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16 American missionaries kidnapped in Haiti Tribune Content Agency A group of American missionaries has been kidnapped on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, allegedly by a notorious gang that was behind the abduction of several Roman Catholic clergy earlier this year. The missionaries, 16 Americans and a Canadian citizen, including several children, were kidnapped Saturday in the community of Ganthier, just east of the capital, according to a human rights center that monitors kidnapping. The group was reportedly taken in the area of La Tremblay after returning from visiting an orphanage, The gang believed to be behind the kidnapping is known as 400 Mawozo, which operates in the area of Croix-des-Bouquets and is known for

‘This is the type of kidnapping that 400 Mawozo do; we call it a collective kidnapping where they kidnap any entire bus or car.’ — Gédéon Jean, Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights in Port-auPrince

attacking vehicles and kidnapping people from cars and buses. “This is the type of kidnapping that 400 Mawozo do; we call it a collective kidnapping where they kidnap any entire bus or car,” said

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Eva Overton, left, and others participate in Sustainable Solano’s youth cooking pilot program at St. Patrick-St.

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Fresh ingredients are included in Sustainable Solano’s youth cooking pilot program at St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School in Vallejo, Tuesday. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Former President Bill Clinton, standing with his wife, Hillary, was discharged from UC Irvine Medical Center Sunday morning, six days after he was admitted and treated for a urological and blood infection.

Clinton heads home after spending 6 days in a hospital Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — Former President Bill Clinton was seen leaving an Orange County hospital Sunday morning, six days after he was admitted and treated for a urological and blood infection. The 75-year-old is flying to New York with his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and his daughter, Chelsea, according to an aide. Upon landing, Clinton will head to their family home in Chappaqua, about 30 miles north of New York City. “His fever and white blood cell count are normalized and he will

return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics,” said Dr. Alpesh N. Amin, who lead the team of doctors who treated Clinton. “On behalf of everyone at UC Irvine Medical Center, we were honored to have treated him and will continue to monitor his progress.” Clinton walked out of the hospital with his wife shortly after 8 a.m., shook hands with Amin and flashed a thumbsup at photographers gathered there. The former president has been a globetrotting celebrity and philanthropist since leaving See Clinton, Page A7

VALLEJO — Eva Overton is looking forward to college. And to being able to create her own meals while she’s on her own. Overton is one of eight students who are part of a Youth Cooking Pilot Program launched by Sustainable Solano. She and her fellow students at St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School are the first class. They have met weekly to learn basic culinary skills as well as the importance of healthy, local food and supporting a local food system while at the same time helping Mother Earth. The teens, ages 14 to 18, will wrap up See Earth, Page A7

Tahoe waters plummet as drought, climate change plague lake resort Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — Lake Tahoe’s water level has dropped so low that water is no longer flowing into the Truckee River, and salmon aren’t expected to spawn in a major tributary this year. Some boat ramps and docks are hundreds of feet from the water line, and clumps of stringy algae have been washing up on beaches, said Geoffrey Schladow, director of the University of California, Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center. “It’s putting us on warning that things could get a lot worse,” he said.

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I am finally going to get a tattoo . . . maybe I Well, he is a Napping had an idea in 2001 to do a Sunday Living Grandmaster Emeritus article for the Daily so I would need one Republic about local capturing his impresfolks and their tattoos. sive, unparalleled The idea was to feature sleeping prowess. photos of Fairfielders’ body art and the stories Old school pop behind them. The DR published a Tony Wade culture blurb about the article I think a ginormous The last laugh and solicited responses collage of characters from readers. I had been from back in the day on my back involved in that process before might be right at the doorstep of and it was sometimes hard to awesome. It could include get any feedback when you went Gumby and Pokey, the Sweatfishing for respondents. hogs, the cartoon versions of That time the fishing trip was Darrin and Samantha from so successful we needed a “Bewitched,” Mary Ann – not bigger boat. Ginger, Easy Reader from “The It actually was near overElectric Company,” the Flintwhelming. So much so that stones, Fat Albert and the Cosby months after the article pubKids, Three Dog Night, Evel lished, people were still sending Knievel, Fred G. Sanford, Hong me pictures. I eventually had to Kong Phooey, Lancelot Link ask them to stop in a subseSecret Chimp, The Banana quent column. Splits and more. I would also Now, I have managed to live want the artist to sketch in me on this here rotating space orb and my best friend Sam for nearly six decades now and Inabinet reading Batman and have zero tattoos. I’m not Green Lantern comics, against them or anything, I just respectively. can’t imagine there would be something that I would like Sports teams permanently stamped on me. I I am a Lakers fan when it mean, I change my Facebook comes to hoopin’ and y’all know profile page like I’m a Raiders fan when it comes every other day. to football. Haters who blah blah But maybe it’s finally time. blah about how often the So I put some serious thought Raiders have moved miss a into it and this is what I crucial point – their logo doesn’t came up with. have the name of any city (or initials, Santa Clara 49ers), just My pooch the name of the team, so it is I think a tat of my Chiweenie quite portable. The only issue is Chunky Tiberius Wade could be this is so overdone. Everyone cool. If I had tattoos of the dogs and their brother has one and I we had growing up, I would would want mine to be unique. want them in some sort of action Maybe I could get an artist who they actually did in life. For could make a Raiders logo that Sandy, it would either be would pop out when you put on escaping or biting the mailman 3-D glasses. in the buttocks. For Smoky, it Since we are on the topic of would be jumping on the roof of sports teams, let me digress for the rickety doghouse my dad a minute and say to all the San built. If it was Brutus, it would Francisco Giants fans (the real be chasing a ball. For Chunky? ones, you know, with Giants

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A tattoo may . . . or may not be in DR columnist Tony Wade’s future. tattoos) how sorry I am that I am the one who inadvertently struck midnight on your Cinderella season last week. Even though I have lost about 160 pounds, evidently when I jumped onto the Giants bandwagon it broke it and caused the wheels to come off. My bad.

My book The cover of my book “Growing Up In Fairfield California” has done a lot of work in being a main motivator for people to purchase it. It features pics of downtown Fairfield back when, the Wonder World shopping center, Foster’s Old Fashion Freeze and the

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courthouse where Texas Street and Union Avenue meet. Maybe I should get a tat of that. The only thing is that I already feel a little self-conscious about wearing the T-shirt I had made of it. I mean, who walks around with a T-shirt with their own name on it? Much less has that as a tat? I need to get over myself.

Words Maybe I could not use any pictures at all, but get a tattoo that features a famous quote. Here are some I might use: n “No problemo” from “The Terminator 2.” n “Hakuna Matata” from

“The Lion King.” n “Leave the gun, take the cannoli” from “The Godfather.” n “That was trippy” from “Pulp Fiction.”

Overthinking it I think I have decided. I was kinda overthinking it. It just hit me. The perfect image for me to get would be a tattooed replica of the downtown Fairfield sign! Smack dab in the middle of my forehead! 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.

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FAIRFIELD — Partnership HealthPlan of California has provided 14 organizations outside Solano County with workforce development grants. The total amount in grants was $46,500, Partnership HealthPlan of California announced. “PHC is proud to announce this new resource for our provider partners,” Partnership HealthPlan of California Northern Region Executive Director Wendi West said in a statement issued Wednesday. “We know addressing (health professional shortage area) score improvement is key to directing federal and state workforce resources to our communities who need them most.” The grants are to be used to address the primary care shortage in California, providing technical assistance for health professional shortage area designation work. Health professional shortage area are geographic and facility scores designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration to measure provider shortage areas and award federal funding, according to the statement. Competitive scores are necessary for federal funds, scholarship and loan repayment programs for providers. The grants include one-on-one support to develop subject matter expertise, in addition to technical assistance work to improve health professional shortage area scores themselves, according to the statement. Partnership HealthPlan of California has partnered with P.M. Talbot Enterprises, a health care and nonprofit consultant, “to carry out this important work.” HealthPlan Partnership of California is a nonprofit See Grants, Page A8

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Bocce group solicits players for winter league action Daily Republic Staff drnews@dailyrepublic.net

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Bocce Federation is canvasing for bocce players for the 20-week indoors 2021-2022 winter leagues from Tuesday through March 31. Leagues include the Tuesday morning league, Tuesday evening league, Wednesday morning league and Thursday morning league. Tuesday morning league starts at 9 a.m. and needs five more players. The Tuesday evening league starts at 6 p.m. and needs two more players. Membership in the Fairfield Bocce Federation is required to play. Dues are $15 for a fiscal year of April 1 to March 31, but this year is half over so new members now would pay $7.50 in dues. The league fees for 20 weeks of bocce are $25 for your first league team, which includes the League Award Banquet, and $10 for additional teams if playing in more than one league. League fees and new member dues will be picked up during the first two weeks of league play. The minimum age to participate is 16. New member applications forms can be obtained at www. fairfieldbocce.org/memberapplication.html or call Bill Hampton at 410-9657 to get a form mailed to you. League rules are also on the website www.fairfieldbocce.org. The Fairfield Bocce Federation’s Covid-19 protocols related to social distancing and wearing masks are at the discretion of the city of Fairfield. Restrooms and facility services are inside the Fairfield Adult Recreation Center, 1200 Civic Center Drive, and are offered as the facility opens to the public.

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Solano agencies provide drug takeback day Three police departments in Solano County are taking back unwanted prescription drugs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The departments and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is providing the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs. The pills can be dropped of in a Covid-safe, drive-thru format. Liquid prescriptions will also be accepted. Be sure that all medications are sealed tightly in a Ziploc-like bag. Needles and sharps will not be accepted. The service is free and anonymous. No questions will be asked. Events are scheduled at the Fairfield Police Department, 1000 Webster St.; the Rio Vista Police Department,

50 Poppy House Road; and the Dixon Police Department, 201 W. A St. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse and abuse, according to police. For more information on this event, call the Fairfield Police Department at 428-7789, the Dixon Police Department at 678-7070 or the Rio Vista Police Department at 374-6366. To check for additional locations as they are added, visit https://takebackday.dea.gov/.

Panelists for town hall to talk on legislative year Sen. Bill Dodd will host a virtual town hall at 6 p.m. Monday. The town hall offers the latest updates from Sacramento and features panelists Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and Senate President pro Tempore

Toni Atkins. Among the topics to be discussed will be highlights of the legislative and budget year as well as the road ahead for 2022. The town hall will be streamed live over multiple channels, most notably to residents of Solano County on Dodd’s Facebook page and on YouTube. Questions can be directed to the panel by email at townhall@ksvy.org, or by telephone at 933-9133. Dodd, D-Napa, represents the 3rd Senate District, which includes all or portions of Solano, Napa, Yolo, Sonoma, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties.

CHP offers virtual Start Smart class for teens The California Highway Patrol in Solano County will offer a free online Start Smart class from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday. Start Smart is aimed at helping newly licensed or soon to be licensed teenage drivers (15 to 19 years old) become more aware of the responsibilities that accompany the privilege of being a licensed California driver. CHP officers speak directly to participants though candid conversations, discussing topics such as collision avoidance techniques, along with collision causing elements such See Week, Page A8

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Offer a helping hand to spend more time with your daughter Dear Annie: I am Dear Annie: I have to a 72-year-old woman object to your language who used to live with about how grandchildren “intuitively” love my daughter and her their grandparents in family. I moved out your note to “Family last January. Scapegoat.” I was asked over to Unless the grandpartheir home when my ents are the children’s oldest grandson came home with my greatAnnie Lane primary attachment, there is no reason for grandchild in June. Dear Annie children to connect with Other than that, I them except as a reflection of have not talked to my daughter in months. the parent’s relationship with Am I being foolish to think the grandparents. Saying otherwise is outdated and not in line that she could call once in a with attachment theory. while to check up on me? When Parents should be allowed I call her, it’s as if she can’t be to cut unhealthy and unsafe bothered. If I leave a message, she does not return my calls. — relationships out of their children’s lives – even if those Missing My Daughter Dear Missing My Daughter: relationships are familial. — Unimpressed by the Greatness It is understandable that you Dear Unimpressed: You are miss your daughter – the daughter you knew before her life got correct, and if a grandparent’s busy with her own family. My behavior is unhealthy or unsafe, guess is that she is not snubthey should be kept away from bing you but rather is simply their grandchildren. But if busy. Instead of demanding the issue is not so black and that she call you, ask her what white, and the behavior is more she needs. How can you help annoying than unsafe, then the her out? Sometimes, when we parents should set boundaries help others, we are actually for the interactions rather than helping ourselves. If all that cut them off altogether. doesn’t work, tell her how you Dear Annie: I lost a loving feel and how much you love soul mate to dementia several and miss her. months ago. We were extremely

Horoscopes ARIES (March 21-April 19). You lost something irreplaceable back there; knowing this is a sign that you’re living right. To recognize and celebrate the specialness of things while you have them, knowing that someday you will mourn, is to live fully. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll be pitching and persuading. The best presentations you’ll ever make are the ones no one asked you to make. Ideas drop in from on high, and the impulse to follow through comes straight from your heart. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You know when you’re onto a good idea and you don’t need anyone else to affirm it. In fact, any opposition you hear will only serve to steel your resolve. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’re working for smiles today. When the smiles happen, you’re among them. There is one person in particular whose happiness will have you sweating. All hard work pays off. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’re a part of this – the only part of this you have complete responsibility for. Taking care of yourself is taking care of those around you. Self-love is one of the most essential things you can do to put love into the world. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’re supportive, but you don’t allow yourself to be taken advantage of. You keep them alert to your gifts. Otherwise,

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close for over 57 years, but now she is a great memory. I am sad I lost her but grateful to have had the time to thank her for those years and physically demonstrate that my love for her was – and still is – real. In the end, I cut her food in bite-size pieces and, for a short while, had to place the food in her mouth. I bathed her, dressed her, combed her hair, etc., and will be forever thankful for the opportunity to support her. We had worked together for some 50 years, and she went to the office with me right up until the last several days of her life. Each morning, while helping her from bed, I hugged her and reminded my life partner of my love and thanked her for being such a great wife. I might add here that I feel exceptionally blessed for having her in my life and being able to “payback” a little bit for her years of dedicated love and support. — Loved Her Till the End Dear Loved Her: Your letter brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful love story. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com.

