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and climate change in our area,” said Marianne Butler, education director for the Solano Resource Conservation District, in a press release. “We hope that the local presenters inspired teachers and encouraged them enough to empower their students to help protect our natural resources in Solano County.”
The training began Aug. 4 at Rush Ranch Open Space near Suisun City. Educators learned about the importance and challenges of managing the Suisun Marsh and other open spaces from both the Suisun Resource Conservation District’s John Takekawa and the Solano Land Trust’s Jasmine Westbrook-Barsukov.
Teachers also learned from Assistant Superintendent Jennifer Leonard about the Solano County Office of Education’s Explorers Quest program – an outdoor treasure hunt that offers students and their families the chance to discover native plants and animals in Solano County.
The second day of the workshop was spent boating on Lake Berryessa as part of an educational tour to help teachers experience firsthand the significance Lake Berryessa holds for them and their students.
“It’s extremely important that students know Lake Berryessa is their drinking water,” said Jennifer Onufer, Supervising Park Ranger with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation at Lake Berryessa, in the press release. “While they can also recreate and play here, it is first and foremost a precious drinking water source that they can help protect.”
Onufer’s statement came during a question-and-answer session halfway through the tour, at the Bureau of Reclamation Visitor Center. The panel discussion also featured Education Specialist Kathy Schulz from the California Department of Water Resources, Water Quality Supervisor Marc Bautista from the city of Benicia, and Senior Engineer Alex Rabidoux with the Solano County Water Agency.
— Marianne Butler, education director for the Solano Resource Conservation District
Rabidoux also gave a full-hour presentation on the State Water Project, Central Valley Project and the Solano Project, which includes Lake Berryessa and the Putah South Canal.
Solano County Parks Supervisor Chris Drake closed out Thursday with an overview of the opportunities within Solano County Parks and ongoing efforts to increase park access.
The final training occurred Aug. 5 at the city of Fairfield’s Dunnell Nature Park and Education Center, where teachers were trained by California Project WET Coordinator Brian Brown to facilitate Project WET activities using the content they learned during the workshop.
Teachers who completed the workshop and participate in an October follow-up meeting are eligible for a $200 stipend and can receive 21 hours of continuing education credit. The date for the 2022 Solano Water Institute is yet to be determined.
The 2021 Solano Water Institute for Teachers was funded by the Solano County Orderly Growth Committee; the California Department of Water Resources; the Water Education Foundation; and the School Water Education Program, which includes the cities of Fairfield, Suisun City, Vacaville, Dixon, Vallejo and Benicia, the FairfieldSuisun Sewer District and the Solano Irrigation District.
The workshop is hosted by Solano Resource Conservation District with support from Brian Brown, Project WET coordinator for California.
For more information, visit solanorcd.org or send an email to education @solanorcd.org.
Solano Resource Conservation District/Courtesy photo Dixon Montessori teacher Cameron Jones and Loma Vista Elementary teacher Victoria Rose engage in a Project WET activity during the 2021 Solano Water Institute for teachers.
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Solano County.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management includes all or parts of the nine Bay Area counties, including western Solano County around Fairfield and Suisun City west to the Vallejo-Benicia area. The Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District includes the area around Vacaville and Dixon, east into Winters and Yolo County.
The forecast calls for moderate air quality Monday across the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District.
For real-time air quality readings for the Bay Area, go tohttp:// baaqmd.gov/highs. For air quality information in the Yolo-Solano district, to include information about the Sacramento region and up into the Sierra Nevada, go tohttp://www. sparetheair.com/.
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Singer and guitarist Don Everly, half of a brotherly hit-making machine that set a template for a host of harmony-makers who followed, died on Saturday at 84.
In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, his family wrote, “Don lived by what he felt in his heart. Don expressed his appreciation for the ability to live his dreams . . . with his soulmate and wife, Adela, and sharing the music that made him an Everly Brother.”
His family said he died in Nashville and did not disclose the cause of death.
Everly and his younger brother Phil, who died in 2014, hit it big in 1957 with “Bye Bye Love,” the first in a string of smashes showcasing the Everly Brothers’ incomparable vocal blend.
Things weren’t always harmonious for the singing siblings in their personal lives, but upon Phil’s death, Don described their deep bond.
“I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing,” Don wrote in a statement to The Associated Press at the time. “I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.”
They began recording in 1956 and quickly racked up the hits. “Bye Bye Love,” which reached No. 2 on the Billboard charts, was followed by “Wake Up Little Susie,” which hit the top spot. Between 1957 and 1962 they had 13 top-10 hits, with “All I Have to Do is Dream” and “Cathy’s Clown” also
Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/TNS file (1960) Rock and roll duo The Everly Brothers, Phil, left, and Don Everly, circa 1960. Don Everly died Saturday at the age of 84. Phil Everly died in January 2014 at age 74.
reaching No. 1.
The brothers enlisted in the Marines in 1961, and that and the British invasion helped cool their careers. The Beatles and their British brethren may have taken over the pop charts, but they owed a lot to the Everly Brothers.
“Phil Everly was one of my great heroes,” Paul McCartney said in a statement when Phil died in 2014. “With his brother Don, they were one of the major influences on The Beatles. When John and I first started to write songs, I was Phil and he was Don.”
McCartney later name-checked “Phil and Don” on his 1976 “Let ‘Em In.”
