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FAIRFIELD — Councilwoman Catherine Moy said it is time for her to “move up or move out.”

In a direct, sometimes toughworded and highly emotional interview Friday, Moy, 60, addressed criticism she has received about calling some of her council colleagues corrupt, claims brought against her by a local cannabis outlet that asserts it has been slandered by Moy, and at least one internal complaint for reportedly passing along rumors about an employee’s personal life to top city officials.

The councilwoman also out

lined her plans to address homeless ness with as much of a stick as a carrot approach, city clean liness and policing.

It is a platform that includes hiring more police offi cers – putting some on bicycles to patrol the downtown and other areas – and initiating a Business Watch Program.

Moy said there is $1 million annual payment from an opioid settlement the city should use to pump up the police force. The city received the first payment of about $59,979 on Monday.

Moy said Mayor Harry Price,

85, supported Police Department cut backs that she did not during the Great Recession and the city has never recov ered. She also called it a lie that she has referred to mayoral candidate Chauncey Banks, 56, as a felon, but admits she has done an extensive back ground check on past legal and criminal issues that date back more than a decade.

The records show Banks has never been convicted of a felony, and he was cleared of two misdemeanor domestic violence

Solano health fair gets new name; offers same support

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano Family Justice Center Health Fair has grown since it began in 2015, and now has a new name: the Lori Frank Memorial Health Fair.

Frank worked for the Solano Family Justice Center and for several years helped organize the event. She died Aug. 18, 2021.

“We renamed the health fair in honor of Frank,” said Christina Sinohul, co-coordinator for the event.

Members of the community came out Saturday to the fair downtown to learn about health and for some fun.

The Solano Family Justice Center opened in

February 2011 to offer victims of child abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse and sexual assault an opportunity to build hope and new futures. The center provides victims and survivors of violence assistance from many agencies located under one roof.

There were 70 booths this year that offered information on domes tic violence, child abuse advocacy and more. Free dental work was offered, along with vision tests.

“The Ambassadors of Music entertained for the whole morning,” Sinohul said.

Twenty-two students from the Public Safety Academy come out early in the morning to

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LONDON — Rus sia’s efforts to counter Ukrainian advances by pounding Kyiv and other cities with missiles and mobilizing hundreds of thousands of reservists represent a significant escalation in the sevenmonth old war, but are unlikely to shift the dynamics of a conflict now clearly tilting in favor of Ukraine, Western intel ligence assessments and military experts say.

The missile strikes

alone have little strate gic value, although they are inflicting widespread human misery and have disrupted lives in cities that have been relatively untouched by the fighting, the assessments say.

Since the onslaught began on Monday over three dozen people have been killed and scores more wounded.

Ukraine’s electricity infrastruc ture appears to be the main target, meaning that some residential areas have been plunged into darkness, leaving civil

ians confronting the possibility of facing winter without power.

But conditions on the battlefield continue to favor the nimbler, more highly motivated

and better armed Ukrai nian military, which seems likely to retain the advantage over Rus sia’s lumbering, poorly equipped and exhausted army, at least for the fore

seeable future.

U.S. and other Western officials predict that Ukraine will remain on the counteroffensive well into the coming months, even as the weather

forces the pace of the war to slow.

“I expect that Ukraine will continue to do every thing it can throughout the

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The Lori Frank Memorial Health Fair was an opportunity for community members to see what Solano County has to

for health care. One of the free

vaccinations for the flu and Covid,

Time for Toy Hall of Fame to honor Nerf

This is Nerf’s year.

There hasn’t been an easier slam dunk for the National Toy Hall of Fame since that uncon tested dunk I made on my bedroom Nerfoop in eighth grade (That’s what it was called, not Nerf Hoop.).

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There hasn’t been an easier choice since I decided to fire the origi nal Nerf ball at my older sister when she walked into the living room so I could make her flinch.

This is Nerf’s year.

The National Toy Hall of Fame announced the 12 nominees for this year’s class last month, including the collec tive “Nerf Toys.” It’s been more than 20 years since the second-great est honor for toys began (honor No. 1: A key role in a “Toy Story” movie) and Nerf isn’t in. Ridiculous.

If you ask me, the original Nerf ball should be in the Hall of Fame, as should Nerfoop, the Nerf football and the various Nerf guns.

This year, the entire Nerf family is up for a spot. Come on. Think about how Nerf changed the toy game. It was like how record ings changed the music business or how mobile phones changed com munication. Thanks to Nerf, you could suddenly throw balls indoors (orig inal advertising slogan: “Throw it indoors; you can’t damage lamps or break windows. You can’t hurt babies or old people.” Their adver tising included that you can’t hurt old people. Brilliant.).

