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Bill Fairfield served in the Merchant Marines during World War II and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.

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DIXON — Bill Fairfield could literally see the bombs fall from the Japanese planes flying above his sea-going tug and the U.S. Navy ships that shared the waters around the Philippine Islands.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur had returned, and was anxious to retake Manila and the strategically important islands.

“When I graduated, everyone was what they called 1-A,” said Fairfield, a 1943 Dixon High School alum. “I was 1-A and Uncle Sam said ‘Welcome,’ but I went to San Francisco and took out mariner papers to join the Merchant Marines.”

He said he had been inspired

by older friends who also had “gone sailing.”

What he didn’t expect was to be assigned to the first available vessel and be sent off to New Guinea to support military activity in those waters. He manned the .50-caliber machine gun on the top deck.

While he trained quite a bit, he said he never fired the gun in anger, at least not there. That would come later.

“The real shooting,” he said, was at the Philippines, where the Merchant Marine tugs would tow barges into the shallow gulfs and coves where the Navy vessels could not go – some loaded with thousands and thousands of gallons of gasoline.

“It’s kind of a funny feeling

seeing a bomb fall out of a plane.

You just hope you are not under it,” Fairfield said.

More than 40 American vessels were sunk in Leang Gulf alone.

So the Merchant Marines would pull the barges into the shallows then cut the tow and watch the shipment catch the surf onto the beach at Luzon, the largest of the Philippine Islands, and home to Manila.

The gasoline shipments were prized targets of the Japanese, and Fairfield remembers well the “worst explosion” he had ever seen, when the Japanese airstrike hit an off-loaded gasoline shipment sitting on the beach.

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SUISUN CITY — Rob Visda wanted to serve his country, so at age 20 he went to join the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves only to discover he had polycystic kidney disease.

PKD is a hereditary disease, which was passed on to Visda from his mother’s side of the family. It causes clusters of cysts to form, the kidney enlarges and, over time, loses function.

Visda, now 46, is on a kidney transplant waiting list through the University of California, San Francisco.

The diagnosis of PKD did not prevent him from joining the Marine Corps Reserve, but he made the personal choice not to enlist.

“At the time, I didn’t

want to take the chance,” Visda said.

But his desire to serve did not wane, so for the past eight years he has been a correctional officer at the California State Prison-Solano in Vacaville – and for six of those years he has come home and hooked himself up to a dialysis machine for three hours, four nights a week. He also goes to a clinic once a week for treatment.

It is not the life he wants.

“I want to get back to having a normal life just like everyone else; you know, when you get off your eight-hour shift you want to be able to say, ‘Let’s go out to eat,’ or take a family outing,” said Visda, who tries to exercise regularly and plays basketball. But See Kidney, Page A12

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Rob Visda, of Suisun City, is pictured with his wife, Jenn Visda, and their son, Ayden Visda, after Rob was discharged from NorthBay Medical Center in Fairfield.

Yet another bummer coronavirus summer for California?

Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — With coronavirus cases on the rise, California finds itself in a familiar, if frustrating, position – with the threat of another wave looming as summer fast approaches.

Coronavirus cases are increasing, in many areas at an accelerating pace.

Authorities have not yet expressed alarm about the state of California’s hospitals or imposed far-

reaching new rules to blunt the virus’ spread.

But officials say it is possible health care systems could once again come under strain unless the transmission rate is restrained – underscoring how vital it is for residents and businesses to make use of the protective tools at their disposal.

“Residents, workers and businesses need to not shy away from reinstating or adhering to safety practices that are known

to reduce transmission,” said Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. “This includes indoor masking, testing when people are sick, exposed or gathering, and staying up to date on vaccinations.”

L.A. County on Friday extended its order requiring mask use on public transit, including in rail and bus stations; in indoor areas of airports and seaports; and in ridesharing vehicles. Vaccine

clinics this week also began making available Covid-19 booster shots for children ages 5 to 11, following the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation Thursday that these youths should get one.

The Berkeley public school system announced Friday a new order to reinstate an indoor mask mandate for students and staff for the remainder of the school year, effective Monday, including indoor

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Are you part of the 10% of insane people who want the T-rex to return?

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t least 10% of not T. Rex, the band that Americans have sang “Get it on apparently never (Bang a Gong).” watched a science Although frankly, fiction movie. either idea is bad. The That’s the only founder of T. Rex died in rational explanation for a car wreck in 1977. the fact that one-tenth of Anyway, the survey our population supports asked a series the idea of scientists Brad Stanhope of questions: bringing back the n Should scientists Like I was sayin’ tyrannosaurus rex. try to prevent animals Seriously. This was from a from going extinct? survey conducted by YouGov, (Most say yes.) which asked respondents a n Should scientists bring series of questions about extinct back extinct animals? (Most are animals and whether those squeamish about it.) animals should be brought back. n Should scientists bring One out of 10 respondents back specific extinct animals? said the T-rex should come To the last question, interback. One-tenth! viewees were presented with Think of a group of 20 people options, and the answers varied. you know, friends and family.

This isn’t necessarily a moral Based on this study, two of question, it’s a strategic questhem – two! – think we should tion: Which animals would be bring back the T-Rex. And by good to bring back? that, they mean the dinosaur, The most popular animal to

bring back was the giant tortoise (supported by 50% of respondents), followed by the passenger pigeon and the northern white rhino (44% support for each).

OK. This kind of makes sense. We like those animals – or at least think they’re worth saving. The world would be better with them, presumably.

Then came the less-desiredto-be-returned animals. The wooly mammoth. The sabertooth tiger. Neither were very popular (return supported by 24% and 20% of respondents, which seems high).

Then came the dinosaurs: 12% of people said they’d support the return of the triceratops. Eleven percent said they’d be OK if scientists brought back the pterodactyl.

And the aforementioned 10% who thought it would be cool if the T-rex returned.

A weird thing is that only 70% of people think it’s a bad idea to bring back those animals to their original habitats, which means about 20% of us (again, that would be an additional four out of your group of 20 friends) don’t have an opinion. On whether we should bring back the T-rex.

What?

Have they not seen “Jurassic Park?” Or “The Lost World Jurassic Park?” Or “Jurassic Park 3?” Or “Jurassic World?”

Or “Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom?”

This is a baffling result. I guess some people think the world should be returned to whatever stage they think was the right era. It’s kind of like people who want the world to be like it was when they were a kid, ignoring all the problems that existed in their childhood world.

(In my childhood world, for

instance, there was no internet and no cupholders in cars.)

Here’s what I know: If scientists can bring back extinct animals including dinosaurs, there’s a 100% chance some rogue scientists will do so. Then we’ll have a runaway T-rex (or a pack of them) causing havoc – knocking over garbage cans, trampling golf courses and eating all the apples off your trees. Oh, and killing people and reasserting their position as the apex predators in the world.

If that happens, the 10% of people who think this is a good idea (and maybe the 20% who are undecided) should be the ones to fight off the inevitable T-rex invasion.

I’ll be on an island with all the other people, living in peace with a group of giant tortoises.

Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@outlook.com.

Wildlife officials truck Chinook salmon to cooler waters in emergency move to help them spawn be expanded in another attempt to bolster the population.

The efforts are temporary until a permanent solution for the fish to reach areas above Shasta Lake can be found. One proposal would see fish trucked directly to the McCloud River, above the Shasta Dam, to spawn.

Their offspring would Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles then be trapped and Times/TNS file trucked down to the SacraA biologist inspects baby mento River to begin their Chinook salmon at Shasta journey to the Pacific.

Dam. The building of dams such as Eagle Canyon fornia Department of Fish and nearby Shasta, as and Wildlife. “While they well as Pacific Gas & can’t physically access Electric facilities, have it because of the barri- blocked the salmon from ers, their offspring will be reaching their natural able to just kind of ride spawning habitats fed by the waterfalls down and colder waters. will be able to make their The winter-run salmon, migration to the ocean.” for example, have been The efforts, which unable to reach areas like began last month, are McCloud River, above the short-term, emer- Shasta Dam, which are fed gency measures, by cold springs. especially for the winterInstead, the fish have run salmon, Tira said. been forced to lay their “This is the third year eggs at the base of Shasta of drought, and these Lake in the shallowing fish have a three-year Sacramento River. And life cycle, basically,” he the drought and rising said. “And we’ve had two temperatures have heated years of poor produc- water fed from Shasta tion, so we can’t afford to Lake to the river. have another year of poor The high temperatures production.” are lethal for winterSince 1997, the U.S. run salmon eggs; last Fish and Wildlife Service year, state biologists estihas operated the Liv- mated, less than 3% of the ingston Stone National eggs hatched.

Fish Hatchery to produce With warming waters winter-run Chinook, and wreaking havoc on the production is expected to spawning of Chinook

Los Angeles Times In a stopgap measure to help struggling springand winter-run Chinook salmon spawn in the face of rising water temperatures and lower water levels due to climate change, state and federal wildlife officials in Northern California have begun trucking adult fish to cooler waters.

The spring- and winterrun salmon are genetically different, with the seasonal labels marking when adult fish travel from the Pacific Ocean back to the Sacramento River to spawn.

The spring-run Chinook, listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, are being moved from traps at the base of Keswick Dam to Clear Creek in the Sacramento River.

About 300 specimens of the winter-run salmon, listed as endangered since 1994, are being moved from a government-run hatchery to waters above the Eagle Canyon Dam on the North Fork of Battle Creek, east of Redding. The relocation, which began with a single fish, marks the first time in more than 110 years that the winterrun salmon have occupied those waters.

“It’s just beautiful, cool, shady habitat for them,” said Peter Tira, a spokesman for the Cali-

salmon, the government’s plans for reintroducing the fish to cooler habitats have raised concerns among members of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, whose ancestors were displaced by the Shasta Dam and for whom salmon are central to cultural and spiritual traditions.

Instead of releasing hatchery-raised fish, the tribe wants to use salmon that once lived in the

Sacramento River but were transplanted to New Zealand more than a century ago.

“There is nobody else who is more supportive of bringing fish back to that river than the Winnemem are,” Caleen Sisk, chief and spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, recently told The Times.

“But if you’re going to bring hatchery fish, then we will oppose it.”

Rather than hauling salmon in trucks, tribal leaders want to develop a way for the fish to move naturally upriver, past the dam, to Shasta Lake.

Years ago, the tribe developed a reintroduction proposal for a swimway with a holding pool, pumps and a pipe system that would allow fish to swim upstream, exiting through a floating structure in the reservoir.

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Quean Girtman of Redding rides in a horse-drawn wagon at Rush Ranch, Friday. Girtman grew up around horses

and the Wish of a Lifetime Foundation granted her wish to sit in a horse-drawn wagon.

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SUISUN CITY — Quean Girtman grew up around horses, and has long wanted to sit in a horse-drawn wagon and ride across a hillside.

Her wish came true Friday.

“It was my birthday gift to myself,” said Girtman, who turns 72 Sunday.

The daughter of a military man, Girtman lived in many places, growing up as she said, “a little bit of everywhere.”

She now lives at the Shasta Marquee Living Center in Redding, which helped her connect with the Wish of a Lifetime Foundation.

About a month ago, a woman from the foundation reached out to Girtman to tell her her wish of a horse-drawn wagon ride was about to come true.

The foundation had come across Mike Muir’s Access Adventure, and Muir and his team made arrangements for Girtman to come to Rush Ranch so her wish could come true.

Girtman said she was excited about the trip

down to the ranch, adding it was about all she could talk about, perhaps driving her neighbors a bit crazy in the process.

“It’s something I’ve always wanted to do. I grew up around horses and I always wanted to ride in a wagon,” she said.

Muir’s team of horses, she said, reminded her “a little bit” about the horses she remembers as a child, adding to the thrill of the experience.

There was a lead carriage followed by the wagon in which Girtman was sitting, and they toured the ranch’s grassy expanse.

“The ride was fantastic,” Girtman said. “I wanted to stay there.”

Muir, the great-grandson of explorer and conservationist John Muir, started Access Adventures in 2005 to provide individuals with disabilities an opportunity to enjoy his own passion of piloting horse-drawn carriages and wagons.

The organization is staffed by volunteers and schedules more than 150 events each year.

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Quean Girtman of Redding is lowered from a horse-drawn wagon after her ride at Rush Ranch, Friday. therapeutic driving and serves as America’s premier organization using wheelchair-accessible horse-drawn carriages to enhance the lives of people in need,” the group’s website states.

Learn more at http:// access-adventure.org/.

Rush Ranch, owned and operated by the Solano Land Trust, has served as a base for the group.

The Wish of a Lifetime Foundation is an organization that works to enhance the lives of seniors by granting them their wishes Wishes can be submitted, and donations are accepted, at https:// wishofalifetime.org/.

FAIRFIELD — Solano County’s unemployment rate in April dropped to 4% for the first time since February 2020 when the rate was 3.9%.

The rate, down from 4.6% in March, reflects a significant jumbling of workforce numbers.

There were actually 1,800 fewer Solano County residents working, but the available civilian workforce also dropped from 202,500 in March t0 199,400 in April, the Labor Market Division of the state Employment Development Department reported.

The number of residents employed in April was 191,400, down from 193,200 in March, and the number of residents seeking unemployment benefits dropped from 9,300 in March to 8,000 in April, the EDD reported.

The report also shows there were 700 more local jobs during April than in the previous month.

There was no giant swing in any specific industry sector, though the Leisure and Hospitality sector added 500 jobs, including 400 in area restaurants.

Construction added 100 jobs and the farm

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Construction crew members work on the new U.S. Coast Guard Station in Vallejo, Oct. 4, 2021. sector was up 200 jobs, the EDD reported.

The Government sector added 100 jobs across all levels, with those jobs showing up in local education.

Solano ranked 32nd among the state’s 58 counties for unemployment rate. The lowest rate was in San Mateo County at 1.9%.

The highest rate was in Imperial County at 11.7%, the EDD reported.

Solano had the highest rate among the nine Bay Area counties. The next closest was Contra Costa County at 3.1%.

The state unemployment rate dropped from 4.3% in March to 3.8% in April. The national rate was at 3.3% in April, down from 3.8% in March, the EDD reported.

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County Supervisors Mitch Mashburn and Jim Spering will give a report Tuesday to the full board on the homeless roundtable event held Thursday.

The supervisors meet at 9 a.m. in the first-floor chamber of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. The board will meet in a closed session after the regular meeting, during which the supervisors will be updated on labor negotiations.

A report on the Delta Counties Coalition activities, including an update on the status of the proposed single-tunnel Delta conveyance project, is also on the agenda.

Among the live presentations scheduled are recognition of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps and the local high school JROTC groups, and recognition of

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A resolution recognizing May 30 as Memorial Day is part of the board’s consent agenda.

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Dixon Little League offers day of family fun Susan Hiland

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DIXON — Children raced around with big smiles on their faces Saturday as the adults chatted with each other: The Dixon Little League Family Fun Day brought out the community for a day in the sun.

“This was the first kickoff event postCovid,” Monique Guzman, vice president of the Board of Directors for the Dixon Little League. “Last time we tried to do this but with Covid it was canceled. It shut down the season.”

The board hoped this event would be a way for the community to get back together in the love of the game.

The Dixon Little League was established in 1970 for children of all ages to enjoy some friendly competition. There were two Little League games played Saturday along with the activities for the whole family.

“We have 15 to 20 vendors including food vendors,” Jennifer Roman, president of the board, said. “There is so much to do with the jump house, petting zoo, Dilly Dally the Clown and a dunk tank.”

Those were just a few of the activities.

The Wildcats mascot came by for a fan meet-and-greet.

The Little League also hosted a prize drawing with a Traeger Grill or 64-inch

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The Dixon Fire Department brought out two trucks for the Dixon Little League Family Fun Day, Saturday.

TV up for the big win.

La Familia Tortilla Shop is a new tortilla-making company coming to Dixon next month across the way from Safeway. They provided a table with food for the day so people could get a flavor for the tortilla, which will be made

Dianne was born Aug. 10, 1954, in Wiesbaden, Germany, while her father served with distinction in the U.S. Air Force.

She graduated from Fairfield High School and became a cosmetologist, where she worked at Lady of Fashion Salon and Family Haircuts for almost 30 years.

Sylvia Faith ‘Priem’ Buringrud

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June 18, 1935 – May 2, 2022

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Hardy; and niece, Samantha Wallace.

She was preceded in death by husband, William (Bill) Bradshaw; parents, Victor and Vada Loomis; and brother-in-law, Dallas Hardy Jr. A Memorial Service will be held at noon Thursday, May 26, 2022, at Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 1850 W. Texas St., Fairfield, California. Friends and family are invited to share their favorite stories about Dianne during the service.

Arrangements under the care of BryanBraker Funeral Home, 707-425-4697.

The Dixon Little League Family Fun Day brought out hundreds for a family day at Hall Park in Dixon, Saturday. Fernando Guizar, 9, of Dixon didn’t play baseball Saturday but came with his parents for family day.

Aug. 10, 1954 – May 11, 2022

Sylvia Faith Priem was born June 18, 1935, in Totterville, Iowa, population 22.

She passed away, peacefully, in her home on May 2, 2022, in Fairfield, California, after a long illness.

A farm girl, Syl was the first to go to college in her family. She attended Iowa State Teachers College receiving her two-year teaching credential in 1955.

The family moved to Fairfield in 1962 when Harold Buringrud, her husband of 25 years, was hired as a high school teacher at Vanden High School, Travis Air Force Base.

Sylvia continued her education for 78 additional credits and received a lifetime teaching credential from San Francisco State University. She taught kindergarten at Center School on TAFB for 32 years.

Well known and loved by her friends and co-workers, Fairfield Mayor, Chuck Hammond, honored her with a proclamation naming June 6, 1997, Sylvia Buringrud Day, henceforth, in Fairfield, California.

Syl owned Big Johns sandwich shop for a decade.

She was a member of the Women in Action, a club providing scholarships to high school students for continued education.

Sylvia was a member of St. Marks Lutheran Church since 1962. She was a volunteer usher for the Downtown Theatre in Fairfield as well as San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre.

Sylvia traveled the world and shopped in Hong Kong, Japan, rode an elephant down the Yangtze River in China, had monks bless her in Tibet, went on safari in Africa and traveled the tropics as well as all over Europe and even traveled in a hot air balloon! Sylvia lived

She married the love of her life, William (Bill) Bradshaw, in 1986, and they resided in Fairfield, California.

Bill and Dianne loved traveling, going for long drives on the California coast, and sailing.

Dianne also enjoyed traveling with her sister, Vickie, trying new restaurants, collecting jewelry, spending time with her Hardy family relatives, and getting together often with friends.

She is survived by daughter and son-inlaw, Amber (Smith) and Rob Stacy; grandchildren, Hailey and Jake Stacy; sister,Vickie M.

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Dianne Marie Bradshaw

Dianne Marie Bradshaw, 67, passed away Wednesday, May 11, 2022, after a long illness. She lived in Vacaville, California, with her sister, Vickie M. Hardy.

from different types of corn shipped in from Mexico. The shop plans for a grand opening June 11 but is waiting for the final permits from the city.

“We are hoping that the tortillas will bring back memories with the flavors because it is authentic heirloom corn that

they are made with,” Maria Fernanda Evans, one of the shop’s owners, said.

They will offer more than just yellow corn but include purple, which is very rare, blue, red and yellow. This is not a restaurant but a manufacturer of corn tortillas that will be available for sale.

Citlalli Martinez came with the family from Winters to enjoy the day.

“My cousin’s son is playing baseball,” she said. “We wanted to get out and enjoy the day.”

The children’s games seemed to be a favorite with her family as they went to each of the eight booths to play.

“It is nice to get out in the community again,” she said.

life to its fullest because she ‘didn’t want to miss a minute of life.’

She believed in learning something new every day of your life. Syl was beautiful inside and out. We are proud of our mother. Admiration and unconditional love combined together, created a powerful memory and are the example that will carry with us for the rest of our lives.