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday No matter what you have been led to believe about your talent, you can be sure that it’s much bigger. You are a knight on behalf of your kingdom. You’ll feel ill-equipped, but the right tools fall right into your hands when you most need them. You’ll pick up your sword and shield, vanquish the dragon and be celebrated. Aquarius and Virgo adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 32, 40, 1 and 7.

they will get spoiled and be robbed of the pleasure of fully experiencing what you do. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). As you serve the needs of others, keep in mind that there are people who have no sensor to tell them when they’ve crossed a line or are being greedy. Draw and enforce the boundaries they cannot intuit. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). People tell you their life stories. Neither of you know why it happens. It has to do with something happening on the subconscious level. You naturally orientate yourself toward others, and they open up to you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). You practice and you get better, though it doesn’t always feel that way. Every

mistake, obstacle and problem improves you. Eventually, you’ll reach a point of diminishing returns, but you haven’t reached it yet. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Love makes you happier and better behaved. You find deep wells of patience and compassion for the world because you have found them first for the one you adore. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). People who want your contributions may not be able to repay you. Consider all aspects of the deal before you get into it; you can save yourself from future regret or resentment. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The spiritual aspects of love reign supreme. What happens on the spiritual level will guide all other aspects. The logic of scientists or the reason of scholars cannot predict the heart’s path. CELEBRITY PROFILES: Among the new projects for Zac Efron is the series “Killing Zac Efron” in which Efron will “venture deep into the jungles of a remote and dangerous island to carve his own name in expedition history.” The Libran actor was born when Saturn and Uranus were both in Sagittarius – the sign of exploration – signifying that his bout as an explorer, however brief, will produce surprising lessons.

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THE DEFENSE WAS AS SMOOTH AS SILK Jane Austen wrote, “We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.” Too true, but occasionally at the bridge table, the defenders tack perfectly and defeat the contract. How did East-West do that in today’s deal? In the auction, West’s delayed one no-trump showed at least 5-5 in hearts

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by Phillip Alder and diamonds, the two unbid suits. East jumped to game because he knew about the double fit, which always generates more tricks than the combined point-count would suggest. South then bid what he hoped he could make or what would prove to be a cheap sacrifice if not. West led the club ace, which everyone knew was a singleton. East signaled with the two, a suit-preference signal for diamonds. So, West shifted to a low diamond. South saved a trick by playing dummy’s 10, but East won with his ace and returned the club 10, a suit-preference signal for hearts. After ruffing, West trustingly shifted to a low heart. East took that trick and delivered a second club ruff for down two and a near top in an online duplicate. At another table, North-South benefited from the weak no-trump, showing 12-14 points. North opened one no-trump, and South responded four hearts, a transfer to spades. This silenced West. East started with the diamond ace, denying the king since East was a robot. When West discouraged, East shifted to a club. Now, though, West lost his nerve. He cashed the heart ace, and North took the rest of the tricks. If West had led a low heart at trick three, East would have won and could have given partner a lethal club ruff. COPYRIGHT: 2021, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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Is America still beautiful? I say it is

believe America is beauIt’s up to us to get involved tiful, do you? I want to from the lowest to the highest ensure we all take a good levels of governance here in look at what we have in Solano County to Sacramento America – even on our worst to Washington, D.C. days when people, particuWe need to reset school larly on the left, preach doom curricula to teach students and gloom, asserting America yearly how the government is a terrible place and our is supposed to work. We need Founders were nothing more ensure we balance our Jim McCully to than selfish scoundrels conlocal governmental budgets. cerned with their own well-being. We need to send people to SacraWell, this simply isn’t true. mento who give us what our laws On our worst days from America’s say: a balanced budget, not accountfounding forward, we were blessed ing trickery. We must do this at the by the courage and fortitude of our national level, too. Regardless of Founders as regardless of race, color which party is in power, with minor or creed, we all are blessed to live in exceptions, the never-ending raid on America the beautiful. the economic security of capitalism Unfortunately, far too many on and the well-being of “we the people” the political left see nothing but flaws must stop. As my favorite senator, rather than virtues. Indeed, more Everitt M. Dirksen of Illinois, once than 100 congressional members said, when dealing with a spendthrift of the Democratic Party which, in Congress: “A billion here, a billion reality, has become the Democrat there, and pretty soon you have Socialist Progressive Peoples Party, real money.” assert this daily. They seek big govNow these people are blithely ernment with overregulation of the talking not billions but trillions. A private lives of citizens, at all levels, trillion is one million million dollars. and constant unsustainable overYes, folks, there are 18 zeros behind spending, as the keys to power. Our the number. Try and visualize this current national debt is $28-plus trilamount but instead of one trillion we lion, $5 trillion added since February are speaking of multiple trillions for 2020. We spend more than we tax so the so-called “For the People” and we tax more in a vicious cycle. “Infrastructure” acts presently under So, while the Democratic Party consideration. obviously doesn’t believe in America The first Democratic Party merryas created, we more sensible citigo-round will effectively regulate zens do. Therefore, it’s really up to us local, state and federal elections, to reclaim and proclaim her virtues. putting the Department of Justice in When we stop protecting our hardcharge of all elections, negating the won freedom, then it all slips away. 10th Amendment plus adding Wash-

ust recently I attended parental knowledge a school board meeting or approval. where parents were In my personal opinion, a expressing their concern parent is the final arbiter of about the potential order their children’s lives, unless that will mandate that their they have duly forfeited that children be required to right due to the standards of be vaccinated against the child abuse or neglect. Covid-19 virus as well as the For me, the advent of manchanging trends of recogdatory vaccinations of this Morris A. Curry Jr. current age resembles the nized gender exemptions. I can understand some of communist mandates of a these concerns because the cultural country where the Covid-19 virus is norms are changing and parental alleged to have been released. For control is being dictated to parents those who are students of history, you as to what a system or a government will remember that this county manbelieves is appropriate for children. dated how many children could be These complaints resonated born, which led to the extermination with me because as an employee of of female children in that county. a school district in another county, So my advice to parents who love, I experienced a situation where give birth, adopt, provide shelter, the school nurse was transporting clothing, food and the essentials of female students to an abortion clinic life for your children is to continue to during school hours and bringing protect your authority, “of the people, them back to school, allowing them to by the people.” rest in her office and then send them Just because a child leaves your back to class. home and goes to another venue does And yes, this was done without not mean that the child is no longer

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ington, D.C., as the 51st state. The next wonder is the so-called Infrastructure Act, which the Senate paired down to $1.5 trillion to get it passed. It’s now more traditional infrastructure with less pork and is pending in the House. The Democratic Party pork-a-thon at $3.5 trillion, the For the People Act is funded by the largest tax increase in history, saddling both us and our children, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which said: The paired down Infrastructure Act alone saddles taxpayers with $265 billion added debt. The Democratic Party’s claims of tax neutrality are a lie. Democrats see America’s faults and flaws as measurably more profound and important than its obvious strengths. The simple truth is the adoption of the founding documents of America were astounding, unprecedented events. They are the greatest step forward for human freedom. Now, were they perfect? No, they weren’t. But our Founders’ put mechanisms in place to allow for future growth and change. Benjamin Franklin was asked: “What kind of government have you given us?” To which he replied: “A Republic if you can keep it.” Can we? Perilous times, America.

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ew law to eliminate gas-powered lawn equipment sounds reasonable, but messes with lives of small landscapers Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature on Assembly Bill 1346 makes one wonder whether California politicians ever fully understand – or even want to understand – the ramifications of their decisions. The measure aims to eliminate the sales of gasoline-powered lawn equipment, such as mowers, string trimmers, blowers and other devices, within a few years. The purpose, it’s said, is to eliminate the exhaust emissions from small engines that create smog and contribute to global warming. The bill’s author, AssemblyDan Walters man Marc Berman, a Menlo Park Democrat, contends that “operating the best-selling, gas-powered commercial leaf blower for one hour emits air pollutants comparable to driving a 2017 Toyota Camry from Los Angeles to Denver. Smogforming emissions from small engines will surpass those from passenger vehicles this year.” One could add that the gas-powered lawn machines also emit jarring levels of noise. Under AB 1346, the California Air Resources Board will decide how and when sales of gaspowered devices will be prohibited and it could be as early as 2024. A shift to battery-powered machines presumably would occur as older devices need replacement. Tools powered by rechargeable batteries are convenient, quiet and relatively inexpensive to operate and make perfect sense for the homeowner. Personally, I’ve used them almost exclusively for the past quarter century and wouldn’t have it any other way. That said, what’s practical for personal use is not necessarily so for lawn care professionals, most of them single people or small crews, and often immigrants. It’s estimated that California has at least 50,000 such microbusinesses. Mowing a lawn once a week is one thing, but pros do it a dozen or more times a day to keep their families housed and fed. They would have to not only buy the equipment but dozens of batteries and chargers and have the facilities, including sufficient electric power supplies, to recharge those batteries. Backers of the legislation, a coalition of public health and environmental groups, would let the Air Resources Board figure out the details. There’s the possibility of a $30 million fund to help buy new equipment. The arithmetic, however, indicates that the proposed conversion would cost much more than that, either borne by the lawn services or taxpayers. Andrew Bray, vice president of the National Association of Landscape Professionals, told the Los Angeles Times that “a three-person landscaping crew will need to carry 30 to 40 fully charged batteries to power its equipment during a full day’s work,” adding, “These companies are going to have to completely retrofit their entire workshops to be able to handle this massive change in voltage so they’re going to be charged every day.” The larger landscape companies that Bray represents could make the switch and adjust their fees accordingly. But how about the little guys? A basic array of high-quality, battery-powered lawn tools – a mower, a trimmer and a blower – would cost at least $1,000. Enough spare batteries and chargers would at least double the initial cost. So at a minimum, with 50,000 lawn services, the total cost would be $100 million. The real world cost would likely be a quarter-billion dollars or more. Even were the state willing to cover replacements, how about the infrastructure that small landscapers, operating out of their homes, would need to recharge their batteries? Would we be putting them through a daunting application process? Would the many undocumented landscapers submit the paperwork? Newsom and the legislators who voted for this bill may think they are doing the right thing, but did they ever consider that they are messing with people’s livelihoods and lives? Nothing in the bill indicates they did.

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under your authority. In the construct of consumer services, you chose what vendor is appropriate for you, and schools, in my opinion, are no exception. It’s been said that money talks, so since your money (average daily attendance) keeps the school system alive, take your money where it talks for you. Do not let the school nurse that I once knew or any other system make a decision you are not aware of or at least consulted about. One last warning: Sacramento makes rules and those who depend on the money made by the rule makers follow the rules, so focus on the rule makers who should follow the rules “of the people, by the people” and not their self-centered causes. Mama once told me, “Son, never let anyone have or control the key to your smokehouse.” That’s a word to the wise. The Rev. Morris A. Curry Jr. is a resident of Vacaville.

