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Adaline Goldfarb looks up at a menorah filled with jelly beans during the Jelly Belly Hanukkah celebration, Sunday.

Jelly Belly celebration marks final night of Hanukkah Susan Hiland

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FAIRFIELD — The final night of Hanukkah was ushered in Sunday with illumination from a large jelly bean-filled menorah at Jelly Belly Candy Company. Jelly Belly for the past seven days has been filling the arms of the menorah with jelly beans and keeping the fire lit in honor of Hanukkah. This was the 12th Annual Hanukkah Winter Wonderland celebration at Jelly Belly. The purpose of Hanukkah, which is observed for eight nights and days, is a celebration of miracles. It commemorates the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire. It is observed by lighting a Hanukkah menorah, one additional candle each night. “Our jelly beans became

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Rabbi Chaim Zaklos, of Chabad of Solano County, lights the Jelly Belly menorah at the Hanukkah celebration, Sunday. kosher 12 years ago and we partnered with Rabbi Chaim Zaklos of Chabad of Solano County,” said John Jamison, vice president of retail operations for Jelly Belly. Jelly Belly since 2010 has been one of the eight places around the area to celebrate Hanukkah. Along with the lighting of the menorah was singing, entertainment from a juggler and a small

parade of cars with menorah lights on top. This year they had the Jelly Belly train decorated with Happy Hanukkah flags and it took visitors on a ride around the parking lot. Inside was a pop-up deli with food that included latfkus and sandwiches. Children got to decorate little edible menorahs and listen to singing. “Hanukkah means education,” Zaklos said. “We hope that by doing this with Jelly Belly, it is a good association for the children.” Zaklos said he thought it was wonderful to be together again after that past year of being apart. The 2020 Jelly Belly Hanukkah celebration was just three people to light the menorah, which was aired over YouTube and Facebook. “As human beings we are like candles: We need to share each other’s light,” Zaklos said. “It is fun,” said Susan Cohen See Jelly, Page A7

Artisans bring Olde Tyme Christmas Faire to life during seasonal celebration Jocelyne von Strong jocelyne.vonstrong@ mcnaughton.media

RIO VISTA — The 13th annual Olde Tyme Christmas Faire is a feast for the eyes. Local artisans from across Solano County congregate each year for this annual fundraiser for the Rio Vista Museum. Quilts, jewelry, baked goods, handmade cards and even a local author brought their wares this weekend for purchase during the two-day affair. The museum receives its income from booth sales, a bake sale and a prize drawing that takes place Sunday at the end of the event. If supporting local artisans is a goal, the Olde Tyme Christmas Faire is a great place to accomplish it. Jewelry, scented candles, local honey and beeswax

items, handmade Christmas ornaments, custom gifts and even succulent arrangements are available for purchase. If someone on your Christmas list is a bookworm, consider some of the titles from local author Peter Bradbury. He has a table this year with local thrillers, such as “A Killing in Rio Vista” and “Stone Dead in Rio Vista.” His books are also available on Audible. Nora Crane has been active in both the planning and operations since the reboot of the Olde Tyme Christmas Faire. “They used to hold something similar years ago, for about three years and then stopped for quite a few years and then they started it back up,” Crane said. “It was a different kind of fair then. They were doing live things, like spinning the wool and building

gingerbread houses.” When ask how the people can support the Rio Vista Museum, Crane has a ready answer: “Just join.” “We have envelopes inside and it’s easy to join,” she said. “We have a newsletter that goes out four times a year, a Hamburger Feed for members and an annual meeting

with a guest speaker – usually in January.” The museum has another fundraiser, the Mad Hatters Tea Party, that’s scheduled April 2. The Old Tyme Christmas Faire continues from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. To connect with the Rio Vista Museum, visit www.riovistamuseum.

Bob Dole, the World War II veteran who recovered from nearfatal wounds to become the U.S. Senate Republican leader and a three-time presidential candidate, has died. He was 98. Dole died Sunday morning in his sleep, according to a Twitter post by the Elizabeth Dole Foundation. He disclosed in February that he had state 4 lung cancer. Dole’s loss to Democrat Bill Clinton in the 1996 presidential election ended a political career that spanned more than four decades and took him from the legislature in Kansas to the innermost circles of power in Washington. Dole emerged on the INSIDE ‘Among the greatest of the Greatest Generation’: President Biden pays tribute to Dole. Page A7.

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Bob Dole, left, waves to the crowd alongside President Bill Clinton at the conclusion of their first debate, Oct. 6, 1996. national stage as Richard Nixon’s “Hatchet Man,” staunchly defending the president through the early stages of Watergate. He later evolved into an adept legislative deal-maker and softened his public image as half of one of Washington’s first celebrated “Power Couples,” after Ronald Reagan appointed his wife, Elizabeth, U.S. Transportation secretary. He was the only former GOP presidential nominee to See Dole, Page A7

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FAIRFIELD — A 10-hour closure of both eastbound and westbound Interstate 80 in Fairfield ended on time Sunday as crews reopened the freeway to traffic. I-80 was shut down in both directions for about 10 hours starting at 11 p.m. Saturday. The freeway was open again at 9 a.m. Sunday. Crews overseen by the state Department of Transportation removed the old Highway 12 to eastbound I-80 connector bridge. The work is part of the Interstate 80/Interstate 680/Highway 12 Interchange Project. Kiewit, of Fairfield, is the contractor on this portion of the project – with a price tag of $61 million – the second package in the seven-phase $740 million project. The current project is funded through a combination of the State Transportation Improvement Program, voter-approved Senate Bill 1 funding and

area bridge tolls, Caltrans reports. Pedro Quintana, spokesman for Caltrans District 4 in the Bay Area, said last week Caltrans is about halfway through what’s designated as Package 2A with about $40 million spent so far during this phase. The next step is designed to ease congestion as travelers will be able to use separate lanes to Green Valley Road or to Interstate 80 on the new connector. Right now there is a single lane. “We will be working on the permanent eastbound Highway 12 connector to I-80,” Quintana told the Daily Republic last week. The full phase is expected to be completed in the winter of 2022. The connector bridge that came down was 406 feet long and was built in 1967, Quintana said. Work on the full interchange project started in June 2014. DeSilva Gates Construction of Dublin was the contractor for the See Reopen, Page A7

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Rest in peace, Jerry Grant

gave up trying to write a the young married folk and Jerry funny column today and and his family were mainstays. decided to once more use this We would sing, pray, play games, space to talk about what is really share our food and share our lives. on my mind. Jerry Grant, a I remember one night at the friend whom I knew since the Friday Night Fellowship when it mid-1990s, died last week of was near Halloween. My daughter leukemia. Everyone who knew Kaci and I used to decorate our Jerry just loved the guy. He was front door with Halloween-themed chipper and would always be Tony Wade images. They were never graphic singing and whistling. The last laugh or scary or violent. I’m talkin’ Our running joke was when stuff like Count Chocula and he would be singing a song, I’d ask what Casper the Friendly Ghost. Anyway, I artist sings it. He knew that if he gave me remarked that as a kid we didn’t have the correct answer, my reply would be special “trunk or treat” church things “well, let them sing it,” so he would and wondered when that started. always say he originally did. Well, Jerry had an opinion on it that I I knew Jerry from the Fairfield did not share. I conceded that, yes, a lot Church of Christ on Fairfield Avenue. of people love to celebrate Halloween When we met, he and his wife Simone’s with scary and some may say demonic sons, Jeremy and Jordon, were little and imagery, but I asked him this question: at first I thought they were twins because What do most kids think of when you say Simone dressed them alike back then, the word “Halloween?” His reply was but Jeremy is a few years older. Jerry wasn’t a tall guy, but he had an oversized personality. I don’t know if I have met anyone else in my near six decades of life who loved to laugh as much as Jerry. Now, that’s saying something because, believe me, we Wades love to laugh. Jerry and I would always goodnaturedly clown each other and it was part of how we related. I have so many memories of Jerry that make me smile and laugh. The church used to host an annual family encampment at Sierra Bible Camp (which sadly was destroyed in a fire earlier Courtesy photo this year). One of the most fun Jerry Grant and Tony Wade at the Fairfield Church parts of camp was the fellas of Christ in 2013. playing a game in the pool we “monsters,” which I thought – and still called War Ball. War Ball was kinda like water polo, think – was ridiculous. The correct just much more violent. A bench would answer is candy, hands down. Anyway, be placed on either side of the shallow we argued the whole night and I still feel end of the pool and a milk crate would be bad about that because a woman from placed on top of it. The object was to use the church, Amelia, had come for the a volleyball to knock the crate off and first time that night and she score a point while the other team tried never returned. to stop you, using all the testosterone, Still, I never held a grudge or disliked muscle and grit they could. Jerry and I Jerry. It was just about impossible to do would be team captains and go at it full so. Yes, he sometimes irritated me and bore. He was not a big guy, but was vice-versa, but I loved that man. very strong. You see, he was one of those people Now, the powers that be got wind of who put his faith into practice. He gave our violent pool game and thought it hands and feet to what he believed. I wasn’t exactly the best look to have the can’t tell you how many times I went to game we were playing at a Christian some event and he was already there – family encampment to be War Ball. always doing something to help. I We concurred. remember at camp there were many Oh, we didn’t stop playing it. From times when he wasn’t the one assigned to then on we just called it “Family Ball.” I scrub the pots and pans at a certain retired as the undisputed, undefeated meal – and there were a lot and they heavyweight champion of War . . . er, were huge – but he would be back there Family Ball. washing away and singing his heart out Our competitive nature was a while doing it. defining characteristic of the relationJerry was not a fan of having his ship that Jerry and I enjoyed. We played personal information on the internet and board games, no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em he is one of the few people I have known poker (for chips and bragging rights, not for a long time who never caved to money), horseshoes – you name it, we getting a Facebook account. And yet I both came at each other wanting to win once told him that he may not have one, and then to boast of our victories. But it but he is definitely on Facebook. Over the was all in such good fun. years I have posted many pictures of him I used to run a men’s group at the there and when I learned he was gone, I church on Sunday mornings and it revisited them. Reliving the memories branched out into an annual men’s they evoked made me cry, made me retreat held in Somerset, which we laugh and made me grateful to called the Men’s Advance. It was at a have known him. place called Shenandoah West that had Rest in peace, Jerry. You will not cabins and acres of property. Jerry was be forgotten. always the fire-starter. Come to think of Fairfield freelance humor columnist and it, he was often both the literal firestarter as well as a figurative one. What I accidental local historian Tony Wade mean is, like me, he was opinionated so writes two weekly columns: “The Last we didn’t always see eye to eye and Laugh” on Mondays and “Back in the would bump heads and argue heatedly. Day” on Fridays. Wade is also the author For years my wife and I hosted a of The History Press book “Growing Up Friday Night Fellowship at our home for In Fairfield, California.”

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Mask making your glasses fog up in winter cold? These tips can help you see clearly Mike Stunson McClatchy Washington Bureau

As the weather gets colder and mask wearing continues as new Covid-19 variants emerge, those who wear glasses may face an unwelcome challenge. We’re talking about your eyeglasses fogging up. It’s a pesky problem many people face as they wear glasses and a mask, but there are ways to prevent it. Glasses fog when you breathe as warm air escapes through the top of a mask, landing on the cooler lenses, according to JJVision. com. The effect creates condensation and often occurs when wearing a face covering. Here’s what to do to prevent your glasses from fogging up this winter.

Anti-fog spray The first solution may be the most obvious, and there are plenty of antifog sprays on the market to help the issue. But which ones are the best? The New York Times had five people test various sprays on the market, and they determined Ultra Clarity’s Defog It is the best. A bottle that is good for up to 100 uses is available on Amazon for $15.99. Other publications, including Today.com, recommend the Optix 55 Anti-Fog Spray as

a “must-buy” during the pandemic. You can find a 2 oz. bottle for $9.55 on Amazon. The products are easy to use. You simply apply a small amount on both sides of your lenses, then gently wipe with a dry cloth.

Soap and water This may be the most tried-and-true method there is to prevent fog on your glasses, and it’s an easy solution. But if you use this method, make sure to not use use soaps with lotions in them, LookOptical. com said. Dish soap will work just fine. “Simply rub both sides of your lenses with a drop of soap, then buff the lenses with a soft microfiber cloth,” LookOptical. com said. “This effective trick helps prevent your lenses from fogging up as a transparent, thin film of soap acts as a barrier.” Make sure to check with your optician to make sure soap won’t ruin your lenses, Cleveland Clinic suggests.

Adjust or change your mask Maybe your mask is causing the problem, but there are quick ways to adjust it to make sure you stay protected and still see clearly. You can tape the top of your mask to the bridge

of your nose to create a snug fit, according to Healthline. Another one of the site’s suggestions is to seal the top of your mask with your glasses so that it creates a seal to block air. The problem may be that your mask does not fit well on your face, so purchasing the right kind of covering could go a long way. “You want to make sure your mask fits securely over the nose. With glasses, a mask with a nose bridge will keep warm air from exiting up to your glasses as opposed to other face coverings,” Dr. Aaron Hamilton with Cleveland Clinic said.

Adjust your glasses If your mask isn’t the issue, perhaps you should look into how you wear your glasses. Pushing your glasses forward on your nose can help air circulate better, according to University of Utah Health. For those of you who have nose pads on their glasses, those can be adjusted so they sit farther from your face, according to AllAboutVision.com. “This will allow that hot air to escape instead of getting trapped between your face and the lenses of the glasses,” optician Shannen Knight told the publication.

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Museum continues holiday season’s Santa Train Daily Republic Staff

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SUISUN CITY — Area resident may once again enjoy a ride on a historic electric railway and pay a visit to Santa each Saturday and Sunday through Dec. 19 at the Western Railway Museum. Children will be treated to various activity tables. Hot cocoa, marshmallows and cookies are included. Guests are encouraged to bring cameras for a family photo with Santa. Train times vary each day. The train station opens at 11:30 a.m. Trains run hourly, with the last train ride at 5 p.m. Each ticket is for an exact train time. Proper face coverings are required due to Covid-19. The Western Railway Museum is located at 5848 Highway 12, east of Suisun City. For more information, to include the cost of tickets, visitwww.wrm.org.

