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Vendors in the Vines doubles as holiday market, fundraiser K aty St. Clair katy@dailyrepublic.com

SUISUN VALLEY — The historic Gomer School’s parking lot was transformed Saturday into a holiday crafts fair as the Vendors in the Vines Market brought dozens of festive families to Suisun Valley.

The event was a place to find one-of-a-kind holiday gifts but it was also a fundraiser for the Suisun Fire INSIDE Protection District. Volunteer • Vallejo firefighters were on hand to woman demonstrate the $18,000 autoopens one of mated compressor device for Solano which they hoped to raise County’s first money. The contraption fits legal over a person’s chest and does home-based much of the work of CPR, restaurants. allowing an EMT to have Page A3. another hand free to assist in • Solano life-saving measures. shoppers enjoy Black Capt. Richard Brown demFriday sales. onstrated the device, pressing Page B6. it into a dummy’s chest and turning it on. Sure enough, it pulsed and compressed to the beat of “Stayin’ Alive,” or 100 per minute.

Prize drawing tickets were available for various gift baskets, the proceeds of which went to the firefighters.

The market and related activities were timed to coincide with Small Business Saturday.

Vendors in the Vines wasn’t all serious See Vendors, Page A12

Farmer’s Closet bustles with holiday activity K aty St. Clair

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SUISUN VALLEY — It was busier at the Farmer’s Closet for Small Business Saturday than Santa’s workshop.

The thriving business moved into the old Gomer School building on Abernathy Road in May and has proven to be another success for the “lifestyle boutique.”

Owners and sisters Lacy DeQuattro and Amber Blanc started their business out of their home in 2016, going full-bore in 2017 as momentum grew. They initially started it to honor their mother, “Cowboy Nonie,” after she succumbed to cancer. As the business grew, they added two stores – Fairfield in 2018 and then one in Winters – and even an app.

Their store in Winters remains but they moved their Fairfield location to the historic Gomer School in Suisun Valley. The historic oneroom “little red” schoolhouse, built in 1900, is a perfect fit for their down-home country aesthetic.

It took some time for the building to find the right leasers, having sat vacant for a few years after being sold in 2010. But the sisters tip their hat to its history by showcasing old photos of its students. Blanc and DeQuattro have See Closet, Page A12

Jelly Belly kicks off 2021

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live with 21st annual tree-lighting Susan Hiland

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FAIRFIELD — Jelly Belly has been kicking off the holiday season in the city for 21 years with a festive tree-lighting.

The 32-foot tree was set up a few days ago, the parade route mapped and the candy factory decorated for Christmas. Hundreds came out Saturday to see the tree light up.

Aaron and Kori Damm of Vallejo brought their two daughters, Georgia, 10 months, and Hollis, 4, to walk in the parade as part of the Solano County Pageant.

“Coming to the tree lighting has become a tradition,” Kori Damm said. “Holly was in the parade when she was 1 year old.”

They missed the parade See Season, Page A12

Will ‘silent majority’ of Fair Board influence its gun show decision?

Todd R. Hansen

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“And so tonight – to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans – I ask for your support.”

— President Richard Nixon, in a televised speech on the Vietnam War given Nov. 3, 1969

FAIRFIELD — A true silent majority – nine unfilled seats on the Solano County Fair Association’s 15-seat governing board – could prove to influence greatly whether gun shows will be allowed at the fairgrounds.

The Solano County Fair Association directors on

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Santa waves to the crowd as the Christmas tree is lit during the Jelly Belly annual tree-lighting ceremony, Saturday.

Wednesday take up the issue again after voting 4-1 Aug. 9 to stop gun shows at the fairgrounds starting in 2022.

The meeting is set for 6 p.m. at McCormack Hall, 900 Fairgrounds Drive in Vallejo. Access is also available online.

Log-in information, including Meeting ID and password, can be found at www.scfair.com.

The August action was challenged as a violation of open meeting laws, and rather than push the matter into the courts, the Fair Board opted instead

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“Since that meeting, our board has received a fair amount of feedback from our community, as well as a concern about whether the SCFA was in See Board, Page A12

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The sad absence of bullpen carts, famous heavyweight boxers

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media coverage. ontrary to popular belief among people Better strategy. my age, everything But some things were wasn’t better when we better back in the day. were young.

Not as in “of higher TVs weren’t – and quality,” but as in “more anyone who tried to fun to watch.” move one of those Here are five things 45-pounders (all the that would improve Brad Stanhope weight in the back) with Like I was sayin’ sports if they were a 13-inch screen brought back: will agree.

Less athletic (and less Coffee wasn’t – we drank accurate) football kickers. In gross coffee, usually with my childhood (the dawn of the chemical creamers. soccer-style kicker in the NFL), Cars weren’t, even if they kickers were either doughy were more romantic. You can Americans or former European expect to get 200,000 miles out soccer players. Ideally, doughy of a modern car. That wasn’t former soccer players. The true before. classic football kicker was a But some things were better. 33-year-old former Austrian pro A few things. soccer player who was 5-foot-10, The other day I thought about 233 pounds, with a single face how sports has changed (mostly bar on his helmet. Also, he was for the better) over my lifetime. better than any American-born Better athletes. Better (more) kicker, but maybe 60% as

accurate as any current kicker.

Kickers were exotic in my childhood. Now? Just another athlete.

Famous heavyweight boxers. The world seemed a more reliable place when everyone knew Muhammed Ali (or Joe Frazier or George Foreman or Leon Spinks) was the . . . WORLD . . . HEAVYWEIGHT . . . CHAMPION. It was a thing. My mom knew who the heavyweight champ was.

My teachers knew who the heavyweight champ was. Now, there are myriad organizations with champions and mixed martial arts surpassed boxing as a spectator sport. There are no more Ali fights on network TV. I miss that. Sports was better with a heavyweight champ everyone knew.

The red-white-and-blue basketball. This was the staple

of the American Basketball Association (which existed from 1967-1976), along with the 3-point line, a wide-open style of play and Dr. J. The other elements all made it into modern basketball, but the ball – easily the coolest thing about the league, according to my elementary school classmates – disappeared. Basketball is great now. It would be better with a multi-color (patriotic?) ball.

Football played on baseball fields. Virtually every NFL team used to play games in September (and sometimes in October) on a field that included the infield for that city’s Major League Baseball team. You had to calculate for the dirt. Kickers (see above) faced a challenge.

The yard lines got messed up easily on dirt. The presence of the infield reminded you that

the Giants or A’s or Phillies or Twins played in the same stadium. Now every NFL team has its own stadium. I miss the infield.

Bullpen carts. From the 1950s until the 1990s, baseball pitchers entering the game from the bullpen used some sort of vehicle. The best part was the vehicle (usually a golf cart) was decorated, sometimes with the team’s batting helmet over it, sometimes with the team logo.

The Chicago White Sox even used a Chrysler LeBaron for a few years. Now pitchers run in, which is nice, but not as cool as riding in on a cart. Baseball should require this to come back.

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Battle lines drawn as Hong Kong enters war with its boar population a measure to prevent overpopulation and control environmental hygiene problems.

In 2017, the agriculture department began a program to capture and neuter or relocate the animals, a world-first ethical approach to overpopulation concerns, according to Roni Wong of the Wild Boar Concern Group. But because of limited resources, only about 10% of the wild pigs have been neutered or spayed, Wong said.

Since last year, more boars have been straying from the hills and trails onto roads, streets, malls and even public transportation. In September 2020, city workers were shocked to see a family of pigs swimming in a pool at the Bank of China Tower in the financial district.

Last month, the elderly mother of the pop star Coco Lee was attacked by a boar while walking near her home.

Then, one bold pig’s illfated attack on a police officer led the government to change course. Leung Siu-fai, the director of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, said last week that the pigs are reproducing too quickly and that culling is the best solution to keep them out of urban areas.

“We need to remove the threat as soon as possible, as the safety of citizens is our main concern,” he said, adding that pigs wouldn’t be targeted in their natural habitat. Culling is a typical method to manage wildlife overpopulation

The Washington Post HONG KONG -They took a dip in a pool at a downtown bank tower.

They attacked a pop star’s mother, sending her to the hospital with a fractured hip and shattered elbow.

They overturned trash cans outside bars and restaurants.

But one of the wild boars that roam Hong Kong bit off more than it could chew when it attacked a police officer, knocking him down and sinking its teeth into his right calf, before falling to its death from a car park this month.

Facing a pig problem, the Hong Kong government has reversed its long-standing policy of trapping and neutering wild boars, opting instead for mass culling. Last week, the city’s agriculture department began baiting the grunters with bread, and then shooting them. At least seven have been killed so far.

The bait-and-kill policy has drawn the ire of conservationists who say the practice is inhumane and unnecessary. But, amid the broader crushing of the city’s pro-democracy movement, some Hong Kong people see parallels between their fate and that of the boars.

The native wild animals – between 1,800 and 3,300 of them, according to a 2019 study – live mostly in Hong Kong’s country parks and have coexisted largely peacefully with residents.

Banners along the city’s hiking trails urge people not to feed the pigs,

elsewhere, including in Japan and Spain.

Experts say human behavior has encouraged the pigs to stray into urban areas. Some people feed the animals; others leave food waste at picnic and barbecue sites, and the pigs become accustomed to snacking on those leftovers, said Fiona Woodhouse, the deputy director of welfare at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The group prefers a nonlethal approach to control pig numbers, such as territory-wide feeding bans and better waste management.

“Another animal will replace [the pigs] if you don’t address the feeding, which is the drive,” Woodhouse said.

A paper from Hong Kong’s Legislative Council discussing management of troublesome wild pigs in June stated that only animals that exhibit boldness and irritability should be culled.

Wong said the government never consulted his concern group about the new approach.

“These seven boars meant no harm, but the officials took advantage of their natural instinct and lured them with bread, then killed them,” Wong said. “It’s unfair, bloody and low.”

Many in Hong Kong noted the timing of the switch to a more aggressive policy – three days after the attack on the police officer – as an analogy for their city itself, where they say the police force has not been held accountable for violating

rules on the use of force during 2019 anti-government protests. Some began to see the pigs as victims of the city’s political system, much as they see themselves.

Art and memes have emerged in recent days drawing parallels with Hong Kongers who feel trapped by tightening censorship and a harsh new security law. A painting by the artist Ah To, inspired by Wang Xingwei’s 2001 piece “New Beijing,” replacesthose fleeing the shooting by soldiers at Tiananmen Square with injured and weeping pigs running away from the authorities.

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Sir drew a picture of a pig eyeing a bag of money, a box labeled “vote” and bread in the middle of the road, unaware of a police officer hiding behind a tree and aiming a gun at the animal. Another artwork, by Teresa Chan, depicts a father-and-child pig pair at the airport, about to depart from Hong Kong, recalling the thousands who have fled the city to live abroad in recent months.

“Some viewers may see themselves reflected upon the boars; others may see themselves being hunted down or killed,” said VA Wong Sir. Roni Wong said public distrust of the government

is “very much related” to the social unrest in 2019, which he said remains unresolved. The injury to the police officer was a fuse that resulted in the culling operations, but the government failed to address the real problem of humans feeding the pigs, he said. (The officer was treated at a hospital and was in a stable condition, according to local media.)

“Although the government’s bloody act is a retrogression of civilization, we hope citizens can be civilized and stop feeding the wildlife,” Wong said.

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There is a ‘new winner’ of Turkey Trot’s premier race Todd R. Hansen

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Melissa Edwards is shown preparing a meal at her home in Vallejo.

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Vallejo woman opens one of Solano County’s first legal home-based restaurants Rachel Raskin-Zrihen

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VALLEJO — Vallejo native and resident Melissa Edwards, a selfdescribed foodie who “has it bad,” is the owner/operator of one of Solano County’s first legal, home-based restaurants – Enchanted Cottage Kitchen.

Edwards, who crafts a rotating, seasonal menu of home-made “classic comfort foods,” took all the required courses to earn a food manager certificate, passed all the required inspections and is dishing up chicken pot pies, sloppy joes, Swedish meatballs and an appropriate vegan option.

“But, these will be a little healthier, with ground turkey and with carrots for some of the sweetening and homegrown herbs and other ingredients,” she said.

Edwards, 58, opened her doors Nov. 6. There will be lighter fare in the spring and summer, she said.

All this, and the eatery’s name, make perfect sense to anyone who knows Edwards and her family, whose fairytale-looking Tudor-style home’s front yard was selected a few years ago

by Sustainable Solano to plant and maintain a pollinator garden/food forest/wildlife habitat, from which many of her ingredients come. The family also cares for eight chickens that produce fresh eggs.

“We’re all about food around here,” she said.

“Always have been.”

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The love of cooking for people is also a longstanding family tradition, she said. So, when she heard about the new state laws allowing home-based “restaurants,” she jumped at it.

“For me, this is how I show I care,” she said.

“Like we take in California Maritime Academy students every year, and I feed them stuff I make from scratch because I want them to feel part of the family. When I put on parties for the kids, I like to find a theme and come up with food that fits. It’s what I do.”

Edwards said she ran across the opportunity on social media.

“I saw something about a class on Facebook, and I’d been thinking of doing a cottage business for jams and stuff, but when I saw about this opportunity, I thought, ‘This is great for me,’ ” she said.

“I can cook for people without the overhead of a brick and mortar restaurant, and that’s what I like to do, so this is made for me.”

The home-based restaurant became possible in California with the passage of Assembly Bill 626 – The Homemade Food Operations Act – in 2019.

The first of its kind in the country, the law has a major caveat: counties have to opt in, and Solano County did so in March, according to the Solano Small Business Develop-

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“Home chefs will soon be able to operate a ‘mini restaurant’ from their kitchens, as Solano County becomes one of only several counties in California to offer See Home, Page A8

ROCKVILLE — The unofficial results of Thursday’s Solano Turkey Trot have been changed.

Nicholas Budzyn of Citrus Heights, with a time of 33 minutes, 56.7 seconds, has been declared the winner of the open 10K road race held at Solano Community College.

It was the 13th annual event, but the first in-person race since 2019 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The top female 10K runner was Carmen Baxter of Fairfield, with a time of 37:57.8, edging ever so closely Danielle Widenmann of Vacaville, who finished at 37:58.7, which was the top time for runners 30 to

39 years old.

Jayson Hefner had been identified as the overall winner of the men’s event immediately after the race. His time of 36:41.6 was the best time for his 40-49 age group.

Budzyn was in the 30-39 group and had the fastest overall time for all men, while Baxter was in the 40-49 age group with the best overall time for women.

The overall winners for the 5K races were Heidi Anderson of Fairfield, with a time of 20:02.3, and Jonathan Charlesworth of San Francisco, at 15:36.6.

The official results are: Female 5K 10 & Under 1. A. Bohan, Fairfield, 33:23.3 2. E. Cardona, Vacaville, 33:54.4 3. P. Hefner, Fairfield, 34:03.5

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Obituaries

Billye Sue Lamb

Jan. 17, 1938 — Oct. 28, 2021

Billye Sue Lamb, born Jan. 17, 1938, to Tom and Beulah Robertson. She went home to be with the Lord on Oct. 28, 2021. She was 83.

She accompanied her military husband around the globe, finally making a home in Fairfield, California, in 1972.

Soon after she joined Mount Calvary Baptist Church where she attended faithfully. She mentored and encouraged her family to live by their professed faith in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

She worked with the elderly as a health care professional and spent her retirement years being a doting and loving grandmother.

She leaves behind two daughters, Jacquelyn Sanders (Anthony) and Daphne Pleasant (Darcell); two grandsons, Evan A. Faccenda and Michael R. Sanders; and a brother, Roy Robertson.

She was married to Gary L. Lamb, who predeceased her.

Celebration of life will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, at Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 1850 W. Texas St., Fairfield.

Arrangements under the care of Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.

Kenneth James Rodgers Nov. 25, 1956 — Nov. 20, 2021

Kenny, beloved son, brother, husband, father, papa, and friend to all he met, passed away on Nov. 20, 2021.

Kenny was born on Nov. 25, 1956, to Frank John and Guadalupe L. Rodgers at Mather AFB, where his father was stationed. He and his brother, Doug, followed their parents throughout their father’s military career, and settled in Fairfield upon their father’s retirement.

Kenny attended the original K. I. Jones School, the original Green Valley Intermediate, and graduated from Armijo High School in 1975.

While in high school, he was on the school’s diving team and won numerous awards and accolades. He also worked at Nut Tree during high school and was a ‘parts’ guy at the old Chet Monez dealership on North Texas Street.

It was during this time that he came up with the passion of enjoying working with his hands.

He learned many things from working with friends on construction, motorcycles, cars, boats and just about anything he could get his hands on, or when people asked if he could fix something.

Kenny was always helping someone, whether it was for family or friends and he always went out of his way to help, expecting nothing other than a thank you.

In 1978, he went to work for Ball Metal Corporation on Huntington Drive, rising to Supervisor. There wasn’t anything at the facility that he did not have his hands on to correct when things went wrong. He loved everyone he worked with, and loved teaching his crews what he knew, so they could teach others.

In 1984, he met Frances

Grace, who would become his wife in 1985. Together, they raised their kids and grandkids in Suisun City.

Kenny enjoyed his family first, enjoying barbecuing for family and friends, fishing and riding dirt bikes. He also enjoyed karate, obtaining his second degree Black Belt, and became an instructor (SIFU).

He enjoyed playing golf with his dad, brother and son, and grew a love for Harley Davidson motorcycles, enjoying long rides with his granddaughter, son and friends.

Kenny was always artistic. He could draw, silk screen shirts and hoodies, and excelled at airbrushing, whether it be on motorcycle tanks, helmets, T-shirts or sweatshirts.

Kenny will be missed, and never forgotten, by those who loved and knew him.

Kenny is survived by his wife, Frances; sons, Joey, (Isabell), Phillip,(Mandi), David, (Noel); daughter, Aliccia (Monica); granddaughter, Elayna; grandsons, Hunter and Samuel; brother, Doug (Anna), and numerous nephews and nieces.

Kenny was predeceased by his parents, grandparents and other family members.

Viewing to be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, at McCune Garden Chapel, 212 Main St., Vacaville. Funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, also at McCune Garden Chapel. Procession to Fairmont Memorial Park, 1901 Union Ave., Fairfield, to follow. Reception and Celebration of Life will be held at 1:30 p.m.

Dec. 2, 2021, at Mission on the Hill, 1300 E. Monte Vista Ave., Vacaville.

Beva Mae Peters

May 1, 1929 — Nov. 18, 2021

Beva Peters, 92, of Fairfield, California, passed away Nov. 18, 2021.

She was born on May 1, 1929, in Erie, North Dakota, daughter of Frederick and Emma Stibbe. She was one of six siblings.

Beva met the love of her life, Carl Peters, in Fargo, North Dakota, where they both worked at Sweeney Brothers Tractor Co. They were married Oct. 2, 1950, and celebrated 56 years of marriage.

They moved to Idaho and had their first daughter, Susan, in 1951. The following year, they moved to San Pablo, California. Daughter Linda, was born in 1954. In 1960, their son Pete was born and they purchased their first house, where they lived until 2006. Her remaining years, she resided in Fairfield, near her family.

Beva loved to cook and bake, and she was fantastic at it. If a child, grandchild or great-grandchild asked for something, it showed up shortly after.

Her homemade buns, during the holidays, are legendary!!

She also liked to read and work on puzzles. Her favorite hobby was collecting … anything! Dolls, spoons, stamps, pens, key chains, cards, recipes, book markers to name a few! But her favorite thing

was family as told by the pictures in her house. Every wall and tabletop is filled with family pictures – those by blood and those by love.

She was ‘Mom’ to many, Nami/ Grandma, Great-Grandma to so many more!! Loved by all.

