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Fauci says US turning the corner on Covid surge Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — The U.S. is turning the corner on the most recent surge in Covid-19 cases and more people need to get vaccinated to keep infections on a declining trend, infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci said.

Fauci, who is President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, said that while the full vaccination rate has reached 55%, the key risk is the 70 million eligible people in the U.S. who haven’t gotten a shot.

FAUCI “We certainly are turning the corner on this particular surge,” Fauci said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “The way to keep it down, to make that turnaround continue to go down, is to do what we mentioned: get vaccinated.”

Study results showing that a Merck & Co. experimental pill slashed the risk of getting seriously ill or dying from Covid-19 are “very impressive,” Fauci said on CNN’s “State of

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Delilah Wilson demonstrates the Halloween “Selfie-Station” at the Vacaville Town Square Library, Friday.

Celebrate Halloween with a month of events hosted

by Solano libraries

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Leaked fiscal records reveal billions hidden beyond reach Tribune Content Agency A sprawling investigation by an international consortium of journalists and news organizations uncovered millions of documents detailing how rich and politically connected individuals across the globe use offshore companies to avoid taxes and hoard wealth.

The report published Sunday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists linked world leaders including the King of Jordan, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to entities registered in locales including Panama and the British Virgin Islands that allowed them to hide their ownership of vast assets.

Aides and allies of politicians who have railed against corruption and urged reforms, including Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, were also shown to have taken advantage of accounting and tax loopholes enabled by offshore entities.

More than 600 journalists from See Records, Page A7

Fawn Fire fully contained by Cal Fire crews Tribune Content Agency SACRAMENTO — The Fawn Fire, burning in Shasta County north of Redding, was fully contained Saturday evening after more than a week of highly active wildfire conditions.

In a Saturday update, Cal Fire said the 8,578acre blaze was 100% contained as of 6 p.m. The fire forced the evacuation of thousands of residents in the areas north of Redding to the shores of Shasta Lake and destroyed 185 structures, including dozens of homes. Three firefighters were hurt while fighting the blaze.

Cal Fire investigators suspect that the Fawn Fire was intentionally set Sept. 22 near Fawndale Road and Radcliff Road. A 30-year-old Palo Alto woman was taken into custody shortly after the fire flared up and has been charged with See Fawn, Page A7

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FAIRFIELD — Residents will be treated to some exceptional fun this Halloween season at Solano County Library.

Solano County Library presents a variety of free Halloween and fall-themed programs at library locations with crafts, stories and other fun activities.

Children are encouraged to wear their costumes during the last week in October to storytimes and special programs. Programs will focus on fun, not scary, Halloween activities that delight young children during

Children Dixon Library, 230 N. First St. n Craft storytime, all are 10 to 11 am.: Tuesday, Bony Bead Pumpkins; Oct. 12, Fallthemed Paper Hedgehog; Oct. 19, Clothespin Monsters; Oct. 26, Monster Slime; Nov. 2, Decorate a Dancing Skeleton. n Afternoon adventures, all are 2 to 3 p.m.: Wednesday, Monster Slime; Oct. 20, Mini pumpkin

painting; Oct. 27, Foam skull decorating; Nov. 3, Crepe paper flowers. n Twilight Story Night: 6:30 to 7 p.m. Oct. 28 Fairfield Civic Center Library, 1150 Kentucky St. n Halloween Themed Storytime: 10:30 to 11 a.m. Oct. 28, outdoor patio area. Costumes welcome.

Bring something to sit on.

Fairfield Cordelia Library, 5050 Business Center Drive. n Pumpkin Decorating: 10:30 to See Events, Page A7

Dead birds, fish wash ashore as oil spill reaches SoCal coast The Washington Post Officials warned of a potential ecological disaster after more than 120,000 gallons of oil leaked from an offshore rig and began washing up on beaches in Southern California as workers tried to contain the spill.

The leak was reported Saturday afternoon, with the U.S. Coast Guard stating that the slick was about three miles off Newport Beach, a popular beach destination in Orange County about 50 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

Huntington Beach officials said the spill amounted to 126,000 gallons and has been patched up but “not completely stopped.”

“The spill has significantly affected Huntington Beach, with substantial ecological impacts,” city officials said in a Sunday news release.

Katrina Foley, an Orange County supervisor, tweeted that the oil spilled from Platform Elly, operated by

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Workers with Patriot Environmental Services clean up oil that flowed into the Talbert Marsh in Huntington Beach, Sunday. Authorities said 126,000 gallons of oil leaked from the offshore oil rig Elly on Saturday.

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slick measured an estimated 5.8 nautical miles, stretching from the Huntington Beach Pier to Newport Beach.

“We recognize the gravity of the situation,” state legislator Cottie Petrie-Norris said at a news conference on Saturday.

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Going way back to 1981 in Vacaville end Dave Browning, linebacker Mario Celotto and wide receiver Cliff Branch.

“What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time” — from “Troglodyte” by The Jimmy Castor Bunch

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In January, Vacaville became one of the first Tony Wade Solano County cities to Back in the day go live with the thennew 911 universal emergency telephone number.

Instead of dialing seven digit telephone numbers for different The Raiders killed agencies like the Vacaville the Radio Stars Police Department, Vacaville The NFL champion Oakland Fire Department, Solano Raiders came to Solano ComCounty Sheriff’s Department or munity College in May and put a the California Highway Patrol, beat down on Vacaville radio residents could connect to station personalities who dispatchers in the direct dubbed themselves the KUIC communications center with the Radio All Stars in a charity basketball game. The event was easy-to-remember number.

While those involved in the called “The Battle of the Jocks,” rollout were thrilled it was and was held to raise money to finally becoming a reality, they improve the football programs were disappointed that the at Vacaville, Fairfield, Armijo system wasn’t up and ready to and Dixon high schools. be included in the new phone The Raiders hoop squad was books that were published the led by tight end Todd Chrisprevious November. The tensen, who scored 29 of the 911 switch had been mandated team’s 68 points. Pat Ford by the state legislature in contributed the lion’s share of 1973 and California telephone KUIC’s 53 point total with 13. users started paying a .5% tax The rest of the Silver and in telephone bills to pay for the Black’s squad included kick installation and ongoing returner Ira Matthews, defensive tackle Reggie Kinlaw, tight maintenance of the new, more end Derrick Jensen, defensive efficient system. ell, we aren’t going that far back for some of us longtimers, just four decades to 1981 and highlighting events from Vacaville.

Vacaville Secret Service On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. as part of a deluded scheme to somehow impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom Hinckley was obsessed. Robert C. Davidson, a 1964 graduate of Vacaville High School, was part of the Secret Service contingent at that time.

He was not outside where Reagan and others were shot, but inside the Hilton Hotel.

Shortly after the assassination attempt, he called his wife to let her know he was OK and then made a similar call to his parents in Vacaville.

Fiesta Days: Fun, festivities and felonious behavior The Fiesta Days Planning Committee began their arrangements for the 24th annual celebration in February 1981 with a look back at the previous year’s. Among other attractions, it had included an art sale, a barbecue, a golf tournament, a parachute drop, a roller skating contest, a sack race, a teen dance, a tug of war, a turkey shoot and a whiskerino contest.

A staggering amount of food had been consumed during the six eating contests in the 1980 affair. They included 500 pounds of watermelon,

300 tacos, 200 hot dogs, 85 pounds of spaghetti, 72 pies and 26 bowls of jalapeño peppers.

The planning evidently went well as the May 24th newspaper reported on all the festivities.

Fairfield High’s Scarlet Brigade snagged the sweepstakes award in the band competition for the second straight year. They weren’t the only Fairfield band to show up and show out as the Charles L. Sullivan band took home top honors in the junior high division.

Ballet Folklorico Mexicano de Vacaville, a troupe that performed Mexican dances throughout Solano County since 1975, won sweepstakes honors in the talent show. The Vocational Skills Olympics competition featured 27 high school and junior high school students who competed in one of four skills competitions: cooking, sheet metals, beginning typing and advanced typing. They all received gift certificates from local merchants.

The Diaper Derby was a huge hit. It featured 80 toddlers whose parents tried to coax them to crawl across a finish line using bottles, stuffed animals and other objects.

One thing that no one planned on was an impatient beer drinker at the Fiesta Days

dance stabbing five people.

The incident started when the attacker apparently tried to order a beer at a concession stand set up at the Vasquez Delicatessen and started complaining about the service.

A worker asked him to quiet down and an argument ensued.

The attacker then stabbed the worker and others who tried to stop him. Ultimately 20 officers from four different law enforcement agencies (the Vacaville Police Department, Solano County Sheriff’s Office, the California Highway Patrol and the Dixon Police Department) had to help quell the melee. All of the stabbing victims were treated at local hospitals and the attacker was arrested and faced five felony assault charges.

Sign of the times Vacaville’s population was 42,450 in 1981, according to a city limit sign shown in the paper. The reason the sign was featured was because some jokester had changed the first “V” to a “W” so it read Wacaville. City officials were not amused.

Reach Fairfield humor columnist, accidental local historian and author of The History Press book “Growing Up In Fairfield, California” Tony Wade at toekneeweighed@gmail.com.

FS Rotary awards $13K to help Suisun Wildlife Center University of California, Davis, graduates, while Bradley graduated from California State University, Stanislaus.

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FAIRFIELD — The Suisun Wildlife Center will soon have a new Bird of Prey Aviary and a new Butterfly/Bee/Hummingbird garden thanks to a Rotary District 5160 grant received by the FairfieldSuisun Rotary Club.

The two exhibits were destroyed in a wildfire in June 2020, which occurred in the Suisun Marsh but moved to the Wildlife Center and the adjoining Suisun neighborhood.

“These funds could not have come at a better time as we are just starting to get requests from schools for programs at our Center,” said Wildlife Center Director Monique Liguori.

The Suisun Wildlife Center has been rescuing and releasing birds and animals back to the wild since 1976. It has released more than 17,000 animals, and its education program has served more than 300,000 children and adults.

The Fairfield-Suisun Rotary Club received $9,000 from District 5160 and matched it with $4,000 of their own funds

Stanislaus graduates local students for a total of $13,000.

“The work they do here with the animals and the birds and the inspiration they give to our local children is truly inspiring and unique in this state,” said FS Rotary President Cathy Ritch, “We are pleased that we will be able to help them continue with their work.”

The grant to the wildlife center was made in August.

Area inductees join Phi Kappa Phi Jeanette Mann and Thomas Gormley, of Fairfield, and Milissa Bradley, of Benicia, were have been initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society.

Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter.

Mann and Gormley are

Having spent their final year at California State University, Stanislaus in virtual and online spaces due to the Covid-19 pandemic, graduates from the Class of 2021 assembled on campus in May for the ultimate in-person event: the 61st Commencement ceremony.

Graduates from the Class of 2020 also were invited to participate.

The university hosted six ceremonies over three days, May 26-28, at the campus outdoor amphitheater. For the 2020-21 academic year, Stanislaus State celebrated more than 3,000 graduates.

Locals who earned their degrees included Jennifer Flores, of Fairfield, graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s in nursing; Seth Mattson, of Vacaville, graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s in nursing; Pooja Bhasin, of Fairfield, graduated

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summa cum laude with a bachelor’s in nursing; Jonathan Bins, of Fairfield, graduated with a bachelor’s in computer science; and Gabriel Zepeda, of Fairfield, graduated with a bachelor’s in business administration.

Singh on Missouri State dean’s list Satwinder Singh, of Travis Air Force Base, made the summer dean’s list at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri.

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SUISUN CITY — Suisun City will host its first Climate and Environmental Festival from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Suisun Harbor Theater, 720 Main St. The festival aims to create an opportunity for community members and other Solano County residents to connect with focused organizations on the environment and climate resilience. Admission is free.

Suisun City will need to adapt and respond to increased flood risks from climate change, both from increasingly strong storms and sea-level rise, according to a press release for the event.

The Suisun City Climate and Environmental Festival is being offered by the city and Sustainable Solano’s Resilient Neighborhoods program as a way to build public awareness around environmental risks, and better inform public engagement around developing the city’s Flood Resilience Action Plan.

The festival will include booths with family-friendly activities and informative talks on resilience. The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission will address the threats from sea level rise and different strategies and solutions for Suisun City.

Anne Freiwald and Lydia Neilsen of Vital Cycles will speak about creating climate-conscious landscapes – offering ideas for what residents can do in their yards for more resilience to climate challenges, from flooding to drought.

The festival, which will occur mostly outdoors, will meet the county’s current guidelines for health and public safety around Covid-19 protocols. Find more details here as they’re announced: https:// www.eventbrite.com/e/ suisun-city-climate-andenvironmental-festivaltickets-170477470704.

Sustainable Solano is a countywide nonprofit organization that is dedicated to “nurturing initiatives for the good of the whole.” The organization brings together programs that support and sustain one another and the Solano County community. Initiatives include sustainable landscaping, local food, resilient neighborhoods, sustaining conversations and community gardens.

For more information, visit sustainablesolano. org. Sustainable Solano’s Resilient Neighborhoods program is to unite neighbors in working collaboratively, with the support of the greater community, to create robust and regenerative urban ecosystems that mimic nature in performing valuable functions like producing food, filtering air and cycling water.

The program is funded by the Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation Foundation.

For more information, visit http:// sustainablesolano.org/ resilient-neighborhoods.

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equipment firefighters use every day.

Sparky the Dog will be available for pictures at a photo booth. Children can also test their firefighting skills on the Kids Firefighter Activity Course.

Fire hats and goodie bags are available for the children.

Floating Pumpkin Patch returns The city’s Floating Pumpkin Patch returns this year with a watery spin on a fall tradition. Bring your swimsuit, towel and friends to this family event at the Graham Aquatic Center.

The rec pool, water slides and children’s activity area will be open all afternoon, and there will be arts, crafts and games aplenty to amuse all.

Each entry fee includes one regular-sized pumpkin, which the children can swim with, decorate and take home for Halloween.

The event will take place from 2 to 5 p.m.

Saturday at the Graham Aquatic Center located at 1100 Alamo Drive.

For more information and to register, visit cityof vacaville.com/civicrec.

Fun Run set at Fairfield school The Fairfield-Suisun School District Community Fun Run returns Saturday, 9 a.m., at B. Gale Wilson TK-8 School, 3301 Cherry Hills Court.

There will be a 1-mile run and a 5K. Both events can be done as a fun run or walk.

The first race will be an untimed 1-mile run. The 5K (3.1 miles) will begin at 9:30 a.m. It is a timed race using chip technology.

Race bibs must be worn in order to be properly timed.

All participants must be registered. Late registration is available on-site starting at 8 a.m. Custom bracelets will be awarded to the first 400 5K finishers. Participants can register through the district’s Facebook page.

Parking is available at the school, but is limited.

Participants are encouraged to carpool.

Office of Education hosts job fair Friday The Solano County Office of Education is hosting a job fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at Irene Larsen Center, 1707 California Drive.

The schools office is looking for qualified para-educators, custodians, teachers, student wellness specialists, bus drivers, clerical administrators, accounting analysts, substitutes and others.

For more information, send an email to human resources@solanocoe.net or call 399-4440.

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Savannah Singer, 7, foreground, and her twin sister Madelynn Singer attend an online school City of Angels,

Surge of families seeking remote learning overwhelms LA schools Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES – A surge of parents seeking remote learning for their children has overwhelmed public school programs in Los Angeles, causing teacher shortages, administrative snafus and enrollment delays that in some cases have kept students out of school for weeks.