Land Trust opens sites for exploration The Solano Land Trust will open two sites Saturday for the community to experience the great outdoors. The offerings include: A nature hike from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space: Participants will have a chance to explore the hills between Suisun Valley and Green Valley and to see sweeping views of Solano County and beyond. Enjoy walking through the oak woodlands as the leaves are changing, and climb the hills to reach vistas of Solano County you won’t find anywhere else. The hike is classified as moderate to strenuous and covers 4 to 6 miles. The hike will be canceled if it’s raining. Meet at the big red “Ice House” building at the corner of Rockville and Suisun Valley roads. Advance registration is required. Register through the Solano Land Trust’s website at https:// s ol a nol a ndt r u s t .or g /. Select the Events tab and look for this event. A trail crew volunteer opportunity from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Lynch Canyon Open Space: Join the trail crew every second Saturday of the month in partnership with Solano County Parks to work on trails and projects at Lynch Canyon Open Space. Parking is $6 per vehicle, which goes to support Solano County Parks. Lynch Canyon is located at 3100 Lynch Road between Fairfield and Vallejo. Advance

for collection and disposal. This process typically takes about 90 minutes. The cemetery is located at 5810 Midway Road. Donations are accepted year-round. Checks may be sent to RememberAVet.net, PO Box 773, Winters, CA 95694. Call 707249-5852 for questions about the RememberAVet.net Wreath Project. Send an email to wreathAaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic file (2019) project@yahoo.com to Kristie Hagar shows Scarlett Dudka, 2, the scenery outside the window while riding the be added to the email group for regular Wreath Santa Train at the Western Railway Museum in Rio Vista, Dec. 21, 2019. Project updates and voln Solano Transpor- raises money and collects unteer opportunities as registration is required through the Solano Land tation Authority Board, donations with which to needed by the cemeTrust’s website at https:// 6 p.m. Wednesday, Suisun purchase enough boughs tery. Call 916-717-0738 for s ol a nol a ndt r u s t .or g /. City Hall, 701 Civic exclusively for the cem- additional information Select the Events tab and Center Blvd. Info: www. etery. The goal is to have about the event Dec. 18. one bough for each vetersta.ca.gov. look for this event. Advance reservations n Solano County an’s gravesite. There are several for each activity may Airport Land Use Comalso be made by phone mission, 7 p.m. Thursday, opportunities for volat 707-432-0150 or by 675 Texas St., Fairfield. unteer service hours during December and email to volunteer@solan- Info: solanocounty.com. The Saturday Club January and the public is is home Saturday to a olandtrust.org. invited to help. fashion show. Wreaths will be availChico’s and Whiteable from 8 a.m. to house/Black Market will 4 p.m. Monday through provide the fashions. The Mad Hatter fes- Friday at Grow West, The event begins at Benicia continues its tivities continue from 8751 Pedrick Road; from 11 a.m. and features lunch celebration of the holiday 2:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday with 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and and a no-host bar. Tickets season Saturday with a the Annual Grand Vic- Monday through Thurs- are $30 per person. PurChristmas Parade and torian Homes Tour and day at the Dixon Chamber chase from Pat Dennis by Holiday Market. associated activities, to of Commerce, 220 N. Jef- calling 707-455-0646. Events are scheduled include an after-party at ferson St.; and from 8 a.m. The clubto 4 p.m. Monday through house is located at from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Vino Godfather Winery. at Stocking 125 W. Kendal St. the city’s downtown area. For more infor- Friday For more information, mation about the Mad Real Estate, 7 E. Main call Benicia Main Street at Hatter holiday hap- St., Suite D. Volunteers are being 707-745-9791 or visit www. penings, visit www. sought to help with the beniciamainstreet.org. hattervallejo.com. mass placement Friday and Saturday. TeenagThe Solano County ers and adult volunteers Animal Shelter is one of will unload boxes from five regional shelters – trucks at 3 p.m. at the and among the more than A number of governA Brunch with cemetery. The process 220 shelters in 40 states ment meetings will occur Santa will occur from typically takes between and Canada – participatthis week. As always they 10 to 11:30 a.m. Satur- 60 and 90 minutes. Vol- ing in the “Empty the are open to the public. day, at Jelly Belly Candy unteers of all ages are Shelters – Holiday Hope” They include: Company with seating invited to help place program from Monday n Fairfield City at 9:45 a.m. 27,000 boughs beginning through Dec. 20. Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, The program is sponThis event is by res- at 8 a.m. Saturday. Once council chamber, City ervation only and spaces the placement is com- sored by the Bissell Pet Hall, 1000 Webster St. are limited. Tickets are pleted, volunteers with Foundation and includes Info: www.fairfield.ca.gov. available at www.jel- pickups will be needed to reduced adoption fees of n Vacaville Plan- lybelly.com. transport cardboard to $25 or less. ning Commission, “Shelters are overSanta is also making large trash receptacles 6 p.m. Tuesday, council appearances at Jelly Belly that are on-site. crowded and in desperate chamber, City Hall, throughout the month for Placement and cleanup need of support due to 650 Merchant St. Info: photos. His schedule is on were completed within slowed adoption rates and www.ci.vacaville.ca.us. two hours last year. increased length of stay the website. n Rio Vista City The placement will for pets,” Cathy Bissell, Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, take place rain or shine. who founded the Pet City Council Chamber, Phase 2 involves vol- Foundation in 2011, said City Hall, One Main unteers placing about in a statement. “With so St. Info: www.riovistacity. 1,100 wreaths from many people seeking to com/city-council/. Wreaths Across add pets to their family n Solano County America starting at around this time of year, Plans are taking shape 9 a.m. Dec. 18. All ages our ‘Empty the ShelBoard of Education, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Solano for the annual holiday are welcome. Finally, ters – Holiday Hope’ event County Office of Educa- bough and wreath place- volunteers are needed is the perfect opportunity tion, 5100 Business Center ments at the Sacramento starting at 7:30 a.m. to make a difference in Drive, Fairfield. Info: Valley National Cemetery. Jan. 15 to move the boughs your community by saving www.solanocoe.net. The Wreath Project and wreaths to the street a life and creating space

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Obituary

Gerald Robert Davis

June 28, 1935 — Oct. 27, 2021

Gerald Robert Davis passed away after a long illness at the age of 86. Jerry was born on June 28, 1935, in Walla Walla, Washington, to Henry and Thelma Davis. Jerry attended Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, graduating with a BA in Political Science in 1958. From there he served in the United States Army as 2nd Lieutenant, advanced to Captain and served in the Army Reserves. After receiving a master’s degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, he married Linda Kiley, a physical therapist. They relocated to Vallejo, where he began his career as the administrative assistant to the city

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manager. He was promoted to assistant city manager in 1966. In 1971, he accepted the position of city manager of Fridley, Minnesota. They returned to Vallejo in 1973 when he became the city manager of Vallejo. Jerry became a real estate broker in 1978, and in 1983 Jerry and Linda opened a real estate office, Davis & Associates. He served as the interim city manager of Woodland, Waterford and Fairfield. He was a member of the International City/ County Management Association, Solano and California Association of Realtors, and Solano/Napa Rental Housing Association. He was president and coach of the Vallejo PAL Soccer League. He also served as President of Green Valley Country Club, SIRS, Vallejo Jaycees, and

served two terms on the Vallejo City Council. After being widowed, Jerry met and married Kathy Adair, a retired teacher. He was an avid golfer, enjoying five holes-in-one and was a club champion at Green Valley. Jerry is survived by his wife, Kathy Adair Davis; daughter, Julie Davis (Rachel Trusty); son, Michael (Meriah); granddaughters, Jessica Davis, Alison Wagner, Michelle

Davis, Sky Ozols; grandsons, Thomas Wagner and Eli Ozols; cousin, Kerry Moquett; stepdaughter, Michelle Kenner (Lon McPherson); stepgranddaughter, Katherine Kenner; stepgrandson, Robert Kenner (Stacy); and four great-grandchildren, Brooks Wagner, Kylee Kenner, Emma Kenner and Brayden Kenner. His first wife, Linda Kiley Davis; his parents, Henry and Thelma Davis; his grandson, John Ryan Davis;

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and his daughter-in-law, Janet Davis, preceded him in death. A Celebration of Life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Green Valley Country Club, 35 Country Club Drive, Fairfield, California. In lieu of flowers, please

to give another homeless pet a chance.” “Empty the Shelters” has helped 67,758 pets find homes since its inception in 2016, according to the statement. For more information on the Solano County Animal Shelter, go to https://tinyurl. com/5b2hwf24. A map of participating shelters can be found at www. bissellpetfoundation.org/ empty-the-shelters/.

Jazz Society sets stage for Christmas Show The Vaca Jazz Society presents the 30th annual AMO Christmas Show, “Home for Christmas,” at 7 p.m. Friday at Valley Church, 5063 Maple Road. The show will incorporate traditional sing-along carols and popular Christmas songs made famous by a host of celebrity singers such as Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, Nat King Cole and more and is meant to remind people that the holidays are a season of peace, family and the miraculous birth of Christ, says Keith Stout, a trumpeter and AMO’s founder. Guests will enjoy AMO’s big band vocalist, the Rev. Frank Salamone of Dixon Cornerstone Church, vocalist Leah Walker, Brette Stout and local musicians performing memorable popular Christmas songs, as well as feature AMO’s new renowned director, jazz saxophonist Ken Stout, as well as former AMO director/ trumpeter, twin brother Keith Stout. As it has in past years, the AMO show incorporates an American tradition originally founded by Bob Hope’s USO Christmas tours overseas, honoring and entertaining our troops. The show will recognize AMO musicians, vocalists, actors and support staff who serve or have served the community for many years. AMO will pay special tribute to the late Vaca Jazz Society’s founding board members, the Vacaville Jazz Society’s godfather and banjo player, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Don Kidder, and the society’s Military Tribute liaison and jazz drummer, retired Lt. Col. Nick U’ren. AMO will accept love offering donations at the end of the program. Proceeds support the Vaca Society’s Youth Jazz Music Camps. For information, visit www.VacaJazzSociety.org.

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Found out about husband’s affair when he invited her to our house each other. Dear Annie: My We are in therapy husband of 19 years now, trying to repair the had an office gathering damage my husband at our home in midhas caused. August. He has been When confronting at his job for 18 years the lady who tried to and switched departcome between us, she ments four years ago. stated that she wanted I had never met any to do with the of the current team Annie Lane nothing drama in our house. I members due to my Dear Annie asked her why she was work schedule. calling my husband by One of his teamterms of endearment. mates, when introduced to me, My husband’s friend used grunted when she met me. My to date this lady. I did reach heart sank. out to him and discovered that As I worked my way around she has a long history of drinkthe room getting to know each one on an individual basis, I ing and rehab. It’s so sad that reminded this lady that I had women chase married men waited on her at my part-time like it’s a game and a goal to job. She told me she was aware wreck marriages. of the encounter because my I would like your husband told her that I had sold thoughts. — Brokenhearted in her cigarettes. However, I had South Dakota asked my husband before the Dear Brokenhearted: My party if he had said anything, thoughts are with you. I am so and he said no. So he lied to me. sorry that your husband lied to After the party, I went you about his relationship with through his phone, computer another woman. But instead of and phone bills. I discovered blaming her, why not channel lots of private contact at all all that anger and frustration hours of the day and night. In into your couples therapy sesmy mind, they basically were sions? He was the one who was having an affair. married, not her. It takes two The messages were pet to tango, and blaming her for names such as “baby boo,” chasing after your husband is “sugar britches” and “good not the answer. The real answer morning, sunshine.” Worse yet, is to get to the root of the they told each other they loved problem in your relationship,

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Plans are vulnerable to getting foiled by the smallest mistakes, such as a typo or misheard instruction. Double-check times, dates and addresses. Make sure everyone is on the same page. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Emotional highs can verge on unbearable. Of course, no one likes to feel terribly low. But to have access to an emotional range is a gift. It opens possibilities that are not an option for those who feel nothing. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The obstacles of the day are not big, dull boulders. They are living decision-makers, susceptible to influence, responsive to persuasion, yielding to stern resolve. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’re growing wise. Wisdom is different from knowledge in that it doesn’t come from knowing more but from learning more, especially from everyday people and environments. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). This is not a melodrama with a villain, a hero and someone who needs saving. This is a comedy. Everyone has those three archetypes inside them as they play nuanced and complex roles. The plot is still anyone’s guess. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The situation will pique your curiosity and challenge your

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to understand why he wanted to stray in the first place. Or to understand that your husband is a cheating scoundrel – and move on. While it is easier to blame a person you barely know who is trying to ruin your marriage, the person you really know is your husband. Save your blame for him and see how, and if, you can repair your marriage. Dear Annie: The woman who wrote to you to say that she became friends with the ex-wife was very lucky. I tried so hard and was shut out. At one point, I wrote her a letter about everything we had in common, including loving the kids, and she threatened to sue me for harassment. The kids would have benefited from our being in partnership for their welfare, if for no other reason. — Sad in Lakewood Dear Sad in Lakewood: We cannot control other people’s reactions to what we do, but we can control how we treat them. For the sake of the kids, it is always better for them to see their families get along rather than having them see exes fight and not get along. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday Perhaps you do it for you; you’ve a knack for creating just the sort of joy you want to experience. But the outcome touches many. In fact, you’re considered an angel of orchestration and will be rewarded for it. Your love and contribution produce the kind of light that’s optically undetected; hearts see what the eyes cannot. Virgo and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 29, 1, 19 and 7.

beliefs. That’s just the beginning. You’ll gladly go through the trouble of taking this on, though, because there’s something bigger at stake – something worth the risk. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). No external measure of success is worthy of your pursuit because true success isn’t external. However, the goals you set will give you a focus that will help you grow internal resources and forge stronger character. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You don’t have to learn to be more satisfied with what you have. It comes naturally as you seek what you’re attracted to and then revel in the experi-

ence of understanding it better. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). You’ve been trying to make something happen for a while and your attempts have gotten you nowhere. Paradoxically, once you stop trying to change, a change will occur. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Your wide emotional range corresponds to the wide range of actions you are capable of. You wouldn’t want to ignore a feeling because that would mean ignoring the action it might inspire. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Talk about a situation and it suddenly feels manageable. If you can put words to it, you’ll find that you can also put into motion a number of possible solutions. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your social life is becoming more excellent as you honor others and are honored by them. The measure of relationships is not in the number of them but in their richness. CELEBRITY PROFILES: “I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met,” says the mind-bending comedian Steven Wright. This avant-garde humor springs from a Sagittarian born when Mercury was also in the open, curious, independently thinking station of Sagittarius. Wright also has natal Uranus and Pluto both in the entertaining sign of Leo.

