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June election filing deadline closes except for 3 races Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — The clock ticked down to zero Friday on the candidate nomination period for the June 7 county elections – except for the Solano County Assessor-Recorder’s Office and the 3rd District seat on the county Board of Supervisors. Because the incumbents for the two county seats are retiring, the nomination periods for those offices are extended to Wednesday. The nomination periods for the 11th Assembly District, with Jim Frazier having vacated the post in December, also is extended. What is not clear for the Solano County Elections Office is whether the nomination period is closed for the three newly drawn congressional district offices – the 4th, 7th and 8th that represent portions of the county – and for the U.S. Senate seat, held by appointee Alex Padilla. John Gardner, the assistant registrar of voters, said the state Secretary of State’s Office sent a memo stating the nomination periods for the 5th, 13th and VASQUEZ 42nd districts may be extended, as well as the 1st District seat on the Board of Equalization, which does include Solano County. Solano County election officials have asked for specific clarification on the districts involving the county. Fourth District Supervisor John Vasquez, Auditor-Controller Phyllis Taynton, TreasurerTax Collector-County Clerk Chuck Lomeli and eight Superior Court judges are unopposed and will get new terms. The jurists get six years. It will be the sixth four-year term for Vasquez. Lomeli extends his status as the most senior elected official in the county with his seventh term. It will be the second full term for Taynton. This is the second time in five elections Vasquez has not faced another candidate. He said fire, water and agricultural issues remain at the top of the priority list. He is not optimistic about getting the sales tax increase for fire prevention and protection passed if it is placed on the November ballot. See Election, Page A12

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Susan Graybill of Sacramento looks for treasures at the 20th annual Dixon Antiques & Vintage Sale in Dixon, Saturday.

Antiques show has something for everybody

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DIXON — Susan Graybill came down from Sacramento with her husband for some treasure shopping Saturday at the 20th annual Dixon Antiques & Vintage Sale. It was her first visit and she was enjoying the time out with her husband. “My husband has a coin collection and he is looking to find it a new home,” she said. She saw the flyer for the Dixon show while at the antiques show last weekend in Sacramento. Graybill was having fun looking at the various pieces of pottery available.

“I even learned a little history,” she said. “They have a naked nutcracker over there, and I guess when people came back from Vietnam it was really popular to bring them home. We had one in the house, and Dad was in the war so I had no idea.” The two-day show has plenty of history and nostalgia available. The show is also a fundraiser for Soroptimist International of Dixon and has raised thousands of dollars over the years. The Soroptimists get 20% of the profits from ticket sales and also have a food booth selling lunch for visitors. Girl Scout Troop 3458 also sold cookies.

Organizer Carole Berry, of Twin Bridges Productions, has been doing antiques shows since 1984 and was happy to see a widening age group of visitors this year. “We offer something for all age groups,” she said. “From millennials on up.” Berry said she was excited to be back doing the show after the hiatus from Covid-19. Many of her regular customers already had come by early Saturday morning. “It was so good to see everyone. I saw people who have been coming for years,” she said. The returning show is host to See Antique, Page A12

Russians advance in Ukrainian cities as war deepens, diplomatic efforts fail The Washington Post

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Ukrainian soldiers detain a man whom they allege is a criminal at a checkpoint in Irpin, Ukraine, Saturday.

MUKACHEVO, Ukraine – Russian forces continued to grind their way toward Ukrainian cities on Saturday, making limited gains in their attempts to surround Kyiv and capturing a minor city in the country’s south. Despite mounting losses and stiff resistance from Ukrainian forces, Russia showed no signs of letting up, and President Vladimir Putin rejected direct appeals from French and German leaders to deescalate attacks. The humanitarian

crisis is deepening across the country, with convoys of food and medicine still unable to reach hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped behind Russian lines in the southern city of Mariupol. Polish officials warned that they are running out of capacity to care for the over 1.5 million refugees who have streamed across its borders. Russian forces captured the city of Volnovakha, a key strategic point on their advance toward Mariupol, with the city’s mayor saying

on the Telegram social media app that the city “no longer exists” after withering Russian bom-

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Ridiculous fame at least as old as 2 obese twins on motorcycles

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ny time I hear someone is a "YouTube star" or is famous for TikTok videos, I roll my eyes. How crazy is it that all you have to do to be a celebrity in modern America is make a dance video or record yourself doing something stupid that people will watch? It's absurd. Then I remember the McCray brothers. You may remember them. Or maybe you know them as the McGuire Brothers, their name during a short-lived wrestling career. Regardless, if you're 50 or older, you probably know these obese twins. Billy and Benny McCrary were famous because they were noted in The Guinness Book of World Records (now Guinness World Records) as the recordholders as fattest twins. It seems weird now, but I suspect 75% of

wrestlers as part of the the students in my National Wrestling elementary school knew Alliance and New Japan who they were – if not by Pro Wrestling. Why name, then by the most wouldn't they be? Two famous photo of them, 700-pounders was a the one that graced great draw! every annual Guinness The Guinness Book of Book of World Records World Records was a during my youth. Benny and Billy sitting on Brad Stanhope sensation in the 1970s, minibikes. More Like I was sayin’ much like disco and pet rocks. At least it was a accurately, envelopsensation to school kids. A few ing minibikes. students would get the book Each of the McCrarys weighed more than 700 pounds. through one of those book fairs at school and we'd pass it You read that right: Between around. Read and see pictures the pair of them, they weighed of the fattest twins. The longest 1,500 pounds. That fact and fingernails. The oldest living their inclusion in The Guinness man. Fattest cat. Most tattoos. Book of World Records (and The editors of the book knew especially the photo) made them to put in photos and the celebrities. McCrary brothers were the In a way, they already were stars of the book. If their photo celebrities before my friends wasn't the first, it was one of the and I learned about them: They first and the fact they rode were regionally famous as

minibikes (apparently they took a motorcycle trip across the nation) made it undeniably interesting. Everyone knew the McCrary twins. I'm sure the parents of my generation thought this was stupid, in the same way they thought our music, our fascination with pet rocks and our love of "Welcome Back, Kotter" was stupid. But the McCrary Brothers were undeniably celebrities. Do you know how I confirm that? They appeared on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson at the end of their 3,000-mile motorcycle trip. Billy died in 1979 due to injuries from a motorcycle accident. He was reportedly buried in a "piano case," according to everyone I know, even though I'm not sure a piano case is even a thing (maybe a big

cardboard box?). Benny died of heart failure in 2001, at age 54. Here's the thing: The McCrary Brothers were one-trick ponies. They were massively obese. And they were twins. Their fame was enhanced because of a single picture: Them riding tiny motorcycles. It didn't seem strange in the 1970s that they were celebrities for that, which is important to remember every time we get mad in 2022 about someone being a celebrity for something dumb. So maybe dumb fame (YouTube star! Tik Tok video!) isn't new. Maybe it's as old as two guys sitting on a tiny motorcycle to create interest among elementary school students. Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@outlook.com.

A blast-stressed elephant, an abandoned lemur: a look inside Kyiv’s zoo zoo. In the background, recent fighting. several booms could be “Some animals were heard and an air raid injured, some were siren began to wail. killed,” the zoo wrote Rybchenko and Dguto on Facebook. “Fightbarely blinked. ing is still going on in the Unlike many other Feldman Ecopark area, men his age, Rybchenko so, unfortunately, the didn’t consider joining losses are not final yet.” This is the nightmare Heidi Levine/The Washington Post local forces to push the Kyiv Zoo hopes to Kyiv Zoo Director Kirilo Trantin back the Russians. His avoid. A wild animal feeds a banana to Jambo, a giraffe own way of standing up to the invasion, he shelter outside of Kyiv at the Kyiv Zoo, March 4. said, is by keeping these moved some animals animals alive. abroad to Poland – “I’m taking care of including lions and tigers. snarf up with his trunk. He But that’s a process eats around 220 pounds of giraffes, deer and horses,” Trantin said would be food a day. For now, the he said. “So there’s no difficult for his large zoo has enough supplies way for me to join territoanimals during peacetime, in stock for around two rial defense because they weeks and hopes to be able would simply die.” let alone during war. Still, he worries Instead, he began pre- to keep up a steady stream that events outside of paring for the possibility from their suppliers. But the city’s general his control will lead to of a Russian invasion about a week before it population is already pre- a tragedy here. “I’m began. Taking advice from paring for the possibility afraid that any of the a fellow zoo director in that key supply routes animals in the zoo will be Haifa, Israel, he stocked could be cut off if the city killed,” he said. up on food supplies and is surrounded. For the zoo, the biggest materials to rebuild encloconcern now is the lack sures in case of an attack. By Feb. 25, “there was of available green salad. fighting near the zoo and So staff members planted bullets were flying over their own garden to feed the animals the freshest us,” he recalled. Already, staff are lettuce they can. Already, some staff keeping certain animals inside to protect them who live on the other from any shelling that side of the river have been unable to report could land nearby. With his enormous ears to work due to road cloand sensitive disposition, sures. Others have signed Horace is particularly vul- up to fight. Cafes and ice cream nerable to loud noises, Trantin said. So a staff stands are closed. Benches member moves into the decorated with animal 17-year-old elephant’s shapes are empty. A colenclosure with him each orful Ferris wheel sits night, sleeping beside lonely against the gray him to comfort him from sky. A flock of birds any loud bangs. When he flying above scattered wakes up in distress, they when a small drone feed him apples and chat flew near them – their to him until they sense caws echoing through the haunting quiet. he’s relaxed. Ivan Rybchenko, 33, is “If a rocket or shell lands, they know how to among the zookeepers who calm him down,” Trantin can still reach work by bike. On Friday, he leaned said of his colleagues. On Friday, he stroked over a balcony encloHorace’s big gray cheek sure, feeding a banana to and dumped a pile of hay Dguto, one of two 17-yearon the ground for him to old giraffes living at the

The Washington Post KYIV, Ukraine — Horace the Asian elephant is so terrified of explosions that he’s been put on sedatives. The zebras are being kept inside after they panicked at the sound of shelling and ran directly into a fence. And Maya the lemur is so overwhelmed that she abandoned her newborn baby this week – nearly killing him. Zoos have often been collateral damage in war around the world. And war is now touching Kyiv’s zoo, next to a key military installation and possibly in the path of a Russian push into the capital. Animals are increasingly exhibiting signs of stress. They cower from the air raid sirens and blasts that ring out throughout the day. Gunfire often can be heard at night. Fearing the worst – and seeking shelter from attacks in their own neighborhoods – around 50 staff members have moved into the sprawling facility to care for the animals around-the-clock, bringing some 30 family members with them. They take cover during air raid sirens in the zoo’s makeshift shelters: one in a bird enclosure and another in an unfinished aquarium. But animals as large as elephants or giraffes cannot be moved below ground. “They have no space to hide or run,” said the zoo’s director, Kyrylo Trantin, 49. “Once they’re out of the zoo, they have fewer options than any human. It’s going to be the streets with tanks.” In the eastern city of Kharkiv, the Feldman Ecopark zoo reported that their facilities were damaged in

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Tony, a 47-year-old gorilla, paced back and forth in his enclosure, happy to see Trantin and his colleague Valentina Dykoneva, 50, who arrived with treats: dates, bananas and a Coca-Cola bottle filled with tea. Tony doesn’t seem particularly disturbed by the explosions, Dykoneva said. “But of course he’s missing people and visitors.” In an office nearby, a boy sat at a computer playing a game. A snake was curled up inside a small tank. And in a small box on a table, a two-dayold baby lemur clung to a soft piece of cloth. Unlike his sibling born the same day, he failed to quickly latch to his mother after his birth to feed. So she abruptly abandoned

him, in a move the zookeepers said was highly unusual and probably linked to stress. To save him, they moved him into their care, where they are now mimicking his mother’s warmth by wrapping him in fuzzy material and feeding him baby formula through a syringe. Despite blaming the conflict for his mother’s abandonment, the birth of the baby lemur offered a source of joy for the zoo employees. They named him Bayraktar - after a Turkish-made drone used by the Ukrainian military. The name, they joked, shows that – like the drones fighting the Russians – the arrival of this baby lemur amid so much destruction “is a positive thing.”

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Board of Education holds hearing for proposed Caliber High School Matt Miller

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A man picks up trash along the Suisun City Waterfront, Friday.

Covid rate inches up, but no new deaths, no new concerns Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — The Covid-19 case rate inched up in Solano County since Wednesday, but health officials are not overly concerned as there were no new deaths reported and hospitalizations were down. They are, however, keeping an eye on Easter and the holidays that follow to see if there will be a new spring surge. There were 136 new cases reported since Wednesday, only 73 in the two-day period, but the case rate was higher at 36.5 for the two days. However, the 10-day

average dropped slightly to 42.5 cases per day, the county reported. There were 25 residents hospitalized who tested positive for the coronavirus, with six in intensive care units with Covid-19. Both numbers are down, from 29 and nine, respectively. The most new cases showed up in Fairfield with 41, taking the city’s total to 22,487. Vacaville added 34 cases for a new count of 21,501. Vallejo was at 25,325 after 31 new reports, the county stated. Suisun City (5,883) added 15 new cases; Dixon (4,311) added eight cases; Benicia (3,104) added six;

Rio Vista (1,188) added four; and the three new cases in the unincorporated area of the county took that total to 204, the county reported. Vaccination rates hardly moved. The number of residents 5 or older who have been fully vaccinated remained at 72% and the percentage of that population who have received at least one shot held at 82%, There have been 150,063 booster shots administered, up by 122 since Wednesday’s report, the county stated. The number of children between 5 and 11 who have received a

County unemployment rate climbs in January Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County experienced an increase in its unemployment rate from December to January. The jobless rate for January was listed at 6%, up from 5.1% in December as nearly 3,000 in-county jobs were lost, the Labor Market Division of the state Employment Development Department reported Friday. The trade, transportation and utility sector lost 900 jobs, with retail trade accounting for 700 of those positions, the EDD reported. There were 137,100 incounty jobs in January and 134,300 jobs in December. There were 300 fewer construction jobs, not unusual for winter months, as well as 300 jobs lost in the health care and social assistance sector, the EDD reported. There were 200 fewer government jobs: 100 state and 100 local. The farm sector reported a loss of 100 jobs. The state unemployment rate for January was 5.5%, up from 4.8%, while the national jobless rate climbed from 3.7% to 4.4%, the EDD reported. The county unemployment in January 2020, during the pandemic, was 9.3%, with rates of 9.2% and 6.8% at the state and federal levels, respectfully. The civilian workforce in Solano County for January was listed at 200,100, the same

vaccination shot climbed by a mere eight to 12,290 (33.1%). The seven-day positivity testing rate dropped from 8% Wednesday to 7% Friday, the county reported. The county is cutting back on its Covid-19 updates starting next week, issuing reports only Monday and Thursday. Solano County does not post case updates on weekend.

SUISUN CITY — The Solano County Board of Education held a spirited public hearing Wednesday at City Hall concerning a petition from Caliber Public Schools to start a high school in Vallejo. Caliber Public Schools filed a petition in January to appeal the decision in December of the Vallejo City School District governing board. The Vallejo board unanimously denied Caliber’s petition to establish a new high school because of the district’s ongoing fiscal troubles. The Solano Board of Education held the first public hearing Wednesday to consider the level of support for the petition by teachers employed by the school district, other employees of the school district, and parents. No action was taken on the petition. There will be another public hearing and a board vote scheduled April 13. Speakers were split down the line. Those in support told of their positive experiences with Caliber, while those in the Vallejo district voiced concerns about the impact allowing Caliber a high school would have on the city’s public schools. Most of the email correspondence was in support of Caliber from school families.

The hearing, dominating the meeting for nearly three hours, took place at Suisun City Hall to allow more room for participation, as opposed to the smaller Board of Education meeting room in Fairfield. The council chamber was full, with several others watching in the City Hall atrium. The public hearing comes one month after the Solano Board of Education ended a proposed resolution to take a stand against a vaccine mandate for schoolchildren that also offered a lengthy and emotional discussion from both sides of the issue. The reason the Vallejo district denied the petition was it felt it was not in a position to absorb the costs of the charter school. Vallejo superintendent William Spalding said after the 2004 insolvency of the district and current loans, no new charter schools can be added. Vallejo still has $7 million to pay on its $60 million state receivership loan. “The Vallejo City Unified is looking for the Solano Board of Education to uphold the decision that was made within the law,” Spalding said. Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell, D-Long Beach, enacted legislation the Vallejo district See Caliber, Page A4

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Richard Paul Ferrell July 19, 1949 — Feb. 6, 2022

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Hundreds came out to place wreaths on the graves at the annual Wreaths Across America event at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon, Dec. 18, 2021.

Thompson leads call to put QR codes near veteran graves Thompson said in the letter that each year hundreds of thousands of BENICIA — Rep. Mike people travel across the Thompson has headed up nation to visit gravesites a call to provide families of fallen heroes. Many of fallen veterans with the of the gravesites provide option of utilizing Quick very little information. QR Response Codes codes would allow on grave markers visitors to access or headstones additional backto better tell the ground beyond the stories of their name, rank and loved ones. military service of Thompson the fallen. led a bipartisan, V i c t o r i a bicameral letter to Yeager, widow of Secretary of the Brig. Gen. Charles Army Christine THOMPSON Yeager, the first Wormuth and Veterans pilot confirmed to have Affairs Secretary Denis exceeded the speed of McDonough to make sound, supports the action this happen. and said in the press “We owe a debt that release, “Gen. Chuck Yeacan never truly be repaid ger’s life is too vast to be to every American who captured on a headstone.” makes the ultimate sac“Allowing gravesite rifice in service to our visitors to scan QR codes nation,” Thompson, D-St. that detail General YeaHelena, said in a press ger’s and other heroes’ release. “By utilizing QR amazing life stories codes on grave markers provide a window to limfor our fallen heroes, we itless history to engage can provide an opportu- and inspire people of nity to learn more about all generations,” Yeager their stories and accom- said in the press release. plishments beyond the “QR codes will highlight headstones. As an Army and bring these stories of combat veteran, I am heroic American veterproud to lead this effort to ans to life.” ensure that families can Thompson represents have their loved ones’ full the 5th Congressional Disstories told for genera- trict, which includes both tions to come.” Benicia and Vallejo. The letter is supported There are three miliby the Vietnam Veterans tary cemeteries in Solano of America, American Vet- County: the Sacramento erans (AMVETS), Modern Valley National Cemetery Military Association of in Dixon, the cemetery at America, and Enlisted the Benicia Arsenal and Association of the National the naval cemetery on Guard of the United States. Mare Island.

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In brief

Selection committee to make appointments FAIRFIELD — The seven Solano County mayors will meet virtually Wednesday as the City Selection Committee, with appointments to the Airport Land Use Commission, the Delta Protection Commission and the Local Agency Formation Commission on the docket. The meeting is set to begin at 6 p.m. The public can participate by going to Zoom. The Meeting ID is 851 502 7190. The passcode is 131313. Access is also available by calling 669-900-6833.