Thanks to Nerf, you could put a hoop on any door and shoot baskets (in my first apart ment, shared with three friends, we had a huge kitchen, so we put Ner foops on opposite ends and played full-court basketball).

Thanks to Nerf, any 8-year-old could grip a football and throw it to their friends. And except for when it got so wet that the Nerf football turned into a sponge, it was easy to catch.

This year’s 12 nomi nees include Lite-Brite, the magical art tool that allowed you to make

your own pic tures (or write dirty words) on a screen; Spi rograph, the cool shapemaking art toy; Bingo, the game beloved by everyone from age 4 to 104; Pound Puppies, the cause of mall fights between 1980s parents at Christmastime; Piñata, which really is more of a food source than a toy; Top, which has amused children for millennia; and Masters of the Uni verse action figures. There are others, but who cares? Only three will make the Hall.

An educated guess is that voters will lean toward younger toys and induct Masters of the Universe. Either Bingo or the Top should be in for longevity. But the dead-certain, it’s-not-aHall-of-Fame-Without-It toy is Nerf.

That the Toy Hall of Fame has inducted 78 toys since 1998 and left out Nerf is like the Baseball Hall of Fame inducting 78 members and leaving out Lou Gehrig.

Nerf is the Lou Gehrig of toys. Durable, hon orable, consistent. OK, a little too much base ball there, but you get the point.

As someone who had countless Nerfoop dunks and free throws, who played with Nerf footballs after neigh borhood dogs tore out a piece and who threw the O.G. Nerf ball at all three of my sisters repeat edly, I say it’s time. This is the year to put Nerf next to the legends of toys, making it a Hall of Famer alongside Barbie, Jump Rope, Checkers, the Skateboard, Puppet and the other mainstay of my childhood, the Wiffle Ball.

Dear Toy Hall of Fame voters: It’s time for Nerf. Don’t make me fire one at you so you flinch like my sisters did. Repeatedly. Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@ outlook.com.

Yes, your dog really can sniff that you’re upset

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Dogs see the world through their noses. Their exceptional ability to recognize specific scents – vastly better than humans’ – helps them find bombs, guns, drugs and human remains, and point to some diseases. Now a study has found that dogs can do something just as remarkable: sniff out stress in people.

The dogs were able to smell changes in human breath and sweat, and – with high accu racy – identify chemical odors people emit when feeling stressed. The find ings provide “deeper knowledge of the humandog relationship and adds to our understanding of how dogs perceive and interact with human psy chological states,” said Clara Wilson. Wilson, a doctoral student in the Queen’s University Belfast school of psy chology, is one of the study authors.

Noting that earlier research using sniffer dogs and human bio logical samples mostly involved detecting illness, she added that it is excit ing to see that “they can smell other parts of the human experience.”

The latest research adds to a growing body of evidence related to dog behavior – how dogs see, think and smell – and their positive psychologi cal effects. Dogs can make people feel better by relieving anxiety and symptoms of depression. It’s why they often are used to support people with anxiety disorders or those recovering from trauma. The ability of dogs to smell human stress could prove valuable in training service and therapy dogs, who now largely respond to visual cues, researchers said.

“I think this work helps confirm that dogs can be savvy in reading our emotional states, and this study in particular shows that this could be done through scent cues,” said Nathaniel Hall.

Hall, who is direc tor of the Canine Olfaction Research and Education Laboratory at Texas Tech University, was not involved in the study. “The results seem to reinforce what a lot of owners feel: that their dog can be quite sensitive to their emotional state.”

There are many anec dotal stories shared by pet parents of such moments. Ben Goldberg, of Scott

sdale, Ariz., recalls how Yadi, their mini gold endoodle, crawled into his wife’s lap after they learned that an initial fertility treatment had failed. (The couple now has a 10-month-old son.)

“He immediately sensed she was upset,” Goldberg said. “Yadi recently did the same thing again. My wife found out last month that her grandmother had passed away and, as soon as the call ended, he immediately curled up into her.”

Victoria Allen, of Goochland, Va., tells a similar story about her mutt, Spes. At a beach, she and Spes came upon a group of young people, one of whom was crying. “Spes ignored everyone else and immediately went to the crying young woman to see her,” Allen said. “She loves people, so it was not surpris ing, but in this case it was clear that this woman was the only person she wanted to see. Spes moved directly toward her, with no hesitation, and just nosed her hand.”

In real-life settings, dogs probably use a variety of contextual signals such as our body language, tone of voice or breathing rate to help them understand a situ ation, Wilson said. The study results “provide firm evidence that odor is also a component that dogs can pick up on,” she said.

