heart medicine for cats Tribune Content Agency Researchers at the University of California, Davis have discovered a new way to administer heart medicine for cats.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, otherwise known as HCM, affects 1 in 7 cats. It leads to the thickening of the heart muscle and cats can form blood clots as the condition worsens, leading to extreme pain or even

sudden death.

Cats are typically prescribed clopidogrel to prevent clots from forming. However, co-authors and veterinary cardiologists Josh Stern and Ron Li from UC Davis consistently saw at least 20% of cats continue to form blood clots despite being on the drug.

During their study, Stern and Li tested the ability of the cat to form clots, had their owners administer clopidogrel, then tested whether

mutations in the cat genome affected the effectiveness of the medication.

Their results published in Nature’s Scientific Reports showed how certain mutations affected the response of the cats to therapy.

The study is “one of the first times we’ve shown that medications prescribed for cardiac disease in cats may be impacted by a cat’s own DNA,” Stern said.

“This is a game changer,”

Li said. “I think this is a step for precision medicine.”

Human medicine has utilized genetic testing. For example, someone could go to a drugstore and pick up a saliva testing kit. Li and Stern faced challenges because genetics and mutations within the cat genome are less understood.

Stern and Li look to offer this genetic test at the UC Davis laboratory in the near future.

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Pedestrian dead after being hit on I-80 in Vacaville Daily Republic Staff drnews@dailyrepublic.net

VACAVILLE — A man walking along the freeway was struck and killed early Friday on eastbound Interstate 80 west of Nut Tree Road.

The California Highway Patrol received calls at 3:18 a.m. that a pedestrian was laying down unconscious on the interstate. Officers who arrived there determined the pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and was declared dead at the scene.

The 58-year-old Suisun City driver who struck the pedestrian with his 2001 Acura remained on

scene, reported the incident and cooperated with officers during the investigation, said Officer Miguel Camarena, the public information officer for CHP-Solano.

The eastbound lanes of I-80 were shut down in the immediate area as a result of the investigation and traffic was diverted off to Peabody Road at 3:41 a.m.

The eastbound lanes were reopened at 5:22 a.m.

The pedestrian’s identity was withheld pending family notification.

Anyone who has any information that could assist with this investigation is asked to call the CHP-Solano at 428-2100.

In brief

Shred & Vax event at Travis Credit Union Aug. 7 VACAVILLE — Travis Credit Union will host a free Shred & Vax event from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 7 at 1 Travis Way. The event allows local residents the opportunity to have their documents shredded for free, and also get a Covid-19 vaccination on site.

The event is put on as a collaboration between Travis Credit Union, Solano Public Health and Touro University California.

Vaca Parks & Rec Commission to tour facilities VACAVILLE — The Parks and Recreation Commission will tour several city parks and other facilities as part of a special meeting scheduled Saturday.

The group will leave the City Hall parking lot at 8 a.m. and return at noon.

The tour includesAl Patch Park, Sierra Vista Park, Nelson Park, Centennial Park and Trower Park.

City Hall is located at 650 Merchant St.

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Kyle Wilkerson, intern pharmacist at Touro University, mixes a vaccine at the Public Safety Academy, July 16.

Health officer expects ICU, Covid death numbers to rise Todd R. Hansen

Walmarts offer Covid shots, health screenings, immunizations

FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Public Health Division on Friday reported new coronavirus cases Friday, but 138 are cases that should have been included in past reports.

Still, Dr. Bela Matyas, the public health officer, said the 170 new cases over the past two days – an 85 daily average – is significant, and reflects the spread of the virus from post-July 4 activities.

Active cases spiked from 451 to 647, the county reported. The seven-day positivity testing rate also climbed, from 12.2% Wednesday to 14.9% Friday.

However, because

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FAIRFIELD — Walmart stores across the county will serve as sites Saturday for free Covid-19 immunizations.

Free health screenings and affordable vaccinations will also be available.

It’s all part of Walmart’s Wellness Day campaign. Stores in Fairfield, Suisun City, Vacaville and Dixon are taking part from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Free screenings for cholesterol, blood pressure, vision and BMI will be available. Vaccinations in addition tracing evidence shows the virus is being spread during private, social events and not in the public sphere, Matyas

to Covid-19 include measles, mumps, rubella (MMR); varicella (chicken pox); HPV; tetanus; whooping cough (TDAP); and the standard flu shot.

The goal of Walmart Wellness Day is to help customers get back on track with preventive health measures they may have missed over the past year due to the pandemic, especially as many families prepare for in-person work and school this fall, the company said in a press release.

Health screenings and related services are open to all ages.

For more information, visit walmart.com/wellnesshub.

said for now the county will not impose mask or other restrictions as other counties have in recent days.

He said if clusters begin to emerge in public spheres, that policy See Health, Page A4

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Obituaries

Joanne Marie Boatright Townsend

Dr. Rodney Neubert, DVM

Edgar E. Anderson Jr.

involved in mulRodney Foster tiple local veterNeubert, DVM, age inary groups and 88, died on June 9, spent many years 2021, in Fairfield, California, after a dedicated to the battle with tercare and wellminal pancreatic being of animals cancer. here on the Peninsula.

He was born He raised his in Mankato, Minfamily in Millbrae nesota, in April until retiring to of 1933 to Erwin Fairfield in 1989. and Olga Neubert, Retirement where he was raised on a army veteran was short-lived, chicken farm with his two and veterinary medicine continued to call to him. brothers and a sister.

He served in the Army He returned to work partas a helicopter mechanic time at the Solano County during the Korean con- Animal Shelter until he flict and once again in was forced to retire at the age 85.

Vietnam.

Rod was an avid hunter After his discharge, he attended the Univer- with many prize trosity of Minnesota where phies, and was an accomhe received his doctorate plished fisherman that in veterinary medicine. He held multiple Guinness was married shortly after. World Records.

Pos t-g r aduat ion , He will always be Rodney and his wife remembered as a lovable moved to California where practical joker and the life he worked for the Depart- of any party. His family ment of Agriculture. He and friends will miss him later took a job at a local greatly in the years to veterinary office in San come.

Rod Neubert is surBruno until he was able to buy and open his own vived by his third wife, practice in Pacifica, Joyce Bruno; children, California.

Randy Neubert, Marjorie Dr. Neubert was one Wolf; grandchildren, Jill, of the founding fathers in Shannon, Riley; and greatthe opening of a 24-hour grandson, Raven. emergency clinic in San You will forever be in Mateo County. He was our hearts.

like fishing and Edgar E. gardening.

Anderson Jr., or He also loved as many knew him to learn and truly as Andy, was born wanted to make in Newark, New the world a better Jersey, May 6, place. This led him 1932, to Edgar and to believe that Marie Anderson. joining the Church His brothers and of Scientology and sister affectiongiving the later ately called him part of his life to Juny. trying to make Andy fell the world a better asleep in death air force place and help on July 18, 2021, veteran people to achieve in Clearwater, Florida, after a short their goals.

Andy comes from a illness.

Edgar grew up in New family of seven children Jersey and married Helen where he was the oldest son.

Anderson in 1957.

He is survived by his He joined the Air Force when he was only sister, Judy; brothers, 19 and was stationed to Dennis, Bobby and Ronald, Dover AFB. He served William and Johnny prein the Air Force for over ceded him in death; he 20-plus years and ulti- also had the blessing of mately achieving the rank having four children, Lynn, of Senior TSgt. loadmas- the oldest who preceded ter. A veteran of two wars, him in death, Vickie Alan he served his country with and Denise; 10 grandchildren; 12 great-granddistinction.

Andy always appre- children; and countless ciated what the earth friends and family. can give you. He loved to Service will be held read and live a natural at 1 p.m. Friday, July 30, way of life. After he got 2021, at Rockville Church, out of the military, he 4221 Suisun Valley Road, was a jack-of-all-trades. Fairfield, California.

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July 4, 1940 — July 17, 2021

J o a n n e Marie Boatright Townsend passed on July 17, 2021, in her home surrounded by her loving family members and her second husband, William Townsend. She was 81.

She was born in San Francisco, California, on July 4, 1940, to her loving parents, Mary Adele Maggi and Warren Wade French.

At the age of 15, she married her sweetheart Bill, an Air Force service member.

She believed in unity especially in families, she hosted family reunions at her home on every holiday so families could gather and catch up on life.

She blessed many lives and showed her loving support to whomever she met.

She was known by family and friends for her love of cooking, baking, shopping at thrift stores, her love of old country music including, Hank Snow and Merle Haggard, her jokes, support and care, and most importantly her love.

She always put others before herself and showed strength even when life got rough. She fought cancer for three years and persevered and

fought till the very end.

She will be missed by her family and friends.

She is survived by her two brothers, Warren French and Marvin Severs; sons, Michael Anthony Boatright, William Joseph Boatright, David Allen Boatright, John Robert Boatright; daughters, Deborah Lea Dominguez and Sharon Marie Boatright; 26 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.

She is predeceased by her parents; and her grandparents, Emilia Burroni and Agustino Maggi, who came to America by way of Ellis Island; her husband, William Henry Boatright; and her daughter, Patricia Anne Boatright.

Viewing will be held from 4 to 7 p.m., with rosary at 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, at Fairfield Funeral Home, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave., Fairfield. Catholic Mass service will be at 10 a.m.

Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, at Holy Spirit Church, 1070 N. Texas St., Fairfield. Burial will follow at Suisun-Fairfield Cemetery, 1707 Union Ave., Fairfield, California.

April 16, 1933 — June 9, 2021

May 6, 1932 — July 18, 2021

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Students Jennifer Garcia, 20, and Brenda Millar, 22, from the University of California, Berkeley, talk with Tynette Reynon of Vacaville about potential tutoring jobs for

students, Saturday. The young girl in the center, Cevana Eaton, 7, came with her mother Anna Eaton, CEO of the Vacaville Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club.

Jobs abound, but where are the people?

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VACAVILLE — Anyone looking for some work?

A humble job fair hosted Saturday by Journey Coffee at the downtown theater offered opportunities for those interested in part-time work in the area.

Not many people took them up on the opportunity.

Julia Matison, Vacaville Parks and Recreation supervisor, thought it was because the workforce just wasn’t ready.

“The parents are ready for the kids to be in the after-school programs, but I think a lot of people aren’t ready for that level of exposure yet,” Matison said.

The city has more than 20 jobs available that range from supervisors to part-time staff. The compensation starts at $14 an hour and for some jobs, it’s $20.

“We probably have double those 20 jobs for the city,” Matison said.

Anna Eaton, CEO of Vacaville Neighborhood Boys and Girls Club, was ready to reach out

to folks who wanted to work part-time. They are looking for all skill levels to help out with afterschool programs.

“It’s all human services and youth development work,” she said.

They have advertised through many different venues from Indeed to Facebook but it has not yielded a great return of applicants.

“Boys and Girls Club is about two-thirds staff and school is about to start,” Eaton said. “We kept staff during last year but many left because of Covid and found other work. It is a

competitive market.”

She noted working for the Boys and Girls Club is a great way to get experience and also help with funding for college.

Tynette Reynon stopped in to visit and see what was happening.

“I’ll pick up some information for my daughter who graduated in 2019,” she said.

The University of California, Berkeley has tutoring jobs that are flexible jobs in areas of students’ choice as those who apply have classes to consider. The pay is good at $19 per hour.

For those who missed the job fair, another one will occur from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the McBride Center, 91 Town Square Place.

Both job fairs are a collaborative effort between Vacaville Parks and Recreation, the Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club, Solano County Education Consortium and the Vacaville School District.

would likely have to change.

Matyas said he expects hospitalizations to increase. Right now, those cases have tended to be milder and resulting in shorter matyas stays. There were 33 in hospitals as of Friday, the same as reported Wednesday.

“But it’s hard to see a bump like this where we won’t see people ending up in the (intensive care units) and dying,” Matyas said.

Those being infected are largely individuals who are 50 or younger, and the vast majority of them are unvaccinated.

The county’s vaccination rates have not moved

much, holding at 57% who are fully vaccinated and 69% with at least one shot. The numbers reflect residents who are 12 or older.

Vallejo added 89 new cases, bringing the total to 10,400.

How many of those are from the older reports was not available.

Vacaville is at 9,259 cases after 82 new reports.

Fairfield added 74 cases to take its count to 9,486.

Suisun City (2,449) added 30 cases; Dixon (1,990) and Benicia (1,084) each added 14; Rio Vista (417) added four; and the unincorporated area of the county is up to 108 cases after one new report, the county said.

Solano County does not post case updates on weekends. The next update is scheduled late Monday afternoon.

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County ag values dip to $357M Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Almonds, processing tomatoes and nursery products top the list of Solano County crops with the highest gross values in 2020.

The county’s overall agriculture value for the year was $357.16 million – the lowest in three years.

A full presentation on the 2020 Crop and Livestock Report will be given

Tuesday to the Board of Supervisors.

Almonds had a 2020 value of $50.7 million.

That is down from $55.31 million in 2019. tomatoes Processing came in at $38.08 million and the gross value of nursery products was $37.47 million.

Also on the agenda is an update on where the county Elections Office stands in preparation for the Sept. 14 gubernatorial recall election.

The board agenda because meets at 9 a.m. the Board of in the first-floor Supervisors has chamber of the asked to have a government discussion with me center, 675 Texas about my contract St., in Fairfield. and my future A closed session retirement plans,” follows the public Administrator Birsession, during corsello gitta Corsello said which the supervisors will be updated on in a written response to a labor negotiations and Daily Republic inquiry. begin discussions on the Corsello’s contract is possible appointment of a up in April. county administrator.

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VALLEJO—Westbound Interstate 80 between Interstate 780 and the Carquinez Bridge Toll Plaza in Vallejo will be closed from 11 p.m. Wednesday to 4 a.m. Thursday.

The same section of eastbound I-80 will be closed from 11:59 p.m.

Thursday to 5 a.m.

Friday, the state Department of Transportation announced. the I-80 “During closure times, eastbound

or westbound I-80 onramps in Vallejo will be closed as needed to facilitate the work safely. Detour signs will be posted,” Caltrans reported. traveling Motorists west on I-80 will need to use I-780 to Highway 29 (Sonoma Boulevard) to Magazine Street and back onto westbound I-80.

Motorists traveling east on I-80 will need to take Highway 29 (Sonoma Boulevard) to I-780 and back to eastbound I-80.

The closures are part

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VACAVILLE — The City Council will consider its response Tuesday to a Solano County civil grand jury report that urges the city to do more to bring its unfunded pension liabilities under control.

The council is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. in the City Hall chamber, the first in-person meeting since March 2020.

Among the six recommendations made by the grand jury, one is for the city to establish a payment scheduled to “retire unfunded liabilities over a 10- to 15-year period.”

As of June 30, 2019, according to the city’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, as cited by the grand jury, the combined unfunded pension and health care liabilities exceed $228 million.

That represents a $122.11 million unfunded liability in the public

safety account and $87.75 million in the miscellaneous account.

The liability for other post-employment benefits – known as OPEB – is more than $80 million, the report states.

The total for all three, given those figures, is closer to $288.86 million.

There was no explanation for the discrepancy.

The council also is scheduled to discuss new state laws related to recycling requirements and a possible increase in Recology Vacaville Solano rates for the collection of solid waste, recycling and green waste.

A closed session is scheduled to follow the public session, during which the council will be updated on two matters of existing litigation and one anticipated legal matter.

The council chamber is located on the back side of City Hall, 650 Merchant St.

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SCC Transfer Center hosts virtual UC Week ROCKVILLE — The Solano Community College Transfer Center is hosting a virtual UC Week from Monday to Thursday.

Virtual presentations will give students the chance to hear from university representatives from a number of different UC campuses. Attend the workshops to learn about the general transfer process or other related topics like choosing a major.

Students are encouraged to fill out the interest forms associated with the event so they can receive email reminders. The UC Week interest form can be found at solanocc.wufoo.com/forms/uc-week-interest-form.

Additional details can be found on the Transfer Center Events Calendar at solano.edu/transfer/ events.php.

O’Rourke won’t rule out running for governor WASHINGTON – Beto O’Rourke might very well become a candidate for governor, but he wants to keep his focus on his work with grassroots civic engagement organizations for now.

“I’ve committed myself to this fight for the right to vote and preserving our democracy in America,” he said Friday. “We are in really the final hours of this fight, and there’s not much time left for us, and I want to make sure I’m giving this 100% of my focus and my effort.”

While he hasn’t announced his candidacy for anything, he hasn’t ruled out a run for governor, a move that has left much of the Democratic field frozen in place.

“I want to see this through, and then afterward I really do want to see how I can best serve Texas,” said the former El Paso congressman. ­— Staff, wire reports

of the ongoing I-80 Six Bridges Project. The specific work is on raising higher the Magazine Street overcrossing.

A 24-hour shuttle service will be available for pedestrians cyclists trying and to cross I-80 at Magazine Street. Call 415263-4000 for information about the shuttle.

For more information, call the project hotline at 510-286-5620 or go to the project webpage, i80six bridgesvallejo.com.

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Newsom signs bill Wildfires are raging across NorCal prohibiting police Here’s what lawmakers say should be done from posting mug shots to social media Tribune Content Agency

Tribune Content Agency SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Friday a bill prohibiting law enforcement agencies from posting booking photos of people suspected of nonviolent crimes to social media.

Assembly Bill 1475 forbids any police departments or sheriff’s offices in the state from sharing any mug shots of suspects of nonviolent crimes on social media platforms unless that suspect is considered a fugitive or newsom poses an imminent threat.

The bill also provides that agencies must remove mug shots posted to social media of suspects of violent crimes if they were ultimately not charged, if they were found not guilty in court or if their records were sealed or expunged, upon request of the suspect.

AB 1475 passed the Assembly and Senate without significant opposition, and without organized resistance from law enforcement groups.

No formal opposing arguments were submitted to the Senate or the Assembly.

The California Public Defenders Association and the American Civil Liberties Union provided statements of support to lawmakers, highlighting the detriment to the presumed innocence of the accused that the practice

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“Our criminal justice system is built on the premise that the accused is innocent until proven guilty, but the routine practice by some local police departments of posting mug shots on Facebook in order to shame and ridicule flies in the face of that premise,” the ACLU wrote in support of the bill. “AB 1475 will ensure that people who were found not guilty or were rehabilitated have one less barrier to obtaining employment and will not have to live in fear that a Facebook post . . . will follow them forever.”

The author of AB 1475, Assemblyman Evan Low, D-Campbell, said that the bill will help reduce racial bias and stereotyping in the public and in police forces, and will additionally prevent presumptions of guilt.

“When law enforcement agencies publish a person’s mug shot on Facebook or other social media without waiting for a conviction or even for charges to be formally filed, internet mobs rush to judgment,” Low said in a statement to lawmakers prior to the bill’s signing into law. “The mug shots that law enforcement agencies post on social media are often unflattering and rarely warn the public of an ongoing safety threat, as the suspect is already See Newsom, Page A7

SACRAMENTO — As the Dixie, Tamarack and Fly fires rage across Northern California, local and national lawmakers are calling for more resources, more transparency and preventative policy changes.