Sylvia Buringrud was a marvel! She was admired by her three children, Hal Brian Buringrud of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Joel Dean Buringrud of Porterville, California and Alane Kay Liacuna of Suisun, California; brother, Raymond Priem resides in St. Ansgar, Iowa; she leaves behind her nine grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren, whom she lavished with unconditional love and support; three wonderful sister-in-laws; and many adored nieces and nephews. Syl will be missed by her cherished life-long friends, neighbors and work colleagues.

She will reunite with her parents; one other brother; and a sister on the ‘other side.’

Special thanks to her daughter, Alane and to her caregivers who gave her love, happiness, laughter, who danced with her and who cared for her like family.

A celebration of life will be held for Sylvia Buringrud on her birthday, at 10 a.m.

Saturday, June 18, 2022, at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1600 Union Ave., Fairfield, California. A reception for family and friends will follow the service at another location.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to St. Mark’s Lutheran Church or to the SPCA.

It is with deep sorrow and broken hearts that our family mourns the passing of our beloved Johnny ‘John’ Earl Miller on May 13, 2022, at his residence in Sacramento, California, at the age of 66.

John will be lovingly remembered by his mother, Jacqueline Grace Staats of Fairfield, California; sister, Charlene Anne Gadow of Vacaville, California; brother, Kenneth David Miller of Medford, Oregon; sister, Patricia Lee Vierra of Fairfield, California; brother, Donald Bryce Miller of Fairfield, California; as well as his stepfamily members, Suzanne Esparza of Pacific Beach, California, Nancy

Rita L. Perkins

Fleckenstien of Napa, California, Betsy Giugni of Fairfield, California and Carolyn Staats of Napa, California.

John was preceded in death by his father, Elmer Fred Miller of San Leandro, California in March of 2008.

Our family will be holding a celebration of life for John. Times, dates, etc. are yet to be determined.

For more information please feel free to call Bryan-Baker Funeral home, in Fairfield, California.

If you feel led to make a small donation in John’s name, feel free to do so to the life-changing nonprofit recovery organization U Turn For Christ. Thank you and God bless!

Kevin Thacker

Jan. 27, 1956 – May 16, 2022

Kevin Thacker passed away unexpectedly on May 16, 2022, at his home in St. George, Utah.

Kevin had a long career with the Exxon and Valero refineries in Benicia. He also had some assignments to Rotterdam and Venezuela for Exxon.

He attended David Weir Grammar School, Sullivan Middle School and graduated from Fairfield High

School in 1974.

He is survived by his wife of 32 years, Jane; parents, Gene and Barbara Thacker of Vacaville; brothers, Todd of Prescott, Arizona, Craig of Rio Vista; brothers-inlaw, Moe, Michael and Bruce Walcott; and several nieces.

Services will be held on May 28, 2022, at Metcalf Funeral Home, St. George, Utah.

Frank Gordon Coelho Dec. 6, 1955 – April 24, 2022

Frank Gordon Coelho passed away April 24, 2022, following several years of deteriorating health.

Frank was born in Fairfield, California, Dec. 6, 1955, with his twin who died in childbirth.

He attended Fairview Elementary and Bransford Elementary Schools, Sullivan Middle School, and graduated from Armijo High School in 1974.

He was a long-time employee of Big O Tires in Fairfield and drove for Mike Lowery Trucking.

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He is survived by sisters, Christine (Gerald) Raycraft of Fairfield, Catherine Coelho (Charles Johnson) of Vacaville and Becky (Joseph) Reagle of Fairfield; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Mary Jane Coelho (Saiz); sister, Carole; and his twin brother.

Nov. 7, 1940 – May 5, 2022

Rita Perkins passed away peacefully in Fairfield, California on May 5, 2022. She was 81 years old.

Rita was born in Marion, Kansas on Nov. 7, 1940, to George and Vera Miser. She was raised in Marion, Emporia and Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.

She graduated from Chase County Community High School in Cottonwood Falls in 1958. Rita attended Kansas State Teachers College and graduated in 1961.

Rita married Kenneth Perkins on Sept. 5, 1960, in Emporia, Kansas. Upon graduating college, they relocated to Santa Ana, California and began her career as a teacher in Buena Park, California in 1965.

They moved to Fairfield, raised two children and she taught at the Fairfield Adult School, Armijo High School, and Sullivan Middle School.

She retired from teaching in 1995.

Upon retirement, she picked up several hobbies.

She was always staying busy. She loved to sew, knit, needlepoint, paint, make jewelry, travel and read.

They had a family home at the Tahoe-Donner Golf Course in Truckee. They enjoyed a lot of great times here with family and friends.

Rita always had a love of art. It was a dream of hers to someday take painting lessons and learn what she could upon retirement. She was determined to find an art teacher. After 10 years of lessons and struggles, she found a wonderful outlet for her creative side. She

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She was a member of AAUW-American Association of University Women, retired teachers’ association and the Wednesday Club.

Rita is survived by her loving husband, Kenneth; two children, David Perkins from Sparks, Nevada and Ann Pettit from Chico, California; three grandsons, Keith, Kyle and Tanner; and one great-granddaughter, Harmony.

She was preceded in death by her parents, George and Vera Miser; sister, Carol; and brother, George Robert.

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New Fairfield Fire Department report shows record call volume Matt Miller MMILLER@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The recently released annual report for 2021 from the Fairfield Fire Department showed a record-breaking total of 911 calls that required 15,068 responses.

Some 10,596 of those calls were listed as medical responses that included vehicle crashes and rescues. There were 607 responses for fires: structure, vehicle and vegetation. That comes to an average of 41.3 responses per day for the three shifts of staff that average 18 personnel per shift.

Call volumes have doubled over a 20-year stretch while staff has increased at a rate of just 20%, according to the report. The pandemic cut down the call volume in 2020 because many people stayed home. As more things opened up, the call volume began to surge.

“2021 proved to be a continuation of 2020, with Covid-19 dominating our time and creating new operational challenges,” Fire Chief Matt Luckenbach wrote in the report. “The Fairfield Fire Department provided untold hours of emergency management support to

the city by serving as the liaison to Solano’s public health officer, providing Covid-19 testing and vaccinations, and assisting with the development and enforcement of the Covid-19 guidelines. All the while, we responded to multiple statewide wildfires in what was yet another record-breaking year and shattered our own record for 911 calls with over 15,000 responses.”

The Fire Department has five stations, five engine companies, one truck company and a battalion chief. The busiest of all stations was Station 37 on Pennsylvania Avenue, which responded to 34% of the calls (5,079).

“We’re in the process of completing a master plan for all divisions within the department,” Deputy Chief John Sturdee said last week. “It is incredibly comprehensive and we’re expecting the full version to be completed in June.”

One reason for the increase in call volumes was in response to the number of city homeless encampments and fires that break out, Sturdee said.

The biggest change came at the beginning of 2022 when longtime Fire Chief Tony Velasquez

Rotary Club to hear about Solano volunteer opportunities Daily Republic Staff

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SUISUN CITY — Members of the FairfieldSuisun Rotary Club will host the program coordinator for the Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership, Rhonda Smith, at its lunch meeting Tuesday.

The Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership has worked with the Solano County Board of Supervisors since 2016 to build an online volunteer system to better serve nonprofits and service-minded individuals, called “Solano Volunteers.”

Smith will talk about how the organization works to connect interested Solano County individuals, families,

groups and businesses with meaningful volunteer opportunities. In addition to providing online volunteer matching services, Solano Volunteers produces National Days of Service, provides disaster preparedness training and serves as an Emergency Volunteer Center, overseeing spontaneous volunteers and donations for Solano County.

The Fairfield-Suisun Rotary Club meets at noon at The Salvation Army Kroc Center at 586 E. Wigeon Way in Suisun City. The cost for the luncheon is $20.

Those interested in watching the presentation should send an email to fsrotary@gmail.com to request a Zoom link to the meeting.

Proposed hotel, restaurant project goes before Fairfield Planning Commission Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The city Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing Thursday on a proposed hotel and restaurant project at 3350 N. Texas St. Akki Patel is looking to develop a five-story, 69,512-square-foot, 112room Hyatt Place hotel on nearly 3 acres, along with a 2,300-square-foot counter-service and drive-thru Chipolte restaurant.

As an in-fill project, city planning staff said it is not subject to review under the California Environmental Quality Act.

The commission meets at 6 p.m. in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 1000 Webster St. An agenda for the meeting is available at https:// www.fairfield.ca.gov/ government/city-commissions-and-committees/ planning-commission.

Access is also available by going to https:// fairfieldca.zoom.us/j/9706 5607498?pwd=a1dnaVY2 UzFINU4xaU5sS0FET09 qZz09 or by calling 408638-0968. The Meeting ID is 970 6560 7498. The Passcode is 66781819.

The meeting also will be streamed live at www.youtube.com/user/ FFCATV/live.

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Academy graduates take part in a swearing-in led by Mayor Harry Price during the Fairfield Fire Department Academy announced his retirement after more than 30 years in the fire service. Luckenbach took the helm and the shift resulted in a number of other internal changes.

Jessica Fleshman became the department’s first battalion chief.

The Fire Prevention Bureau continued its mission of preventing fires and emergencies through

thousands of business inspections, plan reviews, public education and code enforcement.

“As we look ahead to 2022, we are excited to complete our department master plan, which will serve as a road map to support our vision for increased staffing, capital improvements and advancements in fire pre-

Graduation Ceremony at the Fairfield Fire Department Training Tower, Aug. 5, 2021. vention as we address the challenges of increased exposure to the rigors of this profession,” Luckenbach wrote.

But staffing continues to be a concern, Sturdee said. Fairfield will open a sixth station in the near future. There are currently four recruits in the academy who will graduate June 1.

“It’s important that we invest in staffing,” Sturdee said. “We’re still short of where we want to be. The master plan will help determine those numbers. We also expect to have a lot of retirements in the next five to 10 years with the potential of as many as 33 employees. We’ll need to get new recruits on board.”

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Church fundraiser aims to help struggling residents Susan Hiland SHILAND@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

VACAVILLE — The cars waited outside the parking lot for half an hour before the paper shredding event was scheduled to open Saturday.

St. Mary’s Catholic Church hosted the fourth annual paper shredding event as a fundraiser for the nonprofit group St. Mary/ St. Joseph Conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society centered in Vacaville.

They have been serving the county as part of the Sacramento Diocese for 65 years.

The St. Vincent de Paul Society has several programs throughout the year that volunteers assist with, including an outreach program with the Solano County jail, visiting homeless encampments; and supplying food, clothing and basic items after a natural disaster.

“There is a great need out there,” Lorraine McGuinness, president of the local St. Vincent

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Volunteers came out to help with the 4th Annual Paper Shredding event at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Vacaville, Saturday. The event was a fundraiser for the St. Mary/St. Joseph Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. de Paul Council, said. “It has gotten so much worse with Covid. The moratorium on evictions is up and people are in need of help.”

The organizations on Satur-

day asked for a $10 donation that will go to help provide resources for people who call in asking for assistance. The organizations can provide some financial assistance as they

have funds available but for the most part, they are a hub for referrals to other resources in the community.

“We do not give out cash,” McGuinness said. “We can help with the rent by giving the money to the landlord or paying the phone bill directly.”

Vacaville residents who seek assistance must provide proof of residency and financial need in the form of a driver’s license and in some cases a bill showing the actual amount needed to be paid.

The organizations have been doing a lot of referrals to agencies in Solano County that can offer more assistance.

“It doesn’t matter what faith you are, if you need help we are here to provide resources,” McGuinness said.

McGuinness said she has noticed a huge increase in calls from single parents who find themselves unable to pay the rent because it has been increased so much this year.

“It is critical,” she said.

“They are in dire need of help.”

McGuinness also has seen an increase in elderly people who can’t afford food or rent.

She has referred many people to the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano.

“If you need help, please call. We will guide you to who will be able to assist you the best,” she said.

The shredding day is one of several fundraisers the organizations have planned for the year. Iron Mountain Shredding provided onsite disposal of paper waste only. People were more than welcome to watch them go to work on it in the parking lot.

The organization throughout the year has many generous donors, but they are always looking for more.

If someone is in need of assistance, they should call the help line at 707-421-5488 and leave a detailed message someone will call back.

Solano Public Health offers tips during baby formula shortage Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County Public Health and the other Bay Area counties have released suggestions about what to do during the baby formula shortage.

“Babies need the right balance of nutrients – not too much or too little of anything – to grow and be healthy. It is important for your baby’s health to use products that meet federal standards to ensure the formula is safe and free of harmful bacteria,” Solano said in a statement released Friday.

The shortage has been created by supply chain

issues, but also a recall of infant formula due to bacterial contamination in the Abbott manufacturing plant in Michigan.

Solano and the other eight Bay Area counties, as well as the city of Berkeley, which has its own Public Health division, encourage parents and families to: n Continue breastfeeding if possible, if you currently are doing so. The agencies recognize this option may not be viable for everyone.

If someone is partially breastfeeding, they may consider reaching out to a lactation care provider (in-person or by telehealth) to help ensure they

maintain or increase their milk supply by breastfeeding more. n Talk to your child’s doctor about substituting formula brands. For most babies, if their regular brand of formula is not currently available, it is OK to substitute with a similar version. Also consult your child’s pediatrician if your baby requires a specialized formula (therapeutic or metabolic formula for an infant with a medical condition requiring different caloric or nutrient content), before making any substitution. Your pediatrician may recommend a milk bank referral. If you have ques-

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tions about which formula is acceptable, contact your child’s pediatrician. n Apply to the WIC program at https://www. myfamily.wic.ca.gov/ Home/HowCanIGetWIC. About half of all births in California are in low-income families who qualify for the WIC program, and income-eligible clients can receive a WIC card and use it to purchase a limited amount of formula at participating retail stores. WIC offices are staffed by individuals with close ties to their communities. Existing WIC clients should use their benefits for formula earlier in the month in case they run into short-

ages near the end of their benefit period. Reach the Solano County WIC agency at 707-784-8130. n Find out what resources exist in the community. Once you identify these resources, consider sharing them widely. If you see infant formula in stock when you are shopping, make it known within your network.

There are things to avoid as well.

“Avoid making your own formula at home, watering down formula to make it last longer, using expired formula, using cow, goat or plantbased milk for formula, or giving toddler formula

to infants,” the Solano statement said.

“Doing so can reduce the amount of nutrients a baby receives and can lead to potential serious health complications. If no other options are available to feed your baby, children over 6 months may be eligible for whole, pasteurized, cow’s milk as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. This is not ideal and should not be done for more than one week. Talk to your pediatrician if you need to give your baby cow’s milk for a week to see if this option is appropriate for your child.”

DAILY REPUBLIC — Sunday, May 22, 2022 A7

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Declining enrollment as well as higher labor and supply costs spell disaster for U.S. nursing homes, an industry

that was under financial pressure even before the Covid-19 pandemic.

Worker shortages are driving American nursing homes to the brink of collapse Tribune Content Agency Chippewa Manor’s beds could be full. The nursing and rehabilitation home is seeing plenty of demand from potential patients, after two nearby facilities recently closed.

But there’s one problem: There’s no one to care for residents.

Staffing has always been a challenge, but “it’s reached a boiling point” in the last six months, said Jill Gengler, the president of the northwest Wisconsin facility. The home has struggled to find nurses, laundry, maintenance, housekeeping and food-service workers.

Raising the wage for certified nursing assistants to $17 an hour from $12 has brought in some new staffers, but the pay rate is “not sustainable.”

As a result, Chippewa Manor is turning away other possible clients who might bolster revenue that would help fund higher pay.

It all spells disaster for U.S. nursing homes, an industry that was under financial pressure even before the pandemic.

Declining enrollment and higher labor and supply costs have forced 327 nursing homes to shut down since 2020, and more than 400, or about 3% of certified homes in the U.S., are at risk of closing this year, according to the American Health Care Association, an industry lobbying group.

“The industry itself is on the brink of collapse,” said David Gordon, who leads the distressed health-care practice at law firm Polsinelli.

The coming upheaval will also weigh on the so-called sandwich generation, those squeezed between caring for their children and aging parents, often while juggling their own careers.

More than half of adults over 65 will need care for serious disabilities, according to a government report, and the U.S. Census Bureau expects that older adults will outnumber children by 2034 for the first time ever.

Thin margins The median occupancy rate at skilled nursing facilities, historically around 90%, is forecasted to be 77% for the year, according to a March report from AHCA. And most homes are losing money, with an expected median operating margin of negative 4.8%.

That’s a huge difference from the strongest financially performing nursing homes that saw up to 10% returns before the pandemic, said John Tishler, who specializes in transactions involving distressed and bankrupt health-care facilities at Nashville law firm Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis.

The pandemic revealed and amplified long-existing shortcomings at the more than 15,000 nursing homes in the U.S., such as inadequate staffing, poor infection control and regulatory failures, according to an April report from the National Academy of Sciences. As of last month, more than 150,000 nursing home residents and 2,362 workers had died from Covid-19, according

to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.

While buyers in the space come in “thinking they can build a better mousetrap,” the complexity and economic pressures along with a move toward more home care will likely lead to more restructurings and closures similar to the wave that followed the 2008 recession – with the most trouble concentrated in privately owned facilities, said Thad Wilson, a restructuring lawyer at King & Spalding.

Even in normal times, experts say, there needs to be a rethinking of how the facilities are financed.

“All of the reimbursement systems are inadequate across the board,” said Suzanne Koenig, a nursing home turnaround expert and head of SAK Management Services who has served as a receiver and Chapter 11 trustee in bankruptcy cases. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ proposed 4.6% Medicare reimbursement cut next year would affect payments that cover shorter-term rehab patients, who account for a significant portion of nursing home stays. Medicaid, meanwhile, funds most long-term care.

About 70% of nursing homes in the U.S. are owned by for-profit operators, including large chains, smaller investor groups, mom-and-pops, and increasingly, privateequity firms, who have been a driving force in the consolidation of a stillfragmented industry.

Publicly financed facilities – and their

creditors – have their own issues, too. Municipal bonds issued for nonprofit owners of senior living facilities, including nursing homes, make up almost 75% of the $560 million municipal bond defaults this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Last year, $1.1 billion of those bonds defaulted, accounting for 60% of defaults in the municipal bond market.

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“Investor sentiment is reaching extreme weakness,” the strategists wrote. “This, in combination with light investor positioning and better-than-feared Q1 earnings, should allow the market to rebound.”

These comments came from two companies just steps apart on Wall Street.

Now compare the comments above with those from 2009, during the financial crisis and just before the huge increase in market values. n Wells Fargo & Co. slashes the dividend. n Berkshire Hathaway Inc. loses its longstanding AAA credit rating from Moody’s. n World Health Organization upgrades swine flu pandemic to a level-five alert. n Chrysler files for bankruptcy. n North Korea conducts nuclear missile tests in defiance of international condemnation.

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tions. It’s about culture.”

Experts from the Academy of Sciences say the nursing home industry needs a complete overhaul from emergency preparedness to new standards for staff and better oversight and regulatory enforcement. A report from the nonprofit also suggests the federal government study a new long-term care benefit. The current system, according to the report, is “ineffective, inefficient, fragmented and unsustainable.”

Until then, operators are just trying to find nurses and support staff to keep their facilities running. But even with incentives – some centers are offering a free vacation day for every three weeks worked, said Kelly Arduino, head of the healthcare practice at advisory firm Wipfli – job applicants aren’t coming forward.

“We just can’t even remember a situation where it’s been harder,” she said.

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industry already struggling to find workers.

Roughly 236,000 caregivers, or 15% of the nursing home workforce, left the sector since the start of the pandemic through February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Burned-out workers are not being tempted by raises.

Their wages jumped 19% between January 2020 and January 2022, BLS data show. But other industries have raised pay, too.

“You can go work at the Walmart down the street and get paid more and not deal with Covid all day,” Gordon said.

For rural facilities, the situation is even more urgent. Like rural hospitals, they’re often located in areas with stagnant or declining populations.

“It’s going to take more than wages,” said David Grabowski, a professor of health-care policy at Harvard Medical School.

“It’s about working condi-

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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.

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n General Motors files for bankruptcy. n Bernard Madoff faces 150 years in prison for defrauding thousands of investors. n The U.S. economy appears doomed to enter an enduring episode of unimpressive growth. n U.S. stocks took a pounding yesterday, with the benchmark S&P 500 Index turning negative for the year as investors reacted to data showing many more people lost their jobs in June than expected.