Other harmony maestros also saluted the pair.
“The Everly Bros music was a huge inspiration for me growing up,” Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys wrote after Phil’s death. “As brothers, those harmonies just sound so sweet and tender, I think it’s a family thing. I could never get enough of their voices.”
And Paul Simon, who laid down incredible vocals with Art Garfunkel, called the Everly Brothers “the most beautiful sounding duo I ever heard.”
Their initial time together came to a crashing conclusion in a public setting.
During a 1973 concert at Knott’s Berry Farm in California, Phil smashed his guitar and walked off mid-show, leaving Don to finish.
They didn’t play together for another decade, until a 1983 appearance at Royal Albert Hall in London.
Their reunion album, “EB 84,” included the McCartney-penned “On the Wings of a Nightingale,” which reached No. 50 on the pop chart and climbed to No. 9 on the adult contemporary survey.
The album peaked at No. 38, and was followed by two more releases, “Born Yesterday” in 1986 and “Some Hearts” in 1988. In 2003-04 they opened for Simon and Garfunkel on tour and joined the duo during the middle of the concerts.
The Everly Brothers were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s first class, in 1986, with Neil Young introducing them.
“Thank God they gave us two (trophies), we don’t have to fight over it,” Phil joked at the induction.
Don’s brief speech included his feelings on their career.
“Rock ‘n’ roll’s been good to us,” he said. “I hope it’s been good to you.”
Henri
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It’s the fifth storm to hit the U.S. in 2021 and the eighth to form in the Atlantic. Henri is expected to linger across southern New England bringing as much as 6 inches of rain to a landscape that has been drenched by weeks of downpours, which could make flooding worse. It will then sweep across southern Maine and head for the Canadian Maritimes.
Flooding has been reported across the Northeast, disrupting transportation. Amtrak canceled trains between New York and Boston. Some subway tunnels were inundated in New York City. And about 1,000 flights were canceled as of 11 a.m., mostly in Boston and Newark, New Jersey, according to Flight Aware, an airline tracking service.
More than 13,500 utility workers from dozens of states are on standby to help restore power, according to the Edison Electric Institute, a utility trade group.
As early as Sunday morning, Henri was still a hurricane, with top winds of 75 mph. But it lost power on its final approach.
“It didn’t come in as ferocious as predicted,” said Jim Rouiller, lead meteorologist at the Energy Weather Group. “I was expecting a bit more out of it but it really hasn’t materialized.”
A continental storm coming across Pennsylvania seems to have sapped some of Henri’s energy and moisture, Rouiller said. It also helped slow Henri down as it crossed an area of cooler water that robbed it of its strength.
Hurricanes and tropical storms depend on warm ocean water to build power and maintain strength. The cooler water has just the opposite effect and that could mean that the feared flooding and power outage won’t be as bad.
But flooding could still be severe, and officials braced for the worst.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Saturday declared a state of emergency, and thousands of residents and vacationers evacuated beach communities — or in some cases, opted to hunker down. A mandatory evacuation order was issued for some residents nearest the coast in Madison, Connecticut, across Long Island Sound.
President Joe Biden approved emergency declarations for Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York and ordered federal assistance. He authorized the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate all disaster relief efforts.
Biden held a call Saturday with governors from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
The Coast Guard ordered ports in Southeastern New England to shut, and established a safety zone for the Port of Narragansett, Mount Hope, Buzzards Bay, and Cape Cod Bay. In New York and New Jersey, authorities will implement vessel traffic control measures and limit movement.
Henri probably won’t produce anywhere near the $77 billion in damages that Superstorm Sandy caused in 2012, but it poses a significant threat to transportation and power networks, and is set to unleash potentially deadly storm surges.
The winds, rain and surge damage could reach at least $1 billion in losses, said Chuck Watson, a disaster modeler with Enki Research. Many of those costs will be absorbed by residents, who will make repairs themselves or because the damage won’t reach insurance deductibles. Insured losses will probably top out at $500 million, he said.
Biden
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would remain in place to keep Kabul safe following the drawdown of NATO forces, according to a British diplomatic memo seen by Bloomberg.
The chaos in Afghanistan and around the Kabul airport is fueling widespread criticism of Biden’s handling of the withdrawal of thousands of Americans and Afghans who helped U.S. forces over the past two decades and now face the risk of reprisal from the Taliban.
Between Aug. 21 and Aug. 22 at 3 a.m., 23 U.S. military flights evacuated about 3,900 people, and 35 coalition aircraft – including foreign military and commercial airlines – evacuated another roughly 3,900, according to a senior White House official. About 30,000 people have been evacuated since the end of July.
“We see no reason why this tempo will not be kept up,” Biden said.
Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, said Sunday that the U.S. is placing “paramount priority” on defending crowds at the Kabul airport, and warned of the “acute” risk of a terrorist attack by Islamic State.
Earlier Sunday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that he activated stage one of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, which gives the military access to U.S. commercial airlines to assist with the evacuation effort. In a tweet Sunday, Austin said that aircraft from American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, Atlas Air, Omni Air and Hawaiian Airlines are being used in the effort. They’re not flying into Kabul’s airport, instead flying passengers out of safe havens to interim staging bases, he said.
In recent days, Biden has held calls with U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi, the White House said.