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Clinton From Page One the White House in 2001, raising millions for his family’s nonprofit Clinton Foundation and getting paid handsomely to speak. Clinton was in Southern California last week – his first trip to the West Coast since the pandemic – to speak at a foundation reception and dinner on Thursday. Hillary Clinton flew to California on Thursday to take his place at the event and to be with him at the hospital. Chelsea Clinton showed up at the medical center Saturday. The family spent time together catching up, and the former president also spoke with friends and watched college football. On Tuesday, while visiting longtime friends

Haiti From Page One Gédéon Jean, who runs the Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights in Port-au-Prince, which monitors kidnapping in the country. Jean said the gang is responsible for about 80% of the kidnappings taking place in Haiti. While U.S. officials, including the FBI, have been alerted about the kidnapping, Haiti National Police spokeswoman Marie-Michelle Verrier said they have not been able to confirm the abduction. “We have no information and no one has filed a report,” she said. The brazen kidnapping of the Christian missionaries is the latest in a wave of abductions in Haiti. It happened just days after U.S. officials, including the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Uzra Zeya, visited to evaluate the country’s security challenges and a day after the U.N. Security Council unanimously extended the mandate of its political office in Haiti by nine months. That decision came as U.N. diplomats, in a separate meeting, heard from Haitians and others about the country’s deteriorating political landscape and security since the July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. On Sunday, Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, commemorating the 215th anniversary of the death of founding father Jean-Jacques Dessalines, was prevented from laying the traditional wreath at Pont Rouge, just north of the capital, where Dessalines was assassinated. Local media reported that heavily armed gang members blocked Henry from laying the wreath and his delegation was forced to leave under a chorus of automatic gunfire. Henry made no mention of the incident on his Twitter feed when he noted that he had deposited an arrangement in memory of the emperor at the altar where his remains lie. The altar is at the national pantheon museum, known as the MUPANAH, across from the presidential palace. Observers have noted that the only way to tackle Haiti’s rampant insecurity is with the help of exter-

in Orange County, the former president felt fatigued and was admitted to the intensive care unit at UC Irvine Medical Center that evening. Clinton was diagnosed with a urological infection that turned into a blood infection, aides said. Though some media outlets said Clinton had sepsis – a life-threatening response by the body to an infection that can result in tissue damage and organ failure – aides said the former president was never in septic shock, the most severe and deadly stage of sepsis. He was cared for in the intensive care unit because of concerns about Covid-19, an aide added. Clinton was recovering well and was kept in the hospital over the weekend for continued intravenous treatment, said spokesman Angel Ureña. “He is in great spirits,”

nal forces, something the neighboring Dominican Republic asked for during its president’s recent address to the United Nations General Assembly. However, Haitians have been divided about the return of U.N. peacekeeping troops or even the presence of the U.S. military in the country while acknowledging that their beleaguered, demoralized, underpaid and corrupt force is no match for the country’s wellarmed gangs. Though Haiti’s interim leadership that took control after the death of Moïse had requested that the Biden administration send U.S. troops, the White House did not support the idea. Earlier this month, Helen La Lime, the special representative for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in Haiti, told the Security Council that the reestablishment of security, especially in the Port-auPrince metropolitan area, must be prioritized by Haitian authorities. “The control that gangs exercise around strategic entry and exit points of the capital has had a detrimental impact on Haiti’s economy and the movement of people and goods,” she said. Kidnappings in Haiti have increased 300% between July and September, when at least 221 abductions were recorded, according to the crime observation unit of the Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights in Port-au-Prince. The rise has coincided with the deepening political turmoil after the president’s murder and rampant insecurity in Portau-Prince, where armed gangs have extended their control over large swaths of the capital. In recent weeks, people have been abducted while attending church and others from the hillside of Petionville, a tony suburb of the capital. While locals remain the bulk of those who have kidnapped, more than 40 foreigners from three countries – France, Canada and the United States – have fallen victim so far this year, according to information compiled by the Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights. “The gangs today have saturated Port-au-Prince and they are kidnapping people everywhere,” said Jean, adding that it’s difficult to put a number to the kidnappings in Haiti.

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Ureña said on Saturday. “He is deeply grateful for the excellent care he continues to receive and thankful to the many wellwishers who have sent kind words to him and his family. He’s looking forward to getting home very soon.” President Joe Biden talked to Clinton on Friday. “We’re all thinking about President Clinton today. He’s always been the comeback kid,” Biden said during a speech at the University of Connecticut, a reference to Clinton’s surprise showing in the New Hampshire primary in 1992 that launched his bid for the presidency. Biden later told reporters that he and the former president planned to get together, “and for him to come over and have some lunch and talk.” Clinton, a former Arkansas governor, was known as the first baby

boomer president and served two terms in the White House from 1993 to 2001. He was a moderate Democrat whose signature accomplishments included the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Brady Bill that required background checks for handgun purchases. The first president to sign a balanced budget in decades, Clinton entered office with a $255 billion budget deficit and left office with a $182 billion budget surplus. But his tenure was clouded by controversy, notably allegations of financial and sexual impropriety. He faced impeachment proceedings stemming from his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. (While the House of Representatives voted in favor of impeaching Clinton, the

Senate acquitted him.) Some parts of his legacy became deeply unpopular among later generations of Democrats, such as the 1994 crime bill that increased funding for police departments and penalties for federal crimes, the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gay members of the military and the Defense of Marriage Act. Since leaving office, Clinton has made millions of dollars on the speaking circuit while also raising hundreds of millions for his foundation’s charitable efforts, such as training rural farmers in Africa, developing renewable energy projects in island nations and lowering the cost of HIV/AIDS medicine around the world. He also partnered with Republicans, notably the late former President George H.W. Bush, on fundraising efforts to

benefit survivors of an Indian Ocean tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1,800 Americans in 2005. Clinton had defeated Bush in 1992. Clinton has a history of health troubles, notably his struggles with his weight and high cholesterol, born of his taste for unhealthy food. He would jog to McDonald’s as a presidential candidate in 1992. Hillary Clinton told The New York Times in 1992 that her influence on her husband’s diet was “less than I would like.” But after a series of major health issues – notably quadruple coronary bypass surgery in 2004 and the insertion of two stents in 2010 – Clinton adopted a vegan diet with the exception of a piece of salmon or an omelet once a week.

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Stephanie Oelsligle Jordan teaches students how to cook a spicy Spanish potatoes dish at Sustainable Solano’s

youth cooking pilot program at St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School in Vallejo, Tuesday.

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a process.” Perez loves cooking and even made a meal at home to surprise her family. “I get to do something I love and I get to eat,” she said. Next, it was on to cutting potatoes with this suggestion: “The smaller (the portions) the faster they bake.” Tristan Espana, a freshman, said his family had a restaurant in Virginia. While he plans a career in anesthesiology, the cooking skills will come in handy when he marries and has children, he said. Espana compared pitting dates and wrapping them in bacon to “an organ transplant wrapped with bandages.” Program Manager Stefani Iribarren Brooks said the school was the perfect place to launch as its home to an Urban Ag Club. She brings a hospitality background as well as education. “Our goal is to support the local food system,” Brooks said, adding that’s

the way to help keep local farms in place. A recent class included making curry, something none of the students had done previously. Sustainable Solano did a presentation at the school. All those who attended signed up. “We were pleasantly surprised by the motivation to learn,” Brooks said. The program can set the stage for youth to later become involved in urban agriculture, community gardens and other parts of the food system as they share the knowledge at home and in their community. “The course helps to raise awareness about what is growing in our school garden and connects students with the work chef Robin Perry (the high school’s chef) does every school day to produce nutritious and fresh meals in our school kitchen,” said Rick Rodgers, who advises the Urban Farmers Club. “Students are enjoying the course and love the fact that they get to eat

what they prepare at the end of the course.” Sustainable Solano in the coming months will bring the Youth Cooking Pilot Program to other partner organizations and sites around the county, including Solano County 4-H, the Fairfield Police Activities League, Vallejo Project and Vallejo First 5. Some classes will be taught at the Solano County Fairgrounds. Sustainable Solano continues to look for additional sites and organizational partners as the program grows. This pilot program is part of a larger vision for the organization that would bring similar culinary programs to youth and adults in the county, imparting workforce skills while also raising awareness about health and nutrition and the local economy, the organization reports. One part of that vision includes the possibility of creating medically tailored meals through such training programs. For more information, visit sustainablesolano.org.

toward the end of the 2012-17 drought, which was followed by the region’s wettest year on record, Schladow said. These swings from dry to wet are nothing new. “What is changing is that these periods of extreme low and extreme high water seem to be happening more and more frequently,” he said. That comes as climate change is causing droughts to become drier, hotter and longer, and bursts of precipitation to become shorter and more intense, he said. “One of the manifestations of climate change that all the models seem to agree on is that there will be more extremes,” he said. “Hot and cold, wet and dry.” Low water levels in a major tributary to Lake Tahoe forced the U.S. Forest Service to cancel an annual festival celebrating the fall migration of the Kokanee salmon. The salmon are not expected to spawn

in Taylor Creek this year due to the ongoing drought, although they could return in future years if conditions allow, the Forest Service said. It’s possible that as the water level continues to drop, the streams that flow into Lake Tahoe could become blocked by sandbars, further jeopardizing the ability of salmon to navigate them, Schladow said. Although they will spawn elsewhere, they will probably have low success, he said. So-called terminal bodies of water that permanently lose their outflows and become cut off from tributaries are known to grow salty and inhospitable to aquatic life, although that is not expected to happen with Tahoe anytime soon. Several inches of snow fell in Lake Tahoe last week, but it wasn’t enough to make a measurable difference in the water level. The National Weather Service said more is on the way

Sunday into Monday, with 3 to 6 inches expected to fall above 7,000 feet. Another storm is expected next weekend, said Amanda Young, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Reno. But overall, she said, this year has been drier and warmer than normal in the forecast area. And long-term forecasts are calling for those conditions to persist, Schladow said, although he said that could change. If the area does see significant precipitation, especially rain, that will raise another concern: debris flows in recent burn areas including the watershed at the south end of the lake, which was scorched by the Caldor Fire earlier this year. “Next spring there may be a lot of material being washed in from Trout Creek and the Upper Truckee River,” Schladow said.

From Page One their lessons this week. Sustainable Solano will introduce Girl Scouts to the same program in November. Overton did some baking early on during the pandemic. “Cooking is not my thing,” said the senior. “I’m going to have to eat.” Freshman Isaak Oshauna partnered with Overton on some tasks during a recent class. His family members embrace the culinary experience at home and he loves to be a part of it. Stephanie Oelsligle Jordan is the main instructor. She caught the cooking bug in 2004 after a career in marketing and public relations. During a recent class, she demonstrated how to pit a date. Each student took a turn pitting dates, which were then rolled into small bacon slices. “They are gross,” said Gabby Perez, after pitting some dates. “It’s

Tahoe From Page One at the top of the Truckee River that is 6 feet higher, Schladow said. But last week, it dropped just below the rim. By Saturday afternoon, the water level was roughly half an inch below the rim – and falling, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Geological Survey. That’s because the lake each year loses about 6 feet of water from evaporation – a rate of about a quarter-inch a day, which can increase with high winds, Schladow said. “If this next year is just an average year, or worse, a dry year, it probably means that the water level this time next year will be maybe something like four feet below the rim,” he said. “And if the next year is dry, it sort of continues.” The water last dropped below Lake Tahoe’s rim

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Week From Page A3 as excessive speed, DUI and distracted driving. Start Smart makes teens and parents aware of the responsibilities they face and teaches what precautions to take to stay safe, such as the importance of seat belts, passengers in the vehicle and what to do when involved in a collision. The Zoom program will be used to host the class. Call 428-2100 to register.

Vacaville set to host Cleanup Day The city will hold a Neighborhood Cleanup Day from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. The service area will be Manzanita and Novato drives. Help is needed for yard cleanup, house painting, fence repairs and other exterior home improvements. Breakfast and lunch will be served to volunteers. The event will take place, rain or shine. Masks will be required. Register at the city’s Facebook page.

Club program shines light on fuchsias Fuchsias come in thousands of varieties and colors, with multicolored

Grants From Page A3 community-based health care organization that contracts with the state administer Medito Cal benefits to its 600,000 members in its home base county of Solano, as well as Del

Several government meetings will occur this week. They are open to the public. They include: n Fairfield Suisun Sewer District Board of Directors, 4:30 p.m. Monday, executive conference room, 1010 Chadbourne Road, Fairfield. Info: fssd.com. n Solano County Board of Supervisors, 9 a.m. Tuesday, County Government Center, 675 Texas St, Fairfield. Info: co.solano.ca.us. n Travis School District Governing Board,

5 p.m. Tuesday closed session, 6 p.m. open session, Travis Education Center, 2775 De Ronde Drive, Fairfield. Info: travisusd.org. n Fairfield City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, City Hall, 1000 Webster St. Info: www.fairfield. ca.gov/gov/city_council/. n Rio Vista City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, City Hall, 1 Main St. Info: www.riovistacity.com/ city-council/. n Vacaville Planning Commission, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, City Hall, 650 Merchant St. Info: www.ci.vacaville.ca.us. n Suisun City Council, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, City Hall, 701 Civic Center Blvd. Info: www. suisun.com/government/ city-council. n Suisun City Parks and Recreation Commission, 6 p.m. Wednesday, 701 Civic Center Blvd. Info: www.suisun.com/ parks-recreationcommission. n Vacaville School District Board of Trustees, 6 p.m. Thursday, boardroom at Educational Services Center, 401 Nut Tree Road. Info: https:// agendaonline.net/public/ vacaville. County n Solano Planning Commission, 7 p.m. Thursday, 675 Texas St. Fairfield. Info: co.solano.ca.us.