The study did not determine whether the

dogs could identify human emotions, that is, recog nize whether participants were feeling happy, sad, angry or fearful, for example – only that they were experiencing stress as measured by the physiological signs of increasing heart rate and blood pressure.

“The dogs can differ entiate something about human odors in stressed vs. non-stressed states, but not necessarily that they know anything about how a person is feeling, or what it means when the humans are stressed,” said Evan MacLean. MacLean, director of the Arizona Canine Cognition Center at the University of Arizona, was not part of the study. “They might –but we just don’t know that from this study.”

The researchers col lected sweat and breath samples from human par ticipants before and after giving them a difficult math problem to solve and used only samples from those who showed increases in blood pres sure and heart rate - signs of stress from perform ing the task. Samples were collected from 36 non smokers who did not eat or drink anything before the test. Each person’s breath and sweat samples were collected by having them wipe gauze on the back of their neck, place the gauze in a sterile glass vial, and then exhale three times into the vial.

The four dogs, Treo, a male Cocker spaniel;

Winnie, a female cock apoo; Fingal, a male brindle rescue Lurcher/ hound mix; and Soot, a female mixed-terrier-type breed rescue, were pets selected from a larger group of dogs after initial testing showed they were highly motivated to choose from different samples of human odors.

To teach the dogs which scent to recognize, the scientists first exposed them to the stressed per son’s sweat and breath sample alongside two control vials with clean gauze, and used click ers and treats to train the dogs into identifying the correct ones.

Later, each dog was presented with breath and sweat samples from the same participant before and after experi encing stress. The dogs correctly alerted the researchers to each per son’s stress sample in nearly 94 percent of the 720 trials, Wilson said.

She said she hopes future research can deter mine if the dogs can distinguish between pos itive and negative stress.

“While we suspected the dogs would be able to distinguish between each person’s relaxed and stressed samples, it was fascinating to see how confident they were,” Wilson said. “I hope we can build on this and dis cover even more about these gifted animals and what they can do.”

Downtown Dixon plays host to beerfest, stroll

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DIXON — The evening was cool and music wafted on the breeze Saturday as people strolled through downtown for the 11th Annual Beerfest.

Jessica and Claus Peris moved into their new house this year and were happy to walk to the event.

“It is nice to see things happening in town and being able to walk here was bonus,” Jessica Peris.

Her husband agreed.

“Having events again is great. It’s nice to see people gathering and people making connec tions,” Claus Peris said.

The Dixon Downtown Association’s annual beer fest is a fundraiser that helps support other com munity events throughout the year, said event coorganizer Susan Motley, who is also vice president of the association.

The Downtown Dixon Business Association is

a nonprofit organization. Proceeds from fundrais ing events go toward the promotion of numerous community events and activities that include the Spring Gala, Wine and Art Stroll, October Beer Fest, Trick or Treat on Main Street, the Christmas Tree Lighting Festival, the Downtown Dash and many other events and holiday activities through out the year on historic Main Street.

“The goal is to bring people downtown,” Motley said. “Some people never come to down town Dixon and these events encourage people to come down.”

The event was centered in Pardo Plaza, which was completed this year.

Motley said having events downtown is what helps keep a com munity alive.

“This is an opportunity for visitors to check things

Train rides, activities bring families out to seasonal pumpkin patch

SUISUN CITY —

The train chugged along the tracks Saturday to Gum Grove for the 7th Annual Western Railway Museum Pumpkin Patch on the opening day of what’s essentially a monthlong event.

Eric Mencis is the new executive director for the museum and was enjoying the task of wel coming people back for another year.

The trains took visitors to Gum Grove and back again, where they were left for a time to chuck pumpkins, enjoy a petting zoo that was special for Halloween, or climb the hay fort.

“It is exciting to be back at the Grove,” Mencis said. “Last year we didn’t do it out there because of

the pandemic.”

Things were back to normal this weekend, he said.

“Our sales are fantas

tic,” he said. “We sold over 600 tickets in pre sales for today and more for Sunday.”

In fact, 800 people are expected to come out this weekend, he said, and that doesn’t include drop-ins.

People who really enjoy their time at the museum can take their tickets for the Pumpkin Patch and turn them in for a family membership to the museum. That’s something new this year.

“We had one person spend $90 on tickets and that is the price of a family membership, so he just traded it in,” Mencis said.

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very large metal pumpkin with a small pumpkin at the Western Railway Museum’s Pumpkin Patch Festival in Suisun City, Saturday.

