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Marlena Cendejas and Kobe Ball welcome their daughter, Delilah Cendejas-Ball, to the family at Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Center, Saturday.

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VACAVILLE — Babies come when they want to and the newest addition to Solano County was no different. Delilah Cendejas-Ball was scheduled to make her big debut into the world on Christmas Day, but she demurred and chose to make her grand entrance on New Year’s Day. Her mother, Marlena Cendejas, 21, of Vallejo, and father, Kobe Ball, 22,

of Fairfield, were happy to welcome their first child into the world at Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Center. It took a little time to realize the baby wasn’t ready, which meant labor was longer than expected, finally culminating in a C-section. “She didn’t want to come,” Cendejas said. The young couple spoke about being the parents of the county’s first baby born in 2022 by phone from the hospital room due to

Covid-19 protocols limiting visitors to the hospital. They are not planning to visit much after going home with their baby in the next few days. “It took me a while to figure out she was born on New Year’s,” Cendejas said. “We were not planning on a New Year’s baby.” Delilah was born at 1:04 a.m. Saturday. As a first-time mom, said she Cendejas is very excited to bond with her baby and start making memories.

“This is my first baby but I have experience with taking care of my cousins,” she said. “But this will be different.” The grandparents are pretty excited too. Everyone knows at this point the youngest member of the family has made her entrance. “They are blowing up my phone,” she said. Delilah came into the world with a full head of hair and weighed in at 10 pounds and 21 inches.

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VACAVILLE — Tiffany Hanes and Trina Trindall Shaw are dedicated, cat-loving rescuers making a difference in the lives of cats and kittens across Solano County. They have been rescuing cats for more than 20 years. “We first met in 2017 when I saw a post Trina made on Facebook looking for a foster family for an FIV+ cat named Henry, who we happily took home and fostered until he was adopted by a wonderful family,” Hanes said. Feline immunodeficiency virus, or Courtesy of Solano Kitten Network FIV+, is one of the most common and con- T h e S o l a n o K i t t e n sequential infectious N e t w o r k h a s b e e n diseases of cats around helping kittens and cats the world, according find their forever homes to Cornell University. since 2018. In infected cats, FIV attacks the immune system, leaving the cat vulnerable to many other infections. Although cats infected with FIV may appear normal for years, they eventually suffer from immune deficiency, which allows normally harmless bacteria, viruses, protozoa and fungi found in the everyday

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Lake Berryessa is seen from the top of the Monticello Dam.

Groundwater stability another dividend paid to Solano by Berryessa

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Nearly 1,000 structures confirmed lost in Marshall fire 3 missing, feared dead

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FAIRFIELD — The value of the secure water supply delivered to Solano County from Lake Berryessa has long been lauded by county leaders. Many consider the decision to build Monticello Dam and to develop the Solano Water Project as the most important action in the county’s history. That value continues to rise as various agencies certify the Solano Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan. “Solano County is exceptionally more fortunate than other areas of the state, and a lot of that good fortune starts with Lake Berryessa and the Solano Project,” said Cary Keaton, the general manager See Stability, Page A12

This map shows the Solano Subbasin GSA Collaborative.

Tribune Content Agency COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Three people are missing and feared dead in the wake of the Marshall fire, the Boulder County sheriff said Saturday, and nearly 1,000 structures have been destroyed, making the blaze by far the most destructive in Colorado history. Two of the three missing persons are in Superior, and the third is in the Marshall area, Sheriff Joe Pelle said. He said the search is likely a recovery one, meaning authorities are looking for remains. The missing people’s homes have been destroyed, he said, and cadaver dogs will be brought in Sunday. The debris and snow have “hampered substantially” efforts to search for the missing. “Right now, it’s not even safe to step into the scene,” he told reporters. The sheriff said two other missing persons See Fire, Page A12

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Bradstradamus is back with a glimpse at 2022

radstradawhere others haven’t.” mus is back. (The Beatles. Or the Los Anyone familiar Angeles Rams’ defenwith history (or the sive line “Fearsome History Channel) is Foursome” of the 1960s. familiar with my Or George Foreman and great-great-great (keep his grills, am I right?) going) grandfather, “A leader with a Nostradamus. Grandpa mustache will arise in N, as we call him, was Brad Stanhope the West.” (Adolph Like I was sayin’ Hitler. Or Theodore famous for his predictions that had an eerie Roosevelt. Or Tom way of coming true. Selleck, since Hawaii is the For instance, in the years westernmost state in the around 1460, Grandpa N made United States.) the following predictions (which Coincidence? came true): Hardly. Grandpa N was “Nations will battle each amazing and because of that, I other and only some will win.” take seriously my responsibility (Came true in the Revolutionary to share with you some prognosWar. Or World War I. Or World tications for 2022. War II. Or the World Cup The last time Bradstradamus of soccer.) did this, I correctly predicted the Covid-19 pandemic “Four men will succeed

(2020 prediction: “Some people will get sick and most will recover.” Another correct prediction from Bradstradamus in 2020: “The author of this column will refer to himself in the third person at some point in the future.” Bradstradamus made that come true. Today.) Amazing. With that as a precursor, here is a look ahead to what to expect in 2022: In late August, Californians will be warned that it could be a bad wildfire year because there was so much rain in the winter. Or so little rain. Or just the right amount. But it will be a bad wildfire season, for sure. You will be in a store, faced with two checkout line choices. You will pick one and the other will move faster.

You’ll be in heavy traffic and the car version of that thing in the store will happen to you. The other lane will move faster. While in the checkout line at that same store in the earlier prediction, you’ll see a celebrity magazine and have no idea who the person on the cover is. A major professional athlete will succeed this year. On an important day in 2022, you’ll wake up to see a mystifying pimple on your face and complain that pimples should disappear at age 21. You will read a column about what will happen in 2022. (Bingo! One prediction already is true!) At least once in the first two months of the year, you’ll hear someone say, “How is it already 2022? Wasn’t it just

2000?” It may be you who says that. The next Covid variant will have a side effect: We’ll learn another letter in the Greek alphabet. You will be really hungry for specific fast food (or grocery store food) and it will disappoint you. Eleven months from now, you’ll say, “How is 2022 almost over? It just started!” Some people will get sick and most will recover. The author of this column will refer to himself in the third person. Bradstradamus is done. Happy New Year and don’t stress too much about picking the wrong line at the store. Reach Brad Stanhope at brad. stanhope@outlook.com.

How to stick to an exercise program: Do what you like, be patient tor of retail operations for OhioHealth’s McConnell Heart Health Center and Neuroscience Wellness Center. How can one increase the odds of sticking with it? Kleski and other experts offered this advice:

Tribune Content Agency C O L U M B U S , Ohio — For years, Peggy O’Connor has wanted to start exercising, but her body seemed to have other plans. O’Connor is a cancer survivor (lymphoma). Her treatments included removing most of her pancreas and undergoing chemotherapy. Those procedures left her with diabetes and nerve damage in her legs and feet. “At different times I have gotten myself all geared up to do the fitness thing, but then because of the nerve damage I would end up just being injured,” O’Connor said. The last time, she said, “I was just trying to walk fast and do some jogging, and I tripped on a metal plate in the street, fell on my hand and ended up with three months of physical therapy. “It’s so irritating.” Last fall, she discovered the Exercise is Medicine program run by Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center. With the help of a fitness specialist at the OSU Health and Fitness Center in New Albany, O’Connor found she could work out effectively on an elliptical machine rather than a treadmill, on which her occasional drop-foot issues would trip her up. She also used the rowing and strength-training machines. It is a 12-week program, but it didn’t take long for O’Connor to see measurable results. “I have a continuous glucose monitor, and right from the beginning, I noticed my blood sugar during exercise sessions would drop a significant amount.”

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According to a 2018 survey conducted by NPR and The Marist Poll, 13% of those making New Year’s resolutions cited exercising more often, making it the most common resolution. After several weeks, O’Connor said, her blood sugar levels were down even when she was not working out. “That made me feel really good about it,” she said of her workout program. “It was motivating.” O’Connor is one of many who find themselves starting and stopping an exercise program, a pattern that is particularly acute in January. According to a 2018 survey conducted by NPR and The Marist Poll, 13% of those making New Year’s resolutions cited exercising more often, making it the most common resolution. Not surprisingly, fitness center attendance spikes at the beginning of January, according to data from several fitness apps gathered by Bloomberg CityLab and reported in a January 2019 article. The data showed a gradual decline in attendance starting the third week of January, and by mid-March, attendance was back at pre-New Year’s levels. “We see new faces at the beginning of the year, but it feels like they generally don’t stick with it,” said Amy Kleski, direc-

What’s your why for your resolution? To be effective, resolutions have to have an identified deeper meaning. People want to lose weight, maybe, so we ask “Why do you want to lose weight?” she said. “Maybe the benefit is improved health, maybe they want to be able to keep up with their kids or grandkids. There has to be something more personal, so that it resonates with people and they keep going.”

