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A young girl plays in the fountain at the Solano County Government Center Plaza, in Fairfield, Feb. 14, 2016.

The Solano County Board of Supervisors recently approved $980,000 to improve the fountain system.

Supervisors sign off on 5-year, $213M capital facilities plan Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — A new courthouse, a new library in Vallejo and ongoing energy upgrades are part of the $212.94 million, five-year facility plan accepted this week by the Solano County Board of Supervisors.

The board’s action does not commit the county to paying for any specific project, although the supervisors have already approved the $38.08 million energy infrastructure and resiliency project.

Megan Greve, the director of General Services, and Mark Hummel, Capital Projects manager, on Tuesday gave a presentation to the board on the 5-Year Capital Facility Improvement Plan, which goes through

fiscal year 2025-26.

There was no public comment during the public hearing on the plan, but Supervisor Mitch Mashburn expressed his frustration with not seeing anything in the plan about solar panels to help veterans halls with their rising power costs. He said those costs could force some of the halls to reduce hours of operations.

Mashburn said he had raised the issue with General Services three times.

“It’s not in the book because we don’t have a plan . . . but it’s on the horizon,” Greve said. The book is a reference to future projects.

Greve said the county explored the possibility of getting state funding to help with a solar project at veterans halls, but the power use at the facilities did not qualify the county for that program.

Supervisor Jim Spering praised General Services for “staying ahead of the curve” on deferred maintenance.

Greve said there were no “major” deferred maintenance projects to be concerned about, but also noted the list of potential projects is scheduled to be updated this year.

The improvement plan outlines $11.2 million in projects that were recently completed, such as the nearly $8.82 million Animal Care Shelter improvements worked on over several years, the $741,399 public safety communications tower installed at the county fairgrounds in Vallejo and the $982,348 perimeter fence project at the Claybank Jail location that was needed due See Plan, Page A9

Fairfield City Council to set district boundaries during virtual meeting Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — The City Council on Tuesday will consider introducing the ordinance that will set the new district boundaries for the next 10 years.

The city population of 120,178 is divided among the six districts as 20,253 in District 1 (Chuck Timm); 20,639 in District 2 (Scott Tonnesen); 20,007 in District 3 (Catherine Moy); 19,868 in District 4 (Rick Vaccaro); 19,898 in District 5 (Doriss Panduro); and 19,513 in District 6 (Pam Bertani).

Vaccaro said in a recent interview that his residence and the residence of Bertani are in the same district under the new configuration, so if nothing changes and both decide to seek re-election in 2024, they would face each other.

Timm is running for the 3rd District 3 seat on the Solano County Board of Supervisors, and Moy is considering running for the county office or possibly making a run for mayor.

Districts 1, 3 and 5 are up for election in November, as well as the citywide mayor’s office.

Districts 2 and 6 are up for election in 2024.

The council also will be asked to provide policy direction on a proposal by Solano County for the city

VALLEJO — Police are investigating shootings early Friday and Saturday that left two men dead.

The latest shoooting was reported shortly after 5:30 a.m. Saturday in the alley near Georgia Street and Sonoma Boulevard. Tha man, who police report was shot at least once, was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

His name was withheld pending family notification, according to police.

The shooting happened less than a day after a man was shot shortly after 7 a.m.

Friday on the 1000 block of North Camino Alto.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

His name was also withheld pending family notification, police report.

These are the city’s second and third deadly shootings of the year.

Fairfield-Suisun schools eye initial state budget plan Numbers indicate staff salary, pension costs outstrip funding bump Susan Hiland

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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield-Suisun School District looks to receive nearly $5 million more in baseline state funding next year than it expects this school year based on the governor’s proposed state budget – but also faces more GRINDLE than $5.5 million in extra pension costs, according to a preliminary budget review.

Laneia Grindle, assistant superintendent of Business Services, presented the school board Thursday with an update on the governor’s budget proposal and how it – at least preliminarily – meshes with local plans that include

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staff raises totaling more than $4.5 million for the coming school year and roughly $1 million in each of the next two years.

“This is a starting point for building our budget,” Grindle said.

The first look at the 2022-23 budget shows an additional $4.9 million in available state funding that could – and more than likely will – change between now and May when the state budget plan is next revised.

“It is clear that the LCAP and budget are intertwined for the upcoming school year,” Grindle said, referring to the required Local

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If accepted, an interagency water delivery agreement between the city and SID must be negotiated, the staff report states. The report indicates there will be no cost to the city.

The teleconference meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m., after a closed

All have happened this month.

An 18-year-old man was shot shortly before 11:10 p.m. Feb. 3 in the area of South Regatta Drive and Paddlewheel Drive. He was taken by private vehicle to a nearby hospital, where police report he died a short time after arriving there.

All three shootings remain under investigation.

Anyone with information about the shooting Saturday is asked to call Detective Wes Pittman at 707-648-5296 or Detective Josh Caitham at 707-648-4342.

Anyone with information about the shooting Friday is asked to call Detective Ken Jackson at 707-648-4280 or Detective Brian Murphy at 707-648-5430.

Anyone with information about the shooting Feb. 3 is asked to call Detective Josh Caitham at 707-648-4342 or Detective Yanette Hernandez at 707-917-4123.

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talking points to get you f you’re not a football through – allowing you fan on Super Bowl to see the commercials Sunday, it that people will be can be lonely. discussing Monday.

I understand. I’m a Here are 15 things football fan, but I know you can say during the what it’s like to not care game that will make it about something that seem like you are paying everyoneelseisfascinatedby– after all, I don’t care Brad Stanhope attention. Some are true. n “Isn’t it weird that about Star Wars. Or Like I was sayin’ Super Bowl is two MMA fights. Or plantwords, but football is one word? based foods. Or “Project And first down is two words but Runway.” (OK, I occasionally touchdown is one word?” watch “Project Runway.” But I n “Nice play by Rams don’t care about the others.) running back Sony Michel.

It’s hard to be an outsider. If you’re not a football fan (or a fan Speaking of Sony, have you seen my Walkman? I lost it in 2007.” of commercials), today may be n “This is Super Bowl LVI. rough. Super Bowl Sunday is Do you know how to say that? one of America’s unofficial It’s pronounced, ‘Livie.’ ” holidays and is practically n “I know Bengals running unavoidable. back Joe Mixon is good, but How to survive? I have some

what do you think his life is like, having Joe Biden’s first name and Richard Mixon’s last name?

Wait. It’s not Richard Mixon?

Really? Boy have I been wrong for a long time. This is embarrassing. Next, you’re going to tell me it wasn’t Jimmy Barter.” n “Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford is the grandson of Jim Stafford. You know, the guy who sang ‘Spiders and Snakes’ in the 1970s.” n “Cincinnati has a good football team, but you know what is really big there?

Cincinnati is the capital of cornhole!” n “Oh, sure, this halftime show is enjoyable, it’s Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg! But they’ve got to go a ways to beat Up With People, who did four Super Bowl halftime shows. I presume

they were in favor of people, which is admirable. Oh, sorry.

I’ll be quiet so you can listen.” n “Oh, Eminem is performing. Which reminds me, please hand some of those multi-colored button-shaped chocolates.

I can’t remember what they’re called.” n “Which team is the 49ers?” n “Rams coach Sean McVay is the youngest coach in the NFL. He’s 14 and is in eighth grade.” n “Did you know that Rams’ receiver Cooper Kupp has a third arm sticking out of his chest? That’s why he catches so many balls.” n “This game is being played in SoFi Stadium. Do you think they’re using Wi-Fi and listening to a Hi-Fi? Hahahaha. Isn’t it weird that Super Bowl is two

words, but . . .” n “The Bengals have never won a championship. They’re kind of like Susan Lucci. You know, Erica Kane on ‘All My Children.’ Oh, sorry. I didn’t know you were paying attention to the game.” n “I know this is important, but is it OK if I flip over to the Puppy Bowl for a second?” n “The winner of the game gets the Lombardi Trophy. It’s named after that legendary NFL coach whose name everyone knows: Vince Trophy.”

Reach Brad Stanhope (who really doesn’t like Star Wars) at brad.stanhope@outlook.com.

College student helps free childhood friend from prison 12 years early be with his family again, school officials said.

“It’s a miracle, a blessing,” Sohna told The Charlotte Observer on Wednesday after Harris hooked him into a threeway phone conversation with a reporter. If not for Harris, he said, “I wouldn’t be talking to you today from the outside.

God works in mysterious ways.”

Tribune Content Agency Davidson College senior Brandon Harris sat in a Maryland courtroom Tuesday as a judge decided the fate of a lifelong friend.

Sura Sohna already served two years of a 14-year sentence for several first-degree burglary convictions.

Now the court was reconsidering that stiff judgment, thanks to Harris’s tireless advocacy on his friend’s behalf.

Harris is a 22-year-old Davidson College Belk Scholar and two-time president of the school’s student government association. He focused on Sohna’s life for his semester-long independent study project last year, “Telling Stories of the Ignored and Forgotten.”

Harris sent personal letters to every one of Sohna’s 12 victims. He interviewed the prosecutor, police and Sohna’s family. And he got the Maryland governor’s permission for Sohna to appear from Patuxent Institution in Jessup, Maryland, when Harris presented his friend’s life story to the public via Zoom last April.

On Tuesday, a judge in Annapolis, Maryland, lifted the rest of Sohna’s sentence and released him after Harris, Sohna’s mom and, by phone from prison, Sohna, urged the court to reconsider the sentence.

Harris’ “incredible advocacy” through his independent study project “played a significant role in the court’s decision to re-evaluate Sohna’s sentence,” college officials said in a post on the school’s website, Davidson.edu.

Sohna would otherwise have waited until 2034 to

‘So quick to judge’ Last year, in a college announcement about Harris’ planned public Zoom meeting about his friend, Harris said he was “amazed at the lack of understanding so many people have about people and their situations.”

Unlike Sohna, Harris said he was offered mentorship opportunities and a scholarship to a “prestigious” high school.

When Sohna, on the other hand, stole a bicycle at age 12, Harris said a police officer and the victim told Sohna that he deserved a life sentence.

“We’re so quick to judge a person based on one action or one decision,” Harris said at the time “... Sura has great potential in his life; he just needs people who believe in him.”

Sohna told the Observer he will now complete his G.E.D. and pursue professional photography, a career he dreamed about as a boy.

Harris once planned to pursue pre-med studies but switched to law as a result of his project. He’s been accepted to the law schools at Columbia University, the University of Virginia, Vanderbilt and the University of Maryland so far, and is still deciding which to attend in the fall.

Harris completed the project under the guid-

ance and mentorship of Ike Bailey, the James K. Batten professor of public policy who graduated from Davidson in 1995.

“I was a Black man attending Davidson while a loved one was in prison, and I know the shame that can come with that experience,” Bailey said in last year’s college announcement about Harris’ Zoom presentation. “... If I could help a student deal with this burden he is going through and guide him through this process of investigation and journalism, I knew I had to help.”

Bailey said he was jogging Tuesday morning when Harris called him with the news that Sohna had been ordered released.

“My first thought was that this is a very good day,” Bailey said Wednesday. “When you work on issues like this, things don’t always turn out like this.”

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Davidson College senior Brandon Harris, left, is shown with childhood friend Sura Sohna minutes after Sohna’s release from a Maryland prison on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022.

‘Ready to drink’ Harris said he spoke before the judge for 20 minutes about his friend. The judge seemed to silently agree with each of those who spoke in Sohna’s behalf, he said.

At one point, however, the judge expressed possible doubt: “You could lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink,” Harris said the judge told the court.

To which Harris said he replied: “Sura Sohna is ready to drink when able to.”

The judge issued the order releasing Sohna on Tuesday morning, but Sohna didn’t walk from the prison until about 5:30 p.m. His family and friends greeted him with hugs and well-wishes, and a plastic bottle of water, Harris said.

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A pair of pedestrians wear face masks while walking along Texas Street in Fairfield, Friday. There was no Covid-19 case count update Friday, because county offices were

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closed in observance of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, which was Saturday. The next Covid-19 update is scheduled Monday. considered is a policy for emergency generator deployment.

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VACAVILLE — The Solano Irrigation District board is expected to announce out of closed session Tuesday a benefits package for unrepresented employees and a contract amendment with General Manager Cary Keaten.

The board agenda

also notes a contract termination with GA Technical Service, also to be discussed in closed session.

The closed session, which also includes a water sales negotiation with Suisun City, follows a public session scheduled to start at 6 p.m. in the Berryessa Room, Suite 201, at 810 Vaca Valley Parkway, in Vacaville.

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FAIRFIELD — Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, introduced legislation Friday to help California hospitals respond to public health crises, including pandemics and other emergencies.

The goal is to streamline the processing of licenses for health professionals, expand insurance coverage DODD and make it easier to increase bed space for patients, according to a press release from Dodd’s office.

“California hospitals have been slammed, not only during the pandemic but with increasingly destructive wildfires and other natural disasters,” Dodd said in the press release. “When a public emergency strikes, they need to be able to respond. This bill will help them adapt to fast-changing conditions, serving patients as quickly as possible.”

Senate Bill 979 contains provisions to make that possible, according to the release. It makes it easier for hospitals serving emergency zones to expand capacity and bed space, allowing better treatment and triaging for

victims of pandemics, wildfires, earthquakes and other emergencies. It also eases the onboarding process for medical personnel coming in from other states.

The bill also relaxes insurance restrictions for patients seeking treatment outside of their network coverage areas, according to the release, ensuring they get medical coverage wherever an emergency hits.

The bill is sponsored by the California Hospital Association.

“One of Covid’s most valuable lessons is that California must be able to create capacity to care for more people when urgently needed,” said Carmela Coyle, president and CEO of the California Hospital Association, in Dodd’s press release. “SB 979 gives the state flexibility for things like hiring health care workers quickly or repurposing hospital space, all of which can mean the difference between life and death.”

Dodd currently represents the 3rd Senate District, which includes all of Solano County and all or portions of Napa, Yolo, Sonoma, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties.

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Obituaries

Johanna ‘Annie’ Strybos June 26, 1929 — Feb. 3, 2022

Johanna ‘Annie’ Strybos, of Fairfield, California, passed away at home on Feb. 3, 2022, at the age of 92. She was surrounded by the love of her family.

Annie was born Johanna Francina Coenraadina Huberta Pronk on June 26, 1929, in Holland.

She and her husband, Trudo Petrus Strybos, bravely immigrated to America on an ocean liner, The Maasdam, crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 1950 in search of a new life. They were 21 years old.

She fondly recalled her first glance at Lady Liberty in New York Harbor. This was her chance at freedom.

Neither of them spoke English, but they learned fast and became citizens of the United States shortly thereafter.

They eventually settled in Fairfield, California. They were married for 40 years until his passing on April 12, 1990.

She studied to become a Nursing Assistant, and compassionately cared for homebound elderly

patients. She was an active bowler, and loved playing cards regularly with friends and family.

She was known for her delicious Dutch cooking.

She will forever be lovingly remembered by her family and many friends.

She is survived by her children, Lori and John of Fairfield, California, and Maria of Bellingham, Washington; she was blessed by nine grandchildren, Amanda, Zach, Tyler, Cayse, Jason, Sarah and Elizabeth (twins), Annie and Jessica; and 12 great-grandchildren, Nevaeh, Anastazia, Charlie, Lila, Mavis, Johanna, Dylan, Cassidy, Layla, Zayn, Christian and Anthony.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Trudo; son, Peter; twin granddaughters, Sarah and Elizabeth; and great-granddaughter, Anastazia.

A private graveside service will be at a later date.

Arrangements under the care of Fairfield Funeral Home, 707-425-1041.

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Randy (James) Rickey Randy (James) Rickey, 74, of Fairfield, California, passed away on Feb. 3, 2022, after a tragic fall.

Randy was born in 1947 to Rick and Dorothy Rickey in Albany, California. He grew up in El Cerrito, California, and graduated from Harry Ells High School in 1965.

Randy started working in the automotive industry at the age of 17. In 1968, he became an employee of San Pablo Automotive Supply, then in 1978, became an owner where he remained until his passing. Randy was a respected businessman in the automotive community. He was very passionate about his work and appreciative of his employees.

Randy lived a full life.

He enjoyed going to the horse races and playing golf with his friends. He was an avid member of the Green Valley Country Club. Randy loved his family and was extremely proud of them.