On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in Alpine, Butte, Lassen and Plumas counties. The declaration gives the counties greater access to state resources to combat the fires.

But some lawmakers are calling for policy changes that go beyond resource allocation.

Rep. Tom McClintock, who represents California’s 4th District, called this week for more transparency from the U.S. Forest Service regarding the Tamarack fire, which as of Saturday morning has burned 65,150 acres in the Humboldt-Toyaibe National Forest.

The Tamarack fire ignited more than two weeks ago and originally spanned just a quarter of an acre. Per the U.S. Forest Service’s “let-burn” policy, crews left the fire to die out on its own, as officials viewed combating it to be a higher risk to firefighters than the risk the fire posed to surrounding areas.

Gusty winds roared the fire back to life last weekend, and the fire has burned more than 100 square miles and destroyed at least 15 structures.

McClintock, whose district includes part of the Humboldt-Toyaibe National Forest, lambasted the U.S. Forest Service for its lack of

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“When was the decision made to monitor this fire instead of immediately acting to suppress it? Why was this decision made?” the Elk Grove Republican asked in a letter Tuesday to Vicki Christiansen of the Forest Service.

“Who made this decision and which USFS officials were consulted and informed? What legal authority authorized the USFS to allow this wildfire to burn in lieu of immediate full suppression?”

McClintock is calling on the Forest Service to immediately end its letburn policy, and instruct crews to put out all fires upon ignition.

On Friday, the representative met with Randy Moore, the incoming forest service chief. McClintock called the conversation “very encouraging.”

McClintock says Moore promised a complete review of the let-burn policy. And, the congressman says, Moore is ordering “full suppression of incipient fires.”

North Coast Rep.

Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, and Bay Area Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, introduced legislation Friday to help study the health impacts of wildfire smoke. Recent studies have indicated that wildfire smoke may be more dangerous to humans than previously suspected, and also may be linked to an increased risk for Covid-19.

The bill allocates $20 million to further study the health impacts of wildfire smoke inhalation and to find ways to mitigate its effects.

California’s U.S. Sens.

Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla introduced similar legislation Thursday to provide aid to communities impacted by wildfire smoke. They proposed two bills that would together allow the president to declare a “smoke emergency” and allocate federal funds and emergency assistance to communities in need.

“Californians continue to face more frequent, devastating wildfires that spread heavy, dangerous smoke throughout the state, resulting in an air

quality crisis. And that toxic smoke travels across the country,” Padilla said in a Thursday news release. “We must do everything we can to ensure our communities are safe from wildfire smoke.”

In her Friday briefing, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that President Joe Biden is “quite focused” on the wildfires burning in California, Oregon and other Western states.

Biden regularly receives reports on wildfire statuses and has met with state governors to discuss resources needs and preventative measures.

Psaki added that this coming week, the FEMA administrator will visit a number of Western states, including California, to meet with federal, state and tribal leaders regarding the wildfires.

“In the past two weeks alone, the number of large uncontained fires across the United States has increased by nearly 90%,” Psaki said.

“The president is very focused on this and wants regular updates.”

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Fire rescue crews leave site after monthlong response Tribune Content Agency MIAMI — Miami-Dade County has announced that fire rescue crews who have been at the site of the Surfside condo collapse since the night of the tragedy will be handing over the remainder of the recovery effort to MiamiDade Police.

Search and rescue workers from multiple departments across South Florida have been mobilized for a month since Champlain Towers South partially collapsed in the early morning hours of June 24. Two South Florida urban search and rescue teams are being sent home, according to Miami Herald news partner CBS4.

Now, with the entirety of the rubble from the collapsed relocated, the continued search for human remains and personal items amid tons of concrete and steel

Newsom From Page A6 in custody at the time of posting. Instead, the purpose of posting these images often is to shame and ridicule suspects.”

The California Public Defenders Association agreed that the publicizing of mug shots impacts a defendant’s presumption of innocence, and that social media posts continue to haunt them even after going through the legal process.

“CPDA members can

will transition over to county police.

“The men and women of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue ran into a collapsed building on the early morning of June 24 and haven’t stopped since,” said Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, in a statement Friday. “They are true superheroes who have stepped up to serve this community in the wake of unprecedented disaster – not just by leading the search and rescue and recovery operation but through the care and compassion they demonstrated to all the families, doing everything they could to bring closure to those who lost loved ones.”

Authorities have identified 97 people killed in the collapse, but believe there is one more victim who died in the disaster and remains unaccounted for.

The site of the collapse at 8777 Collins Ave.

was cleared this week after workers spent weeks filling trucks with broken concrete and steel to be hauled away to a site near Miami International Airport, where crews continue to search for human remains in the relocated rubble.

Miami-Dade police will continue combing through debris, which is being spread out in a shorter pile at the collection site for replacement search dogs to continue looking for remains.

“We’re also very grateful to (the) Miami-Dade Police Department, which has been leading the investigation since the beginning, and now continues the challenging work of continuing to sift through millions of pounds of debris, searching for remains and personal items to bring closure to families,” Levine Cava said.

attest that unfettered pretrial publicity leads to wrongful convictions through biased identifications, prejudice within our jury pools, and decreased safety for our incarcerated clients,” the group said in a statement to lawmakers.

“Our clients whose cases are dismissed, successfully win at trial, or are fully rehabilitated are still stigmatized by their past publicity on the internet.”

In 2014, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill barring websites from posting mug shots and requiring a fee to remove them from the internet. The text of AB

1475 also references the July 2020 decision by the San Francisco Police Department to not release mug shots in most instances. At the time, Chief Bill Scott said that widespread publication of mug shots “creates an illusory correlation for viewers that fosters racial bias and vastly overstates the propensity of black and brown men to engage in criminal behavior,” a quote adopted in part into the bill’s first section.

The law is retroactive, meaning that a person can request that agencies remove their previously posted mug shots.

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Treat yourself better, learn to forgive yourself for cutting Dear Annie: About a When we argue, he year ago, after talking will call me a series to a nice guy who could of names that are also be a royal pain – extremely hurtful. especially when things During a recent argument over something don’t go his way – I really stupid, he decided to let him into screamed at me, saying my heart. I did this even that I should cut deep though I am usually pretty well guarded and Annie Lane enough in order to die.

Afterward, I did cut for don’t allow too many Dear Annie a while just to make me people close to me. I am feel better, but it didn’t. The one of those people who don’t next day, he acted as if nothing feel comfortable sharing my had happened, and I have tried emotions with others, so there to forgive him for what he said, are very few people who are but I don’t know if I can find a aware of the fact that I selfway to do so. harm by using a razor blade to I am confused about whether cut into my arms and, sometimes, legs.

I should just forget about what

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was said or if I should hold onto the hurt feelings. — Confused and In Love Dear Confused and In Love: The first person you have to forgive is yourself for cutting.

The way your boyfriend is treating you is no good. You deserve to be treated better, but before anyone in a relationship is going to do that, you have to treat yourself better and stop cutting.

Self-injury through physical pain can relieve the emotional pain. But first, you have to deal with the emotional pain with a trained therapist, preferably one who specializes in cutting.

Please try to not be hard on yourself. You sound like such a

wonderful person, and with the right support team in place, I have no doubt that you will find true love, both with another and for yourself.

Dear Annie: I met a wonderful woman eight years ago, and ever since, we have basically lived together. When we first met, we were both coming off a divorce, and we agreed that we didn’t want to get married ever again.

Now she would like to get married. I have no problem with that; however, I have to look at our future together. At age 62, I am nearing retirement. She is 55.

I have to look at the fact that

Social Security reduces your benefits by a substantial amount if you are married. We are not well-off and need Social Security to survive in the future. I know this isn’t very romantic, but sometimes you have to be practical. Thanks in advance for your advice. — Practical Bill Dear Practical Bill: Love is not practical. If you both would like to get married, then get married. Life is too short.

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by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday Though you will be struck by brilliance from out of the blue at least three times, you also refuse to leave yourself open to the whims and vagaries of inspiration. It is your stellar work ethic that keeps you rising to ever-greater heights. The synastry of a partnership leads to an entire team executing your exceptional agenda. Gemini and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 3, 33, 1 and 40.

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

You’ll find yourself romanticizing the mundane aspects of your life for an audience. All it takes is good lighting and a moment of inspiration to cue up the strong main-character energy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). If you think the Shakespearean “dye has been cast,” don’t worry; it’s a temporary stain. Time will wash it away, and you can start new or just go with the natural hues of life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Those impossible dreams will soon set your imagination on fire, but first you have to make space. Wrap up unfinished business to clear the runway for the next adventure.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Communicating well is absolutely critical to your effectiveness. There is no skill more useful now than your ability to match your message to the person who will receive it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your mission has changed, a natural progression that sort of seems to have snuck up on you.

Suddenly, you’re on a different path, and you realize you just don’t want the same things you used to.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). A young, carefree mood sets in. Your mind is cleared of worry, your time free of chore. You still have responsibilities, but they don’t seem burdensome.

Feeling light is the same as actually being light.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The spirit of rivalry creeps with a spurof-the-moment contest. There was a time you would rush into the game without a thought, but now you’re more aware. Often the winning move is not to compete.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Maybe others want something a little different from you than what you’re currently giving. Ultimately, the one to determine how you’ll change is you. You’ll improve quickly, but only in the ways you wish to improve.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

Your inclination toward good-natured kidding and harmless mischief will be fun for relationships. It works because you’re a master of tone and you know where to draw the line.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

Does it feel like the spotlight is taking its sweet time getting around to you?

This is a gift. You can use these extra minutes to prep yourself for your star moment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). When you sense a person is using some kind of persuasive technique with you, it makes you wonder why. You put your guard up, refusing to be manipulated by the motives of others.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You do not always want to be so vividly aware of what’s going on, but right now, the extra information will benefit you greatly. Command your senses to take in more and your higher mind to inform you as to what it all means.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Matt LeBlanc applies the megawatt charisma of his sun sign to his characterization of No. 1 dad Adam Burns in the series “Man With a Plan.” Though Leos are known to have the pride of a lion, they are also famously generous performers always eager to share the spotlight, thus ideal ensemble players. LeBlanc’s “Friends” co-stars Lisa Kudrow and Matthew Perry are also Leos!

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A TIA is caused by a blood clot and the only difference between a stroke and a TIA is that with TIA, the blockage is temporary.

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as your hand or arm ever gone numb, only to return to normal in a few minutes?

Has your vision blurred, only to clear just as you started to worry? You could have experienced what’s known as a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or warning stroke. These are warnings that you should take seriously.

Even though the attack is over and you may feel fine, it is important that you call 911.

A TIA is caused by a blood clot and the only difference between a stroke and a TIA is that with TIA, the blockage is temporary. TIA symptoms occur rapidly and last a relatively short time and most TIAs average about a minute in length. Unlike a stroke, when a TIA is over, there is no permanent injury to the brain.

However, take this as a stroke warning.

About one third of TIA patients go on to develop a stroke within a year, affecting as many as 795,000 people who have a stroke each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Most of us have known someone

whose life has been devastated by a stroke. Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability, because once the brain is damaged, it cannot be repaired.

Stroke can cause paralysis or problems controling movement; sensory disturbances including pain; problems speaking or understanding language; problems with thinking and memory; and emotional disturbances.

In other words, once you have a stroke, you will never be the same.

That’s why it’s so important to recognize a TIA and get to the hospital fast.

Think of this acronym: BEFAST – meaning to be aware of balance or dizziness issues, eyes blurring, face drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty and now it’s time to call 911.

Don’t be embarrassed to come to the emergency department without symptoms. Emergency departments treat scores of TIAs each month and they are well-prepared to provide the help that can prevent a stroke from occurring.

The symptoms of TIA are identical to that of a stroke. They include feeling numbness or weakness in your face, arm or leg; vision problems in one or both eyes; dizziness or loss of balance; confusion, inability to speak or understand what others are saying; or a severe headache without warning or explanation. Women can have the addi-

tional symptoms of pain in their face or legs, hiccups, nausea, feeling weak all over, shortness of breath, chest pain or a rapid heartbeat.

The risk factors that caused your TIA are also the same as those for a stroke. So by getting help for that passing TIA, you will learn how to make some healthy life changes that can prevent a full-blown stroke. These could include controling high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol, losing weight, getting more exercise and if you smoke, learning to quit.

There are some risk factors that you can’t control. Did you know that having a family history of stroke increases your chance of having a stroke? And, while anyone at any age can experience a stroke, the older you are, the more likely you are to have a stroke.

Even race and ethnicity influence your stroke risk. Blacks, Hispanics and American Indian/Alaska Natives have a greater chance of having a stroke than do non-Hispanic whites or Asians. You may have no control over these risk factors, but increased awareness of them could help you prevent a stroke.

Sally Wyatt is public relations coordinator for NorthBay Healthcare, a member of the Solano Coalition for Better Health.

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Murray Bass Plan to live

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his is going to be about good music – about the great musicians who have been introduced to us at Rockville Terrace.

I am a fan of good music.

I was personally introduced recently to several sources of good music.

The first is a series of 30-minute musical programs put together by the talented Ron Avanzino.

Ron is a new resident geriatric at Rockville Terrace who has been providing physical programs to friends and groups at Green Valley Country Club for about 15 years. We are benefiting from that experience.

My understanding is that Ron will provide his music to the residents here on a regular basis and present programs for special occasions. It’s an exciting prospect.

Rockville Terrace is in the process of changing activity directors. It is my fond hope that we can get Ron into our regular program quickly. He’s good at what he does.

Another recent program has touched my heart.

Katrina Wreede brought her world-class viola music to the Terrace. Katrina has toured all over the world, playing traditional classical music.

Katrina played American classical music, melodies and lyrics from the time that mature people relate to. They were songs that were introduced by American artists and were popular enough that mature folks like my resident friends here can sing along and hum to, songs introduced by such talents as Nat King Cole, Andy Williams, Willie Nelson, Glenn Miller and many, many others.

I found myself singing along with every melody.

I hope Katrina becomes regular here for more than one reason. I love the viola.

For those of you who are not familiar with string instruments, the viola has a tone that is halfway between the violin and the cello, warm and mellow. It seemed to me just right for American classical music.

I usually don’t make recommendations for artists, but if you are interested in the kind of music I have described, you can reach Katrina at katrina wreede@gmail.com.

I think Katrina’s music could make a meeting, celebration, wedding reception or even service organization fundraiser a success.

I think that she could give you what you want.

Her repertoire is huge. I love her rendition of American popular classics on her mellow viola.

Maddi Lewis is our new activities director. She replaces Tanya, a really hard act to follow. Tanya is a good heart. She is helping in the transition by continuing to do things that only she was doing in the past. One has to love her for her caring.

Maddi is one of those people who takes the extra steps to success without being asked to do so.

I think we are transitioning from one champion to another.

Guess who the beneficiaries are? Me and more than 100 other residents at the Terrace. Care to join us?

Reach Murray Bass at 427-0744 or mzb60@ comcast.net.

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Fairfield Fire Marshal Steven Conti addresses the Eastridge community, July 10, delivering an impassioned plea for disaster preparedness to

an attentive audience. Conti reminded them to maintain appropriately inspected fire extinguishers and offered survival tips.

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airfield Fire Marshal soft tissue injuries in Steven Conti 36 to 52% of cases, trauaddressed the matic brain injury in Eastridge community 17 to 26% of cases, and July 10, delivering an thoracic and abdomimpassioned plea for inal injuries in 4 to disaster preparedness to 24% of cases. an attentive audience.

The recent Middle Against the majestic East military conbackdrop of Rockville Scott Anderson flicts remind us that Hills Park, Conti military burns are Ask Dr. Scott discussed weed abateoften associated with ment, tree trimming and explosive or ballistic injuevacuation planning, encouragries. On the home front, from ing residents to take charge of 2008 to 2017, our nation expedisaster preparedness. rienced 1,344,100 fires, The fire marshal fielded causing 3,190 civilian deaths, questions. Literature provided 16,225 civilian injuries and at detailed information on every least $14.7 billion in property conceivable subject, from main- loss. The combination of heat, taining a screen in front of smoke and chemical exposure fireplaces to the importance can result in life-threatening of storing electrical applilung damage. ances properly.

New York UniversityIn reviewing the medical Langone Medical Center is literature (up-to-date, sumpioneering advances in reconmarizing expert consensus), structive surgery for burn between 0.4 and 5.8% of major victims. At the extreme, this trauma cases involve burns. may involve cutting-edge microCombined burn and trauma surgical techniques by advanced injuries occur frequently in teams, resulting in transplantamotor vehicle accidents. tion of complete faces, or even Structural collapse of buildhands, from cadaveric donors. ings can result in orthopedic This process was profiled trauma as inhabitants flee

by Sean Hannity of Fox News burning structures. Injuries in a recent report. Firefighters associated with burns include themselves are not uncommonly burned, along with other fractures in 45 to 64% of cases,

first responders.

Preventing fires is clearly the most desirable option. Conti has seen it all, over decades of firefighting, up close and personal.

As an example, you want your trees to remain clipped in a manner that keeps the lowest branches at least 6 feet above the ground so that a grass fire is less likely to jump to the surrounding tree canopy. Much of the discussion centered on creating a defensible zone around our properties, with trees distanced from structures, grasses and shrubs abated, and debris removed from drainage gutters.

Conti reminded us to maintain appropriately inspected fire extinguishers.

Another key issue is making sure that we heed evacuation instructions, instead of remaining in place, in a state of denial.

I learned that interior sprinkler systems are designed primarily to allow people to successfully escape a burning home. Establish a disaster plan and maintain an emergency kit. Expensive exterior roof sprinklers are not routinely recommended.

During recent conflagrations, firefighters were forced to make difficult decisions, prioritizing where to deploy limited resources. You may be on your

own for a while, so think ahead.

The fire marshal offered survival tips for the three days after a disaster. Maintain a supply of drinking water, a portable radio, flashlight, cooking materials and food. Flashlights, batteries and a first aid kit were described on distributed pamphlets. Teach children to stop, drop and roll if their clothes are ignited.

Never bring a portable cooking appliance, such as a barbecue, inside a house. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas that may emanate from such devices. Normally present at less than 0.001% of Earth’s atmosphere, higher levels can cause disorientation, headaches and death.

Smoke inhalation causes most CO poisoning, but less obvious exposures contribute to 50,000 annual emergency department visits and 400 deaths. Vehicles running in enclosed areas can cause such poisoning.

Carbon monoxide monitors are readily available.

Scott T. Anderson, M.D. (stand erson@ucdavis.edu), is a clinical professor at the University of California, Davis Medical School. This column is informational and does not constitute medical advice.

