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GOP being challenged to get Vets bill passed Bloomberg News WASHINGTON — U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough expressed confidence the Senate has enough votes to pass a bill to provide health care and benefits to 3.5 million veterans exposed to toxic burn pits, even after Republicans stalled the legislation. Forty-one Republican senators switched tactics and moved to force a debate on amendments that would reduce future mandatory spending in the bill. The majority of those lawmakers had supported an essentially identical version of the bill last month. “There’s been one change since then” on “something completely unrelated to this issue,” McDonough said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “So if everybody does what they did before, this has 84 votes, so I think they should just get on with it. Have the vote.” The bill has drawn support from comedian Jon Stewart and President Joe Biden, who told veterans protesting for expanded benefits outside the U.S. Capitol that he’ll invite them to the White House once his Covid-19 infection clears. Some veterans exposed to burn pits, used to burn trash at military sites, have reported illnesses ranging from respiratory difficulties to cancer. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he will bring the legislation back to the floor this week, and that he’ll allow Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey to bring an amendment addressing his party’s concerns for debate. Toomey, who has consistently voted against the bill, says it creates an additional $400 billion in discretionary spending unrelated to veterans, allowing Congress to hide a spending binge. Toomey said Sunday he’s sticking to his demand for a fix. “We could bang that out tomorrow night, literally,” he said on CNN. Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, said Toomey’s budget concerns will be addressed. “Pat’s going to get his amendment and then we will see where it goes,” he said on CBS’ “Face See Bill, Page A8

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An aerial view of the Middle River in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

State report: Salmon at risk from huge Delta water project Rachel Becker CALMATTERS

California’s water agency last week released a long-awaited environmental report outlining the details and impacts of a controversial proposal to replumb the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and pump more water south. In the report, state officials said the tunnel project could harm endangered and threatened species, including the Delta smelt, winterrun chinook salmon and steelhead trout. To offset the “potentially significant impacts” on the rare fish, the Department of Water Resources says thousands of acres of other wetlands would have to be restored – which critics say is a slow and inefficient way to provide new habitat. The draft environmental impact report is a major step in planning a tunnel that would fundamentally

reshape California’s massive water management system. The report outlines the proposed path of a 45-mile tunnel that would pipe water from the Sacramento River, bypassing the Delta, and funnel it into Bethany Reservoir, the “first stop” on a state aqueduct that funnels water south. The goal of the project, which has been planned in various forms since the 1960s, is to shore up water supplies against environmental catastrophes such as earthquakes and the weather whiplash and sea level rise of climate change, according to California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot. Water agencies that can eventually sign on to receive the tunnel project’s water stretch from the Bay Area and Central Coast to the Central Valley and Southern California. “It is a conundrum to be able to manage the Delta in a way that pro-

tects the environment, respects the communities that live there, and provides for the water supplies of a large portion of the state,” Crowfoot said. The state’s companion explainer for the report, also released last week, says changes in flow at and downstream of the tunnel’s intakes “have the potential to decrease migration rates, alter migration routing, reduce availability of rearing habitat, and increase exposure to predation for winter-run Chinook salmon, Central Valley spring-run Chinook salmon, and Central Valley steelhead.” Carrie Buckman, environmental program manager for the state’s Delta Conveyance Office, said the department’s analysis found that 4% fewer juvenile winter-run chinook would survive during their peak times in the Delta in below-normal See Delta, Page A8

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Fans in Fairfield just wild about Harry’s birthday Susan Hiland SHILAND@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — Sarah Krasner started reading the Harry Potter books when she was in first grade. Her mother read them to her before she even started kindergarten, so the 22-year-old was very excited to come to the first Wizarding Celebration of Harry Potter in Fairfield on Sunday. “This was my childhood,” she said. She and friend, Reya Markin, are both huge fans of “The Boy Who Lived,” and couldn’t wait to be chosen by the Sorting Hat for which house they were in. Krasner got Slytherin. “That is totally appropriate for me,” she said. Legendary Letters hosted this inaugural event in downtown Fairfield. See Harry, Page A8 INDEX Arts B4 | Classifieds B6 | Comics A5, B5 Crossword A4, B4 | Columns A4 Opinion A6 | Sports B1 | TV Daily A5, B5 WEATHER 88 | 63 Clouds. Five-day forecast on B10.

VALLEJO — It was a weekend of whimsy with a tiny bicycle that wouldn't go straight for money or fame, and a set of eclectic robots going round and round, and rolling couches that seat two on a wheels. Sunday’s Obtainium Cup Contraptor’s Rally on Mare Island brought out artists, and visitors both new and old for a race around the track, where riders encountered zombies, flying monkeys (stuffed animals) and a Mad Hatter tea party along the route. The co-founder, Shannon O'Hare, doesn't

look much changed from pre-Covid days with his rolling coach, and steampunk attire. The last time the race was held was further down the road and on the greens, but things changed with the pandemic. "Things are changing by the minute," O'Hare said. The man behind Obtainium Works, and his wife, Kathy O'Hare, put hours into getting the race together. This year they ran into a few snags with the insurance companies. "I have been a bit unease because we can't get the insurance companies to cover this kind of thing anymore," he

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said. "They don't want to touch it." So they had the race at the Obtainium Works Car Studio parking lot. Obtainium Works is the home base of the Hibernian Academy of UnNatural Sciences in Vallejo. It is a group of tinkerers, gearheads, and steam bohemians who fabricate art out of repurposed industrial detritus. The idea is loosely based on the works of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and other Victorian-era writers who created an imaginary world where steam technology was considered cutting edge and brave explorers could be

propelled by gun powder to the moon. For the 10th anniversary of the event, they made due with what they had. They also shared the day with the Mare Island Art Studio which threw a huge sale on almost all the items. They are part of the Wet Mile. Every Sunday artisan breweries, craftsmen, distilleries, artists, wineries and museums in the Mare Island all open our doors collaboratively from noon-4 p.m. for visitors to wander the Wet Mile along the riverfront. It is a way to get a taste of 142 years of Naval See Rally, Page A8

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let us know to be on the olding on to bitterness and resentment lookout. We would do is like drinking likewise with them if the poison and waiting for situation was reversed. someone else to die. Now it was annoying That’s why last week I to me when they would come a-knocking on our offered complete and door, and I tried, at first, total forgiveness to my to be cordial with them. oldest brother Orvis for a number of offenses Tony Wade But conversations went in circles so I stopped over the years. I do the The last laugh doing that. Eventusame this week for my ally I just wouldn’t answer younger brother, Daily Repubthe door, but then thought of a lic columnist Kelvin Wade. much more satisfying way to Now, I have buried the deal with them. hatchet with Kelvin over one After they rang the doorbell, incident that happened when I would creep up to the peepwe were kids. It was when he hole on the door and watch them was playing with my heavy wooden Fisher-Price clock after patiently. After they waited for a time and then gave the bell he had dropped his down the a second ring, I would wait a sewer. I demanded it back. He skosh longer until they gave up refused. I insisted. He resisted. and started to walk away. Only I shouted. He smacked me in the head with it. It caused a tan- then would I jiggle the doorknob a little bit. When they wheeled gerine-sized knot to appear on around excitedly, I’d crack my forehead. A few years ago, up. Yes it was passive-aggreshe gave me one of those clocks sive and childish, but it was in for Christmas, which smoothed stark contrast to how Kelvin it all over. dealt with them. But there are still some past Kelvin would open the door, behaviors, actions and attitudes let them start giving their spiel, that Kelvin exhibited other the years that need forgiveness and look interested and smile and then when they were in midthat is what I offer today. sentence he’d violently slam the door right in their face. Bluntness KA-BLAM! I was aghast, but I forgive Kelvin for his blunt- secretly envied his chutzpah. ness. Now, I had long been envious of his ability to be How the Kelvin Grinch effortlessly blunt. When we stole Christmas lived on Davis Drive, we had a neighborhood alarm system for On Christmas Day 1973 in when members of a certain reli- a totally unprovoked attack, gious organization were going Kelvin threw a comb at me door-to-door. I shan’t mention that came thisclose to hitting the organization’s name, but my right eye. Blood was everyyou have probably witnessed where, including all over a toy fishing game I had opened their practices in your own earlier that morning. I had to go neighborhood. Our two-houses-down neigh- to the hospital and get stitches, and upon returning home, my bors, the Grays, would call us if dad gave surprise presents to they had had a visit and would

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Tony Wade, left, and Kelvin Wade back in 2014. me and Kelvin, a Christmas Day belt whuppin’. I thought it was so unfair that I, the victim in this incident, had to get my behind reddened along with the culprit. As I said, it was a totally unprovoked attack . . . that is, if you consider taunting, mocking and then refusing to leave his room unprovocative.

How the Kelvin Grinch stole Christmas the Sequel I have told the story of how Kelvin tripped and destroyed my brand-new-just-assembled-but-not-yet-played-with Planet of the Apes Treehouse on Christmas Day 1974 many times. I was traumatized. I don’t think I have ever adequately expressed my love for the Planet of the Apes. It was deep, abiding and fierce. My devotion was as all-consuming as any that could be felt about a bunch of actors you’ve never met dressed up as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans without it getting weird. Although I carried the bitterness of missing out on the hours of playing with the treehouse using my Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Zaius action figures, I now know that it was just an accident. Kelvin and my treehouse just happened to be on the corner when childish stu-

I loved playing kickball in the cul-de-sac near our house in Norfolk, Virginia. It was like baseball only you used one of those big red rubber balls and instead of using a bat, you kicked it (hence the name). If you caught an opposing player’s kick, they were out, kinda like dodgeball. Unlike baseball, you could either tag a runner out by touching them with the ball you held or by bouncing it off them once you flung it at them. I was often the pitcher, meaning I would roll the ball to the kicker. One day it seemed like the whole neighborhood was out at the Mifflin Street cul-de-sac and if they weren’t playing, then they were watching. Kelvin was on the other team and I was the pitcher. It was the bottom of the ninth inning and we were up 5-2 and the bases were loaded. I tried to put a little English on my pitch to throw my li’l brudda off, but he got a running start, came completely out of what was the accepted batter’s box and booted it with all his might. It probably would have been a home run or at the very least a ground rule double – meaning any balls that bounced off of Mark Stevens’ Volkswagen bug or Joe Pyle’s parents’ hideous baby diaper green station wagon. But it didn’t go that far because it smashed me right in the face. I fell over backward onto my butt immediately and was dazed. I heard excited yelling and then something else that I can’t stop hearing nearly five decades later. Laughter.

Unhinged, unbridled, uninterrupted laughter. I seethed. I struggled to get my bearings and retrieve the ball, but by that time two runs had scored and the tying run, Elvin Godfrey, was rounding third and Kelvin, the winning run, was hot on his heels. When Kelvin tagged home plate (the empty cover of a Partridge Family album) his team erupted and they even carried him around the cul-de-sac on their shoulders like they’d won the freakin’ Norfolk Street Kickball World Series. I, along with my other bitter teammates, protested that he was out of the batter’s box, but that went nowhere as back in the 1970s there was no instant replay available.

Coats and shoes Now I have never seen Kelvin wearing an actual coat with long coattails on it and at size 14, my feet are much larger than his. However, I rode his figurative coattails and he helped me get my foot in the door to becoming a columnist and author. He made our surname into a local brand and I now forgive him for setting the bar so high. I strive and sometimes struggle to keep it at that level . . . even when writing about things like the Fairfield Area Rapid Transit (FART) buses. 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.”

How 80 dogs were saved; ‘We’ve done a lot of rescues, but never one like this’ The Washington Post Lori Carlson arrived for work at the Licking County Humane Society one morning to an alarming phone call from a police officer with the Newark, Ohio, animal control division. A probation officer visited a condemned house on the morning of July 22 looking for somebody who had violated probation, and the officer discovered dozens of small dogs – all Chihuahuas and Shih Tzus – living in squalor with three people. They appeared to be hoarders, the officer told her. All the dogs were infested with fleas, and many appeared to have serious skin infections, he told Carlson. None had been spayed or neutered, and multiple litters of puppies had been found

covered in feces, urine and garbage. Carlson, executive director of the shelter, said the officer told her the animals needed to be rescued right away. “I sent out all three of my Humane Society agents, and we soon learned that wasn’t enough,” she said. “At first, we were told there were about 30 dogs,” Carlson said. “But that number grew to 50. And then after that, we found out there were actually 80.” “Our agents had to crawl through debris to find all of the puppies and get them with the correct mom,” she added. The smell inside the home was unbearable, Carlson said, noting that it took her employees and animal control officers five hours and multiple trips to get the dogs trans-

ferred to the Humane Society shelter. The dogs ranged in age from 1 week to 12 years old, she said. “The people in the house had no idea how many dogs were there – they’d been breeding and multiplying for a long time,” she said. “We’ve done a lot of rescues over the years, but never one like this.” It was the largest rescue in the shelter’s history, Carlson said. Once the dogs had been bathed and treated by a veterinarian, the Humane Society staff faced a new dilemma: Where to put them all? “We are not a large shelter – our typical capacity is 40 dogs and 60 cats,” Carlson said. “Fortunately, we had just built a new medical and isolation center, so we could put some kennels in there.”

“Now with this big dog rescue, I knew we were going to need some help from the community,” she said. Carlson contacted the local newspaper, the Newark Advocate, to get the word out that donations were needed for the dogs’ medical care – including spaying, neutering, dental work and microchipping – before they could be put up for adoption. She also posted a wish list of supplies, including dog food, bleach, digital thermometers, garbage bags and puppy training pads. Then she called several of the shelter’s regular foster volunteers and asked them to take in the five nursing dogs that had puppies. She said the response from the public was overwhelming. Kris Mitchell, a foster

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volunteer from Newark, offered to take in Mimi, a Chihuahua mix, and her four puppies. Mimi had been found with a section of PVC pipe around her neck. “I’m happy to provide Mimi and her puppies a quiet and calm place to recover until they’re all ready to find loving homes,” Mitchell added. Bethany Stickradt of Newark offered to foster a Chihuahua named Lucy and her litter of four 1-week-old puppies. “I already have three dogs, so I can’t keep any of these, but we’ll work to socialize them and get them placed into good homes,” said Stickradt, 33, who placed them in teacups for a photo to show how tiny they are – and also because it’s adorable. She said Lucy is extremely protective of

her newborns but is now allowing her to pick them up and pet and weigh them. “It’s inconceivable to me that somebody would have this many dogs in their house,” Stickradt said. “It certainly didn’t happen overnight. I keep wondering, ‘How do we prevent things like this from happening again?’” Animal hoarding is a growing problem, according to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, with as many as 250,000 pets suffering from hoarding abuses such as malnutrition and untreated medical conditions every year. Hoarders “keep abnormally large numbers of animals for whom they do not provide even the most basic care,” according to the Animal Legal Defense Fund site.