He will be missed by all that knew him.

He is survived by his loving wife of 40 years,

Georgena; daughters, Monique Bolton and Kathryn Folts; sister, Debbi Schmidt; sons-inlaw, Aaron Bolton and Ben Folts; and grandchildren, Alexa, Marissa, Ysabela and Wyatt.

Randy was predeceased by his parents, Rick and Dorothy Rickey; son, James Rickey Jr.; and in-laws, George and June Azevedo.

Service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, at St. David’s Church, 5641 Esmond Ave., Richmond, California. Burial will follow at St. Joseph Cemetery, 2540 Church Lane, San Pablo, California, followed by a reception at Rockefeller Lodge, 2650 Market Ave., San Pablo, California.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Autism Speaks, https://www.autismspeaks. org, or to Kyle Mann Fund - Cardiothoracic Surgery, https://give.stanford.edu, choose Stanford medicine.

In other Stanford designation type in Kyle Mann Fund - Cardiothoracic Surgery in Memory of Randy Rickey.

Diane (Wallace) Ferguson FAIRFIELD — Diane (Wallace) Ferguson died on Jan. 21, 2022, at a Woodland health care facility.

The Fairfield native was a 1974 Armijo High School graduate who was employed at Country Corner Liquors, West Texas Produce, and as a secretary to the C-5 maintenance squadron commander at Travis Air Force Base.

She was proud of her Spanish heritage and spent some time in Spain.

On Feb. 29, 1980, she married Jeff Ferguson. They met at Solano Community College in 1976. She often told him of her dream about a blond-haired man from Ohio that would be the love

of her life.

Her oil paintings on canvas and painted ceramics were sought-after gifts.

She is survived by her husband, Jeff; sister, Dayna (Adrian) Quinonez; niece, Rachael Quinonez; nephew, Julian Quinonez; mother, Gert Scanlon; and cousins.

She was predeceased by her sister, Donna (Wallace) Pace; and father, James Wallace.

No service is planned due to Covid-19. A celebration of her life will be held in the future.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association at www.alz.org/ get-involved-now/donate.

Todd Joseph Smith Todd Joseph Smith, age 42 of Aurora, Colorado, was born in San Francisco, California, to the parents of Joseph and Joanne E. Smith and was raised in Fairfield, California.

Todd attended St. Patrick-St. Vincent Catholic High School in Vallejo, California, and graduated from Vanden High School in Fairfield, California. Growing up, Todd served as a Lector at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, Fairfield, California, and he had the opportunity to travel with the youth of the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, California, to the World Youth Day in Paris, France. During his stay, Todd lived with a local family, was immersed in their culture and shared his culture.

Todd attended the University of Nevada, Reno, where he acquired an interest in Broadcast Communication with an emphasis in operational responsibilities for an air production. He worked in several positions related to acquiring his goal of employment by a major broadcast company. That career opportunity came when Todd was employed

by ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut, NBC Universal in Centennial, Colorado, and Fox Sports in Tempe, Arizona.

Todd was a kind soul who loved life, family, friends and who never hesitated to throw himself into passion projects by giving back to the community. Growing up in Fairfield, California, Todd was a member of the First Youth City Council. He also served as a member of the Friday Night Tobacco and Alcohol Cessation Program and served as facilitator of the Booker T. Washington Revisited Conference. While working in Bristol, Connecticut, Todd was a member of the Older Member

Association Boys and Girls Club, whose mission is to support the youth of Bristol.

Anyone who knew Todd was touched by his kindness, humor and mild temperament. He was truly a pacesetter and was always a source of positivity. As a result, Todd was a recipient of several prestigious awards. He received the Presidential Award for Volunteerism from two presidential administrations. It was a great honor for him during President Barack Obama’s second term. Todd was also recognized as one of the most influential African Americans in Bristol, Connecticut, by the NAACP, BBGC Older Member Association, State of Connecticut General Assembly Official Citation for his contributions and volunteerism to Bristol, Connecticut.

In his spare time, Todd enjoyed watching and attending WWF wrestling – actually participating in a few wrestling bouts. He participated in fantasy football league and was an avid sports’ fan of the Golden State Warriors basketball team; San Francisco 49ers football team and the San Francisco Giants baseball team.

A private viewing was held by family and a Funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. with Rosary at 10:30 a.m.

Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, 2700 Dover Ave., Fairfield, California.

If there was one thing Todd was, that was determined. No matter what the challenge or request he gave his all to ensure he exceeded all expectations whether for himself or others. This kind, sweet, gentle man who loved and was dearly loved will be missed by all.

Erma Marciel April 21, 1925 — Jan. 14, 2022

We are saddened to announce the passing of our beloved mother, grandmother and aunt Erma Lorraine Marciel on Jan. 14, 2022. Erma was born in Richmond, California, and graduated from Richmond High School, Class of 1943.

During World War II, she worked at the Kaiser Shipyards driving a parts truck.

After the war, she worked as a waitress where she met the love of her life, Ralph ‘Skip’ Marciel. Soon they were married and had two sons, Gregg and Larry.

Erma was a working mother, something unusual for the time. She worked as a clerk at Savin’s Drug Store in Richmond for over 10 years. In the early seventies, the family moved to Fairfield, California.

She soon started working at the Employment Development Department,

first in Vallejo, then in Fairfield. She worked for 20 years at EDD, working closely with the Fairfield Chamber of Commerce.

After retiring from EDD, she volunteered for many years at both the Fairfield and Vacaville Kaiser hospitals.

She enjoyed many activities with her many friends, particularly going to the movies.

She leaves behind her loving family, Gregg, Sabrina and Keila Marciel; Larry and Lauri Marciel; Russell, Cynthia and Meagan Sheppard; Arlene and Scott Floodman; and close friend, Darleen Ellingson.

Our family would like to thank Naomi Escoffery and Kaiser Hospice for all their loving care and support.

There will be no public service as the family wishes to celebrate Erma’s life privately.

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Nadine was a mother, stepmother, grandmother, great and great-great grandmother. Her ministry was card-letter writing to lift the recipient’s spirit.

She is survived by her children, Deborah Horn (Vacaville), Donald Reid (Missouri), Dianne Kunce (Indiana) and David Reid (Florida); nine grandchildren (throughout the United States); 18 greatgrandchildren; and one

great-great-grandson.

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Tim Grayson introduces sales tax exemption legislation for manufacturers can only be seen as a competitive disadvantage for California, the VALLEJO — Assem- release states. Califorblyman Tim Grayson, nia maintains one of the D-Concord, has highest tax burdens in introduced sales tax the nation, according to exemption legislation to the release. attract growth in pro“Manufacturing duction jobs. is what made CaliGrayson developed fornia a global Assembly Bill hub of innovation 1951 in partand technolognership with ical progress,” the California Grayson said Manufacturers in the release. & Technology “Every CaliforAssociation to nian wins when develop the manufacturing state’s Mangrows. Opportuu f a c t u r i n g GRAYSON nities are created Attraction and Develop- for the middle class, our ment Exemption. economy gets stronger It is designed to elim- and our state revenues inate the sales tax on reap benefits from an manufacturing equip- influx of economic activment purchases, in most ity. AB 1951 is uniquely cases, according to a designed to send a press release from Gray- serious signal to compason’s office. The tax nies across the country incentive will be for- that are looking for costmally titled California competitive regions to Made Exemption. scale up production, that “By focusing on they can compete here.” reducing the tax burden The bill already has to expand manufactur- nine co-authors and that ing in California, we number could grow as can increase the state’s the legislation moves domestic cost compet- through the legislaitiveness and create a tive process. critical tipping point “This legislation will for long-term capital help keep manufacturinvestments that might ing jobs in California, otherwise scale up where they belong, and production in other will have a ripple effect locations,” said Califor- on other industries nia Manufacturers & throughout the state,” Technology Association California Taxpayers President Lance Hast- Association President ings in the release from Robert Gutierrez said Grayson’s office. “This is in the release. “A more a critical piece of devel- competitive tax strucoping our 10-year plan ture helps everyone in to exponentially grow this state, because we all California manufactur- benefit when manufacing and we couldn’t be turing jobs are held by more excited.”

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Thirty-eight states Grayson currently currently either have represents the 14th District, sales and use tax exemp- Assembly tions on manufacturing which includes portions equipment, or have no of Solano County in sales tax at all, which Vallejo and Benicia.

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Suisun council to discuss FAST bus route changes Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

SUISUN CITY — The City Council will discuss changes to the Fairfield and Suisun Transit fixed routes system when it meets Tuesday.

The council also will consider a contract change with Granicus LLC, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, for website design and hosting ser-

vices. The project is funded with the city’s American Rescue Plan Act fund. The 2021-22 fiscal year budget includes $60,000 for these services. The one-time fees are $36,190, a first-year payment is $23,000 and subsequent years of the agreement have a 7% cost increase, the staff report to the council states.

The teleconference

meeting is set for 6 p.m. after a closed session at 5:30 p.m. during which the council will continue its performance review of City Manager Greg Folsom and be updated on potential litigation.

Connection information is available at https:// zoom.us/join. The Meeting ID is 841 8879 3577.

Access is also available by calling 707-438-1720.

Rural North Vacaville Water District review before LAFCO Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — Solano LAFCO commissioners on Monday are scheduled to receive the draft Rural North Vacaville Water District Municipal Service Review, and open the 30-day comment period on the report.

The Local Agency Formation Commission is

set to meet at 10 a.m. in the Board of Supervisors chamber on the first floor of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield.

LAFCO also has on the agenda several property annexation proposals into the Rural North Vacaville Water District: 7061 Steiger Hill Road; 4019 Blackthorne Drive; and 4245 Inde-

pendence Lane.

The commission is also scheduled to consider dissolving Reclamation District 2043 as an inactive district located in the Suisun Marsh.

A closed session follows the public session during which the commission will be updated on contract negotiations with the general manager.

Duck club plan comes before Commission Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing Thursday on a proposed private duck club in the Suisun Marsh.

The SF Gun Club has applied for the use permit with plans that include “reconstruc-

In brief Veterans to host St. Patrick’s Day fundraising dinner

VACAVILLE — American Legion Post 165’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Corned Beef and Cabbage Fundraiser for youth programs will occur next month.

The event will take place March 19, with drinks at 5 p.m. and food at 6 p.m., at the Vacaville Veterans Memorial Building, 549 Merchant St. You can make a donation or purchase tickets at $25 each, use the PayPal link, www.paypal.com/ paypalme/ALPost165, or call 707-430-7023.

Fairfield-Suisun Rotary to hear from SBDC director

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The site is located at 2866 Grizzly Island Road in the Master Plan Marsh Preserve zoning area. The project is recommended by the planning staff.

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He will describe what the Small Business Development Center offers to help small-business owners navigate through the challenges of Covid, labor shortages and inflation that small businesses currently are facing.

The online meeting will start at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday.

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Solano RCD offers virtual water science training course for teachers Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

SUISUN CITY — K-12 teachers of any subject can get firsthand instruction on water science topics at the Project WET online training workshop scheduled Feb. 19.

The Solano Resource Conservation District offers the program, which includes water activities adapted for distance learning and in-classroom resources for future use.

The workshop runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The February training will: n Guide teachers in integrating study of land-based watershed challenges that affect local

waterways and the ocean into their curriculum. n Provide connections for local students to local citizen science and stewardship opportunities. n Provide STEMfriendly water resource education materials aligned with California Common Core Standards and Next Generation Science Standards. n Provide the Project WET Guide. n Provide an opportunity for continuing education unit credit upon completion.

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Where state’s reservoirs stand after dry January Tribune Content Agency California hasn’t seen rain in over a month, and some of the state’s key reservoirs are starting to be impacted.

Shasta Lake, the state’s largest reservoir, was at 54% of its historical average as of Feb. 9, compared to 72% last year, the California Department of Water Resources said. San Luis Reservoir on the eastern slope of the Diablo range is at 59% of its historical average, compared to 71% last year.

Other reservoirs are up from where they were at this time last year.

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Oroville, the state’s second-largest reservoir, is at 78% of its historical average, compared to 60% at this time in 2021.

The moisture plume of an atmospheric river that brought historic amounts of rain to Northern California in October passed over Oroville, helping to replenish its supply.

Anderson said that the snowpack is another key source of California’s water supply, and while a torrent of storms in December built up a hefty snow pack, it’s

Former Air Force sergeant pleads guilty to killing security guard in Oakland

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“The lack of continuing to build the pack in the manner that it did in December is the most concerning aspect,” Anderson said. “The continued anomalously dry and warm weather will not only limit the growth of the pack, but will begin to melt it as sun angle and length of day increase.”

The snowpack was 79% of normal for this time of year on Feb. 11, compared to 64% of normal at this time last year.

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This prolonged dry spell is occurring at a time of year when California usually sees its wettest weather.

A former Air Force sergeant and a member of the extremist “Boogaloo” movement has pleaded guilty to killing a federal security officer in California amid protests triggered by the officer-involved death of George Floyd.

Steven Carrillo initially pleaded not guilty in the death of David Patrick Underwood, who was guarding the federal courthouse in Oakland on May 29, 2020, just days after 46-year-old Floyd’s death caused by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Video of the incident shows the ex-cop kneeling down on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, sparking outrage

nationwide.

Carrillo during an appearance in San Francisco federal court on Friday changed his plea to guilty and admitted his actions directly caused Underwood’s death. In exchange, prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty. Instead, they offered a plea agreement that would see the 33-year old sentenced to 41 years in prison and a lifetime term of supervised release, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers still has to decide whether to accept the plea agreement.

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Johns Hopkins study criticizes lockdowns for Covid-19 T

he Greek as bars, diminphilosopher ished mortality Epicurus by 10.6%. When (341-270 B.C.) is a business nonbelieved “the most essential, by the important conseway? The authors quence of did not focus on self-sufficiency is mask mandates, freedom.” We all citing a lack of recently found our Scott Anderson concomitant data freedom comprofor analysis.

Ask Dr. Scott mised. I refer to The Hopkins governmental lockdowns study, reviewed on the beginning with the medical education website Covid-19 pandemic. The Medscape, cited dimingovernmental edict, as I ished access to education, read it, excluded practicincreasing domestic vioing physicians. I carried a lence and erosion of copy of my medical freedom, among the ills identification with me, resulting from lockdowns. along with a photocopy of The Hopkins findings the governor’s edict. I was dovetail with the Great ready to “show my Barrington Declaration, papers,” if necessary. a nongovernmental stateA group of economists ment signed by clinicians at Johns Hopkins recently and scientists arguing concluded that the lockfor protecting the frail downs did little good. elderly, rather than In an article published attempting to manage in the journal Studies of whole populations.

Applied Economics, a Critics of the Hopkins group of economists from study may point to weakEurope and the United nesses. Other studies States analyzed 34 other suggest that lockdowns studies, looking at mortal- conferred benefits, includity rates reported through ing a British Medical July 1, 2020. Lockdowns Journal article. The were defined as “compulauthors of the recent study sory nonpharmaceutical hail from an econominterventions . . . that ics background, not from restrict internal moveepidemiology. One might ment, close schools and argue that even without businesses, and ban inter- diminishing mortality national travel.” very much, the lockdowns Such interventions reduced hospitalizations. reduced Covid-related Valid points, all. A single deaths by 0.2%, or onestudy by economists is fifth of a percentage point. not the last word on this Shelter-at-home orders, subject. The economists directed to families at still got my attention. higher risk, reduced Recall also that the deaths by 2.9%.

Hopkins researchThe authors concluded ers describe events that locking down sociprior to the advent of eties in Europe and the Covid-19 vaccinations, United States, along with in late 2020. Were the border closures and limlockdowns more justifiitations on gatherings, able prior to vaccinations did not markedly reduce being available? Perhaps. mortality during the Sadly, the politicians cir“first wave” of Covid-19. cumvented their own Closing some “nonesrestrictions. The message sential businesses,” such was, “lockdowns for thee,

The Hopkins study cited diminished access to education, increasing domestic violence and erosion of freedom, among the ills resulting from lockdowns.

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not for me.”

So-called “vaccine hesitancy” may paradoxically result in more government in our lives.

For example, outbreaks of preventable infection with Covid-19 may ensue as a result, leading to interventions by health officials or politicians. Vaccinations, viewed as government overreach by critics, may foster our collective freedom.