Left to mourn her passing is her sister, Merilyn Rogers of Alabama; two daughters, Susan Eikenbary of Montana, Linda Martellaro and her husband, Rick of Fairfield; son, Pete Peters and his wife, Julie, of Fairfield; 10 grandchildren, Ryan (Burke) Eikenbary, Trevor (Kristina) Eikenbary, Ross Eikenbary, Russell (Melissa) Martellaro, Chris (Sara) Martellaro, Kyle (Jessica) Martellaro, Jenna (Brittany) Peters, Amanda (Jason) Cardwell, Sara (Oleg) Ananyev, Carl (Taylor) Peters; and she was blessed with 19 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Carl Peters; two brothers; two sisters; and a son-in-law.

She will be buried next to her husband Carl at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery. At her request, there will be no public service.

In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to her favorite charity, St Jude, in her honor.

James ‘Snuffy’ Smith March 7, 1930 — Nov. 5, 2021

Passed in peace Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, at the age of 91. Born in Washington, Pennsylvania.

Served proudly in the U.S. Army between World War II and the Korean War. He was a truck driver most of his life.

James will be fondly remembered by family and friends as a loving father and musician that played guitar, piano and sang. In the last few years, he enjoyed doing karaoke with his friends.

He also played music at many senior facilities and volunteered to take seniors on trips.

He was quite the jokester and loved to make people laugh.

Survived by his sister, Sara Davis; loving father of Jim Jr. (Sally) and Darlene Frais; proud grandfather of Chad (Brittany), Troy (Machelle), Jamie army veteran Lynn, Jimmy (Cindy), Drayke (Jackie); great-grandfather of Jordan (Alan), Chad, Christian, Justice, Salecia, Bryce, Brytnee, Bryanna, Kayla, Nicole, Jamie Lynn; greatgreat-grandfather of Gage Jr., Avery, Chase, Braydon, Milo; further survived by Marilyn (Rob), Steve (Kim); and other relatives and friends.

Preceded in death by his wife of 68 years,Kathleen.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, at the Fairfield Funeral Home, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave., Fairfield, California. Funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, also at the Fairfield Funeral Home. Interment will be at 1:15 p.m.

Nov. 30, 2021, at the Sacramento National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, California. Celebration of Life, following the services.

Arrangements under the care of Fairfield Funeral Home, 707-425-1041, www.fairfieldfuneral.com.

Bertha Mae Trigg-Coleman May 1, 1941 — Oct. 24, 2021

Bertha Mae Tr ig g- C ol ema n was born on May 1, 1941, in Homer, Louisiana.

She was the second child of four born to Rev. Jonah E. Mills Sr. and Eddie Mae (Martin) Mills.

After graduation she met RC Trigg. They married on March 13, 1960, and from their union came eight children, Eileen, Lawrence, Leonard, Alberta, Clara, Jason and twins, Tyrone and Paulette.

She was employed by Sunny Acres Convalescent Home as a certified nurse’s aide in Fairfield.

Her work as a nurse’s aide took her to different cities, including Vacaville and St. Helena.

Bertha enjoyed a variety of social activities throughout her lifetime.

She enjoyed dancing, watching television, especially western movies.

She also enjoyed cleaning, cooking, rearranging furniture, crocheting blankets and winning the casino’s money on her tablet game.

Years after her divorce in 1985, she met Nathaniel Coleman, who we all know as JoJo. They married in April 1992. He took care of and loved her for many years. They attend St. Stephen CME Church in Fairfield. She loved her church family and friends. Two of her favorite songs were ‘Second Time Around’ and ‘Somewhere Around God’s Throne’.

Bertha was proud of her children and would brag about each one of them to whoever

would listen! She enjoyed spending time with her children and loved to talk with them. She would spend hours on the phone just chitchatting.

Bertha loved to talk to everyone! She would greet all people, strangers included. She would wave and talk to them as if she knew them all her life. That’s just how friendly and happy she was. Everyone that met her loved her!

She was very kind, sweet and extremely humble, and had the most beautiful smile and loving demeanor that you’ve ever encountered.

She was an exceptionally beautiful mother and wife, inside and out.

Her spirit-filled presence and godly character was evident to all who knew her and witnessed her lifestyle. She was one courageous, valiant and dynamic woman. She beat breast cancer at age 74!!!

She entered into her eternal rest on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021, in Fairfield, California. She was 80 years old.

She is survived by her husband, Nathaniel Coleman; sister, Jessie Reynolds; eight children; 14 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and extended family and friends who all cherish her dearly.

To read the full obituary or to send condolences to the family visit https:// please www.fairfieldfuneralhome.com/obituaries/ Bertha-Trigg-Coleman.

Edgar Manuel Medina Sept. 19, 1963 — Nov. 3, 2021

Edgar Manuel Medina, 58, of Fairfield, California, slipped into eternity on Nov. 3, 2021. Edgar was born in San Francisco, California, on Sept. 19, 1963, to his loving parents, Maria and Ramon Medina. To all that loved him, Edgar was endearingly known as Eddie.

After he graduated from Armijo High School, Fairfield, California, Eddie worked as an auto mechanic for over 24 years, and he was devoted to his trade.

He was a sports enthusiast and an avid SF Giants and SF 49ers fan. Eddie enjoyed spending time with his family and friends. He looked forward to going to games, attending the annual Puerto Rican Festival, and frequent camping trips with family and friends. Sunday family dinner BBQs were his favorite.

Eddie is survived by his loving wife, Noemi Medina; daughters, Jasmine Medina, Maria Escalera, Martha Escalera (Jesus), Maricela Escalera; son, Lorenzo Escalera; mother, Maria Medina; brothers, Ramon L. Medina, Arturo Acosta; sister, Joanne Acosta; nephew, Raymond A. Medina (Valery Medina); niece, Amber Bernie (Jazz); grandchildren, Jaylianna Medina, Janae Medina, Walter Mendoza, Michael Sanchez, Andre Sanchez, Gracie Sanchez; and fur-baby, Foxy.

He is preceded in death by his father, Ramon Medina.

Memorial service will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, at Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 1850 W. Texas St., Fairfield, California. Reception service will be announced at the memorial service.

Arrangements under the care of Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.

Charlotte Anderson Jan. 23, 1947 — Nov. 6, 2021

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SUISUN CITY — Council members will gather for a special meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday to consider an acknowledgment that Suisun City’s land area is of Native American ancestry and to adopt a resolution recognizing the second Monday of each October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The proposal notes the day is also recognized by cities such as Los Angeles, Berkeley and Santa Cruz.

“The day coincides with the federal holiday, Columbus Day, which is not a coincidence but instead began as an intentional counter celebration of the anniversary of when the Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus, landed in the Americas,” the resolution reads.

“Upon the colonization of the Americas, many Indigenous People who lived here long before the arrival of Columbus faced violence, slavery and other forms of oppression, leading to the widespread death and erasure of Indigenous Peoples’ history, culture and traditions. In recognition of this fact, Indigenous Peoples’ Day lifts up and celebrates the history of Indigenous People of America and creates visibility for present-day Indigenous Peoples living in the United States.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed the first Indigenous Peoples’ Day for the state of California in 2019. This year, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation commemorating Indigenous Peoples’ Day, becoming the first U.S. president to do so.

“As s greater awareness is brought to light about the history of Indigenous Peoples in the United States, there is a growing movement for cities, states and the federal government to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day through legislation,” the resolution reads.

Indigenous Peoples within the United States include American Indians, Native Alaskans and Native Hawaiians.

“The city of Suisun City recognizes and values the vast contributions made

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changing their policies and practices to better reflect the experiences of Native American people and uplift our country’s Indigenous roots, history, and contributions,” the resolution reads.

The meeting is in the City Council chamber, 701 Civic Center Blvd.

It can also be viewed on the city’s Facebook page and via Zoom.

Public comments will follow the vote.

The city earlier this year recognized Juneteenth as a city holiday.

You can read the complete agenda and find information about how to access the meeting virtually at www.suisun.com.

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Members of the Knights of Columbus Chief Solano Council 3585 have started their annual Coats for Kids drive in the Holy Spirit Parish in Fairfield.

FAIRFIELD — The Knights of Columbus Chief Solano Council 3585 is conducting its Coats for Kids drive starting this weekend and continuing for two weeks.

The kickoff event will occur after Sunday Mass at Holy Spirit Parish in Fairfield.

The Knights have collection barrels available before and after Mass each Saturday and Sunday in front of Holy Spirit Church, 1070 N. Texas St., to gather coats from children who have outgrown them. The Knights will have the coats dry cleaned at Golden Cleaners in Vacaville, then given to children in need.

Ralph Brown, the grand knight for Chief Solano Council 3585, said the coats will be

distributed through the Healthy Start Program at Anna Kyle Elementary School. The coat drive has been a regular campaign of the Chief Solano Council for more than a decade, Brown said.

Many low-income families have scarce resources to cover the cost of bare essentials. The Knights want to ensure that each child has a coat who needs one.

The Knights of Columbus launched the Coats for Kids program to ensure every child in North America would have access to a warm winter coat. The Knights of Columbus is a Catholic charity organization with more than 2 million members worldwide. The goal is to assist those in need by using charity, unity and fraternity to help accomplish the mission.

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FAIRFIELD — The Bay Area theater community has lost a legend.

Carla Spindt, a longtime Solano Community College theater instructor, died as a result of cancer. She was 74.

Spindt was a mentor to many in Solano College theater.

Princess Washington posted a photo of herself with Spindt and others, taken on the day Solano Community College’s Actor’s Training Program lost its funding.

“Defeated, I asked you Carla Spindt, ‘What do we do now?’

You, through your tears in a voice I could never forget said, ‘You keep going! You show them proof that all we did was not in vain!’ ” Washington called Spindt her “theater mother.”

“I am so grateful to have had her in my life. She was such an extraordinary woman, friend and teacher. Heartbroken that she left us all too soon,” wrote Darcia Tipton, who worked with Spindt at Solano College.

“So very heartbroken today.

A lovely and talented friend in our little theatrical world, Carla Spindt, has passed away. A very

special person who left her creative and loving mark on this world! I grieve with so many as we all come to realize our loss. She was one of my favorite directors but mostly a dear friend.

I bid you farewell my friend,” Barbara spindt McFadden shared.

Solano College Theatre shared on its Facebook page, “It is with great sadness that we say a final farewell to SCT’s beloved Carla Spindt. Director, professor, actor, friend, instructor of all sorts of necessary life lessons. Carla will forever remain in the heart and soul of Solano College Theatre. Rest in peace, dear one.”

A memorial service in Spindt’s honor will be held at Solano Community College after the new year.

Born Dec. 28, 1946, Spindt, who hailed from Berkeley, earned a master of fine arts degree from the University of California, Davis.

In 2016, she directed “As You Like It” in Suisun City. It was set in the Summer of Love.

Spindt fell in love with the play when she saw a version with Vanessa Redgrave on the BBC. “She was breathtaking,”

Spindt said in 2016 of Redgrave. “I was very fond of her in my formative years.”

Spindt’s college years, at San Francisco State, coincided with the hippie movement of the late-1960s and early1970s. Spindt viewed it as two camps: high society and the real hippies.

She put herself in the former, noting a love for fashion and things Twiggy. The latter were “really living the life rather than the fashion of their life,” Spindt said. Pairing Shakespeare and the Summer of Love was a natural.

Her other works by Shakespeare included “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” “Much Ado About Nothing,” “Romeo and Juliet” and “A Winter’s Tale.”

She also acted in Solano College Theater performances.

Spindt is survived by her twin daughters, Ava and Sonia Spindt, and two brothers, Donn and Bud Spindt.

The family asks that donations in her memory be sent to the Solano Community College Educational Foundation at www.foundation.solano.edu. At the website, choose “program” and designate “theater.”

Guard with TV news team dies in shooting Tribune Content Agency OAKLAND — A security guard who was shot during an attempted robbery while accompanying a news crew has died from injuries, authorities said.

The guard, Kevin Nishita, was a former police officer who had been hired by security company Star Protection Agency to protect a KRON-TV Channel 4 news crew as it reported on a recent crime in East Oakland. died Saturday Nishita morning at Highland Hospital and was taken to the Alameda

County Coroner’s Office in a motorcade that included police from San Jose, Hayward and Colma, where he had previously worked as an officer, authorities said. He began his career in law enforcement with the Oakland Housing Authority Police Department.

“I am deeply saddened by the death of former OHA Officer Kevin Nishita; he was a very kind person who sought to make communities not just safer but happier places for everyone,” said Carel Duplessis, the department’s chief, in a statement. “He will be missed

by me and all who had the pleasure to know him.”

The KRON4 news crew had been covering a recent robbery of a clothing store in Oakland on Wednesday when an assailant tried to steal the station’s camera equipment.

Nishita was shot during the ensuing attempted robbery, suffering a lower abdomen injury. He succumbed to injuries at 4:39 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.

A reward of $32,500 has been offered to anyone with information on the shooting, police said.

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Europe on alert as new cases of omicron variant emerge UK imposes new Covid rules Tribune Content Agency The U.K. confirmed the presence of the omicron Covid-19 variant in people with a connection to travel in southern Africa, prompting Prime Minister Boris Johnson to announce a series of measures to combat its spread as multiple cases surfaced across Europe.

The U.K.’s announcement Saturday of two infections came as officials across Europe brace for new cases of the variant, days after it was first identified in southern Africa. Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic identified cases of the variant, various media reports showed, while Belgium also reported a new infection in someone who traveled from abroad.

Almost all the cases confirmed were reported in people who landed in Europe before travel bans kicked in late this week, while Israel’s health ministry said it had three cases from individuals who stayed within the country.

The emergence of the omicron variant threatens to hammer Europe just as governments are

Home From Page A3 certification in Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operation,” the Solano Small Business Development Center reported in May. “More commonly known as MEHKO, this permit will allow chefs to prepare, cook and serve food prepared in their home kitchen directly to consumers, either through delivery, take-out or dine-in at the house. Food must be cooked and served on the same day and approved MEHKO’s can serve up to 30 meals a day, or 60 meals per week.”

Solano County began the opt-in process in early 2020, but the Covid-19 pandemic stalled it – until the Solano County Board of Supervisors officially approved it in March.

Supervisor Erin Hannigan, who represents Vallejo, said she thinks the new law will be a boon for the county and the individuals who decide to give it a shot.

“Melissa has completed the Micro Enterprise Home Kitchen Operation requirements through Solano County Environmental Health Division.

MEHKOs are administered through the county and not the cities, per the California statute that regulates them,” Hannigan said.

trying to cope with a fourth wave of coronavirus cases – one that was driven by the infectious delta strain. Global markets were upended on Friday as the news of the latest mutation spurred investors to seek havens rather than bet on assets tied to economic growth.

On Saturday, Johnson announced measures to tackle the variant in the U.K., including a tightening of face mask rules and a requirement for airline travelers to take a PCR test and isolate upon arrival.

“We need to take targeted and proportionate measures now as a precaution while we find out more,” he said at a Downing Street briefing.

“We need to buy time for our scientists to understand exactly what we’re dealing with.”

U.K. officials leaned on the country’s strong vaccination program as its main defense against the new variant, and said the booster program would be accelerated.

“We are not going to stop people traveling, I want to stress that,” Johnson said.

In Italy, the variant

was confirmed by Sacco hospital in Milan, Associated Press reported. The country’s Health Ministry earlier identified a possible case in a traveler returning from Mozambique.

In Germany, the Max von Pettenkofer Institute in Munich said the variant was confirmed in two travelers who arrived from South Africa, DPA reported.

Earlier, the Hessian Ministry for Social Affairs said a person who arrived in Frankfurt from South Africa was suspected of having the variant.

Germany is “developing a new, precise way of dealing with the current challenges” of coronavirus and the omicron strain, incoming Chancellor Olaf Scholz tweeted on Saturday, vowing to “do whatever it takes.”

The Czech Republic had its first case, according to a local TV report, a vaccinated individual who returned from Namibia via South Africa and Dubai. Earlier this week, the Czech government tightened social-distancing measures to stem a record spike in Covid-19 cases.

Denmark also has a “reasonable suspicion” it has two cases in passen-

The board adopted the MEHKO ordinance during the height of the pandemic “with the idea that we would open the program up for certification when the virus load was reduced,” she said.

“Personally, I believe a MEHKO is a low barrier entry into the restaurant business but not a replacement for our brick and mortar restaurants who invest lots of money in their location, hiring employees and are required to follow strict environmental health requirements,” Hannigan said. “The MEHKO operator has minimal permit requirements for food safety, minimal startup cost as the kitchen is their home kitchen and is not subject to unannounced or frequent visits by the environmental health inspector unless there are complaints.”

MEHKOs can help aspiring restauranteurs share their food, create a following and transition to a more permanent dine in/pick up location in a commercially zoned neighborhood, she said.

There are restrictions for home kitchens, like they can sell no more than 60 meals in a week, generate a maximum of $50,000 annual income and there are advertising limitations relative to signage, Edwards and Hannigan said.

And while all the tests and inspections –

water temperatures, refrigerators, freezers, sanitizing protocols – made her nervous, Edwards said she passed them all easily, owing to her doing her homework and being prepared.

“There’s a process for this,” Edwards said.

“There’s a third-party website on which people can order from you – Foodnome is the one I’m using – and you order online on this site. They handle the money and pay the sales tax.”

There is at least one other MEHKO in Solano County – in Benicia – and others are likelyintheworks,Edwards and Hannigan said.

Among the restrictions for a MEHKO are ones prohibiting leftovers or early prep, and foods must be kept hot – no reheating allowed.

“What you serve has to be cooked and served the same day – no leftovers,” Edwards said.

“So, if there are leftovers, my adult kids will come over and help finish those off. So, they help decide what to cook.”

Edwards plans to rotate seasonally appropriate meals – a main meat dish, a main veggie dish, one veggie side and a dessert . . . “because I’m a bubbe (grandma in Yiddish), and I believe people should eat their vegetables,” she said.

One thing Edwards said she thinks these new, small, home-based eat-

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International passengers walk through the arrivals area at Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport in London, Friday. gers arriving from South Africa, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said in a tweet on Saturday. Further tests are being conducted.

Health officials in the Netherlands said Saturday that 61 people – or about one in 10 – tested positive for Covid-19 after flights from Johannesburg and Cape Town to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on Friday.

Europe’s hospitals are already stretched to capacity in some areas,

countries like Austria are back in lockdown or have imposed curfews, and vaccine campaigns have in many instances fallen short of levels thought to create herd immunity.

In the U.S., Biden administration health adviser Anthony Fauci said Saturday he wouldn’t be surprised if the variant is already in the country but is yet to be detected.

“When you have a virus like this, it almost inevitability it is going to go, essentially, all over,” Fauci

said on NBC. The World Health Organization on Friday declared the omicron strain a “variant of concern.” Scientists say the variant carries a high number of mutations in its spike protein, which plays a key role in the virus’s entry into cells in the body. Labs in Europe, the U.S. and Africa are preparing for tests to see how the new variant is likely to behave in people who’ve been vaccinated or previously infected.

eries will be able to offer is a healthier fast-foodtype option.

“This will be good for the community, especially in Vallejo, where there’s so much fast food, but this will be good for you and made with care, and you can pick it up like a drivethru,” she said.

Customers will only be told the Enchanted Cottage address once they’ve ordered and paid,

and will be able to click something on their phone to let Edwards know they’re ready to pick it up. Edwards is cooking a couple of days a week to start, she said, as she has bubbe duty three days a week.

“I think this is meant to be a stepping stone for someone who wants to see if this is something they really like doing, and it will probably help to con-

vince potential lenders or investors if they want to grow into a brick and mortar restaurant. That’s my opinion,” she said. “I hope we get a lot more of these in the county, so when people are hungry they can look on Foodnome and see what’s good, that’s homemade, with good ingredients, and made with care, and you can taste that.”

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I remain the same aggressive person with respect to fighting for what’s right and taking stands against things that are wrong. Maybe even more aggressive because of the technical tools that are available to me. Really, to all of us.