The lesson here is that although times are tough, they have been so before. Individuals will keep trying and their collective efforts will lead to better times. Do not allow the current and immediate events to sway you from your long-term plans and strategy.

And I will not even begin to discuss the debacle in cryptocurrency. Perhaps another time.

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who served as a combat photographer and artist during the Vietnam War. FAIRFIELD — Col. Also scheduled to attend Corey A. Simmons, com- are Gold Star Mothers mander of the 60th and Families; Benita Air Mobility Wing at Wilson, an Air Force Travis Air Force Base, veteran; Dean McFarren, is the scheduled keynote of the U.S. Coast Guard speaker at the Memorial Auxiliary; Vacaville fireDay commemorafighters; members tion event to be of the Air Force held May 30 at Sergeants Associthe Solano County ation; members of War Memorial the Service Vetin Fairfield. erans of Northern The memorial, California Volunlocated in front of teer Honor Guard; the old courthouse and members of on Texas Street, the local Boys between Jefferson SIMMIONS Scout community. and Union streets, honors There will only be a Solano County residents limited number of chairs who died during World so organizers encourage War I, World War II, the those who plan to attend to Korean War, the Vietnam bring their own chairs.

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RIO VISTA — A $4.77 million allocation from the California Transportation Commission will go toward resurfacing the pavement, upgrading guardrails and the drainage systems, and upgrading curb ramps to the Americans with Disabilities Act standards on Highway 12 from Currie Road to Azevedo Road near Rio Vista.

The project is part of $700 million in Senate Bill 1 dollars allocated, the commission announced.

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ment will help Caltrans continue repairing, maintaining and upgrading our state’s aging transportation infrastructure for improved safety and sustainability,” Caltrans Acting Director Steven Keck said in the announcement. “It reflects both the CTC’s and Caltrans’ commitment to providing travelers and communities – as well as California’s dynamic and growing economy – with a world-class, multimodal transportation system.”

SB 1, or the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, provides $5 billion in transportation funding annually. It is divided between the state and local agencies.

Vallejo community leaders speak out in support of Roe v. Wade Tribune Content Agency VALLEJO — City Council member Katy Miessner brought an ironing board to Friday afternoon’s press conference at City Hall but it had nothing to do with her clothes.

It had to do with her rights.

Miessner joined community leaders U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, Council member Pippin Dew, Solano County Supervisor Monica Brown, Benicia City Council member Christina Strawbridge, Solano County Office of Education Trustee Dana Dean and others to show their support for Roe v. Wade.

The press conference came just a few weeks after a leaked Supreme Court opinion pointed to the overturning of the 1973 landmark decision ruling that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman’s liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.

“This represents a

college student in a dorm getting an abortion on an ironing board,” Miessner said, while often fighting back tears. “In the ‘80s in Boston, I used to go to MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) stations with the ironing board with my friends and colleagues to support the right for abortion. It was under assault then and it’s been under assault ever since Roe v.

Wade passed.

“This is really against anyone who is outside the sort of norm 1950s nuclear family,” Miessner continued. “This is an attack on anybody different. We’re fortunate to have Mike Thompson and Gavin Newsom here in California, but other states don’t and we need to think of them.”

It was a day filled with emotion for each of Friday’s speakers.

“I’m angry, I’m so angry, I’m so angry!” said Brown, her voice rising with each use of the word “angry.” “This is an attack on women and it is an attack on poor women.”

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Rural California hatches plan for engineered mosquitoes to battle stealthy predator Tribune Content Agency VISALIA — Bryan Ruiz moved his family into a newly built home in this Central Valley farming center seven months ago and almost immediately found they were under assault.

Mosquitoes bit and harassed them in broad daylight.

He looked around, trying to find a water source where they were breeding, and noticed a freshly dug pipe, meant to drain water from the backyard to the front. He lifted its cap and inside found a small puddle in the drainage line, which didn’t have enough slope to fully empty.

He grabbed a turkey baster and drew water, already knowing what he would find: the larvae of Aedes aegypti, one of the greatest threats to humans on the planet.

Ruiz knew what he was looking for because he is in charge of a newly formed team that spends the summer months traveling around northern Tulare County to combat the invasion of Aedes aegypti, a mosquito capable of infecting humans with the deadly diseases of dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika.

Since gaining a foothold in California less than a decade ago, Aedes aegypti has spread quickly across the state, its territory now ranging from the desert terrain of Imperial County at the U.S.-Mexico border to the city of Redding in woody Shasta County, about 750 miles north.

To combat aegypti, mosquito control districts rely on the same tools they were using decades ago – pesticides and rooting out water sources – even as climate change and agricultural practices are allowing the mosquitoes to thrive in places previously uninhabitable.

But Tulare County officials hope the region will soon be a testing ground for a new generation of technology, including a genetically modified mosquito, as they try to prevent the kind of disease outbreaks now common in regions of the Caribbean and Central and South America where Aedes aegypti is widespread.

The most immediate mosquito danger in Tulare County comes from a different genus, Culex, a type that typically bites at dawn and dusk and can carry West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis, and western equine encephalomyelitis virus, all of which can be fatal. Over the past decade, California has registered more than 4,000 cases of West Nile and at least 220 deaths. Tulare’s mosquito control districts have poured extensive resources into that battle, including releasing a range of chemicals, maintaining a hatchery for larvae-eating fish, and, most recently, buying a drone to ferry pesticides deep into cornfields.

Aedes aegypti, however, is a growing concern, and much harder to combat.

To understand this fight, you first have to understand just how stealthy Aedes aegypti is.

The mosquitoes can lay eggs in spaces as small as a bottle cap, and females spread their eggs across multiple locations – scientists often refer to their

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Rick Alvarez, vector control supervisor for the Delta Mosquito and Vector Control District, checks on an abandoned backyard pool in Tulare County that has become a breeding ground for mosquitoes. “cryptic habitats.” Most other types of mosquito eggs need water to survive, but Aedes aegypti’s can lie dormant for months, springing to life when water eventually does come. And one mosquito can bite many times over, snacking repeatedly on the same human or moving from one to the next. They become a lethal threat if one of those people happens to be carrying dengue or some other virus.

In an increasingly global world, people regularly travel to places where dengue is endemic and bring it back to the U.S. If a mosquito bites them, the illness can spread locally. That’s what happened in the Florida Keys in 2020, and more than 70 people were infected before the outbreak was stopped.

California so far has avoided local outbreaks of the diseases carried by Aedes aegypti. But it does import cases – California has registered seven cases of imported dengue this year – and with the mosquito population growing, experts say it’s likely only a matter of time.

Aedes aegypti is a frequent flyer, traveling the world in cargo. It no doubt has been introduced into California millions of times. But it wasn’t until recently that it took hold, said Chris Barker, an associate professor of pathology, microbiology, and immunology at the University of California, Davis. It was first detected in 2013 in three California cities: Menlo Park, Clovis, and Madera.

Today, Aedes aegypti has spread across more than 200 California cities and 22 counties. And it has strained mosquito control districts.

“It’s been a lot of extra work, extra staffing, extra financial demand,” said Barker. “And regardless of disease risk, a huge issue is the nuisance biting.”

Because of the threat the mosquitoes pose, when aegypti was detected in 2014 by the Delta Mosquito and Vector Control District, where Ruiz works, the district rushed to stamp out the menace. Its eradication method required searching every nook and cranny of the area where Aedes aegypti had taken up residence and cleaning out water sources multiple times a week. People were so annoyed by the full-court press, said the district’s assistant manager, Mir Bear-Johnson, that nearly five years passed before that community reached out again.

Which was a problem, because the district partly relies on reports from residents to know where mosquitoes are.

The eradication was also short-lived.

In 2015, Aedes aegypti was reintroduced, and this time the ferocious biters spread out across

Visalia, the area’s largest city. Because Aedes aegypti can now be found all around the Central Valley, eradication no longer feels like an option, said Mustapha Debboun, an entomologist who moved from Harris County, Texas, in March 2020 to lead the Delta district.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the area are also broadly resistant to pyrethroids, the family of chemicals most frequently used to kill adult mosquitoes. Pyrethroids are in heavy use among the area’s agricultural companies, likely contributing to what Barker described as nearly 100% resistance.

Which is why Debboun and colleagues are interested in the genetically modified mosquito.

Their hope is that the engineered mosquitoes reduce the number of wild Aedes aegypti as they interbreed and produce short-lived offspring.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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The Delta Mosquito and Vector Control District in Tulare County captures mosquitoes to test for diseases and pesticideresistance. recently approved a trial in Tulare of the engineered mosquito, which is made by a company called Oxitec. The company says its latest product releases only male mosquitoes, which unlike females do not bite. The mosquitoes are genetically modified to carry a “self-limiting” gene that is passed on during breeding and theoretically prevents the offspring from surviving to adulthood. They have been released in several places, including Brazil and the Cayman Islands.

They also were released in the Florida Keys last year. There, Oxitec faced pushback from some homeowners concerned about the unanticipated risks of releasing genetically modified pests into the wild. Local officials put the issue on the 2016 ballot, and county residents, who by then had confronted both dengue and Zika, voted to go forward.

Now, Oxitec and the Delta mosquito district are waiting for permission from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to launch the insects. The work would be funded by Oxitec, Debboun said, with operational assistance from his staff.

The goal is to build on the earlier research, which shows that the

modified Aedes aegypti temporarily reduces the wild mosquito population but has left scientists with questions about the broader effects on the environment and how well the effort works in the long run to reduce disease. Among the unknowns is whether the Oxitec mosquitoes are indeed incapable of producing viable offspring with wild females.

Another question, said Barker, the UC Davis expert, is what happens when Oxitec’s mosquitoes encounter tetracycline in the wild. Tetracycline is an antibiotic commonly used to control infection in livestock and agriculture, both of which are found in abundance in the Central Valley. Oxitec mosquitoes are bred with a sort of off-switch that shuts down the self-limiting gene when they come into contact with tetracycline. In the lab, this off-switch allows the company to breed the engineered mosquitoes.

If it is triggered in the wild, the concern is that the mosquitoes’ offspring wouldn’t die out.

On a broader level, Barker said, he hopes California will independently track the experiment. He is among the researchers concerned about leaving that analysis in the hands of a private company that stands to benefit. “If an independent source and the company are in agreement when all the results are done, that has much more power and much more potential for the future,” Barker said.

Rajeev Vaidyanathan, director of U.S. operations for Oxitec, said Tulare’s Delta Mosquito and Vector Control District was among several districts interested in hosting the trial. Among the selling points was Debboun’s enthusiasm for new technologies.

Debboun previously helped run a trial in Houston of a product called MosquitoMate, which releases male mosquitoes infected with the bacteria Wolbachia.

When the MosquitoMate mosquitoes breed with wild females, they produce eggs that do not hatch. Those mosquitoes were also tested in Fresno County in 2018 and 2019 and led to a 95% reduction in female Aedes aegypti, according to a study on the trial.

Even so, that mosquito district told The Fresno Bee it didn’t have the money to continue the project on its own.

“These are the fantastic, glittery options,” said Eva Buckner, a University of Florida assistant professor who advises Florida’s mosquito control districts. “I think they have a lot of potential.” She wants to know what the cost-benefit ratio would be for widespread use by government agencies compared with other interventions – a question the Tulare research could help determine.

And regardless of price, she cautioned, there’s not going to be a silver bullet for mosquitoes, which have endured on Earth for millions of years.

Oxitec wanted to test its technology in arid Central California, Vaidyanathan said, because it could show it can work throughout the Aedes aegypti-invaded Southwest. Oxitec hopes its mosquitoes eventually will be sold to mosquito control districts in the U.S., and directly to American consumers.

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Kaiser behavioral health care on hot seat after California complaints Tribune Content Agency In an unexpected move, the California Department of Mental Health Care informed Kaiser Permanente that it will be examining whether the company is providing adequate mental health care services to its 9.4 million California members.

“This non-routine survey is based on complaints received from enrollees, providers, and other stakeholders concerning the plan’s behavioral health operations,” said Amanda Levy, the department’s deputy director of health policy and stakeholder relations.

Levy said regulators would evaluate Kaiser’s internal and external provider networks, timely access to care, processes for intake and follow-up appointments, appointment scheduling processes, levels of care and associated decision-making processes, medical record documentation and retention practices, and monitoring of urgent appointments.

Leaders of Kaiser Permanente issued a statement through Steve Shivinsky, the director of national media relations. In part, he said: “We appreciate the DMHC’s interest and accountability in understanding how we are working to deliver clinically appropriate care to those who rely on us for their mental health services. We welcome the opportunity to review our performance and collaborate on new areas for improvement.”

Kaiser’s mental health clinicians, represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, have complained that their

clients face weeks-long waits before they can get successive appointments and grueling schedules that leave clinicians little time to write notes or to connect patients to wraparound services.

“We have been pushing Kaiser Permanente to increase staffing and invest more in behavioral health care so that we can actually address the needs of our patients, but Kaiser keeps refusing,” said psychologist Ken Rogers, a leader for the union in the Sacramento region. “Hopefully this investigation will finally force Kaiser to stop denying that it’s failing its behavioral health patients and start working with us to improve its services.”

In news release issued Thursday, union leaders pointed to past fines and settlement agreements that the health care giant had signed with the Department of Managed Health Care, including one from 2013 when the company agreed to pay $4 million and to take corrective actions after the agency found it had failed to provide timely access to mental health care.

State records also show that regulators found issues with timely access to behavioral health services and availability of the care during a routine survey in 2016, but by 2019, Kaiser had instituted a corrective action plan that regulators said was working to alleviate the issues.

Regulators cited Kaiser for seven other deficiencies in the 2019 survey, mainly focused on how the company handled consumer complaints and monitored whether they were effectively resolved.

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Kaiser Permanente faces a non-routine audit by the California Department of Mental Health Care following a spike in patient complaints.

Regulators were conducting a follow-up inspection to determine whether Kaiser had corrected these deficiencies when it announced the non-routine survey to determine whether the company complied with laws requiring timely access to behavioral health care.

Sharp increase in Kaiser complaints The California Department of Mental Health Care “help center received a 20% increase in behavioral health complaints for Kaiser in 2021 compared to 2020,” wrote Rachel Arrezola a spokesperson for the department, in response to a Bee inquiry. The department “is committed to ensuring enrollees have appropriate access to behavioral health care when they need it.”

Kaiser’s Shivinsky said: “We believe that a thoughtful, impartial review can help us and other health plans in California address challenges we are all facing. We know that we cannot solve the challenges of the national

mental health crisis on our own and look forward to collaboration from across the mental health community.”

Both the company and the union noted that California and the nation as a whole has seen a spike in demand for behavioral health services amid the Covid-19 epidemic.

The nonprofit Mental Health America estimated that more than 2.5 million youth in the U.S. have severe depression, and Black, indigenous and other youth of color are at the greatest risk.

In another key measure of mental health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported earlier this month that fatal overdoses have soared by 15% in 2021 with over 107,000 Americans dying. This follows upon a 30% increase in such deaths in 2020.

New California requires timely appointments Union officials said it’s past time that Kaiser got its act together in managing behavioral

health services. They warned state officials that the company was woefully unprepared to comply with a new state law that goes into effect July 1 requiring that health plans accommodate mental health therapy appointments within 10 business days unless the treating clinician determines that a longer wait would not be detrimental.

Already, union officials said, a 2020 survey of Kaiser clinicians found that, on a daily basis, 65% of respondents are scheduling their patients for return appointments further into the future than is clinically appropriate.

Shivinsky said Kaiser has been on a multiyear journey to improve the way mental health care is delivered, but like other providers, it has faced challenges amid a national shortage of clinicians in the field. The company has expanded its ability to provide

virtual care to patients who want it; embedded mental health professionals in primary care clinics, pediatric settings, and emergency departments; and expanded collaborative care programs for patients who have anxiety and depression diagnoses.

“Despite all these efforts, we continue to face the same challenges others do,” Shivinsky said.

“We haven’t solved the problems facing mental health care, and the pandemic has set us all back.”

Arrezola said that consumers should file a grievance with their plan if they are not getting timely access to behavioral care. If they are not satisfied with their health plan’s response or have been in their plan’s grievance system for longer than 30 days for non-urgent issues, she said, they should contact the DMHC Help Center for assistance at (888) 466-2219 or www.

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CALMATTERS COMMENTARY

Voters can put spending limits on the state’s budget

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s California’s governor and legislators go through the annual ritual of fashioning a state budget, they must contend with three uber-complex, voter-approved directives that largely dictate how revenues are to be distributed.

Collectively, they imply that politicians can’t be trusted to spend billions of dollars wisely.

The three measures have particular impact when the Capitol is dominated by expansionist-minded Democrats and the treasury is overflowing with tax revenues, as it is now.

The first is the Gann Limit, named for anti-tax gadlfy Paul Gann, a co-author of the iconic Proposition 13 property tax limit. After its passage in 1978, Gann proposed an ideologically Dan Walters similar constraint for the state and found an ally in the governor of the era, Jerry Brown.

Brown had opposed Proposition 13 as “a ripoff” but after its passage quickly rebranded himself a “born-again tax cutter” and began campaigning for president as a proponent of balanced federal budgets. To burnish his new image, he called a special election in 1979 to help Gann’s measure, Proposition 4, win voter approval.

The Gann Limit’s complex language kicked in when certain conditions were met and required excess revenue to either be returned to taxpayers or spent on a few select categories.

Eight years after its passage, circumstances triggered its provisions and the Legislature approved a $1.1 billion tax refund – a very substantial sum in those days.

The Gann Limit, however, worried those who depended on the state’s budget, particularly the California Teachers Association. The state had taken over school finance in the wake of Proposition 13 and the powerful union wanted to protect education from spending limits and tax cuts. Therefore, in 1988 it persuaded voters to endorse an even more complex ballot measure, Proposition 98.

Essentially, it gives schools first call on state revenues and while its precise effect varies, depending on economic circumstances and other factors, it roughly directs about 40% of general fund spending to schools.

Voters adopted the third big budget constraint in 2014 with Jerry Brown, once again governor, again playing a seminal role. The budget had become dependent on income taxes from a relative handful of high-income Californians, and their volatility had sparked a boom-and-bust syndrome in the budget process.

Brown asked voters to raise taxes to solve an immediate budget deficit and then championed Proposition 2 to deal with revenue volatility by requiring some revenues to be diverted into a “rainy day fund” that could be tapped when revenues declined.

In the past couple of years, as the wealthy saw huge gains on their investments and their taxes mushroomed, all three of the constitutional directives have affected how the financial bounty could be spent.

Schools have seen huge gains in state aid, rainy day reserves have swelled and, for the first time in nearly four decades, the Gann Limit has been a factor. Last year saw billions of dollars in “Golden State Stimulus” payments to taxpayers to get around the Gann Limit and Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators are debating how to shower even more cash on California families this year.

The Legislature’s budget adviser, Gabe Petek, has warned the Gann Limit could create a multibillion-dollar “fiscal cliff” by requiring ever-more revenues to be confined to a few categories at the expense of broader spending.

The Gann Limit grates on those who see the surge of revenues as an opportunity to sharply expand spending on social and medical services, and there’s a nascent effort to change or even repeal it. Newsom says he would support some kind of change, so the saga continues.

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

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Care about truth and evidence? Vote Henry for DA Sharon Henry’s federal complaint alleges conduct that’s troubling to our community. The county hired an outside investigator, who it appears found true allegations of discrimination.

Take advice from a current DA’s Office employee. I’m not proud to publicize negativity in response to other writers, but here’s inside truth: Most staff were productively working from home during the pandemic.

Henry worked at home under a doctor’s orders and there should be no shame in that.

While opinions differ about Covid, it’s alarming how the DA’s Office is not being managed properly, as also proven by the high turnover. It’s disappointing that the other leads and officers endorsed incumbent Krishna Abrams, knowing the internal struggles we’re facing and its negative impacts on our community. It’s a fact that Henry is the only courageous leader to stand up against it.