Heart inflammation (myocarditis) in adolescents has received attention. Recall, however, that these cases respond to therapy. Moreover, we vaccinate our youth to protect them for decades to come. For example, the vaccine against sexually transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV) is typically administered in pre-adolescence.

Norman Panting, a 94-year-old physician colleague, was profiled in the

Press Democrat newspaper (“Covid-19 vaccine push triggers local doctor’s memories of polio fight,” Phil Barber, June 8, 2021). Although the Salk injection against poliomyelitis was developed around 1955, Sonoma County saw an uptick of cases in the late 1950s.

Panting spear-headed a program to fight polio, launched in 1959.

Sonoma County opened 47 vaccine clinics, initiating “KO Polio Sunday.”

The Sabin oral vaccine, licensed in 1962, supplanted the prior Salk injection, over time.

Sonoma County eventually vanquished polio.

The United States last recorded poliomyelitis in 1979.

Panting sees unfortunate parallels with today’s Covid-19 fight, dryly noting: “Polio left you paralyzed. This kills you.”

Well said, Dr. Panting.

Scott T. Anderson, MD (standerson@ucdavis. edu) is a clinical professor at the University of California, Davis

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My partner is letting me down during my child’s illness relationship.

Dear Annie: I have I am an independent been in a relationcorporate woman who ship with a man for does not need a man to 10 years, and we have provide for me, but I do been engaged for four want this man to share years. In the beginning, my life with – the good, it was wonderful, and I the bad, the dull, the am aware that all relaexciting – all of it. The tionships go through ups and downs. I love him Annie Lane problem is that I have spent so many years deeply, and oftentimes Dear Annie putting him first in the over the years I have put relationship that now I need him my needs, wants and desires to put me first, and he doesn’t. aside in order to see him happy My child was diagnosed with or to avoid confrontation. cancer last year and is going We are two different people through chemo treatments. As in many ways – from family to a mother, it is heartbreaking politics to overall worldviews. to watch your child go through The saying, “opposites attract,” this, and I struggle to be strong is very much the case in our

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for my child, continuing to keep the household going and working a 40-hour-per-week corporate job.

I want the man I love to be my support, the person I lean on, the person who helps me smile on days when I just sit and cry. I want his arms to hold me and tell me he is here to help us through this.

Instead, he is more distant and often stays away all day.

I suspect he does this in order to avoid dealing with the situation. Am I being overly sensitive, considering the stress I am feeling, or is it time to realize that I need more in a relationship for myself? —

Feeling All Alone Dear All Alone: You are not wrong to want him to hold you, cry with you and help you through one of the most difficult things a parent will ever face. In fact, you are completely human and have every right to ask for that in your relationship.

Just because in the past you put him above your own needs – which now you see might have not been the best choice because in order to take care of others, we must take care of ourselves first – does not mean you need to continue doing that. By writing this letter, you are finally taking care of yourself so that you can be there for your child. If he is

distant and incapable of having any compassion or empathy during this time, then I would ask him to leave or at least tell him exactly what you need right now in the relationship.

Taking care of yourself and your child are your first priorities. If he falls short and is unable to help out, then make sure you lean on friends and family members who can be there for you during this time. Best of luck to you and your family.

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Today’s birthday You can run and hide, but felicity will always catch up and find you. Even the most practical transactions are stuffed with magic that will continue to sprinkle loose over your life and work.

You’ll express yourself in different mediums and genres. You’ll make savvy moves to improve finances.

Libra and Sagittarius adore you.

Your lucky numbers are: 9, 30, 1, 15 and 28.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Even if you have to make concessions beyond what you wanted to or apologize when you shouldn’t have to, it’s better to just get it over with so you can move on. Otherwise, it will be all you’ll think about.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

Because you love someone, you watch out for the opportunity to demonstrate it in a meaningful, big-gesture kind of way. You’ll now have the perfect opportunity to give from the heart and be received as such.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You are actively keeping something out of your life, though you may not even realize it now because the behavior comes so automatically to you. Consider what you’re blocking and decide if the boundary is still right for you.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). It may seem easier for you to be what they want than to be what you want, but this is not a sustainable solution. Consider your needs and boundaries carefully before you agree to anything today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). A goal may be glorious as it stands independently, but when you put all your goals together, you’ll find some clash with others. Reorder, prioritize and make decisions to clear up conflicts.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Take action and you’ll also be taking control.

Take responsibility and you’ll also be taking ownership. Take offense and you’ll also be taking time and energy away from your mission.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Forget the world at large for a moment and you’ll notice that your own world is running rather smoothly, as though filtered by soft light and pretty music.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’re working on your problem on a multitude of levels, seeing it from all sides, including from a subconscious angle.

Your dreams and daydreams will give you flashes of insight.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

What a strange tale you’ll hear. The entertainment value is high even if the amount of factual evidence is quite low. You have a story to tell, too, and you’ll be inspired to get creative and make it a good one.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

There’s a time and place for social risk, but many are easily offended today, making those risks barely worth taking. You’re better off maintaining an inner smile and saying nothing.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Distance might make the heart grow fonder, but silence has the opposite effect. Stay in communication. Even if you only connect in brief moments of text, it keeps the bond alive.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll be in a reflective mood and will see patterns in your life you hadn’t noticed before. Fresh reserves of energy can be accessed through mediation, dance, prayer, exercise or song.

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OPD is a chronic lung disease that makes it hard to breathe.

In COPD, which stands for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the airways (tubes that move air through the lungs) become narrow and damaged. This makes breathing difficult and causes tiredness.

There is no cure for COPD, and this condition tends to get worse over time.

There are treatments that help symptoms and there are steps to take that slow the disease progression.

COPD is also called “chronic bronchitis” or “emphysema.” COPD is caused by breathing in toxic fumes or gases. Smoking tobacco is the most common cause of COPD. Rarely, COPD is caused by a genetic condition that is passed through families.

People with COPD develop symptoms over time. Common symptoms include feeling short of breath with activities, wheezing while breathing (high-pitched whistle from the lungs), cough with phlegm and feeling tired with limited activities. People with COPD have problems with lung infections, heart problems and have a higher risk of getting lung cancer.

There are tests that medical providers order to determine if a person has COPD. The medical provider examines breathing patterns and listens to the

breath sounds, will order an X-ray of the lungs or an echocardiogram (specialized imaging of the heart function) and blood tests. Spirometry; a breathing test, measures how air moves out of the lungs with breathing. When COPD symptoms worsen and usual medications are not helping, a lung specialist (pulmonologist) may be consulted to advise on treatment options.

While COPD does not have a cure, there are treatments that improve breathing and quality of life. The medical provider will recommend inhaled medications that improve airflow in the lungs to ease breathing.

Some people also benefit from pulmonary rehabilitation to learn exercises that improve breathing and decrease the symptoms of COPD. As COPD progresses, some people use oxygen to improve breathing. Smoking makes COPD progress more rapidly; quitting smoking slows the progress of COPD and makes people feel better.

People with COPD are at risk to develop severe illness from lung infections due to bacteria or viruses. To avoid serious illness and hospitalizations, people with COPD should receive routine vaccines. Important vaccines to discuss with the medical provider include influenza (”flu”), pneumonia and Covid-19 vaccines.

COPD is a chronic condition that causes daily problems with breathing that are managed with the regular use of medications. At times, the condition can

significantly worsen as noted by more coughing or breathing that worsens.

This is a COPD exacerbation. When COPD symptoms worsen, your primary care provider or specialist may offer additional medication to treat the COPD exacerbation. However, if the breathing symptoms are severe and not improving with medications, an evaluation in the emergency room or urgent care may be needed.

After a hospital or emergency room or urgent care visit, it is important to schedule an appointment with the primary care provider to make sure all the necessary treatments have been started and that the symptoms are improving.

COPD is a common lung condition that makes it hard to breathe. Medications treat symptoms and improve the quality of life. Talk to your medical provider about an evaluation for COPD if you have problems with breathing or coughing. Quitting smoking will prevent and slow the progress of COPD. A medical provider can offer advice about counseling and medications to quit smoking. If you have COPD, please talk with your medical provider to make sure you have the right medications and are current on the required vaccines to keep you healthy.

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Biden-Putin call inconclusive even as Ukraine tensions jump Bloomberg WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden tried to send Vladimir Putin an ultimatum about the consequences of any invasion of Ukraine in an hourlong conversation that left both sides at an impasse and Russia’s intentions unclear.

Biden warned his counterpart in Moscow that Russia would face “severe costs.” For his part, the Russian leader accused the U.S. of failing to provide him with security assurances he needs to back down.

The Kremlin characterized the talks as businesslike and balanced.

Briefings by both sides afterward stuck to familiar talking points, providing few clues on where things go from here.

Biden told Putin during the conversation – their first direct exchange since late December – that the U.S. remains ready to find a diplomatic solution to the tensions over Russia’s military buildup near the Ukrainian border. The U.S. has ratcheted up its rhetoric, asking Americans to leave Ukraine while making clear it won’t send in troops.

U.S. officials continue to say they do not know Putin’s final intentions.

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Anatoliy, a Ukrainian soldier with the 56th Brigade, in a trench on the front line in Pisky, Ukraine, Jan. 18.

Still, a senior administration official, speaking after Saturday’s call, said there was a distinct possibility that Russia may proceed with military action and there had been no fundamental change in that view.

The talks took place in an atmosphere of “unprecedented hysteria by American officials about Russia’s allegedly imminent invasion of Ukraine,” Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters. Putin told Biden that U.S. responses to his demands for security guarantees don’t address affordable housing projects at 1600 Woolner Ave., also will consider a two-year, $1.27 million agreement with JStokes Agency of Walnut Creek to implement the branding and marketing component of the Economic Development Strategic Plan.

Crime logs Fairfield THURSDAY, FEB. 10 12:14 a.m. — Reckless driver, WILSON STREET 5:12 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 200 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 8 a.m. — Trespassing, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 8:24 a.m. — Reckless driver, BROADWAY STREET 8:25 a.m. — Reckless driver, TAYLOR STREET 8:40 a.m. — Trespassing, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 9:01 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 2400 block of CEMENT HILL ROAD 9:39 a.m. — Grand theft, 2300 block of WHITTIER PLACE 9:45 a.m. — Grand theft, 2800 block of MANKAS BOULEVARD 9:56 a.m. — Forgery, 1100 block of DANA DRIVE 10:01 a.m. — Grand theft, 1200 block of QUAIL DRIVE 11:09 a.m. — Trespassing, 600 block of AIR BASE PARKWAY 11:13 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 500 block of MOUNTAIN MEADOWS COURT 11:51 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, HIGHWAY 12 12:53 p.m. — Grand theft, 3000 block of AUTO MALL COURT 1:13 p.m. — Forgery, 2100 block of CLIPPER SHIP DRIVE 1:52 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 5200 block of PAVILION COURT 2:24 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 5000 block of RED TOP ROAD

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the Kremlin’s key concerns about preventing further NATO expansion, Ushakov said.

The White House and the Kremlin said Putin and Biden agreed their officials would stay in contact in the coming days.

The Pentagon on Saturday denied Russia’s claim that a U.S. submarine was intercepted in Russian waters near the Kuril Islands. “There is no truth to the Russian claims of our operations in their territorial waters,” Navy Capt. Kyle Raines, a spokesman for the U.S. Indo-Pacific command,

said by email.

The U.S. and U.K. say Russia has massed about 130,000 troops close to Ukraine, raising fears of a potential threepronged assault including from Crimea and via Belarus in the north.

NATO has moved to reinforce defenses in eastern European member states.

Russian officials accuse the West of undermining the country’s security by drawing Ukraine closer to NATO and say troop movements on Russian territory are an internal matter.

Putin spoke separately with the leaders of France

and Belarus on Saturday prior to his call with Biden. Russia and Belarus on Thursday started their largest joint military drills in Belarus for years, including near the Ukrainian border, while six Russian landing craft have been moved to the Black Sea for naval exercises that begin Sunday.

The land exercises are due to end Feb. 20. Both countries have said the drills are purely defensive and that forces will return to base once they are finished. Ukraine has also begun military exercises in parallel.

Potential actions by Russia could include causing a provocation in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, where Ukrainian forces have been fighting for years against separatists backed by Moscow, or attacking the country’s capital, Kyiv, Western officials familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified speaking about such a sensitive topic. They stressed that Putin’s final intentions were not known.

The U.S. has also been working with European countries on a package of potential sanctions to be imposed on Russia in the event of an attack on Ukraine. There have

been some differences though on how hard to hit Russia and in what areas, especially for European nations like Germany highly dependent on Russian gas.

U.S. “hysteria has reached a peak” over Ukraine and the Kremlin believes American officials are spreading false information in the media about Russia’s intentions, Ushakov said.

Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday discussed what the Kremlin in a statement called “provocative speculations” that Russia plans an invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin also said that “prerequisites are being created for possible aggressive actions of the Ukrainian security forces” in Donbas.

Ukraine has repeatedly denied it intends to seek to regain control of Donbas militarily.

The Russian president has yet to reply formally to the U.S. proposals on security in Europe. Those proposals were made in response to Moscow’s demands for guarantees including that NATO never allow Ukraine to join and that the military alliance pull back its presence in eastern Europe.

Plan From Page One to the housing growth in the area.

The report also outlined nearly $5.74 million in projects expected to be completed by June 30.

That list includes the $1.825 million juvenile detention center security system upgrade, the $1.4 million upgrade to the countywide card access system and $980,000 to improve the fountain system in front of the county government building in Fairfield.

There are 23 projects totaling $101.18 million approved through 2023.

Another 20 projects totaling $14.115 million are proposed to be added.

The budget breaks out as $57.93 million in the current 2021-22 fiscal year, of which all but $100,000 is funded. The 2022-23 budget is $52.54 million with $34.3 million funded.

The 2023-24 budget is $27 million with $1.46 million funded.

The 2024-25 budget is $40.79 million and the 2025-26 budget is $30.675 million with neither year funded at

Schools From Page One Control and Accountability Plan.

The LCAP is a threeyear plan that describes the “goals, actions, services and expenditures” to support what the state Department of Education describes as “positive student outcomes” that address state and local priorities. The Local Control and Accountability Plan “provides an opportunity” for school districts “to share their stories of how, what and why programs and services are selected to meet their local needs.”

Current school district funding based on average daily attendance is $10,193 per student – or $207.4 million, according to the report. The estimated funding per ADA for the 2022-23 school year is $10,763 – or $212.3 million.

“These estimates will be impacted by the state pandemic relief for

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Dignitaries take part in a groundbreaking ceremony for a new residential mental health facility at the Department of Health and Social Services in Fairfield, Oct. 5, 2021. this point.

The bigger projects proposed in the future include energy concerns such as improving resiliency to be better prepared for planned power shutoffs, but also energy upgrades that include solar, battery backup, micro-grids, lighting and electric vehicle infrastructure.

Energy improvements include work planned for the main library branch in Fairfield. Library Services also has plans to expand the Cultural Center branch in Vacaville and add a new library

branch in Vallejo.

The improvement plan will, in the future, address juvenile hall realignment needs with new laws likely requiring to have the detention center hold offenders as old as 25. Transitional housing needs for some juvenile offenders and the relocation of the Sullivan Youth and Achievement Center also must be accounted for in the coming years, the report shows.

The county also will be coordinating with the state on finding the site for the new courthouse, funding for which is in

the 2022-23 state budget, though that has not been approved.

That raised another concern for Mashburn, who said some aspects of the Vallejo court building have been out of health and safety code compliance for years and wondered if the county was addressing that issue.

Greve said consolidating the Vallejo court with the new courthouse is not in the state proposal, but added her office is searching for a “cost-effective” solution for the problems.

schools impacted by the steep enrollment decline and absenteeism,” Grindle said. “All schools are being impacted by enrollment decline.”

The board is looking at salary increases over the next three years for certificated and salaried employees that will cost an estimated $4.6 million in the coming year, $1.1 million in 2023-24 and $928,000 in 2024-25. Rates are subject to change based on a determination by the employees’ respective state retirement boards.

Priorities for the board include a Deferred Maintenance Plan of 1.25% of the total budgeted expenditures annually, or $3.1 million for the current year, according to the staff report. The amount for unfunded projects is $15 million; with a projected transfer of $3.3 million for 2022-23.