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What the polio case in New York tells world about the end of polio By Arthur Allen KAISER HEALTH NEWS

No one studying polio knew more than Albert Sabin, the Polish-American scientist whose vaccine against the crippling disease has been used worldwide since 1959. Sabin’s oral vaccine provides lifelong immunity. It has one drawback, which Sabin, who died in 1993, fiercely disputed: In rare cases, the weakened live poliovirus in the vaccine can mutate, regain virulence, and cause polio. Those rare mutations – one of which appears to have paralyzed a young man in Rockland County, New York, who belongs to a vaccineresistant Hasidic Jewish community, officials there reported – have taken center stage in the global campaign to eradicate polio, the largest international public health effort in history. When the World Health Organization-led campaign started in 1988, its goal was to rid the world of polio by 2000. By 2015, polio was nearly eradicated everywhere but Pakistan and Afghanistan. But by 2020, cases had been reported in 34 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Although the numbers have declined in the past 18 months, a few cases have cropped up in Ukraine and Israel, poliovirus was detected in sewage in London last month, and now there’s the case north of New York City, the first case in the U.S. since 1993. But the nature of the polio threat has shifted. “Natural” or “wild” polio circulates in only a few war-torn areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where gunmen have killed scores of polio vaccinators. Nearly all the world’s other cases, paradoxically, derive from mutations in

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By 2015, polio was nearly eradicated everywhere but Pakistan and Afghanistan. But by 2020, cases had been reported in 34 countries and the nature of the polio threat has shifted. the weakened virus that constitutes the vaccine. Sabin designed the vaccine virus to infect people’s intestines without making them sick, but in rare cases the vaccine virus mutates into a dangerous form while passing through the vaccinated person’s gut. In these instances, it goes in like a lamb but comes out like a lion, capable of paralyzing unprotected people who ingest the virus as a result of imperfect hygiene, after contact with things like diapers or bath towels that contain traces of an infected person’s feces. Poliovirus has three types. Type 2, the version that causes nearly all vaccine-associated polio cases, paralyzes as few as 1 in 1,000 people it infects. Others might not get sick at all or have typical viral symptoms like a runny nose or diarrhea. Rockland County officials say their polio case may have been infected in the United States, but the virus must have originated from a country where the oral polio vaccine is still given — generally in Asia or Africa. In the United States, since 2000 doctors have administered a different vaccine, a shot, invented by Dr. Jonas Salk in 1955, that contains killed, or inactivated,

polio viruses. Given how rarely a polio infection results in paralysis, the Rockland County case suggests other people in the community may be carrying the virus. How many is under investigation, said county health department spokesperson Beth Cefalu. Scientists have detected poliovirus in county wastewater but have no idea how many others are infected, Cefalu said in a news release July 26. If the patient acquired the virus in the United States, “it would suggest there could be substantial transmission at least in that area,” said Dr. Walter Orenstein, an Emory University professor who headed the U.S.vaccination program from 1988 to 2004. That puts the pressure on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to figure out the best way to stop any chains of infection, he said. As of July 22, county health officials had set up inactivated polio vaccine clinics and sent 3,000 letters to parents of children in the county whose routine vaccinations – including for polio – were not up to date. However, while the Salk vaccine prevents paralysis, and is very effective at protecting a

community from infection, in situations where polio is widely circulating a Salk-vaccinated person could still carry polio germs in their intestines and spread them to others. Depending on the number of people infected in the community, the CDC might consider bringing in a newer live vaccine product, known as novel oral polio vaccine Type 2, or nOPV2, that is less likely to mutate into a virulent form, Orenstein said. However, the new oral vaccine is not licensed in the United States and would require considerable bureaucratic movement to be approved under an emergency authorization, Orenstein said. To complicate matters further, outbreaks of vaccine virus-derived polio increased, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, after global health leaders declared that Type 2 poliovirus had been eradicated in the wild and they removed that virus type from the vaccine. Unfortunately, mutant forms of Type 2 originating in the vaccine continued to circulate, and outbreaks mushroomed, Orenstein said. Although nearly 500 million doses of the new vaccine have been administered, according to Dr. Ananda Bandyopadhyay, a polio program leader at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, some areas with circulating mutant viruses haven’t started using the new vaccine yet. The chances of a major outbreak tied to the Rockland County case are slim. The virus can spread widely only where there is low vaccine coverage and poor surveillance of polio cases, said Dr. David Heymann, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Bethel Community Church hosting school backpack giveaway Saturday Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The Community Services Foundation is hosting a free Back-to-School Backpack and Food Giveaway in partnership with the Quality of Life Task Force and local community agencies. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at Bethel Community Church, 600 E. Tabor Ave., in Fairfield. The primary focus of the event is to provide free backpacks, school supplies and bags of food to those in need. Also available at the event are masks and sanitizer, eye exams, Covid vaccine shots, Covid-19 test kits and an “Ask the Doctor” table. Attendees can drive or walk up to the location to receive supplies. Children must be present to receive backpacks. The event is on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last. No registration is required. For additional information or to register to volunteer on Aug. 5 (to help prep) or Aug. 6 (for the event), contact Sullina Sanchez at 707-428-7729 or email ssanchez@fairfield.ca.gov.

Buzz Awards nominations deadline is Tuesday FAIRFIELD The nomination

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for the annual Buzz Awards is open. “We are so excited to announce that the Buzz Awards will be held on Sept. 9. The theme is Hollywood Greats. Who will you be? Indiana Jones? Groot? Axel Foley? Sarah Conner? Or maybe you’ll go classic Hollywood and be the Lone Ranger; the possibilities are endless,” the Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce announced. “We’ve added a few awards this year, we know you’ll be just as excited about them as we are,” the announced added. To make your nominations, go to www. surveymonkey. com/r/569W8TS. The deadline is Tuesday.

Next genealogy meeting covers Vallejo’s history VALLEJO — The Genealogy Society of Vallejo-Benicia will hear next month from Chris Jacobson, who will give an online talk on architecture in Vallejo. The Zoom meeting will begin at

1:30 p.m. Thursday. After choosing Vallejo as his home in 2011, Jacobson looked for ways to build community and created Vallejo Historic Homes Support, with the mission to encourage local preservation and increase the enjoyment of living in historic Vallejo. Later he created VallejoHistoricHomes.com, a Realtor website that includes individually selected MLS data on homes for sale, detailed guidance on selling a historic structure, and historic Vallejo homeowner resources. Jacobson studied at California State University, Northridge. He has been a Realtor at Vallejo Historic Homes since August 2016. All active Genealogy Society of Vallejo-Benicia members will receive a Zoom link. If you would like to attend as a nonmember guest, send an email to president@gsvb. org no later than 4 p.m. Aug. 3 and request a Zoom invitation. More information on the session may be found on the Genealogy Society of Vallejo-Benicia’s website at www.gsvb.org.

Bunch of government meetings on calendar FAIRFIELD — A bunch of government meetings will be held this week. Some are in person and some online or even both. Check the websites for

more information. The meetings will include: Suisun-Solano Water Authority Board Executive Committee, 9 a.m. Monday, Suisun City Hall council chamber, 701 Civic Center Blvd., Suisun City. Info: http://ca-sid.civicplus.com/agendacenter. City of Fairfield/FSUSD Joint Committee, 5 p.m. Monday, FSUSD Central Office, 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield. Info: www.fsusd. org/page/13970. Solano County Board of Supervisors, 9 a.m. Tuesday, County Government Center, 675 Texas St. Info: co.solano.ca.us. Rio Vista City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, City Council chamber, City Hall, 1 Main St. Info: www.riovistacity.com/ citycouncil. Vacaville Parks and Recreation, 6 p.m. Wednesday, council chamber, 650 Merchant St. Info: www.ci.vacaville. ca.us/government/ city-commissions. Vacaville Unified School District Board of Trustees, 6 p.m. Thursday, boardroom at the Educational Services Center, 401 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville. Info: https://go.boarddocs.com/ ca/vusdca/Board.nsf/ vpublic?open. Solano County Planning Commission, 7 p.m. Thursday, 675 Texas St., Fairfield. Info: solanocounty.com/depts/rm/ boardscommissions/ solano_county_planning_ commission/agendas.asp.

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Daniel Goldman, majority counsel on House intelligence, testifies as the House Judiciary Committee receives presentations of evidence in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in 2019.

Levi Strauss heir could join richest group in Congress Bloomberg News Dan Goldman, who served as lead Democratic counsel in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, would be among the richest members of Congress if he’s successful in his bid to represent a newly redrawn district in New York City. It’s no secret that Goldman, 46, an heir to the Levi Strauss & Co. fortune, is rich. But financial disclosure forms shared by his campaign with Bloomberg show the extent of his wealth. He has a net worth of between $64 million and $253 million from over 1,700 assets, which would likely place him among the top 20 wealthiest members of Congress if he were to be elected in November. Goldman’s assets include a broad range of stocks and holdings in a wide variety of industry sectors, including oil and gas, large pharmaceutical companies, health insurers, big tech, military contractors and major commercial banks. In a statement sent by his campaign, Goldman said that he supports the Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act, a bill that would require members of Congress to divest themselves of their assets or place them in a blind trust. Goldman promised to put his assets into a blind trust if elected, regardless of whether the bill is passed and signed into law. Goldman said that he has a “deep appreciation for the opportunities my inheritance has provided me” but added that “every American should have full confidence that our elected representatives are operating solely on behalf of the Ameri-

Dan Goldman said that “elected officials should be prohibited from trading stocks while holding office.” can people, without any appearance of a conflict of interest. That is why elected officials should be prohibited from trading stocks while holding office.” Goldman is one of several candidates vying in the Aug. 23 Democratic primary to represent the 10th Congressional District, which encompasses most of lower Manhattan and much of northwest Brooklyn. Other contenders include US Representative Mondaire Jones, who currently represents parts of Westchester and Rockland counties; former US Representative Elizabeth Holtzman; City Council Member Carlina Rivera; and Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou, a progressive backed by the Working Families Party. Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped out of the race in July, citing low polling numbers. The winner of the Democratic primary is expected to easily win the general election in the heavily Democratic district. Goldman also reported earning $35,250 year to date from his contract with MSNBC as a political commentator. In the last federal campaign filing, Goldman said he raised $1.2 million for his congressional race, for which he has yet to spend any of his own personal fortune, although he hasn’t ruled out doing so if necessary.

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Opposites can complement or clash Dear Annie: I wanted foundation for their to offer a little encourrelationship, those difagement to “Opposites” ferences will seemingly about his relationdisappear. — Opposites ship. You were correct Attract for a Reason in saying that someDear Opposites: times relationships Thank you for your between opposite perletter. It demonstrates sonality types can be the that compromise is best. I’ve been in one Annie Lane one of the most important qualities of a for 28 years. Dear Annie happy relationship. My husband and I You and your husband develwere definite opposites when we were married. I’m an extro- oped the ability to see things verted introvert, and he was from the other’s perspective, definitely an extrovert, though and you were both willing to try he’s developed some introvert new things. traits over the years. We also Below is a letter from had vastly differing tastes in someone whose marriage to an music, movies and much more. “opposite” did not work out. But rather than letting ourDear Annie: Your advice selves be limited by what we to “Opposites,” who worries saw as differences, we used about his relationship with his them to help each other grow. extroverted girlfriend, was too He’s seen concerts, musirosy. These relationships are cals, plays and movies he never very difficult, and he is wise to would have seen if I hadn’t look long-term. been in his life, and I’ve grown Based on my long marriage to enjoy his musical tastes and (which ended in divorce after most of the television shows and 26 years) to an introvert, I’d movies he enjoys. tell him not to do this to her or None of us (thankfully) stays to himself. My husband hated the same person throughout going to movies, dinners, weddings, concerts, community our lives. We grow and change events – you name it. He was as time passes, and his club bored at my dinner parties, disand party-loving girlfriend of liked and shunned my friends, today may change a lot over and eventually quit interactthe years, as he likely will as ing with people who stopped well. If they communicate well by for a visit. I ended up either and focus on building a solid

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll deal with a tangled mess that appears to have the power of a strong net. Yes, you could get caught up in it or even trapped. But the power of your spontaneous impulse will help you dissolve the tangles and break free. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll find out how supportive your support system is. Lean in a bit and see who is there, ready to catch you. Also, you’ll consider how you show up for other people, and who you’re willing to go out of the way for. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Whether a person feels innately talented or innately disadvantaged is beside the point. Either way, they can improve. You believe everyone is capable of getting a little better, and you’ll therefore bring hope to others. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Some say the first step is the hardest part of the journey, but this won’t ring true for you. Without hesitation, you’ll follow an intuition. The first stretch of the road will be a blur as you hit the ground running. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’re starting to treat yourself differently. You may not even realize it at first, but the changes become evident in the way others treat you, which is always a reflection of what’s going on between you and you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). If you don’t ask, the answer will be no. But asking is not so simple. Before you reveal what you want with a request, think

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alone with him at home or doing everything by myself. My spirit was completely destroyed. In my experience, the extrovert does most of the compromising, and as people grow older and set in their ways, introverts just stop trying. They cannot have fun at parties or events that involve social interaction, so both the extrovert and the introvert are miserable. Typically, she’s chronically worried about his “discomfort” around other people. Too often, the extrovert ends up going it alone. His keeping her isolated from the things she loves can be cruel. Her trying to get him to be around other people can also be cruel. These relationships are best terminated early, before both sides waste valuable time and just give up. — Won’t Do That Again Dear Won’t Do That Again: I’m sorry that you had such a bad experience. It sounds like your ex-husband was extremely rigid. No compromise, no communication and no attempt to understand how you were feeling. Flexibility and empathy for each other are two of the most important qualities found in a lasting marriage. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

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Today’s birthday The right job will combine your many talents. You do not treat science and art as opposites. You will meld logic and feeling in your endeavors, finding an auspicious arrangement of fact to fantasy. As a result, you create strange and lucky scenarios. People are drawn into your truly original world, and you’ll be well-loved. Capricorn and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 2, 5, 49, 6 and 28.

about what the other person wants that you might be able to offer in exchange. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Important events have a way of rolling out sans fanfare. Even so, maybe the challenge is as glorious as the battles of dragon slayers in days of yore. However ordinary the task may look, don’t be fooled; fight the gallant fight. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Putting your heart on the line is risky business. Taking that chance and living with the adrenaline, fear and thrill of it can be overwhelming to the point that love can become mixed with other feelings. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Because someone feels free to be themselves around you, you’ll be privy to the best and the less endearing

sides. Hidden qualities, habits and behaviors that get on your nerves can coexist with the love you feel. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Your outcome will depend not only on your knowledge of what you’re trying to do before you do it but also your understanding of why. If your “why” is solid, everything else will fall into place. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). You’re on a discovery mission. You could ask the person what you want to know about them, but questions produce defensiveness and suspicion. Try revealing something about yourself. You’ll give trust to get trust. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Though you know that compromise is not punishment, meeting the other person halfway still entails giving up some of your personal freedom. Sacrifice when you’re ready and when you know you won’t resent it. CELEBRITY PROFILES: From “Game of Thrones” to “Aquaman,” Jason Momoa’s intensely visceral charisma has a way of bringing fantasy worlds to life. The Leo star was born when the sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter were all in the sign of the king cat; that’s an unusual amount of royal astral influence. Leo is also the sign of playfulness, children, the heart and show business.

