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FAIRFIELD — Ballet Folkorico Moon Azteca owner Yajairo Rubio is working hard to keep her dance company growing during the pandemic. It has not been easy. The Vallejo resident opened Lunitas Kitchen to keep the nonprofit afloat over the past year after they lost the studio where they had been practicing. She was one of about 12 vendors to come out Saturday for a celebration of Solano County’s multicultural roots with a Meet N Eat event hosted at MultiTech Auto on North Texas Street. “This is a business built to bring in money for my dance group,” she said. “Twenty-five percent of the sales go to the dance group.” Rubio dreams of sharing her love of traditional Mexican culture through dance. “I share with my dancers a little education about Mexico,” she said. “Things about the Azteca culture because that is part of who we are

and our heritage.” Rubio works to combine Mexican traditions with American ones. “Because it is about reaching out to the community and hopefully making changes people can remember,” she said. The afternoon event was truly multicultural with food from the Philippines as well as Mexico and even some American barbecue being shared with visitors. Zabrina Cordada is the coordinator behind NorCal Kababayan Community Group, a private Facebook group with 39,000 members who help connect local Filipino food vendors with events and created a way to order from vendors through Facebook. “It is a way to help the Filipino community,” Cordada said. “The pandemic has been hard for vendors to go out and do events.” The event Saturday was a way to share food and ideas with the community. Myrtle Dawana coordinated with Roxanna Daman of Diversity RD to create these events across

the Bay Area in hopes of bringing people together to talk about what community means and what changes would be good for the future growth of the communities. “We decided to get organized and provide these community events to help bring the community together,” Dawana said. She grew up in Fairfield but didn’t see in the City Council or other government bodies a reflection of herself or her Latino community. “I didn’t feel like I could participate,” she said. “I know that isn’t true but that is how it felt.” Dawana said she hopes that by getting out and allowing people from various communities to talk and share ideas, they will be able to find solutions to homelessness and other issues that face the local communities. Daman, of Diversity RD, liked the idea of using food to look at bigger issues in a way that supports diversity and unity. “People have been struggling See Vendors, Page A12

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FAIRFIELD — Army Staff Sgt. Margot C. Gebers still ponders all the attention she got for what feels was “just doing her job.” Gebers, who grew up in Fairfield, is the recipient of an Angels of the Battlefield Award, which honors military medical personnel and first responders for their life-saving medical treatment and trauma care of service members, partner forces and civilians at home and abroad. The Armed Services YMCA works with the military services to select an honoree from each branch. Gebers was cited for “demonstrated strength and leadership serving

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US weighing technology restrictions for Putin, Russia Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — The Biden administration and U.S. allies are discussing possible export controls on Russia, including curbs on sensitive technology and electronics, to be imposed if President Vladimir Putin seizes more of Ukraine, a person familiar with the discussions said. While no decisions have been made, the trade restrictions could apply to exports from the U.S. to Russia and possibly to some foreign-made products, according to the person. Also being considered are measures to deprive Russia of microelectronics made with or based on U.S. software or technology, the person said. PresiAs dent Joe Biden’s

administration steps up its rhetoric against the Kremlin ahead of a series of talks involving Russia next week, the scenarios would seek to leverage U.S. dominance in technology to hit Russia’s military, civilian sectors and technological ambitions. The impact could range from aircraft avionics and machine tools to smartphones, games consoles, tablets and televisions, the person said. Under some actions, Russia could face export controls as stringent as those for Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria, according to the person. Separately, a senior U.S. official said Saturday that the Biden administration will hold off on making firm commitments during talks See Russia, Page A12

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From Boris Johnson to Emmanuel Macron, Europe’s leaders are increasingly going after anti-vaxxers as the battle against the fast-spreading omicron variant deepens the region’s pandemic fatigue. Amid a seemingly unstoppable surge in infections, officials are focusing restrictions on unvaccinated people rather than resorting to widespread clampdowns. The strong overall uptake in inoculations has emboldened leaders to go more aggressively after holdouts, prodding them in various ways to roll up their sleeves. French President Macron took the rhetoric to a new level this week when he said his government’s strategy was to “p--- off” those

who have refused shots. In the U.K., Johnson accused anti-vaxxers of spreading “nonsense.” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who supports making shots compulsory, has labeled the anti-vax movement “a tiny minority of reckless extremists.” With the pandemic entering its third year and about 70% of Europe fully vaccinated, the leaders are betting they have popular support for this approach. Across the continent, the policy of coercion is becoming l’ordre du jour, with many governments trying to make life difficult for those refusing a vaccine and brushing aside concerns about civic freedoms. Macron, who faces a difficult re-election campaign this spring,

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It’s all in a name when it comes to diet sodas W I drink sodas, they’re of hatever happened to diet sodas? the no-sugar variety. If you’re like For most of my life, me (and it’s best if you’re “diet” was the only not), you noticed the word used to describe slow decline of diet sodas no-sugar drinks. Diet over the past few years. Coke. Diet Pepsi. Diet Sugar-free, no-calorie Rite. Diet 7-Up. Even sodas haven’t disapDiet Shasta and Diet peared. But “diet” sodas Brad Stanhope Cragmont (the Safeway are apparently taboo. Like I was sayin’ brand until the 1990s). Instead, we have But about 15 years “No Sugar” sodas. And “Zero ago, alternatives began to pop Calorie” sodas. And other up, forcing me to read labels variations. so I could understand whether I’m famously a Type 1 diathese were replacements for the betic (by “famously,” I mean diet versions or something else. people in my immediate family Maybe a fat-free soda? Maybe know it, as do readers bored by caffeine-free? occasional columns over the The first I saw was Coke years when I’ve poked fun at my disease and asked for it to be Zero. Was it zero calories? Zero named after me). That means if carbohydrates? Zero fat? Zero

caffeine? Zero Mostel? (Star of “Fiddler on the Roof,” who died 45 years ago.) I read and re-read the label to make sure I wasn’t accidentally drinking regular soda. In the past few years, it came to the point that almost no soda brands call their nosugar drinks “diet.” Apparently, younger people don’t like the word diet, so it’s better to call something “zero” or “no-sugar” or “zero-sugar” or “carb-NOhydrates” (the last of those was just invented by me. Food companies are free to use it). This is significant because, even though Millennials and members of Gen Z don’t like the word “diet,” they still want low-calorie, no-sugar drinks.

Sugar-free drinks make up nearly 30% of carbonated drink sales in the United States, accounting for about $11 billion in sales in 2020. As a member of the sugaraverse community (another term I just invented), I have something at stake here. I don’t mind the name changes and think I look cooler drinking something called “Pepsi Max Zero-Sugar Xtreme,” rather than Tab or Fresca, the diet sodas most available when I became a diabetic (both of which were marketed primarily to women who wanted to drop a few pounds). My only request is that Coke and Pepsi and Royal Crown and Shasta and other soda manufac-

turers would give me a heads up, so I know which sodas I can drink. It also frees up space in my local grocery store, since it doesn’t require me to stand there and read a tiny-print nutritional label. I’m still very confused about the difference between Diet Coke and Coke Zero Sugar. I still don’t know if Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Zero Sugar are different. But I do appreciate that soda companies continue to try new things. Some new drinks, many new names. Those of us in the sugaraverse community stand ready for a carb-NO-hydrate drink. Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@outlook.com.

Nurse: Gracie ‘gives us a moment to pause from the craziness’ Tribune Content Agency Somewhere inside the intensive care unit at Mount Carmel Grove City, in Grove City, Ohio, on one recent morning, Morgan Sheehan and Holly Riegel stood beside a bed and helped the patient lying in front of them FaceTime with family one last time before the person would be intubated and lose the ability to communicate, at least for now. It was a moment that is repeated over and over and over in these days of Covid, one that never gets any easier. But as soon as Sheehan, unit coordinator for the ICU, and Riegel, a multiskilled patient technician, stepped from the room, they headed right into a breakroom to see Gracie, a 70-pound labradoodle who makes her rounds to visit the exhausted and emotionally-wrecked hospital staff a couple of times each week. Sheehan dropped down to her knees and buried her face in Gracie’s black and white floof on that morning last week. “There’s my girl,” Sheehan cooed as she rubbed the dog’s floppy ears. “She’s the best girl. Gracie always seems to appear on the hardest days.” Watching from nearby was Denise Minor, Mount Carmel Health System’s vice president of patient care services and its chief nursing officer. She also is Gracie’s human.

Denise Minor, left, brings her labradoodle, Gracie, to the hospital to comfort exhausted staff during the pandemic. Unit coordinator Kathy Wills visits with Gracie on at Mount Carmel Grove City in Grove City, Ohio, Dec. 28, 2020. dog through training as a therapy/comfort dog. With Covid protocols and restrictions at various pet places, it took longer than expected, but she wasn’t giving up. This was personal to her. Four years ago in February, she and her siblings lost their father to suicide, and her perspective changed. “You never really know what somebody is going through,” Minor said. “Even if you think you do know.” Through her ensuing grief, she saw her sister, Anita Rogers, making a difference with her own golden doodle, Charlie, who is a trained therapy dog that Rogers uses for her work as a high school guidance counselor in Ross County. So once Gracie passed her training and the pandemic surged again this fall, Minor knew what she had to do. She brings Gracie – whose own hospital administration ID badge declares her “Chief Therapy Officer” – to work a couple of times each week. Most of the time, the dog lounges in the office. But for about an hour each day, she makes the rounds, stopping by the nurses’ stations to get pets,

Gracie the therapy dog: Giving Covidstressed nurses unconditional love Minor decided more than a year ago to put her

squeezes and treats and to give licks and unconditional love. The few minutes of comfort became even more critical last month as Ohio hospitals saw their highest Covid-patient numbers since the pandemic began. “It’s been such an emotional strain because every patient is so sick,” Minor said. “This is why I bring Gracie. To just be present.”

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work helping patients.’” Riegel buried her face in Gracie’s fur on that morning last week, too. “These can be some pretty dark days,” Riegel said. “So to have her bring us some smiles, some laughs? It’s pretty special.” Registered nurse and clinical floor manager Samantha Turner stopped her work on the seventhfloor neurology/stroke/ palliative care units to take just a moment to snuggle Gracie and give her a little shoulder and neck message, the dog’s favorite. Gracie ate up the attention, her tongue hanging from her mouth and her tail wagging in delight.

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Richmond man sentenced for killing of Vallejo woman

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FAIRFIELD — The spike in omicrondriven coronavirus cases is putting pressure on schools as they work to keep their classrooms open. “I don’t think we are at a point where we are closing schools,” said Jaden Baird, executive director of Community Matyas Engagement and Administrative Services for the Fairfield-Suisun School District. Baird said as of Friday, 6% of the workforce was out. Hitting the district harder than missing teachers, however, are shortages in maintenance workers and bus drivers. He also emphasized not

all those employees are out because of Covid. A number of Solano County cities have announced they have closed their offices to the public directly due to the surge of Covid cases, and if they have not closed, then others have curtailed in-person public services. Solano County Superior Court has suspended jury trials for time-waived cases through Feb. 10. Dr. Bela Matyas, the Solano County public health officer, said he is not convinced that the science of the pandemic justifies the closures, arguing the use of masks and social distancing would likely prevent the vast majority

targeting someone else. “The information we had was he was going to FAIRFIELD — kill someone else – posA’Tierra Westbrook, as sibly her mother,” Senior was her routine Deputy District on most days, had Attorney Paul gotten up early Sequeira said not 0n he morning long after Solano of Aug. 3, 2015, County Superior getting ready Court Judge E. for work at KaiBradley Nelson ser’s Vallejo had sentenced Medical Center. McClain to As she stepped 25 years to life in out of her Benicia Westbrook Road home that morning, state prison on a charge the 21-year-old was of first-degree murder. fatally shot. “It was a very By all accounts, Isaiah See Sentenced, Page A7 D. McClain, then 25, was

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People line up at a Covid-19 testing site at the Solano Town Center in Fairfield, Friday. of transmissions. “But I’m also respectful that people have other concerns besides science,” said Matyas, who noted not the least of those issues is employee relations. Solano County had not taken the step to close any of its offices as of Friday, and Matyas said while he is hearing more and more about teacher shortages, he is unaware of any school having closed. “But a lot of schools are suffering from teacher shortages,” he said. Part of the pressure to stay open comes from the governor’s office, which wants schools to continue

in-person instruction. The governor also is looking to enforce student vaccine mandates at some point, but that is unlikely to happen until at least July. The Public Health Division on Friday reported 433 new coronavirus cases since its last update Wednesday, about 408 of those over the past two days. It takes the pandemic total to 51,878. “But I think that is an underreported number for what we are experiencing,” Matyas said. He points to the 10-day daily case average, which

Vallejo PD gets grant to aid Project HOPE

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors are scheduled to review the Planning Services Division’s 2022 workplan when they meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday. The board meets in the first-floor chamber of the government building, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. Masks are required. Board Chairman John Vasquez also is bringing

forward for review changes to the state law related to the extension of “limitations on campaign finance contributions to local elected officials including counties,” and to Vasquez consider a resolution that would “establish individual campaign contribution limits for county elected officials including board members and county elected depart-

ment heads.” The supervisors will follow the morning session with a closed session, during which it will be updated on labor negotiations as well as further consideration for the director of Veteran Services. The afternoon session is a continued public hearing on a proposed development plan for the Canon

implemented into Project HOPE (Harm-focused Outreach, PrevenVALLEJO — Rep. tion and Engagement) ThompMike in an effort to son, D-St. Helena, reduce, prevent announced Friday and suppress that the Vallejo violent crime and Police Departgun violence in ment is receiving Vallejo’s hotspot $1 million in grants neighborhoods, for Project HOPE. according to a The grant press release comes from the Thompson from ThompByrne Crimison’s office. nal Justice Innovation program. It will be See Grant, Page A6

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Obituaries Marilyn Benz

Marilyn Lois Geyer Benz passed away on Nov. 22, 2021. She was born in Williamsville, New York in 1932. She passed away at home in Fairfield, California as she wished surrounded by family and friends. Marilyn always had a smile and kind word to say to everyone she met. She was social throughout her life. She was the daughter of Walter and Cornelia Geyer along with her four brothers, Walter Jr., Richard, John and her only surviving brother, Robert. To her nieces and nephews, Gail Geyer Kucera, Cole Geyer, Kathy Geyer Kenton (George), Lindsay Geyer (Jon Inge), Rick Geyer (Michael Todd), Val Geyer Kuklenski (Monte), Greg and Shelly Geyer, Jackie Geyer and Sandy Geyer Boyette (Mark), Marilyn was a loving aunt who loved to host Thanksgiving dinners for the whole clan. Marilyn was our spirit of life and her dedication and devotion to her family was her legacy. She is survived by her four children, Marcie, Bob, Amy and Joanne; and her loving husband of 56 years, Joe. Growing up in Amherst, New York in 1932 was not easy but her parents were wonderfully humble and loving and they did all they could to make sure their children were given a chance to make their way in life successfully. Marilyn attended Katherine Gibbs in Providence, Rhode Island and soon moved to New York City to strike out on her own, with her father’s permission she was given three days to find a job and live on her own. She never looked back. In Springville, New York she would settle down to raise a family. Later on in the seventies with winter’s

cold bearing down, Marilyn and Joe decided to adventure to California and the beach became Marilyn’s muse. She and her family would make a change and what a brave soul she proved to be once again. She started a career in insurance administration for Mass Mutual in Orange County and she spent every off minute she could at Laguna Beach. She retired in Lake Forest, California in 1996 and then her family convinced her and Joe to move to ‘cold’ northern California to be close to the grand kids. So they moved to Fairfield where Joe still lives. Marilyn will be missed by her husband, Joe Benz; her children, Marcie Benz Hughes (Ned) and Bob Benz (Rena d’Entremont), Amy Benz (Bryce Weber) and Joanne Benz King (Stephen); six grandchildren, Maria Benz Kelly (Spencer), Francois Benz (Malorie) and Katie Benz Owen (Patrick), Piper Hughes Weaver (Joseph) and Ian Hughes (Joy) and Allison King; and four greatgrandchildren, Fiona and Isla Kelly and Eliza and Naomi Weaver. Marilyn will be missed by her many friends and community organizations she was part of including the local bridge club and newcomers of Fairfield, California. Dad, we want you to know we are all so proud of you and we love you and you are not alone. Mom, we love you and we will always remember your beautiful smile and your gift of love will always be in our hearts. Arrangements under the care of BryanBraker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.

Jean Dolter

Oct. 22, 1936 - Dec. 27, 2021 Jean Ann Dolter of Fairfield, California died on Monday morning, Dec. 27, 2021, after a long battle with dementia. She was born on Oct. 22, 1936 in Detroit, Michigan to William and Grace Cofell. She and her younger sister, Mary, spent their entire childhoods in Detroit. Jean graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Following graduation, Jean and a college friend traveled out west, settling in San Francisco. She initially worked as a medical technician for the University of California San Francisco Hospital. In 1960 she met her future husband, Bill Dolter, at church in San Francisco. They married on June 17, 1961, a union that would last until her death, over 60 years later. Jean and Bill raised two sons, eventually moving from San Francisco to Oakland finally to El and Cerrito in 1964. As the boys grew older, Jean went back to college, attending the California State University Hayward. She then worked for several years as a microbiologist for the California State

Department of Health Services in Berkeley until she retired. After retiring Jean volunteered as a docent for both the Oakland Museum and the Solano Land Trust at Rush Ranch. During their retirement Jean and Bill traveled extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Jean is survived by her husband, William Dolter of Fairfield, California; sons, James Dolter (Karen and their son, Nicholas) of San Diego, California and Thomas Dolter (Senne and their children, Joshua, Danny and Gabby) of Benicia, California; she is also survived by her nephews and niece, Scott Veenstra, Bruce Veenstra (Julie) and Elizabeth Veenstra and her daughter, Grace. Jean was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Mary Veenstra; and brother-in-law, Charles Veenstra. Jean’s ashes will be interred at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in a private family service. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, (Alz.org) or the charity of your choice.

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SUISUN CITY — The Solano Transportation Authority’s board will hold its first meeting Wednesday in the new office building. Among the agenda items is a review of the proposed 2021-22 midyear

budget revision, the STA Legislative Platform and Priorities for 2022, and a presentation by Solano County representatives on the Priority Conservation Areas. The meeting is set to start at 6 p.m. The new office is located at 425 Main St.

Solano Lelon Thompson

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Lelon Aaron Thompson on Nov. 28, 2021, at his new home in Eagle, Idaho. Lee was 89 years old and succumbed to heart failure. Lee was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1932 and moved to California with his family in the 1940s. Lee married and started a family in San Francisco and eventually settled in Walnut Creek. He retired after working 35 years for the telephone company as a district manager for Northern California. He will be deeply missed.

He is survived by his children, Ronald and Robert Thompson and Karen Turnage; sister, Dee Yetter; seven grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Visitation will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, at BryanBraker Funeral Home, 1850 W. Texas St., Fairfield. Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, also at Bryan-Braker Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, please donate to your local hospice organization. Arrangements under the care of BryanBraker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.

Werner Schmid

Feb. 3, 1947 — Dec. 27, 2021

Werner Schmid passed away suddenly at the age of 74. He was born in Munich, Germany. He met his beloved wife, Donna, at the Hofbrauhaus in 1969 while he was serving in the German Air Force and she was on a trip to Europe from the U.S. Werner and Donna were married 10 months later in Munich. Werner immigrated to the U.S. in late 1970. He was trained as an electrician and worked for many years as a maintenance supervisor for the Contra Costa Water District. In 1979, their daughter, Erika, was born, bringing much love into their lives. In years past, Werner was active in the many community and social organizations, including the Fremont German School where he served as president. More recently, Werner was active in the local community as a member of SIRS (Sons In Retirement) where he served as a board member. In addition, he was involved in the Rancho Solano HOA, the SIRS golf group, the Solano Yacht Club, the Leisure Town Lawn Bowling League and volunteering with Donna. Werner was loved and

respected by all who knew him, always willing to lend a helping hand. He loved to spend time with family and friends especially at his combined birthday and Super Bowl party. He was passionate about golf and gardening. He loved music, especially Motown, The Beatles and opera. Werner and Donna’s 51-year marriage was characterized by fun and laughter and they enjoyed their many adventures traveling. Donna will cherish all the memories they made. In addition to his wife, Donna; and his daughter, Erika; Werner is survived by his son-in-law, Andy Carter; and three beautiful grandchildren, Nathan, Brian and Melanie; sister, Gudrun Walter; and brothers-in-law, Mark Sullivan (Kristin), Dave Sullivan (Christine), Gunther Hansele (Marcia) and Stefan Schmidt; and several nieces and nephews and their families. Due to Covid, a small private memorial will be held. Donations may be made in Werner’s memory to the Save the Redwoods League, or your favorite charity.

