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Mental health care workers picket outside of Sacramento Medical Center in protest of long wait times for patients

and overwhelming caseloads at Kaiser Permanente facilities. Dec. 16, 2019.

Kaiser mental health workers signal strike Jocelyn Wiener

‘Right now we’re at a crisis point. Things are worse than ever.’

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A union representing 2,000 Kaiser Northern California mental health workers this morning announced plans for an open-ended strike beginning Aug. 15. Among the reasons union representatives outlined: high clinician workloads and patients waiting weeks or even months for mental health care. Even as

— Sarah Soroken, a therapist at Kaiser Fairfield

demand for care has surged, frustrated therapists are abandoning the health giant, said union spokesperson Matt Artz.

“We don’t take striking lightly,” Sal Rosselli, president of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents the clinicians, said in a prepared statement, “but it’s time to take a stand and make Kaiser spend some of its billions on mental health care.” Deb Catsavas, a senior vice president at Kaiser Permanente, said in an emailed statement that the threat of a strike is “sadly, a See Strike, Page A8

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Sunday passed a sweeping health care, tax and climate change bill that will allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug costs – a significant political win as the party tries to send a message before the midterm election that it is delivering on its promises. The drug price plan is the centerpiece of the Democrats’ bill, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The measure would also establish incentives to combat the climate crisis, impose new taxes on corporations and provide $4 billion for the Bureau of Reclamation to combat drought in the West – a last-minute addition. The bill, approved via a fast-track legislative procedure that didn’t allow for a Republican filibuster, passed on a 50-50 vote, with Vice President Kamala Harris

breaking the tie. No Republicans supported the bill. It will now go before the House, where a vote is expected Friday. Before passage, senators slogged through dozens of unsuccessful votes on amendments put forward mainly by Republicans to try to stop the bill or at least make it politically difficult for Democrats. Republicans succeeded in killing one provision that violated Senate budget rules. It would have capped the price of insulin at $35 a month in the private insurance market. President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats sorely need the legislative victory as they head toward the midterm elections, which traditionally favor the party out of power. The package comes at the end of a remarkably See Senate, Page A8

Nature can affect human well-being in many ways The Washington Post

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An elk walks past the Roosevelt Arch, near the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner, Mont., June 20.

Humans have long benefited from nature’s offerings. But beyond being an essential source of food, water and raw materials, the natural world can contribute to people’s overall well-being through a host of intangible effects–and, according to new research, there are many more critical connections between humans and nature than one

might think. After reviewing hundreds of scientific papers on “cultural ecosystem services,” or the nonmaterial benefits of nature, researchers have identified 227 unique pathways through which people’s interactions with nature can positively or negatively affect well-being, according to a paper published Friday in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances.

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I offer forgiveness to my brother Adrian Scott Wade

t is much easier to ask I didn’t make a list. I for forgiveness rather mean, I was only 6 years than permission, so old. My mom just chose that’s why I didn’t do a Adrian and it sounded focus group on whether great to me. It’s not her or not I should do a fault that Sylvester series of columns that Stallone used it six years are ostensibly about me later for the name of his forgiving my brothers. love interest in a The formula is that I list film. Tony Wade blockbuster things that they kinda, VEGGIES: I forgive The last laugh sorta need forgiveness Scott for blaming me for for and then I emulate a his hatred of vegetables John Hughes (“The Breakfast for most of his life. I mean, it is Club,” “Planes, Trains and true that when he was a baby Automobiles”) moment and get and my mom let me feed him serious amid all the comedy Gerber baby food that I would at the end. give him the pureed carrots or I ask your forgiveness as I peas and eat the super yummy now apply the formula to my (endorsed by RoboCop) appleyoungest brother Scott. sauce and apricots or peaches NAMESAKE: I forgive Scott ones. But he loved those for never going by his actual vegetable ones back then. He first name Adrian, but instead loved them so much he used to by his middle name. Before he spit them on the floor to share was born in 1970 my mom, Katy with our dog Sandy. Lou Wade, told me that because AMERICA’S PASTIME: Scott there were already two people was the only one of me or my in the family whose names brothers who played Little started with “O” (my dad Orvis League baseball. The rest of us “T” Wade Sr. and my oldest played football, basketball and brother, who is a junior), and were wrestlers, but Scott was three whose names started with the only one to dabble in a “K” (she and my brothers Ken America’s pastime. I was and Kelvin), that the baby envious because I sucked at would be sorta named after me baseball and my dad loved it. and have one that started with Back in the day, I used to hate it an “A.” My name is Anthony when I was riding with Dad although my friends, readers somewhere in his Peugeot and and bill collectors call me Tony. he would be cranking the AM So I brainstormed “A” radio play-by-play of a San names. Here are some of the Francisco Giants game as loud suggestions I came up with: as I cranked Iron Maiden. Archibald, Agnes, Arugula, SPEAKING OF IRON Abner, Amadeus, Aristotle, MAIDEN: I forgive Scott for not Arnie, Angus and Antidisestabrecognizing my exquisite taste lishmentarianism. OK, actually in music back when I used to

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Scott Wade, left, and Tony Wade at an Oakland Raiders game in 2006. pick him up from Grange in the mid-1980s in my parakeet green Mercury Montego I lovingly referred to as The Concert Mobile. For some reason, he would be embarrassed as he walked to my car that was blaring either Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dio or the Scorpions. BLOWING HIS OWN HORN: Scott was a band geek through elementary, junior high and high school. He played trombone and got really good at it. After 58 years, I am still trying to master the kazoo. RIVALS: Scott was the only

Wade brother not to attend Armijo High School and instead went to crosstown rival Fairfield High School. I forgive him for . . . well, no, some things just aren’t forgivable. GREAT WHITE NORTH: Scott married Michelle Peterson, a Canadian girl, back in 1992 and he has lived in Saskatchewan longer than he ever lived in California. Canada is cool. I mean, it’s where Rush and Triumph came from, but I forgive him for trying to talk to me or my other brothers about hockey or the Canadian Football League.

PREACH! Scott graduated from Columbia Christian College in Oregon and was a preacher for many years. I was resentful of this because there was a time in the early 1980s when I had wanted to attend Costa Christian School in Martinez, but my parents told me they couldn’t afford it. Actually, the reason I wanted to attend Costa had much more to do with the girls I had met at Sierra Bible Camp that went there than, you know, God. GENESIS 1:28: That verse in the Bible says “Be fruitful and multiply” and Scott won the Wade fruition multiplication sweepstakes as he and Michelle have four kids and one grandkid on the way. Show-off. CONVENTIONAL WISDOM HEADSTAND: Typically, the youngest brother looks up to the older ones with a sense of awe and reverence, but Scott turned that around as I cannot help but be blown away at what an incredible brother, son, husband, father and friend to many that he has become – in two countries! 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.”

A mayor in England is fighting for his office; he’s also a pony Devon, England. Patrick’s pen, constructed almost a year ago by volunteers at an agricultural organization, was outside the Drum Inn pub in Devon. Locals – especially those who had anxiety, disabilities and terminal illnesses – knew they could always find him there, Petrakis told The Washington Post. But since he became the mayor – at an official ceremony on July 23, in which Patrick donned a traditional British mayoral red gown complete with a white trim – there was a complaint to local authorities from an unnamed person. Petrakis says they don’t know who is behind the complaint, but “we have our suspicions.” Patrick currently resides at a “luxury stable,” his owners said, but they did not want to share his exact location because of safety fears. A Torbay Council spokesperson confirmed it had received a complaint from a member of the public and said that it had “not received or approved

The Washington Post LONDON — Patrick has only been mayor of Cockington, a small English village, for less than two weeks. But he’s already had his office taken away. That is, his small pen filled with hay. Because Patrick is a pony. Patrick, a 4-year-old Shetland pony with wellcombed bangs, had been meeting with constituents at an “interaction pen” in the garden of a pub, which he regularly frequents for a few slurps of Guinness. But that has been dismantled, after a single complaint lodged to local authorities. The dispute is ostensibly about building permissions – but supporters are convinced that it was designed to take him down. Possibly by a human who wants to be mayor. “It was a one-horse race for him to be mayor, but apparently someone was jealous,” said Kirk Petrakis, who, along with his wife, Hannah, owns the mayor of the town in

any planning applications for the fencing or the change of use for horses” and that it encouraged Patrick’s supporters to seek adequate permission to erect a space for him to meet with locals. The council said it had opened an “enforcement case” into the erection of “unauthorised timber fencing and the display of advertisements within the beer garden,” which is in a designated conservation area and next to a historic building. Patrick’s owners say they are devastated by the council’s actions and say they are alarmed at how quickly the council responded to a single complaint about the town mayor. Petrakis says he and his wife, Hannah, were forced to dismantle the pen as onlookers cried. Patrick’s pen “meant a lot to so many people – it was to support those most vulnerable in our community,” he said, especially after lockdowns enforced by the British government during the coronavirus pandemic.

Petrakis added that he did not think special planning was needed for Patrick’s pen, insisting there “is lots of other fencing close by, without permission.” According to Patrick’s owners, the pub says the mayor is still welcome inside. “But it’s not the same,” Petrakis said. As for the Drum Inn, “we won’t be commenting on the pony,” its manager said when reached by The Post. British lawmaker Kevin Foster, who serves as a Conservative member of Parliament for Torbay, said Thursday that he was “stunned” by the council’s “disproportionate response” to scrap Patrick’s pen. “The move to make Patrick ‘mayor’ was meant as a lighthearted and humorous way to promote Cockington Village to tourists,” Foster, who supported his campaign, told The Post. “Yet the overthe-top reaction of Torbay Council in response to one complaint is the real joke.” Foster attended Patrick’s swearing-in cer-

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emony, where Patrick paired his red robe with a handcrafted golden chain around his neck as his insignia of office, just like the many mayors who stood before him (on the usual two legs, not four). During the pandemic, people who became isolated at home followed Patrick online and quickly considered him a friend, his owners said. When his pen opened and lockdowns lifted, locals then ventured out to meet Patrick. They knew he would be there, waiting. Patrick is “for everyone,” Hannah Petrakis said. Foster said that Patrick’s “small therapy area in a large beer garden” was a space for residents to share their comments and concerns - and was of “no inconvenience to anyone.” He implored the council to rethink the decision and instead “help facilitate the serious therapy work being done.” Thousands of people have sent messages of support amid Patrick’s pub controversy, Petrakis said.

Petrakis and Patrick posted a video Wednesday to the mayor’s official Facebook page this week to update supporters on the situation. After nine minutes on Facebook Live, the pony fell asleep. “We are all in this very difficult situation in our lives at the moment,” Petrakis said citing the cost-of-living crisis in Britain and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Patrick has recently raised money to support Ukrainians. Patrick’s owners told The Post on Thursday that they would carry on trying to develop a designated space where Patrick can meet people. Petrakis explained that though Patrick is allowed indoors in some cases, sometimes such environments can be too noisy when he is attempting to comfort those who need it. “We will find somewhere,” they said. “If Patrick here can bring a little bit of happiness to everybody, what is the harm in it?”

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FAIRFIELD — The first human milk collection center is opening in Solano County. A grand opening is set for 10:30 a.m. Thursday at 2101 Courage Drive, the Public Health Division of the Solano County Department of Health and Social Services announced last week. “The opening of a milk collection center represents a strong commitment to the health and well-being of the most vulnerable members of the community – fragile infants who depend on pasteurized donor breast milk,” Teri Ewell, lactation educator and counselor and chairwoman for the Breastfeeding Coalition of Solano County, said in the announcement. “We are delighted to be able to serve our families and community in this capacity.” San Jose Mother’s Milk Bank and First 5 Solano are also involved in the effort. The Mother’s Milk Bank of San Jose collects breast milk from mothers with additional milk supply who would like to donate to babies in need, according to the announcement. Milk Bank staff members screen the donors, receive the breastmilk, pasteurize and test the milk. The milk is then distributed to those who are described in the announcement as medically fragile infants in need at neonatal intensive care units throughout California. The coalition’s annual Donor Breast Milk Drive and Celebration in honor of National Breastfeeding Month will kick off from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the multipurpose room of the center after the grand opening. In addition to the grand opening and Donor Breast Milk Drive, different programs will be present to provide resources and information on how breast-feeding is the foundation for optimal nutrition, health and wellbeing, and a healthy community, according to the announcement. The San Jose Mother’s Milk Bank will be in attendance to receive new donors. For more information, call Christina Hatcher at 707-784-8329 or email her at cchatcher@solano county.com.

