Daily Republic: Monday, July 11, 2022

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Firefighters continue battle in Yosemite Blaze threatening giant sequoias Los Angeles Times Firefighters were waging an intense battle Sunday morning to protect hundreds of ancient sequoias threatened by flames raging across rugged and parched terrain in California’s Yosemite National Park. The Washburn fire had grown to at least 1,591 acres and was burning on the southern end of the park near the historic Mariposa Grove, home to about 500 giant sequoias, officials said. The blaze is also threatening the community of Wawona and prompted officials to close Highway 41. More than 300 firefighters were battling the blaze in a coordinated land and air attack, officials said. In the Mariposa Grove, crews were scraping the ground cover to bare soil to prevent flames and spot fires from spreading, and were wrapping some of the ancient giants in protective foil. Firefighters had also set up a sprinkler system to water down the famed Grizzly Giant, which is more than 200 feet tall and one of the largest sequoias in the park. “The fire is burning in difficult terrain with continuous fuels,” posing a “significant threat to firefighters,” fire officials said in a statement. On Saturday, intense smoke and flames sent embers and fire debris hundreds of feet into the air, See Fire, Page A7 INSIDE Air District issues air quality advisory for Monday. Page A7 Yosemite using aerial tankers, chemicals against wildfire. Why that’s ‘a big deal’ for park. Page A8

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President Joe Biden signs the executive order on access to reproductive health care services in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Friday.

Biden says emergency to defend abortion rights is still on table Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said he has asked his team to explore the possibility of declaring a public health emergency to safeguard abortion rights after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision. “I’ve asked the folks on the medical — people in the administration to look at whether I have the authority to do that and what impact it would have,” Biden told reporters on Sunday. He urged abortion rights supporters to ‘keep protesting.” Top officials at the Health and Human Services Department and the White House discussed the emergency option before a June 28 news conference by Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, but set aside the idea due to concern that the impact wouldn’t justify the inevitable legal battle, according to people familiar with the matter. Jennifer Klein, director of the White House Gender Policy Council, said Friday that an emergency declaration is “not off the table,” but questioned whether it would help. The government’s public health emergency fund has only “tens of thousands of dollars” and the measure wouldn’t “release a significant amount of legal authority,” she said. Biden has been on the defensive over what activists and some Democrats consider a tepid White House response to last month’s ruling, in which the Supreme Court’s conservative majority threw out the constitutional right to an abortion after almost 50 years. In a sign of the tensions, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield was quoted See Rights, Page A7 INDEX Arts B4 | Business B5 | Classifieds B6 Comics A5, B3 | Crossword A5, B3 | Food B2 Opinion A6 | Sports B1 | TV Daily A5, B3

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Phyllis Craig celebrated her 100th birthday, Saturday.

Craig celebrated 100 years on Saturday Susan Hiland

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FAIRFIELD — Phyllis Craig celebrated a century of life on Saturday. Her daughter, Linda McLevich, 71, planned a surprise party for her mom at Paradise Valley Estates over the last few months. The event brought about 75 family and friends to celebrate Craig’s life with a video, cake and lots of shared stories. Craig was born July 10, 1922, to Ethel and Lloyd Kickbush in Guttenburg, Iowa. In case anyone does the genealogy thing, her birth certificate says she was born in Osterdock, Iowa, which is not exactly true. She was born at her grandmother’s house but the other side of the family wanted to say she was born in their house. So one side

of the family claims it is there house she was born in and the other says it was their house. Anyway, officially she was born in Guttenburg. Early on she moved a lot from Iowa to Wisconsin. A farm girl, she shared her childhood with brothers Russ and Roland. They raised pigs, foxes and other critters. In high school, she joined the Glee Club, went out for basketball and ran for the track and field team. She graduated high school in West Bend, Wisconsin, with her heart set on becoming a nurse and that is exactly what she did, joining St. Thereas’s School of Nursing in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1940. She spent three years in college. Of course, her training as a nurse would be valuable for the war efforts. After working in several hospitals, she decided to enlist.

First, she tried the Navy but they were full, so then she tried the Army and they took her in May 1945. Her life after this point certainly was not dull. Craig’s new military life saw her traveling to a lot of different spots on the globe. First, she spent time in Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. She then traveled to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and then Camp New Orleans. Finally, she along with 500 other nurses were sent to the South Pacific. While on board she got notice that she was going to the Philippines through the Panama Canal. For two weeks she spent time at Albrook Field in Panama, then she headed to Hawaii. Eventually, Craig made it to Manila in Nov. 11, 1945. See 100, Page A7

State cuts cannabis taxes to heal ailing industry Newsom’s top cannabis adviser, told CalMatters. “So I think we need to take a moment to reflect on the fact that something great got done.”

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California is significantly overhauling its cannabis tax structure, including entirely eliminating a tax on growers, in an effort to boost a struggling legal industry begging for relief. The changes, which were adopted last week as part of a broader state budget agreement, will also create tax credits for some cannabis businesses, expand labor rights within the industry and switch collection of a state excise tax from distributors to retailers. That tax will pause at 15% for three years, after which regulators could raise the rate to recoup lost revenue from discontinuing the cultivation tax. Prominent cannabis industry groups praised the plan for its potential to lower costs and help make legal sales more competitive with an illicit market that remains robust six years after California voters legalized recreational marijuana. Yet even as the measure won over-

Eliminating cultivation tax was a priority Amy Jenkins, a lobbyist for the California Cannabis Industry Association who was heavily Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters file involved in the negotiCannabis plants at the Pure Beauty growing site in ations, said zeroing out the cultivation tax was Sacramento, Jan. 26. a priority for the legal whelming approval in things for the better- industry – something it the Legislature, it was ment of all Californians,” has sought for three years. Growers complained met with vocal discon- Nicole Elliott, director that the tax, a flat tent from retailers who of the Department of say they will not benefit Cannabis Control and See Taxes, Page A7 and several lawmakers who complained that it did 3VJHS .PYS 2UV^Z not do enough to address — N A PA VA L L E Y — ongoing racial disparities 9LHS ,Z[H[L in the industry. Dr. David P. Simon, While efforts to secure MD, FACS. Eye Physician & further assistance from Surgeon, Col. (Ret.), USAF the state may continue, Services include: they seem unlikely to gain • Routine Eye Exams favor any time soon with • Comprehensive Ophthalmology Gov. Gavin Newsom, who • Glaucoma and Macular Degeneration Care signed the tax revision • Diabetic Eye Exams on Thursday. • Dry Eye Treatment :HUKYH “I’m incredibly proud • Cataract Surgery 9P[JOL` )\[SLY of this bill. It accomplishes • LASIK Surgery 9,(3;69® +9, an incredible amount of • BOTOX

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Armijo High Class of 1982 is teeing up our 40th reunion were ravaged by Covid-19 and that stigma (and the virus) persists. Plus, it's easy and economical even with y high school gas prices as high as graduating class, they are now for me to the Armijo Class of drive across town to the 1982, is having our 40th Paradise Valley Clubreunion, a three-day Tony Wade house where our main The last laugh affair, on Aug. 12-14. I event on Saturday the didn’t go to my 10- or 13th will take place. 20-year high school reunions, It's not quite as economical but for the 30th back in 2012, I for classmates now living in say, hooked up with Claire Cepeda Florida or Hawaii. Kelley, my classmate and friend It is truly astounding to think since our days as Grange that 40 summers have passed Grizzlies, to plan it. since that one back in We got help with the plan1982 when me and nearly ning from several other 400 others donned purple and classmates and the event was gold caps and gowns and very successful. Yours Truly marched onto Brownlee Field to acted as the emcee and every"Pomp and Circumstance." one had a blast. In fact, my own Honestly, I don’t remember regret was that we had Class of much about that day. I mean, I 1983 grad Yumi Wilson as our still have the program so I can photographer and she was see that Class President Judy under strict instructions that Jernigan led the Pledge of everything was fair game to Allegiance and class brainiacs shoot – except for pictures of Kristi Lown and Kevin Chrisme dancing. tian gave speeches (“Where Do And yet among her hundreds We Go From Here?” and of beautiful photos there was “Friendship: Life After High one of me trying to bust a move, School,” respectively), but I which also captured the recall nothing they said. resultant horrified look of The program also says that classmate Greg Johnston, who Diana Ehmke was accompanied didn’t know whether to laugh, by then local musician Ron cry or call the paramedics. Kimball (former bass guitarist Claire and I are back to plan of Fairfield band Laser Boy) and the 40th with the help of the performed “Landslide” by usual suspects: Ed Lockhart, Fleetwood Mac. It would be Victoria Bartels, Roberta really cool if my brain hadn’t Arnold-Nichols, Frederick completely deleted that. Wallace and Brian Evans. It has Now out of fairness, it isn’t been a bit of a challenge getting just that it was 40 years ago that folks to commit to come and things are a little fuzzy; they who can blame them? I mean, were a little fuzzy on that day, many people repeatedly got too. The one thing I definitely burned having to schedule and remember was drinking some then reschedule events that scorching hot Southern Comfort

“And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you . . . ” — “Time” by Pink Floyd

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before the ceremony that had been left in the trunk of my buddy John’s Vega. I remember right after the event we snuck another slug of Janis Joplin’s favorite drink and immediately two young ladies from my church, Cindi Gibson and Giselle Taylor, appeared and gave me congratulatory hugs. I held my alcohol-flavored breath. Four decades have passed since then and, honestly, I am most disappointed in only a couple of things. First, that those moving sidewalks they had in "The Jetsons" still aren't a thing; and second, that the white tux with black trim I wore in my senior picture hasn't come back into style. You know what I learned at the 30th reunion we had? That a lot of the things that separated classmates when we were teens didn't really matter decades later. I mean, I was kicking it with people that I rarely or never talked to back in high school. We hadn't kicked it before, not because of enmity, just that we moved in different circles back then. Those cliques and categories now seem quaint and rather silly when looked at through the clarifying prism of time and life experience. Navigating adolescence at the same time as other folks can be a bonding experience that lasts a lifetime, but there are lessons that only living life and going through its tumult and triumph can bring. Then there is death. We have lost many classmates along the way, including one last month, and it puts our celebration of our 40-year milestone in stark contrast. Now, in addition to being a

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The Armijo Classs of 1982’s graduation program and Tony Wade rockin’ the then popular white tux look. member of the Armijo Class of 1982, I am also an honorary member of the Armijo Class of 1942. For five years I attended their annual reunion luncheons as a guest of the late Guido Colla. The class that they started with was much smaller than mine. It had 72 people, and by the time I started attending their reunions, there were only four to five classmates left. I saw firsthand how they were very much alive at those events and savored being in the moment with each other and I will never forget it. So next month the Armijo Class of 1982 will meet, laugh, talk, eat, drink, dance and reminisce. We'll rekindle old friendships and hopefully spark some new ones. I look forward to hearing and sharing stories with folks I spent some of my formative years with.

I even forgave Yumi Wilson and she is back as our photographer. We're gonna party like it's 1982! The Armijo High Class of 1982 40th Reunion main event will take place Aug. 13. Tickets are $75 per person. Register online at https://ahs8240.bpt.me (there is a per ticket fee) or make a check/money order out to Claire Kelley and send it to P.O. Box 460, Fairfield, CA 94533-0045. Fairfield freelance humor columnist and accidental local historian Tony Wade writes two weekly columns – "The Last Laugh" on Mondays and "Back in the Day" on Fridays. Wade is also the author of The History Press books “Growing Up In Fairfield, California" and "Lost Restaurants of Fairfield, California."

At this new resort in Mexico, getting drunk is part of the wellness program Bloomberg

Santos in the mid-1990s, determined to cure herself from corporate burnout by setting up temporary residence in a humble palapa (beach hut) while hunting for creative reinvigoration. She was so inspired by the culture and the land - its physical beauty, the food, and yes, the drinks - that she decided to buy a small parcel of land there. She returned home determined to turn it into a sumptuous wellness retreat called Rancho Pescadero, which she’d subsequently design herself. It opened with 12 rooms in 2009 and quickly developed a loyal following. Now the resort is set to emerge in September from a four-year renovation that makes it effectively a whole new property, with 103 oceanfront suites on 30 acres and an intentionally indulgent approach to wellness, making Harper a sort of anti-Gwyneth Paltrow. Instead of cutting out

Lisa Harper would like you to know that in a post-pandemic, you-onlylive-once world, throwing back mezcalitas and cheladas for the purpose of inducing a hangover and then curing it with barbacoa tacos falls squarely within the definition of holistic wellness. “When I talk about wellness, I don’t talk about deprivation or hard work,” says Harper, the former chief executive officer of retail brands as varied as Gymboree and Hot Topic, and current CEO of Belk, the North Carolina-based department store company with some 300 stores around the US. “I talk about it in terms of experiences that provide that much-needed mental and creative reset,” she says. Getting drunk in Mexico? That can do it. Harper first landed in the cluster of fishing towns surrounding Todos

booze and focusing on detoxifying diets and boot camp classes, the hotel pairs a 25,000-square-foot “wellness pavilion” with activities that connect guests with generationsold local traditions (think cacao ceremonies and apothecary sessions that make personalized use of the sprawling medicinal herb garden). None is more emblematic of this unique approach to wellness than the Hangover Experience – not something you’d find at a typical spa retreat, but a cornerstone of the resort’s new programming. It will focus not just on drinking, but also on a dish that Mexicans use as a hangover cure, cochinita pibil, and all of the ways that preparing and eating it can have a restorative effect. According to Harper, the ceremonial process of cooking barbacoa, from the wrapping of lamb in banana leaves to the way it’s lowered into an under-

ground hearth for a slow, overnight roast, was considered by ancient Maya as a way to commune with the Earth – and healing to both heart and mind. But at Rancho Pescadero, learning to make the dish won’t be as simple as signing up for a cooking class. (After all, argues Harper, you can’t exactly replicate that recipe in your own home kitchen – so what’s the point?) While guests will get to participate in the cooking process, they’ll mostly do so by picking chiles and turning them into accompanying salsa and sauces. They’ll also get to prepare tinctures to pair with the next day’s hangover cure using some of those aforementioned medicinal herbs, to make tortillas by hand using a traditional comal oven, and to tell stories or listen to music around a communal fire. All of these activities play with ideas of working with your hands, engaging with Mexican

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culture, and building community – cornerstones of mental wellness. “The idea is that you’re engaging with rituals,” says Harper. “We want people to feel like they’re living it up but also taking part in something that carries historical legacy and feels, for lack of a better word, authentic,” she says. “You’re forming community with new people, learning about drinks and foods that you may not have heard of before, and getting taken care of in a whole different way.” Getting drunk is, of course, baked into the premise, though even that is done purposefully. The open bar portion of the experience includes lesser-known traditional drinks like pulque, which blends agave sap with fermented pineapple rind. A cultural ambassador will be on hand to weave in elements of Indigenous and historical significance –such as why

pulque was considered sacred by the ancestors of many locals. And while the cooking and drinking all takes place in the evening, the eating really happens the next morning – after the boozy damage has been done. “We’ll wake guests up at a considerate hour, somewhere post-9 o’clock,” says Harper. “We’ll kindly come to their room with the very first phase of their cure, which will be one of the tinctures [made the night before], or something that would help them rise to the occasion.” And then, she says, they’ll be escorted to hotel’s restaurant, where a ceremonial unveiling of the cochinita takes place around a bountiful communal table. “Of course, we plan to bookend the whole thing with more drinking,” Harper laughs

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Obituary

Demetrio ‘Mecho’ Perriatt July 16, 2005 — June 27, 2022

Demetrio Perriatt loved everything about the game of baseball. He was known for memorizing statistics and facts from major leaguers past and present. Every time he stepped onto the field, he excelled at the game he so loved. Affectionately known as ‘Mecho,’ Demetrio Perriatt tragically passed away June 27, 2022, at Lake Berryessa in Napa County. He was 16 years of age. A Fairfield native, Demetrio attended Nelda Mundy Elementary School, Green Valley Middle School and had just completed his junior year at Rodriguez High School. Mecho was the best of the best. The kindest heart with a genuine love for everyone encompassed in his life. He was undoubtedly recognized as the funniest person in any room, full of endless jokes. Those closest to him described him as quite the movie buff, indulging in as many knock off superhero remakes as one could imagine. He was inherently creative, with a great eye for paintings. He was fascinated with World War II history because of the honorable veteran family lineage. Demetrio was most at ease on the baseball field, playing primarily in the outfield and as a stellar baserunner. There amongst his teammates, he was called ‘D-MO’. He was easily discernible on the field by his long-term number, 6, and the disarray of curls sticking out under his cap.