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Office of Education is sponsoring a course for educators and public safety on threat assessment, scheduled virtually from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Jan. 24 and Jan. 31. The course will be led by Sgt. Jason Johnson of Campus Safety Consultations. There is no cost to participate in the online sessions. Recognizing Signs of Targeted Violence is a course designed for the school site professional, administrator, academic counselor or mental health clinician who works directly with students. The course will provide those who attend with the requisite knowledge to recognize and identify the pathways to violence, known warning behaviors leading up to a targeted act of violence, as well as the impact of mental health, according

to a press release from the Office of Education. The course will cover the importance of partnership between police departments and school districts, and how both entities can collaborate with a multidisciplinary threat assessment team. Those who take part in the sessions will review several known commonalities of prior attackers, and how these common factors affect the threat assessment process. The course identifies intervention and mitigation strategies to interrupt the pathway to violence and prevent a targeted act of violence using real-world case studies, according to the press release. Registration is available at the Solano County Office of Education website, www.solanocoe. net. Look under News for the Threat Assessment Course item, then follow the link to the registration page.

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VALLEJO — The city has joined Suisun, Fairfield and others around the state in shutting down City Hall due to the rising number of Covid cases. Vallejo announced Friday the city offices will be closed to the public starting Monday and going through at least the end of February. “City Council, board, and commission meetings will still take place in-person at City Hall until further notice. Doors will open to the public 30 minutes before the session, and masks will be required at all times,” the city stated. “While speaking at the podium/microphone, masks must remain on, fully covering your nose and mouth. Alternatively, citizens are highly encouraged to participate online rather than in person.” City departments will continue to be available by phone, internet or by virtual appointment from

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Drop boxes for Housing, Planning, Building, Public Works, Water billing/ Finance, process servers who are serving legal papers, and for anyone submitting a claim are still available in front of City Hall and the Housing Division. Residents who need to pay their water bill may do so online or drop off their payments at the dropbox located to the left of the front door at City Hall. People who need a building permit can do so online by going to www.cityofvallejo. net/online_services/ central_permit_center/ online_permitting, by emailtocpc@cityofvallejo. net or by calling 707648-4328 during regular business hours. The public lobby of the Police Department, located at 111 Amador St., also will be closed. To file a police report, report an abandoned vehicle and more, visit vallejopd. net/get_services.

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FAIRFIELD — The city will limit the number of people allowed into City Hall and is asking residents to use online services whenever possible. The changes, starting Monday, are due to rise in coronavirus cases, the city announced. “City Hall and surrounding buildings will remain open. However, any transactions that can be conducted online or by appointment should. . . . Numbers for various departments and divisions can be found on our website at fairfield. ca.gov,” the city said in a statement. “Our

virtual City Hall is also open 24/7 at fairfield. ca.gov/open.” The City Hall lobby will be open for water payments, but modifications will limit access to upper floors. People coming in for services related to Community Development, Public Works or the City Manager’s Office will be provided with numbers to call for immediate assistance or to schedule an appointment for services. City Council and other agency meetings will return to Zoom formats beginning with the first Planning Commission meeting of the year, which is scheduled Jan. 12.

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FAIRFIELD — Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation Friday declaring a statewide primary election June 7 and a proclamation declaring a concurrent special election for the 11th Assembly District. The primary for the special election will occur April 5. Jim Frazier resigned

as representive of the 11th Assembly District at the end of 2021. The district represents Fairfield, Suisun City, Vacaville, Rio Vista and other areas in Solano County. Suisun City Mayor Lori Wilson has already announced she is running for the Assembly seat. Primaries and special elections will also occur in the the 22nd Congressional District and the 80th Assembly District.

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Long under fire from patients and consumer advocates, the Medical Board of California is asking lawmakers to pass several far-reaching reforms to help it discipline bad doctors, including lowering the standard of proof necessary to prove cases. In an 11-page letter and memo sent to Legislative leaders this week, board officials also asked them to increase the waiting time for doctors to petition to reinstate their revoked licenses. The board also seeks a hike in licensing fees on doctors, its primary source of revenue. “We hear from people every day about the impact that the board has on their lives,” President Kristina Lawson said in an interview Friday. “These proposals were developed because we’re listening, we want to improve, these proposals will help us improve, and we need the Legislature’s help to improve.” Lawmakers said they welcomed the recommendations and would review them as they begin to introduce bills during the legislative session that began Monday. Previous efforts to pass major reforms have been stymied by the California Medical Assn., the powerful doctors lobby, which worked to kill earlier licensing-fee increases and measures to beef up the board’s disciplinary powers. On Friday, without committing to specific proposals, association president Dr. Robert E. Wailes pledged to support reforms that protect the public.

The Medical Board of California is asking lawmakers to pass several farreaching reforms to help it discipline bad doctors. “To protect patients and the sanctity of the physician-patient relationship, the Medical Board of California must have a strong and robust licensing and disciplinary process,” Wailes said. “We look forward to working with the board and the Legislature to make appropriate and necessary reforms that put the safety of patients first.” That was welcome news to lawmakers who have pushed back against the doctors lobby. “If the California Medical Assn. is ready to sit down and work toward comprehensive reform, I’m ready to do so, and I am ready to do so now,” said state Sen. Richard Roth (D-Riverside), chairman of the Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee, which oversees licensing boards. “But we can’t address these on a piecemeal basis, and that’s what has been forced on us in the past.” Patients, consumer advocates and some legislators have long contended that the board goes easy on bad doctors and fails in its primary mission to protect the public. A Los Angeles Times investigation last month found that since 2013, the board has reinstated 10 physicians who had lost their licenses for sexual misconduct. They included two doctors who abused teenage girls and one who beat two female patients when they reported him for sexually

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FAIRFIELD — The Police Department will begin using a thirdparty partner and an online website beginning Monday for the management of alarm permitting and billing. Fairfield police have partnered with CentralSquare Corporation to provide the services and website, according to a press release. The program utilized on the website is called CryWolf and is used by many public agencies in the county and state. The department will continue to respond to calls for service related to alarms. However, all alarm-related services, including alarm permit registrations, renewals and payments can be accomplished online through the new system. The CentralSquare Corporation provides customer service support at 1-833-981-4010 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Fairfield Police Department will also continue to assist residents as needed by

The CentralSquare Corporation provides customer service support by calling 1-833981-4010 between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. phone at 707-428-7014. CentralSquare will be able to respond to questions in the most timely and efficient manner, according to the press release. City ordinance requires that any individual or business who operates an alarm system obtain an alarm permit. A copy of the city ordinance is available on the CryWolf website. The CryWolf website will be accessible beginning Monday on the Police Department home page. Current permit holders will be notified of their login credentials over the next few weeks. If needed sooner, residents can contact the listed customer service number.

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exploiting them. In July, The Times found that the board had consistently allowed doctors accused of negligence to keep practicing and harming patients, at times leaving them dead, paralyzed, brain-damaged or missing limbs. In previous interviews, Lawson has defended the panel as “dedicated and committed to protecting California consumers” while acknowledging that it has “room for improvement.” She said the board is bound by rules and regulations that complicate efforts to put bad doctors out of business. The board’s recommendations include changing evidentiary standards to make it quicker, easier and less expensive to discipline doctors, according to the memo by Executive Director Bill Prasifka outlining the panel’s legislative requests for 2022. Under current law, the board must show “clear and convincing proof to a reasonable certainty” that disciplinary actions such as public reprimands, probation, suspension or revocation are warranted. That is a lower burden of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal prosecutions. But it is a higher bar than the “preponderance of evidence” in civil litigation, which requires a greater than 50% probability that a claim is true.

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FAIRFIELD — Trustees of the Travis School District will hear a presentation Tuesday on recommended instructional materials for children in transitional kindergarten and special education classes. The presentation will be made by Sue Brothers, assistant superintendent of Educational Services, who will present information about the new curricula, “World of Wonders.” Children throughout the district’s lower grades already make use of “World of Wonders.” The transitional kindergarten teachers and special education teachers working with this grade level recommend the adoption of “World of Wonders,” a transitional kindergarten curriculum that is part of the Wonders series already in use in kindergarten through fifth grades. “When we adopted Wonders for K-5, the TK level had not yet been developed, so they have adopted Big Day for PreK, which is no longer supported, so they need to make a

change,” according to a staff report. The CurricuCouncil met lum Jan. 3 and recommended that “World of Wonders” be forwarded to the board for adoption. If approved, notices will be published and the materials will be made available in the district office for public comment. All comments received will be shared with the board Feb. 8, when these materials return for final consideration. The cost of “World of Wonders” for eight years is approximately $4,481.43 per class. The district at this time has three transitional kindergarten classes and three special education classes that need the materials, for a total of $26,888.58 from the district’s Instructional Materials funds. District officials expect there will be additional classes next year, and will order more materials as needed. There will be a closed session at 5 p.m. The regular meeting will start at 6 p.m. at the Travis Education Center, 2775 De Ronde Drive, Fairfield.

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Grant: $1M awarded to Vallejo Police From Page A3 “Gun violence is a scourge that affects the lives of too many Americans across our great country,” Thompson said in the release. “As the chair of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, I’m proud to have secured this funding for the Vallejo Police Department to reduce violence in our communities. I look forward to working with the VPD to implement Project HOPE and provide a safe and more secure future for our children.” The city experienced 20 reported homicides during 2021, the vast majority the result of shootings. There were 30 reported homicides in and around Vallejo in 2020, the vast majority of those also the result of shootings. Thompson secured funding through the appropriations process. The Vallejo Police Department, with its partners, will offer a voluntary Youth Court Diversion Program that provides an alternative to incarceration to adolescent offenders first-time of misdemeanor or lesser crimes. This method focuses on restorative justice, peer interaction and opportunities for youth to change their paths and discover strengths, according to

the press release. Youth would receive alternative sentencing that provides connections to mentors and enrollment in classes to help navigate healthy life choices. Williams The Vallejo department will also elevate services in apartment complexes located in high crime hotspot neighborhoods and create a new location at the Norman C. King Community Center, according to the release. Project HOPE through its partnerships will provide referrals to services and support to youth and families served and provide outlets for those who are victims of violence who may not otherwise seek these supports. Project HOPE proposes to utilize an evidence-based hotspot policing strategy to increase Vallejo police presence in identified hotspot areas and by sporadically patrolling and making contact with people, deter criminal activity and build stronger relationships with the community. Project HOPE will implement two violence interrupting strategies: street outreach; and a hospital-based violence interruption program (HVIP), both to help Vallejo residents break free from the cycle of violence and receive support

that promotes peaceful conflict resolution. Vallejo police will establish the HVIP, providing gunshot victims with wraparound and follow-up services that help them break free from a life of violence and reduce their risk of re-victimization or retaliation. Services will include educational support, job training and culturally responsive mental health services to interrupt retaliatory cycles of violence and reduce risk of re-injury. The street outreach workers will be trained to identify conflicts within the community and help resolve disputes before they spiral into deadly gun violence, according to the press release. Vallejo police will use members of the community with lived experiences who are trusted by individuals at a high risk of violence. These individuals will use their credibility to interrupt cycles of retaliatory violence, help connect high risk individuals to social services, and provide alternatives to solving conflicts outside of gun violence. The intent of Project HOPE is to build a bridge between community members, law enforcement and those who view crime and violence as their only option in life.

These programs, according to the press release, are expected to generate measurable data that will be collected and analyzed in coordination with Vallejo police research partners. Project HOPE will advance trauma-informed strategies to reduce gun and violent crime citywide while promoting civil rights, supporting victims, protecting the public and building trust, according to the press release. “We are thrilled Vallejo was selected as a Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation site,” Vallejo Chief of Police Shawny K. Williams said in the press release. “This $1 million award will help VPD’s Project HOPE change the lives of our residents through proven community violence intervention and prevention strategies, accessible wraparound social services, and will help take guns and violent offenders off our streets. We look forward to continuing to work together with our partners and supporters, including Congressman Thompson, to end this epidemic of violent crime in our city.” Thompson currently represents the 5th Congressional District, which includes all or parts of Solano, Contra Costa, Napa, Lake, Napa and Sonoma counties. The Solano County portion includes Vallejo and Benicia.

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his example.” O’Connor again expressed her hope that her “baby” is “at peace” now: “I love you so much.” The singer tweeted earlier in the week about Shane having gone missing

Alaska breaks 4-year streak of population loss Tribune Content Agency ANCHORAGE, Alaska — With the Covid-19 pandemic limiting long-distance moves and a new group of fighter jets arriving in Alaska, the state has ended its longest stretch of population decline since World War II, according to estimates released this week by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. From 2016 through 2020, the state recorded four consecutive years of population declines. But as of July 1, 2021, Alaska had 734,323 residents, up 745 from the same date the year before. If not for the redeployment of F-35 fighter jets to Eielson Air Force Base – which brought

about 1,000 new residents to the Fairbanks area – the decline may have continued. Even with the new arrivals, the number of people moving out of Alaska exceeded the number of people moving in for a ninth consecutive year. But the new arrivals narrowed the migration gap, and when coupled with a natural increase, it was enough for the state to post a small gain. State demographer David Howell said it remains to be seen whether the 2021 increase marks a turning point. “I don’t want to say we’re breaking our trend of population loss, because this could be circumstantial,” he said.

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Sentenced: 25 years to life in prison From Page A3 emotional sentencing hearing,” Sequeira said about the victim statements delivered by family members. “There were some harsh words for the defendant.” McClain also received a concurrent 10-year sentence for the use of a gun during a felony. He pleaded guilty in December as part of a deal with the District Attorney’s Office that included waiving 30 months of time already served. The co-defendant in the case, Richard Edward Hill III, now 43, was sentenced Friday to three years for being an accessory after the fact. He was the driver of the car McClain used to flee the scene. “But he has already served his time,” Sequeira said. “In fact, he has served twice as much as he normally would.”

‘It was a very emotional sentencing hearing.’ — Paul Sequiera Deputy DA

The shooting apparently stems from a dispute between the two families. Sequeira said McClain was looking to avenge the death of his brother in San Francisco, though neither Westbrook, who had no ties to the crime, nor her mother, were likely the shooter in that incident. McClain, who was 25 at the time of the shooting, was arrested by Solano County sheriff’s investigators in early September 2016 during a traffic stop on Depot Street in Vacaville. Sequeira could not heap enough praise on the primary investigators – Lt. Dax West,

Detective Chuck Holmstead and Detective Ronnie Sefried, who is now working for the Modoc County Sheriff’s Office – on a case that was developed using wires. “(The family members) were grateful, as we are, that the Sheriff’s Office did a great McClain job investigating this while using the wire,” Sequeira said. But the prosecutor said they would not have been able to make the case without the cooperation of the Westbrook family, either, members of which were able to get the names of individuals critical to the investigation. Hill The case was initially delayed because there were problems getting the defense the wire material in a format they could use. Then the Covid-19 pandemic hit, adding further delays to the prosecution.

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Covid: Spike in omicron cases in county From Page A3 on Friday was 255.4, and despite an upward trend in cases, that average is down from Wednesday’s figure of 270.8. The state also sent out a memo to the counties indicating its own system has been overwhelmed by the number of cases being reported across the state. Matyas said there was one new Covid-related death: an unvaccinated woman, between 50 and 65, who lived at home and had significant health issues. That brings the pandemic total to 357, of which 100 have come after July 1 when vaccines were readily available. Of those 100, 80 individuals were unvaccinated. Vallejo, which is one of the cities to shutter City Hall, had the largest increase Friday with

163 new cases, taking its total to 15,497, the county reported. Fairfield added 101 cases for a count of 13,715. Vacaville is at 13,512 after 96 new cases. Suisun City (3,615) added 18 cases; Dixon (2,823) added 31; Benicia (1,872) added 17; Rio Vista (686) added seven; and there were no new cases reported in the unincorporated area of the county to keep that total at 158, the county reported. There were 70 residents reported to be hospitalized n Friday, up from 69 Wednesday. The intensive care unit total was not available. The percentage of residents 5 or older who have received at least one shot climbed to 80%, up from 79%, while the percentage of full vaccination held at 69%, the county reported. Updates on booster

shoots administered and the number of 5- to 11-year-olds who have received a short were not available. Solano County does not report case updates on weekends, The next update is scheduled late Monday afternoon. n n n Most people who have Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, experience only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. Some people, especially older adults and those with underlying health problems, experience more severe illness such as pneumonia. The delta variant of the virus, which is currently dominant in the U.S., is highly transmissible with indications that asymptomatic individu-

als can spread the virus to others. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that unvaccinated people who contract the delta variant of the virus are much more likely to require hospitalization and to die from the disease as those who are vaccinated. Now health officials worldwide are tracking the new omicron variant. Health officials confirmed Dec. 1 the first U.S. case of a person infected with the omicron variant was discovered in San Francisco in an airline passenger returning to the U.S. from South Africa. The omicron variant has since spread across the country. The delta variant remains a prominent concern as well. The vast majority of people who contract Covid-19 recover from their illness.

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WASHINGTON — Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has urged President Joe Biden to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, which has been operational for 20 years this month. The camp stands for arbitrariness, injustice and torture, Amnesty's U.S. expert Sumit Bhattacharyya told dpa in Washington, D.C. Bhattacharyya urged Biden to close the camp and bring people who were involved in torture or other illegal activities there to justice. The camp now has 39 detainees left. It was established under the government of Republican President George W. Bush to hold suspected Islamist terrorists

without trial after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama, wanted to close it, but failed due to opposition in Congress, while Republican Donald Trump wanted to keep the camp open. Biden, who was Obama's vice president, is trying to push through with plans to close the facility. To mark the upcoming 20th anniversary of the opening of the camp, Amnesty International is planning protests in several cities in Germany and other countries on Saturday. The first prisoners were brought to the Guantanamo camp – located on a US military base in Cuba – on Jan. 11, 2002.