Caliber From Page A3 believes applies to this situation. It was shared in the agenda and allows districts that are in fiscal distress, like the Vallejo City district, to focus on the school district’s financial health without additionally having to struggle financially due to increases in the number of charter schools opening within the district. “This provision was explicitly written for districts like Vallejo City Unified and any future school districts that receive state emergency loans,” O’Donnell wrote in his legislation.

Caliber felt the district had no grounds for denial. It claims to have 94% students of color and 31% more staff of color than the district. Caliber also claims to have exceeded standardized test scores compared to the district. “We have 900 students and parents asking for a new high school in Vallejo,” said Rachael Weingarten of Caliber. “Unfortunately, the district has taken an easy way out. Doing so enforces the status quo and it is not working in Vallejo, especially for families of color.” Caliber currently has the K-8 Changemakers Academy in Vallejo and now would like to expand with a high school.

threw knives and After a characwrote poetry. At his teristically brave core, he loved truth, and tenacious fight, despised bullies, Richard Ferrell died and never failed peacefully at home to stand up for the with family beside disadvantaged or him. The Grim down-and-out. Reaper, having had A gifted craftshis ass handed to man and woodhim for decades, worker, he spent finally had his due. much of his free Richard was time building and born in Denver in dreaming in his the summer of MARINE CORPS garage. He grew 1949, the second of VETERAN a loyal fan base. six children. He spent his formative Customers became friends, years in Vacaville, Califor- returning not only for his nia, where he ran around the talent, but for his animated creeks and orchards with stories and humor. He kept that sense of his brothers in the hot, dry humor to the very end. Only summers. He played football for a weeks ago, amazed by the young Tom Zunino at Vacav- outpouring of support, he joked, ‘I should die more ille High School. Got into a few scraps. often.’ Above all, he was a Joined the Marines and served in Vietnam. Became devoted father. There was a prison guard at CMF. Got nothing he wouldn’t do for his children. He sufinto a few more scraps. Cultivated pre-legal fered their heartbreaks herbal remedies in his and took pride in their garden, along with the sun- accomplishments. He was equally devoted to his flowers and tomatoes. Presided over a Group grandchildren. He is survived by his Home for troubled teens, where his counsel changed children, Victoria Ferrell, lives for the better. Went James Anderson, Haven to night school (as a single Anderson, Dustin Ferrell father) and became a and Katie Ferrell; children raised as his own, Natasha boilermaker. Coached Little League, McMann, Thomas Gayler, often walking the dugout Crystal Gayler and Destiny barefoot to escape the pain Milwrick; 21 grandchildren; of the steel-toed boots and siblings, Joseph Ferrell, he wore at the Shipyard. Gerry Ferrell, Robert Ferrell, Started over in the High Margaret Rinearson and Desert before landing in Debra Lear. Richard is preceded in Washington State. Not an easy man to death by his parents, Ezra pigeonhole, Richard loved and Theresa Ferrell. Semper Fidelis. God rest sappy love songs and violent movies in equal measure. He his soul.

Curtis Jean

Jan. 20, 1939 — Feb. 28, 2022

strong bond with Curtis Jean was his grandchildren born to Dorvina and great-grandand Israel Jean on children, who lovJan. 20, 1938, in Lawtell, Louisiana. ARMY VETERAN ingly referred to He was the youngest of nine him as ‘Paw Paw’. He leaves to cherish children. As a young adult, Curtis his memory, his daughter, joined and served in the Wanda McClarty (Richard); grandchildren, Takisha United States Army. Following his service, Smith (Turaj), Chantel Watt he met and fell in love with and Barry Watt; greatTaelyr, Helen (Hubbard). They were grandchildren, married in 1961, sharing a Lauryn, Jaeden and Tiara; godchildren, Nina Hubbard daughter, Wanda. After leaving Louisiana, and Joseph Guillory (Cherie); Curtis and family relo- his companion, Nancy cated to California, with Barfield; and a host of other several family members family and friends. Curtis is preceded in later joining them. After working for Muni death by his loving wife, in San Francisco, he began Helen Jean; parents, Dorvina work as a Transportation and Israel; sisters, Armelda Supervisor with the Oakland Guillory, Ella Mae Standnaval base, where he would berry, Viola Martin, Orelia Lemelle and Belvalee later retire from in 1987. Curtis understood the Auzenne; brothers, Lee, value of hard work and faith Lawrence and Daniel Jean. Viewing will be held from in the church. He accepted Christ at a young age and 4 to 7 p.m., with Rosary at remained an active member 6 p.m. Wednesday, March of the Catholic church until 23, 2022, at Fairfield Funeral Home, 1750 Pennhis death. While Curtis was known sylvania Ave., Fairfield, Calfor his quick wit and polit- ifornia. Funeral will be held ical debates, he also had a at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, passion for horse races. He March 24, 2022, at Our Lady may have been one of the of Mount Carmel Church, 2700 Dover Ave., Fairfield, luckiest spectators to date. In addition to his hobbies, California. Burial will be held Curtis was a strong pro- at 12:30 p.m. at the Sacravider, always making sure mento Valley National Cemeveryone in his family was etery, 5810 Midway Road, taken care of and had what Dixon, California. Repast to they needed. He shared a follow.

Ursula Martinez Ursula Martinez, 83, passed away the evening of Friday Feb. 25, 2022, with her husband of 61 years at her side. Ursula was born in Limburg-Lahn, Germany, in 1938. She met and married her lifelong partner, Archie Martinez, in 1961 in a small German village where he was stationed with the U.S. Air Force. Ursula had two wonderful children, Vivian and Roger. Ursula resided in Fairfield, California, since 1978. She attended Solano Community College. She worked at the Delta Breeze club on Travis AFB for over 20 years. She enjoyed gardening, and could be found daily tending to her lovely yard. She enjoyed traveling and made many trips, especially to visit family in Germany. Cruising to Alaska and trips into San Francisco to see theater productions was also high on her list of enjoyments. Ursula was a wonderful and lovely person whose warm heart and spirit was adored by all that knew her. She will be greatly missed. She is survived by her husband, Archie; daughter, Vivian; son, Roger; three grandchildren, Desiree, Chelsea and Brandon; and two great-grandchildren, Logan and Charlotte. Ursula was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Hans Jurgen; and a sister, Anita. A celebration of her life and interment at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery will be held at a later date.

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Audrey M. Coldani

Aug. 25, 1939 — March 5, 2022

Audrey M. Coldani, 82, of Stockton, California, passed away on March 5, 2022, after a courageous battle with Alzheimer’s. Audrey was born on Aug. 25, 1939, to Lou and Gertie Mashburn in Nacogdoches, Texas. It wasn’t long before her family moved to California where she would remain. Growing up in Suisun City, California, she loved climbing trees, playing jacks, running through fields with her cousins and brother, Jack, her mom’s fried sweet potatoes, and animals – a love that would last throughout her life. She graduated as homecoming queen from Armijo High School in 1957, enjoying badminton and friendships she held dear until the time of her passing. She was blessed to have friendships she enjoyed for decades. Though working in the legal field for both Solano and San Joaquin counties, she found her true calling in real estate, eventually opening her own brokerage before retiring in the 1990s. She missed real estate, but was happy to have free time to spend with her family, especially when her grandchildren were born. Audrey loved her birthday, even putting it on the court calendar while working for San Joaquin County. She had a passion for travel and was fortunate to visit places of which she had dreamt. She was an avid walker and adventurer – once leaping from the platform onto a train whose doors were closing . . . while wearing a backpack. Once inside, she was greeted by applause from all.

She loved animals, nature, hiking, dancing and spending time with family and friends, especially while enjoying her patio and beautiful lake view. Her love of animals only increased with time – they were also her family. She met her husband, Henry Coldani, in Fairfield, California, where she was working as a legal secretary. The pair raised two children, Jeff and Michelle. Being a mother was one of the most important parts of Audrey’s life, a role that gave her much pride and joy. She was an excellent mom – supportive, kind, funny, adventurous and generous; we will miss her dearly. Equaling the joy of her children was the birth of her grandchildren, Jordan and Morgan. She is survived by her husband, Hank; her loving children, Jeff (Laura) and Michelle; grandchildren, Jordan (Jaime) and Morgan; great-granddaughter, Amelia; and a bounty of friends. Audrey will be welcomed home by family preceding her in death her father, Lou Mashburn; mother, Gertie Copeland Mashburn; brother, Jack Mashburn; several four-legged family members, and a few with feathers. No service will be held, but a celebration of life honoring Audrey will be held in the coming months. In lieu of flowers, the family prefers donations be made in Audrey’s name to Delta Humane Society SPCA of Stockton (4590 CA-99, Stockton, CA 95215), or the Alzheimer’s Association (act.alz.org/ goto/Audrey_Coldani).

Betty Williams

May 12, 1934 — Feb. 10, 2022

Betty Williams, 87, passed away Feb. 10, 2022, at David Grant Hospital, Travis AFB, in Fairfield, California. Betty was born in Cleveland, Mississippi, on May 12, 1934, to L.A. and Rosie Nelson. Betty met J.C. Williams and they were married in 1954. JC enlisted in the Air Force. From this union they had five children, Jackie, Pam, Sequoia, Sandy and Ronnie both deceased. JC and Betty were stationed in Ziest, Netherlands, from there they moved to Frankfort, Germany. Betty and JC eventually moved back to the U.S. in 1963. They were stationed at Mather Air Force Base in Sacramento, California. The family then made it to Travis AFB, where Betty worked at the base exchange at the 1600 area and the base terminal. Betty retired from the Department of Defense in 1994. Betty is survived by her remaining three children, Jackie, Pam and Sequoia; and grandchildren.

Teresa Marie Hamilton On Sunday, Feb. 22, 2022, Teresa Marie Hamilton’s spirit became too bright to be contained any longer. She passed away with loving husband Michael by her side, and her daughter Nicole holding her hand. Teresa was a woman of intellect, compassion, laughter, faith and pure joy. She will be forever be in the hearts of her mother, Dorothy; sisters, Patricia and Shannon; husband, Michael; children, Nicole and Jeremy; niece, Jessica; and grandson, Driftin; as well as all the lives and friends she touched along the way. Today Teresa sits next to her father, Ray; a bright beaming smile on her face knowing she will be forever loved, missed, but never forgotten.

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A snowy egret is held, waiting to receive treatment, at International Bird Rescue, in Suisun City, June 2016.

Solano Parks & Rec recommends $2,500 grant to Bird Rescue Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — International Bird Rescue, which operates a rehabilitation center in Cordelia, has been recommended for a $2,500 grant through the Solano County Parks and Recreation Commission. The Board of Supervisors will make the final decision in April. Russ Curtis, a spokesman for the rescue group, said the funds will go into the Cordelia center’s operational budget and help with the care of birds that are brought there for care. He said the center takes care of a large number of baby birds, particularly in the springtime, and these funds will offset the cost of food and

other needs. “I think it’s a way for the county to help us take care of the wildlife that is a big part of Solano County,” Curtis said. “And this is not unusual. We have had a number of counties that have helped us out over the years.” The funds come from the state Fish and Wildlife Service. The commission action was taken Thursday. The International Bird Rescue was the only group to submit an application this year, which Chris Drake, the parks manager, said is not that unusual. Some years, he said, there are more applications than money available. The commission had $10,000 to award this year. The unused funds will roll over into future cycles.

Neighborhood Court part of Fairfield council one-vote night Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — The City Council may have a one-vote night Tuesday. The council is scheduled to receive presentations on March as Women’s History Month, from the MCE power firm and on Neighborhood Court, and then is scheduled to take up an 18-item consent agenda. The Neighborhood Court is a program run jointly by the Police Department and county District Attorney’s Office by which trained volunteers who live or work in Fairfield address minor crimes from the perspective of restoring what harm to the community has occurred. Officer Michael Pena has been assigned as the restorative justice officer. Capt. Dan Marshall will make the presentation. The meeting is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. in the council chamber at City Hall, 1000 Webster St., after a closed session at 5:30 p.m. during which the council will be updated on the federal civil case, Calvin Rush and Jayme Rush v. City of Fairfield, Zachary Sandoval and Dustin Joseph. The consent agenda is viewed as items of general interest and is typ-

ically considered under a single vote. Among the items is the 2021 General Plan report to be submitted to the state, a five-year lease of 2250 and 2256 N. Texas St. as the new site of the Police Activities League and a resolution approving the city to staff CAP-Solano. Fairfield PAL has to vacate its current location at the Sullivan Inter-Agency Youth Center by April 1. PAL will be relocated to 2250 N. Texas St., while the Youth Services Division will be housed at 2256 N. Texas St. The city, if the council approves, will pay $11,000 per month or $132,000 annually for the first year with an increase of 2% to 5% for each additional year based on the consumer price index for urban consumers in the San Francisco/Oakland region. That would be an estimated minimum cost of $11,220 per month or $134,640 the second year, $11,444.40or$137,332.80the third year, $11,673.29 or $140,079.48 the fourth year and $11,906.76 or $142,881.12 for the fifth year through June 2027.

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SUISUN VALLEY — Mike Miller doesn’t consider himself an artist but says he is a painter. The painter’s specialty is creating pet portraits as a memorial for animals that have died. He calls his Napa business Mike’s Memories on Canvas. “I really didn’t get started until after I retired,” he said. “I started painting in my 70s.” Miller says he is in his mid-70s and declines to say exactly his age. The inaugural Spring Forward Art and Demo Day is a new fundraiser for the Fairfield-Suisun City Visual Arts Association. Miller has done the Art on the Vine event and decided to do this new show. “I decided to paint pets because that is what people want most,” he said. Miller doesn’t think age should stop anyone from picking up a paintbrush. “Time is short so if you want to paint, then do it,” he said. The event drew 20 artists to the new Village 360 studio at BackRoad Vines. The studio is the new space for members of the Fairfield-Suisun City Visual

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Mike Miller shows off his paintings for the inaugural Spring Forward Art and Demo Day at Village 360 in Suisun Valley, Saturday. Arts Association to gather for classes and shows. Organizer Dennis Ariza, who is an accomplished photographer, said he was thrilled to see so many people come out for the two-day event. The Fairfield-Suisun City Visual Arts Association is a nonprofit organization of visual artists and friends of the arts working in collaboration with the community to promote artistic creativity, education and expression. The art show is a fundraiser, which helps

provide funding for the Assist-a-Grad scholarship and juried art show event. “Artists will be doing demonstrations this weekend,” Ariza said. They had demonstrations Saturday and two are planned for Sunday. Gina Greene of Vacaville creates Earth art, which utilizes all-natural wood, seeds and other things of nature. “I like to use only natural found items. No plastics or anything like that,” she said. Greene usually does three art shows a year

and was happy Covid has allowed for them to do another show. Artists displayed acrylic, oil, watercolor paintings, black-and-white and color photography, mixed media artwork, jewelry and items created with fused glass. Spring Forward Art & Demo Days continues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Village 360, 4949 Suisun Valley Road. Food is available to order from the Landing Restaurant and wine is available from the BackRoad Vines winery.

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Pick-N-Pull to pay $2.5M for illegal hazard material disposal Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — Solano County and 13 other counties have reached a $2.5 million settlement with Pick-N-Pull over illegal disposal of hazardous waste and stormwater pollution. “The investigation was initiated due to flooding at a

facility in Santa Clara County in 2017 wherein investigators found contaminated stormwater flowing into nearby Coyote Creek without proper filtration or treatment. Subsequently, Solano County joined forces with Santa Clara, San Joaquin, Sacramento, Alameda and Contra Costa counties to do a series of unannounced waste

inspections revealing that PickN-Pull facilities routinely and illegally disposed of automobile fluids, aerosols, batteries, and electronic devices,” the Solano County District Attorney’s Office announced. Pick-N-Pull operates 21 facilities in Northern California including one in Fairfield. The company buys end-of-life

vehicles, sells their parts and recycles the remaining steel. Pick-N-Pull has implemented improved training and business practices related to hazardous waste disposal, the District Attorney’s Office reports. The company will provide $350,000 to environmental projects in addition to the $1.85 million in civil

penalties. The statement did not account for the remaining $300,000. The Solano County District Attorney’s Office was not available to expand on whether any of those projects are in Solano, or what share of the settlement will go to Solano.

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Members of Boy Scouts Troop 853 prepare to take part in bocce training at the bocce lanes near the Fairfield Adult Recreation Center, July 18, 2007.

Fairfield Bocce Federation recruiting community players Bill Hampton

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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Bocce Federation is canvasing for bocce players for the 20-week outdoors 2022 Summer Leagues starting April 26. League officials began distributing team forms Tuesday and will collect them through Thursday. This summer’s bocce season is outside at the Fairfield Adult Recreation Center at 1200 Civic Center Drive. The five outside leagues are titled Tuesdays AM League, Tuesday

PM League, Wednesday AM League, Thursdays AM League and Saturday AM league. The Saturday League is new and must have at least four teams of four players to be established. Other PM Leagues could probably be started the same way. Participants must be 16 or older. AM leagues start at 9 a.m. and runs until their three games are finished, usually by noon. The PM league starts at 6 p.m. and runs until their three games are finished, usually by 9 p.m. Membership in the

Fairfield Bocce Federation is required to participate. Dues are $15 for a fiscal year of April 1 to March 31 the next year. The league fee for the 20 weeks of bocce is $25 for your first league team and includes the League Award Banquet and $10 for additional teams if playing in more than one league. League fees and new member dues will be picked up during the first two weeks of league play. New member applications forms can be obtained at www.

fairfieldbocce.org/memberapplication.html or contacting Bill Hampton at 707-410-9657 or at billhampton2@yahoo.com to get a form sent by mail or email. Covid-19 social distancing and wearing masks are at the discretion of the city, but no masks have been required recently for outdoor bocce. A port-apotty is onsite. Restrooms and facility services are inside the Fairfield Adult Recreation Center during open hours and are offered as the facility opens to the public.

FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing Thursday on a use permit application to allow an outdoor storage yard for online agricultural vehicle and equipment sales on Ramsey Road in the Suisun Marsh. FP Smith wants to lease 8 acres of its 18-acre farm machinery and equipment company location to Copart Inc. for the storage area. The commission meets at 7 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors chamber on the first floor of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. The location straddles the Primary and Secondary Management Areas of the Suisun Marsh, and is located east of Interstate 680, a half-mile east of Fairfield, and not far from the proposed site of the Pacific Flyway Center.