Make realistic goals One common pitfall of people starting a new exercise program, experts say, is they try to do too much, too soon. Sometimes this happens when newbies go to a gym and compare themselves to others, thinking they have to do the same exercise or for the same amount of time as someone else. “Try to use specific, measurable, actionable goals that are realistic and time-based,” said Allan Sommer, the wellness program manager at Wexner Medical Center. “If you’re sitting on the couch right now not exercising at all, maybe my goal next week is, ‘I will walk to the mailbox and back three times.’ “So you’re not saying, ‘I’m going to start walking.’ Set something you can track and monitor, and then hopefully you can say, ‘Oh, I can do this, so maybe now I’ll

try this.’ ”

Be patient

Choose wisely It sounds basic, but experts decry how often people choose an exercise program they don’t enjoy or is impractical. “Patients ask me all the time, ‘What’s the best exercise?’ and I tell them, ‘The one that you’re going to do,’” said Dr. David Groen, a primary care physician with Mount Carmel Medical Group. “I don’t mean that sarcastically. Pick something you’re going to do. You may say you want to start swimming, which is an excellent form of exercise, but if the nearest pool is an hour drive away, you’re not going to stick with it because it’s so inconvenient.”

Perhaps some of the drop-off in fitness center attendance as January turns to February and March is because people new to exercise don’t realize that it takes some time to see results. “If you haven’t been exercising in awhile, it takes almost three months to notice any outward appearance changes,” Sommer said. “The first thing that happens is those nerves that work on firing to muscles haven’t been used this way in a long time, and then there’s a whole change in metabolism that is going on inside that you don’t see on the outside. “I always say you have to be willing to stick with me for a minimum of three months. You might not

lose weight, you might not look different, but I guarantee you will feel better.”

Anything helps The often-cited recommendation from the American Heart Association is to get at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity a week, or 75 minutes of vigorous activity. But experts caution not to let perfection be the enemy of good. “We encourage you just to move every day,” Kleski said. “Some days you may feel truly dedicated and exercise for 60 minutes, but there may be a day or two where you only feel like a 10-minute walk, and that’s OK. “People need to give themselves grace.”

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2021 IN REVIEW

Covid 2021: Disease versus pandemic Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County was at the peak of the worst of the Covid-19 surges that have been experienced as 2021 was in its infancy. On Jan. 9, the daily case average was 376, with about 176 individuals hospitalized, and the medical centers at near capacity and straining against the caseloads. That was made worse by the fact medical staff also were being infected with the coronavirus, and not available to work. Intensive care unit capacity dropped below 5% at its worst. The number of Covidrelated deaths reported by that date was 102. By the end of the year, 351 residents had died, the vast majority infected during that winter surge. There were 44 residents in hospitals and the 10-day case average was about 140 after being as low as 10 to 15. The coronavirus offered up new challenges, first with the emergence of the delta variant, and now with omicron. Both have more rapid transmission than the earlier variants. Omicron has become the primary source of infection in the county, the state, around the country and globally, just as the delta variant had with its emergence. But there was a gamechanger in 2021: vaccines. “I knew vaccines would come eventually, and I knew it would be a game-changer,” Dr. Bela Matyas, the county public health officer, said during a recent interview at his office. “But the thing about vaccines is that it isn’t perfect. There are

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Fairfield Fire Department firefighter George Dejesus administers the Covid-19 vaccine during the Solano County Office of Education vaccination event for educators, Feb. 25, 2021. going to be breakthroughs and over time, the vaccine (effectiveness) is going to wane,” Matyas said. The bottom line with the vaccines, Matyas emphasized, however, is they reduced the seriousness of the illness and they saved lives. Still, nearly one-quarter of the people listed with Covid-related deaths since vaccines became available to the general public had received at least one vaccine shot. And like other vaccines that are updated each year or, at least frequently, Covid boosters were likely going to be part of the same pattern. Most critically, he added, vaccinations are protecting the hospitals from being

overrun, again, and that means they are available for other medical needs.

Response to Covid-19 its own story The story of Covid-19 in 2021 was a divided issue: the disease and the pandemic – or more accurately – the response to the pandemic. County Supervisor Jim Spering, at a Jan. 5 meeting, said Gov. Gavin Newsom has “attacked small businesses” with Covid-19 protocols and called on the county to take a position “not to support” and “not to enforce” businessrelated health orders. That never came to fruition,

but in short order, the public simply began to ignore the regulations. On the other side, Supervisor Monica Brown urged the residents to follow the governor’s protocols, but also told them to support the local businesses. Members of the public raged on both sides. The county was inundated with complaints about businesses that were not following the Covid rules, while others attacked the county for even having a website portal to take complaints. Newly seated Supervisor Mitch Mashburn offered his support to Spering at that meeting, but in the end of the year interview, said he was not

going to “armchair quarterback” the state’s decisions. He said the county’s response to Covid – and that included the cities and the residents – was what he was most proud of during his first year in office. In between was Matyas, who has consistently said the government response matyas has been wrongminded and failed to follow the science behind the spread of the disease. From the outset, Matyas has said the virus was not spreading due to contact in grocery stores and other businesses. There has not been a single outbreak in the business sector. However, he remains frustrated with a public that ignores common sense and continues to meet socially without taking precautions. That is where the virus is being spread, the evidence shows. The end result, he said, are the cases of disease and deaths. And while Matyas believes the vaccination rates in the county are higher than he ever thought they would be, he is still flabbergasted at the hesitancy to be vaccinated, rejecting the unfounded health excuses and the politics that often drive those decisions. Perhaps at the top of that list is the belief the vaccines will change human DNA. Matyas said it is specifically engineered to prevent that from happening. Matyas said there have always been people who were against vaccination for reliSee Disease, Page A4

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Obituaries Robert Fulton

‘A life well lived is a precious gift of hope, strength and grace from someone who left our world a better place.’

Robert Warnock Fulton, 97, has left a loving, lasting memory our grateful hearts will forever treasure. A member of the ‘World’s Greatest Generation’, World War II Purple Heart Veteran and recipient of commendation, passed Dec. 23, 2021, at his home in Vacaville, California, with family at his side. navy veteran Bob as he was known joined the U.S. Navy in 1943 where he served on a destroyer the USS Wickes. He received a Purple Heart in Okinawa in 1945 and a commendation ribbon while serving in the Pacific Okinawa Gunte, which stated ‘when being attacked by a lowflying enemy suicide plane’ he contributed to the destruction of the plane and successful defense of his and other nearby ships giving great evidence of his great value to the naval service.’ He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from California State Teachers College, Pennsylvania, in 1951 and completed courses for his master’s degree. He taught school in Pennsylvania, Eureka, California, and real estate at Solano Junior College for 20 years. He became a Realtor in 1952, moved to Vallejo, opened Bob Fulton Realty and later became a real estate appraiser. He was a past president of Solano Board of Realtors and Realtor of the Year 1972. He was a member of various organizations, a longtime member of the Shriners and Elks Lodge. He served on the Solano County Tax Appeals Board for 24 years, retiring in 2016. After moving to Vacaville in 2004, Bob enjoyed volunteering for the VPD Volunteers for many years. He enjoyed traveling to many countries, spending time in Mexico and Arizona during winter months. He enjoyed football, classic autos and watching the hummingbirds from his front porch. In later years, he enjoyed wearing his World War II veteran caps and being thanked for his service. Bob is survived by his wife of 40 years, Willia; her children, Stan Easter (Helen Repard), Kathryn Shoemaker (Stephen Sarmento); grandchildren, Nathan, Brandon; great-grandson, Robert. Thankful for the happiness he gave us, nothing loved is ever lost and he was loved so much. Robert was one of four children born to Scottish immigrants, Annie and Samuel Fulton. He is survived by his daughter, Sharon Hart (Charlie); son, Robert T. Fulton; granddaughters, Lindsey, Jessica, Kayleen, Kellie; six great-grandchildren; sister, Ann Koschalk. Predeceased by sisters, Sarah Zavarello and Marjorie Rolls. He liked to remind the girls he was his mother’s favorite son. He has left a legacy of joy and pride. We are thankful to the Department of Veterans Affairs for the services they provided and his caregiver, Chris Mamanta. At his request, burial will be private. Memorial donations may be made in his name to LoveShriners.org. Arrangements under the care of Fairfield Funeral Home, 707-425-1041.