How to protect yourself from wildfire smoke towels or thick tape to block leaks around doors, windows and other openings.

You also can create a “clean room” in your home, or an area where you close off outside air and set up a portable air cleaner.

Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — Wildfire season is already off to a recordbreaking start, and experts are warning that smoke from the state’s biggest blazes may be as dangerous as the flames themselves.

In 2020, smoke from California’s wildfires blanketed the state in ash, soot and thick, hazy skies for weeks, with some plumes from the fires reaching as far away as Europe. Already this year, smoke from the region’s fires have spread across much of the U.S. and Canada.

“The ongoing wildfire threats are a dramatic reminder that climate change not only impacts the environment but has also become a pressing health issue,” the American Lung Assn. said in a recent post about wildfire smoke preparedness.

Researchers said last year’s fall fires may have caused as many as 3,000 excess deaths and an additional 5,000 emergency room visits in California. One study found that wildfire smoke may contain “mind-bending” amounts of harmful bacteria and fungi.

And new studies this year found that smoke from burned homes and cars can contain dangerous amounts of lead and other toxic chemicals, and that exposure to any kind of wildfire smoke could be linked to an increased risk of contracting Covid-19.

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Thick smoke from multiple forest fires shrouds iconic El Capitan, right, and the granite walls of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, Sept. 12, 2020.

Wildfire smoke can be particularly dangerous for young children, older people and those with heart or lung issues, said John Balmes, a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco – but as California’s fires intensify, many residents of all ages are breathing in worrisome amounts of smoke.

“Wildfires are getting more frequent and larger,” Balmes said, “and everything relates to the dose that is inhaled.”

Here are some things you can do to reduce the harmful effects of wildfire smoke:

Stay indoors If you can smell smoke, the best thing to do is go inside and close the doors and windows, Balmes said. If there is particularly strong smoke, use damp

Air quality information is easy to access through AirNow. gov and other sites that allow you monitor conditions in your ZIP code.

Readings above 150 are considered unhealthy, although members of sensitive groups can often feel effects at lower levels. When the AQI reaches unhealthy or hazardous levels, people are advised to reduce or even avoid prolonged exertion and activities outdoors.

Invest in air purifiers and filters Using air conditioners on the “recirculation” setting can prevent outside air from pulling into homes, Balmes said. Portable air purifiers with HEPA filters can provide even better protection from soot and smoke.

“You need to buy them in advance of the fire season, or at least before there’s a big fire in L.A.,” he said, “because once there’s a fire and the smoke is bad, then there’s a run on them.”

Decent HEPA filters run just under $200, Balmes said, but those who can’t spring for the

cost can create some homemade protection by placing a MERV filter on a box fan.

Wear protection While telltale ash and haze from fires can be damaging for people’s health, it’s the small particles that are the greatest cause for concern, Balmes said.

“These particles make it all the way down into the air sacs of the lung, and then there’s even smaller particles within that even can cross into the bloodstream,” he said. “It’s the really fine particles that are the ones that cause the most health risk.”

If you must go outside, wear a face mask and change the mask every couple of weeks or as soon as it looks dirty.

Unfortunately, cloth masks worn for Covid-19 will not protect from wildfire smoke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. N-95 masks provide a much greater level of protection from wildfire smoke and from the coronavirus.

Make a plan Experts are continuing to study the harmful effects of wildfire smoke, but there is nothing to stop you from preparing for wildfires now.

Gather an emergency kit, set an evacuation plan and pay attention to nearby fires. Be prepared to evacuate if directed.

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Former Solano AD jumps at coaching Matt Miller

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FAIRFIELD — Bob Myers’ successful 20-year reign as Solano Community College athletic director and dean was just a blip in the timeline of his true nationally recognized calling, that of high jump whisperer.

From 1978-1992, Myers was among the leaders of a powerful track and field program at the University of Arizona. In track circles, among high jump experts and enthusiasts, it has the nickname “High Jump U,” producing 21 conference cham-

pions over 55 years.

Myers left Tucson to become the new athletic director at Solano College in 1992 and stayed through 2011. When he retired from the Rockville campus in 2012, he and his wife Gloria returned to Tucson for Myers retirement, the desert temperatures, the college atmosphere, striking sunsets and inviting mountain ranges.

Little did he know, his work at High Jump U was not over yet.

It was time for Chapter 2.

“When I came back, the

person that had my old post asked me to come out and help a little bit,” Myers said. “I started helping a little bit more and more, and suddenly I was the volunteer assistant coach working 40 hours a week.”

Suddenly, he was a familiar face again at Drachman Stadium after he replaced successful jumps coach Sheldon Blockburger. Gloria found retirement fun with riding horses, while Bob was on his bicycle riding by cactus fields

and leading high jumpers in training.

Myers coached two NCAA finalists this year and took two to the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. They failed to qualify for the team in Tokyo but the experience should help their futures. Still, in the end, it was a productive season as he had five national academic All-Americans and a pair of AllAmericans in the field event.

Among his best were Lillian Lowe, a second-team AllAmerican who finished ninth at the NCAAs with a leap of 1.81 meters (5-11¼). Justice

Somerset was a Pac-12 champion and an NCAA regional champion, clearing 7-2½. Lowe ended up 21st at the Olympic trials and Sommerset went but was unable to compete because of health issues.

Over his coaching career, Myers has had four collegiate record-holders, All-Americans and Olympians while at the University of Arizona.

Myers himself was a standout decathlete in his own collegiate career at Chico State, but ironically, he felt like he wasn’t that

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The United States’ Alex Morgan (13) celebrates with teammates Catarina Macario (19) and Christen Press (11) after scoring their side’s fifth goal during a first-round

Group G match against New Zealand during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Saitama Stadium, Saturday, in Saitama, Japan.

U.S. women’s soccer flips on switch against New Zealand Tribune Content Agency SAITAMA, Japan — Carli Lloyd felt like a switch had been turned off. Coach Vlatko Andonovski likened his team’s opening loss in the Tokyo Olympics to Sweden to “a wakeup call.”

Whichever metaphor you prefer, it’s apparent the U.S. women’s soccer team is turned on and fully caffeinated now. And that has its gold-medal hopes back on track too, with a 6-1 win over New Zealand on Saturday night moving the Americans a big step closer to a spot in the tournament quarterfinals.

“We came into Game 2 knowing that you don’t go from being a really great team two days ago to not being a great team anymore,” defender Crystal Dunn said. “We just came in a little bit more relaxed and trusting each other knowing that we’re here and we can get the job done.”

The six goals was the most for the U.S. in an Olympic tournament, while the five-goal margin of victory

was the greatest in an American Olympic match.

But just as the team didn’t dwell on the poor effort in the first game, it didn’t celebrate the victory in the second one for long because there’s still a lot of work to do.

“We came here, did the job we had to do tonight,” Andonovski said.

“The next thing is Game 3 and all our focus goes to that.

“Every next game that is ahead of us is the most important game.”

Game 3 is Tuesday against Australia and that will go a long way toward determining the Americans’ placing in the Tokyo tournament.

With eight of the 12 teams in the field advancing to the quarterfinals, Saturday’s result greatly improves the Americans’ chances of going through to the knockout round.

But how it goes through is still to be decided.

With a 4-2 win over Australia earlier Saturday, Sweden is on to the second round and virtually assured of finishing atop the group while the

winner of the U.S.-Australia game will advance as the second-place team. The loser will likely move on as well but will face a much more difficult path to a medal.

“We’re not taking anything for granted,” Lloyd said.

“I’ve been a part of the eight world championships. Won four.

I can tell you that we won four because of the mentality. Tonight was a step in the right direction, I still think we have more to give.”

With the U.S. playing every three days in the Tokyo Games, Andonovski switched out half his lineup Saturday, benching five starters including forwards Alex Morgan and Christen Press and inserting Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe up front.

That brought a notable change in energy that Lloyd, who played in the center of the front line, was happy to take credit for.

“It’s sort of in my blood to want to progress, to want to play big games See Soccer, Page A13

U.S. women’s water polo cruises by host Japan in historic fashion Tribune Content Agency TOKYO — It was surprising to see one of most dominant teams in the world have a hiccup at the start of its quest for a third consecutive gold medal.

In its debut against Japan on Saturday, the U.S. women’s water polo team quickly found itself in a 3-3 tie.

“You could definitely feel the adrenaline and the excitement,” said team captain Maggie Steffens, the Danville and Stanford product. “We got off to a rocky start, especially defensively. But the Olympics gives you extra bit of energy and excitement and it was nice to see our team recover and take a deep breath.”

Oh, they recovered all right. The U.S. team

ended up setting a slew of Olympic records in a 25-4 victory over Japan.

They set records for the number of goals, the most goals in a half (14 in the first half) and the margin of victory.

Steffens and Stephanie Haralabidis each scored five goals.

“The jitters aren’t going to go away for us or any other team,” coach Adam Krikorian said. “It’s great to get a feel for them and learn how to play.

“Despite how much success we’ve had, we’re human. We get nervous like everyone else.”

The players said they felt humbled and grateful to be back doing the sport they love. Particularly thankful was Kaleigh Gilchrist, who was seriously injured in 2019 when a

See Myers, Page A13

balcony she was standing on at a Seoul nightclub, following the FINA championships, collapsed. Two people were killed and several, including Gilchrist were injured. She not only had to rehab from the injury but deal with post-traumatic stress.

“I thought I had perspective before that,” said Gilchrist, who scored two goals Saturday. “Now I have so much gratitude. I just try to share, with a text or a touch. I wouldn’t be here without so many people.”

Before their match, Steffens, 28, and Gilchrist, 29, took a pre-competition walk. Steffens told Gilchrist how she felt the energy and spirit of all the people who supported them, even though they can’t be in Tokyo.

“I can hear them without them actually being here,” said Steffens, who was about to FaceTime her family and boyfriend who had rented a house in Denver and were all up watching in the middle of the night.

Families may not be here, but they are on everyone’s mind. Steffens has created a “gratitude wall” in her room in the village, with pictures of family members, loved ones, and moments along the journey.

“It helps me think about everyone who has helped me get to this stage,” she said. “All the people who have loved you and challenged you and supported you.”

The team plays See Polo, Page A13

SAN JOSE — The San Jose Sharks selected Canadian goalie Ben Gaudreau in the third round on a busy – and long – Saturday for the team at the NHL Draft.

Gaudreau is the first goalie drafted by the Sharks since 2018 when they chose Zachary Emond of Rouyn-Noranda in the QMJHL in the sixth round.

Gaudreau was ranked the No. 2 North American goalie available in this year’s draft behind the WHL’s Sebastian Cossa, who was taken 15th overall by the Detroit Red Wings on Friday. Gaudreau was the fourth goalie taken in the draft.

Gaudreau said he fell a little further than he and his agent expected but said, “we also decided we wanted to go to a place that wants me, that can kind of use me sooner than other teams.

So I think falling here is something that will really help me out in the future.”

Gaudreau, 18, did not get a chance to play with the Sarnia Sting of the OHL this past season,

and an opportunity to play in Norway this year was nixed because of passport issues.

Gaudreau, though, got a chance to play for Team Canada – coached by former Sharks assistant Dave Barr – at the Under-18 World Championships in Texas earlier this year. He was named the tournament’s best goalie as in five games, he had a .919 save percentage and 2.20 goals-against average as Canada won the gold medal.

“I took it as a very good developmental year, which really helped me out quite a bit and allowed me to kind of step into U18s and play the way I did,” Gaudreau said.

In the 20192020 season, Gaudreau had a 10-13-2 record with a .890 save percentage on a mediocre Sting team.

The Sharks did not have a pick in the second round of the draft and were slated to have the No. 71 overall pick in the third round. The Sharks traded that selection, though, to St. Louis for the Blues’ picks at No. 81 later in the third round of the draft and the See Sharks, Page A13

Canha back to getting on base for A’s offense Tribune Content Agency SEATTLE — Mark Canha missed 16 games around the All-Star break with a hip injury and did not take a minor-league rehab assignment before rejoining the A’s last Saturday. In his third plate appearance of his first game back, Canha was hit by a pitch from Cleveland’s Cal Quantrill. For the Oakland-era leader in career hit-by-pitches, it might have marked an official return.

“The first day was a little uncomfortable and I felt a little rusty,” Canha said Friday night.

“But the second game, I felt like I was right back where I needed to be.”

Canha, the A’s leadoff hitter, has quickly resumed his primary function in their offense.

He has reached base and hit safely in all six games since his return. He was 7-for-20 with three walks and three hit-bypitches prior to Saturday night’s game in Seattle.

Despite a three-week hiatus, Canha is tied for the major-league lead

with 16 hit-by-pitches.

“I’ve just been telling myself to be patient with myself and kind of cut myself a break,” Canha said. “About the second day back I felt pretty good already, kind of maybe even a little better than when I went on the injured list, just because I had some time to think about how things were going. I wasn’t feeling good when I went on the injured list approach-wise and it’s gotten better.”

Canha reached base four times Thursday night in the series opener in Seattle and twice more in a 4-3 loss on Friday.

He did not score a run in either game. He has two runs scored in the last week despite being on base 13 times, a reflection of the A’s struggles hitting with men on base.

They left 14 runners on base in a 4-1 win over the Mariners on Thursday night and six more Friday.

That included a pivotal situation in the seventh See A’s, Page A13

Sports

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

Baseball MLB •N.Y. Yankees at Boston, TBS, 10 a.m.

•Pittsburgh at San Francisco, NBCSBA, 1 p.m.

•Oakland at Seattle, NBCSCA, 1 p.m.

•Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, MLB, 1 p.m.

•Chicago White Sox at Milwaukee, ESPN, 4 p.m., Basketball The Basketball Tournament •Teams TBA, ESPN, 11 a.m.

•Teams TBA, ESPN,. 1 p.m.

Golf •LPGA, The Amundi Evian Championship, final round, GOLF, 2:30 a.m.

•The Senior Open, GOLF, 5:30 a.m.

•LPGA, The Amundi Evian Championship, final round, CNBC, 5:30 a.m.

•PGA Tour, 3M Open, GOLF, 10 a.m.

•PGA Tour, 3M Open, final round, Chs. 5, 13, noon Lacrosse Athletes Unlimited •Team Gold vs. Team Blue, FS1, 9 a.m.

•Team Purple vs. Team Orange, YouTube, noon Motorsports •NHRA, Sonoma Nationals, qualifying, FS1, noon •NHRA, Sonoma Nationals, qualifying, FS1, 1 p.m.

Olympics •Men’s and women’s 3x3 basketball, NBCSN, 1 a.m.

•Women’s 3x3 basketball, pool play, USA, 1:20 a.m.

•Men’s soccer, Brazil vs. Ivory Coast, NBCSN, 1:30 a.m.

•Men’s beach volleyball, Qatar vs. Switzerland, USA, 2 a.m.

•Swimming, women’s 400 free, men’s and women’s 100 breaststroke, USA, 3 a.m.

•Beach volleyball; men’s gymnastics; swimming finals, Ch. 3, 3 a.m.

•Men’s soccer, Australia vs. Spain; Japan vs. Mexico, NBCSN, 3:30 p.m.

•Men’s basketball, United States vs. France; cycling, women’s road race; water polo; canoe/kayak; rowing; swimming, Ch. 3, 5 a.m.

•Archery, team event, women’s final, USA, 5:30 a.m.

•Canoe/Kayak, whitewater slalom, men’s C-1, women’s K-1, USA, 6:30 a.m.

•Women’s handball, Norway vs. South Korea, NBCSN, 7 a.m.

•Men’s, women’s and mixed table tennis, NBCSN, 8:15 a.m.

•Badminton, group play, NBCSN, 9:15 a.m.

•Women’s handball, Spain vs. Sweden, USA, 9:30 a.m.

•Men’s basketball, United States vs. France; cycling, women’s road race; water polo; canoe/kayak; rowing; swimming, Ch. 3, 10:30 a.m.

•Equestrian, Dressage Grand Prix team and individual competition, NBCSN, 10:30 a.m.

•Fencing, women’s foil, men’s epee finals, USA, 10:45 a.m.

•Judo, Taekwondo, boxing, weightlifting, USA, noon •Table tennis, mixed doubles, semifinals, NBCSN, 12:30 p.m.

•Men’s soccer, Japan vs. Mexico, NBCSN, 1:30 p.m.

•Men’s triathlon, USA, 2:30 p.m.

•Men’s volleyball, United States vs. Argentina, NBCSN, 3:30 p.m. (replay) •Men’s triathlon, women’s gymnastics team competition, swimming finals for women’s 100 fly, men’s 100 breaststroke, women’s 400 free, men’s 4x100 free and more, Ch. 3, 4 p.m.

•Women’s beach volleyball, United States vs. Latvia, USA, 5 p.m.

•Women’s street skateboarding, men’s rugby, group play, CNBC, 5 p.m.

•Softball, United States vs. Japan, USA, 6 p.m.

•3x3 basketball, pool play; women’s beach volleyball, USA, 8 p.m.

•Women’s skateboarding,Ch. 3, CNBC, 8:30 p.m.

•Rowing, double sculls, semifinals, USA, 9 p.m.

•Men’s skateboarding, street final; men’s volleyball, United States vs. Russian Olympic Committee, Ch. 3, 9:05 p.m.

•Fencing, men’s foil, CNBC, 9:05 p.m.

•Men’s basketball, Argentina vs. Slovenia, CNBC, 9:35 p.m.

•Men’s water polo, United States vs. China, USA, 7 p.m.

•Men’s triathlon; women’s gymnastics; swimming, women’s 100 fly, men’s 100 breast, Ch. 3, 11:30 p.m.

•Men’s and women’s skeet shooting finals; men’s team archery, CNBC, 11:30 p.m.

•Fencing, men’s foil, women’s sabre, USA, midnight (Monday) •Men’s whitewater canoe slalom, USA, 1 a.m. (Monday) •Cycling, men’s cross country mountain bike event, CNBC, 1:05 a.m. (Monday) •Women’s 3x3 basketball, pool play, United States vs.

Italy, NBCSN, 1:55 a.m. (Monday) •Men’s rugby, group play, USA, 2 a.m. (Monday) •Swimming, women’s 200 free, men’s 200 fly, USA, 3 a.m. (Monday) •Fencing, men’s foil, women’s sabre finals, NBCSN, 3:30 a.m. (Monday) •Men’s triathlon; women’s gymnastics; swimming, women’s 100 fly, men’s 100 breast, Ch. 3, 4:05 a.m.

(Monday) •Women’s 3x3 basketball, pool play, USA, 5:40 a.m.

(Monday) •Men’s beach volleyball, Norway vs. Spain, NBCSN, 6 a.m. (Monday) •Men’s volleyball, Brazil vs. Argentina, USA, 6:50 a.m.

(Monday) Rugby •MLR, Semifinal No. 2, CBSSN, 3 p.m.

Soccer Liga MX •Monterrey vs. Puebla, FS1, 5 p.m.