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n Is my future at risk, but oney is a complicated topic. Money carries I just have not yet realized lots of emotional it? baggage. Money represents Years ago, two professors a variety of important at the University of Washissues. It may refer to ington published a book, lifestyle, prestige, comfort, “American Couples.” The success, frustration, failure condensed version of their and a multitude of research was that money, other terms. Mark Sievers and all financial matters, are Talking about money is Wealth matters the largest single cause of hard. Do it anyway. arguments among couples, Once upon a time, I asked clients married or not, with children or not, a simple question: Is it hard for regardless of age. you to talk about money with your All the comments and complaints spouse or partner? I received many I received are right because they replies, some anonymous by regular reflect the deep-seated importance mail so I could not see the email of the matter. It is challenging for address. That approach is cerus to talk about money. Not just with tainly a statement of how sensitive each other, but with our parents, the matter is. our children, even our siblings A general list of the responses and friends. would include these comments: And you know what? That’s n The answer is YES! n It is hard because it often feels OK. Money represents so much. The topic can be threatening, frightdefensive. eningly so. But it won’t go away. n She spent too much. This, my friends, is one of n He spent too much. the keys to talking about money: n Was that aligned with our knowing it is going to be hard. values? Sometimes, it is going to be painful. n What are our values? And that is OK; indeed, that is the n Why isn’t there more? point. Despite the difficulties – we n If only he/she would spend all hate talking about money – we less, then I would not have to work must agree not to give up. so hard. n Why is it always my fault? Talking about money may not be

In brief Solano-Napa SBDC offers free Food Incubator program

FAIRFIELD — The Solano-Napa Small Business Development Center is offering Food Incubator, a six-week program for aspiring food entrepreneurs in both counties. This incubator, offered at no-cost and led by chef instructors from the NorCal Restaurant Program, is designed specifically for those new to the food industry or interested in starting a cottage,

artisan food or catering business. The group will meet from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays beginning April 27 for kitchen lab and classroom trainings at Solano Community College. It’s an opportunity to perfect products in a commercial kitchen, work alongside chef instructors, present products at a special event and earn ServeSafe California Food Protection Manager Training and Certification. An informational meeting on Food Inc. will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. April 21. Complete the online interest form and get the Zoom link at the Solano-Napa

necessary for all couples. If so, you are fortunate, but I suspect the vast majority face the issue. My own experience with clients is talking about money is unavoidable. Like taking out the trash and doing the laundry, it is just one of those things that is necessary. So do not avoid it. Not surprisingly, the more you talk, the easier it becomes. Like practicing something. I would also offer that an excellent preface to any discussion about money is a discussion of your goals and objectives for life. Though such a conversation is profound, it is the basis for understanding what you want money to do for you. Money is simply the lubricant that lets you accomplish your goals. Keep it in its proper place. Money should be a factor, but a subordinate factor in your life. And such conversations are best done with a good bottle of wine. Do not allow money to threaten your important relationships. My advice is to keep trying. Mark Sievers, president of Epsilon Financial Group, is a certified financial planner with a master’s in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley. Contact him by email at mark@ wealthmatters.com.

SBDC website, solanonapasbdc.org. The Solano-Napa SBDC regularly offers business training courses for free throughout the year. Check the website to see what are the current ones available.

EDC announces ‘educating workforce’ speaker event FAIRFIELD — Solano County Superintendent of Schools Lisette EstrellaHenderson is one of the speakers at the “Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce” forum scheduled April 1.

The Solano Economic Development Corp. is hosting the virtual event from noon to 1:30 p.m. as part of its ongoing speaker series. Also scheduled to speak are John Garcia III, a senior adviser at the U.S. Department of Education; Cami Anderson, chief executive officer of Third Way Solutions; and Kelley Birch, director of Career and College Readiness at the Solano County Office of Education. More information about how to register will be released in the coming weeks. Kaiser Permanente is the sponsor of the special event.

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The Volkswagen ID.Buzz.

New VW Microbus reborn electric fun Tribune Content Agency The bus is back. And it’s electric. Volkswagen on Wednesday introduced the long-awaited successor to its iconic 1960s Microbus. Dubbed the ID.Buzz under the brand’s ID electric sub-brand, the V-dub promises to be the first all-electric minivan. VW showed the two-row

European version of the Buzz, which will go on sale in the third quarter of this year, with a longwheelbase, three-row model to follow stateside in 2024. Aping the original, the 2024 VW Microbus will be hard to miss with its huge front VW logo, boxy shape, two-tone color scheme, sliding door, and See Bus, Page A8

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Bus From Page A7 short wheel overhangs. True to its hippie roots, it will be aimed at tree-huggers with an interior full of sustainable materials like non-animal leather and organic paint. Make that deep-pocketed treehuggers, as the ID.Buzz is expected to sticker here at $45,000-$65,000 – or $10k over a comparable Chrysler Pacifica minivan. The Buzz is the production realization of the ID.Buzz concept that turned heads at the 2017 Detroit Auto Show. “The (Microbus) represents freedom and the democratization of mobility. With the ID.Buzz, we are transferring (that) DNA to the present day and thus into the era of electric mobility and sustainability,” said VW

design boss Jozef Kaban. ID.Buzz will join the ID.4 in the U.S. market – the vehicles are based on the same Modular Electric Drive battery platform, but the Buzz will be considerably bigger than the compact ID.4 SUV with a standard wheelbase of 117.6 inches – which is longer than the VW Atlas, the largest vehicle VW sells in the U.S. The U.S.-bound, longwheelbase model will stretch to 127.5 inches, which dwarfs a Pacifica and is even longer than a full-size Chevy Tahoe mega-ute. Cargo area also beats Tahoe at a whopping 138 cubic feet. The stretched wheelbase will also allow room for an optional, longer-range 111kWh battery. ID.Buzz is also as tall as a Tahoe at 6’3” – or the height of Detroit Pistons starting guard Cory Joseph. But with its short overhangs, the V-dub’s

total length is comparable to the compact VW Tiguan at 185 inches. Minivan rival Pacifica is 204 inches long. The ID.4 EV, touted by Volkswagen as the most important car it has made since the Beetle as it transitions to an all-electric lineup, has been met by lukewarm media reviews and sales in the U.S. Though likely to sell in smaller numbers than ID.4 given its lower-volume minivan segment, the groovy Buzz may be just the conversation starter VW needs to compete with Tesla, which has dominated the small EV sector. Microbus sold in the U.S. from 1950-1967 and became an icon of the counter-culture movement. Drivers of the original sat on top of the front axle with their noses pressed to a windshield flush with the front bumper. To accommodate modern safety

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VALLEJO — A homeless Vallejo woman was found stabbed to death at approximately 4:20 p.m. Friday in the area of Monterey and Tennessee streets, the city’s sixth reported homicide of the year. Police report her identity was not immediately known and indicted that once identified, her name would be withheld pending family notification. The city’s five previous homicides each involved shootings and happened in February. n 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. n One of two men shot at approximately 1 p.m. Feb. 7 in the area of Ohio and Shasta streets died several days

later. His death was announced Feb. 17. n A man was shot and killed shortly after 7 a.m. Feb. 11 on the 1000 block of North Camino Alto. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police report he had been shot at least once. n A man was shot shortly after 5:30 a.m. Feb. 12 in the alley near Georgia Street and Sonoma Boulevard. He was taken to a nearby hospital in a private vehicle and was pronounced dead. n An 18-year-old Vallejo man was shot Feb. 18 while driving along Olympic Drive and died at the scene. The teen crashed his vehicle after being shot. The crash was reported shortly before 12:50 p.m. on the 100 block of Olympic Drive. The fatal stabbing Friday remains under investigation. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Detective Josh Caitham at 707-648-4342 or Detective Yanette Hernandez at 707-917-4123.

FAIRFIELD — Fairfield-Suisun School District this week got a look into the future of its finances. The quick view: A shortfall in revenue will mean changes in spending. Amanda Rish, director of Fiscal Services, on Thursday presented the second interim report and certification of the district’s ability to meet its financial obligations for the coming year. “We will be able to make our financial obligations,” Rish said. The financial review had several parts: district certification of the interim report; a general fund statement of revenues, expenditures and changes in fund balance that are either unrestricted resources or restricted

resources; a combined summary that includes average daily attendance, criteria and standards, a cash flow statement, a multiple-year projection and RISH assumptions along with the combined resources summary for unrestricted resources or restricted resources. There’s a projected decrease in the unrestricted fund balance of $14.3 million, which is partially due to the carryover of 2020-21 funds that were not fully spent, Rish said. There is also a projected decrease in the restricted fund balance of $21.4 million, also due to the carryover of 2020-21 funds that were not fully spent. “We budget as if we are spending every dollar

in the fiscal year; that which is not used is rolled over,” she said. It is projected the general fund will have a decrease of $35.7 million. Deficit spending is a reflection of fiscal stress, according to the report. The minimum reserve required by the state is just more than $9.92 million, which is 3% of the district’s projected budget. The projection for the special reserve fund balance is nearly $10.715 million. “This is not enough for even one month of payroll for the district,” Rish said. The district can borrow from other district funds or borrow from the Solano County treasurer under the provisions of a constitutional advance of

anticipated revenue if it is needed, which Rish indicated will not be needed at this time. Some changes noted for the second interim report are based upon current known factors and include spending cuts of $13.1 million in 202324. A decrease in salary and benefit costs due to vacancy savings and deficit spending in the current year will reduce available funds significantly in the subsequent years, according to her presentation. The district is still waiting for the final budget from the governor in May, after which staff and the board can reassess the district’s financial situation and will take a vote on the budget in June. The next fiscal year begins July 1.

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Officials name suspect who sold fentanyl-laced cocaine in Florida Tribune Content Agency FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Police say that a man arrested Friday for selling cocaine to an undercover officer has been connected to the overdose of spring breakers in the city of Wilton Manors, a group that includes four cadets from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, one of whom is on the football team. Axel Giovany Casseus, 21, of Lauderhill, is being charged for drug trafficking, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. The Wilton Manors victims were hospitalized Thursday after ingesting fentanyl-laced cocaine. The arrest report says officials found the phone Casseus used to communicate with the undercover detective and the overdose victim in Casseus’ right hand. Detectives with the Broward County Drug Task Force (BCDTF) reached Casseus via his cellphone Friday, according to the arrest report.

According to the report, a BCDTF detective posed as a drug buyer and purchased $1,000 worth of cocaine. The transaction, which was recorded via audio and video, happened in a parking lot in Fort Lauderdale. After the sale, detectives followed Casseus to Hollywood, where he was arrested without incident. Casseus has been charged with one felony count of trafficking cocaine less than 200 grams. He’s being held at the Broward Main Jail on a $50,000 bond for the cocaine charge. He also has a no bond on a burglary charge, which, according to court records, dates to January 2020. At least six people were hospitalized for ingesting the tainted cocaine Thursday. Four are cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and one of those four is an Army football player, according to an Army spokesperson.

Police: Long Beach man kills himself after shooting rampage, carjackings, kidnapping Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — A 29-year-old Long Beach man shot and killed himself after shooting three other men, committing two carjackings, kidnapping a woman and barricading himself and the hostage inside a church, police said. He first shot a man in his upper body around 7:16 p.m. Thursday, Long Beach police said in a news release. The victim was hospitalized and is stable. The gunman then shot at a woman and carjacked her vehicle but was unable to drive away because the vehicle

shut off, police said. The woman was not struck by gunfire. The gunman next shot another man in his upper body a couple blocks away, police said. The victim was hospitalized and is stable. The gunman then approached a vehicle in the 100 block of East 55th Street, pointed a gun at a woman driving it and entered the vehicle while she was still inside, according to investigators. During the carjacking he shot another man, who went to a hospital after suffering a graze wound to his See Police, Page A10

SACRAMENTO — None of the top Republicans who ran to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in the failed September recall election will challenge his bid for a second term this year, leaving the task for now to little-known challengers who will face the buzzsaw of the governor’s multimillion-dollar reelection campaign. That puts Newsom on a seemingly clear path to reelection this November, four years after he was elected by the largest margin of any California governor over the past half-century. But rising voter concerns about crime and homelessness in California along with Newsom’s tepid job approval rating could still hurt him politically if a surprise big-name challenger jumps in at the last minute, though that is not expected. Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, once considered the Republican Party’s best hope to defeat Newsom, announced Thursday night that he would forgo entry into California’s 2022 gubernatorial race, blaming the spectacle of last year’s Republican-led recall campaign. Newsom beat back the recall effort in part by accusing his GOP challengers of being loyalists of former President Trump backed by far-right and anti-vaccine extremists. “It’s harder than ever before to get ahead in California. We all know it, which is why a majority of Californians believe our state is on the wrong track,” Faulconer said in a statement released Thursday night. “I want to run for governor to change this, but the lingering effects of the circus that unfolded toward the end of last year’s recall make it extremely difficult to relaunch the type of campaign I would want to run.” The field of candidates currently challenging Newsom includes Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle, a conservative, seasoned politician from Northern California, and independent candidate Michael Shellenberger, a longtime activist on energy and homelessness issues. Dahle has never run for statewide office and Shellenberger, who supported Newsom’s recall, ran for governor in 2018 as a Democrat and was backed by less than 1% of California voters.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom and several elected officials meet with news reporters at Del Mar Fairgrounds in Del Mar, Feb. 18, where he backed state legislation that would allow for private citizens to enforce the state’s ban on assault weapons. Friday is the deadline to file to run for governor and other political offices in California, so there’s always a chance of a late entry. Dan Newman, a political consultant for the governor, said Newsom is in a strong position politically because California voters have overwhelmingly supported him. “Californians have been clear and consistent – repeatedly and overwhelmingly supporting the governor’s leadership during an unprecedented series of crises,” Newman said. “So he’ll stay focused – and take nothing for granted, regardless of how many Trump sycophants run against him.” Republican political consultant Tim Rosales

said the reluctance to challenge Newsom was not surprising. Not only does Newsom have nearly $25 million stashed away in his reelection campaign account, he handily defeated the recall attempt less than six months ago. Among the more than 8.4 million Californians who voted in the recall, 61.9% favored keeping Newsom in office, and 38.1% supported ousting him. “Democrats have the advantage and not only at the ballot box, but also among the donor community,” Rosales said. “The interest among Republicans is on the congressional races, not only in California but nationally. That’s occupying most of the energy on the Republican side.”

Rosales noted that the last Republican to mount a formidable campaign for California governor was Meg Whitman, a former eBay chief executive. She spent a record $177 million on her campaign, only to lose to Democrat Jerry Brown in 2010. After the recall went down to defeat in September, four of the top Republicans hoping to replace Newsom all said they would consider challenging him again in the 2022 race and, eventually, all decided not to. Along with Faulconer, conservative talk show host Larry Elder, who topped the field of recall replacement candidates, said in January that he would not run. See Newsom, Page A10

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Chicago embraces the cold to welcome back St. Patrick’s Day Tribune Content Agency CHICAGO — A tradition originating over six decades ago was welcomed back to downtown Chicago Saturday after the city’s St. Patrick’s Day parade was canceled the past two years because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Thousands of Chicagoans and guests of the city dusted off their best green attire and accessories and layered up to brave the cold to watch as parade cars, floats and more filed on by down Columbus Drive Saturday afternoon. Earlier Saturday, crowds gathered around the Chicago River between Orleans Street and Columbus Drive – almost three-quarters of a mile, a much wider area than years past – to see it turn its signature brilliant green in celebration of the holiday. In keeping with tradition, the dyeing and parade take place the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day, which falls on Thursday this year, unless the holiday itself falls on Saturday. Several of the area’s politicians were in attendance, including U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Gov. J. B. Pritzker, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. The river dyeing tradition celebrated its 60th anniversary this year, but last year’s dyeing was also significant as residents and visitors of the city were surprised when the river glowed green after the parade was once again canceled. Both the river dyeing and

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The dyeing of the Chicago River commences, as seen from the 39th floor penthouse ballroom at the Royal Sonesta hotel in Chicago, Saturday. the parade, which is in its 65th year, didn’t happen in 2020 after Lightfoot canceled the events. Mia Sanchez, 12, and Solimar Rivera, 12, are both in sixth grade at St. Gall School. The girls walked in the parade with family on behalf of the local nonprofit Big Shoulders Fund. It was Sanchez’s first time in the parade this year, while Rivera said she’s been participating in the parade since she was 5 or 6. Sanchez said last year was actually the first year she “really wanted” to take part in the parade, but it was canceled for the second year in a row.” She said she usually celebrates St. Patrick’s Day but was even more so excited to celebrate this year with everyone at the parade. “Being a part of this community and marching with everyone, I love it,” Sanchez said. Rivera said she was “really upset” when the parades of the last

two years were canceled because being in the parade has become a tradition for her and her family. In lieu of the parades, Rivera and her family would still dress up in green and celebrate in front of their house by wishing people and giving out candy to passersby. Sanchez and Rivera said they are “definitely” looking forward to coming back next year. Cousins Rhea Allen, of Stonington, Illinois, and Shannon Lewis, of Tennessee, said they’ve “got the Irish in us,” are spending the weekend in the city and saw the river dyeing and parade for the first time. Allen said it was “spectacular watching the river turn that bright green color,” while Lewis added, “It was cold, but it was fun.” Lewis said it’s her first time visiting Chicago and wants to plan a trip back when it’s warmer because she feels she hasn’t “even touched the tip of the iceberg on everything to go around here.”

“Life is back to normal,” Lewis said. “It feels good to see everyone out and celebrating.” Brothers David Rocas and Manuel Rocas along with their friend Gorje Dacosta are visiting Chicago from Luxembourg. The group, who said they are all Portuguese, said their first time celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago was so far a success starting with the river dyeing in the morning and continuing with the parade. David Rocas said he was in Chicago two years ago for St. Patrick’s Day when the event ended up getting canceled due to the pandemic, and he had to “fly back all of a sudden because Trump was closing down the airports.” Fast forward to Saturday, David Rocas along with his brother and friend finally got to see Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities for the first time. “I’ve been in Dublin before also for the holiday,” David Rocas said. “It’s really big. This does compare. It’s fun.” They said before Chicago, they were in New Orleans celebrating Mardi Gras. The trio all said they would return to the city for St. Patrick’s Day in the future “with pleasure.” “It’s cool to see people having fun after two years of Covid,” Dacosta said. “It’s great to see people celebrate this day.” “It’s great to see everybody smiling on the streets,” David Rocas added. “Everybody’s having fun.”

Newsom From Page A9 Among the other Republicans, Rancho Santa Fe businessman John Cox and Assemblymember Kevin Kiley of Rocklin also said they would not challenge Newsom. Cox also lost to Newsom in the 2018 gubernatorial race, and Kiley has opted to run for Congress. Matt Lesenyie, a political scientist at Cal State Long Beach, said it’s telling that Faulconer, a well-qualified moderate Republican who led one of California’s largest cities and could have widespread appeal in the state, doesn’t think he has a shot. “He looks at the field, he’s got good advice, good advisers, but he looks at it and says, ‘Nah. Why bother?’” Lesenyie said. “He’s a guy who could speak to California; that is to say, he could put a winning face on the Republican Party to show a way to win here.” But Lenenyie said the California GOP has been distilled down to a dense conservative core, moving it further from moderate

Police From Page A9 upper body, police said. The gunman forced the woman to drive him away from the area, according to investigators. Police caught up with them at a church in Carson around 8:30 p.m. Several other people who had relationships with the suspect were also inside, police said. Officers established a perimeter and called

voters and the state’s leftleaning majority. “What’s gonna win here somebody who’s OK with the environment and isn’t waging a culture war in a state that’s really progressive,” he said. The absence of a big-name Republican challenger in the race to lead California, where the conservative icon and future president Ronald Reagan served two terms as governor, reveals just how far the GOP’s prospects have fallen in the state’s preeminent political races. Democratic registered voters in California also outnumber Republicans by a nearly 2-1 margin, helping explain why no Republican has won a statewide political campaign since 2006. In California’s races for U.S. Senate in 2016 and 2018, no Republican won enough votes in the June top-two primaries to advance to the general election. Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla also lacks a major challenger thus far, despite this being his first Senate campaign after he was appointed to the seat by Newsom in late 2020 to fill a vacancy left when Kamala Harris was elected vice president. SWAT. The woman who had been kidnapped was able to leave the building uninjured, police said. A hostage negotiator tried to call the man and negotiate his surrender, but SWAT personnel heard gunshots, according to investigators. They then entered the building and found the man had shot himself in the upper and lower body, police said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. His identity was not released. The other adults inside the church were unharmed.