Today, I want to tell you about a day in my technical life. I won’t try to change your mind about anything. Here goes!

My grandnephew, Wesley, is an Air Force technical sergeant. He was recently assigned to a post in Great Britain. Yesterday I received a FaceTime call from Wesley.

I was able to see and talk to Wes, his wife Gina and their kids Wes and Wyatt.

I’ll talk to them again today. The picture color wasn’t that good.

But, what the heck.

Then a little later, I received a call from Cheryl Stumbaugh in Puerto Rico.

I had mentioned Cheryl’s great work at the Adult School in a column. A friend of hers called her and read it to her. Then she called me. We made arrangements for lunch when she gets back.

I called and had calls from the Epoch Times in New York City. I had sent them a Letter to the Editor and a request for them to publish my Alzheimer’s love story.

The same thing with the Association of Mature American Citizens on the East Coast.

I talked to the Alzheimer’s Association in Chicago and let them know that my fundraising love letter might be sent to 40 million folks in the publications of Epoch times, AARP and AMAC. That would make the $30 million target of funds for the cure of Alzheimer’s a real possibility.

I talked with my daughter Cathy in Orange County. She had sent me a CalMatters message on redistricting, along with a forwarded message about companies that are moving from California to Texas and taking their tax money with them.

More important than the calls themselves is what they collectively mean to you and me. We have access to the world and the world to us. We can take advantage of that fact and help make the world our kind of world. Or just let things happen to us.

The power and influence that gives me are really exciting. Take it and run with it.

I missed the most obvious of tools of technology.

Things I use every day, my iPhone and my computers. And the great programs that allow me to communicate with the world. With them, anything is possible.

So much I don’t know.

My dear friend Gina helps people all over the world by adding security to their computer systems. She communicates daily with clients in Europe and the Far East and I don’t know where else.

What that means to you and me is that we have barely scratched the surface of what may be possible, Exciting!

Murray Bass of Fairfield can be reached at 707-720-5139 or mzb602@gmail.com.

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Innovative new blood tests can now detect hidden signs of Alzheimer’s disease, years before the onset of heartbreaking symptoms.

The hunt for a simple blood test to detect Alzheimer’s disease

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ven in the prime of our lives, while still healthy and clever, our brains may be secretly developing the deadly plaques and tangles of Alzheimer’s disease. The first sign of trouble is memory loss – and, by then, damage is done.

But innovative new blood tests can now detect these hidden signs of disease, years before the onset of heartbreaking symptoms.

The tests are not yet recommended for widespread screening of the general public, because improvements are needed. But newly released data about the first FDAapproved version by C2N Diagnostics, shows that it’s 81% accurate in identifying levels of a brain protein that is a hallmark sign of Alzheimer’s disease. For the first time, the test is being used in a major National Institutes of Health-funded drug study at 75 medical centers.

“When is the best time to put out a fire?

When it starts,” said Dr. Julio Rojas-Martinez of UC San Francisco’s Memory and Aging Center, which is using the test to identify people as young as 55 to participate in NIH’s AHEAD study, aimed at finding drugs to delay memory loss before symptoms begin.

Once refined and more widely available, he said, these blood tests “will be revolutionary, in that we will be able to detect who’s at risk.” While current drugs can only delay cognitive decline, not prevent it, this would enable people to enroll in research trials as early as possible.

Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia among older adults, is a brain disorder that slowly destroys memory, thinking skills and even the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, it afflicts 1 in 9 people over age 65.

As long as two decades before symptoms, we’re accumulating toxic levels of proteins, called amyloid and tau, which form plaques and tangles.

Memory loss appears after once-healthy brain cells stop functioning, lose connections and die.

Currently, the disease is diagnosed through memory tests by a skilled neurologist, then confirmed through a costly positron emission tomography (PET) scan of

the brain or an invasive spinal tap puncture to get cerebrospinal fluid. While genetic tests can help predict risk, they don’t describe the dynamic state of a brain.

“So often, people go without being identified as having Alzheimer’s or a related disorder,” said Elizabeth Edgerly, director of the Alzheimer’s Association of Northern California and Northern Nevada. “The diagnostic process can be a challenge.”

At age 58, “I definitely was having memory issues, but people just kind of dismissed it,” said Pam Montana, now 66, of Danville, a former sales executive at Intel whose agile mind could no longer memorize complex engineering concepts. Words come easily to her, but when she met with her staff, she read from notes to ensure accuracy.

“Diagnosis was really a struggle for me,” she said. “I’m chatty, and had a cute outfit on, and makeup, and they said ‘You look great.’

Everybody thinks Alzheimer’s is a grandma in a wheelchair.”

Only during a routine conversation at the doctor’s office – when she couldn’t remember where she earned her graduate degree – did alarms go off.

Her diagnosis was later confirmed by a high-tech PET scan, which involves an injection of radio-tracing fluid and lying motionless in a long tube. A diagnosis may be even harder if a patient lacks access to medical specialists and high-tech tests.

“If there was somebody that could just draw my blood and say, ‘Yeah, you have this, or you have that,’ then we could take it from there,” she said.

With so few treatments available for the debilitating condition, why might a test be useful?

“Early diagnosis is extremely helpful for several reasons,” said Lena Chow of Palo Alto, who cared for her late husband Bob Kuhar, a long-distance runner and engineer with a PhD in clinical psychology.

“There are lifestyle changes and numerous strategies, such as programs for ensuring socialization, to improve the quality of life.

There are also pragmatic reasons, such as taking away the driver’s license, for safety.”

A major advance in Alzheimer’s research built the foundation for testing: the so-called “biomarker revolution,” which made it possible to detect plaques and tangles. A test measures the biomarkers that leak

Nurses graduate early to ease shortage Tribune Content Agency BALTIMORE — Seeking to ease a nursing shortage exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, the University of Maryland School of Nursing will allow nursing students to exit a bit early and begin working in the field.

It’s the fourth time the school has approved such a move, which affects students scheduled to graduate Dec. 23.

The students have been encouraged to pursue positions in the state’s health care system, which has been

strained by the number of Covid-19 cases.

About 550 people are currently hospitalized with Covid-19, a number that state data shows is just beginning to reflect an upswing in infections that began the first week of November. Close to 51,600 people have been hospitalized in total since the pandemic began about 20 months ago.

Nurses particularly have been in short supply, and many in Maryland and across the country have retired or left their jobs. Some nurses, in high demand, have been offered large

pay increases to join temp services and go to national hotspots.

Hospital officials across the state have required workers to be vaccinated in an effort to protect patients, but also to keep remaining workers healthy.

The early exit program was a response to a request from Gov. Larry Hogan, Maryland officials said, and based on readiness assessments by the school. All 161 bachelors students and 11 masters students began graduating as early as Nov. 19.

into the bloodstream.

But reliability proved elusive. Due to the blood-brain barrier, biomarkers couldn’t be found in sufficient quantities. And blood is a soup of many different substances, so traditional tools delivered inconsistent results.

Now, with the advent of better analytical techniques, even tiny amounts of these biomarkers can be detected.

“Our big leap was to detect these small molecules with very low concentrations in plasma,” said Rojas-Martinez. The new tests “are 1,000 times more sensitive. That’s what makes this enterprise possible.”

The most immediate application is for research. If patients can be identified quickly and easily, it would lower the cost of drug trials. Billions of dollars have been spent on designing treatments, with almost nothing to show for it.

“A blood test is so much more affordable, and more readily accepted,” said Edgerly.

Tests aren’t yet ready for general use.

That’s because more work is needed to evaluate their performance in real-world clinical settings. And some clinicians question the prognostic value, noting that people may live with plaques in their brain and never develop symptoms.

Furthermore, analysis is technically challenging. It requires a mass spectrometer and other specialized equipment. Blood samples need rapid centrifugation and freezing, procedures that are beyond the current capabilities of most average laboratories. Collection techniques have to be standardized.

But companies are racing to create simpler, cheaper and easier tests that are fit for widespread clinical use. Some look for signs of amyloid; others, tau; still others, the ratio of the two.

The tests will continue to improve, said Rojas-Martinez. But until then, “our emphasis should be to provide care, helping the family prepare and plan for the future.”

For now, the test by C2N Diagnostics is the only one available, through an order by a physician. But at least eight other tests – by companies Quanterix, Roche, Eli Lilly, ADx, Shimadzu, MagQu, Janssen and Fujirebio – are in the pipeline.

“In the next year or so, a test could be readily available,” predicted Edgerly. “And that would be game-changing.”

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California housing crisis drifts toward political war

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he long-simmering conflict between state officials and local governments over housing construction – or the lack thereof – escalated this month and may be headed for a showdown at the polls next year.

Citing a stubborn shortage of housing that drives up housing prices and rents, the state has been pressing local governments, particularly cities, to encourage construction through zoning and pro-development policies.

To make their point, legislators and governors have enacted new laws aimed at overcoming local not-inmy-backyard resistance to housing projects.

Attorney General Rob Bonta, armed with new authority, has Dan Walters stepped up the pressure by creating a new 12-member Department of Justice task force that will, he said, more strictly enforcing pro-housing laws.

Bonta hinted of more lawsuits against cities that fail to meet state-imposed quotas for zoning land for housing, a strategy that has been used occasionally in the past.

“That’s certainly an area of interest and an area where we can be more involved,” Bonta said during a virtual news conference. “We will be looking at cities to see if they are meeting their obligations under the law.”

Bonta’s anouncement drew sharp criticism from the League of California Cities.

“The comments made during the attorney general’s press conference today, demonizing all cities for things they do not control, will not put roofs over the heads of Californians,” the organization’s executive director, Carolyn Coleman, said. “Cities do not build homes, and for years have endured whiplash from the state’s scattershot approach to passing housing laws that are often in direct conflict with each other and counterproductive to our shared goals to increase housing supply.”

More or less simultaneously, the state Department of Housing and Community Development put San Francisco on notice that the city’s recent rejection of two housing projects could run afoul of state law.

It ordered the city to provide “reasoning and evidence” for blocking more than 800 units of housing. Pro-housing groups have complained that cities often use the permitting process to stymie projects, even when they are being proposed for property zoned for housing, and recent law changes are aimed at preventing such arbitrary actions.

Meanwhile, the state’s pressure on local officials to sanction more housing could be tested with a ballot measure next year.

Angered by passage of two new state laws that open up more land for multifamily projects, Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 10, some city officials are proposing an initiative measure that essentially would bar the state from overriding local land use laws.

The proponents have formed a new organization, Our Neighborhood Voices, to promote the initiative with “major funding from AIDS Healthcare Foundation.” It is a Los Angeles-based organization that has promoted pro-rent control and anti-development measures in the past and whose president, Michael Weinstein, has become a polarizing figure in California’s perennial housing debate.

Our Neighborhood Voices contends the two laws essentially strip local officials and residents of their ability to shape the ambience of neighborhoods and allow developers to do whatever they want to do without local input.

“Voters strongly oppose the new state laws that strip our ability to speak out about what is happening literally right next door to our homes,” said Bill Brand, mayor of Redondo Beach, as the organization released a poll that found strong support for the proposed ballot measure.

On multiple fronts, therefore, California’s skirmishing over control of housing development is escalating into all-out political war as state officials increase pressure on local officials and they try to erect a legal wall to protect their traditional land use authority.

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Trump’s Covid response fell short for a reason Remember when the Covid-19 pandemic first hit the state of New York and the state governor begged the federal government for respirators? The Trump administraton did not act. Thousands of New Yorkers and other Americans died.

The mass death scene was quickly followed by thousands of other Covid deaths in other states.

The answer to the question of why the federal government did not act in time to save thousands from the Covid-19 death is now known.

The answer is that it was deliberate, according to the testimony of Dr. Deborah Brix, an American physician serving as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under President Donald Trump from 2020 to 2021.

Brix testified that the Trump staff ignored the Covid-19 deaths and apparently brushed aside any response because they were focused on the upcoming election.

Former President Trump and other White House officials were more concerned about a re-election than a pandemic that was killing thousands of Americans. She said former President Trump did not do everything he could to try to stop the spread of the virus and save lives. Something we clearly saw. She also testified that Trump did not permit her to speak to the American public from the White House podium. She had to initiate her own efforts to educate state and federal medical professionals about Covid pandemic mitigation actions.

It seems that Trump put out the word: To heck with those people dying of Covid, get me re-elected.

No wonder he lied to the entire world afterward, saying the election was stolen. We expect no more from someone that tells us to drink Clorox or to take a proven ineffective drug to prevent Covid.

After the election, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris directed their administration to focus on Covid immediately. What a difference: A won’t do (mis)administration vs. a “Can do, will do and still doing” administration. Thank God we now have a president who can and will act.

Time to repeal Proposition 47

Jack Batson may have given up (or was that a “tongue-in-cheek” column he wrote Nov. 22), but I haven’t.

He is right about the parallels to Nazi Germany (read “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” and you will see them clearly.) The Republican Party has become too blatant to keep fooling people who are logical (just as they did in California, resulting in a gradual shift to the Democratic Party majority we have today – read “California Comeback.”).

I recommend Batson and others read “If We Can Keep It” by Michael Tomasky as a roadmap for saving our democracy.

Headline after headline after headline: “flash mobs” (re: common criminals) stealing more and more, becoming more brazen and more dangerous.

Business owners, large and small, literally helpless to do anything except to watch it happening and the police either helpless or refusing to help much. It appears the two real culprits are first, district attorneys refusing to prosecute, and second, crimes falling into the misdemeanor category due to Proposition 47 making theft below $950 a misdemeanor.

By now, surely, people have to be seeing the unintended consequences of passing Proposition 47. I cannot be the only person in this state seeing the need to rescind Proposition 47. The physical and mental costs to business owners, large and small, or any other individual who has their property stolen has to take precedent over any monetary savings to the state from the passage of Proposition 47 originally.

I believe it’s time to turn these criminals back into the felons they actually are and help our business people turn back into the people they should be; unafraid and not fearing to open and do business every day without hoards of thieves attacking them on a daily basis.

Dale Anderson Fairfield

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’Tis the season for setting clear, healthy boundaries know how she stood up Dear Annie: I have to my dad, who was most read the “Ask Ann certainly “large and in Landers” column and charge,” but one year, now the “Dear Annie” we went to midnight column since I was Mass and woke up later a little girl, and I am and opened our simple writing to you at age but wonderful gifts in 66. I always wanted to the morning. write into the column Annie Lane I was 6 years old but never did.

Dear Annie and loved every ChristBut the recent letters about families feeling mas under our roof. obligated to spend Christmas All the trouble our kids go together, even when they live far through to travel back and apart, gives me a unique oppor- forth is insane. The expense is only one drawback. Parents, tunity to brag about how my talk to your children. Old and mother handled the situation. young. Christmas should be at This is too good an opportunity home, and travel can be any to pass up. other day of that great holiday My mother was caught up in week. Thanks, Annie, for going to my father’s mom’s and bringing this up early in the sister’s for Christmas. I don’t

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season. — Boundaries Dear Boundaries: Setting clear and healthy boundaries with friends and family is beneficial for everyone involved.

It helps avoid resentment and anger. When you set boundaries, as your mother did, you let everyone know exactly what you would like so they can then make their own boundaries.

Communication is key to having successful family time during the holidays, or any day for that matter.

Dear Annie: I am writing this just before Veterans Day, and I know I am late, but I hope you can print it sometime in the future.

My two brothers served in Vietnam in the late ’60s. It was

bad, but they never let on to my parents how bad it was. Dad had served during World War II and was proud of them, as was mom.

I was in high school at the time and leaning toward the antiwar movement. I never doubted their patriotism and willingness to serve in a questionable war. One was wounded twice and received two Purple Hearts. He never complained and still carries shrapnel to this day. Both did two tours and came home knowing they did their duty.

I was antiwar, but I loved my brothers, and we were thrilled when they got home. I wanted to thank them for their service all those years ago, but I never did. I’m sure I am not the only

one who failed in that. In hindsight, it was a wasteful war, as so many are, but they answered the call, and I love them for it.

One has a birthday on Veterans Day, and I hope he and all the veterans accept this little brother’s apology and thanks for serving this country honorably. It’s never too late to say thanks and I’m proud of your service. — A Proud Little Brother Dear Proud Little Brother: Your letter will print well after Veterans Day, but every day can be a day to honor the great servicemen and women who serve our country.

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by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday There’s nothing like the pleasure and satisfaction of seeing the difference you make. You’ll overcome barriers to economic ease. You’ll connect with kindred spirits for the common good.

You’ll grow so happy in a situation that you’ll wish to freeze time. Nonetheless, even better configurations will lie ahead. Scorpio and Capricorn adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 30, 1, 33 and 18.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You know what’s going on and you can’t believe others aren’t paying attention.

No matter. You’ll remedy the situation and get everyone up to date, and you’ll even be generous enough to spell out some complicated intricacies.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll mingle. The perfect question isn’t the mannered one. Conversation that doesn’t involve risk doesn’t involve fun. Find out people’s connection to the event. Small talk leads to big talk.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The past is a prologue to the decisions you’ll make today. What happened back there will play into your current confidence level. You’ll clearly see the route to creating thought patterns that support self-sufficiency.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll enjoy yourself. You’ll work and play in your favorite way. Your chances for connection are highest when you’re in this mode. People feel your joy and want to be a part of it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You admire decisive people, and today you’ll be one, too. It’s not that you know what you want, it’s that you just choose and commit to the choice. This is the way of winners.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You will be expanded by learning how others think. Your version of the truth is not the same as another person’s, but both are equally true. You don’t have to lose yourself to tolerate the truth of another.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There’s a sense of anticipation, though you’re not sure exactly what you’re looking forward to. All the same, waiting idly is not advised. Light busywork will clear your decks so you’re ready to receive.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You just have to be stubborn. No matter how difficult the task, how slowly the work comes together, how altogether discouraging the odds seem to be, persistence will win out.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You show people how to treat you by the way you treat yourself. You give off strong indicators today that you’re to be respected and delighted. Others pick up the cue.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

Circumstances change. Try and see this as a neutral event. Stand strong and curious, watching it all unfold. Get an accurate overview of the scene, and your next great move will be obvious.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Your effectiveness depends on a balanced understanding of your emotions. Seek clues from the outside. What you’re attracted to in music and other media will say a lot about your internal state.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). It is normal and healthy to question yourself. Your doubts will not thwart your progress unless you stop and examine them in excruciating detail. So, don’t dwell on the hiccups. Keep it light and move forward.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: “The Problem with Jon Stewart” is a new Apple television series in which Jon Stewart time-travels from the future to solve the problems of 2021. The Emmy-rich writer, producer and host is a Sagittarius with natal moon and Mercury in the sophisticated sign of Sagittarius, too. He has interviewed presidents and royals, making the seriousness of politics a more palatable package for all.

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World AIDS Day

An estimated 1.8 million adults have become infected with HIV every year for the past five years.

offers equitable challenge to global epidemic

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Robertson Somuah

Special to the Daily Republic

ec. 1 is World AIDS Day. It is an opportunity for people to unite in the fight against HIV/AIDS, show their support for people living with HIV and AIDS and commemorate those we have been lost in this global epidemic.

This year’s theme, which focuses on how equity and solidarity can stem the tide of the global spread of HIV, is “Ending the HIV Epidemic: Equitable Access, Everyone’s Voice.”

The global community’s advancements in preventing and treating HIV are things to be proud of. The year’s theme focuses on equitable interventions that need expanded, considering the equitable challenges faced during the Covid-19 pandemic. There is the need to continue focusing on creating equitable initiatives that takes into consideration that HIV continues to have a disproportionate impact on certain populations, particularly racial and ethnic minorities and gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.

An estimated 1.8 million adults have become infected with HIV every year for the past five years, according to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/ AIDS. HIV prevention efforts must

be evaluated and improved and made more equitable to help identify HIVpositive individuals early, link them to medical care and supportive services, and decrease the spread of HIV in communities that have been historically and disproportionately impacted.