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Alina Patel, 3, of Fairfield, enjoys one of the slides built into the hay fort at the Western Railway Museum’s Pumpkin Patch Festival in Suisun City, Saturday.

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Obituary

Daniel Wayne Sellers

May 6, 1959 — Sept. 14, 2022

Daniel Wayne Sellers, 63, passed away Sept. 14, 2022, at his home in Fair field, California. Daniel was born on May 6, 1959, and was the youngest of four children born to Virgil and Patsy Sellers.

Daniel always was most proud of his two sons, Jacob, and Jerrod. Dan was kind, loving, generous and he will be forever remem bered for having a big heart. Daniel worked selflessly to help those people around him, with no expectation of any thing in return. Daniel had an infectious wit, and will be most remembered for his wonderful sense of humor.

Daniel was an avid sports fan, and he rooted for all things San Francisco, with his love for the SF Giants and SF 49ers. Daniel enjoyed golf, roller skating, camping, and was an outdoor sportsman.

Daniel traveled extensively with his work as a long haul truck driver, and visited almost all of the lower 48 states.

Daniel also traveled to Europe, and had big dreams of trav eling to Australia.

Daniel is survived by, his mother, Patsy; sister, Bonnie; two brothers, Michael and John; two sons, Jacob and Jerrod.

Daniel was predeceased in death by his father, Virgil.

There will be a private family funeral service for Daniel at noon Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, on the grounds of Rush Ranch, Grizzly Island Road, Suisun City, California.

SID directors get review of Putah Creek Accord at next meeting

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VACAVILLE — A presentation on the Putah Creek Accord set tlement will be given to the Solano Irrigation Dis trict board, along with as many as nine committee reports when the direc tors meet Tuesday.

The meeting is set for 6 p.m. in the Ber ryessa Room of the SID Office, 810 Vaca Valley Parkway, Suite 201, in Vacaville.

A closed session follows, during which the board will be updated

on property negotiations involving three pieces of property, including Solano County Transit and 508 Elmira Road. A matter of anticipated litigation is also on the agenda.

The public may also access the meeting by going to https://us02web. zoom.us/j/8829509754 9?pwd=TDlkcTF3bjZ kbzdOZnlkSHQ3b1Q zQT09. The Meeting ID is 882 9509 7549. The passcode: 307254. The public may also call 1-669-900-9128 to listen to the meeting.

Staff preps Suisun council to address illegal dumping

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SUISUN CITY — The City Council will discuss what to do about trash and illegal dumping when it meets Tuesday.

“Council and staff receive complaints regularly about litter on Highway 12 and illegal dumping on sites throughout the city. Where there is dumping or litter from encamp ments on city-owned lands, staff is able to go in and clean as staffing allows,” the staff report to the council states. “Public Works and the Police Department cur rently coordinate a monthly cleanup on one identified site per month. Public Works staff also cleans up illegal dumps on the side of the road

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lot of plans for the future of the museum. At the moment, he is looking for community sponsors since the museum is a nonprofit organization. He said he is looking into benefits for sponsors, like creating a 1940s-style ad for them and placing the ads in the train cars.

“It is important to be a part of the community and to get the community involvement,” he said.

Mencis said he is looking to have local bak eries create cookies this year for the Christmas train schedule and to bring in other businesses to provide hot cocoa and drinks.

People came out Sat

within the city’s right of way as they are identified.”

The report states cleanup on private prop erty is a more difficult situation and can lead to citations and abatement proceedings.

Possible actions the council could consider include increasing fines for littering; increas ing fines for illegal dumping; requiring vacant properties to be fenced; use of cameras; more vigorous enforce ment; more resources to Public Works to focus on garbage cleanup; con tracting with a third party for garbage cleanup; and providing more resources to neigh borhood cleanup efforts.

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urday from all over. Some were regulars, some were there for the first time.

Phil Patel has been in Fairfield since 1994 and had never come to the museum. He was looking forward to creating mem ories with his family.

“I didn’t get to do this with my family when I was younger because of work, so this is impor tant for me,” he said. “It is important to support local businesses. It is also great to have something that gives back to the community.”

The pumpkin patch is one of the biggest fun draisers for the Rotary clubs of Dixon, Fair field-Suisun and Cordelia, which split the proceeds.

“This wouldn’t happen without the support of Ian Anderson who sets this up every year,” said Sheila McCabe, co-chair

New colors, mascot in works for rebranded Sullivan school

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FAIRFIELD — Plans are on track for the Sulli van Language Immersion Academy to get a mascot and school colors as soon as next month.

