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Moy running for mayor; Price hoping to keep post Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — Councilwoman Catherine Moy, who has been weighing the possibility of running for county supervisor, has decided to run for mayor instead. “After months of in-depth talks with my family and constituents, I have decided to focus solely on the city of Fairfield, my hometown. I PRICE am running to be the next mayor of Fairfield,” Moy said in a written statement released Tuesday. “Becoming a county supervisor would help my family financially, MOY but I got into this line of work to help people, not make money. So that’s what I’m going to continue to do, serve the people of Fairfield.” Moy was appointed to the council in 2008 and elected to a full term in 2009. Harry Price, if he runs, would be seeking a fifth term as
mayor, having served two terms as a councilman prior to that. “I joined the City Council in 2008 when our town was in a crisis over the deaths of two councilmen. I stepped up to help. We now have another crisis on the West Coast: homelessness,” Moy said in a statement. And Moy, who has never been shy in her comments, strongly suggested the current mayor, Price, treats the position as a “ceremonial” job rather than what Moy said the public demands, a “full-time” city leader with a “bold agenda.” Price, who said Moy’s comment about him being a “ceremonial mayor” does not “merit a response,” said he does intend to seek another term “if all goes See Mayor, Page A8
24 US Senate candidates, and climbing, qualify for June ballot Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — Twenty-four candidates for the full term U.S. Senate seat have qualified for the June 7 primary ballot, and the numbers could climb even higher by Wednesday's deadline. There were no changes to the Solano County nominee lists for assessor or 3rd District supervisor, neither incumbent for which is seeking re-election. According to the Solano County Registrar of Voters updated list Tuesday: Appointed Sen. Alex Padilla, a Democrat, leads the list that includes four other Democrats, 11 Republicans, three who registered as no party preference, one Peace & Freedom candidate, one Green Party candidate and two candidates – Don Grundmann and Douglas Howard Pierce – who listed no party at all. The Democrats are Akinyemi Agbede, Obaidul Huq Pirjada, Dan O'Dowd and Timothy J Ursich. The Republicans are James
P. Bradley, Mark P. Meuser, Yvonne R. Girard, Robert George Lucero Jr., Carlos Guillermo Tapia, Chuck Smith, Sarah Sun Liew, Cordie L. Williams, Jon Elist, Myron L. Hall and Enrique Petris. The Green Party candidate is James "Henk" Conn and the Peace & Freedom candidate is John Thompson Parker. Candidates listed as having no party preference are Deon D. Jenkins, Eleanor Garcia and Daphne Bradford. Padilla, Meuser and Girard have qualified for the ballot for the limited Senate term, which would fill out the final months of Padilla's current term. The special election is required because Padilla was appointed to replace now Vice President Kamala Harris. There are seven other candidates who have filed paperwork but are waiting for final ballot certification. Matt Brock has joined the list of ballot-qualified candidates for the 4th Congressional District. The others are Rep. See Ballot, Page A8
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Group seeks honor guard volunteers to assist with funerals of veterans Susan Hiland
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DIXON — Cindy MacDonald is one of the newest honor guards for the Service Veterans of Northern California Volunteer Honor Guard. She wasn’t even thinking about joining until a chance encounter on Veterans Day at the parade when one of the uniformed guards handed her a challenge coin. “Well, you can’t turn away from that,” MacDonald said. She did some research and made a phone call offering to volunteer for a spot on the team. “I have actually had a pretty good time in between services,” she said. MacDonald admits taps always gets her a little – and maybe a tear or two might escape. Since joining a couple of months ago, she has been busy with various services for military veterans being laid to rest. “I didn’t know you didn’t have to be a veteran to be an honor guard,” she said. “It just so happens
I am a veteran but I don’t have to be to join.” The honor guard members render final honors of veterans. Sometimes that means doing several services in one day anywhere in California. Founded in 2008 as a self-funding, nonprofit charitable Veteran Service Organization, the Service Veterans of Northern California Volunteer Honor Guard is a registered 501(C)(3) California Nonprofit Charitable Corporation comprised of both military and non-military volunteers serving primarily the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery and surrounding cemeteries. The primary duty of the local honor guard is in support of the respective military service branches and to provide a three-rifle volley salute. The federal government’s automatic budget cuts limit the availability of active-duty military honor guards to render final honors at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery on Midway Road
near Dixon. “Usually you do a flag, bugle and rifle send-off,” Cmdr. Steve Mercer said. “With cutbacks in the military, they are not doing the rifle portion.” “My goal is to have at least two teams available to do services,” he said. This is so the current single team does not have to be at the cemetery nearly every day. The honor guard is looking for volunteers who have a flexible schedule. They do not have to be a veteran and there are no age or gender limitations to volunteering. The commitment is for two days each month. “We welcome everyone. We will teach you how to do the rifle salute,” Mercer said. He noticed a lot of his usual volunteers backed off because of Covid and they have not returned. They were doing honor guard duties three days a week but because people have left, they have See Volunteers, Page A8
European NATO leaders visit Ukraine as attacks continue Tribune Content Agency KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces pressed their assault on Ukraine’s capital Tuesday as the leaders of three European nations – all members of NATO – traveled to the war-torn country in a unified show of support. In Washington, the White House announced that President Joe Biden would attend an emergency session of NATO next week in Brussels as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pushed his call for urgent military aid in a speech to the Canadian Parliament, a message he is likely to repeat Wednesday to the U.S. Congress. In Kyiv, overnight blasts hit a high-rise apartment building in the capital’s western Sviatoshynskyi district, leaving four people dead and 35 injured. Shock waves from the shelling damaged a subway station just 3 miles from Zelen-
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Firefighters extinguish a fire in an apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, after strikes on residential areas. skyy’s office, bringing the war’s destruction close to the city center. In total, Zelenskyy said attacks hit four multistory buildings in Kyiv and killed dozens, although the number could not be independently verified. In the east, officials said there were more than 60 overnight strikes on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, that hit the historical center. The assaults came as the leaders of Poland, the
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European Union as well as of NATO – were traveling to Kyiv by train for the first high-level visit by officials from either alliance since Russia invaded Feb. 24. “The aim of the visit is to express the European Union’s unequivocal support for Ukraine and its freedom and independence,” said a tweet by Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala. EU officials said that the 27-nation group was “informed” of the visit but that it was not under the bloc’s formal auspices. See Ukraine, Page A8
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