One of the biggest successes HIV programs worldwide have had is that a pill, when taken, can prevent a person from getting HIV. This medication is called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP for short. Pre-exposure prophylaxis is a way for people who do not have HIV but are at very high risk of getting HIV to prevent HIV infection. PrEP (brand name Truvada) contains two medicines, tenofovir and emtricitabine, used with other medicines to treat HIV. When someone is exposed to HIV through sex or injection drug use, these medicines can keep the virus from establishing a permanent infection.

When taken daily, PrEP is highly effective for preventing HIV. Studies have shown that PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV from sex by about 99% when taken daily. PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV by at least 74% when taken daily among people who inject drugs. PrEP is much less effective if it is not taken consistently. As PrEP only protects against HIV, condoms are essential for the protection against other STDs. Proper use of condoms is

also an important prevention strategy if PrEP is not taken consistently.

Communities contribute to the HIV/ AIDS response in many ways. Their leadership and advocacy ensure that the answer remains relevant and grounded, keeping people at the center and leaving no one behind. Communities include peer educators, networks of people living with or affected by HIV, such as people of color, gay men and other men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs and sex workers, women and young people, counselors, community health workers, door-to-door service providers, civil society organizations and grass-roots activists.

World AIDS Day offers an important platform to highlight the role of communities at a time when 2021’s global pandemic limits access to HIV testing in many locations throughout the world.

Solano Pride Center, Central Pharmacy, Community Medical Centers, Club Stride and Solano AIDS Coalition have stepped up to help some of the most vulnerable and underrepresented in our community. Solidarity and equitable initiatives are how we can continue to fight HIV together.

Robertson Somuah is a senior health education specialist from the Communicable Disease Bureau at Solano Public Health.

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12:45 p.m. — Battery, 1900 block of CAPITOLA WAY 2:05 p.m. — Battery, 200 block of EAST ALASKA AVENUE 2:17 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1000 block of WEBSTER STREET 2:38 p.m. — Battery, 1800 block of UTAH STREET 2:57 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1300 block of HOLIDAY LANE 3:57 p.m. — Grand theft, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 5:22 p.m. — Forgery, 4700 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 5:50 p.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 8:12 p.m. — Forgery, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD 8:35 p.m. — Drunken driver, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 8:48 p.m. — Battery, 1500 block of QUAIL DRIVE

Thursday, Nov. 25 Midnight — Hit-and-run property damage, PEABODY ROAD 1:13 a.m. — Shots fired, 1700 block of ENTERPRISE DRIVE 6:38 a.m. — Forgery, 1900 block of BRISTOL LANE 8:12 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 4700 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 10:21 a.m. — Drunken driver, NORTH TEXAS STREET 10:21 a.m. — Indecent exposure, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 10:25 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1800 block of DEER SPRING COURT 10:52 a.m. — Battery, TRAVIS BOULEVARD 11:28 a.m. — Indecent exposure, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 12:51 p.m. — Vandalism, 2900 block of QUAIL HOLLOW DRIVE 3:16 p.m. — Reckless driver, SUNSET AVENUE 5:49 p.m. — Reckless driver, SAN LUIS STREET 9:54 p.m. — Reckless driver, AIR BASE PARKWAY 10:05 p.m. — Shots fired, 500 block of MARIGOLD DRIVE 10:09 p.m. — Drunken driver, WATERMAN BOULEVARD 10:32 p.m. — Shots fired, EAST TABOR AVENUE

Suisun City Tuesday, Nov. 23 8:08 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1300 block of LOIS LANE 1:37 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1100 block of CRYSTAL STREET 1:44 p.m. — Reckless driver, HIGHWAY 12 / MARINA BOULEVARD

Wednesday, Nov. 24 3:06 a.m. — Grand theft, HICKAM CIRCLE 5:05 a.m. — Vandalism, EAST WIGEON WAY 7:04 a.m. — Reckless driver, EMPEROR DRIVE / LONGSPUR DRIVE

Thursday, Nov. 25 11:59 a.m. — Vandalism, 700 block of CIVIC CENTER BOULEVARD 1:25 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1300 block of CRANE DRIVE 5:26 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 700 block of MAIN STREET 9:39 p.m. — Hit-and-run no injury, RAILROAD AVENUE / VILLAGE DRIVE

From Page One business, of course. The petting zoo, sponsored by C4 Ranch, had a donkey, pony, goats – even adorable baby goats that loved to be cuddled – a pot-bellied pig and a calf.

Each vendor displayed his or her wares, the vast majority of which were homemade.

Jewelry, wreaths, ornaments and even press-on fingernails were available for purchase.

Joanna Wilson and her husband Aaron manned their American Farmhouse Candles booth, with jars of aromatherapy goodness in varieties as wide as vanilla to cinnamon.

“Our best sellers have to be the pumpkin chai and sea salt and orchid,” said Joanna Wilson, who launched the busi-

Board From Page One full compliance with the Brown Act,” Lee Williams, the lone dissenter in August and current board president, said in a statement announcing the Wednesday meeting.

“The board has therefore decided to conduct another meeting where the gun show question can be revisited. We believe this will further ensure that anyone who wishes to have their opinion considered before the board takes its final action may do so,” he said.

The upcoming meeting is considered to be a “correction” of the Aug. 9 meeting, according to fair association Executive Director Mike Ioakimedes, after speaking with the association attorney Kim AlexanderYarbor, a deputy county counsel assigned to provide legal advice to the association and its directors.

That means the Aug. 9 action is nullified, and currently, the official policy of the fair association is to allow gun shows at the fairgrounds. The fairgrounds has traditionally hosted four or five gun shows each year, generating between $40,000 and

Season From Page One and tree lighting last year because everything was virtual.

“It wasn’t the same,” she said, “but this is so exciting to see traditions returning again.”

Jelly Belly President/CEO Lisa Rowland Brasher said she was thrilled to welcome everyone back for a traditional Christmas evening.

“I am so excited to do something fun with the community getting involved,” she said.

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something in common with the sepia-toned children in the pictures; they too grew up in the Suisun Valley and still live on a ranch there.

Their father is the former fire chief of the area and they work at the Suisun Fire Protection District. Saturday was not only a time to shop but also a time to raise money for the work that the fire district’s volunteers undertake.

The shop has been transformed into a holiday marketplace this season, with one-of-akind gifts displayed in

ness in May. Kathie Thoming of Barn Door Creations had the goods for “the man who has everything.”

Her one-of-a-kind toilet paper rolls and plunger “snowmen” were certainly whimsical.

Thoming laughs when asked about them, noting they are a popular gift in the time of Covid-19 when some supplies aren’t always available. The same goes for her packages of red Solo Cups made to look like holiday bells, complete with red and green plaid ribbon.

Hey, who says doomsday preppers can’t be festive?

Speaking of practical gifts, Thoming also creates fire-starter kits made from the sawdust shavings of her hubby’s woodworking.

Each “cupcake” contains a stick of cinnamon and other flammables to get a fire going without butane.

The event was orga-

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A family takes a photo with Santa during the holiday Vendors in the Vines Market at the historic Gomer School site in Suisun Valley, Saturday. nized by the sisters behind the Farmer’s Closet, which recently moved into the Gomer School building. Lacy DeQuattro and Amber Blanc have firefighting

in their blood – their dad was the former fire chief in the valley.

“We were born and raised in the valley,” DeQuattro said. “We love to give something back.”

$50,000 in revenue, Ioakimedes reported.

That is why the makeup of the board – and the unfilled positions – could be an important factor in the outcome.

The board currently has three members from the 1st District and three members from the 5th District.

The supervisors who appointed them to the Fair Board – Erin Hannigan, 1st District, and Mitch Mashburn, 5th District – land on opposite sides of the issue.

Hannigan favors the ban; Mashburn does not.

One board member from each of those districts – Rhonda Smith, 1st District, and Jeff Moorhead, 5th District – were not on the board in August.

The other sitting members are: Norma Placido and Manuel Angel, 1st District, and Valerie Williams, 5th District. All favored the gun show ban in August.

Hannigan and Mashburn could not be reached to ask whether they have talked to their appointees about the gun show issue or the upcoming meeting.

It leaves a very real possibility that the board vote could end in a 3-3 tie, and by doing so, would leave in place the policy that allows gun shows at

the fairgrounds.

For that to happen, however, Valerie Williams would have to change her vote to ban the gun shows.

At the time she noted she had “mixed feelings about whether we should be hosting gun shows . . . I don’t think a person’s gun rights trumps the right of a (student) to go to school and come home.”

Missing from this current board, but who represented the 2nd District at the August meeting, is Kari Birdseye. She resigned Oct. 26, but did not give a specific reason for leaving the panel in her email to Ioakimedes.

Birdseye voted in favor of ending the gun shows, citing Sen. Bill Dodd’s position that the state – and by extension the county – should not be in the gun and ammunition business.

Monica Supervisor Brown, who represents the 2nd District, said she favors the fairgrounds ban, so potentially there are missing votes there to support the prohibition.

She said in a phone interview Friday that it can be difficult to find people who want to serve on the Fair Board, and she did not have any time to replace Birdseye.

She fully expects gun shows to continue to be

held at the fairgrounds.

“The fact the board is doing this over again indicates the pressure put on the board to bring (gun shows) back,” Brown said. “Sometimes that’s the price you pay when you don’t have votes on the board.”

That brings the issue back to those empty board seats, and how appointees might have influenced the decision.

Supervisor Jim Spering represents the 3rd District and has said he disagrees with banning gun shows at the fairgrounds, but called “fair” the criticism of him for failing to appoint anyone to the Fair Board.

Those are missing votes that may have opposed the gun show prohibition.

Supervisor John Vasquez, who represents the 4th District, could not be reached for comment about the upcoming meeting and did not return calls seeking comment after the first vote in August.

He has not appointed anyone to the Fair Board for a number of years.

Three days after the Fair Board votes on the issue, a two-day gun show is scheduled to open at the fairgrounds.

The question is, will it be the last gun show at the fairgrounds?

sider once doing another virtual Christmas.

“That was not going to happen again,” she said.

Jelly Belly had a full afternoon of fun planned this year for visitors, from chocolate and wine tasting at 11 a.m. to pony rides all day. The School of Rock from Vacaville entertained at 5 p.m. and then a parade with about 20 participants from Mr. Jelly Belly to the Chelu Car Club rolling past guests.

“The car club is a first for us,” Brasher said.

Brasher said she hopes someday to have a much bigger parade down the road and back again.

“We will have something even bigger,” she said.

Santa waited upstairs for children to give him their list of wishes, but there was no sitting on Santa’s lap. Children could sit on a bench in front of Santa and get a picture.

So the fun has not stopped for the holiday season at Jelly Belly.

John Jamison, vice president of retail operations, said Santa will be here throughout the month for photos. His schedule is on the website.

Also, a Brunch with Santa will occur from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Dec. 11,

with seating at 9:45 a.m.

This event is by reservation only and spaces are limited. Tickets are available at www.jelly belly.com.

The 12th Annual Hanukkah Wonderland, celebrating the lighting of the menorah, will take place from 4 to 7 p.m.

Dec. 5. Visit the Vacaville Chabad event page at www.jewishsolano.com for more information.

Finally, Jelly Belly will be open for tours and chocolate tasting on Christmas Eve with modified hours. For more information, go to Jelly Belly’s website and select Fairfield Events.

the center. The perimeter is packed with denim, flannel and cotton clothing for gussied-up giddy-up customers to peruse. In addition to gifts and clothing, the sisters have hand-curated gourmet goodies such as boutique caramel corn, olives, focaccia bread, jams and ingredients for charcuterie boards.

“Our customers are our family,” said DeQuattro, who notes they proudly serve all sizes, especially the “curvy” girls up to size 3X. Through their savvy marketing skills, the sisters say they now ship to at least 37 states.

They pride themselves on their customer service and their “realism.”

“If it doesn’t look

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Amber Blanc and her sister Lacy DeQuattro moved their successful Farmer’s Closet boutique into the historic Gomer School in Suisun Valley in May. good on you, we will tell you,” DeQuattro said and laughs.

Both women have families and full-time jobs, but still love devoting whatever time is left to

the Farmer’s Closet.

“We love it,” Blanc said.

To learn more, visit the shop at 4522 Abernathy Road in rural Fairfield or go to farmerscloset.com.

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This week Things to do I Fairfield 5:30 p.m. Tuesday Hanukkah celebration

Downtown. www. jewishsolano.com.

4 p.m. Wednesday Chris, Rob and Friends

Pioneer Tap Room, 4491 Suisun Valley Road. https://pioneer taproom.com.

6 to 8:30 p.m. Friday Fairfield tree-lighting and holiday festivities Solano County Plaza at Jefferson and Texas streets.

8 p.m. Saturday Ray McCoy and the Luther Vandross Holiday Tribute

Downtown Theatre, 1035 Texas St. www. downtowntheatre.com.

I Suisun City 5 p.m. Thursday Hanukkah celebration

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Indie filmmakers Michael Ndah, Dania Denise Mallette and Isaiah Sturge discuss the art form at the Harbor Theater in Suisun City, Nov. 20.

Indie filmmakers share their craft

Waterfront. www. jewishsolano.com.

2 to 8 pm. Saturday Christmas at the Waterfront Waterfront area. www.suisun.com.

I Vacaville 4 p.m. Sunday 13th annual Menorah on Main Downtown. www. jewishsolano.com.

with Harbor Theater audience

5 to 8 p.m. Thursday Winter Wonder Walk Downtown Vacaville. www.downtown vacaville.com.

9 p.m. Thursday Top 40 DJ Night

Nebula on Main, 301 Main St. www. nebulaonmain.com.

7 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m.

Saturday United States Air Force Band of the Golden West

Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive. https://vpat.net.

9 p.m. Friday Latin Mix DJ

Nebula on Main, 301 Main St. www. nebulaonmain.com.

9 p.m. Saturday Salsa DJ

Nebula on Main, 301 Main St. www. nebulaonmain.com.

I Benicia 2 p.m. Sunday Foxcatchers

The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therellik tavern.com.

6 to 9 p.m. Friday Holiday open house and tree-lighting ceremony

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echnology used to only be in the hands of the privileged or wealthy, especially when it came to the magic of movie-making.

Now with the so-called “gigging” economy, independent filmmakers have that same magic at their fingertips as the playing field has evened out and just about anyone can dip their toes into higher levels of creativity.

Dania Denise Mallette is just such a creator.

The “indie” filmmaker invited two of her collaborators, Michael Ndah and Isaiah Sturge, to present a panel discussion on the art form Nov. 20 at the Harbor Theater.

The event began with a short

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I Vallejo

VALLEJO — Holiday in the Park has returned to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom – this year with something new.

Merriment awaits as the park offers animated holiday light displays and themed entertainment with seasonal food and pictures with Santa.

New to the park this year is the Victorian Christmas Village, where guests will be transported back to the Victorian era with merry characters in costumes, handcrafted wares, food, live entertainment and fanciful décor.

“Visiting Holiday in the Park has been an annual tradition for families all across Northern California for years,” Park President Janine Durette said in a press release. “It gives our team great joy to transform our park into beautiful, winter wonderlands where family and

Behind City Hall, 545 Santa Clara St. www.jewishsolano.com.

1 p.m. Saturday Howell Devine

Vino Godfather, 1005 Walnut Ave. www.vinogodfather.com.

8 p.m. Saturday Danny A. Thomas book signing/ performance

Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St. www. empresstheatre.org.

I Dixon 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday Dixon tree-lighting festival Corner of North First Street (Highway 113) and East C Street.

707-678-8400.

The presenters dove deeply into their passions, all of which they agreed revolved around connecting people to people in some way.

“Film is a natural collaboration of human beings,” said Ndah, who lived part of his life in Cameroon, in Africa. He used his experience living in two cultures as an analogy to show the importance of unfiltered storytelling.

He described coming back from Cameroon and seeing his old friends in America, who peppered him with absurd questions about life back in Africa: “Were there lions?” “Did you have a giraffe in your backyard?”

Ndah said he realized that when people have a limited insight into something they themselves have not experienced, the result is never genuine.

Six Flags adds Victorian Christmas Village area to Holiday in the Park

First Street. www. beniciamainstreet.org.

5 p.m. Wednesday Drive-in Hanukkah

film created by Ozola Cody of Oz Collective Media. The film, “The Chalk Chica,” focuses on Mallette’s progression from a gainfully employed chalk artist prepandemic to finding her calling as an indie filmmaker during Covid-19. She is currently working on a project about her father, “You Were Just Here.”

After the film, the three filmmakers sat on stools on the stage and discussed their craft. Ndah is a jack-of-all-trades in filmmaking, but he runs his own company called Steadfaster Media. Sturge is a writer, director and animator.

The goal of the talk was to explain what makes indie filming so special, what current and future trends are for the form, and “how to find your place within the world of indie filmmaking.” It succeeded on all three points.

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He likened that to what it’s like to be a creator in Hollywood, where even the best storytelling can get watered down and completely separated from its original intent. But when you are your own boss, you control the narrative.

Indie film allows that.

Much of their discussion revolved around encouraging people in the audience to chase their dream, even if it seems daunting.

“You will get paid back tenfold,” said Ndah. And by that, he meant don’t expect to get paid up front – not after a lot of blood, sweat and tears. It’s a lot of risktaking, they said, but the feeling you get from doing what you love is worth it.

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can make gooey s’mores while keeping warm and toasty, holiday-themed entertainment that features sea lions in “A Very Merry Christmas” and dolphins in “A Dolphin Holiday” and “Wanted: Santa’s Helper,” dozens of holiday backdrops

FAIRFIELD — A new romance suspense thriller, “Invisible Defense,” reveals part of its mystery in the tranquil setting of an old Victorian farmhouse hidden in the windmilldotted hills of rural Rio Vista.

Former longtime Solano County resident Stephen Pierce chose the hamlet along the Sacramento River for pierce his debut novel because its picturesque setting was so vivid in his mind.

“It was like coming back for a visit every time I sat down to work on the book,” Pierce said in press materials.

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Courtesy of Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

Enjoy a Victorian Village at the 2021 Holiday in the Park at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo. friends can enjoy the magic of the holiday season.”

Holiday in the Park will operate select days through Jan. 2.

Guests will find millions of LED lights, adorned Christmas trees, special meet-and-greets with holiday-inspired characters, fire pits where guests

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VACAVILLE — The Solano Symphony Orchestra is back, spreading joy through live music this holiday season.

With the welcomed resumption of live classical music, the Solano Symphony Orchestra is once again delighting and inspiring its audiences under the direction of Maestro Semyon Lohss.

After the orchestra’s October season-opening concert, Lohss has prepared a feast of holiday music consisting of new and familiar, cheerful fare.

Opening the program, the overture to Handel’s “Messiah” will instantly set a joyous mood. Adding a

dash of up-tempo rhythms, Lohss conducts the congenial “Du und Du” waltz by Johann Strauss Jr., and the rambunctious “Sleigh Ride”

by Leroy Anderson.

An unexpected piece, new to the orchestra’s repertoire, is the Mandolin Concerto by J.N. Hummel performed by Dana Rath, a founding member of the Grammy-nominated Modern Mandolin Quartet.

Rath has devoted his musical career to reawakening interest in the mandolin family of instruments. The gentleness of the instrument’s voice paired with the charm of Hummel’s score welcomes a lovely guest to the orchestra’s holiday banquet.

The evening’s musical entrée consists of choice

selections from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” ballet. From the stirring rhythm of the opening march to the swirling final waltz and apotheosis, it will transport listeners to the ballet’s fairyland and into the wonder of the holidays in a way only the magic of music can convey.

The concert starts at 3 p.m. Dec. 5 at the Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive.

Tickets for the performance can be purchased at the theater, by phone at 707469-4013 or via the website, www.vpat.net. They can also be purchased through the symphony via its website, www.solanosymphony.org.

The theater box office opens one hour before the performance.