The L.A. Unified School District program, called City of Angels, was an already existing independent study that was program adapted this school year to serve parents unable or unwilling to return their children to in-person classes due to ongoing pandemic-related safety concerns. The program has been sought out by many parents who have children with special needs as well as health issues.

But a large number of the 15,000 students enrolled have experienced a range of problems as the district grapples with teaching vacancies and cumbersome state guidelines that have created difficulties for school districts across California.

While thousands of parents have successfully enrolled their children, others appear to have struggled with the process, with many who seek help unable to get responses from phone calls and emails. Many children have missed days of instruction and, in the most extreme cases, have been unable to attend school for weeks.

And many have faced repeated disruptions as newly hired teachers tried to figure out the system or as substitute teachers were replaced, one after another.

Alison Goldberg said her twin daughters, Madelynn and Savannah, were left without a teacher for nearly two weeks. One month into the school year, her daughters had been reassigned teachers three times. The last one was a substitute.

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The Fairfield Parks and Recreation Department has planned a Stride and Ride event from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday at Paradise Valley Golf Course.

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Alison Goldberg, 43, center, with her 7-year-old twins Savannah Singer, left, and Madelynn Singer who attend an online school City of Angels at home, Sept. 23. during a pandemic, Goldberg said, was never an option: One daughter has a metabolic disorder and her doctor recommended that she stay home because she is vulnerable.

“It’s just a nightmare,” Goldberg said. “Kids like mine are not getting a fair public education.”

Teachers have also reported problems. One, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation, said she had received ever-shifting instructions and no guidance from administrators by phone or email. Her curricular materials arrived several weeks into the semester.

L.A. Unified is far from the only school district that has faced difficulties with independent study programs.

Many problems stem from efforts by state officials to make sure that school systems would restore in-person learning this fall.

With the expectation that the vast majority of students would return in person – and they have – the Legislature narrowed the alternatives. State officials required school districts to provide remote learning through independent study, making it the only authorized option to regular in-person instruction.

In past years, independent study programs have catered to students with unique schedules or

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unusual needs – like child actors. And these students did academic work without frequent teacher supervision – often using packets they’d turn in to a teacher once per week.

State officials decided that an expanded version of independent study – one that now includes some live daily online interaction with a teacher – would suffice for families wanting remote learning. But this live online instruction, in quantity and scope, is nothing like last year, when school districts carried out their entire academic program online.

In L.A. Unified, with about 450,000 students, only about 3% have requested the remote option, but the program had to be wrestled into existence almost overnight – a task magnified when parents flooded the district with last-minute requests.

Exactly how many families faced serious difficulties is unclear. A senior union official told members on Thursday that only 2,000 children were fully enrolled at the start of school on Aug. 16 – a time when more than 10,000 students

had requested enrollment. District officials said Friday that the “vast majority” were “assigned a teacher” by that date.

Many of these teachers have been temporary.

The district acknowledged Friday that about 37% of positions have been filled by substitute teachers, who, under state work rules, must be transferred to different students after no more than 30 days, district officials said.

At last week’s Board of Education meeting, board member Scott Schmerelson called the situation “an emergency” and urged senior administrators to transfer in as much staff as necessary.

The situation appears to have been particularly dire for children with special needs.

Student disability attorney Valerie Vanaman said her firm could not handle all the requests for help and estimated that at least hundreds of students with special needs were not receiving appropriate instruction well into the school year.

When Myra Ruiz made inquiries about enrollment, she got bounced around between City See Remote, Page A8

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Should estranged brother know when mother’s health declines?

Dear Annie: My ably wouldn’t matter to sister and I have an him anyway, considerolder brother. We had ing his behavior up to a falling out with him this point. Also, there is several years ago and no chance of reconcilhave not spoken to him iation. He and his wife or his wife since. are incredibly self-cenMy sister and brother tered people who think both live within five they are saints. — Simmiles of our mother. Our Annie Lane mering Sisters mom was not part of Dear SimmerDear Annie the falling out. She was ing Sisters: I have no diagnosed with dementia a few doubt that your brother and years ago and lost her driving his wife are being selfish and privileges over a year ago. think they are saints. But someOur brother rarely calls our times, when we point a finger at mom or offers to give her rides, someone, there are three pointand he never stops by to check ing back at us. on her. When she calls him for See if you and your sister help, or just to chat, he acts like have exhausted all vehicles of she is a complete inconvenience open dialogue and forgiveness (actually, this isn’t a new behav- with your brother. Remember, you only have one brother, ior). He’s even retired! and he is your family. With We don’t mind being the ones she calls for help and that being said, no, you are not rides, but we do get angry that required to tell your brother he won’t take 20 minutes out of if something goes wrong with his week, or even his month, to your mom – but it is the right see how she’s doing. It would thing to do. She is still his make her day to get a visit or a mother, and if you have the phone call, especially during heart and kindness to take care the past 18 months. of her, then by all means, you Our question is: Are we should tell him. required to let him know when Dear Annie: A dear neighMom really starts going downbor has just lost her husband. In hill or if something serious addition to the shock and grief happens to her before then? that she is experiencing, she has confided in me that she has We’re both feeling like he’s no idea of how to manage the lost that privilege, but it prob-

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ARIES (March 21-April 19).

A fanciful focus on your story will work for you. What is the kinder, gentler way of viewing your past? Much good can be accomplished by lightening your psychic load.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

Tell people how they can delight you. Let them know what you’re dealing with. Follow up with the referrals of friends. An issue will be resolved with the help of a skilled practitioner.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

Responsibility and obligation will come readily to you, so you don’t have to seek or volunteer for it. Just because you know you can handle it doesn’t mean you should. Protect your spare time.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

You’ll accomplish more in a group. The trick is in setting an intention everyone can get behind. Otherwise, projects will devolve into a battle of wills. Take hold of the situation; you’re the one who can.

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financial aspect of her household. Her husband took care of all of that, and he is gone.

Fortunately, she has children who I believe will be helpful to her, but can you please remind everyone that household finances, including mortgage payments and taxes, are the responsibility of both members of any partnership?

In this case, my neighbor knew for quite some time that her husband was facing the end of his life, but apparently, the household finances are something that they never discussed.

Yes, it is difficult to do, but I hope that, especially in these difficult times, more couples will address the financial aspects of their lives, and if either of them has not made a will, there is no time like the present. — Concerned in Connecticut Dear Concerned in Connecticut: Thank you for your letter.

Yes, everyone should make a will and have their finances in line, either by doing the accounting yourself, with your spouse or with professionals who have earned your trust. I hope your letter helps others.

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by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday You’ll be exceptionally lucky in love, cultivating relationships with people who treat you beautifully and without prompting. You’ll commit your talent to making someone else look better and your own path becomes clear. You will take work that’s already good and refine it until it’s spectacular.

Pisces and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 30, 22, 28 and 18.

when they create reasons to legitimize their story. In this game, the only way to win is not to play.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Do a thing once and it’s not done yet. You’d be surprised at how often you have to repeat to make it stick. Go on, then – do it over and over. In the repetition, life comes together.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). People can’t help what they like, which is a fact of life in your favor today. You’ll follow your fascination to its natural endpoint – your happiness.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

You did the work and you lined it up, so now all it takes is a flick of the switch to see it play out.

How satisfying! Because of the past trial and error, this goes off without a hitch.

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A MINOR AMBITION WAS REALIZED What is a “Yarborough,” and from where does the name come?

A Yarborough is any hand with no card higher than a nine. In the days of whist, the English Earl of Yarborough would offer to bet any player his 1,000 pounds (a lot of money in those days) to the player’s one pound that

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by Phillip Alder that player wouldn’t pick up a Yarborough on any given deal. Since the true odds are 1,827 to 1, clearly the Earl would have made an excellent casino manager.

For many years, I waited to have the chance to raise a nonforcing bid by my partner to game when holding a Yarborough and not as a sacrifice. It finally happened at the 1991 Summer Nationals, in which I partnered Australian expert Ron Klinger.

West’s three-heart bid probably wouldn’t have been everyone’s choice.

Against four spades, West led the diamond 10. East won with his ace and shifted to a low spade, Klinger winning with the queen while West shed a heart.

The 4-0 trump break wasn’t a problem. Klinger ruffed a club on the board, played a diamond to his king, ruffed another club and called for the diamond eight. East covered with the jack, and Klinger ruffed. A third club ruff in the dummy allowed Klinger to cash the diamond seven and discard his heart king. East still had to collect the spade king, but the contract had made with an overtrick.

As this was a matchpointed pair event, the extra trick was important.

We scored 10 out of 12 matchpoints for plus 650 instead of only seven for plus 620.

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That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box. Solution, tips A MINOR AMBITION and computer program at WASwww.sudoku.com REALIZED What is a “Yarborough,” and from where does the name come?

A Yarborough is any hand with no card higher than a nine. In the days of whist, the English Earl of Yarborough

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California experiments with social democracy

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alifornia, as everyone should know by now, has the nation’s highest rate of poverty as determined by the Census Bureau when the cost-of-living is included in the calculation.

While family incomes in California are not particularly low vis-à-vis those in other states, our extremely high living costs, especially for housing, mean those incomes do not stretch as far as they would elsewhere.

The Public Policy Institute of California takes the issue a bit further by calculating how many Californians are living in near-poverty, using methodology similar to that of the Census Bureau.

Altogether, more than a third of the state’s nearly 40 million residents experience severe economic distress. They are, for the most part, workers in Dan Walters low-pay jobs and their families, and their plight has been exacerbated by the nearly two-year-long Covid-19 pandemic, which has hit them the hardest both medically and economically.

Backed by unions, Gov. Gavin Newsom and his fellow Democrats have vowed to reduce the state’s high levels of poverty and income disparity and this year generated a bushel basket of legislation they contend will narrow the gaps.

California is, in effect, testing long-held beliefs of those on the political left that America should move closer to the European model of “social democracy” by expanding supportive public services and empowering workers in their dealings with employers.

The former include increasing eligibility for Medi-Cal, the state’s health care system for the poor which already covers more than a third of California’s residents, expanding early childhood education to both improve learning outcomes and free more parents to work, and increasing spending on housing for low- and moderate-income families.

The latter is a variety of bills that impose new workplace and compensation standards on industries that employ large numbers of lowpaid workers, most notably garment production, agriculture and the ever-increasing distribution centers operated by Amazon and other big corporations.

“We cannot allow corporations to put profit over people,” Newsom said as he signed legislation to ease production quotas in Amazon’s massive “fulfillment centers.”

“The hardworking warehouse employees who have helped sustain us during these unprecedented times should not have to risk injury or face punishment as a result of exploitative quotas that violate basic health and safety,” Newsom added.

“California is holding corporations accountable and recognizing the dignity and humanity of our workers, who have helped build the fifthlargest economy in the world,” Newsom said later as he signed a bill banning piecework pay in the Los Angeles-centered garment industry.

Newsom also signed bills to expand protections for household domestic workers, raise minimum pay for disabled workers, increase criminal penalties for “wage theft” by employers, and provide farm workers with protective gear for wildfire smoke.

It has not been, however, a 100% sweep for union-backed legislation. Newsom vetoed a bill to allow mail ballots in elections for union organization of farm workers and another that would have expanded paid family leave.

Expanding government services will, of course, cost the state billions of dollars, which it can afford now as income taxes pour into its treasury, but whether it can be sustained is questionable. California is inordinately dependent on high-income taxpayers, which means its revenues plummet during economic downturns.

New benefits for workers, meanwhile, will increase employers’ costs, which could drive some to shift operations and jobs to lower-cost locales. The garment industry is particularly competitive, which is why so much of it has already gone overseas.

Higher public and private costs are the flip side of California’s experiment in social democracy. Ultimately, Newsom and the Legislature cannot repeal the laws of economics.

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efinitions of truth are political climate? Does it provided since this has sound familiar? become a rare form of The California Legislacommunication. 1. Conture is now demonstrating formity to fact. 2. Fidelity to the big lie concept. Asseman original or standard. 3. A bly Bill 1346, if the governor statement proven to be true. approves, will outlaw gasHow is communication powered leaf blowers by identified as truthful? Truth 2024 for California. The jusis assumed when spoken by a tifying “science” provided by Earl Heal person who practices that his the California Air Resources word is his bond. For speakers known Board is “one hour of gas-powered to have lied once or repeatedly, expe- leaf blower use is equivalent in emisrience requires comparison to other sions to a vehicle driving 1,100 miles sources known for truthfulness. from Los Angeles to Denver.”

Those sources must exclude most That trip burns approximately politicians, all social media, the 52 gallons of gas. Do our brilliant Snopes fact checker and news media legislators have blowers that burn in which the writers demonstrate 52 gallons in one hour? Why did our their bias by frequent use of superlalegislators respond to this big lie? tive adjectives and dogmatism (e.g., The Jan. 6 penetration of the all opposition groups are described Capitol was identified by the news as racists, politicians are routinely media as a threat to democracy equal labeled as extremists or moderto or greater than 9/11, the Civil War ate depending on whether the writer and Pearl Harbor. agrees with their position, etc.).

The protestors carried no weapons Why are not all people wary that with one exception, the only gun after an adult lies one time to never fired was by a Capitol police officer again believe them without separate who killed a protestor, and the police verification? officer who died of natural causes was When considering truthfulness, falsely reported to have been beaten consider the rules of Nazi propato death by protesters. We have heard ganda. “Never admit a fault or wrong; no apologies or corrections by the never concede that there may be responsible congressional officials or some good in your enemy; never leave liberal media. room for alternatives; never accept The Mueller investigation spent blame; concentrate on one enemy at a two years and $30 million and the time and blame them for everything House completed two impeachthat goes wrong; people will believe ment investigations trying to prove a big lie sooner than a little one; and Russian collusion with President if you repeat it frequently enough, Donald Trump; all failed despite frepeople will sooner or later believe it.” quent boasting by Rep. Adam Schiff of having unquestionable proof of Does this reflect in our present

collusion. No apologies and the congressman has been re-elected. Why do responsible citizens re-elect a pathological liar?

The current heat cycle commenced in 1850 after five alternating cold and heat cycles averaging 500 to 600 years each. The carbon dioxide (CO2) of Earth’s atmosphere remained between 0.02% to 0.03% throughout these cycles, including the first 100 years of the present cycle.

Global industrialization has now increased Earth’s CO2 above 0.04% after 2020. Since all previous climate changes occurred with no correlation to CO2 levels, should officials search for alternative and additional causes of climate changes? Will the proposed changes lead to socialism with complete government control and loss of individual freedoms?

The 2020 riots were predominantly in Democrat-controlled cities.

Why did Democratic Party leaders not take truthful action or even criticize the rioters? Where is truth in cries to defund police?

The nation’s founders envisioned that states would be laboratories of democracy. True, but they erred in assuming citizens would learn from the results. The truth is, states that lead in crime, rioting and poverty are governed by Democrats. Why do citizens continue to elect their faulty governance?

Earl Heal is a retired Air Force officer, Vacaville resident and a member of The Right Stuff Committee of the Solano County Republican Party. Reach him at healearlniki@att.net.

