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A new era of astronomy NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launches in French Guiana

BALTIMORE — NASA’s revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope is hurtling away from Earth and toward deep space on a longawaited, high-risk mission that, if successful, will look deeper into the cosmic past than any telescope before.

The Webb blasted off Christmas morning from the European Space Agency’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on South America’s northeast coast, and early reports from NASA suggest the mission is going swimmingly.

This is, however, an unusually difficult mission involving an extraordinarily complicated instrument, and in the coming days and weeks the telescope will have to transform itself through a series of hardware deployments, each of which is critical to the telescope’s ambitious astronomy.

Though relieved by the successful launch, NASA deputy administrator Pam Melroy acknowledged what everyone involved with the Webb knows: “We have some scary days ahead.”

That NASA chose to forge ahead with a Christmas launch was a sign of how seriously the agency and the global scientific community takes this $10 billion mission, the long-delayed successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus pose with Vaness Price, 4, and Miguel Price, 5, both of Suisun City, at the Community

Elevate Christmas toy giveaway at Crystal Middle School in Suisun City on Christmas Day.

Holiday cheer

New organization makes Christmas Day special for Suisun community Susan Hiland

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Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket launches with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard from the ELA3 Launch Zone of Europe’s Spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, Saturday.

Airlines’ US holiday flight cuts near 1,800 on crew shortages Tribune Content Agency Airlines’ U.S. flight cancellations neared almost 1,800 for the Christmas weekend, disrupting travel on one of the busiest periods of the year as the omicron-fueled wave of Covid-19 cases triggered air crew shortages.

Saturday’s pullbacks erased at least 10% of the schedule at Delta Air Lines Inc., United Airlines Holdings Inc. and JetBlue Airways Corp., according to data tracker FlightAware.com. The cuts on Christmas Day in the U.S. totaled almost 900.

“Like many businesses and organizations, we have seen an increasing number of sick calls from omicron,” JetBlue spokesperson Derek Dombrowski said in an emailed statement.

“Despite our best efforts, we’ve had to cancel a number of flights, and additional flight cancellations and other delays remain a possibility as we see more omicron community spread.”

Airlines’ tie-ups added to evidence of economic disruptions from the omicron variant, whose fast spread is causing havoc even See Flight, Page A12

Kassandra Quechol Calderon, 3, of Fairfield, got her first bicycle on Christmas morning at the inaugural Community Elevate Christmas toy giveaway at Crystal Middle School in Suisun City, Saturday.

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Velasquez cherishes opportunity to serve his hometown as fire chief Matt Miller

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FAIRFIELD — It’s been a month of transition for Fairfield Fire Chief Tony Velasquez.

The 50-year-old Fairfield native has already turned in his company car and cleaned out his office.

Deputy Chief Matt Luckenbach won’t officially take over as chief until a Change of Command Ceremony on Thursday but by all accounts it has already been done.

Luckenbach led a promotion ceremony earlier in the month. Velasquez has been at his side helping to make the transition as smooth as possible.

“Matt’s large and in charge now,” Velasquez said. “It’s an exciting moment for him.”

It’s also an exciting moment for Velasquez, who will transition into retirement after taking the rein from then-

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SUISUN CITY — Christmas Day is a magical time for children, and this Christmas community organizations made it extra special.

The nonprofit Community Elevate hosted their inaugural toy giveaway at Crystal Middle School.

Giselle Villicana, 10, came with her little sister, Lilianna Villicana, 8, of Suisun City, and both were really excited even though they had opened presents earlier.

Giselle said she got everything she had wanted this Christmas.

“I wanted a phone and a camera and AirPods and I got them,” she said.

Several tables were laid out with gifts.

Each table was labeled with age-appropriate

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Chief Vince Webster on April 2, 2013.

“Chief didn’t want to go out on April 1,” Velasquez said with a laugh.

Velasquez’s plan is to spend more time with his wife, Carrie, and adult children, Anthony, 31, Justine, 28, and Mitchell, 22, play some golf and do some more traveling.

He’d like to finally take the cellphone off 24/7, 365-day access, featuring all the text messages, the troubles and victories, reported to him, though See Chief, Page A12

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Fairfield Fire Chief Tony Velasquez speaks during the Fairfield Fire Department Academy graduation ceremony at the Fairfield Fire Department Training Tower, Aug. 5.

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Let’s move New Year’s Day to March on the calender

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coming up this week. t is said that time is just our mind’s way of We still have New making sure everyYear’s Day (and New thing doesn’t Year’s Eve). happen at once.

It’s another holiday If so, the calendar is after a seemingly just a man-made way to endless series of holimeasure the passage of days. It’s there because time, which is artificial. someone long ago (Tom It’s man-made and I Maybe) decided Brad Stanhope Brady? say we should change that the new year on Like I was sayin’ it. We can throw the the man-made calendar whole thing out. would start seven days If we want to maintain the after Christmas. pretense of following the GreThe decisionmaker didn’t gorian calendar (established in account for holiday fatigue, 1582, Tom Brady’s rookie year nor for the fact that they added in the NFL), we can agree on another day off when the something: There’s room for weather is bad. improvement.

Can’t we agree that the cavThat is more obvious today alcade of holidays (particularly than any day of the year. It’s the the Thanksgiving-Hanukday after Christmas, nearing kah-Christmas-Kwanzaa-New the end of the holiday season, Year’s Day series) is at least one but we have another holiday holiday too many?

My proposal is simple. It doesn’t fix every calendar problem (such as the weird variation in how long “a month” is), but it fixes the biggest problem (having Christmas and New Year’s Day seven days apart).

Doesn’t it make more sense to start the year when spring starts (at least in the Northern Hemisphere. We could start it when fall starts in the Southern Hemisphere)?

Here is the Stanhope Change in Every Nation’s Calendar Events, or SCIENCE, plan: New Year’s Day becomes the first day of spring (March 19, 20 or 21, depending on the year).

You don’t like this? Are you disputing SCIENCE? Imagine a world where we follow SCIENCE: New Year’s Day comes at the start of spring (for 85% of the world’s popula-

tion), when it should. Things are growing. It’s getting warmer.

It’s a time of renewal.

We don’t need a needless middle-of-winter holiday (I realize Dec. 31 is only the 11th day of winter, but that’s another column: How our seasons are wrong). Instead, we get a day off when it’s starting to get warmer and nicer – or at worst, warmer, nicer days are coming.

The only potential downside is that the SCIENCE New Year’s Day can fall near Easter and Passover, but according to my calculations, Easter falls within a week of March 19-21 only twice in the next 20 years. So not really a problem.

This change makes things better for us, since it spreads out holidays. It presumably makes things better for businesses, which have a shorter

time to account for being understaffed in December. It’s better for everyone.

The change requires only one group to modify how it works: Calendar makers would presumably make 13-month calendars that would include March twice (since the year begins March 19-21).

Would they be sad? No, it changes nothing.

This week, as you get ready to commemorate the New Year, think about how this would be in March.

It would be the same celebration, just a bigger deal. And it would be welcomed as a more special holiday.

You don’t agree? Fine. You’re arguing with SCIENCE. Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@outlook.com.

Wine Country in Texas? Try out Fredericksburg Patti Nickell

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FREDERICKSBURG, Texas — “California has Napa and Sonoma; New York has the Finger Lakes and Texas has Fredericksburg,” said Jesse Barter, owner of Hill & Vine Restaurant as he poured a ruby-hued Tempranillo into my glass.

It does indeed. The Hill Country west of Austin and north of San Antonio includes Texassized acreage devoted to wine production, making it the second largest AVA (American Viticultural Area) in the U.S. The Central Texas Hill Country is one of two major wine-producing regions in the state – the other being the Llano Estacado (Staked Plains) in Texas’ northwestern corner.

Here in the Hill Country, some 100 wineries dot the landscape along Highway 290, known as the Wine Road, from Fredericksburg to Austin. Fifty of those are in Fredericksburg itself, with 50 more in the permitting process.

More about the wines later, but back to Barter and Hill & Vine. When I was there for dinner the restaurant had been open for three weeks, and if you were lucky enough to snag a reservation at all, the waiting time for a table was often two hours or longer.

The buzzy crowd sipping cocktails while they waited didn’t seem to mind. Yes, the food is that good. Most everything has a Texas twist — the hummus, for example, contains black-eyed peas.

The taco is stuffed with snapper from the Texas Gulf Coast, while the

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Fischer and Wieser’s Das Peach Haus in Fredericksburg, Texas. The general store sells everything from jams and jellies to chipotle and BBQ sauces. Shoppers can sample their peach cobbler or peach cider while browsing. onion rings use onions from the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas.

I ordered the watermelon and green tomato salad with mint and basil leaves, spiced local pecans and herbed goat cheese with a citrus vinaigrette dressing, and thought it the tastiest salad I have ever had.

That was followed by the smoked Santa Maria Tri-Tip with smoked chili butter, sea salt, roasted butternut squash and Brussels sprouts with a chili salsa. Dessert was Croissant Bread Pudding with bourbon anglaise sauce. You get why people are willing to wait two hours for a table.

Now, back to that award-winning Tempranillo. You just know that this being Texas, they wouldn’t be satisfied with a mere medal of excellence, and they didn’t have to be. Hill & Vine’s vintage won a saddle (yes, a saddle) at a wine competition during the Houston Rodeo and Livestock Show, and pardner, that beats a medal any day.

Hill & Vine is just the latest addition to a remarkably robust dining scene for a town

of 12,000 people. Alas, I didn’t make it to the Granite House or Vaudeville Bistro, two lauded dining spots, but I did do dinner one night at Otto’s German Bistro.

The German influence is strong in the Hill Country as German settlers were the only ones able to forge a tenuous coexistence with the native Comanche Indians who ran off others attempting to put down roots.

Today, you’ll see examples of German culture everywhere.

The menu at Otto’s transcends schnitzels and sauerbraten to include dishes such as Steelhead Trout and Deep Sea Prawn with green pea puree, sugar snap peas, snow pea shoots and tomato oil, and veal loin with broccolini, mushrooms, sweet potato puree and almonds.

I did go German and ordered the Wurst Platte (smoked paprika gruyere sausage, German potato salad, house made sauerkraut and house made spicy mustard.) I was glad I did.

The menu changes weekly, and Otto’s gets most of its ingredients

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from local, organic or sustainable farms, ranches and fisheries.

There’s no dearth of breakfast and lunch options either. Try Caliche Cafe for the former – the Salmon Eggs Benny are to die for. Clear River Ice Cream & Bakery makes a good lunch stop – you don’t have to eat one of their 47 flavors of ice cream for lunch, but you can if you want to.

Finally, don’t miss Das Peach Haus. This multipurpose facility tempts those in search of shopping, sipping, dining and learning.

The general store sells everything from jams and jellies to chipotle and BBQ sauces. Shoppers can sample their peach cobbler or peach cider

while browsing.

I had dinner there beside a small lake and under a canopy of pine trees more reminiscent of East Texas than the Hill Country, and those wishing for a full dining experience can reserve a table. They recently opened a distillery where you can sample their gin and whiskey, and if you’re interested in cooking classes, they are happy to oblige. About the only thing you can’t do is pick the peaches.

Don’t fret. At Jenschke Orchards, you can pick all the plump peaches you want from the 3,000 trees in their orchards. You will have to think of a creative way of getting them home as the Orchard doesn’t ship outside of Texas.

A paradise for wine lovers As strange as it may seem to those who equate the American wine scene with California and Oregon, Texas is one of the country’s leading wine producers, and Fredericksburg ranks right behind Napa as a destination for lovers of the grape.

As for that grape, because of its hot climate, Texas excels in Mediterranean varietals – those found in sultry, steamy southern Spain and Italy.

During a lunch and tasting at Signor Vineyards, I tasted some of these under the expert tutelage of winery host Andre Boada.

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Slight chance of snow in Fairfield next week?

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Donor Care Specialist Kim McElroy, right, draws blood from Jay Nielsen during the Holiday Blood Drive in Vallejo, Friday.

Blood donor

30 minutes of your life may save another life Amy Maginnis-Honey

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VALLEJO — Jay Nielsen summed it up best Friday morning as he prepared to donate blood.

“A half-hour of your life could save someone’s life,” he said.

The Vallejo resident was one of more than 22 people who showed up to help bolster the blood supply for the holidays.

Vitalant hosted the drive. Founded in 1943, it is believed to be the nation’s largest independent, nonprofit blood services provider exclusively focused on providing lifesaving blood and comprehensive transfusion medicine services.

It has a network of about 120 donation centers across the U.S., including Fairfield.

The mobile unit made the trek to Vallejo where it was parked in the drop-off area.

Getting it there was Angelo Dixon, who is also a phlebotomist with Vitalant.

Dixon was pleased that locals, such as Nielsen, took the time from their hectic day – it was Nielsen’s holiday – to fill the schedule. All 22 slots were filled.

Blood donations are always needed, he said.

There are accidents over the holiday, some of them involving driving under the influence, he said.

The American Red Cross reported earlier in the week that the blood supply was at historically low levels and continues to decline.

“If more donors don’t come out to give, hos-

pitals may be forced to delay care to patients relying on blood transfusions,” said a Red Cross press release. “It’s almost unimaginable.”

Historically low blood supply levels not seen in more than a decade persist for the American Red Cross, which supplies about 40% of the nation’s blood, the release said.

The ongoing decline comes at a time of year when donations typically fall. Holiday get-togethers, school breaks and winter weather often lead to lower donor turnout, potentially further compounding the situation.

“We thank all of our donors, especially those who give over the holiday season,” Dixon said.

Nielsen started donating about a decade ago when an acquain-

Free vaccine clinic Jan. 11 Daily Republic Staff drnews@dailyrepublic.net

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, in association with the Solano Department of Public Health and Touro University California, is offering

free Covid-19 Pfizer vaccines for people 5 years old and up.

The clinic will take place from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Jan. 11 at the Sullivan Interagency Youth Services Center, PAL Gymnasium, 2195 Union Ave., Fairfield.

Families should click on https://bit.ly/TouroCARESS0111 to book vaccine appointments for students 5-11 years of age. For students and adults over 12 years old, an appointment is not required.

Walk-ins are welcome.

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FAIRFIELD — There will be no change in garbage, recycling or organic waste pick-up for New Year’s Day. Republic Services collections will occur on the regularly scheduled day for local residents.

There will be no changes to the street sweeping schedule for the holiday, either. That too will occur on the regularly scheduled day.

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tance, who worked for another blood bank, encouraged him.

He does the Power Red donation, which doubles the impact because the automated procedure collects a concentrated donation of red cells that can help twice as many patients, then returns your platelets and plasma See Donor, Page A4

FAIRFIELD — Could it snow in Fairfield?

Weather forecasters said this week there is a slight chance of snow in Solano County – one saying Tuesday morning and another Wednesday – along with the ongoing rain prediction, which could make for a rare event for those living in local low level communities.

Mike Pechner, the famed Bay Area meteorologist who lives in Fairfield, said by email Thursday night that, “There is high pressure over North Idaho, another high west of San Francisco Airport, well out into the Pacific, and a deep trough along the West Coast.”

Pechner continued, “Very cold (modified arctic air) is funneling southward into the trough from British Columbia.

Forecast models show 1 inch to 4 inches for the I-80 corridor, Fairfield to Sacramento, with 4 inches or more to the east on Highway 12 to Rio Vista.”

Pechner forecasts higher amounts north of downtown Fairfield and higher elevations, including Rockville Heights,

upper Suisun Valley and upper Green Valley.

“All of this is expected Wednesday morning,” Pechner said Thursday night in his email.

But a forecast from the National Weather Service in Sacramento on Friday showed the earlier forecast has tapered a bit.

“The system is a little drier and warmer than we were predicting (Thursday),” said forecaster Craig Shoemaker.

“There is more of a forecast for flurries Tuesday morning but nothing is expected to accumulate.”

Pechner said the last time it snowed in Fairfield with significant accumulation was Dec. 27, 1988. He said there was 1 inch in Cordelia and 2 to 3 inches downtown and east.

Before that, the last decent snowfall was Feb. 4, 1976.

But for now, it is a wait and see.

Pechner is wellknown as the longtime weatherman at KCBS radio in San Francisco.

He also worked for a time at KTVU television in Oakland. He currently runs his own Golden West Meteorology company and lives in Cordelia Villages.

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Obituary

Steven Alan Barber Dec. 11, 1961 — Dec. 18, 2021

Steven Alan Barber went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2021, at the age of 60 years. He died in his earthly home with his parents at his side. He was a beloved son to Stan and Carole Barber.

Steve was born in Groton, Connecticut, on Dec. 11, 1961. Since his dad was in the Navy, Steve lived in many states growing up, then settled in Fairfield, California, in 1972.

Steve was born mentally handicapped and as he would say, ‘God made me so special.’ He loved life to the fullest, going to church, giving mini sermons, meeting people, going out to lunch and talking about TV shows.

Steve was a joy and a blessing to all who knew him.

We had a saying: ‘Steve loved everyone and called them his friends, he just has not met them all yet.’

He is survived by his older brother, Donald; uncle, Bud and his family; aunt, Delores and her family.

A Celebration of Life will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 2075 Dover Ave., Fairfield, California.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to the Trinity Lutheran Church, 2075 Dover Ave., Fairfield, CA. Arrangements under the care of Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.

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Volunteers package food to be distributed to members of the public at the veterans hall in Vacaville, Friday.

Volunteers at veterans hall deliver Christmas Eve meals

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Donor Care Specialist Kim McElroy, center, draws blood from Jeanette Davis during the Holiday Blood Drive at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Friday.

Donor From Page A3 to the donor.

He would go home with tickets to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom that would be shared with his grandchildren.

Gannette Davis headed straight to Vallejo after an eight-hour shift at Sutter Hospital in San Francisco. She’s donated several times.

“I got the good stuff,” she said.

After her donation, she was ready to head home and take a nap at her Vallejo home.

Every day in the U.S., patients in hospitals, surgical centers and emergency treatment facilities need approximately 29,000 units of red blood cells, 5,000 units of platelets and 6,500 units of plasma, according the the Vitalant website.

For more information, visit www.vitalant.org.

The Red Cross will enter each January donor in a chance to win a Super Bowl getaway and a chance at a home theater package and a $500 e-gift card.

Potential donors are

urged to schedule an appointment now by using the Red Cross Blood Donor app, visiting redcrossblood.org or calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).

If there is not an immediate opportunity available to donate, donors are asked to make an appointment in the days and weeks ahead to ensure the Red Cross can replenish and then maintain a sufficient blood supply.

In thanks, all who come to give through Jan. 2 will receive an exclusive Red Cross long-sleeved T-shirt, while supplies last.

To donate blood, individuals need to bring a blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification that are required at check-in. Individuals who are 17 years of age in most states (16 with parental consent where allowed by state law), weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also must meet certain height and weight requirements.

VACAVILLE — Being in a military family is a life of service, according to Amy Kennedy, who was helping at the Veterans Memorial Building on Christmas Eve. Amid the whirlwind of people and food, the 46-year-old helped load trays up for delivery to veterans throughout Vacaville.

She and her husband, who retired from the Air Force, have been volunteering at the annual Christmas Eve dinner for more than 15 years.

“We started around 2006,” she said. “Part of being in a military family means giving back to the community.”

Kennedy also works with veterans as the coordinator at Solano Community College’s Veterans Resource Center.

“My dad was in the military, my grandfather and my husband,” she said.

Jeff Jewell was like a conductor leading an orchestra. He has been coordinating and running the event since 1989 along with his wife Lynn, and once again he was full steam ahead for Christmas deliveries.

He pointed left for the Boys Scouts to bring up a cart, then pivoted quickly and began pointing at the silver trays of food to be placed on the cart, but he grabbed most of them

Volunteers Keetra Upton, left, Jovanni Silva, center, and Benjamin Silva, right, package presents to be distributed to members of the the public at the Veterans Memorial Building in Vacaville, Friday. himself and placed them on the car while shouting instructions for the ham and something about the potatoes.

Jewell said he expected at least 200 volunteers Friday to make deliveries and preparations.

There were 75 to 80 people helping to cook the meals this week.

“It is all vets and the families,” he said.

They served between 700 and 900 meals and kept food going out the door until they ran out.

“If anything is left, we have some homeless people who will receive the food,” he said.

Covid kept the hall empty of diners. There was no Santa again this year and no presents were

handed out in the hall.

“The families who have kids let us know and we will be including presents for them,” he said.

Jewell estimated at least 60 turkeys were cooked.

They were smaller this year than last year, along with some 340 pounds of ham, yams, dressing, gravy and dessert.

They have strict protocols for cooking the food and prep. In fact, last year Jewell tossed a turkey that was delivered from someone’s home because they don’t want to take the risk that someone could become sick.