His Fairfield Expos team had just returned from a 12-day American Legion tournament in Oregon. Demetrio had been excited to go out and adventure on his own for the first time. He will be missed every day. He is the light of our lives. Survivors include sister, Louise; parents, Julie and Stanley Perriatt; grandparents, Lois and Gabriel Ramon Quinones; grandmother, Brenda Perriatt; and beloved girlfriend, Madelyn Stone, and her parents, Jeff Stone and Sandy Wong, and brother, Corey Wong-Stone; other survivors to cherish his memory include, Gina and Adam Smythe; Matt and Marie Quinones; Sophia and Mark Gray; William and Hannah Franz Quinones; and Lloyd Perriatt Jr.; he is also survived by numerous cousins, aunts and uncles; his Fairfield Expos baseball teammates; and his Rodriguez High School Mustangs teammates and coaches. He is preceded in death by Lloyd Perriatt Sr.; Judy Williams; Sylvia and Gabriel Quinones; and Louise and Eugene Williams. The Perriatt family would like to extend their sincerest thanks to the first responders – Napa County Sheriff’s Office, its dive team and Chaplain Joanne. Family and friends are invited to a Celebration of Life on his birthday, from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 16, 2022, at the Suisun Veterans Memorial Building, 427 Main St., Suisun City, California.

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Wildlife Center gets wild Saturday Daily Republic Staff

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SUISUN CITY — The Suisun Wildlife Center will host a Wild Time event on Saturday. Visitors can get up close to birds of prey, mammals, learn about Native Americans, rocks and minerals. The event will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. at 1171 Kellogg St., in Suisun City. The next event will be Aug. 13. For more information, call 429-4295 or visit www.suisunwildlife.org.

Grillin’ & Chillin’ car show, rib cook-off returns Saturday

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Volunteer Curtis Goltz holds up a Western Pond Turtle to show to children at a Wild Time event at the Suisun City Wildlife Center, in 2012.

DIXON — The 13th annual Dixon Grillin’ & Chillin’ car show and rib cook-off welcomes visitors to their old-fashioned, family friendly street fair on Saturday. In addition to cars and trucks on display, enjoy lots of food and drink offerings, unique crafters and artisan booths lining Highway 113 in downtown Dixon. A children’s area will have a water slide, bounce house and other Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic file (2015) fun activities. Students from local high schools participate in the Mad The event City Money financial bootcamp at Travis Credit Union, in will take place from Vacaville, in 2015. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Proceeds are donated to charity organizations between the ages of etc. The goal is to show the in Dixon and surrounding 12 and 18 are encouraged reality of financial responto attend and learn these sibilities and equip them communities. For more infor- financial skills that will with the skills needed to mation, visit www. last a lifetime,” the credit make better financial deciunion said in a statement. sions,” the statement said. dixonribcookoff.com. The camp is schedTo register for the uled from 11:30 a.m. to camp, go to traviscu.org/ 3 p.m. Friday in the credit mad-city-money. union’s Community Room, 1 Travis Way, Vacaville. “Mad City Money is a 3 ½ hour simulation that VACAVILLE — Travis gives young adults the Credit Union is offer- chance to make decisions FAIRFIELD — A ing a free in-person Mad regarding budgeting, handful of government City Money Youth Finan- spending and saving in an cial Boot Camp. assigned-life scenario. For meetings will be held this The camp is “designed example, each participant week. They are all open to to prepare the next gen- will be given a temporary the public. They include: eration with personal identity that includes an n Rio Vista Planfinance skills for the work- occupation, salary, debt, force. All young adults marital status, children, ning Commission, 6 p.m.

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Wednesday, City Hall council chamber, 1 Main St., Rio Vista. Info: riovistacity.com. n Solano Transportation Authority Board, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Suisun City Hall, 701 Civic Center Blvd. Info: www. sta.ca.gov. n Solano Consolidated Oversight Board, 9 a.m. Thursday, 675 Texas St., Fairfield. Info: www.solanocounty. com/depts/auditor/ solano_consolidated_oversight_board.asp. n Solano County Parks and Recreation Commission, 10 a.m. Thursday, hearing room, first floor, CAC lobby, 675 Texas St., Fairfield. Info: www. solanocounty.com/ depts/rm/countypark/ parksnrec/agendas_n_ minutes.asp. n Fairfield-Suisun School District, 6 p.m. Thursday, first-floor board room at the Central Office, 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield. Info: www.fsusd.org.

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Two men charged for alleged federal bribery, conspiracy with Vallejo official 2 California teachers attacked over LGBTQ outreach cleared of wrongdoing Tribune Content Agency

The City of Vallejo announced that it assisted the Federal Bureau of Investigation in an investigation that led to two men being charged with federal bribery and conspiracy after allegedly paying a city building inspector to look the other way concerning the growth of illegal marijuana. According to a Friday news release, in early to mid-2020, the city contacted the FBI to report an attempted bribe of city officials. As a result, the city and city employees assisted the FBI in an investigation into an illegal marijuana grow operation within the Vallejo city limits. The effort resulted in the FBI’s recently reported action and a federal grand jury returning a twocount indictment against Steven Chu, 40, of San Bruno, and Ben Guan, 35, of San Francisco. The release doesn’t say the name of the building inspector, but according to the indictment, the city official allegedly took six bribes over the course of a year and was paid $27,000 in cash. According to the indictment, the inspector, referred to in the

indictment as “Person 1” attempted to inspect the Capitol Street property on June 30, 2020, but was denied entry. Two weeks later on July 13, city officials including “Person 1” inspected the property and concluded that it was being used to grow marijuana illegally. Chu and Guan were notified shortly after that they were in violation of multiple laws including illegal drug activity and building codes, and that legal action could take place. According to the indictment, Chu and Guan then combined, conspired, confederated and agreed with each other to commit the bribery, which was in violation of Tittle 18. Chu and Guan were each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit federal program bribery and one count of federal program bribery. “The city is thankful to our partners at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their efforts in this investigation,” the city stated. “This is an ongoing case, and all inquiries are directed to the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of California, at (916) 554-2700.”

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Two California teachers whose careers were threatened last year over their leadership of an LGBTQ student club during a time of conservative backlash have been cleared of wrongdoing in an independent investigation. The teachers, Lori Caldeira and Kelly Baraki, did not deceive parents or their school – Buena Vista Middle School in the conservative Salinas Valley east of Monterey – about the activities of the club, and they did not wrongfully “recruit” students into it, according to the review by the Van Dermyden Makus law firm in Sacramento. The findings were announced late Thursday in front of roughly 10 attendees in the same school auditorium where the two teachers and the Spreckels Union School District board were berated in December by dozens of community members. Despite the results of the investigation, the incident has caused significant upheaval, and Caldeira and Baraki resigned after facing harassment from around the country – and after district officials placed them on administrative leave. Those attending Thursday’s meeting spoke about how much the teachers had meant to the community and how much had been lost in recent months. The angry parents who

once packed the auditorium were nowhere to be found. “I am glad the results of the investigation showed what we knew from the beginning,” Caldeira told The Chronicle in a text message. The furor comes at a time when right-wing politicians and media figures are stirring up fear over the existence of transgender Americans who are asking for basic equality and acceptance. It began when Abigail Shrier – a writer known nationally for asserting that transgender adolescents are part of a dangerous “craze” – went after the teachers in her Substack newsletter. She said the educators, while giving a presentation last fall at the California Teachers Association’s annual LGBTQ+ Issues Conference in Palm Springs, were secretly recorded saying that they monitored students’ online activity at school so they could later invite them to their GSA, or gay-straight alliance, called UBU (You Be You). “When we were doing our virtual learning – we totally stalked what they were doing on Google, when they weren’t doing schoolwork,” Bakari said in the presentation, according to Shrier. “One of them was Googling ‘Trans Day of Visibility.’ And we’re like, ‘Check.’ We’re going to invite that kid when we get back on campus.” In an interview with The Chronicle late last

year, Caldeira said that the comment was “tongue in cheek” and taken out of context. Caldeira said she and Baraki never monitored students’ online activity in this way, and that she was confident the investigation commissioned by the school district would clear her and Baraki of wrongdoing. “Our presentation was misrepresented and misconstrued to fit a political narrative which is harmful to LGBTQ youth,” Caldeira told The Chronicle last week. “We have been cleared of any and all wrongdoing. Looking forward to moving on in support of public education and our incredible LGBTQ youth.” The investigation found that the teachers did

make comments during their presentation at the teachers conference that were “admittedly inaccurate,” “harmful” and “disruptive,” giving the impression that they deceived school administrators and parents about their operation of the club. Yet the teachers “did not engage in any actual deceptive conduct with regard to the UBU club’s purpose and activities,” the review concluded. “Rather, their comments during the presentation were not reliable evidence of their actual conduct.” Erich Knorr, a partner at the law firm, said it reviewed more than 1,600 pages of documents and interviewed See Cleared, Page A8

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Opposites attract, but are they compatible in the long term? Dear Annie: My girlthink it will become a friend and I are really problem? — Opposites in love, but we are oppoDear Opposites: sites in so many things. The fact that you have She loves to travel, opposite personality and I like my routine traits isn’t really the at home. She always problem; sometimes, wants to dance, but I those relationships can think of myself as a be the best. True love Annie Lane is about supporting lousy dancer. However, Dear Annie she always encourages each other and compromising, and it sounds me when we’re on the like you both do that. Yes, I dance floor – offering compliments and holding my hands. believe you are overthinking this and would encourage Her idea of a fun Saturyou and your girlfriend to keep day night is a nightclub with doing what you are doing – by drinking, dancing and staying out late – and then sleeping having some nights out and in on Sunday morning. My some nights at home, and constantly supporting each other preference is to stay home by communicating your feeland get takeout and watch a ings of love. movie together. Dear Annie: My girlfriend She works in sales, so her job and I have been together for is to be out all the time, entertaining people. I work at home almost two years. She’s in on the computer. She likes to her late 40s, and I just turned recharge by going out, while I 50. She has one young child, like to recharge by staying in. and I have three older children. Both of our divorces set When I bring this up, she tells us back financially, but mine me she loves me and wants more than hers. A large portion for me to be happy, so she will stay in more. But I want for her of my retirement is gone, and I sold my house and now rent. to be happy, too, so I’ll say no, However, I do have a pension we should go out at least some plan to retire. of the time. I know we’re compatible We really do love each because the intimacy is excelother, but I worry that her lent. We enjoy spending time extroverted personality and together, and I could see spendmy tendency toward being an ing the rest of my life with her. introvert could develop into a major problem later in life. Am However, financially there could be some red flags. For I overthinking this, or do you

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). When a situation doesn’t measure up to your expectations, disappointment sets in. Try to get past it. There’s a golden opportunity in the works, but you’ll only see it after you stop thinking it should be something else. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Excitement can spark in many ways – the intrigue of a stranger’s conversation, an unfamiliar landscape or a risky challenge. Let the wild impulse move you to explore. It will make coming home all the sweeter. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Weariness is a function of working day after day, week after week without a break. Since you’ll be planning the future, build a few breaks into the schedule to avoid burnout. CANCER (June 22-July 22). No matter how well you think you know a person, there is always more to discover. New people on your scene will be just the catalyst to bring out a different side of someone you thought you knew well. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). A project requires skills that you do not yet posses, so you’ll learn. In training, you will find out that you are more talented than you knew. Even your distractions and tangents will prove productive.

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example, in recent months, she often talks about friends, acquaintances and colleagues regarding their impressive job titles, trust funds and multimillion-dollar inheritances – none of which I have. Also, she has said a man should have a nicer house, more money and a better car than her – none of which I have either. Do I approach her with my concerns or let this go as nothing more than idle conversation? Should I enjoy the journey and not focus on the destination? — Am I Good Enough? Dear Good Enough: Her subtle putdowns say more about her than you. It seems that she is living in shallow waters. But that doesn’t make her completely superficial. She might not even realize that she is making these jabs at you, but by making those comments, she is certainly putting you down and making you feel like you’re not enough. Continue on your journey with her because part of a healthy relationship is healthy communication – and, sometimes, difficult conversations. In the long run, you will save a lot of grief having one or two difficult conversations rather than letting resentment and hurt feelings build up. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday You’re not waiting for a fairy godmother to transform your life. You get the look and the transportation together, and you’ll even put on your own ball if you have to. Your life is all the more magical because you take charge in this way. Libra and Taurus adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 3, 33, 27 and 17.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You understand others by their actions and behaviors, not by what they declare. Every human on the earth is different. You’ll be inspired by uniqueness, and you’ll appreciate your own individuality. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’re a passionate person. When you give your love, you give it all. You may feel like your survival is based on another person, but this is just an illusion caused by your passionate nature. You’ll feel differently tomorrow. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). What you thought was no big deal is actually a very big deal involving complexities you didn’t understand before. And

there’s more at stake, too. You are open-minded. The more people you query, the smarter you become. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). You will rise up on everyone’s “favorite person” list, graciousness personified, selflessly taking care of friends. The sweetness and smiles is easy for you because at the moment you feel lucky and trouble-free. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). You’ll be pulled in at least three different directions, mostly due to the fact that you have three people who adore you and want your attention. There’s a way to satisfy all of them. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Give what you want and no more. You’ve been knocking yourself out for your loved ones. This won’t make them love you any more. It’s the work they do for you that makes them appreciate you. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll resist anyone who pushes you. Don’t take a loved one’s action too personally. It might be your interpretation of their behavior and not their actual behavior causing you to feel a certain way.