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Kind is departing is a rural, hicago Rep. Bobby Rush’s announcewhite, blue-collar district that ment that he will retire Donald Trump carried twice. this year makes him Most Democratic retirees, the 24th House Democrat however, are vacating seats thus far to not seek re-electhat even a Republican tion in 2022. The rush for the tsunami couldn’t paint red. exits both portends well for That means the successors to Republican midterm prosthese members will be pects and will shape the ideHenry Olsen decided in Democratic ological contours of House primaries, injecting new blood Democrats for years to come. into an aging Democratic caucus. The conventional wisdom is that so These fights will likely carry many Democrats are leaving because significant ideological implications. they can read the tea leaves and don’t It’s no secret that progressives want to spend years wandering in a have increasingly won contests in powerless minority. President Joe safe blue regions. It will be telling if Biden’s awful job approval ratings, more progressive candidates, such as combined with polls showing RepubPennsylvania state Rep. Summer Lee, licans ahead in the congressional beat out conventional Democrats in generic ballot, are consistent with these seats. Lee, who is running to this analysis. succeed retiring Pittsburgh Rep. Since 1994, when the GOP won a Mike Doyle, defeated an incumbent majority in the House for the first state representative in 2018 as a time in 40 years, partisan control of member of the Democratic Socialists the chamber has shifted only three of America. Justice Democrats, a times. It took Democrats 12 years to leftist advocacy group, has already regain control after that debacle and endorsed Lee for her run this year. another eight to return to power after She would join the high-profile their 2010 midterm wipeout. Older “Squad” of progressives if she wins. members surely look at that track The Democratic House caucus will record and reason they don’t want to likely be pushed leftward even if spend another decade on more establishment candidates win. backbenches. More House Democrats will surely The race to succeed retiring Louisstep aside as the new year progresses. ville Democrat John Yarmuth is a case in point. Many states haven’t even opened So far, Kentucky state Rep. Attica filing to run for congressional seats. Scott and state Sen. Morgan McGarAs that process unfolds, more vey are battling for the seat. Scott was members will decide not to return. Fifteen of the 41 members who didn’t a community organizer who soundly defeated a 34-year incumbent run again for the House in 2012, the last election that followed a redistrict- Democrat in 2016. Her campaign website lists her progressive bona ing year, announced their decisions after Jan. 1. That suggests 10 or more fides, from her commitment to “health justice” to “marijuana further departures are still to come justice” (she’s for legalization). Her from both parties. establishment foe touts endorsements Some of the vacated seats are from Kentucky’s elite Democratic prime targets for Republican takepolitics, including multiple unions, overs. The Arizona district held by elected officials and the longtime Ann Kirkpatrick, for example, has former Louisville mayor. been redrawn to lean Republican. But McGarvey is also campaigning And the seat that Wisconsin’s Ron

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as “a progressive champion for Kentucky” who wants to “tackle the existential threat of climate change” and “end generational poverty.” If he wins, he will have to keep leaning leftward to fend off the sort of progressive primary challenges that toppled other establishment Democrats in recent years. Then there is the contest to succeed retiring Long Beach Rep. Alan Lowenthal. The race is shaping up to be a battle between progressive state Assembly member Cristina Garcia and Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia. The mayor has been endorsed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, while the Assembly member emphasizes her prior role as a community organizer who “crashed the good old boy’s network.” Cristina Garcia may be more in the progressive outsider mold, but either candidate can be counted to back the bulk of progressive legislative priorities. Democratic retirements are thus likely to lead to two outcomes: increasing Republican chances of winning a secure majority, and pushing the Democratic Party further to the left. That, in turn, will increase pressure on Biden to follow suit, as progressives angry over the apparent demise of the Build Back Better bill are already urging him to use executive action to advance their agenda. Those calls will only increase as congressional progressives increase their numbers. Bobby Rush got his start in public life as a radical who helped found the Black Panther Party in the 1960s. Sixties-style radicalism quickly fell out of vogue, but 21st-century leftism seems to be on the rise. As the great Bob Dylan once sang, “The times they are a changin’.” Henry Olsen is a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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laine Howle retired the other day after more than two decades as the state’s auditor but left behind a few reports that cement her legacy as a fierce watchdog of inefficiency and malfeasance in state and local government. Capitol insiders are waiting for the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom to name her successor and reveal whether Howle’s independent and plainspoken approach to often complex issues of governance will continue. A few days after Howle departed, one of the leftover reports was issued, revisiting a thorny problem that dates back 16 years called Financial Dan Walters Information System for California. It’s an awkward title written to justify a catchy acronym, FI$Cal. Launched in 2005, FI$Cal was to be a comprehensive project that would replace dozens of incompatible and outdated accounting systems and thus give officials and the public a more accurate and timely picture of the state’s finances. It’s been a hot mess from the onset, costing untold millions of dollars and still far from finished, despite facesaving efforts by state bureaucrats to declare it complete, which both Howle’s office and the state’s other watchdog, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, have criticized as deceptive. The newest audit once again focuses on the project’s tardiness and a lack of a realistic timeline for completion. “The project office will not complete the project by its scheduled end date of June 2022,” the report declares, citing a lack of staff and other impediments to completion. “Even when the project office officially declares the project done,” the audit continues, “it will not have implemented all promised functionality, and doing so will likely incur significant expense. “As we described in our two most recent reports, the project office postponed the development of some features, thus reducing the number of key features the system will have when the project formally ends. “Some of these features are large and play an important role in the functionality of FI$Cal, such as a feature for statewide loan accounting. Until these features are complete, the state controller will continue using its legacy system – a concerning fact given that one of the original goals of the project was to replace stand-alone systems with a single, integrated system.” The report warns that the lack of a fully functioning system could hurt the state’s financial standing. “For the third consecutive year,” it says, “the state will issue late financial statements, resulting in part from state agencies’ challenges in using FI$Cal. Timely financial reports are important for the state to maintain a high credit rating and access to federal funding.” Unfortunately, FI$Cal is not an isolated example of dysfunction in the state’s use of high technology. Several other systems that promised more efficient and responsive government have also fallen behind or failed to deliver the anticipated benefits. It is – or should be – an embarrassment that California struggles to use technology when the state is a global leader in the development of digital tools. Successive governors have tried to fix the situation but none has been successful. Newsom is the latest governor to deal, so far in vain, with the state’s high-tech failures and it should be particularly embarrassing because before becoming governor he wrote a book, “Citizenville,” that focused on how technology would improve governance. The concept is accurate, but the integration of technological tools into government so far has been a bust. If anything, as the new FI$Cal audit indicates, it has been a negative factor by delaying publication of data that are necessary to float bond issues, apply for federal aid and otherwise do the state’s business.

tinely, inbound and outbound from the Bay Area, to avoid its high costs for gasoline and lodging. It would be a great place for a modern “travel center” as they’re now called, complete with a motel and eateries. Some even have movie theaters, bowling alleys and other niceties to kill time. My wife and I drive I-80 to Iowa every summer. If it’s time for lunch and gasoline, a major truck stop is the first choice. We stop at the TA Travel Center in Sparks, Nevada, both ways.

Gov. Gavin Newsom State Capitol Building Sacramento, CA 95814 Congressman John Garamendi (3rd District) 2438 Rayburn HOB Washington, D.C. 20515 Fairfield Office: 1261 Travis Blvd., Suite 130 Fairfield, CA 94533 707-438-1822

Assemblyman Jim Frazier (11th District) State Capitol Room 3091 P.O. Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249-0011 916-319-2011 1261 Travis Blvd., Suite 110 Fairfield, CA 94533 707-399-3011

California Highway Patrol is relocating its westbound weigh station, likely a little farther west. Our City Council should consider putting a new travel center in that location, designing the traffic flow to accommodate both uses. Besides a boon to truckers, there should be significant tax revenues for the city. Let’s think outside the residential “box” for a change. John Takeuchi Fairfield

State Sen. Bill Dodd (3rd District) State Capitol Room 5114 Sacramento, CA 95814 916-651-4003 Vacaville District Office: 555 Mason St., Suite 275 Vacaville, CA 95688 707-454-3808

Fairfield City Hall 1000 Webster St. Fairfield, CA 94533 707-428-7400 Suisun City Hall 701 Civic Center Drive Suisun City, CA 94585 707-421-7300 Vacaville City Hall 650 Merchant St. Vacaville, CA 95688 707-449-5100

COLUMNS

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How do I avoid talking politics with my uncle at the dinner table? not his family. He was taking outlandish positions and making up arguments to support himself. He attacked everyone. The whole Dear Annie: Poltable was ignoring him, itics took over as the but I couldn’t help it and main topic at our holiday continued to engage. It dinner. I don’t mind made for an unpleasAnnie Lane open debate among ant experience for me Dear Annie parties with differing and for all involved. views, as long as those What’s the best way to bury my debating have logical and factdesire to engage with someone supported positions. Our dinner like this? — Hoping for a Better usually goes smoothly, as every- Family Dinner one gets along and, despite Dear Hoping: As Mark differing opinions, we all can Twain said, “never argue with adequately defend our posia fool; onlookers may not be tions. Dinner will come and go, able to tell the difference.” Try and all are happy. to bring that quotation to mind This year, my dad’s brother the next time your uncle tries joined us for dinner. He dragging you down into the recently got divorced and was mud for a fight. Another strategy is counting to 10 and, if angry that he was with us and Editor’s note: Annie Lane is off this week. The following column was originally published in 2019.

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you’re still angry, counting to 20. If you’re still angry after that, try excusing yourself to the bathroom for a few minutes to regain your composure. As far as including him in future plans goes, though it’s important to support family during tough emotional times, that doesn’t mean enduring verbal abuse. Set boundaries, and don’t feel obligated to extend him an invitation to your next gathering if he can’t agree to behave in a respectful manner. Dear Annie: A while ago, you polled readers on whether or not they’d have children if they had it to do all over again. I wanted to share my story. When I was in first grade, our teacher asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. I said a mother and a teacher. Well, motherhood came first.

Three years after I married, I started having children, two boys and two girls in five years. I enjoyed it. But there were hard times, too. The worst thing that happened was losing a child. My eldest son died of cancer in my arms when he was 17. Now to fulfilling my firstgrade dream in another way. A year after he died, I went to college and became a third-grade teacher when I graduated. I loved teaching this grade, with the children’s eagerness to learn and their love of their teachers. I taught for 20 years and retired when the new principal and state laws had us only teaching to the tests and it was no longer any fun for the students or me. Now my three living children are grown. I have six grown grandchildren and seven

great-grandchildren. After my husband left me, I bought a small farm, and my living son remodeled the pathetic old house for me and bought 8 acres next to me, where he now lives. So yes, I’m happy to have had children, and even dealing with the death of one, I still have my memories of what a special son he was – a musician, magician, poet and reader with a sense of humor. — 80-Year-Old Happy Grandmother Dear Happy Grandmother: Thank you so much for sharing your inspiring story. It sounds as if your son was a beautiful soul. May he rest in peace. I wish you and the rest of your family a blessed 2019. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

FOR YOUR HEALTH

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday A year sprinkled in wonders! Your optimism and curiosity will attract fascinating people. Friends and teachers will help you nail an achievement. You’ll keep building relationships. The old alliances will be a perfect match for new opportunities. A May investment will be part of your legacy. Taurus and Aries adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 10, 3, 33, 18 and 49.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You are a warrior. It doesn’t mean you always want to fight the opposition. It means that your actions are imbued with purpose. The purpose today will be to assist in keeping things orderly and peaceful. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Rare entities are sought after; common ones are overlooked. When everyone wants it but few can have it, the value goes up. To make something more precious, you will limit access to it. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Your relationship with a certain person is moving with the times, a sign that there’s real potential here. The better you know and trust each other, the more opportunity there will be to conquer the world as a team. CANCER (June 22-July 22). There’s nothing wrong with mediocrity, yet you’re not interested. You’ll pick what you’re already good at and work as hard as it takes to make yourself remarkable. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). An uncomfortable feeling comes back. In the past, you didn’t know how to manage it – maybe you still don’t – but you’re willing to try to take it on anyway. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). On one hand, you hate to waste. On the other hand, in today’s case, not wasting will take a great deal of preparation (which can feel to you like waste). It’s a matter of choosing your battle. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your improvements will come by way of subtraction. Getting rid of things makes room. It works in love, too, as relationships could use more space. Back off and wait for the wonder that will rush to fill in the blank. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Emotions are among the day’s most valuable gifts. Feelings lead you places. Lovely ones send you to beautiful vistas. Raw and painful ones are shortcuts to an improved version of yourself. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Occasionally, your mind adopts an unhelpful strategy (for instance, obsessing about a situation that you can’t control). Tell your mind to figure out the part of the scenario you can do something about. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You won’t take pity on a single soul, especially not on yourself, because you wholeheartedly believe in each person’s ability to rise to the occasion and do what’s necessary. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Circumstances are changing quickly. It seems like you just made the plan and it already needs alterations. That you’re able to adjust easily is a skill on its own – one you’ll be using often in the weeks to come. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You have a gift for putting yourself in the other person’s place and really understanding what it’s like to be there. You’ll sort out a conflict and save the day. CELEBRITY PROFILES: Happy Birthday to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (aka Kate Middleton), a Capricorn whose star burns so bright that the entire world seems to be watching her every move. With Mercury and Venus in philanthropic Aquarius, Middleton works for the good of humanity, while Mars, Saturn and Pluto in Libra promise that diplomacy and tact will eternally stand her in good stead. Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

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Having a friend to exercise with you (walking in your neighborhood or at the gym) can help prevent “skipping” days.

Tips may help you meet health goals for 2022

Dr. Colleen M. Townsend

PARTNERSHIP HEALTHPLAN OF CALIFORNIA

appy New Year! Many of us strive to make resolutions for better work and health habits. Resolutions are intended to help us mindfully develop and strengthen changes in habits and lifestyle that provide significant benefits for this year and future years. Studies of healthy lifestyle habits indicate the value in developing new habits (improved exercise), discarding old ones (tobacco use, for instance). Making these changes has significant effects on our overall health and well-being. Often, the goal to change a habit is based on a big change without enough planning that supports success. Research has shown there are ways in which individuals can be successful in achieving their resolutions and improvement goals. Here are a few keys to approach resolutions that can lead to impactful and lasting success in achieving goals in January and throughout the calendar year. Identifying a goal that is meaningful, achievable and measurable improves our abilities to be successful. Choosing a personally meaningful goal that is also interesting, supports continued activities toward success. There are often targets we feel we

“must” try to achieve. When goals are self-chosen and driven by positive thoughts and positive experiences, the changes are lasting. To achieve a big goal, breaking this down into smaller and specific targets supports positive, frequent feedback of forward movement to the complete goal. If the overarching goal is to “exercise more in 2022,” it is important to specify the time or frequency of exercise that is “more.” If this means moving from zero activity to exercising for two hours per week, the targeted change needs to be clear and easy to work toward using a measure for success. Identify the practical ways to reach that target with a plan to start gradually with smaller targets that build up over time toward the main “big goal.” If exercise is the goal, starting with short walks during breaks in the workday and increasing over time integrates the goal into daily routine more seamlessly. One must also consider and plan for obstacles and identify ways to prevent or overcome these barriers. For instance, having a friend to either exercise with you (walking in your neighborhood or the gym) can help prevent “skipping” days. This can add a social component to exercise. Sometimes commitment to scheduled time with an exercise buddy can be stronger than the commitment to the exercise

itself. Setting a time for activity or exercise on your phone or calendar will remind you in the course of your day. Lifestyle changes require a thoughtful and measured approach. Success relies on careful selection of the goal and solid steps to achieve success. Even with diligent planning and consideration of barriers, there will be times when the plan goes astray and one “fails” to reach the target. This is normal and expected. These cycles are an opportunity to learn which factors support or block success. These factors can be related to schedule or the actual activities. For instance, if the goal is “exercise more in 2022” and an activity is to train for a foot race, and if at three months running is not enjoyable, a new activity (hiking, bike riding) can be explored. In the first six months as new habits are integrated, you will find the areas where old or negative habits emerge and you can identify which new habits support your goals. A steady, flexible approach to making a change will take at least six months to make a solid habit form. Good luck. Here’s to your health in 2022! Dr. Colleen M. Townsend is a family physician with Partnership HealthPlan of California, a partner of Solano Public Health.

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Murray Bass Plan to live

Learning from Omar, a renowned rodeo cowboy

ov. 20 was a day for me to remember. I’ll bet that most readers of this column don’t know that Solano County is home to Omar, the world-famous rodeo cowboy. Omar appears all over America doing all the things a rodeo cowboy performer does. One of those things is bull riding. Omar had a class for young “wannabe” rodeo cowboys in how to ride a bull. I was lucky to get close enough to the action to see and hear the whole thing. I can tell you this: Omar is a great teacher. He knows how to ride a bull and stay safe. If I could see better, I think I might be able to ride a bull myself. I really only am able to “sling the bull,” if you know what I mean. The day started out with a class telling the young ones what to do and what not to do. Each item included a personal demonstration repeated a number of times. Omar said it took him a hundred rides before he knew how to do it. Next came a practice ride on the mechanical bull. Omar stood next to it, showing the young guys what they were doing wrong, sometimes stopping the mechanical bull at the top of a “buck.” Next came the real thing: riding the big bucking bulls. Some rides lasted longer than others. Nobody got hurt. Omar introduced us to a young man as his protege. He had won tens of thousands of dollars at rodeos. “How old are you?” Omar asked. “Fifteen” was the reply. A day to remember. Another really good thing for me was Gina, my dear friend, was there, too. Gina and I talk on the phone every morning, but she is usually so busy that we rarely see each other. It was especially nice because I was able to give her one of Gwen’s great beef tamales. As good as those tamales were, I wouldn’t have given one to anyone unless they were very special to me. What does that tell you, Gina? I was able to go to the event because of Larry Welch. No one has ever had a better friend than Larry is to me. He does so much for me. He takes me wherever I need to go, when I need to go. He is a great source of information about the people and places in the county. He is always on top of what is happening in America and the world. For an old blind guy, his friendship is priceless. I have never been able to find a way to return many of his favors. I do thank God for that blessing. Yes, with the riders, Omar, Gina and Larry, it was a day to remember. Murray Bass of Fairfield can be reached at 707-720-5139 or mzb602@gmail.com.

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Bernard Judge’s “Tree House” clings to a hilltop perch with wide views of Los Angeles, Dec. 28, 2021.

A rare look inside Judge’s 1970s experimental Tree House Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — Is it possible to feel marooned in a wilderness hideaway in the middle of Los Angeles? It is if you are inhabiting the experimental home that architect Bernard Judge built for himself in the 1970s. Set high on the crest on an impossibly steep hillside overlooking West Hollywood, the “Tree House,” as it is known, not only feels like stepping into a real-deal tree house, it seems to approximate the form of a tree with its structure. A 1977 design story in the Los Angeles Times magazine described it as “a lark of house.” I became intrigued by the Tree House after writing the obituary for Judge, who died on Nov. 15 at the age of 90. As a designer, he came of age in the wake of L.A.’s midcentury Case Study program, devoted to exploring low-cost housing solutions. Judge was interested in those ideas, but also in issues of ecological sustainability. Completed in 1975, Judge’s house is set on four steel columns that are planted vertically into the hillside, a structure that serves as the load-bearing apparatus for the two-story wooden structure wrapped around it. It’s as if the house has sprouted from its narrow base and is attempting to camouflage itself in the grove of eucalyptus trees that partially

The Tree House, which is supported by four steel beams embedded into the hillside, occupies a lot that had once been considered unbuildable. envelop it. As Judge’s widow, Blaine Mallory, told me in November, “He wanted to live lightly on the land and be embedded in the environment.” On a brisk December morning, Mallory is kind enough to let me and Times photographer Christina House wander about the Tree House, a homey space studded with objects acquired across a lifetime: Andean figurines, African masks, abstract paintings. And, of course, there are the views. The house frames a vast swath of the Los Angeles Basin, and in the wake of a rainstorm, we could see all the way to the Palos Verde Peninsula. “At sunset it’s

just spectacular – especially in the winter,” says Mallory. “It changes every night.” You enter the home through its second story, which contains the living room, kitchen and dining areas, as well as a broad terrace with views of the city. A spiral staircase at the center descends to a small den and a pair of bedrooms, as well as a bathroom – the last decorated with hand-painted tiles by ceramicist Dora De Larios, Judge’s first wife, who died in 2018. I was intrigued by the home’s compactness: a total of 1,300 square feet spread over two stories, including the terraces – space that seems intensely small in comparison with the 10,000 square-foot (and up) McMansions that clutter the hillside below. But the Tree House’s design – the unimpeded views, combined with a high rafter on the upper level – keep the place feeling roomy. The rafter also helps ventilate the space in summer, since it contains a large louvered window that can be opened to catch breezes. Judge also designed and built the home’s interiors – and no space is wasted. The tight galley kitchen has hyper-efficient design elements, like a spice shelf that has been carved into the wall and a narrow knife rack that occupies a sliver of space in what would otherwise be two wasted inches between the coun-

ter’s edge and a window. Naturally, experimental homes are often rife with quirks. The spiral staircase is big and eats up more territory than it should, though it’s worth noting that it’s a bit of judicious recycling: Judge rescued it from an earlier architectural experiment, his so-called “bubble house,” in which he made a home out of a geodesic dome (a project that landed in the pages of Life magazine). In addition, the Tree House, on its hilltop perch, is exposed to the elements, and its glassy surfaces make it vulnerable to extreme weather – something that could likely be ameliorated by installing energy-efficient insulating glass of the sort that wasn’t readily available when Judge built the home. Other environmental considerations, however, make the structure compelling. The house barely touches the land, resting almost entirely on its narrow steel frame pedestal – a design Judge patented – on an inexpensive lot that had once been considered “unbuildable.” Says Mallory of the design: “It can go in a flood zone or a jungle.” In the 1970s, Judge told The Times that living in the house was “like living in a huge toy.” But as we design with an eye toward density and climate change, this unusual Los Angeles home also offers intriguing food for thought.