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State deserves truth about wildfire efforts

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trees, vegetation clearing, overning a state is hard work, but govcreation of fuel breaks and ernors aren’t supcommunity defensible spaces, posed to mislead and creation of ingress and citizens, make up sympaegress corridors. thetic stories or create rules Cal Fire also identified they neglect to follow. Yet “broader solutions” the state Gov. Gavin Newsom is a needed to implement to comrepeat offender of all those. plete the projects, including His latest offense? Fudging one to “suspend regulatory Scott Wilk requirements the numbers on the state’s as needed wildfire prevention efforts. to complete fuels reduction projWildfires are burning vast swaths ects in 2019.” of California – families evacuA year later, in aJanuary ated, habitat lost, homes, businesses 2020 press release, Newsom declared and communities incinerated. mission accomplished, boasting, “The Californians, assured repeatprojects collectively have treated edly that wildfire prevention was 90,000 acres.” a top priority of the governor, have Capital Public Radio and NPRanlearned otherwise. alyzed the project dataand learned Newsom not only has failed to Cal Fire actually treated only invest in projects that would protect “11,399 acres, or about 13% of the Californians’ lives and homes, he amount cited by Newsom.” also has misled people about what In an email to Capital Public has been done.

Radio, Cal Fire PIO Daniel Berlant The “fudging” concerns an initiareluctantly acknowledged, “The tive he ordered to big fanfare at an 90k acre figure was the overall event his first full day in office. From project area, but not necessarily the thatJan. 8, 2019, press conference in area treated.”

Colfax: “I place no greater emphasis That doesn’t jibe with what and energy and sense of urgency than Newsom told the public, nor with how on the issue of public safety . . . And Cal Fire described the projects. Cal in particular the issues of emergency Fire Chief Thom Porter told Capital preparedness . . . We will place an Public Radio that the state “was historic investment in our emergency never going to be able to tackle all planning and emergency preparation 90,000 acres in 2019,” and “We didn’t in this state.” have all of the environmental clearFollowing that, Cal Fire identiance that we were going to need to do fied35 “priority projects”that could all of that work,” Porter said. be implemented immediately to help For whatever the reason, Newsom reduce public safety risk for more grossly exaggerated the state’s progthan 200 communities. The projress on wildfire prevention. Despite ects, totaling about 90,000 acres, his claims, the safety plan as promincluded removal of hazardous dead ised to the public did not happen.

Moreover, he cut $150 million from Cal Fire’s wildfire prevention budget.

California had one of the worst fire seasons ever recorded in 2019, and according to the Capital Public Radio/NPR investigation, California’s fuel reduction efforts actually dropped by 50% in 2020.

The governor cannot play politics when lives, habitat and communities are at risk. That’s why Senate Republicans called for an oversight hearing and an independent audit on the state’s wildfire prevention efforts.

Due to the scathing publicity, an Assembly hearing was scheduled for Aug. 18, but on Aug. 16, Democratic leadership postponed it with no date to reschedule it. This year’s session has now ended, the state is ablaze, and Democrats canceled the only scheduled hearing that would have exposed the state’s mismanagement of wildfire prevention.

Obviously, the governor and his allies in the Legislature wanted to avoid scrutiny of the issue right before the recall election, but that political game comes at the expense of Californians’ safety.

Californians deserve better, most particularly the millions affected by wildfires. They are justified in demanding accountability. We all deserve an honest governor, not a misleader.

But hey, Newsom got his victory lap.

State Sen. Scott Wilk, a Republican from Santa Clarita, represents California’s 21stSenate District,Senator.

Wilk@senate.ca.gov. He is the Senate Republican leader.

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Events From Page One 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. to noon Oct. 23. Register at solanolibrary. com/events or call 1-866-572-7587.

Mankas Park, 2800 Owens Court, Fairfield n Halloween Outdoor Storytime: 10 to 1030 a.m.

Oct. 27. Costumes are welcome. Bring something to sit on.

Rio Vista Library, 33 S. Second St. n Día del los Muertos Sugar Skull Making & Painting: 3 to 4 p.m. Oct. 26.

Suisun City Library, 601 Pintail Drive n “Ghost” Scavenger Hunt: Find the “ghosts” hidden in the library and receive stickers, through Oct. 30. n Halloween Costume Parade: 10:30 to 11 a.m. Oct. 28.

Vacaville Cultural Center Library, 1020 Ulatis Drive n Papier Mache Pumpkins: Two-part event, both are 3 to 4 p.m.

Oct. 19: Use paste and paper to shape a design.

Oct. 26: Decorate your creation. Weather permitting. n Halloween Themed Storytimes: 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Oct. 27 and Oct. 28.

Vacaville Town Square Library, 1 Town Square Place n Outdoor Halloween Party: 4 to 5 p.m.

Oct. 28.

John F. Kennedy Library. 505 Santa Clara St., Vallejo n Pumpkin decorating: 3 to 4 p.m. Oct. 27.

Register at solanolibrary. com/events or call 1-866-572-7587.

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As it grew rapidly, whipped by gusty winds in the area, evacuations were ordered for communities in the area as far south as the Tierra Oaks subdivision in Redding.

Shasta College temporarily closed as it fell under an evacuation warning.

No evacuation orders are in place, although an evacuation warning remains for areas north of Clikapudi Creek, west of Wildcat Canyon and south of Juniper Drive. Cal Fire crews will continue to patrol the area of the fire for the next several days. A total of 50 fire personnel remain assigned to the fire. n The Caldor Fire, burning mostly in El Dorado County, is nearing full containment. The blaze is 221,775 acres and 91% contained. Although at one point the eastern half of El Dorado County was evacuated due to the rapidly expanding flames, few orders remain in place.

The area just south of Echo Summit is under a mandatory evacuation order, and several evacuation warnings are in place in the surrounding areas.

Evacuation orders have been rolled back over the past few days as firefighters make a “final push toward containment,” according to Cal Fire.

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Delilah Wilson demonstrates the Halloween “Selfie Station” at the Vacaville Town Square Library, Friday.

Teens and adults Rio Vista Library n Día del los Muertos Sugar Skull Making & Painting: 3 to 4 p.m. Oct. 19.

All ages Dixon Library n Community Ofrenda for Día de Muertos: Oct. 25 through Nov. 3.

In the tradition of Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) honor relatives and friends that our community has lost. Participate in this community ofrenda by placing photos or other offerings in the ofrenda on the steps of the original Carnegie library, facing B Street.

Vacaville Town Square Library n Fa-BOO-lous Halloween Selfies: Through Oct. 30.

Have your own Halloween movie night with selections from our streaming video services, Kanopy and Hoopla. Access is free with your library card at solanolibrary. com/247-digital-library.

Stop by your local library branch to check out its Halloween collection or ask for a book recommendation from the library staff.

For more information, visit solanolibrary.com or call 866-572-7587 (1-86657-ASKUS). Follow them on social media @solano library for the latest library news. n The Windy Fire in Tulare County has charred 92,473 acres while containment has reached 52%. It’s one of two large fires threatening the southern Sierra.

Crews worked through Saturday to strengthen containment lines in the Sequoia National Forest amid unseasonably warm and dry conditions.

To the north, the KNP Complex Fires in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park has chewed through 67,761 acres and is 20% contained. The fire continues to threaten ancient sequoia stands. At least one massive tree in the Giant Forest toppled after burning.

“Unfortunately we did lose one giant, but 99.9% of them look fine,” Mark Garrett, a fire spokesman, told the Los Angeles Times on Friday.

The fires, both sparked by lightning, have caused air quality conditions from Merced to Bakersfield to tank and will continue to “plague” the southern San Joaquin Valley for the next few days, said the Interagency Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program. n The Dixie Fire, burning in parts of Butte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen and Tehama counties, is also nearing containment.

It is the largest wildfire of this year, and also the second-largest in California history, at 963,309 acres.

The fire is 94% contained, U.S. Forest Service officials said.

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Progressives offer to scale back spending to advance Biden’s agenda Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — House progressives looking for ways to rescue President Joe Biden’s stalled domestic agenda opened the door to scaling back some of the more ambitious social spending by having those programs expire rather than be permanent.

“One of the ideas out there is to fully fund what we can fully fund, but instead of funding it for 10 years, fund it for five years,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat and leading progressive voice, on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Democrats are looking for ways out of their deadlock three days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scuttled a planned vote on a $550 billion infrastructure package.

She retreated as progressives balked at a stand-alone bill without the $3.5 trillion social safety-net spending and tax increases they want.

Progressives say they’re willing to compromise on that number – within limits.

The chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus flatly rejected Sen. Joe Manchin’s offer of $1.5 trillion in social spending.

“That’s not going to happen,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., told

Spill From Page One Times. It was installed in March 1980 and processes crude oil production from two other platforms. The newspaper reported that workers had moved to shut down the pipeline and use pressurized equipment to retrieve as much oil as possible soon after the incident was reported.

Videos shared Sunday on Twitter by Times photojournalist Allen J. Schaben show dark stretches of sand where oil seems to have come ashore, curving around seashells as birds and beachgoers stand nearby.

The California Depart-

Records From Page One 150 news outlets such as The Guardian and The Washington Post worked together to analyze the more than 11.9 million confidential files obtained for the report, making it larger than the organization’s previous Panama Papers investigation.

Here are some other key findings: n King Abdullah II of Jordan owns international property worth more than $100 million, including a cliff-top mansion on California’s Malibu coast, The Guard-

Fauci From Page One the Union.”

“So we really look forward to the implementation of this and to its effect on people who are infected,” he said.

The pill is a “big deal,” he said on ABC. Merck agreed in June to a $1.2 billion deal with the U.S. government to supply 1.7 million courses of the treatment, which raises the possibility that many virus patients could

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal speaks at Go Bigger on Climate, Care, and Justice! in Washington, D.C., July 20.

CNN’s “State of the Nation” on Sunday.

“Because that’s too small to get our priorities in. So, it’s going to be somewhere between $1.5 (trillion) and $3.5 (trillion). And I think the White House is working on that right now, because, remember, what we want to deliver is child care, paid leave, climate change, housing.”

On Thursday, Manchin said he was willing to accept as much as $1.5 trillion if it meant getting infrastructure passed, and if liberal Democrats want more they should “elect more liberals.”

Jayapal said reducing the length of time for authorizing that spending could provide a path

forward. Federal budget rules tally spending in 10-year budget windows, so authorizing spending for only five years would significantly cut down the price tag.

Cedric Richmond, a White House senior adviser, wouldn’t commit to a timeline or a price tag. But he said having programs expire could be a possibility. “We don’t look at this as a number.

We look at this as what programs are we going to deliver?” he told “Fox News Sunday.”

“Those decisions will be made in conjunction with members of Congress. But there is unity of purpose,” he said. “If that fight comes back in 2025, 2026 or any other

year, we’re going to prepared to fight for it, and the American people will know just how important it is.”

There are some parts of Biden’s Build Back Better plan that progressives say are non-negotiable. Climate programs need to be funded throughout the 10-year budget window to ensure that the U.S. can meet global emissions targets, Jayapal said.

“The clean-electricity standards really do need to be in there for a 10-year period, because it takes time to cut carbon emissions,” she said. “And we need to have that certainty in order for the market to move in that direction.”

ment of Fish and Wildlife said it had sent surveillance and cleanup crews to the area, and the Oiled Wildlife Care Network at the University of California at Davis said it had deployed staff to support response efforts in the Newport Beach area.

Huntington Beach officials urged people to stay away from the coast and avoid interacting with oiled areas because of the “toxicity created by the spill.”

Residents were urged to call a hotline if they spotted any wildlife affected by the oil.

In Huntington Beach, the spill led to the cancellation of the final day of a popular air show that drew 1.5 million visitors Saturday, to allow the

cleanup to begin.

“We’re aware that oil has hit the beach ... and it also appears that oil has infiltrated the Talbert Marsh,” Huntington Beach Mayor Kim Carr told reporters, referring to a wetland that is home to about 90 bird species.

According to the Huntington Beach Wetlands Conservancy, the area is used by thousands of birds as a rest stop during their long migrations from nesting grounds in the Arctic to their wintering grounds in South America.

In a tweet, Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center Executive Director Debbie McGuire said her “oil spill response gear is packed and ready to go.”

“I am so sad,” she wrote.

“So many birds and sea mammals at risk.”

The largest oil spill recorded in the waters off California, near Santa Barbara in 1969, spilled an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil over 10 days and killed an estimated 3,500 sea birds, as well as marine animals such as dolphins, elephant seals and sea lions. It reportedly provided the inspiration for Earth Day. The latest spill amounts to about 3,000 barrels.

“At some point we must address these types of spills and how they are wreaking such havoc not only on our environment, but also on our economics, in our communities,” Foley, the Orange County supervisor, told reporters.

ian reported. Lawyers for the king told the newspaper that he hadn’t misused any public funds and that he acts with “integrity and in the best interests of his country and its citizens at all times.” n In a series of tweets, Pakistan’s Imran Khan wrote that his government will investigate “all of our citizens” named in the documents. The report from the ICIJ indicated seven politicians from Pakistan. n Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, who is up for reelection this week, hid his purchase of a $22 million French chateau in 2009 using shell companies. Babis be treated before reaching the hospital. Fauci said the government has “the option for millions more.”

“And now that we have this success, the company certainly is going to rev up and make tens and tens of millions more for the rest of the world and for us,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

U.S. deaths since the start of the pandemic surpassed 700,000 last week in what Biden called an “astonishing death toll” that’s “yet another reminder of just how important it is to get

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Jordanian King Abdullah II gestures as he delivers a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Jan. 15, 2020. didn’t respond to requests for comment, according to the Washington Post. n U.S. states including South Dakota, Nevada and Delaware have

become havens for financial secrecy, with vehicles known as “trusts” allowing wealthy individuals to remain anonymous in their financial dealings.

vaccinated.”

Fauci dismissed attempts to blame immigrants and tourists as a major source of the spread of Covid in the U.S., a belief held by 37% of Americans overall and 55% of Republicans, according to a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

“If you just look at the data and look at the people who have gotten infected, look at the people who are in the hospital, look at the people who died – this is not driven by immigrants,” Fauci said on CNN’s

“State of the Union.”

“This is a problem within our country, the same way it’s a problem with other countries throughout the world.”

He declined to weigh in on whether he saw a medical reason for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue imposing a rule that makes it easier to expel migrants due to the pandemic.

“My feeling has always been that focusing on immigrants, expelling them or what have you, is not the solution to an outbreak,” he said.

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of Angels and in-person schools. Her situation is especially challenging because her 11-year-old twins and 10-year-old have disabilities that require special services.

“It has been really an impossible situation,” Ruiz said.

For such students, the path toward City of Angels has been complicated. These students typically are set up with a legally required Individualized Education Plan, or IEP. But the IEPs have to be updated before enrollment and the meetings have been difficult to schedule.

Moreover, parents of students with disabilities assumed that their children would have ready access Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/TNS file online or by appointment to Madelynn Singer, 7, left, and Savannah Singer, 7, play with Zoey, a support dog during a recess in the services – speech therapy, an online City of Angels at home in Porter Ranch, Sept. 23. for example – that their children would otherwise receive legally provide services stu- Schools David Baca acknowl- learning time. in person through the regular dents need, whether through edged that the parents’ For Goldberg, a single program. That is not neces- independent study or while accounts of systemic prob- parent, the entire experisarily the case. students are quarantined. lems are accurate. ence has been so draining she “Many advocates around Advocates remain worried.