Sullivan Principal Ashley Kelley on Thurs day night outlined the process the school fol lowed to determine the recommendations, which she presented to trust ees of the Fairfield-Suisun School District.

A Sullivan Language Immersion Academy Advisory Committee made up of eight students, five staff and five community members met Sept. 22 to go over the options.

The list of pro

posed mascots included monarchs, cobras, cha meleons, suns, macaws, geckos, black bears and Snow Leopards. The pro posed colors were cyan, black, bright red, deep purple, burnt orange, golden yellow, bright green, light brown and light gray.

The colors chosen by 75.9% of 458 votes were cyan and black. The mascot chosen by 65.6% of 369 votes was a Snow Leopard.

“The leopard shown is not the final color of what it will look like,” Kelley said.

Trustees on Aug. 12, 2021, approved the relocation of the Dual Immersion Program,

which serves children in transitional kindergarten through fifth grade, from B. Gale Wilson to what was then the vacant Sul livan campus beginning in the 2022-2023 school year. B. Gale Wilson now serves sixth- through eighth-graders.

Staff recommended changing the name from B. Gale Wilson Elemen tary School to B. Gale Wilson Middle School to ensure the name reflects the current grade configuration.

Site administration from B. Gale Wilson and Sullivan met March 8 with the B. Gale Wilson School Site Council and March 15 with the Dual Immersion staff to

propose two potential names for the Sullivan campus: Sullivan Lan guage Immersion School and Sullivan Language Immersion Academy.

The names were reflec tive of the changes made to each campus.

A vote showed 71% of the school site council and 70% of the dual immersion staff in favor of Sullivan Language Immersion Academy as the new name for the Sul livan campus.

With the new name came the idea of new colors and a mascot at Sullivan.

Final board approval of the mascot and colors is scheduled in November.

CHP reminds motorists to stop for school buses with flashing red lights

FAIRFIELD — The California Highway Patrol is raising awareness for school bus safety by reminding motorists they must stop on two-way streets, in both direc tions, when they see red lights flashing.

“School bus safety is part of the CHP’s mission, and we take our mission

very seriously,” CHP Commissioner Amanda Ray said in a statement. “This week is a reminder that everyone should do their part each day to remain alert behind the wheel, particularly when you see a school bus or children.”

School Bus Safety Week runs Monday through Friday.

Riding a school bus is the safest way for students

to get to school – 70 times safer compared to other modes of transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administra tion reported.

Moreover, school buses are one of the most reg ulated vehicles on the road. The CHP inspects more than 20,000 school buses annually, and launched the Vehicles Illegally Passing a School Bus enforcement project

in 2017. During VIPS enforcement operations, CHP officers ride on school buses, watching for vehicles that do not stop for flashing lights.

“On average, more than 50,000 certified school bus drivers transport more than 1 million students each year in California, traveling approximately 243.5 million miles,” the CHP statement said.

Fairfield-Suisun school board agrees to salary increases with employee group

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FAIRFIELD — Fairfield-Suisun School District trustees this week approved a tentative agreement between the district and the Ancillary Professions Association to increase the salaries of APA employees.

The tentative agree ment for the period of July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2024, revises the contracts with the APA,

which allows for a salary increase to begin with their Oct. 31 paycheck. In addition, they will also have two, one-time sti pends of $1,000 – one paid paid Nov. 3o and the other paid June 30, 2023.

A 6% salary increase will be added to the APA salary schedule, then in July 2023 a 2.5% salary increase will be added. If the cost-of-liv ing adjustment, or COLA, for the coming school year exceeds the antici

pated amount of 5.38% or greater, the district will then add a 1% increase to the 2.5% effective July 1, 2023.

The annual cost of sal aries for APA employees before the agreement was $2.9 million. The cumu lative raises for the first year will add $174,760 to that cost. The cumulative raises for the second year will add an additional $77,338 if that raise remains fixed at 2.5%.

The agreement also

Long-term care insurance topic of NARFE brunch meeting

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FAIRFIELD — A presentation on the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program is scheduled at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Benicia Grill II at 2390 N. Texas St. Meredith Wylie, com munity outreach director for Welcome Home Care, is the guest speaker at

woman for the Cordelia Rotary Club.

Anderson brought in all the bales of hay for the fort, prepped the grounds for visitors and created a wheat maze that is like a corn maze, only you can see over it. He also pro vides the tractor ride.

The Rotary clubs once again are conducting the Scarecrow Contest. There are five scarecrows. McCabe said the winner will be announced Oct. 31.

Tracy Moskowite and her family came from American Canyon for a full day of fun, starting with pumpkin chucking.