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PLAN TO KEEP THE SETTING TRICK When you are defending, it is a reasonable policy to keep winners and throw losers, but what do you do if both of your cards are winners? Then you must be careful to abandon the right one. Today’s deal, which arose during a world team championship, resulted in one red face because of an

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by Phillip Alder ill-advised discard. When West led a fourth-highest spade two, South called for the queen because he wanted to get into the dummy. Now came a low club to the king, East playing the nine. Back to dummy with a heart, declarer led another club, East contributing the two. Confident that East would not have done that holding J-9-2, South went up with his queen. Exhaling quietly, declarer exited with a club, West discarding a low heart. East returned a spade to South’s ace. When declarer cashed his last club trick, West pitched a diamond, but what should East have thrown? One East discarded an apparently useless low heart. However, this was fatal. Declarer cashed his two remaining heart tricks, ending in the dummy. Then he exited with the spade nine. The defenders cashed their spade tricks ending in East. He switched to the diamond seven, but declarer guessed correctly, playing low from his hand. At the other table, East wisely kept all four hearts. Knowing he couldn’t afford a diamond discard, East let go of his remaining low spade. Now when declarer cashed the hearts before exiting with the spade nine, East won with the spade jack and cashed a heart trick. The defenders had five winners: two spades, one heart, one diamond and one club. COPYRIGHT: 2022, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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oney is a medium of exchange, something of value for something of value. Historically, money has usually been gold or silver. Regardless, whatever was used people decided it had value in and of itself because they believed it did. In other words, intrinsic. Money took various forms over time. Usually, shiny attractive coins which evolved to attractive printed notes representing a stated value redeemable in precious metals deemed to have intrinsic value. Regardless of what was used, the system was well understood and universally accepted. Paper money was recognized as “real” too because it was backed by gold and/or silver. Regarding our money, three Jim McCully historic events occurred: The first two, in 1913, the Federal Reserve, or Fed, which is a semi private/public banking consortium, was created, becoming our Central Bank, and the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (a permanent tax on income) became law. The first was created to mitigate disruptive boom and bust economic cycles. It was believed greater control was needed over monetary and fiscal policy, thereby having a stabilizing effect upon inflation and interest rates. The second because the expanding federal government needed continuous predictable revenue. The third was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt taking America off the gold standard in 1933. This happened, in some regards, because the Fed was being overwhelmed by economic realities beyond its control. Gold was replaced by so-called Fiat currency, which is inconvertible (non-intrinsic) paper money made legal tender by government decree. These Federal Reserve Notes replaced gold back currency stating: “This note is legal tender for all debit public and private.” It has value because the government says so. Fiat money gives the Fed greater control over the economy because they can control how much money is in circulation. However, the law of unintended consequences is a basic tenant of economics and warns all who will listen that actions meant to accomplish a positive may well produce a negative. A clear example of this overarching danger is President Biden’s policy of having government putting to much “money” in circulation, resulting in too much money chasing too few goods. America went off the gold standard, replacing it with what is called “the full faith and credit “standard, which in reality is a glorified IOU. By Executive Order No. 6102 Roosevelt on May 1, 1933, required Americans to turn in all physical and gold certificates. Americans received $20.67 per tory ounce of gold. Today’s value in Fed notes is approximately $1,740 2022 dollars per ounce of gold. Silver coins and dollars remained in circulation until 1964. Until then a person could go into a bank, present a one-dollar silver certificate (so-called Blue Notes) and demand and receive a silver dollar in return. President Johnson took that away in 1964. Recently, a silver dollar costs approximately $40 Fed notes. Trusting politicians with fiscal and monetary policy is like giving a teenager the car keys, a pint of whiskey then expecting positive results. Democrats love the economic theory propounded in the 1930s by English economists John Maynard Keynes, which is loosely “spend yourself into prosperity.” The Biden administration’s Covid relief actions clearly demonstrate Keynesian theory with deficits spending in the trillions, sending America’s inflation rate exceeding 8% and climbing. Republicans mostly adhere to so-called Modern Monetary Theory propounded by Milton Friedman Nobel economist who championed free market capitalism. Simply put, control and preserve monetary value by regulating increases through mirroring the nation’s economic growth. Friedman, who in his youth espoused Keynesian economic theory until he understood the inevitable results, became the guiding force behind both President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher’s economic policies that pulled both America and Great Britain out of the economic malaise in the 1980s, stopping runaway inflation and providing 20 years of unparalleled stable economic growth. Remember in November. Jim McCully is a former chairman of the Solano County Republican Central Committee and former regional vice chairman of the California Republican Party.

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uling on Final Day of wings. But understand, Court’s Term Solidplease, that there are proifies a Lurch to the cesses supposed to fix Right,” says a New legislative ignorance and that York Times front-page headexperts can fumble. Kagan line, assuming editorializing is clearly objects to the voice of equivalent to news reporting. the people, fails to understand The truth is that the court the need for checks and has been solidifying a return to balances, and incredibly a democratic republic. We’re Jay Ambrose assumes bureaucratic talking about the Supreme wisdom. President Joe Biden, Court, of course, and how it recently by the way, says he will ignore the halted bureaucratic autocracy, court, bringing us to the question of disrupted judicial oligarchy, returned what experts will say about power to state legislatures and impeachment. recognized a true constitutional right. On the second subject, abortion, One of the latest moves terrorizing the Times said the current court got the Times was the court telling the rid of a constitutional right of women Environmental Protection Agency to to have abortions when, in fact, the quit mutilating private industries on squashed 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling the basis of nonexistent laws. Even itself told states they could deny the Times concurs that the agency has abortions in the last trimester when been acting on vague generalities in fetuses were viable. Forty-three states the law without getting it that, when did as much. It’s still true that Roe v. you play that game, rule of law Wade otherwise permitted just about becomes rule of anything goes. If new all abortions on the basis of this laws are needed for the stifling of supposed right that is no more in the CO2 emissions, EPA’s chief concern, Constitution than the word “abortion.” persuade Congress to pass them. Biden as a senator sought a constituWhat we don’t need is Justice Elena tional amendment to strike down the Kagan imperiously telling us that the rule he may now adore as much as EPA has expertise that members of higher approval ratings if he Congress lack and that they should gets there. grin and bear it. Most abortions are cases of Maybe her greater vision is that unintentionally pregnant women not there are all kinds of experts out there wanting children who are therefore on all kinds of subjects that Congress killed before birth, a total of 62 million flunks and that we should just maybe over 50 years, but the current court replace Congress with something did not say they were forbidden. It called the administrative state that’s said the laws are up to state legislaalready with us and spreading its tures that will go in two very different

directions, although the red states should definitely not prosecute the mother, disallow crossing state lines or deny abortions in such circumstances as the mother’s poor health. The last issue of the day is the court saying the Second Amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms and that this means those who are qualified should be able have concealed carry permits even if they cannot cite a specific danger. As much was required in New York and a number of other states. People often say the Second Amendment came about just to enable militias without knowing that the presumed right to bear arms had been around in America for a long time and that the militia business was simply a reason for putting it in the Constitution. Despite everything you may be hearing, a Rand Corporation study found little to no evidence that concealed carry increases homicides or other violent crime. The court itself absolutely did not tell states to hand out the permits to people without reasonable requirements, and the ruling was not nearly as scary as President Barack Obama. His gun control speeches sold record numbers of guns because of fears they’d soon be unavailable. The New York Times covered this but never had a headline saying, “Obama Speeches Solidify His Lurch to Guns, Guns Everywhere.” Jay Ambrose is an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service. Readers may email him at speaktojay@aol.com.

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Former Trump chief of staff: Republicans should pay attention to Jan. 6 hearings

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But they still should be he significance of last paying attention. week’s congressioThat is because, despite all nal Jan. 6 commitof the flaws in the structure of tee hearings cannot the heavily Democrat commitbe overstated. For the first time, evidence tee, almost all of the evidence was presented that former presented so far is coming President Donald Trump from eminently credible knew some of the protesters sources: Republicans. were armed before encourag- Mick Mulvaney Bill Barr is a two-time Republican U.S. attorney ing them to go the Capitol, that general. As recently as a few weeks right-wing extremist rioters commuago he was still defending the former nicated directly with the White president against charges of criminal House, that key Presidential advisers activity. When he swears, under oath, requested pardons, that the chief that he investigated almost every White House lawyer was concerned allegation of voter fraud – including about getting “charged with every crime imaginable,” and that someone those in the 2000 Mules movie – and found them to be completely worthwithin Trump world may be trying to tamper with committee witnesses. less, Republicans should Serious stuff. But roughly half the pay attention. country – the Republican half – isn’t Rusty Bowers is the Republican watching. They object that the Speaker of the House in Arizona. He hearings are a made-for-TV show campaigned for Trump and voted for trial, designed to attack the former him twice. And until last week at least, president and salvage the Democrats’ said he would do so again. When he dismal prospects in the upcomswears, under oath, that Rudy Giuliani tried to cajole him into ing midterms. intervening in the electoral count in They claim that the “Unselect Arizona, and told him “We have lots of Committee” is made up entirely of theories, we just don’t have the Trump-haters and that there is no cross-examination of witnesses. They evidence . . . ,” Republicans should pay attention. complain that the committee has Cassidy Hutchinson worked for heavily edited the evidence, and that Sen. Ted Cruz and House Majority the full testimonies of the witnesses Whip Steve Scalise before working in have not been released. They point the Trump White House. She started out that some of the evidence presented is hearsay that would never see (working for me) in the Office of Legislative Affairs before becoming the light of day in a legitimate an aide to the Chief of Staff court hearing. Mark Meadows. And they are correct. On every She was a special assistant to the single point.

president of the United States. When she swears, under oath, that she was told that the president knew some of the Jan. 6 protesters were armed, that Meadows was in direct communication with the Proud Boys, and that Meadows and Giuliani asked President Trump for pardons, Republicans should pay attention. Yes, it is possible that all of those life-long Republicans succumbed to Trump Derangement Syndrome. It is possible they decided to ignore a life-long political affiliation. It is also possible they chose to perjure themselves about what they saw, heard and know. But if they didn’t, and half of the country isn’t paying attention, then that half of the country is clinging firmly to an opinion of Jan. 6, 2021, that is based on either false or incomplete information. And clinging firmly to a belief based on false or incomplete information can lead to disastrous results. January 6 itself is a stark reminder of that. When Republicans start testifying under oath that other Republicans lost the 2020 election and then broke the law to try to change that, Republicans should pay attention. Everyone should. Mick Mulvaney was former President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff before becoming special U.S. envoy to Northern Ireland. He resigned Jan. 6, 2021, following the attack on the Capitol. He is currently co-chair of Actum, LLC and lives in Indian Land, S.C.

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Agency: Smoke from Yosemite fire may drift across parts of Solano Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — The Bay Area Air Quality Management District on Sunday issued an air quality advisory for Yosemite wildfire smoke for Monday. Smoke from the Washburn Fire in Yosemite National Park is projected to be transported into the Bay Area and is expected to affect the North and East Bay regions. However, pollutant levels are not expected to exceed the federal health standard, the air district reports. An air pollution warning, called a Spare the Air alert, is not in effect and air quality is expected to be in the moderate range. If the smell of smoke is present, it is important that Bay Area residents protect their health by avoiding exposure, the agency reports. If possible, stay inside with windows and doors closed until smoke levels subside, if temperatures allow. It is also recommended that those affected by smoke set their air conditioning units and car vent systems to re-circulate to prevent outside air from moving inside. Smoke can irritate the eyes and airways, causing coughing, a

Fire From Page One nearly striking an aircraft that was battling the blaze, according to radio traffic from the firefight. “A branch went over the top of us,” the pilot reported to dispatchers. “Pretty good size, probably 50 feet above us coming down and fell right between tanker 103 and myself.” “OK, copy. So like a repeat of yesterday,” a dispatcher said. “That’s exactly what I’m getting at,” the pilot responded. “So if we keep seeing that, we might have to knock it off. I don’t want to take a chance of busting a window on an airplane or hurting an aircraft for this.” One bit of good news for firefighters was that relative humidity was reported Sunday morning to be around 26%, officials said. The lower the humidity the drier the conditions, increasing the chance for faster spread of flames. Fire officials said they were expecting the blaze “to keep growing

Rights From Page One in The Washington Post as defending Biden’s response and saying his goal isn’t to “satisfy some activists who have been consistently out of step with the mainstream of the Democratic Party.” Hundreds of abortion rights supporters rallied near the White

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Firefighters at work in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park, Thursday. scratchy throat and irritated sinuses. Elevated particulate matter in the air can trigger wheezing in those who have asthma, emphysema or COPD. Elderly people, children and those with respiratory illnesses are particularly susceptible to elevated air pollution levels and should take extra precautions to avoid exposure, according to the air district. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District covers western Solano County to include Fairfield, Travis Air Force Base, Suisun City, Vallejo and Benicia. Air quality in the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District, which covers the remainder of the county and Winters in neighboring Yolo County, is projected to be moderate Monday, the air quality agency reports.

moderately” and that temperatures were expected to reach the low 80s. A warming trend was expected to begin Sunday and continue through the week. Officials said Sunday that Yosemite remains open and visitors are advised to enter the park using highways 140 or 120, officials said. The Washburn fire was the latest to threaten the ancient sequoias, which are found in the wild only on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada. Although they are adapted to thrive in fire, the sequoias are increasingly no match for intense wildfires driven by climate change, years of drought and decades of aggressive fire suppression, which has resulted in dense vegetation in some forested areas. Fire officials noted that a history of prescribed burns in the Mariposa Grove, along with scars from recent burns, could slow fire spread and limit potential damage. “Once the fire reaches some of the recent fire scars, spread may slow,” officials said. House on Saturday in the latest protest against the Supreme Court ruling. Biden, who was spending the weekend at his beach house in Delaware, said his message to them was, “Yes, keep protesting, keep making your point. It’s critically important.” The president reiterated his “bottom line” goal is to codify abortion rights in U.S. law. That would require Republican support in Congress that isn’t forthcoming.

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Supporters for equity cannabis tax reform gather at a rally at the state Capitol, Jan. 13, 2021.