Church hosts back-toschool supply drive Mount Calvary Baptist Church will host its annual Super Dynamic Backpack and School Supply Drive this week. The event will be a drive-thru pickup from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday or until supplies run out. The church is located at at 1735 Enterprise Blvd. Parents and guardians just need to pull up and

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Benicia Peddlers Fair returns this weekend More than 300 volunteers will join Benicia residents, business owners and vendors Saturday at the waterfront for the Benicia Peddlers Fair. The event will occur from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at First Street from J Street after a two-year pandemic hiatus. A handful of antique dealers launched the Benicia Peddlers Fair in 1963, and it continues to grow each year. Hundreds of vendors will bring wares that range from antiques and collectibles to handcrafted items and art. For more information, visit www.beniciapeddlers fair.org.

Several gov’t meetings on week’s calendar Several government meetings will take place this week. They are all open to the public. Some meetings are online and some are in-person. Check each agency’s website for specifics. The meetings this week will include: n Solano County Board of Supervisors, 9 a.m. Tuesday, County Government Center, 675 Texas St., Fairfield. Info: co.solano.ca.us. n Vacaville City Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, council chamber, 650 Merchant St. Info: ci.vacaville.ca.us. n Rio Vista Planning Commission, 6 p.m. Wednesday, 701 Civic Center Blvd. Info: www. riovistacity.com/ citycouncil. n Solano County Board of Education, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Solano County Office of Education, 5100 Business Center Drive, Fairfield. Info: www.solanocoe.net. n Solano County Civil Service Commission, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, CountyGovernmentCenter, 675 Texas St., Fairfield. Info: co.solano.ca.us. n Fairfield-Suisun School District, 6 p.m. Thursday, first floor board room at Central Office, 2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield. Info: www.fsusd.org. n Solano County Airport Land Use Commission, 7 p.m. Thursday, 675 Texas St., Fairfield. Info: solanocounty.com/depts/rm/ boardscommissions/ solano_county_airport_ land_use_commission/ agendas.asp.

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John Fetterman speaks during a campaign event in Lebanon, Pa., April 30.

Fetterman tries to ‘weirdify’ Dr. Oz in Senate race – AND BUILDS POLLING LEAD

Bloomberg Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman hasn’t been on the campaign trail in his U.S. Senate race since suffering a stroke in May. Yet he’s built an early lead over celebrity physician Mehmet Oz in what’s supposed to be a favorable election year for Republicans with the help of Snooki and “Sopranos” character Silvio Dante. Fetterman has embraced a strategy that is unconventional by necessity, steering much of the campaign combat onto social media. The commonwealth’s lieutenant governor has been trolling Oz on Twitter and trumpeted videos from Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, star of MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” and Steven Van Zandt, the musician and actor who played Tony Soprano’s consigliere, mocking Oz for relocating to Pennsylvania from New Jersey. The tactics have Fetterman leading by 8.7 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. The most recent survey, from Fox News, shows Fetterman with an 11-point advantage in a race both parties have targeted in their bids to control the nowdeadlocked Senate. Fetterman recently has made only short appearances at exclusive fundraisers and has missed deadlines he set for himself to return to traditional campaigning, fostering doubts about his health and ability to beat Oz in November. But he insists he’s fit to continue and has announced he’ll return to in-person campaigning on Friday with a rally in Erie, Pa. “I would never be in this if we were not absolutely, 100% able to run fully and to win – and we believe that we are,” Fetterman said in an interview with the

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Republican candidate Mehmet Oz. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette last month. That interview, the only one he’s given since the primary, was conducted via a video call from his home in Braddock, Pa., with the assistance of closedcaptioning. Fetterman acknowledged that he sometimes misses a word and slurs his speech, and is working with a speech therapist. Instead of in-person events, Fetterman has flooded social media with snarky digs at the Donald Trump-endorsed Oz, taking aim at his celebrity, his wealth, or his New Jersey home. “We call him Dr. Oz, Doc Hollywood, or sometimes just ‘weirdo who hawks phony diet pills on TV,’” Fetterman tweeted last week. In one viral stunt, the Democrat paid realityshow personality Polizzi $395 via the video-messaging site Cameo to record a clip in which she wishes Oz “best of luck” on his move to Pennsylvania. “Don’t worry, because you’ll be back in Jersey soon. This is all temporary.” That was followed by a video from another New Jersey star – E Street Band guitarist Van Zandt – urging Oz to “come on back to Jersey where you belong.” Jennifer Mercieca, who studies political rhetoric at Texas A&M University, said Fetterman is trying to

Lightning ignites cluster of NorCal wildfires Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — A cluster of fires burning in steep and dry terrain in Northern California has spread to more than 1,100 acres, forcing evacuations in rural areas of Trinity and Humboldt counties. The U.S. Forest Service, which is managing the response, said lightning strikes from a thunderstorm ignited a dozen fires in the

Six Rivers National Forest on Friday. Firefighters reduced those burns to eight through initial attacks and officials named the remaining blazes the Six Rivers Lightning Complex. Timber, debris from logging and dead trees are fueling the fires, which burned with zero percent containment, according to an incident update at 7 a.m. Sunday morning. The National Weather Service in Eureka said

the weather may help firefighters battle the blazes over the next few days. “Monsoon moisture,” which was in part responsible for the thunderstorms that hit the region last week, has cleared and shut down the possibility of lightning, said meteorologist James White. A deep marine layer along the coast is expected to bring lower than normal temperatures in the 80s, he said. “Wind is pretty calm,

so no big concerns there,” White said. “It’s not critical conditions. So thankfully, it’s good firefighting weather.” Evacuations have been ordered near the communities of Willow Creek and Salyer. In Trinity County, those areas include Salyer Loop down to the bridge at Highway 299, Salyer Heights, Orchard Lane and Campbell Ridge See Cluster, Page A7

“weirdify” Oz. “What he’s doing is showing how inauthentic Oz is,” she said. “He’s not from here, he’s a tourist.” But landing those punches may only help Fetterman so much. Pennsylvania Republican strategist Vince Galko said concerns that Oz is a carpetbagger won’t be as important as the economy and crime when it comes time to vote. “Carpetbagging never really rings the bell people think it does,” Galko said. “It’s an issue, but it’s not that big of an issue. Ultimately, people are going to vote on their pocketbooks.” The Oz campaign has not let Fetterman’s online jabs go unanswered. It has issued a daily “John Fetterman Basement Tracker” and released a video last month purporting to welcome him back to the campaign. “I’m glad Fetterman’s healthy so we can worry less about his heart and his hoodie, and more about the crazy, leftist ideas in his head,” Oz said in the video, in which he is seen jogging. At the same time, Oz has been working “under the radar” to raise money and put himself in a position to win in November, Galko said. Oz is also working to mend fences in his own party after a bruising

primary that saw him edge out former Bridgewater Associates Chief Executive David McCormick by just 951 votes after a recount. McCormick and his allies spent millions of dollars on ads attacking Oz and calling him a “Hollywood liberal” who flip-flopped on gun control and other issues. That contentious primary and Fetterman’s onslaught have left Oz with a serious enthusiasm gap. Only 35% of Oz supporters back him enthusiastically, and 45% say they support him only reluctantly, according to the Fox News poll. For Fetterman, 68% of his support is enthusiastic and only 18% say they have reservations. Still, it’s Oz who’s had control of the ground war for the past two months. His team says the former surgeon has made more than 120 general election campaign stops and traveled 2,463 miles in July alone while Fetterman was recuperating. “John Fetterman has been hiding in his basement for over 80 days avoiding having to publicly answer for his radical, liberal views,” Oz campaign spokesperson Brittany Yanick said in a statement. The Fetterman campaign shrugs off the criticism. “It’s a little indifferent and a little lazy on their end. I don’t think it’s really sticking,” said Fetterman spokesperson Joe Calvello. “There’s an old saying something like, ‘You don’t want to meet the enemy on their battlefield,’ and I feel like that’s what they’re trying to do. So we’re happy to go back and forth with them on Twitter. I think the engagement speaks for itself.”

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Today’s birthday With your sparkling intelligence as a given, you eschew over-thinking and rely on your good karma and excellent intuition to make quick and lucky moves. A financial spike allows you to experience new places and different circles. Other highlights: aesthetic upgrades, a rare professional opportunity and family pride. Gemini and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 10, 3, 33, 48 and 17.

take you there. Because you’re so open, you’ll follow your perceptions to spiritual and emotional places. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Empathy is a strength, and yet you never believe you have enough of it. You constantly strive for a better understanding of the other person’s perspective, sometimes out of kindness, other times out of strategy. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). The odd ideas will be the most fun to execute. Perhaps the oddest one is to arrange to do nothing for a stretch of time. It’s surprising what happens when you give yourself space and the freedom to be your own creature. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Very accomplished people will also be quite humble, partly because their

focus on the work is more fulfilling than ego gratification, and because the truly secure have less need of extra attention. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). You’ll be fascinated by mystery, drama and obscure motivations. It’s like you’re doing a jigsaw puzzle. You have to get a good amount of it clicked in before you’ll know the picture that’s coming together. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). You’ll notice where the voids are. As much as you’d like to fill in the blanks and supply what’s needed, don’t rush to do so. First, seek more listening and understanding. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). If an activity doesn’t bring you challenge, money or joy, then what does it bring you? The answer will teach you something about yourself and begin an internal shift. You’ll close some doors and open others. CELEBRITY PROFILES: Leos are the original artists – natural-born entertainers. Case in point: Dustin Hoffman, a treasure talent whose natal chart features a rare planetary configuration between Jupiter, Uranus and Mercury in crafty earth signs. Indicated here are immense powers of observation, honed into chameleonesque abilities. Hoffman stars with his son, actor Jake Hoffman, in the comedy “Sam & Kate.”

Bridge

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example, in today’s deal, West leads the heart king against South’s contract of three no-trump. What should declarer do? North’s negative double showed exactly four spades. South has eight top tricks: four spades, one heart, two diamonds and one club. He can get his ninth winner from the club suit, except that he will be taking the finesse into West, the defender with all of the hearts to cash. As the finesse is surely losing, given West’s overcall, South should engineer an endplay. He wins the second round of hearts, noting that East followed both times. Then South cashes his spade and diamond winners. This brings West down to five cards. Probably, he will discard one club and three diamonds, retaining three hearts and two clubs. If so, declarer leads a heart. West takes his three heart tricks but is then forced to lead away from the club king at trick 12. AFTER TECHNIQUE That might seem straightforward, COMES FLEXIBILITY but a clever West will force South to Gian Vincenzo Gravina, a jurist and guess. He will discard two clubs and two diamonds, preferably in that order. writer who died in 1718, claimed that Then declarer must cash the club ace to “a bore is a man who deprives you of drop West’s now-singleton king. If he solitude without providing you with gets it right, he will have a story with company.” which to bore everyone for a week. If If all bridge deals featured textbook he gets it wrong, West will bore plays, we would become bored quickly. everyone. However, there are many contracts that COPYRIGHT: 2022, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE require an abnormal approach. For

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the act of adultery.” The file also claims that the “U 2 Luv” singer “recently fathered a minor child” with another woman. In her Saturday Instagram post, which has since been deleted, Smith said she lived “8 years of lies and deception” with Ne-Yo. “8 years of unknowingly sharing my life and husband who sell their bodies to him unprotected. . . . every last one of them,” she wrote. “To say I’m heartbroken and disgusted is an understatement. To ask me to stay and accept it is absolutely insane.” Amid the drama, Ne-Yo wrote Sunday in a tweet that “my family and I will work through our challenges behind closed doors.”

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Where goes America’s future?

Letters must be 325 words or less and are subject to editing for length and clarity. All letters must include the author’s name, address and phone number. Send letters to Letters to the Editor, the Daily Republic, P.O. Box 47, Fairfield, CA 94533, email to gfaison@ dailyrepublic.net or drop them off at our office, 1250 Texas St. in downtown Fairfield.

he book “The Naked Communist” was first published in 1958 and listed 45 objectives of Soviet Russia to overcome America. Those goals were recorded into the Congressional Record in 1963. The first 14 listed goals were political goals and the remainder were to weaken America’s morality, patriotism and nuclear family. The latter group are currently promoted as social justice by left wing progressive American politicians and activists who may or may not realize the concepts were carefully developed by Soviet activists to weaken America. The goals of concern follow. Communist goals accomplished n 7. Grant recognition of Red Earl Heal China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. Accomplished 1971. n 28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground(s) that it violates the principle of separation of church and state. n 44. Internationalize the Panama Canal. Accomplished 1977. Original goals being actively pursued n 15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. n 16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. n 17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks. n 18. Gain control of all student newspapers. n 19. Use student riots to foment public. n 20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing and policymaking positions. n 21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures. n 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms. n 24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship and a violation of free speech and free press. n 25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV. n 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural and healthy. n 27. Infiltrate the churches and replace traditional religion(s) with social religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a religious crutch. n 29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs and a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. n 30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the common man. n 31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the grounds that it was only a minor part of the big picture. n 32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. n 35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. n 37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. n 38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric. n 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. n 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. n 42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems. The Russian Federation maintains its intent to overcome capitalism. Black Lives Matter’s original organizers are self-proclaimed Marxists who have vowed their support for the Soviet goals. Do not the similarities of those goals compared to America’s recent turmoils shock you? Can we agree that America’s morality, patriotism and nuclear family strength are under attack and have deteriorated in our lifetime? Where do you and your political representatives stand? Earl Heal is a retired Air Force officer, Vacaville resident and member of The Right Stuff committee formerly of the Solano County Republican Central Committee. Reach him at healearlniki2@gmail.com.