The federal lawsuit alleges DA Abrams engaged in corruption.

Solano Voices columnist Douglas Keener has no personal knowledge of the underlying facts.

I have experience working with both candidates. I had meetings with Abrams to discuss serious concerns about discovery/evidence in criminal cases. During these meetings, Abrams berated me, instructed that I do not document or send follow-up emails, advised “that’s how cops get fired” and wouldn’t understand why discrepancies affect me.

It also affects cases, co-workers and the community. The issue with discovery was a troubling matter under former DA, which is why Abrams ran against her then-boss in 2014: “Integrity Matters.”

Even though I follow the chain of command, inform my supervisors and notify my union, nothing is done to help us. Instead, I’m encouraged to find employment elsewhere. Maybe the general public doesn’t care about corruption, staff retention, inefficiencies or hostility, but I care.

Mia Adams, investigative assistant, District Attorney’s Office 2018 employee of the year Vacaville

Sharon Henry for DA I would like to enthusiastically encourage my fellow Solano County residents to vote Sharon Henry for district attorney June 7. Sharon has been a prosecutor for 34 years with a passion for seeking justice for victims of crime and maintaining law and order. As a chief deputy in the Solano County District Attorney’s Office for the past seven years, she is uniquely positioned to understand the challenges of the office as well as bring a fresh approach to meeting them head-on.

Sharon Henry will bring a collaborative approach to working within the community in the pursuit of justice and public safety. Sharon will work effectively alongside our county’s law enforcement agencies while maintaining the independence of the DA’s office. Sharon’s idea of community will bring together law enforcement, faith community, education and nonprofit agencies to work for the common good of the Solano

Community and victims of crime.

In order to have a pulse of the community, Sharon understands the office should reflect the community it serves. Unfortunately, there is a noticeable lack of diversity among prosecutors in the office. The incumbent, Krishna Abrams, has not demonstrated a commitment to diversity. It is essential that prosecutors understand different life experiences and are equitable in their application of the law. The district attorney should seek justice in a manner that is consistent with the values of the community in which they serve.

Vote Sharon Henry for change.

Kenneth Underwood Vacaville

I'll stick with current sheriff Challenger for county sheriff Daryl Snedeker favors an oversight committee because in his eyes he has not seen a lot evolve. “Snedeker points to the controversy over the 3 Percenter photos that appeared on social media sites by some of the staff members as a perfect example.” That statement alone is controversial. Snedeker instigates more controversy when stating Sheriff Tom Ferrara misrepresented what the FBI told him about the investigation.

Sheriff Ferrara’s statement: “I can tell you that we found no merit to the criminal/racist allegations made in the ‘Open Vallejo’ article.” “We have reviewed our social media and political expression policies, and in consultation with the FBI, concluded that the photographs (taken over four years ago) of the deputies, although disappointing, are not in themselves a crime or were in violation of policy when the social media posts were first published.” That should be the end of the story, but that doesn’t help Snedeker’s characterization innuendo, does it?

There is one organization that is controversial: the local BLM that made the accusation. They are strong proponents for defunding the police; unsettling national protest chants and behavior across America in 2020, and national leadership of admittedly selftrained Marxists. While Snedeker states three people are smarter than one, I think I give three reasons why any influence by this organization and he is not. Just what does Snedeker want the department to evolve to?

I’ll stick with the sheriff who was unanimously appointed to his first term by the county board of supervisors and re-elected several times thereafter. I support Sheriff Tom Ferrara and hope you do, too.

Hank Schwarzbach Fairfield

Of tyrants and dictators It seems so implausible that governments of some countries have imposed a situation that seems more like the behavior of prison officials than guardians of their populations.

Myanmar, for example, where the military has jailed the democratically elected government and is now at war with citizens of that nation.

North Korea, where Kim Jong Un has made citizens prisoners who must follow his edicts about life, even to the way they comb their hair and dress.

We have seen what happened in Syria when people began to protest against a brutal leader.

Now we read that the Taliban have

reneged on a promise to allow women to have full citizen rights. The Taliban instead have denied women the right to education, allows them to be sold into marriage, does not allow them to leave the home unless accompanied by a male family member, and more recently dictated that in public they must wear burqas that cover their entire body so that only their eyes can be seen.

And not to be outdone, Republicans, including their obese orange leader, denied a verified election result because they didn’t like the outcome. In many states, Republicans are dictating which books students can read, and which ones they can’t read.

Teens are being denied essential medications if they don’t meet the personhood mold of the Republican dictators. The government in Texas is trying to force the people to “rat-out” citizens who assist women who attempt to make their own medical decisions. And recently we have learned that Republican tyrants appointed to the nation’s Supreme Court by a president who thinks it’s OK to grab women‘s private parts, has indicated a willingness to deny women the right to make their own medical decisions about pregnancy.

It seems like the Republican Party should change names to the “Republican’t” party.

Paul Stichick Rio Vista

Disagreements to be expected Feeling a smidgen somnolent?

Maybe a little languid? A tad tepid?

Well, kick in some kinesthesia thanks to medical science. Ask your doctor if vitriol is right for you.

That's right! Nothing gets the old heart a pumping more than a vial of vitriol. Why accept that we can agree to disagree when you can vent some venom on those you don't agree with?

Be careful, however, as there is a fine line between persecuting and patronizing.

It's the mark of a brilliant opiner to lament the divisive nature currently in the country and then proceed to ludicrously lambast the offending opponents on a repetitive and boring daily basis. Retain the rift is a single thought. (One can just imagine the guy's poor wife having to wipe all that spittle off his Underwood every morning.)

So what if your friend thinks it's nonproductive for hardcore hoodlums, in country sans documents, be retained due to some sanctuary city's catch and release program. Who cares if an actual taxpayer laments about the over-the-top assistance programs burdened by a non-existent border policy? If your neighbor wants to believe that our high gas prices in December were a result of an East European brouhaha that didn't start until late February, why bust his bubble?

Of course, if you have trouble with elevated language or writing, and you have plenty of time on your hands, you can always take to the streets, wave homemade signs, chant something catchy, and hope the 6 o'clock news guys show up. After all, it is your opinion that is paramount.

But here it is, so pay attention.

There will always be two sides to every issue. We should expect it, and then respect it.

Bill Ferguson Vacaville

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A Congressional Gold Medal was awarded to the war’s Merchant Marines on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Fairfield and the others were given certificates acknowledging their role in the war effort.

It was a bitter-sweet day for Fairfield, who thinks the acknowledgment should have come years earlier when more men would have still been alive to accept the honor.

Still, he was thankful.

And it is difficult to accept that it has taken decades for the Merchant Marines to get any of the kind of benefits other veterans have received.

“I was issued dog tags just like the military, but mine said civilian,” Fairfield said. “But I was right there where they were.”

Moreover, the Merchant Marines lost a

greater percentage of their members than any other branch of the armed forces.

Fairfield said he remembers coming home wanting to go to college so he could be a veterinarian, but did not have the money. Many of his buddies who returned from the war had the G.I. bill and didn’t care.

“But the government did call us veterans, so we did get medical benefits,” he said.

Fairfield went on to serve as the Dixon fire chief for 26 years, retiring Dec. 31, 1985.

He was born in Sacramento but was still in elementary school when the family moved to Dixon. He has lived in his North Washington Street home for 75 years.

And the Merchant Marines are never far from his heart and mind.

He was part of an association of mariners he helped form out of Sacramento. He is the last living member, part of what is called “The Last Man Club.”

“But I had to buy my own bottle of whiskey (to toast the others),” he said glibly.

Fairfield also has volunteered to be a crew member on the SS Jeremiah O’Brien several times, often for a Memorial Day event, and perhaps the most memorable being the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy.

The O’Brien was the only ship that attended the anniversary that was there in June 1944.

Fairfield was part of the crew that brought the ship back from France, so he flew into Paris to meet the ship across the pond.

The trip also gave him a chance to visit the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, where 9,386 American soldiers are buried. What struck Fairfield the most are the graves marked, “Only Known to God.” The O’Brien’s trip home included a stop in Maine where it had been built.

“There were 5,000 screaming people there wanting to see that ship,” Fairfield said.

cases may soon put pressure on our healthcare resources,” Ferrer said Thursday.

So far, no California counties are in the worst, or “high,” community level, which denotes a heightened level of coronavirus transmission and hospitals seeing significant impacts from Covid-19.

“We need to do everything we can to stay out of ‘high,’” Ferrer said.

“Nobody here wants to see us move to any categorization that could possibly cause stress on our healthcare system or result in more people getting sick or dying.”

What does that mean?

Being in the medium category does not trigger any new widespread rules or health guidance.

However, L.A. County officials have said reaching high would prompt the return of a local universal public indoor mask mandate – which hasn’t been in place since early March.

Other counties in California have not outlined specific plans to reinstate a local mask order if cases or hospitalizations continue to worsen.

Masks are still required in health care settings, nursing homes, jails and homeless shelters and in certain other settings in some areas of the state. The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system has enacted a mask mandate.

Oakland requires patrons attending indoor events with 2,500 or more people to wear a mask.

On Tuesday, a number of speakers at a health commission meeting urged San Francisco officials to reinstate a universal mask mandate.

But the city’s health

officer, Dr. Susan Philip, indicated she was not inclined to pursue that at this time, given the widespread availability of high-quality masks, vaccinations and boosters and anti-Covid drugs.

San Francisco has been at the medium Covid-19 community level for three weeks, sent into this tier because of its high case rate.

But coronavirus-positive hospitalizations remain relatively low, Dr. Grant Colfax, the city’s public health director, told health commissioners this week.

“Our hospital capacity . . . remains relatively robust,” Colfax said.

Even though a face covering requirement hasn’t been on the books for months, officials at the California Department of Public Health have consistently strongly recommended residents mask up indoors in public.

Ferrer has also urged residents to wear highquality masks – like KF94, KN95 and N95 respirators – while indoors, get vaccinated and boosted, get tested when feeling sick or potentially exposed to the coronavirus, and prioritize gathering in well-ventilated areas or outdoors.

Despite the recent increases, Ferrer reiterated that she feels people can enjoy gatherings and activities, though she suggested taking prudent precautions.

“While we are disheartened that the pandemic hasn’t ended, I am reassured that with the tools at hand, we can continue to enjoy our time with each other and our participation in those activities we love,” she said.

How does California

compare to other parts of the country?

The situation elsewhere in the United States is more concerning.

Nationwide, 297 counties have a high Covid-19 community level – including those that are home to New York City; Long Island, New York; Detroit, Honolulu; and Milwaukee.

Other areas in the high category include large swaths of upstate New York, New Jersey, Delaware and New England, including Boston; northern and eastern Pennsylvania; and all of Puerto Rico.

In these areas, which are home to 18% of the nation’s population, federal health officials recommend people wear masks indoors while in public.

While they haven’t ordered a new mask mandate, officials in New York City warned that “pressure on the healthcare system is increasing” and urged seniors and others at high risk of severe Covid-19 to avoid gatherings and wear a mask in crowded outdoor settings.

Officials have said the the dramatic rise in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in New York City is being fueled

by BA.2.12.1, one of a family of omicron subvariants spawned in the wake of last winter’s surge.

By comparison, 483 U.S. counties – home to 28% of U.S. residents – are in medium, while the vast majority – 2,444 counties, home to 54% of U.S. residents – remain in low.

events. He did that for about 30 years.

His wife, Jenn, has become her husband’s public advocate and cheerleader.

Together, the couple, who will celebrate their 17th anniversary in September and have a son, Ayden, are trying to raise the awareness of kidney disease as well as inspire someone with an O blood type to step up and be tested as a possible living donor.

A living donor gives him the best chance for a longer life after the transplant is complete.

“I want a second chance at a normal life,” Visda said.

Visda has put his time on dialysis to good use, and through the Covid pandemic, completed his bachelor’s degree in technical management from DeVry University, with a minor in criminal justice.

He hopes to parlay that education into a second career in law enforcement, working with parolees or with a probation department.

Visda said his son does not have the disease, but he knows his own condition has been a challenge for the 12-year-old.

“But we’ve talked about it,” Visda said.

He also gets a lot of support from his friends, and from his co-work-

ers who know about his condition.

“The main thing I hear is ‘You have to take care of yourself,’ and they totally understand,” Visda said.

Asked what the first thing he would do if he gets a transplant, Visda said he would pack away his dialysis machine and take a family vacation.

How to help n Go to https:// ucdonor.org, where you can fill out an application as a possible living donor. Also go to the Kidney Search Foundation and the National Kidney Foundation for more information.

From Page One shooting there. The Japanese came over the next day and blew the gasoline up. It was the worst explosion I had ever seen,” said Fairfield, who added he was never so thankful to be a good distance away.

But it was not only the enemy attacks that could get you.

Fairfield and one of his shipmates were washed overboard by a big wave as his vessel worked to guide gasoline barges ashore.

“When you have a wide open gulf (to the ocean) with shallow water, you get tremendous surf. And one wave came in and knocked me and another guy off the ship,” Fairfield said.

“I was unable to get picked up, so I was on my own. But I made it to the beach and a couple of Filipinos pulled me out of the surf. So maybe they saved my life,” Fairfield said.

The memories come back easy to Fairfield, 96, who on Friday was joined by a handful of other World War II merchant marines who were honored during a ceremony at the Merchant Marine memorial in San Francisco, two days prior to National Maritime

Covid From Page One been able to fill about 50% of our teacher absences with substitute teachers,” the school district said in a statement.

“This means that in schools across the district administrators are, once again, working in our classrooms as teachers while teachers are forgoing their planning periods to fill in for colleagues who are ill,” the school system said.

What are conditions like?

Fourteen of California’s 58 counties are at the “medium” Covid-19 community level outlined by the CDC. Counties in this category, the middle on the agency’s three-tier scale, are experiencing elevated levels of coronavirus transmission. In those counties, residents should “consider taking prevention measures based on their own risk, like avoiding crowds, wearing a mask, increasing their testing, especially before gathering with others indoors,” according to CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky.

Los Angeles moved into the medium category on Thursday, and is the only Southern California county at that level. Also in the medium category are eight of the nine counties in the San Francisco Bay Area (the lone exception is Napa County) and the coastal counties north of the Bay Area, as well as Santa Cruz County and Yolo County.

Reaching this category “is concerning, since it could signal that the increases that we’re seeing in our Covid

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Kidney From Page One dialysis has a way of taking a toll.

“With dialysis, you have to plan way in advance,” he said.

Dialysis basically clears the wastes and toxins that build up in his bloodstream because the kidneys can no longer do the job adequately. It also helps to clear away excess fluid.

Visda has spent most of his life in Suisun City, and many people may know him through his DJ work on radio and local

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As Bay Area weather heats up, keep a safe distance from seal pups on the beach Tribune Content Agency With summer coming and a wave of warm weather hitting the Bay Area, more people will head to the coast.

It’s also a time when harbor seals have hauled up on local beaches to rear their pups, and wildlife experts are warning visitors to take precautions after noticing a disturbing rise in human interactions with the marine mammals since the pandemic began.

The trouble often happens when people assume a pup has been abandoned, even when that’s not the case. After harbor seals give birth on California beaches between March and May, mother seals often leave the pups to hunt for food.

Humans see a pup, think it is in trouble, and get too close or even touch it. But instead of helping, they are likely making things much worse, said Adam Ratner, associate director of conservation education at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito.

“Mom is really just offshore looking for food, sees people now getting close to that pup and views it as too dangerous a situation to come back,” said Ratner. “So those good-natured people that were trying to help this abandoned animal were actually the ones that led to it being abandoned.”

The number of incidents where humans interacted with marine mammals on California beaches doubled between 2020 and 2021, according to the Marine Mammal Center, which rescues aban-

doned pups and other distressed animals from the coast between Mendocino County and San Luis Obispo County. The incidents ranged from crowding for a selfie to dragging the animal into the water, actions that are not only harmful but illegal under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Instead, people should stay at least 300 feet away from harbor seals, said Jennifer Stock, education and outreach coordinator at the Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank national marine sanctuaries.

“If they put their head up to look at you, that’s a disturbance,” she said. “That means they’re not getting the rest they need. ” It’s too early to know about the rate of harmful interactions this year, but the Marine Mammal

Center currently has close to 30 harbor seal pups getting rehabilitated in its tanks, some of which were known to have been abandoned after human interactions, Ratner said.

One, a male nicknamed Radish, came in from being found at the Clipper Yacht Harbor in Sausalito at only 17 pounds.

“They’re coming in without the support of mom, and because of that are really malnourished,” he said of the pups, all admitted at under 1 month old.

If you see a marine mammal on a beach you think is in distress, call the Marine Mammal Center’s 24-hour hot line at 415-289-7325, a number you should bring to the beach along with sunscreen and beach towels, said Giancarlo Rulli, the center’s marketing and communications associate.

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This week THINGS TO DO I Fairfield 2 and 6 p.m. Sunday “Cats: The Musical” Downtown Theatre, 1035 Texas St. https://www. downtowntheatre.com/.

5 p.m. Saturday VezerStock Music Series: Maroon Vibes 5071 Suisun Valley Road. https://vezer.com/pages/ events.

I Suisun City Noon Sunday DJ Smurf Marina Lounge, 700 Main St. www.marinalounge suisun.com.

I Vacaville 9 p.m. Friday Dueling Pianos: Jason & James Makse, 555 Main St. duelingpianovacaville.com/ events.

9 p.m. Saturday Dueling Pianos: Jason & Nick Makse, 555 Main St. duelingpianovacaville.com/ events.

I Benicia 2:30 p.m. Sunday Tam Funk Railroad The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.

5 p.m. Friday 5-0 Boyz and Wyldz The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.

9 p.m. Friday Goth Night The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.

5 p.m. Saturday Sweettooth Duo with

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Vallejo rapper Suga-T to open HER Museum in San Francisco Daily Republic Staff

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VALLEJO — American rapper and Vallejo native Suga-T (Tenina Stevens) is the founder of the new HER Museum in San Francisco.

Stevens, 51, has been a singer and composer for more than 36 years.

Her career began in the early 1980s when she and her brother Earl “E-40” Stevens formed their group, “Sugar and Spice.” She later became a part of his all-male group, “The Click,” and the group started its own record company.

Since then, both as part of the group and as a solo artist, she has performed on more than 100 albums and sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. She’s also written music for other artists, movie soundtracks, plays and is an actress, author and keynote speaker. She is a VHI Hip Hop Pioneer honoree and qualifies for a Guinness World Friendly Record along with E-40 as part of the biggest selling hip-hop sister-brother duo of all time for their record “Sprinkle Me.” Stevens has several college degrees and all four of her books can be found on Amazon or in the Sprinkle Me Boutique online.

HER Museum is a one-of-a-kind museum that serves vulnerable populations of women and girls by promoting community wellness and a safe place for females in the arts to develop and implement their skills, while celebrating the legacies of positive role models who have paved the way in influential industries.

There will be a number of activities in honor of the new museum.

The opening ceremony will take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 27 at 233 Eddy St., San Francisco. Mayor London Breed will be inducted as one of the museum’s honorees. The first “Arts and Women Empowerment Exhibit” will debut at the gallery, featuring portraits of women of color who have excelled in the arts.

Entertainment and refreshments will also be part of the day.

Stevens plans to release new music inspired by the formation of the museum and a push against ageism, titled “Heiress I Am,” that same day. The album will be available on all digital services. A portion of the proceeds will go toward supporting the work of the museum and charity programs.

The public is invited and encouraged to attend the event. Admission is free.

Activities will continue May 28, which will be devoted entirely to women’s and girls’ empowerment and healing workshops. Space is limited; anyone who wants to attend must RSVP by calling 888-436-0574 or sending an email to sugamedianews@gmail.com.

Stevens has also invited mothers of children with autism to submit pictures and stories of their life to the museum for an “Amazing Moms” exhibit during the month of May in honor of Mother’s Day. The musician has a granddaughter who has a form

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Rapper Suga-T, whose given name is Tenina Stevens. of severe nonverbal autism and knows well the experiences of families with autistic children.

This exhibit is meant to educate the public on all aspects of the illness, reach out for support services and create greater compassion.