“It happened a few years ago at another veterans hall, not ours,” he said. “People need to know

not to bring us food, we prepare all the food here.”

Jewell noticed a large increase in Hispanic families contacting them for assistance this year.

“I plan to get someone in who can speak Spanish to help us translate,” he said. “It is obvious to me that people are suffering and we will get them some help.”

Kathy Reid, 55, has been coming to volunteer at the Christmas dinner for 10 years. When she started her children were little and came with her.

Today they are college graduates who still come down to the veterans hall on Christmas Eve to help out.

“We do this every year on Christmas Eve. It has become our Christmas tradition,” she said.

Reid’s husband was also in the Air Force at Travis Air Force Base and they made Vacaville their home.

“At first our friends told us about this,” she said.

“Over the years this has become our family too.”

She was pleased and a little surprised at the number of volunteers that came out.

“This was more than what we had last month for Thanksgiving dinner,” she said.

Reid said it wouldn’t feel like Christmas without this day of service for her or the other volunteers.

San Diego County agrees to pay $125K to settle civil rights lawsuit Tribune Content Agency SAN DIEGO — San Diego County has agreed to pay $125,000 to a man who filed a civil rights suit after discovering he was the target of a secret investigation ordered by the former assistant district attorney aimed at getting damaging information for use in a child custody battle.

The settlement reached on Nov. 16 resolves a lawsuit filed by Nathaniel Moore against the county,

former Assistant DA Jesse Rodriguez and Elizabeth Rodriguez, his daughter who is also a prosecutor.

Elizabeth Rodriguez and Moore had a relationship for several years and are parents of a child born in 2017.

He had sued in August 2020, slightly more than a year after a report in The San Diego UnionTribune detailing how the senior Rodriguez had used District Attorney’s Office staff and resources to find evidence of fraud

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or perjury related to an unemployment claim Moore had filed with the state in 2017. Nothing was found, however.

At the time Jesse Rodriguez was the longtime number two official in the DA’s office, largely responsible for the daily operations of the office and one of the most influential figures in the local justice system. He retired at the end of 2018, months before the secret probe became public.

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atric records from the state prison system in the custody battle. Moore was released from state prison in 2009 after serving 10 years on a manslaughter conviction after killing a man in a street fight in Los Angeles. He met Elizabeth Rodriguez four years later.

The relationship disintegrated and the couple landed in court. At a 2018 mediation session in the custody dispute Elizabeth Rodriguez produced a copy of Moore’s psy-

chiatric prison record.

Those records are normally confidential.

The suit said that Moore and his lawyer eventually discovered the records were accessed by an unidentified state prison system worker just before the mediation.

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Why do LA sheriff’s deputies stop and search so many bicyclists?

Insiders cite culture and training Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — For years, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies have used an aggressive strategy on people riding bicycles: Stop them for minor violations and then search them for drugs or guns.

It has resulted in tens of thousands of cyclists being pulled over and searched in recent years, even when deputies have no reason to suspect serious wrongdoing. A Los Angeles Times investigation last month found it is not an effective policing tool: Fewer than 1 of every 10 cyclists searched were found carrying something illegal, and deputies very rarely discovered weapons. The analysis also found that Latinos are stopped more frequently than other groups.

After The Times’ investigation, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors ordered a review of the Sheriff’s Department’s bike stop practices, and the county’s inspector general launched an audit.

The Times’ findings lead to a question: Why do deputies persist in stopping and searching so many bike riders?

Former and current sheriff’s officials said the answer is rooted in a department culture that prioritizes making arrests.

“Everybody likes a good bust,” said J.P. Harris, a retired sheriff’s lieutenant who sits on the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission. “The person out there making the good hooks, they’re respected, they’re looked up to.”

And bike riders, sources said, are easy targets for a deputy on patrol, who can legally make a stop if a cyclist is violating any one of many small infractions, such as riding without a reflector or riding on the sidewalk in many parts of the county.

“Like a lion hunting for prey, what is she going to do? Look for the weakest link. That’s what cops do – they look for the easiest stop,” said a sheriff’s source, who, like other current officials, asked to remain anonymous because he is not authorized to speak publicly.

One sheriff’s sergeant said that as a new deputy, a training officer in Compton told him he should assume that in neighborhoods with high crime rates, any adult riding a bicycle had probably lost their license because of a crime they committed.

“That’s the training mentality behind it, why do we do bike stops,” the sergeant said. “They’ve

already been guilty of something.”

He said stopping cyclists in order to issue them tickets is not the goal.

“We don’t stop for that. We say we stop for that because that’s the probable cause to stop,” the sergeant said, referring to the legal justification for a stop. “But we’re not looking for tickets, we’re looking for guns and drugs.”

He added: “The more stops you make, the more guns and drugs you find.”

The sheriff’s own statistics raise questions about whether that practice is worthwhile. The Times investigation found that deputies searched 85% of the more than 44,000 cyclists they pulled over from 2017 through July of this year, but uncovered illegal items in only 8% of searches.

Weapons were seized 164 times – less than 0.5% of all searches.

“I suspect that the occasional drug or gun find is very reinforcing,” said Jack Glaser, a professor of public policy at UC Berkeley who has studied traffic stop data.

“It may be further reinforced when [deputies] get back to the station and they have a gun to show for their efforts. But there doesn’t appear to be much in terms of negative reinforcement for fruitless searches, so that goes unpunished.”

A Sheriff’s Department spokesperson said the agency had not conducted its own analysis of deputies’ bike stops.

Reflecting on a 35-year career in policing, which included the so-called war on drugs, when law enforcement aggressively targeted low-level drug users, Harris questioned whether a strategy of using minor violations as a pretense to search people and find small amounts of

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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Manan Butt warns a man that he’s not allowed to ride his bike on the sidewalk. drugs or nothing at all is a good use of deputies’ time.

“We used to say: ‘There’s no such thing as a bad arrest.’ I’m not so sure that statement was true then, and I know it’s not true now,” Harris said.

“Some people go for the quantity game: ‘If I stop enough cars, I’ll probably get something.’ That is probably true, but look at all the damage you did while you were search-

ing for that one good thing.

And does that justify all that damage?”

Harris said he couldn’t remember how he was first introduced to bike stops as a deputy.

Chuck Wexler, director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based nonprofit that works closely with law enforcement agencies and policymakers, said the Sheriff’s Departments

aggressive approach to bike stops is out of step with modern policing.

“In 2021 we know so much more ... and the means don’t justify the ends,” Wexler said. “We learned that in city after city, if your answer to the crime problem is just stopping everybody that walks in an area, you really risk alienating those people.

It’s worse than inefficient.

It’s damaging.”

Sheriff’s officials said concern for deputy safety contributes to the high number of searches.

Unlike with traffic stops, in which drivers can be told to keep their hands on the steering wheel, officials said a deputy and cyclist are immediately face to face.

“A lot of deputies want to search just for their own See Sheriff, Page A8

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‘It doesn’t look like home anymore’ Tornado wiped out much of Mayfield’s history

Tribune Content Agency MAYFIELD, Ky. — The Graves County Courthouse in downtown Mayfield, with its tornado-shorn clocktower, has become a symbol of both damage and resilience from an unprecedented storm system – a visual cue marking a major historical tragedy.

It’s fate however, remains uncertain, as Graves County Judge-Executive Jesse Perry’s office said it’s too early to tell if the building will be torn down and rebuilt or if it will be rehabbed using its existing components.

But for many in the Mayfield community, the courthouse already held chief importance to the city’s history.

John Davis pointed out that it was where former Graves County sheriff John Roach was shot, making his wife Lois the state’s first female sheriff – and, Davis claims, the country’s first elected female sheriff.

Davis himself held the post for 12 years after he was Mayfield’s chief of police.

The courthouse plot was also the site of an earthen Civil War fort, where Union infantry fended off Confederate guerrilla soldiers. That same group kidnapped Lucian Anderson, an abolitionist who became one of Mayfield’s native U.S. congressmen and about whom local historian Berry Craig wrote a book.

“This town was extremely Confederate,” Craig, a retired professor of history at West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah, said. “This part of Kentucky was the only region where there was a Confederate majority in Kentucky, called the South Carolina of Kentucky. Anderson was an abolitionist, which in Mayfield was like being a communist in the 1960s.”

Circling the courthouse square just days after the

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Trees with broken limbs sit surrounded by debris near downtown Mayfield, Kentucky, Dec. 14. tornado completely leveled many historic buildings and left several others in disrepair, Craig pointed out the history still standing.

For instance, the courthouse square is also where sympathizers to the Confederacy burned down the courthouse that came after the war ended; a new one was built in the 1880s, according to Craig. The current iteration of the courthouse’s annex was built as a New Deal project in the mid-20th century.

Within a block, the historical significance is more personal.

The Methodist Church, whose pale white ionic columns once dominated their corner of 8th, was where Craig took his polio vaccine.

When Ford came out with a special “1963 and a half” Ford Galaxie hotrod, Craig couldn’t resist a trip to the nearby downtown dealership.

“My friend and I would get on our bicycles and ride up here

from our houses to go in and sit in that thing and shift it ‘til they would run us off. That’s a Mayfieldmemory,” Craig said.

The First Presbyterian Church was almost completely wrecked by the tornado. It’s also where Craig attends, and where the congressman Anderson and two other representatives went: William Voris Gregory and Nobel Jones Gregory.

Davis’ First Baptist Church miraculously made it through the storm despite its proximity to every other wrecked building, including at least seven other downtown churches. He guessed that it had something to do with a brick inlay underneath the church’s imposing stone exterior.

The 72-year-old was for five years a worship leader there, having sung in the choir since he was just three years old. The position was part fulfillment of a promise he made to God as a teenager, he said.

“When I was a junior in high school doing a revival one night, I went down front and told the pastor that I felt like I’d been called to the music ministry,” Davis said. “. . . After law enforcement, God caught me and put me in the leadership position that I promised to God in 1966.”

Author of a book titled “Mayfield – As I Recall,” Davis pointed out that much of the downtown history he valued had already fallen to the wayside because of disinvestment and decay.

“On the East side of our court square, where the CVS is, that was a historic block of businesses,” Davis said. “But it was near the point of collapse itself, and actually one of the buildings did collapse. So that knocked our history on that side.”

The south side of the court square, which is now a blank patch of grass, is a similar story of decline. Craig said he wasn’t

sure about the integrity of the only traditional storefront side remaining, which President Joe Biden visited during his tour of Mayfield last week.

Craig agreed, adding that he’s witnessed a slow decline since the days of his youth where downtown could suit all a family’s needs.

“Mayfield is typical of a lot of small towns: kids grow up, they go to college and they don’t come back because there’s no opportunities here . . . all the jobs in this town for professionals would be like a dentist or a doctor or lawyer. But as far as anything else . . . there’s nothing to do here.”

Heading North on 6th Street from the court square, Craig encountered the remnants of the Hargrove & Foster law office, where only a small interior closet and a shelf still replete with neatly lined law books remained.

Another law office, on a side street between 6th and 7th streets, Mayfield City Attorney Bo Neely was surveying the remnants of his private law firm’s building.

The exterior was mostly ravaged, but a prized staircase in the middle of the historic office stood mostly intact.

Neely’s family has been practicing law in that office since 1962 when his grandfather started there. His father and grandfather held the city attorney role for a collective 66 years.

The night of the tornado, Neely and a friend tried to get to the area to help in any way they could, but the Mayfield native hardly knew where he was.

“We came down as far as we could, to mid-town, and then we started walking down Broadway,” Neely said. “I said ‘where in the hell are we?’ We didn’t recognize anything.”

Further up 6th Street, Craig ran into a pocket park See Mayfield, Page A8

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No puppy for Christmas: Online pet scams proliferate Tribune Content Agency The puppy was supposed to be a Christmas present for her husband, Bryan.

But after Lauren Case, a registered nurse from Warren, Arkansas, plunked down $850 via a cash app for a cute teacup Yorkie named Rosy she saw online, she began to get suspicious.

She had paid an initial $600 by Zelle, a payment app that she had never used before but that her bank confirmed as legitimate. But then the supposed breeder asked for another $250 for a “nanny” to hand-carry the dog to her on an airplane. Finally, Case put the website address into a search engine and found lots of complaints.

“It was something I really wanted, so I ignored the little voice in my head,” she said, kicking herself for sending money before doing the checking.

There will be no puppy in the Case household this Christmas.

Despite numerous pleas, Case never got the Yorkie or her money back. The website then disappeared, Case said, only to pop up later with the same puppy pictures.

In retrospect, she said, there were warning signs. There was no phone number and several of the words on the site were misspelled.

“You don’t think someone’s going to screw you over, but they do,” she said in a phone interview.

Case has filed a complaint with the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office, which is looking into the allegations. Similar complaints have skyrocketed across the country, boosted in part by more people looking to adopt pets during the pandemic.

Attorneys general in numerous states have launched investigations, filed lawsuits and issued warnings about the pet fraud.

In the first year of the pandemic, pet adoptions soared, according to the American Pet Products Association, with own-

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Online pet scams have surged with the proliferation of adoptions during the pandemic. ership rising in 2020 to 70% of American households, an all-time high.

But the pet frenzy also created a shortage, giving scammers a bigger opening in which to work. Pet scams “more than doubled last year and are on pace to be pretty much the same this year,” said Steve Baker, international investigation specialist for the Better Business Bureau, which has a scam tracker for bogus pet sites. “It really, really took off during the pandemic.

“I don’t think it’s possible to search online for puppies and not come across a scam,” he said in a phone interview.

The scammers often pattern their sites after legitimate puppy companies, using the same fonts and sometimes even the same pictures and descriptions, but altering the pictures just slightly – by adding a holiday bow or Santa hat at this time of year, for example.

The Better Business Bureau said online shopping scam reports to its BBB Scam Tracker – for scams of all types – skyrocketed during

the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2019, people lodged 1,515 pet scam complaints with losses of $1 million. In 2020 that rose to 4,552 complaints with losses of $3.3 million. Pet scams made up 34.5% of all the online shopping scams reported to the bureau.

The number of pet scams remains high this year. In the first nine months of 2021, there were 3,116 reports with losses of $2.4 million.

The BBB says pet scammers usually don’t allow the buyer to meet the animal in person. Scammers also typically require the buyer to use some kind of “pet delivery” service, with charges tacked on for extras, such as delivering the pet to the buyer, a special crate for transportation or even some kind of Covid-19 protection shot (which doesn’t exist for dogs) once the buyer has made an initial payment.

Younger people were more likely to be scammed in 2020, with 51% of them under age 44, and the average financial loss reported to the BBB Scam Tracker was $722.

While 82% of pet scam

reports involved dogs, the BBB said, other animals included cats, birds and iguanas.

The scams have hurt genuine internet pet sites. Courtney Dean, social engagement director for pawrade.com, a legitimate site, said people are staying away from online pet purveyors because they are fearful.

“People automatically assume when they see us, that we are one of ‘them,’” she said in a phone interview. “All day long, I’m defending our service.”

She said breeders began working with sites like hers during the pandemic because they didn’t want strangers coming into their homes to see new puppies. To combat the potential buyers’ fears, Dean said, employees talk on the phone with every potential customer, will put them in touch with the breeders so they can see videos or pictures of the puppy, and provide a threeyear health guarantee and 30 days of pet insurance free.

Their advertised prices are also much higher than the scams, about $2,000 for a labradoodle,

for example.

Alabama resident Alicia Trevino, 18, got taken in after she picked out an Australian Shepherd pup, with gray, white and black fur “and a little pink nose,” she said in a phone interview. She put up $700 by Apple Pay to secure the pup, then another $1,000 for shipping to an airport near her home.

Then the scammers wanted another $1,000 not to leave the dog at the airport, which they claimed would put her at risk of being criminally charged with puppy abandonment. They demanded another $1,000 because the puppy supposedly had been sent to the wrong place. After spending $3,700, Trevino realized there would be no puppy. She filed a complaint with the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office, because that’s where the dog allegedly was being shipped from. She has not gotten any money back.

Trevino eventually got a different Australian Shepherd, as her boyfriend drove to a breeder in Tennessee to pick up the animal, whom they named Bubba. Her advice: “Don’t go through online stuff.”

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, a Republican, filed a civil lawsuit earlier this year against two alleged pet scammers, Helda Berinyuy and Thierry Ekwelle, both Arkansas residents, for creating deceptive websites on which puppies were advertised for sale. The two allegedly took more than $160,000 from consumers. The AG did not say whether Berinyuy and Ekwelle were the fraudsters suspected of scamming Trevino. The pair allegedly visited an Arkansas grocery store repeatedly to pick up money that was wired to the store, usually $500 or $700 at a time, and used multiple fake names.

The two also were indicted on fraud charges by a federal grand jury for allegedly scamming more than $110,000 from See Puppy, Page A8

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USC to begin next semester remotely amid Covid surge

LOS ANGELES — The University of Southern California announced Friday that classes will take place remotely for the first week of the next term and that students and staff will be required to show proof of Covid-19 booster shots as soon as they are eligible.

The announcement comes a week after USC officials said they were considering a remote start when classes begin Jan. 10. Earlier this week, seven of the nine University of California undergraduate campuses announced they would begin the next term remotely after UC President Michael V. Drake asked chancellors for each site to implement plans for a safe return amid a serious spread of the Omicron variant. The variant is fueling surges in cases across the state and around the world.

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Sheriff From Page A5 safety,” said Sgt. Chad Vanden Berg, who trained patrol deputies and others on searches and seizures. “They want to know this person doesn’t have a weapon on them before they start dealing with them.”

But deputies performed cursory pat-downs of a rider’s clothes for weapons in only 13% of stops, The Times’ analysis shows. The rest of the searches were more extensive.

Lt. Kimberly Mendoza, who oversees the sheriff’s academy training, said deputies consider factors such as lighting, whether they are alone, the person’s clothing and whether the person is a suspect in a crime when making stops and doing searches.

In 1997, a deputy was shot and killed during a bike stop in an incident that still reverberates in the department. Deputy Michael Hoenig stopped a rider in South Gate who was flailing his arms and acting erratically. Before Hoenig could exit his car, the rider pulled out a .45-

Mayfield From Page A6 dedicated to Anderson’s family, which includes town founder John Anderson and “beloved member of the community” Martha Nell Anderson, who died in 2014. All that remained of the park were three small monuments dedicated to them.

At the northern end of the street is where Davis plans to be buried when his time comes.

Maplewood Cemetery, Mayfield’s oldest, is home to grave dating back to 1831, according to Davis.

His father bought

open on Jan. 6, but all students will need to test negative for Covid before moving into campus housing and before in-person instruction resumes.

The university said it would announce deadlines next week for requiring Covid-19 boosters for students, faculty and staff. UC students will also be required to get boosters, though it is up to each site to carry out the mandate.

California State University also issued a Covid-19 booster mandate for students.

USC is also delaying its spring new student convocation for about two weeks. It was originally scheduled for Jan. 7.

Armed intruder arrested on Windsor Castle grounds A 19-year-old man carrying an “offensive weapon” was arrested Saturday at Windsor Castle while

the royal family was inside.

The Southampton man, who has not been publicly identified, was taken into custody for trespassing and possession of a weapon, according to the Thames Valley Police.

Members of the royal family were alerted immediately.

Many feared dead in Central Africa suicide bombing JOHANNESBURG — An explosion in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday has left an unknown number of people dead and injured, according to official reports.

A government statement on Saturday said that the explosion had been the work of a suicide bomber and that there had been loss of life, but gave no more details.

Eyewitnesses tweeted that the Christmas Day explosion occurred in a busy restaurant in the city of Beni. Videos showed people lying on the floor among overturned chairs and tables.

caliber pistol and opened fire through a window.

Although such incidents are exceedingly rare, Hoenig’s death is cited in training materials as a reason for why bike stops pose a unique threat to police. During a patrol shift one evening in April, with Times reporters in the car, Deputy Russell Smith Goudy recalled the date and circumstances of Hoenig’s death.

“So we’re very, very, very cognizant when it comes to conducting bike stops,” said Goudy, who was assigned to a crime suppression unit at the sheriff’s Century station.

“Bike stops are very dangerous.”

Sheriff Alex Villanueva suggested the 8% of searches in which contraband is discovered justify the practice. The Times found that less than half a percent of searches uncovered a weapon.

“We’re delivering the message that you’re not free to go pillage through our neighborhoods,” Villanueva said when asked about bike stops at a news conference last week. “If we decide that we’re not going to touch anybody on a bike, well, you get people – you saw the crime rate, the homicide

rate 44% (increase) – you have any idea how those people go and kill people?

Does it happen magically? No, there’s bad guys, gangsters, on bikes, in cars, armed to the teeth, out looking for a target.