George Contreras

April 30, 1943 — Nov. 26, 2021

became difficult. George Elias George was Contreras passed one of kindest away on Nov. 26, souls around, 2021, at the age air force making friends of 78, followveteran easily and always ing a battle with Parkinson’s disease and making sure that everyrenal failure. George was one around him was taken born on April 30, 1943, care of, often before his to Gerardo and Dominga own needs. Contreras in Alamo, Texas. He is survived by his After graduating from children, Laneia Grindle high school, he joined the (Jeff Greer) and Jeff Grindle Air Force in 1962 where (Lisa Grindle); granddaughhe honorably served, was ter, Keilani Greer; siba proud Vietnam veteran, lings, Emma Salinas, Sylvia and retired as a Master Ramos, Manuel ContreSergeant in 1987 from ras, Joel Contreras, Noe Travis Air Force Base. Contreras, Nora Montez, He met his loving wife, Diana Riley; and several Carolina, during his time nieces and nephews and at Travis where they were extended family. married for over 30 years George was predeuntil her untimely death ceased by his parents, in 2016. Gerardo and Dominga; George was a lover wife, Carolina; and of music, having played brother, Jose Contreras. several instruments Visitation will be held including the piano and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. guitar, and writing poems Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, at and songs in his free time. Bryan-Braker Funeral One would often find Home, 1850 W. Texas St., George playing piano to Fairfield. Followed by entertain strangers when- funeral service at 1:30 p.m. ever the opportunity pre- at Holy Spirit Church, 1070 N. Texas St., Fairfield, sented itself. He loved his birds and California. Arrangements under used to be known as the ‘bird man’ as he would the care of Bryantake evening walks with Braker Funeral Home, his birds before walking 707-425-4697.

Bingo George Wesner Dec. 5, 1935 — Dec. 26, 2021

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FAIRFIELD — The annual report on “the activities and accomplishments of county government during the (2021) calendar year” will be presented Tuesday when the Board of Supervisors return from its holiday break. Among the topics listed in the six-page brochure are long-term water sustainability, the

rental assistance program through the pandemic, the elections, redistricting, fire recovery and the efforts to eradicate the glassy-winged sharpshooter issue in the Vacaville area. The board meets at 9 a.m. in the first-floor chamber of the government building, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. The board also is scheduled to reorganize by appointing the chair and vice chair, and

make appointments to the various boards, committees and commissions. A $1 million appropriations transfer for the Main Jail Hot Water and Shower Repair Project will be considered as part of the seven-item consent agenda. The supervisors also will sit as the board of directors for the Solano County Facilities Corporation and hold the agency’s annual meeting.

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SUISUN CITY — Tuesday’s regular meeting of the Suisun City Council is canceled. The next regular meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 18. No reason was given for the cancellation. The council usually meets on the first and third Tuesday of the month.

‘It’s nice being back’

Rose Parade returns to smaller but enthusiastic crowd amid omicron surge Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — After many childhood years spent camping overnight along the Rose Parade route to score a frontrow view, Leslie Lemus was stunned when she arrived in Pasadena just before sunrise Saturday and found two things practically unheard of in years past: nearby parking and plenty of sidewalk space. “You get, like, VIP views!” Lemus, 29, of Downey, told her 8-yearold daughter as they plopped camping chairs along Colorado Boulevard in the Pasadena Playhouse District. “I’m surprised there aren’t more people,” said Lemus, who wore a black surgical mask as she peered at sidewalks that typically would be jampacked long before the parade began. Blame the coronavirus. The Rose Parade returned Saturday after the pandemic forced its first cancellation since World War II last year. And while it was seen by many as a whimsical respite from two painful pandemic years, the return was clouded by a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases fueled by the highly contagious omicron variant. Across the country, other New Year’s events were scaled back or canceled as the virus continued its unre-

Disease From Page A3 gious reasons, but that is not a large part of the push against the Covid shots. “People were thinking that (the development and approval) was experimental. and not emergency,” Matyas said. He said the vaccines had to go through the same testing and approval requirements as all drugs do; the difference being that the federal government pushed the vaccines to the front of the line. “We had a lot of pressure to get the vaccine out to the public as fast as we could,” Matyas said. Matyas also feels the

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The Honda float rides in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Saturday. lenting march. As thousands of spectators across the country lined Colorado Boulevard, nearly 1 in 4 people in Los Angeles County who are being tested are positive for the coronavirus, and daily totals of new, confirmed infections are doubling every two days. The surge undoubtedly led to the smaller crowd at the 133rd Rose Parade. But along the route, the joy was palpable. The parade – started in 1890 as a promotional event by a local social club to show off Pasadena’s famously mild winter weather – kicked off under sunny, blue skies and temperatures in the mid50s. Actor and television host LeVar Burton served

as grand marshal, and the theme was “Dream. Achieve. Believe.” Organizers said they felt safe continuing the parade because it was outdoors – which health officials say is safer than indoor gatherings – and because of numerous safety measures. The Tournament of Roses required the 6,000plus parade participants, as well spectators in ticketed areas, such as grandstands, to provide proof of vaccination or a negative coronavirus test within 72 hours of the start of the event. Attendees ages 2 and up in those areas were required to wear a mask. Along the rest of the 5.5-mile route, where

hesitancy among some medical professionals and law enforcement – two groups the general public looks to for guidance and trust – caused some not to be vaccinated. Matyas is among the health professionals who does not think businesses and schools should not have been shut down. “And we had not yet begun to think about racial-ethnic reluctance to be vaccinated,” Matyas said. He understands the initial reaction back in late 2019 when not as much was known about Covid-19, but he said as an epidemiologist, once it was clear that the virus spread through droplets and was not an airborne disease, there was little

need for lockdowns. Follow the right protocols, he said, and the spread could be managed, at least in the businesses and schools. Matyas is not a big proponent for mandates either, but that is another issue, he said, that is being driven as much by politics and ill-informed public opinion, as science. “It’s weird this has become a political football,” Matyas said. Very troubling to Matyas is that the response environment is hardest on those populations that are already disproportionately at an economic disadvantage. The jobs lost tended to be lower paying positions held by members of those communities.

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What you need to know about California’s new composting law – a game changer for food waste Tribune Content Agency Californians will ring in the new year with the unfurling of a groundbreaking law that will change how they dispose of their organic waste, particularly leftover food and kitchen scraps. Senate Bill 1383 requires all residents and businesses to separate such “green” waste from other trash, but the program will be rolled out gradually for homes and businesses in the coming months, with the actual startup date varying, depending on the location of your home or business. Fines can be levied for failing to separate organic refuse from other trash. But those charges aren’t scheduled to begin until 2024. CalRecycle, the state agency overseeing the change, has lots of information about the new requirements on its website. Others offering composting solutions include LA Compost – which gives instructions on home composting and also offers community hubs where organic material can be dropped – and CompostableLA, which provides a home pickup service in some neighborhoods, for a fee. Residents and businesspeople should check with their local governments, and with waste haulers, to find out the specific rules for their communities. Here are some frequently asked questions about the new requirements, with answers from Los Angeles County Public Works and the Los Angeles City Bureau of Sanitation.

Isn’t garbage just garbage? Why are California lawmakers requiring us to separate organic waste from the rest of our trash? Scientists have found that organic waste dumped into traditional landfills decomposes and creates methane, a super-pollutant with as much as 80 times the Earth-warming potency of carbon dioxide. To slow the advance of global warming, the state wants to redirect the material to composting centers or anaerobic digestion facilities, where it can help sink carbon back into the Earth or capture natural gas to – for instance – power trash trucks.

When do I need to begin separating my kitchen waste from other trash? The opening date for organics diversion varies, depending on where you live. San Francisco, Berkeley, Costa Mesa and other communities have been recycling kitchen waste via curbside green bins for years. Those bins also accommodate yard trimmings. Los Angeles County Public Works officials say homes in unincorporated communities will get notices over the first half of 2022 telling them when, and how, to segregate their food waste. Some businesses in L.A. County already have voluntary recycling of food waste, a program that will become mandatory over the course of the new year. In the city of Los Angeles, the Bureau of Sanitation plans to present a plan early next year to expand food waste recycling from 18,000 homes now in a pilot program to the remaining 730,000 customers. That curbside program should begin by next summer. In the meantime, residents can throw kitchen waste in their regular trash

bins, to be hauled to the landfill. They also have the option of composting in their yards, though the Covid-19 pandemic has led to the shutdown of city composting workshops (and the discounted composting bins that went with them). In March, the Bureau of Sanitation plans to work with a nonprofit to collect food scraps at 25 neighborhood farmers markets and composting centers. Those locations will be announced later. What if I live in an apartment building or condo complex? In unincorporated communities in L.A. County, the rules for multifamily housing are still being finalized. It’s expected that at least some waste haulers will continue to allow food waste to be mixed with other trash, to be separated later at processing facilities so it can be recycled. In the city of Los Angeles, multifamily units handled by service providers under the recycLA program are now encouraged to recycle food scraps. Residents need to contact their service provider to subscribe to the program.