In addition, the district is looking at funding for other post-employment benefits of $500,000 to pre-fund retiree benefits with an unfunded liability

of $87 million, according to the staff report. A total of $4.5 million is set aside to fund this benefits liability.

District officials are also looking at future textbook adoptions and want to set aside $2.5 million annually in reserves to cover a total estimated cost of $18 million. The district currently has $13.3 million set aside for future textbook purchases, according to the staff report. The district estimates costs of $1.3 million annually for technology replacement and $500,000 for technology costs related to Measure J projects. The district has $3 million spent or obligated this school year.

Measure J is a $249 million property tax measure passed by local voters in June 2016 that has funding the latest round of facilities improvements across the district.

The cost in the budget for safety and security projects is estimated at $500,000 annually to address needs at sites for

playground replacement and safety.

Some one-time priorities for the coming school year that have already been approved include $750,000 for intrusion and fire systems and additional security cameras, $1.5 million for playground replacement and $2 million for Career Technical Education facilities. The district envisions a $2,000 salary bonus for employees and $2 million to pay for substitute teachers.

The school district still faces a staffing shortage due to Covid-19.

Other ongoing issues are continuing inflation, transitional kindergarten expansion expectations, potential salary agreements that will affect the budget and pension rate increases of $5.7 million for the next two years.

In addition, district officials just learned about the state’s new Covid leave information. They are waiting to see how that rolls out, which will be considered when planning the budget for 2022-23.

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FAIRFIELD — Takai Emerson-Hardy tied a school record with his 24th rebound and scored the eventual game-winning basket on a late putback to lift the Vanden High boys basketball team to a 57-56 win over Rodriguez that clinched the third straight Monticello Empire League title for the Vikings, Friday.

“It was a good way to end (the regular season), going into the playoffs winning a close game like that,” said Vanden coach

Micheal Holloway, whose team won its eighth league crown in his 11 years at the helm, the first five coming in the Solano County Athletic Conference.

According to Holloway, Emerson-Hardy tied the rebounding record set by Derek Hill against Dixon in 2000, the same night Hill set the school record for points in a game with 45.

Emerson-Hardy finished with 19 points, five assists and four blocks, while Tyler Thompson led with 21 points and

Ahsan Huff had 21 rebounds, seven points, six assists and five blocks.

Leroy Bryant topped Rodriguez with 15 points, followed by Malik Dawson with 11 and Joe Gould with eight.

The Vikings (15-12, 9-1) led 18-8 after the first quarter with the Mustangs (18-5, 7-3) cutting the lead to 26-23 at the half and taking a 43-42 lead into the fourth.

Vanden trailed 56-55 when Emerson-Hardee put back his own miss to give the visitors the lead for good.

Vanden’s JV team won

59-47, with the Vikings (17-4, 7-0) getting 17 points from Josh Neal, 12 from Jonah Forrest and 11 from Tru Kendrick.

Fairfield 76, Armijo 72: At Armijo’s E. Gary Vaughn Gymnasium, the Falcons (6-17, 2-8) trailed the Royals (0-24, 0-10) by 10 points in the fourth quarter but used pressure to force turnovers and hit free throws down the stretch to pull out the victory.

The score was tied at 19 after the first quarter with Armijo leading 37-31 at the half and 51-46 after three quarters before the Falcons rallied.

Fairfield was led by David Johnson with 18 points, followed

by Jeremiah Cardwell with 15, D’Angelo Chatman with 13 and Ray Holt Jr. with 12.

Jakobe Billups topped Armijo with 17 points, while Chateau Harrell added 16, Kaiba Washington 14 and Isaiah Henderson-Atkins 13.

The Royals finished the season with a school-record 24-game losing streak with their first winless season since 1915. According to the 1915 La Mezcla, the school’s yearbook, See Local, Page A12

Madden’s memorial rekindles his SB pursuit Cam Inman

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Los Angeles Rams defensive lineman Aaron Donald celebrates after teammate Von Miller strip-sacked Tampa

Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady in the NFC Divisional Playoff, Jan. 23, in Tampa, Florida.

Rams will dominate Bengals This Super Bowl prediction is foolproof Bill Plaschke

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his one is so easy, even the worst annual prediction column in Super Bowl history can’t get it wrong.

This one is so basic, even the buzz that surrounds my 5-17 Super Bowl prediction record can be ignored.

Yes, I was once wrong 11 straight times. Yes, I once picked the Buffalo Bills for three straight years. Yes, in the last Super Bowl, I was as flattened as the Kansas City Chiefs.

No, I’m not very good at this.

But, yes, truly, this one is different, this one is simple, this one is Plaschke Proof.

ANALYSIS The winner of Super Bowl LVI Sunday between the Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium will be decided by something as obvious as a punch in the mouth.

The Rams have the bigger swing. The Rams have the stronger jab. The Rams are heavyweights.

The Bengals are not.

Quite simply and rather quickly, the Rams are going to knock them out.

Rams 38, Bengals 10.

All the hype this week has been about the Bengals’ cool quarterback Joe Burrow and hot receiver Ja’Marr Chase and a surprisingly stifling defense. All the trendy narratives have the

Bengals making every big play, peaking at the right time, a team of destiny.

“You could also say the same about us,” Eric Weddle said.

Exactly. Precisely.

Lost in all the Super Bowl week histrionics is the fact that everything the Bengals do, the Rams do better, and have done better, and will be doing so on their home field.

“Destiny and all that other stuff?” Weddle said.

“All I see is us winning with zeros on the clock.”

Same here. Bet it hard.

The Bengals are the youngest team in Super Bowl history and that matters. The Bengals nifty offense has just four touchdowns in 11 visits to the red zone this postseason, and that matters. The

Bengals quick defense has been below average in the first half of games this season, and the Rams are 47-1 when leading at halftime under Sean McVay, and that matters.

The Bengals have gotten all the Super Bowl love, but this game ultimately won’t be about the Bengals, it will be about the Rams, their culture, their cohesion, their coronation.

“They have some things we have to combat but, really, it’s about us,” Rams cornerback Jalen Ramsey said.

You might think it’s about Burrow, every discussion about this game starts with Burrow – how he’s the ultimate See Super, Page A11

Broadcast legend Al Michaels calls Super Bowl with uncertain future Barry Jackson MIAMI HERALD

When you hear Al Michaels call his 11th Super Bowl on NBC on Sunday, take a moment to appreciate a legend doing his job supremely well, because it might be the final time the best play-by-play man in NFL history calls a Super Bowl, or perhaps any NFL game on traditional network television.

NBC is expected to replace Michaels with Mike Tirico on Sunday Night Football next season; it has been widely reported that when Tirico moved from ESPN to NBC in 2016, he had a clause in his contract that he would take over play-byplay for the Sunday package in 2022, alongside Cris Collinsworth, who will return next season.

The big problem with that succession play: Michaels, at 77, isn’t ready to retire. And he’s still at the top of his game.

So is it possible that Sunday’s Super Bowl could be the last game he ever calls?

“I hope not and I don’t think it will be,” Michaels told Bob Costas last month on Costas’ HBO show, On The

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NBC’s Al Michaels prepares for the Sunday night game between the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans at NRG Stadium, Oct. 7, 2018 in Houston.

Record. “My contract ends after the Super Bowl with NBC. At this point, I feel great. I still love what I do. My health is good. I still want to continue to do this next year for sure. “[Former Buffalo Bills coach] Marv Levy said when you start thinking about retiring, you’ve already

retired. I’m living in the moment and enjoying the hell out of this season.

I’ve talked with Tom [Brady] and as you reach the end, you savor it more.

“You realize I am not at the beginning of my career. I’m not in the middle of it. I just want to suck the enjoyment out of the moment.

That’s where I am right now. In the parlance of football, Brady and I have both outkicked the coverage, shall we say.”

Michaels, on an NBC conference call with reporters this week, said: “I don’t know what the future will hold . . . but I do know one thing. I love what I do, I feel great and I’m not ready for any rocking chair or golf. I get to play enough golf, believe me.”

Michaels has an offer to call Thursday games for Amazon Prime, which next season takes over the package from Fox, and many expect he will end up accepting that job.

But ESPN also has given thought to pursuing Michaels to replace Steve Levy on Monday Night Football, according to the New York Post.

See Legend, Page A11

It’s Super Bowl week again in Los Angeles, where, after a 29-year break, a Lombardi Trophy coronation is coming Sunday night.

“That’s the ultimate, winning the Super Bowl,” the late John Madden once said.

Madden won his one and only Super Bowl 45 years ago at the Rose Bowl. Sunday, it will be the Rams’ Sean McVay and the Cincinnati Bengals’ Zac Taylor vying for their first Lombardi Trophy at SoFi Stadium.

In fact, the previous seven Super Bowls in the Los Angeles area made first-time winners out of Pro Football Hall of Fame coaches Vince Lombardi, Don Shula, Joe Gibbs, Bill Parcells, Jimmy Johnson and, of course, Madden; Chuck Noll won his fourth and final there.

Once Sunday night’s winner is crowned, the NFL world won’t exactly recess. Coaches and players, from past and present, will join Raider Nation and other fans on Monday night in Oakland at the Coliseum to celebrate Madden, who passed away Dec. 28 at age 85.

“His love of the game never waned,” Washington Commanders coach Ron Rivera said Tuesday in a phone interview.

Rivera is among those invited to talk Monday night, along with Steve Mariucci, Art Shell, Andy Reid, Matt Millen, Lesley Visser and Stan Bunger, the latter of whom accompanied Madden’s morning hits on KCBS 740-AM. Video tributes and classic replay footage also will be part of the program.

In true Madden fashion, local youth will benefit from proceeds off – a cost symbolic of the 1976 Raiders’ 32-14 win over the Vikings in Super Bowl XI at the Rose Bowl.

Madden had no need for a big speech prior to his biggest win, and he had no doubt it was coming.

“I just said, ‘Hell, we’re ready for this,’ “ Madden recalled clear as day in an exclusive interview with this newspaper before his 2006 Hall of Fame enshrinement.

To understand what this week was like 45 years ago for him, here is how he retold it in that interview, along with what Al Davis recalled in a separate sitdown: Madden: “I really believed the whole time

that if this was going to be the best time in your life and you’re going to look back at it for the rest of your life, that this was the highlight of your career, it’s going to be the Super Bowl, and it’s only going to be winning the Super Bowl. It’s not going to be losing the Super Bowl.

So if that’s going to be the highlight of your life, then act like it and get ready to play the best game of your life and get ready to enjoy it.

“I remember practicing on Thursday (at UC Irvine) and we went out there and it had been wet, it was raining. My thing was I wanted a bunch of footballs, because I never wanted my quarterback to throw a wet football, because it would slip out of his hands. I had all kinds of footballs.

“When you’re at the Super Bowl, you can get anything you wanted.

That whole practice – we passed one-on-one, skeleton, team – only one ball hit the ground. One ball.

It was a ball out on the left to Dave Casper. It went through his hands and hit the ground. So that was as perfect a practice I’ve ever been involved in. Stabler was as good as I’ve ever seen him and no one made a mistake.

“So I remember walking off the field after that practice and I said to myself, ‘You’ve got to this point. They’re ready.

Just don’t screw em up.

Because they’re ready.’ I did a very little talk and I did very little. Friday we went through special teams, didn’t do much on Saturday.

“A big game like that, you don’t have to fire them up. We had so much confidence. We practiced at UC Irvine and stayed at Newport Beach. We just matched up so well with (the Vikings).

“I remember the night before I talked with Al on the phone. I said, ‘Al, we’re going to kill them.’

(Davis responded) ‘Don’t say that! Don’t say that!’

‘We’re going to get them.’

Davis used to call Madden every Saturday night on the eve of games.

He promoted a 32-yearold Madden in 1969, after two years as linebackers coach. Davis stuck with Madden despite the Raiders finishing a win shy of the Super Bowl in five of seven years, before they broke through in 1976.

Here is what Davis said in 2006 when recalling his Super Bowl eve phone call with Madden and whether he had any doubts of winning the See Madden, Page A12

Sports

DAILY REPUBLIC — Sunday, February 13, 2022 A11

Sunday’s TV sports

Scoreboard HOCKEY

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

NHL

Basketball College men •UConn at St. John’s, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 9 a.m.

•Maryland at Purdue, CBSSN, 10 a.m.

•UAB at Old Dominion, ESPNU, 11 a.m.

•Nebraska at Iowa, FS1, 11 a.m.

•Northwestern at Illinois, BIG TEN, 11 a.m.

•Northern Iowa at Loyola of Chicago, ESPN32, 1 p.m.

•Colorado State at Boise State, FS1, 1 p.m.

College women •VCU at Dayton, ESPNU, 9 a.m.

•Vanderbilt at Tennessee, SEC, 9 a.m.

•Florida State at Miami, ACC, 9 a.m.

•Xavier at Providence, FS1, 9 a.m.

•South Carolina at Georgia, ESPN2, 9 a.m.

•Duquesne at UMass, CBSSN, 9 a.m.

•Arizona State at Arizona, PAC12, 11 a.m.

•Kentucky at Alabama, SEC, 11 a.m.

•Notre Dame at Louisville, ESPN, 11 a.m.

•Central Florida at South Florida, ESPN2, 11 a.m.

•Syracuse at Pittsburgh, ACC, 11 a.m.

•UConn at Marquette, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 11:30 a.m.

•Colorado at Stanford, P12BA, noon •Virginia at Wake Forest, ACC, 1 p.m.

•Ole Miss at Mississippi State, SEC, 1 p.m.

•Oregon State at Oregon, PAC12, 1 p.m.

•Utah at California, P12BA, 2 p.m.

NBA •Atlanta at Boston, Chs. 7, 10, 11 a.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 46 32 11 3 67 161 109 Carolina 48 29 11 8 66 160 126 Pittsburgh N.Y. Rangers 47 30 13 4 64 145 122 49 26 14 9 61 161 137 Washington Columbus 46 23 22 1 47 147 167 41 17 18 6 40 199 111 N.Y. Islanders 48 17 26 5 39 141 172 New Jersey 47 15 24 8 38 118 162 Philadelphia Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 47 32 10 5 69 194 139 Florida 48 31 11 6 68 163 136 Tampa Bay 45 30 12 3 63 161 123 Toronto 46 27 16 3 57 135 130 Boston Detroit 49 22 21 6 50 140 167 44 16 24 4 36 118 144 Ottawa 46 14 24 8 36 120 161 Buffalo 47 8 32 7 23 103 186 Montreal Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 45 33 8 4 70 186 131 Colorado 43 29 11 3 61 164 124 Minnesota Nashville 48 28 16 4 60 149 134 St. Louis 46 27 14 5 59 162 129 45 25 18 2 52 137 137 Dallas 45 20 17 8 48 130 134 Winnipeg 48 17 24 7 41 117 162 Chicago 48 12 32 4 28 108 180 Arizona Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 48 28 17 3 59 162 143 Vegas Calgary 44 25 13 6 56 147 106 47 24 16 7 55 136 130 Los Angeles Anaheim 49 23 17 9 55 144 141 45 24 18 3 51 146 147 Edmonton 49 22 21 6 50 126 135 Vancouver

CALENDAR

Fishing •Bassmaster, Elite Series No. 1, St. Johns River, FS1, 5 a.m.

Football NFL •Super Bowl Pregame Show, Ch. 3, 10 a.m.

•Super Bowl, Cincinnati at L.A. Rams, Ch. 3, 3 p.m. (kickoff at 3:30 p.m.)

Golf •DP World Tour, Ras Al Khaimah Classic, final round, GOLF, midnight •Ladies European Tour, Magical Kenya Ladies Open, final round, GOLF, 3:30 a.m.

•PGA Tour, Waste Management Phoenix Open, final round, GOLF, 10 a.m.

•PGA Tour, Waste Management Phoenix Open, final round, Ch. 5, 13, noon Gymnastics College women •Illinois at Michigan State, BIG TEN, 1 p.m.

•Georgia at Alabama, ESPNU, 1:30 p.m.

•Penn State at Michigan, ESPN2, 3 p.m.

Horse racing •America’s Day at the Races, FS2, noon Lacrosse College women •Michigan at Notre Dame, ACC, 3 p.m.

Motorsports •Supercross, Anaheim, CNBC, 9 a.m.

Olympics •Biathlon, women’s pursuit, 10km, USA, 1 a.m.