Bridge

TAKE A LOOK INTO A CRYSTAL BALL Laurence J. Peter, who was a Canadian “hierarchiologist,” said, “An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.” At the bridge table, though, an expert usually can anticipate what will happen tomorrow (the next few tricks).

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by Phillip Alder Take this deal as an example. How should South plan the play in five diamonds after West leads the spade king? North’s bid of three spades was minor-suit Stayman. However, usually it guarantees enough at least to be thinking about a slam, not just 4 high-card points. So, South showed amazing restraint in passing over five diamonds. However, note that here three no-trump would have been hopeless after the spade-king lead. Taking the trump suit in isolation, it is normal to lead low toward the queen on the first round. Here, though, that line of play contains a hidden risk. If East can win the trick with the diamond ace and shift to a heart, declarer will go down whenever the heart finesse fails and he loses another trump trick. Instead, there is an almost-guaranteed line of play. After winning with the spade ace, South ruffs a spade on the board. Then he makes the strangelooking play of a diamond to his 10. West is welcome to win with the jack because he cannot attack hearts. After driving out the trump ace, declarer can discard his heart losers on dummy’s club suit. With the given layout, South collects an overtrick. Always treat each suit within the context of the deal as a whole. COPYRIGHT: 2022, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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ill the fifth time be the charm for California’s decades-long effort to replumb the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta so that more Northern California water can be transported to Southern California? Don’t count on it. Last week, the state Department of Water Resources released a draft environmental impact report on the latest iteration of the 57-yearlong effort to change the Delta’s role in water supply, a 45-mile-long tunnel officially named the “Delta Conveyance.” The 3,000-page document immediately drew the that have accomDan Walters responses panied past versions – big municipal and agricultural water agencies were in favor of it because it would, they hope, increase water deliveries south of the Delta, and environmentalists were against it, saying it would further damage the Delta’s already bruised ecosystem. That fundamental conflict has tied up the project in its various forms ever since it was first proposed in 1965 as a “peripheral canal” to complete the California Water Project (CWP). The CWP is primarily a massive dam on the Feather River whose reservoir feeds water into the Sacramento River and the California Aqueduct, which pulls water out of the southern edge of the Delta for shipment southward. They were still under construction when the peripheral canal was proposed and without it, water managers said, the CWP could not deliver on its promises to downstate water agencies. The canal would have diverted water out of the Sacramento River south of Sacramento and carried it 43 miles around the Delta to the head of the California Aqueduct near Tracy. Pat Brown, the CWP’s political champion, was still governor when the canal was first proposed and his son, Jerry, took up the cause upon becoming governor a decade later. The younger Brown pushed hard for legislative approval of the project, arguing that it would improve the Delta habitat by avoiding the negative effects on flows caused by the California Aqueduct’s massive pumps. Twisting arms and promising public works projects for holdout legislators, Brown finally won approval of a peripheral canal bill, only to see it repealed in a 1982 referendum. Environmental groups formed a strange bedfellows alliance with big agribusiness interests, which believed the canal would not deliver enough water, on the successful campaign to reject the project. The two Republican governors who followed, George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson, made fitful efforts on alternatives, such as a “through-Delta” canal or agreements that would deliver more water while improving the Delta’s habitat. Those efforts failed and the Democrat who succeeded Wilson, Gray Davis, clearly didn’t want to touch the issue – having witnessed the conflict up close as Jerry Brown’s chief of staff. However, after Davis was recalled in 2003, Republican successor Arnold Schwarzenegger gave it a new try, working out a scheme to replace the peripheral canal with twin tunnels that, at least on paper, could be built without legislative or voter approval. Jerry Brown inherited the twin tunnel plan when he returned for another stint as governor in 2011 but couldn’t get it done before departing. Immediately upon becoming governor in 2019, Newsom tossed out the twin tunnels in favor of a single one, thereby setting the stage for last week’s action. “The governor is committed to getting this project essentially in a place where it’s getting built by the end of this administration,” Wade Crowfoot, Newsom’s resources secretary, said. Fat chance. The project still has a lot of blanks to be filled, including a cost estimate, a list of water agencies willing to commit to repaying bonds to build it and a potentially infinite number of legal challenges from opponents. It also has 57 years of history to overcome. CALmatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more columns by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/commentary.

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life or limb; nor shall be comwas fortunate to be born and raised in our nation’s pelled in any criminal case to capital as I lived with our be a witness against himself . . history every day. The city . without due process of law.” is filled with statues, monuThe Sixth Amendment, “In ments and wonderful buildall criminal prosecutions, the ings linked to various aspects accused shall enjoy the right to of our collective history. a speedy and public trial,” and One of these is the National the Eighth Amendment “. . . nor Archives. The building Jim McCully cruel or unusual punishments houses our original founding inflicted.” documents. Among many other hisThe National Archive has four torical items such as one of the four unique statues, each with mottos. The original copies of the English Magna first motto is “What is Past is ProCarta (Great Charter) from June 1215, logue.” The second’s motto is “The which for the first time placed limits Heritage of the Past is the Seed on royal (government) authority by that brings forth the Harvest of the establishing law as a power into and Future.” The third is “Study the Past,” of itself, the so-called “Rule of Law.” and the fourth is “Eternal Vigilance is This document is enshrined there the Price of Liberty.” because it has three original and critiThese statues, massive and allecal clauses known and revered by our gorical in nature, are meant to convey forefathers. They are: a ban on cruel the seriousness of history and the and unusual punishments, trial by a reverence felt for our founding docjury of one’s peers, and that justice uments, which ultimately created should not be sold or delayed. and sustained this most unique of all When the time came to set down nations. We are that “Shining City on a and codify our rights Americans Hill” referred to by President Ronald adopted these rights and more. Clear Reagan. We are the representative examples of this are seen in the words Republic we were promised at the end of our Fifth, Sixth and Eighth amendof that long hot summer in Philadelments, respectively they state: “no phia in 1787. person shall be shall be held for a Our forefathers went through a capital or otherwise infamous crime, long, awful revolution to gain liberty. unless on a presentment or indictThey knew the job was not finished ment of a Grand Jury . . . nor shall in 1787 and days to come could be any person be subject for the same troubled. We, as a nation, have gone offense to be twice put in jeopardy of through much turmoil and strife even

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and Oath Keepers – the mob, e are living in hisbeloved by all revolutionaries. toric times, times that So, at 1:42 p.m. on Dec. 19 he will be described in sent the tweet that will make every newly minted the history books, “Big protest high school history book hunin D.C. on January 6. Be there, dreds of years from now. will be wild.” Jan. 6, 2021, was an He didn’t mention his attempt to take over the govplanned assault on the Capitol ernment by a violent coup his speech. He wanted d’etat. It failed but the revJack Batson after it to seem spontaneous. The olutionaries have proudly committee has proved beyond announced they’ll try again. How many times has this happened doubt that it wasn’t. It was a conspirin our history? Never. It’s the first time acy – a criminal conspiracy. in 245 years. The plan was to intimidate Vice The events being uncovered by President Mike Pence into refusing the Jan. 6 committee are shocking. to count legal, Democratic elecOn Dec. 18, 2020, four revolutionartoral votes. I could go on but the point is ies met President Trump in the Oval this – this is big, big stuff. Historic Office and presented a plan to invalistuff. Once in many lifetimes stuff. date a fair election that the president Extremely disturbing stuff. had lost by 7 million popular votes. And my Republican friends aren’t Former general Michael Flynn, watching. I read that few Republicans attorney Sidney Powell, eager lapdog are watching. What has happened to Rudi Giuliani and conspiracy-addled the conservative love of the Constitubusiness executive Patrick Byrne presented Trump with a proposed tion, law and order, “the rule of law, executive order that the army confisnot of men”? What has happened to all my conservative friends who darkly cate voting machines like they do in tell me, “I do my own research”? Even Nicaragua and Venezuela. Really. one hearing isn’t worth watching? Are They recommended that Powell be appointed special counsel to inves- they brainwashed? And more. Hundreds and huntigate voter fraud, which had been proved to be nonexistent. dreds of elected Republicans at both Two White House attorneys chalthe state and national levels have engaged in parts of the overall scheme lenged them and for four hours a to overturn this and future elections. shouting match proceeded without They fell easily into the plot to overhistoric precedent. Trump backed down on that cockturn the world’s premier democracy, the one the world used to look up to for amamie plot, but didn’t give up on his inspiration. plans to hold on to office illegally – This, too, is very disturbing. What another historic first. He decided to can account for a mass movement like call out his warrior shock troops: this, one that has reached even down the Proud Boys, Three Percenters

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to the point of fighting a long, bitter, terrible and bloody civil war over the right of humans to be free. Americans suffered much to ensure rights promised then are enjoyed by all. We have come a long way together. In recent times, turmoil has intensified. In 2020, we had 574 sedition-inspired riots with billions in property damage, deaths and thousands seriously injured, many in law enforcement as well as innocent citizens. We Americans had arguably our most contested and bitter presidential election campaign since 1860, splitting America into hostile camps to this day. We better sift out what is really being said and done and by whom. When you’re promised one thing but are constantly delivered something else, wake up. Determine who told the truth and who told you what you wanted to hear. Examples of past as prologue: Inflation was 1.4% now it’s 9.1%, gasoline dollars a gallon higher. America has been here before with Presidents Carter, Obama and now Biden. All are leftwing Democrats and all self-identified as Progressives. See a pattern? Remember in November.

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to little Fairfield? Mass media. It’s the only thing that could do it. Conservative mass media, churning out seditious propaganda in the name of patriotism and “news” day after day, year after year for at least 15 years. I recall about 10 years ago an incident that illustrated the power that conservative media has. I arrived at my customary weekly church men’s breakfast and announced lightheartedly, “Well, here I am guys, your resident Democrat, you know, the typical cowardly, lying, socialist, USAhating liberal.” We all laughed. Then an old friend said, smiling, “Yeah, that’s kind of like it.” Fox News and its many imitators has succeeded in indoctrinating the conservative mind with real fear and hatred of all things liberal. Anger crackles in the political atmosphere. It’s become clear that the USA is engaged in an ideological civil war largely caused by conservative media and the Republican Party itself. They have mixed in white-supremacy dog whistles to add oomph – for whites. Just watch Sean Hannity (the white grievance hour) and Tucker Carlson (the white power hour). Look at racialized voter suppression and gerrymandering. This is cheap politics. The USA is in real danger. Fear and loathing of ‘the other” destroyed Yugoslavia 25 years ago. Our conservative brethren are playing with the same fire. Jack Batson is a former member of the Fairfield City Council. Reach him by email at jsbatson@prodigy.net.

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ICE resumes deporting at routine check-ins they’re deporting people as they wish now.” In the past, said Oklahomabased immigration attorney Lorena Rivas, ICE would generally give people checking in with them notice that they would be deported at a future date so that they had time to get their affairs in order. She had a client deported without notice in recent weeks and has heard from other attorneys about such cases as well.

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SAN DIEGO — When Eduardo Sanchez showed up on a recent morning for a checkin with immigration officials in downtown San Diego, he assumed it would be like every other one he has had since 2017, when officials targeted him and his brothers-in-law for being undocumented. He thought they would ask him if his address or phone number had changed and would make sure he was still complying with their requirements. They would check the status of his immigration case. Then he would head back to his Linda Vista home to be with his wife and two children. But on Monday, July 11, Sanchez showed up for his check-in and within a matter of hours found himself deported to Tijuana. That was roughly five days after a federal appeals court struck down Immigration and Customs Enforcement guidance prioritizing deportations based on significant criminal history or national security concerns. “I didn’t know what to do,” said Sanchez, who has no criminal record, in Spanish. His voice caught with emotion as he recalled the moments he spent in an ICE holding cell waiting to be deported. “I was thinking a lot about how they were going to separate me from my family. It happened so suddenly.” ICE did not respond to a request for comment. ICE hasn’t announced any change in policy regarding which deportations it will carry out, but according to immigration attorneys, deporting someone like Sanchez is a clear break from previous policy. Sanchez, 39, had a pending motion to reopen his case based on things that happened after his initial case was decided. Because of this pending motion, his attorney was shocked that ICE chose to deport him. Sanchez said two other men in similar situations to his were

Life in California Sanchez came to the United States with his now-wife Patricia Osorio and several of her Ana Ramirez/San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS family members in 2000. The Eduardo Sanchez was recently deported to Tijuana after a routine visit couple were both still teenwith U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. agers – and minors – when deported with him, and immi- Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas they arrived. Making ends meet with the gration attorneys across the issued guidance to ICE about country, including in non-bor- whom its officers should prior- work they could find as undocuder states such as Oklahoma, itize for deportation — people mented immigrants was tough, have begun hearing from that officials considered threats but they managed, coming of clients after ICE unexpect- to national security or public age and shaping their lives edly removed them from the safety as well as those who together. They had a son, Crisrecently entered the country topher, who is now 18 and United States. finishing high school. The change could impact without permission. “My life is in California,” But the states of Louisiana hundreds of thousands of people who have been issued removal and Texas sued, and a federal Sanchez said. “There, I learned orders by an immigration judge blocked Mayorkas’ memo. to work, to be a father.” Sanchez worked for a time judge – the orders that give ICE That ruling was upheld in early permission to deport them – but July by the 5th Circuit Court with his brothers-in-law at a car wash. Eventually he found a job who are still seeking other solu- of Appeals. A notice on ICE’s website painting cars. tions to stay permanently in the Then came the Trump assure that the agency is United states. administration. The fall of respecting the ruling. “Until further notice, ICE 2017 was a busy time for the No guidance will not apply or rely upon the San Diego ICE Field Office. Under the Trump adminis- Mayorkas Memorandum in any Its officers arrested more than tration, people who had removal manner,” the notice says. 1,600 immigrants with no crimorders were often terrified of The Biden administration inal history from October going to their next ICE check-in. has appealed the decision to through December of that That’s because the admin- the Supreme Court, which has year – more than anywhere else istration told ICE officers to left the lower court’s decision in the country. deport anyone and everyone in place for now but agreed to Sanchez was among them. that they could deport. Some hear arguments in the case later One day in November people chose to take sanctuary this year. In the meantime, the 2017 when he was on his way to in churches instead of showing case has left ICE officers with work with Osorio, ICE officers up to their check-ins. Others little guidance when it comes to stopped his car. He was given made hail-Mary attempts to whom to deport. a notice to appear in immigragarner public support in the “It’s kind of led to this disar- tion court and an ankle monitor, press. Many ended up deported. ray where you think of ICE as but he was allowed to stay with When President Joe Biden an entire body nationwide, but his family while he waited for took office, he did so with a it’s like a chicken with the head his case rather than spending promise to focus on deportations cut off right now,” said Miami- the time in immigration detenbased on criminal history. based immigration attorney tion. He was required to check In September 2021, Depart- Mark Prada. “I think they’re in periodically with ICE and ment of Homeland Security treating it as open season, and follow their rules to monitor his

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whereabouts. ICE came for Osorio’s brothers around the same time, Osorio said. One of them recognized the photo that ICE had of him as being from his driver’s license – all three had obtained licenses after California passed AB60, which created a special driver’s license for undocumented immigrants. Since then, they’ve wondered if those licenses were how the three men ended up as targets. Sanchez showed up for his check-ins, and in immigration court, he applied for a program called cancellation of removal. That program allows longtime residents to request permission to stay if their deportation would cause extreme and unusual hardship to a U.S. citizen, in Sanchez’s case his child. The legal standard, which requires the immigrant to show hardship above and beyond the typical difficulties caused by deportation, is hard to meet. Sanchez lost and was ordered deported in 2019. He appealed. That appeal was dismissed by the Board of Immigration Appeals in 2021. Meanwhile, his second son, Mateo, was born. And Sanchez was diagnosed with Graves’ disease, a condition that could lead to heart failure if he’s not able to get the proper medication. On top of this, a cartel now controls the area where Sanchez is from in Mexico. After one of his family members refused to join, the cartel shot at the family home, and much of Sanchez’s extended family has since fled to request asylum in the United States. With the help of a new attorney, Sanchez filed a motion to reopen his case on account of these changes in circumstance. The motion argues that an immigration judge should rehear his case for cancellation on account of his illness and the emotional hardship it would cause his children if he’s unable to get the care he needs to treat it while in Mexico.