CONCACAF Gold Cup •Quarterfinals, FS1, 4 p.m.

•Quarterfinals, FS1, 6:30 p.m.

Tennis •ATP Gstaad, singles final, TENNIS, 2:30 a.m.

•WTA, BNP Paribas Open, singles final, TENNIS, 8 a.m.

•ATP Umag, WTA Palermo, singles final, TENNIS, 10:30 a.m.

Track and field •American Track League, ESPN2, 1 p.m.

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Scoreboard BAseball National League American League East Division W L 60 39 60 39 51 46 48 45 33 64 Central Division Chicago White Sox 58 40 Cleveland 48 48 Detroit 47 52 Minnesota 42 57 40 55 Kansas City West Division Houston 60 39 OAKLAND 56 43 52 46 Seattle L.A. Angels 48 49 Texas 35 64

Boston Tampa Bay N.Y. Yankees Toronto Baltimore

Pct GB .606 — .594 — .526 8 .516 9 .340 26.0 .604 — .500 9 .475 11.5 .424 16.5 .421 16.5 .598 — .566 4 .531 7.5 .495 11 .354 25

N.Y. Mets Atlanta Philadelphia Washington Miami

East Division W L 51 43 48 49 48 49 45 52 42 57

Pct GB .538 — .495 4.5 .495 4.5 .464 7.5 .424 11.5

Central Division 58 41 .586 — 51 47 .520 6.5 49 50 .495 9 48 51 .485 10 37 60 .381 19.0 West Division SAN FRANCISCO 61 35 .629 — L.A. Dodgers 59 40 .596 3 San Diego 58 43 .574 5 Colorado 43 54 .443 18 Arizona 31 69 .310 31.5 Thursday’s Games SAN FRANCISCO 5, L.A. Dodgers 3 OAKLAND 4, SEATTLE 1 Detroit 7, Texas 5 Atlanta 7, Philadelphia 2 Tampa Bay 5, Cleveland 4 San Diego 3, Miami 2 Boston 5, N.Y. Yankees 4 St. Louis 3, Chicago Cubs 2

Milwaukee Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago Cubs Pittsburgh

L.A. Angels 3, Minnesota 2 Friday’s Games Pittsburgh6, SAN FRANCISCO 4 Seattle 4, OAKLAND 3 Chicago Cubs 8, Arizona 3 Philadelphia 5, Atlanta 1 Baltimore 6, Washington 1 Tampa Bay 10, Cleveland 5 N.Y. Mets 3, Toronto 0 Cincinnati 6, St. Louis 5 San Diego 5, Miami 2 Boston 6, N.Y, Yankees 2 Milwaukee 7, Chicago White Sox 1 Kansas City 5, Detroit 3 Houston 7, Texas 3 Minnesota 5, L.A. Angels 4 Colorado 9, L.A. Dodgers 6 Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh at SAN FRANCISCO, (N) OAKLAND at Seattle, (N) Arizona 7, Chicago Cubs 3 N.Y. Yankeees 4, Boston 3 Atlanta 15, Philadelphia 3 Miami 3, San Diego 2 Baltimore 5, Washington 3 Tampa Bay 8, Cleveland 2 Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 3 Milwaukee 6, Chicago White Sox 1 Houston 4, Texas 1 L.A. Angels 2, Minnesota, 1 Detroit at Kansas City, (N) Detroit at Kansas City, (N) Toronto at N.Y. Mets, (N) Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, (N) Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh at SAN FRANCISCO, 1:05 p.m.

OAKLAND at Seattle, 1:10 p.m.

Arizona at Chicago Cubs, 11:20 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 10:10 a.m.

Atlanta at Philadelphia, 10:05 a.m.

San Diego at Miami, 10:10 a.m.

Washington at Baltimore, 10:05 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 10:10 a.m.

Toronto at N.Y. Mets, 10:10 a.m.

St. Louis at Cincinnati, 10:10 a.m.

Detroit at Kansas City, 11:10 s.m.

Texas at Houston, 11:10 a.m.

L.A. Angels at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m.

Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 1:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Milwaukee, 4:08 p.m.

Monday’s Games Atlanta Braves at N.Y. Mets, 2:10 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 4:10 p.m.

Cincinnnati at Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

Colorado at L.A. Angels, 6:38 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 7:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at SAN FRANCISCO, 6:45 p.m.

OAKLAND at San Diego, 7:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m.

Miami at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 4:10 p.m.

Arizona at Texas, 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m.

Colorado Rockies at L.A. Angels, 6:38 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 7:10 p.m.

U.S. men’s basketball trying to beat odds this time around Tribune Content Agency TOKYO — They lost twice in exhibitions in the build-up to the Olympics. One starter had to withdraw because of Covid-19 protocols.

And numerous others passed on the event because of injury or indifference.

Magic, Michael and Larry this is not.

But with a quarter of his team still relative strangers to the ones who have been training in Tokyo, U.S. men’s basketball coach Gregg Popovich resisted the urge to send them orientation materials, instead asking NBA Finals participants Devin Booker, Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday to get some sleep on their flight to Japan.

Well, maybe this is a dream team after all.

One of the safest Olympic bets doesn’t seem so safe this time.

The U.S. men’s team is slowly inching toward completion in the moments before Sunday’s tournament opener against France, the team that knocked them out of medal contention at the 2019 world championships.

“These circumstances are so unique,” U.S. assistant coach Steve Kerr said about having 25% of the team’s players still in America.

Booker, Middleton and Holiday all committed to play despite playing in the Finals, and despite the trans-Pacific flight, they’re expected to be available Sunday

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USA’s Olympic basketball team player Keldon Johnson attends a training session at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, on Thursday ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. night in Tokyo.

The trio’s commitment to their day jobs has meant the U.S. team enters competition having never competed together. And despite losses to Nigeria and Australia in their pre-Olympic exhibition schedule, they’re still considered favorites.

Still, it’s easy to see vulnerability.

There was the trouble in the 2019 world championships, the first major international tournament where the U.S. didn’t medal since the 2002 worlds. The men’s team followed that competition by winning the bronze in the 2004 Athens Games – one of three

times the U.S. men haven’t won gold in the Olympics.

This summer they enter play with Luka Doncic and Slovenia, Marc and Pau Gasol on an experienced Spanish team, an NBA-heavy Nigerian roster and an established Australian team with pros such as Joe Ingles, Patty Mills and Matisse Thybulle.

“Everybody wants to beat us,” Kevin Durant said of the U.S. opponents. “Everyone wants to see us lose so every game has a little more pressure to it. A lot of guys dropped out. A lot of circumstances. I’m sure other teams have seen us lose and feel confident.”

Force strong at NHRA Sonoma Nationals Sonoma Raceway SONOMA — Looking for her first Top Fuel victory of the 2021 season, Brittany Force put together a trio of strong runs in qualifying at Sonoma Raceway, ending up in the No. 1 spot on Saturday at the 33rd annual NHRA Sonoma Nationals.

Ron Capps (Funny Car), Greg Anderson (Pro Stock) and Angie Smith (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also qualified No. 1 in their respective categories at the ninth race of the 2021 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season and the second of the famed three-race NHRA Western Swing.

Force’s impressive run of 3.694-seconds at 329.42 mph from Friday in her 11,000-horsepower Flav-R-Pac dragster gave her the No. 1 position for the second straight race. It’s also her fourth No. 1 qualifier of the year and 24th in her career, and she’ll open raceday against Ron August. She also posted a stout run of 3.716 at 330.31, which is the fastest run of the weekend in the class, to close out qualifying, giving Force added confidence she can pick up a win after two runnerup finishes this year.

“We want that win,” Force said.

“In Ohio a few weeks back, we had a runner-up finish and it felt good to

get there, but we want to complete the thing and end up in the winner’s circle. We had outstanding runs from my entire team this weekend.

We had three solid runs and I’m happy about that, and I’m looking forward to raceday tomorrow.”

After struggling during the first two sessions, three-time defending world champ and points leader Steve Torrence shot to the second spot in the final qualifier, going 3.710 at 329.67 as he looks to keep his shot of sweeping the Western Swing alive.

Eliminations for the NHRA Sonoma Nationals begin at 11 a.m. Sunday.

College team roughs up Expos in tune-up Daily Republic Staff Sports@dailyrepublic.net

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Expos took a big step up Wednesday night and lost at Santa Rosa Junior College 15-2.

Blake Bozzini, Aidan Robles and Gabe Ponce had the only hits for the Expos.

Robles, Cy Dempsey, Eli Blurton, Trevor Morse, Peyton Olds, Grant Kerr and Alex Carver all had time on the mound. Dempsey and Kerr gave up no runs.

Fairfield hosted a doubleheader Saturday against the North Bay Crushers. They host Citrus Heights at 7 p.m. Sunday.

Fairfield is preparing for its automatic berth in the Western Regionals Tournament Aug. 4-8 at Laurel Creek Park. The Expos will open against Las Vegas at 7 p.m. Aug. 4.

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Niners Shamble Flight 1 (10-12 handicaps) Marilee Schauff, 26

local roundup Judy Royle, 27 Marlene Brown, 30 Glora Ostrum, 31 Flight 2 (13-15 handicaps) Judi Moses, 27 Rene Romiski, 29* Sandy Latchford. 29* Kay Bone. 30 Flight 3 (16-17 handicaps) Connie Valenzuela, 26* Nancy Schlesinger, 26* Ilene Pliler, 27 Flight 4 (18-20 handicaps) Linda Perry, 21 Pat Moffett, 24 Barb Ray, 26 Pat Alvestad, 27 Flight 5 (22-25 handicaps) Terri Denton, 20 Shirley Morris, 22 Jodene Nolan, 24 Rosemarie Chonzena, 26* Carmen Haynes, 26* Chip-Ins: Rosemarie Chonzena, No. 13; Phyllis McFadden, No. 10; Glora Ostum, No. 17 Birdies: Shirley Morris, No. 15; Marilee Schauff, No. 10; Ilene Pliler, No. 15

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Paradise Valley Women 1st Place, Net 111: Elaine Hahn, Margie Miller, Beryl Bridges, Debbie Dahl 2nd Place Net 117: P.J. Lowry, Mary Fowler, Kim Greer 3rd Place Net 120: Chris Moore, LeeAnn Fortney, Rita May Closest to the Pin No. 3: Becky Carrol (12-6); Maria Quaintance (33-0) Closest to the Pin No. 13: Stella Gauden (2-9); Sandy Kreger (3-6) Birdies and Chip-Ins: Mryna DeMartino, No. 3 and No. 3

Rio Vista Women Low Net 2 Best Balls First place: Thea Rock, Bessie Dunn, Cathy Warr, Marilyn Rogers (135).

Second place/tie: Loretta Orenblad, Doris Currie, Sharon David, Linda Rowe (140); Karenann Evans, Diane Scholz, Zinda May, Helen Swarbrick (140).

Chip-Ins: Marian Bard, No. 2.

Broke 100: Thea Rock, 91.

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Crime logs Fairfield Thursday, July 22 7 a.m. — Forgery, 1300 block of HOLIDAY LANE 8:35 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2200 block of PEACH TREE DRIVE 9:53 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1800 block of ROSELEAF DRIVE 11:13 a.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:14 a.m. — Battery, 1300 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 11:17 a.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:22 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 6800 block of DANA DRIVE 12:33 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 900 block of NIGHTINGALE DRIVE 1:31 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 900 block of STONE PINE COURT 1:42 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 200 block of TAYLOR STREET 2:03 p.m. — Vandalism, 800 block of FIRST STREET 3:51 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 700 block of LINK ROAD 4:05 p.m. — Battery, 2400 block of HILBORN ROAD 5:15 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 300

Unity From Page One it feels like a bar but the work isn’t done yet. Allan said she thinks once it is finished the welcoming vibe will help people relax and unwind.

“I want this to be a place after meetings where people can sit and have some coffee,” she said.

They received a grant in 2018, which helped them survive 2020, but without the rental money from using the rental hall things are getting tight.

They are planning various fundraisers and with the hall open again, rent money will be coming back in.

The barbecue with hot dogs, hamburgers and side dishes was part of the

Walker From Page One Walker could not control a health emergency, especially if it had rendered him unconscious.

“We couldn’t disprove that he may have been u n c o n s c i o u s , ” manuel Solano County Chief Deputy District Attorney Paul Sequeira said in a phone interview, “but the negligence started earlier.”

“We can say 6 minutes before griess (the crash) he is looking up information (on his phone) because he has a medical condition,” Sequeira said.

“He continued to speed and he didn’t pull over,” Sequeira said.

Walker’s decision not to pull over before using his phone is when the negligence happened, but Sequeira said when the health issue is factored

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Koiman and his wife moved to Fairfield around May 2020 – just three months before the LNU Lightning Complex Fire broke out and forced the evacuation of his Villages at Fairfield neighborhood.

A self-described combat veteran in the Israeli military, and a Tel Aviv police officer who was injured in the line of duty, Koiman said his nightmares are of the fire and the three hours it took to get onto the freeway to escape.

So when he noticed a car parked in front of a fire hydrant, and with the drought and dry conditions that exist, Koiman called the Police Department to ask what he should do. He said it is the only hydrant near his home and the homes of his neighbors.

“I put all my retirement in this house, so if it burns, I’m homeless,” said Koiman, who until Monday had served as the block captain for the Neighborhood Watch.

He said he was instructed to call the traffic unit about the hydrant situation, which he did.

Neighborhood The Watch program is designed to use the network of members to resolve issues through observation and communication first, said a spokeswoman in the Police Department’s crime prevention unit.

Calling the police would not necessarily be the first step.

“The reign of terror started about 10 minutes after I called the police,” Koiman said. “Phone harassment, text harassment.”

He said his personal information had been leaked publicly.

A thread of text messages Koiman saved from a woman he believes is responsible for the problems accuses him of doing the harassment.

“We support neighborhood watch, but we will

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fundraising effort. They also had a prize drawing with a variety of items.

Roger Maryatt, one of the original founders and directors of the Solano Recovery Project that created the safe space of Unity Hall, returned Saturday and was very pleased to see the changes.

“This looks wonderful,” he said as he looked over the new interior. “I am glad to see it open again.”

Solano Recovery Project is always looking for volunteers and donations.

Its mission is to further public knowledge and provide resources along with support for individuals seeking lifelong recovery and wellness.

For more information, go to www. solanorecoveryproject.org or call 419-4662. in, it did not rise to the level of gross vehicular manslaughter.

“When we peeled the onion back, it was a misdemeanor . . . it was ordinary negligence.”

Walker, 39, of Rocklin, faces two years in county jail when Superior Court Judge Tim Kam sentences him Oct. 13.

Had he been found guilty of the felonies, he would have faced up to seven years and four months in state prison.

S e q u e i r a acknowledged the C a l i for n i a Highway Patrol and the families of the victims for understanding the facts of the case and the burden of proof required.

In addition to Griess, 46, a 19-year CHP veteran, Jaime Bueza Manuel, 49, of Vallejo, also was killed.

The incident occurred along westbound Interstate 80 near the Manuel Campos Parkway exit in Fairfield.

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matter, since the other neighbors were vandalized before Koiman and have no apparent connection to the personal dispute.

Either way, Koiman describes the situation as a hate crime and said he believes the Police Department should be investigating with more urgency.

“Next time, we don’t know what to expect,” Koiman said.

Fire hydrant complaint ignites dispute

Experts From Page One would no longer need to wear a mask in most situations. That move was broadly seen as part of efforts to incentivize jabs.

The different rules for the vaccinated and unvaccinated and the impression that Americans could let down their guard sowed confusion that has led to a higher rate of infections, according to Adams.

“The execution was poor, and the results speak for themselves,” Adams, who currently practices anesthesia in Indianapolis, said in an email interview. “Low mask usage, slowed vaccination rates and exploding cases.”

Covid-19 fatalities in the U.S. surged 48% over the past week to a daily average of 239 and hospitalizations are also on the rise as the more transmittable version of the virus spreads rapidly. The CDC says the delta variant now makes up 83% of all sequenced Covid-19 cases

NOT live in fear and we will not fear we are being watched by you. Calling the police on your neighbors is never okay,” the text thread provided by Koiman reads in part.

“We did nothing to you! Is it because we are ‘BLACK’? What have we done to you? You’re actually the ONLY one on the entire block that we have not formally met. Everyone is so nice, everyone speaks but you walk around with this (sh..ty) wattitude all the time and look at my husband weird, don’t speak and always look away when we speak. Now the police is coming out.”

Jacobsen said he was not aware of the woman’s identity so he could not provide it to the Daily Republic.

Koiman also declined to give the woman’s name to the newspaper, fearing legal retaliation.

There was no one home when attempts to contact

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An unidentified person smashed a rock through Igal Koiman’s windshield. Koiman says the attack is a hate crime.

“I came to America with $1,500 in my pocket and a high school diploma,” Koiman said.

He put himself through school and earned two master’s degrees, with which he opened a dialysis clinic in South Central Los Angeles. It was there he met his wife, who was a nurse who came to work at the clinic.

Koiman said he always took offense to people referring to the area as a ghetto, because the “last ghetto I knew about, millions of people died.”

He said that he real-

no sure if a door-to-door canvass was c0nducted as of Thursday.

He also declined to identify the neighbors for the Daily Republic, explaining that his neighbors did not want to get involved.

Koiman had his own security system, but it had failed on the night his windshield was smashed.

He has since changed it to a more sophisticated, but more costly system.

The $500 to replace the windshield will have to come out of his own pocket, too.

The family lives on a set income.

Koiman does not — Igal Koiman suspect the woman of breaking the windbeen a lack of response by shields, but rather a the Police Department, male relative. and assertion the departAgain, the text mesment refutes. Jacobsen sages suggest the person noted that without more believes Koiman is at the information, there is little root of the problems. more that can be done.

“If you have a problem But Koiman said there or concern, you COMhas been little to no inves- MUNICATE with your tigation. His neighbors neighbors. You do not said the police have not make them feel uncomtalked to them about fortable by calling the the situation. At one cops,” the text message point, Koiman said, he thread states in part. “I was told to do his own called the cops to check investigation. on you because you are So he did, and it was acting weird and you get during his discussions behind my back with false with his neighbors that accusations, but when he learned three others we come to you to meet had had their windshields and speak you say we smashed. Again, each are retaliating??? How is family has a member of that when you don’t even Asian descent. speak to us? How are you “My wife is Asian,” the leader when you avoid Koiman said. His wife is the black people??? This is from the Philippines. insane. Everyone here is It was not until FAMILY you are weird Koiman contacted Mayor and I to [sic] can comHarry Price and Coun- plain. My father in law is cilwoman Pam Bertani, the captain.” who represents the disJacobsen said the reftrict in which Koiman erence to the captain is lives, that two detectives not in the Fairfield Police came to his house. That Department, and a check was Tuesday. with the Fire DepartKoiman described the ment also revealed there detectives’ response as was no one linked to that “sarcastic,” but he is at neighborhood. least hopeful that some The term “leader” kind of investigation will apparently refers to his be conducted. Koiman former role as Neighborsaid he believes one of his hood Watch captain. neighbors may actually Koiman said he has have a security image of turned over everything the person who broke that he has to the police. neighbor’s windshield.

