Daily Republic: Friday, December 10, 2021

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Solano woman gets NAACP award for her work A3

Vanden set to battle Aquinas for state championship B1

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Amended Solano360 Specific Plan could be a go in 7 months Todd R. Hansen

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Fairfield High School student Luis Morales, 16, shoots the ball during the 4th annual FSUSD/Special Olympics

High School Basketball event at Armijo High School in Fairfield, Thursday.

Special Olympians gather for in-person ‘hoop dreams’ at Armijo

Amy Maginnis-Honey

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FAIRFIELD — Adaptive physical education students in the Fairfield-Suisun School District proved they “still got game” Thursday morning at Armijo High School. More than 100 athletes, representing Armijo, Fairfield and Rodriguez high schools and H. Glenn Richardson, participated in a Special Olympics basketball event. Many of the high school students started out together in elementary school then went to different high schools. The event is a reunion for many of them. The season was interrupted by Covid-19. Some had not seen their friends in person since early 2020. As the athletes stepped off the buses, a round of cheers awaited them from Armijo’s leadership class, whose members stood outside the gym in two welcome lines. Rosemary Morris was among the family and friends there to cheer on the Olympians. Her son, Andrew Morris, will graduate from Armijo High School in 2022. He was diagnosed with autism when he was 2, Rosemary Morris said. Morris said her son had been

Armijo High School student Jorge Gomez, 17, carries the final leg of the torch during the 4th annual FSUSD/Special Olympics High School Basketball event at Armijo High School in Fairfield, Thursday. talking about the game for weeks. Basketball is one of his favorites. “There was one time he shot a basket and the ball ended up in the wire above the backboard,” she said. A ladder was needed to bring the ball down. Andrew Morris kept an eagle eye on the ball Thursday as he moved around the modified court. He was

happy to pass the ball to a fellow teammate he felt had better odds of making the basket. “I think he’s a natural at shooting,” Rosemary Morris said. Andrew Morris grabbed a quick drink of water after the game before heading to the next court. See Olympics, Page A6

Fauci: Delta variant the ‘real problem’ Tribune Content Agency

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President Donald Trump greets the crowd at the Stop the Steal Rally, Jan. 6.

Trump loses appeal to block documents Tribune Content Agency The Biden administration can hand over some of Donald Trump’s White House records to a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capital riot, an appeals court ruled. The U.S. Court of

Appeals in Washington said Trump had provided “no basis” for overriding President Joe Biden’s decision to waive executive privilege over the documents and cooperate with the probe by a House

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See Trump, Page A6

WASHINGTON — The omicron variant of the coronavirus will likely be less severe than the delta variant, which remains the “real problem” for Americans this winter, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday. In an interview with McClatchy, Fauci said the country is “already seeing a resurgence of cases” and warned that 60 million Americans remain unvaccinated. “I think we have enough problems with delta,” said Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser and head of the National

INSIDE Solano Covid numbers dip two days after week of increases. Page A9.

Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “People keep talking about a winter wave with omicron – we’re still getting over 100,000 cases a day,” he said, referring to the delta variant. “We have around 50,000 people in the hospital. We have close to 1,400 deaths per day. I think we really better focus on what our real problem is, and our real problem is delta See Fauci, Page A6

INDEX  Arts B4  | Classifieds B6  | Comics A7, B5  | Crossword A8, B4 Obituaries A4  | Opinion B3  | Sports B1  |  TV Daily A7, B5

WEATHER  55 | 35  Sunny with an early frost warning. Five-day forecast on B10.

FAIRFIELD — The Solano County fairgrounds redevelopment plan that goes from 50 housing units to 500 units is expected to be submitted to the Vallejo planning staff in January. Solano County officials believe the amended Solano360 Spe- Spering cific Plan will get the city go-ahead in seven months. The top Vallejo planner on Thursday said it could be 18 months. “I don’t want to give you false hopes and be caught short,” Christina Ratcliffe, the Vallejo interim Planning and Development Services director, told the Solano360 Implementation Committee. The meeting started as a review of the economic markets that are driving the project. Mike Lindenlaub, with project developer Industrial Realty Group LLC, told the committee that

the first development will likely be studio space for filmmakers and others, as will as maker space for firms that want to produce and deliver their goods from that location, but also with the option of being able to sell those products there as well. The maker space includes a water element. L indenlaub said those two components are the likely driving forces that will lead to the buildout of housing, retail, office and hospitality opportunities, which would include hotels, restaurants and entertainment venue and other amenities. Ratcliffe said the city has yet to receive a project description, environmental documents or any other information to date. She also anticipated, as with most plans, that the document will be incomplete. “The timeline we have given the county is a year, See Solano, Page A6

Bob Dole lies in state at Capitol Rotunda in DC Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — Just before 10 a.m. Thursday, Bob Dole came home. He was carried by a military honor guard up the Capitol’s steps as his wife, Elizabeth Dole, looked on with tears in her eyes. The man from windswept Russell, Kansas, spent 35 years in Congress, rising to the highest echelon of political power in Washington but never quite reaching the pinnacle of the presidency. It was as a senator that Dole left his indelible mark on the nation, as America’s current elected leaders noted in a ceremony Thursday before Dole spends

a final day in the Capitol, lying in state. Dole died Sunday at the age of 98. He rose through Republican ranks as a famed “hatchet man,” but his legacy is one of bipartisan achievements, from the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act to saving social security. Hardly any legislation passed through Congress during his 11 years as the GOP leader without his imprimatur. Before the pandemic, an American lying in state under the Capitol Dome might mean throngs of mourners paying their last respects. Things were different Thursday. See Dole, Page A6

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