Smoking, bacteria, arthritis: Sorting out complex relationships

the Americas, leading f your New Year’s to the introduction of resolutions include quitting smoking, you tobacco to the Old World. may be diminishing your There are precedents risk of rheumatoid to environmental toxins, arthritis, or RA, and that or infections, leading to of your relatives. A study inflammatory autoimfrom Brigham & mune diseases. Women’s Hospital For example, the incipublished in Arthritis & dence of rheumatic fever, Scott Anderson caused by streptococcal Rheumatology recently Ask Dr. Scott found a 75% increased throat infections, began risk of rheumatoid to decline prior to the disease in children living with advent of penicillin as a treatparental smokers, according to ment, around World War II. In lead author Kazuki Yoshida, rheumatic fever, antibodies forquoted in Rheumatology News. mulated to fight off the infection Although anecdotal impresalso attack heart tissue, joints sions only go so far, my own and kidneys. Although bacterial observations suggest that throat infections directly cause smoking is a major risk factor rheumatic fever, the total square for inflammatory arthritis, confeet of living area afforded to an sistent with scientific literature individual is also clinically relobservations. When I was in evant. Individuals crowded into medical training, smoking was poorly ventilated housing harbor declining, but still prevalent. increased risk. Rheumatic fever The occasional doctor puffed today is primarily encountered away while charting. We saw in developing nations. rheumatoid hand deformities This concept of normal with frequency. tissues suffering from immune Decades later, smoking inciresponses applies also to viral dence in the United States has infections. For example, with declined, and smoking around respect to Covid-19, there is children is stigmatized. Coinciconcern among researchers dent with these changes, severe with regard to pro-inflammatory RA cases seem less common. cytokines that may worsen acute Rheumatoid disease was disease states, damaging tissues. unknown in Europe until ChrisIn the case of RA, we know topher Columbus returned from that antibodies cyclic citrulli-

nated peptide, or anti-CCP, often emerge. A link between some bacteria, including proteus, has been observed with respect to anti-CCP antibodies. One wonders if a mechanism involving “molecular mimicry” may be involved in the pathogenesis of RA, in the wake of auto-antibody production. Immune responses to bacteria and joint lining, for example, could lead to inflammatory cascades that damage joints. Rheumatoid factor, a test for RA, may become positive in the setting of chronic infections, including hepatitis or tuberculosis. A report from the European League Against Rheumatism meeting links air pollution to flares of rheumatoid arthritis. First author Giovanni Adami, of the University of Verona, described increased levels of the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein “at very low levels of exposure,” as quoted in Rheumatology News. Might autoimmune conditions gradually decline if the world moves slowly toward lower levels of endemic air pollution? American researchers regard electronic cigarettes and tobacco-free nicotine delivery systems with circumspection. For example, Sam N. Cwaline and co-authors pub-

lished an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine titled, “Tobacco-Free Nicotine – New Name, Same Scheme?” The article details how synthetic nicotine products may escape the regulatory burdens of the Family Smoking and Tobacco Control Act of 2009, which granted the Food and Drug Administration regulatory authority over tobacco products. The authors criticize marketing tactics directed toward adolescents and young adults for both nicotine supplements and e-cigarettes. The authors raise legitimate concerns related to our youth. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 68% of smokers want to quit, over half try quitting annually, but only 7.5% succeed. Smoking cessation programs, such as the one that UC Davis offers, provide counseling, medications and appear to foster greater success. Is there a role for nicotine delivery systems among those still failing to quit? We need more research on harm reduction. 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.

State

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How will Newsom spend the budget surplus? Tribune Content Agency SACRAMENTO — For the second year in a row, California is poised to avoid economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, leaving Gov. Gavin Newsom with a good problem: how to spend a projected $31 billion surplus. By Monday, Newsom must unveil his proposal for the 2022-23 fiscal year, which starts July 1. His proposal will kick off months of negotiations with lawmakers, who face a June 15 deadline to pass a budget. Analysts predict the state’s highest earners will continue to prosper and pay high taxes, resulting in another big surplus. The budget Newsom signed last summer included a projected $80 billion surplus, which allowed lawmakers to provide Covid-19 relief and send stimulus checks to millions of Californians. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office has recommended that lawmakers appropriate no more than $3 billion to $8 billion in new ongoing spending, and use the rest on one-time expenses that won’t force cuts in the future when there’s less cash available. The office also advocated for lawmakers to add to reserve accounts in anticipation of leaner budget years in the future. Newsom has said he wants to use most of the extra money for one-time spending on areas including budget reserves, pension debt and the social safety net. He has also suggested more stimulus checks could be on the table. “I think that’s the approach: fiscally disciplined, recognizing this is not a permanent

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In this file photo, Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks after being sworn in as the 40th governor of California in front of the Capitol in Sacramento. Newsom now has the pleasant task of figuring out how to spend a projected $31 billion surplus in 2022. state, recognizing the one-time nature of most of these dollars,” Newsom said in November. In November, after a spate of high-profile retail thefts, Newsom announced that his 2022 budget proposal will “substantially” increase funding for cities to crack down on organized retail crime. Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, who leads the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Public Safety, said she thinks addressing retail theft makes sense, but wants to see specifics. “We need to do something to deter those crimes and hold people accountable,” the Democrat said. “I want to see the details and see that the funding is used effectively and not just padding departments.” She said she also wants to see more money in the budget to change a culture of hazing in California prisons. Last year, the Sacramento Bee reported on two California State Prison-Sacramento offi-

cers who died after reporting harassment, hazing and corruption by their colleagues. One officer’s death was ruled a suicide. The other died of a fentanyl overdose. Since then, the state has moved to fire two officers and discipline 10 other employees at the prison. Garcia also pointed to the case of a prisoner who was tortured and beheaded by his cellmate, which officers failed to report for hours. “Breaking the law and being in jail shouldn’t be a death sentence,” Garcia said. “Being an officer shouldn’t be a death sentence either.” Newsom intends to steer more money toward screenings for dyslexia and add more funding for early education, he told The Sacramento Bee in an interview last month. Newsom has dyslexia and wrote a book last year inspired by his struggle to read because of the condition. He said his proposal will aim to help kids who “start behind.”

“We did a lot more last year than we did the prior year, and this year’s budget’s gonna see a hell of a lot more, forgive my language,” he said. He also said he wants to expand literacy programs through First 5, a state program for kids under 5. Kevin Gordon, an education lobbyist whose clients include the state’s biggest school districts, said he expects Newsom will put more money toward programs specifically aimed at helping schools deal with Covid-19 and to help students make up learning time lost because of the pandemic. While targeted education programs like that are important, Gordon said school districts also want more money that isn’t committed to specific programs that they can spend on their core needs, including staff and facilities. Assemblyman Phil Ting, a Democrat who runs the Assembly Budget Committee, has said he wants to spend a “significant portion” of the surplus on infrastructure, including $10 billion for school facilities and $10 billion for transportation projects. That could reduce the amount Californians might get back in rebate checks this year. That’s because the state expects to have so much money it risks exceeding a state spending threshold called the Gann Limit. If that happens, the money that qualifies as “over the limit” has to go to schools and back to taxpayers through rebates. Money spent on infrastructure doesn’t count toward the Gann Limit calculation. That means the more lawmakers spend on roads, bridges and school facilities, the less they will be required to send back to taxpayers.

At-home tests for sexually transmitted infections now part of the law

The next generation of star college applicants Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — The moment had finally come for Kiana Portillo, a senior at Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles. She had worked so hard and overcome so much to get to this point: an abrupt move from Honduras to Los Angeles as a fifth grader, merciless teasing over her limited English and heavy Spanish accent, financial hardship and the emotional void left by an absent father. But supported by teachers who tutored her over lunchtime and fed her intellectual hunger, Kiana had built a standout college resume: mostly A’s and rigorous courses heavy in math and leadership roles, including co-founding the school’s first feminist club. Now she was about to submit her application to the University of California. But she couldn’t press “submit.” She froze at her laptop. Worries filled her mind. Was she good enough?

School on the rise The 259 seniors in Downtown Magnets’ class of 2022 don’t take college for granted. They are the children of low-wage cooks and waitresses, parking valets and factory workers, caretakers and security guards. Their parents are mostly immigrants who landed in Los Angeles from Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, South Korea, the Philippines, China — largely unschooled in how to navigate the U.S. college admissions process and unable to hire the pricey consultants and tutors enlisted by some well-heeled families to help their children gain an edge. They represent the new generation of students reshaping the face of higher education in California: young people with lower family incomes, less parental education and far more racial and ethnic diversity than college applicants of the past. And Downtown Magnets, a small and highly diverse campus of 911 students just north of the Los Angeles Civic Center, is in the vanguard of the change. Last year, 97% of the school’s

Republicans have pointed to water storage, road repairs and other infrastructure projects to reduce traffic congestion as priorities. In a letter to Newsom, Assembly Republican Leader Marie Waldron and Assemblyman Vince Fong, the top Republican on the Assembly Budget Committee, also called for tax cuts, paying down unemployment insurance debt, wildfire prevention spending and increased funding for police to crack down on retail theft. Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman, who leads the Senate Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, said she anticipates the governor will make good on his promise last year to boost funding for public health departments pushed to the limit battling Covid-19. Newsom’s Finance Department committed to increase public health department funding by $300 million starting in 2022 after fellow Democrats criticized him for not granting departments’ request for a $200 million increase. Increased public health funding is a priority for consumer advocacy group Health Access, the group’s executive director Anthony Wright said. So is expanding Medi-Cal, the government insurance program for low-income Californians, to include more undocumented people, Wright said. Last year, Newsom approved a budget that expanded the program to people over age 50 regardless of immigration status. Undocumented people between age 26 and 49 are still not covered by the program, however, something lawmakers and Newsom will face pressure to change. Eggman said that will be on the table this year.

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Seniors Patricia DeLeon, 17, left, and Kiana Portillo, 16, talk with college counselor Lynda McGee inside the College Center at Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles, Oct. 25, 2021. seniors were accepted to college, and most enrolled. Among them, 71% of those who applied to a UC campus were admitted, including 19 of the 56 applicants to UC Berkeley – a higher admission rate than elite Los Angeles private schools such as Harvard-Westlake and Marlborough. In December, the Downtown Magnet applicants include Nick Saballos, whose Nicaraguan father never finished high school and works for minimum wage as a parking valet but is proud of his son’s passion for astrophysics. There’s Emily Cruz, who had a rough time focusing on school while being expected to help her Guatemalan immigrant mother with household duties. Emily is determined to become a lawyer or a philosopher. Kenji Horigome emigrated to Los Angeles from Japan in fourth grade speaking no English, with a single mother who works as a Koreatown restaurant server. Kenji has become a top student and may join the military, in part for the financial aid the GI Bill would provide. “The main thing my kids lack is a sense of entitlement,” said Lynda McGee, the school’s longtime college counselor. “That’s my biggest enemy: the fact that my students are humble and think they don’t deserve what they actually deserve. It’s more of a mental problem than an academic one.” What the students do have is a close-knit school community, passionate educators and parents willing to take the extra step to send them to a magnet school located, for many, outside their neighborhoods. Principal Sarah Usmani leads a staff mindful of creating a campus environment both nurturing and academically rigorous; she has scrounged for money for a psychiatric social worker to help with mental health problems, an attendance counselor to stay on top of absences, an intervention coun-

selor to monitor whether grades drop and an additional academic counselor. And the students have McGee, who since 2000 has helped shepherd thousands to higher education. On a recent morning, students lined up to see her in the campus College Center, an inviting space with comfortable sofas, a bank of computers, colorful pennants and stuffed toy mascots from dozens of colleges. Never mind that it was Thanksgiving break. UC and Cal State application deadlines were just a week away, and McGee’s students needed her. Ms. McGee, I need a fee waiver! I’m not sure about a major. How do I figure out my weighted GPA? “I can say no to evening, weekend and holiday work, but that means someone won’t go to college,” McGee said. “There are too many kids, good kids who will take themselves out of the process, and they’ll go to a community college with a 3.9. I can’t carry that guilt.” McGee keeps close tabs on as many students as she can, often suggesting they consider options other than “the religion of the UC,” as she says many parents, particularly Asian Americans, regard the renowned public research university system. It’s all about fit, she tells them. If you like personal relationships with faculty, consider smaller private colleges. Think about leaving California to stretch yourself. She gently nudges students with low GPAs away from pinning their hopes on hypercompetitive UCLA and Berkeley and suggests well-regarded but more attainable alternatives: Cal State Dominguez Hills, Woodbury University, Mount St. Mary’s College, Dixie State University. But she also needs to make sure her top students are aiming high enough.

Tribune Content Agency SACRAMENTO — California has become the first state to require health insurance plans to cover at-home tests for sexually transmitted infections such as HIV, chlamydia and syphilis – which could help quell the STI epidemic that has raged nearly unchecked as public health departments have focused on Covid-19. The rule, part of a broader law addressing the STI epidemic, took effect Jan. 1 for people with state-regulated private insurance plans and will kick in sometime later for the millions of low-income Californians enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program. By making it easier and cheaper for Californians to self-administer tests in the privacy of their homes, the provision could bring better disease monitoring to rural and underserved parts of the state, reduce the stigma patients experience when seeking care and give them more control over their health, say experts on infectious diseases. “This is the first law of its kind, and I’d say it’s kind of cutting-edge,” said Stephanie Arnold Pang, senior director of policy and government relations for the National Coalition of STD Directors. “We want to bring down every single barrier for someone to get STI testing, and out-of-pocket cost is a huge factor.” But being first has its downsides. Because the concept of insurance coverage for home STI tests is so new, the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, could not establish by Jan. 1 the billing codes it

needs to start paying for tests. Federal regulators also haven’t approved the tests for home use, which could make labs reluctant to process them. And a state analysis predicts most in-network health care providers won’t start prescribing home tests for at least a year until they adjust their billing and other practices. Nevertheless, the situation is urgent and requires action, said state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, a pediatrician who wrote the law. “We have children born in California with syphilis,” Pan said. “You’d think that went away in the Victorian era.” Even before Covid-19, sexually transmitted infections hit all-time highs in the U.S. and California for six years in a row, according to 2019 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Rates of congenital syphilis, which babies contract from their mothers, illustrate the severity of the STI epidemic: Cases were up 279% from 2015 to 2019 nationally and 232% in California. Of the 445 cases of congenital syphilis in California in 2019, 37 were stillbirths. The pandemic only worsened the problem because health departments were overwhelmed responding to the Covid-19 emergency, and stay-at-home orders kept people away from clinics. In surveys of public health programs since May 2020, the National Coalition of STD Directors found that most respondents – up to 78% in one survey – have diverted some workforces to test and monitor Covid-19.

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Officials: Children hospitalized with Covid more than ever before Tribune Content Agency SACRAMENTO — California officials say hospitals are admitting children with Covid-19 at an unprecedented rate, mirroring a nationwide trend as the omicron variant continues spreading across the United States. While the number of kids entering hospitals is on the rise, physicians say the severity of their infections is not as bad as those seen in previous surges. In a call with reporters on Wednesday, California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said the admissions are higher than ones recorded last winter when cases soared. "Just like other states are reporting, other nations are reporting, more young people with Covid are being admitted,” Ghaly said. “In California, we have admitted more patients on a day-to-day basis over the last few days than we did even at the peak of last winter’s surge.” The previous record for pediatric admissions was 41 in one day, according to the California Department of Health. At that time about one year

critically important that we surround them with people who are vaccinated to provide them protection.” According to CDC data, 15.6% of American children ages 5 to 11 are fully vaccinated against Covid-19. The CDC on Wednesday also backed booster shots for children ages 12 to 15. California has a higher Mario Tama/Getty Images/TNS file (2020) rate of vaccination among Medical experts are saying vaccine trials for Covid-19 children than the national should begin for young children. rate. Of the state’s more than 3.5 million 5 to ago, adult admissions Friday said the number of 11 year olds, 18.5% are young children, age 4 and numbered about 3,000. fully vaccinated, and 8.9% Now, the department younger, admitted to the are partially vaccinated. said it has seen daily pedi- hospital who test posiHospitals in the Sactive for the virus rose to atric admissions of 50 to ramento area have seen 60 children for three days the highest levels since an uptick in pediatric straight. On Jan. 4, the the beginning of the panCovid-19 admissions said state reached 90 pediat- demic last week. CDC Director Dr. Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief ric admissions in one day. The adult admission Rochelle Walensky said of Pediatric Infectious rate, meanwhile, remains children infected with the Diseases at UC Davis lower than it was last variant are still at much Children’s Hospital. "This is something that year, about 1,600 to less risk of severe illness we expected,” Blumberg 2,200 adult Covid-19 hos- than adults. "We have not yet seen said. “This is very similar pitalizations a day. Ghaly said hospitals are able to a signal that there is to the surge that occurred take on the demand for any increased severity in last winter and also the pediatric admissions, and this age demographic,” surge that occurred with that many of the children Walensky told report- delta over the summer.” It’s unclear if the hoswho are admitted aren’t ers on Friday, according pitalized kids are infected to the New York Times. put in intensive care or on “Sadly, we are seeing the with omicron, he said. ventilators. The situation in Cal- rates of hospitalizations Hospitals often just get a ifornia is similar to increasing for children positive or negative test, the one unfolding across 0 to 4, who are not and can’t do genomic to identhe nation. The Centers yet currently eligible for sequencing for Disease Control on Covid-19 vaccination...It’s tify variants.

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Europe: Angered From Page One is banking on support among the millions who are desperate to leave the pandemic behind. Some 77% of the population is fully vaccinated, according to government figures, putting him squarely on the side of the majority. On Friday, he stood by his remarks, saying it “was my responsibility to ring the alarm.” On Saturday, several thousand people joined marches across France to protest against restrictions for the non-vaccinated, brandishing placards denouncing Macron’s choice of language and his government’s latest efforts to tighten rules. According to local press reports, the protests were mainly peaceful although police fired tear gas amid minor clashes in Paris. France is toughening restrictions on those without inoculations, looking to put in place a vaccine pass to access bars and restaurants, or even to travel by train. Neighboring Italy on Wednesday made shots compulsory for people over 50, though the fine of

100 euros ($113) for noncompliance has been kept deliberately low. In Austria, the unvaccinated are barred from most areas of life, including non-essential shopping, hotels and although restaurants, enforcement is spotty. The country also wants to make vaccines mandatory for everyone from next month, though implementation may be delayed. Thousands marched in Vienna on Saturday against the restrictions and upcoming mandate, resuming weekly protests seen before the holidays. Banners included ones that urged “Have the courage to use your own judgement.” Meanwhile, a number of businesses in Austria have closed voluntarily due to high Covid cases as the omicron variant spreads. Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, is already in what some officials have termed a “lockdown of the unvaccinated.” There are limits on access to theaters and other leisure activities throughout the country at this time.

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The Multicultural Meet N Eat event, at Multi-Tech Auto in Fairfield, offered a place for people to have a bite to eat and talk about issues in the community, Saturday.

Vendors: Diverse fare to go From Page One with small vendor businesses,” she said. “We have been doing these events across the Bay Area to help those vendors. Because they want to see their businesses thrive.” Diversity RD is a global consulting firm dedicated to the creation and implementation of business and nonprofit strategy, diversity, professional development, public affairs and corporate social responsibility.

Daman noted the significance of Alma Hernandez running for and winning a seat on the City Council in Suisun City and serving as its first Latina vice mayor. She said she hopes to see more diversity among those who represent the local communities. Hernandez came by the event to meet and eat with people. “When I grew up I never saw myself represented,” she said. “It was one of the reasons I wanted to run for

office. I was well aware I was the first Latino for vice mayor.” That mantle of first for anything carries a responsibility. “We have started to see more Latinos coming out to vote, more people are contacting the office because they see me and think, ‘Oh, she gets the gaps that are in the services,’ ” Hernandez said. That is something that moved her deeply. “It is important work and I’m looking to bridge those gaps,” she said.

with Russia next week aimed at easing tensions over Ukraine, and plans discussions with allies before any agreements. The U.S. plans to seek areas of concurrence, and is willing to explore reciprocal restrictions on strategic bombers and ground-based exercises, the official said on Saturday. But the U.S. won’t negotiate scaling back troop deployments and military exercises in Eastern Europe, the official said, denying an NBC News report. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday accused Moscow of using military threats, disinformation and targeted killings to build a sphere of influence beyond its borders. The remarks by Blinken and the U.S. official were in keeping with what he and other administration officials have said in recent weeks. The comments offered more signals that the U.S. isn’t going to offer major concessions – in tone or substance – when senior American and Russian officials begin talks in Geneva on Monday.

Gebers: Earns special award of service From Page A1 and took her to Afghanistan to treat patients, oversee a 40-bed holding area for trauma patients and set up aid stations in bases in Syria and Iraq. Gebers started teaching medics in Hawaii and then moved to the soldier readiness processing center and took over vaccinations, administering more than 35,000 in 11 months. “It’s kind of slowed down,” she said. There were days when up to 1,000 vaccinations were given. Gebers often spent 12 to 14 hours a day working. Her command team nominated her for the Angels of the Battlefield award, which began in 2006. “We kept training during the pandemic, not only vaccinating but going to all regions of the Pacific,” she said. Gebers was always interested in the medical field. She worked as a lifeguard at Rancho Solano with the dream of being a doctor or nurse. “My scope of practice is pretty large,” she said. “I have an amazing team that supports me.”