To meet demand, Baca recently adopted two puppies the state predicted that inde- The legislative fixes don’t fully said, staff members have to help support her daughters pendent study wouldn’t be the address challenges parents been drafted from other areas emotionally. As far as school right fit for remote learning,” face when they opt for long- to help families enroll. The goes, her daughters have prosaid Victor Leung, the direc- term independent study, the district has also hired an addigressed so little that she’s tor of education equity at the organizations say. tional 171 teachers since the considering hiring a tutor.

ACLU of Southern California.

“While we are struggling, start of school – totaling 575 – Jocelyn Minton said she’s With the surge in as advocates, to support the as well as support staff. grateful for the remote option, cases caused by the Delta families and organizations “There is some routing even if enrolling her 5-yearvariant, many families ulti- from whom we have received that’s needed, but we are at mately decided to keep calls, there are surely many the place now where we feel old was a roller coaster. For eight days, he logged into children home. other parents/guardians who like every email that comes Across the state, students do not have advocates sup- in or every phone call, we a virtual classroom filled with disabilities have been porting them,” the letter can route it so we can take with other students but no discouraged from seeking states. “They are thus even care of the follow-up,” Baca teacher, Minton said. She independent study, services more unlikely to have their said of where things stand wasn’t able to reach anyone by have been delayed and stu- education rights acknowl- nearly seven weeks into the phone or email.

“I felt like all of us who dents are losing days of edged or protected.” school year. chose this safer option had instruction and risk falling In Ruiz’s case, even bringAnother issue is that behind, a coalition of educa- middle and high school ing on an attorney did not lead to sacrifice education for tion rights organizations said students in the old inde- to a swift response, although health,” Minton said. After in a Sept. 22 letter to state pendent study format were the district responded quickly about two weeks, she finally Supt. of Public Instruction typically assigned only one after being contacted about got a hold of administrators, Tony Thurmond and state teacher – who was not her case by The Times. including Baca, who helped Board of Education President expected to be qualified to As of this week, two of find a class for her son. Within Linda Darling-Hammond. teach every subject. Fam- Ruiz’s children are attend- a few days, he was reading A bill addressing at least ilies entering independent ing classes through City of and completing math assignsome of the independent study this fall were expecting Angels, while one child is still ments alongside his virtual study problems is on the gov- fully credentialed teachers waiting to be fully enrolled. classmates.

“I’m grateful that they’re ernor’s desk. If he signs for each subject, just as they While happy that the situation has improved, Ruiz doing it, but with that comes a it, as expected, it should were used to.

L.A. Unified Chief of said she worries about lost lot of kinks,” Minton said. become easier for districts to

This free community event will allow residents a chance to exercise on the 2.6-mile walking-only course on the back nine holes of the golf course, or take advantage of the 2.75-mile biking-only course on the front nine.

Free helmets and helmet fittings for children will take place from 2 to 6 p.m. while supplies last. Youth participants must be registered and present in order to receive a free helmet. Helmet sizes will be appropriate sizes for ages 4 to 17.

The golf course is located at 3950 Paradise Valley Drive.

To register for a helmet fitting or to preregister for the event, visit www.eventbrite.com/e/first-annualstride-ride-tickets-168648029797. For more information, contact Meghan Sullivan, recreation supervisor, at 339-5626orbyemailatcommunityevents@ fairfield.ca.gov.

Solano government meetings on this week’s calendar Several government meetings will be held this week. They include: n Suisun-Solano Water Authority Board Executive Committee, 9 a.m.

Monday, Suisun City Hall council chamber, 701 Civic Center Blvd., Suisun City. Info: http://ca-sid.civic plus.com/AgendaCenter. n Solano County Board of Supervisors, 9 a.m. Tuesday, County Government Center, 675 Texas St. Info: co.solano.ca.us. n Fairfield City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, 1000 Webster St. Info: www.fairfield. ca.gov/gov/city_council. n Rio Vista City Council, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, City Council chamber, City Hall, 1 Main St. Info: www.riovista city.com/city-council.

Council, n Suisun City 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, 701 Civic Center Blvd.

Info: www.suisun.com/government/ city-council. n Suisun City Parks and Recreation, 6 p.m. Wednesday, 701 Civic Center Blvd. Info: www.suisun.com/ parks-recreation-commission. n Vacaville Parks and Recreation, 6 p.m. Wednesday, council chamber, 650 Merchant St. Info: www. ci.vacaville.ca.us/city-government/ city-commissions.

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Giants win NL West as Webb puts on all-around show Tribune Content Agency There would be no messing around and relying on the Dodgers to lose as far as Logan Webb was concerned.

The 24-year-old from Rocklin did it all Sunday, lifting the Giants to the NL West title on the strength of his arm and his bat.

In a Shohei Ohtani-like day, Webb crushed his first major-league homer, scored three runs and turned in magnificent

work through his first seven innings of work to propel San Francisco to an 11-4 win over the Padres and the team’s first division crown since 2012, sending players pouring out of the dugout to celebrate on their home field.

Buster Posey drove in three runs, and his two hits on the final day of the season gave him 1,500 for his career.

The Giants’ win was their 107th of the season, extending their franchise single-season record,

and they are ensured home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, while the Dodgers must play host to the Cardinals in the NL wild-card game Wednesday. The winner of that game will play the Giants in the Division Series starting Friday at Oracle Park.

For weeks – months, it seemed – the Giants maintained the barest of leads over Los Angeles. The Dodgers’ 106 wins are the most ever for a secondplace team.

“You know it was our goal to win the West this year,” shortstop Brandon Crawford said.

“We knew that could be a kind of lofty goal – you know where the projections were and everybody thought where we were going to end up. But that was our goal.

“To hold off a team that ends up getting 106 wins and still win the division is pretty awesome.”

There is no overstating how extraordinary the Giants’ season has been.

Entering the year, many questioned if San Francisco would even break even. Manager Gabe Kapler told the crowd in a postgame address that he felt the Giants’ intangibles hadn’t been taken into account, “and the first intangible is toughness.”

“The veterans in that clubhouse came out right away and said, ‘We respect the competition, but we’re not conceding anything — we want to win the division. That’s what we do this for.’” Kapler

said after the game, drenched in champagne.

“For them back that up with the season we’ve had is pretty amazing.”

The question now for the Giants is: Do they have Webb, who hasn’t lost a game since May 5, start Game 1 on his regular four days’ rest, making him potentially available for a Game 5 appearance if need be? Or do they go with All-Star Kevin Gausman, who finished See Giants, Page B8

49ers’ defense, dominant early, falters in loss to Seattle Tribune Content Agency

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Cleveland Cavaliers guard Darius Garland drives to the hoop guarded by Golden State Warriors forward

Andrew Wiggins in the fourth quarter, April 15, at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

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league, which outpaces the general population, even in the most vaccinated of locales, such as San Fransisco, where 88% of residents 12 and older have received at least one dose, according to the department of public health.

The Nets and Knicks have also had to navigate a similar mandate in New York City.

The city of San Francisco confirmed that Wiggins would not be eligible to play in any Warriors home games, though unvaccinated players from visiting teams wouldn’t be affected by the mandate.

The NBA confirmed Wiggins and any other unvaccinated player stood to miss out on their checks for any game they missed because of their anti-vaccine stance.

Warriors: Wiggins ends Covid-19 vaccine holdout SAN FRANCISCO — The Warriors repeatedly said Andrew Wiggins’ vaccine status wouldn’t be an issue this season, and they were right.

The vaccine-resistant small forward got his shot, coach Steve Kerr said after practice Sunday, making Golden State’s full roster inoculated against Covid-19.

Kerr declined to provide any more details, such as when Wiggins received his shot or which vaccine he received, but said he expects Wiggins to play Monday in the Warriors’ preseason opener at Portland.

Wiggins missed practice Saturday because he was “under the weather,” according to Kerr.

Wiggins’ hesitancy to get vaccinated came under extra scrutiny

because of a San Francisco law that takes effect Oct. 13 requiring all attendees of large, indoor events age 12 and up to be vaccinated.

The Warriors’ first regular-season home game is Oct. 21 against the Clippers, which would give Wiggins’ enough time to qualify as fully vaccinated under the single-shot regimen but not the two doses required of mRNA vaccines.

Wiggins first expressed his reluctance to get vaccinated shortly after the Warriors acquired him from Minnesota in 2020.

However, as access to the shots has expanded over the ensuing months, vaccine mandates have also become more commonplace.

More than 90% NBA players are vaccinated, according to the

The Warriors are counting on Wiggins to step up as the primary second scoring option behind Steph Curry, especially early on as Klay Thompson continues to rehab his Achilles tendon. The former No. 1 overall pick (2014) averaged 21.8 points per game between Minnesota and Golden State in 2019-20 was 20th in the NBA; he followed that by contributing 18.6 points in 71 games for the Warriors last season.

As Golden State entered training camp, Wiggins defended his beliefs in a tense room at media day. However, he didn’t explain why he was hesitant to get the shot or whom he was consulting for information. Last month, the league denied him a religious exemption.

See Wiggins, Page B8

For most of the first half Sunday, the 49ers played defense like it was 2019 all over again.

Fred Warner exhorted the crowd and smothered Seattle ball carriers. Dee Ford burst into the backfield to twice sack quarterback Russell Wilson. Nick Bosa followed suit, dropping Wilson to the grass and hopping away in exultation.

The Seahawks went nowhere on their first five possessions. Each time, they ran three plays and punted.

Deep into the second quarter, they had minus-8 yards – yep, less than zero – of total offense. The Seahawks didn’t collect their initial first down until nearly 26 minutes of game time had elapsed.

So how to explain Seattle’s 28-21 victory at Levi’s Stadium?

The 49ers doomed themselves with a maddening offensive performance, no doubt, wasting promising firsthalf drives (with Jimmy Garoppolo at quarterback) and struggling throughout the second half (with Trey Lance).

But their defense staged a similar reversal, abruptly plunging from dominant to vulnerable.

Warner pointed to the Seahawks making one key adjustment, spreading out the 49ers more. Ford suggested Wilson became more decisive and unloaded his passes more quickly, before the pass rush could reach him.

The 49ers also hurt themselves

with untimely penalties. Witness Seattle’s 10-play, 81-yard touchdown drive early in the fourth quarter. Ford jumped offside on 3rdand-6, negating an incomplete pass and giving the Seahawks 3rd-and-1 (which they converted).

“It was a critical time, so you never want to be that guy who costs your team,” Ford said.

“I’ve just got to be better.

You can’t cut it close, you can’t put the game in the refs’ hands at that time.”

Four plays later, cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick’s passinterference penalty ushered Seattle from San Francisco’s 41-yard line to its 18. The Seahawks scored soon thereafter, pushing their lead to 28-13.

“Those were two really big plays that were hard to overcome,” head coach Kyle Shanahan said of the defensive penalties.

The 49ers, after putting so much pressure on Wilson early in the game – three sacks and five quarterback hits in the first 19 minutes – lost touch with Seattle’s elusive quarterback. He guided the Seahawks to touchdowns on three consecutive second-half possessions (though one of them covered only 14 yards, after a fumble by 49ers kick returner Trenton Cannon).

Wilson, of course, owns a long history of tormenting the 49ers.

He’s now 15-4 in his career against his longtime NFC West rival, with 34 touchdown See 49ers, Page B8

Davis plays hero in late rally, but A’s fall to Astros in walk-off Tribune Content Agency The Oakland A’s final series against the Houston Astros meant little to nothing for both teams involved. With most of the regulars resting, an opportunity for the bench-riders to get a handful of at-bats, the A’s rallied in the ninth inning on home runs from Seth Brown and Khris Davis.

But Lou Trivino gave up a lead-off single to Jason Castro, then Yordan Alvarez doubled off the wall in left-center to put the game-winning run on third with less than two outs.

Pinch hitter Yuli Gurriel hit a single into shallow left field to score and send the Oakland

A’s to a walk-off loss, 7-6, on Sunday afternoon.

The A’s down three runs entering the ninth inning, Brown hit his second home run of the game – a two-run shot off Zack Greinke (who pitched in relief coming off injury) to make it 6-5. With an out separating the end of the regular season Davis hit his first home run since returning to the A’s this year off Blake Taylor to tie the game. Davis’s home run was hit 105 mph off the bat and 409 feet over the Crawford Boxes Matt Chapman, Josh Harrison and Starling Marte were among the regular starters who took the final day off to rest their banged-up bodies.

Matt Olson insisted on playing, perhaps to try for his 40th home run of the year – he finished the season with 39 home runs. That means Harrison and Marte, free agents in the offseason traded to Oakland at the deadline, may have played their final games as A’s.

Mark Canha played and was hit by a pitch for a 27th time this season. That ties him with Seattle’s Ty France for most in the majors. Of course, Canha may have played his final game for his hometown team. The San Jose native who’s been with Oakland since the organization selected him in the 2015 Rule 5 draft will be a free agent in the offseason.

A handful of seasons ended on a high. Tony Kemp rounded out his best career season with an opposite field home run and a sacrifice fly to score another of the A’s three runs to show for it on the final day. In the series against his former team, Kemp went 7-for-10 with four RBI. Kemp entered the final game batting .345 with 14 walks and two hit by pitches over his last 41 games. A stretch that also included 88 consecutive at-bats without a strikeout that ended last Saturday.

Brown got the A’s on the board first with his 19th home run of the year off Astros starter Jose Urquidey.

Cole Irvin rounded out his

first complete season as a main starter with a six-inning outing.

Irvin allowed three home runs, the first a solo blast to Chas McCormick that erased the A’s early one-run lead. The second to Jake Meyers, to erase the lead Kemp earned with his home run. The third was from Kyle Tucker with Jose Altuve aboard to give the Astros a lead.

Altuve’s second double of the game came off Sergio Romo in the seventh inning and scored another run for the Astros.

Carlos Correa added a home run off reliever Domingo Acevedo in the eighth.

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here’s nothing like the slap of heat and bracing acidity of a pickled pepper. “Pickling mellows the grassiness that fresh peppers can sometimes have,” my Washington Post colleague Aaron Hutcherson wrote recently in an appreciation of pickled jalapeños, noting that the brine lends a puckery pep to the pickled vegetable’s warmth.

While you can buy a jar for a few dollars at any supermarket, I’ve gotten into the habit of quick-pickling my own jalapeños. It takes only a few minutes, lets me support my local farmers and gives me room to play around with the easy recipe.

Here’s the process: Slice jalapeños into rounds. You could pluck out the seeds, but I leave them in for extra heat. Put the slices into a clean jar, add vinegar, water, salt and – if you want to tame the chiles’ spice – a bit of sugar, though this is optional. Seal the lid tight, and shake it up, to give the salt and sugar a chance to dissolve. Then, leave the jar in your fridge for around 8 hours. That’s it.

After you’ve made them once, the method becomes second nature. And, you can use it on any kind of pepper or vegetable. The most important part is that you store the jar in the refrigerator.

That’s why it’s not necessary to boil anything – these are refrigerator pickles.

“Basically, all you’re trying to do is let the spices and vinegar infiltrate the vegetable, and you don’t have to boil anything to do that,” says Julie Garden-Robinson of the National Extension Association of Family & Consumer Sciences, who regularly advises home canners on best practices. “These are fridge pickles, so it’s totally safe.” Plus, if you pour boiling liquid over the vegetable, they’re more likely to soften and turn a muddy shade of green. That’s what happens with the grocery store’s shelf-stable pickled jalapeños.