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War in Ukraine a battle of communism vs. freedom If you’ve kept up with what's going on in Ukraine, you're witnessing Russian Communism in action. It's outright aggression – eliminating a country that's tasted freedom – and a free people's fight to stay free. Russian President Vladimir Putin can't tolerate that. You're also seeing a lack of courage on the part of some western nations, notably the United States under President Biden. Poland and Romania stand out, taking in more than a million Ukrainians, mostly women and children, and serving as conduits for arms into Ukraine. Both nations got rid of Russian control and aren't going back. Neighboring countries have been supporting Ukraine with their stocks or weapons. What's holding the U.S. back? The Biden administration says it doesn't want to trigger World War III as Putin has threatened nuclear retaliation for intervening in his invasion. The U.S. shouldn't have to remind Putin that we have nuclear weapons, too; and it's he that would start it. The free European nations – the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – know that, should Ukraine fall, they're next. All they want is U.S. commitment as we did in World Wars I and II, and Korea, among other faraway places. Communist China is taking all this in – contemplating how its invasion of Taiwan would fare. We have the wrong administration in Washington, D.C. John Takeuchi Fairfield

It’s a war at home on capitalism While Russia wars in Ukraine, President Joe Biden and Democratic Party policies war against America and capitalism. Cutting domestic oil and gas production has wreaked commercial havoc globally as if two years of a pandemic didn’t hurt us enough. In the meantime, Biden continued to buy Russian oil to the tune of 600,000 barrels a day, basically financing Vladimir Putin’s war. Buying oil from Venezuela and Iran are on the table, enriching yet two more global dictators. We have 10% and climbing inflation. Democrats clamor, tax the billionaires, while it’s we the middle class carrying the burden – the very ones they claim to champion. As pricing soars, so does the tax revenue.

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othing is more fundamentally vital to personal and societal success than literacy – the ability to read comprehensively and write clearly. Without literacy, it’s impossible to acquire other necessary skills, such as using mathematics, or to become an informed citizen and voter. California doesn’t score very high on literacy. In fact, according to the World Population Review, only 77% of adult Californians are considered to be mildly to highly literate – the lowest level of any state. Given that, it shouldn’t be surprising that California’s 6 million public school students also don’t score very high on tests of reading skills. In the most recent round of state testing, just 49% of students scored at or above standards in Dan Walters English language arts. It’s also not surprising that in national academic tests, California is no better than average and in some categories very low. For decades, California’s educators, academicians and politicians have battled over how best to teach children to read. “Reading wars” pit advocates of “phonics” against those of “whole language.” Phonics stresses fundamental instruction in the letters and letter combinations that make up sounds, thus allowing children to “sound out” words and later whole sentences and passages. Its advocates contend that scientific research supports their view. The whole language approach assumes reading is a naturally learned skill, much like speaking, and exposing children to reading material will allow it to emerge. California embraced whole language in the 1970s and 1980s, but nationwide academic tests in the late 1980s and early 1990s revealed the state was very near the bottom among the states in reading proficiency, sparking a backlash. Bill Honig, the state schools superintendent at the time, pushed tirelessly for a shift to phonics and a series of bills signed by Republican Gov. Pete Wilson in the mid-1990s made it happen. Thereafter, however, the whole language faction regained ground. The current recommended curriculum for elementary grades allows some class time for phonics, but generally favors more time for reading, as the whole language philosophy prefers. The experience of one school in Contra Costa County implies the phonics approach may be the right one after all. EdSource, a website that covers California education issues, reports teachers and administrators at Nystrom Elementary, a school in the West Contra Costa School District, became dissatisfied with their students’ low reading skills and gained permission to shift to a phonics-oriented alternative. The school has seen “growth across the board” on students’ reading skills, principal Jamie Allardice told EdSource, adding that an increasing number of Nystrom’s students are expected to end the school year with acceptable reading skills as a result. “We really tried to make it clear to (teachers) that they had literally changed the trajectory of those children’s lives, that they were on track to be behind in school, not only in elementary school because the kids who fall behind tend to stay behind,” Margaret Goldberg, the school’s literacy coach, told EdSource. “These teachers had actually shifted their trajectory of achievement by getting them caught up and no longer in need of such support.” The lack of in-person instruction during the Covid-19 pandemic stalled educational progress for most students, with Black and Latino kids from low-income families suffering the worst due to lack of resources. The Nystrom experience indicates that shifting back to phonics would help them make up ground – if only the education establishment would accept and implement that reality. Without a reading renaissance, California’s already shameful level of literacy will continue with untold human and societal damage.

And who do the Democrats blame? Corporate greed, of course. They’re forcing Americans to go electric, “The Green Deal.” As I write this, my local gas station has regular gas at $6 a gallon. Wait till summer hits. People complained about their home gas bills skyrocketing this winter. This administration is boasting it has issued more drilling permits doesn’t reflect their stop order on fracking on federal lands, but your utility bill did. Californians responded more than three decades ago. We went to ride-sharing, vanpools, a 9-80 and 4-10 work schedules to reduce our carbon footprint. It’s never enough. There’s a timetable to beat. In 2025, solar storms hit their peak and we cycle back to an 11-year cooling trend. No doubt in my mind they will claim success and create another misery to contend with. In another 11 years, most will have forgotten. As the world crawls out of a pandemic, “they” hit us with another one: energy. An extension of the twoyear lockdowns when the average Joe can’t afford to travel to work or a weekend of fun. Doubling down, California seeks new draconian Covid laws, dog piling more constraints. Neither crackdown is based on science; it’s a belief system they themselves admit. Hank Schwarzbach Fairfield

Running against the media I wanted to share my post so those who might not see my name in the online article March 5 or printed article March 6 updating the Solano County Board of Supervisors 3rd District 3 race featuring Chuck Timm’s filing of his candidacy papers and a summary of all of the other candidates who have completed their filings or not completed them, except Daily Republic forgot to include me. I am in! I filed! On the first day! I am actively campaigning, meeting with people daily. I knew running as a first-time candidate against career politicians was going to be tough. I did not know I was going to have to run against my hometown newspaper, too! Hey, DR, can you maybe just call balls and strikes? Joseph Joyce Fairfield

We versus I debate misses key point No worries for the multitudes of

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babies “baptized” with “we” instead of “I.” Neither one does the job for us as infants. See the Daily Republic religion section of Feb. 20, 2022. Priest Orango of the Diocese of Phoenix is being criticized for having used “we” instead of “I” for baptizing infants in the “name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” This sacrament “signifies a reversal of all past sins and the birth of an innocent person.” But, not to fear, “I” would not have made them anymore baptized. First of all, if babies are innocent, they could not have had any past sins. There is no scriptural evidence for or justification for “infant baptism.” But infant consecration or dedication is undeniably appropriate. Baptism is a rite or ceremony for spiritually aware people to testify publicly to their personal acceptance with forgiveness and faith in God and to serve Jesus as lord and savior. But there are yet many churches that do not observe such aberrant “sacraments.” And let us not deceive ourselves; it is little less than fraudulent to cause people to live their entire lives believing they were baptized as infants. I grew up in such a Lutheran Church and have attended Catholic and many different Protestant churches, many of which adopted the fallacy. I don’t need to be a pastor, clergy or priest to justify belief in the holy Bible as it relates to this sacrament. Nonbiblical practices are often inherited customs that are extant in churches today. We need to be readers and doers of the word. Lord help us. Bill Coburn, M.D. Fairfield

Writer says, ‘Right on, Bud!’ Bud Stevenson and I have opposing political views, but I must give major kudos to him and his column “New Republic rightly skewers Trump," published March 4. In his column, Stevenson clearly points out Trump's history of involvement in Russia and his disdain for NATO; laundering millions for the Russian mafia; bailed out more than once by Russia in his multiple bankruptcies among many more of Trump's indiscretions and/or crimes. While I don't necessarily agree with Stevenson's politics, I certainly respect him as a true Republican – not some Trump Republican who thinks everything Trump did and said is honest and truthful. So, thanks for telling it like it is, Bud. Cindy L. MacDonald Suisun City

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From Page One The eighth-cent increase was initially proposed for the June ballot, but the Board of Supervisors pushed it back to November hoping to get a consensus from city fire chiefs, firefighter union and other interested parties. Superintendent of Schools Lisette EstrellaHenderson, who was first appointed to the post in January 2018 and elected to a full term that June, also appears to get a pass after late challenger Ajit Bhandal did not qualify for the ballot because he does not hold the required administrative credentials for the post, Gardner said. District Attorney Krishna Abrams, who is seeking a third term, will face a contested race with one of her chief depu-

Cities From Page One cities from Kyiv, the capital, to Kharkiv in the east and Mykolaiv in the south. As the war continued into its third week, the fighting grew only more intense. Despite losing several thousand troops according to U.S. estimates, Russia is still battering Ukraine’s cities, flattening apartment buildings and hampering efforts to address the humanitarian catastrophe. The dire situation is prompting stronger calls from Ukrainian officials for the United States to do more, even as it considers sending more sophisticated antiair weapons to Ukraine. Russian attacks have damaged at least nine medical facilities, according to a visual investigation by The Washington Post that looked at over 500 images and videos from the conflict and interviewed experts and witnesses on the ground. Russian forces are still attempting to surround and seize Kyiv, making “limited but notable” progress in the capital’s northwest suburbs recently, said a senior NATO official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss security matters. “It really does look like the battle for the capital is going to continue to be very drawn out unless the Russians can launch a more concentrated and coherent attack than they’ve yet shown the ability to conduct,” the NATO official said. In a video message on Saturday night intended to uplift Ukrainians, Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky assured citizens that the Western world is behind Ukraine. Russia “is an even bigger enemy, bigger evil than North Korea. That’s what Americans think, for example,” he said. He also said that humanitarian aid for the port city of Mariupol, which Russia’s war of attrition has hit particularly hard, was due to arrive on Sunday afternoon. For the past several days, Russian forces have hammered Mariupol while blocking shipments of food and medicine from getting in and stopping residents from getting out. Video published by the Associated Press showed Russian tanks repeatedly firing at an apartment building. And new satellite images released by Maxar Technologies on Saturday show the growing extent of the destruction. Before-and-after photos show that clusters of large apartment buildings had been hit. Banks of trees and a sports field that were green in

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ties, Sharon Henry, while Sheriff Tom Ferrara, asking voters for a third four-year term after being appointed in 2012, has been challenged by one of his former sheriff’s deputies, Daryl Snedeker in his second try at the office. Glenn Zook, the assistant assessor for Solano County, is the lone candidate to replace his boss, Marc Tonnesen, but will have to wait until Wednesday to learn if a second nominee steps up. The 3rd District supervisor’s race is the most contested of the local contests. Five candidates – Jennifer Barton,

Joe Joyce, Pete Sanchez, Chuck Timm and Wanda Williams – are vying for the position. But like Zook, they will have to wait until Wednesday to learn if there are any newcomers on the campaign trail because Spering chose not to seek a fifth term on the board. The election for the 11th Assembly District is the most convoluted among the ballot contests. The June 7 primary, to determine a new two-year term starting in December, comes just two months after a $1.2 million special election April 5 for the

final eight months of the term vacated by Frazier. Lori Wilson, mayor of Suisun City, is the only name that will appear on that ballot. Write-in candidates can register through March 16. Wilson and Jenny Callison have filed their candidate papers for the June primary, the nomination period for which also extends to Wednesday. The final candidate lists for the U.S. Senate and the three congressional districts, depending on the final determination of the nomination period, will not be available for publication until Monday.

the before photos are now burned brown and obscured by smoke, while the apartment buildings that surround them are damaged and surrounded by debris. In areas that have come under the control of Russian forces, concerns grew that occupying soldiers were beginning to target individual Ukrainian officials. Russian soldiers detained Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of Russianoccupied Melitopol in the country’s south. Video footage shared on social media showed soldiers leading a figure with a hood over his head out of a building in the city. The incident prompted residents to gather in protest, chanting “Bring back the mayor! Bring back the mayor!” and “Freedom to the mayor! Freedom to the mayor!” according to videos posted to social media. Since Russia took the city two weeks ago, Fedorov had encouraged residents to protest. Russian propaganda has painted Ukrainians as being dominated by a minority of neo-Nazis and nationalists, and Putin has stated one of the goals of his invasion is the “deNazification” of Ukraine, prompting fears that individual Ukrainians will be targeted for arrest and attacks under Russian occupation. Fedorov, an ethnic Russian, was accused by Russia of supporting violence against innocent people in eastern Ukraine. Zelensky called the alleged abduction a “a crime against democracy” and demanded Russia release him. World leaders, including Pope Francis, called on Russia to end its invasion. “In the name of God, stop!” the pontiff posted on Twitter Saturday. “Never war!” he wrote. “Think first about the children, about those who are deprived of the hope for a dignified life: dead or wounded children, orphans, children who play with the remnants of war.” Putin held a testy phone call with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday regarding the attack on Ukraine, which appears to have yielded little result and hope for de-escalation. French officials said after the call that the Russian leader showed no desire to stop the war, adding that the conversation was “very frank and difficult.” Macron and Scholz called for an immediate cease-fire and “the end of the siege of Mariupol,” where the situation is “devastating.” Russia’s version of the call, however, described discussions among the leaders over the humanitarian situation in cities under siege from Russian troops, as offi-

cials continued to warn the West against providing added munitions aid to Ukrainians. Putin “informed the leaders about the real state of affairs,” the statement said, and accused the Ukrainian forces of the “grossest violation of the norms of international humanitarian law” without providing any evidence, including “placing heavy weapons in residential areas, near hospitals.” But the United States and other NATO countries are readying to step up their efforts to provide Ukraine with more weapons to fend off the invasion. President Joe Biden on Saturday authorized an additional $200 million in military aid, adding to the $350 million sent earlier this month. U.S. officials said Friday they were also discussing with European allies how to get heavier weapons to Ukraine, including sophisticated surface-to-air missiles capable of knocking Russian planes out of the sky. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is slated to meet in the coming week with NATO allies in Brussels and Slovakia, which possesses the S-300 missile system and has signaled willingness to share weapons with Ukraine. A top Russian diplomat warned that convoys carrying U.S. and NATO weapons inside Ukraine were “legitimate targets.” Since the invasion began, Ukraine’s allies have flown weapons to air bases in neighboring countries where they are trucked over the border. There has been a notable decrease in the past few days in the number of Russian military flights and air attacks in Ukraine, potentially signaling that Ukraine’s air defenses are still effectively shooting down enemy planes, the NATO official said. Russia also admitted that it was deploying conscripts to Ukraine, something it had denied in the early days of the war. Putin claimed the Russian military had recruited 16,000 foreign fighters from the Middle East, according to a Saturday update from the U.K. Defense Ministry. NATO has seen reported appearances of Chechen troops and former private military contractors among the force surrounding Kyiv. “That may indicate that they’re still struggling to assemble sufficient conventional power to try to launch that assault on the capital,” the NATO official said. In a notable development, nine of the 14 proposed corridors to provide civilians safe passage out of bombarded cities worked as designed, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Veresh-

chuk said in a video message. She added that nearly 13,000 people were moved Saturday, nearly twice the amount who had made it out of a smaller number of cities the day before. For days, Ukrainian convoys have tried to get into Mariupol, but have been turned back by Russian shelling. In Zaporizhzhia, a Ukrainian city northwest of Mariupol, Yulia Karaulan boarded a truck that would try to get in. Karaulan was out of the country on a business trip when the invasion began and is desperately trying to reunite with her husband, mother and 10-year-old daughter who are in Mariupol, she told The Post. Local officials have said more than 1,500 civilians have been killed in Mariupol, though the death toll is impossible to verify. Drinking water has been cut off, and there are accounts of looting and lawlessness in the streets. Municipal workers have dug mass graves. Still, Ukrainian forces are keeping up the fight in the city. A Russian general was killed in fighting around Mariupol, Ukrainian officials said Saturday. The officer was identified as Russian Maj. Gen. Andrei Kolesnikov, according to Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry. Russian major generals are roughly equivalent in rank to American onestar or brigadier generals. Kolesnikov was not identified by name, though a Western official on Friday confirmed that three Russian generals have been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion two weeks ago. The most recent general was a commander of the Eastern Military District. Russian officials have shared few details on the number of casualties among its forces, including ranking officers. Across the country, more Ukrainians are continuing to flee, while those who remain struggle to find vital medical supplies. Every morning after curfews lift, lines form outside pharmacies across the country. Telegram groups have formed to help people find the medicines they need, but many are coming up short. In Kyiv, Tetyana Dagadaeva lined up again, hoping to find the insulin her 11-year-old son needs to survive. This time, there was none. “My son’s life depends on this,” she told The Post. “The situation is really bad.” Russian forces near Kyiv appeared to be cutting off water and food supplies as part of their strategy, the senior NATO official said. That could lead to a desperate situation in the city within two weeks, the official said.