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Delta From Page One water years. The summary also notes “potentially significant impacts to delta smelt and longfin smelt” because changes in Delta flow “could affect the species directly or indirectly through changes in factors such as food availability.” Environmentalists said the project would endanger salmon and other fish that already are in poor shape. “We know that the status quo is really bad for fish and wildlife, but their own (environmental impact) document shows that the Delta tunnel will make things even worse,” said Doug Obegi, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “You could have a delta tunnel that was environmentally protective, at least in theory, but none of the ones that were proposed or analyzed in here even seem to pass that basic test.” Buckman said approximately 1,500 to 3,500 acres of wetlands would be restored to offset the environmental damage. “The restored habitat would be designed to look and function like tidal wetland habitats currently in the Delta, such as those on Liberty Island,” she said in an email. She added that habitat restoration deadlines will be tied to the project schedule and include provisions requiring restoration ahead of the impacts. Water experts and environmentalists question, however, whether restoring other wetlands would protect salmon and other fish. “The state has a bad track record of getting habitat mitigation completed,” said Greg Gartrell, a consultant and retired water manager from the Contra Costa Water District. “They’re very slow, and they’re very meticulous. But they get in their own way.” A priority of Gov. Gavin Newsom, the effort has also drawn opposition from environmental groups and Delta residents, who worry that drawing freshwater away from the Delta coupled with years of construction will leave the region salty, stagnant and barren. “I fear that the Delta would eventually just become basically ghost towns,” Kathy Bunton, a Delta resident who owns Delta Kayak Adventures, told CalMatters last month. “It’s just heartbreaking.” The 3,000 page draft lays out the potential operations of the tunnel routes and their environmental consequences. Alternate routes that were also considered would connect to an existing pumping plant in the south Delta. “This project is critical to ensuring Californians have access to high-quality, affordable and reliable water supplies amidst the growing impacts of climate change,” Jennifer Pierre, general manager of the State Water Contractors, an association of public water agencies, said in a statement. The draft “clearly shows that the project has been downsized, refined and redesigned to avoid and reduce local impacts and address environmental concerns,” she said. The long-awaited

tunnel project has been at this point before: Another environmental impact report was finalized in 2016. Yet that project, a pair of tunnels, stumbled because of the high cost and eventually died when Newsom withdrew the administration’s support. Among other impacts of the tunnel are the removal of 71 structures, including 15 residences; the conversion of more than 2,300 acres of farmland considered to be of “statewide importance”; disruption to cultural and historic sites and resources; and construction noise.

Planning, building tunnel could take until 2040 The price tag hasn’t yet been updated but it would be in the billions. In 2020, one of the alternate paths was estimated to cost just under $16 billion. The state plans to issue bonds to fund the final design and construction process; water agencies receiving the water will be required to pay the state back. Plans to replumb the Delta have been decades in the making, changing shape over time from a canal to twin tunnels to, eventually, a single tunnel that Newsom promoted when he took office. If eventually approved, the project would take decades more to complete. Californians will have 90 days to comment on the draft environmental impact report, one of the first steps in a permitting process that could last years. Construction, which is not expected to start before 2028, could take another 12 to 13 years to complete. Crowfoot said the state is moving as quickly as it can. But he said the state must be cautious because it’s likely to face lawsuits. “The governor is committed to getting this project essentially in a place where it’s getting built by the end of this administration,” Crowfoot said. “It’s got any number of potential environmental litigants. We have to do what’s required under the law.” The State Water Project supplies 27 million people and 750,000 acres of farmland – transporting water through the Delta south with pumps so powerful, they can make rivers run backward. Piping water from north of the Delta during wet spells while continuing to pump from the south would allow state water managers to send about 540,000 more acre-feet of water south during an average year, or 316,000 in a dry year, compared to existing conditions, according to the documents released today. It’s enough water to supply between 1.1 and 1.9 million households for a year. Buckman stressed that these numbers are under 2020 conditions, and “do not capture anticipated supply shortages” in the future, when supplies are expected to decline because of climate change and sea level rise. This year, due to prolonged drought, water providers relying on the State Water Project are receiving 5% of their total 4.1 million acrefoot allocation – less than 220,000 acre-feet.

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HAZARD, Ky. — Four days into the flooding disaster after record rainfall in Eastern Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear said the state and region are still in rescue and recovery mode to find missing people and identify the dead. At a news conference at the Perry County Courthouse on Sunday morning, Beshear confirmed there are 26 Kentuckians who have died in the area as a result of flooding. There are bodies, he said, they are still processing and will be for days to come. “This is the most devastating and deadly flooding event in my lifetime,” he said. “ . . . Those are 26 children of God that will be missed by their community and are loved. We are going to be there with those families as they grieve,” he said. Local officials are still working to identify missing people with many coming into nearby police stations to bring pictures of loved ones they have not heard from. Beshear said there is no way to confirm an exact number of those who are missing right now.

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“In between still spotty cell phone service and getting back up and running, we are not having a firm count to begin with,” he said. “This is something we will be working on for weeks to come.” When questioned about climate change and its role in the latest Kentucky disaster, Beshear said he hadn’t spoken about “something he believed in” yet because there were still hundreds – perhaps thousands – of people with “nothing at the moment.” “We are still finding bodies,” he said. “To talk to parents who have lost children about solar panels, they don’t want to talk about that right now. Right now our job is to find those that are missing, our job is to help families suffering, and we can have that larger conversation later.” He spoke about the physical devastation and called it “incredible.” “People are losing not only their houses and all their possessions. Our infrastructure, roads and bridges,” he began. “Our bridges are so important in this community and they are about whether you can access not only your house, but so

many critical services.” Perry County Judge Executive Scott Alexander said this was the biggest natural disaster event to ever hit the area, and around 50 bridges were washed away or broken. Beshear said water infrastructure, which is already a challenge in rural Kentucky, was also wiped out in certain areas. With the entire water system shutdown and no access to running water, the governor said the most important thing people can donate and bring to the region is water. Hazard Mayor Donald “Happy” Mobelini said this is the first time the water plant has been completely shut down since 1949. In addition, the administration and local officials are working to get roads open, and places for people to stay. He said a major priority is to get Buckhorn State Park open, which could provide around 38 rooms for people to seek shelter. More than 70 travel trailers the state purchased are also being brought over from Western Kentucky to provide housing. The first round was brought over and stationed in Jenny Wiley State Park.

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they had small contraptions for children to ride, they looked kinda, sorta like bikes but they really weren't. They had four wheels and sometimes three, with handlebars, and footrests that "helped" steer. Steering is a liberal interpretation of the effects. The kids seemed to enjoy it.

Harry From Page One “I was afraid I would open the doors and no one would be standing there,” said owner Stacy Rose. But she needn’t have feared, there was a line down the sidewalk when the doors opened. Rose opened the Legendary Letters which handle all outgoing mail for the magical community. Yes, you read that right. They sort mail for Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Cupid, the Tooth Fairy, the Wizarding World, you name it, they will take your letter. She opened the business in 1996 in the Blue House around the corner from the City Hall. In 2018, she decided to split the business into its own separate building and opened the Letters Office down the road from her house. “My idea was to get all the businesses involved,” she said. “I wasn’t sure if they would be interested.” The business were interested and Slime World, Pizza Twist,

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enjoy the variety of different entertainment that Vallejo offers. "I used to work at a photo studio, so this is wonderful," Wold said. "We had heard about it but then everything closed and we didn't get to come." About 500 visitors were expected for the afternoon.

ing World by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law when the books first came out. “They just kept telling me I would love them,” she said. “They were right.” So each year they would wait for the books release just like the kids. On Sunday her teenage son, along Susan Hiland/Daily Republic with his friends, helped out in the Butterbeer was for sale at the shop, along with her husband, to Legendary Letters Gift Shop in make it a special day. Fairfield on Sunday for the first Harry “I think if this goes well, I will Potter birthday celebration. make it an annual event,” Rose said. For those who have not read Digital Stitchz, Three Restaurant, Vintique Marketplace, the Down- the book or seen the movie, Harry town Theatre, and Rosanna’s all Potter is a series of seven fantasy joined in for the celebration of novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter’s birthday. Harry Potter, and his friends Visitors started the day with a sorting ceremony and a Charms Hermione Granger and Ron lesson. Then they received a map Weasley are all students at Hogwith all the participating busi- warts School of Witchcraft and nesses and a card for them to get Wizardry. It is a magical place stamped at each one. The cards where they hone their skills. But were returned and entered into a Potter has an enemy “He-WhoMust-Not-Be-Named,” it takes drawing for fun prizes. “I went to something like all his wits, and friends’ talents to this in Sacramento and I loved battle this dreadfully, evil creature it,” Rose said. who wants all the wizardly world She got pulled into the Wizard- for only those who can do magic.

can who initially voted for the legislation but switched his position, said ultimately he believes the health care funding will pass. “We have to stand by our veterans who have been exposed to these chemicals,” Cassidy said on ABC’s “This Week.” “There was a drafting error, a $400 billion drafting error.” McDonough pushed back on the $400 billion cited by Toomey, saying

“you won’t see it” in the bill. It might be “deep in some charts” in the back of the Congressional Budget Office’s report on the legislation’s budgetary impact, he said. A spending cap proposed by Toomey’s amendment could eventually amount to “rationing care for vets, which is something I just can’t sign on to,” McDonough said. The Department of Veterans Affairs opened a voluntary registry in

2014 for service members who might have been exposed to airborne hazards from burn pits. The issue is personal for President Joe Biden, who lost his son Beau to brain cancer. Beau, who was a major in the Delaware National Guard, served overseas near burn pits, and Biden has suggested that the toxins from the pits may have caused the disease.

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Rodón shows his value to SF Giants in win By Evan Webeck BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SAN FRANCISCO — If this was Carlos Rodón’s final start in orange and black, he didn’t hold anything back. If not, then, well, the Giants enter the stretch run a few games out of playoff position with a pair of aces up their sleeve. The countdown clock to Tuesday’s trade deadline can now be measured in hours, not days, and Rodón has emerged as

one of the top targets for contenders in search of pitching. Rodón, showing why once again Sunday, might be the best arm on the market – if he’s available. As if he needed to cement his value, Rodón got a nationally televised showcase for his final start before the deadline and showed the Sunday Night Baseball audience why he is one of the most coveted arms and why it will be so hard for the Giants to let him go.

In seven shutout innings, Rodón racked up 10 strikeouts and powered the Giants to a 4-0 win over the Cubs. The win was the Giants’ third in four games against the Cubs, securing their first series win since the All-Star break, and pulled them back up to .500 (5151), 4.0 games back of the Phillies for the third and final National League wild card spot. However, the Giants’ seven straight losses to open the second half may

have cemented in management’s mind that this isn’t a club capable of making a deep postseason run. Even after taking three of four from the Cubs, the Giants finished July at 11-18, their worst month under manager Gabe Kapler, and reports in recent days have indicated the Giants are open to listening to offers for veterans on expiring contracts such as Rodón, Joc Pederson and Wilmer Flores. When he returned to the dugout after his final

frame, Rodón received the customary greeting for this time of year: hugs from teammates and coaches, though no deal appeared imminent. Kapler had no special message for Rodón leading up to his start Sunday as trade rumors swirled. “I trust he knows how this works,” Kapler said. “At the end of the day I think every player in the major leagues knows that this is a business, so you have to stay focused on the task at hand. . . . He

pitches for the San Francisco Giants and we hope that he’s going to be pitching for the San Francisco Giants the last week of the season and sneak into the postseason, or maybe even better than that, and he’s starting a playoff game for us.” No doubt, Rodón and Logan Webb would make the Giants a tough out for anyone in MLB’s new three-game wild card round. But it is still unclear which direction the team wants to go.

Cease stops A’s offense in finale against White Sox By Joseph Dycus THE MERCURY NEWS

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Member of the Boston Celtics’ 1966 Championship team, Bill Russell, is honored at halftime of a game between

the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat at TD Garden in April of 2016. The legendary star died on Sunday.