If you’re like me and go through pickled jalapeños quickly, you might want to give this formula a shot. As Aaron described, they’re great on so many things, including salads, sandwiches, pizza, dips and tacos.

I make them so often, I’ve memorized the recipe. I’ve also tweaked it endlessly. I like my pickles on the salty side, so I use 1 tablespoon of salt and skip the sugar. But why stop at salt when you have a whole cabinet of spices and seasonings right there? I almost always add sliced onion or cloves of garlic to each jar.

While sugar tames the heat, a pinch of red pepper flakes will increase it.

Whole cumin seeds, coriander pods or bay leaves can add extra flavor. Use the leftover brine for marinades and dressings, so not even a drop of the zippy green heat goes to waste.

QUICK-PICKLED JALAPENOS 5 minutes, plus 8 hours’ pickling time 12 servings (makes about 2 cups of pickled jalapeños) Make Ahead: The jalapeños must be pickled at least 8 hours in advance.

Storage Notes: The pickled jalapeños can be refrigerated in a covered container for up to 1 month.

4 medium jalapeños (about 8 ounces total), sliced into 1 ⁄8 - to 1⁄4 -inch thick rounds 1 ⁄2 cup white vinegar, plus more as needed 1 ⁄2 cup water 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon fine sea salt or table salt 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon granulated sugar (optional) In a clean 16- to 20-ounce jar with a tightfitting lid, combine the jalapeño slices, 1⁄2 cup vinegar, water, salt and sugar, if using. If necessary, use a fork to help the jalapeño slices fit tightly into the jar. If the liquid doesn’t completely cover the jalapeños, add more vinegar until it does.

Tightly seal the jar and give it a few good shakes. Refrigerate the pickled jalapeños for at least 8 hours before using.

Nutrition information: Because we cannot determine the absorption of the salt and sugar, the ingredients are too variable for a meaningful analysis.

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rabbing a bag of dumplings from the freezer is a routine that many people – our staff included – turn to regularly to feed ourselves in a pinch. While their convenience is unparalleled, the almost meditative process of filling and folding homemade dumplings yourself can be a much needed respite at the end of the day.

Typically, pork dumplings are my go-to when it comes to fillings, but this pantry-friendly version featuring canned mushrooms, bamboo shoots, hoisin sauce and chili-garlic sauce has shown me that there are other, meatfree paths to dumpling deliciousness.

One of the things I love about coming up with these pantry recipes each month is that it forces me to try out new-to-me ingredients, such as the canned mushrooms used here. You can sometimes find different varieties depending on where you shop, but the most common are button mushrooms sold as either slices or a mixture of pieces and stems (either is fine for this recipe since the contents are getting thrown in a food processor).

They have a wonderfully chewy texture compared to fresh that I find works particularly well in this application.

To prepare the filling, start by rinsing the vegetables to remove some of the salt brine they were packed in, and then give them a good squeeze to get rid of as much excess moisture as you can. (A watery filling would make the folding process a nightmare.) Then finely chop them in a food processor (or by hand if you don’t have one) and mix them with hoisin sauce and chili-garlic sauce. If you’re not familiar with hoisin, sometimes referred to as Chinese barbecue sauce, it adds lots of depth and umami with just a couple of tablespoons.

And chili-garlic sauce brings some bright heat to the mixture, but you can reduce or omit it if you don’t like spice.

Now it’s time to assemble the dumplings.

I know people that sometimes love to go the extra mile by making dumpling wrappers from scratch – all you need is flour and water – but the convenience of store-bought wrappers is almost a must on a weeknight. (I typically find them in the freezer section, but some stores sell them refrigerated in the produce section.) One at a time, dollop a spoonful of the mushroom mixture in the center of each dumpling wrapper, dip your finger in a small bowl of water and wet the edges of the wrapper, then seal and fold as best as you can. Dumpling folding can be an art form, but don’t worry if you take a simpler approach or yours look more like a kindergarten art project. While we may eat with our eyes first, these mushroom dumplings will taste delicious regardless of

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how they look.

This recipe makes about 20 pieces, but you can easily scale it up to feed a crowd. If you do, enlist their help with the folding to turn it into a group activity and get dinner on the table faster. Then fry, steam and serve them up with your favorite dipping sauce.

Mushroom Dumplings 40 minutes 2 to 4 servings (makes about 20 dumplings) When finely chopped, the texture of canned mushrooms works excellently as a pantry-friendly dumpling filling. Hoisin sauce, sometimes referred to as Chinese barbecue sauce, adds depth and umami, and chiligarlic sauce provides tons of flavor and a bit of spice. Folding dumplings might seem intimidating, but can be confidently tackled with a little practice. This recipe scales easily to feed a crowd, or you can make extra to freeze for later, so enlist the help of your household to turn it into a party.

Make Ahead: Lightly dust formed dumplings with flour so the skins don’t crack. Transfer the dumplings to a baking sheet, making sure they are not touching, and freeze them.

Once frozen, they can be placed in freezer containers and frozen for up to 3 months.

Storage Notes: Leftover dumplings can be refrigerated for up to 3 days.

Where to Buy: Wonton wrappers, hoisin sauce and chili-garlic sauce can be found in wellstocked supermarkets, Asian markets or online.

One (13.25-ounce) can mushrooms pieces and stems, drained and rinsed One (8-ounce) can bamboo shoots, drained and rinsed 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce 2 teaspoons chili-garlic sauce 20 round wonton wrappers (from one 4.8-ounce package) 2 tablespoons vegetable oil or another neutral oil, divided 1 ⁄2 cup water, divided Soy sauce with a sprinkling of sesame seeds or your favorite

dipping sauce, for serving Squeeze as much water as possible from the mushrooms and bamboo shoots. Add to the bowl of a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. (If you do not have a food processor, finely chop the vegetables by hand.) In a medium bowl, mix together the chopped vegetables, hoisin sauce and chiligarlic sauce until evenly combined.

To form the dumplings, fill a small bowl with water. Place a dumpling wrapper on the countertop and spoon 1 tablespoon of the mushroom mixture into the center of the wrapper. Dab your index finger in the water and dampen the edges of the wrapper. Fold in half, creating a half-moon. Gently press the two halves together at the center of the curved edge. Then, working your way down one side from the center, make 2 small pleats and press the edges closed. Repeat on the other side of the dumpling. When you’re done, the dumpling will be closed, with 4 pleats and a slight curve. Repeat until you run out of the mushroom mixture. You should get about 20 dumplings.

(Alternatively, you can simply seal the dumplings without pleating by pressing the edges of the folded wrapper together and gently crimping the sealed edge 4 times.)

In a medium, lidded nonstick skillet over medium-high heat, warm 1 tablespoon of oil until shimmering. Add half of the dumplings, seam side up and evenly across the pan so they aren’t touching, and fry until golden on the bottom, 2 to 3 minutes. With the lid in hand, quickly pour 1⁄4 cup of water into the skillet, cover, and steam for 5 minutes, until the dumpling wrappers are cooked through; remove from the pan. Repeat with the remaining dumplings, then serve hot or warm with the dipping sauce.

Nutrition per serving (5 dumplings), based on 4 | Calories: 202; Total Fat: 8 g; Saturated Fat: 1 g; Cholesterol: 3 mg; Sodium: 538 mg; Carbohydrates: 28 g; Dietary Fiber: 3 g; Sugar: 5 g; Protein: 5 g This analysis is an estimate based on available ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s or nutritionist’s advice.

Recipe from staff writer Aaron Hutcherson.

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mint, basil, chiles and ne of the best things about crispy onion. visiting my Lucky for me – daughters in Arlingand you – Chef Albisu agreed to share the ton, Virginia, is that recipe, so I don’t have there are so many to drive four hours funky restaurants to to eat one. choose from. One of The list of ingremy favorites is Taco Bamba, a chainlet of Gretchen McKay dients is longish, fast-casual taquerias Gretchen’s table but save for the lemongrass stalk, that dishes up some of everything can be found in the Washington, D.C., area’s your local grocery store. To best tacos at surprisingly quick-pickle sliced Fresno non-D.C. prices. chilies, simply bring 1 cup Each of its six locations features two taco lists. Tradi- white wine vinegar, ½ cup sugar and 1 tablespoon salt cionales are classics like to a boil in a small saucepan, carnitas, barbacoa, al pastor stirring to dissolve sugar and and birria (here, goat), while salt, then pour brine over the Nuestros menu highlights original creations with chiles and let cool.

The recipe makes more fun names inspired by the larb sauce than you’ll need neighborhood. for six tacos, but no worries – At the Ballston taqueria you’ll want to spoon it on top just around the corner from of grilled and shredded my daughters’ apartment, chicken, beef or anything that the El Pollo Rico taco pays lends itself to Thai flavors. tribute to the local Peruvian restaurant of the same name ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK TACO (and Taco Bamba chef/owner Makes 6 tacos Victor Albisu’s Latin AmeriFor larb sauce: can heritage) with a filling of 1 serrano chile, minced Peruvian-ish chicken, green 2 green onions, minced chili puree, aji amarillo aioli, 1-inch piece lemongrass, salsa criolla, serrano chile minced and crispy potato. ¼ cup soy sauce It’s good, but my abso1 tablespoon fresh lime juice lute favorite – and the taco I 2 teaspoons fish sauce can’t stop thinking about – is ¼ cup sugar the One Night in Bangkok. ¼ bunch mint, chopped Seared shrimp is paired with (about ¼ cup) a spicy chorizo larb inside a 4 Thai or Italian basil leaves, chopped flour tortilla and topped with

¼ bunch cilantro, chopped (about ¼ cup) 1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and grated 1 clove garlic, grated ½ tablespoon orange juice For tacos: 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 12 medium shrimp, peeled and deveined Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 8 ounces ground chorizo ¼ cup larb sauce 6-8 mint leaves 6-8 Thai or Italian basil leaves 6-8 cilantro leaves 6 corn tortillas 1 scallion, thinly sliced 2 tablespoons pickled red Fresno pepper or other spicy pickled chile 1 serrano chile, thinly sliced 2 tablespoons crispy shallots or onions Make larb sauce: Place minced serrano chile, scallion and lemongrass in a medium bowl. Add soy sauce, lime juice, fish sauce and sugar. Stir well to incorporate sugar.

Add chopped herbs, grated ginger, grated garlic and orange juice to bowl, and mix to combine. Set aside while you make tacos.

Prepare tacos: In a saute pan, heat 2 tablespoons cooking oil over medium-high heat. Season shrimp with a little salt and pepper, or whatever spices you like and, once oil is hot, add to the pan. Cook for 1-2 minutes per side, until the shrimp is opaque all the way through.

Remove from pan and reserve.

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The One Night in Bangkok taco at Taco Bamba in Arlington, Virginia, features shrimp and chorizo in a spicy-sweet larb sauce.

In the same pan, add chorizo and cook for about 5 minutes, breaking it into crumbles until cooked through.

Spoon cooked chorizo into a bowl. Add cooked shrimp. Add ¼ cup larb sauce and toss together until meat and shrimp are well coated.

Add mint, basil and cilantro leaves to the bowl, gently tearing them with your fingers and stirring into the mixture. Give it a taste. Add more larb sauce if desired.

With a small amount of oil, toast your tortillas in a pan over medium-high heat, on both sides until the tortilla is hot and pliable.

Divide chorizo-shrimp-larb mixture evenly between your tortillas. Top tacos with sliced scallion, pickled chile, sliced serranos and crispy shallots.

Recipe from Victor Albisu, chef/ owner Taco Bamba.

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Fairfield educator to present learning strategies in Dubai Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — Deanna Hurn, founder and CEO of Miracle Math Coaching, has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Visionaries in Education.

The Global Forum on Education and Learning bestowed the honor based on Hurn’s work in brainbased learning, according to a hurn press release.

Hurn is scheduled to present her learning model in February at the organization’s international conference in Dubai.

“I appreciate the recognition, but I’m most excited about sharing my work with global education leaders,” she said in the press release.

“Brain-based learning can help children around the world learn faster and with deeper understanding.”

Achievement scores of Fairfield-Suisun School District students tutored by coaches at Miracle Math Coach-

ing jumped 45% from 2020 to 2021, according to the press release.

“The results my team and I have achieved with students in Solano County proves that focusing on how a child’s brain works is key,” Hurn said.

She launched Miracle Math Coaching 13 years ago in her spare bedroom.

The business will move from its current downtown Fairfield facility to a state-of-theart education center at the beginning of the year. The new location will use technology to enhance learning in what is described in the press release as “surprisingly innovative ways.”

The Global Forum on Education and Learning, a brand owned

by Prism Events Inc., is a three-day international education conference that promotes networking and knowledge sharing, and recognizes the industryleading work of visionary individuals and organizations, according to the press release.

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The new storefront of Premier Pawn & Jewelry after remodeling.

Premier Pawn & Jewelry expands with new location Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — A local pawn and jewelry exchange has shifted locations and expanded its offerings.

Premier Pawn & Jewelry moved Sept. 1 from its location in the Winery Square shopping center on West Texas Street to a bigger standalone building at 1962 N. Texas St. The move more than tripled its square footage, enabling it to deal

in a much wider variety of merchandise, according to a press release.

“We were a little hole in the wall on West Texas,” owner Adam Grossi said in the press release. “Now we can sell a lot more of our bread-and-butter items – jewelry, handbags, electronics – and expand into others like shoes and high-end numismatics” The pawnshop continues to offer its mainstay services: buying, selling and pawning on a wide variety of personal items.

Premier Pawn & Jewelry’s move to North Texas Street comes with an expanded focus on the luxury end of the market, according to the press release. The interior of the new building was renovated with new showcases and lighting to enhance the experience of buying higher-end items.

“We think it’s important for the customer to know we can take care of them at all points of the market,” Grossi said in the press release.

“We give loans on highend Chanel handbags or Rolex watches for customers that need to pay a tax lien or make a real estate deal. We’ve had a lot of parents come in recently to buy $100 laptops for their kids going back to school. Pawnshops serve people with a wide variety of needs and who are in a wide variety of circumstances. It really comes down to meeting the customers’ needs and treating them right, as it always has been.”

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Events like sports team spirit day help boost employee morale at North Bay Credit Union.

Survey: North Bay Credit Union among best credit unions at which to work Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — North Bay Credit Union was ranked nationally as one of the “Best Credit Unions to Work For” by American Banker – and one of only three California credit unions selected.

According to North Bay Credit Union CEO Chris Call, the credit union values each of its employees and works hard to give them the tools they need to succeed.

What sets North Bay Credit Union apart, according to Lynnette Barlesi, operations manager, is that employees are empowered to make decisions and ensure members get the assistance they need.

Call noted that staff diversity helps the credit union better

serve everyone.

“Nearly 75% of our staff is female, 33% are non-Anglo and a quarter are under age 30,” Call said in the press release. “And combined, our staff speaks a total of 13 languages. I think the unique and diverse perspectives of our team help us make more informed decisions.”

North Bay Credit Union, with headquarters in Santa Rosa, has $100 million in assets and offers a full range of loans, including mortgages, vehicle loans, home loans, agricultural loans and private student loans as well as free rewards checking.

The credit union serves Solano, Napa, Sonoma and Marin counties.

The credit union’s nearest physical location is in Sonoma. Learn more about the credit union at www.NorthBayCU.com.

In brief

Inflation gauge hits highest since 1991 U.S. personal spending growth accelerated by more than forecast in August, driven by goods purchases, while a closely watched measure of inflation exceeded estimates.