Courtesy of the Solano Symphony

Dana Rath will perform Dec. 5 with the Solano Symphony.

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VACAVILLE — The holiday spirit is alive and musical this winter at the Nut Tree Plaza, site of live music beginning at 10 a.m. each Saturday and Sunday through Dec. 19.

Nut Tree Plaza is located at 1661 E. Monte Vista Ave. The schedule features:

Sunday

n Darlyn Phillips Jazz, noon to 2 p.m. n American River College Jazz (strolling musicians), noon to 2 p.m.

Saturday n Holiday Music in the Breezeway, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. n Jimmy Malone, noon to 2 p.m. n Vacaville High School, 4 to 6 p.m.

Dec. 5

n Holiday Music in the Breezeway, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Author From Page B1 The book centers on Clark Solo, a disillusioned reporter in San Francisco covering the sensational murder trial of Justin Alexander. The trial takes multiple left turns that the reader doesn’t anticipate.

The first is the defense attorney’s suggestion that Alexander suffers from human spontaneous involuntary invisibility.

The second plotline involves Alexander’s fiancée, Alicia Bauer. She manufactures a perfect romance for the two of them, but their intersecting pasts eventually crush her created fairytale.

Someone publicly outs Bauer as a romance hustler, and police suspect Alexander killed one of her other marks. Despite the revelation, Alexander goes to great lengths to prove his relationship with Bauer was more than the sum of all her lies.

“At first, I had no idea what to write. Hanging on the wall beside my desk was a drawing that my then 8-year-old granddaughter had made for me,” Pierce said in press materials.

“The characters

reminded me of Saints fans from back in the day who wore paper bags over their heads at football games,” Pierce said.

“That got me to thinking about the different ways people can be invisible and that eventually morphed into someone using invisibility as their legal defense.”

As the story’s multiple twists and turns weave the past and present together, another theme emerges. Many of the characters are struggling with their faith, which is revealed through the comical banter of a goofy youth pastor (Pastor Dan). The book also reveals faith struggles in the letters Solo’s wife writes before she died as a result of breast cancer.

“Our faith, or lack of faith, is such an integral part of our lives whether or not we openly acknowledge it. What we believe affects how we interact with the world and how the world interacts with us. I tried to incorporate this reality into the story as organically as possible,” Pierce said in press materials.

He found the biggest challenge of writing his first novel was getting over the overwhelming notion he was writing a book.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. n Live Music Center Christmas Rock Band, noon to 2 p.m. n ARC Vocal Jazz, 4 to 6 p.m.

Dec. 11 n Holiday Music in the Breezeway, 10 a.m.to 4 p.m. n Vacaville High Jazz Band, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. n Delbert Bump Jazz, noon to 2 p.m.

Dec. 12 n Holiday Music “When I finally got it into my head that writing a chapter was essentially the same as writing a newspaper article, the task became less daunting,” Pierce, a former Air Force journalist and business reporter for the Daily Republic in Fairfield, said.

Defense” “Invisible is available on Amazon in paperback and e-book formats.

Pierce describes the 347-page book affectionately as an airport read – a fun little read that lets you get caught up in a fastpaced romantic suspense thriller. He said he would take it as a sincere compliment if readers told him his book sounded like something James Patterson would write. He has read dozens of the author’s books.

What’s next for the new author? Pierce said he is already toying with ideas for a sequel that delves into some unanswered questions from Pastor Dan’s past. Then again, he said he is excited to learn what happens next for Solo, Alexander and Bauer.

“I was just as surprised about where this story went as the reader will be,” Pierce said.

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in the Breezeway, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. n Brette Alana & Alive Music Orchestra, noon to 2 p.m. n Stout Family Christmas Carol Band, 2 to 4 p.m. n ARC Vocal Jazz (strolling musicians), 4 to 6 p.m.

n Crossroads Singer Kids (by Christmas tree), 1 to 3 p.m. n AMO Big Band Jazz Orchestra, 3:30 to 5 p.m. n Vacaville High School Band (strolling musicians), 4 to 6 p.m.

Dec. 19

n Holiday Music in the Breezeway, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. n Live Music Center Jazz Band, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

n Holiday Music in the Breezeway, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. n Live Music Center Jazz Band, noon to 2 p.m. n ARC Vocal Jazz (strolling musicians), 4 to 6 p.m.

for 25 years before retiring in 2017 to be closer to family and live in a different picturesque setting in the woods of East Texas with his wife Cathy.

In addition to his journalist roles, he was the marketing director for

the 60th Services Squadron on Travis Air Force Base, a field representative for then-Supervisor Mike Reagan, the public information officer for the County of Solano, and the manager of the Solano County Fair in Vallejo.

Dec. 18

Park From Page B1 for Instagram-worthy photo opportunities and a wide array of gift items that include novelty apparel, ornaments and soft plush toys.

Special Olympics is the beneficiary this year of Six Flags’ Holiday Friend plush toy campaign. Guests may also make holiday purchases online at https://merch. sixflags.com.

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom will host a blood drive Christmas Eve in partnership with Vitalant, the nation’s second-largest community blood service provider, to provide much-needed donations and help bring awareness to the country’s critical blood shortages.

Each donor will receive a complimentary ticket to visit the park during the 2022 season.

Indie From Page B1 asked if there was a place for a singer/songwriter in the indie film world, to which the panel let out an enthusiastic “Yes!” Mallette said that filmmakers are always looking for unlicensed music and its a great way to collaborate.

Sturge loves the life of an indie filmmaker because he cherishes the relationships he’s made with his peers. For him, it’s a job where one person’s creativity bolsters another’s.

“Life isn’t dodgeball,” he said. “You don’t have to pick sides.”

Sturge was optimistic about where indie film is headed in the future.

“Up. Straight up!” he said.

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Revamp of kosher system riles Israelis The Washington Post RAANANA, Israel — In a small gourmet food store one recent morning, kosher inspector Sara Meckler walked the aisles checking labels.

She looked for kosher marks from around the world, checked ingredients, consulted a database on her phone – “I better call the rabbi about this one,” she said of a packet of breadsticks – just as hundreds of inspectors do in a country where a kashrut certificate is as vital as a business license for most grocery stores, hotels and restaurants.

But for some religious Israelis, Meckler’s careful pondering of a can of Italian artichokes is to be denounced as an existential threat. Neither she nor her bosses at Tzohar, a pluralistic Jewish organization, belong to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community that has held a monopoly on the official system of kosher certification for decades.

Israel’s new governing coalition – one of the few not to include ultra-Orthodox parties in the past 45 years – has moved to loosen the ultra-Orthodox grip on food certification and a raft of other religious and social policies, ranging from bans on Sabbath transit to exemptions for ultra-Orthodox men from military service.

Few of the changes that have been discussed will touch more Israelis on a daily basis than revamping food inspections. Under Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s government, the kosher certificates granted by alternative inspectors such as Meckler will soon carry the same authority as the country’s Chief Rabbinate, an office

long dominated by the ultra-Orthodox.

“A complete collapse of values,” the United Torah Judaism political alliance lamented. “A cornerstone of the establishment of a Jewish state has fallen,” the ultra-Orthodox Shas party declared. One rabbi said allowing women like Meckler to be inspectors amounted to “sexual immorality.”

The complaints have erupted as Bennett’s fivemonth-old coalition has also taken up legislation that, in part, would give Jews other than the ultra-Orthodox a say over whether converts to Judaism have a right to marry and whether women will be allowed more freedom of worship at Jerusalem’s iconic Western Wall.

New regulations have already cut child-care subsidies for the children of religious scholars. Almost half of all ultra-Orthodox men opt for full-time study in religious schools, known as yeshivas, instead of employment, and their families have grown dependent on these government subsidies.

“It’s a unique moment,” said Gilad Malach, an expert in ultra-Orthodox issues at the Israel Democracy Institute, or IDI. “They have been in the government for more than 37 years, more even than [former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s] Likud party. It just shows how much easier it is to do these reforms when the Haredim are not there to block them.”

The ultra-Orthodox, or Haredim as they are known in Hebrew, make up about 13%of Israel’s population. But they have gained outsize influence over social and religious

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Sara Meckler, 61, Kashrut supervisor for the Israeli organization Tzohar, inspects kosher labels on products at the kosher supermarket Neomi’s Farm in Raanana, Israel. policy because their political parties have repeatedly provided the seats needed for would-be prime ministers to secure a majority in parliament.

For all but eight years out of the past 45, ultraOrthodox lawmakers have provided decisive support for various governing coalitions, through which they have gained a veto over proposed religious changes, such as to permit civil marriage or allow some public transit on the Sabbath. An agreement among lawmakers to ease restrictions on women worshiping at the Western Wall was originally negotiated in 2016, only to be sidelined by Netanyahu at the request of his ultraOrthodox partners.

The governing coalition that took office in June – which combines

right-wing, left-wing and Arab parties – has moved quickly to push reforms that are popular with the broader population.

“The Haredim have not done anything to win friends and influence people,” said Samuel Heilman, a professor of sociology at the City University of New York who studies Orthodox groups. “There is a lot of support for this.”

While an estimated two-thirds of Jewish Israelis keep kosher to some degree, many don’t adhere to the strict standards of the ultra-Orthodox.

Retailers pay more than $100 million a year to religious councils whose inspectors spend almost 6.5 million hours making sure the food, pans, pantries and ovens are all in compliance, accord-

ing to an IDI study. Most of those payments go to the ultra-Orthodox, making the enforcement of kashrut – the body of Jewish laws pertaining, among other things, to dietary practices – an important revenue stream.

“This is an important source of subsidy for all of their programs, like a guaranteed contract from the government,” Heilman said.

Although alternative certifications had already been in use, until now only the ultra-Orthodox-controlled Chief Rabbinate has been allowed to grant the government-backed certificate that uses the word “kosher” at the top. By the end of 2022, endorsements from Tzohar and other groups will carry the same weight.

Ultra-Orthodox law-

makers fought fiercely to derail the change, offering more than 1,000 amendments during parliamentary debate.

Ultra-Orthodox protesters, including kosher inspectors fearing for their jobs, blocked traffic in Tel Aviv.

Some highlighted their objections by cooking token pieces of crab and shrimp – decidedly not kosher – on a camp stove in front of the home of the minister of religious services.

Ultra-Orthodox leaders argue that the change will confuse shoppers. The Shas party warned of “fictitious kashrut agencies that will cause masses of Jews to eat forbidden foods.”

But advocates say more competition could address complaints that the monopoly system has grown too expensive and, in some cases, corrupt. Tales of inspectors demanding cases of produce or free hotel rooms are common.

The head of the Chief Rabbinate’s kashrut division was indicted on bribery charges in 2020 after being videotaped allegedly accepting envelopes of cash from food importers.

The changes could also ease the burden on entrepreneurs. Last year, for instance, the owner of Jerusalem’s Kalo cafe was told that his Palestinian cook could no longer use an induction cooktop, which heats up automatically when the pot touches the surface, because the inspector ruled that this violated the religious prohibition on non-Jews lighting a stove.

“I switched,” said Yaacov ben Elul, pointing to the Tzohar certificate now on his wall and to the Palestinian cook working under it. “Mustafa has been with me for 32 years.”

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The day before Los Angeles-based art department coordinator Crystal Hopkins voted against her union’s proposed new contract, she stepped down as president of Local 871.

Hopkins said she was resigning from the post she won in 2018 in part because of concerns about the new agreement negotiated by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

“I couldn’t publicly carry, or in good conscience support, a deal that I felt did not reflect the will of the membership,” Hopkins said in an interview.

The resignation was a blow to the union’s leaders, who have long counted on the heads of its various locals – representing costumers, grips, prop masters, makeup artists and other film set workers – to rally behind the contracts they negotiate.

Although the contract was narrowly ratified, a slight majority of members in IATSE’s West Coast locals rejected the proposed deal, reflecting deep discord within the ranks.

The close vote portends a new era of labor activism inside the 128-year-old union and could pose a clear challenge to the leadership of IATSE President

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Camile Lewis, right, with Skye Smith, both activists with the Sunrise Movement, join International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees members and Entertainment Industry Worker Supporters during a press conference outside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Nov. 11.

Matthew Loeb, union members and labor experts said.

Loeb, who was first elected in 2008, was appointed by union delegates to another four-year term in July after he ran unopposed. But Loeb could face opposition in the future from younger, more militant members who’ve grown impatient with worsening working conditions and IATSE’s long tradition of avoiding nationwide walkouts. members in IATSE October overwhelmingly supported a strike autho-

rization vote for the first time in its history.

“I would be shocked if there is not a wave of activist-driven changing of leadership throughout most of the locals,” said Jason Brotman, an assistant editor and co-chair of the young workers’ group at Local 700, the Motion Picture Editors Guild.

“Members who started their career in the wake of the Great Recession have very little tolerance for status quo thinking.

The IA is going to be a much more activist union going forward.”

In a sign of the shift, five of 13 West Coast locals within IATSE that represent about 40,000 film industry workers rejected the proposed contract.

By comparison, 12 West Coast locals supported the previous contract.

“I think it’s pretty shocking,” said Steve Ross, a history professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in Hollywood labor unions. “Rank-andfile workers feel they were not listened to.”

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FAIRFIELD — Black Friday deals have become as much a part of the Thanksgiving tradition as the turkey and cranberry sauce.

Thousands came out Friday in Fairfield and Vacaville for some local shopping with deals ranging from 25 to 75% off and even more in some cases.

For Justin Rey, 19, of Haywood, it was the first time he had gone out for Black Friday shopping at the Nut Tree Shopping Center in Vacaville.

“We came here to shop for some good deals,” he said.

He got something inside Old Navy (not telling what because . . .

Christmas) that is usually priced at $150 for $45.

“I’m shopping for Christmas because it’s cheap today,” he said.

Across Interstate 80 at the Vacaville Premium Outlets, the traffic was heavy and shoppers were scurrying from store to store for some very good deals.

Devona White recently retired due to the Covid-19 pandemic shutting down the company where she used to work. She decided to do something different and started her own women’s apparel online boutique, FrontPage Image. This weekend she organized a popup store next door to Aeropostale with 13 vendors for some special Christmas gifts.

The idea was to bring vendors together who have

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Shoppers take advantage of Black Friday deals at the Solano Town Center mall, Friday. small boutiques themselves and give them a chance to sell on Black Friday.

“The items in here are high-end clothing,” White said. “We will be here for this weekend only.”

Stephanie Hubbard has her own brick-and-mortar shop in downtown Vallejo called Stephanie’s Boutique but wanted to do this weekend boutique to look for more customers.

“I have done popup boutiques a lot,” she said. “Last year I had several planned but because of Covid I had to cancel them.”

It was her first Black Friday event and while slow, she was enjoying meeting people.

“We have lots of different vendors here,” she said. “And the people are

super nice.”

Hubbard has been in business for nine years and enjoys sharing her line of clothing, which is from some of the same suppliers as Neiman Marcus and Saks 5th Avenue.

“Today I am giving some very good deals on items,” she said.

The Solano Town Center mall in Fairfield was also packed with holiday shoppers looking for great deals.

“This has been my favorite Black Friday ever,” said Shannon Skinner, marketing director for the Solano Town Center.

They had plenty of things going on for shoppers, including a DJ providing music.

“We handed out 300 tote

bags with 650 chocolate bars inside,” she said.

Certain bags had a little something extra with $10 gifts cards and four bags had $250 gift cards.

“Shoppers are so happy. Everyone is just excited to be able to get out and do something normal,” Skinner said.

The mall is still asking shoppers to wear masks.

They have a free testing clinic in the parking lot for anyone who needs to get tested.

“It is a 15-minute turnaround,” Skinner said.

Overall Skinner said she thinks this Black Friday will be one of the best they have seen in years.

“Across the board, it’s going to be really good,” she said.

Strike From Page B5 An IATSE spokesperson declined to comment.

For his part, Loeb has hailed the contract, even calling it a “Hollywood ending.”

“From start to finish, from preparation to ratification, this has been a democratic process to win the very best contracts,” Loeb said in a recent statement.

“The vigorous debate, high turnout, and close election, indicates we have an unprecedented m o v e m e n t- b u i l d i n g opportunity to educate members on our collective bargaining process and drive more participation in our union long-term.”

Loeb cited a number of important gains in the new contract, which covers 60,000 film and TV industry workers nationwide.

The contract provides 54 hours guaranteed rest after five-day weeks and 3% wage increases in line with those of other unions. Producers also agreed to boost compensation for the lowest-paid crafts and cover a $370million deficit in IATSE’s health and pension plans, which faced higher costs during the pandemic.

“Everybody got a little something out of this contract,” said Hollywood makeup artist Geneva Nash-Morgan, who has been in the union 33 years. “This is one of the best contracts I’ve ever seen.”

But, after month of negotiations, many union members expected more.

They contended that the agreement did not do enough to improve working conditions and reduce long hours on sets, a long-standing

complaint. Crews could still work 14-hour days, for example.

While IATSE leaders had started negotiations with producers in May, the mood among workers shifted this summer and fall as the talks dragged on.

“The conversation had changed and I don’t know that it was given the space and the deference that it truly deserved,” Hopkins said.

“There was just this whole like instantaneous culture shift.”

The Oct. 21 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Alec Baldwin movie “Rust” in New Mexico further heightened concerns about unsafe working conditions.

“Anybody that was on the fence said, ‘You know what? Enough is enough,’” said Brotman, who voted against the contract. “There is now grassroots connection and communication between members across the industry and there’s literally no way to stop that.”

Local 80, which represents grips like Patrick Blake who haul heavy equipment, had the biggest margin of no votes among West Coast locals, with 70% of 2,616 ballots rejecting the contract.

Blake wanted a guaranteed 12-hour turnaround time between film shoots like actors have. The contract provides a 10-hour minimum turnaround time.

“It’s just enough to keep us all going without ruffling too many feathers along the way,” said Blake, a 26-year industry veteran. “We’re going to be in another impasse in a short amount of time because this is just a pacifier.”

DAILY REPUBLIC — Sunday, November 28, 2021 B7

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Seniors Jamai East and Justin Pringle celebrate after Vanden’s 49-21 win over Merced on Saturday in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV Championship game in

Stockton at St. Mary’s High School. The Vikings honored their fallen teammate, Daniel Hughes, No. 9, who was shot and killed in April, throughout the season.

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STOCKTON — As Vanden High celebrated the fourth section title in school history Saturday afternoon, one source of inspiration was unforgettable.

Daniel Hughes, 17, a student and multiple-sport athlete at Vanden, was shot and died from gunshots wounds in April.

Vanden fans held banners memorializing Hughes as the Vikings topped the Merced Bears 49-21 on the neutral site of Sanguinetti Field on the St. Mary’s High School campus in Stockton for the 2021 California Interscholastic Federation’s Division IV Sac-Joaquin Section title.

Vanden’s Jamai East – for whom many of those same fans began chanting “M-V-P” in the fourth quarter – flew a No. 9 flag to remember

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Vanden’s Jamai East makes a leaping catch for a 13-yard touchdown over Merced’s Chase Smith on the first play of the fourth quarter.

Hughes as he celebrated the Vikings a lead they would never relinquish. after the game.

East gave the reflective However, East’s fireworks Vanden team and its fans weren’t done there: He reason to celebrate. The scored twice in seven senior scored four touch- seconds at the start of downs en route to the win, fourth quarter.

East, after warding three of which came in the off a defender for a second half.

After turning an over- 13-yard jumping touchthe-shoulder catch into a down catch on the first 55-yard touchdown in the play of the quarter, stole second quarter, an 8-yard Merced quarterback Seth catch midway through Scheidt’s pass out of the third quarter gave the air and bolted down

the Bears’ sideline for a 24-yard pick six on the next play.

“The first half, my body wasn’t feeling that good,” East said.

“Came back in with the mindset that 9 was watching, Danny Hughes was watching, so it just made me turn on and start playing my game.”