“Never in a million years” did she think she would earn the Angels of the Battlefield award. The first person to hear the news was a co-worker, then Gebers told her parents. She traveled from Hawaii to Virginia to receive the award. The trek took about 16 hours, she said. She was transported to a hotel then told her first interview would be in about 45 minutes, followed by another. “I was jet-lagged and tired,” she said. Gebers said she believes the last female honoree was the oldest World War II veteran. “We are all equal as service members,” she said. “I’m happy to be leading the way.” An equestrian since her youth, Gebers is involved with a Texas horse ranch that works with veterans. The ranch helps those returning from overseas deployments. The Armed Services YMCA was founded by volunteers who braved the Civil War battlefields to provide care and comfort to troops. Its Angels of the Battlefield Award pays tribute to that history by hon-

oring active-duty military who serve as combat medics, corpsmen and medical and rescue service members representing all five branches of the U.S. armed forces. Today, the organization provides care and comfort to junior enlisted military families through no- or low-cost programs and direct services specifically designed to help them navigate the challenges of military life. “Military first responders deserve recognition for their heroism, service and sacrifice. The Armed Services YMCA is and has been a proud supporter of America’s military for 160 years,” said William French, vice Aadmiral, U.S. Navy (retired) and Armed Services YMCA chief executive officer, in a press release. “We are proud and humbled at our longevity and aim to continue serving junior enlisted families – who all serve in their own ways – through child care services, youth programs and food assistance,” French said in the press release. To learn more, and to watch a clip of Gebers, visit www. asymca.org.

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Tugboats play crucial role in easing global crisis Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — The sea is calm tonight. The breeze is light. An easy swell rolls beneath the Delta Teresa, a tugboat idling at the entrance to Long Beach Harbor. In the darkness where sky and water meet, nearly three dozen tankers and containers ships ride at anchor. Lights outline their skeletal shapes. Sunrise is two hours away, but clouds have lowered the sky. Rain is in the forecast. Capt. Mike Johnson looks at the monitor to his left and sees a green shape, the Marjorie C, making its approach from San Diego. With a touch on an iPad, he starts the tugboat’s twin diesels. Deckhand Max Cota and engineer Charlie May wait with him in the warmth of the wheelhouse. Jessica Huber, who also works the decks, has the day off. Seven days on, seven days off, the Teresa’s crew members have had a front-row seat to a world economy thrown off balance by the pandemic: ships anchored offshore, containers waiting to be offloaded, so much stuff without a home. Their work is but one link out of hundreds in the global supply chain: Each link is dependent upon all the others for the success of the whole. If today turns out like any other, they will escort at least four vessels to an assigned spot inside the Port of Los Angeles or Long Beach. Their work, guiding ships through narrow waterways to within inches of a dock, is both delicate and brutish. Fifteen tugs serve the two ports, and for more than a year, the pace has been relentless. “Old-timers say that this is the busiest they’ve ever seen it,” says Johnson, who started

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Capt. Mike Johnson scans the horizon from the wheelhouse of the tugboat Delta Teresa in Port of Long Beach, Dec. 3, 2021. He and the crew work seven days on and seven days off. working in Southern California two years ago. “Every dock is taken up, and if there is an opening, people are fighting to get there.” On this early December day, between 1:30 a.m. and 10 p.m., the ports will record 12 arrivals and 14 departures with 13 ships shifting between anchorages. Each will need at least two tugs. The Marjorie C has the 5 a.m. slot. The crew members of the Teresa started their day an hour earlier waking up in a dead-end back channel in Long Beach Harbor where they had tied up last night. Dinner was orange chicken. They watched a movie and slept in their staterooms listening to the purr of the onboard generator and the rumble of the Matson container yard outside. The congestion at the ports has drawn its share of ink, Johnson knows. Fingers are quick to point at shipping lines, terminals, truckers, but who’s to blame? Like cars backed up in traffic with no accident ahead, the slowdown is more frustrating than solvable. The culprit, if there is one, is the American consumer trying to make up for lost time. “And I’m just as guilty as the average Joe,” says Johnson, having just

ordered off Amazon foulweather gear from a French company. Each day on the water, he sees evidence of a seemingly insatiable demand in the comings and goings of container ships, automobile carriers, oil tankers, even the Chiquita banana boat. “Those of us who work out here see everyone’s lives writ large,” he says. “Every day we get a firsthand view of the size and scale of the American economy and American consumerism. Not many appreciate this when they go to the market and buy individual items.” But waterfronts have always been forbidding places, the fenced-off realms of shipping terminals – 70 in Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors – crisscrossed by train tracks and truck routes and pinched together by bridges, causeways and landfills. Steeped in arcane terminology and the habits of centuries past, they struggle today with logistical limitations in the age of next-day delivery and just-in-time inventories. “What happens when you pour seven gallons of water into a fivegallon bucket?” asks international trade economist Jock O’Connell. “You’ll get a mess. The

ports were not designed to handle the surge that we have seen in the last 15 months.” The radio crackles to life, Channel 5. “Good morning, Teresa,” says the pilot, who boarded the Marjorie C at a sea buoy one mile out. From its bridge he will take the ship into the harbor with the Teresa and the other waiting tug, the Delta Audrey, alongside. “Put your line up on center-lead aft,” he tells Johnson, shorthand for where he wants the Teresa positioned: directly behind the ship. The Audrey will take the bow. The Marjorie C’s running lights draw close. Its superstructure looms overhead. Johnson feels his adrenaline quickening. Perched in a captain’s chair, a padded-leather lounger with two footrests, he spins the Teresa

around and drives into the larger vessel’s wake. The churning water buffets the Teresa as Johnson closes the distance, moving at a little more than 10 knots. The tug has no steering wheel. Instead, two rotating hand grips – situated on his left and right – correspond to twin propellers that swivel 360 degrees beneath the hull. A tug is so maneuverable that Johnson equates it to a Rubik’s Cube: Driving it reminds him of solving a three-dimensional riddle. The throttles are two thumb levers – one atop each grip – that can deliver up to 6,600 horsepower and can pull 90 tons. Only locomotives, tractors and large farm equipment come close to having such power. “It’s like driving a race car every day,” he says. Yet the real skill is exercising restraint. “Our tugs are so powerful that if

you’re aggressive, you will overpower the ship.” Johnson nuzzles the Teresa’s bow against the stern of the Marjorie C. Thick fenders cushion the impact. Cota and May don hardhats and life jackets and ready their lines on the lower deck. The three men work silently, their focus honed by years of offshore experience. Johnson, 41, got his start piloting a dredge off the Louisiana coast. Cota, 40, pulled barges to China and delivered food to Haiti and West Africa, and May, 32, was chief mate delivering jet fuel and diesel around the Hawaiian Islands. “You have to be perfect on every job. There’s no room for error,” says Johnson. If there isn’t, he adds, boredom can quickly become terror or worse. Emergency training kicks in

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New call for natural gas bans to curb emissions Tribune Content Agency Lawmakers in New York are considering the nation’s first statewide ban on natural gas connections in new buildings, following dozens of local governments that have passed similar policies in the past two years. But as New York and other left-leaning states consider ways to limit natural gas and the greenhouse gas emissions it creates, 20 mostly Republican states have passed laws barring cities and counties from blocking gas hookups. “Growing the demand for natural gas is exactly what the world does not need right now,” said New York state Sen. Brian Kavanagh, the Democrat who sponsored the natural gas phaseout legislation. “If you build buildings that rely on fossil fuels, you are baking in very long-term needs.” Fossil fuel combustion in buildings, mostly for heating, is responsible for about 13% of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, according to 2019 figures from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Kavanagh’s bill would mandate all-electric buildings after 2023, except in cases where local permitting authorities determine they’re not feasible, which may depend on the availability of equipment and labor. His efforts were bolstered late last month when council members in New York City voted to pass a similar ban, albeit on a slower timeline, by 2027. New York legislative leaders did not respond to requests for comment about the prospects for

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Hundreds of climate protesters walk from Times Square to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office to demand more action against climate change in New York City, Nov. 13, 2021. Kavanagh’s bill in this year’s session. The New York City vote in December was by far the biggest victory for advocates of natural gas bans. They say it’s a necessary step to curb future demand for fossil fuels and to limit the growth of climate change-causing carbon emissions. Gas industry leaders and their political allies say the bans will raise construction costs and utility bills, while doing little to stop climate change. “This is not really a climate solution,” said Daniel Lapato, senior director of state affairs with the American Gas Association, an advocacy group for the natural gas industry. “When you start eliminating these options, you have to look at the cost implications to the homeowner.” Lapato pointed to gas companies’ efforts to produce more renewable natural gas, which is methane captured from landfills, farms and other sources. Laws to force electrification could stifle industry efforts to scale up that more climate-friendly

option, he said. Phasing out natural gas also will require an increase in electricity production and transmission as buildings consume more power for their heating systems. Unless that electricity is produced from clean sources, gas bans will simply shift emissions rather than reducing them. Most of the nation’s electricity still comes from fossil fuels, although the use of coal – which has some of the highest emissions – is rapidly shrinking and it now produces less electricity than renewables. Carbon-free electricity from wind, solar, hydropower and nuclear projects now makes up about 40% of the nation’s electricity supply, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Lawmakers pushing the bans say their plans will be phased in gradually enough to allow energy companies to meet the added demand with renewable electricity. Natural gas bans also have drawn the ire of some restaurant industry groups.

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5 p.m. Wednesday Cole Panther

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Photographer Steve Cozad, photographed in front of some of his work from Iceland.

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BENICIA — Award-winning Vacaville photographer Philip Venable is one of the featured artists for the month of January at The Little Art Shop, 129 First St. Venable has several large photos on display, representing local and state locations. Venable primarily shoots landscapes but also ventures into the world of abstract and still life. His two newest photos, at The Little Art Shop, were taken on his latest road trip.

The first is titled “Above the Canyon Wall” and was shot from Inspiration Point, toward the lower falls of the Yellowstone River, within the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. Yes, Yellowstone has a Grand Canyon, too. The second photo is titled “Bonneville Sunset” and was shot at the Bonneville Speedway after a rainstorm left a sheet of water across the salt flats, creating reflections of the sky. The Little Art Shop

is owned by Mary Williams and is home to about 30 artists of various disciplines that range from photography and painting to metal and wood sculpture, to glass and everything in between. It is located in the Tannery Building near the foot of First Street. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. For more information, visit thelittleartshop. com or contact Venable at philven@pacbell.net or Williams at mary@ thelittleartshop.com.

tination is Antarctica. Cozad’s parents worked in the airline industry but the family didn’t travel much, he said. Steve and Angie Cozad took their sons on trips to national parks and a few international trips such as Costa Rica and Egypt. It was the latter trek that gave the young men the travel bug. Both are now involved in creative artistic endeavors, photography and special effects. Now, empty nesters, the couple can set their own schedules when it comes to travel.

The couple was in Chile in March 2020 and “barely made the last plane out” as Covid-19 struck around the globe. “We got back to the United States before everything was shut down,” he said, adding they had been following Covid-19 news and were able to complete the trip. Cozad estimated he was about 20 when he purchased his first camera. “I always liked to take pictures,” he said. “It was more a See Cozad, Page B3

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Morgan Freeman, left, and Sidney Poitier attend the 39th AFI Life Achievement Award event honoring Morgan Freeman held at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, June 9, 2011.

LOS ANGELES — It was the most unlikely of beginnings. Newly arrived from the Bahamas with a thick West Indian accent, Sidney Poitier fumbled his lines so badly when he tried out for the American Negro Theater in Harlem that he was advised he’d be better off getting a job as a dishwasher. Humiliated but unbroken, Poitier bought a $13 radio and spent hours listening to the announcers, mimicking their pronunciation and the rhythms of their speech. When he returned to the theater, his audition was little better but when another See Poitier, Page B3

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Detectives still seek Baldwin’s cellphone in ‘Rust’ investigation Tribune Content Agency New Mexico law enforcement officers have solicited help from New York authorities to retrieve Alec Baldwin’s cellphone in the “Rust” shooting investigation – more than three weeks after detectives asked to search the phone. Santa Fe County Magistrate Judge David Segura on Dec. 16 authorized a search warrant allowing local law enforcement to search Baldwin’s iPhone for evidence that may prove valuable to their investigation into the Oct. 21 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the low-budget western film “Rust.” But so far that hasn’t happened, officials said this week. “The Sheriff’s Office

does not have physical possession of the phone,” Santa Fe County Sheriff’s spokesman Juan Rios said Friday afternoon. “The phone is in New York with Mr. Baldwin.” Baldwin has a home in the Hamptons, in Suffolk County, New York. New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies – Santa Fe County’s top law enforcement officer who is overseeing the case – said in a statement Thursday that her office and Sheriff’s investigators “are actively working with the Suffolk County, New York Sheriff’s Department and Mr. Baldwin’s lawyers, within jurisdictional constraints, to obtain any materials from Mr. Baldwin’s phone that pertain to the Rust investigation.”

In brief

Sweethearts Day features wine, chocolate BENICIA — Downtown Benicia is hosting a Wine & Chocolate Walk from 1 to 5 p.m. Feb. 5. Various fine wines will be poured at participating downtown shops, providing an enjoyable sweethearts day out to “sip, walk and shop” with the added bonus of chocolate tastings, according to promotional materials for the event. Tickets are $30 in advance for a single ticket and $55 in advance for a pair of tickets. The price increases to $35 for a single ticket the day of the event. The ticket price includes up to 15 tastes. Participants must be 21 and older. Check-in starts at 12:30 p.m. at Benicia Main Street, 90 First St. Tasting locations and wristbands will be provided per ticket holder at check-in. Tickets are limited and will be sold and can be purchased at Benicia Main Street or online at www. beniciamainstreet.org. For more information on the Wine & Chocolate Walk, contact Benicia Main Street at 707-745-9791 or info@ beniciamainstreeet.org.

Student art show on hold at Vacaville Museum VACAVILLE — The “Spring in Solano” student art project and “Jacks or Better” artist exhibition will not be proceeding forward at this time due to the current surge in Covid-19 cases, the Vacaville Museum reports in a social media post. “The health of our students, artists and supporters is our top priority, and this decision comes as the CDC continues to update event guidelines,” it said. “We hope to revisit this project in the future when it is safe to do so and the attention can be fully focused on the contributed artwork. “We thank the registered students for their interest and will be in touch regarding possible future events. Students who have already collected their art supplies are welcome to keep them.” For more information, call 707-447-4513 or send an email to info@vacavillemuseum.org.

Perks available for dining in downtown Benicia BENICIA — January is California Restaurant Month as designated by Visit California. In honor of this, Benicia Main Street encourages the public to Dine Downtown Benicia throughout the month. With 29 restaurants in downtown Benicia to celebrate the monthlong occasion, there’s something different for almost every day of the month. For a directory of downtown restaurants, visit https://beniciamainstreet.org/business-directory/ wpbdm-category/food-drink. Share pictures of meals to info@beniciamainstreet.org for a chance to win $100 in Downtown Dollars. For more information on Dine Downtown Benicia, visit www.BeniciaMainStreet.org or call 707-745-9791.

Venue postpones Wagner; Empress shows on hold until end of month VALLEJO — The Vallejo Center for the Arts is postponing Saturday’s performance of “The Greatest Wagner Concert Ever!” at the Empress Theatre due to safety concerns. A new date will be announced when a determination is made that the theater may safely be reopened for public events. The theater has postponed all shows until Jan. 26. Check the website for shows later in January. The theater continues to closely follow federal, state and local guidelines, recommendations and mandates to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19. Questions or inquiries may be directed to 707552-2400 or Contact@EmpressTheatre.org.

Film orchestra performs ‘Safety Last’ VACAVILLE — The Grand Feature Film Orchestra will perform the music to the 1923 film, “Safety Last,” at 7 p.m. Thursday. The Harold Lloyd masterpiece features death-defying stunts in an age with no digital effects. It will screen as the orchestra plays. The concert will open with a selection by Don Ellis. Those who can’t attend in person can watch it livestreamed at Journey Downtown, 308 Main St. For tickets and more information, visit journeycoffeeco.com.

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Actor Sidney Poitier poses for a portrait, Sept. 15, 1980.

Poitier From Page B1 unknown actor, Harry Belafonte, pulled out of a performance, Poitier stepped into the limelight. His ascent was meteoric, smashing through the Hollywood color barriers during a time when Black people on the Hollywood studio lots were generally kitchen workers and janitors. On film they were often cast in singing and dancing roles, footage that could easily be snipped when the movies rolled out in the Deep South. At the height of the civil rights movement as the nation heaved with racial tension, Poitier arose as one of the top box office draws of the 1960s in films such as “In the Heat of the Night” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” cementing it all as he became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for lead actor. A towering role model for succeeding generations of Black actors, Poitier died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles, Latrae Rahming, the director of communications for the prime minister of Bahamas, told the Associated Press. He was 94. “This is a big one. No words can describe how your work radically shifted my life,” actress Viola Davis wrote on Instagram. “The dignity, normalcy, strength, excellence and sheer electricity you brought to your roles showed us that we, as Black folks, mattered!!!” Former President Barack Obama said Poitier opened doors that had long had been firmly closed to Black Americans. “Sidney Poitier epitomized dignity and grace, revealing the power of movies to bring us closer together,” Obama wrote on Twitter. Tall and handsome, with a low and seductively smooth voice and what one writer called an “almost princely bearing,” Poitier projected an air of quiet dignity in roles that shattered stereotypes. “He’s a major figure in American history because he truly represents the complete breakthrough of the

Cozad From Page B1 documentary thing.” He shot slides most of the time. After they were developed, he would go through them and scan the pictures he liked. “They were not really good quality,” he said. But they told the story. Cozad went digital in 2007. At the same time, he began to devote more of his time to photography. “The age of digital opened a lot,” he said. “It allowed me to add an

Black American actor into stardom,” Jeanine Basinger, founder of the film studies program at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, once told the L.A. Times. Basinger said Poitier “had everything it took” to be the screen’s breakthrough Black actor. Actor James Earl Jones agreed: “When he became a star, everyone, white and Black, said, ‘I like this man.’“ Poitier made his feature film debut in 1950 playing a young intern in a county hospital prison ward in “No Way Out,” director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s explosive look at racial prejudice starring Richard Widmark. A former member of the American Negro Theatre who had grown up in the Bahamas, Poitier began his film career at a time when roles for Black actors were few and far between. But it also was a time when Hollywood studios were increasingly willing to deal with controversial and sensitive subjects. Racial stereotyping in the movies was still in full force when Poitier appeared in “No Way Out.” But, as former L.A. Times arts editor Charles Champlin wrote decades later, the film “reflected the stirrings toward more significant roles . . . and better representations of the Black experience in American society.” Indeed, although he initially experienced a lean period, Poitier appeared in 15 films over the next dozen years, including “Cry, the Beloved Country,” “Blackboard Jungle,” “Edge of the City,” “The Defiant Ones” and “A Raisin in the Sun.” The 1961 “Raisin” saw Poitier reprise his role as the mercurial Walter Lee Younger in the film of Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking 1959 Broadway play about a Black family. Stanley Kramer’s 1958 film drama “The Defiant Ones,” in which Poitier and Tony Curtis starred as escaped convicts who are shackled together, was a breakthrough role for Poitier, earning him an Oscar nomination for lead actor – a first for a Black actor. But it was his Oscarwinning starring role in

“Lilies of the Field,” a lowbudget, black-and-white film directed by Ralph Nelson, that provided the high-profile next step in propelling him to superstar status. It was the first Oscar in history won by a Black man. As Homer Smith, Poitier played an ex-GI drifter who meets five refugee nuns from East Germany after his station wagon overheats in the Arizona desert, and he is talked into building a chapel for them. A high point of the film comes when Poitier leads the nuns in singing the Baptist spiritual “Amen.” At the peak of his popularity in 1967, Poitier starred in three of the highest-grossing movies of the year: “In the Heat of the Night,” “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and “To Sir, With Love.” In 1968, according to a poll of movie exhibitors, Poitier was the No. 1 box office star of the year. Director Norman Jewison’s “In the Heat of the Night,” in which Poitier played a smart and sophisticated Philadelphia police homicide detective who is pulled into a murder investigation in a small town in rural Mississippi, provided the actor with two of his most memorable onscreen moments. In one, Rod Steiger, in his Oscar-winning role as the redneck police chief, used a racial slur while saying that “Virgil is a funny name” for a Black man from Philadelphia. Then he asks, “What do they call you up there?” With steely eyes, Poitier responds with the line that became his signature: “They call me Mr. Tibbs.” The racially charged crime drama’s other memorable moment came

in the greenhouse of the town’s most influential citizen, a racist cottonplantation owner played by Larry Gates: When the wealthy white man realizes that the Black police detective is there to question him about the murder, he slaps Poitier’s Tibbs in the face. Without hesitation, Tibbs gives the white man a backhanded slap in return. It is, said Basinger, “a defining moment in film. It’s like, ‘Times have changed, buster; I’m the hero, not you.’ It was great and done with great dignity.” Poitier’s success inspired legions of Black actors over the years, including Danny Glover, who once told Poitier, “You have made it possible for me to dream bigger dreams.” Denzel Washington called Poitier a source of pride for Black Americans. He acknowledged him onstage at the Academy Awards in 2002, when Washington became the first Black performer to win the lead actor Oscar since Poitier. “For 40 years I’ve been chasing Sidney,” said Washington. “I’ll always be following him. There’s nothing I’d rather do.” The same night Washington received his Academy Award – and Halle Berry became the first Black woman to win the lead actress Oscar – Poitier received an honorary Oscar for his five-decade career. “I accept this award,” Poitier said in his acceptance speech, “in memory of all the African American actors who went before me in the difficult years and on whose shoulders I was privileged to stand to see where I might go.”

artistic side.” Cozad learned from YouTube videos and enrolled in some online seminars in Lightroom. He’s recently begun printing his own photos. He’s also found a great system for narrowing his choices. The decision is not made in haste. “Certain ones I start to recognize better than others,” he said, demonstrating with a black-and-white photo of Venice, Italy, in 2016. His Solano Town Center Gallery display is all black-and-white photos. The idea surfaced when he was at the Sac-

ramento Arts Festival in the fall and got several compliments about his one wall of black-andwhite pictures. Cozad estimate he has between 30,000 and 35,000 digital images. “It’s fun to go back and find the little gems I had not seen before,” he said. Cozad joined the Fairfield-Suisun City Visual Arts Association in 2018 and has participated in almost every show since. He earned first place in black-and-white photography and a third in color photography in the recent juried art show. His photography has

been influenced by professional photographers such as Galen Rowell, Sebastião Salgado, Michael Frye and of course, some of the greats like Ansel Adams, Edward Westin and Imogen Cunningham. “Sea, Wind, Storms and Fog” runs through Feb. 26 and features photography; glass and acrylic work; oil and watercolor paintings; and mixed media, collage, wood carvings, digital art and ceramics. Gallery guests are encouraged to vote for the People’s Choice Award.