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by Phillip Alder today’s deal, where East-West are trying to defeat two spades after a predictable auction? West led the heart king and continued the suit when partner encouraged. East took trick two and led his other high heart, which South ruffed with his spade eight. West overruffed and shifted to the diamond jack, ducked to East’s king. East tried another heart, but South ruffed with his spade seven, played a spade to the jack, returned to his hand, drew trumps and had the rest of the tricks with the diamonds 3-3. The contract had been made with an overtrick for a 93.3% board. West could have saved the overtrick and some 20% by not overruffing at trick three. In general, if you have a high trump honor that will always win a trick with some length in the suit, don’t overruff. East missed a much harder defense. He could have defeated the contract if he had shifted to his club at trick three. Suppose declarer wins on the board and runs the spade jack. West takes that trick and gives his partner a club ruff. Now East leads his remaining high heart. South can ruff and draw trumps, but then he has no spades left. When East gets in with the diamond king, he can cash hearts. That would have given East-West an 80.0% score. COPYRIGHT: 2021, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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Finally, good riddance to state Capitol’s ugly annex Pre-World War II photos of California’s Capitol depict a cylindrical appendage on the building’s eastern façade. Dubbed “the apse,” for many decades, it housed the California Supreme Court and the State Library, but the court decamped in 1923 for San Francisco. The apse was destroyed in 1949 to make way for a rectangular – and downright ugly – annex that would give the governor and other state officials more office space, provide legislators with personal offices for the first time and give the politicians convenient parking in an underground garage. The annex got its own annex, albeit temporarily, in the late Dan Walters 1970s while the 19th century Capitol itself was gutted, its walls were propped up by immense steel columns and an entirely new structure was built inside the shell. Four decades later, the nearly 70-year-old annex will soon be demolished and replaced by a newer and hopefully more aesthetically pleasing structure. The Legislature is spending more than a billion dollars on the project, roughly 12 times what it spent on reconstruction of the Capitol. Naturally, the project has its critics, due to its hefty price tag, which could double if the Legislature uses borrowed money, displaces trees in the adjacent Capitol Park and builds a new underground garage. An organization called “Save Our Capitol” contends that the existing annex could be satisfactorily upgraded at a much lower cost and with much less damage to the park. However, it appears that the project will go through since the Legislature is, in effect, exempt from following the procedures that big construction projects usually must endure. Legislators and officials are moving into temporary quarters nearby while construction is underway. The critics make valid points, particularly about the project’s costs and impacts on Capitol Park, but no one who works in and around the Capitol will be sorry to see the annex disappear. It is not only plug ugly – 1950s brutalist architecture at its worst – but dysfunctional to the max. There’s no logic to where and how offices are located, its floors don’t match up with those of the Capitol itself and its denizens must figure out how to use the back stairways to get around. Some office suites are large and some are tiny. Who winds up where is often a matter of internal politics, with those most out of favor consigned to micro-alcoves on the top floor. After 46 years of tramping through its hallways, the only good thing I can say about the annex is that it was the locale for some memorable vignettes, ranging from verbal jousting with governors and other figures in Room 1190, the ground floor auditorium used for news conferences, to clashes on contentious legislation. One example from four decades ago: thenGov. Jerry Brown’s effort to win approval for a “peripheral canal” to carry water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta hinged late one night on a Senate committee vote in the annex’s tiniest hearing room and one senator from Los Angeles who was a notorious drunk. A lobbyist for the City of Los Angeles was assigned to babysit the senator, but could guard only one of the hearing room’s two doors and the legislator suddenly bolted out of the room. The lobbyist chased him down to a bar across the street from the Capitol, let him have a drink or two to settle his nerves and then herded him back to the Capitol to cast the deciding vote for the canal. If the soon-to-crumble annex walls could talk, they could tell many such stories. CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more columns by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/commentary.

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End Game, Part II: My final predictions

Ohio: Also roughly equally oday I complete my prediction of the ending divided; 13 of the 15 disof democracy in the tricts will certainly return world’s premier democRepublicans. racy, something with North Carolina: There worldwide and historic sigwill now be only one comnificance. My next piece petitive district. Of the other will be lighter, I promise. 13 districts, 10 will be RepubTo repeat my last column: lican – guaranteed. many Republican state legGeorgia: Of their 14 disJack Batson islatures are now stealing tricts, nine will certainly be future elections – legally. By making Republican. voting more difficult for minorities – Utah: In the last election, Joe voter suppression – they gain enough Biden won Salt Lake County. Now advantage to ensure victory. that district is gone, absorbed by the Second, extreme gerrymandering surrounding Republican districts. redraws voting districts by dividing In those districts – usually cities – Democratic districts into new disthe minority population may as well tricts with Republican majorities. not vote for 10 years. There’s no Of course, when one party does it, chance of winning. the other follows. The Democrats in Finally, the election apparatus New York and Illinois are doing the within swing states is being attacked. same, but the overall numbers favor Democratic poll workers and superRepublicans because there are more visors are being replaced with states with Republican state legis“apparatchiks” (partisan Republican latures. This has dire implications operatives). nationwide. Pretending to ensure “voter integHere are the clearest cases so far: rity,” elections will now be less so. Texas: Now, only one conWhat hypocrisy! gressional district is competitive Threats are also common, which rather than 12. brings us to the most chilling part of Wisconsin: It has some of the most all this: the growing acceptance of radical Republicans in the nation. violence by the GOP. To take “politics” out of running Rep. Paul Gosar made a video its elections, its legislature created of himself assassinating Rep. Alexan Election Commission five years andria Ocasio-Cortez. The House ago made up of equal numbers from Democrats voted to censure him, but both parties. Republicans are now only two Republicans saw anything demanding that the commission wrong at all. be abolished and the state legislaRep. Lauren Boebert wants to ture – dominated by Republicans – be bring pistols into official sessions substituted to run elections. Sen. Ron of the House. Johnson is also suggesting that the Democrats are being dehuDemocratic commission members manized. Sen. Ted Cruz recently be arrested. declared, “The left hates America.” Wisconsin: The state has roughly Sen. Josh Hawley thinks that the equal numbers from both parties. But Democrats’ “grand ambition is to after a radical gerrymander, 75% of deconstruct [unbuild?] the U.S.” its congressional representatives will The Republican Party has become be Republican. a party of anti-democratic extrem-

ists, making a mockery of “the world’s greatest democracy.” What is the Democratic Party doing about these existential threats? Just normal governing. They’re rebuilding the county’s infrastructure, overcoming the threat of the pandemic, helping the working class and children, lowering drug prices, while the Republicans fight each initiative. Conservatives complain that President Joe Biden isn’t doing enough to end the pandemic while they fight vaccine mandates. More hypocrisy. When the “bipartisan” infrastructure bill was voted on in the House, 11 Republicans put their lives in danger by voting for it. They’re now being threatened, including with physical violence. And the Democrats are caught in a perfect political torture. Since they have only a one-vote majority in the Senate, every Democratic senator potentially has veto power to kill the entire Democratic plan with his/her vote. The two bills that would stop all the gerrymandering and voter suppression – the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement bill and the Freedom to Vote bill – are stopped by two conservative Democratic senators, Kyrstin Sinema and Joe Manchin, both of whom have economic incentives. If Democrats pressure them, they might vote against the Democratic Build Back Better infrastructure bill, too. Perfect torture, including the loss of democracy in the U.S. As in the period surrounding the Civil War, one party is trying to end democracy. I doubt that the Democrats are up to stopping it. Jack Batson is a former member of the Fairfield City Council. Reach him by email at jsbatson@prodigy.net.

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Here’s more facts to combat misinformation

for respirators. The Trump his first bit is reprinted from the first The administration did not act. Right Stuff column Thousands of New Yorkers from April 21, 2014. and other Americans died.” “The Right Stuff will be The allegation further stated a series of topical columns that the administration’s to promote thought and failure to act was deliberate ensure accuracy within politbecause ”they were focused ical campaigns and issues. on the upcoming election.” The Founders of this nation The facts differ. Earl Heal debated whether the citizens n Dec. 31, 2019: China were adequately educated to remain reported the coronavirus to the World a republic. Obviously, they were and Health Organization. The administradid preserve the republic. Foreign tion’s actions followed. diplomats wrote stories of the impresn Jan. 6, 2020: Travel notice for sive knowledge that average citizens Wuhan issued. had about local government. Today’s n Jan. 7, 2020: Management world has changed. system established to respond to the “Our objective is to promote inter- situation. est among voters to separate fact n Jan. 17, 2020: Health entry from opinion from fiction. It is time screening commenced on flights for voters to demand representatives arriving from China at San Francisco to promote the founding princiInternational Airport, New York’s ples of our country at every level of John F. Kennedy International government.” Airport and at Los Angeles InternaToday’s column is No. 389 since tional Airport. the above policy was published. n Jan. 23, 2020: The Centers for Believing facts would overcome Disease Control and Prevention misinformation, we have prosought FDA emergency authorization moted founding principles and only for new coronavirus testing. responded to local misinformed n Ja.n 31, 2020: Travel restrictions writers in three columns. However, were implemented. (A list of specific a recent recitation of opposing party administration actions were identified misinformation demonstrates that through March 31, 2020.) The Right Stuff has not been sucWhen the need for ventilators was cessful in convincing all readers to made known, President Trump, in search for truth. accordance with the Defense ProRepeating any politician’s stateduction Act, directed appropriate ments without cross-checking other manufacturers to start producing. sources does not meet the definiBy March 25, 2020, 4,000 ventilation of lying because that requires tors were delivered to New York and the speaker to know the statement is he announced that 100,000 ventilauntrue, but it does demonstrate very tors would be produced in 100 days. poor judgment. By March 30, 2020, the Army had The writer’s allegation was that built a 2,900-bed hospital in New New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo York and two Navy hospital ships with 1,000 beds each were in place in “begged the federal government

New York and Los Angeles. Stupidly, less than 20 of the 3,900 military beds in New York were used while Covidinfected patients were co-mingled into nursing homes by direction of Cuomo, with terrible results. The first public indication of Democratic Party awareness of the approaching pandemic was Jan. 31, 2020, when the media and several senior representatives, including Joe Biden, objected to President Trump’s embargo of air travel from China as xenophobic. Another example of stinking thinking is the hullabaloo over hydroxychloroquine, a drug for prophylaxis against malaria and the treatment of various autoimmune disorders. Before appropriate data were available, its use was ballyhooed sufficiently to be given emergency use authorization by the FDA. The best antidote to anecdote is the doubleblind placebo-controlled clinical trial. They unequivocally showed the drug had no role in prevention at any stage of the disease from asymptomatic to critical illness. Pro and con reports were published but failed to meet testing standards. The FDA emergency use authorization was revoked. Life experiences and Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story” teaches one to learn both sides of any story. Listening to Fox, One America News, MSNBC and CNN does that so the listener can decide the truth. Progressive followers of listening only to one view of a story faithfully believe that view and display their ignorance. Earl Heal is a retired Air Force officer, former airline pilot and member of the Solano County Central Committee. Contact him at healearlniki@att.net.

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‘Among the greatest Dole of the Greatest Generation’: President Biden pays tribute to Dole

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Tribune Content Agency President Joe Biden offered a heartfelt tribute Sunday to his former Senate colleague Bob Dole after the Kansas Republican icon passed away at 98. Biden had visited Dole at his residence in Washington in February after the former Senate majority leader’s stage IV cancer diagnosis was announced. Biden, whose son Beau Biden also died of cancer, reflected on the visit and their long friendship in a statement. “A month after being sworn in as president, one of the first conversations I had with anyone outside the White House was with our dear friends, Bob and Elizabeth Dole, at their home in Washington,” Biden said. “Bob had recently been diagnosed with lung cancer, and I was there to offer the same support, love, and encouragement that they showed me and Jill when our son Beau battled cancer, and that the Doles have shown us over the half century we’ve been friends.” Biden and first lady Jill Biden spoke Sunday with Elizabeth Dole, the Kansas senator’s widow who also served a term in chamber alongside Biden, to express their their condolences after her husband’s passing. Bob Dole was four years into his first Senate term when Biden first joined the chamber in 1973. The two developed a cross-aisle friendship as Dole, a Republican, represented Kansas and Biden, a Democrat, represented Delaware. “In the Senate, though we often disagreed, he never hesitated to

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work with me or other Democrats when it mattered most. He and Ted Kennedy came together to turn Bob’s lifelong cause into the Americans with Disabilities Act – granting tens of millions of Americans lives of greater dignity. On the Social Security Commission, he led a bipartisan effort with Pat Moynihan to ensure that every American could grow old with their basic dignity intact,” Biden recalled. “When he managed the bill to create a federal holiday in the name of Martin Luther King, Jr. – a bill that many in his own caucus opposed – I will never forget what he said to our colleagues: ‘No firstclass democracy can treat people like second-class citizens.’” Dole forcefully rejected the conspiracy theories about the 2020 election promoted by fellow Republican Donald Trump when the former president and allies sought to undermine Biden’s victory in the presidential race last year. “The election is over and Biden will be president on January 20,” Dole told The Kansas City Star in December 2020. “He’s a friend of mine and he was a good chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate,” Dole said of Biden at the time. “He did a good job. Proud to be a liberal – hopefully not too liberal – but he knows how the government works and the Congress works and all this will be a benefit to Joe.” Roughly a year later, Biden offered high praise for Dole’s political legacy, his friendship and importance in U.S. history.