Stevens has also founded a nonprofit, the Work It Well Project, to provide support services to families. Anyone interested in having their child and family story be a part of the exhibit should send an email to younggrandmothersclub@gmail.com.

To learn more about the Work It Well

Project, visit www.theworkitproject.org.

The HER Museum provides in-person, virtual and traveling exhibits. The effort is funded by the New Community Leadership Foundation through a grant awarded to the organization by the City of San Francisco. Other community partners include groups working to decrease gun violence and support women and girls who have experienced drug abuse, domestic violence and other trauma in their life.

To learn more about the museum, become a member or make a donation, visit www. hermuseum.org.

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

8:30 p.m. Saturday Pete the Killer The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therelliktavern.com.

I Vallejo 6 p.m. Saturday Adam Briere Trio Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St. https:// empresstheatre.org/.

6 p.m. Saturday Generation Beat!

Ferlinghetti Art & Music Festival Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St. https:// empresstheatre.org/.

8 p.m. Saturday Jeff Bordes & Friends Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St. https:// empresstheatre.org/.

Celebration of artist, poet Ferlinghetti set to start in Vallejo

Art on the Vine set for 24th installment at BackRoad Vines

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VALLEJO — The Vallejo Center for the Arts is celebrating poet, publisher, bookseller and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti with a list of activities that begin this weekend.

The celebration opens Saturday with world-class jazz trumpeter Jeff Bordes and Friends and an exhibition of Ferlinghetti’s art loaned to the Vallejo Center for the Arts courtesy of The Lawrence Ferlinghetti Artworks Trust and the Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco.

Bordes has played live with and recorded on projects with such artists as Jon Faddis, Branford Marsalis, Alex Acuna, Giovanni Hidalgo and most recently, John Mellencamp. He toured in Japan

and across the United States with various groups such as the Bill Berry Big Band, Dizzy Gillespie and others.

Highlights of the month include readings June 2 by San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin followed by a performance by Drew Harrison and The Sun Kings.

A Beat Brunch continues the celebration June 12 in the Empress Lounge with music by the Yuppie Liberation Front.

June 17 will feature screenings of three films, which includes a two-minute short film of Bob Dylan singing “Subterranean Homesick Blues” recording in 1965, which ranked 187th on Rollings Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. Also included with the film fest will be the See Poet, Page B3

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FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield-Suisun City Visual Arts Association invites the public mid-June to a weekend of fun and relaxation at the 24th Annual Art on the Vine.

This year’s event is a fundraiser and features more than 40 artists, offers four bands over two days and a food truck.

Every year the association hosts Art on the Vine to give local artists a chance to share their new artwork to the public.

There will be a variety of types of art to see and purchase, all created by local and awardwinning artists.

Artist who are scheduled to take part include Janet Barnes, acrylic painting; JT Whittaker Photography; Jim Poff, color pencil and watercolor; Laura

Klein, acrylic painting, fiber and mixed media; Barbara Smithson, watercolor; La Honda, art recycled material; Cathy Canfield Shepard, quilling; Dennis Ariza, landscape and wildlife photography; Jane Loveall, mosaic; Doug Cooper, woodcarving and pottery; Maribel Passion, acrylic painting; Mike Miller, acrylic painting; Carolyn Mulliner, ceramics and jewelry; and Lynn Larsen, acrylic painting.

Also scheduled to take part are Barb Duvall, digital art and acrylic; Annette Batchelor, oil painting; Donna Harris, acrylic painting; Beverly Parker, jewelry; Mikol O’Connell, acrylic painting; Tommie Fergusson-Howard, acrylic painting and mixed media; Genia Greene, mixed See Art, Page B3

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How Ford’s CEO Farley became a Art podcaster, with help from Tom Brady

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Los Angeles Times When Spotify first approached Jim Farley with the idea of hosting a podcast, he gave it a cool reception.

The pitch: Farley, Ford Motor Co.’s chief executive, could interview his peers about leadership.

He could record it on Saturdays, it was suggested.

“My initial reaction was I have absolutely no interest in spending my Saturdays interviewing business leaders about leadership,” he told the L.A. Times.

With a little show business in his blood — his cousin was the late “Saturday Night Live” star Chris Farley — he thought he could come up with something a little livelier.

His counteroffer: What if we made it about cars – people’s first cars, their relationship with cars – with a little leadership thrown in?

Spotify said cool.

With the launch of his star-studded interview series, “Drive,” which premieres May 25, Farley goes into showbiz himself.

Among his guests: Jimmy Kimmel, Dax Shepard and Tom Brady.

Combining car love with leadership and success wasn’t as hard as he thought it might be.

In the episode with Tom Brady, Farley said, the pro football megastar said he most admires “those who put the success of the enterprise ahead of themselves and focus on delivering.”

That’s corporate speak, but Brady put some real world into it: “He told me if you look at the parking lots of the NFL teams, you’ll see that the most reliable players don’t have Ferraris and Lam-

In brief Lucky Penny set to shine with ‘Bright Star’

NAPA — Lucky Penny Productions presents “Bright Star,” the company’s sixth and final show of the 2021-22 season, Friday through June 12 at the Lucky Penny Community Arts Center.

“Bright Star” tells the story of Alice Murphy, the editor of a southern literary journal, Billy Cane, a young soldier just home from World War II, and Jimmy Ray Dobbs, a figure from their shared past. Together they discover a powerful secret that alters their lives.

Written by actor, comedian, screenwriter, playwright and musician Steve Martin and charttopping singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, “Bright Star” grew out of their Grammy Award-winning album “Love Has Come For You.” The music of “Bright Star” spans modern Bluegrass to Americana with a touch of rock as it tells a

Poet From Page B1 classic short film “Pull My Daisy,” written and narrated by Jack Kerouac, and then “Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder,” a definitive documentary by Chris Felver that reveals Ferlinghetti’s true role as a catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself.

The exhibition closes June 25 with the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra led by trumpeter Erik Jekabson, the San Francisco Bay Area’s own 17-piece big band comprised of many of the Bay Area’s

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Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley speaks at an event at the Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, May 19, 2021. borghinis. They drive normal cars.”

Farley, 59, did worry that pulling off his role as entertaining interviewer would be hard.

Back in the day, he’d accompany his cousin to appearances on “The Tonight Show.” “I was there to make sure Chris didn’t do something stupid,” he said. He still hangs with Chris’ family, including comedian brothers Kevin and John.

“I’m the least funny person in the family,” he said. “I’m the boring business guy.”

But everything’s relative. A preview of the interview with Shepard has Farley holding his own in a riff about riding in the back of the family station wagon as a child.

“I would put cardboard up and I was like 10 or 11 and I would start flipping off drivers who were passing us and then they would flip off my mom,” he said. “And I like did

that for three years, she had no idea.”

Elsewhere in the interview, the two bond over their love of roaring high-horsepower internal combustion engines (Farley’s childhood nickname was Jimmy Car Car), dive into Shepard’s guilt in the age of global warming, and unpack his concern that electric cars won’t offer the same “visceral experience.” “I know I need to embrace it,” he said.

“We need to put Detroit swagger in our electric cars,” Farley said.

In his day job, Ford has been attempting to do just that. After a stint at Lexus and Toyota, Farley joined Ford in 2007, and in 2020 succeeded Jim Hackett as the CEO. He’s on a mission to position Ford as an electric car leader and was the force behind the electric Mustang Mach-E and the brand new Ford F-150 Lightning electric

VACAVILLE — Get ready to cheer the hero and to boo and hiss the villain as The Gaslighters Theatrical Company once again presents a comedic melodrama as part of Vacaville’s Fiesta Days.

This year’s production, twice delayed by the can-

cellation of Fiesta Days during the past two years, is “Suzy the Suffering Suffragette.”

The Gaslighters return after an almost 18-month break from performances due to the Covid-19 shutdown. The original melodrama was written by longtime Vacaville residents Alice McDonald and Carol Zadnik specifically for Fiesta Days back in the 1970s. The Gaslighters first revived “Suzy the Suffering Suffragette” back in 2011. It’s described as a funny, family friendly show to entertain this year’s Fiesta Days audiences.

Interactive audience participation is encouraged to enhance the enjoyment of the theatrical experience this type of melodrama provides.

Performances are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. May 29; and 3 p.m. May 30 at the Saturday Club, 125 W. Kendal St. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children younger than 12. Tickets are available at www. vacavillegaslighters.com, by calling 707-628-3737 or at the door.

top jazz musicians.

Ferlinghetti helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st century. In 1998 he was named the first poet laureate of San Francisco, and in 2005 the National Book Foundation cited his “tireless work on behalf of poets and the entire literary community for over 50 years.”

Doubleday in 2019 published Ferlinghetti’s “Little Boy,” a book he had been working on for two decades, which he characterized as the closest thing to a memoir he would ever write.

Few poets of the past

60 years were so well known, or so influential. His books sold more than 1 million copies worldwide, a fantasy for virtually any of his peers, and he ran one of the world’s most famous and distinctive bookstores, City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.

Although he never considered himself one of the Beats, he was a patron and soulmate and, for many, a lasting symbol – preaching a nobler and more ecstatic American dream.

He died Feb. 22, 2021, in San Francisco.

For more information, visit the Empress Theatre website at https:// empresstheatre.org.

beguiling tale set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina between 1923 and 1945.

Performances start at 7 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays through the show’s run at 1758 Industrial Way, Napa. Both Thursday shows are “pay-what-youcan.” Masks are required indoors at all times except when enjoying refreshments in the lobby.

Tickets are available online at www. luck y pen ny napa.com.

Call 707-266-6305 or email info@luckypennynapa.com for assistance.

Gaslighters return to entertain at Fiesta Days

pickup truck.

Once he agreed to go into podcasting, Farley signed up with a creative consultant company, Magnificent Noise.

“Our call to action was to stop Jim from trying to be a podcaster and be just Jim,” said Magnificent Noise co-founder Eric Nuzum.

Once he made that transition, he was on his way to prime time, said fellow co-founder Jesse Baker. “When your cousin is Chris Farley, it’s hard to be the funny one,” she said. “But Jim is a storyteller. He has a wicked sense of humor.”

The eight-part podcast series also includes interviews with the not-aswell-known: Jochen Zeitz, CEO of Harley-Davidson; actress and race car driver Emelia Hartford; Patrice Banks, founder of the Girls Auto Clinic; and motorsports impresario the Duke of Richmond, Charles Gordon-Lennox.

media; Rachael Van Sloten, pottery; Steve Cozad, photography; JoRene’ Danel, fused glass; Sandro and Laura Rojas, Peruvian silver jewelry; Eric Carlstrom, acrylic painting; Jean Redmond, jewelry; and Chris Naughton, acrylic painting.

Other artists are Rosalyn Parhams, ceramics; Cherol Ockrassa, acrylic painting; Linda Terra, jewelry; John Rieger, ceramics; Lori Borchers, acrylic painting and resin art; Xioneida Ruiz, acrylic painting; Vineeda Dihillon, watercolor; Barbara Daughter, acrylic painting; Cynthia Schiff, jewelry; Mia Ho, acrylic painting; Korene Miller, wood art; Barbara Battin, jewelry; Steve Taylor, custom woodworking; Elaine Cerveno, jewelry; James Boston, acrylic painting; and

Peggy Fontanoz, jewelry.

Lynn Larsen, a Fairfield-Suisun City Visual Arts Association member and art teacher from Rodriquez High School, will again be on site selling her artwork and student artwork to raise money for art supplies for her students.

This year’s Art on the Vine will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

June 11 and June 12 at the BackRoad Vines Winery, 2221 Julian Lane, in rural Fairfield.

Music will kick off at 10 a.m. June 11 with Solid Gold and continue at 3 p.m. with Flashback.

Solid Gold will play again at 10 a.m. June 12, followed at 3 p.m. by Netty and the Liberation Front.

Wine tasting will be available both days, as well as bocce. Meals will be served by Mauricio’s Brunch-in-a-Box. No outside food or beverages will be permitted.

Admission and parking is free. For more information, call Ariza at 707-688-8889.

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Artist Eric Bodtker works on a painting during the 20th Annual Art on the Vine event at BackRoad Vines Winery, in Suisun Valley, June 2, 2018.

Mare Island Art Studios continues springtime show MARE ISLAND — The Mare Island Art Studios continues its Spring Show from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday and May 29.

Studio artists are

showcasing their work.

Mare Island Art Studio’s next show, Sculptural Wall Hangings with designs by Bob Darchi, is scheduled from noon to 4 p.m.

June 5, June 12, 19 and 26. An artist’s reception takes place June 5.

The studio is located at 110 Pintado St., Building 515.

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We must learn about one another to come together in peace W e awoke last gated hour of Christian Sunday to the America is 11 o’clock terrible news that on Sunday morning,” on the day before, and that is a tragedy.

May 14, there had been Here in Fairfield, I have a racially motivated neighbors of all differmass shooting at a ent colors and creeds, supermarket in Buffalo, and in that diversity, I New York, with rejoice! As a pastor, I 10 people killed. The Karen Freeman want to communicate shooter, a white teenthat God does not want Religious view ager, had become anyone to look upon radicalized to hate anyone else as being people of color. It was a tragic less valued, less worthy or less episode in a long history of human than themselves. Chrisracist tragedies in this country, tians should aim to model the truth of which needs to be inclusive unity among all kinds admitted and recognized. of people in our churches and in In his remarks on the shootour communities. ing, President Joe Biden said, In the Episcopal Church, “White supremacy has no place some of the promises we make in America.” I believe this is at our baptism are to “seek and true and, I would argue, white serve Christ in all persons,” supremacy has no place in loving our neighbor as ourself, Christianity. St. Paul said in and to “strive for justice and Galatians 3:28, “There is neither peace among all people, and Jew nor Gentile, neither slave respect the dignity of every nor free, nor is there male and human being,” with the help of female, for you are all one in God. We are guided by a vision Christ Jesus.” called Becoming Beloved ComIn Mark 12:31, Jesus said, munity, which according to the “Love your neighbor as yourEpiscopal Church’s website, is self.” The Rev. Dr. Martin our “long-term commitment Luther King Jr. once said, “It is to racial justice, healing and appalling that the most segrereconciliation.”

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As part of this commitment, many congregants have been through a workshop series called “Sacred Ground,” in which we reflected on the stories of America, focusing on indigenous, Black, Latino and Asian/Pacific American histories and the ways they have intersected with European American histories. The series

is especially designed to help white people become aware of the truth of this history, and be able to talk with other white people about these issues. St. Paul said in Romans 14:19, “. . . make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.” Awareness is the first step in a long process that can hopefully move us to action,

toward justice, reconciliation and peace.

I belong to a diverse group of Fairfield clergy and civic leaders – we call ourselves the Clergy Action Network, meeting monthly to work on our shared vision to impact our city for good. We now have an event planned, the inaugural CAN Juneteenth Festival from noon to 5 p.m. June 18 on the Solano County lawn area at Jefferson and West Texas streets.

Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans, and celebrates African-American culture.

Grace Episcopal is excited to participate in what will be a wonderful demonstration of our desire to live in unity and in fellowship with all people.

The psalmist writes, “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!” (Psalms 133:1). May we all desire to work toward and embrace that inclusive, heavenly kingdom vision.

The Rev. Karen Freeman is pastor at Grace Episcopal Church in Fairfield. Reach her at 707-416-3756.

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where I live. My son is getting his master’s in neuropsychology.

I have just started dating also, and I agree that sharing this is very important, but personal information should be shared when you are ready. Sometimes, people can use your vulnerabilities against you. I’ve learned to listen to my gut; if it doesn’t feel right, it’s probably a correct feeling. Move on. — Learned My Lesson Dear Learned My Lesson: Congratulations on getting out of a

bad situation and building a healthy life for you and your kids. It shows strength and resilience, and it is no doubt an inspiring example for your children and for countless readers.

Dear Annie: When I married my husband, it was me and my 17-yearold daughter. My husband had two grown daughters, a 36- and a 38-yearold who lived with their mother. Now, after seven years of marriage, one daughter is asking if she could live with us if she got into a bind. It’s totally

awkward because I don’t really know her that well and she really didn’t have a relationship with him until a year ago. She’s been living on her own for a year, and her relationship with her mother is strained.

My issue is with him comparing our children’s situation. He questions why his daughter shouldn’t be able to come stay with us if she got into a bind because my daughter lives with us. I told him my daughter has always lived with us from the beginning,

and now it’s a problem. I don’t know what to do. — Family Drama Dear Family Drama: When you and your husband got married, you became one blended family and committed to accepting both of your children into your beautiful new life. Open your heart to your husband’s daughter; there is no need to be the wicked stepmother.

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Today’s birthday You are a talent to be reckoned with, and you’ll find the audience and mission to shine with. This year, your crew gets closer, your network wider and your social and emotional skills sharper and more accommodating than ever. You’ll check two items off of your bucket list and make way for intriguing new adds.

Taurus and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 14, 2, 20 and 48.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Do invite the muses to help you with your work. They'll show up somewhere between fashionably late and laughably after-hours, but they'll come, and that will make a beautiful difference.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You'll have little need of a remote control today as the events of the day will supply you with entertainment aplenty.

The best way to change channels in real life is with your feet.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Keeping score will be a waste of time. You also shouldn't concern yourself with who gets the last laugh. As long as everyone laughs at some point, comedy lives.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Reality will be stretched, disbelief suspended -- that's entertainment! Keep a sense of humor whether you sit back and watch or take part in the act. You'll have a great time either way.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). A fine line separates what's funny from what's simply sad. You'll find that line and walk it with great sensitivity today as you explain what's going on with you and react to other people's stories, too.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Love can seem like a flying bird -- lofty, impossible to catch from the ground, though quite possible to attract. Put out a feeder, so to speak, and create a safe and lovely place to land.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There are many possible solutions for the problem at hand, including foolish ones marketed to people who don't know better.

You'll help those with less street sense figure out the right solution.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You get along with everyone, even when they don't get along with one another. Neutrality has worked out well for you so far. Keep it up for as long as you possibly can.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

Sensations will change with your interpretation of them. Like an athlete who pushes past discomfort in the name of building muscles, you may assign a new and different meaning to certain pain signals.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You're crossing things off your list, if not actually then at least mentally. But why not actually? You'll want to look back on these times, so commit the plan to writing; make it official.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You have a suspicion that the strong person you know needs more love and care than most people would guess. You're onto something. Give them a call.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You'll have an instinct for what to handle and when to handle it, so don't worry about the order of things today; just dive in.

The best time to do things will be when they are necessary.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Gemini Ginnifer Goodwin, who played Snow White and her modern counterpart Mary Margaret Blanchard in the hit television series "Once Upon a Time," was born under the Sagittarius moon of otherworldly adventure. This lunar influence lends emotional comfort in strange lands, which Goodwin has often put to use in her work, from the unusual circumstances of "Big Love" to the outer reaches of "The Twilight Zone."

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Flowering annuals situated in the garden amid vegetable plants will attract beneficial insects, not only to pollinate crops, but also to eat pests.

Consider these safety tips for backyard gardening Sally Wyatt

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Millions of Americans consider gardening a pleasant hobby, whether it’s tending to indoor plants or creating an outdoor oasis. What harm can come from pinching spent blooms or tending to vegetables?

Well, gardening may seem like a safe hobby – and for the most part, it is – but it can lead to injury or illness. For instance, emergency departments treat more than 400,000 injuries each year related just to the use of outdoor garden tools, according to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Those sharp tools, as well as exposure to pests and bees, or even over-exercising in the summer sun, can turn a day in the garden into a visit to an urgent care center or even an emergency room after a fall from a ladder or a mishap with a power tool.

Before you bend over to pull up a single clump of crabgrass in your flowerbed, check out these tips to assure your hobby remains a happy one.

Wear gloves: Garden gloves will help protect you from blisters, fertilizers, pesticides, bacteria, fungi, rose thorns and the blades of sharp tools.

Warm up: Just as an athlete does before a game or a run, you should warm up before digging in the garden.

Do some pregardening stretches to protect your back, knees and shoulders.