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President Barack Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Sidney Poitier during a ceremony at the White House, Aug. 12, 2009.

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It’s a new year; find a new you in the Bible M y wife and I of questions. celebrated our Seeing the frustration wedding anniverof futility in our society sary on New Year’s Eve has left many people in Tiburon. searching for answers I saved for a year to that hedonism and the take a couple of days off endless quest for unanand booked a room at a swered self-gratification hotel that looked across cannot provide. the bay at San FranI am so thankful all Noel Reese cisco so we could watch the answers to all the Religious view the fireworks and have a problems all people real celebration. face can be found between the I didn’t know when I pages of our Bibles, and if we booked it that the fireworks are willing to listen, we can would be canceled, apparently receive hope. due to Covid. For myself, I am thankWe enjoyed great food, a ful I found Jesus, who rescued deluxe room and loved looking me from that life of hedonism at the real estate ads in the and the futile, frantic search windows of the local Realfor happiness. He brought joy, tors. We saw some nice-looking peace and love. places in the $20 million range. I fly to Orange County on As we sat by the fire pit on Friday to perform a wedding the roof deck, we met a lovely for a couple of friends and then couple who were there on fly back Saturday to deliver a scouting trip to see about the Sunday sermon for our moving there. They were little church. moving from Martha’s Vineyard Then I have to prepare for a and were not remotely troubled memorial service at our church by the prices. for a close relative. When they found out I was As I think about all this, I a pastor, I thought they would think there is hope, new life, excuse themselves, but no, joy, but there is also death. No they had a couple of hours one likes to talk about it, but

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Christ died on the cross to bear the sins of the many. everyone dies. The Bible tells us in Hebrews 9:27: “Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment.” No one ever asks, “What happens after you die?” and yet we all die and if we believe God’s instruction book, shouldn’t we at least prepare? Our new friends were checking out what kind of schools there were in the million-dollar home neighborhoods,

but what if? The following verse in Hebrews states: “Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.” We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Confess your sins to him, ask his forgiveness, accept that he sent his son to pay for your sins, and get your ticket for the

kingdom of heaven. There’s no A/C in hell, and if your friends are there, it’s not going to be enjoyable. It’s going to be hell! Jesus loves you. Accept his love today. The Rev. Noel Reese is the pastor at Calvary Chapel Rio Vista. He can be reached at www.calvarychapel riovista.com.

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VACAVILLE — Travis Credit Union has launched a series of Financial Inclusion Forums in Solano, Contra Costa and Yolo counties. The forum’s long-term goals are to connect with community leaders and partners whose goals align with the credit union’s goal of creating an inclusive and judgment-free environment for the underbanked to develop and build wealth, according to a press release. These efforts will involve a comprehensive study of community needs, partnership collaboration and expanded language options for financial education. “Economic development, technological advancements and demographic shifts provide us with a once-in-a-lifetime chance to provide quality, inexpensive financial services to the underbanked members of our community,” Nav Khanna, Travis Credit Union’s executive vice president, said in the press release. “This aim is clear and attainable if the public and private sectors work together and coordinate our efforts.” This coalition has attracted local leaders from commerce, education, government and the nonprofit community to chart a course to make full financial inclusion a reality, according to the press release. The credit union’s leaders recognize that many people in the local community face difficulties that prohibit them from fully participating in political, economic and social life, the press release said. The disadvantage is frequently based on social identity, which can include, among

other things, gender, age, location, employment, color, ethnicity, religion, citizenship status, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity. Lisette Estrella-Henderson, Solano County superintendent of schools, said financial literacy and inclusion are fundamental components to building equitable communities and lifelong success. “Solano County Office of Education is excited to be invited to the forum and partner with Travis Credit Union in their efforts to expand community access to sound financial information and products,” she said in the press release. “We look forward to amplifying their outreach and will continue to partner together to reach young people in Solano County.” Tamuri LeAnne Richardson, president of the Solano County Black Chamber of Commerce, said she loves how Travis Credit Union is not only interested in ensuring they are doing their part to improve the community, they are willing to have the tough conversations to be able to ensure they are sufficiently affecting all communities, and particularly the disenfranchised communities, according to the press release. “Because of a long history of financial and lending discrimination against many people, especially people of color, we must promote financial education throughout our schools and community at large,” Richardson said in the release. “We are going to support and work with Travis and encourage our community of all races, but particularly Black and Hispanic people, to take a leap of faith and be a part of the change that they want to see.” Travis Credit Union’s focus for years has been to help the underserved and create new pathways

for them to achieve financial stability and wellness, according to the press release. The credit union was recognized in July as one of the top philanthropic companies in the Bay Area for implementing multiple financial relief initiatives for members and distributing more than $3 million to 120 community and nonprofit partners that provide essential services and PPE equipment during this pandemic. As a Community Development Financial Institution, Travis Credit Union uses its resources to support those its serves to become self-sufficient and to prosper, including those in the community with limited access to safe and secure financial services, according to the press release. In its role as a low-income designation credit union, Travis Credit Union offers benefits unavailable to non-lowincome designation credit unions. These benefits are designed to help credit unions serve members recognized to have challenges accessing mainstream financial products and services. In recognition of its commitment to serving and empowering Hispanic and immigrant members, Travis Credit Union has been honored with the Juntos Avanzamos (Together We Advance) designation. Travis Credit Union, with headquarters in Vacaville, is a not-for-profit cooperative financial institution serving those who live or work in Solano, Yolo, Sacramento, Placer, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Napa, Contra Costa, Alameda, Sonoma, Colusa and Merced counties. It is the 12th largest credit union in California with more than 217,000 members and more than $4.7 billion in assets, according to the press release.

Green Valley Executive Center for sale Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — The Green Valley Executive Center, located at 5030 Business Center Drive, was listed last month by The Wiseman Company for $25.4 million. The 48,000-square-foot steel frame building is currently leased at 96% capacity and features a mix of tenants. The three-story building has workplace space consisting of both open and private offices, each accompanied with sources of natural light and views. Amenities to the building include a full-service restaurant inside, e-charging stations, a water view to the east and mountain views to the west. It offers ample parking and 400,000 square feet of retail shopping and restaurants in the vicinity. The executive center recently had a carport solar power system installed that produces 100% of the building’s electricity. The building benefits from its energy management system that ensures

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The Green Valley Executive Center in Fairfield, Friday. The Wiseman Company has listed the property for $25.4 million. climate-controlled environments for all its tenants. The current ownership also installed UV-C disinfectant lights that are used to clean and purify the air, which has been popular with all those who access the building. The Wiseman Company cur-

rently operates the building and is offering to buyers their services to help with continuity. Wiseman develops, leases and manages 12 of its own Class A office buildings in Solano and Napa counties for professional tenants and investors.

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Kittle explains why 49ers have owned the Rams Tribune Content Agency Three long-tenured members of the 49ers, offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel, defensive coordinator Demeco Ryans and tight end George Kittle, were posed the same question Thursday: Why do the 49ers match up so well with the Rams? Notably, they didn’t push back on the question because there is overwhelming evidence their

NFC West rivals have been a favorable matchup: The 49ers have won five straight games against Los Angeles and handed them a 31-10 beatdown less than two months ago. McDaniel and Ryans, perhaps wary of providing Xs-and-Os intel, both talked around the topic. “When we’ve played the Rams,” McDaniel said as part of his answer, “our best players have made plays and we’ve found ways to score.”

“It’s a division opponent and it’s two teams who are very well-coached teams, two teams who play hard,” Ryans said. The authentic answer? That came from Kittle, whose response could have doubled as a warning to the Rams (12-4) before the 49ers (9-7) visit them at SoFi Stadium on Sunday in a high-stakes regularseason finale. The 49ers can secure a playoff berth with a win, and they would need

the Saints (8-8) to lose at Atlanta (7-9) to reach the postseason with a loss. Kittle didn’t give up any schematic secrets in explaining why he thinks the 49ers have owned the Rams: That’s because their success has been more about bullying than trickery, according to the tight end who relishes inthe-trenches blocking. “Whenever we play them, we try to come out and try to be physical as we possibly can,”

Kittle said. “That’s what we’re really good at. I think we’re one of the most physical offenses in football coming off the line of scrimmage, as an offensive line, fullback, tight ends and our running backs.” “And then when our wide receivers decide to go hit safeties in the mouth on a run play it kind of changes the game. You either have to match that intensity or you have to get out of the way. Sometimes

guys get out the way.” The 49ers have spent the past two-plus seasons shoving the Rams out of the way. Their five-game win streak against Los Angeles, for example, has been bookended by victories in which they’ve dominated the line of scrimmage. In 2019, the 49ers began the streak with a 20-7 win in which their defensive front was overwhelming: Los Angeles had See 49ers, Page B14

Tomas Hertl’s unforgettable game leads Sharks past Flyers in OT Tribune Content Agency

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Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson works his dribble on the defense of Cleveland Cavaliers guard Collin

Sexton in the first quarter, Dec. 5, 2018, at Quicken Loans Arena.

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“Just keep your phone handy,” Kerr said. Then, at 2:10 p.m., those phones buzzed with a notification: In a snippet of the movie ‘Space Jam’ posted to Thompson’s 10.8 million followers on Instagram, Bill Murray tells Michael Jordan, “Perhaps I could be of some assistance.” Thompson added the caption, “How I’m pulling up to Chase tomorrow.” In what should go down as one of the most memorable nights in Warriors history, Thompson’s twoseason absence will come to an end Sunday, fully recovered from tears to his left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and his right Achilles tendon.

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SAN FRANCISCO — On the far court of the Warriors practice facility Saturday afternoon, Klay Thompson came sprinting around a screen set by James Wiseman, where he set up to receive the ball from Jonathan Kuminga. He pulled and fired. It clanked off the rim. Everyone else in the five-on-zero drill paused. But Thompson demanded the ball again. Kuminga passed it back, and Thompson sank it. He would settle for no less. Thompson finished the drill by huddling with his playing partners – Wiseman, Kuminga, Jordan Poole

and Juan Toscano-Anderson – then moved on to an individual shooting drill, where he made all but one of his 10 shots. He was ready. Out the double doors, up a set of stairs and a short walk through the underbelly of Chase Center, Warriors coach Steve Kerr was playing coy on stage in the interview room. For 20 minutes, he asked reporters to “work with me here” and “read the tea leaves.” Thompson had been cleared by the Warriors medical staff to make his long-awaited return Sunday – tipoff 5:30 against the Cleveland Cavaliers – but Thompson had the final call.

The last time Thompson played in an NBA game was June 13, 2019. He was averaging 26.0 points through the first five games of that year’s NBA Finals and already had 30 by the 2:22 mark of the third quarter in Game 6. Then he went for a dunk in the lane, fell to the floor, and has been working his way back ever since. The journey has been so long, so arduous, so personal, that the Warriors deferred to him to make the official announcement. With a ‘Space Jam’ clip, could Klay have been any more Klay? He described Bill Murray as his “spirit animal.” See Thompson, Page B7

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Witt’s two goals help lead RHS to 4-1 girls soccer victory Daily Republic staff

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FAIRFIELD — Morgan Witt scored twice with Sophia Amons and Lauren Snyder each adding a goal to lift Rodriguez High to a 4-1 Monticello Empire league girls soccer triumph over Will C. Wood at Coach Ed Hopkins Memorial Stadium, Friday. Each of the three also had an assist as the Mustangs (2-3-0, 2-0-0) took the lead for good with a pair of penalty kicks. Taylor Ford scored and Laila Gunderson had two saves for the Wildcats (3-3-1, 1-1-0). Rodriguez 7, Armio 0: At the Royals’ Brownlee Field on Tuesday, Lauren Snyder led the attack for the Mustangs with three goals. Ella Bellandres added two goals and an assist, Addison Judd had a goal and two assists, Mandy Fokin had a goal, and Morgan Witt and Kaitlyn Snyder each had an assist for Rodriguez. “The girls moved the ball

around very well and finished their chances,” Mustangs coach Jeffrey Herman said.

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Royals score early in 3-1 win over Vikings FAIRFIELD — All of the scoring was in the first half and most of it by Armijo High as the visiting Royals earned a 3-1 Monticello Empire League boys soccer victory over Vanden at George A. Gammon Field, Friday. Esteban Carcamo put Armijo (3-6-0, 2-0-0 MEL) on the board first with a goal in the first five minutes. After solid defensive work by Andres Orozco and Antonio Peña kept the Vikings off the board, Abraham Perez broke through the Vanden defense for a goal that upped the Royals’ lead to 2-0. Andy Rodriguez later scored for Armijo after a foul had a been called

near the Vikings’s box, but Vanden (0-7-0, 0-2-0) answered with what turned out to be its only goal with about 2 minutes to go in the half. That proved to be the all the scoring as goalkeeper Jonathan Harrington and the Armijo defense preserved the two-goal lead. “The boys started off amazing, but we just got a little to complacent and then with an increase in fouling and iffy calls or missed calls we just couldn’t find that same momentum,” Royals coach Megan Flores said in an email. “The boys are bringing a strong level of competition to the field this year and I look forward to see how they continue to show off all their hard work from preseason.” The JV match ended in a 2-2 draw with the Vikings taking 1-0 and 2-1 leads and the Royals responding with goals by Jovani Jimenez and Edwin Pacheco. Wood 1, Rodriguez 0: At Will C. Wood’s Wildcat Stadium, Andres See Local, Page B14

Two lopsided losses to start. One Covid-19 related absence after another. An injury list that seemingly grew with each passing day. The Sharks were presented with a new challenge to overcome just about every day throughout their fourgame road trip this past week against Eastern Conference teams. Still, they came into Saturday’s game with the Philadelphia Flyers with a chance to go home with a respectable .500 record. Tomas Hertl made it an unforgettable road trip. Hertl scored twice in the third period to pull the Sharks out of a twogoal deficit, then added the game-winner at the 24-second mark of overtime for the natural hat trick to give his team a 3-2 win over the Flyers at Wells Fargo Center. Hertl scored at the 7:47 and 14:29 marks of the third period, giving him 19 this season, after James van Riemsdyk netted two goals earlier in the period for a 2-0 Flyers lead. Timo Meier and Brent Burns assisted on both of Hertl’s goals in regulation time.

Sharks goalie Adin Hill stopped 25 shots in the first two periods, but van Riemsdyk scored at the 1:06 mark and 6:47 marks, with the second goal coming on a Flyers power play. Early Saturday, Sharks centerman Nick Bonino was added to the NHL’s Covid-19 protocol Saturday, joining Logan Couture and Lane Pederson on the list of unavailable players. Assistant coach John MacLean was also placed in the league’s protocol Saturday, leaving coach Bob Boughner shorthanded on the bench. Tack onto that injuries sustained on this trip to defensemen Erik Karlsson and Jake Middleton and goalie James Reimer. Karlsson has an upperbody injury and could potentially be back as soon as Tuesday’s game with the Detroit Red Wings at SAP Center, but the timetables for Middleton (upper body) and Reimer (lower body) remain vague. Middleton was placed on injured reserve after the Sharks’ Jan. 4 game in Detroit. Defenseman Radim Simek was also scratched for Saturday’s game, although it See Sharks, Page B14

Sharks place Evander Kane on unconditional waivers, intend to terminate deal Tribune Content Agency SAN JOSE — The San Jose Sharks have placed Evander Kane on unconditional waivers with the intent to terminate his contract for what the team said was a breach of his deal and for violating the AHL Covid-19 protocols. Kane was in the fourth year of a seven-year, $49 million contract that he signed with the team in May 2018. Per CapFriendly, Kane, as a result of the termination, is set to forfeit $22,885,000 in salary. His cap hit of $5.875 million for the remainder of this season, and the following three, are slated to come off the Sharks’ books. The Sharks did not specify what Kane did to violate the protocols and said they would have no further comment on

the matter. The Athletic reported, according to sources, that Kane traveled to his hometown of Vancouver, Canada, while he was in Covid-19 protocol. Kane was placed in the AHL’s Covid-19 protocol on Dec. 22. Per AHL protocols at the time, players who test positive must isolate for 10 days after symptoms first appear. If asymptomatic, a player can continue to be tested daily and would be subject to an early exit from isolation with two consecutive negative PCR tests. Contacted Saturday morning, Kane’s agent, Dan Milstein, did not immediately wish to comment, but the Sharks’ announcement could potentially lead to a grievance process See Kane, Page B7

Sports

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CALENDAR Baseball Puerto Rican League •Teams TBA, FS2, 3 p.m. Basketball College men •Minnesota at Indiana, BIG TEN, 9 a.m. •Yale at Harvard, ESPNU, 11 a.m. •Washington at Colorado, ESPN2, 2 p.m. •Northwestern at Ohio State, BIG TEN, 2:30 p.m. •Wisconsin at Maryland, BIG TEN, 4:30 p.m. College women •Louisville at Miami, ACC, 9 a.m. •Rhode Island at Fordham, CBSSN, 9 a.m. •Wichita State at South Florida, ESPNU, 9 a.m. •UCLA at Colorado, PAC12, 10 a.m. •Kentucky at South Carolina, ESPN, 10 a.m. •Tennessee at Ole Miss, SEC, 10 a.m. •Iowa at Nebraska, FS1, 11 a.m. •North Carolina State at Notre Dame, ACC, 11 a.m. •VCU at Saint Louis, CBSSN, 11 a.m. •Alabama at Georgia, SEC, noon •Teams TBA, ESPN, noon •Oregon at California, PAC12, P12BA, 1 p.m. •Virginia at Georgia Tech, ACC, 1 p.m. •LSU at Auburn, SEC, 2 p.m. •Virginia Tech at North Carolina, ACC, 3 p.m. NBA •Cleveland at Golden State, NBATV, NBCSBA, 5:30 p.m. •Sacramento at Portland, NBCSCA, 6 p.m. (Vacaville only) Cornhole •ACL, National College Championship, singles, ESPN2, noon Football NFL •Green Bay at Detroit, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 10 a.m. •Pittsburgh at Baltimore, Chs. 5, 13, 10 a.m. •San Francisco at L.A. Rams, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 1:25 p.m. •Carolina at Tampa Bay, Chs. 5, 13, 1:25 p.m. •L.A. Chargers at Las Vegas, Ch. 3, 5:20 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB 24 13 .649 — 22 16 .579 2½ 19 17 .528 4½ 19 21 .475 6½ 19 21 .475 6½ Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 26 10 .722 — Milwaukee 26 16 .619 3 Cleveland 22 17 .564 5½ Indiana 15 25 .375 13 Detroit 8 30 .211 19 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 25 15 .625 — Charlotte 21 19 .525 4 Washington 19 20 .487 5½ Atlanta 17 21 .447 7 Orlando 7 33 .175 18 WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division W L Pct GB Utah 28 12 .700 — Denver 19 18 .514 7½ Minnesota 19 20 .487 8½ Portland 14 24 .368 13 Oklahoma City 13 25 .342 14 Pacific Division W L Pct GB Phoenix 30 9 .769 — GOLDEN STATE 29 9 .763 ½ L.A. Lakers 21 19 .525 9½ L.A. Clippers 19 21 .475 12 SACRAMENTO 16 25 .390 15 Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 27 14 .659 — Dallas 21 18 .538 5 San Antonio 15 23 .395 10½ New Orleans 14 25 .359 12 Houston 11 29 .275 15½ Friday’s Games Denver 121, SACRAMENTO 111 Philadelphia 119, San Antonio 100 Milwaukee 121, Brooklyn 109 Toronto 122, Utah 108 Chicago 130, Washington 122 Dallas 130, Houston 106 Minnesota 135, Oklahoma 105 L.A. Lakers 134, Atlanta 118 Cleveland 114, Portland 101 Saturday’s Games Memphis 123, L.A. Clippers 108 Charlotte 114, Milwaukee 106 Detroit 97, Orlando 92 Indiana 125, Utah 113 Boston 99, New York 75 Miami 123, Phoenix 100 Brooklyn Philadelphia Toronto Boston New York

Sunday’s Games Cleveland at GOLDEN STATE, 5:30 p.m. SACRAMENTO at Portland, 6 p.m. San Antonio at Brooklyn, 9 a.m. Atlanta at L.A. Clippers, 12:30 p.m. Washington at Orlando, 3 p.m. New Orleans at Toronto, 3 p.m. Minnesota at Houston, 4 p.m. Denver at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m. Chicago at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m. Monday’s Games Cleveland at SACRAMENTO, 7 p.m. Milwaukee at Charlotte, 4 p.m. Utah at Detroit, 4 p.m. Indiana at Boston, 4:30 p.m. San Antonio at New York, 4:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Houston, 5 p.m. Brooklyn at Portland, 7 p.m.