They’re going to rob them or they’re going to shoot them.”

Villanueva added: “The people that do that unfortunately are overwhelmingly Latinos, African Americans, that is a demographic of that group. The fact that we are actually focusing on them does not mean we’re disproportionately or have any racist motive to address that. It’s the grim reality of it.”

The Times found 7 of every 10 bike stops involve Latino cyclists, a rate significantly higher than Latinos’ share of the county population and their estimated share of bicyclists. The analysis also found that bike riders in poorer communities with large nonwhite populations are stopped and searched far more often than those in more affluent, whiter parts of the county.

Retired sheriff’s Cmdr.

Rod Kusch said arrests for low-level crimes that are typical in bike stops

12 plots, including his own, in the 1960s for $50.

Travel a few miles south on 6th Street and you’ll run into where Craig has a plot reserved at Highland Park Cemetery.

Davis said that he hoped a high percentage of damaged historical buildings could be rehabbed instead of torn down and rebuilt, citing the prominent Hall Hotel, which dominated the downtown skyline. But he wasn’t optimistic about the hotel’s future because of concerns about its integrity, nor was he optimistic about other properties.

“Mayfield will be here in another 100 and however many years, but the history of Mayfield will

be just memories because there’s nothing you can actually reach out and touch. That’s what bothers me,” Davis said.

“We’ll still be here, and we’ll be stronger for it. It just won’t look like home anymore – it doesn’t look like home anymore.”

Craig said the relief efforts in Mayfield brought hope that the town would become whole again, but he worried that the attention on such efforts would fade with time.

“It’s almost like a funeral,” Craig said.

“Everybody comes to a funeral to visit and talk.

Then, a week later, you’re on your own . . . this tragedy is going to just keep going in Mayfield.”

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can take a deputy away from patrolling the streets for hours while they book the suspect in jail or write a report.

“If they’re disproportionate, meaning you got these huge numbers of bicycle stops and low yield, meaning, low guns or low big crimes ... you’re not getting the value for those stops,” he said.

But, Kusch said, barring deputies from making bike stops altogether would take away a potentially valuable crime-fighting tool. Proactive policing by being visible and focusing attention in areas where crimes are occurring can act as a deterrent, he and others said.

“That was a philosophy that I really employed on a regular basis – constant, conspicuous, uniformed patrol, and interjecting myself wherever I could at any moment to try to prevent something from occurring,” Kusch said.

Puppy From Page A7 unsuspecting would-be dog owners.

“During the holidays, when puppies are popular gifts for children, puppy scams become more prolific,” Rutledge said in an emailed statement, adding that a new twist to the scams is that some schemers use cryptocurrency to collect money.

Veteranarians.org, a directory of pet doctors that also includes advice on health and wellness topics for animals, analyzed the BBB data tracker from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31, 2021, and found that Montana had the most scams per capita, followed by Colorado, Nevada, Idaho and the District of Columbia.

Of those states, Nevadans lost the most money, more than $1,000 on average for each con.

Lily Velez, head of special reports at Veterinarians.org, who analyzed the data, said in an interview that 12 of the top 15 states for pet scams also had high rates of Covid-19, leading her to surmise that residents there were doing more shopping online. She said there are several tell-tale signs of scammers.

“The biggest tipoff is they are going to ask for payment via an online platform, Zelle, Venmo or CashApp or a money gram or Western Union.

The second tipoff is you are not going to be able to see the puppy in person, and the third one is they ask for more money in addition to the adoption fee,” she said in a phone interview.

“With a reputable breeder, all the costs are upfront,” she said.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh

Shapiro, a Democrat, issued a warning about these scams to people in his state, noting that the “sellers shouldn’t be hounding you for money to reserve your puppy with high pressure sales tactics or questionable wire transfers.”

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, in a newsletter earlier this year advised residents of his state to “research breeders and sellers carefully. Check complaints filed with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office and review feedback from other customers. Don’t rely solely on information provided by the seller.”

Jessica Gottwals, 36, of Omaha, Nebraska, did ask a lot of questions.

She wanted a second pug dog for her family, especially her 2-yearold daughter, Annabelle.

She had trouble finding one locally, so she found a website that offered a pug for $600, an inexpensive price.

“What’s the harm?” she recalled thinking.

But the seller asked for another $150 shipping fee, and payment by Zelle.

“They didn’t offer fraud protection,” Gottwals said. “I wasn’t comfortable paying that way.”

She asked for additional photos and veterinary records.

When the seller, “Jason,” said his wife was a veterinarian and didn’t need records, that was a dealbreaker for Gottwals. She called the number on the website; a man answered, but he hung up on her.

She waited about another month and checked the website again – there was the same dog. She called the BBB. Her story does have a happy ending. She found a legitimate pug for sale in Kansas, just over the border, whom she named Goose to go with her older dog, Maverick.

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my Maginnis. Does that name sound familiar to you? Well, it should.

Amy has been the heart of the Daily Republic for as long as I can remember. She is the arts and entertainment reporter for the DR. Her stories always touch your heart. They touch mine.

Amy has been with the DR for more than 40 years.

It doesn’t seem possible for a girl so young and beautiful, but it’s true.

She has been and is still a big part of my life. I see her several times a month when she does Communion services for the residents at the Terrace.

It is always a joy to be with her. I give her a hug and a kiss.

Amy also edits my columns. Her published version always seems to be better than the original. Lucky me.

She is really the warm heart that we sense in her reporting for the paper. For example, she came to my rescue a short time after I experienced the second optic nerve stroke and I was nearly blind.

She appeared at my door with her husband and brother with a huge reading machine. It had belonged to her late father. Amy’s mom wanted me to have it.

The reading machine was a real lifesaver for me. It allowed me to keep writing.

It introduced me to technology, which has since been my friend.

She has always been there for me. In a way, for all of you, too.

That technology helped me at the Veterans Affairs’ Western Blind Rehabilitation Center in Menlo Park, which gave me a new life, practically a new world.

After a first visit, where I learned how to be blind safely, the Western Blind Rehabilitation Center gave me an iPhone and taught me how to use it.

On another visit to Menlo Park, they showed me many of the iPhone applications I didn’t have time to embrace on my first iPhone visit.

Don Preston has remarked that the Veterans Affairs sure has done a lot for me. It’s true. I simply would not be able to function without the help they have given me.

I even spent several weeks at their “A Matter of Balance” program. It showed me how to avoid falling by maintaining my balance.

It was a lifesaver. Here I am, still upright.

I can’t say enough about the programs at the Western Blind Rehabilitation Center.

I have an open invitation to return to Menlo Park if I feel like they could help me again. It’s not an unlikely possibility.

My limited sight appears to be in the process of disappearing altogether. That’s pretty important to a guy who is in the fading days of life. The VA has given me the ability to create things that make me happy to be alive.

On a personal basis, that is also true of my Darlin’ Amy. Thank you, Amy. Thank you WBRC. Thank you, Lord.

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

holiday music therapy Tribune Content Agency BALTIMORE — On a recent December afternoon, five teenage members of Mount Hebron High School’s ukulele club gathered to rehearse and record holiday songs. The recording wasn’t just for fun.

Sanika Devare, 16, has arranged for it to air on social media, with the hope of providing a source of music therapy for dementia patients.

What started as an independent research project when Devare was a sophomore at Mount Hebron High School, in Elliott City, Maryland, has evolved into a way to earn her Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouts. The Greater Maryland chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association planned to air the Ukulele Holiday Carols Medley video on Dec. 21, 26 and 28 via Facebook live.

Renee Johnson, communications director for the Alzheimer’s Association, said Devare reached out to the organization and offered to provide video of the performance.

“It is really remarkable someone so young is doing this,” Johnson said.

Music has always been a big a part of Devare’s life, she said.

Devare, now a junior at Mount Hebron, has been playing the French horn since fourth grade but didn’t pick up the ukulele until her friend Sydney Scanlon, 16, taught her how to play in the last year. The two formed the school’s ukulele club and met with friends to practice the instrument in person and online.

“We did a video for school, for just the teachers, and everyone playing separately,” Devare said during a break in recording. “It inspired me to do this video with everybody.”

The idea to create a video for the Alzheimer’s Association came as a result of Devare’s work on a school research project about dementia.

“I have always been interested in medicine and researched dementia in school,” Devare said. “I took the same research class again [this school year] and looked more into music therapy.”

Melissa Kiehl, gifted and talented/advanced research teacher at Mount Hebron High School, said in an email that

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Mount Hebron High School students perform during a rehearsal. Seated from left are Rulan Mo, 17, playing guitar, Sanika Devare, 16, and Sydney Schanlon, 16, playing ukulele. Standing from left are Eliza O’Connor, 16, and Hrithika Samanapelly, 16.

Devare chose the topic of risk factors and prevention methods for Alzheimer’s disease as a research project last school year and continued her work on the topic this year by evaluating music therapy for dementia and Alzheimer’s.

“In addition to the concert, she has also developed materials to share with attendees about the positive impacts of music for these patients using information she has learned in her research so far,” Kiehl said.

While music has been proven to improve people’s moods, Devare learned that those with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease especially can benefit in multiple ways.

“Those in the late stages [of Alzheimer’s/dementia] are able to sing along to lyrics even if they are not communicating,” Meegen White, program manager for the Alzheimer’s Association, said. “Music reawakens that part of the brain in an individual and gives them the ability to connect with their current situation.”

Devare, a Girl Scout since fourth grade, submitted her Memory through Music project as a proposal to earn her Gold Award. According to the Girl Scouts organization, “through pursuing the Gold Award, Girl Scouts change the world by tackling issues they are passionate about to drive lasting change in their communities and beyond while they learn essential skills that will prepare them for all aspects of life.” Projects should provide “unique solutions with long-term relief” to the community, and as a final step before earning the award Girl Scouts must share what they learned as well as the impact the project has had on others.

“Outreach is a big part of my project,” Devare said. “I have to share what I did and how it benefits the community.”

To do this, she has created and sold T-shirts to raise funds to print pamphlets about dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. The pamphlets will include a QR code that links to the holiday concert livestreaming events.

All players at the concert are

members of the ukulele club, but Devare’s arrangement required Rulan Mo, 17, to play guitar, Sydney Scanlon, to play ukulele and Hrithika Samanapelly, 16, and Eliza O’Connor, 16, to sing.

Devare played bells and acted as director during the songs, which included “We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” “Jingle Bells” and “The First Noel.”

“I love this idea and am happy to help Sanika with her project,” Scanlon said. “We’re helping people.”

Sitting in front of a Christmas tree, the group went over rhythms, adjusted amps and discussed how to keep music stands out of sight during the recording.

Next, Devare will edit the video and add her informative presentation before giving it to the Alzheimer’s Association to use. She will also submit it to the Girl Scouts for final approval toward her Gold Award.

Kiehl said Devare’s work on the project is to be commended.

“She is a dedicated, friendly, bright young woman,” Kiehl wrote. “I’m very proud of what she’s done.”

Medical advances of 2021 transcend pandemic

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he Phoenix of Greek Updated mythology rose from recommendations for the ashes, a legend reflux esophagitis that seems timely.

Americans will simCommonly referred ilarly regenerate some to as “heartburn,” doctors describe gasdegree of normalcy tro-esophageal reflux in the wake of Covdisease as GERD. More id-19’s devastation. We Scott Anderson than just a nuisance, will need to adapt to the Ask Dr. Scott GERD can disrupt causative virus and its sleep and even lead to mutated derivatives. potentially cancerous celluAgainst that backdrop, the lar changes in the esophagus.

Cleveland Clinic recently came New guidelines published by out with its list of “top interthe Journal of Gastroenterolnal medicine stories of 2021,” ogy describe comprehensive which I received courtesy management strategies. These of their Center for Continuinclude lifestyle changes, mediing Education. cation or even surgery for some Let us discuss a half dozen individuals. research insights that appear Guidelines for chest pain medically noteworthy. I decided So-called “atypical” or “lowrisk” chest pain must be taken to focus on subjects that transeriously, as physicians need to scend Covid-19. exclude heart attack or aortic dissection, among other diagDrug-drug interactions noses. Indeed, 5% of emergency impact thyroid function department visits, to a tune of Recall that the thyroid gland, $10 billion annually, are due to shaped like a bow tie and located chest pain.

New guidelines for maninside the frontal neck region, agement of this condition were controls aspects of metabolism. formulated by the Society for A study of half a million VeterAcademic Emergency Medicine. ans Affairs patients found that For example, providers will one in three thyroid medication seek to assess the risk of a heart recipients also consumed mediattack by analyzing medical cations that might alter thyroid history, including prior stress function. Examples included the tests and angiography. Lower seizure medication phenytoin risk patients may be referred and the anti-inflammatory corti- to clinics, rather than facing hospitalization. costeroid prednisone.

Coffee and tea may decrease dementia risk This is a feel-good study for lovers of either beverage, out of the United Kingdom. A study of more than 365,000 persons found a lower risk of dementia and stroke among both coffee and tea drinkers. Two to three cups of either coffee or tea translated into a third fewer strokes and a quarter fewer cases of dementia.

Parkinson’s disease risk linked to lifestyle The Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, in a meta-analysis of other studies, described a lower risk of the condition correlated with lifestyle and health factors. Physical activity, consumption of coffee or tea, use of anti-inflammatory medications, as well as consumption of statin drugs, collectively decreased risk.

Surprisingly, cigarette smoking also seems to correlate with a lower incidence of Parkinson’s disease. Some postulate that nicotine fosters more prolonged survival of brain cells.

I wish to emphasize that smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema, and is extremely unhealthy, overall. Moreover, a correlation of lower Parkinson’s rates with smoking does not prove causation.

Conditions associated with

higher risk of Parkinson’s also include depression, bipolar disorder and diabetes. Head injury prevention also deserves consideration.

Heart disease prevention Among the Cleveland Clinic 2021 advances were entries related to preventing heart disease. Improving diet, with more consumption of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, along with physical activity, garnered attention. A study of 25,000 Korean adults revealed a lower risk of calcium deposits developing in coronary arteries, among those who exercised regularly.

This pandemic-dominated year saw significant medical advances in the treatment of various medical conditions. Although the pandemic attracted overwhelming attention, less visible health challenges also attracted scientific scrutiny.

We struggled as a society with obesity, deconditioning and social isolation as additional burdens.

Let us hope for improved collective well-being as 2022 dawns.

Scott T. Anderson, M.D. (standerson@ucdavis.edu), is a clinical professor at the University of California, Davis Medical School. This column is informational and does not constitute medical advice.

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Return to effective leadership Why is there resistance to the provisions of the “Build Back Better” plan? Here’s what Americans are living with: n High costs for dental and hearing care, and prescription drugs. n Expensive child care and limited pre-kindergarten. n Costly community college fees. n Unpaid family leave. n A regressive tax rate.

I contend that the 2010 Citizens United decision contributed to our dilemma. U.S. Sen. John McCain warned in 2012, “I guarantee there will be a scandal, there is too much money washing around politics, and it’s making the campaigns irrelevant.” Many elected leaders are more beholden to their donors instead of representing their constituents and the greater public interest.

There have been few sincere negotiations among our elected leaders in generations. Our democratic republic was designed to resolve conflicts peacefully through the art of “compromise” (and “diplomacy” in foreign affairs). Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chairwoman of the House progressive caucus, exemplifies that art. She steadfastly pursues conflict resolution without sacrificing her values, and she refuses to cast aspersions toward those opposing her views.

The progressive movement has been defined as “a social or political movement that aims to represent the interests of ordinary people through political change and the support of government actions.” Jayapal fits that definition perfectly – as did Abraham Lincoln.

Would that we had many more like her to save our democracy.

Bob Panzer Fairfield

Work like hell? Not the right approach I was watching the news and the discussion of Sen. Joe Manchin’s refusal to put a financial burden on the backs of the American taxpayer related to President Biden’s “Build Back Better” bill, which would cost into the trillions

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n early October, Taiwan heard the Chinese miliBeijing’s message tary launched its loud and clear - and most threatenresponded with ing moves against equal clarity. The Taiwan to date, Taiwanese defense spreading panic forces scrambled there. But the real planes to respond target of Beijing’s to the Chinese air ire that week was Josh Rogin force’s aggression. not Taiwan, but Taiwan’s leaders rather the United States increased their calls for the and the five other allied international community navies that were conducting to rally around a defense unprecedented joint exerof Taiwan’s sovereignty cises in nearby waters. The amid the increasing threat strategic situation in the from China. western Pacific is changInside the U.S. governing fast as Beijing tries to ment, officials differed assert its dominance over about how dangerous the the region and define the situation in the Pacific terms of our engagement. became that week. They We can’t let China bully noted that U.S. intelligence us into not responding. cannot confirm exactly Between Oct. 1 and why Beijing responded to 4, China’s air force flew the joint exercises so forcenearly 150 war planes into fully. But all agreed that the Taiwan’s airspace; the two events were linked and 56 fighters, bombers and that both sides are trying to submarine hunters that flew establish new positions in a on Oct. 4 were the largest rapidly changing security ever one-day contingent environment without clear sent near the island. The lines of communication Biden administration conwhich could be dangerous. demned China’s actions, Many China watchcalling them “provocaers inside and outside the tive” and “destabilizing” U.S. government believe and warning that they that Beijing, by overreact“undermine[d] regional ing to moves such as the peace and stability.” But joint exercises, is trying to not wanting to exacerbate pressure us to do exactly an already tense situation, nothing as it strives to the Biden administration assert its dominance over didn’t disclose that Beithe region. China wants jing’s moves were very to encourage fears among likely a response to the some in the West who largest ever U.S.-led joint believe that standing up to naval drills happening in Beijing will inevitably lead the nearby Philippine Sea at to conflict. the same time.

“We need to be careful Two U.S. naval carrier not to let the Chinese strike groups, one British determine our actions carrier group, three large or have a veto over what Japanese ships and naval we do to maintain stabilforces from Canada, New ity in the region,” said Zealand and the NetherMichael R. Auslin, distinlands had convened on the guished research fellow region in a massive show of at the Hoover Institution. force. The exercises were “That would simply create meant to send a signal of more space for them to conresolve, telling China firmly tinue shifting the balance of but not publicly that the power in their favor.”

United States and its allies China is rehearsing an intend to preserve open invasion of Taiwan and freedom of movement in training its troops to attack areas of the Pacific Ocean U.S. aircraft carriers, but it that Beijing claims as its throws a tantrum when the own. Their proximity to United States increases the Taiwan was sure to get Bei- scope of joint naval operajing’s attention. tions in return. We must not The exercises were play into that tactic. not even announced until The joint exercises show several days later. That’s that the United States is not because the United States alone in its concern about and its partners were trying China’s efforts to change to strike a delicate diplothe balance of power in matic balance: sending Asia. Our allies are at a a clear signal to China point where they know without sparking a public much more needs to be kerfuffle. But rather than done to respond to China’s expressing its opposition to military expansion in the the exercises quietly, the region. But they still are Chinese government opted worrying too much about for a severe and very public ruffling Beijing’s feathers. reaction, causing a crisis.

The best way to demIn the moment, there onstrate to China that was no direct communicatantrums and bullying tion between the two sides, won’t work is to continue owing to the general deteapace with our efforts to rioration of U.S.-China build up our alliances and military relations. So China capability to keep the region and the West were talking free - including readiness to to each other with ships and come to Taiwan’s defense, if warplanes, leaving both necessary. The risk of escasides unsure how their mes- lation is real, but we can’t sages were coming through. let that paralyze us. In the “This clearly was aimed face of aggression, inacto send a message, and tion is the most dangerous clearly we think the timing course of all. wasn’t coincidental,” a senior defense officials told Josh Rogin is a columnist me about the Chinese air for the Global Opinions force flights near Taiwan. section of The Washing“They are definitely flexing, ton Post. He writes about to send a strong signal to foreign policy and national Western powers to stay out security. Rogin is also a of the way.” political analyst for CNN.

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of dollars. I’d like to applaud Sen. Manchin for taking a stand and being what America needs most, which is a statesman rather than a politician.

But what struck me most was the White House response to Sen. Manchin’s stand. In the words of Press Secretary Jen Psaki describing the president’s response to Manchin’s blockade of the $2 trillion domestic initiative, which was the vow to “work like hell” in the coming days to find a solution to the impasse.

That’s when it hit me, the president’s method was not to use a “right standing” method to help find a resolution, but the methods of hell. OK, OK, I hear you, it was only a metaphor, but to me, who looks at life through a biblical lens, “working like hell” is not a good thing.

In this season of Hanukkah and Christmas, the president should be working like Heaven instead of Hell. If you look at history, it was the work of hell that came against the Maccabean at Masada, it was the work of hell that “gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were 2 years old and under.”