Avoid repetitive motions: Prolonged and repetitive motions such as digging, raking, trimming, pruning and planting might irritate your muscles, tendons or nerves. To avoid this, switch up your tasks every 15 minutes and take regular breaks. “Wiggle your fingers and open and close your hands,” says Lori Russell, a certified hand therapist in Occupational Therapy at NorthBay Healthcare. You can also help reduce grip fatigue on your favorite tools by building up the handle with a bit of pipe insulation. “You can find the piping insulation at any hardware store. Just cut the pipe insulation to the length of your tool handle, and wrap it around. It helps protect your hands and joints when making repetitive clipping motions.”

Hydrate: While on those breaks, grab a bottle of water and a seat in the shade.

Take this time to admire your hard work before starting another task and avoid dehydration.

Limit bending: Kneeling instead of bending puts less strain on your back.

For extra comfort, consider wearing

kneepads or investing in a garden stool.

Check your lifting: When lifting objects, especially heavy ones like ladders or patio furniture, engage your legs and not your back. When you’re carrying heavy objects, hold them close to your body to reduce strain.

Block the sun: Apply sunscreen that provides an SPF of at least 15, as well as ultraviolet A and B protection. Put on a wide-brimmed hat to keep the sun off your face, head, ears and neck. Keep in mind that from midmorning to late afternoon is the most hazardous period for UV exposure.

Look for pests: Check your clothes and body for ticks, which can cause several diseases. You can prevent tick or flea bites by applying repellent. Are you allergic to bee stings? Your primary care provider can prescribe life-saving medicine found in an Epi-pen. Have one close by when you are gardening. Also, some plants can cause an allergic reaction, such as morning glory vines that can irritate the skin, or bottlebrush bushes that can cause severe sinus and chest congestion for some.

Sally Wyatt is the public relations coordinator for NorthBay Healthcare, a partner of Solano Public Health.

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DAVIS — Fairfield High senior Mikelia Strong came out and made a strong statement Saturday by setting the pace in the girls’ 400 meters for an individual championship at the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Track and Field Meet.

Strong was one of only three girls to go sub-57 seconds with a time of 56.38 in Saturday night’s final. The mark was just off her best career mark of 56.36, which is the fourth-best time in Fairfield High history. She will be headed to the CIF Track and Field Championships next

Friday and Saturday in Clovis.

Strong made it a double for state later in the evening when she took second in the girls 200 (25.00), finishing only behind Kori Fields of St. Mary’s in Stockton (24.44). That time was just a bit off her schoolrecord time of 24.54.

Strong is the Falcons’ team captain and has already given a verbal commitment to Sacramento State. She will be joined at the state meet by Robert Breed and Brayden Chavez of Vanden High.

Breed was the first to punch a ticket. He finished second Friday night in the triple jump with a leap of 45 feet,

1 1/2 inches. He did it on his final attempt, just after fouling on his previous effort. Jonathan Taylor of Edison in Stockton won the title with a jump of 46-0.5.

Chavez was third in the boys 400 (49.85), finishing behind only John Dailey of Whitney in Rocklin (48.44) and Luke Stewart of Oak Ridge in El Dorado Hills (49.12).

Only the top three athletes or relay teams in each event advance to the state finals. Those take play next Friday and Saturday at Buchanan High School.

Vacaville High had a pair of boys Saturday in the 1,600.

Senior Asher Love was seventh overall (4:23.66) and sopho-

more Colton Walker came in 13th (4:29.74). Vacaville senior Kellen Steplight was two places off state, finishing fifth in the boys 800 (1:57.42).

Breed was also sixth in the boys long jump (21-09) to go with his state placement in the boys triple jump. Jacob Edmonds, a senior from Vacaville, finished 16th in the boys shot put (44-9 1/2). Vacaville senior Kellen Ruiz finished 14th in the boys 3200 (9:42.47).

Armijo High’s Egypt Hughes finished fifth in the girls 100 (12.14). Vacaville junior Lily Holman was sixth in the girls 200 (25.60), seventh in the 100 (12.31) and 13th in the long

jump (16-07).

Vacaville senior Hailey Wurzbach finished 11th in the girls 800 final (2:34.24).

In other finals Friday, Junior Nathaniel Gernert of Vanden was seventh in the boys shot put (137-05), Gavin Dimick of Vacaville was eighth in the boys pole vault (13-11), and freshman Mardell Taylor Jr. of Will C. Wood High was 12th in the boys triple jump (42-61/2).

Senior Sydney Boele of Vacaville tied for 10th in the girls high jump (4-11).

Senior Roman Price of Vacaville just missed out on the See Track, Page B14

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Jordan Poole (3) savors the Golden State Warriors’ victory over the Dallas Mavericks in Game 2 of their NBA Western

Conference Finals playoff game at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Friday.

Poole gives Warriors faith as West finals move on to Dallas Tribune Content Agency SAN FRANCISCO — All that jubilation from Game 2 in San Francisco – Stephen Curry prancing, Kevon Looney jamming, Jordan Poole juking – doesn’t automatically carry into Game 3 Sunday in Dallas. That’s not how the NBA playoffs work.

But as the Western Conference finals shift venues, and Luka Doncic and Co. return to their home court, the Golden State Warriors find encouragement in the productivity of Poole and his second-unit crew.

Curry and Doncic performed like stars Friday night, but in many ways Game 2 tilted when Curry and Doncic sat on the bench. The Warriors created separation from the Mavericks early in the fourth quarter with Poole, Otto Porter Jr. and Moses Moody on the court.

Final bench-scoring totals: Warriors 36, Mavs 13.

That’s a sensible place to start in trying to explain how Golden State wiped out a 19-point deficit, roared back for a 126-117 victory and seized early control of the series. Now they take a 2-0 lead to Texas, knowing a treacherous path remains.

Remember, the Mavericks lost twice in Phoenix to open their Western Conference semifinal. They bounced back to win twice at home and took the series in seven games, spoiling anticipation for a SunsWarriors showdown.

As Steve Kerr’s team tries to avoid a similar fate, he knows it helps to have Poole in a groove. He scored 23 points and added five assists Friday night. The Warriors outscored Dallas by 26 when Poole was on the court.

That included the first 5:36 of the fourth quarter, when the Warriors outscored the Mavs by nine with Curry resting and Poole in control of the offense. Those minutes

without Curry, historically troublesome, could shape Games 3 and 4 in Dallas.

“I’ve got huge confidence in Jordan,” Kerr said. “We’ve seen him do this, allowing Steph to rest and still giving us that offensive punch we need, that shot creation.

The Steph minutes, when he sits, traditionally have been really difficult for us. So Jordan has given us a different dynamic, and a really important one.”

The Warriors still revolve around Curry, and Klay Thompson and Draymond Green somewhat, but their depth makes another championship realistic. Looney and Andrew Wiggins are reliable starters. Poole has help off the bench: Porter collected 11 points and seven rebounds Friday night, and Moody made a surprising, solid cameo in the fourth quarter after Damion Lee See Warriors, Page B14

Full projection of 49ers’ 2022 roster Eric Branch

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SANTA CLARA — The San Francisco 49ers wanted to trade quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo months ago. That hasn’t happened.

And wide receiver Deebo Samuel asked the 49ers to trade him last month. That didn’t happen.

The deals that weren’t done – or not yet, in Garoppolo’s case – have been the biggest stories of the 49ers’ offseason, obscuring what figured to be a major story line: quarterback Trey Lance’s expected move into the starting role.

On Monday, the focus will shift to Lance as the 49ers have their first of nine organized-team-activity practices, sessions that will be held while Garoppolo continues to rehab from shoulder surgery in Los Angeles. How Lance looks in the run-up to what’s almost certainly his first season as the No. 1 will be closely monitored.

Regardless of Lance’s performance in the upcoming non-padded practices, the QB hierarchy appears

ANALYSIS set despite Garoppolo’s unexpected stay on the roster.

However, plenty of other positions are dotted with question marks. Here’s an attempt to answer them with a 53-man roster projection before the 49ers hold their first practice in Santa Clara since Jan. 28, two days before the NFC Championship Game: Quarterbacks (2) Trey Lance, Nate Sudfeld Traded: Jimmy Garoppolo Cut: Brock Purdy (rookie) Analysis: They appear poised to roll with Sudfeld as No. 2 quarterback after signing him to a one-year deal with $2 million guaranteed.

So they will be one ill-fated snap away from placing the season in the hands of a 2016 sixth-rounder on his third team with zero career starts and 37 pass attempts. Purdy, the seventh-round pick, is likely to serve as the de facto No. 3 on the practice squad.

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From left, 49ers quarterbacks, Nate Sudfeld, Jimmy Garoppolo and Trey Lance practice in August 2021. terback? The Panthers and ... the Panthers? A deal with Carolina makes the most sense, although a complicating factor is the $18.85 million guaranteed owed to its untradeable No. 1, Sam Darnold.

So how about this: After the rahabbing Garoppolo resumes throwing early in the summer, the 49ers deal him to the Panthers on July 8 for a 2023 fourth-round pick, and Garoppolo agrees to a reduction in his scheduled $24.2 million base salary.

Running backs/fullback (5) See 49ers, Page B8

TULSA, Oklahoma — Six days after declaring Southern Hills was “not really my cup of tea”, Matt Fitzpatrick heads into the final round of the US PGA Championship in contention for a maiden major title.

Fitzpatrick made light of the cold, breezy conditions to card a superb 67 and end a rollercoaster day three shots behind pacesetter Mito Pereira, the PGA Tour rookie continuing to impress on just his second major start.

Pereira went from one behind playing partner Will Zalatoris to four ahead in the space of six holes, then saw his lead cut to a single shot after four bogeys in five holes around the turn before back-to-back birdies on 13 and 14.

The 27-year-old from Chile also birdied the last to card a 69 and finish nine under par, with Fitzpatrick and Zalatoris - who recovered from playing his first seven holes in four over to return a 73 - on six under.

“I was so proud of myself after my start today,” said Fitzpatrick,

who fought back superbly after dropping shots on the first two holes.

“To get back to the same score I started on at the end of the front nine I was absolutely delighted and I’ve put myself in a good position.”

Ireland’s Seamus Power lies six shots off the lead following a 67, but Rory McIlroy fell nine shots adrift following a disappointing 74.

“I feel good, my game is in a good spot,” said Power, who was ranked outside the world’s top 400 just a year ago but is currently ranked 42nd.

“Obviously I’ll go out a little before any of the leaders. If I can get a couple birdies on the card, it can make the world of difference and then you need a couple breaks to go your way.”

McIlroy began the day five shots off the lead but dropped four shots in three holes from the sixth before a birdie on the ninth seemingly steadied the ship.

A triple bogey on the 11th effectively ended the first round leader’s chances and although he birdied the 13th and See PGA, Page B14

Giants stumble against Padres’ Musgrove in 2-1 loss at home Tribune Content Agency SAN FRANCISCO — The good news for the Giants is that Carlos Rodón returned to form Saturday against the San Diego Padres.

The bad news is that Padres starter Joe Musgrove stayed right where he’s been all season.

Musgrove shut out the Giants for seven innings in a 2-1 win for San Diego in front of 38,916 fans at Oracle Park, running his record to 5-0. He got relief help from Robert Suárez in the eighth inning and Taylor Rogers in the ninth. Rogers, twin brother of the Giants’ Tyler Rogers, picked up his 16th save.

The Giants, third place in the National League West, fell to 22-17 and hope to avert a sweep Sunday against San Diego, which is 26-14 and behind only the Los Angeles

Dodgers in the National League West.

Manny Machado hit a monster home run for San Diego, his ninth of the season, in the third inning off a 99-mile per hour fastball from Rodón.

Musgrove has pitched at least six innings in all eight of his starts for the Padres, and has pitched seven innings in three of his last four games. He gave up just four hits, walked three, struck out four and threw 100 pitches.

The Giants didn’t score until Wilmer Flores, who started at designated hitter when Brandon Belt (right knee discomfort) was a late scratch, hit his fourth home run of the season against Suárez in the eighth inning with one out.

Rodón, coming off a nightmarish start in St. Louis where he gave up See Giants, Page B14

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Scoreboard HOCKEY NHL Playoffs BASKETBALL

N.Y. Rangers at Carolina, TBD, if necessary Edmonton at Calgary, TBD, if necessary

Sunday’s TV Sports Baseball MLB •St. Louis at Pittsburgh, PEACOCK, 8:30 a.m.

•L.A. Dodgers at Philadelphia OR Seattle at Boston, MLB, 10:30 a.m.

•Oakland at L.A. Angels, NBCSCA, FS1, 1 p.m.

•San Diego at San Francisco, NBCSBA, 1 p.m.

•N.Y. Mets at Colorado, MLB, 1:30 p.m.

•Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Yankees, ESPN, 4 p.m.

Basketball NBA Playoffs Western Conference. Finals •Golden State at Dallas, Game 3, TNT, 6 p.m.

WNBA •Chicago at Washington, Chs. 7, 10, noon Fishing •Bassmaster Elite Series No. 5, Lake Fork, FS1, 5 a.m.

Football USFL •Pittsburgh vs. New Orleans, FS1, 9 a.m.

•Houston vs. New Jersey, Chs. 2, 40 (KTXL), 12:30 p.m.

Golf •PGA Championship, final round, ESPN, 7 a.m.

•PGA Championship, final round, Chs. 5, 13, 10 a.m.

Hockey NHL Playoffs •Florida at Tampa Bay, Game 3, TNT, 10:30 a.m.

•Carolina at N.Y. Rangers, Game 3, ESPN, 12:30 p.m.

•Calgary at Edmonton, Game 3, ESPN2, 5 p.m.

Horse racing •America’s Day at the Races, FS2, 9:30 a.m.

Motorsports •Formula 1, Spanish Grand Prix, ESPN2, 5:55 a.m.

•World SuperBike, Portugal, CNBC, 10 a.m.

•NASCAR, Cup Series, All-Star Race, FS1, 5 p.m.

Rodeo •PBR World Finals Championship Round, CBSSN, 7 a.m.

•PBR World Finals Championship Round, Chs. 5, 13, 9 a.m.

Soccer Super Lig •Basaksehir vs. Trabzonspor, BEIN, 4:55 a.m.

Canadian Premier League •FC Edmonton vs. Atl. Ottawa, FS2, 3 p.m.

MLS •San Jose vs. Sporting Kansas City, NBCSCA, 4:30 p.m.

•Portland Timbers vs. Philadelphia Union, FS1, 7 p.m.

Softball NCAA Regionals •Teams TBA, SEC, 9 a.m.

See TV Listing, Page B14

Conference semifinals Tuesday’s Games Tampa Bay 4, Florida 1 Colorado 3, St. Louis 2 Wednesday’s Games Carolina 2, N.Y. Rangers 1, OT Calgary 9, Edmonton 6 Thursday’s Games Tampa Bay 2, Florida 1, Tampa leads 2-0 St. Louis 4, Colorado 1 Friday’s Games Carolina 2, N.Y. Rangers 0, Car. leads 2-0 Edmonton 5, Calgary 3, tied 1-1 Saturday’s Game Colorado 5, St. Louis 2, Colo. leads 2-1 Sunday’s Games Florida at Tampa Bay, 10:30 a.m.

Carolina at N.Y. Rangers, 12:30 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

Monday, May 23 Florida at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m.

Colorado at St. Louis, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24 Carolina at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25 Tampa Bay at Florida, TBD, if necessary St. Louis at Colorado, TBD, if necessary Thursday, May 26 N.Y. Rangers at Carolina, TBD, if necessary Edmonton at Calgary, TBD, if necessary Friday, May 27 Florida at Tampa Bay, TBD, if necessary Colorado at St. Louis, TBD, if necessary Saturday, May 28 Carolina at N.Y. Rangers, TBD, if necessary Calgary at Edmonton, TBD, if necessary Sunday, May 29 Tampa Bay at Florida, TBD, if necessary St. Louis at Colorado, TBD, if necessary Monday, May 30

NBA Playoffs Conference finals Tuesday’s Game Miami 118, Boston 107 Wednesday’s Game GOLDEN STATE 112, Dallas, 87 Thursday, May 19 Boston 127, Miami 102 Friday, May 20 Golden State 126, Dallas 117, GS leads 2-0 Saturday, May 21 Miami 109, Boston 103, Miami leads 2-1 Sunday, May 22 Golden State at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Monday, May 23 Miami at Boston , 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24 Golden State at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25 Boston at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 26 Dallas at Golden State, 6 p.m., if necessary Friday, May 27 Miami at Boston, 5:30 p.m., if necessary Saturday, May 28 Golden State at Dallas, 6 p.m., if necessary Sunday, May 29 Boston at Miami, 5:30 p.m., if necessary Monday, May 30 Dallas at Golden State, 5 p.m., if necessary

BASEBALL

American League East Division W L 29 10 24 16 22 18 18 22 16 25 Central Division W L Minnesota 24 16 Chicago White Sox 19 20 Cleveland 17 19 Kansas City 14 25 Detroit 13 26 West Division W L Houston 26 15 L.A. Angels 24 17 Texas 18 21 OAKLAND 17 24 Seattle 17 24 N.Y. Yankees Tampa Bay Toronto Boston Baltimore

Pct GB .744 — .600 5½ .550 7½ .450 11½ .390 14 Pct GB .600 — .487 4½ .472 5 .359 9½ .333 10½ Pct .634 .585 .462 .415 .415

GB — 2 7 9 9

National League East Division W L Pct GB 27 14 .659 — 19 21 .475 7½ 18 22 .450 8½ 17 22 .436 9 13 28 .317 14 Central Division W L Pct GB Milwaukee 26 14 .650 — St. Louis 22 18 .550 4 Pittsburgh 16 23 .410 5½ Chicago Cubs 15 24 .385 10½ Cincinnati 11 28 .289 14½ West Division W L Pct GB L.A. Dodgers 27 12 .692 — San Diego 26 14 .650 1½ SAN FRANCISCO 22 17 .564 5 Arizona 21 21 .500 7½ Colorado 18 20 .474 8½ Friday’s Games OAKLAND 4, L.A. Angels 2 San Diego 8, SAN FRANCISCO 7 Arizona 10, Chicago Cubs 6 St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 3 Atlanta 5, Miami 3 Baltimore 8, Tampa Bay 6 L.A. Dodgers 4, Philadelphia 1 N.Y. Mets Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington

Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Yankees, PPD. Toronto 2, Cincinnati 1 Cleveland 6, Detroit 1 Boston 7, Seattle 3 Texas 3, Houston 0 Minnesota 6, Kansas City 4 Milwaukee 7, Washington 0 N.Y. Mets at Colorado, PPD. Saturday’s Games San Diego 2, SAN FRANCISCO 1 OAKLAND at L.A. Angels, 6:07 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees 7, Chicago White Sox 5 N.Y. Mets 5, Colorado 1 , First Game Arizona 7, Chicago Cubs 6, 10 innings Toronto 3, Cincinnati 1 Boston 6, Seattle 5 L.A. Dodgers 7, Philadelphia 4 Detroit at Cleveland, PPD. Atlanta 4, Miami 3 St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 4 Tapa Bay 6, Baltimore 1 Houston 2, Texas 1 Minnesota 9, Kansas City 2 Milwaukee 5, Washington 1 N.Y. Mets at Colorado, 5:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games San Diego at SAN FRANCISCO, 1:05 p.m.

OAKLAND at L.A. Angels, 1:07 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 8:35 a.m.

Seattle at Boston, 8:35 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 10:35 a.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Philadelphia, 10:35 p.m.

Cincinnati at Toronto, 10:37 a.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 10:40 a.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 10:40 a.m.

Texas at Houston, 11:20 a.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 11:10 a.m.

Washington at Milwaukee, 11:10 a.m.

Arizona at Chicago Cubs, 11:20 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Colorado, 12:10 p.m.

Chi. White Sox at N.Y. Yankees, 4:08 p.m.

Monday’s Games OAKLAND at Seattle, 6:40 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at SAN FRANCISCO, 6:45 p.m.

Colorado at Pittsburgh, 3:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 3:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Washington, 4:05 p.m.

Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 4:40 p.m.

Toronto at St. Louis, 4:45 p.m.