“We have come for the last three years,” she said. “My favorite is the hay house and kind of the wheat maze.”

The rides to Gum Grove continue Sunday and then for the next two weekends: Oct. 22-23 and

the meeting of the local chapter of the National Active and Retired Federal Employ ees Association.

Wylie is sched uled to talk about federal long-term care insurance. Those who attend the meeting will also have access to information about the Federal Bene

Oct. 29-30. Trains run every 30 to 45 minutes. The museum is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the first train departing at 10 a.m. and the last train leaving for the pumpkin patch at 3:30 p.m.

Tickets may be pur

fits Institute and upcomingwebinars.

There is no fee to attend. Those who wish to purchase lunch separately are asked to arrive early.

For more information about the association, visit https:// www.facebook.com/ NARFE1529.

chased ahead of time at www.wrm.org. The museum is located at 5848 Highway 12 between Suisun City and Rio Vista.

The next big event for the Western Railway Museum is the Santa Train in December.

increases cumulative stat utory benefits annual costs of $684,797 by $55,439 in the first year and another $18,171 in the second year, unless the 2.5% raise increases.

There are 31 employ ees in the Ancillary Professions Association.

Board members expresses the view that the raises allow the district to be more competitive in hiring and retaining school psychologists.

Vendor spaces open for craft fair

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VACAVILLE — The Unity of the Valley Spiritual Center will host its annual Craft Fair on Nov. 12. They are looking for crafty vendors for the event.

This event takes place outdoors and will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 350 N. Orchard Ave.

If you would be interested in participat ing as a vendor, contact

WYLIE

Housing project needs Fairfield council nod for bond financing

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FAIRFIELD — The City Council on Tuesday will consider approving the issuance of $70 million in bonds for development of a 168-plus unit, mixedincome housing project on Woolner Avenue.

There is no cost to the city or the city taxpayers for payment of the bonds, the city staff reported.

The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act hearing on the issue is the last agenda item for a meeting that is set for 6 p.m. in the council chamber at City Hall, 1000 Webster St. It follows a closed session at 5 p.m. during which the council will address two matters of existing litigation, a workers’ compensation claim and a lawsuit, and one matter of anticipated litigation on Showcase LLC’s defamation claim for comments by Council woman Catherine Moy.

The housing project is on property that had been owned by the city’s Rede velopment Agency, but when that agency ended, it went to the Fairfield Housing Authority to find a suitable project.

“Affordable Housing Alliance II Inc. and Sutton Place Development Corp. . . . entered into a Dispo sition and Development Agreement with the Fair field Housing Authority, dated Feb. 10, 2020, under

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out, go to the restaurants,” Motley said. “Dixon is a walk about town. It’s only 2 miles by 2 miles.”

The event was hosted by Motely Realty and The Barn and Pantry along with the downtown busi ness association. Eight business participated in a beer walk through downtown. Visitors were entertained by Smoke house Reunion.

Local breweries were represented with Lagunitas, Heretic and Ruhstaller.

“It is great to see people outdoors,” said Jason Garner.

He and his wife, Olimpia Campos Garner, an insurance agent for

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6:30 p.m. in the council chamber of City Hall, 701 Civic Center Blvd.

The public session follows a closed meeting at 5:45 p.m. during which the council will consider ini tiating litigation. Details of the purpose of the liti gation were not provided,

which the FHA agreed to sell to the developer, upon the satisfaction of certain conditions, prop erty owned by the FHA located at 1600 Woolner Ave. to develop Parkside Flats, a 168-unit afford able housing project,” the city staff report states.

“The bonds will be issued by a Joint Powers Authority to finance most of the development costs of the project. The bonds will be payable only from project revenues and assets, and none of the FHA, the city of Fairfield, or the taxpayers of the city will be liable for repay ment of the bonds under any circumstance,” the report states.

The council also is scheduled to receive a report on Solano Con nected Broadband and Digital Equity, consider building and fire code changes to comply with state codes and hold public hearings on the annexation of the Fair field Industrial Center and the Valley Strong Credit Union properties into a community facilities dis trict to help cover the costs of city services in the district area.

Agendas for both the closed session and the regular meeting are available at https:// www.fairfield.ca.gov/ government/city-council/ city-council-meetings/ current-city-council-agendas.

Police arrest suspect in Stockton serial killings

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Police officials in California announced Sat urday that they had arrested a suspect in a string of kill ings of mostly Hispanic men –capturing him in what they say was the “hunt” for another victim.

Wesley Brown lee, 43, was taken into custody in connec tion with a six-month killing rampage and was expected to be arraigned

Tuesday afternoon.