HOCKEY NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Carolina 33 24 7 2 50 115 73 Washington 36 20 7 9 49 122 97 N.Y. Rangers 35 22 9 4 48 102 90 Pittsburgh 34 20 9 5 45 112 89 Columbus 33 16 16 1 33 106 118 Philadelphia 35 13 15 7 33 90 119 New Jersey 36 14 17 5 33 105 126 N.Y. Islanders 28 10 12 6 26 64 80 Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 35 23 7 5 51 137 106 Tampa Bay 37 23 9 5 51 122 109 Toronto 33 22 8 3 47 112 83 Boston 31 18 11 2 38 92 81 Detroit 34 16 15 3 35 96 114 Buffalo 34 10 18 6 26 91 118 Ottawa 29 9 18 2 20 79 107 Montreal 34 7 23 4 18 73 123 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Nashville 36 23 11 2 48 112 95 St. Louis 35 20 10 5 45 124 97 Colorado 31 21 8 2 44 135 101 Minnesota 33 21 10 2 44 122 102 Winnipeg 33 16 12 5 37 99 99 Dallas 31 17 12 2 36 91 92 Chicago 34 11 18 5 27 81 118 Arizona 33 7 23 3 17 72 128 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vegas 37 23 13 1 47 134 111 Anaheim 36 18 11 7 43 111 99 Calgary 33 17 10 6 40 104 83 SAN JOSE 36 19 16 1 39 102 112 Edmonton 34 18 14 2 38 113 111 Los Angeles 34 16 13 5 37 93 93

Vancouver 34 16 15 3 35 89 95 Seattle 33 10 19 4 24 92 122 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 Carolina 6, Calgary 3 St. Louis 5, Washington 1 Saturday’s Games SAN JOSE 3, Philadelphia 2, OT Dallas 3, Pittsburgh 2 Colorado 5, Toronto 4, OT Boston 5, Tampa Bay 2 Florida 4, Carolina 3, OT Columbus 4, New Jersey 3 Nashville 4, Arizona 2 Minnesota 3, Washington 2, SO Chicago at Vegas, (n) N.Y. Rangers at Anaheim, (n) Detroit at Los Angeles, (n) Seattle at Winnipeg, ppd. Buffalo at Montreal, ppd. Ottawa at Vancouver, ppd. N.Y. Islanders at Edmonton, ppd. Sunday’s Games Dallas at St. Louis, 11 a.m. Detroit at Anaheim, 5 p.m. Monday’s Games Tampa Bay at New Jersey, 4 p.m. Boston at Washington, 4 p.m. Seattle at Colorado, 6 p.m. Ottawa at Edmonton, 7 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m. Columbus at Montreal, ppd. Minnesota at Winnipeg, ppd.

FOOTBALL NFL American Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA x-Buffalo 10 6 0 .625 456 279 x-New England 10 6 0 .625 438 270 Miami 8 8 0 .500 308 349 N.Y. Jets 4 12 0 .250 300 477 North W L T Pct. PF PA z-Cincinnati 10 6 0 .625 444 355 Pittsburgh 8 7 1 .531 327 385 Baltimore 8 8 0 .500 374 376 Cleveland 7 9 0 .438 328 355 South W L T Pct. PF PA z-Tennessee 11 5 0 .688 391 329 Indianapolis 9 7 0 .563 440 339 Houston 4 12 0 .250 255 424 Jacksonville 2 14 0 .125 227 446 West W L T Pct. PF PA z-Kansas City 12 5 0 .706 480 364 L.A. Chargers 9 7 0 .563 442 411 Las Vegas 9 7 0 .563 339 407 Denver 7 10 0 .412 335 322 National Conference East W L T Pct. PF PA z-Dallas 12 5 0 .706 530 358

x-Philadelphia Washington N.Y. Giants

9 8 0 .529 444 385 6 10 0 .375 313 427 4 12 0 .250 251 394 North W L T Pct. PF PA b-Green Bay 13 3 0 .813 420 334 Minnesota 7 9 0 .438 394 409 Chicago 6 10 0 .375 294 376 Detroit 2 13 1 .156 288 437 South W L T Pct. PF PA z-Tampa Bay 12 4 0 .750 470 336 New Orleans 8 8 0 .500 334 315 Atlanta 7 9 0 .438 293 429 Carolina 5 11 0 .313 287 363 West W L T Pct. PF PA x-L.A. Rams 12 4 0 .750 436 345 x-Arizona 11 5 0 .688 419 328 SAN FRAN 9 7 0 .563 400 341 Seattle 6 10 0 .375 357 336 x-clinched playoff berth z-clinched division b-clinched division, first round bye Week 17 Scores SAN FRANCISCO 23, Houston 7 Philadelphia 20, Washington 16 New Orleans 18, Carolina 10 Tampba Bay 28, N.Y. Jets 24 Tennessee 34, Miami 3 New England 50, Jacksonville 10 Las Vegas 23, Indianapolis 20 Cincinnati 34, Kansas City 31 Chicago 29, N.Y. Giants 3 Buffalo 29, Atlanta 15 L.A. Chargers 34, Denver 13 Arizona 25, Dallas 22 L.A. Rams 20, Baltimore 19 Seattle 51, Detroit 29 Green Bay 37, Minnesota 10 Pittsburgh 26, Cleveland 14 Week 18 Saturday’s Games Kansas City 28, Denver 24 Dallas 51, Philadelphia 26 Sunday’s Games SAN FRANCISCO at L.A. Rams, 1:25 p.m. Green Bay at Detroit, 10 a.m. Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 10 a.m. Washington at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 10 a.m. Tennessee at Houston, 10 a.m. Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 10 a.m. Cincinnati at Cleveland, 10 a.m. N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 1:25 p.m. New Orleans at Atlanta, 1:25 p.m. New England at Miami, 1:25 p.m. Carolina at Tampa Bay, 1:25 p.m. Seattle at Arizona, 1:25 p.m. L.A. Chargers at Las Vegas, 5:20 p.m. END REGULAR SEASON

NFL Playoffs Wild Card Round Saturday, Jan. 15 TBA at TBA, 1:35 p.m. TBA at TBA, 5:15 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 16 TBA at TBA, 10:05 a.m. TBA at TBA, 1:40 p.m. TBA at TBA, 5:15 p.m. Monday, Jan. 17 TBA at TBA, 5:15 p.m.

Golf •PGA Tour, Sentry Tournament of Champions, final round, Ch. 3, 1 p.m. •PGA Tour, Sentry Tournament of Champions, final round, GOLF, 3 p.m. Gymnastics College women •Alabama at Oklahoma, ESPN2, 10 a.m. Hockey College •UMass at Michigan, ESPNU, 1 p.m. NHL •Dallas at St. Louis, NHL, 11 a.m. Horse racing •America’s Day at the Races, FS2, 11:30 a.m. •America’s Day at the Races, FS1, 1 p.m. Olympics •U.S. Speed Skating Trials, Day 5, part 1, Ch. 3, 9:30 a.m. •U.S. Figure Skating Championships, men’s free skate, Ch. 3, 11 a.m. •U.S. Speed Skating Trials, Day 5, part 2, USA, 2 p.m. Rodeo •PBR, Monster Energy Pro Bucking Battle, CBSSN, 11 a.m. Skiing •World Cup, women’s slalom, Ch. 3, 3:30 a.m. Snowboarding •World Cup, slopestyle, CNBC, 6:30 a.m. •World Cup, slopestyle, CNBC, 8 a.m. •World Cup, halfpipe, CNBC, 10 a.m. Soccer Ligue 1 •Stade Brestois vs. OGC Nice, BEIN, 3:50 a.m. •Montpellier HSC vs. Troyes AC, BEIN, 5:55 a.m. •Olympique Lyonnais vs. Paris Saint-Germain, BEIN, 11:35 a.m. •Nantes vs. AS Monaco, BEIN, 2:30 p.m. (taped) Super Lig •Rizespor vs. Besiktas, BEIN, 7:55 a.m. •Fenerbahce vs. Adana Demirspor, BEIN, 8:55 (Monday) Africa Cup of Nations •Cameroon vs. Burkina Faso, BEIN, 4:30 p.m. (taped) •Ethiopia vs. Cape Verde, BEIN, 6:30 p.m. (taped) •Sengal vs. Zimbabwe, BEIN, 4:50 a.m. (Monday) Tennis •Center Court, ATP Cup, final; WTA Adelaide 1, WTA Melbourne, finals, TENNIS, 3 a.m. •Center Court, WTA Sydney, WTA Adelaide 2, early rounds, TENNIS, 4 p.m. •Center Court, WTA Sydney, WTA Adelaide 2, early rounds, TENNIS, 3 a.m. (Monday) Wrestling College •Purdue at Iowa, BIG TEN, noon

Kane: On waivers From Page B6 that involves the NHL Players’ Association. Kane, 30, was suspended 21 games by the NHL on Oct. 18 for an established violation of – and lack of compliance with – the NHL/NHLPA Covid-19 protocol, with reports indicating that he submitted a fake vaccination card. As the suspension was about to end, Kane was placed on waivers by the Sharks on Nov. 28. He

was assigned to the Barracuda, the Sharks’ AHL affiliate, the next day. Kane had eight points in five games with the Barracuda. His last game with the team was Dec. 18 in San Diego, where he had a goal and an assist for San Jose in its 4-1 win. Kane did not play in the Barracuda’s game with the Henderson Silver Knights on Friday. It is not clear if Kane remained in the AHL protocol at that time.

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Kevon Looney, left, Klay Thompson, center, and Nemanja Bjelica of the Golden State Warriors look on from the bench

during the third quarter against the Portland Trail Blazers at Chase Center on Nov. 26, 2021 in San Francisco.

Thompson: Has missed last 2 seasons From Page B6 “He makes you realize that this is real life and not just basketball because he still has a personality,” said Juan Toscano-Anderson, who will be one of 11 Warriors to play alongside Thompson for the first time on Sunday. It will have been 941 days between Thompson’s last jumper and his next one, enough time for the Warriors to build a new, billiondollar arena on the San Francisco waterfront and overhaul his supporting cast: notably with Andrew Wiggins, the sharpshooting wing whom Golden State acquired about seven months into Thompson’s initial rehab. The player Thompson is replacing in the starting lineup, Poole, was drafted weeks after Thompson’s initial injury and has completed the evolution from potential bust to franchise cornerstone in the time Thompson has been away. “The good thing is anybody on earth can play with Klay because he doesn’t dominate the ball,” Kerr said. “He’s a really easy guy to play with, but we’re going to need reps – for him and with him – for him to really get going.” Sometime around 5:30 p.m., with the lights

dimmed and players dancing, Klay Thompson’s name will bellow from the public address system inside Chase Center for the very first time. Then, he’ll step on to the court alongside Steph Curry and Draymond Green and Kevon Looney for the first time in forever, and Wiggins for the first time ever. Curry welcomed back his Splash Brother with a message on social media, where he changed his Twitter avatar to a photo of Thompson, his mouth wide open just below a pair of turtle-patterned club-master sunglasses. He’s clearly enjoying life. Another photo of Thompson captured attention in the later stages of his rehab process. After the Warriors’ Nov. 26 win over Portland, a solemn Thompson remained on the bench, a towel draped over his head, for 30 minutes after the final buzzer. It was a rare public display of the toll the long and arduous rehab process had taken on him. That week, at the end of November, Thompson rejoined his teammates in practice for the first time. Toscano-Anderson remembers a classic Klay flurry during one scrimmage: 12 points in 43 seconds.

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“I said, ‘Damn, we’ve got two guys who can do this?’ ” Toscano-Anderson recalled with excitement. There were rumblings of a return timed around Christmas. But the holiday game in Phoenix acted as a different milestone: Thompson’s first time traveling with his teammates. On their next road trip, he would scrimmage alongside Curry for the first time, providing the duo a trial run of sorts for Sunday night. “That was really crucial milestone,” Kerr said. “It felt like an important emotional event, to see the group together again.” For Kerr, another game came to mind when thinking about the emotion and anticipation of Klay’s return. On March 13, 1995, the Chicago Bulls got their own star back from a multi-year absence. Michael Jordan was set to play his first game after two years away from the NBA. Kerr, a fellow member of those Bulls teams, remembers the drive to the airport. “I was driving with Jud Buechler, my teammate,” Kerr recalled. “I turned to Judd and was like, ‘What’s Phil Jackson going to do? Do you bring him off the bench? Do you start him?’ And Jud goes,

‘Steve, Steve: As a general rule, when you have your own statue outside of the stadium, you’re in the starting lineup.’ ” It wasn’t quintessential Jordan – he finished 7 of 28 from the field – but the fans were just there to see the spectacle. The Bulls eventually went on to win three more championships. With Thompson and Curry and Green, the Warriors already have three titles and, off to a 29-9 start this season while getting reinforcements like Thompson, are hopeful for more. Sunday is sure to be a spectacle. “There’s clearly a buzz in the air,” Kerr said. “It’s not the outcome of the game that is so anticipated; it’s the moment itself. It’s the occasion. It’s what’s being celebrated. . . . With Klay, the moment will be about a guy’s perseverance and his love for the game and everyone else’s love for him. That’s why it’s going to be special.” Back in the interview room Saturday afternoon, Toscano-Anderson ambled off the stage. Before exiting through the door, he had a final message for the reporters in the room – and the rest of Dub Nation: “See y’all at the show tomorrow.”

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LEAHERA FOSTER AKA LEAHERA NICOLE FOSTER Case Number: P051211 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Leahera Foster aka Leahera Nicole Foster A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Kim R. Eggers in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Kim R. Eggers 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. 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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

AUCTION NOTICE: AS DEFINED BY: The California Self Storage Facilities Act, Chapter 10 Commencing with Section 21700, Division 8 of the California Business And Professions Code, AIRPORT ROAD SELF STORAGE – 1604 Airport Rd, Rio Vista, CA 94571 will conduct an Auction on January 14th 2022 at 10:45 AM. AUCTIONEER: A Ward Auction Jeff Vercelli #MS324-27-45 Joe Ward #MS237-04-79….Agent for Owner: Diede Property Management. Units being sold: Leon Belcher, Jason Helms, Amor Basa, Terry Grant, Sharon Jones Items being sold: Furniture, tools, ladder, appliances, pictures and misc. tubs and boxes. This ad will publish 1-2-2021 & 1-9-2022. In accordance with the California Self Service Storage Act, should bids fall short agents predetermined fair market value on a given Storage unit, agent shall have the right to halt the sale of said storage unit. DR#00051888 Published: Jan. 2, 9, 2022 Notice of Public AUCTION as defined by the California Self Storage Facilities Act, Business and Professions Code sections 21700 - 21716. Location of auctioned items: Four Seasons Self Storage 1600 Petersen Rd, Suisun City CA 94585. Date of sale: 1/14/2022. Time of sale: 9:45 am. Auction will be conducted at Four Seasons Self Storage at 1600 Petersen Rd. Suisun City CA 94585. Auctioneer; Award Auction: Joe Ward #MS237-04-79, Jeff Vercelli #MS153-13-71. Phone: 408-891-6108. Agent for Owner Diede Property Management. Property being sold will publish 1-2-2022 & 1-9-2022. Units being sold: Tiara Coner(G212), Sterling Bradford(C46), Anthwan Hendricks(G70) . Items being sold: Exercise Equipment, Shelving, Office Furniture, Auto supplies, Household Appliances, Luggage, Household Furniture, Clothes, Bicycles, Misc. Household items, Misc. Boxes and Plastic Tubs. DR#00051922 Published: Jan. 2, 9, 2022 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 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF RIO VISTA PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Commission of the City of Rio Vista hold a public hearing to consider a recommendation to amend the City’s shipping and storage container regulations (Rio Vista Municipal Code Chapter 17.84). The proposed amendments establish a comprehensive set of regulations for how shipping and storage containers may be used in Rio Vista. Special Meeting on January 19, 2022, at 6:00 p.m., in the City Hall Council Chambers, 1 Main Street, Rio Vista, CA. PROJECT TITLE: ZONING CODE AMENDMENT – SHIPPING AND STORAGE CONTAINERS LEAD AGENCY NAME AND ADDRESS: CITY OF RIO VISTA 1 MAIN STREET RIO VISTA, CA 94571 CONTACT PERSON AND PHONE NUMBER: Rob Hickey, City Manager (707) 3746451 Ext. 1101 PROJECT LOCATION: CITY-WIDE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW: The California Environmental Quality Act, Public Resources Code section 21000 et seq., requires environmental review of discretionary projects, unless exempt. CEQA Guidelines section 15308 (Actions by Regulatory Agencies for the Protection of the Environment) where the shipping and storage container standards are promulgated in order to assure the maintenance, restoration, enhancement and protection of the environment specifically as it relates to visual blight by regulating the placement of shipping containers in locations incompatible with the visual and aesthetic character of surrounding uses.

NOTE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES: This meeting will be held via teleconference only pursuant to Government Code section 54953(e) to protect attendee health and safety. All requisite opportunities for and protections to public access and public comment shall be provided, as required by that section and the Brown Act, Government Code section 54950 et seq. Public access is available via livestream through a link and instructions included in the Planning Commission agenda at: https://www.riovistacity.com/meeting-agenda-minutes/. The Planning Commission will accept oral and written comments. Oral comments may be given during the meeting by following the instructions on the Planning Commission agenda at: https://www.riovistacity.com/meeting-agenda-minutes/. Written comments may be submitted via email to: pcpubliccomments@ci.rio-vista.ca.us. Please provide the agenda item number in the subject line of your email or letter. Written comments received prior to 5:00 pm on the Tuesday before the Commission meeting will be distributed to the Commission and posted on the City's website. If you need assistance or do not have access to a computer, please contact Krystine Ball at 707-374-6447.