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Health challenges in refugees, migrants deserve consideration O

ur team just returned from rural Mexico, with the nonprofit organization Para Ti Global. We visited children with various congenital health challenges. At Pasitos de Luz, a facility that helps children with neurological diseases, we saw a completely blind boy being taught to walk with a cane by a blind therapist. We also visited older children at Casa Hogar, a home that protects orphans from potential exploitation while fostering youth education. We were appalled to see the carnage visited upon Ukraine by Russian forces in the news. Mexico’s challenges to health involve access and resources. In Ukraine, by contrast, the population is facing physical violence, destruction of hospitals and infrastructure, and geographic displacement. More than 2 million Ukrainians have fled to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Moldova, Russia and Belarus, as of press time. That figure will grow. There is scientific literature on the health challenges of immigrants and refugees, including a comprehensive description in the peerreviewed medical website Up-to-Date, by Dr. Patricia Walker and co-authors. I recently reviewed this, as I imagine the United States will also be encountering refugees from Ukraine soon. Moreover, we are already dealing with a flood of illegal immigration across our nation’s southern border, with little or no health screening. Among migrants, researchers distinguish between various causes of population movements. A refugee typically flees persecution by crossing an

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Newly arrived refugees seek assistance from Polish army soldiers after crossing the border from Ukraine into Poland at the Medyka border crossing, eastern Poland, Wednesday. international border. The cause of such migration may include fear of persecution based on ethnicity, political opinion or fear of being killed, for example. Asylum seekers usually seek to be recognized as refugees in the first country they come across. Although the Up-to-Date article reports “refugees and immigrants to the United States undergo screening prior to arrival,” that does not appear to be the case. For example, the immigrants flooding into the

United States in recent months appear to be bypassing any standard screening process and then migrating into the interior of the country. The images I see of Ukrainians entering neighboring countries show local border authorities under siege. How can health screening survive in a war zone? If a health assessment of refugees were routinely possible, what would it consist of? A checklist could be followed, according to the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There are 13 sections to the Domestic Medical Examination for Newly Arriving Refugees, for example. The General Medical Examination associated with such screening, for example, would screen for height, weight, nutritional status, pregnancy, vaccination history and mental health. Appropriate laboratory analyses might include screening for anemia, diabetes, tuberculosis, lead poisoning, malaria

and parasitic infections. Indeed, comprehensive screening might also require testing for hepatitis B and C, as well as human immunodeficiency virus if considered proper. Although refugees are not routinely evaluated for HIV infection since 2010, according to the CDC checklist, any concern about possible sexual abuse or bloodproduct exposure may lead to screening, even in children younger than 12 years of age. War zones are rife with the potential for such risk factors. Walker and colleagues describe a “high prevalence of mental health issues best documented in refugees, particularly those arriving from areas of civil unrest; these include major depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.” Assessing mental health issues may be challenging in the setting of linguistic and cultural barriers to communication. Traveling abroad reminds me of the benefits we enjoy in technologically advanced settings, which include, for example, Mexico’s modern medical clinics and hospitals. The recent horrific events in Ukraine, however, illustrate how war destroys vital medical infrastructures, undermining existing progress in health care delivery. Refugee and immigrant health are related challenges, worldwide. Will we find the necessary solutions? Scott T. Anderson, M.D. (standerson@ucdavis.edu), is a clinical professor at the University of California, Davis, Medical School. This column is informational and does not constitute medical advice.

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This week THINGS TO DO I Fairfield 4 p.m. Sunday

Rendishun Band

Three Restaurant, 721 Texas St. www.three foodbeerwine.com. 5 p.m. Friday

YTim & Leah

Three Restaurant, 721 Texas St. www.three foodbeerwine.com.

I Suisun City 7 p.m. Friday

VIP Celebrity Pop-Up Series 1 Featuring Bilal

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Harbor Theater comic Honest John spent tragic, ‘boring’ weekend in Fairfield Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — John Basinger got his stage name from a 1962 cartoon show few might remember, and started his comedy career after watching a mediocre comic whose name he cannot recall. “I was thinking, I’m better than he is, and he’s on TV. Maybe I can do that,” said Basinger, who adopted Honest John as his stage name after the villain, Dishonest John, in the cartoon, “Benny and Cecil.” “I did my first open mic in

1987, I believe it was, and I wasn’t very good . . . But I didn’t let that stop me,” Basinger said. He said he would go out and sign up for an early show at one club, rush over to a second to get on its open mic list, and find a slot at a third club for late in the night. Those were mostly urban Los Angeles clubs, so he was heavily influenced by Black comedians, though he most admired those performers who were funny and had something to say: comics such a George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor

and Mark Saul. Many of his early routines were based on current events, and he got noticed for a parody he did of the Rodney King beating and trial using the tune “Old MacDonald had a Farm.” Since then, Honest John has built a career spanning some 35 years that includes appearances on BET’s “Comicview,” “Showtime at the Apollo” and a two-year run on the Def Comedy Jam tour. Honest John will headline the two-show opening night of the new Phat Satur-

day monthly comedy series Saturday at the Harbor Theater in Suisun City. Regina Givens will open the shows. This is not the comic’s first appearance in Solano County. He once performed at the Pebberybelly’s comedy club in downtown Fairfield, and was scheduled to perform there again on the weekend of Jan. 25, 2013, when the club burned down. Honest John’s name could be seen on the marquee as the flames engulfed the club. “That was a night,” See Comic, Page B3

Marina Lounge, 700 Main St. www.marinalounge suisun.com.

I Vacaville 5 p.m. Tuesday

#KidsOnTech “Learn to Change the World” Viewing and Discussion Journey Downtown, 308 Main St. www.journey coffeeco.com. 8 p.m. Thursday

Dueling Pianos

Makse, 555 Main St. duelingpianovacaville.com/ events. 9 and 11 a.m., 7:30 p.m. Friday; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday

Starbound Theatre Presents “Disney’s Frozen Jr.”

Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive. https://vpat.net. 8 p.m. Thursday

Dueling Pianos

Makse, 555 Main St. duelingpiano vacaville.com/events. 7 p.m. Friday

Ramona Vieira with Special Guest Artist Carlos Reyes Journey Downtown, 308 Main St. www. journeycoffeeco.com. 9 p.m. Friday

Dueling Pianos

Makse, 555 Main St. duelingpiano vacaville.com/events. 7 p.m. Saturday

“Remembering James: The Life and Music of James Brown” Journey Downtown, 308 Main St. www. journeycoffeeco.com. 9 p.m. Saturday

Dueling Pianos

Makse, 555 Main St. duelingpiano vacaville.com/events.

I Benicia 4 p.m. Thursday

CBD: The Chad and Bruce Duo

The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com. 8:30 p.m. Thursday

Duo Sonics & Friends

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

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People use their cellphones as Aerosmith performs on NBC’s “Today” show at Rockefeller Center in New York, Aug. 15, 2018.

The great concert debate: Are phones ruining the live experience?

Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — On the opening night of Silk Sonic’s residency at the Park MGM in Las Vegas, Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak revived some of the best things about the 1970s: warm, sensuous grooves, tailored polyester suits and the throwback joys of an evening without a smartphone. As mandated by the band, audience members were made to lock their mobile devices in small pouches for the evening, courtesy of a company named Yondr. Once secured in their pouches, they could only be unlocked electronically at a station near the entrance of the venue. “We’re taking your phones a-way!” Mars sang out to the crowd near the start of the concert. “That was one of the best parts of the show,” said Margaret Whitener, 51, who attended the Feb. 26 performance. “It’s nice to be in the moment with no electronic dis-

tractions, especially during the pandemic, when many are forced to be more connected than ever. And if people can share concert footage online, why would others want to pay to go?” Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the live music industry has been operating in fits and starts over the past two years. Artists and fans tried to make due with livingroom livestreams and video chats, but with omicron receding and masking and vaccine requirements dissipating, many acts are now returning to the road, with some seeking respite from a pandemic-exacerbated dependence on technology. “Being the master of ceremonies and being able to read the room – understand the dynamics of what this room needs to feel like – that feeling goes away when you’re looking at a wall of [phones],” Mars told the Los Angeles Times. “With the cameras, you’re like, ‘I don’t know if I want to try out this dance move tonight,’ or you’re afraid this

joke might go on the internet.” Graham Dugoni believes this problem far predated the pandemic: He founded Yondr in 2014, after attending San Francisco’s Treasure Island Music Festival the year before. “I kept seeing so many people on their phones, texting other people in other places and then recording someone who didn’t know they were being recorded and violating their privacy,” said Dugoni. “Once the intention leaves the room, it’s hard to get back.” The business grew throughout the 2010s, as Yondr began to be implemented in schools and courtrooms. Alicia Keys, John Mayer and Jack White became Yondr’s most highprofile ambassadors, opting to use the service on tours. Although the pandemic significantly curbed in-person events, Dugoni is pleased to report that in 2022, business is booming once more. “During the pandemic, people have See Concert, Page B3

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Lucas Sanchez

The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com. 8 p.m. Friday

DJ Jerry Ross

The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com. 5 p.m. Saturday

Duo Sonics

The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com. 8 p.m. Saturday

Luvplanet with Nicole Sutton and Mark McGee

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

I Vallejo 1 p.m. Saturday

3Day Weekend

Vino Godfather Winery, 1005 Walnut Ave. www.vinogodfather.com.

Bobbie Nelson, who once told little brother Willie, ‘You sing and I’ll play the piano,’ dies at 91 The Dallas Morning News DALLAS — Bobbie Nelson, whose prowess as a piano player powered the band of her younger brother, Willie Nelson, for more than half a century, died Thursday at her home in Austin. She was 91. Willie’s publicist, Elaine Schock, issued a statement in which she said, “Her elegance, grace, beauty, and talent made this world a better place. She was the first member of Willie’s band, as his pianist and singer. Our hearts are broken, and she

will be deeply missed. But we are so lucky to have had her in our lives.” Bobbie gave literal luster to the band’s name – Willie Nelson and Family – as one of its founding members. Schock called her gifts as a keyboardist “a linchpin of his sound,” as she “sat at her piano just to the edge of the spotlight, a modest yet still powerful presence, stepping forward on occasion to lead the band and delight listeners with her wondrous pianistic gifts.” Whether she pounded the keys on “Whiskey River” to open

a Willie show or played softly on such exquisite ballads as “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,” the long-haired lady on the keyboard has been a fixture at Willie shows the world over. Austin music writer Michael Corcoran, who once wrote for The Dallas Morning News, honored Bobbie with a tribute on New Year’s Day, 2022, which happened to be her 91st birthday, in which he wrote: “The pair had forged an undeniable musical bond since she was six and Willie was four and their grandparents showed them the chords to ‘The

Great Speckled Bird.’ ” Born in Abbott, Texas, as was her 88-year-old brother, Bobbie learned to play keyboards at age 5 on a pump organ, taught by her grandmother. After impressing the townsfolk at gospel conventions in nearby Hillsboro, her grandfather presented Bobbie with a cherished gift: Her first piano. “My grandfather had said to me when I was learning to play the piano: You know, if you really work at this, you could earn your See Nelson, Page B3

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sense of one of those students who was an overt cut-up or prankster and sought attention while being funny. In fact, Basinger worked in the mental health field and even held a master’s in psychology before he got burned out. However, he learned at an early age there was power in making people laugh, and it served him well when he worked at mental health hospitals and other facilities. “Let me tell you a little story, and this happened when I was in high school,” Basinger begins. “My parents were

trying to keep me from smoking and they caught me smoking, and that was a few days before Thanksgiving,” he said. “So we were having this big Thanksgiving dinner, and we were sitting at this big table and we said grace.” That is when his mother went on a bit of a rant complaining there was someone at the table who did not do what he was told. She never mentioned a name, but the whole family knew who she was referring to that night. “And I was staring down at my plate, and when she finished, I said, ‘At least she didn’t use

any names, and everyone fell out.’ ” Basinger became a licensed psychiatric technician out of high school and went to work at a mental health hospital where sometimes patients had to be wrestled to the ground and given sedatives and ultimately restrained. “But I found that if I could get patients to laugh, I could calm them down and get them back to their rooms and not have to give them a shot,” Basinger said. “We could just give them a pill, and they would usually just take the pills.” Basinger had just completed his master’s degree when the pressures of the work overcame him, and he watched a mediocre comic on television. Never has the power of comedy been more evident, however, than when he spent a month entertaining troops in Iraq. He said they are the best audiences anywhere because they appreciate when a performer comes over there. Basinger recalls after

Fort Worth, to attend a business college in an effort to master secretarial skills for an office job. Before long, though, the Hammond Organ Co. hired her for both her office skills and her ability to demonstrate the company’s organs. Soon, she was back to full-time piano playing, tickling the ivories in restaurants, lounges and supper clubs, elevating her status to “professional musician” in both Austin and Nashville, Tennessee. But in 1973, her career went into overdrive. Signed by Atlantic Records, Willie invited her to join him in New

York City for a recording session, which became the prelude to Bobbie being a member of Willie Nelson and Family for more than 50 years. “So at age 42,” Corcoran wrote, “empty-nester Bobbie Nelson took her very first airplane flight and embarked on a glorious musical journey that is still en route. Willie and ‘Sister Bobbie,’ as she’s known in the extended Nelson family, have been musical partners since 1937″ – during the Great Depression – “and continuously since ‘73.” Corcoran noted that, in 2007, Willie offered the highest praise to his older

sister – whom he always called “little sister” – and what she had meant for decades to his one-of-akind sound: “There’s just no way to explain how lucky I am to have a good musician in the family. Whenever I’ve needed a piano player, she’s been right there. Whenever our band plays, Sister Bobbie is the best musician on the stage.” But she was more than her brother’s backup. She released her own debut album, “Audiobiography,” in 2007, with Willie singing and playing guitar on two of the 12 tracks. Amazon noted that Bobbie had long been “the modest

viate issues like social anxiety and dissociation amid big crowds. After a day or two of inflamed discourse between her fans, Mitski’s tweets were deleted. (Mitski declined to comment for this story.) Among Mitski fans at the Shrine, divisions abounded – and were surprisingly varied across generational lines. “[Mitski] is at odds with the digital age because she only wants to be performing when she’s onstage,” said writer Chingy Nea, 28, who also attended the show on Wednesday night. “It has to be hard as a performer when everybody would rather be an amateur videographer than an active participant.” “I think she has such a liberated approach to music-making,” said Rocky, 21 (they declined to use their surname). “I used to record everything, but I realized that whatever satisfaction I [can get] watching those videos, it wasn’t worth the attention I was giving my phone in real-time.” Krystle, 36, disagreed: “A video is a souvenir, and it doesn’t cost as much as a T-shirt,” she said. “Just don’t use flash and you won’t bother anybody.” Krystle drove her daughter and niece from San Bernardino to catch Mitski at the Shrine. She’d acquainted herself with Mitski on TikTok. “Social media is important,” said Krystle. “How else are young people gonna know who you are? TikTok is what gets people to come to your shows.” TikTok had not yet taken off in the United States when Jean M. Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University, began writing her 2017 book, “iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy – and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood.” Thanks to the platform’s meteoric rise, and subsequent

dominance during the pandemic, Twenge says she’s already collecting data on a follow-up book. “Gen Z was in dress rehearsal for the pandemic,” says Twenge. “They were already going out less. They were driving less. They were already communicating more digitally than in person. They were already depressed. But young people didn’t ask to be born into a world where technology has been designed to be addictive – I mean, it’s done a number on all of our attention spans. I’m seeing more young people speak out against social media exhaustion than ever before.” The unrelenting demands of social media have many emerging artists, expected to market themselves online with the same fervor with which they make their art, on the verge of fizzling out. In January, electropop artist Chelsea Cutler, 25, professed as much in an Instagram post that accumulated over 104,000 likes and support from artists like Maren Morris, Hayley Kiyoko and James Blake. “I don’t feel like a content creator, I feel like a musician and a performer,” she lamented in her post. “I don’t know how to keep up with how insatiable our content culture has become.” “TikTok is a massive discovery platform for music, but users post 10 seconds of a song in videos, and it goes viral without anyone knowing who the artist is, the story behind it or anything,” Cutler explained to The Times. “It all feels super disconnected. And when we’re in the studio, the lack of attention span these days makes an artist think about writing shorter songs, instead of thinking about the art.”

From Page B1 Basinger said. “I was staying at a hotel near the club, and the owner (Dave Wayne Mayhew) had a good relationship with them and someone (at the hotel) was giving me a ride to the club,” Basinger said. “And as we got closer, we could see the glow in the sky, and I said, ‘Wow, someone is having a bad. day.’ The driver said, ‘that could be the club,’ and it was.” Basinger said it would have cost him too much to change his flight back to Los Angeles, so he stayed in Fairfield for the weekend. “And I didn’t know anyone, so it was a pretty boring weekend,” he said, adding, however, that Mayhew paid him half of his show pay, though Honest John had told him that wasn’t necessary. Comedy was not something Basinger ever thought about as a career. He said he wasn’t even a class clown in the

Nelson From Page B1 living playing music one day,” she once said. “And I never forgot that.” By the time Willie and Bobbie were teenagers, Schock noted, they were playing honky-tonks with Bobbie’s husband Bud Fletcher and their guitar-playing father, Ira Nelson. But when Fletcher died in a car accident, a grieving Bobbie left music, at least temporarily, having suffered a nervous breakdown. With three young boys to raise, she left for

Concert From Page B1 become aware that it’s not great to be looking at the screen eight hours a day,” he said. “The ability to step into a space and be temporarily kind of unplugged is valuable.” With venues selling out at levels comparable to pre-pandemic times, concertgoers are clearly eager to get literal face time with their favorite artists – but their interactions remain, to the frustration of artists, mediated by their phones. Many performers, from Jeff Tweedy to Björk, have asked fans in good faith to refrain from using the devices during concerts. Indie-rock star Mitski performed to a sold-out audience at the Shrine Auditorium on Wednesday night – but not before issuing a prerecorded announcement just prior to taking the stage that asked fans to curb their excessive phone use, “so I can see you when you sing along.” Yet the frosty glow of smartphone screens still obscured this reporter’s view of Mitski and her band during her opening number, “Love Me More.” “They gotta get it for TikTok,” hissed one young man in the crowd. The issue came to a head for Mitski fans in late February, when the artist, who left social media in 2019, posted a rare series of tweets addressing the glut of phones at her shows. “When I’m on stage and look to you but you are gazing into a screen,” she wrote, “it makes me feel as though those of us on stage are being taken from and consumed as content, instead of getting to share a moment with you.” While some fans sympathized, others said that smartphones were a necessity for young concertgoers. Some argued that phones helped alle-

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HOW TO SEE THE SHOWS Tickets for the shows Saturday are $45 for general admission and $55 for VIP seating, which includes a complementary swag bag. The shows will be at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are available through Eventbrite.com or by calling 707-416-3774. The theater is located at 720 Main St.

one show a soldier came up to him and thanked him. “I lost a friend . . . ,” the soldier said, explaining how that friend had been killed in battle, “and this is the first time I’ve laughed since then.” Bassinger remembers thinking, “Wow, I’m really doing something important.” Honest John won’t say his time in the mental health field gave him any particular insight into human nature and what people might find funny, but he said it did teach him something very important: how to listen. “One (piece) of advice I give to young comedians is you keep writing and let the audiences edit you. Some comedians get so carried away with what they are doing on stage, they don’t listen to the audience,” he said. Over the years,

Honest John has developed a number of routines from a variety of sources – current events, anecdotal, etc. – and when one topic isn’t working, he has learned to adapt and switch to another. “But you have to listen to the audience,” he said. The lack of audience feedback is what made performing on Zoom so difficult during the pandemic. “Zoom shows are just awful, but it is a way to keep your hand in it,” Honest John said. The shows at the Harbor Theater will be among his last on the West Coast for a while. Due to work on his apartment building, he is moving in with a friend in upstate New York for a while, so most of his performances will be on the East Coast.

female counterpart” to her charismatic sibling, whose millions of fans all over the world have known for decades how Bobbie’s playing “melds into the ensemble that makes up Willie’s rough-hewn style, even as it also stands out in its assertiveness.” The Nelson siblings also collaborated on a pair of books: the memoir “Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band,” published in 2020 by Random House, and on the children’s book, “Sister, Brother, Family: An American Childhood in Music,” published in 2021 by Doubleday. Bobbie Nelson has

her own place in the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 2017. But her legacy, of course, will be the role she played in helping make her red-headed brother a superstar. “I’ve always been very shy,” Corcoran quoted her saying. “I sang a little when we were kids, mostly in church. But Willie had such a beautiful voice. I’d always tell him, ‘You sing, Willie, and I’ll play the piano.’ ” And in that regard, Bobbie Nelson was unparalleled.