NBA world reflects on ‘remarkable life’ of legendary star Bill Russell By Jason Anderson THE SACRAMENTO BEE

Basketball fans and historians will debate the subject of the game’s greatest player until the end of time, but there was no bigger winner or champion for change than Bill Russell. Russell, an iconic figure whose impact was felt from the Bay Area to Boston, in Sacramento and Seattle and beyond, died peacefully Sunday with his wife, Jeannine, by his side. He was 88 years old. The NBA world reacted en masse to reflect on the extraordinary life and death of a legendary figure whose greatness is still celebrated more than a half-century after he played his last game. Russell won a record 11 NBA championships and five MVP awards in 13 years as a player with the Boston Celtics. He never

achieved that kind of success during his three seasons as a coach and executive with the Kings in the twilight of his career, but those who knew him in Sacramento will never forget his presence. “I just really thought the world of the man,” former Kings coach and general manager Jerry Reynolds said. “I spent several years with him – worked with him as an assistant coach and worked under him as a head coach – and I have nothing but respect for Bill and his career. Truly one of the most enjoyable times of my life was just getting to sit with Bill and listen to some of his Celtics stories and basketball and life stories. It was a remarkable life he led and a remarkable time being around him. “Bill just led a marvelous life and a complete life. In my experiences with him, it was nothing but

great memories with one of the greatest winners and basketball players of all time, and, in my mind, a great man. It really was an honor for me to work for him.” NBA commissioner Adam Silver issued a statement after Russell’s death was announced. “Bill Russell was the greatest champion in all of team sports,” Silver said. “The countless accolades that he earned for his storied career with the Boston Celtics – including 11 championships and five MVP awards – only begin to tell the story of Bill’s immense impact on our league and broader society. “Bill stood for something much bigger than sports: the values of equality, respect and inclusion that he stamped into the DNA of our league. At the height of his See Legend, Page B8

49ers make a new deal with Deebo, extend contract of All-Pro receiver Cam Inman

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SANTA CLARA — The 49ers are all paid up on Deebo Samuel. Time to settle in for his yardsafter-cash show. Unwilling to grant Samuel’s April trade request, the 49ers are finally rewarding him with a three-year, $73.5 million contract extension, as first reported Sunday by NFL Network. The deal is not officially done but it’s very close, according to a league source. Samuel was the 49ers’ catalyst to last season’s NFC Championship Game, and although he’s

conditioned on the side at training camp this past week, he did not participate in practice. That four-day “hold-in” did not seem to fluster coach Kyle Shanahan nor Samuel’s teammates. “We’re good. And we understand our role,” Shanahan said Saturday. “I know there’s a lot of noise for five months and tweets and a lot of people are repeating what someone said and repeating and repeating and repeating. “There’s a lot of negotiations going on. There’s a lot of money involved,” Shanahan added. “It’s a big business deal, but besides everything else,

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49ers quarterback Trey Lance celebrates with Deebo Samuel after a touchdown against the Houston Texans in January. it seems similar to last we’re good.” How good of a deal will week’s deal brokered by Samuel get? Well, his con- his agent, Tory Dandy, tract reportedly comes between the Seattle with $58.1 million guaranteed, and, initially, See 49ers, Page B8

CHICAGO — When an Oakland batter thought Dylan Cease’s pitches were going to break right, the ball veered left. Fastballs turned into sliders. Sliders slowed into curveballs. Curveballs were actually fastballs. The A’s just could not figure out what the White Sox ace was going to throw. In a showing that was more reminiscent of their frigid first half than their scorching hot second half, the A’s dropped a second straight game at the White Sox ballpark, this time by a score of 4-1. After looking like they were trying to use pool noodles to get the baseball into the outfield, the A’s have spent July doing their collective best impression of Aaron Judge. Oakland hit 36 home runs total in May and June before somehow developing the power needed to jack that many homers in just

one month. Early on, the A’s appeared to be headed toward another offensive explosion. Ramon Laureano’s second inning solo home run travelled over 400 feet, and was so well-struck that the A’s center fielder could take a few moments to admire his work before rounding the bases. Cease was fortunate to only allow that one run in the second, because Seth Brown and Stephen Piscotty both had long fly balls go a few feet foul of being round-trippers. Majestic foul balls don’t count for anything though, unlike Jose Abreu’s home run in the bottom of the inning off Adam Oller that tied the game. A’s outfielder Tony Kemp momentarily prevented further damage when he left his feet to make a diving grab that killed a double. Despite being Kemp’s victim, Eloy Jimenez couldn’t help but tip his See A’s, Page B8

Tyler Reddick dominates for Verizon 200 OT triumph By Alex Zietlow

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INDIANAPOLIS — The second-to-last caution with four laps to go wiped away the three-second-plus lead that Tyler Reddick had built at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday – but it ultimately didn’t matter. The No. 8 driver emerged from that restart unscathed – despite a cascade of carnage crumbling behind him – and eventually commanded the final restart and cruised to a Verizon 200 overtime win. And based on how he ran that race? He deserved it: The 26-yearold driver led a race-best 39 laps before kissing the storied bricks at

the Brickyard. “I’m just really glad to be able to do it here in Indianapolis,” he told NBC Sports. “This is one really special place in racing.” The victory delivered Reddick his second win of the NASCAR Cup Series regular season — which provides some crucial security for his playoff hopes. Before Sunday, Reddick was one of 14 drivers who’d visited Victory Lane this season and was one of nine one-win drivers vying for a 16-car playoff field. Ross Chastain initially finished second at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but received a penalty for using an access road after being pushed out of Turn See NASCAR, Page B8

B2 Monday, August 1, 2022 — DAILY REPUBLIC

Good beer, great value 10 cheap beers you’ll actually enjoy drinking, including one that’s cheaper than gas

Josh Noel

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nflation won’t quit. The price of gas has reached the stratosphere. The stock market is taking a beating. And I won’t even start on crypto. Boy, could we use a beer. But we don’t need just any beer in these fraught economic times. What we need more than ever is good beer at an even better value. That doesn’t mean it’s time to pretend we’re in college and settle for oceans of cheap, lousy beer. It means bang for the buck. It means finding the beers that perform above their price. It means finding the great deals hiding in plain sight. I tasted about 25 beers to assemble this list, shopping with an eye on price, but shunning anything that didn’t pass the most essential test: good taste. There is no sacrificing quality on this list. In a few cases – looking at you, Trumer Pils and Victoria – these are arguably among the finest examples of their style on shelves. These 10 beers punch above their financial weight, starting with the cheapest. Prices are taken from the ubiquitous chain of Binny’s stores, which means you may occasionally find them a little cheaper or slightly more expensive. Prices do not take into account sales – and several of these beers can be found at sale prices, which make them better deals still – and reflect the prices at the time of publication.

1. Hamm’s (Molson Coors) Style: Light American lager There’s a lot of cheap beer in this world, but rarely do those beers boast much depth. Hamm’s, which won our blind tasting of American macro beers five years ago, is easy drinking, but also boasts that depth: a clean malty backbone with a touch of yeast-driven fruitiness that dries out in the finish. It’s just weighty and interesting enough, but light enough, in terms of both flavor and its 4.7% alcohol, to enjoy on repeat. Speaking of repeat, the reason Hamm’s is a tiptop deal is the key to finding value in beer: volume. Beer gets cheaper the larger the package, which is the reason there are few sixpacks on this list. But a 30-pack? Now we’re talking value! What’s more: With gas averaging $5.93 per gallon in the Chicago area as of mid-June, Hamm’s is actually cheaper than the 4.6 cents per ounce you’re paying at the pump. Price: 30-pack of 12-ounce cans for $14.99; 4.1 cents per ounce

8. Anchor Steam (Anchor Brewing) Style: Steam beer The most classic of American craft beers, with roots stretching back 125 years, continues to hold up in a sea of competitors: toasty, malty, yeast-driven fruitiness (in the berry-melon realm) with a dash of bitterness, Anchor Steam remains balanced, approachable and elegant. It’s a modest 4.9% alcohol and another beer that’s excellent with food. Price: 12-pack of 12-ounce bottles for $16.99; 11.7 cents per ounce

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Josh Noel’s picks for best value beers.

2. Pilsner Urquell (Pilsner Urquell Brewery) Style: Czech-style pilsner There’s nothing otherworldly about Pilsner Urquell, but it’s as dependable as beer comes – and, despite its meager 4.4% alcohol, a clear step up in heft and complexity from most major American brands. But it’s still eminently approachable, a soft pilsner with minimal hop bite, but crisp grassy softness. Price: 4-pack of 16.9ounce cans for $5.99; 8.8 cents per ounce

3. Local’s Light (Short’s Brewing) Style: Craft light American lager After years of mocking light beer, craft breweries such as Short’s figured out the medium is so popular for a reason: they’re simple, refreshing and people like them. Local’s Light is weightier than its largest light beer competitors in terms of both flavor and alcohol (5.2%, which is a lot for a “light” beer). But Local’s Light is crisp and bright easy drinking. Bonus: at 115 calories and 3 grams of carbs per can, it’s a part of the recent low-cal trend in craft beer. Price: 12-pack of 12-ounce cans for $12.99; 9 cents per ounce

4. Josephsbrau Bavarian Style Hefeweizen (Trader Joe’s) Style: Hefeweizen You had to figure Trader Joe’s and its array of cheap beer brands had to appear somewhere on this list. I tried several of them looking for that intersection of quality and price and landed here, with a fairly faith-

ful, if not slightly sweet, take on this classic German ale. Josephsbrau Bavarian Style Hefeweizen hits the style’s expected banana and clove notes with abundance, reminiscent of banana bread in the aroma and on the palate, but while remaining crisp, dry and refreshing. This is not a definitive take on hefeweizen, but at this price, it is a very respectable effort. Price: 6-pack of 12-ounce bottles for $6.49; 9 cents per ounce

5. Trumer Pils (Trumer Brauerei Berkeley) Style: German-style pilsner Made by an Austrian brewery in Berkeley, this is my favorite beer on this list, worthy of being a year-round fridge staple. It’s a perfectly threaded pilsner: a softly floral aroma, with notes of grass and hay, that’s spry and dry on the palate with light bitter muscularity in finish. It’s never the wrong time for a Trumer Pils. Many excellent craft pilsners sit on shelves, but this one is comparable to most, and at a significantly cheaper price. Out of curiosity, I also tried Trumer alongside the Trader Joe’s take on pilsner, which maps out to about the same price. Trumer is far better. Trumer Pils is available in 12-packs of cans and green bottles; go with the cans to avoid the “skunking” that can come with light exposure. Price: 12-pack of 12-ounce cans for $13.99; 9.7 cents per ounce

6. Victoria (Constellation Brands) Style: Mexican lager Here’s a list of Mexican

imports more expensive than Victoria: Corona, Corona Light, Pacficio, Modelo Especial and Modelo Negra. Which of those more expensive beers do I prefer to Victoria? None of them (though Pacifico and Modelo Negra are close). This amber brew with a toasty note in the aroma is the epitome of laid-back approachability – crisp, balanced, but with a lightly malty touch. And it’s aces alongside food, whether a burger or a plate of enchiladas. There are cheaper Mexican beers – Tecate, for instance – but they’re also onenote by comparison. I’d rather spend a little more for Victoria, which is a bargain among Mexican imports. Price: 12 pack of 12-ounce bottles for $14.99; 10.4 cents per ounce

7. Big Wave Golden Ale (Kona Brewing/ Anheuser-Busch) Style: Golden ale Bought by Anheuser-Busch in 2020, it’s no surprise that Kona beers are priced competitively; that has been much of Anheuser-Busch’s decadeslong approach to dominating the beer industry. The result is some beers that are excellent bang for the buck, though. It may be the Hawaiian branding winning me over – no matter that this beer is made at Anheuser-Busch breweries in California, Colorado, Oregon and New Hampshire – but there’s an appealing tropical fruit element to this beer, a pleasant banana-mango note (even though no fruit is added) in a light, crisp, lean and refreshing ale that’s a true summer sipper. Price: 12-pack of 12-ounce bottles for $15.99;

Style: India pale ales Lagunitas was a pioneer in the craft beer realm with an early embrace of brewing IPA and selling it at a competitive price. Both have only become truer since the brewery’s sale to Heineken in 2015. Lagunitas has remained as deft with hoppy beer as any large brewery. But the real standout in the VarietIPAck – a variety park of IPAs, naturally – is, well, the variety: three cans each of four hoppy beers (the flagship IPA, A Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’, Hazy Wonder and DayTime low-calorie IPA), all of them dependable, at a price cheaper than most craft 12-packs. Price: $17.99 for 12-pack of 12-ounce cans; 12.5 cents per ounce

10. Fresh Squeezed IPA (Deschutes Brewery) Style: IPA With IPAs, the challenge is obvious when aiming for value: these tend to be expensive beers, and the ones available cheaply generally aren’t very good. Trust me – I tried several for this endeavor. Fresh Squeezed is the most expensive beer here – but for a very good IPA, it’s a very good deal. Like the best and most interesting IPAs, Fresh Squeezed offers intensely fruity aromatic hoppy notes – mango, papaya – but also hits the intersection of dry, bitter and balanced on the palate. It’s really everything you could want from an IPA. It’s at least a few bucks cheaper than comparable IPAs, and a clear step up from cheaper ones. It’s often on sale too. I found it at a steal of a price of $12.99, which makes its per-ounce cost comparable to the Trader Joe’s beers. Price: 12-pack of 12-ounce cans for $18.99; 13.1 cents per ounce

How to buy an avocado, tell when it’s ripe The Washington Post We’ve all been there. Where, exactly? The place that exists where avocados are seemingly only either rock hard or discolored mush when we cut them open. You may have even seen the memes about how small the window is for peak ripeness. While such jokes are exaggerated for effect, many of us still struggle with the question of how to choose a good avocado and determine when it’s ready to eat. Here’s what you need to know. The look: The first thing to check is the fruit’s appearance. Avocados should have a glossy skin that is free of cracks and dry spots. The vast majority of avocados sold in the United States are Hass avocados, which tend to darken as they ripen. For these, bright green avocados should be ready in a few days,

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You can test an avocado’s ripeness by pressing it firmly but gently. It’s ready to eat when there’s a little give. while darker ones are more likely to be ready to eat. Another sign of ripeness is the color under the stem. “Once the stem is removed, there will be a little dimple and

that dimple should most resemble the color of the inside of the avocado,” Rebecca Angel Baer wrote in Southern Living. “So if that dimple is brown, chances are you’ll see a lot of brown

spots when you slice it open. But if that little dimple is yellow-green in color, you probably have a winner!” However, if it’s still very yellow, it likely needs more time to ripen. The feel: But the best indicator of avocado ripeness is firmness. Give it a gentle squeeze in the palm of your hand – the avocado industry prefers that shoppers don’t poke the fruit with their fingers – and if it yields to the pressure, the fruit is ready to eat. Firm avocados should be left at room temperature to continue to ripen. You can speed up the ripening process by placing the avocados in a paper bag, and can make it go even faster by adding another ethylene producing fruit, such as an apple or banana, to the bag. (Similarly, keep avocados away from such fruit if you don’t want them to

ripen so quickly.) The timing: Once the avocado is ripe, it is best consumed within the next day or so. If you don’t plan to eat the avocado that soon, you can place it in the refrigerator to slow the ripening process and give it a few extra days of life. Once an avocado is super soft, it’s probably due for the compost bin. With this in mind, it’s important to consider when you want to eat the avocados the next time you go grocery shopping. For example, if you want to eat avocado toast for breakfast every day for the following week, buy some that are ripe now and some that still have ripening to do. If you happen to have a bunch of ripe avocados all at once that you need to make use of – not a bad a problem to have – you can always make a big batch of guacamole.

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California’s strawberry fields may not be forever COULD ROBOTS HELP?