Cleveland at Houston, 5:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Arizona, 6:40 p.m.

Milwaukee at San Diego, 6:40 p.m.

A’s starter Jefferies out indefinitely Tribune Content Agency ANAHEIM — Oakland Athletics starter Daulton Jefferies was diagnosed with thoracic-outlet syndrome, manager Mark Kotsay said, sidelining him indefinitely.

The A’s placed Jefferies on the 15-day injured list before Friday’s game in Anaheim. A’s trainer Nick Paparesta said Jefferies will go for a second opinion to help determine a course of action.

Jefferies last pitched Wednesday, after which Kotsay said the right-hander reported “biceps tightness.” Paparesta said Jefferies was evaluated Friday by a vascular surgeon who diagnosed Jefferies with thoracic-outlet syndrome.

Thoracic-outlet syndrome occurs when nerves or blood vessels between the shoulder and neck are compressed, leading to pain, fatigue and weakness

or numbness of the hand. Pitchers can be more susceptible to the condition because of repeated overthe-head throwing motions.

“You can treat it conservatively or you can do it surgically,” Paparesta said. “It just depends on how far along he is in the process or how bad the symptoms are or where we are in the season — all of those things get put into play, which is really why he’s trying to get a second opinion.”

A pitcher who has thoracic-outlet surgery is unlikely to be ready to return until at least 12 weeks after surgery in a best-case scenario.

Given the timing, should Jefferies need surgery, it could sideline him for the rest of the season.

Paparesta said when and where Jefferies will go for a second opinion is undetermined, and results likely won’t be known until later next week.

“You feel for the kid,” Kotsay said. “He solidified his spot in the rotation. All signs were that he was going to make all the starts that he needed to and was given this year.”

Jefferies, 26, has dealt with injuries since the A’s drafted him in the first round from Cal in 2016. Jefferies had Tommy John surgery in 2017 and missed most of the 2017-2018 seasons. He debuted with the A’s in 2020 and posted a 3.60 in five MLB appearances last year before ending the season on IL with a flexor strain in his right elbow. In eight 2022 starts, Jefferies is 1-7 with a 5.72 ERA. Last year, then-A’s closer Trevor Rosenthal had thoracic-outlet surgery in April after opening the season on IL. Rosenthal was rehabbing from that surgery when he was diagnosed with a torn hip labrum in July and had season-ending hip surgery.

B8 Sunday, May 22, 2022 — DAILY REPUBLIC

Early Voting outpaces race Can ultimate favorite to win the Preakness disc league be

next great sport?

Tribune Content Agency BALTIMORE — They pulled it off again.

Five years after trainer Chad Brown and owner Seth Klarman took the 2017 Preakness with Cloud Computing, a horse that would never win another race, they targeted the 2022 edition with another fresh but lightly tested contender, Early Voting.

Their horse earned enough qualifying points to run in the Kentucky Derby, but they skipped it, figuring he’d have a better chance in Baltimore against a smaller, more fatigued field. They calculated correctly as Early Voting swept to victory in the 147th Preakness, his fourth career race.

The win was a cherished 65th birthday present for Klarman, who grew up three blocks from Pimlico before he went on to his lucrative career as a Boston-based hedge fund manager. It was the second Triple Crown victory for Brown, a four-time Eclipse Award winner as the nation’s top trainer.

The media-shy owner

49ers From Page B6 Elijah Mitchell, Trey Sermon, Tyrion DavisPrice, Jeff Wilson, Kyle Juszczyk Cut: JaMycal Hasty, Jordan Mason (undrafted free agent), Josh Hokit Analysis: Sermon’s rookie-season bench banishment in 2021 wasn’t a great sign after the 49ers traded up to draft him in the third round. And it wasn’t a vote of confidence when they invested this year’s third-round pick on Davis-Price.

Sermon and Davis-Price will compete to be Mitchell’s top backup, whose injuries as a rookie suggest he’s better suited for a lighter workload.

Without Hasty, the 49ers wouldn’t have a traditional third-down back, but has he really done enough to warrant a roster spot?

Wide receivers (5) Deebo Samuel, Brandon Aiyuk, Jauan Jennings, Danny Gray, Ray-Ray McCloud Cut: Marcus Johnson, Austin Mack, KeeSean Johnson, Malik Turner, Tay Martin (UDFA) , Taysir Mack (UDFA) Analysis: The 49ers usually keep six wideouts on their 53-man roster. Be honest: Have you heard of any of those wide receivers on the cut list? Unless someone from that group emerges, the 49ers would be better served keeping an NFL-quality player at a position they’ve prioritized.

Tight ends (3) George Kittle, Charlie Woerner, Ross Dwelley Cut: Tanner Hudson, Jordan Matthews, Troy Fumagalli Analysis: Dwelley shouldn’t get too comfortable after he was leapfrogged by Woerner on the depth chart last year and didn’t play more than 10 offensive snaps in any of the final 10 regular-season games, but Hudson, Matthews and Fumagalli combined to play one offensive snap in 2021.

Offensive linemen (8) Trent Williams, Aaron Banks, Alex Mack, Daniel Brunskill, Mike McGlinchey, Jaylon Moore, Spencer Burford, Colton McKivitz Cut: Jake Brendel, Justin Skule, Keaton Sutherland, Nick

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Early Voting, right, wins the 147th Preakness Stakes, outpacing favorite and Kentucky Derby runner-up Epicenter Saturday at Pimlico in Baltimore. and the prolific trainer ness morning, breezing at Camden Yards, four have become close as a brisk half-mile at minutes after post time.

While the trainers they’ve built a mutually Churchill Downs as he beneficial partnership, continued his prepara- and owners of the nine and the Preakness has tions for a possible run Preakness horses surely turned out to be their in the Belmont Stakes. did not care about Adley Rich Strike was the first mania, they did care brightest stage.

There was no Triple healthy Derby winner to about the weather, surCrown bid on the line Sat- skip the second leg of the passing 90 degrees for urday. That went out the Triple Crown since 1985. the first time in at least As if his absence was 20 Preakness days. window nine days before Steve Asmussen, Epithe Preakness, when not enough, the Orioles Rich Strike’s owner, Rick did their part to upstage center’s trainer, said he Dawson, pulled him from the Preakness, announc- was “as concerned as you the field, preferring to ing Saturday that the can be” about the sticky rest him for future races. best prospect in baseball, heat, noting that it was The Derby champ was Adley Rutschman, would a variable his colt had 600 miles away on Preak- make his first career start never confronted.

Zakelj (R), Dohnovan West (UDFA), Jason Poe (UDFA), Sam Schlueter (UDFA), Alfredo Gutierrez.

Analysis: If Mack retires, that’s good news for someone on the cut list. Brunskill and Brendel likely would open training camp as the top candidates for Mack’s job, but both West and Poe are projected to play center in the NFL. A four-man center competition? That seems unlikely.

It will be interesting to see where everyone lines up in OTA practices.

Another spot to watch is swing tackle now that Tom Compton is with Denver after he subbed well for McGlinchey last season. The top options are McKivitz and Skule, who missed last season with a torn ACL. Defensive line (12) Nick Bosa, Arik Armstead, Javon Kinlaw, Drake Jackson (R), Samson Ebukam, Kemoko Turay, Jordan Willis, Charles Omenihu, Kerry Hyder, Hassan Ridgeway, Maurice Hurst, Kevin Givens, Kalia Davis (R) Traded: Jordan Willis Cut: Dee Ford, Alex Barrett, Chris Slayton, Kevin Atkins (UDFA) Analysis: Has a team ever opened a season with 12 defensive linemen? The 49ers do in this exercise. And they’d still have an NFL-quality pass rusher to trade: The 49ers have a glut of edge rushers, at least one more than they can keep.

It’s not clear if Davis, an intriguing sixth-round pick, will be ready for Week 1 after he tore his ACL in October.

The trade: The 49ers trade Willis, 27, to the Broncos before the season opener for a 2023 seventh-round pick. In 2020, the 49ers acquired Willis from the Jets for a swap of late-round picks and he has shown pass-rushing flashes of what him a third-round selection after he was the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year at Kansas State. Trading someone whose punt block four months ago was among the biggest special-teams plays in franchise playoff history? Sorry, the NFL is a brutal business.

Linebackers (5) Fred Warner, Dre Greenlaw, Azeez Al-Shaair, Oren Burks, Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles

Cut: Curtis Robinson, Jeremiah Gemmel (UDFA), Segun Olubi (UDFA), Marcelino McCrary-Ball (UDFA) Analysis: Warner, Greenlaw and Al-Shaair are slam-dunk starters.

Burks has a roster spot clinched because of his special-teams prowess.

The drama, if that word is appropriate for the No. 5 linebacker spot, involves a potential roster competition between Flannigan-Fowles and Gemmel, who reportedly received $90,000 guaranteed to sign. Gemmel, a projected late-round pick, was a three-year starter and two-time team captain at North Carolina.

Cornerbacks (6) Charvarius Ward, Emmanuel Moseley, Ambry Thomas, Deommodore Lenoir, Samuel Womack (R), Dontae Johnson Cut: Jason Verrett, Tariq CastroFields (R), Darqueze Dennard.

Ka’Dar Hollman, Qwuantrezz Knight (UDFA) Analysis: The 49ers don’t want to cut Verrett, the Fairfield native and Rodriguez High graduate, but it’s fair to wonder if this is the end of the road. Verrett will turn 31 in June, and is attempting to return from his latest significant lower-leg injury.

Womack, a fifth-round pick, Lenoir, a 2021 fifthround pick, and Dennard, 30, could have a spirited competition for the slotcorner opening. Johnson over Castro-Fields? Yes, because Johnson, 30, has logged more games (100) with the 49ers than any current player.

Safeties (4) Jimmie Ward, Talanoa Hufanga, Tarvarius Moore, George Odum Cut: Leon O’Neal (UDFA), Tayler Hawkins (UDFA) Ward, Hufanga and Odum, an All-Pro special-teams player, are locks. Moore is returning from a torn Achilles and could scrap for the final safety spot with O’Neal, a priority free agent who received $60,000 guaranteed to sign. This isn’t the 49ers’ strongest position.

Specialists (3) K Robbie Gould, P Mitch Wishnowsky, LS Taybor Pepper Analysis: The specialists appear set; Gould, Wishnowsky and Pepper don’t have competition on the roster.

ATLANTA — In 2012, Steve Hall was 46 and in a stage of life not unfamiliar to Georgia Tech graduates of his age.

A chemical engineering graduate with an MBA from Emory, Hall was running his own privateequity firm in Charlotte, N.C., after 13 years in New York in the investment business for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. Married with two sons, he also was an avid player of ultimate (commonly known as Ultimate Frisbee), a sport he had first picked up playing intramurals with his fraternity at Tech.

It was at an ultimate practice that a teammate shared with him that a professional ultimate league was being started.

“I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s crazy,’ ” Hall said.

There were – and are – no shortage of reasons to find such a venture foolhardy. To begin with, the American professional sports industry would seem to have little space for a new league, particularly a

niche sport like ultimate, a game that combines elements of basketball, football and soccer that is largely a re-creation of college students and twentysomethings.

That was 2012. Hall is now is in his fourth year as CEO and commissioner of the American Ultimate Disc League.

There’s a long way to go before ultimate can challenge soccer worldwide. Attendance across the league is about 525 per game. Participation rates in the U.S. in ultimate are trending downward, according to a survey by the Sports & Fitness Industry Association. And the league is trying to win a share of the American sports fan’s interest at a time when it seems every league is competing for attention with an increasing number of options.

The league appears to be on an upward path. It began with eight teams in 2012 and now has 25 teams in the U.S. and Canada.

One game a week is broadcast on FS2. Games are two hours long and not three like the NFL.

Lowry, Tucker back in Heat lineup and spark big victory Tribune Content Agency BOSTON — Kyle Lowry and P.J. Tucker were on the court in the morning for the Miami Heat ahead of Saturday night’s Game 3 at TD Garden against the Boston Celtics in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals.

They were ready to play. Lowry had 11 points and Tucker scored 17 as Miami beat Boston 109-103. Bam Adebayo lead the Heat with 31 points.

For the Heat, it was a significant step, consid-

ering Lowry had missed eight of the previous 10 games due to a strained left hamstring, and considering that Tucker bruised his left knee in Thursday night’s Game 2 to the degree that there were initial thoughts of requiring an MRI. Lowry has missed the past two weeks, initially injured April 22 in the Heat’s Game 3 loss during the first round to the Atlanta Hawks, a series the Heat won 4-1.

He then returned, only to be sidelined in the East semifinals against the Philadelphia 76ers,

which the Heat won 4-2.

Prior to Saturday, his last action had been May 8 in Philadelphia.

Spoelstra stressed that the setback against the 76ers was not a setback in terms of Lowry’s rehab.

“He wanted to play Game 5 last series,” Spoelstra said of when Lowry’s stretch of four consecutive absences began. “I think we’ve handled this appropriately. I think even the ramp up before that, in the Philly series, I think we checked all the boxes.

Things will happen.

“He didn’t reinjure,” he added.

3, Becky Ramirez, 25* 4, Diane Viera, 30* 5, Sue Johnston, 30* •ties broken with handicap holes Chip-ins: Chris Robertson, No. 4; Judy Horan, No. 4; Kim Weaver, No. 6; Shirley Morris No. 1.

Bocce

LOCAL SCORES Golf

Rio Vista Women’s Golf Club BINGO, BANGO, BONGO Flight 1 9 players 1, Marsha Berry, 18 B’s 2, Pam Fashing, 17 B’s 3, Lynn Traver, 13 B’s 4 (tie), Thea Rock and Barb Bellamy, 12 B’s Flight 2 9 players 1, Sharon David, 14 B’s 2 (tie), Bessie Dunn and Darl McCarthy, 13 B’s 4 (tie) Alma Renko and Lynn Grace, 12 B’s Chip-ins: Sandy Smith, No. 6; Mitch Ybarra, No. 16.

Birdies: Sandy Smith, No. 5; Mitch Ybarra, Nos. 8 and 16; Marsha Berry, No. 4; Marian Bard, No. 4.

Closest to pin No. 4: Marian Bard 6-4 1/2.

Broke 100: Pam Fashing, 92; Sandy Smith, 94; Marsha Berry, 98; Thea Rock, 99.

Niners SWEEPS Flight 1: 8-15 handicaps 1, Judi Moses, 29 2, Mona Begell, 30 3, Genny Lopez, 32 4, Chris Robertson, 35* 5, Barb Jacobson, 35* Flight 2: 16-19 handicaps 1, Nancy Schlesinger, 27 2, Ann Rollin, 30 3, Sandy Latchford, 32* 4, Kim Weaver, 32* 5, Marge Tye, 36 Flight 3: 20-24 handicaps 1, Cathy Treece, 31 2, Shirley Helmich, 32 3, Diane Stephens, 34* 4, Phyllis McFadden, 34* 5, Liz Dykstra, 36 Flight 4: 25 and over handicaps 1, Megan Kramer, 22 2, Colleen Berumen, 25*

Nine Arounders SWEEPS Flight 1: 14-16 handicaps 1, Mona Begell, 53/37 2, Place Deb Baker, 58/43* 3, Genny Lopez, 57/43* Flight 2: 17-18 handicaps 1, Lynne Powell, 61/43* 2, Rene Romiski, 61/43* Flight 3: 19-25 1, Ann Rollin, 54/34 2, Barbara James, 61/39 3, Kim Weaver, 63/42* 4, Carole Hiltman, 63/42* *tie breaker Chip-ons: Ann Rollin, No. 1; Carole Hiltman, No. 1

Paradise Valley Women’s Golf Club TEAM PLAY 1, Beryl Bridges, Sandy Handel, Kathryn Houk and Kathy Lemon with a team score of 113 2, Joan Dominguez, Vicky Flandi, LeeAnne Fortney and Rita May with a team score of 115 3, Myrna DeMartino, Oksun Parrott, Kathy Tomko and Elaine Hahn with a team score of 117 4, Stella Gaudet, Jody Knight and Joan McCluskey with a team score of 121 Closest to pin No. 8: 1, Regina Cortez, 2-6; 2, Henrie Newland, 21-1.

Closest to pin No. 17: 1, Sandy Handel, 2-6 1/2; 2, Mitchella Ybarra, 4-1 Birdies: Vicky Flandi, No. 12; Sandy Handel, No. 12; Margie Miller, No. 12; Stella Gaudet, No. 14; Oksun Parrott, No. 17.

Chip-ins: Regina Cortez, No. 1; Mitchella Ybarra, No. 5

Fairfield Bocce Federation SUMMER LEAGUE STANDINGS As of May 19 Tuesday AM League W L Pts Bocce Friends 6 3 92 Do It Again 6 3 92 Plan B 4 5 80 Capitani 3 3 60 No Mercy 2 7 52 Tuesday PM League W L Pts Casino Royal 6 3 91 Bocce Buddies 5 1 71 Untouchable 5 1 65 Slow Rollers-1 3 6 81 La Bocce Vita 3 6 79 New Bee’s 3 6 76 Bells & Beaus 2 4 55 Wednesday AM League

W L Pts Bocce Bulldogs 7 5 112 Andiamo Amici 7 5 103 Roll’Em 6 6 103 Holey Rollers 5 7 95 Sons Of Italy 4 5 93 Oh Sugar 4 5 82 Thursday AM League W L Pts What If 11 1 134 Bocce Cruisers 7 5 102 Red Devils 7 2 99 Mama’s & Papa’s 6 6 115 Real McCoys 2 10 63 Slow Rollers-2 0 9 24 Tuesday AM Weekly Results Bocce Friends 2, No Mercy 1 Do It Again 2, Plan B 1 Capitani Bye Tuesday PM Weekly Results Bocce Buddies 2, C. Royal 1 Untouchable 2, Slow Rollers-1 1 New Bee’s 2, La Bocce Vita 1 Wednesday AM Weekly Results Bocce Bulldogs 2, H. Rollers 1 Roll’Em 2, Andiamo Amici 1 Thursday AM Weekly Results Red Devils 3, Real McCoys 0 B. Cruisers 3, Slow Rollers-2 Forfeit What If 3, Mama’s & Papa’s 0

DAILY REPUBLIC — Sunday, May 22, 2022 B9

With overdoses of fentanyl, just ‘one pill can kill’

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ichelle Leopold small speck of powrecently joined me dered fentanyl, about to film “Focus on the size of Abraham Fentanyl” at Vallejo Lincoln’s forehead on Community Access a penny, may prove Television. Michelle’s lethal. Marijuana and son died after consumcounterfeit pills, when ing a fentanyl-laced pill, laced with fentanyl, at age 18. Through contain variable quantieducating the public, ties of this opioid drug.

Scott Anderson including viewers of “China White” heroin, Ask Dr. Scott “Health Focus with Dr. typically injected, garScott,” Michelle honors Trevnered similar press concern in or’s legacy. recent years.

Narcotic analgesics repreA decade ago, oversent opium and morphine, along dose deaths were well below with more recently developed 50,000 per year in our country, semi-synthetic variants, such still representing a public as oxycodone. Fentanyl is synhealth menace. Recent numbers thetically manufactured. A exceed 100,000, however. The combination of fentanyl and a lion’s share of the overdose benzodiazepine tranquilizer can epidemic is due to fentanyl, it induce pre-surgical anestheappears. The potency of fensia. There are fentanyl variants, tanyl places others at risk, including a transdermal patch, through inadvertent inhalation which can alleviate severe pain or transdermal exposure. associated with malignancy.

Opioid toxicity has been with The overdose problem reflects us since the poppy plant came inappropriate illicit use of this into bloom. Although interdicuseful compound. tion will never fully eliminate Fentanyl is at least 50 times illicit drugs, fentanyl entering more potent than heroin. A our country represents a con-

tinuing public health threat.

Education, however, may represent an even more potent weapon in this battle. Michelle Leopold told us to remember that “one pill can kill.”

You cannot experiment safely with fentanyl-contaminated drugs, period.

Another approach we discussed is the use of opioidreversing medications such as naloxone. Available in intravenous and nasal preparations, naloxone should probably be more readily available to people.