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blossoms that hang and droop from baskets, planters and pots. They can be trellised in the garden; they can be bushy, vining and trailing. The Fairfield Garden Club will meet at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday for a presentation on growing, and for, fuchsia, caring as well as a history about the plant. The club welcomes Janis and Rodney Bergquist, experts in raising fuchsia. Janis Bergquist is a published author on fuchsias and past a president of the American Fuchsia Society. The Fairfield Garden Club meets at the Fairfield Adult Recreation Center, 1200 Civic Center Drive. For more information, call Mary Colridge at 330-9920.

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Why W’s want Wiggins to score less this season Tribune Content Agency Dissatisfied with his best player’s effort, Huntington Prep coach Rob Fulford yelled and yelled for Andrew Wiggins to box out. That was back in the fall of 2011, and Wiggins, then a 16-year-old high school junior, was seemingly drifting through an exhibition against the University of Charleston’s JV team. But just as Fulford was about to unleash a verbal tirade on him at

halftime, Wiggins showed Fulford the box score: He had 18 rebounds. “That’s when I really realized that Andrew is different,” said Fulford, who’s now an assistant coach at the University of Akron. “He makes things look so easy that it’s easy to think he’s just kind of coasting when, in fact, he’s going full speed.” Wiggins’ breezy approach – as misleading as it might be – has long fueled his critics. It should come as no surprise, then,

that certain Warriors fans took to social media this preseason to question his hustle. Though widely expected to build off the best season of his NBA career, Wiggins sometimes struggled to make his presence felt in four exhibitions. His per-game averages of 9.2 points on 35.1% shooting (22.2% from 3-point range), 4.2 rebounds and 2 assists left some to wonder: Was Wiggins slipping back into bad habits? Would incon-

sistency be an issue for him again? What those skeptics might not have known, however, was that Wiggins was still rounding into game shape after he missed time with a sore left knee. And even when he has his conditioning back, he won’t be expected to replicate the 18.6 points per game he averaged last season. The emergence of Jordan Poole, the additions of Otto Porter Jr. and Nemanja Bjelica, and the eventual return

of Klay Thompson from a torn Achilles tendon, should allow Wiggins to focus more on defense. With Thompson sidelined all last season, Wiggins was the Warriors’ best perimeter defender – a one-on-one stopper who made life difficult on the likes of Devin Booker, Damian Lillard and Bradley Beal. Wiggins’ growth on that end was a big reason Golden State boasted the NBA’s fifthranked defense despite the absence of a 2018-19 All-

Defensive team selection in Thompson. Even though Wiggins averaged single-digit points in the preseason, head coach Steve Kerr was pleased overall with his ability to stay in front of his man. Much of Wiggins’ summer was spent working on the nuances of help-side defense. In those four exhibitions, he was better at understanding defensive spacing. “Honestly, the main See Wiggins, Page B8

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Chicago Sky players, including Chicago Sky MVP Kahleah Copper, second from left, celebrate after winning the

WNBA championship, 80-74, against the Phoenix Mercury, Sunday, at Wintrust Arena in Chicago.

‘So great for women’s sports’

Chicago Sky fans celebrate team’s first WNBA crown Mariah Rush

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CHICAGO — A sold-out crowd of fans at Wintrust Arena erupted in cheers of “We are the Champions,” after the Chicago Sky won their first WNBA championship Sunday. As confetti and gold streamers rained down, Joanna Karlos, of Chicago, was holding her phone up to not miss a moment of the magic on video. “This is so great for women’s sports,” she said. “Look at all these people supporting the WNBA!” The Sky beat the Phoenix Mercury 80-74 in Game 4 to win their first title. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted that details regarding a rally celebrating the

Chicago Sky players celebrate after winning the WNBA championship against the Phoenix Mercury, Sunday, at Wintrust Arena in Chicago. historic win will be released soon. For many dedicated fans, this championship has been in the works for a while. Michael Giammanco, a Gold Coast resident, was courtside

Sunday afternoon in a flowing, multicolored coat paired with sparkly Doc Martins adorned with flames. After getting sober 17 years ago, Giammanco said his paychecks now go to Sky tickets, the team’s charity and couture fashion. “I spend my money on clothes now instead of drugs,” he said. “I go to every game and wear something a little different.” Giammanco, a season-ticket holder for 11 years, said he used to work with Elton John designing record album covers and worked on a couple of tours as an assistant. That was when his partying began, he said. After he got sober at the Hazelden Betty Ford FoundaSee WNBA, Page B6

Good time for Beane, Melvin to walk away from A’s mayhem Scott Ostler

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t’s time for Billy Beane and Bob Melvin to leave the Oakland/ Las Vegas A’s. Not because the A’s executive VP of baseball operations and the field manager are doing a bad job. Au contraire. They should leave because they are doing a great job. Which makes them part of a snow job. Beane and Melvin lend legitimacy and credibility to an organization otherwise lacking in those attributes. They provide cover for owner John Fisher and President Dave Kaval, who really know how to run a franchise . . . right into the ground. This is not new, but the situation is deteriorating fast.

Off the field, the A’s are spinning their wheels as far as their alleged dream of building a stadium in Oakland, and trying harder and harder to chase away their remaining loyal fans. A’s ticket prices for the 2022 season have been goosed, a decision not likely to move the team up from this season’s 29th place in MLB’s average attendance (8,660). But it might help pay for Fisher and Kaval’s frequent expeditions to Vegas. Fisher and the A’s use the lack of a decent ballpark as a convenient excuse to keep payroll super-low, and there is no new ballpark in sight for at least three years, so players like corner infielders Matt Olson and Matt Chapman can keep their bags packed, because this team isn’t

likely to give them long-term extensions. Beane and Melvin are a great team. They have worked together 11 seasons now, overachieving like crazy. Going into 2021, the A’s made the playoffs six of the previous nine seasons, splendid for a tiny-payroll team. Melvin has been Manager of the Year three times, and would be a strong candidate for Manager of the Past Decade. Beane and Melvin are the poster guys for New Baseball. Beane took the analytics of his predecessor, Sandy Alderson, to new levels of efficiency. Melvin adapted to the new way of baseball, in which the manager takes heavy input from the general manager. See A’s, Page B6

In Game 5 of a National League Division Series marred by poor work by homeplate umpires, Kris Bryant endured one of the worst at-bats when it came to balls and strikes. Sure, the bad calls went both ways, as reflected by umpire scorecards that compile such data, but the opinion was pretty unanimous: Doug Eddings’ worst calls of the night Thursday in Game 5 came at Bryant’s expense in a key situation in a tight game: The Giants had one man on and no one out in the fourth inning, and Eddings called a 3-1 pitch outside the zone from Julio Urías a strike on the heels of also calling a 2-0 ball a strike. “You know, they want to get the calls right, they really do,” Bryant told The Chronicle by phone two days after the Giants’ 2-1 loss in that decisive Game 5. “But that situation was unfortunate, considering we had a man at first and nobody out. I was really sticking with my approach there

and trying to work a good at-bat, and pass the torch to the next guy. It’s frustrating when you do exactly what you want and it should have worked, but Doug saw it a different way. “It certainly was a big point in the game, and a big momentum swing in their favor.” Bryant said he would like teams to be able to challenge egregious strike-zone calls when warranted to avoid such issues. “I think that’s something that we can totally talk about,” he said. “Urías has a really sharp-breaking curveball and sure, Doug probably thought it crossed the plate. I think that maybe a couple of times a game, you can challenge a big ballstrike call, because the umpires don’t ever want to see the game decided on something like that, and if we can use the technology that we have to find a way to make it a little easier, I think everybody would be on board with that.” The Giants didn’t have an easy time of it from this umpiring crew. The game See Bryant, Page B6

Sharks’ defenseman to have surgery, could miss up to two months Tribune Content Agency SAN JOSE — Defenseman NikolaiKnyzhov will have surgery next week to correct an unspecified lower-body injury and could miss the next two months, Sharks coach Bob Boughner said Sunday. Knyzhov, the Sharks’ top rookie last season, had seen a specialist earlier this week to determine the next course of action after his rehabilitation during the team’s training camp wasn’t having the desired amount of success. Knyzhov had skated lightly by himself on a few occasions earlier this month but was not able to participate in any team drills during camp.

Knyzhov’s surgery is scheduled for Oct. 22 and Boughner said he could be out for eight to 10 weeks. “He’s really disappointed today,” Boughner said of Knyzhov. “We were hoping for the best with rehab and I think he’s just disappointed that he’s lost that time and now that he’s got to get this surgery. “But he’s also comfortable in the fact that hopefully, the surgery is going to correct the problem and he’s not going to have to worry about it anymore. It’s going to get fixed.” Knyzhov, 23, played in all 56 games for the Sharks last season. The smooth-skating defenseman averaged 16:26 of ice time.

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Ribs 101:

Four methods for cooking

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ibs” should never be a fourletter word. They represent everything that is great about meat: They have an amazing, instantly recognizable flavor that is hearty yet mild at the same time. They are tender, but also have just the right amount of chew. They taste wonderful on their own, but they also pair spectacularly well with any number of sauces. And they are practically impossible to cook badly. And yet, a lot of people find them daunting, or too much work. Ribs are something they only order at a restaurant, preferably a barbecue joint. But it’s not hard to turn your home into your own personal barbecue joint. Ribs are not difficult to cook at all, and the best part is that when you are done, you have ribs. I made ribs – we are talking here about pork ribs – four different ways, with different results. First, I made them the traditional way, by smoking them at a low temperature for several hours. These turned out the best by far, tender and juicy with the exquisite flavor and aroma of smoke running all the way through. If you have the time and you have a smoker or a grill you can use for smoking, this is unquestionably the way to go for the true rib experience. Next, I tried a method I had always abhorred: I boiled the ribs before grilling them. Some restaurants love to parboil their ribs because it makes them extra-tender and especially because it saves them time. Not everyone agrees. Grillmeister Steven Raichlan says, “in my barbecue religion, that’s heresy.” Boiling ribs does help to render out some fat, but at the same time it also renders out some flavor. But what I hadn’t guessed was just how much other flavor is added by grilling the meat over direct heat. Ten minutes is all it takes to finish off the nearly cooked ribs with a mouth-watering taste of flame and smoke. Cooking ribs in a slow cooker takes more time than any other method, but it’s time that you can spend away from the kitchen, if you like. You just rub the ribs with spices, plop them in the slow cooker and forget about them – until the enticing aroma reminds you that dinner is almost done. They come out tender, but with just enough resistance to your bite, and have a delectable flavor, meaty and full. They are awfully good, but they lack the smokiness that, for a lot of people, defines the taste of ribs. I don’t particularly recommend the fourth method of cooking ribs, roasting them in the oven, unless you don’t have a smoker, a grill or a slow cooker. What oven-roasted ribs have is the proper texture, and you can enjoy the fact that you are eating ribs. But the flavor is minimal and, frankly, kind of insipid. Still, the end result is ribs. And that is better than not having ribs.

What are the different cuts of ribs? The most popular ribs are baby back ribs, which come from the top part of the rib cage. They have the most meat of all the rib cuts, and are also the quickest and easiest to cook. Spareribs are cut just below the baby back ribs. They have more marbling between the bones, and thus more flavor, but they also are not as tender as the baby backs. St. Louis-style ribs are essentially spareribs, but are cut shorter so they don’t have the

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CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP: Smoked Ribs, Oven-Roasted Ribs, Boiled and Grilled Ribs, and Boiled and Grilled Ribs.

rib tips on the bottom. Rib tips are the toughest part of the ribs. What about countrystyle ribs? Country-style ribs are not ribs (you can tell because they are not attached to a bone). They are actually cut from the pork butt, which is to say the shoulder. They are sometimes inaccurately lumped in with ribs because they, like ribs, have to be cooked at a low temperature for a relatively long time.

What is the skin, and does it have to be removed? What people call the “skin” is actually a membrane, the pleura. When cooked, it becomes tough and chewy, and most people find it unpleasant to eat – however, it is edible (and some like it). It is usually best to remove it, although we left it on while cooking ribs in a slow cooker because it helps hold the rack together when using that method. To remove it, simply slide a thin, sharp knife between the bone side of the ribs and skin to loosen enough of it to be able to grab it. Hold it with a clean towel or paper towels and pull the skin off the ribs. It comes off baby back ribs very easily; it takes more effort with spareribs and St. Louis ribs.

If you are smoking ribs, what wood should you use? Hickory is a good place to start; it produces perhaps the most familiar smoke flavor. But go easy on the chips, because too much hickory smoke can add a bitter note to your meat. Fruit woods such as apple (which won’t impart as much flavor) and cherry are mild, and are good to mix with other woods. Mesquite is delicious and unmistakable, but it can easily become harsh so be sure to use it sparingly. Oak is not traditionally used with pork, unless you’re from

East Texas, where post oak grows like a weed and is used to barbecue everything. I used to live in East Texas, so for this story I used a combination of post oak and hickory.