So, to “work like hell” is not one of peace, goodwill, but of fear of losing power and preserving its own self-serving interest. “To steal and kill and destroy.”

I have to kinda laugh here because the response to this letter will be to deflect from my observation and support the political emperor. But what can you expect from those who support “working like hell?”

So, I want to thank Sen. Manchin for working for the people and not for hell.

Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas.

The Rev. Morris A. Curry Jr. Vacaville

Festival of Trees thanks community Vacaville Festival of Trees would like to thank local residents and businesses for their generosity during the 31st annual fundraiser for Opportunity House. Between the sale of fully decorated Christmas trees, funds brought in during the Festival of Trees Gala and the Downtown Winter WonderWalk, we were able to raise approximately

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$138,000 for the city’s homeless shelter.

We thank all who donated and decorated Christmas trees, the businesses and offices around town that displayed them, the volunteers whose hard work made the gala such a magical event, and everyone who made a purchase or donation.

We especially want to thank this year’s sponsors: Cross Country Mortgage, Kaiser Permanente, McGuire Realty, Travis Credit Union, Reynolds Law LLP, Hancock & Faller CPAs, Assemblymember Jim Frazier, I-80 Forklift, NorthBay Healthcare, Jim & Anne Gemmer Family, Essenza Salon, WestAmerica Bank, Triad Lagoon Valley, John and Diane Thompson, Dutch Bros., Budget Blinds, Downtown Journey and Stem’s Florist. We couldn’t do this without them.

One aspect of this year’s festival continues through the end of December: the Festival of Treats and Holiday Bake Shoppe. Sure to please any sweet tooth, you can place an order for ready-to-eat festival favorites or tubs of readyto-bake cookie dough, by visiting www.VacavilleFOT.org.

Finally, those who would like to make a direct donation to Opportunity House this holiday season are invited to participate in the Fund In Need drive, which this year is focused on providing meals. If 270 people donate $100 (or make a recurring $10 per month donation), it would help pay for the 3,600 meals the shelter serves every month. Donate by texting OHMEALS to 707070 or go online to www.VSSCorp.org.

Opportunity House, which is managed by Vacaville Solano Service Corp., serves women, men, families and transitional age youth in Solano County. It relies on community donations to provide them with support, essential resources and shelter with the goal toward self-sufficiency and a productive lifestyle. Together, with help from our community, we are changing lives.

Thank you, again, to everyone who helped with this vital cause.

We’ve already begun planning next year’s theme for the Festival of Trees and Gala, which will be “Peppermint Twist.”

Happy holidays!

Michelle Strand, VSSC president and Festival of Trees chairwoman Vacaville

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My sister, brother-in-law get sloppy drunk at gatherings the way they treat other Dear Annie: I need people’s belongings that some advice on how to becomes annoying. They approach my older sister have literally caused about how both she and thousands of dollars her husband conduct of damage on multithemselves at family gatherings. They feel ple occasions, but they entitled to anything my never even dream of parents have. paying back my parents.

The first thing you They also love claimAnnie Lane have to know about them ing whole weekends Dear Annie is that they are nearly as soon as they know 40 years old, yet they still act my parents will not be there, like children. They heavily rely and then they invite their other on my parents financially and grown-up children friends to have no real drive to better “party” and take advantage themselves. of my parents’ good nature. I For instance, my parents think this has not gone unnoown a lake house and a beach ticed by my parents, but they rental that my sister always have always enabled her and seems to call dibs on whenever keep letting her do whatmy parents announce they will ever she wants. not be using them that weekend.

My sister and her husband That by itself is not bad, but it’s are also the cheapest people the way that they go about it and on the planet, but they have no

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problem spending my parents’ money or taking advantage of any situation that my parents afford them. At family gatherings, they have this habit of getting sloppy drunk and making fools of themselves.

This involves both of them draining nice bottles of wine that my parents put out for everyone. My brother-in-law will take half a bottle in his glass and then joke about wanting to make sure he gets the good wine. My sister is the exact same way, and she will empty bottles so fast that my parents, or anyone else, can barely get a glass before it is gone.

I would love nothing more than to call them both out the next time they do this, but I don’t want to be the one to ruin Christmas (where I know this will happen again). When facing

any criticism, my sister will scream and cry like a toddler, so it has always been hard to approach her about anything she needs to change.

How would you tell someone like that to grow up and think of someone other than herself?

I’ve talked about this with my parents and know that the whole situation annoys them, too, but they still enable her and allow her to act the way she does. — Fed-Up Younger Brother Dear Younger Brother: Wow, it is very understandable that you are fed up with your sister and brother-in-law. To say their behavior is childish, selfish and rude is an understatement.

But in order for the behavior to change, the real people who have to get truly fed up are your parents. It is their wine and their lake and beach house

that your sister and brotherin-law are taking advantage of. Maybe you need to have a family meeting or some sort of an intervention.

Getting sloppy drunk and taking advantage of your parents in their 40s can’t do much for their self-esteem.

My guess is that, deep down, your sister and brother-in-law are probably not very happy and probably need some help instead of judgement about all of their terrible behaviors.

Think of your family as a team that needs to work together, and two of your teammates are really hurting the rest of the team through their selfdestructive actions.

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for your health

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday You’ll bring order to your world through list-making. These documents hold magic for you. You’ll clear your mind, serve your heart and prioritize in such a way to make your life sing with the elements that bring you joy. In the professional realm, your enterprising ways will create opportunities for advancement. Taurus and Cancer adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 1, 4, 44, 16 and 41.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re not looking for a fight, but you’re aware; the fight is always going on somewhere.

Ever the warrior, it’s as though you are marching to some distant battle hymn only you can hear.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). As you seek the next right action, you must also consider the wisdom of inaction. In the stillness, you will feel your different options, which include the option to watch and wait.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). People have fought and died for the freedom to believe as they wish. You do not take this freedom for granted and will exercise its limits, trying on different beliefs to see how they fit.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’re strong enough to do it on your own, but it’s much better when you include others. You need input. A partner will show you what you’re not seeing, keep you on track and be good company along the journey.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You get to decide who you want to work and socialize with. Keep in mind that tenderness can be a powerful form of strength. Gentle, warm, positive people will bring out the best in you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ve invested in different projects and people, so some of your energy is still out there circulating in the universe.

Take stock of what you have. It may be time to call it back to you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You offered advice that wasn’t taken. This is your chance to say, “I told you so,” but you’ll refrain because you’re above such infantile jabs. What you care about more than being right is being helpful.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

Someone erroneously told you, “To get the fruit, you have to climb the tree,” or a message akin to that. The truth is that sometimes, the fruit hangs low, and all you have to do is reach up and pluck it off.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You’re unique, and the world you’ve made for yourself is a thing of wonder.

You give people the opportunity to participate in situations they normally wouldn’t be able to access.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

Knowing why you want to do something is much more important than knowing how to do it. You’ll find many different “hows” when you have a good “why.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). When people wrong you, you think of the times when you’ve wronged others and you’ll give what you would have wanted in those moments: compassion and a second chance.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your memory is strong and undiscerning.

You’ll recall important facts and less useful ones alike. All this data makes it easier to be creative and harder to be focused.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: David Sedaris shares his diaries from 2003 to 2020 in his latest release, “A Carnival of Snackery.” Capricorn is known for ambition, civic responsibility and work ethic, a magic combination that Sedaris exemplifies in unparalleled ways, not only through his daily writing practice, intensive tour schedule and custom of signing books for hours until the last patron is satisfied but also for his habit of roaming the English countryside picking up garbage.

Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

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New Year’s resolutions are all about making a positive change to better your quality of life.

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New Year’s resolutions W K eira Dagy

Special to the Daily Republic

ith 2022 just around the corner, many people are starting to make their annual New Year’s resolutions. New Year’s resolutions can be a great way to set goals and intentions for the new year.

The most common New Year’s resolutions oftentimes surround exercise, diet and weight-related objectives such as going to the gym, creating a consistent exercise routine, cutting out certain foods or just trying to hit a target weight-loss benchmark.

However, many people are all too familiar with the feeling of intense motivation about their resolutions in the first couple of months of the year, and then begin to slowly fall behind on those initial goals as the year progresses.

This can sometimes be attributed to choosing overly ambitious health goals without creating a plan to achieve these goals, or not choosing goals that genuinely bring joy into their lives.

However, there are some key tips and tricks that can help you with creating realistic, long-term resolutions to improve your health and well-being far beyond 2022.

New Year’s resolutions are all about making a positive change to better your

quality of life. The best ways to make New Year’s resolutions are to make goals that are specific, realistic and long-term with a plan on how to achieve them. It’s also important to remember that everyone is different when it comes to setting goals: some people are good at making big changes all at once, while other people do better by taking smaller steps. Some are inspired to start new resolutions on day one based on the new year, others may feel constricted by having to make lifestyle changes on a certain date.

Being able to reflect and figure out what you want to improve upon in the new year as well as the best ways to plan and achieve those goals are the first steps to creating New Year’s resolutions. Another way to think about what resolutions are right for you is to not only consider health and wellness goals, but also think about what makes you happy. Setting goals that elicit a positive emotional response can actually rewire your brain and help make those habits stick long-term.

Common New Year’s resolutions that consider mental health and wellbeing include meditating, journaling, practicing gratitude, playing an instrument, nourishing friendships, as well as working out and moving your body.

New Year’s resolutions like these that

go beyond physical health are just as important as setting fitness goals and can be easier to create long-term habits and lifestyle changes.

Meaningful New Year’s resolutions can go beyond the common physical health and fitness goals. Being able to carve out some time this holiday season to reflect on personal aspirations and values that are most important to you is the first step toward creating your resolutions for 2022 and beyond. It’s also important to remember that everyone is different and resolutions that work for some people may not work for everyone.

Creating New Year’s resolutions that bring positivity and joy into your life is the best way to help ensure that they will become a habit and a long-term lifestyle change. It is also essential to create a plan on how you will achieve these goals, and most importantly not get discouraged if you fall off track.

Making New Year’s resolutions sets a clear intention of what you want to accomplish going into the new year and beyond, so take some time this holiday season and make your New Year’s resolutions!

Keira Dagy is a project manager from Community Clinic Consortium, a partner of Solano Public Health.

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Thursday, Dec. 23 3:02 a.m. — Battery, 3100 block of EVERGREEN DRIVE 3:58 a.m. — Battery, 1100 block of DELAWARE STREET 8:11 a.m. — Grand theft, 200 block of LAWRENCE COURT 8:40 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2800 block of AUTO MALL PARKWAY 9:38 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 400 block of TABOR AVENUE 10:10 a.m. — Grand theft, 2100 block of TRINIDAD PLACE 11:03 a.m. — Trespassing, 1600 block of CLAY STREET 11:04 a.m. — Grand theft, 1400 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD 12:12 p.m. — Trespassing, 1600 block of CLAY STREET 12:56 p.m. — Vandalism, 900 block of MISSOURI STREET 1:05 p.m. — Reckless driver, AIR BASE PARKWAY 1:35 p.m. — Grand theft, 100 block of MIDWAY ROAD 2:27 p.m. — Trespassing, 2900 block of AUTO MALL PARKWAY 3:08 p.m. — Grand theft, 100 block of MIDWAY ROAD 3:34 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, EASTBOUND AIR BASE PARKWAY 3:42 p.m. — Forgery, 1800 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 3:44 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2400 block of WATERMAN BOULEVARD 3:49 p.m. — Vandalism, 5000 block of PEABODY ROAD 3:52 p.m. — Trespassing, 1200 block of TABOR AVENUE 4:10 p.m. — Grand theft, 1300 block of CROWLEY LANE 4:13 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1600 block of KIDDER AVENUE 4:23 p.m. — Reckless driver, WESTBOUND AIR BASE PARKWAY 4:48 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 6:53 p.m. — Grand theft, 1500 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD 7:23 p.m. — Grand theft, 1500 block of HOLIDAY LANE 7:29 p.m. — Shots fired, 3100 block of POTRERO WAY 7:57 p.m. — Battery, 500 block of JACKSON STREET 8:47 p.m. — Trespassing, 1800 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 8:54 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1200 block of SWAN LAKE DRIVE

Cheer From Page One gifts. They also had bikes for all ages, a gift basket and clothing.

Lilianna was happy to pick out her gift.

“It’s been a good Christmas,” she said.

Kia Butcher, executive director for Community Elevate, was happy to see the various community organizations coming together to help make the day special for families in the community.

“The organization is made up of different entities,” Butcher said.

“For years the Christian Fellowship Church held this event.”

Community Elevate may have just started as an organization but they already have plans in place for the end of the school year.

“We have incentives for honor roll students,” she said. “The reward is going to be a secret for now.”

They also will be giving incentives to teachers.

“We don’t want them to lose heart, it has been hard with Covid,” she said.

“If we elevate the teachers, we encourage the

3:27 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 6:56 a.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 1600 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 8:15 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 500 block of DAKOTA STREET 8:54 a.m. — Trespassing, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 9:16 a.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:07 a.m. — Drunken driving, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:09 a.m. — Vandalism, 100 block of DEL NORTE COURT 12:28 p.m. — Reckless driver, JOSEPH GEREVAS DRIVE 2:05 p.m. — Battery, 400 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 2:27 p.m. — Forgery, BILTMORE COURT 2:48 p.m. — Battery, 3100 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 3:38 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 1700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 4:41 p.m. — Reckless driver, PEABODY ROAD 5 p.m. — Trespassing, 1600 block of UNION AVENUE 5:05 p.m. — Robbery, 1500 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 6:21 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 700 block of MADISON STREET 6:57 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1500 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 7:38 p.m. — Shots fired, 5100 block of ELLIS GODFREY DRIVE 8:13 p.m. — Shots fired, 5100 block of FALATI LANE 9:51 p.m. — Shots fired, WATERBURY WAY 10:21 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE 10:26 p.m. — Shots fired, 1800 block of KOLOB DRIVE 11:37 p.m. — Vandalism, 2900 block of TETON LANE

Suisun City Thursday, Dec. 23 3:15 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, CANVASBACK DRIVE

Friday, Dec. 24 1:26 p.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, RAILROAD AVENUE/ PEPPERWOOD STREET 10:27 p.m. — Shots fired, 500 block of EAST WIGEON WAY

entire community.”

Butcher said she hopes that they can enrich families even if it is just one at a time with events like the Christmas toy giveaway.

Lori Wilson, mayor of Suisun City, greeted about 75 people in the early morning.

“I am just thankful for our community partners helping to make the community feel special,” she said.

Volunteer Lahoma Edwards loved that they were doing outreach for the community.

“We have gathered all we could to make this season bright,” Edwards said. “We also have Santa, where kids can get pictures with him and Mrs. Claus.”

Kassandra Quechol Calderon, 3, of Fairfield, took a ride on her first bicycle Saturday.

Her mother, Silva, was happy to see her little girl riding her bike.

“It’s just a great blessing for the community today,” Silva said.

They planned to finish the morning at home with presents and a trip to the grandparent’s house for some Christmas dinner.

“My Christmas wish is to be healthy the whole year,” she said.

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stint with Cal Fire before joining the Fairfield Fire Department.

Velasquez has continually run into friends and neighbors during his job, those that taught him in school, former classmates, friends from church, generations that have been a part of the city. Velasquez has even known people and helped them in automobile accidents and fought fires of homes that he has visited.

“Fairfield is a bigger city now but it still has got that small town feel to it,” he said. “My ties run deep in this city and

I’m humbled I was able to serve it.”

He likes the status of where he is leaving the department. The 2020 annual report showed that the department is handling nearly 14,000 calls a year, doubling the just under 7,000 it handled in 2000.

The department now also has an operating budget of $26 million with some 70 firefighters, along with an extensive support staff. There are five fire stations with a sixth on the way in the near future.

Equipment continues

to get upgraded, featuring the brand-new Truck 37, that replaced the 15-year-old truck.

Velasquez is also particularly proud of the new emergency call center at the administration office, ready and able to serve the community in times of crises, like the Covid-19 pandemic and the rash of fires highlighted by the monster LNU Lightning Complex Fire of 2020.

“I’m proud of the relations that we have ongoing with other departments throughout the county,” Velasquez said. “I feel like we’ve raised the bar and been on the right path, and I know Luckenbach will take it and run with it and make it even better. We’ve met the industry standard.”

The hardest part now will be the goodbyes.

“I’m really proud how we have responded to these emergencies,” Velasquez said. “We’re experienced and I think that’s what the people have looked for. If we didn’t have an answer, we worked really hard to look for it.”

will have power out there in the void.

“There it is. There is your critical call. James Webb not only has legs, it has power,” Navias said. “Quite a Christmas present for the world’s astronomers.”

At a news conference in Kourou after the successful launch, NASA science chief Thomas Zurbuchen highlighted that image of the telescope receding into space: “For me that picture will be burned into my mind forever.”

The launch and the deployment of the solar arrays was greeted with cheers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, where officials, industry executives and a smattering of journalists gathered in the institute’s auditorium to watch events on a big screen. Upstairs, in the high-security Mission Operations Center – which took over the mission after the launch team in French Guiana concluded its task – the outcry of joy among the engineers and technicians was intense enough to send a rumble through the building.

“My feet have stopped tapping,” planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel, who could not bear to sit down during the launch, said in the institute cafeteria as the Webb flew through space.

“It’s all calming down now, and I’m starting to breathe normally.”

More drama is coming, though.

“I want to hear that the covers open on the sun shield and then that the sun shield starts to deploy properly,” Hammel said.

And then there’s the less-heralded “secondary mirror,” which has to protrude properly to bounce light from the

telescope’s main mirror down through the center of the telescope.

“The secondary mirror has to deploy, otherwise there’s nothing,” Hammel said.

The launch date had been Dec. 18, but a technical mishap at the spaceport – a large clamp coming loose and jostling the telescope – required a four-day delay to ensure that nothing had been damaged. Another glitch with an essential cable delayed the launch for two days, to Dec. 24. Then came the one-day weather delay. Christmas morning dawned cloudy but without storms, and the launch proceeded without a hitch, at 9:20 a.m. local time in Kourou – 4:20 a.m. in Fairfield.

The predawn streets and elevated highways of Baltimore were empty, but by 6 a.m. the Space Telescope Science Institute was bustling. Some news media and scientists dropped out in recent days as the omicron variant spread, and so the hoopla was limited.

Visitors were handed KN95 masks and told to take rapid coronavirus tests.

Saturday morning’s prelaunch event at the institute began with remarks by Webb team members, including representatives of Europe’s and Canada’s space agencies, partners in the mission.

The speakers emphasized the telescope’s potential to answer fundamental questions about the history of the cosmos.

“Look farther, delve deeper and measure more precisely, and you’re bound to detect something new and wondrous,” said Kenneth Sembach, director of the telescope institute. “It is a

gift to everyone who contemplates the vastness of the universe.”

Melroy echoed that: “When we see things with a new lens, we gain new knowledge and new perspectives that can change fundamentally how we see the universe and how we see ourselves.”

The rocket will send the telescope far beyond Earth’s gravity well, and into a gravitationally stable position known as L2, where the telescope will orbit the sun and remain roughly a million miles from Earth on the opposite side of our planet from the sun.

The journey to L2 will take about 29 days. Along the way, the Webb will undergo course corrections and a series of critically important deployments of its hardware, including a sun shield the size of a tennis court.

After the sun shield opens up, NASA will send a command from Earth to unfold 18 gold-plated, hexagonal mirrors, which together will function as a 21-meter light bucket, nearly three times the diameter of the Hubble’s mirror.

This is a novel design, driven by ambitious scientific objectives.

NASA and its partners must overcome 344 potential single point failures, according to an independent review board. That list began with launch, although the Ariane 5 has an excellent track record.

Zurbuchen, who was in French Guiana for the launch, said last month that the agency has tested the telescope and its instruments thoroughly.

“We’ve gone through every systematic analysis that we can think of,” he said.

Delta’s 539 cancellations for the holiday weekend led the U.S. industry, FlightAware data showed, closely followed by United, with 484 flights erased from its holiday itineraries.

JetBlue had at least 201 flights canceled for the weekend, according to FlightAware.

The holidays are among the heaviest times for travel. The Transportation Security Administration was estimating Dec. 22 and 23 would be the busiest pre-Christmas travel dates nationally and locally, with Jan. 2 and 3 the most crowded for post-holiday travel.

Costumer-complaint messages piled up on the airlines’ Twitter feeds as passengers lamented the disruptions to their holiday weekend plans.

Travelers denounced the

flight delays, cancellations and missing luggage on social media.