Taxes From Page One $10.08 per ounce for flowers, was making it difficult to keep operating as prices tumbled from a glut of weed and not enough dispensaries to sell it. Wholesale prices have dropped by as much as 50% over the past year, particularly squeezing farmers whose outdoor crops sell for less and forcing many smaller operations to close down. “Any delays in that happening was something that we were not able to accept,” Jenkins said. Supporters hope that eliminating the cultivation tax could have a beneficial ripple effect through the legal market, lowering costs that compound for consumers through the wholesale price, the excise tax and sales taxes. It could also turn plant trimmings, which were taxed at $3 per ounce for leaves, into another viable commodity for farmers, said Genine Coleman, founder of the Origins Council, an advocacy group representing cannabis businesses in the historic Northern California growing region known as the Emerald Triangle. The leaves can be useful for manufactured products such as creams. “It’s incredible to have the cultivation tax eliminated,” she said. “It had become so untenable.” Coleman said the tax restructuring package was about as good as she could have hoped for, given the constraints of Proposition 64, the 2016 legalization measure that earmarked cannabis tax revenue for child care slots, environmental cleanup and impaired driving prevention efforts. Newsom pushed for a revenue-neutral approach to protect funding levels for those programs. The budget includes $150 million to backfill any shortfalls

100 From Page One She worked with patients who had venereal diseases and physical issues. She got orders to go to Japan, but while waiting to leave, heard that they needed volunteers to go to Korea. She stepped up and found herself rolling along in the only transportation available, an ambulance. In 1946, she was finally discharged from the service and made her way back home to West Bend. For the next few years, she nursed polio patients. Craig was not one to stay in one place long, she found out about a job at March Air Force Base in California. With her good friend Minnie Graff, they

in the next three years, before the state can begin raising the excise tax. By clicking subscribe, you agree to share your email address with CalMatters to receive marketing, updates, and other emails.

operators — who received their licenses through local programs intended to diversify the industry with more people of color, formerly incarcerated people and residents of neighborhoods with historically disproportionate cannabis arrest rates — have been particularly blistering in their criticism. “What we’ve gotten are essentially crumbs from this bill,” said Amber Senter, executive director of the advocacy group Supernova Women, who organized several rallies at the state Capitol this year. “The cultivators will see relief, they will see a little bit more money in their pockets, and none of that is going to trickle down.” The deal will allow equity licensees to get a $10,000 tax credit and keep a fifth of the excise tax revenue they collect for the next few years. But advocates had lobbied for more sweeping aid, such as a suspension of the excise tax altogether, to give their businesses a greater opportunity to establish a foothold. Senter dismissed the tax credit as token assistance that would not even cover the cost of licensing fees. She also expressed concern about another provision that could have far greater significance in the long run: Starting in 2024, the plan lowers the threshold to 10 employees for businesses that must enter into labor peace agreements, thereby providing unions access to communicate with and attempt to organize their workers. “Small businesses cannot be unionized,” Senter said. “This is going to crush small businesses.”

Cannabis retailers, who did not receive a direct tax cut like growers, have expressed far more dissatisfaction with the deal. And advocates for social equity

As the bill came before the Legislature last week, several lawmakers spoke out on the floor against what they said was insufficient aid for can-

nabis retailers and equity operators, including state Sen. Steven Bradford, a Gardena Democrat who introduced legislation this session to reduce the excise tax. He called the provisions for equity operators “minimal and insulting” and was one of only a handful of legislators not to vote for the measure. In an interview, Bradford expressed frustration that the cultivation tax was completely eliminated for growers, who are overwhelmingly white, while equity licensees received far less. He said he worried that plan would only deepen racial disparities in the industry, where Black and brown communities targeted during the war on drugs have struggled to thrive. “That’s a hard pill to swallow,” he said. “At some point, when are we going to put the real weight and work behind what we all say exists?” Bradford said he would continue to push to lower the excise tax for equity operators and other steps to move minority-owned businesses to the top of state efforts to bolster the legal cannabis market. “Without a doubt, there needs to be more work,” he said. “If we fall short of that, we’ll come back next session.” Elliott, the director of the Department of Cannabis Control, defended the tax restructuring deal as a collaboration between Newsom and legislative leaders to “simplify, simplify, simplify” the law for businesses across the industry. “That reflects a willingness to be critical of the systems that are in place and trying to modify them,” she said. No one can get everything they want in a compromise, Elliott said, but everyone is coming away from the deal with financial relief and regulatory improvements. “They didn’t have any of this yesterday. So today is a better day,” she said.

hopped a plane and came to the golden state for a new position in the hospital at the maternity ward. While working the maternity ward, a dashing young man came to visit a friend, Phyllis saw Edward Craig, he saw her and there were sparks but he left without her number. She took a chance and gave her number to the patient to give to Ed. A new stage began in Phyllis’ life with the entrance of Ed into her story. He, of course, being smart gave her a call. They dated for about six weeks. After meeting his parents, Ed asked her to go to Alaska with him since he had orders to ship out. She made sure to clarify that was as his wife not girlfriend and after conferring with her

best gal pals, she came back with a firm yes to the trip to Alaska and yes to being his wife. They tied the knot on May 27, 1948. After spending a few months apart, their lifelong adventures began together in Alaska. On February 19, 1949, they welcomed a son, Richard Lee, into their lives in Alaska. Over the years they had Linda, who was born in June 19, 1951, ,in Florida, and then Marsha, born in June 10, 1953 in Florida. After traveling for the military, they came to Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield where Ed retired. He took up work at at Concord Naval Station as a safety director. Phyllis retired from nursing after 21 years. They could not stop

traveling and the couple made many great memories for 47 years. They went on a cruise to celebrate the anniversary of D-Day meeting Bob Hope, Walter Cronkite and Andy Rooney. On April 7, 1997 Phyllis lost her husband just three years before their 50th Anniversary. Tragedy struck again in January 29, 2020, when their son Richard died. Craig sold her home in Fairfield and moved to Paradise Valley Estates where she has made tons of friends. She stays active with various groups like the Lions Club and a nurses group. Her life story was included in the book, “Remembering WWII Women,” written by Linda E. Minton.

Debate over excise tax continues But that looming tax increase is a major disappointment for many in the industry, who say taxes must be cut even further for legal cannabis to ever compete on price with the illicit market. Coleman pointed to other major regulatory expenses for growers, including licensing fees and environmental compliance requirements. She also wants the state to play a larger role in opening up retail opportunities that remain prohibited in most jurisdictions in California. “It’s not enough at all. And it’s just simple math,” she said. “Our position has always been: We need tax reform and.” Jenkins, the industry lobbyist, said the three-year pause on the excise tax rate buys advocates more time to press their case. Moving collection from distributors to the point of sale, where products can be taxed on the actual purchase price rather than an assumed 80% retail markup, will improve accuracy. Jenkins believes that tax revenues could actually rise as a result, giving the industry an argument against raising the excise tax and potentially even to lower it. “We have three more years to fight that fight,” she said.

‘Crumbs’ for social equity licensees

Some legislators want more action

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Firefighters stop progress on brush fire in Pittsburg Tribune Content Agency Firefighters have successfully contained a vegetation fire in Pittsburg that began flaring up on Friday following weeks of smoldering in a peaty marsh, Contra Costa County’s fire department said. The fire, which began in the city’s marshland area in late May, most recently flared up in mid-June, burning approximately 122 acres and forcing hundreds of families to evacuate their homes. Firefighters managed to contain the blaze without any damage to people or property, but did not fully extinguish it. By Saturday afternoon the fire, which was burning near the 700 block of Willow Pass Road, had begun advancing toward a decommissioned NRG power plant, according to Contra Costa

Cleared From Page A3 21 witnesses, including administrators, teachers and current and former students. Investigators found that Caldeira and Baraki did not “stalk” or monitor students’ online activities to recruit students for the club. Knorr said the two teachers, like their colleagues, used GoGuardian, a program that allows schools to see students’ computer screens, but “did not use the reports for club recruitment. The two teachers did plan to invite one student to the club after they noticed the student click on an LGBTQIA+-related link in class on approximately March 31, 2020. However, they ultimately did not invite that student to the club.” The teachers did not “coach” students about changing their gender identity, the investigation found, and did not use “mind tricks” on students or any other tactics to avoid parent complaints. Right-wing pundits and others have asserted, without evidence, that young people are being coerced into becoming transgender. The fight over the LGBTQ club isn’t over. Before the investigation was completed, a former parent at the school, Jessica Konen – who had criticized the district at the December meeting – filed a lawsuit against the board, the two teachers and the principal, arguing they harmed her by not informing her that her child had chosen to use a different name and pronouns at school. “ D e f e n d a n t s denied Ms. Konen of that right during a crucial phase of A.G.’s development, choosing for themselves how to direct A.G.’s upbringing regarding the major life decision of A.G.’s gender identity, and concealing critical facts from Ms. Konen, her parent,” the complaint states, echoing the language of other parental rights suits around the country that focus on issues from teachings on race to sexuality and gender. The school, the complaint says, had a policy that teachers and staff would not tell parents if children expressed confusion or a desire to change gender identity unless the student expressly asked that the parents be informed. The district and the two teachers declined to

County Fire. The agency said in a tweet that it would be calling “additional firefighting resources” to the scene to prevent the blaze from reaching the power plant. Smoke from the fire also began pouring into the nearby cities of Antioch and Oakley, according to Cal Fire’s camera monitoring system. But as the evening progressed, the agency announced it was able to stop the fire’s forward progress after it had burned through roughly 200 acres. “ Con Fire units stopped forward progress of Marsh Fire. Firefighters will remain on scene through the night mopping up numerous hot spots,” the agency tweeted Saturday evening. “200 acres burned. No structures damaged. No firefighters injured.”

comment on the lawsuit. But California law does not require teachers to inform parents about students’ gender identities. In fact, doing so could be considered discrimination on the basis of sex, if staff members tell parents only when their child is identifying as transgender, said UC Hastings general counsel John DiPaolo, who has no involvement in the Spreckels case. The California Department of Education says that school staff should not disclose information about students’ gender identity without student permission under Assembly Bill 1266, which protects transgender students’ rights and went into law in 2014. “A transgender or gender nonconforming student may not express their gender identity openly in all contexts, including at home. Revealing a student’s gender identity or expression to others may compromise the student’s safety. Thus, preserving a student’s privacy is of the utmost importance,” the education department’s guidance says. Cathy Chu, the director of youth organizing for the national Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network, which supports such clubs at schools, said that in situations where parents have tried to keep their children from attending meetings, “the school administrators said that they could communicate this request but they had no actual authority to stop a student from attending a GSA club or to let their parent know if they were attending.” Konen’s lawsuit, which alleges causes of action including intentional infliction of emotional distress, details her belief that Caldeira “coached” her child into changing her name and pronouns. The suit says Caldeira did not properly tell Konen, while acknowledging that the teacher eventually did disclose the information in a meeting with the parent and her child. The complaint says that during the remote learning of the pandemic, Konen’s child “began to return to her original self.” The child now attends another school, and her mother says she has resumed using female pronouns. “ Ms. Konen and her daughter have sought guidance from their pastor in attempting to overcome the harm set forth herein, and they are likely to continue seeking such guidance in the future, among other potential mental health treatment,” the suit states.

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Yosemite using aerial tankers, chemicals against wildfire Why that’s ‘a big deal’ for park

Tribune Content Agency Tinder-dry conditions in Yosemite National Park have prompted firefighters battling the Washburn Fire to call in both air tanker planes to drop fire-retardant chemicals on the wildfire and bulldozers to help create containment lines. Both the tankers and the ’dozers are considered unusual for firefighting efforts in a national park, where the vast majority of the acreage is designated as wilderness, said Nancy Phillipe, a fire information spokeswoman for Yosemite National Park. “Obviously this is a full-suppression fire for us,” Phillipe told The Fresno Bee on Sunday. “For us, using retardant (chemicals) is a huge deal because this is wilderness.” National wilderness laws contain strict rules for when such chemicals can be used, she added, and the same is true for the bulldozers. But both measures were deemed necessary to protect not only the iconic Mariposa Grove of giant sequoia trees that is threatened by the fire, but also the residential enclave of Wawona, inside the park boundaries, where a mandatory evacuation order has been in effect since Friday. The Wawona community is about three miles from Washburn Fire, which grew in size from about 1,100 acres on Saturday evening to almost 1,600 acres by Sunday morning – an increase of almost 50% overnight. Containment of the fire remained at 0% on Sunday morning. Between the air tankers and almost a dozen helicopters dropping water on the fire, “it’s been quite an aerial show over Wawona,” Phillipe said. By Saturday night, about 360 firefighters were working to contain the fire, an increase of about 150 from Friday. Those

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Fire retardant is dropped on the Washburn Fire as it burns in late afternoon light near the south entrance of Yosemite National Park near Fish Camp, Saturday. include hand crews building containment lines around the fire, along with engine crews. That number was expected to keep increasing Sunday as more teams from local, state and federal agencies arrive in the park, Phillipe said. Dead conifer trees, both standing and down, as well as dry brush on the forest floor after years of drought in the Sierra Nevada are contributing to the fire’s spread. The fire was first reported Thursday afternoon along the Washburn Trail in the Mariposa Grove, and the grove near the southern entrance to the park from Highway 41 remains evacuated and closed because of the continuing threat of the fire’s spread. Within the Mariposa Grove, rangers have set up portable sprinkler systems to protect one of the park’s most well-known giant sequoias, the Grizzly Giant. In addition to moistening the forest floor around the tree, Phillipe said, the sprinklers also raise the humidity in the grove to reduce the dry conditions that could fuel flames.

The Mariposa Grove is the largest stand of massive giant sequoias in Yosemite, with more than 500 mature speciments of the iconic trees. The grove was the first area of what is now Yosemite National Park when President Abraham Lincoln signed legislation in 1864 to protect Mariposa Grove. Rangers opted against wrapping the base of the Grizzly Giant – a 209-foot-tall, 3,000-yearold sequoia described as the second largest in the grove – and other giant sequoias within Mariposa Grove with a foil-like retardant material for fear of creating more of a “baked potato” effect if flames did sweep through the area, Phillipe said. But, she added, the wrapping was used to envelop a historic cabin in the grove. Firefighters said that previous prevention efforts within the grove, including prescribed burns and other measures to reduce fuels, could prove beneficial in minimizing the Washburn fire’s threat.