•Hockey, men’s prelims, Finland vs. Sweden, USA, 1:40 a.m.

•Skeleton, women’s third and final runs; bobsled, women’s monobob, first and second runs; men’s giant slalom, first runs; figure skating, rhythm dance; and more, Ch. 3, 2:30 a.m. (re-air) •Short track, men’s 500; women’s 3000 relay, USA, 3 a.m.

•Speed skating, women’s 500; men’s team pursuit; freestyle skiing, women’s aerials, qualifying; cross country skiing, men’s 4x10km relay; and more, Ch. 3, 5 a.m.

•Hockey, men’s prelims, United States vs. Germany, USA, 5:10 a.m.

•Curling, men’s round robin, United States vs. Sweden, USA, 7:30 a.m.

•Biathlon, men’s pursuit, 12.5km, USA, 10:30 a.m.

•Freestyle skiing, women’s aerials, qualifying, USA, 11:15 a.m.

•Curling, men’s round robin, China vs. United States, USA, noon •Hockey, men’s prelims, United States vs. Germany, USA, 4:30 p.m.

•Figure skating, free dance, USA, 5:15 p.m.

•Bobsled, women’s monobob, final run; figure skating, free dance, Ch. 3, 7:45 p.m.

•Hockey, women’s semifinals, USA, 8:10 p.m.

•Freestyle skiing, women’s slopestyle, final; snowboarding, women’s big air; and more, Ch. 3, 9:30 a.m.

•Snowboarding, men’s big air, qualifying, USA, 10:30 p.m.

•Bobsled, women’s monobob, final run; figure skating, free dance, Ch. 3, 11 p.m. (re-air) •Curling, women’s round robin, United States vs. Korea, USA, midnight (Monday) •Bobsled, women’s monobob, final run; figure skating, free dance, Ch. 3, 12:15 a.m. (Monday, re-air) •Freestyle skiing, women’s slopestyle, final; snowboarding, women’s big air; and more, Ch. 3, 1:30 a.m.

(Monday, re-air) •Freestyle skiing, women’s aerials, finals, USA, 3 a.m.

(Monday) •Bobsled, two-man, heat 1, USA, 4:15 a.m. (Monday) •Hockey, women’s semifinal, USA, 5:10 a.m. (Monday) •Ski jumping, men’s team, large hill, USA, 7:30 a.m.

(Monday) •Bobsled, two-man, heat 2, USA, 9 a.m. (Monday) Rodeo •PBR, Express Ranches 15/15 Bucking Battle, Chs. 5, 13, 9 a.m.

•PBR, Express Ranches 15/15 Bucking Battle, CBSSN, 11 a.m.

•PBR, Express Ranches 15/15 Bucking Battle, CBSSN, 4:30 p.m.

Soccer Ligue 1 •AS Monaco vs. FC Lorient, BEIN, 3:50 a.m.

•Clermont Foot vs. AS Saint-Etienne, BEIN, 5:55 a.m.

•RC Lens vs. Bordeaux, BEIN, 7:55 a.m.

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Super From Page A10 winner, hasn’t lost a big game since high school, could become the first player in history to win a Super Bowl, a national college football championship, a Heisman Trophy and be drafted first overall.

Fine, but how is he going to stay upright? He was sacked nine times in the AFC divisional playoff win against the Tennessee Titans and that wasn’t an anomaly. The Bengals offensive line blocks about as well as the Chiefs’ offensive line in last year’s Super Bowl, and you saw how Patrick Mahomes had to run for his life. For the same reasons, the same thing will happen here.

The Bengals offensive line ranks 30th in passrush win rate while the Rams defensive line ranks first in that category.

Burrow led the NFL in QBR on passes outside the numbers, but the Rams allowed the fewest TDs and second-lowest QBR outside the numbers.

Translated? Burrow won’t have time to do much more than burrow, and Aaron Donald could be the MVP in a bruising response to his last tepid Super Bowl.

“We have guys who deserve a championship, we lost a Super Bowl, we have a chance at redemption,” Rams cornerback Darious Williams said.

“Jalen [Ramsey] has a legacy, Aaron Donald has a legacy, we don’t want this to slip through our fingers.”

After Burrow and his offense, the spin then generally goes to the Bengals defense, which shut down Mahomes to get here and has intercepted

Legend From Page A10 An NFL job at CBS or Fox seems far less likely, because those networks are committed to Jim Nantz and Joe Buck as their lead voices.

If Michaels takes the Amazon job, there’s a decent chance he could do a few NBC games if he chooses, including a playoff game on a weekend that NBC has two games. And on Thanksgiving weekend, Tirico hypothetically could continue to do that Thursday game with Michaels working the Sunday game.

Asked by Costas if he has options, Michaels said: “I do at the moment.

I’m not sure exactly what combination will or won’t be available or whether it will be a combination or an exclusive situation. But the opportunity is there to continue on. To me, retirement is almost a dirty word.”

46 22 20 4 48 126 142 SAN JOSE 48 16 28 4 36 127 167 Seattle 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 Dallas 4, Winnipeg 3, OT Edmonton 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 Tampa Bay 4, Arizona 3 Seattle 4, Anaheim 3 Saturday’s Games Detroit 4, Philadelphia 2 Boston 2, Ottawa 0 Columbus 2, Montreal 1 Vancouver 3, Toronto 2 Winnipeg 5, Nashville 2 Minnesota 3, Carolina 2 St. Louis 5, Chicago 1 N.Y. Islanders at Calgary, (n) Sunday’s Games Ottawa at Washington, 9:30 a.m.

Buffalo at Montreal, 9:30 a.m.

Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 10:30 a.m.

Colorado at Dallas, 11 a.m.

Monday’s Games Edmonton at SAN JOSE, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Seattle, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

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at least one pass in each of their last four games.

But this same Bengals defense has ranked 25th in completion percentage on downfield passes of 20-plus yards this season, while Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford has led the NFL in yards-perattempt on similar downfield throws with nine touchdowns.

And this same Bengals defense ranks 25th in pass-rush win rate while the Rams offensive line ranks first in that category.

Translated: Stafford is going to have plenty of time to throw plenty deep to Cooper Kupp and Odell Beckham Jr., and although the Bengals might get a pick, more often they will get burned.

While the Rams defense will dominate, it is the Rams offense that will be the difference between Sunday and their ASSISTED LIVING

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last Super Bowl. This offense has a chemistry that was lacking under Jared Goff and Todd Gurley. This time, this offense will score more than three points.

“So many guys on this team, you look across the room and you go, ‘Man, I want to win for that guy, that guy deserves it,’ “ Rams tackle and offensive anchor Andrew Whitworth said. “One of the more unique seasons I’ve had, a bunch of guys who have earned an opportunity like this and deserve and handle themselves in such an awesome way, you’d do anything for them to have that chance to hold that trophy up.”

They were handling it calmly Friday during the Super Bowl week’s only in-person media session, the Rams sitting at podiums on Cal Lutheran’s William Rolland Stadium with a quiet

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Phoenix 132, Orlando 105 Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Boston, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Indiana, noon Monday’s Games SACRAMENTO at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m.

GOLDEN STATE at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Washington, 4 p.m.

Oklahoma City at New York, 4:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Portland at Milwaukee, 5 p.m.

Toronto at New Orleans, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Denver, 6 p.m.

Houston at Utah, 6 p.m.

FOOTBALL NFL Playoffs Wild Card Round Saturday, Jan. 15 Cincinnati 26, Las Vegas 19 Buffalo 47, New England 17 Sunday, Jan. 16 SAN FRANCISCO 23, Dallas 17 Tampa Bay 31, Philadelphia 15 Kansas City 42, Pittsburgh 15 Monday, Jan. 17 L.A. Rams 34, Arizona 11 Divisional Round Saturday, Jan. 22 SAN FRANCISCO 13, Green Bay 10 Cincinnati 19, Tennessee 16 Sunday, Jan. 23 L.A. Rams 30, Tampa Bay 27 Kansas City 42, Buffalo 36, OT Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 30 L.A. Rams 20, SAN FRANCISCO 17 Cincinnati 27, Kansas City 24, OT Pro Bowl Sunday, Feb. 6 AFC 41, NFC 35 Super Bowl Sunday’s Game Cincinnati vs. L.A. Rams, 3:30 p.m.

confidence. This team looks far different from the one that shakily tread into its last Super Bowl.

This team looks ready.

“I don’t think anybody out here that feels like we’ve left anything in the tank,” Rams’ linebacker Troy Reeder said.

The talent disparity, the veteran culture, the big-game experience, the home-field comfort, all eventually will decide this game in favor of a Rams group that appears to be Sunday’s true team of destiny.

“You get between the white lines, it’s about . . . who holds their composure, who makes the least amount of mistakes, who executes those situation the cleanest and best,” Weddle said. “Our great players play great, we have a great shot at winning.”

They will.

And they will.

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Local: Rawdon, Boele score for Bulldogs TV: Listings From Page A10 “After losing the first few league games, Armijo retired from basketball for the rest of the season. In all the games played, the boys made a good showing and would have won the games if the regular players had been playing,” though no mention was made why those players were not available to participate.

Prep girls soccer

Vacaville advances in D-II with 2-0 victory VACAVILLE — Seventh-seeded Vacaville High got a goal in each half and made it stand up for a 2-0 win over No. 10 Oakmont of Roseville in the first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II girls soccer playoffs at Zunino Stadium, Friday.

Netting goals for the Bulldogs (16-6-1) were Alicia Rawdon and Sydney Boele, with assists going to Lauren Gammon and Brooke Taylor. Goalkeeper Kaylei Capossela credited with six saves.

Vacaville advances to quarterfinals to play at No. 2 Pitman of Turlock (18-22) on Wednesday at 3 p.m.

Whitney 6, Rodriguez 0: At Rocklin, the 14thseeded Mustangs (7-4-3)

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gave up three goals in each half and saw their season come to an end with a loss in Division II. Sierra 4, Vanden 1: At Manteca, No. 12 Vanden (6-5-4) got a goal in the first half, but trailed 3-1 at the break en route to their season-ending defeat in Division III.

JC softball

Solano swept by Folsom Lake in DH ROCKVILLE — The Solano Community College softball team is still looking for its first win of the season after being swept in a doubleheader by Folsom Lake, Thursday, 2-0 and 10-8.

In the opener, Maleah Martinez was solid in the circle, giving up two runs on six hits while walking two and striking out 10.

The Falcons (0-5) managed just three hits, two by Naiya Watts, including a double, and one by Bianca Belo-Diaz.

Solano’s bats came alive in the second game, especially in the fourth inning when six hits led to seven runs, erasing a 5-0 deficit. Unfortunately, they were outscored 5-1 the rest of the way.

In the fourth, Aketxalli Aranda ripped a two-run double and Mar-

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tinez a two-run single, while Jayden Sola and Watts also singled in runs and Chasidy Ramirez plated another on a fielder’s choice.

The Falcons’ final run came in on a Kourtney Patrick single.

Watts and Patrick each went 2-for-4 to lead the Solano attack.

Martinez took the loss in defeat in relief, allowing five runs (one earned) on five hits with four walks and five strikeouts over the final six innings.

Solano is scheduled to host Santa Rosa in a doubleheader on Tuesday at noon.

•FC Metz vs. Marseille, BEIN, 11:35 a.m.

•Nantes vs. Stade de Reims, BEIN, 5:30 p.m.

WSL •Manchester City vs. Manchester United, CNBC, 4:30 a.m.

Super Lig •Trabzonspor vs. Konyaspor, BEIN, 2 p.m. (taped) •Adana Demirspor vs. Besiktas, BEIN, 8:55 a.m. (Monday) Softball •Duke vs. Utah, PAC12, 7 a.m.

Tennis •Center Court, ATP Rotterdam, WTA St. Petersburg, finals, TENNIS, 5:30 a.m.

•Center Court, ATP Dallas, ATP Buenos Aires, finals, TENNIS, 11 a.m.

•Center Court, ATP Delray Beach, ATP Rio de Janeiro, ATP Marseille, ATP Doha, WTA Dubai, early rounds, TENNIS, 2 and 3 a.m. (Monday) Track and field •PUMA American Track League, ESPN, 3 p.m.

Wrestling •Illinois at Nebraska, BIG TEN, 9 a.m.

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first of the Raiders’ three Super Bowl titles.

“No, I thought we could do it,” Davis said. “I thought personally we were going to win some other championship games. We just didn’t get it done.

The agony of defeat is unbelievable.

“He told me, I don’t remember the exact words, ‘We’re going to kill them. We’re going to get these guys.’ That’s the way he talked.

I thought we could get them, too.

“We had a defensive backfield that was pretty good. That God damn Willie Brown might be the best that’s ever played. “(Madden’s) records are unparalleled. He had 10 years of greatness. We had adversity.

We couldn’t get over the

hump. We went several years where in big games we’d get beat at the end.”

Then came Jan. 9, 1977.

“That’s the ultimate, winning the Super Bowl,” Madden said. “Then it’s, ‘What are you going to do next?’ “ Madden coached two more seasons, and he retired from a 10-year stretch that featured a .759 winning percentage (103-32-7) that still ranks the best in modern NFL history. After that, he became football’s ultimate pitchman, from the broadcast booth to commercials, from a video game to philanthropic endeavors, from a consultant to current coaches to a doting grandfather of five.

Monday night will rekindle those memories at the Coliseum. A Super Bowl win may have punctuated his career but it was one day in a lifetime of Madden excellence.

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I Fairfield 4 p.m. Sunday D’Naturalz Bans Three Restaurant, 721 Texas St. www. threefoodbeer wine.com.

5 p.m. Friday Rendishun Band Three Restaurant, 721 Texas St. www. threefoodbeer wine.com.

Friday through Sunday The Dance Factory Presents “Inspiration” Downtown Theatre, 1035 Texas St. www.downtown theatre.com.

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1 p.m. Sunday Super Bowl Party Marina Lounge, 700 Main St. www. marinalounge suisun.com.

7 p.m. Friday Dos Four and Gambizi Marina Lounge, 700 Main St. www. marinalounge suisun.com.

I Vacaville 3 p.m. Sunday Solano Symphony Orchestra “Salute to Youth” Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive. https://vpat.net.

7 p.m. Wednesday Seventh Day Slumber Journey Downtown, 308 Main St. www.journey coffeeco.com.

8 p.m. Thursday Dueling Pianos Makse, 555 Main St. duelingpiano vacaville.com/events.

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9 p.m. Saturday Dueling Pianos Makse, 555 Main St. duelingpiano vacaville.com/events.

I Benicia 6 p.m. Thursday Tune Riders The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therellik tavern.com.

8:30 p.m. Friday Fog 5 The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.

4:30 p.m. Saturday CBD (Chad and Bruce Duo) The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.

8 p.m. Saturday The Bell Brothers The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therellik tavern.com.

I Vallejo 1 p.m. Saturday Camp Jeff Vino Godfather Winery, 1005 Walnut Ave. www.vino godfather.com.

3 p.m. Sunday “American Buffalo” Bay Area Stage Theatre, 551 Broadway St., Studio H. www. bayareastage.org.

‘THE FRESH PRINCE’ FANS, REJOICE:

‘Bel-Air’ brilliantly reimagines a classic Robert Lloyd

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lipping pop culture on its head is a not-unpopular pastime: “Mary Poppins” envisioned as a horror film, “The Shining” with a laugh track, “Seinfeld” with the laugh track stripped out – there is a well of this stuff running deep into the internet. In 2019, Morgan Cooper, a Kansas City, Missouribased filmmaker, went further, producing an original, contemporary, accomplished dramatic twist (in trailer form) on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” a sitcom that premiered around the time he was born. It was not a joke but a thought experiment – and ultimately, if “ultimately” can be used to describe something that happened 12 hours after the piece appeared on YouTube, a calling card. Will Smith’s production company got in touch, and now we have “Bel-Air,” the impressive realization of that speculative trailer, premiering Sunday on Peacock.

The opening quarter of the pilot breaks out into drama the backstory “The Fresh Prince” encapsulated each week in its rapped opening credits. Jabari Banks plays

Will Smith (originally played by Not every situation comedy would work equally well reiWill Smith), a West Philadelphia magined this way – “Gilligan’s teen who runs afoul of a local ‘Bel-Air’ Island,” you could refit as a gangster on a basketball court.