When should I put on the sauce? Most barbecue sauces have sugars in them (the vinegarbased sauce of North Carolina is a significant exception). Sugars burn quickly, ruining your barbecue. If you are cooking at a low temperature, such as in the smoker, oven or slow cooker, do not apply your sauce until the last 20 to 30 minutes of cooking. If you are cooking at a high temperature, such as finishing it under the broiler or on a grill over direct heat, do not add the sauce until the last three to five minutes. Some experts don’t even put a sauce on at all while the ribs are cooking. They serve the sauce on the side. A few purists disdain the thought of sauce entirely and don’t believe in using it, but I do not see any reason for such extremism. SLOW-COOKER RIBS Yield: 6 servings 3 racks baby back ribs or 2 racks spareribs ¾ cup spice rub Coat both sides of the ribs with the spice rub and rub it into the meat. Do not remove the membrane. Place the ribs, standing vertically, in a large slow cooker (an oval-shaped cooker will work best). You may have to cut rack into pieces to fit them in. A small slow cooker will fit 1 rack. Cook 4 to 5 hours on high or 7 to 8 hours on low. The ribs are done when the meat is tender, it has pulled away from the bone by about 3/4 inch and its internal temperature is 195 degrees. Per serving: 535 calories; 38 g fat; 13g saturated fat; 156 mg cholesterol; 44 g protein; 6 g carbohydrate; 3 g sugar; 2 g fiber; 1,389 mg sodium; 86 mg calcium Recipe by Daniel Neman

SMOKED RIBS Yield: 6 servings 3 racks baby back ribs or 2 racks spareribs ¾ cup spice rub 1 cup wood chips, for smoking 1 ⁄3 cup apple juice 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar Chipotle barbecue sauce or your favorite barbecue sauce, optional Remove membranes from boneside of ribs by slipping a thin, sharp knife between meat and membrane. Pull up on membrane with the knife until you can grip it with your thumb (use a towel or a paper towel for a better grip). Lift membrane off meat, and discard. Coat both sides of ribs with spice rub and rub into the meat. Refrigerate 4 to 8 hours or let sit at room temperature for 1 hour. Do not keep out of the refrigerator for more than 1 hour. Meanwhile, soak wood chips in water for at least 20 minutes if small or 1 hour if larger chunks. Wrap wet chips in aluminum foil and cut 4 slits in top of package. Prepare a grill for indirect heat. Light the grill and use dials or vents to keep the temperature very low, 250 to 275 degrees. Try not to go above 300 degrees. Place wood-chip package in center of coals or directly on top of gas flame. Place the ribs, bone-side down, on the grate and close the cover. If using charcoal, you will have to add additional coals every hour. Mix together the apple juice and cider vinegar. After 1 hour of cooking, brush this mixture sparingly over the ribs. Cover and continue cooking. Every 30 minutes, brush more of the liquid sparingly over the top of the ribs. Baby back ribs will be done in about 4 hours; spareribs will take longer. About 20 to 30 minutes before they are done, brush ribs with barbecue sauce, if desired. The ribs are done when the meat is tender, has pulled away from the bone by about ¾ inch and its internal temperature is 195 degrees. Per serving: 600 calories; 39 g fat; 15 g saturated fat; 156 mg cholesterol; 44 g protein; 17 g carbohydrate; 12 g sugar; 2 g fiber; 1,578 mg sodium; 102 mg calcium Recipe by Daniel Neman

SPICE RUB Yield: About ½ cup 2 tablespoons paprika 2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar 1 tablespoon salt 2 teaspoons chili powder 1 ½ teaspoons garlic powder 1 ½ teaspoons pepper 1 ½ teaspoons onion powder ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper, see note ½ teaspoon dried thyme Note: This recipe makes a moderately spicy rub. If you want it spicier, use 1 ½ teaspoons cayenne pepper. If you want it mild, eliminate the cayenne. Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Per serving (based on 8): 20 calories; no fat; no saturated fat; no cholesterol; 1 g protein; 5 g carbohydrate; 1 g sugar; 1 g fiber; 894 mg sodium; 13 mg calcium Recipe from “The Cook’s Illustrated Meat Book” by the editors at America’s Test Kitchen BOILED AND GRILLED RIBS Yield: 6 servings 3 racks baby back ribs or 2 racks spareribs 2 lemons 1 cup salt 2 tablespoons black peppercorns 2 bay leaves Chipotle barbecue sauce or your favorite barbecue sauce, optional Put the ribs in a large stockpot and fill with enough cold water to cover. Squeeze the lemons and strain the juice into the pot. Remove the seeds and add the lemon rinds. Add the salt, peppercorns and bay leaves and bring to a boil. Boil until the ribs are slightly soft but not falling apart, about 25 minutes. Prepare a grill for high heat. Transfer the ribs to the grill, meatier-side down. Grill for 10 minutes; brush the meaty side with barbecue sauce, if using, and grill another 3 minutes. Do not char the meat or the sauce. Ribs are done when the meat has pulled away from the bone by ¾ inch. Per serving: 590 calories; 40 g fat; 15 g saturated fat; 156 mg cholesterol; 44 g protein; 17 g carbohydrate; 9 g sugar; 1 g fiber; 767 mg sodium; 100 mg calcium Recipe by Yaara Amberg, via Food Network

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t was one week in November. Every day, Illinois nurse Jacob Forsman had a Covid-19 patient. And every day, that patient died by noon. “That was for three days in a row,” he said. “That one just broke me.” Nearly a year later, he had hoped to be finished with Covid-19 body bags. But Forsman, an intensive care unit charge nurse at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, is one of the many hospital workers who continue to treat severely ill Covid-19 patients, a year and a half into a pandemic that many knew would be a slog but most had hoped would ease by now. “I think the reality has sunk in for me that we’re shifting into the year 2022, and it’s called Covid-19,” Forsman said. Doctors and nurses and others who help treat and, hopefully, heal, virus patients are still working daily. They still help people breathe, they still hold iPads connected to family members unable to see sick relatives, they still call relatives to summon them for a final goodbye. “We’re still intubating people, when you can walk into any Walmart and they have signs that you can get any of the vaccines for free,” Forsman said. All of this has taken its toll. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses recently created a “hear us out” campaign to speak about the “sustained and extreme demands of the last 18 months,” including a survey noting 66% had considered leaving nursing. “At the beginning, it was fear,” said Dr. Michelle Prickett, a pulmonologist who has in Northwestern’s worked Covid-19 intensive care unit throughout the pandemic. In the spring, vaccines offered hope only to be crushed by delta and slowing vaccination rates. “We’re feeling the strain. It’s just frustrating and exhausting.” Amid colleagues quitting and continued Covid-19 hospitalizations, health care workers feel burned out.

‘We are just trying to do everything’ Even as they themselves are vaccinated, and in many ways things have improved, multiple Chicago health care workers said they feel this time is the hardest. “I feel like I’ve been running a marathon and as I approach mile 25, someone moves the finish line,” said Whitney You, an OB-GYN at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. “I’m learning to accept that reality, but it still makes me tired and anxious about what waits around the corner.” Last fall, amid mask arguments and pandemic fatigue, hospital workers expressed frustrations and even Illinois Department of Public Health Director Ngozi Ezike became emotional while talking about the nearly 10,000 lives lost at that point in Illinois. Now, however, nurses are working not only with the effects of Covid-19 but also routine appointments like knee replacements or shoulder surgeries that were postponed during shutdowns. “Everyone’s resources are stretched far thinner, because we are just trying to do everything,” Forsman said. “We’re trying to be there for the people that need the outpatient resources. We’re trying to treat people that couldn’t be treated before, and treat the Covid population.” Meanwhile, Covid-19 cases keep coming. This summer, Forsman said they saw multiple people hospitalized in a family

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ICU nurse Samantha Lazzara, left, and Judith Mclean, a patient care technician, put on PPE gear before entering a Covid-19 patient’s after all attended a wedding. Not everyone left. “Everyone came in together. They get sick at the same time, and you’re going to discharge three out of five of them,” he said. “That’s something that’s super hard for us as nurses, and something that we just don’t get over.” Chicago psychologist Saloumeh Bozorgzadeh, who created a group to help mental health among workers during Covid-19, said she is seeing health care workers even getting physically ill, reporting things like gastrointestinal problems or eye infections, along with mental health challenges like feeling numb, disengaged, apathetic and anxious. “Some have symptoms similar to PTSD,” she said. “I think many people may not know that these can be the effects of burnout, and some may not know how to cope with it. People think of burnout as just being tired, but there is so much more to it.” For some, stepping away is the solution. Doris Carroll retired after 38 years in nursing earlier this year. She moved to Florida to help her mother, but she’s honest in admitting that Covid-19 contributed. “I am relieved to be out,” she said. Adding to her decision were what she called “dangerously low staffing levels,” and the grief of losing fellow nurses at the University of Illinois at Chicago hospital to Covid-19. “I didn’t sign up for this,” she said. “Nor did my colleagues.” UI Health has faced staffing challenges, but those challenges “have not significantly impacted patient care,” said Michael Zenn, CEO of University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics, in a statement. It’s not only those in Covid-19 units feeling strain. Last year, pediatricians were asked to help provide staff and services for overwhelmed adult wards. This year, with rising RSV cases and young children unable to be vaccinated yet, “I worry that we may have it the other way,” with other staffers asked to help out children’s wards, said Chicago pediatrician Deanna Behrens. Airica Steed, Sinai Chicago chief operating officer, said as many as 20% of Sinai Chicago’s workers aren’t coming in on any given day because of the mental and physical exhaustion

of working through a pandemic, as well as child care challenges and exposure to Covid-19. In normal times, about 5% to 10% of Sinai’s workforce was absent on any given day.

Staffing shortages across the state Before, staffing challenges centered around Covid-19 wards. Now, it’s staffing for treating Covid-19 patients as well as all whose appointments or procedures were delayed during the pandemic. “We’re now expected to battle the pandemic and meet the needs of people who are not only very sick and needy, but have gone without necessary care for nearly a year and a half,” said Liz Somone, a nurse at the University of Illinois Hospital. Prickett said it’s not that people are “leaving in droves,” but rather that when anyone leaves, “You can’t train people fast enough to do this.” “People are certainly saying, ‘Am I going to do this for the next whole year?’” she said. “It gets to be a lot.” Hospitals have long dealt with a shortage of nurses, but the pandemic has exacerbated the problem, experts say. It can be difficult to tell exactly how many nurses Illinois hospitals and clinics may have lost over the last year. As of September 2021, there were 258,225 active nursing and advanced practice registered nurse licenses compared with 263,513 the year before, according to the state. But not everyone who is licensed is actually working, and nurses had to renew their licenses last year, which often leads to a dip in the numbers. Part of the problem is it’s now more difficult for hospitals to get temporary nurses from staffing agencies, as they often did in the past in times of need. Agency nurses are temporary workers who are sent to hospitals to fill in gaps. Covid-19 surges across the country have created greater demand for those nurses, driving up prices for them, Steed said. Steed has seen agency nurses make as much as $50,000 for one month of work – making it difficult to afford those nurses and prompting some of Sinai’s own nurses to leave for agency jobs. “We’re finding ourselves

room in the ICU unit at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital in Lake Forest, Illinois, Oct. 1. paying four and five times that of the typical rate just to get temporary personnel in,” Steed said. “Certainly, that’s not a sustainable scenario.” Exhaustion and burnout from Covid-19 have also led many nurses to leave hospital jobs. “We have a very resilient staff, but how can you not have employees feel burnout after going into wave three,” said Susan Mitchell, chief human resource officer at EdwardElmhurst Health. Hospitals are trying a number of different tactics to entice nurses to stay. Sinai has been giving bonuses to those who pick up extra shifts or work in short-staffed areas, as well as ramping up its recruitment tactics. Edward-Elmhurst added in-person employee support coordinators to give workers people to talk with, if they need help. And it has set aside “lavender rooms” – spaces with dim lighting, soft music, zero gravity chairs and the scent of lavender where workers can go if they need a few minutes to relax. In Southern Illinois, where hospitals have been especially hard-hit by Covid-19, the state has already sent more than 250 temporary workers to hospitals short not just on medical workers but also on custodians and dietary workers. “Within the region, we just have an overall shortage of manpower that we’re just not able to fill locally,” said Arien Herrmann, regional hospital coordinating center manager for the southernmost part of Illinois. “If you can make the same money working at Taco Bell, and not have the additional stress” people are choosing those jobs, he said.