Bay Area babies and toddlers getting vaccinated at faster clip than state, nation Tribune Content Agency In late June, when pediatrician Dr. Nelson Branco opened up Covid vaccine appointments for his youngest patients – babies and toddlers under 5 years old – parents raced to book some 250 slots within the first 48 hours. By late last week, nearly 20% of Branco’s roughly 1,500 patients in this age group had gotten their first shot. The doctor, who practices in Larkspur and Novato, anticipates that over the next few weeks, it will double to 40%. The brisk pace of vaccination at Tamalpais Pediatrics offers a glimpse into a now-familiar pattern since Covid vaccines first became available in the United States last year. Vaccine uptake among babies and toddlers in the Bay Area appears to be far outpacing statewide and national rates, according to early figures provided by several local health departments. Nearly three weeks since shots became available for babies and tots, 12% of children under 5 in San Francisco have gotten their first shot – comparable to the rate among kids 5 to 11 at the same stage of the rollout, the San Francisco Department of Public Health said. In Marin, San Mateo and Alameda counties, 16%, 12% and 10% of babies and toddlers have gotten their first shot, respectively, local data show. Napa and Sonoma counties report 6% and 5% uptake, respectively. Health officials in some counties had hoped

for better. In Marin, for example, officials expected the number to hit about 33% at this stage based on uptake with the 5-11 age group. But all the Bay Area numbers are higher than the 2.4% rate in California as a whole and just 1.5% nationwide, according to new figures from the state Department of Health Services and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “It was faster than we expected, which is a good thing,” said Desi Kotis, chief pharmacy executive at UCSF, which is administering shots for the under-5 set at clinics in San Franand Oakland. cisco “Within the first four or five days, we were probably 20% to 30% greater than what we expected.” Kotis attributes the higher-than-anticipated early uptake to several factors. Children are out of school, so it may be easier for parents to bring them in right away. Many families are going on summer vacations and want to get their youngest children vaccinated before they depart. Locally, many parents appear to prefer the quicker Moderna vaccine protocol over Pfizer’s more prolonged alternative for their under-5 children. In Marin County, 65% of first shots given to kids under 5 have been Moderna. At UCSF’s pediatric vaccine clinics, 55% of the shots given to young children have been Moderna, compared with 45% Pfizer. Dr. Jayme Congdon, who took her 4-yearold son, Jude, to get

his shot on the first day UCSF opened its Laurel Heights pediatric clinic, is one such parent. The family is traveling in August, and Congdon, a pediatrician at UCSF, wanted to get Jude fully vaccinated as soon as possible. Moderna’s two shots, given four weeks apart, would accomplish that sooner than Pfizer’s three shots, given over 11 weeks. “Every pediatrician I know is lining up to get their own kids vaccinated, and encourage patients to do the same,” Congdon said. “The sooner kids get vaccinated, the sooner they’re protected.” Similar to the two previous pediatric groups – kids 5 to 11, and adolescents and teens 12 to 17 – the most eager parents are taking their kids for shots first. But unlike the two older groups, some pediatricians believe demand among the youngest children will peak sooner and taper off faster, giving way to a slow trickle of shots between now and the winter. Many will probably be given at the same time babies and toddlers come in for their regularly scheduled appointments for checkups or other childhood vaccinations, or when accompanying an older sibling for a visit, Branco said. This is in sharp contrast to last year, when older children and teens were getting their first shots at large school clinics and mass vaccination sites, sometimes at a volume of hundreds a day. “I think what we’ll see is a slow, steady increase but at a much slower pace after the first month,”

Branco said. “What will drive that will be the beginning of the school year, the beginning of virus season in the winter, perhaps another wave of Covid that’ll prompt parents to bring their kids in to be vaccinated.” But even in Marin County, with its higherthan-average uptake so far, the path forward is more unpredictable and complicated for the youngest children than any other group before it – a phenomenon that is playing out nationwide. The county’s public health officer, Dr. Matt Willis, said just a month ago that he expected a third of children under 5 to get their first shot within the first month. “We’ll see whether or not we reach that,” Willis said. “It really changes, even week by week, the parameters for these decisions. . . . If this had rolled out even three months ago we would’ve had higher uptake.” By comparison, three weeks after vaccines became available for children aged 5 to 11 in Marin County, 40% of kids in that age group had gotten their first shot – a much higher proportion than the 16% of children under 5. Many parents have reasons for waiting to get their young children vaccinated, he said. A lot of babies and toddlers have gotten Covid in the last few months since the highly contagious omicron variant and its even more transmissible subvariants became the dominant circulating strains. So those children now have some level of immunity from Covid, at least temporarily.

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Giants open floodgates to rout Padres, secure series split Tribune Content Agency SAN DIEGO — A day after Carlos Rodón turned in the most dominant showing by a Giants starter this season, Alex Wood followed on Sunday with an almost equally impressive performance. While taking a no-hit bid into the sixth inning, Wood ensured the Padres wouldn’t sniff a lead, thanks to an offensive explosion from the Giants’ offense to take the finale of this fourgame series, 12-0, and

secure a split with secondplace San Diego. Whether it was the result of good vibes generated by Saturday’s pregame home run derby, the byproduct of the extra practice that came with it or simply the baseball gods reversing the Giants’ fortunes after a hellish past three weeks, the team turned in its most complete performance in ages and, in the process, won consecutive games for the first time since the middle of June. Thairo Estrada started

the assault with a two-run home run to left in the second inning, and Wilmer Flores added on the following inning with another two-run shot to left. The game entered blowout territory in the fourth when the Giants brought nine men to the plate and scored four more, making it 8-0. Flores added a second home run – his third in the past two days – off a position player to cap the onslaught, 12-0, in the ninth. The 12-run differential was the Giants’ largest

margin of the season and their dozen runs were their most since a 12-10 win in Atlanta on June 21. Their 17 hits had been outdone only once previously this season, with 19 in their wild 13-12 win over the Mets back in May. San Diego starter MacKenzie Gore, who had generated rookieof-the-year buzz with his 3.12 ERA entering Saturday, was out of the game before Wood allowed a hit. In his best start of the season, Wood blanked the Padres for seven

innings and struck out a season-high eight batters. After issuing a first-inning walk to Manny Machado, Wood retired 14 consecutive Padres until C.J. Abrams ended his no-hit bid with a single to left to lead off the sixth. Wood, who needed only 83 pitches to complete seven innings, had pitched past the sixth only one other time this season. Since turning in the worst start of his career (1 IP, 6 ER at ATL), Wood has allowed four runs over his past 17⅔ innings, a

2.04 ERA over his past three starts. The shutout, finished off by Yunior Marte, was the Giants’ third of the season. By the end of the third inning, the Giants already had 10 hits, ending a drought of 14 straight games without recording double-digit base knocks. It had been 23 years since the club had come up so empty, for so long ( Sept. 14-30, 1999). The cold snap at the See Giants, Page B7

Cal product Korey Lee has day to remember as Astros beat Athletics Tribune Content Agency

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Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates winning match point against Nick Kyrgios of Australia during Wimbledon 2022

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Novak Djokovic beats Nick Kyrgios in four sets to win Wimbledon title Tribune Content Agency Novak Djokovic won his fourth consecutive Wimbledon men’s singles titles, holding off the combustible Nick Kyrgios in four sets 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3) on Sunday. It was the 21st Grand Slam championship for the Serbian star, one short of all-time leader Rafael Nadal. Djokovic has won seven Wimbledon men’s singles championships,

tying with Pete Sampras for second place behind Roger Federer (eight). Whereas this was the first Grand Slam final for Kyrgios, Djokovic has played in a record 32 of them and has not been beaten on Centre Court since 2014. Sunday also happened to be his eighth wedding anniversary. Kyrgios, an Australian with the best serve in the game, seemed to alternate explosive shots and

emotional outbursts, frequently chiding friends and family members in the players’ box for not cheering loudly enough for him. There were multiple tantrums throughout the match. At one point, he pressed the umpire to have a fan removed for distracting him while he was trying to serve. “She’s drunk out of her mind in the first row, talking to me in the middle of the game,”

he said, loud enough for the TV cameras and anyone in the vicinity to hear. “The one with the dress. The one who looks like she’s had about 700 drinks, bro!” At No. 40, Kyrgios was the lowest-ranked Wimbledon men’s finalist since countryman Mark Philippousis reached the final as No. 48 in 2003. He wound up losing to Federer.

A’s pitcher Blackburn selected for All-Star Game Tribune Content Agency OAKLAND — Athletics manager Mark Kotsay got to deliver some good news that he never got himself in an 18-year career. Paul Blackburn, the right-handeed starting pitcher who was designated for assignment by the club in 2021, was named as the Athletics’ representative in the 2022 All-Star Game on July 19 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. “I’m at a loss for words,” Blackburn said. “The journey it’s taken to get here has been incredible. I’m extremely grateful for the opportunity play and be in the All-Star game.” Blackburn is 6-4 with a 3.36 earned run average with 73 strikeouts and 23 alks in 91 innings. The league mandates at least one player per team be selected, and the A’s, with the worst record in baseball at 29-57, had

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Oakland Athletics pitcher Paul Blackburn (58) pitches against the Houston Astros in the first inning of their MLB game at the Coliseum in Oakland, Friday. few candidates with solid credentials. Having pitched at least five innings in 12 of 17 starts, Blackburn, 28 already has a careerhigh in innings pitched. A former first round draft pick by the Chicago Cubs out of Heritage High in Brentwood in 2012, Blackburn was traded from the Cubs to the Seattle Mariners in 2016 and then to Oakland in exchange

for Danny Valencia that same season. Along the way, Blackburn broke his hand with the A’s after being hit by a line drive off the bat of Trey Mancini and the next season dealt with a forearm injury. He was ineffective enough to be DFA’d a year ago, only to return as a nonroster invite. The All-Star Game wasn’t a part of Blackburn’s thought process.

“There was never a point in the season where that crossed my mind,” Blackburn said. “My goal was to make the team coming out of spring training and that’s what happened. Then I wanted to be the best I can be. That’s how I’ve approached this year.” Blackburn is looking forward to being a sponge around some of the great players in the game. “Honestly I’m probably more excited to be around those guys and talk to them,” Blackburn said. “Talk to (Shohei) Ohtani. Talk to (Justin) Verlander. See what they’ve done to set themselves up for very successful careers and pick their brains.” Given that Dodger Stadium constitutes a road trip, that could be a good omen for Blackburn should he get in the game. He is 1-4 with a 6.75 ERA in seven home starts and is 5-0 and 1.28 in 10 on the road.

OAKLAND — It was a day to remember for Houston catcher Korey Lee, but another one to forget for the Athletics. Lee, a first-round draft pick out of Cal in 2019, had three hits and drove in three runs in a 6-1 win over the Athletics Sunday before a crowd of 10,195 at the Coliseum. They were the first hits and RBIs of his major league career. Afterward, he was given the ball from his first hit as well as the lineup card. “Hopefully one day whenever I get a house I’ll put it up in a little man cave,” Lee said. “I’ll just sit tight in that apartment right now and just remind me of everything.” In attendance were Lee’s mother, brother and some friends from Cal. “It’s crazy, being in Oakland,” Lee said. “The people here, the fans are really special so it was nice to get a little taste of home and do my thing here. It was a good day.” The loss denied the Athletics (29-58) in a bid to win back-to-

back series for the first time this season, having taken two of three from Toronto coming into the three-game set with Houston. The Astros, who have essentially lapped the field in the A.L. West, improved to 56-29. The A’s offense was locked up by Houston starter Jake Odorizzi (4-2), who gave up four hits with a walk and seven strikeouts in seven shutout innings. It was the first time this season Odorizzi has completed seven innings. He gave way to Phil Maton in the eighth and Bryan Abreu in the ninth. The Athletics, who had precisely four hits in each of their previous four games, got their fifth and final hit in the eighth inning when third baseman Vimael Machin hit his first major league home run. Lee got his first hit in the fifth against A’s starter and loser Cole Irvin (3-7), who pitched well with no offensive support. He added a two-run single in a three-run seventh against Austin Pruitt. “Nothing any See A’s, Page B7

How good is 49ers quarterback Trey Lance? Robert Griffin III weighs in Tribune Content Agency San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan has worked with a slew of quarterbacks throughout his 18 seasons as an NFL coach. But only one can relate to what Trey Lance is going through right now. That signal-caller is Robert Griffin III, the No. 2 overall draft pick of Washington in 2012 who played for Shanahan when he was the offensive coordinator under his father, Mike. Like Lance, Griffin was a top draft pick with a dynamic skill set who challenged Shanahan to get creative with X’s and O’s to maximize his quarterback’s potential. It’s Lance’s promise paired with Shanahan’s puppeteering of the offense that has Griffin optimistic about where the 49ers could be

headed. But like many young quarterbacks, the development process might not be smooth. “I think 49ers fans have to be ready for there to be ups and downs with Trey,” Griffin said in an interview with The Bee at the American Century Championship, the celebrity golf tournament in South Lake Tahoe. “But the bottom line is Kyle Shanahan has had extreme success with guys like Matt Ryan and Jimmy Garoppolo, who are going to run the offense, and there’s going to be times when Trey, his talent and his ability takes over, and that’s what’s going to take over the hump to get them to the Super Bowl,” Griffins said. “Which is what they didn’t have with Matt See 49ers, Page B8

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‘IT’S A FEAST!’