Can’t climate-warming gases also be curtailed by simply reducing food waste? Yes. Keith Lilley, deputy director of Los Angeles County Public Works, urges residents and businesses to “shop purposefully, store food mindfully, preserve food and learn how to manage excess food.”

Are there alternatives to having the kitchen and yard waste trucked away? Yes. Food scraps can be composted at home or taken to friends or family who compost or to a community compost location. L.A. County offers free webinars at smartgardening.com to teach residents how to practice backyard and worm composting on their own. Discounted compost bins are sold via the webinars.

What about food that’s still edible? Where should it go? SB 1383 proposes increasing by 25% the amount of edible food that supermarkets and other large outlets preserve. (It does not require residents or small businesses to recycle edible food.) The surplus goes to food banks. Businesses can learn more about donations by visiting FoodDropLA.com.

Once my local waste hauler gives the green light, will fruits and vegetables be the only appropriate food waste for the green bin? No. L.A. County says “all possible parts of food will be acceptable,” including cooked meat, bones, fish, soups and small amounts of grease. Properly licensed anaerobic digesters will be able to break it all down, while also killing pathogens. City sanitation officials agree that – once their curbside pickups begin – all food waste will be acceptable. In L.A., some residents have already been putting food scraps in their existing green bins intended for yard waste, even though the Bureau of Sanitation says that’s a no-no and that the kitchen waste will be landfilled. Once the city rolls out its program, it’s expected both food and yard waste will be permitted in the green bins.

What if I run a restaurant and have a lot of grease? That should go to a cooking oil and grease recycler. L.A. County lists those here.

Where should I store my kitchen waste and how do I make sure it doesn’t stink? Local governments and waste haulers recommend gathering the scraps in kitchen pails, which both L.A. city and county plan to distribute. Frequent emptying (and cleaning) of the pails should limit odors. Some users say lining them with paper towels also soaks up liquid that can raise a stink. The city of Los Angeles suggests two other odor-reducing techniques: layering food waste with yard trimmings or freezing food scraps in a reusable container prior to collection day.

Can I be penalized if I dump my waste in the wrong place? Yes. Beginning in 2024, state law will allow fines for those who contaminate their organic waste. A first offense could cost you $50 to $100, with third and subsequent offenses costing up to $500.

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ed Puntillo has a busy itinerary for the years to come. A trip to Disney World is first on the list, but trips to Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore and the badlands of the upper plains will follow, as will a bayou trip up the Mississippi. Puntillo also has planned a trip to Jerusalem and a river trip up the Nile to the sites of ancient Egypt. “And I have a lot of woodworking equipment, so I’m going to try to develop a skill to build oak furniture,” Puntillo said during a recent interview at Evelyn’s Big Italian restaurant across the street from his Veterans Services Office, where he had been the director for 10 years, 5 months. Puntillo and his wife, Kathy, have two daughters and four grandchildren, all he said, are part of his retirement plans too, right down to taking his grandkids to school. Puntillo is widely praised for his work at the Veterans Services Office – work that has made the county one of the most responsive and successful in the state. The office was responsible for getting $252 million in benefits to area veterans in 2020. He has personally assisted thousands of those who served in America’s armed services. When he arrived in Solano County, the office was seeing an average of 15 veterans a day. “Before Covid, we were seeing about 60 per day,” Puntillo said. He said hiring the right people certainly helps, but extending the office into the community was the most important achievement. Puntillo placed a full-time veterans rep at Travis Air Force Base, improved relationships with Veterans Affairs, started a veterans court and regular visits to the jail, and started a homeless outreach program. “We did a lot of new stuff,” he said. Puntillo also initiated a veterans identification card program, which provided discounts at various stores in the area. But there was an underlying motive to the program. To get the card, veterans had to bring in their DD14 discharge documents. When they did that, Puntillo and his staff were able to log them into the system and show them other benefits that

ave you ever had the feeling that you might be overlooking something that might turn out to be important? It may be not of general interest, but a real interest to the folks involved. This is the time to “clean up” the forgotten little things and show them to the public. A couple of months ago a dear friend called me with a personal story that everyone should be aware of. My friend told me he was fined for fireworks he purchased in Suisun City. He tells me the city is now telling him, they would not do that. Apparently, they did, according to my friend. Something doesn’t make sense unless you think that the reason for selling fireworks is to collect the fines. My dear friend Professor Stephen White, who helps folks refine their ability to speak or say the sounds of the English language correctly, asked me if I could support his tutorial service. I volunteered to send him a Learning Dynamics phonics kit. He was thrilled and said it would be exactly what he needed. I am trying to avoid experiencing a level of anger that might kill me. I am doing this by simply avoiding the anger situation. One evening at dinnertime, nothing happened for at least 45 minutes. It seems that we didn’t have a cook. Folks did the best they could under the circumstances. The best was nearly nothing. I’m afraid I got to a stage of unhealthy anger and blew my top. I have decided I am not going to go to what is supposed to be the evening meal. I can live on leftovers and out of cans. I am cheap. When I have paid for something, I expect to get it. If they are not planning to do it right, please don’t include me in their plans. There, I’ve said it. I won’t mention it again. On a more positive note. I am cranking up my Tools of Learning for Children nonprofit to help kids succeed. Over time our state and our country have ignored their responsibility to help students succeed. Not just the See Bass, Page A7

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‘You feel at home’: Table tennis club draws members from all ages, communities

Clad in a red, white and blue Team USA table tennis jersey, Sarand, a 56-year-old Iranian immigrant, is no stranger to defying expectations. Paralyzed from the waist down at 2½ from polio, Sarand’s parents could only afford a portion

of their son’s treatment. As a result, his left leg, three inches shorter than the right, never properly healed, leaving him with a limping gait. Unable to play soccer while growing up in Tabriz, Iran, Sarand took to table tennis at a young age. A middle school coach recognized his talent and he joined his city’s para team, which catapulted him to represent Iran in the World Championships and Games for the Disabled in the Netherlands in 1990. But life in the Middle East was fraught with uncertainty. When Sarand graduated from high school, his country was in the midst of a 12-year war with Iraq. By the time he and his wife had their first son, they planned to emigrate to the United States. They moved to Worthington in 1996, and Sarand, his wife and two sons became U.S. citizens in 2006. Sarand kept up with table tennis, but wasn’t aware of the local club for several years. In 2017, he joined USA Table Tennis and earned a silver medal in the 2019 Paralympic Games in Lima, Peru.

memories is one about a man who happened to be his wife’s friend. “And she was talking to him on the phone . . . and she said he had a heart transplant in the fall and wasn’t doing very well,” Puntillo said. He asked his wife to find out if her friend had served in the military, and it turns out he served in the Army during the Vietnam War. He had been rejected for some benefits for which he applied, so Puntillo took up the case, winning the man $556,000 in benefits and back pay. “The other good one I did was for a lady who had been sexually assaulted back in 1978,” Puntillo said. “She had the rape kit and police report and everything.” He had been introduced to her at one of

the identification card events, and Puntillo had taken note that she had only served for two years before being discharged. He asked her why. The woman told him her story and Puntillo went to work. “I got her $300,000plus,” he recalled. Of course, there are those stories when a veteran takes his own life, or has some other bad outcome, but Puntillo said he tries not to get too caught up in those results. He prefers to think about all the veterans whose lives have been improved because of the work done in his office. “I can’t tell you how many vets have come in and told us we changed their lives,”Puntillo said. His last day was Wednesday.

Tribune Content Agency COLUMBUS, Ohio — The light plock of a ping pong ball sailing from racket to racket echoes across the warehouse-turned-Olympic-regulated round robin. Ahad Sarand uses his right hand to steady the grip of his wheelchair, gracefully maneuvering his body to anticipate the return from his opponent, Jane Lie, while his left hand grips a paddle, making Lie work for it. Lie’s sneakers squeak across the linoleum while the fluorescent lighting reflects off the sweat gathering at Sarand’s temples. He propels his chair back and forth, side-to-side, before deftly bouncing a ball outside Lie’s reach. Across the gym, members of the Columbus Table Tennis Club warm up before their weekly round-robin tournament begins. Columns draped with flags from around the world – from Sri Lanka to Sweden, Iran and so many more – divide each individual court. “It’s a bit like the United Nations,” Lie, the president of the club, said.