But the department Jacobsen said Koiman reiterated that Koiman refused to give the has declined to identify department the names of neighbors who may be neighbors who might be able to identify the culprit able to help in the inves- who broke the windtigation. The department shields or provide other spokesman said he was critical information.

in the U.S., up from 50% at the beginning of the month.

Unvaccinated people account for 99.5% of Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. and 97% of hospitalizations. Although the vaccines are highly effective against the virus, there is still a small risk that vaccinated people will get sick.

There’s also a risk that fully vaccinated people will spread the disease to the unvaccinated, including to children who aren’t yet eligible for the jab.

That’s why, despite being fully vaccinated, people may want to take extra precautions by wearing a mask indoors or in crowded areas.

“There has definitely been a shift in terms of perception of the virus, especially among those who are vaccinated,” said Krystal Pollitt, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health.“It’s important for the vaccinated to continue masking, especially in places that have lower rates of vaccinations.”

Los Angeles County

has revived mask mandates for its 11 million residents, regardless of vaccine status, when they’re in indoor public settings. Daily case counts have risen 80% from the previous week.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said July 22 that the organization was sticking with its recommendations that fully vaccinated people don’t usually need masks, while allowing that wearing one may have some advantages.

“Communities and individuals need to make the decisions that are right for them based on what’s going on in their local areas,” she told reporters. “You get exceptional protection from the vaccines, but you have the opportunity to make a personal choice to add extra layers of protection if you so choose.”

The highly transmissible delta variant has prompted many countries to rethink their public-health strategies against Covid-19.

Last month, Israel lifted most of its restrictions, but days later reinstated

ized his American dream, and to help pay back some of his good fortune, he joined the Neighborhood Watch and other organizations after moving to Solano County.

“This country has given a lot to me, and I’m doing everything I can to pay it back. But my American dream has become a nightmare,” Koiman said.

A lot of his frustration is due to what he says has

‘This country has given a lot to me, and I’m doing everything I can to pay it back. But my American dream has become a nightmare.’ immediate neighbors of Koiman were made.

Koiman said the woman yells from her house and calls he and his wife names, including “filthy Jew” and one specific insult that is difficult for him to bare because of his own family history.

“What really, really offended me was she called me a Nazi, and my parents are Holocaust survivors, both of them.

And they lost their families,” he said.

Born in Ukraine, a country Koiman calls the most anti-semitic anywhere on Earth, the family moved to Israel to escape the environment. It is beyond his comprehension that the first place he has been called a “filthy Jew” since his boyhood, is in Fairfield, in California, in the United States.

American dream, now a nightmare

the requirement to wear masks indoors. On the other hand, England lifted all of its lockdown restrictions Monday, just as the U.K. saw the world’s biggest increase in infections.

The U.S. is the only country in the world that has different mask rules for vaccinated and unvaccinated people, a framework that’s difficult to enforce, according to Monica Gandhi, an infectious-disease expert at University of California San Francisco.

“This has led to a lot of confusion,” she said.

Gandhi suggests the CDC use metrics such as hospitalization rates to set its recommendations, and said that mask wearing indoors and in public spaces needs to be normalized in areas where infections are widespread.

Roughly 55% of Americans have received at least one dose of the vaccine, but the pace of new inoculations is falling and the rate of uptake varies widely in different parts of the country.

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inning. With Seattle starter Yusei Kikuchi out of the game after striking out 12 in six innings, the A’s loaded the bases with two outs in the seventh. Such scenarios have been a challenge for them. They entered Friday with the sixth-lowest average (.224) in the majors with the bases loaded and third-lowest OPS (.571).

Elvis Andrus faced reliever Paul Sewald. The right-hander threw four fastballs, then two sliders.

Andrus fouled the first slider then waved at one low and away for strike three. It preserved a 3-3 tie the Mariners broke in the bottom of the inning.

“That’s a difficult situation,” Canha said of hitting with the bases loaded. “Everything is amplified a little bit, you get a lot more breaking stuff, a lot more pitches on the inner half of the strike zone. It’s just you get guys’ kind of best stuff in those situations. And it’s difficult to kind of stay within yourself and still be present in those at-bats.”

Canha added: “We’re winning games, so I don’t really think about those kind of things.”

Canha had worked a nine-pitch walk against Sewald ahead of Andrus’ strikeouts. Canha struck out in first two at-bats against

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Mark Canha, of the A’s, helps ignite Oakland in his position atop the batter order as the lead-off hitter.

Kikuchi – saying Kikuchi’s use and effectiveness of his changeup “kind of caught me off guard” – and lined an RBI double on a slider in his third at-bat.

“A number of reasons we needed him back – not only does he get hits

and drive in big runs at times, he’s getting on base, he’s making pitchers work, you get a good look at what they have just based on his at-bats,” manager Bob Melvin said of Canha.

“He’s a pretty tenacious at-bat every at-bat. He doesn’t throw any away.”

Soccer: US women rout New Zealand From Page A10 under pressure,” she said.

Whatever the reason, the U.S. came out with pace and conviction, if not precision, finding the back of the net six times in the first half, although only two of those counted – a right-footed shot from Rose Lavelle from inside the box in the ninth minute and a header from Lindsey Horan, who was playing in her 100th international game, just before the break.

In between, four goals were erased by offside calls.

“It’s unfortunate,” Lloyd said.

“We could have scored more.”

With First Lady Jill Biden among the few observers looking on from the otherwise empty stands in the second half, Lloyd set up the third score, with New Zealand defender Abby Erceg misplaying her header over keeper Anna Leat.

Betsy Hassett pulled that back for New Zealand on a counterattack in the 72nd minute. But New Zealand, playing for just the third time in 16 months, wilted in the heat and humidity of the Japanese summer after that, conceding goals to Press and Morgan, in as substitutes, seven minutes apart before

defender CJ Bott knocked in a Press pass in the closing seconds of stoppage time to account for the final score.

For the U.S. that’s a start. But they’re a long way from finished.

“We need to have that switch turned on all the time,” Lloyd said.

“We need to be ruthless. It’s really important that whoever’s on the field, we’ve got to just keep your foot on the pedal and go for as long as you can.

“Ruthless mentality, grit and hard fight. That should be a standard thing that you’re doing every game.”

Sharks: Draft a champion goaltender From Page A10 177th overall pick in the sixth round.

The Blues used the 71st overall selection on winger Simon Robertsson of Sweden.

The Sharks used their two fourth-round selections on defenLaroque of seman Gannon the WHL’s Victoria Royals and

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Laroque describes himself as a physical defenseman with a hard shot. “I just like to use my hockey IQ to my advantage and find open

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Laroque, an Edmonton native, played pee-wee hockey with Nashville Predators prospect Luke Prokop, who, earlier this month, became the first player on an NHL contract to come out at gay.

“He was our captain of the team and I can’t say enough good things about him,” Laroque said of Prokop.

great at the high jump.

How did he learned to build champions?

“I was still doing the Western Roll then, the Fosbury Flop wasn’t invented yet,” he said. “I just became a student of the sport through academic study. I got a master’s in biomechanics and studied with other people. Through writings and research, I was able to build a good reputation.”

Myers received his bachelor of science degree in physical educ a t i o n - k i n e s i o l o g y/ pre-physical therapy and mathematics from Chico.

He went on to get a master’s degree in kinesiology, specializing in biomechanics, from the University of Arizona.

His life has included 40 years of work as a coach, professor, athletic director, dean and even induction into a few Halls of Fame. He was the dean of the School of Human Performance and Development at Solano College, where he was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame.

“In the ‘90s, I was married and had a young son, making $30,000 a year as an assistant coach,” he said.

“I found the Solano job, applied and got it. I miss the people. That was a really great opportunity for professional development. I learned a lot

about managing people at Solano that has helped me develop well-rounded student-athletes here at Arizona who are learning fulfilling life skills to help them be successful in their careers.”

Myers was inducted in 2014 into both the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Hall of Fame as well as the National Alliance of Two-Year Collegiate Athletic Administrators (NATYCAA) Hall of Fame, an organization with which Myers remains a part of the executive committee.

Myers returned to Tucson in 2012 where he taught a business of college athletics course at the Eller College of Business until 2014.

In his first years in Tucson, in 1989, he was named Western Regional USATF Coach of the Year.

Myers was also a U.S. Olympic coach/manager for track and field in Atlanta from 1993-96 and he coached various other U.S. national teams in the 1980s and ‘90s.

He’s looking forward to watching the high jump competition at this Olympics in Tokyo.

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The Washington Post WASHINGTON — The phrase “all is fair in love and war” took on a new meaning Friday, when a Texas man was arrested after boasting to a match in a dating app about participating in the Jan. 6 riot “from the very beginning.”

Andrew Taake of Houston was charged with assaulting police and storming the Capitol building. His arrest follows a months-long investigation spurred by a tip and a FedEx delivery driver who confirmed his identity to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to the government.

Taake made his initial court appearance Friday in the Southern District of Texas, according to a Department of Justice news release. His public defender did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Similarly to another arrested rioter, it all started with a conversation on Bumble, a dating app, according to court documents.

The unnamed Bumble user asked if he had been “near all the action.”

Taake claimed he was pepper-sprayed by police after gathering to protest the presidential election results, according to a July 21 criminal complaint.

“About 30 minutes after being sprayed,” he said of a selfie showing him wearing a gray beanie and a dark gaiter.

“Safe to say, I was the very first person to be sprayed that day . . . all while just standing there.”

The two never got to meet face to face.

Three days after the

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Participants in a pro-Trump mob take over the inaugural stage at the Capitol, Jan. 6. events, the match sent the conversation to officials, along with screenshots of Taake’s location on Jan. 6 – shown as Alexandria, Va., just outside Washington, D.C. – according to the complaint.

After the tip, officials reviewed flight records, security footage and photos and videos posted across social media. What they found was far more than a participant “peacefully standing there,” as Taake claimed on Bumble, according to the complaint.

A federal agent said images show the Texas man “using what appears to be a metal whip and pepper spray to attack law enforcement officers.”

Body-camera footage provided by D.C. police allegedly reveals Taake emerging from the crowd of rioters on the other side of a bike rack barricade crafted by the authorities. He pepper-sprayed the officers, retreated and is then seen “striking officers with a weapon that appears to be a whip,” the federal agent wrote.

Once the crowd managed to break into the building, the U.S. Senate’s security cameras caught Taake – with his whip still in hand – walking down the aisles, the com-

plaint says.

But how did officials conclude it was him?

After gathering images, FBI agents showed them to a FedEx driver who had delivered a package “minutes before” at Taake’s address, according to court documents.

The driver then identified Taake as the man in the photos, the goverment said.

An interview between the federal agent and Taake led to his identity confirmation after the official reviewed the amassed evidence, court documents said.

Taake faces charges including attempting to obstruct the work of law enforcement, causing a disturbance during a session of Congress and entering a restricted building that contained the vice president.

He is one of the more than 535 individuals to be arrested in breaching the Capitol and one of the more than 165 people charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.

Taake is also the second to have been charged after a Bumble encounter – though others have been flagged by the dating app.

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Vaca gallery reopens with Granizo exhibit Amy Maginnis-Honey

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VACAVILLE — The ​ Vacaville Art Gallery will re-emerge from the Covid-19 shutdown with a display featuring the works of Guillermo Wagner Granizo.

His work can be seen in front of Vacaville City Hall as well as the Benicia Camel Barn.

He was born Bill Wagner in 1923. He died in 1995 in Benicia.

Guillermo is Bill in Spanish. Granizo was his mother’s maiden name.

The reason for a new moniker? He thought prospective buyers were more likely to purchase from Guillermo Granizo than Bill Wagner.

He held a variety of careers, often donning a suit and tie for work before becoming an artist, letting his hair grow and wearing colorful clothes.

Wagner had two sons, Ron Wagner and Bob Wagner. The latter resides in Fairfield and taught at Fairfield High School.

Bill Wagner lived in Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua in his early years. The family then returned to San Francisco.

Much of his life story is told in 105 3-foot-by-3-foot panels, under the autobiographical murals tab at www.granizoart.com.

One is of him being wounded in World War II. He shares about coming close to death and recalling a chaplain telling all Catholics in the group their sins would be forgiven.

Later, he recalled that one of the soldiers said after the priest’s absolution, “Even if we are free of sin, if death comes, the angels will pull us up to heaven but don’t be surprised if a couple of devils don’t try to pull us into hell.”

Many years later, it would lead him to ponder a trip to heaven.

“But suppose that there

is heaven, would I go there since I give beauty to the world? Yes, I would go to heaven where an angel would bring me my tiles, a second would hand me tools, another would mix buckets of glaze and still another would rush the tiles to hell where they would be fired,” he wrote.

Wagner spent four years recovering in military hospitals, giving him time to explore color, shape and line with paints and other media. He went on to attend the San Francisco Art Institute.

He then served as the first art director for KRON television in San Francisco, producing sets for the first live television shows until 1959.

Then he became a producer of educational films.

He completed eight large mosaic murals in 1962 for the San Francisco Academy of Sciences and the Steinhart Aquarium. He put an emphasis on being a tile muralist, historian and fine artist in the late 1970s. His “Olympic Fantasy” was unveiled in 1984 at California State University, Los Angeles.

Some of his last works are in Solano County.

Wagner’s art has been shared across the globe and was the subject of an episode of “Strange Inheritance” that aired in 2017.

Ron and Bob Wagner were both featured in the story of the art their father left behind.

“It’s phenomenal to drive there (Vacaville) and see the work with the grandkids and kids,” Ron Wagner said. “We love to see the murals.”

Ron Wagner will be at the Vacaville Art Gallery the first weekend of the exhibit. Bob Wagner will be there the final two weekends. The exhibit ends Aug. 15 at 718 E. Monte Vista Ave. For hours, and more details, visit www.face book.com/vacav ille. art.gallery.

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A portion of “Mercado de Viajeros” by Guillermo Wagner Granizo.

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A night of clean comedy,

Comic Dennis Gaxiola is putting on the Unity in the Community comedy night at Journey Downtown.

with unity taking center stage, at Journey Downtown

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VACAVILLE — A night of comedy, with an emphasis on unity in the community, is slated for 7 p.m. Friday at Journey Downtown.

“There’s so much division in our country,” said organizer Dennis Gaxiola. “Let’s come together and have a night of comedy.”

And, a clean night, one that is family friendly.

The lineup of seven comics is a “United Nations” of comedy, he said. All have made national appearances, while some have TV specials, he said.

Gaxiola, who retired from Travis Air Force Base in 2005, lives in El Sobrante, which he jokes is Hispanic for East Richmond, based on the city limit lines.

He gathered the comics on the premise there was no reason they could not pack the theater for some chuckles.

Journey Downtown is the former Theatre DeVille, which now hosts a coffee shop/cafe in its lobby and the open floor and loge seating in the theater.

Mike Winfield, one of the comics, had a recurring role on NBC’s “The Office” and has a

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special on Amazon Prime. He told the Daily Republic in 2016 that all humans connect somewhere and he makes it his mission to find those common threads.

J-Red, who believes laughter is good for the soul, is an Oakland native who grew up with pastor parents.

“He’s the best emcee I know,” Gaxiola said. “He’s a crazy guy.”

Stephen B has a new special on Dive Bar Comedy.

E (Erik) Clark is a Vallejo native who performs at many area venues.

Ricky Del Rosario, from Santa Rosa, has a lot of energy, Gaxiola said. He’s also been seen on some national TV shows.

Bob Smiley will travel from Dallas to join the fun.

Gaxiola, with almost 25 years in standup comedy, recently did a Dry Bar comedy special that has garnered more than 1 million views. It was recorded at the Dry Bar Comedy in Provo, Utah, in front of a studio audience.

After the filming, the comedian’s comedy specials go through a production process and then are available to stream on VidAngel and the Dry Bar Comedy app.

It’s a tough crowd as audience members are often members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – an “ultra-conservative audience,” Gaxiola said.

The special was re-released, he said, and went viral. The venue is “a huge blessing,” Gaxiola said.

Gaxiola does many of his shows at churches.

“The Bible says laughter is good medicine,” he said.

He finds laughter watching certain TikTok artists.

“Some of those people have a great sense of humor,” he said.

All the comics on Friday’s bill also make him laugh, he said.

Gaxiola said much of his material comes from daily life.

“Comedy is truth exaggerated,” he said.

He recently remarried his first wife. The pair had been separated for 23 years.

Vallejo Jazz Society votes to disband, ending 11-year run Amy Maginnis-Honey

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VALLEJO — The Vallejo Jazz Society has disbanded.

The nonprofit was formed in 2010 and hosted jazz concerts as well as introduced the genre to the younger generation.

The organization averaged about four concerts a year, welcoming artists such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, and Rory Snyder.

“They were all very good,” said Dalt Williams,

of a favorite concert. He is one of the co-founders of the Vallejo Jazz Society.

The board of directors voted via email to end its run.

“We just couldn’t afford it anymore,” Williams said.

Covid-19 restrictions prohibited live concerts so the nonprofit streamed some shows.

The streaming fees were too expensive.

The Society did some concerts at the Bay Terrace Theater prior to moving to the

Empress Theatre.

Williams will continue to perform with his group.

They were at Vino Godfather Winery last weekend. was really “That great,” he said. “A lot of folks showed up.”

Williams said he hopes that live entertainment will return to the Sardine Can in Vallejo. Williams has booked the entertainment there for several years.

The venue is open but has not made a decision on live music, he said.

Wayne De La Cruz

served as the organization’s treasurer and arranged the concerts.

“He got a hold of the groups,” Willams said of De La Cruz. “It was tough.”

The announcement was made on the Vallejo Jazz Society Facebook page, which garnered some comments expressing disappointment. always felt “I honored to play there,” vocalist Kay Andreas Kostopoulos wrote.

“I am sorry to see you go. As you know my

husband, Bryan Girard, founded the organization on a volunteer effort over a decade ago and a volunteer staff of musicians/ non-musicians supported and joined in,” Rosemarie DeWeeese Girard wrote. “After seven years we had to step back, having moved out of the area, but we always supported this wonderful endeavor and continued our membership.”

“There were so many excellent and popular concerts presented and they will be sorely missed.

Kudos to the current staff (they should be named) and the numerous businesses and organizations that sponsored VJS (they also should be named) on the efforts to try to continue the concerts during the pandemic,” Girard wrote. “I hope the VJS can resurface and rise again like the phoenix to showcase jazz in the Vallejo area. YOU will be missed!”

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FAIRFIELD — When it comes to music, swearing has become commonplace from even the cleanest of artists. Not all musicians decide to use expletives in their lyrics.