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whole fish, says Wendy Lopez, is a showstopper. “It’s a special thing,” she says. “You bring it out and drop it on the table and there’s this wow factor – it’s a feast!” Lopez, whose executive role at Reyes Mezcaleria recently expanded to Chef Partner (likely due in part to showstopper dishes like the banana leaf-wrapped Mediterranean seabass pibil), says it’s a perfect feast for your summer table to boot – lighter and fresher than the pork with which this deep, earthy sauce is often paired – and much easier to cook than its impressive presentation lets on. Her move into a partner role, too, has been simpler than it might seem, thanks to a cohesive staff, support from the top and a family foundation of hospitality. “My parents are restaurant owners, so I’ve always had that mentality, treating the restaurant as though it’s mine – my money, my staff, holding myself accountable. And Jason (Chin, of Good Salt Restaurant Group) has always made us feel like we’re owners and partners at every level, so it’s been a simple transition. I feel important as one moving piece of the restaurant, but it takes a million people to run this place.” It’s also about good relationships, says Lopez, which is something she says also plays into one’s ease in cooking fish at home. “Step One is knowing your fishmonger,” she notes. “Whether you shop at Publix or Lombardi’s or wherever you choose to go, you should build a relationship with the people who work there and get used to asking questions, ‘Hey, what’s fresh today? What’s in season? What would you recommend?’” Seafood pros are also extremely knowledgeable when it comes to prep and will be happy to answer questions. “You can even give them information about the flavor profile you’re looking for. If you’re looking to avoid fatty, don’t get salmon. If you want light and refreshing, you can try halibut, grouper or snapper. They’re also great at pointing you toward things that are Florida-local.” And though the wholefish look is supremely impressive (and if you ask me, better, because of that crispy skin and its insulating properties as the flesh cooks inside) you can always opt to prep the below recipe with filets instead. Either way, there are lessons about indigenous Mexican cooking to be learned.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP: Chef/Partner Wendy Lopez shows Mediterranean

seabass pibil, at Reyes Mezcaleria; Wendy Lopez wraps the fish in

“Everyone knows Mexico City, everyone knows Baja California, and I like focusing on areas that are just as beautiful, that have made impacts on the culture.” Lopez calls Veracruz “the Italy of Mexico,” in part because of the region’s use of tomato in its cooking, and something that gives her pibil a twist. Instead of pairing vinegar with citrus for a multilayered acidity, she subs in tomato. “I love the flavor that the char imparts and it gives the dish sweetness and fruitiness along with that acidity and helps with the texture of the sauce.” Banana leaves offer more than their sensual properties – “an almost herbal, fruity scent,” says Lopez – but gentle insulation from the oven’s searing heat. You’ll find them fresh at many local Asian and Latin markets around the city, “but

you can also buy them in the frozen section, too,” says Lopez, who has spied them at Publix on occasion. “It’s just as good as fresh. You thaw it in the fridge, roll them out and you’re good to go. They’ll be a little wet, but that’s good because it will help steam it – plus it won’t catch on fire.” Neither will your taste buds. Though puerco pibil and habaneros are best friends, Lopez’s lighter version doesn’t push the heat level. “This sauce is very flavorful, but approachable. I want to make sure the fish sings, that its flavor really comes through. At the end of the day, we want all the ingredients to be known and tasted.” On the table, the dish is paired with simple accompaniments: pickled onions, cilantro and rice. Feel free to serve tortillas alongside, as well. There’s

banana leaves for baking; Wendy Lopez shows how to score the exterior of the fish. no such thing as double carbing in Mexico. “A tortilla never feels like a carb. It’s a spoon.” jokes Lopez. “Tortillas are silverware!” WHOLE FISH PIBIL One whole 2-3-pound fish of your choice. Ask your fishmonger to scale and gut it. You may also use filets. For sauce 2 Roma tomatoes, split ½ white onion 3 cloves garlic 10 dried guajillo chiles, destemmed and deseeded 2 ounces achiote paste 1 cup orange juice ½ cup fresh lime juice ½ cup fresh lemon juice 2 bay leaves 1 sprig oregano ¼ cup honey Salt to taste Place tomatoes and onion in cast-iron pan over medium-high heat for 3-6 minutes or until

charred, adding garlic for last minute or two. Remove from heat and all other ingredients except honey. Cook ingredients for 15-20 minutes until reduced by half. Turn off heat and stir in honey. Allow to cool a little. Place mixture in blender and blend until smooth. Allow to cool. Season fish of choice with salt and pepper, both sides for filets or inside and out for whole fish. Score exterior. Using some of sauce mixture as marinade, coat fish on both sides/ inside and out. Wrap fish in banana leaves and bake in 400-degree Fahrenheit oven for 15 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 135 degrees. With caution, unwrap leaves and add more of sauce mixture. Return fish to oven for 2-4 minutes to achieve a crust. Serve with pickled onions and cilantro as a garnish, along with a side of your favorite rice and tortillas.

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perfect pie for lueberry season is upon novice bakers us, which and cooks any means berry-studsummer cookout. ded muffins, The original pancakes, salads recipe in the June/ and smoothies. July magazine The plump and featured piped juicy berry – rosettes of topping thought to have Gretchen McKay on the pie, but I’m one of the highest Gretchen’s table pretty clumsy with antioxidant levels a pastry bag. So of all everyday fruits – I chose the easier option also makes a great base of spreading the topping for a summer pie that’s across the top of the pie both sweet and jammy, with an offset spatula, and with just a touch of tang then swirling in the puree for balance. in a marble pattern with a This super-easy recipe from Cook’s Country mag- butter knife. I also added azine pairs the sweet-sour a strawberry flower in the center. pop of fresh blueberBe sure to chill the pie ries with a cooked berry after it’s prepared for the puree in a simple (but recommended four hours oh-so-good) graham or it will fall apart when cracker crust. It’s topped you slice it. (I refrigerwith a cheesecake-like, ated mine overnight.) no-bake whipped topping The magazine posits the that whisks together in dessert “just might be the a stand mixer in around best blueberry pie you’ll 5 minutes. No botherever eat,” and they’re not ing with dough means kidding: Everyone who the whole process is no big deal, making this a tasted it begged for more.

BLUEBERRY CREAM PIE Serves 8-10. For the crust: 12 whole-grain graham crackers, broken into pieces 2 tablespoons sugar Pinch table salt 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted For the filling: ½ cup sugar 4 teaspoons cornstarch ¼ teaspoon table salt 1 ½ pounds (about 4 ¾ cups) blueberries, divided 1 tablespoon lemon juice For the topping: 8 ounces cream cheese, softened ¼ cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup heavy cream, chilled Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 325 degrees. Make crust: Process cracker pieces in food processor until finely ground, about 30 seconds. Add sugar and salt and pulse to combine, about 3 pulses. Add melted butter and pulse until com-

bined, about 8 pulses. Transfer crumbs to 9-inch pie plate. Using bottom of dry measuring cup, press crumbs into bottom and up sides of plate. Bake until crust is fragrant and beginning to brown, 16 to 18 minutes. Transfer plate to wire rack. Meanwhile, make filling. Whisk sugar, cornstarch and salt in medium saucepan until no lumps of cornstarch remain. Process 2 cups blueberries in clean, dry work bowl until smooth, about 2 minutes, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Strain puree through finemesh strainer into sugar mixture in saucepan, pressing on solids to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard solids. Whisk puree into sugar mixture until combined. Bring puree mixture to simmer over medium heat, whisking frequently. Continue to cook, whisking constantly, until whisk leaves trail that slowly fills in, about 1 minute longer (mine took about 4 minutes total). Off heat, whisk in lemon juice. Reserve 2 tablespoons of

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This easy-to-make blueberry pie highlights the flavors and textures of fresh blueberries, with a crisp and nutty graham cracker crust. puree for topping. Stir remaining blueberries into remaining puree in saucepan. Spread filling evenly over bottom of pie crust. (It needs be completely cooled.) Make topping: Using stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment, whip cream cheese, sugar and vanilla on medium-high speed until very smooth, about 2 minutes, scraping bowl as needed. With mixer running, slowly pour in cream and whip until stiff peaks form,

1 to 3 minutes, scraping down bowl as needed. Spread cream cheese topping over filling. Drizzle reserved puree over topping. (If it has thickened, microwave until loosened, about 15 seconds.) Using a butter knife, swirl puree through topping, making marbled pattern. Refrigerate pie for at least 4 hours or up to 24 hours, then serve. Recipe from cookscountry. com

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he premise of the new psychological crime drama “Black Bird” might be brushed off as overly fanciful, if not downright hokey, were it not rooted in actual events: a convicted drug dealer (played by Taron Egerton) befriending a suspected serial killer (Paul Walter Hauser) in prison to pry out the location of a victim’s remains in exchange for a commutation of his own 10-year sentence. (If he fails, the murderer will likely be released and continue to kill.) Concocted by the FBI, the plan is so far-fetched that it earns the immediate scorn of a respected local cop (Greg Kinnear). “What you’re doing isn’t police work,” he tells the federal agent (Sepideh Moafi) coordinating the scheme. “It’s desperation.” Adapted by novelist Dennis Lehane from James Keene’s memoir “In With the Devil,” the Apple limited series is the TV equivalent of a pair of dad jeans – a little dated, maybe a bit too comfortable in established patterns, but not giving up entirely on staying current. Set in the mid-1990s and in limited supply of the visual sleekness that distinguishes so much of Apple’s programming, it often looks and feels like a throwback. Hauser’s real-life murderer, Larry Hall, is such a cliche he comes with a creepy van - and an even creepier voice. High, thin and wheezy, his utterances make him sound as if his lungs have never gotten enough air. In fact, that’s partly why the police in Larry’s Midwestern hometown initially dismiss him as a “serial confessor” – a “harmless weirdo” who grew up by a cemetery, dug graves as a kid to help support his parents and admitted to killing teenage girls so he could feel like a somebody. Within his family, too, he’s cast as the born loser – the twin whose nutrients were absorbed in the womb by his older brother. Gary (Jake McLaughlin) developed into a handsome, athletic boy who found it easy to attract girls.

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Larry followed them around in his van. Clearly (if competently) padded out into a six-hour drama with a movie’s worth of twists and turns, “Black Bird” is most compelling not as a psychological profile of a disturbed anomaly but as a study of societal failure – specifically, how Larry’s unsettling behavior toward girls in the town and his misogynistic views were excused or enabled by his protective family and overlooked by local law enforcement. (One of the cleverest gambits in Lehane’s scripts is that, while Larry’s actions represent the far edges of humanity, his idealization of young, “unspoiled” girls as sexual partners isn’t exactly a fringe view.) Mutton-chopped and pimply-faced, Larry knows just how to evoke pity from the more traditionally powerful men around him, posing as a simple-minded fantasist who can’t tell reality from his murder-filled dreams. He is, however, smart enough to abduct girls in one state and leave their bodies in another, confounding detectives who are in the dark about similar cases in neighboring jurisdictions in Illinois, Indiana or Wisconsin. One of the series’s main pleasures is watching him gradually reveal his true self – and his apparent death toll – to his suspiciously amiable new buddy Jimmy (Egerton). Hauser, the show’s standout, presents a terrifyingly shrewd version of his screen type as a darkly comic bungler (as seen in “I, Tonya” and “BlacKkKlansman”). Unfortunately, the drama’s other half – Jimmy’s descent into the hell of an institution for the “criminally insane” and forced bond with a monster that makes him confront longrepressed memories of his own violence-filled childhood – is too by-the-numbers to be emotion-

ally engaging. If Larry is believably villainous in his dehumanizing narcissism and self-justifying delusions, the ostensibly charming Jimmy is too calculated a hero to fully resonate, especially when his aging father (Ray Liotta in his final TV role) starts suffering medical crises to make his son’s perilous journey toward freedom that much more urgent. Before a transfer to the supermax facility, Jimmy’s FBI handler, Agent Lauren McCauley (Moafi), instructs him not to get additional years tacked onto his sentence. “Black Bird” ably conveys how the corrupt hierarchy and blood-soaked chaos of a maximum-security institution peck away at the equilibrium of even someone as relatively normal as Jimmy, a smug pretty boy who only ever wanted a shortcut to the good life – and that’s before he becomes so disgusted by Larry’s secrets that his performance of friendship starts to get unbearable. But to watch “Black Bird” is ultimately to consider how true-crime stories like it have recently shifted in their thematic and perspectival priorities. FX’s “Under the Banner of Heaven,” this spring’s adaptation of the Jon Krakauer exposé of murder among Mormon fundamentalists, hews to more contemporary tropes, foregrounding, for example, an exploration of the role of women in the show’s 1980s suburban Utah milieu while dedicating ample screen time to developing the character of the primary murder victim, Brenda Lafferty. Arriving a few years after the peak of pop culture’s obsession with serial killers, “Black Bird” somewhat undercuts its own critique of the masculinist circling of wagons with its disinterest in both the victims and its sole significant female character, Agent McCauley, who’s needlessly sexualized while barely fleshed out. But no one expects anything but a wellworn familiarity from dad jeans.

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FAIRFIELD — In theaters locally this week will be “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank,” an animated movie in which a dog must unite with cats to fight off an evil plot to destroy their town. Also showing is “Where the Crawdads Sing,” a film based on a novel by Delia Owen. Opening nationwide are: “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank,” an animated film in which unlucky hound Hank (Michael Cera) finds himself in a town full of cats who need a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain’s (Ricky Gervais) evil plot to wipe their village off the map. With help from a reluctant teacher (Samuel L. Jackson) to train him, our underdog must assume the role of town samurai and team up with the villagers to save the day. But the problem is the cats hate dogs! How can he get them to work together for the greater good of the community? The film is rated PG. “Where the Crawdads Sing,” in which Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) raises herself, alone in the marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove. She meets two young men from town and they introduce her to a different way to live, but when one of them is found dead, she is immediately cast by the community as the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the truth about the death brings up secrets from the marshes that should never have been revealed. The film is not rated. Opening in limited release are: “Bezos,” a true-life story of Jeff Bezos, an entrepreneur on his mission to create Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce company, and turning himself into the richest man in the world. The film is not rated. “My Name Is Sara,” which tells the true life

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amilies of children and teachers killed in last month’s Texas school massacre face a formidable legal battle if they decide to sue the gun maker whose AR-15 semiautomatic rifle was used in the attack. That doesn’t mean they can’t win. Their main challenge would be overcoming the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, a 2005 federal law designed to defend gun makers from civil claims when their products are used to kill people. Until a few years ago, PLCAA was widely assumed to shield the industry from suits over mass shootings and other acts of violence. In recent years, rulings in Connecticut, Indiana and Pennsylvania have shifted that assumption, and Texas could be next. “There is now significant case law from around the country that PLCAA does not give gun companies sweeping immunity from lawsuits, and that gun manufacturers and dealers can be liable in numerous cases,” Jonathan Lowy, chief counsel at the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said in an interview. The families of victims of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas – some of whom have asked for information from the gun maker, signaling litigation ahead – “potentially have a very strong claim,” Lowy said. The political debate since the May 24 mass shooting in Uvalde and another one 10 days earlier at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, has focused on modest bipartisan gun control measures in Congress, which culminated in a bill President Joe Biden signed into law on Saturday. But that advance for gun control advocates was overshadowed by a June 23 landmark Supreme Court ruling that may lead to more firearms on the streets of big cities. The advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety is backed by Michael Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent company Bloomberg LP. There is no viable effort underway to amend or scrap PLCAA, which is guarded by the National Rifle Association and

the Republican Party. Even if lawmakers somehow managed to do away with it, many states have similar laws on the books. That leaves it to the courts, for now, to determine if the industry’s behavior is legal. The central question is whether criminals who use guns are solely responsible for their acts or whether firearms makers share some blame as a result of their marketing and distribution practices. Judges broadly interpreted PLCAA for years after it was signed into law, discouraging lawsuits, said Kristina Infante, a Miami lawyer. Her firm has a suit pending against Smith & Wesson Brands Inc. over the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 14 students and three staff members perished. “All kinds of private companies commit acts of negligence and create defective products that harm people,” Infante said. “But legislatures have seen fit to offer these special protections only to gun manufacturers and set them apart from every other type of corporate defendant in the county.” A lawyer for Smith & Wesson declined to comment, citing ongoing litigation. The federal shield law is a crucial protection against an “unholy alliance” of gun control advocates and plaintiff’s attorneys out to bankrupt the industry, said Lawrence Keane, a senior vice president at the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade group that helped write the law and lobbied for its passage. “The Second Amendment becomes an illusion if there’s no industry to make firearms,” he said. Keane said the statute was passed in response to politically motivated public nuisance lawsuits being filed against the industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s by big cities across the US. PLCAA “simply codifies basic bedrock principles of American jurisprudence in tort law – that manufacturers of legal, nondefective, lawfully sold products are not liable for the subsequent criminal misuse of those products by remote third persons over whom the manufacturer and seller has no control,” he said. “Nobody would blame a knife manufac-