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endorse Trump in the 2016 election. He was a conservative who sometimes wasn’t conservative enough as Christian evangelicals wielded greater power in Republican politics; a quipster with an acid tongue who ended up making light of his role as pitchman for an impotence drug; and a man who enjoyed the idea that his wife might outdo him in politics. Tom Daschle, the South Dakota Democrat who faced off with Dole when they led their parties in the Senate, said in a 2000 tribute that Dole’s “sense of fairness and decency is a standard for which everyone in public life should aim.” Dole struggled to translate his proven skill at Washington’s inside game into success on the most important national political stage. He lost bids for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, to Reagan, and 1988, to George H.W. Bush. He finally won his party’s support in 1996, only to fall short of defeating Clinton, the incumbent. “No one aspires to be a defeated presidential candidate,” Dole wrote in a column for The Washington Post published in September 2012.

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Bob Dole, who led Senate Republicans for more than a decade and won his party’s presidential nomination in 1996, died Sunday at age 98. in his fingers to keep them from splaying. Friends knew, when greeting Dole with a handshake, to reach out their left hands.

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During his final race in 1996, trailing in the polls, Dole took the dramatic step of resigning the Senate seat he had held for more than 27 years. “I will then stand before you without office or authority, a private citizen, a Kansan, an American, just a man,” he said in announcing his decision in May 1996. As with many senators who seek the White House, Dole found that his long record of votes on legislation offered grist for his opponents. So did the 23-year age difference with the younger Clinton. Dole made a 15% cut in individual income taxes his centerpiece campaign proposal and tried to energize economic conservatives by picking former Representative Jack Kemp as his running mate. Dole won 19 states and 40.7% of the vote. Ross Perot, running as the nominee of the Reform Party, won 8.4%. Clinton won with 49.2%.

The wound and fouryear recovery left Dole “determined to make up the loss by living each day as if it were my last,” he wrote in a 1988 book coauthored with his wife. In his 2012 column, Dole reported that, at 89, he still answered every letter he received from military veterans with unmet needs — “to the dismay of staffers trying to decipher my spidery handwriting.” “Most days I’m on the phone congratulating a vet on his birthday or encouraging returning soldiers whose wounds are emotional as well as physical,” Dole wrote. “I thank them for their service and, where appropriate, share my experiences as evidence that the only limits to one’s usefulness are self-imposed.” Robert Joseph Dole was born July 22, 1923, in the farm town of Russell, Kansas, the son of Doran and Bina Dole. His father ran a small restaurant, then worked at a creamery and later at a grain elevator. His mother sold sewing machines.

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Becoming Republican

Some saw Dole as his own worst enemy. “On the stump he seemed like a man caught in a 1983 applauseline factory,” Peggy Noonan, the author and former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, wrote in Time magazine after the election. “He never thought aloud in his speeches, never offered the sustained and layered argument that precedes the applause line. He just declared things – And there’ll be no more crime in a Dole administration! – and waited for people to clap as he cleared his throat.” Some of his political drive stemmed from the wound he received on April 14, 1945, while serving as a second lieutenant with the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division in Italy. A German shell or bullet – he never knew for sure – struck him in the back, near his right shoulder. “For a long moment, I didn’t know if I was dead or alive,” he wrote in “One Soldier’s Story,” his 2005 memoir. His collarbone and right arm had been broken, his spinal cord damaged. He lost the use of his right hand, a disability he tried to make less conspicuous by putting rolled-up paper or a pen

Dole was a sophomore at Kansas University when Pearl Harbor was attacked in December 1941, and he joined the Army a year later. He later obtained his undergraduate and law degrees from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. He made his first foray into politics in 1950, winning election to the Kansas House of Representatives at 27. He ran as a Republican because they outnumbered Democrats in the state. “I became a Republican, pragmatically at first, and then philosophically later on,” he wrote. By then, Dole had married Phyllis Holden, an occupational therapist he had met while recovering from his wounds. Their daughter, Robin, was born in 1954. In 1952, he was elected Russell County attorney, a job he held until he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1960. Dole easily won election to the Senate in 1968, succeeding Republican Frank Carlson. Dole’s rise was helped by President Richard Nixon, who named him chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1971. Dole honed his skills as political brawler with a fierce defense of Nixon, sometimes

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upbraiding other Republicans when he felt their support was wavering. He attacked the Washington Post’s early reporting on the Watergate break-in as “mudslinging.”

‘Hatchet man’ Republican Senator William Saxbe of Ohio applied the term “hatchet man” to Dole, saying he was so unpopular in the Senate “he couldn’t sell beer on a troop ship.” Dole’s relationship with Nixon became strained, and after winning reelection in 1972, Nixon dumped Dole as chairman. The move may have saved Dole’s career. When the Watergate scandal broke, he was in the clear. Dole won his 1974 reelection with 51% of the vote. Dole nonetheless considered Nixon a mentor even after the former president’s disgrace. He wept during a eulogy he delivered at Nixon’s funeral. While Dole’s political career was on the rise, his marriage was failing, and in 1972 it ended in divorce. He met Elizabeth Hanford, then a staff member of the President’s Commission on Consumer Interests, and they married in 1975. The marriage gave Dole fodder for his humor. When President Reagan nominated Elizabeth to be Transportation secretary, Dole testified at her confirmation hearing: “I regret that I have but one wife to give for my country’s infrastructure.”

Dirty work President Gerald Ford picked Dole as his vice presidential running mate in 1976. Tasked with doing the campaign dirty work, Dole succeeded all too well. During a televised debate with Sen. Walter Mondale of Minnesota, the Democratic candidate for vice president, Dole claimed that 1.6 million Americans had been killed or wounded in “Democrat wars” of the 20th century. Mondale shot back, “I think Senator Dole has richly earned his reputation as a hatchet man tonight.” Jimmy Carter and Mondale defeated the Ford-Dole ticket by 2 percentage points in the popular vote. In 1980, Dole ran for the top spot on the ticket and barely registered in the Republican primaries. Reagan won, and went on to unseat Carter. As a senator, Dole built a conservative voting record, though he wouldn’t hesitate to deviate from the party line to achieve compromises. In 1982, as federal def-

icits rose and Reagan proposed massive spending reductions, Dole led a successful effort to overhaul the tax system and roll back some of Reagan’s cuts. He once said his greatest accomplishment was working with Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan and others in 1983 to save the Social Security program from looming insolvency. Dole won election as Senate Republican leader in 1984, a position he would hold for almost 11 years, a party record until Mitch McConnell surpassed his tenure.

Bush contest In 1988, he again pursued his party’s presidential nomination, in a bitter race with Bush. On primary night in New Hampshire, as Bush was rolling to victory, Dole lashed out when asked on NBC television if he had anything to say to Bush. “Yeah. Stop lying about my record,” he said. Dole’s campaign unraveled, and he dropped out a month later. With Bush in the White House and Dole as the Senate Republican leader, the two men developed a friendly working relationship. Dole “never, ever put his own personal agenda ahead of the president’s,” Bush later said.

Health care With Clinton in the White House starting in 1993, Dole played a far different role, helping lead his party’s effort to scuttle the Democrats’ proposed overhaul of the U.S. health care system. Dole was almost as visible in retirement as in the Senate. After surgery for prostate cancer, he did television commercials for Viagra, Pfizer Inc.’s pill to treat impotence. He spoke publicly of his experience, urging men to get checkups. He also led the effort to raise funds to build the World War II Memorial in Washington. His wife’s campaign for the presidency in 2000 faltered quickly due to difficulties raising money. In 1997, Clinton awarded Dole the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2003, the University of Kansas dedicated the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. “I liked Dole,” Clinton wrote in his memoir. “He could be mean and tough in a fight, but he lacked the fanaticism and hunger for personal destruction that characterized so many of the hard-right Republicans who now dominated his party in Washington.”

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Coronavirus vaccine demand grows in U.S. amid omicron variant concerns Annabelle Timsit The Washington Post

Demand for coronavirus vaccines has spiked in the United States in recent weeks, as more Americans are eligible for booster shots and concerns grow over the omicron variant. Health-care providers administered 2.18 million doses of coronavirus vaccines on Thursday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - the “highest single-day total since May,” the White House said. According to the latest CDC report, over the week ending on Thursday, the average number of daily administered vaccine doses reported to the agency was 22 percent higher than the previous week. Since omicron was first confirmed in southern Africa on Nov. 25, and soon after listed as a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization, the Biden administration has been urging as many Americans as possible to get booster shots as the best means to protect themselves against it. All U.S. adults became eligible for boosters on November 19. For most of October, fewer than or slightly over 1 million doses of coronavirus vaccines were reported to the CDC as being administered every day in the United States. By mid-November, those numbers hovered around 1.5 million on average. In the past three reporting days, they neared or exceeded 2 million. Much is still unknown

about omicron, against which some scientists and vaccine makers predict existing vaccines may not be as effective, but the new variant and “the idea that we have a virus that may evade two shots but that three shots are likely to be pretty protective, I think, has also gotten a lot of people much more focused on getting a booster,” says Ashish K. Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. The increased demand for coronavirus vaccines is largely driven by demand for booster doses, CDC data shows. White House covid-19 data director Cyrus Shahpar, calling out the booster numbers, cited the spread of omicron in a tweet, saying the country needs “to keep this up.” The timeline for increased vaccine uptake precedes omicron and the adult booster expansion: Millions of children between the ages of 5 and 11 became eligible for a pediatric dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Nov. 2. But omicron “may be the ‘boost’ to help the unvaccinated and the newly eligible to get motivated and vaccinated quickly,” said Scott Ratzan, a health communication expert at CUNY School of Public Health, in an email to The Washington Post. Increased interest in vaccines can be attributed in part to clearer, concerted messaging around boosters coming from public health agencies, Jha said. There now exists “a broad consensus” among experts, he added,

that boosters are needed, and “that’s helping a lot.” While the uptake in booster doses is encouraging, “I am not seeing a ton of progress among (unvaccinated) adults who have been eligible for a long time,” Jha said. “A lot of people in America are relying on infectioninduced immunity to get them through the rest of this pandemic, and I think omicron is going to test that in a way that nothing else has. I’m worried we’re going to see a lot of those people who’ve previously been infected and recovered get reinfected and potentially very sick.” The first U.S. case of omicron was identified in California on Dec. 1, and cases have since been reported in at least 15 U.S. states, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told ABC News Sunday. The delta variant, not omicron, accounts for the large majority of U.S. coronavirus cases at this stage, she said. The CDC notes that its reported numbers are estimates that are subject to change and may contain duplicates, “over-estimates of first doses and under-estimates of subsequent doses.” The White House has also urged Americans to get vaccinated ahead of the holiday season, when families usually gather indoors. After the omicron variant was first identified in the United States, the CDC said its emergence highlighted the importance of vaccination and other public health measures. “Every-

one 5 and older should get vaccinated and boosters are recommended for everyone 18 years and older,” the agency said in a statement. Members of the White House coronavirus response team expressed confidence at a news briefing Friday that existing coronavirus vaccines would confer a measure of protection against the newly identified variant. “Although we haven’t proven it yet, there’s every reason to believe that if you get vaccinated and boosted that you would have at least some degree of cross-protection, very likely against severe disease, even against the omicron variant,” National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci said. According to the CDC, more than 70 percent of the U.S. population has received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, with near-universal coverage among those ages 65 and older. Nearly 60 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. Still, on Thursday, President Joe Biden said more than 100 million Americans who are eligible for booster doses haven’t gotten theirs yet. Some pharmacies – which the White House said are distributing roughly two-thirds of coronavirus vaccines in the United States – have reported that they are struggling to meet the increased demand amid staff shortages in the health-care sector.

Breakthrough Covid cases have become more common, underscoring need for boosters, study finds Tribune Content Agency HARTFORD, Conn. — Covid-19 cases in vaccinated people have become increasingly common in recent months amid the spread of the delta variant and the waning of immunity from vaccination, according to new Yale research conducted in Connecticut. Yale researchers found that from August to mid-October 2021, about 22% of patients at Yale New Haven Hospital with Covid-19 were fully vaccinated and experiencing severe symptoms – an increase from 1.4% in the same health system from March to July. Hyung Chun, associate professor of medicine at Yale and the new study’s senior author, said these findings could owe in part to the spread of the delta variant during the second half of the year, but that the most likely explanation was the decline of vaccine immunity over time. In that way, Chun said, the new research underscores the importance of booster shots for vaccinated people. “The emerging data is pretty clear that the efficacy of the first vaccines are waning but that the boosters remain to be the best treatment available to prevent one from catching Covid-19 or becomingsickwithCovid19,” Chun said.

Chun noted that the Yale study was conducted before the recent emergence of the omicron variant but said the new strain doesn’t change the need for residents to get vaccinated and to seek booster shots. As of mid-November, all American adults are eligible for booster shots six months after their second dose of the PfizerBioNTech or Moderna vaccine and two months after their dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 27.2% of Connecticut’s fully vaccinated adults had received boosters, as of Friday. The new Yale study, which was published Friday in The Lancet Microbe, is consistent with other research suggesting the immunity from Covid-19 vaccines wanes over time, leaving people increasingly vulnerable as they get further and further out from their shots. Despite finding an increase in breakthrough cases over the second half of the year, Chun emphasized that vaccination remains highly important in slowing Covid-19. According to the Yale study, vaccinated Covid-19 patients tended to be older than unvaccinated patients and to have more serious underlying conditions but still typically had shorter hospital stays and lower mortality rates.