Premieres Sunday Pirandello play, maybe, but (This being a drama, something on Peacock it’s hard to imagine milking heavier than being spun around an ongoing drama out of that in the air by a bully is required; unlikely crew. (Then again, it also involves a gun, a trip to “Lost.”) But “The Fresh Prince” provides jail and a threat to his life.) Before Will “Bel-Air” a solid foundation that manages knows it, literally, his mother (April Parker at once to honor the original – and not just in Jones) has packed his bag and is driving the way that Will wears a ball cap sideways him to the airport, having arranged for and his Academy jacket lining out – while him to stay with the Bankses in California, taking it somewhere new; it’s more explorapeople he barely knows in a place that does tion than exploitation. not interest him (not being West PhiladelIt helps that “The Fresh Prince” kept phia, with its cheesesteaks and water ice). its focus on family, which we are told more Missing the car sent for him, Will falls in than once here is the thing that really with Jazz (Jordan L. Jones, in the role origmatters, and that family matters remain inally played by DJ Jazzy Jeff Townes), in unchanged through the ages. Cultures will signature sunglasses, a colorful rogue ridealways clash. (“The Fresh Prince” is someshare driver (and, according to his card, a thing of an artifact, yet it remains reliably DJ) who delivers Will, by a strangely ineffunny and on point.) Socially and politificient route, to Bel-Air and the Banks cally, on the other hand, the current climate mansion, where nearly every room is big demands of the premise something other enough to house a house. (“You did not tell than a lighthearted neon-colored comedy. me that your family was white,” Jazz says.

“Bel-Air” goes all in on class difference, As dramatically unburdened comic relief, I See Classic, Page B3 hope to see a lot more of him.)

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‘Boba Fett’ finale’s postcredits scene points to the future of ‘Star Wars’

The game should be good, but are you more stoked to see Dr. Dre?

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The planet of Tatooine now belongs to Boba Fett.

How long that lasts may depend on who stays dead and who comes back to life after the battle that took place in the season finale of “The Book of Boba Fett” that began streaming Wednesday on Disney Plus.

The episode, titled “In the Name of Honor,” was directed by Robert Rodriguez – who helped reintroduce the character to the “Star Wars” streaming universe in the second season of “The Mandalorian” in 2020 – and ended with a post-credits scene that confirms help could be on the way for the most famous bounty hunter in the galaxy.

The scene shows Freetown marshal Cobb Vanth (Timothy Olyphant) healing in the rejuvenate waters of a bacta tank.

Vanth was thought to be dead

SPOILER ALERT throughout the finale after falling in a shootout with Cad Bane, another bounty hunter, who made a spectacular and intense live-action debut in the penultimate episode. Bane hit Vanth with a shoulder shot, so his potential comeback shouldn’t be too shocking. While inside the bacta tank, Vanth is being attended by the same surgeon who helped Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) save the life of his partner, Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen), which means the marshal should have some new cybernetics if his comeback pans out.

The man who put Vanth in the bacta tank may not have been as lucky. To be clear, no one looked or sounded cooler than Cad Bane in this series (he was once again See Future, Page B3

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hirty years after his smash 1992 album “The Chronic” made him a superstar – and established Los Angeles as a rap-music capital to rival New York – Dr. Dre will lead a hip-hop dream team in the halftime show at Super Bowl LVI. Set for Feb. 13 at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium, not far from where he grew up in Compton, the performance will put the producer, rapper and former N.W.A member together with four artists who span much of the length of his long career: Snoop Dogg, who helped Dre create the Southern California sound known as G-funk; Eminem, whom Dre signed to his Aftermath label; Mary

J. Blige, the R&B singer and Oscar-nominated actress; and Kendrick Lamar, whose rise to voice-of-a-generation status involved an early Dre co-sign. In anticipation of the show, here’s a playlist compiling three essential songs by each act: a huge hit anyone is sure to know, a second track beloved by fans and a deep cut for further study.

Dr. Dre Smash Hit: “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang,” feat. Snoop Dogg (1992) A No. 2 hit on Billboard’s Hot 100 – in an era when the only rap songs topping the chart included Kris Kross’ “Jump” and Snow’s “Informer” – G-funk’s defining track set unflinching lyrics about sex and gang violence against See Game, Page B3

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Vacaville Museum set to launch ‘A Game Walk Down Memory Lane Sale’

what less suited to the emotional demands of the Super Bowl. As a storyteller, though, Em has never surpassed the verses he laid down here over a haunting Dido sample.

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VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Museum will display a wide variety of non-collection items from many of your favor-

ite past exhibits for its “A Walk Down Memory Lane Sale” Thursday through March 26.

Photo murals, posters, books and Nut Tree Centennial memorabilia – all reminders of days gone

by – will be available.

The museum, located at 213 Buck Ave., is open from 1 to 4:30 p.m.

Thursday and Fridays in February, and from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and

Saturdays in March.

Masks are required inside. All proceeds go to the Vacaville Museum, A Center for Solano County History. For more information, call 707-447-4513.

a gorgeously laidback groove few pop fans could resist.

Fan Favorite: “Still D.R.E.,” feat. Snoop Dogg (1999) Dre famously hired Jay-Z to ghost-write his comeback single after a few years in which he did more producing than rapping. He chose well: “Haters say Dre fell off/ How, n–? My last album was ‘The Chronic,’” Dre asks, chewing into Jay’s words with cool precision. “They wanna know if he still got it.”

Deep Cut: “Animals,” featuring Anderson .Paak (2015) Produced by DJ Premier, one of the architects of New York hip-hop, this East Coast/ West Coast match-up showcases a surprisingly fiery Dre verse that looks back to N.W.A’s epochal “F– Tha Police.”

Snoop Dogg

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Boba Fett is the big boss on Tatooine – for now.

Future From Page B1 voiced by Corey Burton).

After verbal mind games gave him the emotional upper hand over Boba Fett in a Western-style standoff in the finale, Fett was able to take Bane down and seemingly kill him in what could be the most wasteful death of a fantastic villain since Darth Maul back in 1999’s “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.”

But deaths don’t always stick in “Star Wars.”

Darth Maul came back to life in “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” the animated series where Bane made his debut. There’s no better candidate to resurrect to be a top-notch rival for Boba Fett than the blue-skinned, redeyed cowboy. Perhaps the

Classic From Page B1 racial and economic privilege and distance traveled from one’s roots.

It helps too that the characters are not drawn as extremes – less so than in the situation comedy, in some cases – and that the drama, for all the confrontations these early episodes contain, stays shy of melodrama. There are instances where the writers’ desire to make a point is a little too plain – T.J. Brady and Rasheed Newson, whose shared credits include “The Chi,” “The 100” and “Army Wives,” are the showrunners – but for the most part character leads the way. These people will drive each other (and themselves) crazy, but none of them are evil, and they are easy to be around.

As characters in a serial drama, the Banks family will face challenges that can’t be framed between punchlines or resolved in half an hour. They are nearly all in flux, having, like their new mansion-mate, to figure out who they are. Aunt Viv (Cassandra Freeman), portrayed here as a once-rising artist, has put aside her paints and canvas to raise her children and support her husband; she teaches art at the university level, which ought to get some textual respect.

Uncle Phil (Adrian Holmes), still a successful lawyer, strict and not

Jawas found Bane and plugged him into something to keep him in the land of the living. Time, and perhaps another season of “The Book of Boba Fett,” will tell. And don’t forget, before his return on “The Mandalorian,” Fett was thought dead for decades to the “Star Wars” fandom. Anything is possible.

But is this the way a Boba Fett series should be handled? Sharing so much of the limelight with other prominent “Star Wars” characters? Since “Star Wars” arrived on Disney Plus there’s been nothing but high praise for story architects Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, but “The Book of Boba Fett” was met with some discontent fans who thought the titular character, arguably one of the most popular characters in the history of “Star Wars,” was being

unwise, is running for district attorney, an echo of original Uncle Phil’s run for a judge’s seat; his memories of seeing A Tribe Called Quest “at the Civic Center with Biggie and Wu-Tang,” like his predecessor’s love of James Brown, suggest he can let his hair down – or could, if he had hair. He is stern with Will (“A real man takes the time to consider the consequences of his actions; a real man knows when to let go of his pride and make the most of a second chance”) and encouraging, giving him a copy of Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist,” “about a boy who finds the courage to follow his heart. In pursuit of his personal legend.”

Geoffrey (Jimmy Akingbola), immediately “G” to will, is no longer a snooty butler but the “house manager,” Jamaican by way of London, who drinks (I’m going to say) Scotch and shoots pool with Phil. As is usually the way when the rich are portrayed on television by someone other than Julian Fellowes, the working class that keeps a mansion humming – housekeepers, cooks, gardeners (except when some D.H. Lawrence plot line may be afoot) – are, ironically here, invisible.

Among Will’s cousins, Hilary (Coco Jones) gets an aspirational upgrade, Carlton a bit of an emotional downgrade, and Ashley (Akira Akbar), after being allowed a line about “global warming and the polarized political climate in this

overshadowed by frequent guest stars.

The seven-episode season featured multiple chapters dedicated to the Darksaber-wielding Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu (formally known as Baby Yoda) and high-profile appearances from Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) and a digitally de-aged Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). But despite this series at times feeling like an All-Star Game with lightsabers, Favreau and Filoni are just doing what they’ve done before: using an existing “Star Wars” series to show where these connected worlds will branch out next.

You can’t blame Favreau for wanting to get a little Avengers-ish and keep everything connected. It’s proved to work well for “Star Wars’s” corporate cousins over at country,” is essentially sent to her room with a pat on the head.

Hilary is still a bit of a material girl – a social media influencer, inevitably – but also an aspiring guru of food, something her sitcom predecessor only knew how to eat. Carlton (Olly Sholotan) is immediately conscious of Will’s capacity to steal a portion of his family’s attention – and that of his old girlfriend Lisa (Simone Joy Jones).

Captain of the Bel-Air Academy lacrosse team (“I do kind of run the place,” he says of the very white school Will will attend), with his sights set on Princeton, there is something unstable in him, and his rivalry with Will is more aggressive, less passive, than in the sitcom of old. He’s still short, but that the drama spares us jokes on the subject is not the least of its good points.

There are no weak spots in the cast; everyone brings the right authority to their role. Most crucial of course is newcomer Banks, an excellent selection. He’s long and thin like Will Smith (the person), with the quality of still growing into himself, and while one might argue “Bel-Air” is its own show, and that shouldn’t matter, it does, given the identification of the player and the part.

Otherwise, why not call the character Ed Jones and set the show in Southampton, or Atherton?

Sliding down a bannister or just walking into a room or flashing a smile, Banks projects light

Marvel Studios, a world Favreau helped build. So why not do the same thing in this faraway galaxy?

Boba Fett got his time to shine in this series, both in his flashbacks and in the final battle that proved he’s the big boss of his town. And in between those moments there was a Mandalorian/Grogu reunion that perfectly sets up their eventual third season – likely to come later this year – as well as reminders that Ahsoka (and possibly even Luke) could have more adventures on Disney Plus.

And don’t forget Obi-Wan Kenobi makes his Disney Plus debut with a self-titled series debuting on May 25.

Whether he’s now only destined for guest appearances or a completely new season, Boba Fett is still a force in this universe for the foreseeable future. and high spirits, but he’s handy across the emotional spectrum, and as an actor, he’s a great listener; the camera will sometimes hang on his face while he’s being spoken to, just to watch him think.

He looks good on a basketball court. And he’s from West Philadelphia too.

Only three episodes (of the first season’s 10) were available for review, so it’s impossible to know how storylines will develop or be introduced over the longer term. (A second season was ordered at the time of the first.) Obviously there will be capital-D drama, and darkness, and possibly danger; hints as to the last are introduced.

And, as before, there will be lessons to learn.

Sixteen-year-olds don’t know everything, and the “Fresh Prince” brand, running back to the music videos, has never been shy of self-deprecation, of not merely playing the fool but sometimes being one.

(That “Bel-Air” is a basically teen-centric show that does not rob older generations of wisdom makes it feel satisfyingly old-fashioned.) Will is streetwise enough to have stayed out of trouble until the pilot episode, but there is an innocence about him, a naivete that makes his projected self-assurance palatable.

“I’m not a thug,” he’ll say, “I’m a smart-ass.”

He’s a good kid, and as good kids have through the history of fiction, he will also have something to teach.

Smash Hit: “Who Am I (What’s My Name)?” (1993) Given his star-making turn on “The Chronic,” Snoop hardly required an introduction for his debut solo single. But the one he offered, amid a bouncy interpolation of George Clinton’s “Atomic Dog,” cemented his place as a signature voice of ‘90s hip-hop.

Fan Favorite: “Drop It Like It’s Hot,” featuring Pharrell (2004) Snoop’s creative collaboration with Pharrell has been almost as fruitful as his partnership with Dre. This slinky slide-whistle tune earned him his first No. 1 on the Hot 100.

Deep Cut: “California Roll,” featuring Stevie Wonder (2015) Another quirky Pharrell-produced joint, this one from the duo’s overlooked “Bush” album, that emphasizes Snoop’s sing-song flow (not to mention his expansive Rolodex).

Eminem Smash Hit: “Lose Yourself” (2002) Eminem’s Oscar-winning give-it-your-all jam sounds like it was made to be played at highstakes sporting events.

But it’s also a canny bit of self-mythologizing that has long outlasted its appearance in the rapper’s biopic-ish “8 Mile”: Last year, Eminem opened a restaurant in his native Detroit named after his indelible line from “Lose Yourself” about Mom’s spaghetti.

Fan Favorite: “Stan” (2000) This vivid tale of a dangerously obsessed Eminem fan is some-

Deep Cut: “Going Through Changes” (2010) Much of Eminem’s mid- to late-career work has veered between unbearably maudlin and unbearably petulant.

This tortured account of addiction charts a middle path thanks in part to the use of Ozzy Osbourne’s bleary wail.

Mary J. Blige Smash Hit: “Family Affair” (2001) The funky, shoulderrocking beat lets you know right away that Dr. Dre was in the producer’s seat. But only Blige could sell this exuberant chart-topper’s lovably slangy lyric about needing “no hateration, holleration in this dancery.”

Fan Favorite: “Real Love” (1992) Blige’s breakout single didn’t just launch her career; it also heralded the plush but streetwise hip-hop-soul sound that changed R&B in ways still echoing decades later.

Deep Cut: “Therapy” (2014) A witty, bluesy highlight from the singer’s underappreciated “The London Sessions” LP, for which she teamed with a crew of young British record-makers with interesting ideas about blending new and old.

Kendrick Lamar Smash Hit: “Alright” (2015) Inspired by a trip to South Africa, Lamar’s unofficial Black Lives Matter anthem contrasts visions of despair in the verses – “We hate po-po/ Wanna kill us dead in the street for sure” – with a chorus of defiant optimism.

Fan Favorite: “B–, Don’t Kill My Vibe” (2012) G-funk lives on in this spacy, low-slung track about the temptations of fame and the purpose of art.

Deep Cut: “Duckworth” (2017) The dizzying closer of Lamar’s “Damn.” album tells the improbable tale of a long-ago meeting between Lamar’s father and the head of his record label – a meeting, he says, that might easily have ended in his dad’s death. Thrilling yet densely detailed, it’s like a movie in four minutes.

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Ten Commandments states, These are all simply lustful “You shall have no other gods desires of what the Bible calls before me.” Those who believe our flesh. 1 John 2:15-17 tells they will get into heaven by us, “Do not love the world their good deeds, obeying or the things in the world. the Ten Commandments, If anyone loves the world, don’t realize God estabthe love of the Father is not lished them to show us man in him. For all that is in the is not basically good, but evil world – the lust of the flesh, the at heart, and can’t even keep lust of the eyes, and the pride 10 simple commands. of life – is not of the Father but Maybe they can skip, in is of the world. And the world their minds, to a kinder and is passing away, and the lust of gentler Jesus, who only had it; but he who does the will of two commands, the first being, God abides forever.”

“You shall love the Lord your I believe we have become God with all your heart, and our own gods. If we portend with all your soul, and with all any semblance of religiosity or your mind.” The second: “You spirituality, we do it in obeyshall love your neighbor as ance of rules that the god we yourself.” Fail, fail. have created in our own minds

would have us live by. This god does not demand holiness, just kindness to those we like and who agree with us.