Vanden head coach Sean Murphy said East was playing for Hughes.

“He told me all week long he was going to have a big game and he came through,” Murphy said.

Vanden surrendered zero points in the second half while tallying 28 of their own. But the first half was decidedly different.

The game looked as though it might follow the high-scoring route the Vikings’ section quarterfinal and semifinal games took when the team led See Vanden, Page B14

49ers’ Garoppolo, Vikings’ Cousins forever linked among quarterbacks Tribune Content Agency SANTA CLARA — Kyle Shanahan’s scouting report on the Minnesota Vikings came with an expected compliment for his one-time prodigy, Kirk Cousins.

“I know how good of a quarterback Kirk always is,” Shanahan said.

Always is?

Whatever shortcomings Cousins has shown in his 56-56-2 career as a NFL starter, he’s covering them up better than ever and flourishing for a Vikings team that visits the 49ers on Sunday.

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NFC contenders – and of the NFL’s two most efficient quarterbacks over the past month.

The 49ers’ Jimmy Garoppolo boasts a 100plus passer rating over each of the past four games to help spur a turnaround. He’s peppering the ball over the middle, doing so quickly, on target and in the clutch on third and fourth downs.

An obvious connection between the quarterbacks is their link to Shanahan, who was Washington’s offensive coordinator when Cousins broke into the NFL and won him over from 2012-13.

But both quarterbacks have their teams back into NFC playoff contention because of another similarity: they’re safeguarding the football.

“You understand when you hold the football, you hold much of the organization in your hands, so you want to take that seriously,” Cousins told See 49ers, Page B14

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49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo (10) has picked up his game in the last four outings as San Francisco has improved to 5-5 on the season.

FAIRFIELD — Vacaville High School boys turned in an impressive fifth-place finish Saturday at the CIF State Cross Country Championships at Woodward Park in Fresno.

The Bulldogs finished only behind champion San Luis Obispo, Granada, Mira Costa and Ayala. Vacaville also won the Monticello Empire League, Sac-Joaquin Sub-Section and Section championship in Division II under head coach David Monk.

It was Monk’s seventh team to qualify for the state meet and second in three years at Vacaville. He has previously coached at Fairfield, Armijo and at Sacramento State.

“These guys are an amazing team and did everything we asked of them all year,” Monk said. “I know several of them desired better performances from themselves today, but it

doesn’t change the fact that this is an incredibly special group of young me. I’m proud to be their coach.”

Vacaville Christian’s boys and girls each finished 21st in Division V. Will C. Wood’s Tea Troche Jones was the Wildcats’ lone representative and finished 57th overfall in the girls Division III race.

Sophomore Colton Walker set the pace for the Bulldog boys by finishing 26th on the 5,000-meter course with a time of 15 minutes, 57.5 seconds. Walker was followed by senior Asher Love (34th, 16:01.8), junior Donovan Cheriuyot (36th, `16:04.6), senior Paul Hobbs (77th, 16:29.5), senior Kellen Steplight (138th, 17:09.5) and junior Evan Mitchell (163rd, 17:48.8).

Senior Chris Lespron led the Vacaville Christian boys (120th, 18:12.0) and was followed by freshman Maverick Adam (165th, 19:28.1), See Local, Page B14

Sharks offering surprises and issues thus far Tribune Content Agency CHICAGO — The Sharks are not terribly disappointed with where they stand one-quarter of the way through the 82-game season.

They’re not all that thrilled, either.

“After the amount of hockey we’ve played,” Sharks coach Bob Boughner said, “I think we’re probably where we deserve to be.”

The Sharks enter Sunday’s game with the Chicago Blackhawks with a modest 10-9-1 record. That’s better than their mark of 6-7-1 at the quarter-pole of the 56-game 2020-2021 season, but, as of Saturday morning, they were still four points back of third place in the Pacific Division and one point back of the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

The top three teams in each division, plus the next two highestplaced finishers in each conference, regardless of division, make the playoffs.

The Sharks have dealt with a Covid-19 outbreak, a road-heavy first month of the schedule, and the

off-ice drama involving forward Evander Kane, who, as of Monday, is eligible to practice and play again.

“It feels like it’s a lot more than 20 games, honestly,” Sharks captain Logan Couture said. “But I like the position we put ourselves in. Obviously, we’d like to be in a playoff spot.

There are a few points already we let slip away.

But almost every night this year, we’ve given ourselves a chance.”

The Sharks have given no public indication of how they plan to deal with Kane, who was suspended for the first 21 games of the season for a known violation of the NHL/ NHLPA Covid Protocol. But it doesn’t appear that he’ll dress for Tuesday’s game with the New Jersey Devils at the Prudential Center after he hasn’t practiced with the team since the end of last season.

The record may not be exactly what the Sharks were hoping for, but they do have some impressive wins this season over Carolina, Toronto, See Sharks, Page B14

Harbough suddenly a hero again as Michigan tops Ohio State Tribune Content Agency ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The proverbial monkey is off Jim Harbaugh’s back.

Ten years after Michigan last claimed victory over rival Ohio State, the sixth-ranked Wolverines pulled off a surprise upset Saturday, jumping ahead of second-ranked Buckeyes and cruising to a 42-27 win at Michigan Stadium.

The win not only snaps an ugly eight-game losing skid to Ohio State, a losing streak that

included 17 of the last 19 meetings and stretched all the way back to 2001, but launches Michigan into the Big Ten championship game next Saturday, Dec. 4. The Wolverines will play either Wisconsin or Iowa in Indianapolis.

To get there, Michigan stuck to its game plan that has worked for most of the season. Long, sustaining drives on the ground fueled an offense that totaled 487 yards, led by running back Hassan Haskins (169 yards, 5 TDs).

Junior Blake Corum returned from a high-ankle sprain to add 87 yards on 6 carries, pushing the Wolverines to 297 yards on the ground.

Michigan is now 30-0 under Harbaugh when they top 200 rushing yards.

A 10-play, 75-yard touchdown drive got the Wolverines on the scoreboard first, highlighted by a creative 14-yard carry by receiver A.J. Henning. Michigan sent running back Donovan Edwards in motion on the play, opposite of Henning, who took a

handoff from quarterback Cade McNamara and scored on an end-around. Michigan had an opportunity to take a two-score lead on its very next drive, but McNamara (13-of-19, 159 yards) tossed an interception at the 2-yard line.

The Buckeyes appeared to get their offense in gear on the very next drive, driving 64 yards on 12 plays, highlighted by a 28-yard carry by running back TreyVeon Henderson, but Michigan’s bend-not-break defense came up with a stop on

third-and-goal from the 14.

Ohio State’s passing attack came alive early in the second quarter, as Hesiman Trophy candidate C.J. Stroud turned a drive that started at the 44-yard line into a quick touchdown, hitting receivers Jaxon SmithNjigba (23 yards) and Chris Olave (25 yards) on big plays.

But all day the Wolverines’ defense provided serious pressure, totaling four sacks and eight tackles for loss. Defensive end Aidan Hutchinson had three sacks.

B8 Sunday, November 28, 2021 — DAILY REPUBLIC

calendar Sunday’s TV sports Baseball Puerto Rican League •Crillos de Caguas vs. Cangrejeros de Santurce, FS2, 1 p.m.

Basketball College men •ESPN Events Invitational, seventh-place game, ESPNU, 7:30 a.m.

•Troy at Florida, SEC, 9 a.m.

•Bethune-Cookman at Seton Hall, FS1, 9 a.m.

•ESPN Events Invitational, ESPN, 10 a.m.

•Eastern Michigan at DePaul, FS1, 11 a.m.

•ESPN Events Invitational, ESPN, ESPNU, 1 p.m.

•Penn at Arkansas, SEC, 1 p.m.

•Villanova at La Salle, ESPN2, 3 p.m.

•ESPN Events Invitational, fifth-place game, ESPNU, 3:30 p.m.

•Stanford at Colorado, PAC12, P12BA, 4 p.m.

•Hampton vs. Norfolk State, ESPN2, 5 p.m.

•Fresno State at California, PAC12, P12BA, 6 p.m.

•Grambling State vs. Morgan State, ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.

College women •Wisconsin at Colorado, PAC12, 11 a.m.

•Marshall at Michigan State, BIG TEN, 11 a.m.

•Bethune-Cookman at Alabama, SEC, 11 a.m.

•Troy at Duke, ACC, 11 a.m.

•Richmond at Virginia, ACC, 1 p.m.

NBA •Golden State at L.A. Clippers, NBCSBA, 12:30 p.m.

•Sacramento at Memphis, NBCSCA, 3 p.m.

(Vacavilleonly) Figure skating •Rostelecom Cup, Ch. 3, noon (taped) Football NFL •Tampa Bay at Indianapolis, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 10 a.m.

•Tennessee at New England, Chs. 5, 13, 10 a.m.

•Minnesota at San Francisco, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 1:25 p.m.

•Cleveland at Baltimore, Ch. 3, 5:20 p.m.

Scoreboard Football NFL American Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA 7 4 0 .636 326 182 7 4 0 .636 300 177 4 7 0 .364 201 269 2 8 0 .200 178 320 North

W L T Pct. PF PA Baltimore 7 3 0 .700 247 230 Cincinnati 6 4 0 .600 268 216 5 4 1 .550 214 226 Pittsburgh Cleveland 6 5 0 .545 244 251 South

W L T Pct. PF PA Tennessee 8 3 0 .727 291 254 Indianapolis 6 5 0 .545 309 245 Houston 2 8 0 .200 150 271 Jacksonville 2 8 0 .200 159 262 West

W L T Pct. PF PA Kansas City 7 4 0 .636 281 250 L.A. Chargers 6 4 0 .600 260 265 Las Vegas 6 5 0 .545 259 295 Denver 5 5 0 .500 200 183 National Conference East

W L T Pct. PF PA Dallas 7 4 0 .636 326 250 Philadelphia 5 6 0 .455 297 260 Washington 4 6 0 .400 212 267 N.Y. Giants 3 7 0 .300 189 246 North

W L T Pct. PF PA Green Bay 8 3 0 .727 247 214 Minnesota 5 5 0 .500 255 242 4 7 0 .364 179 254 Chicago Detroit 0 10 1 .045 174 289 South

W L T Pct. PF PA Tampa Bay 7 3 0 .700 309 222 5 6 0 .455 226 220 Carolina New Orleans 5 6 0 .455 257 249 Atlanta 4 6 0 .400 178 288 West

W L T Pct. PF PA Arizona 9 2 0 .818 310 202 L.A. Rams 7 3 0 .700 271 227 SAN FRAN 5 5 0 .500 246 222 Seattle 3 7 0 .300 194 209 Week 11 Thursday’s Game New England 25, Atlanta 0 Sunday’s Games SAN FRANCISCO 30, Jacksonville 10 Baltimore 16, Chicago 13 Minnesota 34, Green Bay 31 Indianapolis 41, Buffalo 15 Cleveland 13, Detroit 10 Washington 27, Carolina 21 Houston 22, Tennessee 21 Miami 24, N.Y. Jets 17

Buffalo New England Miami N.Y. Jets

Arizona

Philadelphia 40, New Orleans 29 Cincinnati 32, Las Vegas 13 Kansas City 19, Dallas 9 Arizona 23, Seattle 13 L.A. Chargers 41, Pittsburgh 37 Monday’s Game Tampa Bay 30, N.Y. Giants 10 Byes — Denver, L.A. Rams Week 12 Thursday, Nov. 25 Chicago 16, Detroit 14 Las Vegas 36, Dallas 33, OT Buffalo 31, New Orleans 6 Sunday, Nov. 28 Minnesota at SAN FRANCISCO, 1:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 10 a.m.

Carolina at Miami, 10 a.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m.

Tennessee at New England, 10 a.m.

Atlanta at Jacksonville, 10 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Indianapolis, 10 a.m.

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

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

L.A. Chargers at Green Bay, 1:25 p.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 5:20 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 29 Seattle at Washington, 5:15 p.m.

Byes — Arizona, Kansas City

Hockey NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Carolina 19 15 3 1 31 64 39 Washington 21 13 3 5 31 74 50 N.Y. Rangers 20 13 4 3 29 60 54 Columbus 19 12 7 0 24 67 59 21 10 7 4 24 62 59 Pittsburgh New Jersey 18 8 6 4 20 52 56 Philadelphia 19 8 7 4 20 47 56 N.Y. Islanders 17 5 10 2 12 32 52 Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 21 14 4 3 31 77 56 Toronto 22 15 6 1 31 61 48 Tampa Bay 19 12 4 3 27 62 52 Detroit 22 10 9 3 23 61 71 Boston 17 10 7 0 20 53 49 Buffalo 21 8 10 3 19 60 70 Montreal 23 6 15 2 14 54 83 Ottawa 19 4 14 1 9 46 73 Western Conference Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Minnesota 20 13 6 1 27 74 62 St. Louis 21 11 7 3 25 71 59 Nashville 20 11 8 1 23 56 57 Dallas 19 10 7 2 20 53 55 Winnipeg 20 9 7 4 22 56 58 Colorado 17 10 6 1 21 67 54 Chicago 20 7 11 2 16 45 65

21 4 15 2 10 39 77 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 20 15 5 0 30 77 59 Calgary 20 12 3 5 29 68 38 Anaheim 21 11 7 3 25 69 56 Vegas 21 12 9 0 24 66 64 SAN JOSE 20 10 9 1 21 53 58 Los Angeles 20 9 8 3 21 53 54 Seattle 21 7 13 1 15 49 70 Vancouver 21 6 13 2 14 49 70 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.

Friday’s Games Toronto 4, SAN JOSE 1 N.Y. Rangers 5, Boston 2 Chicago 3, St. Louis 2 Carolina 6, Philadelphia 3 Anaheim 4, Ottawa 0 Washington 4, Florida 3 Minnesota 7, Winnipeg 1 Nashville 4, New Jersey 2 Buffalo 4, Montreal 1 Tampa Bay 3, Seattle 0 Columbus 4, Vancouver 2 Dallas 3, Colorado 1 Pittsburgh 1, N.Y. Islanders 0 Saturday’s Games Seattle 4, Florida 1 Edmonton 3, Vegas 2 Los Angeles 4, Ottawa 2 Detroit 3, Buffalo 2, OT Montreal 6, Pittsburgh 3 Dallas 3, Arizona 2 St. Louis 6, Columbus3 Nashville at Colorado, Late Winnipeg at Calgary, Late Sunday’s Games SAN JOSE at Chicago, 4 p.m.

Washington at Carolina, 10 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 3 p.m.

Vancouver at Boston, 4 p.m.

Philadelphia at New Jersey 4 p.m.

Toronto at Anaheim, 5 p.m.

Monday’s Games Seattle at Buffalo, 4 p.m.

Arizona at Winnipeg, 4:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Montreal, 4:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Calgary, 6 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games SAN JOSE at New Jersey, 4 p.m.

Detroit at Boston, 4 p.m.

Washington at Florida, 4 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

Tampa Bay at St. Louis, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Nashville, 5 p.m.

Arizona at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.

Basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB 14 6 .700 —

Brooklyn

Hockey NHL •N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, NHL, 3 p.m.

•San Jose at Chicago, NBCSCA, 4 p.m.

Horse racing •America’s Day at the Races, FS1, FS2, 8:30 a.m.

•America’s Day at the Races, FS1, 1 p.m.

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Motorsports •Monster Jam, Ch. 3, 11 a.m. (taped) Pickleball •PPA Tour, championship, CBSSN, 1 p.m.

Soccer Ligue 1 •AS Saint-Etienne vs. Paris Saint-Germain, BEIN, 3:50 a.m.

•AS Monaco vs. Strasbourg, BEIN, 5:55 a.m.

•Montpellier HSC vs. Olympique Lyonnais, BEIN, 8 a.m.

•Marseille vs. Troyes AC, BEIN, 11:35 a.m.

MLS Playoffs •Conference semifinals, Sporting Kansas City vs. Real Salt Lake, Chs. 7, 10, noon •Conference semifinals, Philadelphia vs. Nashville, ESPN, 2:30 p.m.

USL Playoffs •Final, Tampa Bay vs. Orange County, ESPN, 5:30 p.m.

Super Lig •Malatyaspor vs. Galatasaray, BEIN, 4:30 p.m. (taped) Tennis •Davis Cup, United States vs. Colombia, CBSSN, 9 a.m.

Volleyball College women •NCAA Selection Special, ESPNU, 5:30 p.m.

Canha, Marte of A’s reportedly headed to New York Mets Tribune Content Agency OAKLAND — Twothirds of the A’s most recent outfield is reportedly headed to Queens.

Mark Canha and Starling Marte were each in agreement on freeagent deals with the New York Mets as of Friday night, according to multiple reports.

Canha and the Mets were nearing a twoyear, $26.5 million deal, according to the New York Post’s Joel Sherman. Marte’s deal is for four years and $78 million pending a physical, according to Jon Heyman of MLB Network.

Canha, 32, who is from San Jose and went to Cal, became a firsttime free agent this offseason after seven seasons with the A’s.

He was their longesttenured position player this season.

Canha’s 2019 marked a breakout season with a .273/.396/.517 slash line and 26 homers. Since the start of that season, he ranks ninth among qualified major-league hitters in OBP. Marte, 33, was expected to be among the more coveted position players on this winter’s market after his second half with the A’s, who acquired him from Miami at midseason for pitcher Jesús Luzardo.

The top center fielder available, Marte totaled a .310/.383/.458 slash line for the 2021 season, leading the majors with 47 stolen bases and ranking ninth among qualified position players in FanGraphs WAR.

11 9 .550 3 10 10 .500 4 10 10 .526 4 9 11 .450 5 Central Division

W L Pct GB Chicago 13 8 .619 — Milwaukee 12 8 .600 ½ Cleveland 10 10 .500 2½ Indiana 9 12 .429 4 Detroit 4 15 .211 8 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Miami 13 7 .650 — Washington 13 7 .632 — Charlotte 13 9 .591 1 Atlanta 11 10 .524 2½ Orlando 4 17 .190 9½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Utah 12 7 .632 — Portland 10 10 .500 2½ Minnesota 10 10 .474 2½ Denver 9 10 .474 3 Oklahoma City 6 13 .316 6 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB GOLDEN STATE 17 2 .895 — Phoenix 17 3 .842 ½ L.A. Clippers 11 8 .579 6 L.A. Lakers 10 11 .476 8 SACRAMENTO 8 12 .400 9½ Southwest Division

W L Pct GB Dallas 10 7 .588 — Memphis 9 10 .474 2 San Antonio 5 13 .278 5½ New Orleans 5 16 .238 7 Houston 3 16 .158 7½ Friday’s Games Golden State 118, Portland 103 SACRAMENTO 141, L.A. Lakers 137, 3OT L.A. Clippers 107, Detroit 96 Charlotte 113, Minnesota 115 Phoenix 118, N.Y. Knicks 97 Chicago 123, Orlando 88 Indiana 114, Toronto 97 Atlanta 132, Memphis 100 Washington 101, Oklahoma City 99 San Antonio 96, Boston 88 Milwaukee 120, Denver 109 New Orleans 98, Utah 97 Saturday’s Games Minnesota 121, Philadelphia 120, 2-OT N.Y. Knicks 99 Atlanta 90 Phoenix 113, Brooklyn 107 Cleveland 105, Orlando 92 Miami 107, Chicago 104 Houston 146, Charlotte 143, OT Washington 118, Dallas 114 New Orleans at Utah, Late Sunday’s Games GOLDEN STATE at L.A. Clippers, 12:30 p.m.

SACRAMENTO at Memphis, 3 p.m.

Milwaukee at Indiana, 2 p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 3 p.m.

Detroit at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Orlando at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

Denver at Miami, 4:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Houston, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at Utah, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m.

Lakers miffed over loss to Kings

Golf •DP World Tour, Joburg Open, GOLF, final round, 2 a.m.