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n a strawberry field surrounded by strawberry fields on the outskirts of Santa Maria, a pair of robots have been picking berries all summer. Each robot, made by a Colorado company called Tortuga AgTech, trundles between the elevated beds on rugged wheels, then stops in front of a plant. An articulated arm maneuvers its sensor array among the leaves; machine vision software scours the sensor data in search of ripe berries. Most California strawberry plants sprout constantly over the course of the season – little green berries sitting alongside fat red ones, nestled among the leaves. If an unripe berry is in the way, the robot repositions for a better angle. A snippergrabber mounted in the middle of the sensors jabs in to cut the berry’s stem, then gingerly places it in a waiting plastic clamshell in a compartment at the robot’s base. The motion calls to mind a bird hunting, peering and pecking for insects. Since hitting this field in May, the robots are on their way to picking nearly as many berries as human pickers, and with 95% accuracy, according to Tortuga. The grower paying for the work backs up that claim. Tortuga’s pitch to growers is a subscription model that charges them a flat cost per robot-picked box of strawberries at a rate comparable to human worker wages. Unlike a human, the Tortuga bot doesn’t need breaks, can’t get sick, is always ready to work, and can pick all day and into the night. For the time being, human crews still come in after the robots for a periodic cleanup pick. But the team behind Tortuga – and some longtime experts in California’s $2-billion strawberry industry – see agricultural robots as more than just labor-saving devices that can cut costs and boost margins for growers. They see them as the only way that an industry sitting on the intersecting fault lines of climate change, water rights, labor struggles, land use and chemical regulation can adapt and survive. “My whole life is now dedicated to trying to make our human systems more resilient,” said Eric Adamson, Tortuga’s co-founder and chief executive. In the short term, he believes the company is proving that its robot is cost-effective and meets the needs of existing farms. With that proof in hand, the plan is to go to investors for a new infusion of money – the company has already raised $28 million since its founding in 2016 – and “build thousands of robots.” In the long term, he believes that a robotic labor supply is key to a future in which the strawberry industry is no longer synonymous with the California coast, where 90% of the strawberries in the U.S. are grown. Tortuga’s robots are designed to pick strawberries from plants grown on hydroponic tabletops, not the ground strawberries that make up almost the entirety of California’s crop. The Santa Maria location is part of a joint venture called New Wave Berry, formed by Oppy, a major fruit company based in Vancouver, Canada; Farmers Gate, an investment firm; and Red Dog Management. The venture has set up 50 of the 700 acres Red Dog manages in the area with tabletops as a pilot program, and is marketing the results under the Ocean Spray brand with “Happy Berry hydroponic strawberries” on the label. Often protected under a plastic tunnel, tabletop systems have become popular in the Netherlands and the U.K., where Tortuga first started rolling out

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Tortuga AgTech’s pitch to growers is a subscription model that charges them a flat cost per robot-picked box of strawberries at a rate comparable to human worker wages. Unlike a human, the Tortuga bot doesn’t need breaks, can’t get sick, is always ready to work, and can pick all day and into the night. its robots into the field. The use of a non-soil substrate – shredded coconut husk, called coir, in the case of the Santa Maria farm – and the protection of the tunnels give growers more control, and the raised tabletop beds keep ground pests away and make harvesting less painful for workers. The higher cost of the tabletops has made them a rarity in California’s fields, which cover more than 30,000 acres among the three strawberry hubs of Watsonville, Santa Maria and Oxnard. Strawberries are already one of the most capital-intensive crops grown in the state, and with relatively cheap labor and ideal strawberry weather for much of the year, California growers have not felt the same pressures as their European counterparts. But a complex mix of forces is coming to bear on the industry, making both tabletop farms and robot harvesters more viable in California. The most important shift: a changing regulatory regime for the chemicals that strawberry growers rely on. Strawberry plants are prey to a cluster of viruses, fungi and nematodes that spread to the dirt, where they sit waiting to infect next year’s berries. Without fumigants to bomb the hostile organisms out of the soil, the pathogen load builds up over time, and subsequent crops come out withered and blighted. Fumigation, however, is becoming increasingly regulated. Methyl bromide, once the industry favorite, was banned more than a decade ago for its effect on the ozone layer, and has also been identified as a neurotoxin and respiratory irritant. The use of chloropicrin, a common fumigant first used as a chemical weapon, is increasingly limited by buffer zones, which require growers to leave a certain distance between treated fields and roads, houses and bodies of water. And 1,3-dichloropropene, commonly referred to by the brand name Telone, is a known carcinogen and subject to strict annual usage limits in California. At the same time their use is being scrutinized, the fumigants appear to be losing effectiveness in combating both old and new threats to strawberries that have emerged in recent years, as UC Santa Cruz professor Julie Guthman outlined in “Wilted,” her 2019 book on fumigants and the California

strawberry industry. “There’s a general sense that fumigants aren’t long for this world,” Guthman said. “They’re very old, nasty chemicals.” The shift in the chemical regime has made tabletop farms more appealing, even though they cost more money to install. Instead of trying to fumigate away the dangers lurking in the soil each year, growers can throw out last year’s substrate and put in a new batch. The better ergonomics of the tabletop system also make it easier to recruit experienced harvest laborers who might otherwise pick blackberries or raspberries, which are grown in tall bushes. On average, California growers pay more than $35,000 per acre per year in wages to the workers who pick their strawberries. That amounts to 40% of the total costs per acre for a strawberry operation, according to the most recent 2021 cost study from the University of California, and those numbers have probably risen as new state wage and overtime laws went into effect in 2022. California growers have had a harder time attracting harvest labor in recent years, and inflation and a tight labor market have spurred workers across the state to demand higher wages. Some growers rely on workers brought in under the H-2A guest worker program, which ensures a stable workforce but drives costs higher, as the conditions of the visa require employers to provide housing, food and a minimum wage of $17.51 for 2022. With wages making up so much of a grower’s outlay, the allure of a robot’s increased reliability and potential to become more cost-efficient over time is hard to resist. The tabletop system enables Tortuga’s strawberry bots to ply their trade by making berries easier to pluck with robotic arms and protecting the robots from direct exposure to the elements. “We want to accelerate the adoption of tabletop and controlled-environment growing, and help these farms succeed,” Adamson said. “Robots help those farms to be more economically effective, and free up more capital to put in the setup.” Ryan Harrison, vice president and general manager at Red Dog, the company managing the Santa Maria farm, sees tabletops and robotic harvest-

ing as key components of an even more dramatic shift for the industry on the horizon, which could knock California off its spot as the strawberry king. In coming decades, he predicted, the state’s three major growing regions will cease to be viable for outdoor cultivation as average temperatures rise, droughts lengthen, water use becomes more restricted and development drives land prices up and extends buffer zones further into fields. Of the three major strawberry regions, he predicted that Santa Maria is likely to hold out longest, with a moderate climate, stable water rights and a greater distance from major urban centers. “Santa Maria will be one of the last growing areas in California before everything probably goes glasshouse or indoor in places like Detroit or Chicago or New Jersey,” Harrison said. “Looking into the crystal ball, that’s going to be 20, 30 years from now.” But California’s current dominance rests on a workforce of tens of thousands of skilled pickers. A shift to growing strawberries indoors or under tunnels on the outskirts of major U.S. metro areas would require a new workforce to match. That’s where the robots come into play. “Once you develop a system where you can grow anywhere, you don’t care about the soil, you don’t care about the climate much, and it works in other locales in very similar ways with the same robots, you can do all this cool stuff,” said Tim Brackbill, Tortuga’s other co-founder and chief technology officer. “Sustainability is a nice word, but it’s becoming more of an imperative,” Adamson said. “We have to be able to grow food in a more resilient and more adaptive way, because the fires aren’t gonna stop in the American West, the water’s not going to all of a sudden come back.” Outside the crystal ball, however, there are still billions of strawberries growing in California and a number of hurdles to overcome before a robotic, hydroponic, distributed strawberry system can take root. Mark Bolda, the director of the University of California’s Santa Cruz County Cooperative Extension and a berry specialist, agrees that California strawberries face a number of challenges – but is skeptical that the economics for table-

top farms picked by robots add up, or that the state’s industry is going anywhere. Tabletop adoption so far has been limited, Bolda said, though he has seen experimentation. With the new fumigant regime, he said, “it’s getting iffy and we’re starting to see a lot more disease, so larger companies are trying to grow their competence in tabletops, but not at scale.” When he co-authored UC’s latest cost study on strawberries, he looked at a hydroponic system growing in plastic-lined furrows in the ground, rather than the more expensive tabletops, and found that the economics were “a disaster.” In an average field, the costs added up to $45,000 per acre each year, excluding harvest labor. In the hydroponic system, those same costs more than doubled to over $100,000. Harrison at Red Dog declined to share detailed cost information but said that while the cost per acre of their tabletop grow is higher than that of a traditional field, the higher yields from the tabletops make the economics work. “We produce so much more,” Harrison said – up to 50% more strawberries per acre – “that the cost per unit produced is actually less.” “I’ve had some growers tell me that the costs are a little less” than the hydroponic setup he examined in the study, Bolda said, and noted that younger growers, a minority in an industry where he estimates the average age to be “around 60,” are more enthusiastic about trying new technologies. “I’ve been lectured by some of the younger set that I really need to up my game” and get on board with tabletop growing, Bolda said, “but the finances to me are disturbing.” He admitted that the grow-anywhere vision of a robot-powered operation was “really intriguing,” but doubts that the California strawberry system is quite so portable. “If anything, I could see a mix of tabletops and soil” developing, Bolda said, but he believes that regular dirt fields on the California coast will persist, thanks to the climate and industry concentration, as more nuanced and targeted soil pest management replaces the old fumigation system. In the Santa Maria test field, Tortuga’s robot fleet has already shown signs of improvement. Harrison said the company plans to extend its commercial trial at Red Dog into next year and expand its acreage. One of Tortuga’s biggest bottlenecks now is, ironically, human labor. “If a robot has an issue, it might take us four hours to fix it, but half of that time is just waiting for someone to get to it,” Adamson said. A potential solution: retraining harvest workers as robot operators and mechanics. One picker in Santa Maria is already receiving such training. While the humans learn to work on robots, the robots are learning to work more like humans. Adamson said that a midsummer software update doubled their pick speed. “We’re basically going as fast as a slow human, but quality is really high, and we think we can get faster and faster,” he said. Tortuga’s founders expect their robots will match human output in the near future, by dint of working longer hours at a slower rate, and hit human pick speed “within a year or two.” “I do think we’re gonna get to pretty good human speed, though I do think the best humans are going to be able to outperform robots at these judgment-driven tasks,” Adamson added. “But that’s OK. It doesn’t have to be better than every human, it just has to be better than enough people.”

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How does Bonnie Raitt ease the pain in fraught times? By singing songs and watching animal videos

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Tribune Content Agency MINNEAPOLIS — The pain in Bonnie Raitt’s voice was palpable over the phone. Not the I-Can’t-Make-You-Love-Me agony, but the life-as-we-knowit-is-getting-so-hard suffering. The reversal of Roe v. Wade for women’s rights, the war in Ukraine, voting rights restrictions, the murder of George Floyd, climate change and the surge in gun violence, among other things, have rankled the longtime activist for progressive causes. Raitt speaks out in interviews, on social media and at countless benefit concerts, but she doesn’t jump on a soapbox at her own shows. “I’m very cognizant that people are there to hear a concert and not to be preached or convinced of one position or the other,” said the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, who is currently on tour. “I try to mention at the end of the show: ‘Don’t be discouraged and I won’t be. We’ll help each other stay active,’” continued Raitt, a child of the ’60s who was raised as a pacifist Quaker. In these fraught times, the singer-guitarist has found a special, unexpected way to chill out: watching videos of animals, like pandas sneezing or cockatoos dancing. “The ones that get me the most are the unlikely pairings of friendships of animals,” she said, citing a morning-news report about the Funny Farm Rescue & Sanctuary in New Jersey, where animals roam free and bond. “By the end of it, my oxytocin level was up to the level of what Grateful Dead fans must feel like at the end of the show.” She giggled, like a giddy Deadhead.

Stretching on new album Raitt returned to the road this past spring to promote “Just Like That,” her 18th studio album since her 1971 eponymous debut was recorded in a barn on Lake Minnetonka. The new project is her most daring work, tapping new sounds and new forms of songwriting after all these years. “Waitin’ for You to Blow” showcases her in a jazz jaunt as she discusses the challenges of recovery. “That was the biggest stretch for me,” said Raitt, who has been in recovery for 34 years. “I told the band I have this idea for a stutter funk rhythm track with this kind of jazzy Les McCann/Eddie Harris chords with this kind of sardonic Randy Newman/Mose Allison lyric. “It’s probably the most satisfying, scary jump I’ve made musically.” Recovery is one of the themes of the album – along with grace, redemption and mortality.

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Bonnie Raitt performs at the Mann Center in Philadelphia, June 15. “Those are the four horsemen of the apocalypse,” Raitt said. “Livin’ for the Ones,” a Stonesian rocker, doesn’t have a new sound, but it talks about living life to the fullest. It was inspired in part by her brother Steve Raitt, a longtime Twin Cities sound engineer/ producer who died of a brain tumor in 2009. “I’m going to live for the life he didn’t get to live. That’s how I got through his death,” she said this month from her home in Northern California. She talked about Steve not veering from his macrobiotic diet for seven years and outliving the Mayo Clinic’s prognosis by six years. “When he went blind and couldn’t walk the last few months of his life and was still fighting and thought he was going to recover – I’m breaking up talking about it.” She paused to regain her composure. “And I said, ‘I’m never going to complain again every day I can open my eyes and stand up and walk.’” Never a prolific songwriter, Raitt also tried a different kind of writing this time – storytelling based on a real-life incident, a style she’d always admired in the works of Bob Dylan, John Prine and Jackson Browne. She composed two tunes based on news stories. “Down the Hall” is a tale of redemption about a convicted murderer who works as a prison hospice aide. Raitt discovered the details in a New York Times piece by Suleika Jaouad. The album’s title song, “Just Like That,” was drawn from a true story about an organ transplant connecting two families struck by tragedies.

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own Redwing label, “Just Like That” was No. 1 on the Americana charts for several weeks. Maybe that’s proof that music is healing in times of trouble. “We have to keep turning our face to the sun and finding a way to bring joy to each other and ourselves,” said the feisty redhead with a distinctive streak of white hair. “I’ve got a big job.” She heals herself and her audience every time she sings her signature songs in concert. Before she utters the first words of the gut-wrenching “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” she takes “a spiritual deep breath and I just surrender to the emotions of the song.” She’s been on both sides of the situation depicted in Mike Reid’s tortuous lament – no longer loving someone and hearing that message herself. “In one case, they begged me to still do the family Christmas. Auch! It was really brutal. I sing it for anybody that’s gone through that. And that’s probably everyone in the hall.” When it comes to Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery,” Raitt gets choked up these days because they duetted twice shortly before he died of Covid-19 in 2020. “Now it’s all I can do to not break down when I’m singing,” she said. “I think of him the entire time I’m singing and I’m honoring him this time. “In years past, I’ve sung it especially for my mom [pianist Marge Goddard], and I’ve been dedicating it the last couple of tours to all the women who don’t have the choice to not get married or can’t leave a marriage, can’t have an education, can’t drive a car, can’t wear a short skirt. I think about all those women around in the world trapped in situations they

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IS THE CONTRACT DEAD OR ALIVE? Leonard Louis Levinson wrote: “He’s a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.” Some bridge opponents are like that. They give you just the help you need to bring home a contract that otherwise would have died. In today’s deal, this assistance comes in the form of an ill-advised penalty double.