“The nationwide spike in omicron cases this week has had a direct impact on our flight crews and the people who run our operation,” said Maddie King, a spokesperson for United. “As a result, we’ve unfortunately had to cancel some flights and are notifying impacted customers in advance of them coming to the airport.”

Globally, cancellations ranked among the highest at Xi’an Xianyang International Airport, in the western Chinese city where the government punished local officials for failing to curb an outbreak that led to the biggest lockdown since Covid emerged in Wuhan. Nearly a third of the flights departing from the airport

were canceled Friday and Saturday, according to FlightAware.

Robert Mann, a former American Airlines executive who is now a consultant, said there are about 115,000 flights a day globally during a peak travel period such as Christmas.

“As for China, It’s not a very transparent market over there, and what we know there’s been a number of cities that have shut down, and as result that would be expected to impact air service dramatically.”

Elsewhere, British discounter EasyJet said it had canceled some flights between the U.K. and France and Germany for the rest of December, following the introduction of restrictions on U.K. travelers to those countries.

From Page One his mind will never truly be off the brothers and sisters in the department who he worked so closely with since walking in the door as a volunteer in 1989.

“Being a public servant is part of the mission, but you really start getting into the job knowing how much of a team it is,” Velasquez said. “In my younger years, I was part of many sports organizations and I loved that. Team success is always better than individual success. With the fire department, we live together, eat together and work hard together and celebrate many successes together.”

Velasquez is a born and bred Fairfield native.

He graduated from Fairfield High in 1989 and went to Solano Community College for the fire training program. He had a time with Solano Garbage, now Republic Services, and also had a

Space From Page One Officials had challenging discussions about launching on a holiday, and amid the rapid spread of the omicron coronavirus variant but decided to go on the first possible day, which after two technical problems and one weather delay turned out to be Dec. 25.

Melroy put a positive spin on it: “It’s not bad that it’s happening on Christmas Day, which should be a day of hope and inspiration.”

The telescope left Earth in a folded position, fully enveloped in the cone of Arianespace’s heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket, which rolled to the launchpad Thursday. Less than half an hour after launch, it separated from the final booster and was traveling at 22,000 miles per hour, “flying on its own in coast phase,” as NASA put it.

Early reports indicated that everything was “nominal” – precisely the space-jargon term that the thousands of people who have worked on the mission were hoping to hear on launch day.

“It was a perfect ride to orbit,” announced Rob Navias, NASA’s launch commentator.

The separation from the final booster provided a stunning – and, for humanity, probably the final – view of the Webb.

A camera on the upper stage of the rocket captured the rear end of the Webb receding, with the Earth on the right side of the frame. Then came a critical deployment – solar arrays jutting from the spacecraft, gleaming brilliantly in full sun and ensuring the telescope

Flight From Page One though initial indications suggest that it causes less-severe illness than other Covid-19 strains.

Health care systems are being squeezed by a lack of staff, and a U.S. Navy warship is stuck at Guantanamo Bay after a Covid-19 outbreak on board.

The global tally of dropped flights exceeded 5,700 trips for Friday through Sunday, according to FlightAware. China Eastern had the most cancellations, and the most-affected airport was in the Chinese city of Xi’an, where the Beijing government cracked down under its Covid Zero policy after an outbreak.

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Carrie Velasquez pins the fire chief badge onto her husband, Tony, during the Fairfield Fire Department badge pinning ceremony at Fairfield Fire Station 37, April 11, 2013.

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This week Things to do I Fairfield 2 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Thursday ‘The Sound of Music’

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

2 p.m. Sunday Derek Able Blues Band

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

Noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday Suisun Valley AVA Anniversary Celebration Wooden Valley Winery, 4756 Suisun Valley Road. suisunvalley.com.

4 p.m. Wednesday Jeff, Todd, Rick and Ron

I Suisun City 9 p.m. Friday New Year’s Eve Harlem Nights

Marina Lounge, 700 Main St. www.marinaloungesuisun.com.

I Vacaville 8 p.m. Thursday Dueling Pianos

Makse, 555 Main St. dueling pianovacaville.com/events.

7 and 10 p.m. Friday Latin Kings of Comedy

Journey Downtown, 308 Main St. www.journeycoffeeco.com.

9 p.m. Friday Dueling Pianos

Paul Rodriguez,

Paul Rodriguez

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

Latin Kings of Comedy,

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The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.

6:30 p.m. Thursday Duo Sonics

The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.

8:30 p.m. Friday Uncle Buck

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

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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield-Suisun City Visual Arts Association invites all Solano County high school students to participate in the 6th Annual FSVAA High School Student Art Show.

The show opens March 2 and runs through March 26 at the Solano Town Center Gallery, 1350 Travis Blvd.

Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.

Intake for the show is 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 26 and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb.27.

Artwork will be accepted in 14 categories: oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel/drawing, sculpture/assemblage, ceramic vessel, mixed media/ collage, color photography, B&W photography, computer art/digital art, fiber art/textile, printmaking, jewelry, and video/other.

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omic/actor Paul Rodriguez has been to Vacaville in the past.

“As a migrant farmworker with parents,” he said in a phone interview. “We traveled all up and down California and picked apples.”

It served as preparation for the job he does now, which keeps him on the road.

Rodriguez steps on stage Friday at Journey Downtown to celebrate the 20th anniversary tour of the Latin Kings of Comedy.

He will be joined by Dennis Gaxiola, Joey Medina and Johnny Sanchez for two shows.

“Come hear my nonsense,” he said.

“Chances are I won’t be back. This is special.”

Rodriguez underwent quadruple bypass surgery earlier this year. He was playing golf with a doctor friend when Rodriguez said he didn’t think he could complete the game.

“I was out of breath,” he said.

His blood pressure was off the charts.

Within minutes, Rodriguez was in the emergency room.

Surgery lasted about six hours. When Rodriguez woke, his son was crying at the foot of the bed.

“Am I dead?” was the dad’s first question to his son.

That was followed by an operation on his pancreas.

“I’ve learned the best way to stop having operations is to stop seeing doctors,” he said in jest.

He recently returned from the funeral of a longtime friend who was 60.

“This year has been difficult for me,” he said, adding that a sense of humor and the support of friends have helped him through.

“I make plans then will God decide,” Rodriguez said. “I don’t know how long I have. Every day is special.”

He’s preparing a show for Netflix and hopes to continue doing stand-up as long as he can stand up.

You can see Rodriguez playing

Latin Kings of Comedy 7 and 10 p.m.

Friday Journey Downtown, 308 Main St., Vacaville www.journey coffeeco.com/ journeydowntownevents

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Vallejo Center for the Arts hosts ‘The Greatest Wagner Concert Ever’ Daily Republic Staff

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VALLEJO — Bay Area classical music lovers are invited to experience an evening of music by German composer Richard Wagner.

The event begins at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 15 at the Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St. The concert will include excerpts from Tannhaeuser, Tristan und Isolde, Die Walkuere, Lohengrin, The Flying Dutchman and Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg.

Soprano Othalie Graham will be featured in Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde and in dramatic arias from Die Walkuere and Tannhaeuser.

Canadian American soprano Graham consistently receives international critical acclaim and is widely known for her commitment to Wagnerian repertoire.

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Canadian American soprano Othalie Graham consistently receives international critical acclaim and is widely known for her commitment to the Wagnerian repertoire.

Conductor Thomas Conlin has led symphonic and operatic performances on five continents.

lit up the cinema, Wagner envisioned grand dramatic spectacles – part fairy tale, part allegory – told through the most moving and exciting music ever composed.

Conductor Thomas Conlin

has led symphonic and operatic performances on five continents.

His recording of American composer George Crumb’s orchestral masterpiece, “StarChild,” with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, See Wagner, Page B3

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield-Suisun City Visual Arts Association 58th Annual Nor-Cal Regional Juried Art Show ends Jan. 9 with a Jurors Talk for participants.

Artists from all over California and as far away as Baton Rouge, Louisiana, entered this year’s show, submitting original artwork in 14 categories.

The 58th Annual Nor-Cal Regional Juried Art Show is one of the oldest juried art shows in California.

Visitors are asked to vote for their favorite piece of artwork. The People’s Choice Award will be presented during the Juror’s Talk. The winner of the People’s Choice See Vote, Page B3

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Year From Page B1 Alonso in the theatrical release of “Clifford, the Big Red Dog.” He’s also played Javier Mendez in the TV series “A Million Little Things.”

Rodrigeuz’s son, Paul Rodriguez Jr., is an actor and skateboarder.

“He’s more famous and humble than me,” Rodriguez said. “He’s going to be a huge movie star. He never tells me what he’s doing. I watch TV, and there he is.”

The elder Rodriguez stepped away from the entertainment business to fight for migrant water rights in the valley.

It started with his mother calling and telling her son she wanted her water. Rodriguez formed a coalition to fill the need.

“That’s what I’m most proud of in my life,” he said, adding the United Farm Workers opposed him.

He would like to start a theater company that helps young Chicanos break into acting.

Hispanics are the largest ethnic minority, he said, yet they are not represented in appropriate numbers on television.

“We are the brown elephant in the room,” he said.

The only way things can change is from the inside, Rodriguez said.

“If Hollywood doesn’t give me a part, I make my own part,” he said.

“I don’t take no for an answer. If I can’t get through the front door, I look in the window. I have the tenacity of a Jehovah’s Witnesses.”

Rodriguez was the first Mexican-American to have his own talk show, the first national bilingual talk show and sketch-comedy show, which began airing on Univision in 1990.

Rodriguez is a recipient of the National Council of La Raza Bravo Award and was nominated twice to the American Latino Media Arts, or ALMA, Awards.

Entries From Page B1 to change without notice.

The awards presentation will begin at 3 p.m.

March 26 on Zoom. Send an email to FSVAAZoom@gmail.com for an invitation.

Awards will be given for first, second, and third places and honorable mention at the juror’s discretion. A separate award will be given for the President’s Award that will include a free one-year membership in the FSVAA. For additional information, call Dennis Ariza, Solano Town Center Gallery director, at 707-688-8889.

Vote From Page B1 Award will be invited to have the winning piece displayed at the Solano Town Center Gallery during the next show, “Sea, Wind, Storms, and Fog,” from Jan. 12 through Feb. 26.

The last day to vote is closing time on Jan. 7.

Solano Town Center Gallery, 1350 Travis Blvd, Suite D-8, is located on the second floor of the Solano Town Center outside of Macy’s, next to the AT&T Store.

It’s open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.

Visitors must wear a mask.

For more information, visit www.fvaa-arts.org.

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‘Emily in Paris’ is back Let’s break down Season 2’s most deliciously basic moments

Matt Brennan and Yvonne Villarreal Los Angeles Times

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fter spawning a cottage industry of influencer analyses and playing a featured role in the controversy around the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, “Emily in Paris” returned Wednesday for Season 2, now going head-to-head with its forerunner “Sex and the City.” This time around, creator Darren Star‘s comedy about an American woman and social media maven (Lily Collins) celebrating or desecrating the City of Light – depending on your perspective – adds new cast members, expands others’ storylines, plays with additional aspects of influencer culture and suggests a certain knowingness about the horror it causes its Parisian subjects. As Emily’s boss Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu) says, “The French are very susceptible to having their culture interpreted by foreigners and shoved down their throats.”

Join senior ringarde editor Matt Brennan and chief ringarde correspondent Yvonne Villarreal as they discuss the return of the Netflix comedy it’s un peu fun to hate: Matt Brennan: Yvonne, I must admit I have a complicated relationship with “Emily in Paris.” It premiered on Netflix last fall at a particularly difficult moment in both the Covid-19 news cycle – hello again! – and the presidential election, and along with Emmy winners “The Queen’s Gambit” and “Ted Lasso,” it became one of the quintessential comfort binges of the pandemic.

(When I tell people I went through a period of bingeing an entire season of TV while eating pizza in bed, my mind is on this trio.)

Unlike those other titles, though, “Emily’s” first season did not enjoy nearuniversal acclaim, and were it not for my deeply held belief that the series is about basic-ness – i.e., that it knows exactly what it’s doing – I don’t know that I would have seen it as anything more than a one-time guilty pleasure.

Now, Season 2 is here, the pandemic is surging again, and the series’ sumptuous tale of an ugly American rampaging through French culture like a bull in a fromagerie has the same ol’ pep in its step. The fashions are ludicrous, the men are beautiful, the people are mean. I feel like I’ve been transported to Paris, at least the themepark version of it, and at a moment when my own international travel plans are once again on hold, I’m all in on the ringarde this time around.

I need to talk about Sylvie, Gabriel (Lucas Bravo), the series’ Instaadjacent aesthetic and how absolutely miserable it must be to find oneself abandoned to an all-expenses-paid luxury vacation in St. Tropez.

Wagner From Page B1 Chorus and soloists won a Grammy.

His recordings of the piano concertos of Brazilian composer Camargo Guarnieri have been highly praised in American and international publications.

The Vallejo Festival Orchestra debuted in 2020 at the Vallejo Center

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Lily Collins stars in “Emily in Paris.”

But first, I’d love to hear your initial reaction to Season 2. Is it everything you hoped?

Yvonne Villarreal: Matt, there’s no need to qualify your love. This is a judgment-free zone – let’s live freely and confidently, like we’re walking down cobblestone streets in impractical heels and gloriously mismatched patterns by high-end designers. For me this series also comes to mind when I think about the shows that powered me through the cabin-fever days of the pandemic. I don’t even know if I would say I binge-watched it.

My consumption felt way more aggressive. The way I inhaled it in five hours, you’d think Darren Star served up a plate of buttery croissants fresh out of the oven. I was in a mental state where I needed a silly adventure, and “Emily in Paris” was a stress-free trip. It’s not prestige TV or even great TV, but it’s fun and pretty to look at and not demanding of my brain.

Sometimes, that’s enough.

As you pointed out, the timing of its return does come with a sense of deja vu. I once again tore through the advance screeners – though this time I paced it out over two nights because I’m trying not to overindulge this holiday season. I have to say I was especially thrilled by how much Ashley Park, who plays Emily’s bestie Mindy, is showcased in Season 2 – and I’m not just talking about the fact that we get to hear her sing in nearly every episode – because I’ve long said I would like a companion series, “Mindy in Paris.” (I still want that, Darren Star, if you’re reading this.)

Before we get into the relationship dynamics – both in Emily’s personal life and at work – I’m curious to know what you, a person who doesn’t go a day without tweeting, think of Emily’s social media presence. You talked about how you see the show is about basicness and I agree ... but I wish it were more believable in its approach to this very crucial part of the show. Emily’s photo captions are mom-level.

The photos and Boomerangs and whatever else she uploads to her Instagram are almost too

basic. Maybe we should poll some influencers to get their take on how good or bad she is at building a following.

Brennan: Knives out! Touche, though – I am nothing if not Very Online. Twitter is a different beast from Instagram, Emily’s medium of choice, but what I think the show gets right is the impulsiveness and obsessiveness of social media use. Her furious typing, the overlapping messages and photos onscreen, the pings and dings of her notifications: There’s a frantic quality to her posting in which I see my own habits. And while the attention and admiration are seductive, it can easily go sideways. Emily is constantly causing heartburn for her friends and coworkers by going rogue on social, like when she lets an unsanctioned picture of a new product go viral.

(In the fantasy of “Emily in Paris,” of course, all inevitably works out in the end.)

Still, I agree with you that the tone of Emily’s posts is off. I find her online presence believable in the sense that there are plenty of basics out there – myself included – but I am not at all convinced that it would fly in the high-fashion world of Savoir, the French marketing firm where she works. People who think of Vespas as an accessory and attend highly anticipated restaurant openings do not find twee puns and sunny greetings charming. (Expect maybe ironically.)

Which brings up the workplace relationships you mentioned. I never took to her colleagues Julian (Samuel Arnold) and Luc (Bruno Gouery) in Season 1, and that continues. There is such a thing as too caricatured even for “Emily in Paris,” and these guys are closer to Pepe Le Pew than I’m comfortable with. But Sylvie! J’adore. She’s as ferocious as ever – when she presented Emily with a cigarette case and basically told her to take up smoking, I squealed. Yet she’s softening around the edges as we learn more about her romantic past and present. She feels like the Samantha Jones of “Emily in Paris,” a sharp-tongued

and hedonistic foil with a (hidden) heart of gold.

And maybe the spice that keeps it from becoming too sickly sweet.

What do you think of life at Savoir this season? Am I the only one getting “Mad Men” flashbacks from all these pitch meetings?

Villarreal: Listen, Sylvie is so goddamn cool that she has me wanting to revert back to a Samsung flip phone.

Leroy-Beaulieu is undeniably a force as the firm’s steely boss, and so effortlessly captures the allure of a woman with secrets – it’s been a delight seeing what some of those are this season. But, yes, the pitch meetings at Savoir are straight out of “Saturday Night Live”: “Spray it, don’t say it.” I guess it’s to be expected, though, when people’s lives there don’t revolve around work. I can’t help but applaud it.

But work life and personal life get messy this season. Camille (Camille Razat), Emily’s friend and client and Gabriel’s ex, comes to the realization that her friend and her ex have slept together, setting up a tailspin of betrayal a la Brenda-Dylan-Kelly of “Beverly Hills, 90210” – where, fittingly, Paris also played a part. Then the love triangle becomes a square – or is it a pentagon at this point? Sorry, Mathieu! – with the introduction of Alfie (Lucien Laviscount), an attractive and aloof British transplant and classmate in Emily’s French class. And Matt, I know you’re a fan of him judging from our Slack messages.

I’m still firmly in Gabriel’s camp, though, even as I fully acknowledge he’s a slightly toxic option – I mean, I wasn’t surprised he and Camille got back together (I’ve had enough friends do the same despite my advice), but that he would also move in with her has to be the reddest of red flags.

I don’t have strong feelings for who Emily should end up with, if she ends up with anyone at all. But what I am saying is I’m a sucker for a guy who can speak French, chop squash and puts his initials on cookware.

What about you?

How invested are you in Emily’s love life? And as a

fellow “Grey’s Anatomy” die-hard, were you pleased with this season’s dose of Kate Walsh?

Brennan: I will simply copy and paste the Slack message in question here: Yvonne. I need help. I have such a sick crush on Alfie. With a thousand-watt grin, arrogant swagger, to-die-for accent and biceps that qualify as a Christmas miracle, Alfie has had me making Distracted Boyfriend Meme face all season – even though his hard-shellover-vulnerable-interior shtick might be even more toxic than Gabriel’s puppy-dog routine.

To answer your question, though, I only care about Emily’s love life – I only care about anything in “Emily in Paris,” for that matter – insofar as it fuels the series’ romantic fantasy. Man, woman or fashion choice, stylish, extravagant or eye-popping, the series is a collection of bonbons strung together with mega-budget twine, and when it embraces that truth, it’s remarkably satisfying. (See Mindy and her hot love interest’s cover of “Falling Slowly” from “Once,” the ultimate low-hanging fruit of warm feeling for a sap like myself.)

In this, “Emily in Paris” reminds me more of “Grey’s Anatomy” than the “Sex and the City” reboot “And Just Like That...” When Walsh turned up as Emily’s pregnant, Chicagobased boss to work on a hilariously timed Pelotoninspired account, I was reminded of the life she breathed into “Grey’s” with her nostalgic guest spot earlier this season – and, by extension, of all the ways “Grey’s” plays its audience like a fiddle.

“Emily in Paris” leans hard, at every turn, on the most obvious tropes of the rom-com canon, but like Emily, it does it so guilelessly that what should be grating becomes almost charming. It is self-aware about, and now regularly winks at, its role as pandemic-era comfort food, and it deserves credit for executing that vision without holding back.

Not to sound more basic than I already have but I am an unabashed “Emily in Paris” stan. It’s a modern trashterpiece.

for the Arts’ presentation at the Empress Theatre of “Three Tenors! – the Next Generation.”

Conlin has called Vallejo’s historic artdeco Empress Theatre “perhaps the best venue in Northern California for classical music.” Regular patrons have praised its warm acoustics and noted that sight and sound are excellent throughout the theater.

Wagner’s intent was to create a new kind of dramatic work in which

music, poetry, drama, acting, scenery and spectacle could be combined in a meaningful and expressive whole, and which was to be called not “opera” but “music-drama.”

The music and story should not only be conceived together, Wagner felt, but should be so intimately connected and harmoniously blended as to be almost indispensable to each other.

Wagner’s theatrical innovations were matched – perhaps

even surpassed – by his skill as an orchestrator. His grand conception demanded a symphonic approach rather than a traditional operatic one, and with it a greatly enlarged orchestra.

Wagner’s orchestral style is brilliant and colorful, original and virtuosic. His demands for the singers are no less innovative. He makes the most extraordinary demands on the voice, which he appears to regard simply as an

instrument, capable of overcoming any difficulty whatsoever.