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he carried that weight long with other churches, we in the all the way to the cross. Episcopal Church Jesus knows we need are midway through the his grace, we need his season of Lent, when peace, and we need Christians take time to his light. Our mission reflect on all that keeps is to pray and remain us from following in faithful in the midst of Jesus’ way of love and our lament and be a faith. We remember the Karen Freeman witness to the saving 40 days Jesus spent love of Christ. Religious view wandering in the The pictures we wilderness, being tempted to see on the news of Ukraiback out of the mission God sent nian mothers carrying babies him to fulfill. and a few belongings and of The past two years have felt the elderly being transported like a wilderness. As we come in shopping carts on the road out of the pandemic, we are now to safety in Poland show the confronted with this awful war sheer determination of people in Ukraine. Our struggles with in a desperate situation. God gas prices and supply chains are does not stand on the side of the nothing compared to what the oppressor who covets another Ukrainians are going through, nation’s sovereign land, and or what people in many other neither should we. places in the world today are In the midst of darkness, going through. our hope rests in the light of If you’ve been feeling Christ. Our lament is justified, weighed down lately, you’re not and God hears our cries, but we alone. Jesus was no stranger should not be paralyzed with despair. We might feel helpto lament – he wept over the less, but we can speak up for death of a friend (John 11:35) peace and mercy. We can help and cried out over the city of by supporting organizations Jerusalem (Luke 13:34). Jesus that are providing relief to perwas weighed down by the secuted, oppressed and hurting weight of the world’s sin, and

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We can spread peace and kindness through loving our neighbor as ourself. people. We can spread peace and kindness through loving our neighbor as ourself, and that means our immigrant neighbor, our refugee neighbor, our LGBTQ neighbor, our neighbor of a different faith or race, and our neighboring countries. The apostle Paul wrote that Christians are citizens of heaven (Philippians 3:20). Jesus taught

us to pray, “Thy kingdom come, on Earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). In 1955, Jill Jackson-Miller wrote in a song, “Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with me.” The other day when I got out of my car at Raley’s, a stranger asked, “How are you doing today?” – a simple gesture that reflected to me the truth that

most human beings are good and kind. It felt like an act of solidarity in the midst of our collective lament. Let’s pray and work toward a more peaceful and caring world, together. The Rev. Karen Freeman is a priest at Grace Episcopal Church. You can reach her at gracechurchfairfield @gmail.com.

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All the scary, negative news makes me feel powerless Dear Annie: You have the prestigious Johns a lot of common sense, Hopkins University in and I am writing to you which scientists exambecause I am looking for ined a whole bunch an outside opinion about of studies that conmy sudden pessimism cluded that lockdowns about current events. did almost nothing to Normally, I wouldn’t prevent deaths. care what is going on in I used to travel a fair Annie Lane amount, but I am relucthe world, other than as Dear Annie an observer. tant to fly because I But it seems like picture crowded airlately, world events keep chang- ports, security lines and tightly ing our lives, and not always for packed planes with some pasthe better. sengers who no doubt have Obviously, the biggest Covid-19, and we would all be change came from Covid-19 and breathing the same air. all the tragic deaths worldwide. It has been two years since But that included lockdowns – this pandemic started, and I a term used in prisons. Then haven’t gotten the virus yet, so I read about a study from I figure I’ll wait a while before

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trying to get back to where I was before the pandemic. I am vaccinated and have one booster shot. But then there is the news that Russia is invading Ukraine, and I can’t fathom how Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks he can recreate the USSR and control a free people in 2022. What’s happening with China? I watched some of the Olympics, but the setting seemed like it was at an industrial park or a nuclear power plant. When the athletes would finish a ski run, they would immediately put on their masks while standing outside in the open air. It made me uncomfortable to watch.

Gas prices are through the roof, and I keep hearing about “supply shortages” when I go to the supermarket. I went to a pet store the other day and could buy only four cans of the cat food that my cat likes. That’s all they had left, and the employees said they have no idea when they will get more. I am sure things will get better. They always do. But right now, I am feeling powerless because of what is happening all over the world. Do you or your readers have any suggestions for how I can cheer up? I am curious to know how other people are handling all these disruptions. — Feeling Powerless

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Today’s birthday Creativity is one of your love languages. You’ll be inventive and make things for people. These contributions mean so much more than anything that can be bought at a store. Often the thing you make is not a physical item, rather it’s an exchange or an experience, every bit as alive as something you can hold. Leo and Libra adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 13, 16, 27 and 1.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Though your past has a lot to do with your present, it doesn’t have to impact your future. There are many reasons to interrupt a pattern. You’ve outgrown it; it doesn’t feel right; it’s boring . . . The list goes on. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You try to keep your friends out of mischief, though it’s not always possible or wise. In protecting or covering for a friend, you’ll walk the line between loyalty and codependency. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Think about what you really want because when you’re not sure, you’ll send out a mixed signal. That’s like casting a fishing line out with pizza for bait. What you’ll reel in with that is anyone’s guess. CANCER (June 22-July 22). “May you live in interesting times and attract the attention of important people.” This traditional wish sounds like a blessing but is actually a curse. Go carefully into potentially ego-inflating situations. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Just when you think you have it all figured out, experience will bring you something baffling and new. You won’t mind today’s pickle, especially since you’re in it with an interesting someone. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You make friends easily, yet good friendships are still hard to come by. You’re about to encounter that magical blend of mutual interest, logistical convenience and the indescribable X-factor. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Someone has borrowed part of you, and it is now time to call it back. This will be an internal process. You’ll focus on the task at hand and realize that it will require the wholeness of your energy. From there, boundaries are easy to set. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You can’t become mighty, clever or confident without fortifying your weaknesses. And you don’t know what your weaknesses are until you make mistakes. This is why it’s better to take on the harder challenges. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). There are times when the detours are sweeter than the main path. This is not one of those times. Steer clear of distractions, especially games, shopping and expensive enticements. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Hopefully you don’t mind being copied; people want to be like you today. You seem like you know what you’re doing, and you make the activity look cool. You’ll gain admirers as well as followers. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Your voice is clear, and your presence is strong. Anyone new to the scene will assume you have authority. Ask for what you want. You’ll either get it immediately or you’ll find out how to get it. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). It may be an inconvenient time for certain aspects of a relationship, but you’ll make room for everything that needs to happen because love is worth it. CELEBRITY PROFILES: William H. Macy has acted in well over 100 movies and television shows, won countless awards for stage and screen and directed several episodes of “Shameless” as well as his own movies. Macy is a Pisces with communication planet Mercury also in the Pisces realm of sensitive artists. Moon in Capricorn indicates a stellar business sense. Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

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pring is upon us, and March is National Nutrition Month. As days become longer and flowers bloom, it is perfect timing to consider the importance of nutrition in our own health and vitality. Unfortunately, chronic diseases including heart disease, cancer and diabetes continue to plague the United States as leading causes of death and disability, resulting in more than $3 trillion spent every year. However, there is a ray of sunshine, a cause for hope, something we can do: Eat! OK, let’s say, eat better. Nearly all chronic health problems are affected by nutrition, which gives us a bit of control. Osteopathic physicians recognize the importance of nutrition and approach patients with the tenants of osteopathic medicine in mind, including the concept that structure and function are inter-related and reciprocal. This is especially true when it comes to nutrition. Ultimately, every structure and function in our body requires two things to live: food and oxygen. By eating better, we improve the very structure of our health. Choosing foods such as power-

packed vegetables or a handful of nuts improves function, leading to less disease and feeling better while living longer. In fact, research on the Mediterranean diet has shown choosing vegetables, legumes, grains or even healthy fats like olive oil can actually decrease your chances of diseases like heart attacks, cancer and obesity. Now that’s good medicine; tasty too! Enjoying more veggies, fruit, nuts, grains and less processed and packaged food is key. You reap the benefits by eating a wide variety of these types of food in the cultural traditions and flavors you like. Osteopathic physicians also recognize a person is a unity of mind, body and spirit. Considering food’s connection to what makes us feel joyful in our mind and spirit, we see the importance of nutrition. It is easy to say, “Eat less sweets” or “Avoid salt,” but we forget these are often the very things at our birthday parties, weddings and holidays – traditions that connect us with others. Cutting out the junk food is hard enough, but the perceived loss of the joy associated with these get-togethers makes our brain say, “No way!” However, when we realize it is socializing with friends and family that makes us feel good, and not the sugary

cake, it becomes much easier to make little shifts in our diet. There is a saying that “Neurons that fire together, wire together,” meaning if we eat healthy foods while having fun with others, our brains begin to connect healthy food with the social connections that make us feel good. A healthy win for body, mind and spirit. Of course, making changes can be difficult, especially when we’re wired to like junk food. You don’t have to become a gourmet chef or never eat a doughnut again. Keep it simple. Take the “rainbow” challenge and see how many colors of the rainbow from veggies you can eat a day. Try a new recipe at home instead of the drive-thru once a week. Throw some spinach in a smoothie. Visit your local farmers market. Bring a colorful veggie tray instead of cookies to the next party. Little changes add up to better health. It’s not easy, but just like the new blooms emerging this spring, you might find you are stronger than you know. With a bit of sunshine, water and a few shifts in your diet, you will grow a bit healthier day by day. Dr. Traci Stevenson and Dr. Grace Jones are assistant professors at Touro University of California, a partner of Solano Public Health.

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A’s trade Bassitt to Mets for pair of prospects Tribune Content Agency MESA, Ariz. — The A’s made their first postlockout move, trading starting pitcher Chris Bassitt to the New York Mets for two pitching prospects Saturday. Oakland received minor-league right-handers J.T. Ginn and Adam Oller in the deal, the team announced. Bassitt, 33, joins a Mets rotation led by Jacob deGrom and free-agent prize Max

Scherzer. He also is reunited in New York with outfielders Mark Canha and Starling Marte, who ended last season with the A’s and signed with the Mets in free agency. The A’s were widely expected to overhaul their roster this offseason and dealing Bassitt – their Opening Night starter and an All-Star last season – could be the first domino. First baseman Matt Olson, third baseman Matt

Chapman and starting pitchers Frankie Montas and Sean Manaea have all appeared in trade rumors as teams resume transactions after a 99-day lockout. In Bassitt, the A’s dealt one of their most popular players and a clubhouse leader. Bassitt posted a 12-4 record and 3.15 ERA in 27 starts last season, earning his first AllStar selection and earning AL Cy Young votes. He might have placed

higher but for the month he missed after he was struck in the face by a line drive in an Aug. 17 start in Chicago. Bassitt had surgery a week later to correct a facial fracture and remove bone fragments, then returned to make two starts in September. He led the American League in wins and innings at the time of his injury. He finished with careerhighs in innings (157 1/3) and strikeouts (159). His

1.06 WHIP ranked second-lowest among AL pitchers with at least 150 innings. Bassitt is entering his final season before free agency eligibility and is projected to earn an $8.8 million salary in arbitration this season by MLB Trade Rumors. Mets owner Steve Cohen has not shied from adding to his team’s payroll, such that the newly ratified CBA includes an upper luxury tax threshold

widely viewed as aimed at Cohen that penalizes a team when its payroll passes $290 million. The Mets’ pre-lockout moves included signing Scherzer (three years, $130 million), Marte (four years, $78 million) and Canha (two years, $26.5 million) to freeagent deals. Cot’s Baseball Contracts was projecting the Mets’ Opening Day payroll at an MLB-high $255.5 million Saturday – See Bassitt, Page B8

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LAS VEGAS — Nobody has ever pictured the great Tara VanDerveer as a creature of the Las Vegas Strip. Nobody has ever wondered if the eternal Stanford women’s basketball coach ever sneaked down here from Palo Alto and materialized beside a slot machine in a veil and sunglasses, the ice melted in her faded cocktail. It’s about as not her as not her gets. Yet VanDerveer, of all people, wound up crystallizing the galloping evolution of Las Vegas as sports town with 13 words amid this stupendous basketball fortnight boasting 10 conference tournaments in one lit-up valley. “I’m so far from a Vegas person,” she said after her 15th championship (and third in Las Vegas) out of the 21 Pac-12 tournaments

The Utah Valley Green Man Group fit right in in Las Vegas for the WAC tournament. held within her 36 Stanford seasons. “But I’m a Vegas basketball person.” Nowadays there are Vegas basketball people, strewn all over the map. They’ve come to play or watch March basketball, which has become almost as commonplace to Las Vegas as delight, despair and divorce lawyers. It has joined a dizzying pile of sports in a city a fretful NCAA once shunned, events-wise, a

city bulging with the pioneering UFC, the NHL’s Golden Knights, the WNBA’s Aces, the NFL’s Raiders, an NCAA West Regional coming in 2023, a Super Bowl in 2024. It has sprouted arenas like other towns do Starbucks, so that in a country finally gone oh-what-thehell about gambling, early March can go like this: 11 days, five arenas, five western conferences, 10 conference tourna-

ments (five women’s, five men’s), 106 teams, 96 games, enough to exhaust even the eager. “Las Vegas has been the entertainment capital for a long time, and I think it’s becoming the sports capital,” said George Kliavkoff, the new Pac-12 commissioner plucked last year from MGM Resorts International, from Las Vegas. He cited the “walking distance from some of the venues to lots of hotels,” the hotels “at various different price points, so people with different budgets can afford to come,” and “so much else to do while you’re here.” Inhale: It has had the Pac-12 since 2013 (men) and 2019 (women), the Mountain West Conference since 2007, the West Coast Conference since 2009, the Western Athletic Conference since 2011, the Big West since See Madness, Page B9

In the post-Buster Posey era, catching is a strength in the Giants’ system Tribune Content Agency SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — In the not-so-distant past, the Giants’ organizational catching depth consisted of, well, Buster Posey. Homegrown catchers were just not the norm in the minor-league system. “It’s not that long ago I remember making rosters out, and I was looking at the catching and it was just tough,” Giants director of player development Kyle Haines said Saturday. “We were converting players to catcher. The catching prospect was just Aramis Garcia, and it felt like that was about it. We were really thin in the catching department for a long time.” The post-Posey era is quite a contrast, boasting several promising catchers, beyond just Posey’s

likely successor, Joey Bart. Catching might be the deepest position in the organization. “I think now we can put a bona fide catching prospect on every single team,” Haines said of the Giants’ system. “And other guys who pushed them to be even better, some of these under-the-radar guys, have done a nice job of developing as well.” Two years after taking Bart with their first pick (No. 2 overall in 2018), the Giants selected Patrick Bailey in the first round. Bailey, a switch-hitter, is considered a topnotch defensive catcher. Bailey, 22, is likely to start the season at High-A Eugene (Ore.) but could move up quickly. “He’s very athletic, really smart, intuitive, great hands,” minor-

league catching coordinator Lance Burkhart said. “He knows the game, knows what the pitches are trying to do. He’s definitely ahead of where he should be in that department.” Then there’s Ricardo Genovés, a 6-foot-2 catcher who opened eyes last year when he hit .275 with 14 homers over three different levels, including a brief but memorable stop at Triple-A Sacramento, with which he was 10-for-22 with a homer. Haines extolled Genovés’ improved offense along with his leadership qualities, saying, “He’s very popular in the locker room. He connects with everybody. You might look up and he’s singing country music with a cowboy hat on, and the younger players look See Giants, Page B8

FAIRFIELD — Grant Kerr fired a completegame five-hitter and Jack Metcho doubled in Demetrio Perriat in the bottom of the seventh to give the Rodriguez High baseball team a 2-1 walkoff victory over Sheldon of Sacramento, Saturday. Kerr yielded just a fourth-inning run while striking out seven and walking none. After Landon Troutt plated Metcho to tie the score at 1-1 in the bottom of the fifth, Metcho, who went 3-for-3 with a triple, came through with his key double in the seventh. Troutt and Trentin Schmidt also doubled, giving the Mustangs (7-0) four extra-base hits among their five overall hits. Rodriguez’s JV team also prevailed, 7-2. The Mustangs return to Monticello Empire League play when they host Fairfield on Tuesday at 4 p.m. Vanden 9, Benicia 4: At Benicia on Friday, former Solano County

Athletic Conference rivals battled with the Vikings (5-0), breaking a 4-4 tie by scoring in each of the final four innings and in six of the seven frames overall. Kayden Omoso, Jack Brooks and Isaac Zaldivar each had two hits, with Brooks, who tripled, Omoso, Jake Tranchina and James Brousseau driving in one run and Zaldivar getting three RBIs. DJ Andersen pitched the first three innings to get the win, allowing three hits and four unearned runs with four strikeouts and three walks. Wesley Smith and Trevor Morse combined to throw three scoreless and hitless innings. Vacaville 11, Napa 10: At Napa on Friday, Tyler DeStanfano went 3-for-4 with two home runs and four RBIs as the Bulldogs (5-1) jumped out to leads of 8-3 and 11-7 before holding on to defeat their former Monticello Empire League rivals. Andrew Lammon also See Local, Page B8

How 49ers’ DB Jaquiski Tartt has made the best of his worst moment Tribune Content Agency On Jan. 30, in the visitors’ locker room at SoFi Stadium, less than an hour after the most crushing moment of his football life, Jaquiski Tartt steeled himself for the next chapter of his nightmare night. The 49ers’ safety had just spoken with two members of the team’s public-relations staff, Mike Chasanoff and Peter Volmut, who encouraged him to speak publicly about the critical play he failed to make in a 20-17 loss to the Rams in the NFC Championship Game. Tartt, 30, already had sent a no-excuses tweet to his 50,000-plus followers from the locker room. But it was one thing to type. And another to talk. To move beyond a screen, and face a sea of cameras and reporters to answer questions about the ball that bounced off his hands, symbolizing how a trip to Super Bowl LVI slipped away. Tartt didn’t have

to be convinced to conduct a postgame interview. Whatever reservations he had were overwhelmed by his desire to be accountable. And by walking a few hundred feet from the locker room to the media room, he could take the first steps toward making good on the pledge at the end of his 36-word postgame tweet: He wouldn’t let the moment define him and would instead emerge “stronger and better.” Before Tartt summoned his strength, though, he had an unexpected moment in which he connected with his pain. He cried about the catch he didn’t make. “It was a moment where I just broke down,” Tartt said in a recent interview, “but I knew I had to go take it on the chin.” Tartt took it on the chin after a punch-in-thegut play. With the 49ers leading 17-14 with about 10 minutes left, Rams See Tartt, Page B7

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it to heart. I was hurt. And I knew it was something that was going to be a story because we lost.” Nearly six weeks after that defeat, though, another story has emerged. How does one handle the worst moment of their professional life? Tartt couldn’t have navigated his much better. After he broke down in the locker room, he remained composed with the media and fielded every question, seven in all, in a six-minute news conference in which he credited the Rams, expressed regret for letting down his “brothers” and declined to minimize a play that was followed by a host of breakdowns from his teammates in the game’s final 28 snaps. “When you get (that opportunity), for me, it’s the moment of truth,” Tartt said. “And the moment of truth shows and I didn’t step up.” His response set the tone for how others responded to him. On social media, the typical cesspool was replaced by an ocean of goodwill. The most meaningful response he received, Tartt acknowledged, was a private message from a relative. His 11-year-old nephew, Daisean Love, texted him a YouTube video of a one-handed interception Tartt made in 2017 against the Panthers. His message: “It’s OK, Uncle, I know you can catch.” Meanwhile, the kind-

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ness of strangers marked the majority of the more than 6,000 responses Tartt received on his mea culpa postgame tweet. Some of the phrases from a sampling of replies: “Keep your chin up.” . . . “Respect to you for owning it.” . . . “We love you Tartt!” . . . “Praying for your peace of mind.” . . . “We got you.” . . . “You played your ass off.” “It’s definitely been encouraging,” Tartt said. “I would say it’s been 98% support and 2% that are using social media to be trolls. At the end of the day, too, it’s all about perspective. . . . I can easily look at that 2% and say, ‘Man, everyone hates me,’ instead of the 98% that’s supporting me. Perspective is so important in life.” One of the messages of support came from Matt Doan, 46, a pastor in Santa Ana who is a 49ers fan and Santa Cruz native. Given his job, Doan recognizes the irony in what happened after the NFC title game: Tartt’s response gave him better perspective on the loss. Doan laughed this week when recalling how his wife and four children spent much of the dramatic game laughing at him. “I was so into it and when (Tartt) dropped it, I punched the couch,” Doan said. “Luckily, there was no one on the couch with me. But the reaction was, ‘No!’ – probably like every 49er fan. I was disappointed because you knew

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in that moment how huge that could have been.” When he read Tartt’s postgame tweet, Doan was struck by his accountability and humility. He tweeted to Tartt: “Team wouldn’t have made it to tonight’s game without you, Niners Nation is with you!!” “When he said that it wasn’t going to define him as a person, it was like, “Whoa, what a statement,’” Doan said. “I was just really impressed. What poise to own it in that moment and to also have that perspective. It showed his character and, honestly, kind of helped me with perspective because I was so upset after the game.” Monica Silva, 52, a lifelong 49ers fan and sixth-grade teacher in San Jose, was similarly impressed. She used Tartt as an example for her students, who were learning about cyberbullying, when Tartt tweeted eight days after the game about the social media hate he’d received: “People gotta learn their comments say more about them . . . than it actually has to do with me.” Two days later, 18 sixth-graders at Dartmouth Middle School tweeted Tartt a 92-second video in which seven of them explained how he’d impacted them. Said one student: “I admire you for not letting the bullies get to you. And I wish I could have done that.”