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French bread pizza The comfort-food favorite is back and the one you make can be the best ever of cheese. (Things to keep in mind: You don’t want to ensoggen [technical term] your bread with sauce, but you do want a nice saucy amount – trust your instinct, and you will find your happy sauce-path. Some say to lay a few toppings down before the sauce for protection of breadintegrity, but that seems like overkill to me, as does, I would like to acknowledge, this entire parenthetical section – onward!) 5. Bake for another 8-10 minutes or until cheese is melty and bubbling. Then, for more molten cheese/blackened bread-edges, throw on the broiler for a minute or three. (But monitor carefully to prevent wholesale burning!) 6. Park yourself in front of TV and enjoy. Note: To freeze French bread pizzas for later: Stick unbaked F.B.P.s in the freezer for a couple of hours until completely frozen. Put them in Tupperware/reused plastic takeout containers, then back into the freezer they go. To bake from frozen, preheat oven to 400 degrees, put F.B.P.(s) on a baking sheet, and bake for about 15 minutes until cheese is melty and bubbling; then, for more molten cheese/blackened breadedges, follow the same process as noted above.

Bethany Jean Clement The Seattle Times

ention French bread pizza, and people have feelings. The reason is right there on the Stouffer’s French Bread Pizza box, below the cozy logo of the name inside the outline of a pot: “Celebrating 40 Years,” it says in a cursive flourish, and, elsewhere, “Back to the Taste You Love,” with “Love” inside the shape of a heart. (Somewhat unnervingly, the box also feels the need to specify, “Made with 100% real cheese” and that the pepperoni contains “pork, chicken & beef.” Chicken seems weird for pepperoni-making, but then chicken is cheap, and so is Stouffer’s French Bread Pizza – a box of two for $3.99.) French bread pizza is a classic American come-home-from-schooland-eat-it-in-front-of-the-TV snack – Stouffer’s if you were lucky, but also easy enough for you to make yourself (sometimes, sigh, substituting English muffins). Hot gooeyness atop a pleasingly shaped, light-andcrispy bread-torpedo – many happy latchkey moments were made of this; just add a glass of cold milk and some reruns. Even Seattle’s best pizza professionals – masters of cold-fermented, hand-tossed, beautifully browned-and-bubbled actual pizza crust – profess love of French bread pizza. When I messaged Tom Siegel of The Independent Pizzeria, he sent back a laughing-untilcrying cat emoji and said, “I grew up on what I thought were delicious at the time: Stouffer’s French bread pizzas! I think I remember loving the pepperoni.” Brandon Pettit of Delancey and Dino’s grew up eating a New Jersey version that a friend’s mom made: “a can of tomatoes blended up with a couple heads of garlic and olive oil spread on French bread then topped with tons of parm” – not the classic, but sounds extremely solid. Marie Rutherford – the poetess pizzaiola of erstwhile Moon Pizza (her Instagram captions achieve lyrical apex) – waxed reminiscent about “all things memory-inducing … comforting, familiar, homey, snug . . . buildings of bread,

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Don’t wait for a popup or until somebody opens a nostalgia-driven French bread pizzeria — make your own, maybe even better than you remember, with bubbly cheese and blackened edges from a few extra minutes under the broiler. sauce, cheese.” Rutherford also went to the French-bread-pizza pop-up put on recently by the combo of Ben’s Bread (coming to Phinney Ridge this fall) and Post Alley Pizza (in, yes, Post Alley for a long time now), hosted on a warm and breezy summer evening at The London Plane. She was by no means alone – only a few minutes after the party started, a line of 25 sensememory supplicants stretched down the sidewalk (and that’s not counting babies). Rutherford loved the French bread pizza she got there: “crunchy, soft . . . warm, it smelled so good and it was [expletive] delicious. I could have eaten a few more.” The good news is that nobody has to wait for another one-night-only event (or until somebody opens a French bread pizzeria?), and we definitely don’t have to resort to Stouffer’s (I’m afraid to try the one in my freezer, as there’s just no pos-

sible way it can live up to its nostalgia quotient). A huge part of the appeal of French bread pizza is that it’s so easy and fast, any impatient latchkey kid or stoned grown-up can make their own. And with just a little extra care, this recipe for French bread pizza will live up to – or even best – any TV-watching childhood memories. AS GOOD AS YOU REMEMBER FRENCH BREAD PIZZA (AKA F.B.P.) The method of buttering and toasting the bread to crisp it a bit before saucing/topping is pretty much ubiquitous on the internet, but rather than bothering to melt the butter and brush it on, you can just spread it gently if it’s at room temperature. The amounts here have been left open-ended – if you make extra to freeze (see note), your future binge-watching self will thank you very much. – Bethany Jean Clement French bread (fancy or cheap, up to you, but lighter/airier is better)

Butter (room temperature) Kosher salt and freshground pepper Pizza sauce (extra credit if you make your own – see recipe) Pizza toppings of your choice (pepperoni is the Stouffer’s classic) Shredded whole-milk mozzarella (plus a little fresh mozzarella and/ or cheddar if you like) Grated Parmesan (Reggiano or other good quality) 1. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees with the rack in the middle to upper-middle part. 2. Split your bread lengthwise with a good serrated knife, place on a baking sheet cut-side up, spread with butter, and sprinkle lightly with kosher salt and fresh-ground pepper. 3. Bake about 8 minutes, until the top of the buttered bread has a little crispness to it. Remove from oven and let cool for a few minutes. 4. OK, you know how to do this! Assemble your F.B.P.s with sauce, one layer of toppings thin enough to absorb cheese-heat and plenty

PRETTY QUICK PIZZA SAUCE Don’t be afraid of the sugar. Stouffer’s sure isn’t – it is their sauce’s third ingredient, just after water and tomato paste. 1 28-ounce can of whole peeled San Marzano tomatoes 1 garlic clove, minced 1 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon kosher salt ½ teaspoon red wine or sherry vinegar A few fresh bay leaves or 1 dry leaf 1. Stir all of it together in a medium saucepan and bring to a bubble over medium-high heat. Turn heat down to medium, roughchop the tomatoes with your spoon, then reduce until sauce is somewhat thickened, about 25 minutes, stirring occasionally. 2. Fish out bay leaves, then blend sauce with a hand blender or in a regular blender until pizza-sauce smoothness is attained. 3. Add more sugar and/or vinegar to taste; it might need up to a teaspoon more sugar for a slight sweetness and up to a tablespoon of vinegar for brightening, depending on the flavor of your canned tomatoes. Let cool a bit before using; store extra in a jar in fridge and use within about a week (make more F.B.P.s with it!).

A slow-cooker sweet potato chili to warm you up Gretchen McK ay

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

id you (reluctantly) turn on your furnace this past week? I did, too, which indicates it’s probably time to snuggle up for winter. It also means it’s time to brush up on your chili recipe repertoire so your insides will feel as warm and toasty. Chili is a favorite fall dish, and often includes either chicken or beef. This recipe gets its protein from canned beans, with sweet potato adding the vitamin C and vitamin B6 that could help scare away winter colds. I used chipotle chili powder, which added a pretty fiery kick to the dish; the addition of yogurt just before serving helped cool it down. The chili was even better the next day (I ate it for breakfast) and it also freezes well for those busy, don’t-feel-likecooking nights when the microwave is your best friend. You can dish this chili right out of the slow cooker and into a bowl. Or, serve over a bed of rice or quinoa. Garnish with fresh herbs and an optional

dollop of yogurt and/or shredded coconut. It’s also delicious with tortilla chips crumbled on top. SLOW-COOKER COCONUT SWEET POTATO CHILI PG tested ½ medium sweet onion, diced 2 stalks of celery, diced 2 Granny Smith or other tart apples, peeled, cored and diced 2 large sweet potatoes or yams, peeled and cubed 2 garlic cloves, minced 2 poblano chilies, cored and chopped 15-ounce can black beans, rinsed and drained 15-ounce can garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained 15-ounce can fireroasted tomatoes 15-ounce can coconut milk 2 cups of chicken or vegetable broth 1 tablespoon of your favorite chili powder, or more (or less) to taste 2 teaspoons ground cumin 1 teaspoon of dried oregano 2-3 teaspoons curry powder, optional Salt and pepper to taste Red pepper flakes, to taste

½ cup plain yogurt, plus more for serving Chopped fresh cilantro, parsley or chives, for garnish Shredded unsweetened coconut, for garnish, optional Place onion, celery, apples, sweet potatoes, garlic and chopped poblano in the crock of a 6-quart slow cooker. Stir to combine, then add beans, tomatoes, coconut milk and chicken or vegetable broth. Stir again, then add chili powder, cumin, oregano and optional curry powder. Season generously with salt and pepper. Cook on high heat for 4 hours, or on low for 6-8 hours. A few hours in, taste and add more chili powder, as desired, or a pinch or two of cayenne pepper if you like chili on the spicy side. Toward the end of cooking, open the lid to allow the chili to thicken. If the chili looks a bit dry, add a bit more broth or water. Just before serving, stir in yogurt. Spoon into warmed bowls and garnish with fresh chopped herbs and a dollop of yogurt, if desired. Serves 8. — Gretchen McKay

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A spicy coconut sweet potato stew is just the thing to take the chill off of a cool autumn evening.

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For seniors using tech, surveillance can be the price of independence Heather K elly

The Washington Post

he tipping point came nearly seven years ago when 82-year-old Evelyn was still living alone in her Georgia home. She was in good shape physically, still sharp mentally, and able to manage her daily tasks. But after a health scare, her family made a “nonnegotiable” decision they hoped would help the grandmother of eight stay independent even longer. They installed a WiFi camera inside her home. It took some convincing. Evelyn told her daughter Terri Davis, somewhat jokingly, “I think you’re putting in a spy camera.” “I assured her we had lots to do with our busy lives and wouldn’t just be watching her,” said Davis, 65. “We’re just going to peek in a few times a day like in the morning to make sure she got up, that the night was okay.” Now Evelyn, who declined to use her last name, for privacy, is in an assisted-living center. The camera is still with her, and she also wears a medical alert button around her neck. Nearing 90, Evelyn is tech savvy enough to text and check Facebook and Instagram on her iPhone, and she knows how to unplug the camera when she is not in the mood to be seen. Smart home technology has long been used by caretakers to monitor older adults. Cameras you can watch from anywhere are among the most common, but there are also sensors for detecting movement, remote monitoring for climate controls and power outlets as well as voice-activated screens and speakers. With the right setup, someone can see whether a relative has fallen or let them know they left the stove on. On the surface the benefits of home and health monitoring technology seem obvious. A flow of information about the older person can put a caretaker at ease and help keep track of physical or cognitive decline. It is a way to extend the amount of time they are able live in their own homes before moving to someplace like a retirement or nursing home. But the devices, many of which grew out of security and surveillance systems, can take privacy and control away from a population that is less likely to know how to manage the technology themselves. The idea of using tech to help people as they age is not a problem, experts say, but how it’s designed, used and communicated can be. Done wrong or without consent, it is one-way surveillance that can lead to neglect. Done right, it can help aging people be more independent. “There has not been any company that has embraced really reciprocal, empowering caregiver-centric technologies,” said L. Jean Camp, a professor at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing who has researched tech for the elderly. One necessary ingredient for these kinds of devices is two-way communication, Camp says. It is confirmation that someone is on the other

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The Amazon Astro is a new household robot outfitted with cameras and microphones that can be used for home monitoring. side of a video feed or app update, making it a conversation instead of one party watching the other. The tech industry is pushing ahead with more products specifically for caretaking. In the past year alone, two tech companies announced new monitoring products aimed at aging adults that try to move away from the most invasive setups. Amazon previewed Alexa Together, a $20-a-month service that lets caretakers know when connected devices are being used and has 24/7 emergency response that can be called over an Alexa device. Apple added a feature that lets people share health trends such as changes in daily activity, sleep patterns or heart rate from an iPhone or Apple Watch with family members or doctors. Seniors have also embraced connectedhome tech for themselves. According to the research firm Forrester, smart speakers such as Amazon’s Echo are the most popular types of connected devices for people 60 and older, followed by Internet-connected thermostats, voice-activated displays such as the Google Nest Hub and doorbells with WiFi cameras or audio. Aside from privacy issues, Internet-connected devices are also a security worry. Many are stuffed with insecure software and require regular updates and password changes so they are not vulnerable to breaches. Florence Macauley is the founder of AgeWise Home and a specialist who updates living spaces for people who are elderly, experience dementia or are disabled. She says she does not focus on technology when modifying homes or training caregivers for older residents.