Fighting delta and vaccine hesitation Last year, health care workers were fighting the virus. This year, they face additional opposition in delta, the strain that has complicated the recovery from the pandemic, and vaccine hesitation and misinformation. By the time patients arrive in an intensive care unit, many are unable to speak. But Forsman said many express regret about not having gotten vaccinated. Nurses say many people assume they are healthy and will be fine

even if they get the virus; others simply think precautions like staying home or wearing masks will be enough. As someone who became a father during the pandemic, Forsman said it is hard to see patients in their 40s and 50s, parents of young children, with people’s “whole world just crashing around them.” “That was the hardest, to see families,” he said. “You feel like you’ve let down multiple people when someone passes away.” Even some who lose family members still do not seek vaccination, said Lindsey Gradone, a Northwestern nurse practitioner who has worked in Northwestern’s Covid-19 unit since the pandemic began. “To be facing this wave with so much vaccine hesitancy and almost every one of our patients that came in was unvaccinated, or they had been compromised, it’s just been really hard,” Gradone said. Both situations are difficult. With unvaccinated patients, it is hard to see patients panic and family members grieve as they realize how sick they are, and knowing patients did not get something that could have helped. For those vaccinated but with health conditions that still made them vulnerable in a persistent pandemic, “They did everything right,” Gradone said. “It’s gutting.” Thomas McClure is a travel nurse who worked in Illinois at the beginning of the pandemic and is now in a trauma intensive care unit in Colorado. Like others, he says he feels placed in a situation where he’s unable to give the highest level of care he’d like. “Delta cases are sucking up beds we can’t staff,” he said. Their unit typically keeps beds open for patients from things like car crashes; instead, they are filled with Covid-19 patients. “My biggest fear in all of this right now is that my wife will get in a crash in the mountains and not have a hospital bed in town,” he said. Meanwhile, the days when health care workers were lauded as “heroes” and applauded nightly feel far away. Like many, Gradone has sought out help and support. Also like many, she finds herself wondering about alternatives. “I love what I do,” she said, “and I’m staying. But it’s this idea of, is this worth it if it’s taking this much of a toll?”

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From left, Frederik Øland, Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, Schøyen Sjolin and Asbjørn Nørgaard of The Danish String Quartet attend the 61st Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles, Feb. 10, 2019.

For those needing a US visa, how bad is the backlog? Ask the Danish String Quartet Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The cello was large and curvy. Like a human passenger, it needed its own seat on the airplane. Unlike a human passenger, the cello did not have a passport or visa for international travel. And the cello was not allowed on the plane. The cello’s owner, Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin, a member of the Danish String Quartet, remained behind with his instrument while the rest of the group flew from Copenhagen to San Francisco. It would take Sjölin more than six hours and a personal escort through security before he and his cello could get on a flight routed through Chicago to join his friends in California at midnight. It was the day before the start of a U.S. tour that had been canceled six times because of Covid-19 shutdowns. And the trouble with the cello was just the latest in a string of bureaucratic barriers overseas performers are encountering as they attempt to tour the States. “This tour almost felt doomed,” said violinist Frederik Øland, whose quartet is set to play Santa Barbara on Thursday, Seattle on Friday and the Broad Stage on Saturday – the Santa Monica venue’s return to live, in-person performances after almost two years of pandemic closure. The Danish String Quartet’s difficulties began mounting in June when the group tried to make appointments with the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen for the interviews needed to obtain their visas. These interviews, said viola player Asbjørn Nørgaard, are extremely straightforward but must be conducted in person. The quartet has toured the U.S. many times and never had trouble obtaining the nec-

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essary P1 visas granted to entertainers. But things have changed during the pandemic. “There’s a huge backlog in the global visa system to get to the U.S., and the next available appointment in Copenhagen wasn’t until November,” Nørgaard said. The tour was to start in October. But it was still early summer, and the musicians figured they had time to sort out the visas. The quartet’s management team hired an immigration lawyer to speed the process. “At one point, there was talk about us going to Poland because there were some available interviews. There was also talk about us going to the Dominican Republic and staying one week to get the visa there,” Nørgaard said. “We almost gave up, but suddenly there was an opening in Frankfurt, Germany.” The men ended up taking three different flights to Frankfurt for their appointments – with only a little more than a week to spare before their departure. The men needed to leave their passports in Germany because when the visas were approved, they were to be affixed to the inside pages. Passports are not required for travel within the European Union, so the musicians could return home to Denmark, but there was another catch: The passports (with visas attached) could be mailed only to an address inside of Germany. The group ended up having the passports sent to an affiliate of their management’s lawyers in Berlin. The last two passports arrived on the afternoon of Oct. 7. A helper flew from Berlin to Copenhagen with all four passports the following morning because there was little faith in a courier service delivering the passports in time

for a Saturday morning flight. “It all worked out in the end so we were quite happy about that,” said violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, adding that he hopes the pandemic winds down soon – and with it the related travel woes. “Because we do love traveling in the U.S. We come three or four times a year on a tour, and it feels like our home court.” The Grammy-nominated quartet has already made quite an impression in Southern California. After a 2014 concert in Santa Barbara at which they performed Beethoven’s C-Sharp Minor string quartet, Times classical music critic Mark Swed called the players “marvelous” and wrote, “Their command of the quartet’s challenging arch-shape formal structure was complete. They could be grounded in their tone or mystical. They allowed time to stand still, and they could assume the pose of excitingly aggressive rockers. They did it all.” Three of the group’s four members met as schoolboys at a summer camp for aspiring musicians and have been playing together since. The fourth member, the cellist Sjölin, who is the sole Norwegian in the mix, joined in 2008. The quartet is known for its flexibility, including a mastery of chamber music by Beethoven and Mozart as well as a firm grasp of folk music. The touch-and-go journey to be here has made performing all the sweeter, the men said. “It was incredible sitting on the stage,” Øland said of the tour’s first stop at UC Berkeley. “Finally being back here after two years is wonderful.” After the Berkeley show, he added, he almost tripped on a microphone cable as he was walking offstage. Nothing will be easy this time around.

Bridge

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Declarer-play has progressed, but not so noticeably. New techniques have been published, but the basic skills of counting and card-reading haven’t changed. Look at this deal from decades gone by. Today, I think a few more experts would overcall one heart than double. South’s two-spade jump advance showed 9-11 points. Over three diamonds, though, North should have introduced his heart suit. Then South would have bid three no-trump, which would have been cast-iron. Against four spades, the killing defense is the diamond ace, a diamond ruffed by East, a heart to the ace and a second diamond ruff. However, not being blessed with X-ray vision, West led his higher club. Declarer won on the board, played a spade to the king and led his heart. West put up the ace and continued with his second club. South discarded a diamond on the heart king and ruffed a COUNT AND READ, heart. When the queen appeared, declarer was confident that West had DEDUCE, PLAY begun with 2=3=6=2 distribution. A How does bridge vary today from, low spade to the ace removed West’s say, 60 years ago? last trump, and declarer cashed the The main differences are in the heart jack, pitching another diamond. auction. Even if we ignore the large South cashed dummy’s club ace before increase in artificiality, the meanings of leading the heart five. After East ruffed, many natural sequences are better declarer overruffed and trumped the defined. Players know which bids are club nine in the dummy for his 10th nonforcing, invitational or forcing. In trick. Nicely done! the early days of the game, they were COPYRIGHT: 2021, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE less sure.

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FAIRFIELD — Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel finds its way back to the silver screen with a remake of “Dune” arriving Friday. David Lynch brought the story to life in 1984 with Kyle MacLachlan, Sting and Patrick Stewart in the cast. The 2021 version features Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya and Jason Momoa. The movie is the tale of a gifted man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. There, he deals with malevolent forces as a battle rages for the planet’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence – a commodity capable of unlocking humanity’s greatest potential. Only those who can conquer their fear will survive. The film is rated PG-13. “Every Last One Of Them” centers on an ex-black ops soldier desperate to find his missing daughter. As he uncovers the terrifying truth surrounding her disappearance, he goes on a merciless quest for revenge. Richard Dreyfuss is featured. The film is rated R. “No Future” is the tale of a recovering addict who returns home and begins an affair with the mother of his friend who died from an overdose. Jackie Earle Haley is featured. The film is not rated. “Rhapsody of Love” is the tale of romance, work and life colliding when an events planner and wedding photographer meet and ignite sparks. The film is not rated. “Ron’s Gone Wrong,” is the story of Barney, a socially awkward middle-schooler, and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally connected device, which is supposed to be his “Best Friend out of the Box.” Ron’s hilarious malfunctions, set against the

backdrop of the social media age, launch them into an action-packed journey in which boy and robot come to terms with the wonderful messiness of true friendship. The film is rated PG-13. “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain” stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Wain, who was many things during his incredible life: artist, inventor, entrepreneur, all while trying his best to care for his five sisters and mother. Two events changed his life forever: meeting Emily, the love of his life, and adopting Peter, a stray kitten. The film is rated PG-13. “The Estate” is the tale of a narcissistic son yearning for a life of luxury, and his father’s erratic gold-digging wife who decide to kill their way into their inheritance. They employ the help of an absurdly handsome, mysterious hitman, initiating a psychosexual love triangle that spirals into more than anyone bargained for. The film is rated R. “The French Dispatch” stars Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Henry Winkler in a love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city. The film is rated R. “The Subject” stars Jason Biggs as a successful documentarian who deals with the fallout from his previous film, which caught the murder of a Black teen on tape. As he shoots his latest doc, someone tapes his every move, upending his idyllic life. The film is not rated. “Warning” is set in the not too distant future. The film explores the repercussions that mankind faces when their omniscient technology becomes a substitute for human contact. The film is rated R. “13 Fanboy” is about an obsessed fan who stalks his favorite actors from the “Friday the 13th” films and beyond. It’s not rated.

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WNBA: Sky had plenty of fan support From Page B1 tion treatment center in Chicago, he returned to work as a counselor at the same foundation. “In my recovery I discovered the WNBA and women’s basketball, and I started to come to games,” Giammanco said. He went to his first game and sat a couple rows back from the court. He decided to start sitting courtside instead. “Once I did that, there was no going back,” he laughed. For Sunday’s game, Giammanco was joined by his 24-yearold son, Kendall Srubas-Giammanco. Giammanco had a ticket to Tuesday’s Game 5 in Phoenix but he was happy not to have to use it. Giammanco said women’s basketball players deserve much more recognition, including more pay, for what they do. He arrived early to the game, and got to speak with the Sky players. “Today I got to say thank you to them, to show my gratitude. It’s such a gift they’re giving the city, and to all of us fans,” he said. He said a Sky cham-

pionship means a lot for Chicago. “This is a basketball city in a lot of ways, but we haven’t been there with the Bulls in so long. And now, to see the Sky this close ... it’s exciting,” he said. “If this happens today, the fan base is just going to shoot up,” he said. Also courtside, was a family that got tickets to Game 4 thanks to the youngest family member’s talent and love for the game. Johanna Duncan, or as everyone calls her, JoJo, won a contest to appear in an Adidas commercial alongside Sky forward Candace Parker. JoJo, a 12-year-old from Schaumburg, is the youngest participant in the commercial, where she dribbles a basketball expertly and has several lines in the video. Attending the game with her parents, Corina and Mark Duncan, JoJo said she was excited to be sitting so close to her favorite players. The family was among the first in line to enter for Sunday’s game. JoJo, who has been modeling since she was 5, sent an audition tape for the commercial when

she found out about the opportunity. Adidas liked her tape, and sent her gear to try on. The next thing she knew, she had landed the commercial and courtside seats. While she said she has been a big basketball fan her whole life, this was only her second game. Her birthday party was at a game in August, where they sat farther back. “So these seats are much better,” Corina Duncan said. One couple was celebrating recently tying the knot at Sunday’s Sky game. Brian Flores Cruz, an Army veteran who recently returned home, and his wife, Cristal, just started watching the Sky this season. The couple, who grew up in Chicago and now live in Bolingbrook, have known each other since the fifth grade and got married nearly two weeks ago. They were celebrating with their first in-person Sky game. Decked out in cheese grater heads to support their other Chicago team playing Sunday, the two were ecstatic to be part of the Sky’s journey to a championship.

“This is our home team, this is beautiful,” Brian Cruz said. The Chicago Bears didn’t fare as well, falling to the Green Bay Packers 24-14. “I love the Sky. I’m super empowered when it comes to watching women’s sports and seeing what the Sky is doing . . . Also can we talk about how much more entertaining they are than the NBA?” Cristal Cruz said. A man sitting in front of the couple offered Cristal Cruz a fist bump in agreement. “I’m super excited to see what our girls do,” she said. “I know they are going to take us home.” After the win, Giammanco and his son were posted as close to the center of the court as possible, soaking up the celebration. “It was such a nailbiter, but I always have faith,” he said. “To win on defense like that . . . and the energy of the crowd had a lot to do with it.” Giammanco said he hoped this would lead more players to want to join the Sky. “Only upward movement now,” he said. “The Sky is the limit.”