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by Phillip Alder Against four spades doubled, West starts with two top clubs, East playing high-low to encourage. After South ruffs the second round, how should he continue? North did well to rebid two spades. Perhaps South should have rebid three diamonds or four spades. Without West’s revealing double, declarer would have led a trump at trick three, happy to concede one trick in each suit except hearts. But if the double was to be believed, the trumps were breaking 5-0. Then, if South led a spade immediately, West could win with the ace and force declarer again with another club, promoting a second trump trick for himself. Similarly, declarer couldn’t afford to play three top diamonds. If West could ruff, he would exit with the ace and another spade, leaving South with a losing diamond in his hand. How could declarer collect three diamond tricks and stop West from scoring a second trump trick? He could prevail by making the third diamond trick a ruff in the dummy. South cashed his top hearts and diamond ace, played a diamond to the king and ducked a diamond. Whatever East led now, declarer could ruff the diamond queen in the dummy for his 10th trick. He lost only one spade, one diamond and one club. COPYRIGHT: 2022, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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FAIRFIELD — Brad Pitt will be in local theaters this weekend as an assassin with some very bad assignments behind him in “Bullet Train”. Also showing is “Easter Sunday,” a comedy based on the real life family members of comic Jo Koy. Opening nationwide are: “Bullet Train,” in which Ladybug (Pitt), the most unlucky assassin whose “jobs” have not gone well, just wants his last job to be perfect, but the latest mission has so many angles and bad guys it is possible just getting the mission completed without him dying will be the biggest win. Bad guys from across the globe converge on a speeding train in Japan all with different missions. This wild ride is directed by David Leitch of “Deadpool 2” fame. The film is rated R. “Easter Sunday,” a film based on comic Jo Koy’s life experiences and stand-up comedy. It is centered around his crazy but loving family dynamics. The film is not rated. “Bodies, Bodies, Bodies,” a horror movie that puts a bunch of rich 20-something’s hurricane party on ice after a body turns up. The backstabbing friends become something very literally in this film. The film is rated R. Opening in limited release are: “Thirteen Lives,” a film is based on the rescue mission in Thailand in 2018, where a group of young boys and their soccer coach

Raitt From Page B4 can’t get out of. “In my mom’s case, she never got the credit for the incredible contribution she made to my dad’s career. My mom’s generation sacrificed to raise the kids. I made a decision not to saddle someone else to support me.” At 72, Raitt shows no signs of slowing down. Her father, Broadway

are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding. Two expert British cave divers, Richard Stanton (Viggo Mortensen) and John Volanthen (Colin Farrell), are summoned to assist with the rescue operations. The film is rated PG-13. “Resurrection,” in which Margaret (Rebecca Hall) has her life under control. It is orderly, and predictable with everything going just as planned. Her daughter Abbie (Grace Kaufman) is off to college and then David returns, a sadist evil ex who brings back all the horrors of her youth. This is a slow psychological burn of a film that covers some dark territory. The film is not rated. “Tin Can,” a film set in a cold and dark metal chamber. Inside is Fret (Anna Hopkins), a scientist who had been working on a cure for a plague raging around the globe. How she got into the cage is a mystery but she knows her escape is crucial to ending the virus before it destroys us all. The film is not rated. For information on Edwards Cinemas in Fairfield, visit www. regmovies.com/ theatres/regal-edwardsfairfield-imax. For Vacaville showtimes, visit www.brenden theatres.com. For Vallejo showtimes, check www. cinemark.com/theatres/ ca-vallejo. More information about upcoming films is available at www. movieinsider.com. star John Raitt, performed until he died at age 88. Tony Bennett, despite dementia, was singing at 95 and remembering the words, she pointed out. Suddenly Raitt shifted into a frail voice of an elderly woman. “I’ll be making music till I drop,” she creaked. Then, returning to her regular voice, she was full of her usual unstoppable spunk: “I’m going to come out at the end with white hair – and a red streak.” She laughed.

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0201 REAL ESTATE SERVICE/LOANS Disclaimer: Fair Housing is the Law! The mission of the Department of Fair Employment and Housing is to protect the people of California from unlawful discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations. The Daily Republic will not knowingly accept any ad which is in violation of the Federal Fair Housing Act and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act which ban discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, familial status, and marital status. Describe the Property Not the Tenant

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0501 HELP WANTED Tomson Cabinetry Hiring Estimator/Admin - Have knowledge or will train, pay based on knowledge of drawings, ability to read plans, Qualifications – High School or equivalent, work well with others, self-motivated, Pay based on knowledge of trade, includes IRA, Health insurance and paid holidays. Apply in person @1401 W Texas Street, back of the building, 707-4281647 Tomson Cabinetry is looking for someone with experience or wants to learn a trade building and/or installing cabinetry. Knowledge of 32mm European style cabinetry helpful, read a tape measure, ability to operate tools safely, be able to lift up to 75 lbs safely, Qualifications – High School or equivalent, work well with others, self-motivated, clean driving record, Pay based on knowledge of trade, includes IRA, Health insurance and paid holidays. Apply in person @1401 W Texas Street, back of the building, 707-4281647

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE Notice is hereby given pursuant to Sections 21700 through 21716 of the California Business and Professions Code, Section 2328 of the UCC, Section 535 of the Penal Code, the undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding on Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 commencing 2:30PM @ALMOND TREE STORAGE, 725 RAILROAD AVE, SUISUN CITY, CA 94585 the following delinquent tenantʼs items described as; miscellaneous furniture, tools, household items, appliances, electronic equipment, toys, clothing, luggage, boxes & bags- contents unknown: • SPACE • A15 • A26 • D051

NAME Mike H Brophy Kalvin Anderson Richard Banuelos

Purchases must be paid for at the time of sale in cash only. All purchased goods are sold “as is, where is” and must be removed at the time of the sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and tenant. Almond Tree Storage reserves the right to dismiss any unit from the auction. Auctioneer: Storage Auction Experts, Bond #5860870 Site Manager: Lara Smith, Phone (707) 425-4520 DR#00056896 Published: August 1, 8, 2022 FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that FAIRFIELD-SUISUN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, acting by and through its Board of Education, hereinafter referred to as the District will receive sealed proposals from qualified Bidders, up to, but no later than August 23, 2022 on or before 12:00 PM local time and will not be opened publicly, for the award of contracts for the following: RFP #2151-23 Digital Signage - Hardware Interested Bidders are referred to the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District Purchasing Department website, https://www.fsusd.org/Page/15594, for all communication, instructions, and forms. The RFP packet will be posted by 4:00 pm on July 27, 2022. Questions and/or RFI regarding this RFP will be accepted until 4:00 pm on August 4, 2022, and must be submitted in email to: Melissa Iriarte at melissair@fsusd.org – using the subject line of “RFP #2151-23 Questions”. It is the responsibility of the Bidder to check the website for addenda and/or updates. Proposals are due at the Purchasing Office for time and date stamping on or before 12:00 pm PST on August 23, 2022. One original and one electronic version (usb drive) response must be submitted in a sealed, clearly marked envelope. All proposals must be received and time and date stamped in the Purchasing office by the above due date and time. Proposals received after the due date and time will be returned unopened to the Bidder. No exceptions. Faxed or emailed RFPs will not be accepted. All proposals must conform and be responsive to this RFP, and all necessary documents must be enclosed. Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, to waive any informalities or irregularities therein, and to accept the proposal in whole, or portions of the proposal that, in the opinion of the District, is in the best interest of the Fairfield- Suisun Unified School District. No Responder may withdraw their RFP for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the opening. Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District reserves the right, in its sole discretion and subject to applicable laws, to determine the criteria and process whereby proposals are evaluated and awarded. DR#00056683 Published: July 25 Aug. 1, 2022

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0509 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES

Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 21700 of the Business and Professions Code, State of California, the undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding. This lien sale shall be conducted online at www.storagetreasures.com where additional information about the sale and the contents to be auctioned will be posted at least seven (7) days before the sale date. The contents will be sold to the highest bidder on 08/10/2022 at 12:00PM.

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A0192 Marlina Minjares A0055 Lisa Welling F0033 Lisa Welling This sale is subject to cancellation without notice in the event of settlement be- tween owner and obligated party. SECURITY PUBLIC STORAGE 606 Parker Rd, Fairfield, CA 94533 DR#00056617 Published: July 25 Aug. 1, 2022 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 8/17/2022 at 12:00 PM. Unless stated otherwise the description of the contents are household goods and furnishings: Erick Myers Thomas Newman Trinie Castelan Alfred Anderson Lamarr Satterfield Pinkie Tipton Chalagne Henderson Sue Pierce Sandra Rogers 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. 8/1, 8/8/22 CNS-3607884# THE DAILY REPUBLIC DR#00056660 Published: Aug. 1, 8, 2022 Section 00 1100 - NOTICE TO BIDDERS ARTICLE 1. GENERAL Section 1.01 Notice is hereby given that the Board of Education of the Vacaville Unified School District of Solano County, hereinafter referred to as "District," will receive sealed Proposals for: Bid Package # 22-13: Hemlock/ACE Elementary School – Kindergarten Portable Improvement Project • Modify existing portable classroom building that will have previously been set with modular sections connected and ramp installed. (i.e. setting, connecting, and ramp installation is out of scope) • Tie in utilities (i.e. water, sewer, electricity, low voltage, fire alarm etc.) • Construct two restrooms, casework and sink, installation of A/V systems • Interior and exterior refurbishment/repair including paint, carpet, ceiling tile, and fixtures Notice is hereby given that the Project is a public works project within the requirements of Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1 of the California Labor Code, and that each Bidder and all Subcontractors are required to be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 at the time of bidding. Failure of the Bidder or a listed Subcontractor to be registered at the time of bidding shall render the Bid nonresponsive and unavailable for award. Proposals are due: BID INFORMATION Location: Vacaville Unified School District, 401 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville, CA 95687 Contact: District Representative: Derick Brickner, Capital Program Management, Inc. (916) 548-4813 Date: August 23, 2022 Time: No later than 2:00 PM At this time such proposals will be opened and publicly read. Contractor License Classification Required: Class B Section 1.02 Mandatory Pre bid conference will be held at: MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE INFORMATION Location: Hemlock/ACE Elementary School, 400 Hemlock Street, Vacaville, CA, In front of Admin Office Contact: District Representative: Derick Brickner, Capital Program Management, Inc. (916) 548-4813 Date: August 9, 2022 Time: 1:00 PM Attendance for duration of meeting is mandatory and each prime contract bidder (referred to as “Bidder” or “Bidders”) shall be required to certify, as part of its Proposal Form, that it attended the entirety of the Pre-Bid conference. Failure to include the certification will render the bid non-responsive. Failure to attend the mandatory, Pre-Bid conference waives the right to submit a bid. For all Pre-Bid visits (other than the Pre-bid conference), Bidder must make an appointment with the District Representative prior to visiting the Site. Appropriate COVID-19 protocols will be required. Section 1.03 Overall coordination of the Project will be the responsibility of the District Representative. All inquiries regarding the bid are to be directed to District Representative, Derick Brickner, derickb@capitalpm.com. Section 1.04 Contracts for construction will be direct prime contracts with the District. All Project procedures and documents are designed to facilitate delivery of the Project through prime construction contracts. The District's forms shall be used for all documents. Bidders shall read and review the Bidding Documents carefully, and shall familiarize themselves thoroughly with all requirements. Section 1.05 Each bid proposal shall conform to the requirements of the Contract Documents. The bid documents may be obtained at bidderʼs expense from Signature Reprographics, (916) 454-0800 or electronically at https:/signaturerepro.com. Section 1.06 No bid will be considered unless it is accompanied by Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Bid Bond from a surety authorized to do business in California for ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the Combined Base Bid Amount, including additive Alternate Bids, made payable to the District. The above-mentioned check or bid bond shall be given as a guarantee that the Bidder shall, if selected by the District, execute the Contracts, in conformance with the Contract Documents. For more information, refer to Section 00 2000, Article 1, Section 1.06. Section 1.07 Bids shall not expire for a period of 90 days after the date set for the bid opening. Within ten (10) days after notification of the Districtʼs Notice of Intent to Award the Co ntracts, the successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Labor and Material Bond and a Faithful Performance Bond for each Contract. For further information, refer to Sections 00 6113.13 and 00 6113.16. Section 1.08 The District is an equal opportunity employer. Refer to General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 7, Section 7.10. The District encourages the participation of DVBE businesses. Refer to Special Provisions Section 00 8000. The District has set an overall goal for this Project that Bidders obtain a minimum of 3% of their bid amount in participation by certified Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (“DVBE”). The participation may be through work or supply of materials. If a Bidder is unable to obtain the full 3% participation by one or more DVBEs, then the bid may be found responsive only if it establishes “good faith efforts” to meet the goal. The requirements for good faith efforts are set forth in Special Provisions Section 00 8000, Article 4 and the attachments thereto. Section 1.09 The successful Bidder shall be required to pay its workers on this Project a sum not less than the general prevailing rate (applicable at time of bid advertisement date) of per diem wages and not less than the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work for work of a similar character in the locality in which the Project is performed, as provided under California Labor Code Sections 1726-1861. Copies of the prevailing rate of per diem wages are on file at the Vacaville Unified School District, 401 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville, CA 95687, and shall be made available to any interested party upon request. They may also be obtained on the internet at http://www.dir.ca.gov/OPRL/DPreWageDetermination.htm Refer to General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 7. The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. Section 1.10 The governing board of the District reserves the right to reject any and all proposals and to waive any irregularity in any proposals received. Section 1.11 At the request and expense of the successful Bidder, eligible securities shall be accepted in lieu of retention payments to insure performance under the Contract, pursuant to California Public Contract Code Section 22300. Refer to Exhibit H and General Conditions Section 00 7000, Article 12, Section 12.05. Said securities shall be deposited prior to the submission of the successful Bidderʼs first progress payment application. Section 1.12 The successful Bidder shall have at least one supervising technician on call in the event that the existing fire alarm, security clocks, intercom, telephone and data systems are damaged during the course of construction or the Contract requires relocation of existing devices. The supervising technician is required to be on Site during all aspects of repair, modifications and testing. For fire alarm modifications and repairs the supervising technician is required to have at a minimum NICET LEVEL 2 Certification or equal. The District may consider optional Underwriters Laboratories Certification, factory training or contractor demonstrated equal experience/training with prior approval. The supervising technician must also have a minimum 5 years installation experience. DR#00056824 Published: August 1, 8, 2022