Vets From Page A6 were due to them. “The biggest barrier is they don’t know what benefits they are qualified for,” Puntillo said. But it was never the job he envisioned for himself. “I wanted to be in law enforcement and that’s why I got my (associate’s degree) in criminal justice at Sacramento City (College),” he said. He then enlisted in the U.S. Army to be in the military police, served from 1966 to 1969, including May 1967 to May 1968 in Vietnam. So he can relate to the combat veterans well. “Fourteen in my platoon were killed,” Puntillo said. When he left Vietnam, he was stationed in New York City as part of the armed services police. Eventually, Puntillo would return to college, during which he worked for the Postal Service. A back injury prevented him

Bass From Page A6 schools, but American society in general. I have restructured the nonprofit to change how we treat our kids, locally and nationally to eliminate our current intellectual abuse of our kids. I will probably be asking you for help before too long. Finally, we often fail to give thanks to those who

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Ahad Sarand plays table tennis at the Columbus Table Tennis Club. The club has been around since the late 1950s, and now operates as a nonprofit organization open seven days a week, with roughly 80 members around Greater Columbus who are originally from 23 different countries. Lie, 59, born in Indonesia and raised in Singapore, went to Ohio State University for his undergraduate degree and joined the club 34 years ago. But he’s been playing table tennis since he was 9 and has served as the club’s president for the past decade. “The club,” he said, “belongs to the players.” On a brisk December from getting a job with police or fire, so he stayed in the Postal Service for 34 years, the last of those years as the postmaster in Davis. From 2002-06, he was a Davis city councilman. Puntillo was 55 when he retired from the Post Office. Then came a call from a friend who encouraged him to apply for an economic development position with Yolo County. He did not get that job, and instead landed a part-time position in the county’s Veterans Service Office. That would lead to a three-year stint in Sacramento as deputy secretary of Veterans Services. “I didn’t like that job much. It was more politics than helping veterans,” Puntillo said. “I saw a lot of aides (for legislators), but not a lot of veterans.” Another acquaintance called about a job in Solano County, where he became the director of Veterans Services. “It’s the best job I’ve ever had,” Puntillo said. Among his favorite deserve it most. I am referring today to God. Thank you, Lord, for the gift of life. Thanks, too, for your gift of love, including the ability to love one another freely. Thanks for giving me positive reasons to keep living, primarily for the benefit of others. Thank you for my family and my family of friends. Murray Bass of Fairfield can be reached at 707-720-5139 or mzb602@gmail.com.

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“It was one of my dreams for a long, long time,” he said. “When I joined, I was so proud to represent the USA.” Sarand has aspirations to qualify for the 2024 Paralympic Games after narrowly missing the gold medal in 2019 and Covid putting a pin in his chances to compete last summer.

‘This club is also like a brotherhood’ In between a break in the round-robin, Prakash Annamraju, Dinesh Navalurkar and Srihan DeLivera stand off to the sidelines, joking around. “This has offered me a social circle and friendship among everybody that keeps us going,” Navalurkar said. “This club is also like a brotherhood,” he added, explaining that guys cheer on folks like Ahad Sarand when they participate in International Table Tennis Federation tournaments. Annamraju, a 38-yearold immigrant from India, said that Columbus’ club is particularly welcoming. He travels for work and

has visited another table tennis club in Virginia that doesn’t have the same spirit or diversity. “It’s a social club,” DeLivera agreed. Sure, as DeLivera gets older, he finds table tennis an addictive way to sharpen your mind as well as your reflexes – it’s not uncommon for balls to fly at 80 miles an hour he explains – but the camaraderie is the most important tenet of the club. At the sound of a whistle and shouts from across the gym, the trio of players break up for the next round of their tournament. Navalurkar clasps the shoulders of a fellow player on the way back to his table, a high schooler named Samhit Kasichainula. The 17-year-old, another Indian immigrant, laughed. He’s been playing competitively for almost a decade, but his school doesn’t have a table tennis club. He’s found joy, and competition, in challenging himself to play against the adults. The Columbus Table Tennis Club has become a second family to him as well.

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t’s the season for giving. I’ll give. This week I’ll donate to the Doe Fund, a charity that helps drug users and ex-cons find purpose in life through work. “Work works!” they say. It sure does. Most Doe Fund workers find more joy in supporting themselves than they ever found in drugs. I’ll also donate to Student Sponsor Partners, a nonprofit that gives scholarships to at-risk kids so they can escape bad public schools. SSP sends them to Catholic school. I’m not Catholic, but I support SSP because government-run schools are often so bad that Catholic schools do better at half the cost. Thousands of families have broken the cycle of poverty thanks to SSP. When I was young, I assumed government would lift people out of poverty. “It’s inexcusable that there are so many poor people in this rich country,” my college professors taught. “Government programs will raise skill levels, improve parenting, give a leg up to the poor.” That’s when the War on Poverty began. At the time, many Americans were already lifting themselves out of poverty. Year by year, the number of families below the poverty line – defined as earning less than three times what they need to feed themselves – had decreased. Then came the people from the government with their programs. They spent almost $30 trillion on their “war.” They made some progress. For about seven years, the poverty rate dropped. But then progress mostly stopped. That’s because many people became dependent on government handouts. Learned helplessness, it’s called. Government poverty programs created an “underclass,” generations of people who don’t work because they lose benefits if they do. This passivity was something new, and bad. That’s why it’s better when charities help people. Charity managers can make judgments about who really needs help and who needs a kick in the butt. Charities can discourage dependence. But there’s an even better way to help people: capitalism. Not that I’ll convince most people. When Elon Musk was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, Sen. Elizabeth Warren complained that Musk should “pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.” Freeloading? “I will pay more taxes than any American in history ($11 billion this year),” Musk responded. “Don’t spend it all at once . . . oh wait you did already.” Love that answer. Musk is skeptical about charity, too. The United Nations World Food Programme asked billionaires to donate $6.6 billion. Musk replied that if the WFB could describe “exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.” The WFB already spends more than $6 billion, and the group says “$6B will not solve world hunger” but “will prevent geopolitical instability, mass migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation.” Musk didn’t donate. That may be wise, given how much international food aid already gets wasted. Musk does give to charities, but he’s called a “cheapskate” for not giving more. I’m OK with Musk not giving more. It doesn’t make him a bad guy. Some billionaires do nasty things. Mark Zuckerberg censors truthful reporting. Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos sneakily lobby for regulations (like a minimum wage) that hurt their competitors. But I’d still rather they spend their money than give it to some charities. Zuckerberg invents better ways to connect with people. Bezos makes shopping cheaper and easier. Musk makes satellite internet available to more people. Businesses do things like that because competition forces them to spend money well. If they don’t, they disappear. Government never disappears, even when it fails. Warren calls Musk a “freeloader” because he doesn’t pay more taxes, but entrepreneurs like Musk are national treasures. Capitalists are the people who do the most good for the world. People hate them, but it’s capitalists who create the jobs, lift people out of poverty and feed the world. I’m a reporter, not an entrepreneur. I’m not likely to invent something new and useful. So today, I’ll give money to charity. It makes me happy. But the world benefits more from people like Elon Musk, if they just keep inventing things. John Stossel is creator of Stossel TV and author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.

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Christmas: Tough to find joy, but the very source needed Now that the Christmas season is a memory, let us hope that the new year, 2022, will present itself with a more positive note. So many people have expressed the opinion that it just did not feel like Christmas this year; how about you? It’s exceedingly difficult to put on a happy, positive countenance when we are overwhelmed with homelessness, unemployment, closed businesses and hospitals starting to overflow with patients who might or might not have the dreaded disease, Covid-19. How many families have integrated their homes with dislocated family members and even friends who might have fallen on tough times? This is what it means when charity begins at home. We must look back on the past three years with the attitude that things are not for certain and we need to change with the times. Who would have envisioned a family member being bedridden because of an ailment and the responsibility of care being placed

on family members? We should all be aware that this is such a common thing lately and families need to put aside material things and exercise compassion and charity. After the holidays are over, we come to the realization that all the fuss and camaraderie for the day is just that, a day, that should have been to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Happy New Year! Pat S. Okerson Fairfield

‘Backward’ political cartoon a poor choice I am disappointed in your choice of the editorial cartoon published Dec. 29. First, it perpetuates the “usthem” mentality which has done so much damage to our society over the past two years when we needed to be unified in our response to a huge public health crisis. It also

ironically brands all liberals with the nouns misery, hatred, discord, itself a hateful act, and falsely implies that only liberals wear masks. I can live with those aspects in the spirit of political cartoons. However, it depicts the “non-liberal” wearing the “Joy, Love, Peace” shirt, maskless, while the “liberal” (Misery, Hatred, Discord) wears a mask. Associating the wearing of masks with misery and hatred has it all backward and is highly irresponsible as we continue to battle this tricky, and to some, dangerous virus. Political cartoons are the epitome of free speech, which I wholeheartedly support, and you are, of course, free to publish whatever you wish. However, good political cartoons are provocative while this one is simply inflammatory. Surely there were witty and insightful cartoons that you could have selected instead. Loree Mar Fairfield