Though she is often hired by caretakers such as adult children, she considers the person living in the home as her client. “I make sure they [the elderly] understand that they are in charge, because a lot of the tech that is brought into the homes is not at the request of who is being watched,” Macauley said. She has also seen first hand how families can use technology as a replacement for in-person caretaking. “One client told me, ‘My kids just watch me on the camera but they don’t come visit me,’” Macauley said. “I know how much it bothered him. He made me wave to the camera.” The client’s children all lived close by. Being there for someone virtually is not the same as being there physically, experts say. Having a support system can be the difference between a long hospital or nursing home stay and recovering at home, according to a new study from the University of California at San Francisco. Researchers looked at data for people 65 and older over the course of nine years and found that having a friend or family member who could help them in person after a health crisis - for example, staying overnight for a couple of days after pneumonia - lowered the chances of a lengthy hospital stay. “I found that we often admit people to the hospital, not just because of their medical needs but also because of their social needs,” said the lead author of the study, Sachin Shah, an assistant professor of medicine at UCSF. “What people often need is just physical help, like rides to the doctor’s office and help with activities of daily living:

eating, bathing, dressing, toileting.” They are the kinds of tasks that require in-person assistance, experts say, not a roving social robot with a periscope camera, wide eyes and a 24/7 connection to emergency operators. Amazon Astro is a new $1,000 robot outfitted with cameras and microphones that can act like a companion or a sentinel, roaming your home to keep an eye on things. It will work with Amazon’s Alexa Together service, but caretakers do not have access to the cameras or mics unless they set it up themselves under their own account. Amazon added controls so the person being monitored can turn it off by calling customer service or going into Alexa settings. However, experts warn that a small mobile robot is a tripping hazard for older people who may not hear or see it, and for whom a simple fall can be serious. Amazon says the robot makes sounds and uses sensors to avoid collisions. The Alexa Together service will give caretakers a feed of what a person is up to based on things such as when they first used Alexa that day, triggered a motion sensor or turned on a light. An adult child could also set a reminder on their parent’s Echo speaker such as “Take a walk” and do some remote tech support. The robot and service are not out yet, but people can sign up to find out when they are released. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) “We designed Alexa Together to give both the care recipient and caregiver peace of mind, without compromising privacy,” said Beatrice Geoffrin, director for Amazon Alexa. “For

example, in order to use Alexa Together, the care recipient has to first approve the connection with their caregiver, and can end the connection at any time. Once approved, the caregiver only sees a high level summary of activities like general requests to play entertainment.” Who has control is key when setting up a connected home for an older adult. Apple’s Health sharing feature is set up entirely on the user’s device and pushes updates to the caretaker only when there is a change, such as a drop in physical activity, though they can check the app anytime. While the person sharing the data has control (and can disable sharing at anytime), devices such as smartwatches are often set up and managed by a more tech-savvy relative. Technology is frequently harder for older adults to learn and use, giving them less control even when the settings are in front of them. Some tech is designed specifically to work around that, such as Amazon’s Drop In feature for starting a video call remotely. There is an imbalance of power that often exists between the elderly and their caretakers when it comes to technological know how. In the worstcase scenario, it can also play a role in elder abuse, whether it is financial, physical or emotional, experts say. Laura Mosqueda, a professor of family medicine and geriatrics and co-director of the National Center on Elder Abuse, says home technology can help catch elder abuse as well as contribute to it. She recently saw a video a family took using a WiFi camera that caught a paid caretaker hitting their loved one. But she is also

worried that tech will be added to homes without conversations with the people being monitored about what it means. “We do need to have this conversation with older adults: ‘Is this okay with you?’” Mosqueda said. “Are we giving just peace of mind to the family or is this actually what the older adult wants?” Just sharing something simple such as daily activity could lead to a family member nagging their elderly mother to get up and move around more. Being old does not mean you lose your rights, Mosqueda says. When done right, automating tasks such as reminders, medication turning down heaters remotely, tracking when someone has fallen or seeing who is at mom’s door has the potential to improve relationships between caregivers and the person they are helping, experts say. It can help with the more administrative side of things, checking in on health and movement. That leaves more time for connecting and conversations and makes in-person visits an opportunity for quality time. Not everyone has the same fears about privacy or feels that it is something to be worried about. Susan Spring is a healthy, retired 78-year-old who still lives on her own in Schenectady, N.Y., but says she would not object if one of her sons wanted a camera in her home to check in. She would just prefer a heads-up. “I think it would be a lot of fun,” Spring said. “But I’d like something where if they were tuning in I’d know it and say, ‘Hi.’ ”

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Agathe Rousselle in “Titane.”

Best picture, best international feature – at the next Oscars, there should be some overlap Glenn Whipp

Los Angeles Times

omewhere around the 20-minute mark of “Titane,” Julia Ducournau’s astonishing (and I don’t use that word lightly), Palme d’Or-winning horror film, I was flashing back to all the times my colleague Justin Chang and I lamented the loss of moviegoing last year. I was at the Landmark in West Los Angeles, and the woman sitting behind me had spent pretty much every minute of the movie either freaking out (oh, no she didn’t just do that, TELL ME she didn’t just do that!) or asking the guy sitting next to her to explain what the hell just happened. (And he was all too happy to oblige.) By the time the movie ended, the couple sitting next to me had climbed over three rows of seats, attempting to get out of earshot. Me? I was paralyzed, half-delighted by the energy in the theater (my neighbor wasn’t the only person having a visceral reaction to Ducournau’s provocations and lead actor Agathe Rousselle’s ferocity) and half-annoyed for not fleeing to a quieter section myself. A few days later, I saw Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s 2-hour, 59-minute drama “Drive My Car” in a packed screening room, no one talking, no one moving, no one daring to make a sound for the duration. That’s how completely transfixed we were by the movie’s unfolding mysteries. It’s almost comical to say that a movie in which the opening credits drop at the 40-minute mark is too short, but everyone I know who has seen “Drive My Car” has come away, if not wanting more, then intent on seeing it again. But when it comes to international offerings this year, who has time to see a movie more than once? Academy members on the international feature film committee face an annual

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A scene from the movie, “Flee.” viewing crunch, and any voter who has tried to be diligent and plow through some of the hundred or so films available for viewing on the academy’s screening platform knows all too well the limitations of time. With the best picture Oscar race back to a fixed field of 10 nominees, academy members should be looking farther afield, starting with Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers,” which Spain bypassed as its entry for the international Oscar because A) it can’t nominate every Almodovar film (I guess) and B) because the movie it submitted, “The Good Boss,” is an agreeable (if slick) corporate satire that features Javier Bardem in the leading role. Spain’s loss should be the best picture slate’s gain. “Parallel Mothers” is a twisty, tender drama starring Penelope Cruz as a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown after she makes a shocking discovery not long after giving birth. Once again, Almodovar is exploring his fascination with the maternal instinct within the boundaries of melodrama, but “Parallel Mothers” also delves into the pain of his country’s past. Anchored by a raw, radiant turn from a never-better Cruz (actors branch voters should take notice), “Parallel Mothers” checks every best picture box you can name. Cruz isn’t the only Oscarworthy woman leading a terrific contender. Renate Reinsve won the lead actress prize at Cannes for Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in

the World,” Norway’s Oscar entry. It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen dealing with the confusion and excitement of being young and not having a clue about what to do with your life. It’s also a bittersweet romantic comedy possessing a clear-eyed honesty about love and the struggle to find identity, with a weird, wonderful and sharply observant Reinsve at its center. Scandinavia hasn’t been represented in the lead actress category since the days of Liv Ullman and Ingrid Bergman in the ‘70s. And a Norwegian woman has never been nominated. Beklager, good people of Norway. We promise to work on that, starting with Reinsve. Look in every corner of the world, and there’s something of interest, including Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi’s latest nuanced social drama, “A Hero,” and “Memoria,” Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy reckoning with Colombia’s past, starring Tilda Swinton. There’s also the heartbreaking coming-of-age story “Prayers for the Stolen” from Tatiana Huezo (Mexico’s entry) and Danish filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s poetic animated film “Flee,” a refugee story that figures to be a force in both the international and documentary categories, and maybe even animated feature as well. These are all films that will prompt conversations – hopefully conducted after the movie, not during it – and the sort of contemplation that great art produces. Their memory lingers. When I told filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson about my “Titane” experience, he offered a reaction that mirrored the kind of fervent discussions I heard leaving the Landmark that night. “I walked out having no idea what I had just seen or whether I enjoyed it or not and then, cut, days later, ‘Yeah, no, I think I loved that,’” Anderson said, smiling. “That’s a great movie.”

Bridge

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page 62 onward, Miles uses upsidedown signals, where low encourages and high discourages. Sometimes, you cannot afford a high card to encourage, but you can usually spare one from a weak suit. In this deal from the book, East must plan his defense against three no-trump after West leads a fourth-highest heart six and dummy plays the four. North’s double was negative, showing exactly four spades. East should apply the Rule of Eleven. Six from 11 is five. So, there are five hearts higher than the six in the North, East and South hands combined. Since East can see four of them, he knows that South has only one high heart. Given his one-no-trump rebid, surely he has ace-doubleton. To ensure that declarer cannot collect two heart tricks, East must play his two at trick one. Declarer will probably win, cross to the board with a spade and run the club queen. West HELP YOUR PARTNER takes the trick and leads another heart. East collects two tricks in that suit and TO DEFEND BETTER shifts to a diamond; the contract goes down three. One way to improve both your Yes, if East plays the heart 10 at trick partner’s and your partnership’s defense one, when West leads another heart at is to buy the reissue of “Defensive Signals” (Master Point Press) by the late trick four, South might misguess, playing dummy’s queen instead of the Marshall Miles. nine. But why rely on declarer’s misread It is wide-ranging with lots of when you can always succeed? excellent advice across 11 chapters and COPYRIGHT: 2021, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE 216 pages. But caveat emptor: From

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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that governing board (“Board) of the FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (“District” or “Owner”), will receive up to, but no later than January 18, 2022 2:00 p.m, at the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Purchasing and Contract Services Department (3rd floor) at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, California sealed proposals for the procurement of the following products:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that governing board (“Board) of the FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (“District” or “Owner”), will receive up to, but no later than January 20, 2022 2:00 p.m, at the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Purchasing and Contract Services Department (3rd floor) at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, California sealed proposals for the procurement of the following products:

RFP #2126-22 Internet Service E-rate

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Interested Bidders are referred to the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Purchasing Department website, https://www.fsusd.org/Page/15594, for all communication, instructions, and forms. All questions regarding this RFP are due on or before 4:00 p.m. on December 15, 2021 and must be submitted in email to: Melissa Iriarte at melissair@fsusd.org – using the subject line of “RFP #2126-22 Questions”. It is the responsibility of the Bidder to check the website for addenda and/or updates. Proposals are due at the Purchasing Office for time and date stamping on or before 2:00 p.m. PST on January 18, 2022. One original, two copies, and one electronic version (usb drive) response must be submitted in a sealed, clearly marked envelope. All proposals must be received and time and date stamped in the Purchasing office by the above due date and time. Proposals received after the due date and time will be returned unopened to the Bidder. No exceptions. No oral, telegraphic, facsimile, or telephone bids or modifications will be considered. All proposals must conform and be responsive to this RFP, and all necessary documents must be enclosed. Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, to waive any informalities or irregularities therein, and to accept the proposal in whole, or portions of the proposal that, in the opinion of the District, is in the best interest of the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District. No Bidder may withdraw their proposal for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the opening for bids except as provided pursuant to Public Contract Code section 5100, et seq. Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District reserves the right, in its sole discretion and subject to applicable laws, to determine the criteria and process whereby proposals are evaluated and awarded. DR#00051424 Published: Dec. 6, 13, 2021 FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE INVITING BIDS Bid # 2130-22 Cabling Infrastructure – E-rate NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the GOVERNING BOARD OF THE FAIRFIELDSUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, OF THE COUNTY OF SOLANO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, will receive up to, but not later than, January 25, 2022 2:00 p.m., local time, and will publicly open and read aloud at, Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, Conference room #102 at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, CA 94534, Bids for the following Project: BID #2130-22 Cabling Infrastructure – E-rate at Rodriguez High School Sealed Bids will be received before 2:00 p.m., January 25, 2022, at the office of the Purchasing Department, 3rd floor, 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, California. After which time the bids will be opened and publicly read aloud, in conference room #102 at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, CA 94534. Any claim by a bidder of error in its bid must be made in compliance with section 5100 et seq. of the Public Contract Code. Any bid that is submitted after this time shall be non-responsive and returned to the bidder. The Project consists of: Fiber optics cable infrastructure replacement at Rodriguez High School All bids shall be on the form provided by the District. Each bid must conform and be responsive to all pertinent Contract Documents, including, but not limited to, the Instructions to Bidders. To bid on this Project, the Bidder is required to possess one or more of the following State of California Contractor Licenses: B (General Building) and/or C-7 (Low Voltage) and/or C-10 (Electrical) The Bidder's license(s) must be active and in good standing at the time of the bid opening and must remain so throughout the term of the Contract. As security for its Bid, each bidder shall provide with its Bid form a. a bid bond issued by an admitted surety insurer on the form provided by the District, b. cash, or c. a cashier's check or a certified check, drawn to the order of the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid price. This bid security shall be a guarantee that the Bidder shall, within seven (7) calendar days after the date of the Notice of Award, enter into a contract with the District for the performance of the services as stipulated in the bid. The successful Bidder shall be required to furnish a 100 % Performance Bond and a 100% Payment Bond if it is awarded the contract for the Work. The successful Bidder may substitute securities for any monies withheld by the District to ensure performance under the Contract, in accordance with the provisions of section 22300 of the Public Contract Code. The successful Bidder and its subcontractors shall pay all workers on the Project not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, State of California, for the type of work performed and the locality in which the work is to be performed within the boundaries of the District, pursuant to sections 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code. Prevailing wage rates are available from the District or on the Internet at: <http://www.dir.ca.gov>. Bidders and Bidders’ subcontractors shall comply with the registration and qualification requirements pursuant to sections 1725.5 and 1771.1 of the California Labor Code. The District, the District’s designee and/or the California Department of Industrial Relations will be operating a labor compliance program on this Project pursuant to Labor Code section 1771, et seq. A mandatory pre-bid conference and site visit will be held on December 14, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. at FairfieldSuisun USD, 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, California, in conference room 102 for the purpose of acquainting bidders with the bid documents and the work site. Requests for information must be submitted in writing to Melissa Iriarte at melissair@fsusd.org on or before 12:00 p.m. on December 16, 2021. Bid packets will be posted by 4:00 p.m. on December 6, 2021 on the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Website at https://www.fsusd.org/Page/15594. The Governing Board has obtained from the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations the general prevailing rate of per diem wages in the locality in which the work is to be performed for each craft, classifications or type of worker needed to execute the Contract, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. Copies of the prevailing rates are on file at the District office and shall be made available to any interested party upon request. It shall be mandatory upon the Contractor to whom the Contract is awarded, and upon any Subcontractor under the Contractor, to pay not less than the specified rates to all workers employed by them in the execution of the Contract. It is the Contractor's responsibility to determine any rate change, which may have or will occur during the intervening period between each issuance of written rates by the Director of Industrial Relations. The substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments in accordance with Public Contract Code section 22300 is permitted. Performance and Payment bonds will be required of the successful bidder. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the opening for bids except as provided pursuant to Public Contract Code section 5100, et seq. The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any informalities or irregularities in the bidding. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids and/or waive any irregularity in any bid received. If the District awards the Contract, the security of unsuccessful bidder(s) shall be returned within sixty (60) days from the time the award is made. Unless otherwise required by law, no bidder may withdraw its bid for ninety (90) days after the date of the bid opening. The District shall determine the low bid based upon the base bid plus alternate. The District reserves the right to award at its discretion the base bid, with or without any alternate, or to not award at all. DR#00051430 Published: Dec. 6, 2021

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All proposals must conform and be responsive to this RFP, and all necessary documents must be enclosed. Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, to waive any informalities or irregularities therein, and to accept the proposal in whole, or portions of the proposal that, in the opinion of the District, is in the best interest of the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District.