A’s: Semien hit 45 homers for Toronto From Page B1 Melvin’s deep use of his roster and his communication with his players are superb. However, Beane’s and Melvin’s excellent work divert attention from the true state of the franchise. On that side of the ledger, embarrassments pile up. In 2020, Fisher, whose personal worth increased by $1 billion during the first year of the pandemic, tried to cut off a $400 weekly stipend for A’s minor-leaguers. One A’s minor-league team was caught providing players with meals at which a hungry dog would growl. Fisher has reaped huge dividends on the growth of MLB without contributing to that growth. Letting short-

This would be a perfect time for Beane and Melvin to exit, before they begin to look less like victims and more like enablers. stop Marcus Semien, an East Bay native, walk away last offseason to save a few bucks, then watching him hit 45 homers in Toronto, was max cringy. (This isn’t second-guessing, I called it a tragic decision at the time.) Fisher and Kaval staked the A’s future in Oakland to a risky waterfront project with a thousand major hurdles, and now act insulted because those hurdles don’t topple when the owner and his sidekick huff and puff. This would be a perfect time for Beane

and Melvin to exit, before they begin to look less like victims and more like enablers. (Webster’s definition of enabler: “One who enables another to persist in self-destructive behavior by providing excuses or by making it possible to avoid the consequences of such behavior.”) There is speculation, sparked by Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic, that Beane and Melvin might escape the A’s collapsing house of cards and take their talents to the New York Mets, with whom Beane would be reunited with Alderson, his first

boss and mentor. Beane and Melvin are both under contract to the A’s next season, but the Mets – and other clubs – could make the A’s a deal they can’t refuse. Short-term, the departure of Beane and Melvin would be sad for the ball team and its fans, and for the media. It would be a neon sign of the apocalypse. But their departure would further expose the A’s. It might even be a last straw, leading to the best possible outcome for Oakland and for A’s fans: Fisher, his cash cow drying up, sells the team to a new owner who keeps the A’s rooted in Oakland (sorry, Vegas) and builds a ballpark.

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Bryant From Page B1 ended with the Giants stranding a baserunner – Bryant – when Wilmer Flores was called out on a “swinging” strike three that Flores appeared to have checked in time. First-base umpire Gabe Morales called it a swing on appeal. “Obviously, I was on first, so I guess I had a good angle, the same angle as the umpire,” Bryant said of Morales. “Those types of things move so fast, honestly, I just think that’s something that needs to be reviewable. I think that’s a rule that we can certainly find a way to get right.” The Giants didn’t want to make excuses after Game 5. Darin Ruf went so far as to note that the Giants won a key July game against the Dodgers on a walk he drew when he actually had failed to check his swing enough. And certainly a number of erroneous calls went against Los Angeles during the NLDS. But in a series that went the distance and that was decided by one run in the ninth inning of Game 5, every poor umpiring decision was going to be magnified. Turning to replay to help might prevent such negative focus on the crew. “Umpires are trying to do their jobs out there. They don’t want to miss a call in that big situation,” Bryant emphasized. “If that’s something that we can look at, I just think that seems like a commonsense way to go about it. It’s an unfortunate way for the season to end. You don’t ever want to see that.” Along with starter Logan Webb, Bryant was one of the few consistently bright spots for the Giants in the NLDS. He went 8-for-17 with a 1.147 OPS. “Even toward the last couple of weeks of the season, I felt like I had solid at-bats but maybe not necessarily results,” Bryant said. “So I just tried to go

out there and really focus on having good playoff at-bats; I can look back on it now and I had 18 plate appearances and at least 16 of them were pretty solid work making the pitcher’s pitch count get up there. It’s always nice when you go out there with a plan and stick to it and get results, but unfortunately, it didn’t help the team as much as we’d hoped. “Overall, I felt great, and I’m sad that we’re not playing baseball anymore because I was starting to feel really good.” Bryant joined the Giants at the trade deadline in late July, and in just more than two months, he was impressed with the team’s unselfish fullroster effort. “I’ve never really been around a group of players that like that, guys who are older but just completely committed to one thing,” he said. “It was never, ever about one individual, and that type of attitude is really contagious because even if someone had a bad game, you see them supporting everybody and you don’t want to be the guy that is not that way. It just spreads to everybody on the team and I think that’s a big reason why there were 107 wins.” Bryant is among a large group of free agents for the Giants, and there is also a potential looming labor issue with the collective bargaining agreement set to expire Dec. 1. Whatever the future holds, he believes San Francisco will prosper with the brain trust of Farhan Zaidi, Scott Harris and the rest of the front office, plus the coaching staff headed by manager Gabe Kapler. “Regardless of the players you have, if you have the right people guiding you and the right people picking good character guys and guys who are selfless and have some skill on the baseball field, good things will happen,” Bryant said. “When you can go after guys with the right attitude and coaches who believe in the players and who are dedicated to their craft and helping with every little detail, that bodes well regardless if it’s considered a rebuilding year or if you’re expected to go out there and win the World Series.”

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PUBLIC NOTICE City of Fairfield Notice of Funding Availability FY 202-2023 and FY 2023-2024 Community Development Block Grant Program The City of Fairfield is inviting organizations that serve low-income residents in the community to attend the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Fiscal year (FY) 2022-2023 and FY 2023-2024 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) kickoff meeting. Funding for Public Services is for the new two-year grant cycle; therefore, annual contracts may be renewed subject to the City’s CDBG allocation and the agency meeting contract obligations successfully. All organizations interested in applying for funds for homeless services, homeless prevention, youth, special needs populations, affordable housing, fair housing services, and public facilities and infrastructure improvement categories are highly encouraged to attend this meeting. The City expects to locally distribute approximately $840,000 annually in funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the CDBG Program. This amount is subject to change due to HUD allocations and the City’s budgetary process. The primary objective of the Program is: “The development of viable urban communities, including decent housing and a suitable living environment, and expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons of low- and very low-income.” A CDBG Applicant Orientation will be held: DATE: Monday, November 1, 2021 TIME: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Location: Virtual via zoom (will receive the link once you register) Registration is required at https://tinyurl.com/sxn7j5ck To receive more information about the CDBG application process and to review the proposal documents that will be available November 1, 2021, visit: https://tinyurl.com/dzsrr95d The City of Fairfield does not discriminate against any individual with a disability or limited English proficiency. City publications will be made available upon request in the appropriate format to persons with a disability or language requirement. If you require an accommodation, an auxiliary aid or service to participate in the orientation due to a disability, please contact LaTanya Terrones at (707) 428-7454 as far in advance as possible, but no later than 24 hours before the scheduled orientation session. For questions regarding CDBG or the application process, contact, LaTanya Terrones, Sr. Management Analyst at (707) 428-7454 or lterrones@fairfield.ca.gov DR#00050254 Published: Oct. 18, 2021 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF SUISUN CITY TO CONSIDER APPROVAL OF A DISPOSITION AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE HOUSING AUTHORITY AND HARBOR PARK LLC, REGARDING A PARCEL LOCATED AT 707-815 ALMOND STREET IN THE CITY OF SUISUN CITY CONSISTING OF ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NUMBERS 0032-101-420 AND 0032-102-160 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Housing Authority of the City of Suisun City will conduct a public hearing at a regular meeting of the Housing Authority at 6:30 p.m., on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, at the Suisun City Council Chambers, 701 Civic Center Boulevard, Suisun City, California. The Housing Authority Board will consider a resolution to approve a disposition and development agreement between the Housing Authority and Harbor Park LLC, regarding a parcel located at 707-815 Almond Street in the City of Suisun City consisting of Assessor’s Parcel Numbers 0032-101-420 And 0032-102160 (the “Property”). The Housing Authority, as housing successor to the former Redevelopment Agency of Suisun City, owns the Property, which Garland & Salmon appraised at $850,000, based on an appraisal dated December 16, 2020. Pursuant to the proposed Disposition and Development Agreement, Harbor Park LLC would purchase the Property at the appraised value of $850,000 to build 52 affordable housing units subject to a restrictive covenant, in addition to approximately 46 market value units, and related amenities. Pursuant to Section 34312.3 of the Health & Safety Code, the proceeds of the disposition will be used directly to assist housing units for persons of very low income. Section 33433 of the Health & Safety Code sets forth the procedural requirements for the disposition of property by the Housing Authority as housing successor pursuant to a public hearing. This notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the community at least once per week for at least two successive weeks, as specified in Section 6066 of the Government Code, prior to the hearing. Section 33433 further requires that the Housing Authority provide a report, which is available for inspection and copying at Suisun City Hall, 701 Civic Center Boulevard, Suisun City. All interested persons are invited to attend the hearing and comment upon any proposed action, express opinions, or submit evidence for or against the matter as outlined above. Pursuant to Sections 1094.5 and 1094.6 of the Code of Civil Procedure, if you challenge any of the above actions 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 included in written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk, 701 Civic Center Blvd., Suisun City, California, 94585, prior to, the public hearing. /s/ Donna Pock, Deputy City Clerk Dated: October 14, 2021 DR#00050261 Published: Oct. 18, 25, 2021

Abiso ng pagkakaroon ng pagpopondo Programa ng Grant ng Pag-unlad ng Community Development Inaanyayahan ng Lungsod ng Fairfield ang mga samahan na naglilingkod sa mga residente na may mababang kita na dumalo sa Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Fiscal year (FY) 2022-2023 at FY 2023-2024 Notice of Funding availability (NOFA) pulong ng kickoff. Ang pagpopondo para sa Mga Serbisyong Pampubliko ay para sa bagong dalawang taong ikot ng pagbibigay; samakatuwid, ang mga taunang kontrata ay maaaring mabago napapailalim sa paglalaan ng Lungsod ng CDBG at matagumpay na natutugunan ng ahensya ang mga obligasyon sa kontrata. Lahat ng mga organisasyong interesado na mag-apply para sa mga pondo para sa mga serbisyong walang tirahan, pag-iwas sa walang tirahan, kabataan, populasyon ng mga espesyal na pangangailangan, abot-kayang pabahay, patas na serbisyo sa pabahay, at mga pampublikong pasilidad at mga kategorya ng pagpapabuti ng imprastraktura ay lubos na hinihimok na dumalo sa pulong na ito. Inaasahan ng Lungsod na mamahagi ng humigit-kumulang na $840,000 taun-taon sa pagpopondo ng CDBG. Ang halagang ito ay maaaring magbago dahil sa mga paglalaan ng HUD at proseso ng badyet ng Lungsod. Pangunahing layunin ng programa na: bumuo ng mga mabubuhay na pamayanan sa lunsod, kabilang ang disenteng pabahay at isang angkop na kapaligiran sa pamumuhay, at palawakin ang mga oportunidad sa ekonomiya, pangunahin para sa mga taong may mababang kalagayan na mababa ang kita. Isang Oryentasyon ng Aplikante ng CDBG: PETSA: Lunes, Nobyembre 1, 2021 PANAHON: 10:00 hanggang 12:00 LOKASYON: Virtual sa pamamagitan ng zoom (tatanggapin ang link kapag nagrehistro ka) Kailangan ang pagpaparehistro sa https://tinyurl.com/sxn7j5ck Upang makatanggap ng karagdagang impormasyon tungkol sa proseso ng aplikasyon ng CDBG at upang suriin ang pakete ng NOFA (magagamit Nobyembre 1, 2021), bisitahin ang: https://tinyurl.com/dzsrr95d Ang Lungsod ng Fairfield ay hindi nagtatangi laban sa sinumang indibidwal na may kapansanan o limitadong kasanayan sa Ingles. Ang mga publikasyon sa lungsod ay magagamit kapag hiniling nang naaangkop sa mga taong may kapansanan o kinakailangan sa wika. Kung kailangan moisang tirahan, isang tulong na pantulong, o serbisyo upang lumahok sa oryentasyon dahil sa isang kapansanan, mangyaring makipag-ugnay sa LaTanya Terrones sa (707) 428-7454 o lterrones@fairfield.ca.gov nang mas maaga hangga't maaari, ngunit hindi lalampas sa 24 na oras bago ang nakaiskedyul na sesyon ng oryentasyon. DR#00050252 Published: Oct. 18, 2021 La Ciudad de Fairfield Aviso de disponibilidad de fondos Programa de Subvenciones en Bloque para el Desarrollo Comunitario La Ciudad de Fairfield está invitando a las organizaciones que atienden a residentes de bajos ingresos en la comunidad a asistir a la reunión de lanzamiento del Año Fiscal (FY) 2022-2023 y FY 2023-2024 del Aviso de Disponibilidad de Fondos (NOFA) del Año fiscal (NOFA) del Año Fiscal (CDBG) para el Desarrollo Comunitario (CDBG). La financiación de los servicios públicos es para el nuevo ciclo de subvenciones de dosaños; por lo tanto, los contratos anuales pueden renovarse sujetos a la asignación de CDBG de la Ciudad y a que la agencia cumpla con éxito las obligaciones contractuales. Se recomienda encarecidamente a todas las organizaciones interesadas en solicitar fondos para servicios para personas sin hogar, prevención de personas sin hogar, jóvenes, poblaciones con necesidades especiales, viviendas asequibles, servicios de vivienda justa e instalaciones públicas y categorías de mejora de infraestructura a asistir a esta reunión. La Ciudad espera distribuir aproximadamente $840,000 anualmente en fondos de CDBG. Esta cantidad está sujeta a cambios debido a las asignaciones de HUD y el proceso presupuestario de la Ciudad. Losobjetivos principales del programason: desarrollar comunidades urbanas viables, incluidas viviendas dignas y un entorno de vida adecuado, y ampliar las oportunidades económicas, principalmente para las personas de bajos y muy bajos ingresos. Orientación para solicitantes de CDBG: FECHA: lunes, 1 de noviembre de 2021 HORA: 10:00 am a 12:00 pm UBICACION:Virtual a través de zoom (recibirá el enlace una vez que se registre) Es necesario registrarse en https://tinyurl.com/sxn7j5ck Para recibir más información sobre el proceso de solicitud de CDBG y para revisar el paquete NOFA visite: https://tinyurl.com/dzsrr95d La Ciudad de Fairfield no discrimina a ninguna persona con una discapacidad o dominio limitado del inglés. Las publicaciones de la ciudad se pondrán a disposición de las personas con discapacidad o requisito de idioma a pedido de manera apropiada. Si lo requiere una adaptación, unaayuda auxiliar o un servicio para participar en la orientación debido a una discapacidad, comuníquese con LaTanya Terrones al (707) 428-7454 con la mayor anticipación posible, pero a más tardar 24 horas antes de la sesión de orientación programada. DR#00050253 Published: Oct. 18, 2021