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emocrats primarchy of the educated, who ily know Sen. Josh control the mass of the Hawley for his objecnation’s wealth. That tion to the electoral explains why we have a college results on Jan. 6, society that confers honors but they would be wrong on those who excel rather to dismiss the Missouri than on those who practice Republican for that mistake. ordinary virtues. Hawley is constructing an “The people at the top of alternative vision of conHenry Olsen our society,” Hawley argued, servatism rooted in family “have built a culture and an and community that is fast gaining economy that work mainly for traction among Republicans. themselves.” For the rest of The thoughtful first-termer’s America, it is essentially dystopian. philosophy challenges the idea that As he told the American Principles individual free choice ought to be a Project in 2019, suicides were at free society’s highest good. He laid their highest since the Great out this view in an 2019 speech to Depression; alcohol-related deaths the graduates of the King’s College, were the most since World War I; a small evangelical Christian school and drug overdose deaths were at in New York City, where he argued the highest level ever. Overdose that America had embraced a deaths have only become worse modern version of the 4th-century since then because of the pandemheresy from the British monk ic’s lockdowns and social distancing Pelagius, who believed humans restrictions, which have disproporcould perfect themselves by choice, tionately hurt less educated will and effort. Americans who couldn’t That idea, Hawley contended, work remotely. was identical in substance with the The alternative to this for Hawley logic underlying the Supreme is a return to the American promise. Court’s ruling in Planned Parent“What unites us,” he told the hood v. Casey, the 1992 case that American Principles Project, “is the affirmed a woman’s access to deep conviction that every life abortion. Justice Anthony Kennedy matters, that you matter, that every wrote for the majority, holding that person is uniquely called and “the heart of liberty is the right to gifted.” This means overturning the define one’s own concept of exisnew paradigm of unfettered tence [and] of meaning.” The result, freedom and reestablishing the Hawley concluded, “is a philosophy traditional view of American liberty of liberation from family and that placed the health of families, tradition; of escape from God and communities and the nation first. community; a philosophy of unreHawley has introduced or stricted, unfettered free choice.” proposed a series of bills to impleHawley believes this mind-set ment this vision. He is one of the has devastated the American leaders of the movement to regulate promise and causes misery for the and break up Big Tech, even majority of Americans. He contends advocating allowing parents to sue it has led to the notion that economic social media platforms for their efficiency ought to triumph over physical or mental harms to chilsocial needs, resulting in the dren. He wants the United States to outsourcing of industry and ecowithdraw from the World Trade nomic stagnation for Americans Organization and instead focus on without a college degree. And it has multilateral agreements with produced a vast oligarchic hierardemocratic nations that share

common values, removing jurisdiction over trade disputes from an unelected body that has overwhelmingly ruled against the United States for decades. He has even proposed creating a wage subsidy for low-paid workers employed by small businesses as an alternative to a minimum-wage increase. Together, these and other ideas represent a full-frontal assault on the free-market fundamentalism that has been GOP orthodoxy for decades. These ideas are fiercely resisted by the D.C. conservative elite, which conservatives outside the Beltway increasingly deride as “Conservatism, Inc.” Elites have long overlooked the extent to which the reigning orthodoxy has not worked for tens of millions of Americans. More free trade with low-wage countries won’t help high school graduates looking for jobs that will help them raise a family in America. Social media, like all human inventions, creates good and evil, and the fundamentalist view that society must endure the evil to access the good flies in the face of human experience. Why shouldn’t parents be able to sue companies for the damage they inflict on their children? Hawley’s philosophy resonates with Americans because it comports with their lived experiences. Overturning the conservative orthodoxy won’t be easy, but Hawley is up for the fight. His political hero is Theodore Roosevelt (Hawley wrote a book extolling Teddy’s “warrior republicanism”), and he surely knows that T.R. was often disdained by GOP leaders of his day. Roosevelt’s vision of a muscular nationalism that regulated big business for the common good, however, ultimately became American dogma. Don’t be surprised if Hawley, like Roosevelt, wins out in the end. Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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Embrace the great love power of Christ’s love, practice forgiveness his one and only son, the Lord Jesus, that we might each and everyone be forgiven our transgressions and sins and have a place in heaven for all eternity. One verse says, “God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in — Lyrics from “I Remember You” by Patrick Serna Him (Jesus) shall not perish but have forgiveness and eternal hese lyrics were penned life.” — John 3:16. in loving memory of a dear and precious friend There is power in the named Amy, a young mother blood of Jesus! Power which of three who had everything is capable of helping what to live for but was taken might seem impossible to from this world by a many and that is the power dreadful and slowly proto forgive. gressing disease. When considering how As we enter a new year, much Jesus suffered on our Patrick Serna behalf that we might be recmany of us are reminded Religious view of events both wonderful onciled to our God, might and painful which occurred we consider following his during the year which has passed. magnificent pattern offered to all: Friendships have been chalacknowledging our part, repenting lenged and some seemingly broken and receiving restored friendships, beyond repair. and quite possibly our “peace” So what does the Bible say with our God? about this? Huey Lewis had a hit song back a There are many admonitions to while titled “The Power of Love.” Some of the lyrics are, “It don’t strive for healing and restoration take money and it don’t take fame, in the Bible. The most obvious and strong is that which God did provide Don’t need no credit card to ride One day like the other day . . . here and now it’s gone. So many things I wanted to say . . . so many left undone.Like thanking God for sending such a special friend to me.I thought I owned tomorrow . . . but tomorrow would not be.

this train, Tougher than diamonds and stronger than steel, . . . that’s the power of love.” Truly, there is nothing in all creation more powerful than love. Conclusion: Are you troubled and weary, laden with a load of cares? Have you been forsaken by friends and even family? A common axiom: “We know not what tomorrow holds but we know who holds tomorrow,” a God and Savior who can be trusted. It is a common practice in our culture to make New Year’s resolutions so how about: n Resolving conflict between each other. n Resolve to first be the one who forgives, initially expecting nothing in return. n Receive others’ forgiveness without addendums. n Read and study the Gospel of John. n Experience the power of love in Jesus’ name and celebrate it. The Rev. Patrick Serna is the lead pastor of Highway International Christian Fellowship/Christian and Missionary Alliance in Fairfield. Contact him at 707-372-1281.

Former Virginia priest charged with child sexual abuse The Washington Post A retired priest who for years oversaw the safety of children in the Arlington, Va., diocese is charged with sexually abusing a child. Terry Specht, 68, of Donegal, Pa., was indicted last week by a grand jury in Fairfax County with two felony counts related to sexual abuse of a child under 13 years old. The assault took place in 2000, according to the indictment, when Specht was chaplain and assistant principal at the 1,000-student St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax. Specht “maintains his innocence,” Fairfax public defender Dawn Butorac said. “He’s a retired priest, being put through this 21 years after the alleged event.” The Virginia attorney

general began investigating in 2019 when the alleged victim called a hotline set up for that purpose; that same year, the archdiocese said it had received an allegation and reported it to law enforcement. The diocese has turned over “all information available to us about the allegations,” Catholic Diocese of Arlington spokeswoman Amber Roseboom said. The case is one of three church abuse investigations being pursued by Attorney General Mark Herring’s office. “I want to encourage any Virginian who may have information about this or any other instance of clergy abuse to please come forward,” Herring said in a statement. A trial is scheduled for October 2022.

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Where will all this extra food waste go? Most will go to large composting centers or to plants that will convert it into natural gas. Los Angeles County alone has projected that about 1.9 million tons of food waste a year will be diverted. It could take a dozen anaerobic digestion plants to process all of that, at a projected cost of $840 million.

Who’s going to pay for all this? You are. A survey by the League of California Cities found that most local governments expect refuse collection rates to increase less than 20%, with 1 in 5 cities saying they expect charges to go up more. Costa Mesa, an early adopter of curbside green recycling, estimates that over nine years, monthly rates will have risen a total of $6.10, to $24.10 a month, by 2023-24.