turer if somebody used a knife to stab somebody.” The NSSF filed a brief in support of Remington Arms Co.’s Bushmaster after the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Remington’s lawyer in the Sandy Hook case didn’t respond to a request for comment on gun control and the shield law. The NRA had no immediate comment. The key for plaintiff’s lawyers is to fit their claims within exceptions to PLCAA, which doesn’t protect gun makers from illegal conduct under state laws. What exactly constitutes illegal conduct is in contention. “The court systems in these states are laboratories of justice,” Infante said. “In Connecticut there was some success. It needs to be seen what the Florida courts do with similar claims. And now the Texas courts will have an opportunity to weigh in as well.” For Uvalde families, the best template may be the litigation over Sandy Hook, where an AR-15 was used to gun down 20 kids and six staff members. The families that sued Remington alleged PLCAA didn’t bar claims that it engaged in wrongful marketing under state law by creating combat-style ads encouraging civilians to carry out offensive missions against “perceived enemies.” The gun industry suffered a stinging setback in the case in 2019 when the Connecticut Supreme Court found that PLCAA didn’t trump the state’s right to regulate advertising practices, a first-of-its-kind ruling that surprised legal experts and put the industry on notice that its marketing practices could expose it to massive civil liability. “Forces of opposition bow down,” read one of the Remington ads that undermined the company’s PLCAA defense. “You are singlehandedly outnumbered.” Another, featuring a black AR-15 against a stark white background, declared: “Consider your man card reissued.” The justices wrote that “the regulation of advertising that threatens the public’s health, safety and morals has long been considered a core exercise of the state’s police powers.” They added that the families didn’t

need to have a business relationship with a company to sue. “It was a significant ruling because it shattered a perception of invulnerability that the gun industry seemed to enjoy,” Josh Koskoff, the lawyer for the Sandy Hook families, said in an interview. The ruling set the stage for an explosive trial in the lower court. Then Remington filed for bankruptcy protection, putting the case on hold. In February, the families secured a settlement from Remington’s insurers for $73 million, the maximum amount under the gun maker’s policies. “The insurance companies took a look at the evidence and decided what Remington did was indefensible and that the damages would most likely be over a billion dollars” if the families won at trial, Koskoff said. The result was a “a huge step forward because every state has a consumer protection law,” said Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, a gun control advocate who was a state representative when the Sandy Hook attack took place. Another potential landmark case has been grinding away in Gary, Indiana, for more than two decades. The city sued the biggest firearms manufacturers in the U.S. in 1999, alleging they were liable for rampant gun violence in the community because they had knowingly flooded it with products designed to kill. Gary claims the companies sell their guns through dealers who are often corrupt or irresponsible, violating Indiana’s public nuisance and federal firearms laws. The city also alleges negligent marketing, saying the companies fail to tell buyers that the weapons are likelier to be used against them than by them in their defense. The manufacturers argued the suit was “an unlawful attempt to regulate firearms.” The state appeals court wasn’t swayed. The case is finally moving toward a trial. If Gary prevails, PLCAA could be weakened further by exposing gun companies to more types of claims under exceptions to the law. “In some ways the case is bigger than the Connecticut case, because it’s against every gun manufacturer, while the Sandy Hook case was against just one that went bankrupt,”

said Lowy, the Brady Campaign lawyer, who has worked on the case for years. Yet another suit that could chip away at PLCAA is pending in Pennsylvania, where an intermediate appeals court in 2020 ruled outright that the law is unconstitutional. The 2016 suit was brought under the state’s product liability law by parents of a 13-year-old boy who was accidentally killed by another child. They allege Springfield Armory negligently failed to include a centuryold feature on the gun that would have prevented it from firing when the magazine was removed. A decision by a larger panel of the appeals court is pending. If the 2020 ruling is ultimately upheld by the state’s highest court, gun companies would be barred from using PLCAA to defend themselves against suits in Pennsylvania. Koskoff, the lawyer behind the Sandy Hook case, was hired by multiple Uvalde families to investigate a possible claim against the gun maker. He sent a letter to Daniel Defense on June 3 asking it to preserve its communications with the Uvalde shooter as well as all information about its marketing of the weapon to teenagers. The company hasn’t responded, Koskoff said. Daniel Defense didn’t respond to messages from Bloomberg seeking comment. New York, whose restrictions on concealed carry permits were struck down in last week’s Supreme Court decision, recently overcame a challenge to a 2021 law the state passed authorizing it to sue manufacturers over some gun violence and establishing liability for the improper sale or marketing of firearms. New York Attorney General Letitia James argued that PLCAA represented an effort to “usurp” state power. Glock Inc., Smith & Wesson and other gun makers, along with trade groups, sued New York, alleging the law violated PLCAA. In May, a federal judge in Albany dismissed the case, ruling that the law properly restricts gun makers’ marketing – placing it squarely within an exception to the federal shield.

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Notice of Self Storage Sale Please take notice Central Self Storage - East Travis 837 E Travis Blvd Fairfield CA 94533 intends to hold an auction of the goods stored in a self-service storage unit by the following persons. The sale will occur as an online auction via www.storagetreasures.com on 7/20/2022 at 12:00 PM. Unless stated otherwise the description of the contents are household goods and furnishings: Christ Cordell Natalie Estrada Myrinda R Gant Margurite Pariani (2 units) Leonardo Gonzalez Chrishonna Gates Latoya Richardson Janell Mesa Olivia Liera Earnest Baker Roderick D Booker All property is being stored at the above self-storage facility. This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply. See manager for details. 7/4, 7/11/22 CNS-3598908# THE DAILY REPUBLIC DR#00055990 Published: July 4, 11, 2022 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. CA-22-910677-JB Order No.: FIN-22003200 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 5/1/1998. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): Eva Padilla, an unmarried woman and Norma G. Padilla, an unmarried woman and Guadalupe G. Chavez, an unmarried man Recorded: 5/12/1998 as Instrument No. 1998-00035142 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SOLANO County, California; Date of Sale: 7/27/2022 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: At the Santa Clara St. Entrance of the Vallejo City Hall, located at 555 Santa Clara Street, Vallejo, CA 94590 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $88,250.07 The purported property address is: 2470 BEAUFORT DR, FAIRFIELD, CA 94533 Assessor's Parcel No.: 0168-304-050 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 800-280-2832 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this internet website http://www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-22-910677-JB. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an "eligible tenant buyer," you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an "eligible bidder," you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 800-280-2832, or visit this internet website http://www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-22-910677-JB to find the date on which the trustee's sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee's sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee's sale. If you think you may qualify as an "eligible tenant buyer" or "eligible bidder," you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser's sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary's Agent, or the Beneficiary's Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right's against the real property only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 2763 Camino Del Rio S San Diego, CA 92108 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http://www.qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-22-910677JB IDSPub #0179147 6/27/2022 7/4/2022 7/11/2022 DR#00055926 Published: June 27, July 4, 11, 2022

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The inside story of the SF Giants’ ‘First Annual Evan Longoria Home Run Derby for the Cure’ to play the field. “The goal was just to do SAN DIEGO707-427-6936 – Some- something light hearted Classifieds: time before first pitch here and have a little bit of fun Saturday afternoon, there and have some smiles,” was a commotion behind Longoria said. “There’s the batting cage. Giants not a whole lot of guys who players, coaches, every- consistently hit BP on the one. Roars. They were field anyway, so it seemed into it. It was a rare sight like a good way to get to see any Giants players everybody out on the field taking batting practice and just have some fun. . on the field, let alone . . It seemed to have done almost the entire hitters’ everything that I hoped it group at once. would accomplish.” This was, in the words Three rounds. Eight of champion Austin Slater, participants. One cham“the First Annual Evan pion: Slater. Longoria Home Run The others to take Derby for the Cure.” part were Austin “It supports a great Wynns, Brandon Crawcause,” Slater said with ford, Joey Bart, Mike a sly smile. “. . . being Yastrzemski,DavidVillarand Giants morale.” Yermín Mercedes. It’s no secret the the Crawford, who joked club has been flailing of that he was “added against late, losers of 12 of their my will,” launched three past 15 entering Saturday. moonshots to right field The vibes, in short, have in the first round. Bart not been immaculate. unleashed a tank off the Longoria has felt espe- top level of the Western cially helpless since he Metal Supply Co. buildlanded on the injured list ing in left field. Ruf and earlier this week. Nor- Slater also hit three apiece, mally he would fly home while Wynns actually hit ahead of the team, but with four – but Slater’s came family on this trip, Longo- when it counted. Each round was ria stuck around. The free time allowed him to think weighted: five swings and of a creative way to con- one point for each homer tribute without being able in the first round; three

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downtrodden team by organizing a pregame home run derby, which Longoria said, “seemed From Page B1 to have done everything swings and two points their past 10 games – on plate came amid a that I hoped it would apiece in the second the strength of a home stretch where it seemed accomplish.” round; and one, final round run. Of course, it came What followed B7 has Online: dailyrepublic.com/classifieds Daily Republic - Monday, they couldn’t do July any-11, 2022 with one swing – worth five from Wilmer Flores, who been the Giants’ two best thing right. points for a home run. didn’t participate. baseball games since It had been nearly a Carlos Rodón, who went “I saved it for the well before the calendar month since the Giants on to throw the Giants’ first game,” Flores said. turned to July. last strung together complete game of the All that to say, this Rodón, who was left two straight wins, in season to will them to a team was badly in need off the initial National the first two games of 3-1 win later that day, told of an infusion of positive League All-Star their series at PittsSlater beforehand that he energy. Their manager team announced Sunday, was picking him. The two has preached about their burgh, June 17 and 18. was masterful while locker next to each other ability to stay even, but you Since then, they had tossing the Giants’ first here. Good choice. could hear a pin drop in the lost 15 of their past complete game of the “Dark horse,” Slater clubhouse on most days 19 entering Sunday. season in a 3-1 win, joked. “It was a good during this stretch – a far Multiple players, backed up by Flores’ time. It kind of loos- cry from the “Club Giants” including short- first of three home runs that erupts after each win. ened guys up.” stop Brandon Crawford, in the final two games of Other veterans have Wynns came up a few called for a need to this series. feet short on his final attempted to right the “get back to basics.” With 12 runs on swing, securing his spot as ship. Brandon Belt delivFirst baseman Brandon 17 hits – to the Padres’ runner up. Crawford and ered an impassioned Belt spoke up at a hitters’ zero runs and five hits – Ruf tied for third. message at the hitters’ meeting before the first every cog of the Giants’ “Hey, another Austin meeting before their game of this trip. machine was back won,” Wynns said. “I was first game against the On Saturday, Evan in working condition the underdog. … We’ll get D-backs. Mike Yastrzemhim next time.” ski and Austin Slater have Longoria injected some Sunday after nearly a Crawford joked that the spoken up, too. But this positive energy into the month out of order. competition was “rigged.” was different. All of the coaches picked “When we’re talking in their winners, too. Quality the meetings and a group assurance coach Nick setting, it’s a little bit more Ortiz was Craw- stern,” Longoria said. “It’s ford’s batting practice more like, we’re a better pitcher, but he had Slater team than this. You guys are better players than winning it. “That’s just bad scout- this. We’ve got to be better. Whereas the home run ing by Craw,” Slater said. Baseball It was fitting, then, derby was just a way of MLB that the Giants won – for getting away from the only the second time in pressures of the game. • Oakland at Texas, NBCSCA, 5 p.m.

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A’s From Page B1 different than another at-bat, that’s how I was looking at it,” Lee said. “But it was something special as soon as I got on first.” Kyle Tucker added a solo home run against Pruitt in the eighth inning, his 17th of the season. Lee was promoted to the Houston roster on July 1 when another local player,

veteran catcher Jason Castro of Stanford and Castro Valley High, went on the injured list. At Cal, Lee hit .337 with 15 homers and 57 RBIs before being drafted. Teammates included Andrew Vaughn, the No. 3 overall pick of the Chicago White Sox in the same draft, and Darren Baker, whose father Dusty is now Lee’s manager. Houston got its first run against Irvin when the game was three batters old as Jose Altuve doubled and one

Scoreboard BASEBALL Thursday’s Games San Diego 2, SAN FRANCISCO 1 Houston 5, Kansas City 2 Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 2, 1st Game Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 1 2nd Game Philadelphia 5, Washington 3 Baltimore 4, L.A. Angels 1 N.Y. Mets 10, Miami 0 N.Y. Yankees 6, Boston 5 S.t Louis 3, Atlanta 2, 11 innings Detroit 2, Chicago White Sox 1 Colorado 4, Arizona 3 L.A. Dodgers 5, Chicago Cubs 3 Seattle 8, Toronto 3 Friday’s Games Houston 8, OAKLAND 3 San Diego 6, SAN FRANCISCO 3

Cincinnati 2, Tampa Bay 1 Baltimore 5, L.A. Angels 4 Miami 5, N.Y. Mets 2 N.Y. Yankees 12, Boston 5 Atlanta 12, Washington 2 Texas 6, Minnesota 5 Kansas City 4, Cleveland 3 Detroit 7, Chicago White Sox 5 Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. Milwaukee 4, Pittsburgh 3 Colorado 6, Arizona 5 L.A. Dodgers 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Seattle 5, Toronto 2 Saturday’s Games OAKLAND 3, Houston 2 SAN FRANCISCO 3, San Diego 1 Chicago White Sox 8, Detroit 0 Philadelphia 1, St. Louis 0 Baltimore 1, L.A. Angels 0 Texas 9, Minnesota 7 Pittsburgh 4, Milwaukee 3 Cleveland 13, Kansas City 1

out later was doubled in by Alex Bregman. Irvin left after six innings, having recorded half of the 18 outs on his watch on fly balls. He gave up two earned runs and in two July starts has a 1.93 earned run average. Irvin pitched eight innings and gave up four hits in his previous start against Toronto. “They like to put the ball in the air so I was trusting the outfielders today,” Irvin said. “Little bit more curveball usage than I’ve had all season. Made my fastball look a

little bit harder. Didn’t have good command of it early but it got better. I really wasn’t thinking too much out there. Vogter (catcher Steven Vogt) was calling a great game.” Said A’s manager Mark Kotsay: “Cole has become a professional. He knows how to pitch. He did that well today, changing speeds, changing heights, throwing his fastball up. Kept that offense to two runs through six innings and gave us a chance to win.”