Galatians 5:19-26 tells us those who practice the works of the flesh, and there is a comprehensive list there, will not inherit the kingdom of God. Is that important to you? Or would you rather get what you can here and not worry about the future?

I don’t know where you’re at today, but I remember the day I admitted there was no lasting satisfaction from all of my worldly pursuits, and asked Jesus to forgive my sins and give me a new life.

I had tried to become a drag king (no, not that kind, drag racing). But He became my king and gave me an all-access pass into His kingdom.

Today is the day. Invite Him into your life and watch what happens.

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Capitol shrinks transparency, accountability in recent years

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hen Jerry Brown became governor in 1975, succeeding Ronald Reagan, the Capitol experienced something of a political culture shock.

Brown stocked his administration with young poverty warriors, civil rights attorneys and labor unionists who immediately began undoing what Reagan’s conservative regime had wrought during the previous eight years.

That meant rewriting, repealing or replacing countless “administrative rules” that the Reaganites had promulgated in many state agencies.

Very soon, the Brownies’ ideological shift to the left sparked a backlash, particularly from the business community, which eventually led to legislation to give the Legislature authority to reject proposed rules, a direct Dan Walters rebuke to Brown.

However, just as the legislative power grab appeared to be happening, Assembly Speaker Leo McCarthy interceded with a compromise – an Office of Administrative Law, empowered to review proposed rules and make certain they comply with the intent of the underlying legislation.

The OAL has gone about that work ever since. However, in recent years, the Legislature and governors have begun quietly bypassing the OAL by exempting some rulemaking from its review and, in some cases, exempting policies from even going through the normal rulemaking process altogether. Agencies are thus empowered to issue their decrees suddenly and without any opportunity for those affected to comment prior to promulgation.

We should thank lobbyist Chris Micheli for blowing the whistle on this trend. Micheli, a legislative process wonk, has written an article that catalogs how some legislative measures bypass the OAL and in some instances the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which governs the process for writing and adopting rules.

He cites as an example, 2019’s Senate Bill 1, a blanket adoption in state law of all federal labor and environmental standards in effect prior to Donald Trump’s election as president.

SB 1 exempted this massive change in law, affecting virtually every business and every worker in the state, from both the APA and OAL oversight as an emergency action that would remain in place for six years.

Micheli writes: “What is the problem with creating an exemption from the APA? First, it means that the Legislature (a body that is accountable to the public) has delegated its authority to an executive branch agency that does not have to seek public input on its actions.

“Second, it means that notice and the ability to comment are eliminated for members of the public and the regulated community.

“Third, it means that an executive branch agency or department not only has authority to adopt regulations, but also that it does not even have to follow the statutory procedures for adopting those regulations.”

Unfortunately, bypassing rulemaking procedures and OAL oversight is not an isolated example of the pernicious tendency of Capitol politicians to limit both transparency and accountability as they issue decrees affecting the lives of nearly 40 million Californians.

For instance, after declaring a Covid-19 emergency nearly two years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued dozens, or perhaps hundreds, of orders, some unilaterally suspending state law but having the power of law themselves.

The state budget, now approaching $300 billion, is routinely written in secret by the governor and a few legislators and then enacted with minimal public notice. Many budget “trailer bills” make major changes in state policy with only cursory airing.

Legislative hearings on bills are now largely superficial exercises in which a few pro and con witnesses are given just a few minutes to state their cases and no one else is allowed to say anything other than name and organization.

It’s what happens when a Capitol is under total control by one party.

CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more columns by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/commentary.

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Is tax increase even needed?

I have read in the DR that our county Board of Supervisors will place a one-eighth cent sales tax increase for Solano County on the ballot this June.

The purported use for this extra sales tax revenue is for fire mitigation efforts in the rural areas of the county, and improved public access to open spaces.

Unfortunately, our supervisors are apparently desirous of a general sales tax increase rather than a special sales tax increase for the above projects. It is easier to get a simple majority general use tax approved by the voters rather than a two-thirds majority vote needed for a special tax.

We have not yet seen the ballot measure language for this requested tax increase. The general use request we have heard so far would not only cover some costs for these projects, but the supervisors can also use extra sales tax revenue for anything. The proposed citizen oversight committee would not be effective since there is no way of tracking specifically how much revenue is generated from the extra sales tax that gets mixed in with the overall county general sales tax revenue.

I believe a special tax proposal, if even needed for these projects, would be a more accountable use of money for the taxpayers. This special tax proposal should also incorpo-

rate a sunset clause of two years and let us residents see specifically how the money is being spent. Without the above safeguards in place, our county supervisors can wander off course and start spending the extra tax revenue for unfunded medical benefits and increased retirement contributions owed to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System on behalf of county employees and not tell us citizens they are doing it.

If citizens believe the sales tax is warranted, let’s add some accountability for how the funds are spent.

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The system works Please thank Mr. Jack Batson for pointing out in his Feb. 9 column how well the “America System” works thanks to the cooperation between Republicans and Democrats.

Some of the points made by Mr. Batson: n Sixty challenges in swing states were determined inadequate. (System Worked) n Seven swing states filed inaccurate declarations. The National Archives recognize the errors and notified the states’ Attorney Generals.

(System Worked) n A plan was devised to have the Justice Department claim voter irregularities. Attorney general refused. (System Worked)

n The vice president was asked to invalidate votes. Vice president refused. (System Worked) n A plot to seize voting machines failed. (System Worked) n A mob attacked the Capitol to stop vote confirmation. Capitol police protect Congress and vice president.

Vote was confirmed. (System Worked) Note: Both sides worked to “Keep America Great.”

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Ag zoning deserves time for people to think Tell your representatives on the Solano County Board of Supervisors they need to take time for public input before expanding what is allowed within “agricultural” zoning.

Solano’s rich soils are an irreplaceable resource. So, how can we help farmers stay profitable while avoiding farmland being overrun by non-ag businesses?

In the Feb. 6 Daily Republic, reporter Todd Hansen did his usual great job of explaining the nuances.

As he wrote, any changes to ag zoning will require a careful balancing act.

Read Hansen’s article, then tell your supervisor to take the time needed to confer with ag businesses.

What’s their rush? Let’s do it right.

Michael Zeiss Suisun City

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Malpractice measure would benefit lawyers

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tected by a bipartisan series erhaps more than any state in America, of laws called MICRA, the California continMedical Injury Compensaues to make progress tion Reform Act, which has toward the historic promise balanced the rights of injured of health access for all. patients while keeping health Vital to that prognosis care more accessible and has been our state’s commuaffordable for all patients. nity health centers, located While injured patients can in medically underserved Kerry Hydash receive unlimited payments communities and providing for economic losses and diverse, vulnerable populations with medical expenses, there is a “cap” primary and reproductive care. on non-economic damages. Despite Pandemic-related stresses on our what proponents are saying, the Fairoverall health system, including the ness for Injured Patients Act would most recent hospitalization surge, has dramatically overhaul our health underscored the safety-net imperasystem far beyond a simple increase tive of a strong and financially solvent in the MICRA cap. system of community clinics.

In fact, the Fairness for Injured It would be hard to imagine a Patients Act brazenly creates a new worse possible time to pass a ballot category of injury with no cap whatmeasure that would disrupt the soever – which is broadly defined financing of California’s commuand can include outcomes as innocunity health centers and access to the ous as unwanted scarring. This is the physicians and other clinicians proloophole that would effectively oblitviding essential care to Californians erate the MICRA cap and start a mad in need while increasing health costs dash by enterprising attorneys filing for every Californian. But that’s what countless new lawsuits in already the proponents of the misleadingly overcrowded courts. self-proclaimed Fairness for Injured To no one’s surprise, the FairPatients Act, or Changes to Medical ness for Injured Patients Act’s fine Malpractice Lawsuits Cap Initiative, print stealthily removes all existappearing on the statewide ballot in ing caps on attorney’s fees, resulting November are trying to do. in huge financial windfalls for trial This measure would dramatically lawyers who sue doctors, nurses, cliimpact the cost and delivery of health nicians and other health providers for care in California – but it’s not written a living. It also creates a new process by health experts or real-life medical that prohibits judges from indepenpractitioners. Instead it was drafted dently verifying the truthfulness of to allow a few to make millions more statements made by trial attorneys from filing personal injury lawsuits. in the initial court filings – another What’s worse, is that supportincentive for more frivolous lawsuits.

And who pays for this onslaught of ers are not saying what this measure new lawsuits and attorney payouts? would truly do.

The rest of us. The initiative would For many years, California’s medical liability system has been pro- place an unmanageable burden on

our health care delivery system at a time when many of our community health centers are already operating on razor thin margins and are faced with staffing shortages.

Taxpayers are on the hook as well.

The state’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office said the Fairness for Injured Patients Act “would likely have a wide variety of fiscal effects on state and local governments,” including “annual government costs likely ranging from the low tens of millions of dollars to the high hundreds of millions of dollars.”

The trickle-down effect of this measure would result in community clinics closing their doors, essential health services being slashed and health care providers having to limit new patients. The hardest impact will be felt by women, communities of color and individuals with special needs – all when we should be reducing health inequities and expanding access to health care for those who need it most.

That’s why hundreds of organizations have already signed up to oppose the Fairness for Injured Patients Act in November.

Clinicians, physicians, nurses, dentists, community clinics, health centers, hospitals, public safety organizations and other frontline health care workers across the state are urging voters to say “No” to this dangerous, costly measure.

Kerry Hydash is the president and CEO of the Family Healthcare Network, a Central Valley network.

Hydash is the board chairwoman for Central Valley Health Network, founder of Advocates for Community Health and serves on the board for the California Primary Care Association.

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FAIRFIELD — Dustin Moore watched his dad suffer from seizures after he had a brain aneurysm.

For a 7-year-old, it was frightening, but what was worse was watching his father get better after smoking pot and realizing it was illegal for his dad to have the very thing he needed to be able to function.

“It wasn’t an issue of the legality of it, but of right and wrong,” Moore said. “It was wrong that my dad had to go through illegal means to get something that helped him.”

Moore, who co-founded Embarc, is an insomniac and finds edible cannabis helps him to sleep.

Today his father is much better and functioning well with the use of regular cannabis.

Moore became an avid supporter of legalizing marijuana in California by working for the Speaker of the Assembly to develop legislation around medical cannabis regulations in 2011.

Moore helped create Proposition 64 and successfully campaigned for the ballot measure in 2016 to pass California’s legalization of adult-use cannabis. He went on to replicate his regulatory and licensing programs as an adviser for both private and public sectors as well as jurisdictions on an international scale.

He has not been alone on this journey. His wife, Embarc cofounder Lauren Carpenter, had been working in public affairs and realized that for cannabis to be legal, they needed someone in public affairs to help facilitate communications with the communities.

“When cannabis was legalized, it overwhelmed a lot of communities with ideas about local control, are we in or out,” Carpenter said.

“People were either really excited or very concerned with how do I talk about this now with my kids?”

It has taken a few years but the couple has embarked on a very different path for careers, focusing their time and effort on promoting and owning cannabis shops throughout California.

They opened their fourth shop Saturday, Embarc Fairfield, which is the first cannabis dispen-

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A hybrid strain named Gelonade is on display during the soft opening for Embarc in Fairfield, Tuesday. sary located in Fairfield. A soft opening occurred Tuesday. They have stores in Martinez, Alameda and Tahoe, all opened during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Our mission is to make learning about and shopping for cannabis approachable for all – no matter where you are on your cannabis journey,” Carpenter said.

The idea of starting a cannabis business in Fairfield was not taken lightly. Carpenter came to talk with community members repeatedly, feeling out where or if the support was here for such an endeavor.

“It was a listening tour,” Carpenter said.

She reached out to Ron Turner, who has become the local owner of Embarc Fairfield.

Turner said he is also proud to say he is an African American business owner.

Turner is a retired Fairfield police officer and probably the last person one would think would support a cannabis shop in Fairfield, let alone own it.

“After talking with Lauren it struck a chord with me,” he said. “I feel strongly about Fairfield’s reputation and saw an opportunity to get involved with a responsible community supportive business.”

“I am proud to open the first dispensary in my community as Embarc Fairfield will set the bar for community-centric cannabis operations, ensuring the benefits of legal cannabis are felt right here in Fairfield,” Turner, founder of a local nonprofit organization, said. “This is an important step for our community and I am honored to play a founding role in ensuring the Fairfield cannabis industry serves as an

exemplary partner to community and government alike.”

Each location donates 1% of sales back to the community, which means when people shop at Embarc, a portion of the money – in addition to the local sales taxes – goes directly to supporting the community.

This entire process has taken two years of working with the city staff and the City Council, creating Embarc’s Community Advisory Board made up of 10 members and fulfilling legal obligations for the city and state.

Part of the taxes paid by customers will go to the Community Advisory Board to provide education on safely and responsibly using cannabis and helping facilitate communication with children and adults.

The city established a commercial cannabis regulatory program in 2020 to permit and regulate commercial cannabis activities.

There are four stores coming to the Fairfield area in the future, City Councilman Scott Tonnesen said Tuesday.

“It has been a process to get this going,” Tonnesen said. “We went through 16 applicants and narrowed it down to four, then we had to let the consulting company go that had done the numbers for us.”

The business is located at 180 Serrano Drive, Suite A, adjacent to the DMV. It is a small space with a check-in desk and waiting area.

Customers will need to bring proof of ID and a medical card for purchases. They are let in one by one and given a chance to talk with a “guide,” also known as a bud dealer, about what they are looking for.

“The goal is to be approachable for everyone,” Carpenter said. “The aesthetics are such that it is light, bright and comfortable for everyone. By going in like this, customers have a chance to talk about their needs whereas in other places they maybe don’t feel like they can take the time to talk.”

“There is so much stigma with this type of business but at the end of the day it is just a retail store,” she said.

A grand opening is scheduled Feb. 19.

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America’s child care providers are still struggling to survive Tribune Content Agency The U.S. child care industry has been crushed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Since the virus arrived in earnest in early 2020, about one-third of centers have closed and some 111,000 workers have departed the sector. To stem the bleeding, Congress allocated tens of billions of dollars, including $39 billion last March under the auspices of the American Rescue Plan Act signed into law

by President Joe Biden.

That package included $24 billion in grants to states meant to quickly

help providers who were struggling to stay open.

But it’s taken the better part of a year for many states to even start the application process, let alone get cash to those in need. And now that money has become more important than ever: With the promise of a structural fix for the ailing industry on hold following the demise of Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan, those ARPA funds are all that stands between many providers and shutting down for good.

Some states like Connecticut did what they

were supposed to do, namely get funds to providers as early as last June. But others – like Florida, Missouri and Texas – had yet to make applications available even by the start of this month. Colorado, Iowa and New Jersey only recently opened their portals, while some states that already accepted applications still haven’t distributed funds.

As of mid-January, nine of those states had yet to pay child care providers, according to Stephanie Schmit, director of child care and early education at the Center for Law and

Social Policy.

After the pandemic struck and lockdowns ensued, Congress included $3.5 billion for child care in its initial rescue package in April 2020 and another $10 billion in a second bill that December.

But at $39 billion, “the scale of the ARPA funding is very different,” said Anne Hedgepeth, senior director of federal and state government affairs at Child Care Aware of America, a network of child care resource and referral agencies.

One of the biggest challenges states faced, early

childhood education advocates said, was the lack of an existing infrastructure to get grants to child care providers. Before ARPA, public child care funding (and thus staffing for agencies that distribute it) was usually limited, and reached only “a small number of providers,” Schmit said.

Most states just didn’t have the capabilities in place to quickly distribute so much money to so many businesses, she said. U.S. child care providers have been dragged from pillar to post during the pandemic. Many were

forced to shut down during initial lockdowns.

When they reopened, they were hamstrung by a lack of employees willing to return and parents leery of sending their kids amid the drumbeat of infection waves. As the industry contracted, the lack of child care forced working parents to stay home, further fueling a broader labor shortage.

Providers faced additional challenges. Keeping employees and children uninfected is an expensive endeavor. Social distancing and other preSee Survive, Page B7

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While most of the U.S. economy has suffered greatly as a result of the crisis, the child care industry has been in the eye of the storm.

And the storm isn’t over yet. “There’s a desperate and ongoing need for a lifeline,” Hedgepeth said.