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US politics a game of dogs vs. cats

1950, liberal opponent Helen hat we’re seeing in the U.S. is a politGahagan Douglas “pink” and ical civil war. The whomped her at the polls. intensity of this war The GOP pack trembled for is striking when you look years under Big Dog McCarat Jan. 6 and its planning. thy’s howls. Even Dwight It’s also striking by D. Eisenhower wouldn’t looking at the quiet, contake him on. tinuing operations by The Left are peace Trumpists fighting on their Jack Batson people, always talking about own throughout the nation “coming together” and without any direction from Top Dog “common ground” and how similar to rip up 240 years of democracy. we are. “There’s more that unites It just hit me. Dogs and cats. us than divides us,” declared Bill Republicans are dogs and DemoClinton, to no avail. crats are cats. That’s it! The Right sneers, “Peace Dogs fight in packs. They’re led weenies.” The Right is the milby an alpha male. They tear in a itant side, always loving a fight, frenzy at the victim until death. always seeing differences and those Cats are individualists. One-ondifferences are often worth fightone, they’re only good for small ing against. stuff – rats and mice. They don’t Fight and rip. Zero cooperation attack together and chances are they with Dems. It’s been this way for fight each other. Nobody but nobody 20 years now. That arch conservaherds them in one direction. tive Grover Norquist told a liberal Does this really work? Yes! Big Harvard classmate in 1992, “For Dog slaps the libs and the herd 40 years we fought a two-front war growls its approval and attacks close against the Soviet Union . . . . Now we targets around the nation. Joe Biden can turn all our time and energy to tries to shut up the far Left and is crushing you. With the Soviet Union, ignored. Sens. Joe Manchin and it was just business. With you, it’s Kyrsten Sinema walk away from key personal.” Conservatives gotta have Democratic Party legislation. If they someone to fight and whomp. were Republicans, they would be So it’s shocking – I think it’s ostracized. shocking anyway – the vigor and Wasn’t it the 1930s humorist deadly dedication that RepubliWill Rodgers who said, “I’m not a cans in swing states (where they member of any organized party. I’m have a chance to grab the majority) a Democrat”? Timeless truth. are tearing away at two centuries of Going back to the 1950s. Let’s precedent to unfairly take over in recall the McCarthy red scare phecase of a loss at the polls. Just like nomena when Sen. Joe McCarthy what alpha-dog wants. Follow the accused every Democrat of being Alpha Dog. Attack! A Republican, Tim Miller, just “pink” or “red,” ripping into them as traitors. Richard Nixon called his published a kiss-and-tell memoir

regretting his years as an attack dog. He headlined the urge to, unthinkingly, join a fight. Sen. Lindsay Graham just wanted a photo of himself in the golf cart with the Big Dog. Look at a few of the recent attacks. The Wisconsin Supreme Court just ruled that the Democratic governor can’t get rid of the former Republican-appointed board and commission members. If fact, he can’t even appoint his own people. They also disallowed ballot dropboxes. Apparently angry dogs will still vote; cats won’t, they figure. Republicans running for state offices are more and more refusing to agree to debates where contrasts might be drawn. The national party had no platform for the last election. “We just follow the Big Dog” was probably seen as problematic. Three Pennsylvania counties refused to count some absentee-ballots from their June primary until they were sued. Suspect the votes are against your Local Dog? Find an excuse – any excuse – not to count them. Local, non-doggish Republicans, lifelong or business conservatives, will you vote Republican in November anyway? Do you agree to have America become a permanent single-party, undemocratic nation with a fig leaf for a constitution (the body behind the fig leaf is the single-party “dictatorship” hidden by the appearance of elections)? Is the thrill of the fight greater than the preservation of democracy? Jack Batson is a former member of the Fairfield City Council. Reach him by email at jsbatson@prodigy.net.

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One UC Merced profesdministrations and faculties at Universor, Tanya Golash-Boza, even published a guide in sity of California camthe professional publication puses are embroiled in Inside Higher Ed, to help a searing controversy over applicants frame their DEI requirements that applistatements in language that cants for faculty positions would pass muster with the and candidates for proauthorities. motion prove their active The use of DEI statesupport, without reservaDan Walters tion, of what’s called “diverments began at UCLA four years ago and has become virtually sity, equity and inclusion.” universal since, sparking an intense Candidates must submit “DEI debate in academic and legal circles statements” that, under UC’s poliover whether the UC system is, in cies, determine whether they will effect, elevating political correctness be considered for employment or over academic achievement and in promotions, regardless of their acadoing so damaging the concept of demic credentials. academic freedom. While different campuses use To its supporters, DEI statements slightly different “rubrics” for and other evaluations are necessary judging candidates on their DEI tools to ensure the university system statements, they generally use a overcomes its historic imbalance 1-to-5 scale to determine whether in students and faculty that favors they should be allowed to advance. whites and Asians over Blacks One, at UC Davis, provides the lowest score to candidates who seem and Latinos. But detractors see DEI stateto be unaware or uninterested in the need to promote diversity, while ments as violating in spirit, if not the highest score would be given to in letter, university policies that someone who “discusses diversity, prohibit using politics as a litmus equity, and inclusion as core values test – policies that were introduced that every faculty member should to counter Cold War-era efforts to actively contribute to advancing.” weed out faculty members with Another version, according to a leftist tendencies by forcing them to recent history of UC’s Advancing take loyalty oaths. Faculty Diversity Initiative, estabIn 1950, the Legislature passed the Levering Act, requiring all state lishes a 1-to-5 scoring system to employees to sign such oaths – a judge whether the applicant should move obviously directed at the UC be rejected out of hand or allowed faculty. In fact, 31 tenured profesto advance. If he or she refuses to discuss gender or ethnicity issues, or sors were fired for refusing to sign it. contends that such issues are “antiAfter years of legal and politithetical to academic freedom or cal wrangling, the state Supreme the university’s research mission,” Court, by a 6-1 vote, declared the they will automatically receive a Levering Act to be unconstitutional low score. In contrast, someone in 1967. Meanwhile, the UC Board who embraces DEI as “core values of Regents adopted a policy that that every faculty member should “No political test shall ever be conactively contribute to advancing” sidered in the appointment and should get the highest score. promotion of any faculty member

or employee.” The DEI statements were mandated campus by campus because the UC system’s administrators are under intense pressure from the Legislature, the Board of Regents and activist organizations to overcome ethnic imbalances in spite of voter approval of a ballot measure, Proposition 209, in 1996 that outlaws racial or gender preferences in public employment. Moreover, in 2020 the state’s voters, by a substantial margin, refused to repeal Proposition 209. The history of how DEI statements became a powerful tool to weed out faculty applicants who don’t conform is explored in a recently published and somewhat critical but remarkably objective monograph by two academic researchers affiliated with UC’s Riverside campus. They are Steven Brint, a professor of sociology and public policy, and Komi T. German, who earned her doctorate at UC Riverside. “We find ourselves with a university in flux,” the two conclude. “Its commitment to the representational mission, and the progressive political demands that accompany it, is gaining traction as many find themselves disillusioned with the traditional mission of dispassionately searching for truth.” The irony – and perhaps tragedy – of the DEI statement mandate is that while it might, at least in theory, make UC’s faculty more diverse in ethnicity, its conformism will make it even less diverse intellectually. 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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An early morning shooting in Cincinnati on Sunday left at least nine people wounded, police said. The suspected shooter fled the scene after opening fire in a crowded area on the city’s Main Street and remains at large, Cincinnati Police Department Assistant Chief Mike John said at a news conference Sunday. None of the victims are in critical condition, John said. — Tribune Content Agency

Cluster From Page A3 Road. An evacuation center remains open at Trinity Valley Elementary School. A map shows evacuations in Humboldt County on both sides of State Route 299. The Forest Service anticipates additional evacuations from the Six Rivers Lightning Complex over the next 24 hours. Meanwhile, firefighters continued to fight the deadly McKinney Fire in Siskiyou County. As of Sunday morning, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported that the blaze has burned more than 60,200 acres and was 40% contained. At least four people have died in the fire since it ignited July 29 near Highway 99 and McKinney Creed Road, southwest of the Klamath River. A large area west of Interstate 5 near Yreka up to the Oregon border remains under evacuation orders.

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Fourth set of human remains found at drought-stricken Lake Mead Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — More human skeletal remains were found Saturday at a beach on Lake Mead, the fourth set of remains found at the lake where water levels have dramatically receded in recent years because of a lingering drought, authorities said. Park Rangers responded to a call about the discovery of the remains at Swim Beach at Lake Mead National Recreation Area about 11:30 a.m. Saturday, according to the National Park Service. They were assisted in their investigation by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department dive team. The skeletal remains are the second set to be found at Swim Beach. Authorities provided

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A boat that sank in Lake Mead resurfaces as water continues to recede in the nation’s largest reservoir. Four sets of human remains have been found in recent months. no additional information about the discovery. A spokesperson with the Clark County Office of the Coroner-Medical Examiner could not be reached for comment.

This is the fourth time since May that human remains have been discovered at Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, which has dropped to unprecedented lows

amid a 22-year drought. The lake provides water to 25 million people and millions of acres of farmland in several states in the Southwest, including California.

The first set of skeletal remains was found in a barrel in May and likely belonged to a gunshot victim killed in the 1970s or 1980s, officials said. Six days later, another set of remains was found at Callville Bay. A third set was recovered last month at the lake’s Swim Beach. Authorities believe the region’s extreme drought and Lake Mead’s dropping water levels will lead them to discover more remains. None of the remains discovered have been identified. In addition to human remains, the receding waters have revealed watercraft, including a World War II-era boat that had been put into service at the lake before sinking.

Egypt mediates truce to end Israel-Gaza fighting Tribune Content Agency Egypt mediated a deal to end three days of violence between Israel and the Islamic Jihad that left 44 people dead in the Gaza Strip, including two senior militants and 15 children, and sent thousands of Israelis into shelters to avoid the almost 1,000 rockets launched at Israel. “We announce the start of a cease-fire starting at 11:30 p.m. today and we welcome the Egyptian efforts,” Islamic Jihad said in a statement sent to reporters. The group said, however, that it maintained the “right

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to respond to any Israeli aggression.” In Israel, the head of the National Public Diplomacy Directorate issued a statement confirming that the truce would take effect at 11:30 p.m. Sunday. “The state of Israel thanks Egypt for its efforts,” the statement said. It said Israel also reserved the right to “respond strongly” to any violations. The latest Israel-Gaza confrontation began last week when Israel killed a militant leader of the Islamic Jihad, Taysir al-Jabari, commander of the group’s Al-Quds Brigades in Gaza City

and the northern Gaza Strip. His group, considered to be closely affiliated with Iran, retaliated with rocket attacks, and the Israeli air force responded by striking weapons production and storage facilities as well as rocket launchers. A second senior Islamic Jihad militant, Khaled Mansour, was killed by Israel on Saturday. The Israeli army spokesman’s office said both men were responsible for planning and carrying out attacks. “We are basically very close to our goals, and that is good reason for us to cease the opera-

tion,” Meir Elran, former deputy commander of Israeli military intelligence, said in a call with the Jerusalem Press Club on Sunday before the truce was officially announced. “It’s my interpretation that it is time for us to return home.” Hostilities continued, as is often the case, even 15 minutes before the truce was to go into effect. Air raid sirens sounded in Beersheba and in towns south of the city signaling rocket attacks, and the Israeli army said it was striking “terror targets belonging to the Islamic Jihad.” After the 11:30 dead-

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Senate From Page One productive sprint for the closely divided Senate. In recent weeks, the chamber has voted for a bipartisan gun bill, a boost for semiconductor manufacturing and aid for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. The Medicare drug negotiation policy – which Democrats have been pushing for nearly two decades – would mark a significant accomplishment that is likely to be popular with voters who are eager to go after drugmakers. It amounts to the most substantial change in health care policy since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. But it will initially have a limited impact on the pocketbooks of the nearly 64 million seniors in Medicare. Negotiations between Medicare and drugmakers wouldn’t start until 2026, and would at first be limited to 10 drugs, adding more over time. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a longtime proponent of Medicare price negotiations, called that portion of the bill “pretty weak.” But Democrats rejected his amendment Sunday to strengthen the Medicare provisions. Under the plan, Medicare will be able to negotiate over some of the most expensive drugs on the market, saving the federal government an estimated $288 billion over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Likely targets for negotiations include Eliquis, an atrial fibrillation medication used by well over 2 million Medicare beneficiaries; the diabetes drug Januvia, the prostate cancer drug Xtandi; and the rheumatoid arthritis drug Orencia, according to industry players who are tracking the legislation. That list could change if pricier drugs enter the market in the next four years. Chris Condeluci, founder of CC Law & Policy and a former staff member for Senate Finance Committee Republicans, predicted negotiations would not have a significant impact on the vast majority of Medicare beneficiaries, because most don’t use the most expensive drugs and are therefore unlikely to see direct savings. “Unless your premiums go down, it doesn’t matter if Medicare is spending less” overall, he said. But the bill would also cap Medicare beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket drug expenses at $2,000 per year, a policy that could help the approximately 1.4 million enrollees who hit that amount each year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Drugmakers generally like the out-of-pocket cap because the federal government will pick up the tab after patients spend the maximum. The measure would also impose a cap on drugmakers’ price increases, though Democrats had to scale back the inflationary cap on Saturday when the nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian ruled that it didn’t adhere to Senate rules.