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Mach 5 missiles spur new arms race as US seeks to match China Tribune Content Agency Top U.S. defense contractors are competing for billions of dollars of work tied to the next big technology focus in national-security circles: hypersonic weapons. The military’s renewed interest in ultra-highspeed missiles – spurred by concern that the U.S. is lagging Russia and China – opens the door to lucrative contracts that could last decades. That may provide a much-needed boon for manufacturers seeking to capitalize on growth segments as the Biden administration keeps overall defense outlays in check. The industry is developing an array of the super-high speed armaments for the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force, with the aim of being able to launch them from planes, submarines and trucks. Lockheed Martin Corp. has the leading position in key programs that aim to deliver prototypes the soonest – with flight tests on a new missile slated for the first half of next year. Raytheon Technologies Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. are also seeking to get a toehold in the market for missiles that fly at more than five times the speed of sound. “It’s all about making sure that we have more and more capability and classes of capability in hypersonic weapons,” said Jay Pitman, the vice president of air dominance and strike weapons at Lockheed’s missiles and fire control division. “That will enhance the strategic deterrence that we are

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Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley participates in a news briefing at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, July 21, 2021. Milley said in an October interview on Bloomberg TV that a recent hypersonic test by China was close to a “Sputnik moment” for the U.S. able to provide.” officials Pentagon recently estimated that Army and Navy programs that share a common missile may alone add a combined $28.5 billion to the services’ budgets over the coming years. Critics question the price tag, technical feasibility and battlefield utility of the new class of military hardware. The Union of Concerned Scientists has cast doubt on claims that the weapons offer better performance than existing ballistic missiles and has warned of a destabilizing global arms race. The pursuit of the weapons by strategic rivals in some ways evokes the tensions of the Cold War, when fears abounded that a conflict between the U.S. and Soviet Union could bring about global annihilation via nuclear missiles. It also was a lucrative epoch for defense contractors. But just how much hypersonic weapons will alter the global balance of power remains a matter

of debate. Some observers see a risk that the weapons’ high speed and unpredictable flight paths could lead to miscalculations that may escalate conflicts, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. Others argue that hypersonic weapons do little to alter the dynamic between the U.S., Russia and China, because the countries already have enough nuclear missiles to overwhelm an enemy’s defenses, the group said. Flying at speeds topping 3,800 miles per hour is nothing new – ballistic missiles exceed that level when they reenter the Earth’s atmosphere from space. But these next-generation weapons are designed to be highly maneuverable at those velocities within the Earth’s atmosphere, helping them evade traditional defenses better than ballistic missiles that travel along a predictable arc. The U.S. has been studying hypersonic

weapons for decades, but spending has jumped in recent years as interest in the technology soared. The topic came into focus when Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in an October interview on Bloomberg TV that a recent hypersonic test by China was close to a “Sputnik moment” for the U.S. U.S. military officials have confirmed the Asian nation recently tested a hypersonic weapon that traveled around the world and hit a target back in China. President Vladimir Putin has boasted about Russia’s hypersonic capabilities after showing them off in 2018, though the U.S. has been more vocal about concerns over China’s program. Until the technology progresses, it’s unclear precisely how big a boon it will be for top U.S. defense contractors. Beyond nearterm plans to deliver hypersonic weapons through a handful of development programs, Pentagon officials have made few decisions about how many and what type of weapons they plan to pursue longer term. “We’re still waiting on the Department of Defense to define where this fits in their portfolio,” said Wesley Kremer, president of Raytheon Missiles & Defense. Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for a hypersonic boost-glide missile for the U.S. Army and Navy, which also are sharing flight test plans to help speed development. Lockheed’s Eric

Scherff, vice president of the space systems division overseeing the program, said the company plans an initial flight test in the first half of 2022 and its first hypersonic missiles are on track to be delivered to the Army by the end of the government’s 2023 fiscal year. The Bethesda, Maryland-based defense giant is working on six hypersonic programs for the U.S. that could enter production between 2023 and 2026, Chief Executive Officer Jim Taiclet said told analysts in October. Annual revenue tied to hypersonic weapons should rise to $3 billion by 2026 from $1.5 billion today, assuming key programs reach production, acting Chief Financial Officer John Mollard said during the same conference call. Northrop Grumman supplies the missile’s rocket motors while Leidos Holdings Inc.’s Dynetics subsidiary is making the hypersonic glide body. Dynetics has a $342 million contract to produce 14 gliders, which could lead to a deal to produce 124 worth some $1 billion in revenue, according to the company. After launch, the missile deploys a wedgeshaped glider when it’s above the atmosphere that enables it to zoom toward a target at ultrahigh speeds. Raytheon and Northrop Grumman successfully test-fired an air-breathing concept weapon in September, part of a $200 million contract. The test “went a long way to demonstrating how See Missiles, Page A13

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Crime logs Fairfield Thursday, Dec. 30 7:06 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 2200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 7:47 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1600 block of KIDDER AVENUE 7:51 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 4900 block of JENNINGS COURT 7:52 a.m. — Forgery, 3000 block of PUFFIN CIRCLE 9:53 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 9:59 a.m. — Battery, VILLA COURT 10:34 a.m. — Battery, 1100 block of FIRST STREET 10:49 a.m. — Forgery, 2800 block of SILVER FOX CIRCLE 11:11 a.m. — Battery, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 12 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1000 block of PIERCE STREET 1:46 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2400 block of BEAUFORT DRIVE 2:38 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1200 block of TABOR AVENUE 5:31 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1400 block of PHOENIX DRIVE 5:48 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1000 block of WARREN STREET 7:25 p.m. — Reckless driver, VANDEN ROAD 11:26 p.m. — Trespassing, 2100 block of WYLIE PLACE

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Suisun City Thursday, Dec. 30 10:07 a.m. — Grand theft, 1200 block of ANDERSON DRIVE 7:42 p.m. — Assault, 600 block of MAIN STREET

Friday, Dec. 31 1:36 a.m. — Fraud, 700 block of BREAKWATER CIRCLE 2:50 a.m. — Assault, 200 block of ELWOOD STREET 3:02 p.m. — Vandalism, 400 block of MAIN STREET 3:20 p.m. — Fraud, 1200 block of POTRERO CIRCLE

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From Page One of the Solano Irrigation District. The plan’s summary report states, “There is no evidence that groundwater levels are chronically declining in the subbasin, and there are not expected to do so in the future. “Water levels in the Solano Subbasin are generally stable with seasonal fluctuations, temporary downward trends during drought periods, and recovery during wet periods,” the report adds. “However, (the state) Sustainable Groundwater Management Act regulations require the (sustainability plan) to identify future conditions (over 50 years) that may lead to chronically declining water levels.” The plan states that no “undesirable results” are anticipated over the next 50 years. That includes water quality. The only area of immediate concern is in the northwest area of Solano. “We are not sure what is happening up there,” said Chris Lee, the assistant general manager of the Solano County Water Agency. The Solano Subbasin covers 354,000 acres, of which 79% is located in Solano County, 20% in Sacramento County and 1% in Yolo County. The type of uses are categorized largely by agriculture, urban and riparian and natural habitats. Agriculture represents about 58% of all groundwater use, followed by natural habitats at 32% and urban uses at 9%. The primary areas of urban use are Vacaville, Rio Vista, Dixon, Walnut Grove and Isleton, the report states. “There are two primary aquifer zones in the Solano Subbasin, the Alluvial and Upper Tehama Zone, and the Basal Tehama Zone,” the report states. “Most of the groundwater pumping in the subbasin occurs from the Alluvial Aquifer and the Upper Tehama Zone,” the report continues. “The Basal Tehama Zone is utilized locally by the city of Vacaville and is generally found at greater depths and under highly confined conditions, whereas the Alluvial Aquifer and Upper Tehama Zone

Fire From Page One reports have been resolved successfully. He said it was “miraculous” that hundreds of people weren’t missing. “I’m grateful for that,” he said, “but I’m also extremely sorry for those families. I spoke to a granddaughter this morning, personally. . . . They’re trying to find grandma, and we’re trying to find grandma for her. But the conditions don’t make that possible to do quickly.” In Louisville, 553 homes have been destroyed and 45 were damaged, Pelle said. Three hundred and thirty-two were destroyed in Superior, along with 60 damaged. In unincorporated Boulder County, 106 homes were destroyed, and 22 were damaged. Pelle said those numbers are not a final tally but are “very close” to final. Asked if there were still active hot spots, Pelle said no, but he added there were areas of heat in the burn zone and in destroyed buildings. “I expect that we’ll see smoke and maybe some rekindling for a period of a few days,” he said. Two areas of Louisville are now under “soft closures,” meaning residents can enter the areas. But they need ID plac-