If you wish to legally challenge any action taken by the City on the above matter, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raise in writing for the Public Hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City prior to or emailed as described in the above note.

FURTHER INFORMATION on this item may be obtained by contacting Rob Hickey, City Manager at (707) 374-6451 Ext. 1101 Fax: (707) 374-6763. DR#00052073 Jan. 9, 2022

FURTHER INFORMATION on this item may be obtained by contacting Rob Hickey, City Manager at (707) 374-6451 Ext. 1101 Fax: (707) 374-6763. DR#00052072 Jan. 9, 2022

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DAF OKs pass for Covid booster Travis Air Force Base WASHINGTON — Airmen and guardians who are eligible and elect to receive a booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine are authorized a four-hour pass, or up to four-hours administrative leave for Department of the Air Force civilians. “We strongly encourage all airmen, guardians, and Department of the Air Force federal employees to receive a booster. As Covid-19 cases continue to surge, we need to do everything possible to protect ourselves, our families, and our communities—that means getting a booster,” said Under Secretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones. “The four-hour authorized time may be applied retroactively for those who have already received the booster.” The Office of Personnel Management authorizes federal employees up to four hours of administrative leave to receive a vaccine booster shot, which is designed to cover “the time it takes to travel to the vaccination site, receive the vaccination dose, and return to work.” If federal employees take less than four hours to receive their booster shot, they should be granted only that amount of time in administrative leave, and employees cannot receive leave or overtime if they get their booster shot outside of their normal work hours. Federal employees are also authorized up to four hours of administrative leave to accompany their family members who are receiving any dose of a Covid-19 vaccination. Federal employees should obtain advance approval from their supervisor before being permitted to use administrative leave for Covid-19 vaccination purposes.

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U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Daniel Valadie, center, United States Air Force Total Force Band drum major, gives instructions to the band during rehearsals in Arcadia, Dec. 28, 2021. America’s Air Force participated

in America’s New Year Celebration that includes the Tournament of Roses Parade and Rose Bowl Game to kick off 2022 and a yearlong celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Department of the Air Force.

USAF Total Force Band plays in Tournament of Roses Parade Nicholas Pilch

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PASADENA — The United States Air Force Total Force Band kicked off the Air Force’s 75th birthday celebrations by appearing in the 133th Tournament of Roses Parade Jan. 1. The band is comprised of 75 active-duty and Air National Guard airmen-musicians from 14 bands from around the Air Force with a majority of the members from the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West at Travis Air Force Base. The U.S. Air Force Band honors those who have served, inspires American citizens to heightened patriotism and service, and positively connects with the global community on behalf of the U.S. Air Force and the United States of America. U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Randolph Palada, United States Air Force Band of the Golden West clarinetist, shared his feelings about the preparation and performance in the parade. “This has been a fun and challenging week of musical and marching prep,” he Nicholas Pilch/U.S. Air Force

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The USAF Total Force Band plays in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Jan. 1.

Logistics system tracks every item in the US Air Force inventory Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Want to know how many aircraft tires or satellites are in Department of the Air Force asset inventory? The Integrated Logistics System – Supply or ILS-S has the answer. ILS-S is a modern Logistics Information Technology (LogIT) Defense Business System (DBS) capability that supports Department of the Air Force active-duty, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve operations, as well as our sister services and their missions depending on where they are located.” ILS-S is also a financial data feeder system that provides LogIT support in the functional area of Department of the Air Force base-level supply/ materiel management. ILS-S functions includes ordering, receiving, storage, distribution, tracking, disposition and movement of supplies, organizational account management, weapon system spares support, cataloging, computing stock levels, mobility, warranty management, financial reporting, inventory control point, supply point, contractor-provided weapon system support, aircraft, engine and missile maintenance,

hazardous material management, communications security management and mobile technology. The system is a modern, elastic, secure, U.S. Air Force Cloud One Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud application with 120 interface agreements with 46 systems to support 18,000 end users and over 100,000 consumers of ILS-S information at 250 military installations. ILS-S tracks over 35 million assets valued at $18 billion – assets that are optimally distributed and stored across 1.7 million warehouse locations. ILS-S also provides inventory control of 230,000 assets in deployable air transportable containers to support contingencies and special operations. “We track almost every asset the Department of the Air Force uses,” said Staff Sgt. Gabriel Fox, a member of the Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate’s ILS-S Capability Delivery Team (CDT), which is responsible for operating and maintaining ILS-S. “Everything from dog food, weapons, radar parts, vehicles, aircraft, clothing items and paper.” ILS-S has multiple, modern features and business rules (programming) to track and manage such a wide array of DAF assets – to include

the following: n Automatic Sourcing providing event-based real-time identification of the best enterprise source to satisfy an order ensuring the right decision is made with automated fulfillment n Excess Redistribution leveraging automatic sourcing infrastructure and realizing over $1 Billion in costs avoidance by identifying already purchased DAF assets n Real-time Enterprise Asset Visibility spanning the retail and wholesale supply chains presenting total asset visibility in a single comprehensive view n Nuclear Weapons-Related Material (NWRM) enterprise management & asset tracking n High Priority Orders Management providing infrastructure to ensure mission critical weapons systems remain operational and can be extended to other mission areas n Mobility Management providing chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) gear management n Enterprise Orders Management provides real-time management and visibility across the logistics enterprise n Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) compliant system with the ability to apply

FIAR readiness to additional capabilities n Proven ability to subsume enterprise systems including high priority order management, mobility, shelf life, and readiness spares for non-airborne assets n Defense Logistics Management Standards (DLMS) compliant with the ability to transform non-compliant enterprise data into compliant DLMS transactions To “Delight the User” and support a diverse and dynamic mission operations tempo, ILS-S is available 24/7 365 a year. ILS-S processes over 10 million transactions daily to include over 1.5 million orders. Scott Hunter, the ILS-S Senior Functional Manager, recalls explaining to his dad what the team does for the Air Force. “You know when you go to an auto parts store to get an alternator for the truck, and the clerk asks for the make and model, pulling up the information on the computer? The screen would show them the different parts that would work, if they have any in the store and where exactly they were,” Hunter said. “It’s the same system at every one of the company’s stores. They are all one connected network that talks to one another. If one store

doesn’t have the alternator, they could check another store and if they have one, they could have it for you tomorrow. The Air Force has the same type of computer program the auto store has, and our team keeps this system up and running.” To successfully Operate, Innovate and Integrate in a cloud environment, the ILS-S CDT, it’s industry partners and BES service provider teammates have leveraged multiple, modern computing and software development concepts to include the following: n Agile and a responsive and ever-improving delivery model emphasizing warfighter collaboration to deliver monthly production releases to support business needs n Development Security Operations (DevSecOps) pipeline with security scanning, automated infrastructure provisioning and patching, and monitoring n Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CE/CD) pipeline with the ability to deploy from development through production in a fully automated fashion in less than one hour, integrating multiple active development and test baselines n Open source makes up the majority of the ILS-S of the code base

reducing the total cost of ownership and by using industry leading Spring and Apache products, enhances both stability while minimizing learning curves for new developers n Mobile cross platform mobile solution using Progressive Web Application (PWA) technology & a native tablet presence supporting robust mobile application delivery n Proven modernization methodology using a “wrap and adapt” model minimizing risk during modernization by decoupling end user and system interfaces from the effort of modernizing the legacy system n Automated Testing with over 17,000 automated functional end-to-end tests using a framework that enables non-technical personnel to develop robust tests According to Jerard Campbell, ILS-S Acquisitions and Operations Capability Delivery Manager, “ILS-S has been blessed with exceptional contractor industry partnerships that enabled us to leverage modern software lifecycle concepts and tools that in the hands of our high-performing contractor development and functional supply subject matter expert teams – really changed how we operate.”

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Parade From Page B10 said. “We have grown and united as one throughout the week while also persevering through the inclement weather.” The United States Air Force Total Force Band begrudgingly enduring a week of rain leading up to the 6-mile parade march. “Although, marching 6 miles has been grueling, it’s been a wonderful experience to be a part of the Tournament of Roses Parade,” Palada said. The band was in the 75th position to celebrate the Air Force’s milestone. The Air Force also kicked off the start of celebrating 75 years strong as the most innovative force, fueled by talented airmen. airmen pushed technological and cultural boundaries to make

Nicholas Pilch/U.S. Air Force file (2021)

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown Jr. discusses the Rose Parade with USAF Total Force leadership the day before the parade in Pasadena, Dec. 31, 2021. Nicholas Pilch/U.S. Air Force

The USAF Total Force Band play the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Jan. 1. America the leader in air power and space power, with all the strategic advantages that status provides. “It was also an honor to be a part of the kickoff celebration for the Air Force’s 75th anniversary, and representing airmen serving from across the globe,” he said.

Assembling musicians from 14 different bands to form one harmonious and synchronized band is challenging. This is not the first time Air Force musicians have participated in the Tournament of Roses Parade; in fact, several musicians performed in the parade for a second or third time

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Millions face starvation in Afghanistan TWO PHILADELPHIANS ARE TRYING TO STOP IT

Tribune Content Agency PHILADELPHIA — Millions of people could starve to death in Afghanistan this winter. Two Philadelphians are trying to prevent that from happening. “This is a campaign for humanity,” said Naser Shahalemi, 42, a Kabulborn, University City businessman who helps lead a new and burgeoning awareness campaign, End Afghan Starvation. “Twenty years we were helping them, and now we’re not helping them?” He and Gulmakai Popal Saleh, 44, a children’s book author in Northeast Philadelphia, started and lead a movement that’s gained supporters across the globe, spread across the internet, and generated demonstrations in three cities. Nearly 10,000 people have signed online petitions pleading for U.S. action to avoid a humanitarian disaster. Why Philadelphia as a starting point? “Things spark up in Philly,” Shahalemi said. He and Saleh, both Afghan Americans who immigrated here as children, decided they had to act as they saw a crisis developing. Afghanistan has long been beset by malnutrition. But now it’s being racked by a convergence of drought, war, poverty, unemployment, and pandemic that’s wiped out crops and cut off international aid. More than half the population, 22.8 million people, face severe hunger, according to U.N. analyses, and more than 8.7 million of those are nearing famine. The billions of dollars in aid that flowed to the U.S.-backed Afghan government vanished when the country fell to the Taliban in August. Subsequent American economic sanctions have limited Afghanistan’s access to global financial markets and left humanitarian organizations unable to pay workers, buy supplies, and distribute food. The Biden administration moved to exempt aid groups from the sanctions shortly before Christmas, but it’s unclear whether that will be sufficient to forestall famine. Part of the challenge is political – the Biden administration risks being

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Naser Shahalemi poses for a portrait on in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Tuesday. Shahalemi is one of the people seen as supporting the Taliban if it provides assistance. End Afghan Starvation calls on the administration to ignore political concerns and get food to hungry people, mounting Twitter storms under the hashtag #endafghanstarvation. The group seeks no monetary donations, noting that funding for food programs already is being sought and collected by groups that include the World Food Programme, International Rescue Committee, UNICEF, and Action Against Hunger. More than 4,100 people have signed a petition that urges immediate action, to be submitted to the Biden administration, the United Nations, the European Union, and the United Kingdom governments. “For God’s sake, please help Afghans meet their basic needs!” wrote one signer, Shahla Sadiq of McKinney, Texas, near Dallas. “Each one of us knows what it’s like to be hungry for a couple of hours and not be able to eat, never mind not having the food!” A similar petition by Just Foreign Policy, a Washington-based reform group, has drawn 5,300 signatures. Particularly vulnerable this winter are

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leading an awareness campaign on starvation in Afghanistan this winter.

three million Afghans who have been “internally displaced,” that is, forced by war and violence to flee their homes but not to leave their homeland. An estimated 50,000 fled to the capital of Kabul – a city higher than Denver in elevation – where winter temperatures often fall below zero at night. Many

will spend the winter in makeshift shelters or unheated rooms, according to the U.N. High Commission on Refugees. Roughly 3.2 million Afghan children under age 5 are acutely malnourished, according to UNICEF, and an estimated 1.1 million could die. Many mothers struggle to breastfeed because

they themselves are undernourished. This week End Afghan Starvation intends to reach out to the 40-some House Democrats who called on Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to unfreeze Afghanistan’s bank reserves. The lawmakers say that continuing

to enforce international restrictions on Afghanistan’s banking system risks “economic pain and humanitarian collapse.” “We’re American citizens,” Saleh said. “At the same time we care about our people, the place we were born.” The author of four children’s books is the founder and director of the Golden Tree of Goodness, which seeks to promote kindness through reading and encourages children to follow the golden rule. She came to the United States at age 4 in 1981, two years after the Soviet invasion. Last month she helped gather speakers for a rally outside the White House, as similar demonstrations against hunger took place in London and Vienna. “We’re getting phone calls from around the world,” she said. “The support is growing. We’re uniting, regardless of what ethnic group or religion you belong to.” Shahalemi, a business consultant who arrived in this country at age 1 in 1980, said action is needed now, as winter snows threaten to cut off remote areas of Afghanistan. “We’re speaking up for the defenseless children of Afghanistan. “Every day, another child could die.” For more information, or to contact the organizers, visit endafghan starvation.org.

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49ers: Are slight underdogs to Rams From Page B6 10 first downs, 157 yards, went 0-for-13 on third and fourth down, and quarterback Jared Goff had a career-low 78 passing yards. In November, in their last meeting, the 49ers’ offensive line helped grind down the Rams: The 49ers rushed for 156 yards on 44 carries, their most carries in a game since 2012, and began with a merciless 18-play, 93-yard touchdown drive that lasted over 11 minutes and featured 12 runs. Garoppolo suggested the 49ers needed just that opening drive to break the Rams’ will. “I don’t want to say

it took their soul away,” Garoppolo said after the game, “but it definitely did something.” Two months later, though, some things have changed. Most significantly, the 49ers have major question marks at their most important position. Garoppolo is questionable to play because of torn ligament and fracture in his right thumb. His backup, rookie Trey Lance, would make his third career start if Garoppolo is sidelined. The Rams have won five straight games, are playing at home and are 4 1/2 -point favorites. The 49ers’ likely response? Yawn. Consider their last visit

to Los Angeles: In 2020, the 49ers arrived with a 4-6 record, started backup QB Nick Mullens, were five-point underdogs – and won, 23-30. In November? The 49ers were 3-5 and fourpoint underdogs before their 21-point blowout win. In October 2020, the 49ers had a 2-3 record were 2.5-point underdogs before beating the Rams, 24-16. The Rams, who are 31-12 against the rest of the NFL over the past three seasons, have been favored in four of the past five games they’ve lost to the 49ers. Asked about the 49ers’ recent ownership of the Rams, linebacker Fred Warner began with a

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smile and laugh, wary of providing bulletin-board material before kickoff. “They are an outstanding football team,” Warner said. “They are literally one of the best team in the NFL right now . . . If we don’t come to play, they’re going to embarrass us.” But it’s worth remembering what Garoppolo said after the 49ers embarrassed the Rams on Nov. 15. Asked if the 49ers had a “mental edge” on their division rival, Garoppolo indicated a physical advantage might also be at play. “When you win five in a row, yeah, maybe a little bit,” Garoppolo said. “It’s just our style that we play with.”

Sharks: Have been dealing with Covid From Page B6 wasn’t immediately clear if his omission was a coach’s decision. Bonino has five goals and two assists in 35 games this season but had three points in his last five games before Saturday. With Couture unavailable, Bonino had a seasonhigh 21:11 in ice time for the Sharks in their 3-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday at KeyBank Center. Sharks coach Bob

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Today Patchy fog, then mostly sunny

Boughner said neither Bonino, 33, or MacLean, 57, are symptomatic, adding that unless they can come with another plan for themselves, both will have to isolate in Philadelphia for five days before they can return to San Jose. The Sharks have been without Couture and Pederson since the start of the week, as Couture was placed in the protocol on Monday, and Pederson the following day before San Jose played the Detroit Red Wings.

Almanac

Statistics for Travis Air Force Base for yesterday through 5 p.m. Temperature High/Low.............................61°/37° Average high .......................... 53.5° Average low............................ 38.5° A year ago............................ NA/NA Barometric pressure............30.14 Humidity...................................64%

Air Quality Index 46 Precipitation 0-50 51-100 101-150 151-200 201-300 Last 24 hours................................0″ Good Moderate Unhealthy Unhealthy Very sensitive unhealthy Month-to-date....................... 0.05″ Normal Jan. rainfall .............. 4.77″ Source: Bay Area Air Quality Management District Season-to-date.......................... NA Normal seasonal rainfall....24.81″ UV Index This date last year...................... NA 2 Source: NWS and NOAA <2 3-5 6-7 8-10 11+ Good Moderate

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Both Couture and Pederson remain in Detroit. Couture is expected to fly back to San Jose on Sunday after the end of his mandatory isolation, and Pederson was expected to fly home the next day. Both could be available to play Tuesday when the Sharks host the Detroit Red Wings at SAP Center. Without Couture, Pederson, and the injured Rudolfs Balcers and Kevin Labanc, the Sharks dressed several rookie forwards, includ-

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ing Jeffery Viel, Scott Reedy, and Jonah Gadjovich. Other rookies on the roster include Jasper Weatherby, Jonathan Dahlen, and Alexander Barabanov. The Sharks inserted Nick Merkley into Saturday’s lineup, as he began the game on a line with Gadjovich and Viel. Gadjovich, though, appeared to be injured in the first period and did not return.

Morales scored off a pass from David Hernandez for the only goal in a victory for Wood (6-3-2, 2-0-0). Roger Neri recorded four saves for the Mustangs (2-7-0, 0-2-0). Rodriguez captured the JV match 5-0, getting goals in the first half by Mateo Flores (sixth minute), Tyler Branch (20th) and Zach Davni (25th), and in the second half by Branch (70th) and Davini (78th). Providing assists were Ethan Andrews, Sean Argulo and Davini.

K-8 basketball

Missouri, Craig lead Oakbrook to sweep FAIRFIELD — Jermaine Missouri and Eleanor Craig each finished in double figures to lead the Oakbrook Academy of the Arts boys and girls basketball teams to a road sweep of David Weir K-8 Preparatory Academy. Missouri poured in 19 points to lead the Dolphins boys (2-0) to a 51-25 victory, while Craig netted 12 points to power the Oakbrook girls (2-0) to a 17-16 triumph

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Fairfield Bocce Federation Winter League Standings As of Jan. 6 Tuesday AM League W L Pts Plan B 13 11 223 No Mercy 11 7 192 Bocce Friends 11 7 185 Do It Again 8 13 202 Capitani 8 13 156

Tuesday PM League W L Pts Bells & Beaus 16 5 215 Serranos 11 4 169 Untouchable 7 14 166 New Bee’S 7 14 152 Wednesday AM League W L Pts Roll’Em 16 8 255 Bocce Bulldogs 12 9 239 Sons Of Italy 9 12 233 Oh Sugar 8 16 193 Thursday AM League W L Pts Red Devils 21 3 267 Mama’S & Papa’S 17 7 259 Bocce Cruisers 11 13 230 Real Mccoys 8 16 204 What If 8 16 175 A Round Tuit 7 17 201 Tuesday AM Weekly Results No Mercy 2, Bocce Friends 1 Do It Again 2, Plan B 1 Capitani Bye Tuesday PM Weekly Results New Bee’S 3, Untouchable 0 Serranos No Play, Bells & Beaus No Play Wednesday AM Weekly Results Sons Of Italy 2, Bocce Bulldogs 1 Oh Sugar No Play, Roll’Em No Play Thursday AM Weekly Results Red Devils 3, Real Mccoys 0 Bocce Cruisers 2, What If 1 Mama’s & Papa’s 3, A Round Tuit 0

Golf

Rio Vista Women’s Golf Club LOW PUTTS/ACE OF THE MONTH Ace of the Month: Sandy Smith, gross 95 Low Putts Flight 1 1, Marsha Berry, 34 2, Mitch Ybarra, 35 3 (tie), Sandy Smith, KarenAnn Evans, and Suzi Masterson, 36 Flight 2 1, Marian Bard, 33 2, Alma Renko, 38 3 (tie), Bessie Dunn and Jan Benner, 40 Closest to the pin: Bessie Dunn, 23-1 Chip-ins: Suzi Masterson Broke 100: Mitch Ybarra, 99.

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