The inflationary cap isn’t a huge hit for the pharmaceutical industry because “companies have been self-policing,” said Ipsita Smolinski, a health policy adviser and managing director of Capitol Street, a research and consulting firm. “They know they’d be on the front page of The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times if they obnoxiously price hike their products,” she said. But drug manufacturers have strongly fought negotiating their prices with Medicare. Drugmakers and Republicans warn that allowing negotiations would stifle innovation of new drugs that pharmaceutical companies suspect would be affected. They also say the prospect of negotiations could prompt drugmakers to charge more when drugs first come on the market. Medicare was barred from negotiating drug prices in 2003, with the establishment of the Medicare Part D drug program. The ban essentially allows pharmaceutical companies to set their own costs for Medicare, even though other government programs, such as Veterans Affairs, may negotiate for lower prices. Drugmakers once had one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington, and still lead the pack in terms of spending to influence lawmakers. But their political power has waned in recent years amid high-profile price hikes, such as former Turing Pharmaceuticals Chief Executive Martin Shkreli’s decision to raise the price of one older drug by 5000%. The legislation is a fraction of what Democrats had originally hoped to enact – a $3.5 trillion proposal that would have rewritten much of the nation’s social safety net, including home health care, child care and universal pre-K programs. That effort ended when Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., said in December he would not go along with such an ambitious plan. But after secret negotiations between Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., they resurrected portions of the bill last month. The bill also seeks to address climate change. In an attempt to reduce emissions, it offers incentives for consumers to buy energy-efficient appliances and cars, and for manufacturers to make such products. According to Democrats, the climate policies would reduce emissions by roughly 40% by 2030. About $9 billion would go to consumer home energy rebate programs. Lower- and middle-income people would be eligible for a $4,000 tax credit for buying a used clean car and up to $7,500 for buying a new one. Billions more would be spent to accelerate U.S. manufacturing of solar panels, electric vehicles and other clean products. Finally, the bill would impose new taxes on wealthy corporations and their stock buyback programs – and would send new funding to the Internal Revenue Service, which the agency says it will use to crack down on wealthy tax cheats.

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Nature From Page One initially thought might not be possible–stemmed from a desire to improve understanding of the complicated underlying processes behind how nature’s intangible effects–such as opportunities for recreation and leisure or spiritual fulfillment–have an impact on well-being. One major challenge, though, is that much of the existing scientific literature on cultural ecosystem services has been “highly fragmented,” the review noted. “You have all sorts of different people looking at [the intangible benefits of nature] through a different lens,” said Alexandros Gasparatos, an associate professor at the Institute of Future Initiatives at the University of Tokyo who co-authored the paper. Although having diverse research is critical, he said, “it becomes a little bit difficult to bring everything together.” But the new study, a systematic review of roughly 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers, creates “an excellent knowledge base,” Gasparatos said. “The whole point of doing this exercise is to understand the connection,” he added. “We give names to phenomenon.” The review breaks down the hundreds of possible links between individual aspects of human wellbeing (mental and physical health, connectedness and belonging, and spirituality, among others) and cultural ecosystem services, such as recreation and tourism, aesthetic value and social relation. The researchers then went a step further and identified more than a dozen distinct underlying mechanisms through which people’s interactions with nature can affect their well-being. Researchers found that the highest positive contributions were seen in mental and physical health. Recreation, tourism and aesthetic value appeared to have the greatest impact on human health through the “regenerative” mechanism, or experiencing restorative effects from being in nature such as stress relief, according to

Strike From Page One bargaining tactic this union has used every time it has bargained a new contract.” Calling the union’s tactics “unethical and counterproductive,” Catsavas said the two sides were “close to an agreement” and that Kaiser is “committed to bargaining in good faith to reach a fair and equitable agreement that is good for our therapists and our patients.” The company has drawn increased scrutiny from lawmakers for its mental health services in recent years. In May, the Department of Managed Health Care announced that it would be conducting a non-routine audit of Kaiser’s mental health services. The union and Kaiser have one more bargaining session planned for Friday, Artz said. He said Kaiser Northern California’s mental health workers, including psychologists, social workers, therapists and addiction counselors, have gone on strike for short amounts of times six times in the past 4 years. This would be their first open-ended strike, which means the union is not establishing an end date.

the paper. Meanwhile, the highest negative effects are linked to mental health through the “destructive” mechanism, or direct damages associated with the degradation or loss of cultural ecosystem services, the researchers wrote. “In reality, you don’t just have one pathway,” and the effects aren’t always positive, Gasparatos said. “It’s not that if I go to the forest, I receive one thing.” A well-designed park, for example, can be a place for recreation and leisure as well as connecting with other people. You might also find yourself appreciating the sight of towering trees and lush greenery or birds and other wildlife. On the other hand, a poorly maintained natural space could lead to an ugly or visually threatening landscape that might make you feel uncomfortable or scared to be there. The paper can provide a road map of sorts, Huynh said, to help people, particularly decision-makers, understand that there are not only various intangible benefits to interactions with nature, but also how to try to achieve them. “If we understand the underlying process, we can help to design better interventions for ecosystem management,” she said. “We can help to improve the contributions of nature to human well-being,” in addition to potentially bettering sustainable management practices and eliminating some of the negative effects on well-being. The research was widely applauded by several outside experts who were not involved in the work. “It’s a long time coming to have a study like this that makes some of these linkages a little clearer,” said Keith Tidball, an environmental anthropologist at Cornell University. “This stuff has been scattered all over the place for a long, long time, and this paper takes a huge step forward in sorting out what has been previously pretty muddled.” Anne Guerry, chief strategy officer and lead scientist with the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University, agreed. “They did a really nice job of bringing together extraordinarily diverse literature,” she said. It’s

been a challenge, she noted, among researchers to be able to present the science in a way that reveals where and how nature provides the greatest benefits to people, which could in turn help “inform and motivate investments in conservation and restoration that lead to better outcomes for both people and nature.” For instance, the research could have an impact on the role nature potentially plays in human health. “What this is going to be seriously useful for is to be able to continue to work to make the case that physicians and clinicians can actually prescribe outdoor time, outdoor recreation, even outdoor space because of these pathways that they’ve identified in this paper,” Tidball said. In one scenario, elements of this work could ultimately be included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, said Elizabeth Haase, chair of the American Psychiatric Association’s Committee on Climate Change and Mental Health. “That sets us up to be able to say that when we facilitate this kind of interaction with nature, you see this kind of benefit, and then prescribe these kinds of natural experiences, or have policies that say that you’re really depriving someone of their mental health if you destroy these natural landscapes,” she said. But the review does have limitations, prompting some experts to caution against overinterpreting or overemphasizing its results. One potential issue is that the existing research included in the review disproportionately focuses on individuals rather than groups. “There are multiple times where something might be really good for an individual, but overall for the community, it might not be very good at all,” said Kevin Summers, a senior research ecologist with the Office of Research and Development at the Environmental Protection Agency. “In many cases, there can be unintended consequences for things that look like very simple, straightforward decisions,” Summers added.

Research gaps should also be taken into account, Guerry said. While the review suggests that some connections between certain human wellbeing characteristics and cultural ecosystem services appear stronger than others, it doesn’t mean those other relationships might not be significant, she said. “We have to be careful in terms of oversimplifying the results and thinking that a lack of a documented relationship in this paper means that something isn’t important,” she said. Instead, it may mean that “it hasn’t been studied and we haven’t found ways to quantify it and bring it into the scientific literature and out of our sort of implicit understanding.” The researchers addressed the limitations of their work, noting in the paper that future research “should explore in-depth how these pathways and mechanisms manifest in less studied ecosystems and understand their differentiated effects to various stakeholders.” In the meantime, though, the findings serve as an important reminder of nature’s necessity. “It can justify, very well, a mind-set like, ‘Let’s invest in nature because it has all these benefits,’ ” Gasparatos said. With such strong positive benefits related to creativity, belonging, regeneration and more, “it’s easy from this paper to feel that your constitutional right to the pursuit of happiness requires a country to preserve natural spaces,” Haase added. In a time when many people are becoming further separated and distanced from “our ecological selves,” efforts to link humans and nature are not only interesting in terms of science, philosophy or ethics, Tidball said, but “there are also human security implications here that are significant.” And, he said, if steps aren’t taken to reconnect people with nature, the consequences could be dire. “If we continue on a pathway as a species of being in a state of ecological amnesia,” he said, “we’re going to find ourselves out of habitat and out of time and, therefore, out of luck.”

Kaiser has 4.6 million enrollees in Northern California, Artz said, though that figure does not reflect how many currently access their mental health benefits. In a letter sent Sunday to the Department of Managed Health Care, which regulates health plans, the union asked the department to ensure that Kaiser continues providing mental health care to patients during the strike, rather than canceling appointments. Amanda Levy, deputy director for health policy and stakeholder relations for the Department of Managed Health Care, said the department is continuing to monitor access to services for patients impacted by the strike. “The law requires health plans provide enrollees with medically necessary care within timely access and clinical standards at all times, which includes during an employee strike,” she said in an emailed statement. Despite growing efforts at the state level to enforce mental health parity laws, Kaiser mental health practitioners say they still struggle to provide adequate and timely care for patients. Sarah Soroken, who has worked as a therapist at Kaiser Fairfield for six years, said access

to treatment has worsened during her time there. She said the pandemic has aggravated the situation, with more patients seeking care, even as more therapists are leaving. “Right now we’re at a crisis point,” she said. “Things are worse than ever.” Kaiser is not the only provider facing a shortage of mental health practitioners. Complaints of shortages also have been raised by counties, school districts and non-profit organizations around the state. Artz said some Kaiser providers are being recruited to work at telehealth start-ups, where money is good and work-fromhome options abound. Others are entering private practice. The union says the rate at which mental health clinicians are leaving Kaiser nearly doubled in the past year, with 668 clinicians leaving between June 2021 and May 2022, compared to 335 clinicians the previous year. In a union survey of 200 of those departing clinicians, 85 percent said they were leaving because their workload was unsustainable or they felt they did not have enough time to complete the work, and 76 percent said they were unable to “treat patients in line with standards of care

and medical necessity.” Some of these concerns are not new, although the pandemic has exacerbated them. In 2013, the Department of Managed Health Care fined Kaiser $4 million for failure to provide adequate mental health treatment. In a hearing this spring, lawmakers raised concerns about the state’s plans to move an additional 200,000 Medi-Cal members onto Kaiser, given problems with mental health treatment. Democratic Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco has introduced a bill to significantly increase fines for health plans that fail to comply with state laws. Another bill of Wiener’s, SB 221, which took effect July 1, is intended to ensure patients don’t face long delays for follow-up treatment through commercial providers like Kaiser. Specifically, the new law, which was sponsored by the union, requires that patients receive follow-up mental health care within 10 business days unless a provider determines that a longer wait will not be detrimental to the patient. At a virtual press conference in late June, Kaiser mental health practitioners said the health giant wasn’t close to meeting those requirements.