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Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District reserves the right, in its sole discretion and subject to applicable laws, to determine the criteria and process whereby proposals are evaluated and awarded. DR#00051423 Published: Dec. 6, 13, 2021 FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that governing board (“Board) of the FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (“District” or “Owner”), will receive up to, but no later than January 25, 2022 2:00 p.m, at the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Purchasing and Contract Services Department (3rd floor) at 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield, California sealed proposals for the procurement of the following products: RFP #2129-22 Wireless Equipment Interested Bidders are referred to the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Purchasing Department website, https://www.fsusd.org/Page/15594, for all communication, instructions, and forms. All questions regarding this RFP are due on or before 4:00 p.m. on December 15, 2021 and must be submitted in email to: Melissa Iriarte at melissair@fsusd.org – using the subject line of “RFP #2129-22 Questions”. It is the responsibility of the Bidder to check the website for addenda and/or updates. Proposals are due at the Purchasing Office for time and date stamping on or before 2:00 p.m. PST on January 25, 2022. One original, two copies, and one electronic version (usb drive) response must be submitted in a sealed, clearly marked envelope. All proposals must be received and time and date stamped in the Purchasing office by the above due date and time. Proposals received after the due date and time will be returned unopened to the Bidder. No exceptions. No oral, telegraphic, facsimile, or telephone bids or modifications will be considered. All proposals must conform and be responsive to this RFP, and all necessary documents must be enclosed. Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, to waive any informalities or irregularities therein, and to accept the proposal in whole, or portions of the proposal that, in the opinion of the District, is in the best interest of the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District.

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Error-prone 49ers see winning streak snapped Tribune Content Agency SEATTLE — The 49ers couldn’t step on the struggling Seahawks’ throat Sunday. Instead, their longtime nemesis, in their weakened state, got off the mat to do what they’ve almost always done to the 49ers over the past 10 seasons, particularly in Seattle. The Seahawks, who arrived with a 3-8 record, beat the rejuvenated and rolling 49ers, 30-23, to snap San Francisco’s three-game winning streak and inspire endless unpleasant flashbacks. The 49ers (6-6) have lost

17 of their past 20 meetings to the Seahawks, including 10 of their last 11 on the road. The 49ers’ latest defeat will be among their most painful. Their potential 98-yard, gametying touchdown drive came up three yards short when quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo’s 3rd-and-goal pass into the end zone fell incomplete and his fourth-down attempt was batted way by defensive end Carlos Dunlap with 18 seconds left. With a loss, the Seahawks would have been assured of their first losing season since 2011. But they

delayed that indignity largely because the 49ers resembled a mistake-prone losing team. The 49ers, who had committed just one turnover in their winning streak, were doomed by their sloppiness: They committed three turnovers, had 10 penalties, allowed a 73-yard fake-punt touchdown run, missed an extra point, allowed a safety, had two roughing-the-passer infractions to assist a Seahawks’ secondquarter touchdown drive and had an illegal snap when they were going for it on 4th-and-1 in the third quarter.

Still, they had chance to send the game to overtime because of the Seahawks’ charity. Trailing 30-23 with about four minutes left, Seahawks tight end Gerald Everett fumbled just before the goal line and cornerback Dontae Johnson recovered the loose ball to set up the final-minute theatrics. The 49ers’ failed final drive was fitting. They reached Seattle’s 3-yard line despite a holding penalty on guard Laken Tomlinson and an illegal block penalty by wide receiver Trent Sherfield. Garoppolo’s two interception were both perplexingly

ugly. In the first quarter, he had wide receiver Sherfield open over the middle, but his badly underthrown pass was easily intercepted by middle linebacker Bobby Wagner. In the third quarter, he targeted well-covered tight end George Kittle over the middle and his badly overthrown pass was easily picked off by safety Quandre Diggs. Garoppolo completed 20 of 30 passes for 299 yards and had two touchdown passes to Kittle, who had nine catches for 181 yards.

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Martin at Windsor High School, Friday. The Vikings sailed to a 56-28 victory in the NorCal Division 3-AA title game.

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FAIRFIELD — The Vanden High football team’s home game in the CIF Division 3-AA State Championship finals will truly be a home game. The Vikings found out Sunday that their game with Southern California Division 3-AA champ Aquinas of San Bernardino will be at their on-campus George A. Gammon Field. There was speculation after flattening Windsor 56-28 in the Division 3-AA Northern California Championship that the state title game would be moved a facility with more capacity, such as Fairfield High’s Schaefer Stadium. Ironically, Aquinas is the Falcons, as is Fairfield High, which means the visitors would have had their logo at midfield and “Falcons” in the south end zone had the game been played at FHS. Kickoff will be Saturday at 6 p.m. “It is nice to be home,” Vanden coach Sean Murphy said of being able to at Gammon Field. “I mean, you get to have all your regular routines. Obviously, it’s nice to have a home-field advantage.” At home, on the road or at a neutral site, the Vikings (12-2) have been on a roll in the playoffs, outscoring their four postseason foes by a combined score of 233-76. Their opponent, Aquinas, has had a slightly tougher road in the playoffs, outlasting Leuzinger of Lawndale, 35-34, in the Southern Section Division 7 quarterfinals, and rallying from a 21-7 deficit to beat Newport Harbor of Newport Beach, 42-28, in last week’s SoCal final. “They look to be very physical,” Murphy said. “They have an offensive tackle, (6-foot-5, 350-pound Junior Taase Faumui) who’s a big guy. If you let him get going he’ll take over a whole side of the football field. He’ll make some big holes if you let him, he’ll push down the whole defensive line. So that’s going to be a challenge.” The impression the Falcons made on Murphy in just two days of watching film didn’t stop there. “They’re spread (out on offense) but they’re a downhill running team,” the coach said. “It looks to us like they want to hold onto

s an NBA general manager, Bob Myers’ value is often distilled down to just a few aspects of his job: the draft, free agency and trades. Many people might not realize, however, that GMs’ best moves are sometimes the ones they don’t make. As the Warriors toiled through back-to-back lottery seasons, Myers was under significant outside pressure to orchestrate a trade for another All-Star who could help salvage what was left of an aging core’s prime. But instead of bringing in Pascal Siakam, Bradley Beal or Ben Simmons, Myers signed Andre Iguodala, Otto Porter Jr. and Nemanja Bjelica to minimum deals. At the time, those moves underwhelmed Warriors fans desperate for a quick return to title contention. Yet here Golden State is, more than a quarter of the

ANALYSIS way through the season, tied with the Suns for the NBA’s best record. It’s almost as if Myers knew what he was doing all along. Though the NBA might be a stardriven league, he recognized that all of the pieces, famous and unheralded, must coalesce just right for a team to thrive. In the Warriors’ case, they needed more floor spacing, the continued development of Jordan Poole, and savvy elder statesmen capable of mentoring young players and stabilizing the team on both ends. It just so happened that Myers accomplished all of that while pocketing the team’s $5.9 million taxpayer mid-level exception and making good on a promise to his boss, majority owner Joe Lacob, to keep the payroll under $400 million. Such shrewd rosterbuilding makes Myers See Myers, Page B8

Vanden’s Julian Ledesma returns a fumble for a near touchdown late in the fourth quarter against the Windsor Jaguars at Windsor High School, Friday. the ball. It’s going to be important to stop the run game. They’ve got a receiver (Cesar Fernandez) who’s pretty good as well and their quarterback (Dre Robles) is a good quarterback. Solid team, which you’d expect to see late in the playoffs. And both offensive and defensive lines, they get off the ball really well. So we’re going to have to match their intensity on our offensive and defensive lines.” The Falcons (10-5) are a little more familiar with this state title thing, having reached the finals in 2019 where they lost to Clayton Valley Charter, 10-7. They were also in the 2017 SoCal finals and have won five straight Ambassador League titles and 23 straight league games under Jordan Brusig, who’s coached the team since 2015. “I think (the 2019 appearance) does give them an advantage, you’ve been through this process, you’re more at ease with it than a team that’s doing it for the first time,” Murphy said. “I think you can counter-balance that, being that we’re at home rather than at a neutral site, where it’s just another game where you have your normal routines. I think it counter-balances it a little bit, the fact we’re the home team. We get to have our normal routines for game day.” What won’t be completely normal this week is practice for the Vikings. Unlike the game with Windsor where they had a short week because the Sac-Joaquin Section title game with Merced was on a Saturday, they have an extra day this week.

Murphy also plans on not having as much hitting as might occur during the regular season. “Luckily, we have the extra day,” Murphy said. “Last week seemed to go by really fast. A lot of it was we played such a physical game with Merced. We were a little beat up and it was a short week as well. So it was a quick turnaround. We’re happy to have the extra day, so we’re moving everything back one day. Our Monday will be our Saturday, our Tuesday our Monday and so on and so forth. “We already don’t hit a lot during the week, but we’re definitely going to tone it down a little bit this week. I think at this point if you can tackle, you can tackle. You’re not going to get better. A lot of our stuff this week is we’re working first on trying to get as healthy as we can with our nagging injuries. At this point everybody’s got something, and then a lot of mental reps, a lot of just making sure we know our keys, we know our job and our guys compete at a high level when the time comes.” It’s hard to imagine the Vikings playing at a higher level, their fourgame run through the playoffs, arguably their best run ever, especially when considering the level of competition. As for winning the school’s first state title earned on the field – the 1995 squad was crowned the Cal-High Sports Division IV state champions before the CIF bowl system was introSee Vikings, Page B8

Buck O’Neil, Miñoso, Oliva selected to Hall of Fame, no Lefty O’Doul or Dick Allen Tribune Content Agency Buck O’Neil and Minnie Miñoso are Hall of Famers, and that’s a statement that has been a long time coming. The baseball world can further celebrate O’Neil’s legacy now that the Negro Leagues icon and one of the game’s all-time ambassadors has been selected to the Hall of Fame. The Cuban-born Miñoso was a pioneer for Latin American players in the 1950s and 13-time All-Star over 17 bigleague seasons, mostly with the White Sox. He appeared in five decades from the ‘40s through the ‘80s. Also selected: Tony Oliva, a three-time batting champion and .304 lifetime hitter, Gil Hodges, Jim Kaat and Bud Fowler, who was considered the first Black professional ballplayer in the 1800s.

“Buck did so much for baseball, not only for the Negro Leagues but for everybody, Black, white, everybody,” said the Cuban-born Oliva, who called Miñoso “the Jackie Robinson for us.” The six new Hall of Famers received the required 75% of the votes in Sunday elections and will be inducted in the Class of 2022 on July 24 along with anyone tabbed in a separate election by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Two 16-member electorates gathered in Orlando, Fla., over the weekend to discuss and vote on a total of 20 candidates – 10 from the Early Baseball Era (primary contributions pre-1950) and 10 from the Golden Days Era (1950-1969). Voters could choose up to four names. See Hall, Page B8

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Scoreboard FOOTBALL NFL American Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA 8 4 0 .667 336 190 7 4 0 .636 326 182 6 7 0 .462 254 288 3 9 0 .250 217 367 North W L T Pct. PF PA Baltimore 8 4 0 .667 282 260 Cincinnati 7 5 0 .583 331 267 Pittsburgh 6 5 1 .542 244 286 Cleveland 6 6 0 .500 254 267 South W L T Pct. PF PA Tennessee 8 4 0 .667 304 290 Indianapolis 7 6 0 .538 371 283 Houston 2 10 0 .167 164 323 Jacksonville 2 10 0 .167 180 320 West W L T Pct. PF PA Kansas City 8 4 0 .667 303 259 L.A. Chargers 7 5 0 .583 314 315 Las Vegas 6 6 0 .500 274 312 Denver 6 6 0 .500 237 218 National Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA Dallas 8 4 0 .667 353 267 Washington 6 6 0 .500 246 297 Philadelphia 6 7 0 .462 337 291 N.Y. Giants 4 8 0 .333 211 273 North W L T Pct. PF PA Green Bay 9 3 0 .750 283 242 Minnesota 5 7 0 .417 308 303 Chicago 4 8 0 .333 201 287 Detroit 1 10 1 .125 203 316 South W L T Pct. PF PA Tampa Bay 9 3 0 .750 377 270 Carolina 5 7 0 .417 236 253 Atlanta 5 7 0 .417 216 332 New Orleans 5 7 0 .417 274 276 West W L T Pct. PF PA Arizona 10 2 0 .833 343 224 L.A. Rams 8 4 0 .667 336 270 SAN FRAN 6 6 0 .500 303 278 Seattle 4 8 0 .333 239 249 Week 13 Thursday’s Game Dallas 27, New Orleans 17 Sunday’s Games Seattle 30, SAN FRANCISCO 23 Miami 20, N.Y. Giants 9 Indianapolis 31, Houston 0 Detroit 29, Minnesota 27 Philadelphia 33, N.Y. Jets 18 Arizona 33, Chicago 22 L.A. Chargers 41, Cincinnati 22 New England Buffalo Miami N.Y. Jets

Hall From Page B1 Two notable omissions were Lefty O’Doul, a San Francisco legend who was one of the best hitters who ever lived, a beloved manager of the San Francisco Seals in the old Pacific Coast League and a trailblazer for Japanese baseball, and Dick Allen, a fearsome hitter with 351 career home runs (many of them tape-measure shots) and the 1972 American League MVP.