Purchases of goods and services increased 0.8% from a month earlier, following a downwardly revised 0.1% decline in July, Commerce Department figures showed Friday. Spending in July was previously reported as a 0.3% gain.

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Merck & Co. shares posted their biggest gain in five years after the company’s experimental pill slashed the risk of getting seriously ill or dying from Covid-19 in a study, findings that could eventually yield a simple way to treat many virus patients before they ever reach the hospital.

The drug, known as molnupiravir, reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by 50% in an interim analysis of a late-stage clinical trial, Merck and partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP said in a statement Friday.

The study results were so encouraging that Merck and closely held Ridgeback, in consultation with independent trial monitors and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, elected to stop enrolling patients and begin the process of gaining regulatory clearance.

“We couldn’t be more thrilled with the results,” Merck Chief Executive Officer Rob Davis said in an interview. “You don’t have to go to the hospital, you don’t have to go to a center to have it infused. It’s a pill you can take at home.”

Merck shares rose $6.29, or 8.4%, to $81.40 at 4 p.m. in New York, the biggest gain since Aug. 5, 2016.

The companies now plan to seek an emergency-use authorization from the FDA as quickly as possible, Davis said.

Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, called the data impressive and indicated that regulators would move fast to review it once the application is submitted.

“We always hesitate to make any timelines,” Fauci said at a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing Friday,

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Lab manager Robyn Schuman holds blood samples to be tested for Covid-19 at the Bellville Medical Center, in Bellville, Texas, Sept. 1. adding that the FDA, “in their usual very efficient and effective way, will examine the data as quickly as they possibly can.”

If the medication reaches the market, it would mark an important milestone in the pandemic. While there are several drugs available to treat Covid-19, they can be either cumbersome to give to patients, or intended for use in only the most seriously ill.

So far, no easy-to-use option has been available for people who are infected but not yet sick enough to need hospital care. That has left many caregivers with a difficult choice: send infected people home to try to ride out their illness and risk getting worse, or admit more patients to what are often already-crowded intensive-care units.

Monoclonal antibody therapies made by companies including Eli Lilly & Co., Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., and GlaxoSmithKline Plc and partner Vir Biotechnology Inc. have been cleared by the FDA to treat mild to moderate Covid-19.

While the drugs have been in increasing demand in many states, they require

an infusion, which can add to the strain on health systems.

Other medications are used to treat much sicker patients. Gilead Sciences Inc.’s remdesivir was one of the earliest therapies to get an FDA authorization, but it is meant for the hospitalized. And the low-cost steroid dexamethasone, while very effective, is usually only used in the most gravely ill.

Health officials in the U.S. have consistently emphasized vaccines as the primary tool for fighting the pandemic, and so far, more than 75% of eligible Americans have received at least one dose.

However, that still leaves millions more who are vulnerable to infection, and the recent wave of illness spurred by the spread of the delta variant has placed a significant burden on hospitals in areas with lower immunization rates.

Molnupiravir would give doctors an option to keep infected patients out of emergency rooms. It is intended for use in nonhospitalized Covid-19 patients who have had symptoms for five or fewer days and are at risk for a severe infection. It is in a class of drugs called

nucleoside analogues that target the virus’s reproductive mechanism.

Merck and Ridgeback’s findings came out of a previously planned analysis of 775 patients who had been in the clinical trial since at least early August.

The companies said 7.3% of patients who received molnupiravir were either hospitalized or died through 29 days, compared with 14.1% who received a placebo.

Through 29 days, none of the participants taking molnupiravir died, compared with eight deaths in the placebo group.

The trial had planned to enroll 1,550 participants, and around 90% had already signed up.

Patients who were taking a placebo will have the opportunity to start on molnupiravir, Davis said.

Merck plans to submit the data to other regulators worldwide. It said in the statement that it expects to produce 10 million courses of treatment by year-end, with more expected in 2022.

In June, the company agreed to a $1.2 billion supply deal with the U.S. government, under which it would supply 1.7 million courses of the treatment.

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In this undated handout photo from Eon Productions, actor Daniel Craig poses as James Bond.

Ranking the best James Bond movies before ‘No Time to Die’ Peter Sblendorio New York Daily News

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Five decades after the first James Bond movie, the wildly popular British spy film franchise releases its muchanticipated 25th canonical installment next week with “No Time to Die,” marking star Daniel Craig’s final turn as the suave superspy.

The 007 series has undergone many iterations over years with different actors suiting up as Bond, a character created by novelist Ian Fleming.

As we look forward to the new Bond movie, here’s a look back at the franchise’s best films.

5. ‘Dr. No’ Oh, yes! Released in 1962, the very first Bond movie set a high bar, introducing Sean Connery as the globe-trotting secret agent with a license to kill.

The film has it all: a devastating villain in Dr. No; a captivating mission to prevent a nuclear radio beam from destroying a space launch; and Ursula Andress as first bond girl Honey Ryder. Who will ever forget the scene of her emerging from the ocean in that iconic, and at that time, skimpy, bikini?

4. ‘Skyfall’ Not only does it kick off with one of the best opening sequences of any action movie (”Take the shot!”), 2012′s “Skyfall” cemented its place in Bond lore by killing off the beloved and long-serving Judi Dench’s M and introducing a new equally worthy Ralph Fiennes’ M. This Daniel Craig-starred movie also featured an unforgettable villain in Javier Bardem’s Raoul Silva, a former agent intent on exacting revenge on MI6 for betraying

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him and giving him up to China.

The result: a diabolical maze of twists and turns in a deadly cat-and-mouse thriller and that culminates in a epic showdown in Bond’s childhood estate, Skyfall.

3. ‘GoldenEye’ No list of the best Bond movies is complete without 1995′s “GoldenEye,” the first film to star Pierce Brosnan as 007.

The film tasks Bond with bringing down high-powered satellite weaponry while grappling with the traitorous ex-MI6 agent Alec Trevelyan. It also features a memorable scene of bad Bond girl Xenia Zaragevna Onatopp, played by Famke Janssen, attempting to crush Bond with her thighs during foreplay.

“GoldenEye” was a muchwelcomed success, coming six years after the franchise’s previous movie, which was the longest stretch between films at that point.

It also spawned “GoldenEye 007,” which remains among the most beloved video games ever made.

2. ‘Goldfinger’ The best Bond movie starring Connery goes to 1964′s “Goldfinger,” which introduced the sleek Aston Martin DB5, equipped with ejector seats, smoke bombs and machine guns, as 007′s vehicle of choice.

The movie, which follows Bond’s efforts to stop the ruthless gold smuggler Goldfinger — and his deadly hat-lobbing henchman Oddjob — made $125 million, which was far and away the most among the franchise’s first three movies.

Goldfinger’s madcap plot was to contaminate the gold at Fort Knox, so as to increase the value of his own stash. The film also includes the murder by “skin suffocation” of Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton), who

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Sir Sean Connery starred as James Bond in 1962’s “Dr. No.” betrayed the titular villain and whose body was found fully covered in gold paint. This method of killing was repeated in 2008′s “Quantum of Solace,” this time using crude oil.

1. ‘Casino Royale’ Craig hit the jackpot in his first turn as Bond, bringing an intensity and swagger to the character that took the franchise in a completely new direction. Gone was the camp of Roger Moore’s Bond, Connery’s misogynistic anachronism and the ‘90s Hollywood glitz of Brosnan’s 007.

This Bond is gritty, not afraid to get his hands bloody, has feelings and isn’t afraid to show it. Unlike previous movies in the franchise, this Bond falls in love, surrenders his license to kill, resigns from MI6 and runs to Venice with the Bond girl.

The effervescent Eva Green played Vesper Lynd, who has a complicated past and who was more than a titillating cardboard cutout.

A tense high-stakes Texas hold ‘em tournament at the Casino Royale in Montenegro was the other star, with villain Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre trying to hold a poker face while shedding bloody tears.

Bridge

THE BIDDING BOY BLABBED THE BYLINE If an opponent has bid, use the information supplied to your advantage. Don’t be deaf to the data dispensed.

In today’s deal, South played in five clubs after the given auction. West led the diamond queen. What should South have done?

South didn’t know what to bid after

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by Phillip Alder East surprised him with a weak two in hearts. (Agreed, perhaps this was the only player who would have made that bid, especially when vulnerable, with no picture card in the suit and all of those honors outside.) After some meditation, South decided to take a shot at game in his other long suit.

The declarer was so happy to have dodged a spade lead that he took his eye off the ball. He discarded his spade king on dummy’s diamond ace, then immediately played a trump. However, the defenders took their club ace and club king before exiting with a diamond. When the hearts, as expected, split 6-0, South could ruff only one of his heart losers in the dummy. On the sixth round of the suit, East’s 10 beat declarer’s nine to defeat the contract – have you ever seen that happen before?

As the 6-0 heart split was a virtual certainty from the bidding, declarer’s only chance was to find East with the singleton or doubleton spade ace. At trick two, he should have ruffed a spade in his hand. Then, after two rounds of trumps and a diamond ruff in hand, declarer could have played a heart to the queen and ruffed another spade, bringing down the ace. Back to dummy with a heart ruff, the heart nine would have disappeared on the spade queen: contract made.

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In this outing, the Reverend is called to defend a group of Christian homeschooling families.

He finds himself taken aback by the interference of the government, and believing that their right to educate their own children is a freedom worth fighting for. It’s not rated.

Netflix chimes in with “There’s Someone Inside Your House,” screening Wednesday.

The plot centers on a high school senior and the rest of her new school’s graduating class being targeted by a masked killer intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the world.

It’s not rated.

“American Insurrection” centers on what happens after a powerful militia seizes control of the U.S. A group of friends attempts to escape the escalating violence and oppression.

They must move undetected as their only hope is to cross a heavily guarded border.

It’s rated R. “Ascension” is a documentary shot in 51 locations across the country, exploring China’s industrial supply chain. It’s not rated.

“Hell or High Seas” follows U.S. Navy veteran Taylor Grieger and writer Stephen O’Shea as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime – sailing around Cape Horn, the world’s most treacherous oceanic waters. It’s not rated.

“Lamb” is the story of a childless couple in rural Iceland who makes an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature. It’s rated R. “Madres” centers on a Mexican-American couple expecting their first child who relocate to a migrant farming community in 1970s California. When the wife begins to experience strange symptoms and terrifying visions, she tries to determine if it’s

related to a legendary curse or something more nefarious. It’s not rated.

“Mass” is set years after an unspeakable tragedy tore two sets of parents’ lives apart. They agree to talk privately in an attempt to move forward. It’s rated PG-13.

“Muppets Haunted Mansion” arrives on Disney Plus with the voices of Will Arnett, Ed Asner, Taraji P Henson and more. It’s not rated.

“No Time to Die” is the new James Bond installment. Daniel Craig stars as a man enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica until a former friend from the CIA turns up asking for his help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

It’s rated PG-13.

“Operation Curveexamines the ball” roots of the Iraq war.

It’s not rated.

“South of Heaven” is the story of a convicted felon who gets early parole. Upon his release, he vows to give his childhood love, now dying from cancer, the best last year of her life. Jason Sudekis and Evangeline Lily star. It’s not rated.

“Suzanna Andler” is based on the Marguerite Davis play of the same name. The plot centers on a woman trapped in a marriage to an unfaithful partner in the 1960s.

She must choose between her conventional destiny as a wife and mother, and her freedom, embodied by her young lover.

It’s not rated.

“The Gig is Up” is a documentary about the costs of the platform economy through the lives of workers from around the world for companies includUber, Amazon ing and Deliveroo.

“Vengeance is Mine” is the story of a broken man struggling to come to terms with the murder of his wife and daughter. When he discovers the whereabouts of the killers he awakes from his grief. It’s not rated.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (UCC Sec. 6105) Escrow No. 13874L NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made. The name(s), business address(es) to the seller(s) are: JOHN NUNN JR. AND VALMERE F. NUNN, 461 SKYMASTER DRIVE BLDG 650, TRAVIS AFB, CA 94535 Whose chief executive office is: N/A Doing Business as: THE UPS STORE 4370 (Type – FRANCHISE SHIPPING STORE) All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the seller(s) within the past three years, as stated by the seller(s), is/are: N/A The name(s) and address of the buyer(s) is/are: SAFI, LLC, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, 8863 GREENBACK LANE ORANGEVALE, CA 95662 The assets to be sold are described in general as: ALL STOCK IN TRADE, FURNITURE, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT AND GOODWILL and are located at: 461 SKYMASTER DRIVE BLDG 650, TRAVIS AFB, CA 94535 The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: CAPITOL CITY ESCROW, INC., 3838 WATT AVENUE, SUITE F-610 SACRAMENTO, CA 95821-2665 and the anticipated sale date is OCTOBER 20, 2021 The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2.

[If the sale is subject to Sec. 6106.2, the following information must be provided.] The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: CAPITOL CITY ESCROW, INC., 3838 WATT AVENUE, SUITE F-610 SACRAMENTO, CA 95821-2665 and the last date for filing claims by any creditor shall be OCTOBER 19, 2021, which is the business day before the sale date specified above.

Dated: SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 SAFI, LLC, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, Buyer(s) 497832 DR 10/4/21 DR#00049948 Published: Oct. 4, 2021

Classifieds: 427-6936

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS for ON-CALL PLAN REVIEW AND BUILDING INSPECTION SERVICES FOR THE CITY OF RIO VISTA The City of Rio Vista (“City”) is requesting proposals for professional on-call plan review and building inspection services from qualified firms or consultants to provide commercial and residential plan review services along with occasional building inspection services for the City.

Scope of work to include: review building plans and conduct all necessary and required building, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical inspections on residential and commercial construction. These include but are not limited to footings, foundations, framing, basement floors, site erosion control and final occupancies.

The proposal can be viewed on the City’s website at: https://www.riovistacity.com/On-Call%20Plan%20Review/ Or can be requested by emailing Michael Buera, HR Analyst/Deputy City Clerk, at mbuera@ci.rio-vista.ca.us, or phone: (707) 374-6410.

Proposals must be received no later than October 27, 2021 by 5 p.m. via email to Rob Hickey, City Manager at: rhickey@ci.rio-vista.ca.us QUESTIONS: Questions may be submitted by email to the Rob Hickey, City Manager at rhickey@ci.rio-vista.ca.us The City cannot guarantee that it will be able to respond to every inquiry it receives.

DR#00049946 Published: Oct. 3, 4, 2021 NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE Notice is hereby given pursuant to Sections 21700 through 21716 of the California Business and Professions Code, Section 2328 of the UCC, Section 535 of the Penal Code, the undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding on Tuesday, October 12th,2021 commencing 11:15 AM @ALMOND TREE STORAGE, 725 RAILROAD AVE, SUISUN CITY, CA 94585 the following delinquent tenant’s items described as; miscellaneous furniture, tools, household items, appliances, electronic equipment, toys, clothing, luggage, boxes & bags- contents unknown: • SPACE • B205 • C024 • C025 • C093 • D035 • E022 • G025

NAME Christina N Reynolds Don Johnson Opolentisima Karen Evelyn McGhee Rodolfo H Arias Ramos Darren K Smalls Michael Harge Maximiliano Angulo

Purchases must be paid for at the time of sale in cash only. All purchased goods are sold “as is, where is” and must be removed at the time of the sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and tenant. Almond Tree Storage reserves the right to dismiss any unit from the auction.