At Home Connection looked at the top 200 songs for the past year on Spotify to determine the most popular recording artists.

Repeat artists were removed. Then, a list of artists was compiled that had been in the Spotify top 200 for the past year at least 100 times.

Genius was employed to scrape all of those artists’ lyrics. Then, it was determined which curse words appeared the most.

The word count and the number of curse words to determine the percent of curse words in the artist’s lyrics/songs were examined.

More than 1,091,844 words (in the lyrics) were analyzed in determining the artist who had the highest percentage of curse words in their music.

The cleanest mouths in the music industry were also examined.

Harry Styles has yet to swear in a song.

DaBaby came in at 2,900 swear words – of 4.5% of all lyrics analyzed.

The 28 artists on the list swore a combined 21,324 curse words.

While Future had the most swear words at 3,254, overall, his swearing only made up 2.69% of his lyrics. J. Cole had 3,247 swear words, making up 2.64% of his lyrics.

Among the artists who cursed the most, only two were female – Megan Thee Stallion and Doja Cat. Billie Eilish curses more than Styles, with 46 curse words across her top tracks, as does Taylor Swift, who cursed 150 times across her top tunes. But Swift curses less across her top lyrics at 0.21% compared at Eilish at 0.46%.

See the full report at www.attsavings.com/ resources/entertainment/ top-music-artists-whocurse-the-most.

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The Easy Winners perform Thursday in Winters.

Easy Winners wrap up free concert series in Winters Daily Republic Staff

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WINTERS — The Winters Friends of the Library summer concert series concludes with a free outdoor concert by The Easy Winners from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

The event is at the Rotary Park Gazebo, on Main Street at Railroad Avenue, in front of the Community Center.

The concert will feature early 20th-century music, including classic rags, waltzes, cakewalks, tangos, marches and songs of North America, Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America.

The Bay Area-based

quartet, including Winters’ own Robert Armstrong, performs on vintage acoustic instruments and evokes the feeling of front-porch serenades in a simpler era.

Sample some tunes at www.easywinners.band.

Attendees are welcome to bring a blanket or lawn chairs.

The concert is free, but donations will be accepted. Winters Friends of the Library will have refreshments and used books for sale. Proceeds support the Winters Community Library.

For more information, contact Keith Cary at 530795-3173 or kcary@dcn. org, or visit wfol.org.

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MST’s ‘Into the Woods’ a magical return to live theater Tony Wade

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t is impossible to overstate the intensity of the uncorked exhilaration the audience felt at Missouri Street Theatre’s opening night of “Into the Woods.”

After emerging from our collective Covid cocoons, we were all ready for some honest-to-goodness, live-in-the-moment theater.

I am appreciative of theater companies that worked hard to keep practicing their craft by compromising a vital component of their art by squeezing it into digital platforms.

But the unique feature of live theater is the fact that the theatergoers and the theater cast and crew are all together in the room where it happens. Stagecraft artisans weave a suspension-of-disbelief fantasy in real time and everyone in the audience knows that, with all of those variables in play, something can go horribly wrong.

Of course, as it did opening night at MST’s latest offering, something can also go oh-so-wonderfully right.

Everything fit like a glove that had been lost for 19 months (since MST’s last show, December 2019’s “Elf”), from Mike Meszaros (aka Soundy McMicrophone)’s playlist that featured relevant tunes like the Eagles’ “Witchy Woman” and Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street” to a super-talented cast that was obviously as eager to perform as we were to experience them doing so.

“Into the Woods” is the brainchild of legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim and debuted in 1987 on Broadway. It won several Tony awards and a 2014 Disney film adaptation starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and James Corden likewise did well – at the box office as well as on film review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, where it has a 71% fresh rating.

I have seen “Into the Woods” thrice locally so was familiar with the plot, but how to describe it to newbies? Well, if you are of a certain age you will understand this: It is like a bubblin’ gumbo of fractured Brothers Grimm fairy tales with just a pinch of 1970’s TV producers Sid and Marty Krofft’s weirdness thrown in as seasoning. Binding it all together is the glorious Sondheim music with its clever, witty, fun and challengingto-sing lyrics.

Although the show is wellknown, I always err on the side of not revealing crucial plot points.

I mean, some of them are obvious when it involves Jack (Philip Graves) and the Beanstalk, Cinderella (Devin Wieser), Rapunzel (Catie Whittet) and Little Red Riding Hood (Macey Cook), but there are unexpected twists and turns – some kinda grim and some delightful.

Dae Spering donned both the director’s hat and that of a cast member – in this case The Witch.

You sometimes don’t realize just how much you have missed something until you experience it again and that would include Spering’s powerful and controlled tone live. She was sublime on tunes like “Stay With Me” and “Lament” and as an added bonus at one point threw in a convincing Margaret Hamilton-esque, wickedly wonderful, crackly cackle because she can.

Devin Wieser has mastered

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Missouri Street Theatre’s production of “Into the Woods.” theater

Review ‘Into the Woods’ 2 and 8 p.m. Sunday and July 31 7:30 p.m. Thursday 8 p.m. Friday Downtown Theatre, 1035 Texas St., Fairfield www.downtowntheatre.com

HHHH (out of four) the art of playing the ingénue role in numerous MST productions, including Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz” and Ariel in “The Little Mermaid.” She absolutely crushes it every time she graces that stage. Wieser portrayed Cinderella’s wonder and innocence yet also her inner fire manifested when she sang songs like “A Very Nice Prince” and “No One is Alone.”

F. James Raasch as the Baker and Casey Ellis as the Baker’s Wife? Yes, please! Their onstage chemistry and charisma was natural and delightful and they were in fine voice separately as well as together on songs like “It Takes Two.” Other cast highlights included, but were not limited to: Michael Cross as the Narrator/Mysterious Man. All was right in my world when I heard Cross’ familiar, crisp, rich voice boom, “Once Upon a Time” at the show’s start and also when he sang on tunes like the duet with Raasch, “No More.”

I have been watching Macey Cook perform live since she started with MST’s summer programs with my daughter something like 13 years ago. It has been wonderful to see her blossom into a talented young performer who actually has held her own for years now with adults. The recent high school grad is back on stage as Little Red Riding Hood and showing off her controlled and tuneful voice on

songs like “I Know Things Now.” I’ve enjoyed the work of Jonathan Kalinen and Anthony Allen on the Downtown Theatre stage before, but as Rapunzel’s Prince and Cinderella’s Prince, respectively, they were a scream. Their haughty movements and the lil’ comically regal leaps they did were hysterical. There was nothing funny about their vocals, though (well, besides the lyrics sometimes). They brought the goods on all, including one of my favorite songs in the show, “Agony.”

I added the line “not limited to” above because there is simply not enough space in this review to highlight all the heroics in a cast full of Theatrical Avengers. But I do want to point out the work of several unseen superheroes who made the show a stunner. That includes . . . but is not limited to . . . Jeff Bristow (stage manager), Robbie Holwell (costume design), the 11-member orchestra conducted by Melinda Packer, set design (Screwy McHammerton – another Meszaros alias) and light design (Annie Morris).

Can I be honest? In the context of what we have been through with the pandemic, even a mediocre effort would have been treated with the full-throated enthusiasm that a starving man gives a stale saltine. But since the concept of a mediocre effort does not exist in the MST world, how much more, well, magical was it to be treated to such a special show?

Our prolonged standing ovation was in response to what we experienced together, not simply at our relief at getting back to live theater.

Here’s to living happily ever after.

Reach Fairfield humor columnist, accidental local historian and author of the upcoming book “Growing Up In Fairfield, California” Tony Wade at toeknee weighed@gmail.com.

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FAIRFIELD — “That’s The Fact, Jack!”

The 1981 Columbia Pictures comedy “Stripes” is returning to movie theaters nationwide this fall as the hit film celebrates its 40th anniversary.

Starring Bill Murray as John Winger, who loses his job, his car, his apartment and his girlfriend – all in one day – decides he has only one option: Volunteer for the Army and talk his friend into enlisting with him.

“Stripes” will play at 3 and 7 p.m. Aug. 29 and 2 p.m. Sept. 2 at the Edwards Cinemas at the Solano Town Center mall, 1350 Travis Blvd.

In addition to the full feature, attendees will see

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Tickets for “Stripes 40th Anniversary” can be purchased online at www. fathomevents.com or at the theater box office.

FAIRFIELD — Winchester Mystery House in San Jose is opening an escape room themed to Harry Houdini’s famous visit to the bizarre mansion in October 1924.

Houdini’s Spirited Escape is a 30-minute challenge room experience located inside Sarah Winchester’s legendarily confusing home. experience The

features state-of-the-art challenge room technology. Participants are greeted by Harry Houdini’s spirit – and tasked to work together to help reconnect him with his beloved wife, Bess Houdini.

The storyline is unique to the experience as it builds on the story of Houdini’s visit to the mansion two years after Sarah Winchester’s death.

At the time, Houdini

was on an eight-week debunking tour of spiritualism and mediums. After spending the evening in the mansion, he left the mansion with more questions than answers.

“We are pleased to welcome Harry Houdini back to the estate, 97 years after his first well-documented visit.

Houdini’s Spirited Escape is the perfect pre- or posttour experience, and we expect it’ll be a big hit

with groups looking for an exciting challenge,” said Walter Magnuson, general manager of Winchester Mystery House, in a press release.

Houdini’s Spirited Escape is open from noon to 7 p.m. Friday through Sunday.

To book an escape room experience, visit https://www.winchester myster yhouse.com/ houdinis-spirited-escape.

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Answers to racial discrimination can be found in the Bible

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that hath executed true hat does the Bible teach about judgment between man racial and man . . . and hath discrimination? kept my judgments, to James 2:9 tells us, deal truly; he is just, he “But if ye have respect shall surely live saith to persons, ye commit the Lord God.” sin, and are conMicah 6:8 tells us, “He vinced of the law as hath shewed thee; O man, transgressors.”

Art Zacher what is good; and what When Christ died doth the Lord require Religious view on the cross, he did of thee, but to do justly, so to secure salvation for all and to love mercy, and to walk people of all races. Galatians humbly with thy God?” 3:28 expresses this universal God expects Christians to concept of equality, “There is treat a person as someone of neither Jew nor Greek, there is value, no matter what their race neither bond nor free, there is or nationality. neither male nor female: for ye Genesis 1:27 states, “So God are all one in Christ Jesus.” created man in his own image, All people are descendants of in the image of God, created he Adam and Eve. We are therehim; male and female created fore genetically related to he them.” Each one of us has each other. value in God’s eyes. God does How then should we treat not judge us on the basis of our each other? skin color, but on our obedience With respect and human in receiving the Gospel. “Christ decency. Ezekiel 18:5-9 says, died for our sins . . . and rose “But if a man be just, and do again the third day.” (1 Corinthat which is lawful and right . thians 15:3-4) . . And hath not oppressed any, Bible-believing Christians but hath restored the debtor his are not called to conform to the pledge, hath spoiled none by vio- culture, but to transform it by lence, hath given his bread to living their lives as a pattern of the hungry, and hath covered justice and righteousness. the naked with a garment . . .

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God expects Christians to treat a person as someone of value, no matter what their race or nationality.

“Open the mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.” By giving people respect as image-bearers of God, we demonstrate that all life is valuable.

While this world may suffer

from racism and injustice, righteousness and justice will prevail. Jesus will right the wrong when he returns to rule and institute his kingdom.

Until then, let us tell others of the Gospel of Christ’s death

for our sins and restore all that will listen to a right relationship with God. The Rev. Art Zacher is pastor at Berean Baptist Church in Fairfield. He can be reached at artzacher@sbcglobal.net.

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Biden knows Afghanistan will get uglier

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hen reporters asked President Joe Biden recently whether he worried that Afghanistan’s government might collapse in the face of Taliban military advances, he responded with ill-concealed annoyance.

“I want to talk about happy things,” he said.

The president went on to answer – he said the regime could survive, but only if its members stop squabbling – but then called a halt.

“I’m not going to answer any more quick questions on Afghanistan,” he said.

It’s no mystery why: Subjects like job-creation reports or the U.S. recovery from the pandemic let Biden talk about Doyle McManus successes. Afghanistan offers only a choice of failures.

The news is dire. The Taliban has seized much of the country’s territory; the Afghan government’s armed forces, which the United States spent more than $88 billion building, appear to be disintegrating. In the areas they conquer, the Taliban is reimposing Islamic fundamentalist rule, including oppressive treatment of women. If the government survives, the country could quickly descend into civil war.

“The devastation and the killings . . . President Biden is going to own these ugly images,” Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, warned.

That was a partisan jab but nonetheless true, and Biden knows it: Presidents get blamed for disasters that occur on their watch, whether they caused them or not.

Biden has seen that. He was vice president when President Barack Obama withdrew U.S. forces from Iraq to general acclaim in 2011, only to come under fire when Islamic State rampaged across the country in 2014.

So even if Biden would rather talk about “happy things,” he’ll have to remain engaged in Afghanistan – for political reasons as well as for national security and humanitarian ones.

That means he’ll need to push for negotiations between the Taliban and the Kabul government in hopes of reaching a peace agreement, or at least preventing a bloodbath, which diplomats consider more achievable.

It means warning that the U.S. will use force against terrorists in areas under Taliban control, just as it does in other countries.

It means mounting an energetic effort to help more than 18,000 Afghans who worked for the U.S. military get out of the country with their families.

And it means updating contingency plans to evacuate the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, which still has about 4,000 employees, including 1,800 Americans, guarded by some 650 U.S. troops.

No wonder Biden is tetchy when asked about the subject. He’s holding a bag left to him by three earlier presidents: George W. Bush, who launched the 2001 invasion but then focused on Iraq; Obama, who tried to stabilize the country with a temporary surge of troops; and Donald Trump, who promised to pull out but never quite delivered.

No matter their approaches, Afghanistan’s government remained corrupt, factionalized and largely incapable of defending itself.

Biden, who supported the invasion as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was a skeptic by 2009, when, as vice president, he argued not very privately against Obama’s surge. Twelve years later, when he became president himself, only bad options remained.

Trump promised the Taliban that the remaining 3,500 U.S. troops would leave the country by May 1, 2021; in exchange, the Taliban made two promises: not to attack Americans and to engage in serious peace talks. They kept the first – no American has died in combat in 17 months – but broke the second.

Biden’s choices were to either maintain the U.S. troop presence, which would almost surely prompt Taliban attacks, or to complete the withdrawal.

He chose to lance the boil and get out.

So far, the political cost has been negligible, largely because most Americans have long since accepted that the military effort had failed.

(A majority reached that conclusion by 2014, according to a Pew Research Center poll.)

Afghanistan isn’t the first war the U.S. has lost. We’re a more experienced nation now – sadder, but maybe wiser, too.

Doyle McManus is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Readers may send him email at doyle.mcmanus@latimes.com.

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The real reason for the Fauci, Rand fight

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ore than 18 months what you are talking about, into the coronavirus quite frankly,” Fauci added. pandemic, our governPaul responded by accusment leaders still can’t ing Fauci of “trying to manage to have a rational obscure responsibility for conversation about a crucial 4 million people dying around public health question: How the world.” Fauci called Paul a did the Covid-19 crisis begin? liar. The exchange ended with While our leaders bicker, each side declaring victory. we are losing sight of the Both men were playing to Josh Rogin urgent need to fully investithe cameras, but many sciengate the origins of the coronavirus tists think Paul actually does know outbreak, including a full investigawhat he’s talking about. One of them tion of the labs in Wuhan, China. is Rutgers University microbioloTuesday’s yelling match between gist and biosafety expert Richard Anthony S. Fauci, the head of the Ebright, whom Paul quoted as saying National Institute of Allergy and this research “matches, indeed epitInfectious Diseases, and Sen. Rand omizes the definition of gain of Paul, R-Ky., brought the origins issue function research.” back into the public eye in the worst Other scientists, even those who possible way. This was not the pair’s believe the lab leak theory likely, first public fight on the matter, and argue that Fauci is technically both men came prepared to do battle. correct, although they note that the But their clash was all heat and no official definition is so narrow it light. They got bogged down in a enables anyone to avoid the review technical and irrelevant debate over process Fauci himself helped to whether the bat coronavirus research establish. In other words, if the overthe National Institutes of Health sight system for reviewing risky funded in Wuhan qualifies as “gain of research is almost never used, what function” research. good is it?

Paul, who believes the evidence But it doesn’t matter which points to the Wuhan Institute of Virol- “gain of function” definition you ogy (WIV), the world’s leading bat prefer. What everyone can now coronavirus lab, as the source of the see clearly is that NIH was collaboutbreak, pressed Fauci about a sciorating on risky research with a entific paper by WIV’s head bat Chinese lab that has zero transparresearcher, Shi Zhengli. Arguing ency and zero accountability during that her work modifying viruses to a crisis – and no one in a position of make them more transmissible to power addressed that risk. humans constitutes “gain of function Fauci is arguing the system research,” he accused Fauci of lying worked. It didn’t. Even if the lab leak to Congress, a federal crime. theory isn’t true, what’s clear is that Fauci insisted that it “was judged we need more oversight of this risky by qualified staff up and down the research, both in the United States chain as not being gain of function.” and in China.

He was using a specific definition Fauci also told Paul there’s no poscrafted by the Department of Health sibility the research in the paper and Human Services in 2017 when Paul cited directly led to the SARSthe Obama administration’s pause on CoV-2 virus, but Paul correctly called this out as a straw man. That specific gain of function research was lifted. project was only one element of the “And Senator Paul, you do not know

U.S. government multiagency effort that for years pumped U.S. money and know-how into these Wuhan labs, via the EcoHealth Alliance, including NIH, USAID and the Pentagon.

According to an intelligence fact sheet released by the Trump administration and partially confirmed by the Biden administration, the WIV took our help and used it to build another, secret part of the lab, where they worked with the Chinese military.

Congress and the media would be derelict not to examine the decisions by Fauci and others that led to this collaboration. But rather than respond with openness and transparency, Fauci has consistently thrown cold water on the lab leak theory. Right now, NIH and other government agencies are ignoring congressional requests for more information about their relationships with these Chinese labs.

This matters right now because the World Health Organization is starting a second attempt to investigate the origins of the outbreak, this time including a call to investigate the labs. Meanwhile, the Chinese government is insisting that it will never allow a real investigation into the Wuhan lab. It will be up to the U.S. government to lead the campaign to pressure Beijing to play ball.

Looking ahead, we must question whether U.S. government investment in this risky research, especially in collaboration with China, is worth these risks. Certainly, the current plan to spend $1.2 billion to drastically expand the initiative known as the Global Virome Project, an effort to dig up dangerous viruses and experiment on them in labs, including labs in China, must be totally reexamined.

Josh Rogin is a columnist for the Global Opinions section of The Washington Post.