“Wagner, perhaps more than any other composer, can be counted on to deliver the ‘goosebump’ factor,” Conlin said in a press release.“This will be an evening you won’t soon forget.”

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www. empresstheatre.org or call 707-552-2400.

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ovid and Christmas seem the door, and as she opened like a strange combination, the door she was greeted by a but it is our reality during delivery driver. He was deliverthe most wonderful time ing a puppy. of the year.

She was shocked. “Who sent I remember when the most me this puppy?” She demanded. challenging moment of the “Your husband,” replied the Christmas season was finding delivery driver. a parking place for that lastShe closed the door and minute panicked shopping Greg Davidson embraced the golden furry Religious view on Christmas Eve (not that I ball. Her heartfelt joy that her would know anything about husband, knowing his time on such moments). earth was short, ordered her a comYet this year brings a season that at panion to brighten up her sad days. best we can call “complicated.”

She then proceeded to tell her newSo, what is the message that we found furry friend that he could help bring to a world that is looking for some her decorate the house for Christmas, a joy that only Christmas can bring? house that she originally had no intenFirst, we must remember that a tion of decorating.

King was born 2,000 years ago who God moves in mysterious ways brings peace and good will to our to fill our sad moments with his joy hearts when given rule and authority and loving grace. He was born to over our lives. provide love, goodness and forgiveFurthermore, in a day when every ness by eventually dying on the cross time a stressful and anxiety-filled for our sins. message echoes from the media outlets My prayer is that as you embrace around us, we can remember the the Savior of the world by faith alone message of Christmas morning: “Fear this Christmas, that you will truly not, for Christ the Lord our great deliv- experience the peace, joy and goodwill erer has been born.” in your heart that only the newborn I read about a lady who was sufferKing can bring. ing from the anxiety of the hour. In The Rev. Greg Davidson is pastor of addition to the confusion around her, her husband had recently died.

Trinity Baptist Church and can be She was interrupted by a knock on reached at gregmdphone@gmail.com.

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Mike’s Auto Body presents 100th vehicle through national program

investing horizon he loudest voices may should be wary of attract the nonliquid investmost attention, but ments. And volume does not investments never rise in a straight imply correctness. line forever.

This adage applies In 2009, the in the investing book was “The world, as writers jostle for recogniMark Sievers Great Crash tion as visionary Wealth matters Ahead: Strategies for a World experts. Such Turned Upside Down.” predictions are mostly This book followed the just noise, but some huge stimulus package provide humor when injecting $800 billion into viewed as history. Here the economy. However, are examples for fun, but this amount represented with a lesson so much debt that uncercoming from each. tainty soared along with In 1999, a book premarket volatility. dicted the Dow at Few authors have been 36,000 by 2008. The main so bold in their predicidea was that stocks were tions, which stated the not riskier than bonds. stock market would The authors believed the collapse by two-thirds of irrational exuberance of its value by 2013. Even the roaring market of fewer predictions survive 1999 would inexorably lead to increasingly rising the collision with reality.

The actual result was a stock values. Not only stock market were they very wrong increase of 27%. about timing but their To add to the confusion, method for calculating the the author also forecast growth would have earned deflation and an economic a failing grade in a collapse in China, which finance class. never materialized either.

Lesson: Making Lesson: Beware any predictions can be fun author who sees calamity and occasionally lucrawhen the Fed acts during tive. Just never associate extraordinary times to a date with a number. ward off recesIn 2005, the culprit was sionary forces. the book “Are You For 2008, the book was Missing the Real Estate “Conquer the Crash: You Boom?” Besides an Can Survive and Prosper insulting title, the author, in a Deflationary Depresthe chief economist for the sion.” This book appeared National Association of just as the housing market Realtors, never even plummeted, so the timing considered any scenario may seem good. But the except constant rapid comparison of the late growth. Only three years 1990s with the Great later, the housing market Depression of the 1930s crashed, bankrupting was absurd. In fact, over thousands of investors the five years the Dow who were seduced by the increased by an prospect of riskless gains. average of 34%.

How many people were The book reviewed hurt financially precisely several so-called analytibecause of prediccal theories that make tions like this? astrology look good by Lesson: Over the comparison. Nor did the long-term real estate can author learn any humility. be a fine investment. The investor with a short See Wealth, Page B6

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FAIRFIELD — Mike’s Auto Body, headquartered in Concord, gave away its 100th vehicle through its nationally known Benevolence Program at a presentation held Dec. 15 at the Concord Pavilion in Concord.

The Benevolence Program is a community relations program designed to generate goodwill at the local level while improving and promoting the image of the collision repair industry. The program’s mission is to present refurbished cars to deserving individuals or organizations. It’s an example of local companies working together to help make life a little easier for those less fortunate. Over the past 21 years, Mike’s has presented a total of 96 cars to deserving families and nonprofit organizations.

“It has been so rewarding over the last 21 years presenting cars to deserving individuals and organizations who are working to improve their skills and become independent. We are inviting our entire company and all of our business partners to celebrate and witness the presentation of our 100th Benevolence car,” said Sal Contreras, marketing director at Mike’s Auto Body in a press release. “We always say that at Mike’s, ‘we are providing a hand up as opposed to a handout.’ The recipients are working toward making a better life for their families and all they need is reliable transportation to make it happen.”

A crowd of more than 500 people attended the celebration.

This year’s recipient was veteran Ashley Fox and her three daughters, who received a

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Veteran Ashley Fox and her three daughters at the Mike’s Auto Body Benevolence Program event at the Concord Pavilion.

2019 Nissan Sentra.

The Mike’s Benevolence Program is an ideal charity model for body shops because it involves insurance companies, local nonprofits and the local community.

Everything is donated: the cars, parts, paint, mechanical inspections, tires and one full year of insurance. The body and paint technicians donate their time and talents.

“We are fortunate to have the generosity of CSAA Insurance, Farmers Insurance, Enterprise Rental, Liberty Mutual/Safeco Insurance and Recycled Rides collaborating with Mike’s in presenting four refurbished cars to four deserving families,” Contreras said.

Each year the collision repair industry comes across cars that are “written off” by either the owner

or the insurance company. Often, these are older vehicles that just need some mechanical and body work to get them back on the road and perfectly safe to drive. The people at Mike’s strongly believe that these cars are going to waste when there are deserving people out there who really need them.

“We feel very fortunate to be involved with such a wonderful program and are very excited to be able to give back to the area communities that have supported us for the past 49 years,” said Mike Rose, owner of Mike’s Auto Body.

“After receiving hundreds of applications over the years and reading the heartbreaking stories, we only wish that we could do more. But hopefully with increased publicity of our Benevolence Program other shops will adopt a similar program of their own.”

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US inflation-adjusted spending stagnates as prices surge Tribune Content Agency U.S. consumer spending, adjusted for inflation, stagnated in November as the fastest price gains in nearly four decades eroded purchasing power.

Purchases of goods and services, after adjusting for higher prices, were little changed following a 0.7% gain in October, Commerce Department figures showed Thursday.

Unadjusted for inflation, so-called nominal spending rose 0.6%, matching the median estimate of economists.

Underlying the spending figures are a series of crosscurrents. Buffeted by headlines about snarled supply chains, many Americans started their holiday shopping earlier than usual this year, helping to explain the strong advance in the prior month.

But consumers are also facing the fastest inflation in decades. With every trip to the grocery store and gas pump eating away a little more of their paychecks, people have less

Wealth From Page B5 His July 2010 prediction for another market collapse foundered on reality as the Dow increased by 73% for the period of his dire prediction.

Lesson: Despite dire warnings that the world has turned upside down, the world goes on pretty much as it always has, and it is much more likely that it is the alarmist author who is upended.

“The Coming Collapse

by Fed officials, who have been under pressure to take action against overheating prices. Last week the central bank announced it would accelerate the end of its asset-buying program, and new interest-rate projections indicated policy makers favor raising borrowing costs by threequarters of a percentage point next year.

Lower savings

left over for discretionary purchases. And the new omicron variant of Covid-19 threatens to curb the incipient rebound in outlays for services.

The personal consumption expenditures price

gauge, which the Federal Reserve uses for its 2% inflation target, increased 0.6% from a month earlier and 5.7% from November 2020, the highest reading since 1982. Those figures were in line with

economists’ estimates, and followed an annual increase in the Labor Department’s consumer price index that was also the fastest since 1982.

The data come on the heels of a hawkish pivot

Consumers are saving less amid the rapid price increases.

Adjusted for inflation, disposable personal income, or after-tax income, fell 0.2%, the fourth straight decline. The savings rate – personal saving as a share of disposable income – declined to 6.9%, the lowest since December 2017. Nominal personal income rose 0.4% last month.

Though federal stimulus has waned, a host of companies have hiked pay this year to attract and retain talent amid widespread hiring struggles. In

of China” appeared in 2001 predicting that China would fail economically and collapse in five to 10 years. Yet in 2011, the Chinese economy was growing better than the U.S. The prediction is in 2011 was for the failure to happen in 2012. Wrong again and spectacularly so. Almost makes you wish you could recover damages for such poor advice from a socalled “expert.”

Lesson: Beware of experts expressing pessimism on a global scale.

“Dow 100,000: Fact or Fiction” is the next

laughable title from 1998.

Even today with the Dow at record highs, 23 years later, the Dow is nowhere such lofty heights. The entire premise depended, once again, on extreme assumptions going on forever.

Lesson: Just because you draw a line between two points does not mean you can extend the line forever. Technical analysis may make pretty patterns, but for market forecasting, flipping a coin is probably a better choice.

You probably remember the panic in the final years of the 20th century

when experts warned that markets would crash due to a computer coding problem dubbed the millennium bug or Y2K. Dozens of books warned that without massive reprogramming, life on Earth as we knew it would disintegrate. Another wild overstatement.

Books at the time included words like time bomb, meltdown, tidal wave, and pictures of the Earth aflame. The actual effect was that the books created a relentless feedback loop in which the existence of Y2K alarmism led to more alarmism.

Lesson: Beware of

self-interested experts desperately alerting the country to supposed problems only they can fix. Or is it simply that they want you to buy their book?

For our final laugh, consider the hedge fund manager who predicted in 2004 that the public stock offering of Google would fizzle out and amount to nothing.

Perhaps the proper evaluation comes from a quote by John Kenneth Galbraith, “If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.”

Lesson: Even highly

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A man shops in the meat section at a grocery store in Washington, D.C., April 28, 2020.

November, wages and salaries rose 0.5%, following a 0.8% gain in October, the report showed.

The data showed inflation-adjusted spending on services rose 0.5%, the most in three months, while goods outlays dropped 0.8%, the first decline since July.

The core price index, which excludes food and energy, rose 0.5% from the prior month and 4.7% from a year earlier, the fastest gain since 1983.

Other data Thursday n A separate report Thursday showed applications for U.S. state unemployment benefits were little changed last week, suggesting historically low layoffs as the labor market continues to recover. n Orders placed with U.S. factories for durable goods rose in November by more than forecast, pointing to steady demand that will help drive production growth in early 2022, Commerce Department data showed. respected stock pickers with a good record can get it spectacularly wrong.

Overall Lesson: The world is a complex place with so many variables that nobody can even identify all of them, much less assemble them consistently into a cogent forecast.

Mark Sievers, president of Epsilon Financial Group, is a certified financial planner with a master’s in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley. Contact him by email at mark@ wealthmatters.com.

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Short-handed W’s lean on Curry, Porter Jr. to stun Suns Tribune Content Agency Prior to his team’s Christmas Day showdown in Phoenix against the Suns, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr admitted he looks at the standings every day.

When Kerr wakes up on Sunday, he’ll see a new team atop the Western Conference following Golden State’s 116-107 victory against the reigning conference champions.

“The fact it came

on Christmas, we’re on the road, what a great Christmas gift for our guys,” Kerr said. “They obviously gave it to themselves, but it’s fun playing on Christmas, there’s a special vibe and obviously this game with the two teams with the best record in the league had a special feel to it.”

Thanks to a 33-point performance from Stephen Curry and eight points in the final two and a half minutes from Otto Porter Jr., the War-

riors (27-6) dealt the Suns (26-6) their third home loss of the season and took a 2-to-1 lead in the headto-head season series.

With six wing players sidelined for Saturday’s game including four – Andrew Wiggins, Jordan Poole, Damion Lee and Moses Moody– who are in the NBA’s health and safety protocols, the Warriors entered an already challenging matchup with a short-handed roster. The Warriors had concerns about whether they’d be

able to score enough to keep pace with the Suns, but as he so often does, Curry provided early answers to the team’s most pressing questions.

Curry entered Saturday averaging just 13.1 points in eight career Christmas Day games, but his historical holiday struggles didn’t follow him to Phoenix as the 13th-year veteran scored 33 points on 10-of-27 from the floor. Curry had never scored more than 19 points or made more than two

three-pointers in any of his previous Christmas Day starts, but he drilled five three-pointers against the Suns and topped 30 points for the fourth consecutive game and 13th time this season.

“I talked about it a lot and I knew what the numbers said,” Curry said of his prior Christmas woes. “So it was definitely a concerted effort to get off to a good start and just enjoy myself. Now I’m ready to get home.”

Curry received plenty

of help on Saturday, especially in the fourth quarter as Porter made a pair of 16-foot jumpers on consecutive possessions to extend the Warriors’ lead from two points to six with 80 seconds to play. Thirtythree seconds later, Porter peeled around the top of the arc, caught a pass from Draymond Green and nailed a three-pointer to put the game out of reach and seal a Warriors victory.

See W’s, Page B14

Herbert set to make more Chargers history vs. Texans Tribune Content Agency

Clive Brunskill/Getty Images/TNS file (2015)

In this photo from Feb. 7, 2015, Liverpool and Everton scarves adorn a Christmas Truce statue outside a church near the stadium before the Barclays Premier League

match between Everton and Liverpool at Goodison Park in Liverpool, England. The statue commemorates the Christmas Truce during World War I in 1914.

Peace for a day

How soccer brought a brief truce to World War I on Christmas Day 1914 K evin Baxter

LOS ANGELES TIMES

LOS ANGELES — The first Christmas of World War I was a hellish time for Alfred Dougan Chater, a second lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders, who woke that morning in a freezing, muddy trench less than 100 yards from the German lines in West Flanders, Belgium.

It was 1914 and the bloodiest fighting of the still-young conflict had ended in a stalemate.

Corpses littered the deadly “No Man’s Land” separating the two sides along the Western Front, where hope had long since

given way to despair and disillusionment.

So what Chater saw next, he wrote his mother, was “one of the most extraordinary sights that anyone has ever seen.”

All along a 20-mile stretch of the Western front, unarmed German troops began climbing over the parapets and walking toward the British side simply to shake hands and exchange greetings, the first tentative steps toward what is likely the largest spontaneous Christmas truce in modern history, one in which the warring armies shared cigars, good cheer, chocolate and, in more than one place, a

game of soccer.

“It absolutely did happen,” said Terri Blom Crocker, author of “The Christmas Truce,” among the most authoritative books on the subject.

Some of the men, she said, came out “the night before, some the morning of, some the afternoon of Christmas. Nobody prearranged anything.”

The truce, Crocker said, ranged from soldiers shouting across the pockmarked battlefield pledging not to shoot if the other side promised the same to “full-fledged let’s go out and fraternize and maybe even play a little football.”

More than a century

later the truce and its spontaneous example of humanity and decency in the darkest of times continue to inspire, which is why the incident remains a subject of both study and curiosity. Failed, cowardly leadership had brought the world to war, but a simple child’s game brought the two sides to peace – for a few hours at least.

In one of a series of interviews the Imperial War Museum conducted with veterans long after the conflict, Ernie Williams, a 19-year-old private with the 6th Battalion Cheshire Regiment, See Peace, Page B8

College bowl games confront Covid surge with ad hoc protocols The Washington Post The 2021-22 NCAA Postseason Bowl Handbook features 23 pages of policies and procedures for bowl game operators, covering everything from how many free tickets each football player may receive (no more than six) to the permissible spots on the field for sponsors’ logos (three), complete with illustrations.

The subsection on “medical procedures” mandates that a physician and certified athletic trainer(s) be onsite for all practices and game day and, among other things, that team benches be provided drinking cups, a water cooler, ice chests and water bottles for each practice and game.

But there is no mention of the coronavirus, the contagion that has roiled the country and most of the world for nearly two years and on Thursday forced the cancellation of the Hawaii Bowl after an outbreak on the Hawaii Warriors’ roster. That followed Wednesday’s announcement that Texas A&M was

‘Bowls are working directly with the conferences to manage protocols based on their local area and conference/team protocols.’

— Chris Radford, NCAA spokesman

withdrawing from the Dec. 31 Gator Bowl, unable to field a team given its own coronavirus spread and plague of injuries. Rutgers, with a 5-7 record, will replace Texas A&M. When it comes to Covid protocols for this season’s bowl games – Is full vaccination required? What about periodic testing? – the NCAA is silent, deferring to the policies of the teams’ respective conferences and to local authorities.

“Bowls are working directly with the conferences to manage protocols based on their local area and conference/team protocols,” NCAA spokesman Chris Radford wrote in an email.

The upshot – amid the surge of the highly transmissible omicron variant that has led to a pause in the NHL season, the rescheduling of some NFL games and the postponement or cancellation of several NBA and college basketball games – is a disjointed, ad hoc set of protocols at the more than 40 bowl games.

That’s because the NCAA has nominal authority over bowls, which are run by conferences and independent bowl owners, whether nonprofit or for-profit entities such as ESPN Events.

The NCAA’s role in those games is largely symbolic, chiefly “certifying” that each bowl meets minimal standards for operations.

The College Football Playoff management committee, which See Games, Page B8

Entering his 30th start, Justin Herbert already has done things no one else has done in NFL history.

On Sunday at Houston, he’ll do something he has never done before – play a game as a Pro Bowl quarterback.

Herbert was named to the AFC team Wednesday, one of six Chargers recognized during this bounce-back season that has put the team in position to make the playoffs with three games remaining to play.

“He takes it so seriously,” offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi said. “I think sometimes, when you’re as talented as him, it’s easy to be like, ‘I don’t need to do that. I can rely on all this talent.’ He does not take that approach.”

Herbert played well enough in 2020 to be selected as the NFL’s offensive rookie of the year. He had more completions, passing touchdowns and total touchdowns than any first-year NFL player.

He responded to the elevated attention and expectations that followed by producing a season just as stellar while leading the Chargers to more on-field success. Herbert’s five game-winning drives in

the fourth quarter or overtime are second in the league.

“The thing that I am so impressed with is how much he improves week to week and how rapid that improvement is,” coach Brandon Staley said. “I think people realize how gifted he is and how special he is. But I don’t think people are appreciating how much he’s improving each week, and the little things that he’s improving at.”

Asked specifically for one of those “little things,” Staley pointed to Herbert “playing with a base in the pocket” and how having a sturdier foundation can help with accuracy and ball security.

So here’s a coach touting his quarterback, the one everyone celebrates for possessing a phenomenal arm, by talking about Herbert’s feet. That’s how complete his commitment is to getting better.

“You don’t know that until you get with a player, just his hunger and that drive and will that he has to become his best,” Staley said. “That’s what’s been impressive for me this season. . . .

There’s still so far to go with his game.”

Herbert has 32 touchdown passes and needs See Herbert, Page B14

Saints reportedly tried to lure Drew Brees out of retirement to face Dolphins Tribune Content Agency Down to their fourthstring quarterback because of a Covid-19 outbreak, the New Orleans Saints reportedly tried to lure former star quarterbacks Drew Brees and Philip Rivers out of retirement to play against the Miami Dolphins on Monday night.

With Taysom Hill and Trevor Siemian on the NFL’s reserve/ Covid-19 list and rookie Ian Book set to start against the Dolphins, the Saints reached out to Brees and Rivers, according to Jeff Duncan of NOLA.com.

However, according to Duncan, both future Hall of Famers rejected the idea, leading the Saints to sign veteran Blake Bortles to fill in if needed.

According to the report, Brees “wasn’t 100 percent confident he would be able to make the throws necessary to successfully lead the

offense.” The report also stated that Saints coach Sean Payton personally called Brees about the opportunity.

Brees, the former Saints legendary quarterback, joined the broadcast booth as an analyst for NBC Sports after retiring at the end of last season. Rivers, the longtime Chargers great, retired after spending last season with the Indianapolis Colts.

The Saints have been hit hard by Covid-19 with the outbreak infecting at least 15 players and several coaches.

Jameis Winston opened the season as the team’s starter before suffering a season-ending knee injury in Week 7.

Book, the rookie out of Notre Dame, is slated to make his NFL regularseason debut against the Dolphins in the Superdome on Monday night.