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Tartt’s miscue came in what was his 86th and likely final game with the 49ers. He is scheduled to be a free agent next week and the 49ers have two younger, cheaper recent draft picks, Talanoa Hufanga and Tarvarius Moore, who are candidates to take the starting spot Tartt has had since 2015. His 49ers’ legacy will include the play he didn’t make, but it also will include his potentially game-saving tackle of running back Aaron Jones in the previous week’s divisional-playoff win in Green Bay. And, finally, it will include the way he handled himself after a hellish moment. In response to not making an interception, he didn’t drop the ball. “I knew it was a bad moment,” Tartt said, “and it hurt. But I still wanted to turn it around into something positive.”

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Later, when she told her students that Tartt appreciatively responded to their video, Silva said they “lost their everloving minds.” “I was glad to see (Tartt) stand up for himself,” Silva said. “Because I was a bit pained when he was taking so much on after the game – saying he deserved it and he let his brothers down. He was so obviously heartbroken in that moment, almost as if he felt that he deserved some level of abuse. I was so happy he was able to reflect and say that it says more about you than it says about me. . . .That’s what I wanted to share with my students.” The feel-good stories can’t obscure a harsh reality: Tartt’s drop will endure. It will have a place a few rungs below other painful NFC Championship Game moments in franchise history, such as fumbles by Roger Craig and Kyle Williams in losses to the Giants that were 21 years apart.

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CALENDAR Sunday’s TV sports Baseball College •USC at UCLA, PAC12, 3 p.m. Basketball College men •Ivy League, championship, ESPN2, 9 a.m. •SEC, championship, ESPN, 10 a.m. •Atlanta-10, championship, Chs. 5, 13, 10 a.m. •AAC, championship, ESPN, 12:15 p.m. •Big Ten, championship, Chs. 5, 13, 12:30 p.m. •NCAA Selection Show, Chs. 5, 13, 3 p.m. •NIT Selection Special, ESPNU, 6 p.m. College women •Patriot League, championship, CBSSN, 9 a.m. •Big 12, championship, ESPN2, 11 a.m. •Missouri Valley, championship, ESPNU, 11 a.m. •Southland, championship, CBSSN, 11 a.m. •NCAA Selection Special, ESPN, 5 p.m. •NCAA Selection Special, ESPN2, 6 p.m. NBA •New York at Brooklyn, Chs. 7, 10, 10 a.m. •Dallas at Boston, Chs. 7, 10, 12:30 p.m. •L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, ESPN, 6 p.m. Bowling •PBA, World Series of Bowling, World Championship, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 10 a.m. Golf •PGA Tour, The Players Championship, final round, Ch. 3, 10 a.m. Hockey NHL •Heritage Classic, Toronto vs. Buffalo, at Tim Hortons Field, TNT, 1 p.m. Gymnastics College men •Michigan at Illinois, BIG TEN, 12:30 p.m. Horse racing •America’s Day at the Races, FS1, noon •America’s Day at the Races, FS2, 1:30 p.m. Lacrosse College men •Syracuse at Johns Hopkins, ESPNU, 1 p.m. College women •Colorado at Arizona State, PAC12, 11 a.m. •Oregon at USC, PAC12, 1 p.m. Motorsports •NASCAR, Cup Series, Ruoff Mortgage 500, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 12:30 p.m. •NHRA, AMALIE Motor Oil Gatornationals, FS1, 4 p.m. (taped) Paralympics •Daytime coverage, Ch. 3, 9 a.m. Rodeo •PBR, U.S. Border Patrol Invitational, CBSSN, 1 p.m. Rugby •MLR, Utah at Los Angeles, FS2, 4 p.m. Soccer Ligue 1 •Paris Saint-Germain vs. Bordeaux, BEIN, 3:50 a.m. •Strasbourg vs. AS Monaco, BEIN, 5:55 a.m. •Olympique Lyonnais vs. Rennes, BEIN, 7:55 a.m. •Stade Brestois vs. Marseille, BEIN, 11:35 a.m. •FC Metz vs. RC Lens, BEIN, 7:30 p.m. (taped) WSL •Tottenham vs. Manchester City, CNBC, 5:30 a.m. Premier League •West Ham vs. Aston Villa, USA, 7 p.m. •Arsenal vs. Leicester City, USA, 9 a.m. MLS •Atlanta United vs. Charlotte FC, FS1, 1:30 p.m. Super Lig •Alanyaspor vs. Fenerbahce, BEIN, 2 p.m. (taped) •Galatasaray vs. Besiktas, BEIN, 8:55 a.m. (Monday) USL Championship •Birmingham Legion vs. New Mexico United, ESPN2, 2 p.m. Liga MX •Santos Laguna vs. Club Tijuana Xolos, FS2, 6 p.m. Softball •Boston College at North Carolina, ACC, 9 a.m. •Notre Dame at Virginia, ACC, 11 a.m. •Georgia at South Carolina, SEC, 11 a.m. •Mississippi State at Florida, SEC, 1 p.m. •North Carolina State at Duke, ACC, 1 p.m. Tennis •ATP/WTA BNP Paribas Open, ATP second round, WTA third round, TENNIS, 11 a.m.

Scoreboard BASKETBALL NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct 40 25 .615 Philadelphia Boston 41 27 .603 Toronto 37 30 .552 Brooklyn 34 33 .507 New York 28 39 .418 Central Division W L Pct Milwaukee 42 26 .618 Chicago 41 26 .612 Cleveland 38 29 .567 Indiana 23 45 .338 Detroit 18 49 .269 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 45 24 .652 33 35 .485 Charlotte 32 34 .485 Atlanta 29 36 .446 Washington Orlando 18 50 .265 WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division W L Pct 42 25 .627 Utah Denver 40 28 .588 Minnesota 39 30 .559 25 40 .385 Portland Oklahoma City 20 46 .303 Pacific Division W L Pct Phoenix 53 14 .791

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Local From Page B6 crushed a home run while going 2-for-5 with two RBIs, with JJ Menesini, who stole three bases, Bennie Dyer and Cameron Malone each getting two hits. Dyer and Malone each hit doubles with Caleb Morant smacking a triple. Vacaville struggled on the mound, giving up eight walks, seven hits and seven earned runs. Rio Vista 3, Vacaville Christian 0: At Vacaville on Thursday, Grant Baldwin came within an out of getting a complete game shutout, allowing four hits and four walks while striking out 12 in 6 2/3 innings of scoreless pitching for the Rams (2-5, 1-1). Ryan Zamarripa got the final out with a strikeout to get the save. Jeremy Turner went 2-for-3 to lead Rio Vista at the plate, while Sam Esperson and Sam Lara each drove in runs. The top hitter for Vacaville Christian (2-4, 1-1) was John Elliott, who was 2-for-3. Amador 12, Rio Vista 2: At Sutter Creek on Saturday, the Buffalos scored in every inning while the Rams countered with just two in the top of the fourth on a Sam Lara two-run double. Three Rio Vista pitchers combined to yield 16 hits and 10 earned runs.

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Armijo falls to Vacaville, 5-4 FAIRFIELD — Jamie Silva of the Armijo High boys tennis team outlasted Vacaville’s Samuel Arevalo 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 at No. 4 singles in a match that lasted more than two hours, but the Bulldogs swept the doubles

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Giants From Page B6 up to him.” Genovés, 22, is one of a number of catching gems the Giants have found on the international market, including two very promising 19-year-olds: Adrian Sugastey, a Panamanian who led the Arizona Rookie League with a .358 average last year, and Dominican Onil Perez, who had a .448 OBP in the same league. Recent signee Juan Perez, who is from Venezuela, is just 17 but already drawing raves. “Every year, our international scouts pick up one or two high-profile catchers,” Haines said. “For me, Sugastey jumps off the page with

what he’s done and he has a great work ethic; Onil had a great year in the Dominican Summer League, controlling the zone and catching; and Juan Perez does not play like a 17-year-old. It looks like he might be an incredible steal at $1.2 million. He’s looked amazing.” Two older players also had interesting seasons: USF’s Robert Emery, 25, hit .326 at two levels last year, and North Carolina’s Brandon Martorano, 24, hit well at Eugene, with a 1.023 OPS, before struggling at Double-A Richmond. He got one at bat at Sacramento, and homered. “We have a group of young, talented kids who are really fun to watch,” Burkhart said. “It’s going to be exciting to see what they can do.”

before updating it with the addition of Bassitt. The A’s were projected for the 24th-highest payroll, per Cot’s Contracts, but could drop further if they part with other players due significant arbitration raises, such as Olson, Chapman and Manaea. Bassitt was the A’s longest-tenured pitcher and took a long road to the top of their rotation. Acquired from the White Sox in the 2014 trade that also netted Marcus Semien, Bassitt started out 1-10 in the majors with Oakland before Tommy John surgery in 2016. He endured a slow recovery and struggled with a swingman role when he returned. He credited embracing that role with helping him flourish. His departure leaves an opening in an A’s rotation

GOLDEN STATE 46 22 .676 7½ L.A. Clippers 35 34 .507 19 L.A. Lakers 29 37 .439 23½ SACRAMENTO 24 45 .348 30 Southwest Division W L Pct GB 46 22 .676 — Memphis Dallas 41 26 .612 4½ 27 40 .403 18½ New Orleans 26 42 .382 20 San Antonio 17 50 .254 28½ Houston Friday’s Games Orlando 118, Minnesota 110 Atlanta 112, L.A. Clippers 106 Boston 114, Detroit 103 Miami 117, Cleveland 105 Dallas 113, Houston 100 Memphis 118, New York 114 Charlotte 142, New Orleans 120 San Antonio 104, Utah 102 Toronto 117, Phoenix 112 L.A. Lakers 122, Washington 109 Saturday’s Games GOLDEN STATE 122, Milwaukee 109 Utah 134, SACRAMENTO 125 Minnesota 113, Miami 104 Chicago 101, Cleveland 91 Indiana 119, San Antonio 108 Toronto 127, Denver 115 Washington at Portland, (n) Sunday’s Games New York at Brooklyn, 10 a.m. L.A. Clippers at Detroit, noon Dallas at Boston, 12:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Orlando, 3 p.m. Indiana at Atlanta, 4 p.m. Houston at New Orleans, 4 p.m. Memphis at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 6 p.m. Monday’s Games Washington at GOLDEN STATE, 7 p.m. Chicago at SACRAMENTO, 7 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Cleveland, 4 p.m.

en route to a 5-4 Monticello Empire League victory, Friday. Other singles winners for the Royals (0-2) were Andrew Arguel at No. 1, Gabriel Wahid at No. 2 (6-1, 7-6) and Will Rivera at No. 5 (6-4, 6-2). Singles winners for the Bulldogs were Chase Sweeney at No. 3 (6-2, 6-4) and Caden Krause (6-3, 6-4), while their doubles victories were earned by Owen Johnson and Trenton Hill at No. 1 (6-3, 6-2), Josh Swanson and Rourke Sherry at No. 2 (6-0, 6-2) and Jaxson Ivie and Maxwell Hawkins at No. 3 (by forfeit).

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Solano rallies for wild 9-8 triumph ROCKVILLE — Trailing 8-3 after 3 1/2 innings, the Solano Community College baseball team rallied for five runs, including three in the bottom of the seventh, to pull out a 9-8 victory over Mendocino in the BVC Pre-Conference tournament, Thursday. The Falcons (3-13) jumped to 3-0 with a run in the second when Eli DeGuzman singled in Jaxson Bates and two in the third when Dillon Nosrati singled in Victor Vega and Bates plated Jason Pridy with a sacrifice fly. The Eagles appeared to take control of the game by scoring eight runs in the top of the fourth – all after two outs and with just two hits – taking advantage of four walks, three errors and a hit batter. The comeback started right away when Vega doubled in DeGuzman in the bottom of the fourth and Nico Castrillo delivered a two-run single in the fifth. In Solano’s three-run seventh, Austin Menesini, that had returned in full from last season. Pitchers on the 40-man roster who could vie for a starting job in camp include Daulton Jefferies, Paul Blackburn and Brent Honeywell Jr., a righthander acquired from the Rays before the lockout. Ginn, 22, appears to be Oakland’s main return in the deal. The Mets’ second-round draft pick in 2020despitehavingTommy John surgery early that year, Ginn debuted in the minors in 2021 with 18 starts in A-ball. Baseball America ranked Ginn the Mets’ sixth-best prospect entering this season, writing that he pitches “in the low 90s with plus sink and boring action to break bats” and also throws a slider and changeup. Oller, 27, meanwhile, could be a major-league option for Oakland this season. A 2016 20thround pick by the Pirates, Oller was selected in the 2020 minor-league Rule 5 draft by the Mets and posted good numbers in

Portland at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m. Denver at Philadelphia, 4:30 p.m. Charlotte at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m. Minnesota at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Utah, 7 p.m. Toronto at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

HOCKEY NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Carolina 58 41 12 5 87 196 135 N.Y. Rangers 59 37 17 5 79 180 154 Pittsburgh 59 35 15 9 79 193 158 Washington 60 32 18 10 74 197 169 Columbus 59 29 27 3 61 193 218 N.Y. Islanders 55 23 24 8 52 148 154 New Jersey 59 22 32 5 49 179 208 Philadelphia 58 18 30 10 46 145 202 Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 58 40 13 5 85 243 170 Tampa Bay 57 37 14 6 80 197 166 Toronto 58 37 16 5 79 217 176 Boston 59 36 18 5 77 180 160 Detroit 59 24 28 7 55 170 221 58 21 32 5 47 154 189 Ottawa Buffalo 59 19 32 8 46 157 210 Montreal 58 15 35 8 38 143 221 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 59 41 13 5 87 230 170 Colorado St. Louis 58 34 17 7 75 208 161 57 34 19 4 72 216 187 Minnesota Nashville 58 33 21 4 70 184 164 57 32 22 3 67 170 169 Dallas

Bates and Castrillo scored without benefit of a hit. Vega and Bates finished with two hits each. Rodriguez Jesse picked up the victory with 4 1/3 innings of stellar relief, giving up six hits and one unearned run while striking out eight and walking one. Josh Petrill pitched a scoreless ninth with one hit and one strikeout to get the save.

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Rio Vista Women’s Golf Club ODD OUT–EVEN IN Flight 1 1, Marsha Berry, net 43. 2, Lynn Traver, net45. 3 (tied), Joan Rexford and Jackie Evans, net 47. Flight 2 1, Bessie Dunn, net 40. 2, Lynn Grace, net 43. 3, Jan Benner, net 45. Chip-ins: Lynn Traver, No. 2; Diane Scholz, No. 10. Birdie: Marsha Berry, No. 12. Closest to the pin on hole No. 10: Bird Mercier, 22-8.

PVE Moaners and Groaners MARCH TOURNAMENT 1, Fred Williamson, Don Campbell, Ed Vacin, Ginny Caspersen (69) 2, Kimmie McCann, Tim Tomko, Bill McNamara (77) 3, Bud Ross, Doug Fisher, Bruce Bartels, Sue Vukasin, Herb Quilitsch (78) 4, Myrna DeMartino, Tom DeMartino, Ken Mackie, Bob McCoy (79) Low putts team: Fred Williamson, Don Campbell, Ed Vacin, Ginny Caspersen (22) February PVE putting champion: Walt McDaniel.

Sirs Branch 106 Flight 1 1, Roger Seals, 66 2, Jim Hahn, 68 3, Ralph Moses, 69 4, Terry Hartman, 76 Flight 2 1, Jim Delker, 72 2, Ed Landis, 73 3, Chuck Womack, 73 4, Mike Miller, 76 Flight 3 1, Bob Dias, 67

their system last year. Oller had a 4.03 ERA in 15 starts at DoubleA before a promotion to Triple-A, where he was 4-1 with a 2.45 ERA in eight starts.

Former Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly reportedly agrees to deal with White Sox PHOENIX — Joe Kelly’s Dodgers tenure has seemingly drawn to an end, with the reliever reportedly agreeing to a two-year deal with the Chicago White Sox on Saturday. Kelly, 33, spent the past three seasons in Los Angeles after signing a $25 million contract in December 2018, making 115 appearances out of the Dodgers bullpen. He began his Dodgers tenure with an up-anddown 2019 performance, when he had a 4.56 ERA and was charged with the loss when the team fell to

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2, Jim Evans, 68 3, Lee O’Dell, 75 4, Jim Winchell, 78 Flight 4 1, Bob Brown, 68 2, Jud Moore, 68 3, Keith Toman, 70 4, Chuck Hurst, 70 Flight 5 1, Dirk Minnema, 72 2, Ray Easton, 74 3, James Patterson, 74 4, Lee Tong, 76 Closest to the Hole No. 5: Bob Herndon, 7-9 No. 8: Ralph Moses, 8-1 No. 12: Jim Delker, 11-1/2 No. 15: Jim Winchell, 4-3

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the Washington Nationals in Game 5 of the National League Division Series. He bounced back the past two years, however, becoming a key cog on the 2020 squad that won the World Series and finishing his Dodgers career with a second consecutive sub3.00 ERA last season. Kelly also was a fan favorite, beloved for his “Mariachi Joe” persona – culminating when he wore a mariachi jacket to the team’s visit to the White House last year – and a memorable shouting match with the Houston Astros’ Carlos Correa during a game in 2020, when Kelly sarcastically pouted at one of the players who had been involved in the Astros sign-stealing scandal three years early. A free agent this offseason, Kelly said during a radio appearance last month that he wanted to return to the Dodgers and that “the interest is mutual, so we got to make something happen.”