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF LYNDA G. CHRISTIAN NEE GREGORIAN CASE NO. P051564 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: LYNDA G. CHRISTIAN NEÉ GREGORIAN A Petition for Probate has been filed by SHIRIN C. SAMILJAN in the Superior Court of California, County of SOLANO. The Petition for Probate requests that SHIRIN C. SAMILJAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The Petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court on 9/2/2022 at 8:30 A.M. in Dept. 4 Room N/A located at 600 UNION AVE., FAIRFIELD, CA 94533. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: MICHAEL C. FERGUSON, 1816 FIFTH STREET, BERKELEY, CA 94710, Telephone: 510-548-9005 7/31, 8/1, 8/7/22 CNS-3610189# THE DAILY REPUBLIC DR#00056829 Published: July 31 Aug. 1, 7, 2022 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TS No. CA-22-914031-AB Order No.: 02-22003688 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 7/7/1993. 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): EUGENE GERMANY AND LILLIE R. GERMANY, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS Recorded: 7/20/1993 as Instrument No. 1993-00065159 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SOLANO County, California; Date of Sale: 8/24/2022 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: $35,012.53 The purported property address is: 1317 REBECCA DRIVE, SUISUN CITY, CA 94585 Assessor's Parcel No.: 0173-452-080 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 800-2802832 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-22-914031-AB. 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-22-914031-AB 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.: CA22-914031-AB IDSPub #0179688 7/25/2022 8/1/2022 8/8/2022 DR#00056532 Published: July 25 Aug. 1, 8, 2022

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NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that pursuant to California Civil Code §1988 and Government Code §6066, the personal property of LeRoy Thomas Pryor, having been abandoned, shall be auctioned and sold to the highest bidder, for cash, at 1969 New Jersey Street Fairfield, CA 94533 on August 9, 2022 from 8:00 am – 9:00 am. DR#00056458 Published: July 27, 29, 31, Aug. 1, 3, 2022 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: KATHLEEN MARIE BROWN Case Number: P051546 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Kathleen Marie Brown A Petition for Probate has been filed by: John Gordon Sparks in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: John Gordon Sparks be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: AUG. 23, 2022 TIME: 9:00 a.m. DEPT.: 22 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1)four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Gary D. Sparks, Esq. 1125 Missouri Street, Suite 207 Fairfield CA 94533 707-207-4500 DR#00056778 Published: July 29 Aug. 1, 5, 2022

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Legend From Page B1 athletic career, Bill advocated vigorously for civil rights and social justice, a legacy he passed down to generations of NBA players who followed in his footsteps. Through the taunts, threats and unthinkable adversity, Bill rose above it all and remained true to his belief that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity.” The Kings issued a statement as well, lauding Russell for contributions that transcended sports. “The Kings join the basketball community in grieving the loss of NBA legend Bill Russell,” the team said. “A storied champion and a fierce advocate for civil rights and social justice, Bill was a trailblazer who always led with his values. His immeasurable impact will continue to resonate both on and off the court for years to come. We are keeping his family and friends in our thoughts during this time.” Russell was born in Monroe, Louisiana, on Feb. 12, 1934. His family moved to Oakland when he was 8. Russell attended McClymonds High School in Oakland and went on to University of San Francisco, where he led the Dons to back-to-back NCAA championships in 1955-56. He then led the United States to a gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The Rochester Royals, who would eventually become the Sacramento Kings, passed on Russell to select Sihugo Green with the No. 1 pick in the 1956 NBA draft. The St. Louis Hawks selected Russell with the No. 2 pick but traded him to the Celtics. Russell was a 12-time All-Star and 11-time All-NBA selection who averaged 15.1 points, 22.5 rebounds and 4.3 assists over 13 seasons. He won his last two championships with the Celtics as player-coach following the retirement of Red Auerbach, becoming the first Black head coach in NBA history and the first in North American pro-

fessional sports. Russell coached the Seattle Supersonics from 1973-77 and the Kings in 1987-88. After going 17-41 to start his first season in Sacramento, Russell was reassigned to vice president and Reynolds was named head coach. “The team wasn’t good and we were disappointing in that way,” Reynolds said. “He had some difficult times. I think, certainly, occasionally, he’d get frustrated with the players and players might get frustrated with him, but that’s normal. No different than Rick Adelman or Garry St. Jean or Jerry Reynolds or Paul Westphal or anybody else. That’s the reality of the league, but the thing that was tough for Bill was, he was such a great player and such a great winner, it was tough for him to understand why players couldn’t play better. He’s one of the all-time greats, and I think that’s been a problem for a lot of great players who tried to be coaches. There are a few exceptions to that rule, but not too many.” Russell served as vice president of the Kings for nearly two years before he was fired on Dec. 19, 1989, but he always stayed close to the game. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame as a player in 1975 and as a coach in 2021. He is also enshrined in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame and the FIBA Hall of Fame. “For nearly 35 years since Bill completed his trailblazing career as the league’s first Black head coach, we were fortunate to see him at every major NBA event, including NBA Finals, where he presented the Bill Russell Trophy to the Finals MVP,” Silver said. “I cherished my friendship with Bill and was thrilled when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I often called him basketball’s Babe Ruth for how he transcended time. Bill was the ultimate winner and consummate teammate, and his influence on the NBA will be felt forever. We send our deepest condolences to his wife, Jeannine, his family and his many friends.”

CALENDAR Monday’s TV sports Baseball • MLB, Boston at Houston, ESPN, 5 p.m. • MLB, L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s TV sports Baseball • MLB, L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, TBS, NBCSBA, 6:30 p.m. • MLB, Oakland at L.A. Angels, NBCSCA, 6:30 p.m. Basketball • The Tournament, championship final, ESPN, 5 p.m. Live events. Not all sports channels are listed.

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East Division W L 69 34 57 45 54 48 51 51 51 52 Central Division W L Minnesota 53 48 Cleveland 52 49 Chicago White Sox 51 50 Detroit 41 62 Kansas City 40 62 West Division W L Houston 67 36 Seattle 55 48 Texas 46 55 L.A. Angels 43 59 OAKLAND 39 65 N.Y. Yankees Toronto Tampa Bay Baltimore Boston

Pct GB .525 — .515 1 .505 2 .398 13 .392 13½ Pct GB .650 — .534 12 .455 20 .422 23½ .375 28½

From Page B1 1 on the restart. Austin Cindric finished in second place, Harrison Burton in third. The beginning – as well as the end – of the race belonged to Reddick. The Richard Childress Racing driver, commanding the No. 8 car, had the pole position to begin Sunday’s race and subsequently led the field for the first 12 laps. His team decided to enter pit road right before the end of Stage 1 — effectively foregoing valuable playoff points in accordance with his long-term plan. And it worked: Reddick was one of an elite few to maneuver the 14-turn, 82-lap road course unscathed and without many headaches. At one point in the second stage, he maintained a lead of six seconds over the next-best driver. Chase Elliott, the NASCAR standings leader, might have been robbed of a shoo-in top-5 finish on Sunday. The No. 9 car was in second place on that aforementioned second-to-last restart — but just before he emerged from the lethal 14-turn road course’s Turn 1, he got bumped from behind and spun out. Elliot finished the race in 17th position. Ross Chastain made an unexpected move in the most crucial

49ers From Page B1 Seahawks and DK Metcalf (three years, $72 million; $52.1 million guaranteed). What will the 49ers now get in return? Samuel will be hardpressed to repeat last season’s offensive fireworks, but he may not have to, if the supporting cast shines around new quarterback Trey Lance. Still, Samuel’s physical style and dogged determination are a spark whenever the ball is in his hands, and that is why retraining him was a must for Shanahan’s offense. Three seasons into his career, Samuel is absolutely unique in a profession full of talented play-makers, full of demands, and short on supply. No one does what Deebo did in 2021, when he not only produced over 1,400 receiving yards and also ran for eight touchdowns, the most ever by an NFL wide receiver in a single season. Such talents made him a First-Team All-Pro, and it’s why he under-

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N.Y. Mets 9, Miami 3 Cleveland 5, Tampa Bay 3 Houston 3, Seattle 2 L.A. Dodgers 7, Colorado Rockies 3 Texas 5, L.A. Angels 2 San Diego 3, Minnesota 2 Monday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at SAN FRANCISCO, 6:45 p.m. Cincinnati at Miami, 3:40 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Washington, 4:05 p.m. Seattle at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Arizona at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m. Detroit at Minnesota, 4:40 p.m. Baltimore at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Boston at Houston, 5:10 p.m. Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m. Colorado at San Diego, 6:40 p.m. Tuesday’s Games OAKLAND at L.A. Angels, 6:38 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at SAN FRANCISCO, 6:45 p.m. Colorado at San Diego, 1:10 p.m., first game Colo. at San Diego, 7:10 p.m., second game Cincinnati at Miami, 3:40 p.m. Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Washington, 4:05 p.m. Seattle at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Toronto at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m. Arizona at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m. Detroit at Minnesota, 4:40 p.m. Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 4:45 p.m. Baltimore at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Boston at Houston, 5:10 p.m. Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m.

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Tyler Reddick celebrates after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Verizon 200 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Sunday. moment of Sunday’s race – avoiding the carnage on Turn 1 and instead using the course’s access road. The experiment pushed him into the lead out of nowhere and forced Reddick to battle around him to cross the finish line first. “We were four-wide and just couldn’t go any farther right and decided to take the NASCAR access lane out there,” Chastain told NBC. He added, “Just pure reaction there.” The move for a moment put him in second place, but NASCAR later ruled that it was illegal and penalized him to a 27th-place finish.

standably commanded a top-of-the-market contract in an offseason where receivers’ pay grades soared. His should be the final big-money contract to drop for this season. His agent, Tory Dandy, brokered an extension Thursday for fellow 2019 draft-class product DK Metcalf (three years, $72 million, per ESPN). While awaiting his new contract, Samuel bypassed the 49ers’ voluntary offseason program from April to June. But he did show up for June’s mandatory minicamp, albeit mostly as an observer who did conditioning work on the side, just as he did upon reporting to training camp. Samuel certainly deserved to cash in on a durable, versatile, commendable season that continued into the playoffs. Remember when he strutted onto the field, hollered to coach Kyle Shanahan for the ball, and promptly ran 26 yards for a 49ers touchdown in a playoff win over the rival Dallas Cowboys? Or how he multi-tasked in their next win at Green Bay? He wanted the rock. Now he

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Here’s what Reddick said when asked what he was thinking as it unfolded in real time. “I was like, ‘Uh . . . uh-oh.’ I mean, that was a scenario that had been talked about, you know? If you get bottled up, what do you do? You take the access road,” he told NBC. “I couldn’t believe that he got ahead of me. I was kind of waiting to see if he got a penalty because I didn’t want to move him out of the way and make his race worse... But yeah, I was really surprised by that. Hats off to Ross for trying to do that. But really glad it didn’t end up working out because I would’ve been pretty pissed off.”

found financial paydirt.

Why all the fuss? This contract extension was budgeted for and publicly forecast by the 49ers for months. The team tried to broker a deal back in February, according to a source. Things took a turn in April, however, with salvos from Samuel about discontent. He scrubbed all 49ers’ connections from his social media and then confirmed to ESPN a trade request. Since then, Samuel hasn’t publicly spoken to the media, allowing speculation to run rampant that his issues were not finance-related, that perhaps he was upset over his dual use as a receiver and rusher, though that seemed far-fetched considering how much he craved having the ball in his hands. It took 23 years for the 49ers to draft an All-Pro wide receiver after Terrell Owens. That relationship ended in a trade amid hurt feelings and fiscal demands. Samuel, a 2019 secondround pick, is not taking the ball and going to a new home. Even if the 49ers’

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Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 2 N.Y. Yankees 11, Kansas City 5 Detroit 4, Toronto 2 Cleveland 4, Tampa Bay 1 Milwaukee 4, Boston 1 Atlanta 5, Arizona 2 Houston 11, Seattle 1 L.A. Dodgers 5, Colorado 4 Texas 7, L.A. Angels 2 San Diego 10, Minnesota 1 Saturday’s Games Chicago White Sox 3, OAKLAND 2 SAN FRANCISCO 5, Chicago Cubs 4 Tampa Bay 6, Cleveland 4 N.Y. Yankees 8, Kansas City 2 Toronto 5, Detroit 3 Milwaukee 9, Boston 4 N.Y. Mets 4, Miami 0 Cincinnati 8, Baltimore 2 Seattle 5, Houston 4 Washington 7, St. Louis 6 Philadelphia 2, Pittsburgh 1, 10 innings Minnesota 7, San Diego 4 Atlanta 6, Arizona 2 Colorado 5, L.A. Dodgers 3 LA. Angels 9, Texas 7 Sunday’s Games Chicago White Sox 4, OAKLAND 1 SAN FRANCISCO 4, Chicago Cubs 0 Toronto 4, Detroit 1 St. Louis 5, Washington 0 Philadelphia 8, Pittsburgh 2 Kansas City 8, N.Y. Yankees 6 Boston 7, Milwaukee 2 Atlanta 1, Arizona 0 Cincinnati 3, Baltimore 2

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From Page B1 cap in appreciation. The White Sox took the lead two batters later when a trio of two-out doubles got a pair of Sox across the plate. Cease settled in shortly thereafter, with the American League’s leader in strikeouts per nine innings carving through an A’s lineup that could not get a read on his bevy of breaking balls. Cease got Laureano to whiff on a curveball that gave him five k’s through his first four innings. By the time Cease was replaced with Joe Kelly,

brass insisted he’d stay, it was only two years ago they traded away a threeyear veteran and All-Pro in DeForest Buckner, who merited a first-round pick (No. 13 overall) from the Indianapolis Colts. Shanahan said during the draft that no prospective suitor came close to offering anything compelling enough to trade Samuel.

Future Use with 49ers The 49ers’ offense thrives with Samuel’s versatility, physicality and yards-after-the-touch brilliance. But a makeover is expected at the team’s most vital position: Lance is taking over in his second year for Jimmy Garoppolo, who remains on the roster after shoulder surgery stalled trade talks. Lance’s strong-armed passing and zig-zag rushing should inspire creativity from Shanahan’s motion-based, matchupcrushing schemes Of Lance’s five touchdown passes in limited action last year, three went to Samuel. He remains the leader of the wide receiving corps.

the Cy Young award candidate had struck out seven and allowed only four hits. Meanwhile, Oller had also gotten into a groove after his rough inning, and had not given up a run after the second. That was, until the seventh. As great a fielder as he is, even Tony Kemp could not deny Eloy Jimenez from getting on base for a second time in the bottom of the inning. Jimenez pounded Oller’s last pitch of the day over the wall and gave Chicago a 4-1 lead. The A’s could only muster six hits in the series finale, and will now travel to Los Angeles to face their division rival Los Angeles Angels.