It was not imme diately clear whether Brownlee was going to be charged with all five slayings com mitted this year and two attacks in 2021 that police say were connected.

The fatal shoot ing of a man in Oakland in April 2021 was linked by inves tigators to a string of homicides that took place between July 8 and Sept. 27 in and around Stockton. Police say the

seven shootings were linked by ballistics and video evidence, prompt ing a search for a prolific suspect.

Brownlee was being followed by police while driving, and investigators noticed behavior that led them to believe that the suspect was searching for another target, according to Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden.

“We watched his pat terns and determined early this morning he was on a mission to kill,” McFadden said during a news conference. “He

was out hunting.”

McFadden said his investigators are con fident they prevented another death. He said they do not have a motive.

Officials said Sat urday that they were looking for a suspect who liked to cruise and lurk around parks in the dark – approaching victims on foot once he homed in on a target.

The victims were not robbed, and officials said they do not think the kill ings were connected to drugs or gang activity.

Oaxacans march for justice in LA

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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles’ Oaxacan com munity gathered under cloudy skies for a march for justice Saturday afternoon, following rev elations over a leaked audio recording in which some City Council members disparaged Black and Indigenous people, among others, in starkly racist terms.

Carrying signs that proclaimed “Proud Oax aqueña” and “Fuera Racistas,” hundreds of demonstrators gathered at noon on Grand Avenue in front of Los Angeles

Trade-Tech Community College near downtown. Many attendees dressed in traditional Oaxacan outfits, and some brought their children and grandchildren.

They called for all of the city officials involved in the audio leak scandal to resign.

Odilia Romero held a sign that read, “Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo & Kevin de Leon resign now! We cannot let latinidad divide us. I stand with black com munities & indigenous communities.”

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State Farm, poured beer and offered hot meatballs for snacks.

“This is always a lot of fun,” Olimpia Garner said.

and Vice Mayor Alma Hernandez said Friday she had not yet been briefed on the matter.

The public may also access the open session by going to https://zoom. us/join, with Meeting ID 883 3604 9676, or by calling 707-438-1720.

The council also is scheduled to hear a pre sentation on the structure and function of Develop ment Services.

visit www.unityvacaville. org to get a Vendor Reg istration Form. Space is limited and will be filled on a first-come, firstserved basis.

The registration dead line is Oct. 31.

Susan Hiland/Daily Republic Olimpia Campos Garner pours beer for the State Farm booth at the 11th Annual Beerfest in downtown Dixon, Saturday.

Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/TNS Hundreds of members of the Oaxacan community, along with prominent leaders from indigenous communities across California, participate in a March for Justice through the streets of downtown Los Angeles.

Musk backs down from demands for Starlink funding

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Elon Musk said Space Exploration Technolo gies Corp. will continue to fund its Starlink broad band service in Ukraine in an apparent step back from seeking support from the U.S. Defense Department.

The shift comes a day after Musk confirmed on Twitter that the closely held company had told the Pentagon it couldn’t indef initely fund the system that’s helped Ukraine combat against Russia’s invasion. The Defense Department confirmed Friday it was in talks with SpaceX while point edly adding that the U.S. is looking at other options.

“The hell with it,” Musk tweeted Saturday. “Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.”

Withdrawing support of Starlink threatened a

key means of communi cation used by Ukraine’s military forces in areas that don’t otherwise have cellular service.

Ukraine has 20,000 Starlink termi nals that have been provided evenly by USAID, Poland, the Euro pean Union and private companies, according to an Oct. 5 report from state-run news agency Ukrinform that cited Ministry of Digitali zation data.

Poland purchased 11,700 Starlink terminals for Ukraine, including 5,000 acquired by statecontrolled refiner PKN Orlen SA, according to Janusz Cieszynski, the government official in charge of cybersecurity.

Earlier on Satur day, Musk stated that the amount SpaceX was requesting to give Ukraine a “major battle field advantage” was less than the cost of one new GPS satellite.

“People from all over the state came,” Romero said of the protesters, “from farmworkers to construction workers, because Indigenous people are essential to the economy of this city, of this state and of this country.”

She said it’s important for those officials involved to step down.

“They cannot continue representing the highest population of Indigenous peoples’ district, when you think and talk about them in such a despicable way,” Romero said.

In the audio record ing of a conversation that took place in October 2021, former L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez refers to Oaxa cans as “little short dark people” – a racist stereo type often used to demean Indigenous communities.

“I don’t know what village they came (from), how they got here, but boy they’re ugly,” Marti nez said. She added “Tan feos” – So ugly.