Both the Dolphins (7-7) and Saints (7-7) are fighting for their playoff lives.

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Sunday’s TV sports

Scoreboard BASKETBALL

Note: Some events may be canceled or moved to different times and/or stations because of Covid-19 considerations

NBA

CALENDAR Baseball Puerto Rican League •Criollos de Caguas vs. Gigantes de Carolina, FS2, 1 p.m.

Basketball NBA •Memphis at Sacramento, NBCSCA, 3 p.m. (Vacaville only) •Indiana at Chicago, NBATV, 5 p.m.

Football NFL •L.A. Rams at Minnesota, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 10 a.m.

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

•Denver at Las Vegas, Chs. 5, 13, 1:25 p.m.

•Washington at Dallas, Ch. 3, 5:20 p.m.

Soccer Premier League •Burnley vs. Everton, NBCSN, 6 p.m.

•Tottenham vs. Crystal Palace, USA, 7 a.m.

•Aston Villa vs. Chelsea, Ch. 3, 9:30 a.m.

•Brighton vs. Brentford, NBCSN, noon Super Lig •Fenerbahce vs. Malatyaspor, BEIN, 7:55 a.m.

Games: Waiting From Page B7 runs the sport’s national championship, updated its Covid policy Wednesday to add precautions and a measure of coherence for the biggest games – the Jan. 10 national championship in Indianapolis, the Dec. 31 playoff semifinals (the Cotton and Orange bowls) and the Fiesta and Peach bowls. It also announced that any semifinalists that can’t play because of Covid-19 would forfeit, with the opponent advancing to the championship.

Meanwhile, more than three dozen other bowls are following a combination of local and conference requirements.

Further confounding matters, the NCAA set protocols for the Football Championship Subdivision championship game Jan. 8 in Frisco, Texas, between Montana State and North Dakota State, and the preceding playoff games.

That’s because the NCAA runs the FCS championship in the same way it runs the national championships of every varsity sport other than major college football.

As of Thursday, the NCAA isn’t ramping up the testing protocols it has mandated all season, according to Greg Johnson, another NCAA spokesman.

That means for the FCS championship game the teams and their officials must “attest” to either being fully vaccinated or having a negative coronavirus test one to three days before arrival, based on the type of test. Beyond that, no additional tests will be conducted onsite unless someone develops symptoms in Frisco.

The medical staff onsite will conduct the tests, and the NCAA will cover the expense.

“There may be other operational areas where adjustments might have to be made to help fight the spread of the virus (ex: moving press conferences to being conducted virtually),” Johnson wrote. “The Division I Football Committee and NCAA staff will continue to monitor the situation.”

As for the more prominent College Football Playoff, its updated Covid protocols say all interaction between the media and players and coaches will be conducted remotely, only essential personnel will be allowed on the field (no sponsors or guests) and all workers with field access must test negative for the coronavirus within 72 hours of kickoff or be

fully vaccinated.

The CFP is not prescriptive regarding the testing of players and coaches. It directs each school to use whatever testing arrangement it had used during the regular season and arrange for any testing at the game site. It also requires each conference to accept each other conference’s testing protocol.

In lieu of mandates, it states schools are “encouraged to ensure that student-athletes and staff take prudent measures and follow medical recommendations to help prevent the contraction or transmission of Covid before, during and after they travel to the game sites.”

Different schools interpret that in different ways.

Michigan already had planned a mass vaccination for players, coaches and staff to get booster shots the day before they left for Florida in advance of their Dec. 31 semifinal against Georgia.

The ACC’s testing policy, which remains in effect for bowl participants such as Pittsburgh (in the Peach Bowl), states that unvaccinated athletes on teams with a vaccination rate less than 85% are tested at least three times per week. On teams with a vaccination rate of 85% or higher, they’re tested at least once a week.

Last season, the NCAA took a decidedly more cautious approach to the postseason than did bowl operators. The NCAA canceled all championships for fall 2020 sports because of Covid, while most of the bowl games played on, with Alabama trouncing Ohio State before a limited crowd of roughly 15,000 (20% of normal capacity) at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. Meanwhile, Sam Houston State was crowned the 2020-21 FCS champion – but not until mid-May, after FCS conferences shifted football from a fall to spring sport.

The differing responses to Covid, last year and this year, offer yet another window on the governance schism in college football, in which the NCAA has authority over the FCS championship but only the semblance of authority over the Football Bowl Subdivision and the lucrative four-team College Football Playoff that’s bankrolled by a 12-year, $7.3 billion contract with ESPN. That CFP revenue is projected to triple if the playoffs are expanded to a 12-team format, as expected.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB 22 9 .710 — 16 16 .500 6½ 16 17 .485 7 14 15 .464 7 15 18 .455 8 Central Division

W L Pct GB Chicago 19 10 .655 — Milwaukee 22 13 .629 — Cleveland 19 13 .594 1½ Indiana 14 19 .424 7 Detroit 5 26 .161 15 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Miami 20 13 .606 — Washington 17 15 .531 2½ Charlotte 17 17 .500 3½ Atlanta 15 17 .469 4½ Orlando 7 26 .212 13 WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Utah 22 9 .710 — Denver 15 16 .484 7 Minnesota 15 17 .469 7½ Portland 13 19 .406 9½ Oklahoma City 11 20 .355 11 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB GOLDEN STATE 27 6 .818 — Phoenix 26 6 .813 ½ L.A. Clippers 17 15 .531 9½ L.A. Lakers 16 18 .471 11½ SACRAMENTO 13 20 .394 14 Southwest Division

W L Pct GB Memphis 19 14 .576 — Dallas 15 16 .484 3 San Antonio 13 18 .419 5 New Orleans 12 21 .364 7 Houston 10 23 .303 9 Saturday’s Games GOLDEN STATE 116, Phoenix 107 New York 101, Atlanta 87 Milwaukee 117, Boston 113 Brooklyn 122, L.A. Lakers 115 Dallas at Utah, (n) Sunday’s Games Memphis at SACRAMENTO, 3 p.m.

Orlando at Miami, 12:30 p.m.

Toronto at Cleveland, 3 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 3 p.m.

New Orleans at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m.

Detroit at San Antonio, 4 p.m.

Indiana at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Clippers, 6 p.m.

Monday’s Games Houston at Charlotte, 4 p.m.

Brooklyn Philadelphia Boston Toronto New York

Chicago at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m.

Boston at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

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

Memphis at Phoenix, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Portland, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Denver at GOLDEN STATE, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at SACRAMENTO, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Orlando, 4 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 4:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Toronto, 4:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Houston, 5 p.m.

New York at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at New Orleans, 5 p.m.

HOCKEY NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Carolina 29 21 7 1 43 95 62 Washington 31 18 6 7 43 108 81 N.Y. Rangers 30 19 7 4 42 86 77 Pittsburgh 30 17 8 5 39 91 76 Columbus 28 14 13 1 29 91 95 Philadelphia 29 12 12 5 29 77 95 New Jersey 30 10 15 5 25 82 105 N.Y. Islanders 26 8 12 6 22 57 77 Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 30 20 6 4 44 98 80 Toronto 30 20 8 2 42 98 76 Florida 29 18 7 4 40 104 87 Detroit 31 15 13 3 33 88 104 Boston 26 14 10 2 30 71 69 Buffalo 30 10 15 5 25 82 104 Ottawa 28 9 17 2 20 79 101 Montreal 31 7 21 3 17 67 109 Western Conference Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Minnesota 30 19 9 2 40 112 92 Nashville 30 19 10 1 39 89 79 St. Louis 31 17 9 5 39 106 85 Colorado 27 17 8 2 36 115 91 Winnipeg 30 14 11 5 33 90 87 Dallas 29 15 12 2 32 82 85 Chicago 30 11 15 4 26 72 97 Arizona 29 6 21 2 14 56 109 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vegas 32 20 12 0 40 114 98 Anaheim 32 17 9 6 40 103 89 Calgary 28 15 7 6 36 87 62 Edmonton 29 18 11 0 36 101 90 Los Angeles 30 14 11 5 33 80 79 SAN JOSE 30 15 14 1 31 78 85 Vancouver 31 14 15 2 29 81 90 Seattle 30 10 17 3 23 84 108 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for

overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

Friday’s Games No games scheduled Saturday’s Games No games scheduled Sunday’s Games No games scheduled Monday’s Games SAN JOSE at Anaheim, ppd.

Pittsburgh at Boston, ppd.

N.Y. Islanders at Buffalo ppd.

Detroit at N.Y. Rangers, ppd.

Ottawa at Washington, ppd.

Florida at Carolina, ppd.

Toronto at Columbus, ppd.

New Jersey at St. Louis, ppd.

Nashville at Dallas, ppd.

Los Angeles at Arizona, ppd.

Minnesota at Winnipeg, ppd.

Seattle at Vancouver, ppd.

Colorado at Vegas, ppd.

Edmonton at Calgary, ppd.

Tuesday’s Games Arizona at SAN JOSE, 7:30 p.m.

Montreal at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m.

Columbus at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.

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

FOOTBALL NFL American Conference East

W L T Pct. PF PA New England 9 5 0 .643 367 227 Buffalo 8 6 0 .571 394 243 Miami 7 7 0 .500 285 312 N.Y. Jets 3 11 0 .214 250 428 North

W L T Pct. PF PA Cincinnati 8 6 0 .571 369 303 Baltimore 8 6 0 .571 334 315 Pittsburgh 7 6 1 .536 291 335 Cleveland 7 8 0 .467 314 329 South

W L T Pct. PF PA Tennessee 10 5 0 .667 357 326 Indianapolis 9 6 0 .600 420 316 Houston 3 11 0 .214 207 372 Jacksonville 2 12 0 .143 196 370 West

W L T Pct. PF PA Kansas City 10 4 0 .714 384 296 L.A. Chargers 8 6 0 .571 379 370 Denver 7 7 0 .500 285 243 Las Vegas 7 7 0 .500 299 374 National Conference East

W L T Pct. PF PA x-Dallas 10 4 0 .714 401 293 Philadelphia 7 7 0 .500 364 308 Washington 6 8 0 .429 283 351 N.Y. Giants 4 10 0 .286 238 331 North

W L T Pct. PF PA z-Green Bay 12 3 0 .800 383 324

Minnesota Chicago Detroit

7 7 0 .500 361 340 4 10 0 .286 240 349 2 11 1 .179 243 366 South

W L T Pct. PF PA Tampa Bay 10 4 0 .714 410 306 New Orleans 7 7 0 .500 313 285 Atlanta 6 8 0 .429 258 384 Carolina 5 9 0 .357 271 313 West

W L T Pct. PF PA L.A. Rams 10 4 0 .714 386 303 Arizona 10 5 0 .667 394 306 SAN FRAN 8 7 0 .533 377 334 Seattle 5 9 0 .357 282 282 x-clinched playoff berth z-clinched division Week 15 Scores SAN FRANCISCO 31, Atlanta 13 Kansas City 34, L.A. Chargers 28, OT Indianapolis 27, New England 17 Dallas 21, N.Y. Giants 6 Houston 30, Jacksonville 16 Pittsburgh 19, Tennessee 13 Miami 31, N.Y. Jets 24 Detroit 30, St. Louis 12 Buffalo 31, Carolina 14 Cincinnati 15, Denver 10 Green Bay 31, Baltimore 30 New Orleans 9, Tampa Bay 0 Las Vegas 16, Cleveland 14 Minnesota 17, Chicago 9 Philadelphia 27, Washington 17 L.A. Rams 20, Seattle 10 Week 16 Thursday’s Game Tennessee 20, SAN FRANCISCO 17 Saturday’s Games Green Bay 24, Cleveland 22 Indianapolis 22, Arizona 16 Sunday’s Games N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 10 a.m.

L.A. Rams at Minnesota, 10 a.m.

Buffalo at New England, 10 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Carolina, 10 a.m.

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

Detroit at Atlanta, 10 a.m.

L.A. Chargers at Houston, 10 a.m.

Baltimore at Cincinnati, 10 a.m.

Chicago at Seattle, 1:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 1:25 p.m.

Denver at Las Vegas, 1:25 p.m.

Washington at Dallas, 5:20 p.m.

Monday’s Game Miami at New Orleans, 5:15 p.m.

Week 17 Sunday, Jan. 2 Houston at SAN FRANCISCO, 1:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 10 a.m.

Carolina at New Orleans, 10 a.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m.

Miami at Tennessee, 10 a.m.

Jacksonville at New England, 10 a.m.

Las Vegas at Indianapolis, 10 a.m.

Kansas City at Cincinnati, 10 a.m.

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

Atlanta at Buffalo, 10 a.m.

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

Arizona at Dallas, 1:25 p.m.

L.A. Rams at Baltimore, 1:25 p.m.

Detroit at Seattle, 1:25 p.m.

Minnesota at Green Bay, 5:20 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 3 Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 5:15 p.m.

Peace: Truces featured playing of soccer From Page B7 said he was near Ypres, on the northern end of the front, when “from somewhere, somehow, this football appeared.”

He continued the story with Peter Hart for his book “Fire and Movement: The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914.”

“They took their coats off, some of them, and put them down as goalposts,” he said of the Germans.

“There would be at least a couple of hundred taking part.

“No referee; we didn’t need a referee for that kind of game. It was like playing as a kid in the streets, kicking the ball about and the referee being the policeman and chasing you off. There was no score, no tally at all – it was simply a melee.”

Hours before, men on both sides had been trying to kill one another.

But when the football came out, Williams said, “everybody seemed to be enjoying themselves. There was no sort of ill will.”

At another spot along the front, a group of Scottish soldiers marked a goal with their hats and played against the Germans with “huge enthusiasm,” until a German officer found out about the game and put a stop to it with the Germans leading 3-2.

Temporary cease-fires have been a part of war dating back to the Roman Empire. They are frequently arranged to allow each side to collect the dead and wounded littering the battlefield or to allow the exhausted armies to rest and recover.

The impromptu truce of 1914 – truces, actually, since they involved thousands of soldiers up and down the line with no coordination – that briefly halted the fighting five months into World War I had all of that.

“For many men the truce was, in the moment, nothing more than a welcome break from the grind and abject misery of trench life and constantly living under mortal threat,” Mike Hill, author of recently released “Christmas Truce by the Men Who Took Part: Letters From the 1914 Ceasefire on the Western Front,” wrote in an email interview.

“The truce was a muchdesired chance to gather

Germans is the truth, as I was one that played.”

British officer Peter Jackson, in an interview with the Imperial War Museum nearly a halfcentury after the conflict, also clearly remembered a Christmas Eve game.

“Somebody from the trench punted across a short football [that] landed amongst the Germans and they immediately kicked it back amongst our men,” he said. “I spoke to the German officer and suggested that we ha[ve] a football match. After a while he relented, and the football match began. . . .

“They were kicking the ball backwards and forwards to the — Ernie Williams, private with the British Expeditionary Force trenches, to the barbed wire, for quite half an hour, until unfortusoccer, had been created nately the ball got impaled out of them.”

So much so that the just a decade earlier on one of the stakes of English supermar- and the German and the barbed wire and ket chain Sainsbury’s English national teams was deflated.” aired a smartly made had played one another That sports could and emotional 3-minute, four times in the six years become a substitute for 20-second holiday preceding the war, with war shouldn’t be surpriscommercial timed to England winning three ing since generals rely on commemorate the 100th times and the other match many of the same attriending in a draw. anniversary of the truce. butes coaches do, among As a result, the idea them teamwork, camaOfficers on both sides opposed the fraterniza- of soccer as a vessel for raderie and discipline. tion, which is why some nationalist expression had During the Contra War in contemporary histories already been established, Nicaragua in the 1980s, a of the war downplayed so it’s not hard to imagine Sandinista patrol reportor ignored the magni- the game serving the edly came across a small tude of the event. British same role during a ten- group of anti-government commanders threatened tative truce. rebels, and with neither “Football was very side willing to violate the to discipline some who participated, fearing it popular at the time in delicate cease-fire then would rob soldiers of both countries and then, in place, they decided to their will to fight. On the as now, would have been settle their differences German side, Crocker a default conversation with a baseball game in a said an Austrian-born between strangers, so it nearby pasture. corporal refused to leave is no surprise it should That the story is almost his spot in the trenches, have come up as somecertainly apocryphal does believing the truce to be thing to talk about, and little to diminish its disgraceful. His name the next logical step is having a game,” Hill said. message: play ball, not was Adolf Hitler.

But letters the men “If nothing else, it would war. It’s also why Crocker wrote home, many of underline their new-found finds the lessons of the Christmas Truce still relwhich were published camaraderie.” evant 107 years later, in One firsthand account in local newspapers a country riven not by and later collected in of a game, from Cpl. museum archives, speak Albert Wyatt of the war but by political and in glowing terms about Norfolk Regiment, is fea- social divisions.

“We’re so divided by the truce. However, there tured in Hill’s book.

“Everybody on each everything. We can’t talk were far fewer referside walked out to the to each other. We have ences to soccer.

“There is very little middle of the two firing these two very disparate first-hand evidence of lines and shaking hands sides of America,” she organized games taking wished each other a said. “Imagine they were place in the form we Merry Christmas,” Wyatt fighting and they’re still would recognize as a writes in a letter home. able to say, ‘You guys are match, i.e. even sides, “To our surprise we found people and we’re going to referee, rules, laid-out we were fighting men old go out and hang with you goals, etc.,” said Hill, enough to be our fathers, for the afternoon.’

“That’s what’s wonderwhose book claims to and they told us they had be the largest collec- had enough of the war, ful about the truce. It’s not tion of letters from the as they were nearly all because they were rejecting the war. Everybody front during World War I. married men.

“We finished up in the out there in the trenches “There are a lot of references to more impromptu same old way, kicking a still thought the war was kickabouts. There is also football about between worth fighting. They were a lot of discussion about the two firing lines. So out there because they the possibility of having football in the firing line recognized their enemies games, conversation between the British and as people.” in the dead bodies of their friends, which had been just out of reach, in some cases for months, and must have been a pretty grim sight to live with.”

The 1914 truces were also unique in that many took place without the knowledge or permission of commanding officers.

Also because they featured soccer.

“The football games are really what attracted everyone’s attention,” Crocker said. “There’s really a big thing made

between enemies about professional football back in Britain – a significant number of Germans had lived in the UK prior to the war – and also reports of games taking place on Christmas Day between British regiments behind the lines.”

Soccer was also used as a morale-booster and recruitment tool on both sides, so the sport was hardly a stranger to the troops. Moreover, FIFA, the world governing body for international

‘They took their coats off, some of them, and put them down as goalposts. There would be at least a couple of hundred taking part.’

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Travis AFB delivers water treatment systems 1st Lt. Jasmine Jacobs

60th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Airmen from the 60th Aerial Port Squadron loaded approximately 155,000 pounds of water treatment systems and activation equipment onto a C-5M Super Galaxy and C-17 Globemaster III, respectively, Dec. 16, 2021, at Travis Air Force Base, California, in support of the U.S. Transportation Command Red Hill Water movement.

Four Modular Carbon Adsorption Systems were uploaded onto the C-5M, assigned to the 22nd Airlift Squadron.

The systems were the first of their kind to be transported via aircraft as part of an expedited, three-part movement to support the Joint Base Pearl-Harbor Hickam, Hawaii, water quality restoration efforts.

“This is the first time we’ve moved this adsorption system on a C-5 or any aircraft – the pressure was on,” said John Buchanan, 60th APS air terminal manager.

“Our 463L pallets are not designed to support cargo like this… making this mission happen was a collaborative effort across four agencies.”

The 60th APS worked with Air Transportability Test Loading Activity (ATTLA) of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, the 22nd AS and equipment vendors to properly equip the pallets and ensure the safe transport of the adsorption systems.

The C-5M and the C-17, assigned to 21st AS, departed the base for Hawaii Dec. 16.

To ensure mission success, the 60th APS

created a wood shoring for each adsorption system to help absorb and spread the weight across the pallet which helped to distribute the weight evenly across the aircraft.

“This was a proof of concept movement that pushed our team to be innovative and think quick on our feet all while making sure we did things the right way,” said Buchanan.

With support from ATTLA, the 22nd AS the equipment and vendor, the 60th APS was able to successfully process, palletize and load the systems within a 12-hour timeframe.

Normally, with all the right tools and equipment, a movement of this scale would take 2-3 days, but the 60th APS was able to process, plan, palletize, load and secure the systems in a fraction of the time.

“Ideally, we would have weeks’ notice about the movement and 2-3 days to load the cargo – this time we didn’t,” said Buchanan.

“It was a lot of logistics and coordination, but we were able to get the job done.”

The adsorption systems are designed for the removal of dissolved organic contaminants from liquids using granular activated carbon.