Tim Kaminski owns the Gingerbread Kids Academy in Richmond, Texas, which before the pandemic served 230 children as well as another 350 kids in after-school programs. He said he still isn’t able to apply for ARPA money.

Last year, he received $221,000 as part of the second rescue package, money that enabled him to hang on to employees by raising pay $2 an hour. But come March that money will run out, Kaminski said, and he’ll be forced to cut back on workers and programs. Meanwhile, his enrollment is around 75% of pre-pandemic levels at his two main daycare locations and around 50% at his five after-school venues, he said.

His ARPA grant, which Kaminski said should exceed $600,000, would cover payroll through the end of the year, he said. But even with Texas officials saying the application process will begin this month, Kaminski expressed doubt the money will arrive in time.

“Not knowing how quickly we’ll get this other round of money is stressful,

because I don’t have additional income coming in,” he said. “All the things are up in the air right now.”

Francisco Gamez, a spokesperson at the Texas Workforce Commission, said the agency is currently modifying its systems in preparation for handling ARPA grants. Gamez said 13,386 permitted child care providers (out of 15,606 operations total statewide) will be “invited to apply this month.”

“It’s not the will that’s the problem,” said Kim Kofron, director of early childhood education at Children At Risk, a nonprofit focused on childhood poverty. It’s that Texas has billions of dollars to get to thousands of providers, all of it routed through a complex governmental web. The state Health and Human Services Commission

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“One of the biggest obstacles was getting those two systems at the agencies to talk,” Kofron said.

But the damage has already been done. The number of child care businesses overseen by HHSC fell by approximately 9% since February 2020, according to the agency. Providers that haven’t gone under, Kofron said, are “hanging on by a thread.”

But even in states where ARPA money has begun to flow, child care is still in trouble. Tiffany Skaggs runs a small program in Waverly, Iowa, that serves just eight children. For micro-providers like her, the cost of protective equipment and food has become prohibitive. Skaggs said she and her husband have taken

second jobs to pay bills, including working weekends at a library and doing data entry online.

Skaggs said the state gave her $500 a month in early 2021 and as much as $1,500 a month later in the year – only “a bandaid,” she said. Now, the way Iowa is distributing ARPA funds could mean those earlier grants bar her from additional federal funds.

“We needed help then. But we need it even more now.”

“I’ve had to make many tough decisions while waiting for funding,” she said, including capping enrollment. “But I refuse to give up because more and more family child care programs close every week in Iowa.”

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Iowa, said she didn’t even know ARPA grants existed until recently.

She’s down two teachers, which has restricted her ability to enroll more children. She said she applied for ARPA money two weeks ago and expects to get $80,000 this month, but “it sure would have been nice to have these funds a month ago,” she said.

“Iowa kind of dropped the ball on this,” she said.

State officials didn’t respond to several requests for comment.

In their defense, Hedgepeth said most states had to build systems for ARPA from scratch while spending months on outreach.

Family and home-based providers were especially hard to contact, she said.

“It’s not just as simple as putting up a form and hoping people will submit their information.”

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PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS SOLANO FLAG FOOTBALL BESOS LASH AND BEAUTY BAR LOCATED AT 5006 Rowe Dr, Fairfield, CA, 94533 Solano. Mailing Address 5006 Rowe Dr, Fairfield, CA, 94533. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S)Annie Payne 5006 Rowe Dr Fairfield, 94533. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual 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/ Annie Payne 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 Jan. 13, 2027.

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: Jan. 14, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000081 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00052644 Published: Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS ACADEMY OF LEARNING FOR E.C.E. LEADERS LOCATED AT 401 Bald Pate Drive, Suisun City California. Mailing Address 2665 Merganser Drive, Suisun City. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Academy of Learning and Child Development Center LLC CA. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Brenda A. Hardaway 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 Jan. 31, 2027.

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: Feb. 1, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000178 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00052757 Published: Feb. 13, 20, 27, March 6, 2022

Lien Sale Auction Advertisement Notice is hereby given that Pursuant to the California Self-Service Storage Facility Act, (B&P Code 21700 et. seq.), the undersigned will sell at public auction personal property including but not limited to furniture, clothing, tools, and/or other misc. items Auction to be held at 10am On February 24, 2022 at www.selfstorageauction.com.

The property is stored at: 1910 Walters Ct. Fairfield, CA 94533.

NAME OF TENANT Martinez, Rachael Burnett, David Colcleaser, Jessica Rice, April DR#00052754 Published: Feb. 6, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS CALIFORNIA IMAGING LLC LOCATED AT 2788 Shearwater Way, Fairfield CA 94533 Solano. Mailing Address 2788 Shearwater Way, Fairfield CA 94533. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) California Imaging LLC CA. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 12/21/2021.

I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Kurt Bourez 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. 27, 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. 28, 2021 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2021002473 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00052372 Published: Jan. 23, 30, Feb. 6, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS AMERICAN ARTIST ASSOCIATION, WITH 27 JENNIFER'S LOCATED AT 358 Golden Slopes Court, Benicia CA 94510 Solano. Mailing Address 358 Golden Slopes Court, Benicia CA 94510. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED

BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Jennifer A Robinson 358 Golden Slopes Court Benicia, 94510. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual 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/ Jennifer Robinson 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 Jan. 25, 2027.

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: Jan. 26, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000134 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00052583 Published: Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 2022

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE ZONING ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE ZONING ADMINISTRATOR OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD will hold a public hearing on the following item: 1740 – 1750 Travis Blvd Condominium Map – Tentative Parcel Map (TP2021-006) and Environmental Review (ER2021-051). Public hearing on the request by Al Shaghaghi to consider a request to divide an existing ±15,069-square foot building located on Travis Blvd (APNs 0033-250-060 and 0033-230-890) into two parcels, ±0.24-acres and ±0.11acres. The City further finds the parcel map categorically exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act, per Guidelines Section 15315 – Minor Land Divisions. (Planner: Yee-Lynn Wong, 707-428-7449, ywong@fairfield.ca.gov) NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN THAT said public hearing will be held on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2022 beginning at 1:30 pm, via teleconference, at which time and place any and all persons interested in said matters may appear and be heard. Consistent with the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20 regarding public meetings during the COVID-19 emergency, the Zoning Administrator meeting is not physically open to the public and the meeting will be held by teleconference.

Members of the public may access the public hearing online at: https://fairfieldca.zoom.us/j/89943967531?pwd=eGI0ZVptVWVOdGc3cGlObHZicHoyZz0 9 or by calling 669-219-2599 and entering the Meeting ID: 899 4396 7531 and Password: 59433700.

Written comments may be submitted to the Zoning Administrator by email at planning@fairfield.ca.gov, or by US mail to the address at the top of this notice. Comments received prior to the close of the public hearing will be forwarded to the Zoning Administrator to be read out loud for a maximum of 3 minutes during the hearing period and included in the public record. Oral public comments will not be accepted as a part of the hearing.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, please contact the Planning Division at planning@fairfield.ca.gov or 707-428-7461. A copy of the project plans under review at this Zoning Administrator hearing will be available for public review by Sunday, February 13, 2022 at: https://www.fairfield.ca.gov/government/citydepartments/community-development/planning-division/public-notices If you challenge any of the above-cited items in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Community Development Department at, or prior to the public hearing. Any party aggrieved or affected by a decision or determination by the Zoning Administrator in the administration of the City’s Development Regulations may file an appeal within 14 business days of the decision or determination using the appeal form available from the Community Development Department. To file an appeal, complete the form and submit it with the appropriate fee to Community Development Department, 1000 Webster Street, 2nd Floor, Fairfield, CA 94533 no later than 14 business days from the date of this hearing. Postmarks will be accepted. For additional information, please contact the Community Development Department, City Hall, 2nd Floor or phone 707-428-7440.

The City of Fairfield does not discriminate against any individual with a disability. City publications will be made available upon request in the appropriate format to persons with a disability. If you need an accommodation to attend or participate in this meeting due to a disability, please contact Cindy Garcia, Office Specialist, 707-428-7452, cgarcia@fairfield.ca.gov, in advance of the meeting.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS SINBORDES DESIGN

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS ON BROADWAY

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS FOCUS ROOTER AND PLUMBING

LOCATED AT 506 Toyon Ln, Vacaville CA. Mailing Address 506 Toyon Ln, Vacaville. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Sinbordes Design 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/ Deilly Echeverri 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 Jan. 13, 2027.

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: Jan. 14, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000082 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00052358 Published: Jan. 23, 30, Feb. 6, 13, 2022

LOCATED AT 1001 Broadway St, Fairfield, CA 94533 Solano. Mailing Address 1965 O'Toole Way, San Jose. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Blackbird Real Estate LLC CA. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ David Orvick 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 Jan. 31, 2027.

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: Feb. 1, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000172 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00052758 Published: Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2022

LOCATED AT 1713 Redwood St, Vallejo CA 94590 Solano. Mailing Address 1713 Redwood St, Vallejo CA 94590. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Enrique V Islas 1713 Redwood St Vallejo, 94590. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual 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/ Enrique Vazquez Islas 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 Jan. 25, 2027.

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: Jan. 26, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000133 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00052588 Published: Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS LEANDRO'S CUCINA ITALIANA

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS CULTURAL ROOTS NURSERY

LOCATED AT 388 W Monte Vista Ave, Vacaville, California 95688 Solano. Mailing Address 388 W Monte Vista Ave Vacaville California 95688. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Leandro Colaciello 388 W Monte Vista Ave Vacaville, 95688. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 02/08/2022.

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/ Leandro Colaciello.

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 Feb. 8, 2027.

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: Feb. 9, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000232 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00052872 Published: Feb.13, 20, 27, March 6, 2022

LOCATED AT 5265 Putah Creek Road Winters CA 95694 Solano. Mailing Address 5017 Brower Ct Granite Bay CA 95746 Placer. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) #1 Zainab Husain 5017 Brower Ct Granite Bay 95746 #2 Li Schmidt 409A J Street Davis 95616. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a General Partnership 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/ Zainab Husain 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 Jan. 12, 2027.

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: Jan. 13, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000074 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00052591 Published: Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS ACADEMY OF LEARNING FOR E.C.E. LEADERS LOCATED AT 401 Bald Pate Drive, Suisun City CA 94585 Solano. Mailing Address 2665 Merganser Drive, Suisun City CA 94585. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED

BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Academy of Learning & Child Dev Ctr LLC CA. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Brenda A. Hardaway 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 Jan. 17, 2027.

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: Jan. 18, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000088 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00052380 Published: Jan. 23, 30, Feb. 6, 13, 2022 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RICHARD W. TESENE Case Number: P051253 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Richard W. Tesene A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Vikki Patchin in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Vikki Patchin be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: MARCH 11, 2022 TIME: 8:30 a.m. DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano 600 Union Ave Fairfield, CA 94533 Hall of Justice If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1)four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Anthony M. Despotes Neumiller & Beardslee, P.O. Box 20 Stockton, CA 95201 (209) 948-8200 DR#00052835 Published: Feb. 9, 13, 16, 2022

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MARIA E. SILVA Case Number: P051249 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Maria E. Silva A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Theresa G. Carrillo in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Theresa G. Carrillo be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: MARCH 11, 2022 TIME: 8:30 a.m. DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano 600 Union Ave Fairfield, CA 94533 Probate If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1)four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: Theresa G. Carrillo 5411 Ventana Pl, Citrus Heights, Ca 95610 916 607-5411 DR#00052770 Published: Feb. 9, 13, 16, 2022

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SYLVIA DOLORES MITCHELL Case Number: P051265 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Sylvia Dorlores Mitchell, Sylvia D. Mitchell, and Sylvia Thomas A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Jim Nord in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Jim Nord, also known as Carey James Nord be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: March 14, 2022 TIME: 8:30 a.m.; DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO 600 Union Avenue Fairfield, CA 94533 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statues and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: M. Kendall Hillman, Hillman, Lucas & Canning, P.C. 2420 Martin Road, Suite 300 Fairfield, CA 94534 (707) 427-7377 DR#00052833 Published: Feb. 9, 13, 16, 2022

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Teenage fentanyl deaths are soaring, Afghans outraged at Biden granting and Black teens are hit hardest Tribune Content Agency Overdose deaths linked to synthetic opioids like fentanyl tripled among teenagers and went up five times among Black teens in the past two years, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The nonprofit group Families Against Fentanyl compiled the data from the CDC, which said 2021 figures are incomplete because drug overdose deaths have a six-month lag in reporting time. Margaret Warner, from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, said, given the spike in drug use during the pandemic, it’s likely the 2021 death count will only rise.

Opioid use has gripped the United States for two decades, and synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, are the driving force behind overdose deaths over the past few years. Teenagers, especially Black teens, are being especially hard hit.

At a hearing this week of the Senate Finance Committee on youth mental health during the pandemic, Idaho Republican Mike Crapo remarked that there has been a “staggering rise” in teenage overdose deaths.

Roneet Lev, an emergency room physician at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, California, said the provisional data confirms what she’s been seeing. Most, if not all, of the cases she’s seen in teens are accidental overdoses. She recently saw a 14-year-old die from fentanyl.

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In this Nov. 30, 2021, photo, syringes and vials of Naloxone are shown during the media tour of the supervised drug injection site OnPoint, in New York. said. “There’s already a lot of fentanyl coming into our market and now we have a pandemic where people are isolated and not working, or not in school. These teenagers probably don’t have a substance use disorder, they’re experimenting, making a bad choice, and they end up dead.”

Fentanyl is 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroin. It’s becoming increasingly common for fentanyl to be added into other drugs, cutting costs and making them more addictive – and more dangerous. Users often don’t know their drugs contain fentanyl.

According to the CDC, fatal overdoses involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl increased nearly six-fold from 2015 to 2020.

That number is expected to be even higher in 2021, with a huge number of deaths resulting from fentanyl overdoses, according to the CDC.

“The risk with fentanyl isn’t just addiction or other side effects—it’s simply death,” said Michael Barnett, a professor at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

So far, there have been few studies published about fentanyl, or overdose deaths, focused specifically on Black teenagers although teenage fatalities are on par with trends in Black adults.

As recently as 2015, Black men were less likely to die from drug overdoses than White or Indigenous men. Since then, the death rate among Black men has more than tripled, according to the Pew Research Center. The rate at which overdose deaths have increased among Black men far outpaces any other racial group.

“This is the same story that plays out for almost every other major health disparity that emerges between racial communities,” Harvard’s Barnett said. “And Covid-19 has

kind of blown it apart and just magnified what was already happening.”

“We know that Black populations are particularly underserved when it comes to mental health services and addiction services,” he added. “So there’s less economic, clinical, social resilience to be able to push back against more of these drugs coming to that community.”

On Thursday, the CDC proposed an updated guidance with regard to how doctors prescribe opioids for people with chronic pain. And cities across the U.S. have sought innovative approaches to combat the epidemic.

Chicago’s health department partnered with the city’s public library to make Narcan, a potentially lifesaving overdose reversal drug, available in areas most affected. City officials in San Francisco’s hardhit Tenderloin district announced an “emergency declaration” in December allowing them to open a community health center where drug users can access mental health resources, housing and other basic needs.

Black New Yorkers had the highest rate of overdose deaths of any racial or ethnic group in 2020, according to the city’s Department of Health Epi Data Brief. The Bronx led in fatalities based on borough, followed by Staten Island. In November, New York became the first U.S. city to open authorized injection sites for drug users—a move that as of January had helped avert over 100 overdose deaths, the organization told NY1.

frozen funds to 9/11 victims, aid Tribune Content Agency ISLAMABAD, Afghanistan — U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to split $7 billion of frozen Afghan funds between victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and humanitarian aid has sparked outrage among Afghans.

On Friday, Biden signed an executive order paving the way for Afghan funds held in the U.S. to be split between humanitarian aid to the country and for the compensation of American victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Afghan factions including former politicians, academics and the Taliban expressed outrage at

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“The theft and seizure of the Afghan nation’s frozen money by the United States represent the lowest level of the human and moral decay of a country and a nation,” senior Taliban spokesperson Mohammad Naeem Wardak said on Twitter.

On social media, many Afghans said Biden was stealing money from deserving Afghans that had nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism in the U.S. No Afghan was among the terrorists involved in the attack on New York’s World Trade Center in 2001. Osama bin Ladin, the leader of al-Qaida, was later killed in Pakistan.

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