are shallower.” Most of the ag users draw from 100 to 800 feet down, though some as shallow as 50 feet. The Upper Tehama Zone reaches well over 1,000 feet below the surface. The report notes that while the number of acres dedicated to agriculture is declining, the use of groundwater has increased largely due to the type of crops being planted – particularly orchards. However, at this time no one was anticipating zoning or other regulations to be implemented governing the type of crops that can be planted in particular areas due to groundwater availability. Keato said any area that uses larger quantities of groundwater is a possible concern, but believes as a whole the groundwater resource is being managed very well in Solano County. “We still have things to do. We have localized areas that use a lot of groundwater, and so maybe we have to put some recharge in those areas,” Keaton said, The plan outlines managed aquifer recharge opportunities, including the collection of rainwater and storm runoff for that purpose. Implementing the plan is expected to cost $2.58 million over five years, the largest share of which, $1.375 million, would go toward plan updates. Another $436,500 would go to monitoring and well maintenance and $254,000 for community outreach and education. How to pay for those costs still has to be worked out, but Lee anticipates all the agencies involved will likely form some kind of joint powers agreement or memorandum of understanding to define the shared expenses. While officials anticipate that trading and selling of water within the basin is likely, SCWA is one agency that wholly disagrees with allowing transfer of groundwater assets outside the basin. “What we want to do is make things as flexible for growers and ranchers,” Lee said. Officials also believe the successful implementation of the plan is the best way for all the involved parties to protect their interests ards, the city said in a statement, and those placards will be distributed through the city “at a later date.” The two areas of Louisville under soft openings are Spyglass Circle and Saint Andrews Lane, at West Dillon Road to Spyglass Circle. The sheriff said authorities have not found “any credible evidence” of downed power lines in the area, though telecom lines – which could not have started the fire – were found. Initially, many believed that power lines toppled by high winds had sparked the blaze. A preliminary list of destroyed structures released by Boulder County on Saturday shows several businesses, including a Subway, You You Massage, the Havana Manor cigar lounge and a La Quinta Inn, all in Louisville. In Superior, damage buildings include the Chuck E. Cheese, where a video posted to social media Thursday showed panic parents watching smoke creep closer. The town hall was damaged, as was the Target and a Tesla dealership. The Element Hotel was destroyed. But the bulk of the list are home addresses, entire stretches of which appear wiped out. Every home on West Mulberry between 802 and 824 in Louisville. Dozens of homes, primarily on

and to avoid the state coming in and managing the resource. Solano Irrigation District was one of 10 agencies and reclamation districts that formed their own groundwater sustainability agency, with the Solano GSA representing the largest area with multiple agency members. The other sustainability agencies are SID, Vacaville, Sacramento County, Northern Delta, Reclamation District 3, Reclamation District 349, Reclamation District 554, Reclamation District 556 and Reclamation District 2111 – each with its own interest in how the groundwater resource is to be managed. Additionally, there were a host of landowners, water users, neighboring subbasin interests – including the Suisun-Fairfield Valley Subbasin – and other interested parties that contributed to the plan, and the formation of the Solano Collaborative (Solano, SID, Vacaville, Sacramento County and North Delta). The 6,700-page Solano Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan is the end result of several years of study, discussions and negotiations ending in a unified document to send to the state by the end of January. “What our plan says is we are already managing our groundwater,” Lee said. The Board of Supervisors, when the sustainability agencies were being formed, had hoped to have a single agency representing the whole of the county. There was even some criticism expressed out when individual interests began forming their own agencies. One of the early agencies to form its own GSA was Solano Irrigation District, with the expressed purpose of protecting the rights of existing users. “Our concern was sustainability and making sure we and our customers have access to the groundwater they need,” Keaton said. While there is no specified and guaranteed amounts of water for any agency, Keaton thinks the plan achieves its goal of managed sustainability. “It truly has been a collaborative effort . . . and we have ended up in a good spot,” Lee

added about the three years of work. He said the hope of having a single agency from start to finish was unlikely if only because there were several other counties involved in the discussions. Counties and other geopolitical interests may have boundaries, several officials noted, but the groundwater basins do not follow those maps. “And I think everyone is protected by this (plan),” Lee said. One of the most central issues addressed was how much water is recharging back into the groundwater pool through rain, storm runoff, agency recharge and other sources in comparison to what is being pumped out. The management plan will show how much groundwater can be pumped out annually and still keep the subbasin sustainable. That is why the report specifically includes projections of groundwater supplies out to 2045 and beyond, as well as other water sources. “Current sources of water supplies within the subbasin consists of the State Water Project, Solano Project and groundwater. Changes in water supplies each year depends on allocation availability from (the state), Solano Project, and additional water sources,” the report states. “The Solano Collaborative does not anticipate major changes to water supply availability or sources for the GSP implementation. Additional water sources contributing to the groundwater system are expected to vary with water year type.” Among the factors that will affect water uses is the growth of population, which, according to the report, is expected to be 160,600 individuals within the subbasin by 2045, with the largest growth in Vacaville. Another factor addressed is climate change based on models from the state Department of Water Resources. And the conclusions are there will be pluses and minuses regarding groundwater. “Under climate change scenarios, annual change in groundwater storage is estimated to be 1,039 to 1,401 acre feet by 2030, and 1,200 acre feet by 2070,” the report states.

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The remains of the Element Boulder Superior Hotel are seen in the aftermath of the Marshall fire in Louisville, Colorado, Friday. the 900 block, of St. Andrews Lane. Law enforcement has received multiple tips about what caused the fire, Pelle said; one of those spurred the execution of a search warrant on a property in the county. He declined to provide any further details on that specific investigation. He said the cause of the blaze is still being investigated and that he has no “credible, hard” information about the cause. He called it a “very active” investigation that involves local, state and federal authorities. “We’re looking into the cause and origin of the fire, and if it turns out to be arson or reckless behavior with fire, we’ll take appropriate action,” Pelle said. “It was a redflag day, the day of the fire, so there shouldn’t have been any burning of anything.”

9News reported Friday evening that one of the missing people is Nadine Turnbull, citing her grandson, Hutch Armstrong. Turnbull was reported missing after Armstrong’s cousin said he couldn’t get her out of their home in Old Town Superior. “They tried to go out the front door with the neighbor,” Armstrong told 9News. “It was engulfed. Check the back door it was engulfed.” Armstrong said his cousin tried to go back for Turnbull, but firefighters pulled her away. “She says two times she was right behind me – right behind me.” Louisville Police Chief David Hayes said Saturday morning that residents will be allowed back into “soft closure” areas and that ID cards will be needed to gain entry to those areas.

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South Africa bids farewell to Desmond Tutu at funeral Tribune Content Agency JOHANNESBURG — South Africa took time on Saturday to say goodbye to national hero, antiapartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu. The funeral service for the world-renowned human rights activist and Anglican archbishop emeritus, who died on Dec. 26, began at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town early on Saturday. “If we are to understand a global icon to be someone with great moral stature, of exceptional qualities and service to humanity, there can be no doubt it refers to the man we are laying to rest today,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said during his eulogy. “Tutu was without question a crusader in the struggle for freedom, justice, equality, peace, not only in South Africa . . . but around the world as well. “[He was] a humble and brave human being who spoke for the oppressed, the downtrodden and the suffering of the world how fitting is it that his parents named him Mpilo when he was born, meaning life. “He enriched the lives

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of all those he met and who got to know him for him, opposing injustice . . . he never stopped fighting, he never stopped speaking out and he never stopped caring. “He was a spiritual father of our new nation. “He has been our moral compass and our national conscience, he has left a formidable legacy and we are diminished by his passing. “His was a life lived honestly and completely. He has left the world a better place and he has left our country a much better place.” Since the end of apartheid, Tutu had also championed the fight against climate change, HIV, child marriage and gender discrimination. Ramaphosa then presented Tutu’s widow, Leah, with South Africa’s six-colored flag, which inspired Tutu to coin the term “rainbow nation” to describe the peaceful coexistence of South Africa’s many population groups after apartheid. “We shared him with the world, and you shared part of the love you had for him with us. We are thankful that all of you have gathered in your many places, in person or via the wonders of technology, to

celebrate daddy’s life this week . . . We say thank you daddy, for the many ways you showed us love. For the many ways you challenged us,” said Tutu’s daughter Naomi, who is also a priest. Mandela’s widow Graca Machel and former Irish president Mary Robinson read prayers. Tutu was “respected around the world for his dedication to justice, equality and freedom. Today we mourn his death but affirm our determination to keep his beliefs alive,” Robinson wrote on Twitter. South Africans followed the funeral service live on television. Tutu’s ashes are later due to be interred in a mausoleum inside the cathedral, from the pulpit of which Tutu preached for many years against the brutality of the apartheid regime. Famed for his modesty, Tutu was laid to rest in a simple coffin, while the family asked for charitable donations in lieu of flowers. Mourners at the intentionally simple ceremony were limited to close friends and family, clergy and a few international guests, including King Letsie III from neighboring Lesotho.

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recently on Dec. 15. As high-tech as this new generation of hardware sounds, it may be just a prelude to what contractors’ secretive research-and-development operations hint they could pursue next: a jump to light speed. “Hypersonic technology is the natural evolution on the path to where we’ll eventually go, which is to speed-of-light weapons,” Kremer said.

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