•Ladies European Tour, Andalucía Costa Del Sol Open de España, Femenino, final round, GOLF, 4 a.m.

Skiing •FIS Alpine Skiing, Ch. 3, 9:30 a.m. (taped)

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Former defender Curley Culp poses with his bust during the NFL Class of 2013 Enshrinement Ceremony at Fawcett Stadium in Canton, Ohio.

Chiefs’ Hall of Famer Curley Culp dies at 75 Tribune Content Agency KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The path to the Kansas City Chiefs’ first Super Bowl championship required the invention of a new defensive scheme.

They rolled out the “Triple Stack” defense, they dubbed it, which would shut down the Minnesota Vikings and their top-ranked offense in Super Bowl IV. Curley Culp will be remembered as the lineman at the center of that championship strategy. He died Saturday morning, his family announced on his social media accounts. He was 75.

Culp revealed earlier this month that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

“On behalf of our family and with a broken heart, I announce the passing of my husband, Curley Culp, early this morning,” his wife, Collette Bloom Culp, wrote. “We respectfully ask for privacy.”

Culp’s name is forever planted inside Arrowhead Stadium, alongside his No. 61. The Chiefs added him to their ring of honor in 2008. Five years later, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

“It gives me joy and inspiration that will last the rest of my life,” Culp had said after his induction. “I am just overwhelmed by the struggles,

joys and tears of those who made it here. I’m happy to join them in the Hall of Fame.”

Culp is one of the game’s original and all-time great nose tackles. He embraced that role in the Super Bowl IV matchup to cap the 1969 season, in which the Chiefs held the Vikings to seven points, 20 fewer than their season average.

Coach Hank Stram tasked Culp with slowing the Vikings’ vaunted rushing attack, a job he carried through by overpowering center Mick Tingelhoff.

The Chiefs were 13-point underdogs in the game but used the Triple Stack to have Culp win his matchup and free linebackers to make plays in the big game.

“I was surrounded by good people; what can you say?” Culp once told The Star of his years in Kansas City.

“When you’re on a team with great athletes all around, you kind of fit in. I tried to work hard at my craft and tried to improve as much as I could. I was young in my career, and it was exciting to be involved with that group.”

After implementing the scheme in Super Bowl IV, other teams followed suit in future seasons, lining up a defensive linemen directly against the center.

Warriors’ Iguodala missing games Tribune Content Agency SAN FRANCISCO – Warriors super sub Andre Iguodala missed his fifth consecutive game Friday with right knee soreness, but head coach Steve Kerr said the injury is not a longterm concern.

Iguodala will travel with the team for games at the Clippers on Sunday and at Phoenix on Tuesday, but he is

unlikely to play in either.

“When you get older, things take a little bit longer to heal,” Kerr said of Iguodala, who will turn 38 in January.

“This is what happens when you have that much mileage on you.

Something happens, and it keeps you out a little bit longer. It’s not a longterm concern, but we’ll wait until the swelling goes down.”

Iguodala missed the

front end of both of the Warriors’ back-toback sets this season with “hip injury maintenance.” Even with a history of knee tendinitis, those problems didn’t show up in injury reports until he was sidelined for the second of five in a row.

Iguodala is averaging 3.8 points, 3.8 assists and 3.5 rebounds per game, while logging 20.8 minutes.

LOS ANGELES — A blowout? No, these Lakers would rather have a nailbiter any night.

One overtime? Why not two? Why not three?

A slog of a game turned into a suspenseful one, then graduated into the absurd on Friday night as the Lakers couldn’t finish off the shorthanded Sacramento Kings in regulation, or a first or second overtime period.

Finally, in the third 5-minute bonus session, it bit them, and De’Aaron Fox (34 points) and the struggling Kings – a team the Lakers should have crushed on paper – were able to snatch a 141-137 victory away from the Lakers at Staples Center.

The Lakers’ closing lineup all played at least 42 minutes, and while LeBron James (30 points), Anthony Davis (23 points) and Russell Westbrook (29 points) each had their moments, the strain on their legs caught up with them and they missed their biggest shots in the extra periods.

James said he was “disgusted” with how the Lakers (10-11) have lost five of their last seven games and flogged himself for his “horrible” seven turnovers. But he said the key for the team, even a quarter of the way through the season, is to keep their heads.

Twisting the dagger was Buddy Hield, who scored 25 points, assisted on the tying basket at the end of regulation and tied the score at the end of the first overtime. At the bitter end of a game that featured 19 ties and 23 lead changes, Hield (who scored 13 of his points in OT) sealed the victory for the Kings with free throws. from saying he wasn’t feeling the urgency to win now, Westbrook had slightly changed his tune, although he stressed that the Lakers are trying to keep perspective.

Just 7-12 entering the game with interim coach Alvin Gentry at the helm, the Kings spotted the Lakers even more advantages: Two starters, Harrison Barnes and Richaun Holmes, weren’t able to play.

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DeCA receives Defense IT award for CLICK2GO Daily Republic Staff

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A construction crewman raises the last beam for the KC-46A 3-bay hangar during a topping out ceremony at Travis Air Force Base, Nov. 16. Topping out is a builder’s

tradition where the last beam is placed at the peak of the structure being built. The hangar will be utilized for the maintenance of Travis AFB’s future KC-46 tankers.

Ceremony marks milestone in KC-46 hangar project at Travis Daily Republic Staff

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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — A massive threebay hangar project at the base reached a milestone Nov. 16 when the framing for the superstructure was “topped off” by the construction crew.

Topping out is a builder’s tradition where the last beam is placed at the peak of the structure that is being built.

Then it was back to work for crews building the hangar to serve as the base of operations for the new KC-46A Pegasus, which is designed to boost the air power and mobility operations of the Air Force.

Travis Air Force Base

is scheduled to receive this latest aircraft in August 2023. It’s the first new aircraft at the base since August 2006. The base’s full anticipated complement of KC-46s is expected by the first quarter of 2025.

The high-capacity KC-46A will ultimately displace the KC-10 Extender and replace the KC-135 Stratotanker. The new aircraft will aid global missions and improve the ability to respond rapidly to crises and contingency operations around the globe.

Travis was selected as the West Coast home for the Pegasus in January 2017. Basing the KC-46A at Travis requires numerous projects to renovate

existing facility space or construct new facilities for mission functions that lacked sufficient resources or did not previously exist.

Basing the KC-46A at Travis requires numerous projects to renovate existing facility space or construct new facilities for mission functions that lacked sufficient resources or did not previously exist.

The Air Force Civil Engineer Center awarded a contract in December 2019 for a three-bay maintenance hangar at Travis.

The $137 million project is the largest item in an estimated $188 million list of construction, repair and modernization projects designed to get Travis ready for the new tanker.

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David Reed, Walsh Construction project manager, talks during the KC-46A hangar topping out ceremony at Travis Air Force Base, Nov. 16.

A ceremony to break ground for the hangar took place Dec. 14, 2018. Construction was delayed in 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic.

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — The Defense Commissary Agency has received the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Award for its work in deploying Commissary CLICK2GO, the agency announced.

“We were able to deploy online shopping at more than 230 stores, completing this critical mission in late September – way ahead of our schedule,” Bill Moore, DeCA director and CEO, said in a press release.

“We thought we could get it done by the end of December; by the extraordinary efforts of our IT staff, our IT contractor and store workers, we finished by the end of September.

“Our (information technology) team led this effort and was the driving force in our rapid deployment,” he said. “This award acknowledges their outstanding contributions to dramatically improving the quality of life of our customers.”

The DoD CIO Annual Awards programrecognizes individuals and teams within DoD for exceptional achievements within the Digital Modernization portfolio.

“DeCA’s director set a goal, and DeCA IT moved technical mountains to achieve it,” Theon Danet, the agency’s executive director of IT and CIO, said in the press release. “The team collaborated with multiple external and internal partners to establish a much-needed benefit for our DoD patrons.”

C o m m i s s a r y is the CLICK2GO first part of DeCA’s

three-legged stool of convenience: (1) online shopping – curbside pickup or Commissary CLICK2GO, (2) online payment and (3) delivery. Through curbside delivery, DeCA offers its customers an online and mobile shopping option where they can browse items, submit orders, schedule pickup and pay for their groceries from their computer, phone, tablet or mobile device.

However, the path to installing the service across the DeCA universe was creeping along at a snail’s pace, 11 stores in two years, Moore said.

The slow walk soon became a sprint thanks to these efforts: n DeCA modernized its online platform, specifically its technology to support next generation digital shelf, dynamic order fulfillment, and secure and trusted online payment.

By n leveraging modern cloud technology and an industry leading platform, the agency was able to trim 88% from rollout costs (from $51.7 million to $5.9 million) and reduce the deployment schedule by 92% (from nearly seven years to six months).

“From our IT associates to our contract members from NCR, and to our unsung heroes at the store who deliver the service to our customers, the deployment of Commissary CLICK2GO was indeed a team effort,” Willie Watkins, acting director of DeCA’s eCommerce directorate, said in the press release.

“By making Commissary CLICK2GO available, we are adding tremendous value to the commissary shopping experience.”

Retired Travis general inducted into Georgia Veterans Hall of Fame Nicholas Pilch

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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — U.S. Air Force retired Brig. Gen. Larry Wright was inducted into the Georgia Veterans Hall of Fame, Nov. 6, 2021.

Gen. Wright commissioned into the Air Force in 1960 through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the University of Maryland. Some of his highest decorations include the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit with a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster and the Distinguished Flying Cross.

The general was a command pilot with 7,400 flying hours, including 1,874 combat flying hours and 533 maintenance test flight hours.

Though heavily decorated, he is a family man at heart. His wife, Gretchen, and he recently celebrated 55 years of marriage. They have four successful children, Teresa Marie, Pamela, Heather and John – and to this day, he continues his passion of aviation.

“The best things about the Air Force are the airplanes,” said Wright.

“They are the mortar that holds all of the airmen together.”

Wright began his career as a young lieutenant at Travis Air Force Base, after he finished flying training at Craig AFB, Alabama. His first assignment at Travis was as a C-133 Cargomaster pilot, as well as an instructor and mainte-

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U.S. Air Force retired Brig.

Gen. Larry Wright, wearing Colonel at the time of this photo dated Feb. 2, 1981. nance test pilot.

Then in 1965, his life changed forever that December when he met his wife at Travis, he recalls in his memoir: “It was the 19th of Dec. 1965, the time was 5:15 p.m. I remember it exactly.

She was in my apartment and I walked into my living room. I saw her. She was standing on a chair, decorating a Christmas tree that wasn’t there (before). As a matter of fact, she hadn’t been there either.

She had short, neat auburn-colored hair. Her eyes were large and dark.

She saw me and turned.

She had a tree decoration in one hand and a bottle of Chivas Regal in the other. She (had) a brilliant smile that caused the whole room to light up.

‘Hi, I’m Gretchen. Merry Christmas’.

After Gretchen and him were married and they started a family and moved on base, Gretchen started a tradition.

“One of the neatest things Gretchen would

do at each assignment was plant a tree when we moved in,” he said.

At Travis, he completed combat flight school, where he received honor graduate – which isn’t a first for his educational journey. Throughout his journey into education, whether if it was for higher education or military training, he always graduated with honors, the top of his class or cum laude.

An educated officer in the Air Force, his command started putting him on combat missions into Vietnam with the C-133 from Travis from 1965 to 1968 until he was deployed there in 1969.

In 1969, he earned his Silver Star, but it wasn’t a single thing that happened that got him to the mission in which he earned it. Wright said that being an honor graduate from combat flight school was the ripple effect that brought everything into place. He received honor graduate, then he was named chief of aircrew standardization in Vietnam, then he was sent on one mission that he completed, under heavy fire, when he was awarded the Silver Star.

The mission wasn’t simple.

Fly a C-7A Caribou into a heavily fortified enemy territory, no landing lights, very little cover – and during a heavy rain storm. He and his copilot flew the C-7 above the landing area, waited for the ground grew to ignite a few small lights for landing, quickly landed under fire, unloaded the

equipment and resupply for the ground troops then took off under heavy fire.

“The C-7 was the only military aircraft that was never rated for commercial flight,” he said. “This is still one of the only aircraft you rip into reverse to sit it down, or land.”

This cold and rainy Oct. 30 mission was also the inspiration for why Mrs. Wright felt compelled to nominate Gen. Wright for the Georgia Hall of Fame.

“His mission that he got the Silver Star for made a difference in a lot lives,” she said. “If he didn’t land with the ammunition and things the army needed there, a lot of those men wouldn’t have made it out.”

The citation describes the thunderstorms and darkness, which caused two other aircraft with supplies to turn around, but Wright went forward.

He also received the Distinguished Flying Cross for another mission while in Vietnam where he had to avoid friendly and hostile fire to deliver essential supplies.

After arriving home in 1970, Wright was then stationed at the Air Force Academy where he served at the 4th Squadron commander. While in Colorado, he completed his first master of arts degree and, along with his wife, adopted their son.

His Next assignment was to Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, as the quality control officer and the Avionics Maintenance Squadron commander and eventually assistant

chief of maintenance. He flew C-141 Starlifter at Charleston.

On flying the C-141, Wright recalls in his memoir: “Off to fly C-141’s at Charleston AFB. The C-141 is a big, powerful, four-engine jet. It’s a tough, reliable aircraft that got the job done. It had a decent performance cruising at .74 mach.

When the Air Force first got the C-141 in 1965 they had the original aluminum finish with the tops painted white. Now, eight years later, we were in the process of painting them all the NATO olive drab, camouflage colors. It was a good move. Charleston kept two aircraft with the aluminum and white paint for sensitive missions, where we didn’t want to look ‘warlike.’”

At Charleston, too, Wright exceeded, graduating top of his class in the pilot course that would qualify him to fly his new office there: the C-141.

Wright has story after story he remembers from each base because each assignment was special to him.

“Charleston was good to us. The wing there does well – they always have because of the people,” he said. “I was promoted to lieutenant colonel while there and received my appointment to the National War College in Washington, D.C.” The general is always quick to give credit to the men and women that worked for him, but a follow-on assignment to the National War College was another

educational opportunity he was both excited and nervous for because only 160 people, including civilians, received such a prestigious appointment. The school is focused on government education and broader priorities with military planning and logistics from a federal and nationwide perspective. following Directly his appointment, Wright moved over to the Pentagon to work directly for the Joint Chiefs of Staff as an action officer in the Logistics, Planning and Review Branch for Strategic Mobility.

Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, was next for him and his family.

He took command of the 89th Military Airlift Wing in June of 1979, where he flew Vice President Walter Mondale and the first lady, Rosalynn Carter.

He said this assignment was memorable because of the presidential flights, but the particular elation for the assignment was because of the election year he was there and being able to fly President Ronald Reagan for his first inauguration.

He received the Legion of Merit for his successful missions supporting the president, vice president, members of Congress and other prominent national and international leaders.

After Andrews, the general went further northeast to McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, where he feels he did a lot as a wing commander.

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General From Page B9 kind of leader who knew how to lead and change the scenery,” said retired Col. Harvey Haas, an officer that worked for Wright during his time at McGuire and is a friend to him to this day. “It takes a fearless warrior with courage and the ability to make the correct choices under stress.

“He was a person that looked after his people,” Haas said, laughing. “He set up a volleyball game for the colonels to play against the junior officers – where the junior officers just crawled all over each other, trying to be the superstar, but under Wright’s leadership, us older guys tore up the young ones because we came together as a team.”

Haas was quick to credit Wright for his leadership and attitude about his people.

Putting the maintenance airmen’s safety first, Wright escorted congressional delegates, business owners and CEOs of various companies onto McGuire to show how the base’s small hangars were not sufficient in sustaining the base’s robust mission set.

Wright brought all of the visitors on a bus, took them out to the McGuire flight line on a cold Jan. day.

“I wanted to show them the hangars we had,” he said. “They were built for smaller aircraft and how a C-118 Liftmaster and C-141 were only able to fit up to the wing and was too dangerous to do maintenance on.”

The general had it in his mind to keep his airmen on McGuire safe, so that’s

what he did. Shortly after Wright’s departure, the base built hangars large enough for the bigger mobility machines. He’s also proud that three of his squadron commanders from McGuire were promoted to general as well.

Wright also started an aviation museum while there, collecting seven aircraft – the first of which was one of his favorites, the P-38 Lightning.

While at McGuire, he earned a Bronze Oak leaf Cluster in lieu of a Second Award of the Legion of Merit for his accomplishments there.

1983, General In Wright went on to Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, where he became the deputy chief of staff for logistics at Military Airlift Command headquarters, but was there for a short amount of time because he was promoted to brigadier general, which out-ranked

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His assignment at Travis earned him the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal.

In the absence of the commander, Gen. Wright directed strategic and tactical airlift capabilities for half the globe, said the award citation. His leadership was essential for readiness exercises in 1985 and 1986 which meant a stronger United States strategic military partnership in the Korean theater.

Wright capped off his career with a year-long assignment to U.S. Forces Portugal and returned to Charleston afterwards.

His retirement wasn’t in the slightest a forgettable one – in Charleston, South Carolina. While there, him and his family evacuated for Hurricane Hugo that hurricane made the Isle of Palms

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Afterward, in 1989 he went on to complete his second master’s degree in history at The Citadel in Charleston and went on to teach U.S. history and national security policy at The University of North Florida and Jacksonville University until 1999.

Wright’s journey, 22 years later, brought him to the Saint Luke Ministry Center in Columbus, Georgia for his induction to the Georgia Veterans Hall of Fame, Nov. 6.

“What strikes me from the ceremony was the dinner,” he said. “Sitting there, listening to stories from other inductees – there were men there with the Medal of Honor, four Silver Stars – there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.

“To sit with those heroes – to be there with them – that was the real honor.”

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He and his family headed back to Travis, but this time, he would be the vice commander of the 22nd Air Force, Military Airlift Command. It was one of three combat-ready strategic and tactical airlift arms of the Military Airlift Command.

“Returning to Travis was nostalgic for my family and I,” he said.

Their first time at Travis, Mrs. Wright planted a small palm tree in their front yard.

When they returned, the family went to their old address to find it tall and growing healthy.

First arriving to Travis as a lieutenant and then coming back as a general humbled him and reminded him how small one’s career can be, or how much of an

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Arrange transpo for medical appts. HS Grad/CPR 1st AID TRAINING. Jobsite: Fairfield, CA. Mail resume to Belen Haven Inc. 5337 Blairemore P l a c e , D u b l i n , C A, 94568 Exp., Chinese cook needed. Must have 2 yrs. exp. Chinese pastry a plus. Annual income 38,376 year.

Send resume to 1955 W. Texas St. Ste. #33 Fairfield, CA 94533.

Attn: Ms. Lau 707-428-3230

LNV for special/wonderful patient in Vacaville. Male quadriplegic needing Skilled services Sat/Sun 7a-11a.

One day bowel care, one day neuro-genic bladder and range of motion. $45.00 per hour. Call Camie at 707-428-5733 or email your resume to yhns@earthlink.net

Class A Driver. 2 years exp. $800-$1,000 Wk. Call: 707-384-2460

Part-Time personal assist. in Vacaville. Call for more information.

707-448-5242

Daily Republic - Sunday, November 28, 2021

0501 HELP WANTED

The City of Vacaville is hiring

Equipment Mechanic I/II AND Senior Equipment Mechanic

www.cityofvacaville.co m/jobs Final filing date 11/29/2021 5:30pm PT

0509 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES Up to $15,000.00 of GUARANTEED Life Insurance! No medical exam or health questions. Cash to help pay funeral and other final expenses.Call Physicians Life Insurance Company- 866-6040688 or visit www.Life55plus.info/d ailyrep

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0629 FIREWOOD Informational: A cord of wood shall measure 4x4x8 and be accompanied by a receipt. Please report any discrepancies to: The Department of Agricultural / Weights and Measures at (707) 784-1310 Approx. 1/2 cord. Well seasoned Walnut & Prune wood. $90.00.