Tampa Bay 30, Atlanta 17 L.A. Rams 37, Jacksonville 7 Washington 17, Las Vegas 15 Pittsburgh 20, Baltimore 19 Kansas City 22, Denver 9 Monday’s Game New England at Buffalo, 5:15 p.m. Byes — Carolina, Cleveland, Green Bay, Tennessee Week 14 Thursday, Dec. 9 Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 5:20 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 12 SAN FRANCISCO at Cincinnati, 10 a.m. New Orleans at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m. Atlanta at Carolina, 10 a.m. Seattle at Houston, 10 a.m. Las Vegas at Kansas City, 10 a.m. Baltimore at Cleveland, 10 a.m. Dallas at Washington, 10 a.m. Jacksonville at Tennessee, 10 a.m. N.Y. Giants at L.A. Chargers, 1:05 p.m. Detroit at Denver, 1:05 p.m. Buffalo at Tampa Bay, 1:25 p.m. Chicago at Green Bay, 5:20 p.m. Monday, Dec. 13 L.A. Rams at Arizona, 5:15 p.m. Byes — Indianapolis, Miami, New England, Philadelphia

Prep CIF Playoffs NorCal Division 3-AA Championship Friday’s Game Vanden 56, Windsor 28 State Division 3-AA Championship Saturday, Dec. 11 Aquinas at Vanden, 6 p.m.

HOCKEY NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 25 15 4 6 36 88 62 N.Y. Rangers 23 16 4 3 35 68 57 Carolina 23 16 6 1 33 75 52 Pittsburgh 24 11 8 5 27 69 67 Columbus 23 13 10 0 26 76 75 New Jersey 22 9 9 4 22 65 76 Philadelphia 22 8 10 4 20 51 72 N.Y. Islanders 20 5 10 5 15 38 61 Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 24 17 4 3 37 93 67 Toronto 26 17 7 2 36 80 62

While Kaat said he was thrilled he’ll be enshrined with Oliva, his old Twins teammate – those two and Maury Wills are the three candidates among the 20 who are living – but added “I’m sad. I’m disaspointed” that another teammate, Allen, isn’t getting in. “I would’ve loved to have Dick Allen get one more vote.” O’Doul’s second cousin, Tom O’Doul, a regular at Giants games, was asked his initial reaction to the election, and he said, “Finally the HOF has recognized O’Neil . . . Long overdue,” adding he’s still

Tampa Bay Detroit Boston Buffalo Montreal Ottawa

24 15 5 4 34 81 65 25 13 9 3 29 71 78 21 12 8 1 25 61 56 24 8 13 3 19 70 90 26 6 17 3 15 59 93 22 6 15 1 13 57 86 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Minnesota 24 17 6 1 35 92 71 St. Louis 24 12 8 4 28 80 70 Winnipeg 24 12 8 4 28 74 68 Nashville 24 13 10 1 27 68 68 Colorado 21 12 7 2 26 85 71 Dallas 21 12 7 2 26 60 58 Chicago 24 9 13 2 20 54 75 Arizona 24 5 17 2 12 43 89 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Calgary 24 15 4 5 35 79 48 Edmonton 22 16 6 0 32 85 65 Anaheim 25 13 8 4 30 84 74 SAN JOSE 25 13 11 1 27 66 68 Vegas 23 13 10 0 26 78 71 Los Angeles 22 9 9 4 22 59 62 Seattle 24 9 13 2 20 72 84 Vancouver 25 8 15 2 18 60 80 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs. Sunday’s Games Columbus 6, SAN JOSE 4 Tampa Bay 7, Philadelphia 1 Chicago 3, N.Y. Islanders 2, SO Los Angeles 5, Edmonton 1 Winnipeg 6, Toronto 3 Calgary at Vegas, (n) Monday’s Games Ottawa at New Jersey, 4 p.m. Colorado at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Anaheim at Washington, 4 p.m. Arizona at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Vancouver, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Seattle, 7 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Calgary at SAN JOSE, 7:30 p.m. Columbus at Toronto, 4 p.m. Tampa Bay at Montreal, 4 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Ottawa, 4 p.m. Nashville at Detroit, 4 p.m. Anaheim at Buffalo, 4:30 p.m. Florida at St. Louis, 5 p.m. Carolina at Winnipeg, 5 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Chicago, 5:30 p.m. Minnesota at Edmonton, 6 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia at New Jersey, 4 p.m. Colorado at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m. Boston at Vancouver, 6 p.m. Dallas at Vegas, 7 p.m.

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13 11 .542 3½ 12 11 .522 4 11 12 .478 5 11 13 .458 5½ Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 16 8 .667 — Milwaukee 15 9 .625 1 Cleveland 13 11 .542 3 Indiana 9 16 .360 7½ Detroit 4 18 .182 11 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 14 10 .583 — Washington 14 10 .583 — Charlotte 14 11 .560 ½ Atlanta 12 12 .500 2 Orlando 5 19 .208 9 WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division W L Pct GB Utah 16 7 .696 — Denver 11 11 .500 4½ Minnesota 11 12 .478 5 Portland 11 13 .458 5½ Oklahoma City 6 16 .273 9½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB GOLDEN STATE 19 4 .826 — Phoenix 19 4 .826 — L.A. Clippers 12 12 .500 7½ L.A. Lakers 12 12 .500 7½ SACRAMENTO 10 14 .417 9½ Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 13 10 .565 — Dallas 11 11 .524 1½ San Antonio 8 13 .381 4 Houston 7 16 .304 6 New Orleans 7 19 .269 7½ Sunday’s Games Utah 109, Cleveland 108 Toronto 102, Washington 90 Charlotte 130, Atlanta 127 Houston 118, New Orleans 108 Monday’s Games Orlando at GOLDEN STATE, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Charlotte, 4 p.m. Oklahoma City at Detroit, 4 p.m. Washington at Indiana, 4 p.m. Memphis at Miami, 4:30 p.m. Denver at Chicago, 5 p.m. Cleveland at Milwaukee, 5 p.m. Atlanta at Minnesota, 5 p.m. San Antonio at Phoenix, 6 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Portland, 7 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Brooklyn at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. New York at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m. Boston at L.A. Lakers, 7 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Portland at GOLDEN STATE, 7 p.m. Orlando at SACRAMENTO, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Charlotte, 4 p.m. Chicago at Cleveland, 4 p.m. Washington at Detroit, 4 p.m. New York at Indiana, 4 p.m. Milwaukee at Miami, 4:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at Toronto, 4:30 p.m. Brooklyn at Houston, 5 p.m. Dallas at Memphis, 5 p.m. Utah at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Denver at New Orleans, 5 p.m. Boston at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m.

hopeful Lefty eventually will be enshrined. While O’Neil hadn’t been widely considered a Hall of Fame player or Hall of Fame manager – he was a three-time Negro Leagues All-Star who played for the Memphis Red Sox and Kansas City Monarchs and managed the Monarchs – he universally was considered a Hall of Famer based on his celebrated body of work. Aside from playing and managing, O’Neil was a trailblazer on several fronts. He was a trailblazing majorleague coach and scout

and was instrumental in founding the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. Falling one vote short, O’Neil barely missed election in 2006 when 17 individuals from the Negro Leagues and preNegro Leagues were voted into the Hall of Fame. O’Neil died shortly thereafter at 94. In addition to O’Neil, O’Doul and Fowler, the Early Baseball Era ballot included Bill Dahlen, John Donaldson, Vic Harris, Grant “Home Run” Johnson, Dick “Cannonball” Redding, Allie Reynolds and George “Tubby” Scales.

BASKETBALL NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB 16 7 .696 —

Vikings: Look to continue playoff roll From Page B1 duced – Murphy is hoping for a continuation of the way the Vikings have been playing.

Weather 5-Day Forecast

FOR FAIRFIELD-SUISUN CITY

Today Mostly cloudy, then slight ch. of rain

“I think we have to focus on continuing to play our style of football, we’ve got to play Vanden football,” Murphy said. “When our offense

Almanac

Statistics for Travis Air Force Base for yesterday through 5 p.m. Temperature High/Low.............................55°/47° Average high .......................... 57.4° Average low............................ 39.9° A year ago............................ NA/NA Barometric pressure............30.20 Humidity...................................80%

Air Quality Index 66 Precipitation 0-50 51-100 101-150 151-200 201-300 Last 24 hours................................0″ Good Moderate Unhealthy Unhealthy Very sensitive unhealthy Month-to-date.............................0″ Normal Dec. rainfall ............. 4.30″ Source: Bay Area Air Quality Management District Season-to-date.......................... NA Normal seasonal rainfall....24.81″ UV Index This date last year...................... NA 2 Source: NWS and NOAA <2 3-5 6-7 8-10 11+ Good Moderate

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Tonight Chance of rain

Tuesday Sunny

64|45 Wednesday Partly sunny

60|45 Thursday Ch. of early rain, mostly sunny

57|38 Friday Sunny

54|35 Lake Berryessa

Elevation Storage in acre feet (a.f.)

404.02 937,044

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impressive defense. So I think the big thing is being in the right mindset, our guys knowing their job and doing their job.”

is hitting on all cylinders, we’re tough to stop. When our defensive line is coming off the ball and our linebackers are in the gaps, we’re a pretty

Regional forecast

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Sunrise..............................7:10 a.m. Sunset...............................4:47 p.m. Moonrise........................10:01 a.m. Moonset...........................7:25 p.m. San New First Qtr. Full Last Qtr. Pablo Today Jan. 2 Dec. 10 Dec. 19 Dec. 27 Tuesday Source: U.S. Naval Observatory

San Mateo 61|49 Palo Alto 61|48

San Jose 63|46

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2:38 a.m. 1:07 p.m. 3:34 a.m. 2 p.m.

5.16 6.97 5.15 6.58

2.81 -1.47 2.90 -1.16

7:04 a.m. 8:11 p.m. 8:04 a.m. 9:04 p.m.

Suisun High Today 4:37 a.m. 2:50 p.m. Tuesday 5:34 a.m. 3:44 p.m.

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9:43 a.m. 2.14 11:34 p.m. -0.55 10:45 a.m. 2.14 None -

Forecast for Monday, Dec. 6, 2021

CALENDAR Monday’s TV sports Basketball College men •Illinois at Iowa, FS1, 4 p.m. College women •Penn State at Indiana, BIG TEN, 3 p.m. •Nebraska at Minnesota, BIG TEN, 5 p.m. NBA •Oklahoma City at Detroit, NBATV, 4 p.m. •Orlando at Golden State, NBCSBA, 7 p.m. Football NFL •New England at Buffalo, ESPN, 5:15 p.m. •MNF with Peyton and Eli, ESPN2, 5:15 p.m. Hockey NHL •Anaheim at Washington, NHL, 4 p.m. Soccer FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021 •Tunisia vs. United Aram Emirates, FS2, 6:50 a.m. •Qatar vs. Iraq, FS1, 10:50 a.m. •Oman vs. Bahrain, FS2, 10:50 a.m. Premier League •Everton vs. Arsenal, NBCSN, 11 a.m. Tennis •ATP Florianopolis Challenger, Maia Challenger, TENNIS, 6 a.m. •ATP Florianopolis Challenger, TENNIS, 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s TV sports Basketball College men •Vermont at Providence, FS1, 3:30 p.m. •Virginia at James Madison, CBSSN, 3:30 p.m. •Michigan at Nebraska, ESPN, 4 p.m. •Southern at Kentucky, SEC, 4 p.m. •Texas Tech at Tennessee, ESPN, 4 p.m. •Duquesne at DePaul, FS1, 5:30 p.m. •Charlotte at Arkansas, SEC, 6 p.m. •Villanova at Syracuse, ESPN, 6 p.m. •Butler at Oklahoma, ESPN2, 6 p.m. •LMU at Tulsa, ESPNU, 6 p.m. •Eastern Kentucky at USC, PAC12, 7 p.m. NBA •Brooklyn at Dallas, TNT, 4:30 p.m. •Boston at L.A. Lakers, TNT, 7 p.m. Curling •United States vs. New Zealand, mixed doubles, NBCSN, 1:30 p.m. Hockey NHL •Nashville at Detroit, HULU, 4 p.m. •Anaheim at Buffalo, HULU, 4:30 p.m. •Calgary at San Jose, NBCSCA, 7:30 p.m. Soccer FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021 •Morocco vs. Saudi Arabia, FS2, 6:50 a.m. •Algeria vs. Egypt, FS1, 10:50 a.m. •Lebanon vs. Sudan, FS2, 10:50 a.m. UEFA Champions League •The Golazo Show, CBSSN, 11:54 a.m. Tennis •ATP Florianopolis Challenger, Maia Challenger, TENNIS, 6 a.m. •ATP Florianopolis Challenger, TENNIS, 2:30 p.m. •ATP Florianopolis Challenger, Maia Challenger, TENNIS, 6 a.m. (Wednesday)

Myers: Working From Page B1 an early front-runner for NBA Executive of the Year, an award he won in 2015 and 2017. Silent are critics who, just a few months ago, took to social media and message boards to call him “washed up” or “overrated.” And with Klay Thompson expected to return from an Achilles injury in a matter of weeks, Myers’ work might soon look even more prescient. “One of the best parts of my job is just working with Bob,” Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said. “That’s whether we win or lose. But this year, I think in particular, the offseason free agency was a huge part of our success. “ As he publicly admitted multiple times in the 30 months since Thompson last checked into an NBA game, Myers’ biggest challenge has been putting together a roster without being able to see how newcomers look alongside one of the Warriors’ most important players. Thompson’s ability, to make life difficult on opponents’ best shooters and break records on any given night – all without dominating the ball –

brings the best out of his teammates and makes his value almost impossible to quantify. But as Thompson nears his return, one doesn’t need to be a basketball savant to know that this roster might be even better suited for him than the ones he helped lead to three NBA titles. It is littered with high-level shooters like Porter, Bjelica, Poole and Damion Lee. With more room to operate, Stephen Curry is shooting 41% on a careerhigh 13.2 3-point attempts per game. Though the new acquisitions might not be huge names, they have allowed the Warriors to ratchet up the pace, follow Draymond Green’s lead defensively and post the NBA’s best net rating through 23 games. Porter, Bjelica and Iguodala boast a combined plus-minus of plus-352 despite none of them averaging more than 7.5 points per game. The extra room Porter and Bjelica – both of whom are around career 40% shooters from 3-point range – provide has helped pave the way for Gary Payton II’s sudden emergence. No longer needed to stick along the perimeter, he scores at the rim, finds open shooters off cuts and rolls, and ranks second in the NBA with 3.5 steals per 36 minutes.