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Curb fentanyl: DAs put dealers on notice

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here is a silent assasany sentencing enhancement sin roaming the streets is necessarily wrong because of California and tarit may increase incarceration geting our children and for convicted fentanyl dealers. young adults. This assasThe proposal, from state sin does not see race, ethnicSen. Senator Melissa Melenity, religion, party affiliation, dez, R-Lake Elsinore, was gender, sexual orientation known as Alexandra’s Law, or income – it is an equalnamed after Alexandra opportunity, lethal killer. a 20-year-old Nathan Hochman Capelouto, The synthetic opioid fencollege student who died tanyl has murdered thousands when she unknowingly purof Californians a year. chased a counterfeit Oxycodone pill This executioner comes mainly deceptively sold to her by a drug from China and is schooled by the dealer using a social media platform.

Mexican drug cartels; it is so powSB 350 does not target users or erful that it can kill instantly with a first-time fentanyl dealers; it does dose as small as two grains of sand; not impose mandatory minimum it operates under clever disguises so sentences; and it does not force a you can never see it before it strikes; prosecutor to charge a convicted and it can replicate itself in a lab a fentanyl dealer with voluntary manmillion times over. slaughter or murder. Instead, this law The spread of fentanyl is a crisis, seeks to prevent first-time fentanyl and public safety policy in our state dealers from becoming second-time has failed to keep up. Fentanyl overfentanyl dealers so that innocent dose deaths in California have lives are saved. nearly quadrupled since 2018. FenI have worked since March with tanyl accounts for more than a third district attorneys in Yolo, El Dorado, of overdose deaths. We cannot allow San Luis Obispo and Riverside counfentanyl dealers to continue to spread ties to implement Alexandra notices their poison in our communities. We on a local level. need solutions.

Fentanyl is not cannabis or marA good place to start would have ijuana. It is 50 times more powerful been the passage ofSenate Bill 350, than heroin and 100 times more which would have required notice powerful than morphine. It is illeto convicted fentanyl dealers that if gally made in unregulated drug labs they commit that crime again and and deceptively added to or missomeone dies, they could be charged represented as other drugs. It hides with voluntary manslaughter or inside fake or counterfeit Oxycomurder. State Senate Democrats done, Percocet, Adderall and Xanax killed SB 350 in March, arguing that pills (“fentapills”) or in other tainted

drugs such as cocaine. Drug dealers spread its poison using social media to reach its victims.

The numbers don’t lie. In its2020 National Drug Threat Assessment, the Drug Enforcement Administration reported that fentanyl was responsible for more than half of the drug-related deaths in California and the country. More than 1,200 kilograms (1.2 billion milligrams) of illicit fentanyl was seized coming over our southern border – that is enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman and child in the United States twice over.

Statewide change will only come if victims’ family members, friends and concerned citizens demand reform.

Reach out to your county’s district attorney and request the adoption of Alexandra notices at the local level.

I also hope community members will share their stories and concerns with their legislative representatives and insist the state Senate reconsider its opposition to SB 350.

Alexandra notices won’t solve the fentanyl crisis, but they are a critical first step to bringing justice to those responsible. We need families affected by the fentanyl crisis to be heard to help end this epidemic.

Nathan Hochman, a Republican, who served as a U.S. assistant attorney general. He is running for California attorney general in 2022.

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3 Travis airmen save man’s life Nicholas Pilch

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Spotlight on Travis SrA Zachary McPherson 60 OSS/OSAA Hometown: Tampa, Florida Duty title: 1C751, Airfield Management Shift Lead Time at Travis: 2 years Family: Bailey McPherson (Spouse) and Noah McPherson (Daughter) Goals: To finish degree in finance by winter 2021.

Hobbies: Boating and fishing.

Greatest achievement: Becoming a father.

CSAF delivers powerful message in new ad Master Sgt. Chance Babin Air Force Recruiting Service Public Affairs

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas — Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. delivers a powerful message about air power and diversity in a new Air Force commercial titled “Helmet.”

The dynamic 30-second spot aired for the first time on national TV during the NBA Finals pregame.

“I was a captain when I was asked to do an interview about diversity, and I shared this idea,” Brown said. “I want our adversaries to know that, no matter our respective backgrounds, our airmen are unstoppable.”

For Air Force Recruiting Service’s top recruiter, the commercial is a slam dunk.

“The message is clear,” said Maj. Gen. Edward Thomas, AFRS commander. “As airmen, we’re committed to ensuring we have the most capable and lethal air power in the world, and we want America’s best – the best from all of America – to come join us.”

Thomas emphasized that the Air Force is a warfighting organization, and the nation expects nothing less than the highest standards and a selection process that brings in the best Americans to become airmen.

“When Gen. Brown became the CSAF, he clearly stated that the Air Force was going to focus on what we do best – air power,” said Barry Dickey, AFRS director of strategic marketing. “We wanted to make a commercial that reinforced that priority, but also inspired Americans from all walks of life to serve in the Air Force.

“The power of this spot is in the underlying message and delivery.

When I watch the commercial, I’m left with the understanding that the Air Force doesn’t care what you look like or where you come from,” Dickey said.

“If you can do the job, we’ve got an opportunity for you. At the same time, See Chief, Page B7

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Three airmen from different units on base were in the right place at the right time on July 16 in Dixon.

They arrived shortly after 5 p.m. at the scene of an accident, saving a man’s life.

The road leading out of Travis AFB’s North Gate is a two-lane road that leads to Dixon. The road is surrounded by land dedicated to agriculture and has no street lights, resulting in low visibility.

While driving home from work later than usual, Tech. Sgt. Adam McDonough, 60th Maintenance Squadron electrical and environmental systems section chief, witnessed a car accident.

“There was a Toyota RAV4 driving south on Highway 113 and a Ford F-250 trying to make a turn westbound from 113 onto Hawkins Drive, and the F-250 just couldn’t get out of the way fast enough,” said McDonough, as he recounted the events leading to the accident.

The RAV4 struck the side of the F-250, crumpling up like an accordion.

The driver of the RAV4, trapped in the small SUV, suffered an immediate amputation of his left arm and many broken bones. The engine was in his lap and his body was severely crushed into the steering wheel.

McDonough’s instincts kicked in and he ran over to help. He saw the man in the RAV4, unresponsive, and assumed he passed, so he ran to assist the driver of the F-250. While providing aid, he heard screaming coming from the RAV4 and noticed a fire growing from the vehicle.

He ran to his truck to grab his fire extinguisher when he saw Tech. Sgt. Kelly Manibusan, 60th Healthcare Operations Squadron executive officer and medical technician, already tending to the flames.

Manibusan also left work later than usual and on her way home, saw the accident. With

the RAV4 in flames, she quickly jumped in to assist.

“Once I got out of my car, another person and I were quick to pull the pin on an extinguisher and put out the flames,” Manibusan explained. “I did as much aid as I could, but he didn’t respond to me because of a language barrier.”

Luckily for both the driver of the RAV4 and Manibusan, Tech. Sgt. Paola Fay, 60th Surgical Operations Squadron noncommissioned officer in charge of echocardiography and certified respiratory therapist for the heart, lung and vascular center, soon arrived at the accident while heading home from work.

Fay speaks Spanish and was able to close the language gap, which allowed both Fay and Manibusan to continue rendering aid and prevent further injury.

Fay, trained for situations like this, began going through her checklist.

“I asked his name, explained he had been in a crash, put him in position so his airways would be clear,” said Fay. “Then I just stayed with him and tried to keep him from losing consciousness.”

She then began looking for any signs of major blood loss and noticed there were no areas that needed immediate treatment despite the traumatic amputation of his left arm.

Fay explained that sometimes with amputations, there can be no bleeding because cut blood vessels spasm, the cells shrink and pull back into the body.

As Fay continued going through her checklist for the driver of the RAV4, McDonough assisted her by pulling the sheet of glass off the front of the RAV4. The man’s head crashed through the windshield and his movements were making his injuries worse from all of the broken glass.

While Fay and McDonough assisted the man in the RAV4, Manibusan turned her attention to the driver of the F-250 by comforting him and staying with him until first responders arrived.

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U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam McDonough, left, Tech. Sgt. Kelly Manibusan, center, and Tech. Sgt. Paola Fay stand for a picture at Travis Air Force Base, July 16. The three technical sergeants from Travis pulled over to assist and help sustain life for the victims until first responders arrived.

The three airmen said the actions they took all happened without delay and were seamless like they had all been in this situation before — as it happens, they have.

McDonough was once part of a recovery team for a crashed aircraft.

Fay and Manibusan have seen high-stress scenarios like this in the hospital, though in different sections.

Paramedics arrived about 20 minutes later.

They put the driver of the RAV4 in a cervical spine collar, then used the jaws of life to remove him from the car and took him to the hospital where he recovered from his injuries, said the airmen.

California Highway Patrol Public Affairs confirmed that both parties survived the crash with serious injuries, and thanked the three airmen who helped during the incident.

The three airmen have a combined 45 years of service in the Air Force and without all of their training and diverse experiences, the outcome could’ve been different.

“Training kicked in for all three of us – every piece mattered, no matter how small,” Manibusan said. “While one of us was tending to a driver, another one of us tended to the fire, and another one of us tended to the other driver.”

The airmen explained that a community of people helped with everything, including an

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First responders care for crash victims at the intersection of Highway 113 and Hawkins Drive in Dixon, a few miles north of Travis Air Force Base, June 16. unknown airman who was directing traffic so the roads were clear for first responders when they arrived.

All three recounted that the events happened so quickly, it wasn’t until they each went their separate ways did they realize what each of them had done and experienced.

Though the scene was hectic and chaotic, no one took charge; the airmen all fell into the role where they were needed. They said there was a calm within the scene, and the community gathered around that intersection to help save the man’s life.

“As I left the scene, I began weeping – I cried in my wife’s arms when I got home,” said McDonough.

“The next Sunday was Father’s Day and all I could think about was how that man was not going to be able to hold his kids or toss them in the air like I do with my young daughter – thankfully, he’s alive.”

Each airman tracked each other down after rumors started circulating in each of their units

of their efforts to save the RAV4 driver.

“We were each acknowledged differently within our units,” said Fay. “During a noncommissioned officer meeting in the office, one of my leaders shared the rumor they had heard, recognizing me, but I didn’t get out of my car and tend to the driver for recognition. It was the right thing to do because the Air Force teaches us to be better versions of ourselves, and I think when we’re put in highstress situations like this, we evolve to handle these events.”

The airmen weren’t expecting to tend to the scene of a car accident like this, but encouraged people who may find themselves in their shoes in the future to trust their training and instincts.

“I didn’t know until recently that he had survived until running into Sgt. Fay,” said Manibusan. “Now that I know that he survived . . . it’s a miracle, and it definitely teaches you to appreciate life a bit more.”

Brown emphasizes imperative to modernize with allies in 1st Euro trip as Chief of Staff Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs ARLINGTON, Va. — Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. visited with European counterparts in France and virtually at the annual Global Air Chiefs’ Conference to emphasize the U.S. Air Force as a committed partner toward collective defense and to introduce allies to his strategic vision of Accelerate Change or Lose.

The multi-day trip began in France where he met with his French air and space force counterpart, Gen. Philippe Lavigne.

Brown took the opportunity to discuss the value of airpower not just for U.S. national security interests, but as a strategic and critical partner in the European theater.

“Future warfare will be fought in all domains, and we will be at risk if we don’t accelerate change,” Brown explained. “We must continue to engage with our allies and partners finding opportunities to increase interoperability between the services.

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U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown Jr., right, presents a challenge coin to U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Kyle Weik, 52nd Munitions Maintenance Group chief inspector of quality assurance on Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, July 16.

We can only be successful if we continue to communicate with one another.”

In order to address strategic competition, Brown expressed the need for change to meet the evolving security picture. Introducing his European counterparts and allies to his Accelerate Change or Lose strategic vision was an important part of his time

at the GACC. “Without change, we risk losing our competitive advantage to win in a highly contested environment,” Brown said.

“We risk losing our credibility with our joint teammates, allies and partners, and ultimately our ability to defend our national interests.”

Brown’s priority of staying ahead of stra-

tegic competitors and emphasis on interoperability is further supported by in-theatre Air Force leadership.

“Continuing to build trust and confidence among our allies and partners is at the center of every action our team takes across the theater,” said Gen. Jeffrey L. Harrigian, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces

Africa commander. “Prioritizing high-level integration and interoperability ensures our warfighters are always ready to help preserve the security and stability of Europe.”

Brown concluded his trip by visiting airmen at Ramstein and Spangdahlem Air Bases in Germany, taking the time to answer questions during an all-call and small group engagements during the trip. The topics addressed included the use-or-lose leave policy and virtual patient care in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“I always keep in mind that our airmen and their families have and continue to make incredible sacrifices as they serve,” Brown said. “I also realize they already have many of the innovative solutions we look for to drive modernization, and so my focus is ensuring we create an Air Force culture that gives them the access to opportunity, but also helps them solve complex issues impacting their everyday lives.”

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Chief From Page B6 I also get the message that the Air Force is about winning with air power, period. All of this is delivered by the leader of the Air Force in 30 seconds.”

AFRS and its advertising agency, GSD&M, originally planned to film two commercials with Brown at Edwards Air Force Base, with a focus on both diversity and air power.

The “Helmet” commercial was not in the original plans, but materialized as the day’s shooting progressed.

“While we were recording the voice-over for the commercials, Gen. Brown told a few stories and basically said what you hear in the commercial,” Dickey said. “When he did, I think everyone in the room immediately had

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349th MSG holds strategic alignment event A speaker talks at the 349th Mission Support Group leadership Strategic Alignment Event on Travis Air Force Base, June 14. The 349th Mission Support Group leadership was hard at work this week, participating in a Strategic Alignment Event. Over two days the group focused on strategic planning and improving alignment with national defense strategy. “It’s exciting to be part of an event where we are able to align the goals of the Mission Support Group to better support our airmen and the overall Air Force mission” said Major Christopher Snell 349th Security Forces Squadron commander.

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“We have a very healthy level of diversity in our enlisted ranks, but our officer and flying specialties look less like America,” Thomas said.

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Dan Sullivan, left, and Devin Estrade work at ClubExpress in Schaumburg, Ill, Wednesday. ClubExpress decided

to require vaccines for all of its employees before they started returning to the office in June.

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As workers return, some businesses will treat the unvaccinated differently

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hen North Chicagobased AbbVie employees returned to the office earlier this month, they faced two sets of rules based on whether they’d received Covid-19 vaccines.

Vaccinated workers were not required to wear masks or social distance. Those without shots were told to undergo weekly on-site Covid-19 testing, wear masks and social distance.

“Vaccination is the most effective way to keep people safe from Covid-19 and stop the spread of the virus,” the pharmaceutical company wrote in an email to employees, obtained by the Tribune. “The health and safety of our workforce is our top priority, and we will continue our enhanced safety protocols at all our sites.”

AbbVie said in a statement that it is focused on ensuring the safety of its employees, but the company did not make anyone available to further discuss the policy.

As companies across the Chicago area welcome workers back to offices, they’re often labeling them as either vaccinated or unvaccinated, with different treat-

ment for each group. It can be a delicate issue – given many people’s strong feelings about vaccination – that companies are handling differently.

Many companies are asking employees if they’re vaccinated.

Some are taking workers’ word for it, while others are asking for proof.

Some workplaces are requiring all their employees be vaccinated unless they have medical or religious reasons not to be. Still others are not mandating the shots but requiring weekly Covid-19 tests and masking for those who don’t have them.

“It’s a balance because employers are starting to encourage employees to come back to work and try to restore some of the camaraderie that existed prepandemic, but they also have to be careful about maintaining health and safety in the workplace,” said Gregory Abrams, a partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath in Chicago. “As with everything Covid-related, employers are dealing with uncharted territory.”

At credit card company Discover, which is headquartered in Riverwoods, only unvaccinated individuals will be required to wear masks and social distance.

Will Sanders, left, and Jim Mishke chat with co-workers in the sales area at ClubExpress in Schaumburg, Ill., Wednesday.

BMO Harris Bank’s commercial banking business also is allowing workers who are vaccinated – and choose to disclose that to human resources – to skip wearing masks in the office, said Dawn Feenstra, chief operating officer for commercial banking. Everyone else must wear masks when moving around the office, but not at their desks.

The commercial banking business has about 1,000 employees in the Chicago area who started returning to the office in June.

The University of Chicago recently announced that it expected all employees to get vaccinated and to upload proof of their vaccinations to an online registry. The university is still in the process of deciding on “potential disciplinary actions” for unvaccinated workers who don’t receive exemptions or comply with mitigation measures, spokesman Jeremy Manier said in a statement.

The university said in a July 13 announcement that workers who don’t upload their vaccination cards will be required to undergo weekly Covid-19 tests and wear masks.

Generally, employers have wide leeway in deciding how to handle vaccinations and Covid-19 precautions with workers, legal experts say.

“Employers are allowed to set whatever work rules they want unless there is a law specifically prohibiting it,” said Douglas Brayley, head of employment litigation at law firm Ropes & Gray.

He likened requiring face masks to requiring ties. Both are allowed, and employees who are at-will can be fired for not following those rules, unless there is a specific legally protected reason the employee cannot comply, he said.

It’s also generally acceptable for employers to tell unvaccinated workers that they have to test negative for Covid-19 before returning to work and practice social disSee Offices, Page B9

This state bill would protect our medical data from Big Tech

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your sleep “with here’s a race on between a higher degree the tech of resolution and industry and location precilawmakers over sion than would your otherwise be medical privacy. achievable” using Big Tech is a wearable device moving as fast as such as an Apple it can to embed its David Lazarus Watch or Fitbit. increasingly intruAndrew Consumer sive devices into Guthrie Ferguson, confidential people’s homes a law professor at before policymakers can American University who summon the political focuses on privacy issues, will to put much-needed told me this unprececonsumer protections dented level of bedroom into place. surveillance is “as creepy The latest example as Silicon Valley gets.” of such intrusiveness, It’s also exactly what as I reported last week, California Assemblyman is Amazon receiving Ed Chau, D-Arcadia, is federal approval to equip hoping to rein in with a its Alexa devices with bill now making its way radar sensors capable of through the state Senate. “capturing motion in a His legislation, AB three-dimensional space.” 1436, would amend CalThe idea, according to ifornia’s Confidentiality the company, is to monitor of Medical Information

Act to require that any business collecting and receiving health-related data receive upfront written permission from customers.

“These tech companies are after all sorts of personal medical information – your heart rate, your blood pressure, your sleep habits,” Chau told me. “As it stands, they’re circumventing medical privacy laws.”

That’s because existing laws apply to “health care providers,” which the likes of Amazon, Apple and Google are not, even though they’re among the businesses most eager to latch on to, and make use of, your medical data.

Chau, who has been trying to get variations of AB 1436 passed for years, originally wrote the latest iteration of his

bill to explicitly designate any company collecting medical information as a health care provider.