The U.S. Transportation Command Red Hill Water movement is part of a joint U.S. military initiative working closely with the State of Hawaii, Department of Health, Honolulu Board of Water Supply, U.S. government and independent organizations to restore a safe water delivery system to JBPHH military communities through testing, treatment, and repair.

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A C-17 Globemaster III carrying parts of a Modular Carbon Adsorption System takes off at Travis Air Force Base, Dec. 16.

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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Gerard Memoracion simulates tying down a vehicle to an aircraft during the

Multi-Capable Airmen training at Travis Air Force Base, Dec. 14.

821st CRS expands airmen capabilities through MCA training Chustine Minoda 60th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — The 821st Contingency Response Squadron facilitated a Multi-Capable Airmen training Dec. 13-15, 2021, at Travis Air Force Base, California, to ensure readiness towards the broad range of the CR mission.

The MCA training is focused on enhancing airmen’s proficiencies while learning and performing duties that are outside their daily job responsibilities, making them ready and adaptable to different work environments.

“The CR world is multi-capable in the first place. We can’t get a mission done if each person only does what they know and what their job title says,” said Capt. Kristy Leachman, 821st CRS assistant operations officer. “Fundamentally, we have to be multi-capable airmen.

The training strengthens those skills and emphasizes the skills that we think are the heaviest hitting for the CR specifically.”

Airmen assigned to the 821st CRS are required to go through this training twice a year. This month, the team welcomed airmen from the 821st CRG and the 60th Logistics Readiness Squadron to join and participate in the training.

“The Air Force is moving towards this multi-capable airman concept of everyone being able to help each other out and do additional jobs. The CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) training was specifically important because rather than just hitting on the basic survival skills you learn

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Senior Airman Warren Morrison, left, 60th Logistics Readiness Squadron materiel management specialist, prepare a chain to be used on a pallet during the Multi-Capable Airmen training organized the 821st Contingency Response Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, Dec. 14. The MCA training is focused on enhancing airmen’s proficiencies, learning and performing duties that are outside their daily job responsibilities, making them ready and adaptable to different work environments. during CBRN defense course, now we can teach them those additional capabilities that we bring to the table,” said Staff Sgt. Daria Huckabone, 821st CRS emergency manager.

According to Huckabone, historically, only emergency managers use the detection equipment. With MCA training, they may now be able to grab a porter or a defender to use that equipment. When they are out there with a limited number of folks, they can have other airmen learn these additional jobs as it will help bring more to the fight.

Every MCA training, airmen are

expected to accomplish one each of logistics, defense and expeditionary skills. The nature of being in a CR team is that the airmen are required to always be ready to assist with a full array of duties.

“Wherever we go, we are not always going to have a technical expert on literally everything that we face. It is important that our folks know how to be proficient at pretty much anything,” said Leachman. “As long as it’s safe, if there is something that needs to be done, figure it out and let’s go.”

Air Force has a back up for Santa’s sleigh, a C-5M Super Galaxy Staff Sgt. Christian Conrad 60th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Though not powered by magical reindeer nor loaded by elves, the C-5M Super Galaxy has proven through a bevy of mobility missions over the past six months that if something should ever happen to Santa’s sleigh, the airframe could serve as a worthy back-up.

The C-5, nicknamed “FRED-ex,” boasts an impressive payload-carrying capacity of more than 130 tons, the largest in the U.S. Air Force’s inventory.

To put that figure into perspective, the C-5 can hold six Apache helicopters or multiple Abrams tanks with nary a hiccup.

More than a Santa’s bag full of odds and ends, though, the C-5 is routinely used to transport oversized cargo as well and single-unit behemoths that because of their weight or size would be

impossible for a smaller aircraft to transport.

From satellites to humanitarian aid to the recent mission moving critical cargo down range, the C-5 has demonstrated over the last half-century to be capable of taking what seem like insurmountable loads and transporting them to where they’re needed most.

In October, the 22nd Airlift Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, California, delivered 260,000 pounds of sensitive cargo for NASA – cargo that will be used in the launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope into orbit.

The C-5 is a workhorse and a key component to how we at Team Travis rapidly project American power, said Col. Corey Simmons, 60th Air Mobility Commander.

“If you’ve ever seen a C-5 up close or even flying above, you know how big that aircraft is . . . it’s massive, and that’s the kind of missions it sup-

Joshua Seybert/U.S. Air Force file (2020)

A C-5M Super Galaxy sits on the flight line at the Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania, Nov. 9, 2020. ports. Our C-5s support missions that no other aircraft can, and our C-5 airmen have mastered how to use every inch of the space effectively and efficiently so each cargo load is quickly and successfully delivered.”

The C-5 also aids in reinforcing the U.S.’s com-

mitment to allied and strategic partner nations around the world by delivering cargo as part of the Department of Defense’s foreign military sales program.

In July, the 9th Airlift Squadron at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, delivered two CH-47F

Chinook helicopters to Royal Australian Air Force Base, Townsville, Australia to aid the Australian Army.

The successful delivery of the helicopters was another example of how C-5 airmen continue to deepen interoperability with U.S. allies and

partner nations.

“The C-5 is a stalwart aircraft for the Air Force, and these latest missions validate the continued demand for large-scale mobility operations,” said Col. Matt Husemann, 436th Airlift Wing commander and C-5 pilot. “As the country’s need for rapid global mobility persists, the C-5 will provide unique, strategic capabilities unmatched by any other airframe in the DoD inventory.”

While the aircraft itself is impressive, it doesn’t take off on spirit alone, it takes a team of qualified airmen to make it fly.

Though they are not elves, airmen assigned to the base’s 26-strong fleet of C-5M aircraft have something that gives even Yuletide magic a run for its money: experience.

Even in the midst of delivering humanitarian aid to the Dominican Republic in October, C-5 loadmasters were able to See Sleigh, Page B10

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Senior Airman Jonathon Carnell/U.S. Air Force file (2020)

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Michael Hailemaskel, 60th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron flying crew chief, watches a C-5M Super Galaxy engine start at La Aurora International Airport, Guatemala City, Sept. 18, 2020. On Oct. 24, 2020, the C-5 celebrates 50 years of service at Travis Air Force Base.

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“Opportunities like this give us a chance to showcase our flexibility,” Tech.

Sgt. Raphael Milton, 60th Aerial Port Squadron noncommissioned officer in charge of load planning and data records, said of the movement. “As a load planner, not only can we inspect and plan the cargo load, but we can also build and move cargo.”

Although 140 tons might pale in comparison to Santa’s seemingly infinite payload capacity, the heavy aircraft shows no signs of throttling down.

With a whole new year of missions on the horizon for the 51-year-old goliath, its longevity shows in every successful mission flown and every ton loaded onto its hulking frame.

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leverage the mission into a training opportunity for their up-and-coming colleagues, maintaining the Air Force’s commitment to its partners while accomplishing manning requirements for their career field.

“The training opportunities impact every crew member,” Capt. Adam Stoll, 22nd Airlift Squadron pilot and aircraft commander, said of the mission. “The training our unqualified loadmasters, flight engineers and pilots receive from this accelerates their upgrade training to become qualified.”

While the humanitarian mission focused on the C-5’s ability to bring glad tidings on this planet, the

extent by which it leaves its mark is now limited only to the great expanse of space thanks to a recent partnership with NASA. In September and October, airmen from Travis AFB endeavored to load and transport more than 260,000 pounds of support cargo for the launch of NASA’s new James Webb Telescope.

The telescope, a multination-funded project to replace the Hubble Space telescope as NASA’s Flagship astrophysics mission, aims to “find the first galaxies that formed in the early universe and peer through dusty clouds to see stars forming planetary systems,” according to NASA. Not only was the mission a boon for the project and the space community at large, but it also allowed Travis AFB’s C-5 crew the chance to flex

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS XUNA AESTHETICS LOCATED AT 3000 Alamo Dr Suit 101, Vacaville CA 95687 Solano. Mailing Address 148 Wykoff Drive, Vacaville CA 95688. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Cura Aesthetic Medicine CA Vacaville, 95688. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Sundance McGuire IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION Nov. 30, 2026 THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: Dec. 1, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO.2021002325 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00051417 Published: Dec. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ELLA B. MURRAY Case Number: P051028 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Ella B. Murray A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Glenn A. Murray in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Glenn A. Murray be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: JAN. 7, 2022 TIME: 8:30 a.m. DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano Hall of Justice 600 Union Avenue Fairfield, CA 94533 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1)four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: Glenn A. Murray 1531 Ramirez St Marysville CA 95901 530-743-4430 DR#00051665 Published: Dec. 17, 22, 26, 2021

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DR#00051466 Published: Dec. 12, 26, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS D T DRYWALL

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MOUSSE AND GANDER

LOCATED AT 330 E B St, Dixon CA 95620 Solano. Mailing Address 330 E B St, Dixon CA 95620. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) DT Drywall CA. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Corporation The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Israel Del Toro IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION Dec. 14, 2026.

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

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: Dec.15, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021002416 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00051673 Published: Dec.19, 26, Jan. 2, 9, 2022

LOCATED AT 1565 FairOaks Ct, Fairfield CA 94534 Solano. Mailing Address 1565 FairOaks Ct, Fairfield CA 94534. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Eladio Miranda 1566 FairOaks Ct Fairfield, 94534. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 11/18/2021 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Eladio Miranda IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920 A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920, WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION Nov. 17, 2026 THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

Filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Solano County, State of California on: Nov. 18, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021002280 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00051436 Published: Dec. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021

NOTICE OF SEIZURE AND FORFEITURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on December 16, 2021, the People of the State of California filed a Petition to preserve for subsequent levy or seizure the assets or property in the control of ERIC FAULKS to wit, A 2020 Hyundai Kona Ultimate vehicle license plate number 8PEK232 and a 2008 Lincoln SUV, California license plate number 7NUG401.

If you have a legal interest in this property, you must, within thirty (30) days from the date of the first publication of this notice or within thirty (30) days of your receipt of this notice, file a verified claim stating the nature and extent of your interest with the Clerk of the Marin County Superior Court, Hall of Justice, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. An endorsed copy of the verified claim must be served upon the Marin County District Attorney, Hall of Justice, Room 145, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. Use case number SC218149A in any communication with the Court or the District Attorney.

If you do file a verified claim, you may also request a hearing to determine whether any temporary restraining order issued with respect to the assets and property listed in this Notice should remain in effect; or whether any other order affecting the real property should be modified in the interest of justice. In order to exercise your right to such a hearing, you should file a Request for Hearing with the Marin County Superior Court and serve a copy of that Request on the Marin County District Attorney's Office. Such a hearing shall be held within ten (10) days of your service of such a Request. If you believe that a hearing is required in less than ten (10) days notice to the District Attorney, you should make an application to the Court for an earlier hearing, which the court, upon a showing of good cause, may shorten to two (2) days after service of your Request.

If no verified claim is properly filed, the District Attorney will seek to have the Court issue an order that the property be levied upon to pay fines and restitution.

DR#00051708 Published: Dec. 22, 24, 26, 27, 29, 31, 2021, Jan. 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31 Feb. 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 2022 IN THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF UTAH COUNTY PROVO DEPARTMENT, STATE OF UTAH UNIVERSITY PLACE SPE L.L.C, a Utah limited liability company, Plaintiff, vs.

TAULA TAEI, an individual, d.b.a. REFRESHED SHOE CLEANER, and KEʼLANI K. FREEMAN, an individual Defendants.

S U M M O N S (30 days) Civil No. 210401019 Judge: Kraig Powell THE STATE OF UTAH TO DEFENDANT TAULA TAEI, individually and dba REFRESHED SHOE CLEANER: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to file an answer in writing to the Complaint in the above entitled matter filed with the Clerk of the Fourth Judicial District Court, Provo Department, 137 N Freedom Blvd. Suite 100, Provo Utah 84601, and to serve upon, or mail to Reid Tateoka of McKay, Burton & Thurman, 15 West South Temple, Suite 1000, Salt Lake, Utah 84101, a copy of said answer, within thirty (30) days after the last day of publication.

If you fail so to do, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in said Complaint which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court. You may obtain a copy of the complaint by requesting one from the clerk of the court at the below address.

The address of the Fourth Judicial District Court is: Clerk, Fourth District Court 137 N Freedom Blvd.

Suite 100 Provo, UT 84601 DATED this December 2nd, 2021.

McKAY, BURTON & THURMAN /s/ Reid Tateoka Reid Tateoka Attorney for Plaintiff DR#00051440 Published: Dec. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: STEVEN JOSEPH JANKAUSKAS Case Number: FPR051114 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Steven J. Jankauskas, Steve Joseph Jankauskas A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Logan and Ethan Jankauskas in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Logan and Ethan Jankauskas be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: JAN. 28, 2022 TIME: 8:30 a.m. DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano 600 Union Avenue Fairfield CA 94533 Probate If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1)four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: Mary A. Luros Hudson & Luros, LLP 952 School Street, Suite 280, Napa CA 94559 (707) 418-5118 DR# 00051710 Published: Dec. 22, 26, 29, 2021

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“We are a vital part of our community and do good that helps to make it a great place to live and work.” The Daily Republic is a local media company in Fairfield, California. Besides the Daily Republic we publish Discover Solano Magazine, Solano Life, Gold Mine, Travis Tailwind and operate a jobs portal and combined digital events/ticketing platform. We have 150k+ monthly users across our digital properties and thousands of print subscribers. We are a proud part of McNaughton Media, a family-owned and operated media company with multiple news brands serving communities between the Bay and South Lake Tahoe.

We are modern publishers: we are an advertising wholesaler and distribute region-specific news and information across newspapers, magazines, iOS apps, newsletters, podcasts, special publications, pamphlets, flyers, Facebook Instant Articles, Apple News stories etc. We think our advertisers should be everywhere our customers are, across media -- along with us.

We offer creative services and enhance our first-party marketing offerings through partnerships with major technology companies. We are wholesale providers of all kinds of advertising, from Pandora, to Hulu, to whatever is next in consumer technology. Through our partners, we have access to 98% of advertising supply and maintain Premier Partner status with Google. We give our local businesses a seat at the table for cutting-edge digital advertising technologies.

The primary role of a Marketing Sales Representative is to help marketers at small to medium-sized businesses meet their goals by growing revenue for both their company and ours. She or he does this by working with local companies to map out their sales funnel and offer the right media products to provide them with advertising to the right customer, at the right time, in the right place.

We learn about customer needs, co-develop campaigns to meet those needs, execute creative graphics to achieve results and optimize delivery to ensure success.

A Media Sales Representative develops and presents multimedia sales campaigns to meet the diversified needs of our customers and maximize customer ROI.

• Develops and demonstrates expert knowledge and understanding of all

McNaughton Media sales and marketing assets, including all newspaper products, digital products and digital marketing services such as SEO and SEM. • Represent and embrace new, non-traditional products and services that the company may introduce as we look to diversify new revenue streams that capitalize on our customer base and local scale.

• Effectively communicates with sales management to provide accurate revenue forecasts and market intelligence.

• Cold calls previous customers and new companies to book meetings to assess their needs and showcase our capabilities.

• Maintains the highest levels of personal and professional behavior in the workplace and in the market.

• Drives customer retention through excellent customer service.

Position Requirements Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: • Knowledge of competitive media and marketing landscape; use for new business development and sales analysis.

• Ability to prospect new business via cold calling and other prospecting techniques including social media where applicable

• Highly motivated, self-starting individual with initiative and drive to succeed • Ability to close new business and exceed sales targets • Understands that it takes “no’s” to get to “yes.”

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build and deliver effective presentations to different experience levels.

• Strong networking and community involvement.

• Eagerness to learn, continually seeking to improve.

• Strong time management and follow-up skills.

• Organized with an attention to detail.

• Must possess a valid state driver’s license, cell phone and reliable transportation.

Education & Experience: • B.A. preferred, but not required, depending on experience.

• A minimum of one year of sales experience, preferably in outside sales, is

required. (Media sales not required, but some sales experience is a must.)

• Prior experience in digital marketing is highly desirable.

Report Job Company address: 1250 Texas Street., Fairfield, CA 94533

Send resume to bill.barno@mcnaughton.media

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Herbert: Putting together stellar season

W’s: Christmas win

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only three more to set the Chargers’ single-season record. And this is the same franchise for which Philip Rivers and Dan Fouts played.

The mark could fall Sunday against a Texans team that has struggled to remain competitive while compiling a 3-11 record, two of those wins coming against 2-12 Jacksonville.

The other victory was a stunning Week 11 triumph at Tennessee when the Titans turned the ball over five times and lost despite amassing an advantage of 420-190 total yards.

The Chargers entered the weekend with significant roster issues: 12 players on the Covid-19 reserve list plus the addition Saturday of wide receiver Mike Williams. Pro Bowl edge rusher Joey Bosa was ruled out for the game after testing positive.

Running back Austin Ekeler announced on social media that he was out as well.

Yet the situation was even worse for Houston, which had more than 20 players on the list, the total prompting speculation that the NFL could postpone this game.

Even with so much uncertainty and the Christmas holiday arriving, Staley said Friday that the Chargers appeared to be

“Coach drew up a couple of plays that freed me open and my teammates did a good job of finding me,” Porter said. “I was able to step in, knock some shots down and they kept finding me. So I got in a rhythm coming off some screens.”

Saturday’s game marked the second start of the season for Porter, who was thrust into the starting lineup for the first time on Thursday against Memphis as Kerr sought another solid shooter for a group that was missing production from Poole and Wiggins.

“He can shoot the ball,” Curry said of Porter. “I know he’s been through a lot of injuries, but he’s been working his butt off since he got here this summer and you could tell he looked confident and composed with what he was trying to do in getting to his spots and knocking it down.”

Despite missing the majority of their wing players due to health and safety protocols, the Warriors dictated the tempo of Saturday’s game throughout the first quarter as Golden State outscored Phoenix 33-27 and received contributions up and down its roster.

Curry scored 11 of his team-high 33 points in the opening quarter while Green recorded six assists in the game’s first eight minutes, but the Suns’ depth eventually enabled Phoenix to overcome the Warriors’ hot start. The Suns took their first lead of the game with 5:33 to play in the second quarter when Deandre Ayton hit a 10-foot hook shot

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Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert beats the Chiefs defense to score a touchdown in the second quarter at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Dec. 16. ready based on their preparation.

“I think we’ve had maybe our best week of practice since the beginning of the season,” he said. “That’s what you’re after as a head coach when there are some circumstances, some obstacles.

“Whether it’s Covid, Christmas, etc., we’ve just been able to really navigate it full speed and make a lot of improvements. I’ve been very impressed with our group this week.”

The Chargers came into Week 16 sitting sixth in the conference, a spot that would have them

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playing at New England in the opening round of the postseason.

They had a chance to take over first place in the AFC West in Week 15 but lost in overtime to Kansas City. Even with that defeat, the atmosphere around the Chargers’ facility appeared upbeat, something Keenan Allen attributed to Staley.

“After the game, I felt good about it,” the veteran wide receiver said. “I don’t know. It just feels good. The energy’s changing, just the morale.

The confidence that he’s bringing, he’s instilling, it’s real.”

After missing the play-

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offs in Anthony Lynn’s final two seasons as coach, the Chargers can take another step toward clinching a spot Sunday in Staley’s rookie year as a head coach at any level.

Herbert has led the bounce back, but so many others have contributed as well.

“I know that we feel really confident in the team that we have because I know that we’re battle-tested,” Staley said.

“I think our team still has another gear it can get to. That’s your goal as a coach, for your team to truly play its best at the end.”

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and carried a four-point advantage into halftime after veteran point guard Chris Paul nailed a three-pointer with three seconds remaining before the break.

During a 14-3 Suns’ run in the second quarter, Phoenix took advantage of Golden State’s second unit, which was lacking offensive firepower and foul-prone on the defensive end of the floor.

The Warriors trailed 62-58 entering halftime, but showcased impressive resilience in the third quarter as center Kevon Looney and guard Quinndary Weatherspoon, who joined the team on a 10-day hardship contract, provided much-needed energy on defense.

“One of the reasons we felt really comfortable playing (Weatherspoon) was because of his defensive ability,” Kerr said.

“We knew we were going to have to guard Devin Booker and Chris Pual on switches and I thought Quinndary was fantastic.”

The Warriors and Suns entered the fourth quarter tied at 84-84 and that’s when Curry began his best stretch of the game, scoring 10 points in the first five minutes of the quarter to help Golden State regain command of the game.

With Phoenix determined to take away looks for Curry down the stretch, the Warriors leaned on Porter, who finished with a seasonhigh 19 points in the win.

The Warriors will have consecutive off days before returning to action on Tuesday night at the Chase Center against the Denver Nuggets.

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