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FAIRFIELD — League City, Texas, picked up two victories Sunday at Yarbrough Field in Laurel Creek Park to claim the American Legion Western Regional baseball tournament title. League City beat Honolulu 6-2 and closed out the championship with a 3-2 win over California champion Petaluma. The Texas champion has earned the all-expenses-paid trip to Shelby, North Carolina, for the American Legion World Series and will compete against seven other regional winners from across the country for the national championship. The Texas team scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to rally for the win and the title. They were held scoreless for six innings by Petaluma before breaking out and scoring the gamewinning runs. Tristan Zarella hit an

RBI triple in the seventh to score Jeron Peterson. Kyeler Thompson had an RBI single that plated Zarella. Brandon Vassallo followed with a RBI single that scored Thompson. Zarella went 3-for-3 for League City. Thompson had two hits. Vassallo, Samuel Lampson, Jose Rodriguez and Peterson also had singles. Kameron Hardebeck kept them close in the game on the mound with 6 1/3 strong innings. Wesley Allen went 2-for-3 for Petaluma. Against Honolulu, Thompson and Logan Silvertooth had two hits apiece. Zarella and Travis Brag delivered triples. Jacob Cyr pitched 61/3innings and allowed only two eared runs to go with four strikeouts. Jeremiah Lono had two doubles for Hawaii, the team that knocked out the Fairfield Expos early in the tournament. Dallas Alapai also had two hits..

UC Davis football coach eyes another Big Sky crown By Joe Davidson

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DAVIS — Dan Hawkins doesn’t hide his affection for his football team. “I love our team,” the UC Davis football coach said this week on the eve of fall camp. “I love our dudes. We have a lot of good football players.” Make that a lot of good players to go with a cast of good coaches, and that generally translates to success. Hawkins lived out that experience as a gritty fullback for the Aggies in the early 1980s and he’s lived it even closer as the UCD head coach since 2017. UCD won its first Big Sky Conference championship in 2018 and reached itssecond FCS playoff in 2021. With a host of returning starters in the backfield, in the trenches and on defense, UCD expects to be in

the championship chase again. The Aggies have won 31 conference championships since 1929, their first in Division I coming in 2018. “Seems like every year we have an audacious statement that this is the best team in Aggies history, all the skill and experience,” Hawkins said. “I think we can be equal to last year or better. I can see the level continue to rise.” UCD doesn’t have a for-sure starting quarterback at this point. The camp’s most interesting competition starts there to replace Hunter Rodrigues, but there is no shortage of options or talent. Each guy in the running has a unique skill set, UCD offensive coordinator Cody Hawkins said. His father, the head coach, said he likes it See UC Davis, Page B8

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San Francisco Giants’ Mike Yastrzemski connects for a two-run home run in the fifth inning of their MLB game

at the Coliseum against the A’s in Oakland, Sunday. Yastrzemski hit two home runs in a 6-4 Giants win.

Yastrzemski homers twice as Giants sweep series from A’s By Shayna Rubin

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OAKLAND — A two-game sweep of the A’s was just what the Giants needed to regain a little grip on their postseason hopes. Their playoff viability was thrown further into question after suffering a four-game sweep series to the juggernaut Dodgers at Oracle Park earlier this week, extending their losing streak against Los Angeles to eight for the first time since 1979. They’re still technically in reach of a wild card spot, and a little momentum created with a 6-4 win on Sunday afternoon in front of a crowd of around 31,000 in Oakland doesn’t hurt. Starter Logan Webb was strong in his outing against an A’s team in complete rebuild mode. He held Oakland hitless until the fifth inning, when Vimael Machín laced a double down just inside

of the third base line. It led to a run scored on Skye Bolt’s RBI single up the middle, a rally aided by Brandon Crawford’s 12th error of the year on Nick Allen’s ground ball. But Webb’s stuff was crisp in his seven innings. He generated plenty of ground balls, but the Giants’ iffy defense couldn’t guarantee those grounders would get him out of innings. The A’s scored their second run in the seventh inning on a series of ground balls that could have been turned for double plays. He gave up just four hits and struck out five with three walks. The Giants’ bats had his back. In the third inning, Mike Yastrzemski hit a solo home run, his 10th, off an 0-2 sinker from A’s starter Adrian Martinez. He hit his second home run in the eighth inning to extend a Giants’ lead, a two-run home run off Austin Pruitt. Hits from Yastrzemski and Joey

Bart got Martinez out of the game for left-handed reliever Sam Moll, who gave up an RBI double to pinch-hitter Austin Slater on a misplay by left fielder Tony Kemp to make it 2-0 before the A’s answered. Bart has been on a roll over his last eight games, as he went 1-for-3 and entered Sunday’s game batting .346 with 3 home runs and a 1.039 OPS since July 28. In his first game back from the concussion injured list, Thairo Estrada hit a two-run home run off A.J. Puk to make it 4-1 in the fifth. But the A’s fought back after Yastrzemski’s second home run. Seth Brown’s two-run home run off Dominic Leone in the eighth closed the Giants’ lead to two. They had the game-winning run at the plate in the ninth inning against Camilo Doval, who worked out of the self-made jam to secure the win.

A’s Hall of Famers watch team try to reinvent itself once again By Jerry McDonald BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

OAKLAND — The A’s passed out six more green jackets Sunday at the Coliseum and the newest members of the team’s Hall of Fame are curious to see where the franchise is headed at the latest fork in the road. Six new members of the Athletics Hall of Fame were honored in a pregame ceremony before the Bay Bridge Series finale against the Giants: outfielder Joe Rudi, third

baseman Eric Chavez, third baseman Sal Bando, catcher Ray Fosse, player development executive Keith Lieppman and longtime clubhouse manager Steve Vucinich. Among those who served as presenters included Reggie Jackson, Vida Blue, Rickey Henderson and Dave Stewart. All are among the 28 members of the franchise Hall of Fame that Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group was started in 2018. Carol Fosse speaks about her husband Ray Fosse during a The new class encompre-game ceremony at the Coliseum in Oakland, Sunday. See A’s, Page B8 Fosse was one of six inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame.

Aiyuk defends ‘even-keel’ Lance after rough 49ers practice Cam Inman BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SANTA CLARA — Let it be known that Brandon Aiyuk had Trey Lance’s back after a bad day, not that the 49ers’ young quarterback appeared desperate for a morale boost Sunday. “He’s just a level, evenkeel dude,” Aiyuk said. “We don’t worry about him at all, really. He’ll come in, say, ‘Let’s look at it later today,’ we do so, and then we move on. That’s what prac-

tice is for.” Practice No. 10 of training camp was arguably Lance’s worst, and it was not a startling plot twist in his up-and-down camp as the new starting quarterback. He aced his first three passes – highlighted by completions over the middle to Aiyuk and Deebo Samuel – but then Lance got wild with multiple passes soaring high and out of bounds. A high throw to his favorite target, Aiyuk, allowed safety Jimmie

Ward to defend that ball while Aiyuk landed hard on his back. The next snap, Lance’s pass to tight end Tyler Kroft got cut off and intercepted by linebacker Fred Warner. Lance completed just one of his final nine throws, finishing 4-of-12. Aiyuk suggested Lance’s wild pitches could be a toll from his volume of throws this camp, and although he did not outright cite “arm fatigue,” that is a concerning storyline that surfaced last month in regards to

Lance’s rookie season. “One thing I’ve learned is you never know what these guys arms feel like,” Aiyuk said. “We go out there some days our legs are tired and they may expect us to break a route and come out a lot faster than we did. Same thing for them. It is something I’ve learned. You never know what their arms feel like when they’re coming out here throwing a bunch of balls.” Those misses could not be fully blamed on the first-string offense

lacking tackles Trent Williams and Mike McGlinchey, nor tight end George Kittle. Before Warner’s interception, Lance’s two preceding throws were off the mark toward Aiyuk, with Charvarius Ward dropping a potential interception and then Ward breaking that high throw over the middle. “(Lance) talked about to us after a couple of plays he wishes he had back,” Aiyuk said. “He talked to us the same way as if he were to hit a play:

what he did see, what he didn’t see, what he liked, or, ‘That was on me.’ ” Lance was 8-of-12 a day earlier and finished that session with an impressive touchdown drive. The only practice as dismal statistically as Sunday’s was Practice No. 3, when he completed just 3-of-10 throws. Unofficially, he’s 67-of-128 in this camp’s full-team drills (52 percent). Center Jake Brendel added of Lance: See 49ers, Page B8

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A Greek salad with couscous, lentils maximizes efficiency – and joy G. Daniela Galarza THE WASHINGTON POST

riting a good recipe is an exercise in efficiency. Someone who does that particularly well is Ali Slagle, a recipe developer I’ve long admired. “My feeling about efficiency is that it’s often presented in a joyless way,” she says. “Like you have to be faster, faster, faster. You have to be done in 45 minutes, 30 minutes.” Instead, Slagle tells me, if you think first of the process, of the steps you need to complete a recipe, “your movements are more streamlined and you’re less frantic. Then you can enjoy the process.” I’ve featured a handful of Slagle’s recipes in the past, but this one for a Greek salad with couscous and lentils is special because it’s from her new book, “I Dream of Dinner (So You Don’t Have To).” Ideally, the cooking process involves being open to improvisation, shortcuts that might be specific to your kitchen setup, and personal preferences. For that to work, you can’t have too much to do. So Slagle writes recipes that don’t have too many ingredients and don’t require more than two different cooking processes, such as marinating; stovetop cooking (frying, sauteing, steaming, boiling, etc.); grilling; or oven cooking (baking, roasting or broiling). Her Greek salad recipe involves marinating and stovetop cooking. “If you have less to do, your mind can travel a little bit more,” Slagle says. “You can think while you’re making a salad, Oh, I have some celery I need to use up and can throw in. . . . Let me use the end of this jar of mustard to make the dressing. . . . That leftover grilled chicken would go with this.” In other words, when Slagle writes recipes, she’s aware that cooks’ full attention might not be on the task in front of them. Our minds wander. The dog needs a walk. A child wants a snack. “Because I cannot expect that the people cooking my recipes can give their full attention to the recipe, I want my recipes to be less intense – but always delicious,” Slagle says. “Because if something tastes good, no one ever says, ‘Oh, I wish that had been harder to make.’ “ Here are a few of Slagle’s tips for being efficient in your cooking life: n Cook from the hip: “If you feel comfortable not using a recipe, many times just cooking from the hip is more efficient.” n Get comfortable with substitutions: “Recipes often fail in that they seem really specific, but if you get comfortable switching things out for things you have on hand, you’ll

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Couscous and lentil greek salad is good as-is or serve it with warm pita on the side. them, below, and has these parting words: “Everyone has my permission to not make my recipes exactly as written – but if it doesn’t come out well, don’t blame me!”

First, you’ll boil some lentils in a pot of salted water, and when they’re about halfway done, you’ll add pearled couscous. save lots of time – and money.” n Minimize grocery shopping trips: “Shopping is this time suck recipe developers sometimes don’t consider when we’re writing a recipe, but going to the store takes time and is part of the process. As a home cook, if you don’t have to go to the store, you can be more efficient.” Slagle’s recipe for Greek salad is a good example of how she’s always thinking about her favorite seasonal dishes and how to turn them into full meals. “I love Greek salad in the summer, and I could eat it as-is as a meal, but I’m also often thinking about how people are looking for that combination of starch, vegetable and protein in their meals,” she says. The feta adds protein, but probably not enough. Still, she didn’t want to make the classic salad too complicated. Here’s

how she added heft without too many more steps: First, you’ll boil some lentils in a pot of salted water, and when they’re about halfway done, you’ll add pearled couscous. Meanwhile, halve some cherry tomatoes and chop some cucumbers. Season them with salt and let them sit in a fine-mesh strainer while you combine sliced shallots in a small bowl with a bit of vinegar. The couscous and lentils will be done at the same time, and when they are, tip the tomatoes and cucumbers into a serving bowl and use that same strainer to drain the lentils and couscous. Toss everything together, dress the salad and then top it with feta, olives, cracked black pepper and basil. I like this salad as-is or with warm pita on the side. Slagle loves a good substitution, so she provided lots of

COUSCOUS AND LENTIL GREEK SALAD 30 minutes 4 servings Chewy pearl couscous and tender lentils turn a summery Greek salad into a full meal fit for brunch, lunch or dinner. Adapted from Ali Slagle’s cookbook, “I Dream of Dinner,” this smart combination is full of savory texture and spritzy flavors. Instead of lentils, use cooked or canned chickpeas. In place of couscous, try rice or stale bread, ripped into rough croutons. The shallot is there to ensure a depth of flavor. If you’re using fresh summer tomatoes, you could skip the shallot. If you can’t have tomatoes, try this with sliced peaches, roasted red bell peppers or grilled eggplant. No feta? Try fresh mozzarella or dollops of yogurt and lemon zest. Storage Notes: Refrigerate leftovers for up to 2 days. 3 ⁄4 teaspoon fine salt, plus more as needed 1 ⁄2 cup (3 ounces) dried green lentils 1 ⁄2 cup (3 ounces) Israeli or pearl couscous 1 pint cherry or grape tomatoes, halved 4 Persian or mini cucumbers, chopped into bite-size pieces 1 small shallot, coarsely chopped 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar 1 ⁄4 cup extra-virgin olive oil