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GENNARO J. PAPA Case Number: P051072 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Gennaro J. Papa aka Gennaro John Papa A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Ann Marie Olson in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Ann Marie Olson be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: DEC. 02, 2021 TIME: 9:00 a.m. DEPT.: 22 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas St. 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: Eve C. Robinson, Esq. Mitchell Law Group 1001 Madison Street, 2nd Floor Benicia, CA, 94510 707-748-0900 DR#00050211 Published: Oct.15, 18, 22, 2021

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Scoreboard FOOTBALL NFL American Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA 4 1 0 .800 172 64 2 4 0 .333 125 127 1 4 0 .200 67 121 1 5 0 .167 99 177 North W L T Pct. PF PA Baltimore 5 1 0 .833 170 123 Cincinnati 4 2 0 .667 148 111 Cleveland 3 3 0 .500 156 151 Pittsburgh 3 3 0 .500 117 132 South W L T Pct. PF PA Tennessee 3 2 0 .600 132 130 Indianapolis 2 4 0 .333 139 131 Houston 1 5 0 .167 92 172 Jacksonville 1 5 0 .167 116 172 West W L T Pct. PF PA L.A. Chargers 4 2 0 .667 148 150 Las Vegas 4 2 0 .667 147 144 Denver 3 3 0 .500 126 110 Kansas City 3 3 0 .500 185 176 National Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA Dallas 5 1 0 .833 205 146 Washington 2 4 0 .333 136 186 Philadelphia 2 4 0 .333 137 152 N.Y. Giants 1 5 0 .167 114 177 North W L T Pct. PF PA Green Bay 5 1 0 .833 144 136 Minnesota 3 3 0 .500 147 137 Chicago 3 3 0 .500 98 124 Detroit 0 6 0 .000 109 172 South W L T Pct. PF PA Tampa Bay 5 1 0 .833 195 144 New Orleans 3 2 0 .600 127 91 Carolina 3 3 0 .500 143 121 Atlanta 2 3 0 .400 105 148 West W L T Pct. PF PA Arizona 6 0 0 1.000 194 109 L.A. Rams 5 1 0 .833 179 127 SAN FRAN 2 3 0 .499 117 119 Seattle 2 4 0 .333 140 149 Week 6 Thursday’s Game Tampa Bay 28, Philadelphia 22 Sunday’s Games Jacksonville 23, Miami 20, at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Kansas City 31, Washington 13 L.A. Rams 38, N.Y. Giants 11 Indianapolis 31, Houston 3 Cincinnati 34, Detroit 11 Green Bay 24, Chicago 14 Baltimore 34, L.A. Chargers 6 Minnesota 34, Carolina 28, OT Arizona 37, Cleveland 14 Las Vegas 34, Denver 24 Dallas 35, New England 29, OT Pittsburgh 23, Seattle 20, OT Monday’s Game Buffalo at Tennessee, 5:15 p.m. Byes — SAN FRANCISCO, Atlanta, New Orleans, N.Y. Jets Buffalo New England N.Y. Jets Miami

Week 7 Thursday, Oct. 21 Denver at Cleveland, 5:20 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24 Indianapolis at SAN FRANCISCO, 5:20 p.m. Carolina at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m. N.Y. Jets at New England, 10 a.m. Kansas City at Tennessee, 10 a.m. Washington at Green Bay, 10 a.m. Atlanta at Miami, 10 a.m. Cincinnati at Baltimore, 10 a.m. Detroit at L.A. Rams, 1:05 p.m. Philadelphia at Las Vegas, 1:05 p.m. Houston at Arizona, 1:25 p.m. Chicago at Tampa Bay, 1:25 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25 New Orleans at Seattle, 5:15 p.m. Byes — Buffalo, Dallas, Jacksonville, L.A. Chargers, Minnesota, Pittsburgh

Prep Monticello Empire League Overall League W L T PF PA W L T PF PA Vacaville 6 2 0 280 78 3 0 0 127 17 Rodriguez 7 1 0 253 98 2 1 0 97 53 Vanden 6 2 0 301 146 2 1 0 100 49 Wood 6 2 0 224 178 2 1 0 74 74 Armijo 1 7 0 108 281 0 3 0 34 104 Fairfield 0 7 0 13 280 0 3 0 0 135 Sierra Delta League Overall League W L T PF PA W L T PF PA Linden 4 4 0 204 281 2 0 0 74 44 Esparto 4 2 0 245 119 3 1 0 175 63 Vaca Chr. 6 1 0 189 65 2 1 0 94 59 Highlands 1 6 0 78 297 1 3 0 52 135 G. Sierra 1 1 0 52 60 1 0 0 30 26 Rio Vista 2 4 0 144 112 0 2 0 36 52 San Juan 0 5 0 12 218 0 2 0 6 88 Friday’s Games Wood 27, Armijo 14 Rodriguez 44, Fairfield 0 Vacaville 35, Vanden 17 Linden 28, Esparto 14 Golden Sierra 30, Highlands 26 San Juan forfeited to Vacaville Christian Bye — Rio Vista Friday, Oct. 22 Armijo at Vanden, 7:30 p.m. (homecoming) Fairfield at Wood, 7:30 p.m. Vacaville at Rodriguez, 7:30 p.m. Esparto at Vacaville Christian, 7 p.m. (homecoming) San Juan at Golden Sierra, 7 p.m. Highlands at Rio Vista, 7 p.m. Amador at Linden, 7 p.m.

HOCKEY NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 2 2 0 0 4 10 5 2 2 0 0 4 7 2 3 2 1 0 4 7 5 3 2 1 0 4 7 7 3 2 1 0 4 11 13 2 1 0 1 3 9 8 1 1 0 0 2 3 1

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3 0 3 0 0 3 10 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 3 2 0 1 5 15 9 Carolina 2 2 0 0 4 9 5 Columbus 2 2 0 0 4 10 3 Washington 2 1 0 1 3 6 3 N.Y. Rangers 3 1 1 1 3 6 9 New Jersey 1 1 0 0 2 4 3 Philadelphia 1 0 0 1 1 4 5 N.Y. Islanders 2 0 2 0 0 4 11 Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Minnesota 2 2 0 0 4 5 3 St. Louis 1 1 0 0 2 3 2 Colorado 2 1 1 0 2 6 5 Dallas 3 1 2 0 2 6 8 Arizona 2 0 1 1 1 3 10 Chicago 3 0 2 1 1 7 13 Nashville 2 0 2 0 0 5 7 Winnipeg 2 0 2 0 0 4 8 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 2 2 0 0 4 8 4 Seattle 3 1 1 1 3 8 9 Vancouver 3 1 1 1 3 8 10 SAN JOSE 1 1 0 0 2 4 3 Los Angeles 2 1 1 0 2 8 5 Anahiem 2 1 1 0 2 5 3 Vegas 2 1 1 0 2 6 9 Calgary 1 0 1 0 0 2 5 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs. Sunday’s Game Ottawa 3, Dallas 2 Monday’s Games N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 4 p.m. Seattle at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Anaheim at Calgary, 6:30 p.m. St. Louis at Arizona, 7 p.m. Tuesday’s Games SAN JOSE at Montreal, 4 p.m. Vancouver at Buffalo, 4 p.m. Florida at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m. Seattle at New Jersey, 4 p.m. Dallas at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m. Colorado at Washington, 4 p.m. Columbus at Detroit, 4:30 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Chicago, 5 p.m. Los Angeles at Nashville, 5 p.m. Winnipeg at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Anaheim at Edmonton, 6 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Boston at Philadelphia, 4:30 p.m. St. Louis at Vegas, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, 5 p.m. Thursday’s Game Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, 5 p.m., if necessary Friday, Oct. 22 Boston at Houston, 5 p.m., if necessary Saturday, Oct. 23 L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 2 p.m., if necessary Boston at Houston, 5 p.m., if necessary Sunday, Oct. 24 L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 4:30, if necessary

BASKETBALL NBA Divisions EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Boston 0 0 .000 — Brooklyn 0 0 .000 — New York 0 0 .000 — Philadelphia 0 0 .000 — Toronto 0 0 .000 — Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 0 0 .000 — Cleveland 0 0 .000 — Detroit 0 0 .000 — Indiana 0 0 .000 — Milwaukee 0 0 .000 — Southeast Division W L Pct GB Atlanta 0 0 .000 — Charlotte 0 0 .000 — Miami 0 0 .000 — Orlando 0 0 .000 — Washington 0 0 .000 — WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division W L Pct GB Denver 0 0 .000 — Minnesota 0 0 .000 — Oklahoma City 0 0 .000 — Portland 0 0 .000 — Utah 0 0 .000 — Pacific Division W L Pct GB GOLDEN STATE 0 0 .000 — L.A. Clippers 0 0 .000 — L.A. Lakers 0 0 .000 — Phoenix 0 0 .000 — SACRAMENTO 0 0 .000 — Southwest Division W L Pct GB Dallas 0 0 .000 — Houston 0 0 .000 — Memphis 0 0 .000 — New Orleans 0 0 .000 — San Antonio 0 0 .000 — Tuesday’s Games GOLDEN STATE at L.A. Lakers, 7 p.m. Brooklyn at Milwaukee, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday’s Games SACRAMENTO at Portland, 7 p.m. Indiana at Charlotte, 4 p.m. Chicago at Detroit, 4 p.m. Boston at New York, 4:30 p.m. Washington at Toronto, 4:30 p.m. Cleveland at Memphis, 5 p.m. Houston at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at New Orleans, 5 p.m. Orlando at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m. Oklahoma at Utah, 6 p.m. Denver at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Thursday’s Games L.A. Clippers at GOLDEN STATE, 7 p.m. Dallas at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Miami, 5 p.m.

BASEBALL MLB Playoffs League Championship Series Friday’s Game Houston 5, Boston 4 Saturday’s Games Boston 9, Houston 5, series tied 1-1 Atlanta 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Sunday’s Game Atlanta 5, L.A. Dodgers 4, Atlanta leads 2-0 Monday’s Game Houston at Boston, 5:07 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, 2 p.m. Houston at Boston, 5 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Houston at Boston, 2 p.m.

Wiggins: Better version of Barnes? From Page B1 reason we brought Wiggins here was to defend, to be a versatile defender, because that’s what we missed the most on the roster,” Kerr said. “We’re not counting on him to score 25 points a night. With the way our team is built this year, we’ve got a lot of guys that can make shots.” This is quite a change for Wiggins, who spent the first 5½ seasons of his NBA career posting gaudy point totals for usually underwhelming Minnesota teams. Defense was such an afterthought for him that FiveThirtyEight. com once called him the

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league’s “Least Defensive Player.” But when Kerr watched video of Wiggins with Minnesota, he saw all the tools – the length, the agility, the IQ – to be a high-level defensive player. The Warriors acquired him in a trade at the 2020 deadline because he seemed like the ideal player to work off Thompson and Stephen Curry. With more room to operate, Wiggins could be a better version of what Harrison Barnes was to Golden State’s 2014-15 championship team: a rangy small forward who can knock down open 3-pointers, attack closeouts,

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Monday’s TV sports Baseball MLB Playoffs •ALCS, Game 3, Houston at Boston, FS1, 5 p.m. Football NFL •Buffalo at Tennessee, ESPN, 5:15 p.m. Golf •NCAA, Jackson T. Stephens Cup, first round, GOLF, 1 p.m. Hockey NHL •N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, NHL, 4 p.m. Tennis •Center Court, TENNIS, 1 and 3 a.m.

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organization that embraces his laid-back demeanor. That’s because, unlike some of his old Minnesota coaches, Kerr recognizes that the ease with which Wiggins plays is not an indicator of laziness — it’s an asset. Wiggins offers the Warriors a steadying force akin to what Andre Iguodala provided during his prime years. Now that Wiggins has less offensive responsibility, he should be better at the game’s subtleties. “With all the pieces we have,” Wiggins said, “I definitely think we’re a championshipcaliber team.”

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make the easy pass, cut, run the break and play hard on defense. No one could have known when Wiggins arrived in San Francisco that he’d have to wait nearly two years to play alongside Thompson. “That’s kind of been a little mind-blowing,” Wiggins said of having not yet shared the floor with Thompson, who is expected to come back sometime in December or January. “The whole team sees every day how hard he works, the greatness he brings to the game. I’m excited to play with him – defensively, offensively, all of it.” With the Warriors, Wiggins has found an

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