This simple change would instantly place all such companies under existing state and federal medical privacy rules.

Chau told me he had to drop that provision amid strong pushback from the tech industry and its friends in Sacramento.

Now the legislation focuses on requiring an explicit opt-in for any collection and transmission of medical information.

While that’s a more modest goal, Chau acknowledged: “I think the net effect is the same.

These companies would need your permission.”

He said his bill, if passed, “would place guardrails around these technologies.”

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As Amazon prepares to equip Alexa with radar sensors for monitoring sleep, a California assemblyman is trying to pass legislation that would require tech companies to get our permission before accessing health data.

That would be a good thing.

Technologies that pry into your well-being have become so ubiquitous, there’s a name for the sector: mHealth, as in

“mobile health.”

The World Health Organization defines mHealth as the “use of mobile and wireless technologies to support the See Lazarus, Page B9

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Lazarus From Page B8 achievement of health objectives.” The National Institutes of Health says it’s “the use of mobile and wireless devices . . . to improve health outcomes, health care services and health research.”

Grand View Research predicts the market for these technologies will be worth nearly $150 billion by 2028.

Yet there’s precious little regulatory oversight for how these software and hardware companies operate, or what they do with people’s medical information.

Will they use it to sell people products? Will they share the data with insurers, employers or companies that do background checks? Will this treasure trove of health information be stockpiled in anticipation of future technological advances?

Medical tech is the most glaring example of how Silicon Valley’s relentless commitment to innovation far outpaces the nation’s laws and regulatory structure.

Amazon, for example, was once merely a bookstore. The company’s vast array of offerings now include an online pharmacy, over-the-counter drugs and supplements, and, with its radar upgrade to Alexa, a device that will watch you all night as you sleep – and share that stream of data with Amazon.

I asked the company last week for some details about how the radar technology will work and what Amazon will do with the information. No one responded.

I asked again this week and also requested some comment on Chau’s medical-data bill. No one responded.

Chau, on the other hand, said he read my column about the radar technology and found the idea “creepy.”

“The tech industry keeps coming up with technologies that are more and more intrusive to consumers,” he said.

Chau’s bill says that any company offering “a personal health record system” to consumers “shall not knowingly use, disclose, or permit the use or disclosure of personal health record information without a signed authorization.”

“The bill would also prohibit a recipient of personal health record information . . . from further disclosing the health record information unless in accordance

with a new authorization,” it says, making clear your medical info couldn’t be shared with others at a future time without your say-so.

Chau said it’s been an uphill battle advancing this bill in the Legislature amid intense lobbying by the tech industry to kill it.

“Big Tech is in opposition, big time,” he said.

That’s putting it mildly.

The California Chamber of Commerce, speaking on behalf of about a dozen top tech organizations, says Chau’s bill is “overbroad” and would “drastically expand” the types of business and products subject to the state’s medical privacy law.

This, in turn, would have the effect of “significantly disrupting the market, availability and cost of everyday health products for Californians,” the chamber says.

For the Apples and Amazons of this world, that’s not ideal. For the rest of us, well, a little disruption is precisely what’s needed.

Chau also suspects a larger purpose at work among opponents of AB 1436.

He observed that if California passes a law making tech companies accountable for people’s medical data, this could prompt Congress to similarly amend the main federal medical privacy law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The federal law, known as HIPAA, is embarrassingly out of date. Amazon was still just a startup bookseller when the law was enacted in 1996.

Apple was on the ropes, its sales plummeting.

Google wouldn’t show up for two years.

Now each of these companies has microphones and cameras in millions of homes, and each has made clear that medical technology is a big part of their respective futures.

Chau isn’t a Luddite.

He accepts the importance of medical technology. He just wants to ensure consumers are protected as these powerful, privately controlled capabilities reshape society.

“Technologies like this are valuable,” Chau said.

“But when information like this is collected and transmitted, you need to give people a say.”

That’s not a lot to ask for. Our lawmakers should ignore Big Tech’s lobbyists and pass AB 1436.

David Lazarus, a Los Angeles Times columnist, writes on consumer issues. He can be reached at david.lazarus@ latimes.com.

Offices From Page B8 tancing, unless they have a disability that would prevent them from doing so, Abrams said. Unvaccinated people are not a protected class of workers under the law, he said.

Employers may also ask workers to present their vaccination cards as proof of their statuses, because those cards don’t contain any private, protected health information, said John Litchfield, a partner at law firm Foley & Lardner in Chicago.

The cards include only workers’ names and birthdays, which employers already have, and information about when and where they received their shots, and the types of vaccines they got.

Most of the companies Litchfield works with are requiring workers to

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was requiring its workers to get at least their first vaccine shots by June 1 or potentially lose their jobs.

Loyola Medicine, which has three hospitals in the Chicago area, announced last month it would require workers to get vaccines and, if they don’t qualify for exemptions because of religious or health reasons, they will “face termination of employment.” University of Chicago Medicine and UI Health have also said that they are mandating vaccines for their employees.

ClubExpress, a Schaumburg company with 26 employees, decided to require vaccines for all of its employees before they started returning to the office in June, said Dan Ehrmann, president and CEO of ClubExpress, which provides a cloudbased platform to help clubs and associations run their operations.

The company asked its employees to submit copies or scans of their vaccination cards, as proof that they were vaccinated, and placed those documents in their personnel files.

Only one employee resisted, believing the vaccines to be unnecessary, Ehrmann said.

Ultimately, that employee changed course and rolled up his sleeve, he said.

Because all of ClubExpress’s workers are vaccinated, no one is required to wear masks in the office or get temperature checks. They hold meetings in actual conference rooms.

“We wanted to get back into the office, and the only way to do that safely was to insist that people get vaccinated,” Ehrmann said.

“We just felt it was important to follow the science and the science said get vaccinated.”

Prior to December, direct listings were not permitted to raise capital and the initial liquidity was provided exclusively by early investors and employees. As a result, lockup provisions have not been common, but that may change if firms leverage the direct listing process to raise new capital.

Private companies must evaluate and choose their desired path depending on their targeted objectives and constraints. Companies may choose to go public via a traditional IPO to allow investment banks to pitch the company to a diverse set of poten-

tial investors, while other companies may choose to merge with a SPAC to expedite the listing process or because the company believes the SPAC operators provide an additional source of value to the company.

Alternatively, companies that do not want or need underwriter services may choose a direct listing to reduce the costs associated with going public.

No matter the path chosen, once a company enters the public marketplace, it becomes subject to the same interactions between the supply and demand for securities that shape equity prices each day. Inves-

tors can take solace in the fact that, whether a company takes the road less traveled or follows the beaten path, there is no special treatment.

The overall markets will shape the price.

Investors must be aware of the benefits and risks. There is no free lunch. Investigate before you invest.

Mark Sievers, president of Epsilon Financial Group, is a certified financial planner with a master’s in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley. Contact him by email at mark@wealthmatters.com.

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present proof of vaccination in order to go without masks, he said.

Other Chicago-area employers are taking a different route, mandating vaccines for all workers – something allowed under Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines.

Under those guidelines, employees can ask to be exempted from vaccination requirements because of sincerely held religious beliefs or because of disabilities.

But employers don’t have to grant those exemptions if an unvaccinated person would pose a direct threat to others in the workplace, or if accommodating him or her would be an undue burden.

Chicago-based Enlivant, which has more than 200 assisted living and memory care facilities across the country, said earlier this year it

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Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: JUL 14, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021001494 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00048182 Published: July 18, 25, 28, Aug. 1, 8, 2021

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

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: PREET ISHWAR DYAL SINGH CASE NUMBER FCS056691

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: LARRY ANDREW MCCOY CASE NUMBER FCS056754

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS BROWN BROTHERS REALTY

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MISSY MOO'S BARKERY

LOCATED AT: 1606 Moraga Drive, Fairfield CA 94534 Solano Mailing Address: 1606 Moraga Drive, Fairfield CA 94534 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): Ambitious Auto LLC CA Fairfield, 94534 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Trevon Smith 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 July 20, 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: JUL 21, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021001549 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00048294 Published: July 25, August 1, 8, 15, 2021

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Preet Ishwar Dyal Singh filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Preet Ishwar Dyal Singh Proposed Name: a. Preet Singh Khanna THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Larry Andrew McCoy filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Larry Andrew McCoy Proposed Name: a. Larry Andrew McCoy-Ozyuwah THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

LOCATED AT: 2401 Waterman Blvd. A/4 #225, Fairfield, CA 94534 Solano Mailing Address: (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED

BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): Eric Charles Brown 2611 Burrell Drive Fairfield, 94533 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Eric Charles Brown IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION July 6, 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: JUL 7, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021001444 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00048099 Published: July 11, 18, 25, Aug. 1, 2021

LOCATED AT: 2231 Zinfandel Ct. Fairfield, CA, 94533 Solano Mailing Address: 2231 Zinfandel Ct. Fairfield, CA, 94533 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Katie Leigh Wayne 2231 Zinfandel Ct. Fairfield 94533 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Katie Leigh Wayne 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 July 7, 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: JUL 07, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021001445 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00048101 Published: July 11, 18, 25, Aug. 1, 2021

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS LEMON TART DESIGNS

LOCATED AT: 1606 Moraga Drive, Fairfield CA 94534 Solano Mailing Address: 1606 Moraga Drive, Fairfield CA 94534 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Alelitherese Smith 1606 Moraga Drive, Fairfield CA 94534 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Alelitherese Smith 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 July 20, 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: JUL 21, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021001548 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00048293 Published: July 25, August 1, 8, 15, 2021

LOCATED AT: 47 Michigan Street, Vallejo, CA 94590 Solano Mailing Address: 47 Michigan Street, Vallejo, CA 94590 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) Dawnielle Vargas 47 Michigan Street, Vallejo, 94590 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/ Dawnielle K. O.Vargas 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 July 13, 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: JUL 14, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021001495 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00048183 Published: July 18, 25, Aug. 1, 8, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: PETITION OF DOROTHY MAE WILLIAMS (DMS) CASE NUMBER FCS056267 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Dorothy Mae Williams filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Dorothy Mae Williams Proposed Name: a. Dorothy Jean Simon THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: SEPT. 10, 2021; Time: 9:00 am Dept.: 4 ;Rm.: 305 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Hall of Justice 600 Union Ave. Fairfield, CA 94533 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Republic Fairfield Date: JUL 13, 2021 /s/ E. Bradley Nelson Judge of the Superior Court FILED: JUL 13 2021 DR# 00048195 Published: July 18, 25, Aug. 1, 8, 2021 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ALLAN N. DOWNEY, AKA ALLAN NORTON DOWNEY Case Number: P050680 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Allan N. Downey, aka Allan Norton Downey A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Steven L. Downey in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Steven L. Downey be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: SEPT. 17, 2021; Time: 9:00 am Dept.: 4 ;Rm.: 305 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Hall of Justice 600 Union Ave. Fairfield, CA 94533 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Republic Date: JUL 9, 2021 /s/ E. Bradley Nelson Judge of the Superior Court FILED: JUL 14 2021 DR# 00048196 Published: July 18, 25, Aug. 1, 8, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MINING WITH SOLAR LOCATED AT: 1771 Fawn Glen Circle, Fairfield CA 94534 Solano Mailing Address: 1771 Fawn Glen Circle, Fairfield CA 94534 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): 1) James Baranow 1771 Fawn Glen Circle, Fairfield, 94534 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ James Baranow 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 July 12, 2026.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: JUL 13, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021001491 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00048192 Published: July 18, 25, Aug. 1, 8, 2021 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ELIZABETH EMOND HERRERA Case Number: P050913 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Elizabeth Emond Herrera A Petition for Probate has been filed by: William McCubbin Emond Jr. in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: William McCubbin Emond Jr. be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: AUG. 30, 2021 TIME: 9:00 a.m. DEPT.: 22 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: AUG. 20, 2021 TIME: 9:00 a.m. DEPT.: 22 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1)four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: Gary R. Lieberman, Esq. (CSB: 71684) Of Counsel Law Offices of Hollander & Hollander 7 Mt. Lassen Driver, Suite A-150 San Rafael, CA 94903 (415) 897-2226 DR# 00048286 Published: July 25, 28, August 1, 2021

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1)four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: John B. Palley (SBN: 173469) Meissner Joseph Palley & Ruggles, Inc. 1555 River Park Drive, Suite 108 Sacramento, CA 95815 (916) 920-5983 DR# 00048223 Published: July 21, 25, 28, 2021

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: SEPT. 10, 2021; Time: 9:00 am Dept.: 4 ;Rm.: 305 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Hall of Justice 600 Union Avenue Fairfield, CA 94533 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Republic Fairfield CA 94533 Date: JUL 9, 2021 /s/ E. Bradley Nelson Judge of the Superior Court FILED: JUL 14 2021 DR# 00048194 Published: July 18, 25, Aug. 1, 8, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS KUZMA DDS: COSMETIC AND IMPLANT DENTISTRY LOCATED AT: 3694 Hilborn Rd. Ste 200, Fairfield, CA, 94534 Solano Mailing Address: 3694 Hilborn Rd. Ste 200, Fairfield, CA, 94534 (ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): Kuzma Dental Corporation CA Fairfield, 94534 THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Corporation 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/ Matthew Kuzma 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 July 20, 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: JUL 21, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021001546 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00048292 Published: July 25, August 1, 8, 15, 2021 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WILLIAM K. WALSH CASE NO. P050909 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of WILLIAM K. WALSH. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by MICHAEL O. DOWNEY in the Superior Court of California, County of Solano.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that MICHAEL O. DOWNEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent's WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 08/16/21 at 9:00AM in Dept. 22 located at OLD SOLANO COURTHOUSE, 580 TEXAS STREET, FAIRFIELD, CA 94533 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner BRIAN R. GRANUCCI - SBN 283321 1318 G STREET SACRAMENTO CA 95814 7/18, 7/21, 7/25/21 CNS-3491593# THE DAILY REPUBLIC DR# 00048174 Published: July 18, 21, 25, 2021

PROPERTY NOTICE OF SEIZURE AND NOTICE OF INTENDED FORFEITURE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that property was seized, pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 11470, in the following cases, and the District Attorney of Solano County has initiated proceedings to forfeit this property, pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 11488.4. The case number and property description for each case is set forth below.

If you wish to contest the forfeiture of this property, you have until thirty (30) days from the date of the last publication of this Notice to file a claim opposing forfeiture with the Court, unless you have received actual notice. You may obtain a “Claim Opposing Forfeiture” form (MC-200) from the Office of the Clerk, Civil Division. The claim must state the nature and extent of any interest you hold in the property, must be verified, and must be filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court, Civil Division, 580 Texas Street, Fairfield, CA 94533. You must serve a court-endorsed copy of your claim on the District Attorney of Solano County, 675 Texas Street, Suite 4500, Fairfield, within thirty (30) days of the filing of your claim. If no claim is properly filed and/or served on the District Attorney within the time permitted by law, the property will be ordered forfeited to the State, to be disposed of according to law, without further notice or hearing.

If your claim is properly filed and served, the District Attorney will decide whether to file a Petition for Forfeiture with the Superior Court to contest said claim. In the case where a Petition is filed and a contested hearing is held, you will have the following rights which include but are not limited to: you have the right to use the subpoena powers of the court and order witnesses to attend, you have a right to testify on your own behalf, submit evidence showing the legitimacy of the seized assets, and a right to cross examine the petitionerʼs witnesses. This is a civil action, you have the additional right to represent yourself or hire your own attorney, and there is no right to appointed counsel in this case.

AF20-3947. On September 14, 2020, Officers of the Vacaville Police Department seized $1,806.00 U.S. Currency at 970 Merchant St., Vacaville, CA in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC §§ 11378 and/or 11351. On October 2, 2020, Officers of the Vacaville Police Department seized $1,855.00 U.S. Currency; $4,180.00 U.S. Currency; $2,020.00 U.S. Currency; $1,900.00 U.S. Currency; $377.00 U.S. Currency; (1) 2015 Volkswagen Passat (CA 7NXT068 - Est. Val. $10,000.00); and (1) 2009 Harley Davidson Motorcycle (CA C989Xo - Est. Val. $10,000.00) at 191 Normandy Dr., Vacaville, CA in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC §§ 11378 and/or 11351. The seized property has a total estimated or appraised value of $32,138.00.

AF2 0-3948. On October 10, 2020, Officers of the Vacaville Police Department seized $28,000.00 U.S. Currency and $985.00 U.S. Currency at 901 Sara Ct., Apt. 98, Vacaville, CA in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC § 11359. The seized property has a total estimated or appraised value of $28,985.00.

AF20-3950. On October 3, 2020, Officers of the Fairfield Police Department seized $6,183.89 U.S. Currency at the intersection of E. Atlantic Ave. and Sunrise Dr., Fairfield, CA in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC § 11359. The seized property has an estimated or appraised value of $6,183.89.

AF20-3953. On October 22, 2020, Officers of the Fairfield Police Department seized $2,795.00 U.S. Currency at the intersection of Orchid St. and Daffodil St., Fairfield, CA in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC § 11378 and/or 11379. The seized property has an estimated or appraised value of $2,795.00.

AF20-3954. On October 23, 2020, Officers of the Fairfield Police Department seized $5,764.00 U.S. Currency at 315 Pittman Rd., Fairfield, CA in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC §§ 11378 and/or 11351. The seized property has an estimated or appraised value of $5,764.00.

AF20-3955. On October 25, 2020, Officers of the Fairfield Police Department seized $355.00 U.S. Currency and $2,290.00 U.S. Currency at the intersection of Dover Ave. and Air Base Pkwy., Fairfield, CA in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC § 11351. The seized property has a total estimated or appraised value of $2,645.00.

AF20-3956. On November 30, 2020, Officers of the Vacaville Police Department seized $1,366.00 U.S. Currency at 300 Nut Tree Rd., Vacaville, CA in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC § 11359. The seized property has an estimated or appraised value of $1,366.00.

AF20-3959. On November 15, 2020, Officers of the Vacaville Police Department seized $4,239.00 U.S. Currency at the intersection of Leisure Town Rd. and Zephyr Dr., Vacaville, CA in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC §§ 11351 and/or 11360. The seized property has an estimated or appraised value of $4,239.00.

AF20-3961. On December 10, 2020, Officers of the Vacaville Police Department seized $10,020.00 U.S. Currency at 179 Elmira Rd., Vacaville, CA in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC § 11359. The seized property has an estimated or appraised value of $10,020.00.

AF20-3962. On October 21, 2020, Officers of the Vallejo Police Department seized $2,500.00 U.S. Currency at 1715 Sonoma Blvd. #311, Vallejo, CA in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC §§ 11351 and/or 11378. The seized property has an estimated or appraised value of $2,500.00.

Date: July 20, 2021

\s\ __ Matthew K. Olsen Dep. District Attorney

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