⁄2 cup kalamata olives, pitted and halved 4 ounces feta, crumbled Freshly ground black pepper 1 ⁄2 cup fresh basil leaves, torn Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Add the lentils and cook for 10 minutes. Add the couscous, stir to combine and cook until both the lentils and couscous are tender, 10 to 12 minutes. While the lentils and couscous cook, in a fine-mesh strainer, toss together the tomatoes and cucumbers with 3⁄4 teaspoon of salt. Let them drain in the sink. In a small bowl, combine the shallot and vinegar with a pinch of salt. When the couscous and lentils are just about done, shake the tomatoes and cucumbers to rid them of excess liquid, then transfer them to a large bowl. Drain the lentils and couscous in the same strainer, and add them to the tomatoes and cucumbers. Drizzle with the olive oil. Using a spoon, scoop the shallot out of the vinegar and add it to the large bowl. Stir to combine, then add the olives and feta. Season to taste with salt, pepper and a sprinkle of the vinegar used on shallot, if desired. Stir in the basil and serve family-style. Nutrition information per serving (about 1 1⁄2 cups) | Calories: 342; Total Fat: 23 g; Saturated Fat: 7 g; Cholesterol: 25 mg; Sodium: 891 mg; Carbohydrates: 25 g; Dietary Fiber: 9 g; Sugar: 3 g; Protein: 12 g. This analysis is an estimate based on available ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s or nutritionist’s advice. Adapted from “I Dream of Dinner” by Ali Slagle (Clarkson Potter, 2022). 1

Cool off with a frosty, refreshing cantaloupe smoothie bowl

he thought of a half into chunks and froze cantaloupe filled them in a freezer bag. with cottage cheese It turned out to be a gives me the warm-fuzzbetter plan than I had ies. That’s because my imagined because the grandfather Burt, the ultra-ripe melons I man who taught me how had would have otherto ride a bike, do long wise probably gone bad division, and that we before I could get to it were given two ears and Ellie Krieger all. Once frozen I could one mouth for a reason, use the melon as needed Nourish used to eat it regularly. I to make one, two or remember how after his first more portions of this recipe at a bite he’d assess the melon’s time. (You need a small blender sweet juiciness like a judge on a to make a single portion.) cooking competition show To make the smoothie bowl, (which didn’t exist yet), and how I whirred the melon in the when he ordered it at the diner blender with milk and a little it came with a maraschino ground cardamom, a spice that cherry on top. somehow makes melon taste With peak season melon even more melon-y. I didn’t need on hand, which my grandfaany sweetener in mine, but if ther would have scored a 10 for your melon is not quite a 10, go its sweet juiciness, I decided to ahead and add a little honey to play around with the classic, taste. The trick with a smoothie healthful, fruit and cheese bowl is to add a minimal amount combo, turning it into a refresh- of liquid to keep the mixture as ing smoothie bowl. To start, thick and sorbet-like as possible. I seeded and cut the rind off This typically requires stopping the melon, then cut the flesh the blender several times to stir,

and a little patience allowing the frozen fruit to soften a little on its own. Once the beautiful, pastel orange mixture was smooth and frosty, I poured it into a bowl, put a mound of creamy cottage cheese in the center, and then gave it a spark of lime zest and fresh torn mint leaves. If only you could have seen how my eyes widened with delight when I first tasted it! It is everything I had hoped it would be, an exciting new take on the classic combo, refreshingly frosty, but still able to elicit those warm-fuzzies. CANTALOUPE SMOOTHIE BOWL Active time: 15 minutes | Total time: 30 minutes 2 servings 3 cups (14 ounces) fresh cantaloupe chunks (1-inch pieces, from 1 large cantaloupe), frozen 1 cup whole or reducedfat milk (may also use unsweetened plant-based

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Cantaloupe smoothie bowl. milk), plus more as needed ⁄8 teaspoon ground cardamom Honey (optional) 2 ⁄3 cup regular or low-fat plain cottage cheese 2 teaspoons torn fresh mint leaves 1 ⁄2 teaspoon finely grated lime zest Place the cantaloupe in a blender and let it soften slightly, 15 to 20 minutes. Add the milk and cardamom and pulse until the mixture is smooth and has the texture of a loose sorbet. You may 1

need to stop the blender to stir/ scrape with a spatula several times; add 1 to 2 more tablespoons of milk; and/or wait a few minutes for the melon to soften further, depending on the power of your blender. Depending on the sweetness of the cantaloupe, you can add honey to taste, pulsing a few more times to incorporate. Divide the melon mixture between 2 shallow serving bowls. Add 1⁄3 cup of cottage cheese to the center of each, then sprinkle with the mint and lime zest and serve. Nutrition information per serving (2 cups smoothie, using reduced-fat milk, and 1⁄3 cup low-fat cottage cheese) | Calories: 192; Total Fat: 5 g; Saturated Fat: 3 g; Cholesterol: 20 mg; Sodium: 340 mg; Carbohydrates: 25 g; Dietary Fiber: 2 g; Sugar: 24 g; Protein: 15 g This analysis is an estimate based on available ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s or nutritionist’s advice. From cookbook author and registered dietician nutritionist Ellie Krieger.

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A large section of the Blue room, where the buds start to bloom at Columbia Care in Vineland, New Jersey. It can take eight to 12 weeks for a flower to

achieve the size and color needed for harvesting. The flowers are taken to a high-tech sorting and packaging machine.

How do they grow all that weed? Inside a new 270,000-square-foot pot producing plant in South Jersey

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olley Hayhurst had just finished donning a disposable lab coat when he glanced at his mobile phone and let out an enthusiastic “Yes!” “My phone is blowing up. The results just came back,” said Hayhurst, vice president of operations at Columbia Care’s new 270,000-square-foot cannabis growing and packaging facility in Vineland, New Jersey. “We have something fun and new for the market.” It’s THC-infused salt water taffy, a Shore favorite that the company will launch soon in Delaware, likely to follow eventually in New Jersey. Demand has proved so strong for recreational weed in New Jersey since sales began in April 2021 that there are still lines each day outside most of the 17 stores that sell it. Adults are allowed to buy up to one ounce of cannabis in a visit. They can buy dried flower, concentrated oils, resin, vape formulas, tinctures, topicals, syringes, lozenges and soft chews. But perishable edibles like brownies are not allowed. Another nine stores sell marijuana only for medical use. By state law, all marijuana sold in New Jersey must be grown in state by licensed growers; homeowners can’t cultivate their own. For Columbia Care, plants get their start at the publicly traded company’s two facilities in Vineland, Cumberland County: Its original 50,000-square-foot plant and the one that opened in June that’s the equivalent of just under five football fields. Most commercial pot is grown indoors where security, cleanliness, temperature, humidity, light and water flow can all be controlled with precision. Columbia Care, a publicly traded company based in New York, describes itself as one of the largest and most experienced cultivators and manufacturers in the industry, operating in both the U.S. and Europe. It is currently being bought by Chicago-based Cresco Labs, which has cannabis operations in 10 states. Columbia Care sells through its Cannabist stores in Deptford and Vineland, with plans to open a third in Mays Landing. Other marijuana companies operating in New Jersey include the Apothecarium, founded in

ABOVE: Workers begin trimming and cutting clones from the mother

plants at Columbia Care in Vineland, New Jersey. Most workers wear sunglasses because of the intense amount of illumination from grow lights.

LEFT: Volley Hayhurst, vice president of operations at Columbia Care,

describes how his company raises recreational weed during a tour of the facility.

San Francisco, which operates three stores. Curaleaf operates two stores, and Miami-based Ayr Wellness operates three stores under the Garden State Dispensary Brand. Hayhurst, along with Cori Griffith, operations manager, and Alex Anthony, cultivation manager, gave The Inquirer a tour of the Columbia Care plant at the end of July to explain the growing process. The Inquirer agreed to not shoot pictures or video of certain proprietary methods or machinery. The first literal step inside the Columbia Care includes a shoe bath. All workers and visitors must wear lab coats, hair nets, and shoe protectors to keep out contamination. And each steps into a sterilizing bath before entering any of the cavernous rooms. The inside of the facility resembles a clean computer chip plant, or even a hospital with long, wide, white corridors and secure doors.

Anthony, who studied agriculture at Iowa State University, said fungi, viruses and other contaminants can sneak into the building. And once they’re in, he said, they are difficult to remove. If someone, for example, stepped on a cigarette butt outside, Anthony said, “it could be a vector for the tobacco mosaic virus.” That virus is known to attack and stunt the growth of plants and is often spread by agricultural workers. Once a plant is infected, there is no chemical cure. And there’s a lot of ground for shoes to cover: The former shipping and logistics warehouse on West Park Avenue has been renovated specifically for weed operations and employs 35 people full-time. About 50,000 square feet is currently being used, with about 20,000 square feet now devoted to plants as the company ramps up its production. All the weed-related products start as a combination of two cannabis species: sativa, known for a stimulating high, or indica, known for a more mellow experience. Growers experiment with a number of seeds to find the right mix of sativa or indica. They look for the desired level

of THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in weed (33% would be very high), and terpenes, chemical compounds that produce unique combinations of flavor, aroma, and color. For example, 10 seeds might yield one plant that has the genetic qualities a grower wants or customers demand. That seed grows into a mother plant – a mature marijuana plant that can become part of a grower’s proprietary strain and can yield hundreds of clones. At Columbia Care’s facility, workers examine rows and rows of mother plants, stored on movable, white, steel framed, multitiered racks, resembling something used inside a library archive. Workers take small cuttings off the plants and place them in a nutrient solution as clones. Eventually, the cuttings are transplanted to soil in plastic terrariums and labeled by strain, or genotypes known to produce traits unique to a brand. Anthony said using cuttings from a mother plant ensures customers get the same experience for a particular strain each time. The company grows up to 12 strains but mostly relies on four to eight. Mother plants typically grow about 3 feet tall in the facility,

Anthony said. Workers are careful not to take too many cuttings from the same tree, but eventually, the genetic properties of a mother plant degrades, and the cycle starts over with a new mother plant. Griffith said that in larger states with well established markets, a single mother plant can be worth millions because of all the cuttings it yields and are sold to other companies. Licensed cultivators in New Jersey can transport seeds across state lines because they do not contain TCH, but any plant or cutting must remain within state borders. Consider that a 3.5 gram jar (1⁄8 ounce) of Runtz Muffin flower, used to roll joints, was selling last week at the Columbia Care’s Cannabist store in Vineland for about $47. It’s part of the company’s Triple 7 line, which includes other hybrids such as Hot Rod, and, the newest, Watermelon Sorbet. Cuttings from the mother tree are moved to a room equipped with powerful grow lights that shine eight to 14 hours a day. “This is where the light cycle starts to change everything,” Anthony said. The light is calibrated to ensure the proper amount of photosynthesis for the plants to flower. Workers part racks by turning cranks, allowing them to reach upper tiers. It can take eight to 12 weeks for a flower to achieve the size and color needed for harvesting. The flowers are taken to a high-tech sorting and packaging machine where they are dropped in a silver steel hopper that resembles a futuristic disco chandelier. The hopper contains 14 scales that sorts flowers by size and weight down to the gram. During the tour, they were being manually sorted and packaged as the machine was being reset. The flowers drop into jars, which are capped, sealed and labeled. The machine “was originally made for other food packaging,” Griffith said. “It’s been sort of tweaked a little bit to do cannabis as well. These do flower, and they can do gummies and tablets. . . . This is usually running all day every day.” As he spoke, a line at least 10-deep had formed outside the company’s store on Delsea Drive in Vineland to buy the finished product.

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Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook on the red carpet for the 65th BFI London Film Festival: “Ali & Ava” The Mayor Of London’s Special Presentation at Royal Festival Hall in South Bank, London, Oct. 13, 2021.