Atlanta 4, Washington 3 Cincinnati 5, Tampa Bay 4, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 5, Miami 4, 10 innings Arizona 9, Colorado 2 Boston 6, N.Y. Yankees 5, 10 innings L.A. Dodgers 4, Chicago Cubs 2 Seattle 2, Toronto 1 Sunday’s Games Houston 6, OAKLAND 1 SAN FRANCISCO 12, San Diego 0 Baltimore 9, L.A. Angels 5 Atlanta 4, Washington 3 Cincinnati 10, Tampa Bay 5 Miami 2, N.Y. Mets 0 Kansas City 5, Cleveland 1 Chicago White Sox 4, Detroit 2 Pittsburgh 8, Milwaukee 6 St. Louis 4, Philadelphia 3 Colorado 3, Arizona 2 L.A. Dodgers 11, Chicago Cubs 9 Seattle 6, Toronto 5 Minnesota 6, Texas 5 N.Y. Yankees at Boston (N) Monday’s Games OAKLAND at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Arizona at SAN FRANCISCO, 6:45 p.m. Detroit at Kansas City, 11:10 a.m., first game Detroit at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m., second game

Pittsburgh at Miami, 3:40 p.m. Boston at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m. Philadelphia at St. Louis, 4:15 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m. San Diego at Colorado, 5:40 p.m. Tuesday’s Games OAKLAND at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Arizona at SAN FRANCISCO, 6:45 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 10:10 a.m., first game Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m., second game Pittsburgh at Miami, 3:40 p.m. Seattle at Washington, 4:05 p.m. Cincinnati at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Philadelphia at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Boston at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m. Milwaukee at Minnesota, 4:40 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, 4:45 p.m. Baltimore at Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m. Detroit at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m. San Diego at Colorado, 5:40 p.m. Houston at L.A. Angels, 6:38 p.m.

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• Women’s Euro2022, Northern Ireland vs. Austria, ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. • Women’s Euro2022, Norway vs. England, ESPN2, 11:30 a.m.

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• Memphis vs. Brooklyn, ESPN2, 3:30 p.m. • Boston vs. Golden State, ESPN, 5:30 p.m. • Phoenix vs. Dallas, ESPN, 7:30 p.m. Cycling • Tour de France, Stage 10, USA, 5 a.m. Soccer UEFA

• Women’s Euro2022, Finland vs. Denmark, ESPN2, 8:30 a.m. • Women’s Euro2022, Spain vs. Germany, ESPN2, 11:30 a.m.

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Inside the WNBA’s thriving fashion scene Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — Clothes blanket Jewell Loyd’s perfectly made king-sized hotel bed. Black pants, charcoal pants, striped shorts, a long white jacket that looks like a high-fashion lab coat next to a light gray zip-up. A white, short-sleeved button down top decorated with red poppy flowers screams in the center. “What are we feeling?” stylist Sydney Bordonaro asks Loyd. On any given day, WNBA players can offer a wide array of answers to the simple question. They’re feeling cozy. Sometimes swaggy. Other times sexy. Always ready. Loyd is feeling “mafia in the summer” as she looks at herself in the mirror dressed in black pinstripe pants, the red floral shirt she hesitantly grew to like and low-top Dior x Air Jordan 1 sneakers that retail for more than $8,000. She’s only worn them once, but this outfit is for a special occasion: the WNBA All-Star Game. The Seattle guard walked the orange carpet in her prized sneakers on Friday as the WNBA gathered in Chicago for All-Star weekend. The league’s brightest stars showed off their best looks. All-Star team captain A’ja Wilson stunned in black leather shorts and thigh-high boots. Candace Parker, welcoming the midseason event to her hometown, rocked an olive green silk suit. Gone are the days of the stuffy pant suit or simple blouse and pencil skirt. For a league that pushed a traditionally feminine and heteronormative image in its early years, the WNBA has grown to embrace androgynous fashion and streetwear alongside gowns, mini dresses and heels. Simply put: “Fly is fly,” Bordonaro said. The change that brought the WNBA to the top of fashion-savvy social media feeds is “like night and day,” Seattle point guard Sue Bird said. The 21-year veteran who will retire at the end of the season remembered a “limiting” dress code that was lifted almost verbatim from the NBA when the top men’s league was trying to replace streetwear with suits on the sideline. Similar to the NBA’s strict guidelines, WNBA players were discouraged from wearing T-shirts and jeans. The league wanted collared or buttondown shirts, despite the women playing during the height of summer. Despite the restrictive dress code, NBA players turned the tunnel walk into a high-fashion runway in recent years and the dress code relaxed. The phenomenon trickled down to the WNBA, where social media teams take photos of players arriving in everything from vibrant blazers and wide-leg pants

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Jewell Loyd of the Seattle Storm walks the orange carpet prior to the Welcome Reception at RPM Seafood restaurant during the WNBA All-Star Weekend, in Chicago, Friday. to denim cutoffs and tall boots. The photos earn as much social media attention as game highlights. The primary fashion rule for WNBA players now is no hats or bandanas on the sideline. Everything else is fair game. “That’s how it should be,” said Loyd, a fourtime All-Star. “Everyone should be able to be comfortable in their own bodies, feel comfortable in what they wear and they shouldn’t have to explain themselves.” Popular social media feeds like League Fits, Protrending or GQ Sports highlight WNBA players walking into games wearing ensembles that go between masculine and feminine or casual to dressy. On the same night that Connecticut Sun guard Dijonai Carrington walked into an arena wearing bright pink shorts and a matching crop jacket over a yellow bikini top with strappy sandals, teammate Courtney Williams followed in an oversized lime green leopard print shirt with matching sneakers and black pants. Players might also use the spotlight to advocate for social issues, like wearing “We Are BG” T-shirts to support Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner or flip the U.S. Senate with “Vote Warnock” shirts in 2020. Celebrating the league’s diversity through fashion is “low-key part of being a role model,” Bird said. “[It’s] showcasing different parts of yourself so little kids can see that and maybe see themselves in somebody.” Bird, who earned first-team All-Drip from Slam Magazine’s League Fits in 2019, stepped up her tunnel game this year by working with stylist Courtney Mays, the fashion mastermind behind NBA players Chris Paul, Kevin Love and DeAndre Jordan. The stylists of the WNBA are a blend of fashion gurus, personal shoppers and psychologists.

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Before any clothes come into play, stylists study a client’s personality. Are they bold enough for bright colors? What about chopping the sleeves off a shirt? Kesha McLeod, whose client list includes Parker, Serena Williams, James Harden and P.J. Tucker, even went as far as to notice a former client who never looked at the top shelf of his closet, signaling to the stylist that he was a laser-focused dresser who wanted no-fuss outfits that wouldn’t take time away from focusing on his sport. “You get into their minds and you understand them,” said McLeod, who styled Parker’s orange carpet look that included a unique cut-out in the back of the jacket. “I don’t take them out of their element because what they’re known for is playing. I just elevate that with fashion.” Chanel Robinson-Hill immediately clicked with Dallas Wings guard Arike Ogunbowale after the reigning All-Star Game most valuable player messaged the part-time stylist and full-time bioprocessing engineer on Instagram. Robinson-Hill styled Ogunbowale for her high school jersey retirement ceremony last year. To capture the moment, Robinson-Hill chose a hoodie with the iconic 1991 photo of Michael Jordan clutching the Larry O’Brien Trophy after winning his first NBA championship, a nod to Ogunbowale winning her high school’s first Wisconsin Division I state title. “When you wear this piece, I want everyone else to understand this is how you felt without saying a word,” said Robinson-Hill, who styled Ogunbowale in a lightweight two-piece suit for the orange carpet event Friday. Robinson-Hill scours the internet to find unique pieces for Ogunbowale. With players traveling almost nonstop, working with a stylist makes life simpler for fashion-

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savvy, but time-crunched pro ballers. Loyd doesn’t like shopping and would often buy online, but when something inevitably didn’t fit, she didn’t have time to return it. Bordonaro takes care of it all now. The L.A.-based stylist who works with players from Seattle to New York searches for pieces online and in person, gets them sent to her clients’ homes, delivers them by hand when they blow through L.A. on a road trip or even overnights packages to different hotels while players are on the road. To finalize Las Vegas Aces guard Kelsey Plum’s All-Star outfit, Bordonaro drove to Las Vegas with a trunk full of clothes and spent the day with the former No. 1 overall pick who walked the orange carpet in a crisp white blazer, white bodysuit and beige pants. Plum, a popular face on League Fits and GQ Sports this year, said she naturally lacks style, but wanted to “come with a little bit more oomph.” She enlisted Bordonaro, whom she met through mutual friends. Plum’s “personality is just through the roof, but she never really dressed like it,” Bordonaro said. “So it’s like, all right, let’s just dress how you feel.” Plum is spunky, but structured. She wants everything neat and cleancut. Although they’ve grown close, Bordonaro and Plum sometimes disagree over outfits. The 25-year-old stylist who often wears her long blonde hair in buns on top of her head loves bright colors. Plum would live in all black if she could. She hates pink. Yet after some lighthearted argument, Plum carried a fuzzy pink purse into an arena last month to complete an outfit of loose black pants, a gray John Geiger T-shirt and white sneakers. The internet loved it. “I never thought I would say this,” Plum said, “but you feel good, you play good.” Plum has done just that, earning her first All-Star appearance while averaging 19.9 points, 5.7 assists and 2.7 rebounds, all career highs. Bordonaro, who started with Loyd, a longtime personal friend, and now works with players including New York Liberty teammates Michaela Onyenwere and DiDi Richards and Sparks rookie Rae Burrell, never intended to start a styling empire. The Pittsburgh native aimed to work in marketing and become a sports agent after earning her master’s degree in sports management from Long Beach State. Yet styling athletes has shown her it can be a one-stop resource for fashion, marketing and branding. She hopes opening Plum’s closet, along with the guard’s blossoming play, will help turn her into one of the most popular professional athletes in the world.

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49ers From Page B1 Ryan when they were up 28-3 against the Patriots, and they didn’t have that with Jimmy Garoppolo, when he missed that last throw down to Emmanuel Sanders when he overthrew him.” Indeed, the 49ers’ messaging since drafting Lance last spring has been mostly about improving the availability under center, after injuries cost Garoppolo productive seasons in 2018 (ACL tear) and 2020 (recurring high ankle sprains). Even in 2021, after San Francisco traded three first-round picks to draft Lance third overall, Garoppolo was hampered by thumb and shoulder injuries late in the season. The shoulder ailment required surgery in the spring and has prevented San Francisco from trading him and officially making Lance the starter. Though Shanahan has insisted all offseason he expects Garoppolo to get dealt before the start of the upcoming regular season. Lance received all the work with the starters throughout the spring program, after serving as Garoppolo’s backup last year.

Improving over Garoppolo There was always an emphasis of trying to improve on the play of Garoppolo. Shanahan said when he was first hired in 2017, well before acquiring Garoppolo in the trade with the Patriots, that the best way to build a sustainable contender was to have an elite signal-caller. “You’re always looking for one of those seven throwers on the planet, whatever that number is. I’m guessing there’s only around seven,” Shanahan said after his introductory news conference. “So you better not only be set on that, saying, ‘Hey, I need one of those seven guys.’ . . . I hope to get one of those seven guys, but if you don’t, you got to find other ways to win.” That reasoning has played out. The 49ers lost the Super Bowl to Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs after the 2019 season and fell in the recent NFC title game to Rams star Matthew Stafford. Both those quarterbacks are among the most-talented throwers of their era and were able to make winning plays against San Francisco’s defense late in games. Garoppolo, by contrast, has mostly been an efficient game manager with the 49ers, who contended in two of the last three seasons more because of their top-ranked defenses and running games than quarterback play. Having an elite quarterback can make up for deficiencies elsewhere and San Francisco hasn’t enjoyed that luxury since Garoppolo tore his ACL early in the 2018 campaign. With Lance, there’s a belief his strong arm and athleticism could create more plays outside of the structure of the offense, which has become paramount in the modern NFL, and what the team lacked with Garoppolo. “Jimmy, you knew for a fact, hey, he’s going to run the play (called by Shanahan),” Griffin, currently an analyst for ESPN, told The Bee. “And if it’s there, he’s going to make it work, and if it’s not there, coach, you need to coach better. With Trey Lance, it’s not going to be that

way. That’s how it was with me at times. There’s going to be opportunities you have where your skills are going to take over. But that X factor is what’s going to help you win a Super Bowl and not just get to a Super Bowl.”

Building on Lance The challenge for Shanahan heading into training camp July 26 is creating an offense that fits Lance’s skill set. Lance is a diametrically different quarterback than Garoppolo, who was best as a rhythm passer making short throws over the middle of the field. Lance has a more deliberate release and is less accurate, but his legs can be incorporated into the running game and he’s far more dynamic pushing the ball downfield. Which all means the 49ers offense is expected to look different with Lance under center than the last five seasons, when Shanahan played Garoppolo, Nick Mullens and C.J. Beathard, who are traditional pocket quarterbacks. Based on his experience getting coached by Shanahan, Griffin is optimistic Shanahan can create an attack that fits Lance’s strengths. “Kyle Shanahan and that group (of coaches) that I had my rookie year, my second year in the league, are probably some of the smartest X and O coaches I’ve ever been around,” Griffin said. “My experience was, they essentially took my college offense and morphed it into a prostyle system. So I pushed back on the (idea), ‘they created a system for me.’ They didn’t. They literally downloaded every single tape of my college career (from Baylor).”

Robert Griffin III’s NFL career Griffin in 2012 earned the NFL’s Offensive Rookie of the Year award and helped Washington reach the playoffs for just the third time since the turn of the century. He completed 66% of his throws with 20 touchdown passes to just five interceptions. He added 815 yards and seven touchdowns as a runner predominately using the zone-read system former Baylor coach Art Briles instituted when Griffin won the Heisman Trophy in 2011. But that Washington team did it without premier receivers. Pierre Garçon was the team’s leading receiver with 633 yards (while appearing in only 10 games). Washington that season had the league’s best running game behind Griffin and rookie running back Alfred Morris, who had 1,613 yards and 13 touchdowns. The passing game ranked 20th but led the league with the fewest interceptions. Lance, meanwhile, is expected to have AllPros at tight end ( George Kittle) and receiver ( Deebo Samuel) along with 2020 first-round draft pick Brandon Aiyuk and breakout candidate Jauan Jennings, who emerged late last season and became Lance’s favorite target this spring. And with Elijah Mitchell returning after a strong rookie season, Shanahan’s typically stout running game should remain among the league’s best. Yet the most important factor for the 49ers in 2022 will be who’s under center. “I still think the ceiling is much higher with Trey Lance than it was with Jimmy Garoppolo,” Griffin said.