Auctioneer: Storage Auction Experts, Bond #5860870 Site Manager: Lara Smith, Phone (707) 425-4520 DR#00049696 Published: Sept. 24, Oct. 4, 2021

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE INVITING BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the GOVERNING BOARD OF THE FAIRFIELDSUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, OF THE COUNTY OF SOLANO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, will receive up to, but not later than, November 2, 2021 at 2:00 pm local time that will not be opened publicly, at the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, Purchasing Department at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, CA 94534, bids for the following Project: Bid #2124-22 Career Technical Education (CTE) Equipment & Supplies Interested vendors are referred to the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District website for details, instructions, bid forms and addenda. It is the responsibility of the bidder to visit the website for all communication and updates. Each bid shall be made on forms prepared by the District in the Contract Documents. Bid packets will be available on Wednesday, October 6, 2021 by 4:00 pm accessed at: https://www.fsusd.org/Page/15594

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED FAIRFIELD AND SUISUN TRANSIT (FAST) SERVICE CHANGES FOR JANUARY 1, 2022 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, October 19, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. at the Suisun City Council Chambers (701 Civic Center Blvd., Suisun City, CA 94585) FAST and Suisun City staff will conduct a public hearing at the regularly scheduled Suisun City Council meeting. The public hearing will provide information for and address proposed service changes to Fairfield and Suisun Transit.

The proposal includes a presentation outlining the elimination of Route 5, the elimination of Route 6 within Suisun City and the elimination of the reduced fare local taxi program, effective January 1, 2022, which operate within the City of Suisun City and between the Cities of Suisun City and Fairfield.

Interested parties may provide input on the proposed Fairfield and Suisun Transit service changes by submitting written comments and/or speaking at the public meeting or public hearing. Fairfield and Suisun Transit will receive written comments until Monday, October 18, 2021, to include in the public record.

Bids shall be delivered and addressed to the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, Attention: Melissa Iriarte, Director of Purchasing & Contract Services, 3rd floor, 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield CA 94534, and shall be labeled “Bid #2124-22 CTE Equipment & Supplies”, due no later than November 2, 2021 on or before 2:00 p.m., local time. Bids will not be considered unless they are received by the proper time. No oral, telegraphic, electronic, facsimile, or telephonic bids or modifications will be considered. It is the responsibility of the Bidder to see that any bid submitted shall have sufficient time to be received by the Purchasing Office before the Bid Submittal Deadline. Bids received after the deadline will be returned unopened.

Submit comments: By mail or in person to Fairfield and Suisun Transit, 2000 Cadenasso Drive, Fairfield, CA 94533, by fax to (707) 426-3298, visit www.fasttransit.org and comment under Contacts “Comment Card,” or call (707) 434-3800.

Bids must bear original signatures and figures.

Si se necesita esta información en otro idioma, favor de contactar a FAST Administration al 707-434-3800.

No bid may be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the opening for bids except as provided pursuant to Public Contract Code section 5100, et seq.

The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any informalities or irregularities in the bidding.

Date of Publication: 10/4 and 10/11 DR#00049840 Published: Oct. 4, 11, 2021

Details on the proposed Fairfield and Suisun Transit service changes may be obtained online at www.fasttransit.org or by visiting the Fairfield Transportation Center at 2000 Cadenasso Drive in Fairfield.

If information is needed in another language, please contact FAST Administration at 707-434-3800.

如果您需要其他語言的信息資料， 請致電 707-434-3800， 與FAST行政部門聯絡.

Kung kailangan ng impormasyon sa iba pang wika, pakikontak ang FAST Administration sa 707-434-3800.

DR#00049529 Published: Sept. 19, Oct. 14, 2021

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Planning Commission

NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Solano County Planning Commission will hold a PUBLIC HEARING to consider a Use Permit Application (U-19-08) for Bally Keal Vineyards to add a 5,000 sq. ft. expansion of an existing building for a winery, distillery and tasting room; and to convert an existing building into a special events facility. The property is located at 4286 Suisun Valley Road, 2 miles north of the City of Fairfield within the Suisun Valley Agricultural “A-SV-20” Zoning District, APN: 0027-030-010.

The hearing will be held on October 21, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors Chambers, County Administration Center, 1st Floor, 675 Texas Street, Fairfield, California.

Due to COVID-19 and to protect members of the public and County staff, members of the public are encouraged to participate in the meeting telephonically. If you attend the Planning Commission meeting in person, you must abide by all State rules and public health guidelines regarding masking and social distancing in the Board of Supervisors Chambers. All or some of the commissioners may attend the meeting telephonically and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present.

The County of Solano does not discriminate against persons with disabilities. If you wish to participate in this meeting and you will require assistance in order to do so, please call 707-784-6765 at least 24 hours in advance of the event to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.

PUBLIC COMMENTS: To submit public comments, please see the options below.

Email/Mail: If you wish to address this item by written comment, please submit comments in writing to Resource Management by U.S. Mail or by email. Written comments must be received no later than 8:00 a.m. on the day of the meeting. The mailing address is Resource Management, Planning Commission, 675 Texas Street, Suite 5500, Fairfield, CA 94533. The email address for the clerk is: Planning@SolanoCounty.com. Copies of comments received will be provided to the Commissioners and will become a part of the official record but will not be read aloud at the meeting.

Phone: To submit comments verbally from your phone, you may do so by dialing: 1-415655-0001 and entering Access Code 2467 197 1378 on your phone. No attendee ID number is required. Once entered in the meeting, you will be able to hear the meeting and will be called upon to speak during the public speaking period.

Staff reports and associated materials will be available to the public approximately one week prior to the meeting at www.solanocounty.com under Departments, Resource Management, Boards and Commissions.

If you challenge the proposed consideration in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Board of Supervisors at, or prior to, the public hearing.

DR#00049914 Published: Oct. 4, 2021 Section 00 1100 - NOTICE TO BIDDERS ARTICLE 1. GENERAL

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Planning Commission NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Solano County Planning Commission will hold a PUBLIC HEARING to consider a Minor Use Permit application (MU-21-08) for Ronald Smith to construct a 3,200 sq. ft. accessory structure (outdoor pavilion with an associated kitchen), located at 4211 Green Valley Road, 1 mile northwest of the City of Fairfield in the Rural Residential (RR-2.5) zoning district, APN 0148-100-040.

The hearing will be held on October 21, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors Chambers, County Administration Center, 1st Floor, 675 Texas Street, Fairfield, California.

Due to COVID-19 and to protect members of the public and County staff, members of the public are encouraged to participate in the meeting telephonically. If you attend the Planning Commission meeting in person, you must abide by all State rules and public health guidelines regarding masking and social distancing in the Board of Supervisors Chambers. All or some of the commissioners may attend the meeting telephonically and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present.

The County of Solano does not discriminate against persons with disabilities. If you wish to participate in this meeting and you will require assistance in order to do so, please call 707-784-6765 at least 24 hours in advance of the event to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.

PUBLIC COMMENTS: To submit public comments, please see the options below.

Email/Mail: If you wish to address this item by written comment, please submit comments in writing to Resource Management by U.S. Mail or by email. Written comments must be received no later than 8:00 a.m. on the day of the meeting. The mailing address is Resource Management, Planning Commission, 675 Texas Street, Suite 5500, Fairfield, CA 94533. The email address for the clerk is: Planning@SolanoCounty.com. Copies of comments received will be provided to the Commissioners and will become a part of the official record but will not be read aloud at the meeting.

Phone: To submit comments verbally from your phone, you may do so by dialing: 1-415655-0001 and entering Access Code 2467 197 1378 on your phone. No attendee ID number is required. Once entered in the meeting, you will be able to hear the meeting and will be called upon to speak during the public speaking period.

Staff reports and associated materials will be available to the public approximately one week prior to the meeting at www.solanocounty.com under Departments, Resource Management, Boards and Commissions.

If you challenge the proposed consideration in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Board of Supervisors at, or prior to, the public hearing.

DR#00049913 Published: Oct. 4, 2021

NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Solano County Zoning Administrator will hold a PUBLIC HEARING to consider Minor Use Permit application No. MU-20-08 of Diversity Beer Company to establish and operate a Neighborhood Commercial brewpub and taproom, including conversion of the existing structures historically used as a saloon and singlefamily dwelling into a brewing operation, taproom and office, located at 6081 California Pacific Road, 280 feet northeast of the City of Vacaville; APN's: 0142-061-040 and 210.

The hearing will be held on October 21, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. in the Department of Resource Management Conference Room, 5th Floor, County Administration Center, 675 Texas Street, Fairfield, California.

Due to COVID-19 and to protect members of the public and County staff, members of the public are encouraged to participate in the meeting telephonically. If you attend the Zoning Administrator meeting in person, you must abide by all State rules and public health guidelines regarding masking and social distancing in the County Administration Center.

All or some of the attendees may attend the meeting telephonically and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present.

Bid Package #: 21-16 Fairmont PreK – New Relocatable Classroom

PUBLIC COMMENTS: To submit public comments, please see the options below.

• New relocatable building with two (2) classrooms, student restrooms and work room.

• Site work including building pad preparation, site utilities and related improvements will be provided by separate Site Work Contractor.

Email/Mail: If you wish to address this item by written comment, please submit comments in writing to Resource Management by U.S. Mail or by email. Written comments must be received no later than 8:00 a.m. on the day of the meeting. The mailing address is Resource Management, Zoning Administrator, 675 Texas Street, Suite 5500, Fairfield, CA 94533. The email address for the clerk is: Planning@SolanoCounty.com Copies of comments received will be provided to the Zoning Administrator and will become a part of the official record but will not be read aloud at the meeting.

Proposals are due: BID INFORMATION Location: Vacaville Unified School District, 401 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville, CA 95687 Contact: District Representative: Steven McGuckin, Capital Program Management, Inc. (916) 833-6371 Date: October 20, 2021 Time: No later than 2:00 PM At this time such proposals will be opened and publicly read.

Contractor License Classification Required: Class B Section 1.02 Mandatory Pre bid conference will be held at: MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE INFORMATION Location: Fairmont Charter School – 1325 Marshall Road, Vacaville, CA 95687 Contact: District Representative: Steven McGuckin, Capital Program Management, Inc. (916) 833-6371 Date: October 6, 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Attendance for duration of meeting is mandatory and each prime contract bidder (referred to as “Bidder” or “Bidders”) shall be required to certify, as part of its Proposal Form, that it attended the entirety of the Pre-Bid conference. Failure to include the certification will render the bid non-responsive. Failure to attend the mandatory, Pre-Bid conference waives the right to submit a bid. For all Pre-Bid visits (other than the Pre-bid conference), Bidder must make an appointment with the District Representative prior to visiting the Site.

Section 1.03 Overall coordination of the Project will be the responsibility of the District Representative. All inquiries regarding the bid are to be directed to District Representative, Steven McGuckin, StevenM@capitalpm.com.

Section 1.04 Contracts for construction will be direct prime contracts with the District. All Project procedures and documents are designed to facilitate delivery of the Project through prime construction contracts. The District's forms shall be used for all documents. Bidders shall read and review the Bidding Documents carefully, and shall familiarize themselves thoroughly with all requirements.

Section 1.05 Each bid proposal shall conform to the requirements of the Contract Documents. The bid documents may be obtained at bidder’s expense from Signature Reprographics, (916) 454-0800 or electronically at https:/signaturerepro.com.

Section 1.06 No bid will be considered unless it is accompanied by Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Bid Bond from a surety authorized to do business in California for ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the Combined Base Bid Amount, including additive Alternate Bids, made payable to the District. The above-mentioned check or bid bond shall be given as a guarantee that the Bidder shall, if selected by the District, execute the Contracts, in conformance with the Contract Documents. For more information, refer to Section 00 2000, Article 1, Section 1.06.

Section 1.07 Bids shall not expire for a period of 90 days after the date set for the bid opening. Within ten (10) days after notification of the District’s Notice of Intent to Award the Contracts, the successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Labor and Material Bond and a Faithful Performance Bond for each Contract. For further information, refer to Sections 00 6113.13 and 00 6113.16.

Section 1.08 The District is an equal opportunity employer. Refer to General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 7, Section 7.10. The District encourages the participation of DVBE businesses. Refer to Special Provisions Section 00 8000.

The District has set an overall goal for this Project that Bidders obtain a minimum of 3% of their bid amount in participation by certified Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (“DVBE”). The participation may be through work or supply of materials. If a Bidder is unable to obtain the full 3% participation by one or more DVBEs, then the bid may be found responsive only if it establishes “good faith efforts” to meet the goal. The requirements for good faith efforts are set forth in Special Provisions Section 00 8000, Article 4 and the attachments thereto.

Section 1.09 The successful Bidder shall be required to pay its workers on this Project a sum not less than the general prevailing rate (applicable at time of bid advertisement date) of per diem wages and not less than the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work for work of a similar character in the locality in which the Project is performed, as provided under California Labor Code Sections 1726-1861. Copies of the prevailing rate of per diem wages are on file at the Vacaville Unified School District, 401 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville, CA 95687, and shall be made available to any interested party upon request. They may also be obtained on the internet at http://www.dir.ca.gov/OPRL/DPreWageDetermination.htm Refer to General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 7. The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

Section 1.10 The governing board of the District reserves the right to reject any and all proposals and to waive any irregularity in any proposals received.

Section 1.11 At the request and expense of the successful Bidder, eligible securities shall be accepted in lieu of retention payments to insure performance under the Contract, pursuant to California Public Contract Code Section 22300. Refer to Exhibit H and General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 12, Section 12.05. Said securities shall be deposited prior to the submission of the successful Bidder’s first progress payment application.

Section 1.12 The successful Bidder shall have at least one supervising technician on call in the event that the existing fire alarm, security clocks, intercom, telephone and data systems are damaged during the course of construction or the Contract requires relocation of existing devices. The supervising technician is required to be on Site during all aspects of repair, modifications and testing. For fire alarm modifications and repairs the supervising technician is required to have at a minimum NICET LEVEL 2 Certification or equal. The District may consider optional Underwriters Laboratories Certification, factory training or contractor demonstrated equal experience/training with prior approval. The supervising technician must also have a minimum 5 years installation experience.

DR#00049761 Published: Sept. 27, Oct. 4, 2021

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The County of Solano does not discriminate against persons with disabilities. If you wish to participate in this meeting and you will require assistance in order to do so, please call 707-784-6765 at least 24 hours in advance of the event to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.

Notice is hereby given that the Project is not subject to the requirements of Public Contract Code section 20111.6. The Project will be funded from local sources and will not require Bidders to be prequalified by the District.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Section 1.01 Notice is hereby given that the Board of Education of the Vacaville Unified School District of Solano County, hereinafter referred to as "District," will receive sealed Proposals for:

Notice is hereby given that the Project is a public works project within the requirements of Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1 of the California Labor Code, and that each Bidder and all Subcontractors are required to be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 at the time of bidding. Failure of the Bidder or a listed Subcontractor to be registered at the time of bidding shall render the Bid nonresponsive and unavailable for award.

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Phone: To submit comments verbally from your phone, you may do so by dialing: 1-323457-3408 and use Conference ID number 293118721# on your phone. No attendee ID number is required. Once entered in the meeting, you will be able to hear the meeting and will be called upon to speak during the public speaking period.

Staff reports and associated materials will be available to the public approximately one week prior to the meeting at www.solanocounty.com under Departments, Resource Management, Boards and Commissions, Zoning Administrator.