‘Ali & Ava’ is a winning, beautifully acted interracial love story Justin Chang

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n “Ali & Ava,” a lovely surprise from English filmmaker Clio Barnard, music is more than just a soundtrack; it’s the characters’ very lifeblood. When we first meet Ali (Adeel Akhtar), a part-time DJ in the northern English city of Bradford, he’s cutting loose on top of his station wagon, dancing to a pounding Afrofuturist beat. Later that day, Ava (Claire Rushbrook) will take a bus across town and hear a Sammi Smith song that perfectly sums up her loneliness. Over the course of the movie she’ll sing at a karaoke bar, work out to a Bollyrobics video and drop in on Ali’s private man-cave, an inner sanctum stuffed with vinyl, sound equipment and other totems of a lifelong love of music. That love isn’t the only thing these two middle-aged strangers have in common, even if they do spend their first date, if that’s what it is, jamming out to each other’s favorite tunes. But it does account for the strange, improbable joy that animates this movie and the charming interracial love story it has to tell. Superficially, “Ali & Ava” may resemble the bleak social-realist melodramas “The Selfish Giant” (2013) and “Dark River” (2018) that, along with Barnard’s experimental 2011 documentary, “The Arbor,” have established her reputation as a sensitive chronicler of Yorkshire misery. But here the familiar trappings – the cramped housing-estate confines, the cycles of poverty, addiction and abuse – are, if not quite transcended, then at least held in check by a bracing, openhearted spirit. Witness the scene in which Ali, kindly offering Ava a ride home, drops her off in a white neighborhood not known for its

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kindness to Pakistani immigrants like himself. As children merrily hurl rocks at his car, Ava protests, while Ali has the inspiration to pump up the volume on his radio; within seconds, a hostile confrontation almost becomes a block party. If that sounds naively utopian, it somehow doesn’t play that way. Barnard’s grounded yet kinetic filmmaking – her collaborators include director of photography Ole Bratt Birkeland and editor Maya Maffioli – catches you up in its own infectious, wittily syncopated rhythms. You might be swept slightly off-balance by this movie, which is a fair approximation of how Ali and Ava feel most of the time. Their good-humored tenacity is a natural response to years of heartache and hardship, which they’ve spent serving as the emotional glue to their large, fractious extended families. Ava, an Irish-born widow with four grown children, spends a lot of time babysitting her grandkids, with unfeigned delight and nary a complaint. Ali, who lives in close proximity to his mother, sister and other relatives, also works as a landlord, and his many tenants, most of them immigrants as well, regard him less as a rent collector than a beloved uncle. It’s one of Ali’s routine favors – he drives a tenant’s young daughter, Sofia (Ariana Bodorova), to and from school each day – that brings him into initial contact with Ava, an assistant in Sofia’s classroom. From there, things accelerate quickly, from getting-to-knowyou chitchat to impromptu dance parties, plus some charming through-the-mail-slot flirtation. Later, there are dimly lit intimacies and discreet cutaways – Barnard respects her characters’ modesty, perhaps to a fault – and a quick romantic getaway by train. Mostly, there’s a bracing openness to new possibilities, as well as a refusal to even

consider the assumptions – some racist, some ageist – a concerned onlooker might bring to the situation. Still, those assumptions exist, along with other complications. Ali is about to separate from his wife, Runa (Ellora Torchia), but isn’t as ready as she is to call it quits – partly because he still loves her, and partly because his traditionminded family doesn’t believe in divorce. Ava’s son Callum (Shaun Thomas) is a racist hothead who violently disapproves of his mother’s new companion. It’s telling that Callum idolizes his own late dad, who subjected Ava to repeated drunken bouts of physical abuse. Barnard, unfurling her story with swift forward momentum, keeps those wounds largely in the past. But their residue lingers in the present, and especially in the grit and texture of the movie’s superbly paired lead performances. Akhtar plays Ali with the emotional generosity and headlong enthusiasm of an overgrown child, and you can see in his let’s-get-the-partystarted boisterousness a sliver of what might have pushed the more demure, independentminded Runa away. You could practically warm your hands over Ava’s luminous, openfaced smile, but the stellar Rushbrook also shows you, in heart-swelling glimpses, the sadness behind that smile. Ali chases away some of that sadness, just as Ava brightens his gloom. They do this matterof-factly, sans grand romantic gestures or speeches, which would be anathema to their hard-scrabble lives and the scrappy, tough-minded movie they find themselves in. Barnard has made an ode to the beauty of messy, imperfect lives and their ability to converge at improbably perfect moments. Maybe it ends a beat too soon, but then so do some of your favorite songs.

Bridge

by Phillip Alder

a finesse to succeed, but deep down you just know that it’s going to fail. Then, when it does, you nod your head knowingly. However, do you ask yourself if there is another trick sequence that would permit you to avoid relying on that finesse? In today’s deal, North’s response of two no-trump was the Jacoby Forcing Raise. South liked his sixth trump but didn’t like his doubleton honors, so he settled for the weakest rebid: game in spades. West led the diamond three. East won with the ace and returned the suit. West shifted to the heart three. Declarer finessed dummy’s queen, but it lost, and back came a heart. South ran all of his trumps, the defenders each keeping three clubs. Then South guessed to finesse West for the club queen, but East produced that honor too: down one. “I was confident that West had started with 1=4=4=4 distribution, so IS IT FACT, FATE it was 4-to-3 that he held the club queen,” explained South. OR FANTASY? “True,” replied North, “but you The biggest puzzle in life is life didn’t need to guess. Just win trick itself. Why are we here? Why are you three with the heart ace, draw the you rather than someone else? There trump and exit with your last heart. are various answers to these questions, Whichever defender takes that trick including religion and science – and must either lead a club or concede a even 42 (according to Douglas Adams). ruff-and-sluff. Either way, you don’t Do bridge contracts mirror life? lose a club trick.” Sometimes you might feel as if they do. You are playing in a contract that needs COPYRIGHT: 2022, UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE

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FAIRFIELD — Two movies are coming to local theaters this week, “Fall” and “Mack and Rita.” “Fall” is about two daredevil women who have decided to fight fear by tackling the scariest challenges they can devise. “Mack and Rita” is about a young woman who gets struck by a lightning bolt and comes to as her alter ego, Aunt Rita. Opening nationwide are: “Fall,” in which Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) and her best buddy, Hunter (Virginia Gardner), focus their lives on beating back fear. They climb a 2,000foot remote, abandoned radio tower and realize fear might be the least of their worries when they can’t find away down. Their climbing skills will be put to the ultimate test as they desperately fight to survive the elements, a lack of supplies and vertigo-inducing heights in this adrenaline-fueled thriller co-starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The film is rated PG-13. “Mack and Rita,” in which a 30-year-old selfproclaimed homebody, Mack Martin (Elizabeth Lail), takes a reluctant trip to Palm Springs for a bachelorette party with her best friend Carla (Taylour Paige). She is struck by lightning, and wakes up as a 70-yearold. “Aunt Rita” (Diane Keaton) is her true inner self being released. She finds herself navigating a new world of love and expectations. The film is rated PG-13. “Inu-Oh,” an anime film about the character Inu-Oh, who is born with some strange physical defects. Adults are horrified by his features and force him to cover himself with a mask and layers of clothing. One day he makes friends with Tomona, who is a blind biwa player. As Tomona plays a delicate song of tangled fate, Inu-Oh discovers an incredible ability to dance. They dance and sing their way to a career but question why they both are suffering with these disabilities. The film is not rated. Opening in limited release are: “No Way Out,” a film about a dysfunctional couple who are

wrapped up in a lustful relationship, entwined with drugs and an even unhealthier need to take bigger and bigger risks. They gamble at higher stakes, missing being crushed by bad decisions until the day it all catches up to them. The film is not yet rated. “Rogue Agent,” which tells the story of Robert Freegard, a conman who poses as an undercover MI5 agent, kidnapping countless victims amid a high-stakes manhunt until the woman who loved him stops his reign of terror. The film is not rated. “Girl Picture,” in which Mimmi , Emma and Rönkkö have each other’s backs, always. They are looking for a future full of adventure and romance. Emma is obsessed with a career in figure skating. She is driven and so focused that life really is passing her by. But even though the girls meet all expectations, plans fall apart and make something even better. The film is not rated. “Emily the Criminal,” in which Emily (Aubrey Plaza) is desperate to make money. Her criminal history has locked her out of many jobs and her student debt isn’t shrinking. She takes a shady gig as a “dummy shopper,” buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a handsome and charismatic middleman named Youcef (Theo Rossi). She finds the work fun, easy and soon gives up even attempting to find a “real” job but instead joins with Youcef in an even bigger money-making scheme. 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.brendentheatres.com. For Vallejo showtimes, check www. cinemark.com/theatres/ ca-vallejo. More information about upcoming films is available at www. movieinsider.com.

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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 th e 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 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 #: 22-12 Will C. Wood HS Technology Project • Classroom technology upgrades 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. Notice is hereby given that the Project is subject to the requirements of Public Contract Code section 20111.6 as a project funded under the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 or a project that involves a projected expenditure of one million dollars ($1,000,000) or more and is funded from a state school bond. As such, the District will accept Bids only from Bidders prequalified by the District. In addition, any electrical, mechanical, and plumbing subcontractors (as defined by Public Contract Code section 20111.6(k) and all subcontractors holding a class A or B license that will perform any type of work covered by the specialty licenses listed in section 20111.6(k)) must be prequalified by the District. The type of work for which subcontractors must be prequalified is the work encompassed in the following license classifications: C-4, C-7, C-10, C-16, C-20, C34, C-36, C-38, C-42, C-43 and C-46, whether performed by a contractor with a Class C license or a Class A or B license. A list of prequalified contractors and electrical, mechanical, and plumbing Subcontractors is posted on the District’s website: at https://vacavilleusdmeasurea.ss5.sharpschool.com/for_contractors/contractor_information. Contractors and subcontractors that are required to be prequalified are required to submit prequalification packages no later than thirty (30) days prior to bid date or within five (5) days of the last bid advertisement if advertised less than thirty (30) days before bids are due, but no later than ten (10) business days before bids are due. The District will not consider any Bid in which the Bidder, or any Subcontractor that was required to be prequalified, is not actually prequalified within five (5) days before the bid date. The District’s Prequalification Application is available on the District’s website at https://vacavilleusdmeasurea.ss5.sharpschool.com/for_contractors/contractor_information. If the bidder will not perform the mechanical, electrical and/or plumbing (MEP) work itself, then a prequalified MEP subcontractor must be listed on the subcontractor listing form, including specifically identifying mechanical, electrical and/or plumbing in the “portion” of work. Proposals are due: BID INFORMATION Location: Vacaville Unified School District, 401 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville, CA 95687 Contact: District Representative: Doug McCalla, Capital Program Management, Inc. (530) 400-6005. Date: September 7, 2022 Time: No later than 2:00:00 PM At this time such proposals will be opened and publicly read. Contractor License Classification Required: Class B or C-10

Section 1.02 Mandatory Pre bid conference will be held at: MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE INFORMATION Location: 998 Marshall Road, Vacaville, CA 95687 Contact: District Representative: Doug McCalla, Capital Program Management, Inc. – (530) 400-6005 Date: August 17, 2022 Time: 3:30 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, Doug McCalla, dougm@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 bidder’s 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 District’s Notice of Intent to Award the Contracts, 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 Bidder’s 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#00057066 Published: August 8, 15, 2022

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 tenant’s 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 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (UCC Sec. 6105) Escrow No. 14277D NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made. The name(s), business address(es) to the seller(s) are: HOT CAKES RESTAURANT GROUP INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, TWO LOCATIONS: DENNY'S #7934-642 W. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BLVD., STOCKTON, CA 95206-SAN JOAQUIN; DENNY'S #79353718 N. TRACY BLVD., TRACY, CA 95304-SAN JOAQUIN Whose chief executive office is: 123 DAVID LAMOREE WAY, RIO VISTA, CA 94571 Doing Business as: DENNY'S STORE #7934 & 7935 (Type – FRANCHISED RESTAURANT) All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the seller(s) within the past three years, as stated by the seller(s), is/are: NONE The name(s) and address of the buyer(s) is/are: ELITE VALLEY FOODS, INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, 3439 BROOKSIDE RD, SUITE 103 STOCKTON, CA 95219 The assets to be sold are described in general as: ALL STOCK IN TRADE, FURNITURE, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT AND GOODWILL and are located at: 3718 N. TRACY BLVD., TRACY, CA 95304 AND 642 W. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BLVD., STOCKTON, CA 95206 The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: CAPITOL CITY ESCROW, INC., 3838 WATT AVENUE, SUITE F-610 SACRAMENTO, CA 95821-2665 and the anticipated sale date is AUGUST 25, 2022 The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2. [If the sale is subject to Sec. 6106.2, the following information must be provided.] The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: CAPITOL CITY ESCROW, INC., 3838 WATT AVENUE, SUITE F-610 SACRAMENTO, CA 95821-2665 and the last date for filing claims by any creditor shall be AUGUST 24, 2022, which is the business day before the sale date specified above. Dated: MAY 18, 2022 ELITE VALLEY FOODS, INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, Buyer(s) 1097592-C-PP DAILY REPUBLIC 8/8/22 DR#00057068 Published: August 8, 2022 Section 00 1100 - NOTICE TO BIDDERS

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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:

• 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

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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 bidder’s 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 District’s Notice of Intent to Award the Contracts, the successful Bidder wi ll 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 Bidder’s 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