Oak $120.00 You Haul.

707-425-3836

0629 FIREWOOD Dry wood in large wood box. 3.5" Long. $125.00 707-920-1930 Oak Firewood Approx.

4 cords. Recently cut. $150. cord. You haul.

707-864-0570 SEASONED OAK Will Deliver 707-249-5527

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Limited to 1 ad of like item(s) per customer in a 60 day period.

4 line max. for all ads. Ads are published for 3 consecutive days in the Daily Republic, 1 time in Friday's Tailwind.

Brown leather couch & love seat. Good cond.

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Great cond. $15,000 707-427-0298 or 707-344-2159. Jerry

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CALL 1-855-656-0695

0677 PETS & SUPPLIES Small dog house.

Good cond. $40.00.

707-920-1930

Notice of Self Storage Sale Please take notice Central Self Storage East Travis 837 E Travis Blvd Fairfield CA 94533 intends to hold an auction of the goods stored in a self-service storage unit by the following persons. The sale will occur as an online auction via www.storagetreasures.com on 12/15/2021 at 12:00 PM. Unless stated otherwise the description of the contents are household goods and furnishings: Kimberly Mendoza Emile Richard Gordon Kocher Patricia Elliot Carlos Reynoso Diaz Evelyn J Dennis Homer Abbit Brenton Pearson Elena Verde Khristopher Timms Mary Perez Nicole Hatch Alicia Carpenter Sue Pierce Gerardo Ochoa Jodi Smith Johnathin Brooks Kendra Willis Jason Bowers Jaime Benitez All property is being stored at the above self-storage facility. This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply. See manager for details.

CNS-3531212# THE DAILY REPUBLIC DR#00051002 Published: Nov. 28, Dec. 5, 2021 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GREGORY BACON Case Number: FPR051056 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Gregory Bacon, Gregory W. Bacon and Gregory Wade Bacon A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Sandra Lewis-Bacon in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Sandra Lewis-Bacon be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: DEC. 3, 2021 TIME: 8:30 a.m.; DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO 600 Union Avenue Fairfield, CA 94533 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statues 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: M. Kendall Hillman, Hillman, Lucas & Canning, P.C. 2420 Martin Road, Suite 300 Fairfield, CA 94534 (707) 427-7377 DR# 00051088 Published: Nov. 21, 24, 28, 2021

Online: dailyrepublic.com/classifieds

Classifieds: 707-427-6936

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: DAVID JOSEPH SYZLER CASE NUMBER FCS057189

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS ICU BUTTERFLY HOUSE

PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: David Joseph Syzler filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. David Joseph Syzler Proposed Name: a. David Joseph Rozenkowski THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

LOCATED AT 325 Merganser Dr #81, Suisun City, CA 94585 Solano. Mailing Address 325 Merganser Dr #81, Suisun City, CA 94585. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Shari King 2436 Hanson Dr Fairfield, 94533. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Shari King IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION Nov. 7, 2026 THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: Nov. 8, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021002221 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR# 00051028 Published: Nov. 21, 28, Dec. 5, 12, 2021

ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD AMENDING CHAPTER 5 OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE, ADOPTING APPENDIX X OF THE CALIFORNIA RESIDENTIAL CODE, EMERGENCY HOUSING.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: DEC. 15, 2021; Time: 8:30 am Dept. 12 Rm.: II The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, 600 Union Ave. Fairfield, CA 94533 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Republic Please file proof of newspaper publication at least 5 business days before hearing (newspaper does not file w/ court) zoom ok. zoom invite will be emailed 1-2 days before hearing Date: Oct. 27, 2021 /s/ Wendy G. Getty Judge of the Superior Court FILED: Nov. 2, 2021 DR# 00050815 Published: Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 CITY OF FAIRFIELD PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD will hold a public hearing on the following items: PITTMAN ROAD COMMERCIAL ANNEXATION – Annexation (ANX2020-001). Public hearing on request by Kerri Watt on behalf of Meadow Creek Group, LLC, to consider annexing two parcels, totaling ±8.07-acres, in unincorporated Solano County off Pittman Road (APNs: 0044-080-160 and 0044-080-170) into the City of Fairfieldʼs jurisdiction.

The project has been deemed Categorically Exempt under CEQA per Section 15319.

Annexations of Existing Facilities and Lots for Exempt Facilities. (Planner: Meily M. Sheehan, 707-428-7474, msheehan@fairfield.ca.gov) NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN THAT said public hearing will be held on TUESDAY, December 7 , 2021, beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the City of Fairfield Council Chambers, 1000 Webster Street, Fairfield, or the public may join the meeting via Zoom at https://fairfieldca.zoom.us/j/87845423536?pwd=aVlUeTZTdzBwdlUvVEw1UUlSWkRxdz09 or by phone at (669) 900-6833 Webinar ID: 878 4542 3536 Passcode: 7074287400, at which time and place any and all persons interested in said matters may appear and be heard. If you challenge any of the above-cited items in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to: Community Development Department, at, or prior to, the public hearing. For additional information, please contact the Community Development Department, City Hall, 1000 Webster Street, Second Floor, or phone 707-428-7461.

The City of Fairfield does not discriminate against any individual with a disability. City publications will be made available upon request in the appropriate format to persons with a disability. If you need an accommodation to attend or participate in this meeting due to a disability, please contact the City Clerkʼs Office, 707-428-7400, cityclerk@fairfield.ca.gov, in advance of the meeting.

DR#00051046 Published: Nov. 28, 2021 NOTICE FOR VIRTUAL PUBLIC MEETING CONSULTATION FOR DBE PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES AT NUT TREE AIRPORT (VCB) Solano County has established a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program for the Nut Tree Airport (VCB) in accordance with regulations of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), 49 CFR Part 26. The Nut Tree Airport (VCB) anticipates it will receive Federal financial assistance from the Department of Transportation, and as a condition of receiving this assistance, the Nut Tree Airport (VCB) has signed an assurance that it will comply with 49 CFR Part 26.

As per section Part 26.45, in establishing the upcoming DBE goals for Federal Fiscal Years (FFY) 2022/2023/2024, a public/consultation meeting will be held on December 16, 2021 at 1:00 PM through a virtual meeting online through a link posted on the Nut Tree Airport Website, www.flynuttree.com, for the purpose of discussing potential opportunities for DBE participation in upcoming projects, gain input, and to answer questions.

All interested parties are invited to attend which may include (but not limited to) minority, womenʼs and general contractor groups, community organizations, and other officials or organizations who may have interest or information pertinent to the implementation of the Ownerʼs DBE Program. The meeting is not mandatory for DBE participation on projects at the Nut Tree Airport (VCB).

You can also join the meeting Audio Only: tel:+18722401286, meeting ID 324128961# Questions regarding the meeting or requests for call line shall be directed to: Solano County Government Center General Services Director, DBELO Megan Greve 675 Texas Street, Suite 2500 Fairfield, CA 94533 707/ 784-7900 MMGreve@SolanoCounty.com DR#00051138 Published: Nov. 24, 28, Dec. 1, 5, 8, 12, 15, 2021 CITY OF FAIRFIELD PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD will hold a public hearing on the following items: TRAIN STATION SPECIFIC PLAN – PLANNING AREA 5: Specific Plan Amendment (SP2021-002). Public hearing on request by McKinley Partners/Steve Riter to amend sections of the Train Station Specific Plan to facilitate the development of Planning Area 5 (APNs: 0166-020-280; -290; 0166240-010; -020; -030). An Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was previously adopted for the project to comply with the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act. (Planner: Meily M. Sheehan, 707-428-7474, msheehan@fairfield.ca.gov) NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN THAT said public hearing will be held on TUESDAY, December 7 , 2021, beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the City of Fairfield Council Chambers, 1000 Webster Street, Fairfield, or the public may join the meeting via Zoom at https://fairfieldca.zoom.us/j/87845423536?pwd=aVlUeTZTdzBwdlUvVEw1UUlSWkRxdz09 or by phone at (669) 900-6833 Webinar ID: 878 4542 3536 Passcode: 7074287400, at which time and place any and all persons interested in said matters may appear and be heard. If you challenge any of the above-cited items in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to: Community Development Department, at, or prior to, the public hearing. For additional information, please contact the Community Development Department, City Hall, 1000 Webster Street, Second Floor, or phone 707-428-7461.

The City of Fairfield does not discriminate against any individual with a disability. City publications will be made available upon request in the appropriate format to persons with a disability. If you need an accommodation to attend or participate in this meeting due to a disability, please contact the City Clerkʼs Office, 707-428-7400, cityclerk@fairfield.ca.gov, in advance of the meeting.

DR#00051045 Published: Nov. 28, 2021

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD will hold a public hearing on the following item:

RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD APPROVING REQUIRED FINDINGS RELATING TO THE AMENDMENT OF THE 2019 CALIFORNIA BUILDING CODE (ALSO KNOWN AS CHAPTER 5, BUILDING AND HOUSING CODE OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE).

(Chief Building Official, Jeff Thomas 707-428-7442, jthomas@fairfield.ca.gov) NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN THAT said public hearing will be held on TUESDAY, December 7, 2021 beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 1000 Webster Street, or the public may join the meeting via Zoom at: https://fairfieldca.zoom.us/j/87845423536?pwd=aVlUeTZTdzBwdlUvVEw1UUlSWkRxdz 09 or by phone at (669) 900-6833 Webinar ID: 878 4542 3536 Passcode: 7074287400, at which time and place any and all persons interested in said matters may appear and be heard. If you challenge any of the above-cited items in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to: Community Development Department, at, or prior to, the public hearing. For additional information, please contact the Community Development Department, City Hall, 1000 Webster Street, Second Floor, or phone 707-428-7440.

The City of Fairfield does not discriminate against any individual with a disability. City publications will be made available upon request in the appropriate format to persons with a disability. If you need an accommodation to attend or participate in this meeting due to a disability, please contact the City Clerkʼs Office, 707-428-7400, cityclerk@fairfield.ca.gov, in advance of the meeting.

DR#00051157 Published: Nov. 28, 2021 CASE NUMBER (NUMERO DEL CASO) FCS056409 SUMMONS (CITATION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): PATTY CUNNINGHAM, an individual; and DOES 1 thought 20, inclusive, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDADO EL DEMANDANTE) FIRST TECHNOLOGY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs of any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court's lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS CALENDARIO despues de que la entreguen esta citaction y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta porescrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que yaha un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente.

Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos extentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbirage en un caso de derecho civil.

Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): Superior Court of California 580 Texas Street Fairfield, California 94533 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): THOMAS J. PRENOVOST, JR. 77813 Prenovost, Normandin, Dawe & Rocha 2122 N Broadway, Suite 200 Santa Ana, CA 92706 (714) 547-2444 Date (Fecha): APR 20 2021 /s/ Clerk, by B. VASQUEZ Deputy (Adjunto) DR#00050813 Published: Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

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Minnesota-area reporters Wednesday.

Cousins leads all NFL quarterbacks with a 21-to-2, touchdown-tointerception mark. He hasn’t had a pass intercepted in his past five games and 195 overall attempts. He’s winging it around the yard and he’s also nailing his intermediate targets.

“He’s making really good decisions with the ball, has a ton of playmakers out there helping him make those plays,” 49ers defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryan said. “Kirk is just one of the best at when it comes to delivering the ball, getting it out and making the correct read and going where the ball needs to go. If it’s not there, he is probably one of the best at getting it to his checkdown (receiver) and allowing them to get 4 or 5 yards there.”

Vikings coach Mike Zimmer gave Cousins his public blessing to not check down but keep airing it out, saying last week: “If he throws an interception, that’s life.

But you keep going for the jugular.”

Cousins’ response: “I don’t want to throw picks even if the coach gave me the green light too.

I’m still pretty much playing the way I’ve always played.”

Always? There goes that word again (see: Shanahan intro).

Garoppolo has committed no turnovers in three victories since Halloween; he had an interception late in a Nov. 7 loss to Arizona for his only turnover in the past four games.

Garoppolo has never gone three consecutive starts without a turnover, something he’ll shoot for this game. Meanwhile, he’s working in the familiar shadow of a run-heavy attack. The 49ers racked up over 40 carries in each of their back-to-back routs of the Los Angeles Rams (31-10) and the Jacksonville Jaguars (30-10).

Garoppolo and Cousins are forever intertwined, not so much for their matchups but rather their collision course in Shanahan’s 49ers early infancy.

junior Aaron Laxamana (171st, 19:49.7), freshman Apollo Adam (174th, 19:54.0), junior Harrison Jones (183rd, 20:39.7), freshman Ryder Sietsema (199th, 22:31.5) and freshman Brian Laxama (200th, 22:49.4).

Vacaville Christian’s boys finished first at the section meet. Six of the seven Falcons are underclassmen.

Sophomore Kara Kruilick led the Vacaville Christian girls with a 136th-place finish in 23:03.4. She was followed by senior Laura Everett (152nd, 24:07.5), freshman Kate Ferreira (170th, 25:07.3), sophomore Zoe Stires (172nd, 25:20.1), senior Kimberly Miller (181st, 26:77.8) and sophomore Taylor Woo (185th, 27:00.3).

Vacaville Christian’s girls were second at the section meet. Four of Saturday’s runners will return next season.

Wood’s Jones finished 57th in 19:35.5. She turned it on throughout the race after being 98th a third of the way through the race and 69th two-thirds of the way into the course.

Go-ahead jumper sparks Rodriguez

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Sophomore Brayden Chavez sprints into open space during Saturday’s Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV championship game against Merced at St. Mary’s High School.

Vanden From Page B7 14-0 just six minutes into the game.

Robert Breed picked off Scheidt for a 35-yard Vanden touchdown on the game’s first play from scrimmage. On the Vikings’ next possession, Sean Davis, who led all rushers with 70 yards, blasted up the gut for an 8-yard TD tote to give Vanden a 14-0 edge.

Merced scored on its next two possessions, however, evening the score at 14 with 11 minutes and 12 seconds to go in the second quarter.

After East’s first touchdown, Merced made it 21-21 with a TD to even the score again.

Murphy said at halftime he encouraged his defense to continue pressuring Scheidt.

“They were making great plays in the first half and we told our guys to just keep pressuring them, keep playing hard,” Murphy said. “We didn’t make a ton of adjustments, we made a couple little, tiny adjustments, but we felt like if we kept playing, it would go our way defensively.

And it did.”

Sean Davis later added a 51-yard TD catch in the fourth quarter. Davis’ score was the fourth and final touchdown pass on the day by Tre Dimes, who finished 15 of 23 for 311 yards. Diego

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Merced 7 14 0 0 — 21 Vanden 14 7 7 21 — 49 First Quarter Van — Breed 35 yard interception return for touchdown (NuñezSmith kick) Van — Davis 8 run (NuñezSmith kick) Mer — Evans 34 run (Granados kick) Second Quarter Mer — Collins 32 pass from Scheidt (Granados kick) Van — East 55 pass from Dimes (Nuñez-Smith kick) Mer — Collins 43 pass from Scheidt (Granados kick) Third Quarter Van — East 8 pass from Dimes

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‘It’s been a great journey for us since last spring. We faced a lot of adversity, so we’re ver proud of our student-athletes.’

— Vanden head coach Sean Murphy

Nuñez-Smith was sevenfor-seven on point-after touchdown attempts.

Murphy was a junior center on the 1995 Vikings team that captured a Sac-Joaquin Section championship.

Vanden also won section crowns in 1984 and 1975. Murphy said this was a totally different experience.

“It’s much more nervewracking than it was being a player,” he said.

“It’s been a great journey for us since last spring.

We faced a lot of adversity, so we’re very proud of our student-athletes.”

East said winning a section championship

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(Nuñez-Smith kick) Fourth Quarter Van — East 13 pass from Dimes (Nuñez-Smith kick) Van — East 24 yard interception return for touchdown (NuñezSmith kick) Van — Davis 51 pass from Dimes (Nuñez-Smith kick) INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — Merced, Lee 13-58, Smith 8-51, Evans 4-50, Scheidt 20-35, Perez 1-3. Vanden, Davis 8-70, Fisherman 8-60, Chavez 3-15, Belk 2-12, NuñezSmith 1-(-11), Dimes 5-(-23).

Passing — Merced, Scheidt 18-37-3-194. Vanden, Dimes 15-23-1-311.

Receiving — Merced, Collins 3-79, Perez 4-51, Evans 5-41, Amos 3-14, Davis 2-9, Lee 1-0.

Vanden, Chavez 5-104, East 4-83, Belk 2-60, Davis 1-51, McLeod 1-7, Jackson-Davis 1-6, Clark 1-0.

had been on his mind for a long time.

“It feels really good.

It’s something I’ve dreamed about since my freshman year,” East said. “This is something.

This is amazing. This is an amazing feeling.

I love it.”

Murphy said the win, especially doing it with Hughes in mind, was meaningful to the school and the players.

“That was such a heart-wrenching loss for our program,” he said.

“He was a tremendous student-athlete, just a great human being that he was. We played all year for him.”

5-day forecast for Fairfield-Suisun City

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Vanden 49, Merced 21

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Regional forecast

Davis 67|45 Dixon Santa Rosa 67|46 70|47 Vacaville Napa 67|49 70|46 Fairfield/Suisun City 68|48 Vallejo Benicia 62|50 Rio Vista 67|50 66|45 Concord 68|47 Richmond 68|50 Walnut Creek 69|48 Oakland 70|50 San Francisco 68|52

Shown is today’s weather.

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

Source: U.S. Naval Observatory

From Page B7 Calgary, and Minnesota, four of the top nine teams in the NHL. They’ve also scored one goal or less in losses to Nashville, Montreal, Winnipeg, St. Louis, Washington, and Toronto on nights when they strayed from the blue-collar identity they’re trying to solidify.

“That’s what our goal was into the season is to try and outwork the other team every single night,” Couture said. “It’s all we can control. For the most part, I liked our efforts almost every day.”

Here’s a snapshot of each facet of the Sharks’ game at the quarter mark of the season.

OFFENSE — Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that without their leading point producer from last season in Kane, scoring is the Sharks’ biggest area of concern. Before Saturday’s games, the Sharks ranked 24th in the NHL with an average of 2.65 goals per game.

The top line of Couture, Timo Meier and Jonathan Dahlen has driven the bus from an offensive standpoint. Meier’s start has been especially impressive. After

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Wrestling

Armijo girls roll at Folsom tourney FAIRFIELD – Armijo High School had three wrestlers fare well Saturday at the Folsom Girls Invitational.

Karissa McDaniel went 4-0 with four falls for first place at 101 pounds. Ashlee Gutierrez was 3-1 at 131 pounds for second place. Grace Mercado went 4-1 for third place at 189 pounds.

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FAIRFIELD — Camryn Washington hit a go-ahead jump shot Friday with 32 seconds left as the Rodriguez High School girls basketball team held off Valley of Pleasant Chico, 43-41.

Rose Jamison led the Mustangs with 13 points. Brooklyn Giles had nine and Washington had seven. trailed Rodriguez 34-32 after three quarters but an 11-7 final period put the Mustangs over the top.

he had just 12 goals and 31 points in 54 games last season, he’s already up to seven goals and 18 points in 20 games this year.

Boughner has credited Meier for the work he’s doing in the defensive zone, for using his body and holding onto pucks.

All of that has helped him play at an all-star caliber level so far.

The Sharks, though, are likely going to need more consistency from their other lines to climb into a playoff position. They have several solid two-way forwards in their bottom nine group, but other than Tomas Hertl and perhaps Alexander Barabanov, not a ton of elite skill. The Sharks, overall, are getting more offense from Erik Karlsson, Brent Burns and Mario Ferraro right now than they were in the early stages of last season.

DEFENSE — The Sharks have a firmly established shutdown pair with Burns and Ferraro, who play the most and are usually tasked with the most difficult assignments each game. But, per Trick, Natural Stat they’ve been on the ice during 5-on-5 play often.