My son, a newly certified emergency medical technician in Washington, D.C., will need to administer naloxone while responding to emergency calls.

Physicians bear considerable responsibility for the emergence of the opioid crisis we are now facing. Around 20 years ago, in response to pharmaceutical marketing and fear of litigation, doctors ramped up narcotic prescriptions for back pain, arthritis and other chronic conditions. Activists described pain as the “fifth vital sign,” after

blood pressure, pulse, respirations and temperature. The use of visual scales to describe pain levels led to over-estimation of pain, based on non-quantified subjective markers.

An increasing number of people became dependent on illicit drugs after becoming dependent on prescription drugs. Up to two-thirds of people who end up dependent on illicit opioids report receiving prior prescription drugs, a colleague recently told me. Only a third of users reported this experience in past decades.

Practicing correctional medicine, I learned that “methadone maintenance” was not allowed for preventing heroin use. One could prescribe methadone for pain, however. One clinic patient told me, “I have a right to be pain-free,” while strongly demanding a prescription for opioids, referred to as “hot meds.”

Inmates do possess the right to medical care, consistent with the Eighth Amendment prohibition against “cruel and unusual

punishment,” and legal precedents such as Estelle v. Gamble that warn against “deliberate indifference” to health concerns. Eliminating pain, however, is a tall order. Inmates are often “tore up from the floor up” to use another phrase I learned in prison. They are debilitated due to prior injuries, and arthritic conditions.

Inmates receiving opioids lined up in the “hot meds” line. The administering staff gave them a pill or liquid, then undertook a cursory mouth examination with a flashlight, seeking to detect “cheeking,” or oral drug sequestration. Prescribed narcotics, if cheeked, might lead to drug sales, extortion or suicidal behavior.

Scott T. Anderson, MD (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.

What you need Talking God, science and religion with Frank Wilczek to know about abortion pills

Tribune Content Agency Frank Wilczek has a special fondness for rainbows.

It’s not just the show-stopping, full-arcacross-the-sky rainbows that catch the Nobel laureate’s eye. He’s equally transfixed by the array of color that shows up on soap bubbles, in sprays of water and in prisms.

“There are rainbows all over the place, once you start paying attention,” he said recently from his home in Concord, Mass.

In Judaism, rainbows serve as a reminder of the covenant God made with Noah to never again destroy the Earth. There is even a special prayer to recite when one encounters them. For Wilczek, 71, rainbows are both aesthetically “pretty” and serve as an invitation to launch into a scientific reverie about what makes the phenomenon possible: how the light is refracted, what the atoms are doing, how Sir Isaac Newton discovered the nature of color.

“My everyday life has been very much enhanced by occasionally reflecting on what’s going on under the hood,” he said.

As a theoretical physicist, Wilczek has been peeking under the hood of our perceived reality for more than 50 years. His insights and ideas have led to several revolutionary scientific discoveries, as well as an almost theological perspective on the nature of the world and our role in it that he shares in his myriad articles, books and talks for a general audience.

“In studying how the world works, we are studying how God works, and thereby learning what God is. In that spirit we can interpret the search for knowledge as a form of worship, and our discoveries as revelations,” he wrote in his most recent book, “Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality.”

It’s this articulation of the link between science and spirituality that led to Wilczek’s most recent high-profile award – the Templeton Prize – one of the world’s largest annual individual awards, valued at more than $1.3 million, which he received last week. The prize is given to those who use “the power of the sciences to explore the deepest questions of the universe and humankind’s place

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US Nobel Prize in Physics 2004, Frank Wilczek delivers a speech in the World Summit on “Physics Beyond the Standard Model,” in San Cristobal Island, Galapagos, Ecuador, where experts from the US, Japan, the European Union and Latin America met in 2016. and purpose within it,” according to the Templeton Foundation.

Past recipients include Jane Goodall, the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and St. Teresa of Kolkata.

Over the last 50 years, Wilczek’s ideas and insights have touched nearly every corner of physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 2004 for his theoretical description of the strong nuclear force, now a cornerstone of the Standard Model, which posits that everything in the universe is made of a few fundamental building blocks that interact with each other by no more than four fundamental forces – the strong force, the weak force, electromagnetic force and gravitational force.

In 1978 he predicted a new type of particle called an axion. Although yet to be detected, axions are among the leading explanations for dark matter, a mysterious substance that makes up most of the matter in the known universe, even though they are billions of times lighter than the electron.

More recently he introduced the idea of time crystals – a phase of matter that can sustain constant change without burning any energy – and anyons, particles that have a strange behavior when their positions are exchanged but can exist only in twodimensional space.

“Really, in my opinion, these are all Nobel Prizewinning inventions,” said his friend and colleague Antti Niemi, professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University in Stockholm. “He is one of the few, I would say, that

could easily get a second Nobel Prize.”

In addition to groundbreaking discoveries, Wilczek’s work has also led him to some of the same conclusions shared by mystics from all religions: the myth of separateness and the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.

As he wrote in “Fundamentals,” “Detailed study of matter reveals that our body and our brain — the physical platform of our ‘self’ – is, against all intuition, built from the same stuff as ‘not-self,’ and appears to be continuous with it.”

Other spiritual insights from his decades of scientific study include the idea of complementarity – that different ways of viewing the same thing can be informative, and valid, yet difficult or impossible to maintain at the same time, and that science teaches us both humility and self-respect.

“Within ourselves we have enormous resources,” he told an online audience last year.

“We are small compared to the universe, but we are large compared to what it takes to have dynamic patterns and process them in time.

Walt Whitman was right when he said he contains multitudes.”

Wilczek’s friends and students describe him as a kind and generous scientist who never lost his childlike wonder at the immense beauty of the world and how it all works.

“There’s a distinction between curiosity and wonder,” said Jordan Cotler, who studies theoretical physics at Harvard and who started working

with Wilczek as a college undergraduate. “Curiosity is an intellectual outlook, but wonder suggests there is something in your soul that compels you to know more about the world. That’s something he embodies in a real, genuine way.”

Here Wilczek tells us more about his thoughts on religion, God, and how science has informed his perspective on life.

Do you consider yourself an atheist, agnostic?

Do you have a definition you’re comfortable with?

Not affiliated with any specific recognized church is certainly part of it, but I’m more comfortable saying that I’m a pantheist. I believe that the whole world is sacred and we should take a reverential attitude toward it.

Are science and religion in conflict with each other?

No, they are not in conflict with each other.

There have been problems when religions make claims about how the world works or how things got to be the way they are that science comes to make seem incredible. For me, it’s very hard to resist the methods of science which are based on the accumulation of evidence.

On the other hand, science itself leads to the deep principle of complementarity, which means to answer different kinds of questions you may need different kinds of approaches that may be mutually incomprehensible or even superficially contradictory.

With the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn the constitutional right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade, the future of abortion access in many states is uncertain.

Without a clinic close by to obtain one, supporters of abortion rights say they expect to see patients increasingly opting for medication abortion, which can be done at home with a series of pills rather than having a surgical procedure in a clinic.

“It’s very likely that people who are not able to go to a clinic in their state because they’re all closed would be scrambling to find access some other way,” said Sue Frietsche, senior staff attorney at the Women’s Law Project, a nonprofit legal organization with offices in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

Medication abortion has been available in the United States since 2000, yet only one-third of women between the ages of 18 and 49 have ever heard of it, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Around half of all abortions are already done using medication.

Q. What does a medication abortion involve?

A. Medication abortion is a safe way of ending a pregnancy of up to 10 weeks. It involves taking two pills. The first pill is called mifepristone, which you typically take in the doctor’s office on the day of your appointment.

It blocks the hormone progesterone, which is needed for the pregnancy to continue. The second pill, misoprostol, causes uterine contractions to pass the pregnancy.

Q. How and when does a patient take the pills?

A. The first pill is taken orally, while misoprostol can be swallowed or placed vaginally. The timing of the second pill depends on the route of administration, said Dr. Grace Ferguson, a Pittsburgh-based obstetrician and gynecologist.

If placed vaginally, the second pill can be taken as soon as six hours and up to 48 hours after the first pill. If taken orally, it’s recommended that you wait at least 24 hours but no longer than 48 hours to take misoprostol.

Because the second pill produces heavy bleeding,

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The image, courtesy of Plan C, shows a combination pack of mifepristone, left, and misoprostol tablets, two medicines used together, also called the abortion pill.

Dr. Ferguson said abortion providers work with patients to figure out the best time in their schedule to take it.

“Typically, what we do at your appointment is talk about what your schedule looks like, when you have work and school, when you have time and support and then we would help you figure out the best way for you to take it at home,” said Dr. Ferguson.

“In a perfect world, you’d have a day or weekend off to recover.”

Cramping and bleeding begins around one to four hours after taking misoprostol, the second pill.

Q. What kind of side effects are there?

A. For most people, the first pill, mifepristone, has few to no side effects. The second pill, misoprostol, can cause side effects similar to morning sickness, such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fevers and chills.

However, there are fewer of these side effects when misoprostol is inserted into the vagina. Dr. Ferguson said many patients choose the vaginal route for this reason.

“Placing the pills in the vagina is a different type of absorption than placing them in your mouth, so you do tend to get fewer GI symptoms and side effects,” she said.

After the second pill, you can expect heavy vaginal bleeding for about eight to 12 hours. Cramps, dizziness and fatigue are also common side effects.

After that, you may have bleeding similar to a normal period for up to one to two weeks.

Q. How can patients manage the side effects at home?

A. Dr. Ferguson recommended menstrual pads instead of tampons because bleeding can be heavy and may produce clots. To manage pain and cramping, ibuprofen and Tylenol are recommended.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS VOLKSWAGEN OF FAIRFIELD

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS HSG VENTURES INC

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS VW OF FAIRFIELD

LOCATED AT 2855 Auto Mall Parkway, Fairfield, CA 94533, Solano County. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Fairfield Automotive Partners II, LLC California Fairfield 94533. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 02/15/2022.

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/ Harold J. Logan, Manager 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 May 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: May 2, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000783 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00054909 Published: May 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022

LOCATED AT 428 Mountain Meadows Drive, Fairfield CA 94534 Solano. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) HSG Ventures Inc CA. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Corporation The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Sarbjeet Kaur Gill President 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 May 10, 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: May 11, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000832 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00055187 Published: May 22, 29, June 5, 12, 2022

LOCATED AT 2855 Auto Mall Parkway, Fairfield, CA 94533, Solano County. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Fairfield Automotive Partners II, LLC California Fairfield 94533. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 02/15/2022.

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/ Harold J. Logan, Manager 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 May 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: May 2, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000782 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00054908 Published: May 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS YO SOY, CARINA LOCATED AT 161 Summertime Ln, Suisun City CA 94585 Solano. Mailing Address 161 Summertime Ln, Suisun City CA 94585. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED

BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Carina Ponce-Bejarano 161 Summertime Ln Suisun City, 94585. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 04/01/2022.

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/ Carina Ponce-Bejarano 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 April 26, 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: April 27, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000748 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00054761 Published: May 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS AZTEKA FOODS LLC LOCATED AT 110 Railroad Ave, Suite A3, Suisun City, CA 94585 Solano. Mailing Address 161 Summertime Ln, Suisun City, CA 94585. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED

BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Azteka Foods, LLC CA Suisun City, 94585. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 11/11/2019.

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/ Ana M Bejarano de Ponce 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 April 26, 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: April 27, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000750 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00054764 Published: May 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022

PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD will hold a public hearing on the following item: CITYWIDE TRANSPORTATION AND NORTHEAST AREA DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE NEXUS STUDIES. A public hearing on proposal by the City of Fairfield to adopt Nexus Studies for impact fees related to Citywide Transportation and Northeast Area Development. Proposed Nexus Studies are available for review at Community Development Department, 1000 Webster Street, 2nd floor, and on the Community Development Department webpage at www.fairfield.ca.gov. (Staff contact: David Feinstein, 707-4287448, dfeinstein@fairfield.ca.gov) NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN THAT said public hearing will be held on TUESDAY, JUNE 21st, 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/87845423536?pwd=aVlUeTZTdzBwdlUvVEw1UUlSWkRxdz 09 or by phone at (669) 900-6833 Webinar ID: 878 4542 3536 Passcode: 7074287400, 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 Community Development Department, at, or prior to, the public hearing. For additional information, please contact the Community Development Department, City Hall, 1000 Webster Street, Second Floor, or phone 707-428-7440.

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DR#00055202 Published: May 22, 2022

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: LEMUEL SOLOMON AMERICA LACHELLE JACKSON CASE NUMBER FCS058189 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Lemuel Solomon America Lachelle Jackson filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name: a. Lemuel Solomon b. America Lachelle Jackson c. Demond Lamar Thomas d. Maleana Lanay Thomas e. Zion Lee Thomas Proposed Name: a. Lemuel Solomon ben Israel b. Sarah Elisheba bat Israel c. Daniel Bezaleel ben Israel d. Adi Aliza bat Israel e. Zion Josiah ben Israel THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: June 29, 2022; Time: 9:00 am Dept. 3 Rm.: II The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield 94533 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Daily Republic Please file proof of newspaper publication at least 5 business days before hearing (newspaper does not file w/ court) zoom ok. zoom invite will be emailed 1-2 days before hearing Date: May 5, 2022 /s/ Stephen Gizzi Judge of the Superior Court FILED: May 12, 2022 DR#00055191 Published: May 22, 29, June 5, 12, 2022

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PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS JET LAG GETAWAYS LOCATED AT 2998 Peppertree Drive, Fairfield, CA 94533 Solano. Mailing Address 2998 Peppertree Drive, Fairfield, CA 94533. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Jet Lag Getaways, LLC. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: a Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 02/01/2022.

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/ Gina Algere 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 May 4, 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: May 5, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000804 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00054926 Published: May 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS CASA DE LEON CONSULTING SERVICES LOCATED AT 161 Summertime Ln, Suisun City CA 94585 Solano. Mailing Address 161 Summertime Ln, Suisun City CA 94585. ARE HEREBY REGISTERED

BY THE FOLLOWING OWNER(S) Carina Ponce-Bejarano 161 Summertime Ln Suisun City, 94585. THIS BUSINESS IS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 04/01/2022.

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/ Carina Ponce-Bejarano 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 April 26, 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: April 27, 2022 New ASSIGNED FILE NO. 2022000749 CHARLES LOMELI, Solano County Clerk DR#00054762 Published: May 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022

Lien Sale Auction Advertisement Notice is hereby given that Pursuant to the California Self-Service Storage Facility Act, (B&P Code 21700 et. seq.), the undersigned will sell at public auction; personal property including but not limited to furniture, clothing, tools, and/or other misc. items Auction to be held at 11:00AM On June 1, 2022 at www.selfstorageauction.com.

The property is stored at: StoragePRO of Vacaville 5006 Walnut Road Vacaville, CA 95687 NAME OF TENANT Robin Smith Gabriel Galvan Keithen Johnson Xavier Bosley Kristen Costa Eric Marshall Michael Hansen Tammy Demartini Keithen Johnson DR#00055010 Published: May 18, 22, 2022

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2510 Claybank Rd., Fairfield (707) 784-1356 solano-shelter. petfinder.com NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MARY ADRICULA Case Number: P051430 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Mary Adricula A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Nicole Adricula in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Nicole Adricula be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: JUNE 22, 2022 TIME: 9:00 a.m. DEPT.: 22 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street 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 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: William Broderick-Villa 1150 Ninth Street, Suite 1430 Modesto CA 95354 209-575-5008 DR#00055085 Published: May 18, 22, 25, 2022

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finals in the 100 hurdles (15.43) after finishing ninth, and was 11th in the boys 300 hurdles (41.49).

Among other area athletes that qualified for Masters and did not make the finals, senior Audrey Alexander of Vanden was 11th in the girls 300 hurdles (47.98), junior Cierra Kinsey of Armijo was 12th in the girls 100 (12.25) and sophomore Regan Fisher of Vacaville was 13th in the girls 800 (2:25.62). Fairfield’s Jade Dickson did not get an official mark in the triple jump.

Junior Joseph Hilyer of Will C. Wood was 16th in the boys 100 (11.07).

Freshman Isabella Mason of Vacaville finished 22nd in the girls 110 hurdles (16.91).

It was a tough meet also for area relay teams. Only the top eight advance to the Masters finals as the Fairfield girls 4x100 team took 10th (50.15), Armijo was 11th (50.32) and Vacaville came in 12th (50.34). The Rodriguez boys 4x400 team finished 10th (43.74) and Vanden came in 22nd (44.64).

came agonisingly close to a hole-in-one on the next, a birdie on the 16th was followed by a three-putt bogey on the last.

Having made the cut on the mark of four over par, American Webb Simpson jumped 54 places up the leaderboard courtesy of a superb 65, the lowest score of the day.

“I think it’s probably top two or three best rounds I’ve ever had in a major, considering the conditions,” Simpson said.

“Today was a test

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Dallas Mavericks’ Luka Doncic (77) is guarded by Golden State Warriors’ Andrew Wiggins during Game 2 of their NBA Western Conference Finals playoff game at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Friday.

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The 27-year-old has had a breakout postseason and has been tasked with being the primary defender on Mavericks star Luka Doncic.

Despite Wiggins’ impressive fullcourt defense, Doncic is still averaging 31 points per game and shooting 44% from the field, but turned in a playoff career-worst 16.7% on contested field goal attempts in the Warriors’ Game 1 win earlier this week. Wiggins has been pivotal in helping the Warriors take a 2-0 series lead heading to Dallas for Games 3 and 4.

When Memphis’ Ja Morant exited Game 3 of the conference semifinals with a knee injury, Wiggins was crucial

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struggled in his first-half run.

Afterward, Poole offered insight into the mindset of Golden State’s bench players. They all have confidence, he said, and that goes to how Kerr runs things.

“Coach gives us the opportunity to play freely, and the guys we have are all team-first players,” Poole said. “We have a nice combination of veterans and young guys. It’s a really special situation.”

The Mavericks still present a more formidable challenge than Game 1 suggested. Doncic got back on track,

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scoring 42 points Friday night. Jalen Brunson and Reggie Bullock found their shooting touch beyond the arc.

And the Mavs are dangerous at American Airlines Center, where they’re 5-1 in the playoffs (and 29-12 during the regular season). Kerr often points out how much a venue change matters in the playoffs, giving the trailing team a chance to re-set the series.

Dallas fans will be ready Sunday, thirsty for their team to return to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2011, when Jason Kidd was the point guard, not the coach. They know the Mavs came back to stun the Suns.

“It’s about to get tougher, for sure,” Kerr said.

From Page B6 10 hits and eight earned runs in 3 2/3 innings, reestablished his power repertoire against the Padres. He gave up two runs in six innings, the solo home run to Machado in the third inning and a safety

squeeze bunt to Trent Grisham in the sixth.

Removed in favor of Jarlín García in the seventh after throwing 100 pitches, Rodón walked four, struck out six and gave up five hits. A two-out error by Darin Ruf in the first inning – followed by a pair of walks and a fly out – cost him 13 pitches in the first inning.

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in limiting Grizzlies’ back-up point guard Tyus Jones by defending him full court. His effort helped the Warriors seal the series in six games.

Wiggins has also been an efficient scorer, particularly from 3-point range where he is shooting 46% on 6.5 attempts per game. The Warriors have outscored their opponents by a team-leading 44 points in total with Wiggins on the floor in the first two games of the Western Conference finals – a plus-22 on average per game. He also has a team-leading plus-100 in all 13 playoff games Golden State played thus far.

The Warriors’ All-Star has not missed a playoff game this year and missed just nine games during the regular season, most of which came when he was in health and safety protocols in December.

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of the mind as well as physically because we have a mist out there all day, clubface is getting a little wet, it’s blowing sideways.

“We’ve gone from 92 degrees to what we had today, so the ball is going way shorter. So there’s a lot of adjusting on the fly, and I typically don’t like to play when it’s colder weather, so I surprised myself a bit today. But I’ll take it.”

Simpson’s score was what Tiger Woods had been targeting after making the halfway cut with a shot to spare, but the 15-time major winner struggled to a 79 and later withdrew from the event.

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