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RUIJU MA Case Number: P051434 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Ruiju Ma A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Weitao Jiang in the Superior Court of California, County of: Solano The Petition for Probate requests that: Weitao Jiang 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. 22, 2022 TIME: 8:30 a.m. DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano 600 Union Avenue Fairfield, 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: Arthur J Liu 32410th Street, Suite 223, Oakland, CA 94607 5109861198 DR#00057064 Published: August 5, 8, 12, 2022

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Scoreboard BASEBALL Seattle Texas L.A. Angels OAKLAND

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Pct GB .642 — .582 6½ .556 9½ .454 20½ .327 34½ Pct GB .556 — .537 2 .411 15½ .407 16½ .402 16½ Pct GB .694 — .550 15½

SAN FRANCISCO 53 55 .491 Arizona 48 59 .449 Colorado 48 63 .432 Saturday’s Games SAN FRANCISCO 7, OAKLAND 3 N.Y. Mets 8, Atlanta 5 N.Y. Mets 6, Atlanta 2 Chicago Cubs 4, Miami 3 Seattle 2, L.A. Angels 1 L.A. Angels 7, Seattle 1 Baltimore 6, Pittsburgh 3 Philadelphia 11, Washington 5 Cleveland 4, Houston 1 Detroit 9, Tampa Bay 1 Texas 8, Chicago White Sox 0 Kansas City 5, Boston 4 Toronto at Minnesota, 4:07 p.m. Cincinnati 7, Milwaukee 5 St. Louis 1, N.Y. Yankees 0 Colorado 3, Arizona 2 L.A. Dodgers 8, San Diego 3 Sunday’s Games SAN FRANCISCO 6, OAKLAND 4 Cleveland 1, Houston 0 Miami 3, Chicago Cubs 0 Pittsburgh 8, Baltimore 1 Philadelphia 13, Washington 2 Tampa Bay 7, Detroit 0 Kansas City 13, Boston 5 Toronto 3, Minnesota 2 Cincinnati 4, Milwaukee 2 St. Louis 12, N.Y. Yankees 9

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Chicago White Sox 8, Texas 2 N.Y. Mets 5, Atlanta 2 Arizona 6, Colorado 4 Seattle 6, L.A. Angels 3 L.A. Dodgers 4, San Diego 0 Monday’s Games L.A. Angels at OAKLAND, 6:40 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO at San Diego, 6:40 p.m. Toronto at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Cincinnati at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. Washington at Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m. Pittsburgh at Arizona, 6:40 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Seattle, 7:10 p.m. Tuesday’s Games L.A. Angels at OAKLAND, 6:40 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO at San Diego, 6:40 p.m. Chi. White Sox at Kansas City, 1:10 p.m. Chi. White Sox at Kansas City, 4:30 p.m. Miami at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m. Toronto at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Cleveland at Detroit, 4:10 p.m. Atlanta at Boston, 4:10 p.m. Cincinnati at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. Washington at Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m. Texas at Houston, 5:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. St. Louis at Colorado, 5:40 p.m. Pittsburgh at Arizona, 6:40 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Seattle, 7:10 p.m. Minnesota at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.

From Page B1 when players compete also against themselves to “be the best version of themselves.” The quarterback candidates include: Mitchell Dixon, a redshirt freshman from Rio Americano High School in Sacramento; Gunnor Faulk, a junior from Christian Brothers of Sacramento; Grant Harper, a redshirt freshman from Moraga; Miles Hastings, a sophomore from San Marcos who started the last five games of 2021 in place of a hobbled Rodrigues, passing for 1,173 yards and seven touchdowns; and Jack Newman, a junior transfer from national JC powerhouse City College of San Francisco. And there’s the guy they call “Magic”– sophomore Tent Tompkins of Fresno, a speedster who scores on 80-yard plays at quarterback or on kick returns. Tompkins has been used as a situational player to scare the heck out of the defense expecting him to carry the ball. He is as electrifying of a skill player as the Aggies have ever had, and they’ve had a ton. “If Trent isn’t a focal point, we’re doing it wrong,” Cody Hawkins said while raving about each quarterback’s abilities and desires to lead this team, stressing that the main objective is to “find your role on this team.” He added, “We have a legacy and tradition at quarterback here. Guys come here to be a part of something special. Being a quarterback here

From Page B1 passes a history of A’s baseball in Oakland. Three World Series championships in 197273-74. A rebirth under the Walter Haas Jr. ownership and G.M. Sandy Alderson that included another championship in 1989 and a run of success under Billy Beane and manager Bob Melvin that included three American League West titles and six playoff berths. Don’t like what you’re seeing from the A’s in a given time period? Just wait a few years and it will likely be something completely different. “We’re taking on that challenge right now,” A’s president Dave Kaval said. Vucinich, who in his acceptance speech speculated he might be the first clubhouse attendant to be so honored, started as a 15-year-old ball boy when the franchise moved to Oakland from Kansas City in 1968 and has been

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UC Davis head coach Dan Hawkins talks to his players going into halftime with a big lead over Cal Poly during the Aggies’ first home football game of the spring season in March 2021. is special.” UCD does not have a battle at running back. The Aggies know who will carry the ball: Preseason All-American bruiser Ulonzo Gilliam, Jr., and the speed combo of Lan Larison and Tompkins. Gilliam is the workhorse. The 5-foot-9 Merced native has rushed for 3,435 career yards, leaving him 155 shy of the school record held by G.P. Muhammad from 1995-98. Gilliam has also caught 164 passes at UCD for 1,045 yards. He is 150 all-purpose yards shy of Muhammad for that school mark. Gilliam rushed for 901 yards and scored seven times last season. He is the preseason Offensive Player of the Year in the Big Sky. And how fitting that the Aggies will break in a new field turf this fall, all the better to fast-

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1971-79, managed from 1980-87 and then was director of player development for 25 years. He now serves as a player development advisor. “I’ve taken the message from great managers starting with Billy Martin through Tony La Russa through Bob Melvin, changing with the philosophy of the manager and the front office,” Lieppman. “It’s always interesting for all of us to adjust according to the organization.” Rudi and Bando were members of the three World Championship teams, taking a back seat in terms of publicity to Jackson, but were no less important to a team that won three straight championships, something only the New York Yankees (1998-2000) have done since. “We maybe could have done more if we hadn’t been broken up,” Rudi said after Catfish Hunter got out of his contract and signed with the Yankee, which was followed by a franchise rebuild under Charles O.

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track their fleet of skill players, including receivers Justin Kraft of Whitney High who has overcome myriad injuries, and C.J. Hutton of Folsom High, and tight ends McCallan Castles and Garren O’Keefe of Colfax. Among the offensive linemen leading the way are Jake Parks, a preseason All-American. He has started 42 consecutive games, including all of last season at right guard. UCD center Connor Pettek is also a returning anchor on the offensive line at center. The defense includes returning starter defensive backs Jehiel Budgett of Monterey Trail High in Elk Grove, Chris Venable and Jaylin White and linebackers Cam Trimble and Teddye Buchanan, who led the Aggies in tackles in 2021 with 74.

Finley. “For a guy who grew up in Modesto, this is a very exciting day.” Rudi has fond memories of the Coliseum, its status as “Baseball’s Last Dive Bar” notwithstanding. “I guess it’s obsolete but I don’t know how they judge that,” Rudi said. “It would be disappointing to see them leave. I hope they get things settled so they can get things on track and do a build again.” Bando, who has been battling serious health issues, was unable to attend with son Sal Jr. accepting the green jacket on his behalf. “He’s hanging in there,” Sal Bando Jr. said. “He’s seen better days. He’s a fighter, he’s a family man, he’s fighting for his family and we’re doing the same. He’s never asked for applause. He gets excited about going golfing at Pebble Beach with his sons. But he’s humbled and honored. His career started here so I’m honored to represent him.”

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Baseball • MLB, San Francisco at San Diego, NBCSBA, 6:30 p.m. • MLB, L.A. Angels at Oakland, NBCSCA, 6:30 p.m. • Little League, Connecticut regional, ESPN, 6 a.m. • Little League, Georgia regional, ESPN, 8 a.m. • Little League, Connecticut regional, ESPN, 10 a.m. • Little League, Texas regional, ESPN, Noon. • Little League, California regional, ESPN, 2 p.m. • Little League, Indiana regional, ESPN, 4 p.m. • Little League, California regional, ESPN, 6 p.m.

Soccer • MLS, All-Star Skills Challenge, ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.

through it all. “When you think about the championship teams and the threats of moving to Denver in the late ’70s, reinvented is a good word,” Vucinich said. “It’s not always just selling off players for a rebuild, although that went on even when Connie Mack did in Philadelphia.” The Athletics were a lone tenant after the Raiders moved to Los Angeles, only to see the ballpark undergo major changes with the return of the franchise in 1995. There were years of big attendance at the Coliseum when the Giants were down and playing in substandard Candlestick Park. “That’s why seeing such a big crowd yesterday (40,065) and having another good crowd today (31,605) is special,” Vucinich said. Lieppman, like Vucinich, is a lifer who grew up in the 1960s going to Athletics games in Kansas City. He played for nine seasons in the minors for the organization from

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Baseball • MLB, San Francisco at San Diego, NBCSBA, 6:30 p.m. • MLB, L.A. Angels at Oakland, NBCSCA, 6:30 p.m. • MLB, Atlanta at Boston, TBS, 4 p.m. • Little League, Texas regional, ESPN, 10 a.m. • Little League, Indiana regional, ESPN, Noon. • Little League, Indiana regional, ESPN, 2 p.m. • Little League, Connecticut regional, ESPN, 4 p.m. • Little League, California regional, ESPN, 6 p.m.

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From Page B1 “He’s come into his own, has a good understanding of the offense, and he gets everybody in the right position. Pretty impressive.”

Aiyuk-Warner dynamic Saying he and Warner “moved on” from Tuesday’s fight, Aiyuk explained what that brawl reflected about the team’s overall mindset. “When you put on the tape and watch the Niners, no one’s backing down to anybody,” Aiyuk said. “When we go against each other, people butt heads, that’s what happens. I’m not backing down, he’s not backing down. But at the end of the day, when we back in the locker room and when we leave, that’s my brother.”

Defensive domination It’s finally game week, kind of. The 49ers’ preseason opener comes Friday night at home against the Green Bay Packers, and the 49ers’ defense looks just as dominant as its victorious playoff matchup in snowy Lambeau Field seven months ago. “Everyone gets excited when we execute and make plays,” defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans said. “We had a really good practice because guys execute, and that sparks energy for the entire team.” Marcelino McCraryBall and Jeremiah Gemmel intercepted Lance’s backups, Nate Sudfeld and Brock Purdy, to spark the eight-play sequence that finished with Warner’s interception. For Ryans, he’s entering his second year as a defensive coordinator “more comfortable but always trying to learn more.” Asked what were

his favorite games upon last year’s promotion from linebackers coach, Ryans pointed to the ones “when it matters most, the playoff games, vs Dallas, Green Bay and even the Rams; unfortunately, we didn’t close it out the way we wanted to. Being in those moments with the guys we had, those special moments and ones you dream of. A lot of guys never make it to the playoffs.”

Kinlaw update Defensive tackle Javon Kinlaw, who’s yet to have a media session nearly two weeks into camp, continues to makes strides in his comeback from knee reconstruction. He mixed in throughout team drills with the starting unit and looks not just healthy but more technically sound and just as powerful. “He’s done a nice job playing with low pads, keeping his hands inside, and making plays in the backfield,” Ryans said. “I’m excited to see him continue to progress and looking forward to him having big year. It’s vital for us to have dominant players inside.” Arik Armstead, who’ll start next to Kinlaw in the regular season, continues to rehabilitate a knee sprain from the first practice of camp.

On-field drills Ryans will not be moving up to the coaches’ booth in the suites this season and instead remain among the sideline masses, which he says is a natural fit dating to his days as an NFL linebacker. “I’m more comfortable being on the field and talking to guys face to face if something happens,” Ryans said. “I felt it went fairly well last year, and I have good coaches in the booth communicating to me, including (safeties coach Daniel) Bullucks.”

Bazemore returning to Kings on one-year deal Tribune Content Agency Kent Basemore provided depth, leadership and a strong locker room presence when he came to Sacramento in January 2020. The Kings will be looking for more of the same from the veteran swingman this season. Bazemore, 33, has agreed to return to Sacramento on a one-year deal, a league source told The Sacramento Bee on Sunday, confirming a report from The Athlet-

ic’s Shams Charania. Bazemore appeared in 25 games for the Kings in 2019-20, averaging 10.3 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.3 assists while shooting 41.8% from the field and 38.4% from 3-point range. He is a career 35.6% 3-point shooter. Bazemore is a 10-year NBA veteran who went undrafted out of Old Dominion in 2012. The 6-foot-4, 195-pound guard/forward was primarily used as a shooting guard early in his career.