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Madness From Page B6 2021. It has arenas named for a German phone titan (T-Mobile), for a brand of a crucial Las Vegas beverage (Michelob Ultra), for two visionary bankers (Thomas & Mack), for a next-door hotel/casino (Orleans), and for another key Las Vegas figure, a lender (Dollar Loan). The city has so many arenas that the Henderson Silver Knights of the American Hockey League have played this season in one (Orleans), but will move shortly to another (Dollar Loan), which has just opened with that new-car smell, its tequila stands up and running for noon tipoffs. It’s the Pluto of the basketball bunch, yet only 20-ish minutes from the Strip. This deluge doesn’t deluge the city, because nothing could deluge a city that has so much of so much – indoor skydiving, indoor-outdoor marrying, shark-viewing, zip-lining, organized recreational police-chase simulating, that Ferris wheel, that roller coaster, that Paris, that Venice, that New York, and seemingly every famous singer you ever heard of or didn’t hear of except for Adele, who had to postpone. And David Copperfield, forever. And that immersive Van Gogh thing. And Carrot Top. Also, there’s gambling. The basketball has joined the fray on the sidewalks, somewhere beneath the showgirl plumes. It shows up every now and then: two Colorado State Rams fans near that roulette wheel, that streak of Wildcats from Arizona near those slot machines, the Gonzaga fans here and there and also over there, the visiting Hawaiians in Henderson. All this would have seemed “completely far-fetched” more than 30 years ago when Erick Harper started off in athletics, and now the UNLV athletic director says, “I try to think outside the box, but at the same time, who would think about a city that could host 10 tournaments, and all the tournaments be successfully run?” Now we know who would. “It’s unbelievable,” he said. It began as a trickle three decades back, with the Big West stopping by in 1994 and 1995, the WAC from 1997 to 1999. That Big West already had the one glam member that seeded the whole phantas-

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Oregon State Beavers center Roman Silva wrapped up a rough season with a loss to Oregon in the Pac-12 tournament. magoria of today: UNLV. That made the site seem routine even if the era did seem raffish, with a team such as Long Beach State coming to town, renting its own three vans and convoying to the Mirage. “The image of Vegas has really, really changed,” said ESPN analyst Seth Greenberg, who coached Long Beach State then. “Vegas is a destination. It’s not just, ‘Wow, wow, wow,’ anymore. It’s more established. It’s more traditional in lots of ways.” He paused. “It’s still a zoo.” Now the zoo boasts so much March. There’s March in a 48-47 scrap that ends in a scrap beneath the basket – players on the floor, seasons in the balance, the horn sounding, the coach with 47 points hollering at the departing referees. There’s March when a winning coach, Laura Beeman of Big West No. 1 seed Hawaii, walks to a losing coach, Greg McCall of No. 9 seed Cal State Bakersfield, a 5-foot-5 woman hugging and consoling a 6-6 man. “Greg’s a great man,” she said soon after, and, “And he just kind of looked at me like, Wow,” marveling at the game, and, “I’ve known Greg for 20 years and I consider him an outstanding coach and outstanding person,” and, “Not sorry that it came down the way that it did, but sorry that it ends the way it did for [his] group,” and, “Bottom line, this is a game, and compassion and some other things matter more than being mad at people.” That’s March, even if it feels funky to carry it out into the midday sun of Henderson, up the freeways toward the Strip and past the billboard for Penn & Teller. There’s March in the beauty of the crying coach, in this case a five-year NBA veteran

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of four NBA franchises. “It’s emotional because my kids, the players, wanted it,” says Jeff Judkins, the 21-year coach of No. 1 seed BYU (26-3), which lost the WCC women’s final to No. 2 seed Gonzaga, 71-59, three weeks after beating the Bulldogs, 63-39. While Gonzaga’s affable Idahoan Melody Kempton, the most outstanding player, No. 33, walked up the stands into a cluster of No. 33s – parents, grandparents, fiance, friends et al. – to bring her parents to the floor for deep meaning, the other side of March hit Judkins, who continued: “A lot of times in life you don’t get everything, but you sure want it. That’s where the emotion is . . . I know how much the players wanted.” And then this 65-yearold former player for the Celtics, Jazz, Pistons and Trail Blazers said: “I’m also crying because it’s one less game with my seniors.”

He paused for the next question, and the microphone caught a further sniffle. That’s March, even if it feels strange to carry it out of Orleans Arena, into late-afternoon light and into the view of the Strip gleaming and giggling over yonder. There’s March in the sadness of the shipwrecked season, as in the bewildering 13-month trajectory of Oregon State. Last March 29, the Beavers lurked on the edge of the Final Four, having clambered from a 34-17 deficit in a Midwest Region final to a 55-55 tie with 3:21 left. Houston won, but Oregon State soared, until it just went 3-28 this season. The players clearly tried in their closing 86-72 loss to Oregon, and the commendable sliver of Beaver fans reveled at the Las Vegan Glenn Taylor Jr.’s three-point play that narrowed the deficit to 61-58 with 11 minutes left, and big

man Roman Silva spoke of taking “as much positive out of the season as I can,” and valuing “the relationships that I’ve made here” that “are going to last a lifetime.” Still: How could basketball do this to a 6-10 man who has adored it all his 56 years, who played it in Division I as did his wife and all three children? “It’s funny how life goes, the feelings we had just over a year ago to now,” said that man, Oregon State Coach Wayne Tinkle, “and there’s some valuable lessons in there . . .” And: “And obviously it’s a devastating season. I’ve got to take the blame.” That’s March, too, even if it’s carried out of T-Mobile Arena into the shadow of an ersatz New York skyline. There’s March in the hidden wonders of a sport with 358 teams, and here’s Utah Valley, which would make a swell name for a Cinderella. Here’s the coach, Mark Madsen, 46, 6-9, still part man and part topographical formation, 24 years after the 1998 Final Four with Stanford, 13 years after an NBA career that included Shaquille O’Neal’s praise of him for his impossible energy during Lakers practices. Yet over behind the baseline, here’s a revelation: Utah Valley’s “Green Man Group,” three lines of drummers with heads and bodies swathed in breathable green fabric, glorious aliens in the Vegas night. They do many kinds of shows, but here they do March, drumming in special cadences for made free throws at times, swaying together arm-in-arm at

times, reminding what drums can do to neck hairs at all times. They went late into a WAC Tuesday night in Utah Valley’s win over Chicago State, and though they exited one night later to Abilene Christian, they, too, lent some fine March, even to carry out of the Michelob and into Mandalay Bay and the chronic bells of the slots. And there’s never more March than in a frenzied three-point shot rising out of the corner from a player with some storybook name such as Essence with a tattoo of the Las Vegas sign on her right biceps. It came with 45 seconds left. It came after a timeout with the shot clock at a hapless two seconds, after teammate Khayla Rooks, said, “Make this shot.” Essence Booker’s shot gave her irresistible UNLV team a 72-65 lead, gave her 25 points, clinched a Mountain West title against a scary challenge from Colorado State, whose coach, Ryun Williams, lauded his players with, “We went for it.” Then UNLV’s Vegas, a Las Vegan former Stanford player and assistant to VanDerveer, spoke of love and trust and called this moment “way, way, way up there” and said, “I would do anything for [my players] because I know they would do anything for me.” That’s so much March to carry out of Thomas & Mack into warm nighttime air in this Las Vegas era, past the statue of a seated Jerry Tarkanian chewing a metal towel, onto the boulevard and toward that billboard of Donny Osmond.

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If you wish to contest the forfeiture of this property, you have until thirty (30) days from the date of the last publication of this Notice to file a claim opposing forfeiture with the Court, unless you have received actual notice. You may obtain a “Claim Opposing Forfeiture” form (MC-200) from the Office of the Clerk, Civil Division. The claim must state the nature and extent of any interest you hold in the property, must be verified, and must be filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court, Civil Division, 580 Texas Street, Fairfield, CA 94533. You must serve a court-endorsed copy of your claim on the District Attorney of Solano County, 675 Texas Street, Suite 4500, Fairfield, within thirty (30) days of the filing of your claim. If no claim is properly filed and/or served on the District Attorney within the time permitted by law, the property will be ordered forfeited to the State, to be disposed of according to law, without further notice or hearing. If your claim is properly filed and served, the District Attorney will decide whether to file a Petition for Forfeiture with the Superior Court to contest said claim. In the case where a Petition is filed and a contested hearing is held, you will have the following rights which include but are not limited to: you have the right to use the subpoena powers of the court and order witnesses to attend, you have a right to testify on your own behalf, submit evidence showing the legitimacy of the seized assets, and a right to cross examine the petitionerʼs witnesses. This is a civil action, you have the additional right to represent yourself or hire your own attorney, and there is no right to appointed counsel in this case. AF20-3960. On November 19, 2020, at or near the intersection of Sikes Road and Delhi Road, Dixon, CA, Deputies of the Solano County Sheriffʼs Office seized $9,500.00 in United States Currency; $841.00 in United States Currency; $470.00 in United States Currency; $408.00 in United States Currency; $2,607.00 in United States Currency; $2,000.00 in United States Currency; $26,380.00 in United States Currency; $3,010.00 in United States Currency; $2,020.00 in United States Currency; $880.00 in United States Currency; $10,000.00 in United States Currency; $2,000.00 in United States Currency; $576.00 in United States Currency; $16,445.00 in United States Currency; $1,782.00 in United States Currency; $3,602.00 in United States Currency; $1,200.00 in United States Currency; $480.00 in United States Currency; and $83,740.00 in United States Currency. Each of the aforementioned seizures occurred in connection with controlled substance violation(s) of HSC §§ 11358 and/or 11359. The seized property has a total estimated or appraised value of $167,941.00. Date: March 4, 2022 \s\ __ Matthew K. Olsen Dep. District Attorney DR#00053501 Published: March 13, 20, 27, 2022 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SUISUN CITY REGARDING THE CITY'S RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE REFUSE COLLECTION CHARGES AND NEW RATES NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council (City Council) of the City of Suisun City (City) will hold a Public Hearing and majority protest process (pursuant to Proposition 218, Article XIIID of the California Constitution) to consider new rates for the residential and commercial refuse collection services and disposal fees charged to residential and commercial customers for solid waste collection and disposal services within the City. Said Public Hearing will be held at a regular meeting of the Suisun City City Council as follows: DATE: April 5, 2022 TIME: 6:30 p.m. PLACE: Suisun City Council Chambers 701 Civic Center Blvd. Suisun City, CA 94585 The solid waste disposal services in the City are performed by Republic Services. Residential services are billed quarterly and commercial services are billed monthly. The Public Hearing will include consideration of adopting a resolution that will authorize maximum rate increases for solid waste collection services for a five-year (5-year) period commencing April 5, 2022 through December 31, 2026. The proposed increase in rates reflects additional services provided by Republic Services under the Franchise Agreement, and including without limitation, regular inflationary cost increases, increased costs of providing State-required organics diversion programs and compliance with other recent changes in State law, and major changes in the costs of providing recycling services as a result of the new State mandates and certain adverse developments in the recycling markets. Pursuant to Proposition 218, owners of real property subject to the rate increases (and lessees/commercial or single family/multifamily customers of such property who actually pay the rates) in the City of Suisun City, who wish to protest the increase or the new rates can send in a written protest to the City Clerk. All details relating to the protest process can be found in that “Notice of Public Hearing by the City of Suisun City Regarding the Cityʼs Residential and Commercial Solid Waste Refuse Collection Charges and New Rates,” which was mailed to all property owners in the City on February 10, 2022. Only one written protest per residential or commercial parcel in the city's service area (i.e. address/assessor parcel number) will be counted. Written protests must be actually received by the City Clerk, whether by mail or in-person delivery, prior to or during the Public Hearing on April 5, 2022. Any written protests received following the close of the Public Hearing will not be counted. Further information on the protest process and Proposition 218 generally can be found on the Cityʼs website at: https://www.suisun.com/?s=prop+218. DR#00053557 Published: March 13, 2022

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: STUART H. TUBIS Case Number: P051314 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Stuart H. Tubisstuart Tubis and Stuart Harvey Tubis A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Brian Cotter Tubis in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Brian Cotter Tubis 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 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: APRIL 11, 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# 00053509 Published: March 9,13,16, 2022 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JOHN NELSON GALLAWAY Case Number: P051306 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: John Nelson Gallaway A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Steven A. Flinn in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Steven A. Flinn 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: APRIL 6, 2022 TIME: 9:00 a.m. DEPT.: 22 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 Family Law and Probate Division 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: Trevor J. Rose, Esq., Rose Law Firm of Napa Valley, Inc. 1775 Lincoln Ave., Suite 101 Napa, CA 94558 (707) 681-5851 DR#00053429 Published: March 6, 9,13, 2022

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LOCATED AT 3768 Sonoma Blvd Vallejo CA 94589 Solano. Mailing Address 1666 San Diego St Fairfield CA 94533. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) #1 Thu Thi Nguyen 3768 Sonoma Blvd Vallejo 94589 #2 Tuyet Thi Ho 3768 Sonoma Blvd Vallejo 94589. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a General Partnership The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 03/01/2022. 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/ Tuyet Ho, Thu Nguyen 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 March 1, 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: March 02, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000350 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00053430 Published: March 6, 13, 20, 27, 2022

LOCATED AT 1631 E. Monte Vista Ave. Vacaville - CA - 95688 Solano. Mailing Address 1737 Southwood Dr, Vacaville CA 95687 Solano. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) #1 Trang - Tran 1737 Southwood Dr, Vacaville - CA - 95687 #2 Duyen Tran 1737 Southwood Dr, Vacaville - CA 95687.THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: A Married Couple The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on. 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/ Trang - Tran 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 March 08, 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: March 09, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000426 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00053564 Published: March 13, 20, 27, April 3, 2022

NOTICE OF 30-DAY PUBLIC REVIEW PERIOD SOLANO LOCAL AGENCY FORMATION COMMISSION LAFCO Project Number 2021-08 Municipal Service Review for Rural North Vacaville Water District Rural North Vacaville Water District (RNVWD) is a community service district located in unincorporated Solano County north of the City of Vacaville that provides potable water for domestic use and fire suppression purposes. The Municipal Service Review (MSR) focuses on the capacity and adequacy of services offered by RNVWD. The previous MSR and Sphere of Influence update was prepared in 2015. On February 14, 2022, the Commissioners reviewed and discussed the draft MSR. Solano LAFCO hereby publishes the MSR for a 30-day public review period from March 10, 2022 – April 11, 2022. The MSR can be found at https://www.solanolafco.com/ under documents. All comments may be sent to Rich Seithel, Executive Officer by email at rseithel@solanolafco.com, or mailed to Solano LAFCO at 675 Texas St., Suite 6700, Fairfield, CA, 94533. We are requesting your agency review the draft MSR from the perspective of your agencyʼs jurisdiction, area of expertise, or interest and submit any comments or concerns to Rseithel@solanolafco.com . Thank you. Contact Information: Rich Seithel, Executive Officer Solano LAFCO (707)439-3897 rseithel@solanolafco.com 675 Texas St. Ste. 6700, Fairfield CA 94533 DR#00053571 Published: March 13, 2022 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PLANNING COMMISSION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD will hold a public hearing on the following item: EAH Housing – Development Review Time Extension (DR2022-001). Public hearing on the request by EAH Housing to extend the entitlement period for an additional two years for an approved 67-unit affordable housing development and associated improvements at 212 E Tabor Avenue (APN: 0034-150-100). The project has an adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) per Section 15194 Affordable Housing Exemption. (Planner: Jessie Hernandez, 707-428-7450, jhernandez@fairfield.ca.gov) NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN THAT said public hearing will be held on March 23, 2022, beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 1000 Webster Street, or the public may join the meeting via Zoom at https://fairfieldca.zoom.us/j/97065607498?pwd=a1dnaVY2UzFINU4xaU5sS0FET09qZz0 9 or by phone at (669) 900-6833 Webinar ID: 878 4542 3536 Passcode: 66781819 at which time and place any and all persons interested in said matters may appear and be heard. 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 Planning Commission in the administration of the Cityʼs 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. DR#00053552 Published: March 13, 2022 Date of Notice: March 9, 2022 Notice of Public Informational Meeting Facility Name: Hay Road Landfill – Revision to solid waste facility permit Facility Location: 6426 Hay Road, Vacaville, Ca Project Type: Revised Solid Waste Facility Permit SWIS # 48-AA-0002 Virtual Meeting: 1pm, Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 Public meeting will be held via Microsoft TEAMs. Please contact Marcy Hannum for a link to the meeting mlhannum@solanocounty.com 707-784-3303 Date LEA Accepted Application: March 7, 2022 LEA Contact: Marcy Hannum, Senior REHS 707-784-6765 Operator Contact: Greg Pryor, General Manager 707-678-4718 Introduction Please be advised that the Solano County Solid Waste Local Enforcement Agency (LEA) has received and accepted an application package from Recology Hay Road Landfill to revise the solid waste facility permit. The LEA is certified by the California Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) to enforce state laws and regulations at solid waste facilities within Solano County. Description of Project Recology Hay Road is a 640-acre existing landfill facility located on Hay Road in the unincorporated area of Solano County. The proposed revised permit is to correct the Design Capacity listed on the permit. Currently the design capacity is listed as 46,135,000 cu. yards. The correct capacity allowed by the conditional use permit is 48,500,000 cu. yards. No other changes are proposed. The LEAʼs preliminary determination is that the proposed revised permit be approved. Informational meeting The purpose of the public informational meeting is to provide information related to the proposed permit, describe the process and timeline for permit issuance and provide an opportunity for the public to provide comments to the LEA. No official decisions will be made at this meeting. Submitting Comments The Solano County LEA will be accepting written comments on the proposed permit until March 23, 2022. Written comments can be submitted to the address listed below or emailed to mlhannum@solanocounty.com. Marcy Hannum, REHS Department of Resource Management 675 Texas Street Suite 5500 Fairfield, CA 94533 Additional Information Documents are available for public review by appointment in the LEA office located at 675 Texas Street, Suite 5500, Fairfield, CA. 94533. If you have any questions, please contact Marcy Hannum at (707) 784-6765 or by email at mlhannum@solanocounty.com Appeal Process Information For information on the appeal process pursuant to Public Resource Code section 44307 you may contact Marcy Hannum at (707) 784-6765. DR#00053556 Published: March 13, 18, 2022

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