If you challenge the proposed consideration in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Zoning Administrator at, or prior to, the public hearing.

DR#00049958 Published: Oct. 4, 2021 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Trustee Sale No. 138171 Title No. 95519365 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 05/12/2009. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 10/14/2021 at 9:30 AM, The Mortgage Law Firm, PLC, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 05/28/2009, as Instrument No. 200900042960 and Modified by Modification recorded 3/1/2013 by Instrument No. 201300021831, in book xx, page xx, of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Solano County, State of California, executed by Charles E. Gross and Helen B. Gross, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER'S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by 2924h(b), (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States), At the Santa Clara Street entrance to the City Hall, 555 Santa Clara Street, Vallejo, CA 94590. All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State, described as: FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ATTACHED EXHIBIT A. EXHIBIT A LEGAL DESCRIPTION THE LAND REFERRED TO IN THIS GUARANTEE IS SITUATED IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO, AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 277, AS SHOWN ON THE MAP ENTITLED ''LAUREL CREEK UNIT NO. 3", FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF SOLANO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, ON JULY 12, 1977 IN BOOK 33 OF MAPS AT PAGE 9. APN 0032-362-180 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 79 Buena Vista Ave., Suisun City, CA 94585 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $401,127.02 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused a Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. Dated:9/10/21 THE MORTGAGE LAW FIRM,PLC The Mortgage Law Firm, PLC. may be attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained may be used for that purpose. Adriana Durham/Authorized Signature 27455 TIERRA ALTA WAY, STE.B , TEMECULA CA 92590 (619) 465-8200 FOR TRUSTEE'S SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-730-2727 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (714) 730-2727 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this Internet Web site - www.servicelinkASAP.com - for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case: 138171. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an "eligible tenant buyer," you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an "eligible bidder," you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (714) 730-2727 for information regarding the trustee's sale, or visit this internet website www.servicelinkASAP.com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case Ts# 138171 to find the date on which the trustee's sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee's sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee's sale. If you think you may qualify as an "eligible tenant buyer" or "eligible bidder," you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. A-4735026 09/20/2021, 09/27/2021, 10/04/2021 DR#00049504 Published: Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 4, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS SUGAH B CONFECTIONS LOCATED AT: 2731 Orchid St. Fairfield, CA, 94533 Solano Mailing Address 2731 Orchid St. Fairfield, CA, 94533, ARE) HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S): Mayfield and Company, CA THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 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/ Samele Mayfield 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 Sept. 14, 2026.

THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: Sept. 15, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021001920 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00049559 Published: Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 4, 11,. 2021 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: CHRISTOPHER PRAY Case Number: P050817 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Christopher Pray A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Abraham Fender in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Abraham Fender 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: NOV. 15,, 2021 TIME: 8:30 a.m. DEPT.: 4 Room 305 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, Hall of Justice 600 Union Avenue 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: Lon D. Lazar P.O. Box 720065 San Francisco, CA, 94172 415-742-2088 DR#00049922 Published: Oct. 1, 4, 8, 2021

Sports

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Giants From Page B1 up the season with two strong starts, which would prevent Gausman from sitting for six days between starts? Do they wait until they know the matchup after Wednesday’s game? As they say: good problems to have.

Kapler said the team will enjoy Sunday’s accomplishments and then look at the week ahead starting Monday.

It was clear from the moment the game started that Webb was at his very best, with a wicked slider and an absolutely nasty sinker. He struck out the side in the first, and he retired the first nine men he faced.

“When he’s on, he’s as good as anybody, and with his sinker, you can get through a lineup with not many pitches and we saw that today,” Posey said. “I was interested to see if he was going to be over-amped because sometimes when a sinkerballer is too high, it’ll flatten out a little bit, but

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Week 4 Thursday’s Game Cincinnati 24, Jacksonville 21 Sunday’s Games Seattle 28, SAN FRANCISCO 21 N.Y. Jets 27, Tennessee 24, OT Kansas City 42, Philadelphia 30 Dallas 36, Carolina 28 N.Y. Giants 27, New Orleans 21 Cleveland 14, Minnesota 7 Chicago 24, Detroit 14 Buffalo 40, Houston 0 Indianapolis 27, Miami 17 Washington 34, Atlanta 30 Arizona 37, L.A. Rams 20 Green Bay 27, Pittsburgh 17 Baltimore 23, Denver 7 Tampa Bay 19, New England 17 Monday’s Game Las Vegas at L.A. Chargers, 5:15 p.m.

Week 5 Thursday, Oct. 7 L.A. Rams at Seattle, 5:20 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 10 SAN FRANCISCO at Arizona, 1:25 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Atlanta, 10 a.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 10 a.m.

New Orleans at Washington, 10 a.m.

New England at Houston, 10 a.m.

Miami at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m.

Green Bay at Cincinnati, 10 a.m.

Denver at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m.

Philadelphia at Carolina, 10 a.m.

Tennessee at Jacksonville, 10 a.m.

Cleveland at L.A. Chargers, 1:05 p.m.

Chicago at Las Vegas, 1:05 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 1:25 p.m.

Buffalo at Kansas City, 5:20 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 11 Indianapolis at Baltimore, 5:15 p.m.

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it was clear pretty early on that he had the depth on it and it was going to be a good day.”

Webb also got the Giants’ first hit off Reiss Knehr, with a single in the third, and with two outs, Wilmer Flores singled and LaMonte Wade Jr. walked to set up Posey’s two-run single. In the fourth, Webb dodged some close pitches from Dinelson Lamet before walking to load the bases, Tommy La Stella plopped an RBI single to right and Flores doubled off Craig Stammen to send in two more Wade added a sacrifice fly and Posey a run-scoring single.

The next inning, with Kris Bryant aboard, Webb – who relishes batting practice more than just about anyone – belted an 0-1 changeup from Nabil Crismatt over the wall in left. He couldn’t remember exactly what he was thinking when he connected, but, Webb said, he knew he’d hit it well, but he didn’t really realize it was out until first-base coach Antoan Richardson started yelling. It was his first homer since he played

at Rocklin High School – and he did get the ball.

“That was a special moment for sure, but we all know the main thing was the pitching today, and I was happy I was able to go out there and pitch well enough to keep us in the game,” Webb said.

Webb’s been talking about homering all season, and he takes a lot of flak from the position players for it. And Gausman, who hit a game-winning sacrifice fly last month, has been claiming hitting supremacy – up until now.

“Yesterday he was telling me that he watches that video of his walk-off every single day,” Webb said. “So the first thing I did is I came in here and said ‘I’m going to watch my home run every single day.’ ” Webb was also terrific defensively, smoothly covering first and taking a feed from Flores to end the sixth, and doing so again for the second out of the seventh.

From May 11 on, Webb has been the Giants’ best starter, eclipsing even Gausman, a 2021 All-Star.

Over his past 20 starts,

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W L T PF PA W L T PF PA Rodriguez 6 0 0 184 65 1 0 0 28 20 Vanden 5 1 0 236 111 1 0 0 35 14 Vacaville 4 2 0 176 61 1 0 0 43 0 Wood 4 2 0 162 139 0 1 0 14 35 Armijo 1 5 0 94 205 0 1 0 20 28 Fairfield 0 5 0 13 188 0 1 0 0 43 Sierra Delta League Overall League

W L T PF PA W L T PF PA Esparto 4 1 0 231 84 3 0 0 161 35 Linden 3 3 0 151 211 1 0 0 46 30 Vaca Chr. 5 1 0 145 59 1 1 0 52 53

Air Quality Index 90 Precipitation 0-50 51-100 101-150 151-200 201-300 Last 24 hours................................0″ Good Moderate Unhealthy Unhealthy Very sensitive unhealthy Month-to-date.............................0″ Normal Oct. rainfall .............. 1.30″ Source: Bay Area Air Quality Management District Season-to-date............................0″ Normal seasonal rainfall....24.81″ UV Index This date last year...................... NA 6 Source: NWS and NOAA <2 3-5 6-7 8-10 11+ Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency

1 4 0 46 225 1 1 0 20 63 0 1 0 22 34 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 144 112 0 2 0 36 52 0 5 0 12 218 0 2 0 6 88 Friday’s Games Rodriguez 28, Armijo 20 Vacaville 43, Fairfield 0 Vanden 35, Wood 14 Vacaville Christian 22, Rio Vista 7 Kimball 58, Linden 6 Esparto 68, San Juan 6 Byes — Golden Sierra, Highlands Friday, Oct. 8 Vacaville at Armijo, 7:30 p.m.

Vanden at Fairfield, 7:30 p.m.

Rodriguez at Wood, 7:30 p.m. (homecoming) Rio Vista at Golden Sierra, 7 p.m.

Vacaville Christian at Highlands, 7 p.m.

San Juan at Linden, 7 p.m.

Bye — Esparto

East Division W L 100 62 92 70 92 70 91 71 52 110 Central Division y-Chicago White Sox 93 69 Cleveland 80 82 Detroit 77 85 Kansas City 74 88 Minnesota 73 89 West Division y-Houston 95 67 Seattle 90 72 OAKLAND 86 76 L.A. Angels 77 85 Texas 60 102 Wild Card w-Boston 92 70 w-N.Y. Yankees 92 70 — Toronto 91 71 Seattle 90 72 OAKLAND 86 76

Prep

National League

Highlands G. Sierra Rio Vista San Juan

Regional forecast

Pct GB .617 — .568 8 .568 8 .562 9 .321 48 .574 — .494 13 .475 16 .457 19 .451 20

Tuesday’s Game AL Wild Card, N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 5:08 p.m.

Wednesday’s Game NL Wild Card, St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, 5:10 p.m.

League Division Series Thursday’s Games ALWC at Tampa Bay, TBA Chicago White Sox at Houston, TBA Friday’s Games Atlanta at Milwaukee, TBA ALWC at Tampa Bay, TBA NLWC at NLW, TBA Chicago White Sox at Houston, TBA

.586 — .556 5 .531 9 .475 18 .370 35 .568 — .568 — .562 1 .556 2 .531 6

he’s 10-0 with a 2.40 ERA, and overall, San Francisco went 21-5 in his starts this season.

The first run off Webb on Sunday came in the fourth, when Trent Grisham – a pain in the Giants’ side all day – doubled, went to third on a grounder and scored on a sacrifice fly by Manny Machado. Grisham also robbed Evan Longoria of a homer in the third and Crawford of extra bases the same inning.

Webb went back out for the eighth, and he gave up three hits, doubling his total for the day. Kapler removed him, and Webb exited to a huge standing ovation, doffed his cap and handed out high-fives down the length of the dugout, his work done.

Best day of his life?

“This is No. 1,” Webb said, then added with a smile, “No. 1 . . . so far.”

With one run already in, Kervin Castro took over and gave up an RBI single by Grisham (of course) and a sacrifce fly by Jake Cronenworth. Jarlin Garcia took over with the bases loaded and two outs and got Adam Frazier to fly out to left.

Davis 91|54 Dixon Santa Rosa 91|55 85|49 Vacaville Napa 92|59 86|50 Fairfield/Suisun City 91|55 Vallejo Benicia 83|54 Rio Vista 88|56 91|56 Concord 91|55 Richmond 76|55 Walnut Creek 93|54 Oakland 78|57 San Francisco 76|56

Shown is today’s weather.

Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Sunrise..............................7:06 a.m.

Sunset...............................6:45 p.m.

Moonrise..........................4:56 a.m.

Moonset...........................6:17 p.m.

San New First Qtr. Full Last Qtr. Pablo Today

Oct. 6 Oct. 12 Oct. 20 Oct. 28 Tuesday

Source: U.S. Naval Observatory

MLB Playoffs

San Mateo 83|54 Palo Alto 82|55

CALENDAR Monday’s TV sports Basketball NBA preseason •Atlanta at Miami, NBATV, 4:30 p.m.

•Golden State at Portland, NBATV, 7 p.m.

Field hockey •Miami (Ohio) at Louisville, ACC, 4 p.m.

Football NFL •Las Vegas at L.A. Chargers, ESPN, 5:15 p.m.

Hockey NHL preseason •Boston at Philadelphia, NHL, 4 p.m.

Tuesday’s TV sports Baseball MLB •AL Wild Card Game, N.Y. Yankees at Boston, ESPN, 5 p.m.

•AL Wild Card Game, N.Y. Yankees at Boston, Statcast edition, ESPN2, 5 p.m.

Hockey NHL preseason •Florida at Tampa Bay, NHL, 4 p.m.

•Seattle at Vancouver, NHL, 7 p.m.

Soccer College men •Penn State at Rutgers, BIG TEN, 3 p.m.

•Michigan State at Michigan, BIG TEN, 5 p.m.

Canadian Premier League •Valour FC vs. Cavalry FC, FS2, 5 p.m.

49ers: Fall 28-21 From Page B1 passes and only nine interceptions.

Many of those touchdowns – like his 16-yard run in the third quarter, or his 13-yard throw to Freddie Swain less than a minute later – came after Wilson evaded pass rushers and improvised on the fly. If there’s an enduring image of Wilson for 49ers fans over the years, it’s the way he repeatedly turns what looks like a sure sack into an unlikely, productive play.

He’s still nimble and clever as he bears down on his 33rd birthday next month.

“You’re always

Wiggins From Page B1 “What’s right for one person isn’t right for another,” Wiggins said.

“It’s none of your business is what it comes down to. I don’t ask you guys what you believe is right or wrong.”

Wiggins’ teammates were equally staunch in their public support of their teammate, who risked missing half of their games by going unvaccinated.

“I think you have to honor people’s feelings and their own personal beliefs,” Draymond Green said upon Thursday his arrival at training camp. “I think that’s been lost when it comes to vacci-

expecting that,” Shanahan said of Wilson’s midgame resurgence.

“That’s why when you do have him on the ropes, you want to get more (points) than we got there in the first half.

That’s why Russell is a really good player and has had a lot of success in the league.”

Sunday’s defensive frustration came one week after the 49ers experienced similar issues against Aaron Rodgers and the Packers.

Rodgers punctuated the game with two huge completions in the final 37 seconds, setting up Green Bay’s triumphant field goal. nated and unvaccinated.

It kind of sucks that that’s been lost. . . . Just because I’m a leader of this team doesn’t give me the right to tell him what to do with his body.”

Stephen Curry, who hosted an Instagram Live with Dr. Anthony Fauci to raise awareness of the pandemic, said at the start of training camp that he was hopeful Wiggins would find access to the “right information.”

“Especially in this environment,” Curry said, “you have access to the experts and the people that are analyzing and studying and researching this thing every single day and hopefully you tap into that. . . . It’s about making a decision that you understand the consequences of on both sides.”

San Jose 87|54

Tides

National forecast

High

(feet) Low

(feet)

12:15 p.m.

11:54 p.m.

12:43 a.m.

None

5.41 5.78 5.69 -

0.10 1.37 0.22 0.84

5:30 a.m.

5:49 p.m.

6:06 a.m.

6:29 p.m.

Suisun High Today 1:04 p.m.

2:18 p.m.

Tuesday 1:55 a.m.

2:42 p.m.

(feet) Low

(feet)

5.07 4.71 5.12 4.91

0.11 0.91 0.23 0.59

8:27 a.m.

8:39 p.m.

8:57 a.m.

9:25 p.m.

Forecast for Monday, Oct. 4, 2021

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