Martinez is heard making the racist remarks while talking with fellow

‘Flirting’ juror dismissed from Whitmer kidnapping trial

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A juror was relieved of her jury duties in the trial of three men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over concerns that she was flirting with one of the defendants.

On Friday, Judge Thomas Wilson announced that the juror, described by the Jackson Citizen Patriot as “a young woman” had

been removed from the jury after she was accused of flirting with defendant Paul Bellar.

Bellar, a member of a paramilitary group named the Wolverine Watch men, is standing trial with co-defendants Joseph Morrison and Pete Musico in a plot to “storm the state Capitol building and kidnap elected officials,” according to the Michigan

Attorney General’s Office.

“It didn’t just happen on one day – it happened over multiple days,” Wilson said of the juror’s behavior. “I decided it’s safer to err on the side of caution.”

The juror took the deci sion well, said Wilson, adding that he’d never seen behavior like that in over three decades of practicing law.

Councilmembers Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo and labor leader Ron Herrera about how the city’s council dis trict boundaries should be redrawn.

Martinez resigned this week, in the wake of the fallout, but Indigenous community leaders say it’s not enough. They are calling for the resigna tions of Cedillo and De Leon and a public apology from Martinez.

Los Angeles is home to one of the largest Oaxacan communities outside of Mexico. One expert estimated that there are as many as 200,000 Zapotecs – the largest Indigenous group from Oaxaca – living in Los Angeles County.

“The comments made clear that these politicians are not thinking about us or considering us in their decision-making,” Odilia Romero, director and cofounder of Comunidades

Indígenas en Liderazgo, or Indigenous Communi ties in Leadership, said in a statement. “They don’t think about us when they decide how to distrib ute resources or access public spaces; they don’t consider the Indigenous populations that live in their districts and across Los Angeles.”

On Saturday, Erika Aquino, 37, arrived with her four children and her mother before the march began downtown.

The family carried signs that bore quotes from MLK, Muhammad Ali and Benito Juarez. One of her daughters’ signs read “Be Brown & Be Proud.”

Aquino’s parents are from Hidalgo Yalalag, a village in Oaxaca. Her mom arrived to the U.S. in 1980.

“In Mexican culture there’s always been col orism,” Aquino said. “Myself, as a brown

person, I have always felt and seen how our own kind sometimes favor someone of lighter skin. It’s always been an issue and I think more hurtful when it comes from someone you know is your own.”

“Colorism is wrong in general, but it does hurt more when it comes from your own.”

Aquino’s mother, Emma Diego, 63, said she came because she was angry.

“We voted, as Demo crats, to put people into office who will guide us, who will be our leaders. That’s how I saw Cedillo,” she said. “But we were wrong. He said indigenous people and immigrants mattered to him. He voiced that, but his heart didn’t believe it.”

“I came here so they can resign. We – Demo crats, Latinos – put them in . . . just like we put them in, we can force them out.”

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Truss dumps UK corporation tax freeze plan after firing ally

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Liz Truss scrapped her plan to freeze corporation tax next year in another dramatic U-turn, hours after she fired her ally Kwasi Kwarteng and replaced him with Jeremy Hunt as UK Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The humiliating reversal follows three weeks of market turmoil since Sept. 23, when Kwarteng announced a massive program of unfunded tax cuts. Faced with no detail on how the government could make the sums add up, traders drove the pound to a record low against the dollar and forced the Bank of England into an emergency intervention to support the bond market.

“It is clear that part of our mini budget went further and faster than the markets were expecting,” Truss said Friday in a short press conference. “So the way we are delivering our mission right now has to change.”

Truss’s decision means cor poration tax will now rise to 25% from 19% next year, as had been planned by her predecessor, Boris Johnson and his chancellor, Rishi Sunak. The prime minister also said that spending will “grow less rapidly than previously planned.” She’ll now hope her aboutturn – which she said is worth £18 billion a year to the public purse –along with Hunt’s appoint ment, will be enough to soothe the market jitters.

“What I’ve done today is made sure that we have economic sta bility in this country,”Truss said. “Jeremy Hunt as chancel lor is somebody who shares my desire for a high-growth, low-tax economy. But we recognize because of current market issues, we have to deliver the mission in a different way.”

Nevertheless, the pound extended losses on Friday, while 10-year gilts trimmed gains after Truss spoke.

Her position hangs in the balance after less than three weeks in office, with members of her own Conservative Party openly plotting against her. Far from strengthening her hand, Truss’s nervous performance in the press conference has made it less likely that she survives as prime minister, according to three Conservative MPs who spoke on condition of anonymity.

One pointed to a lack of detail about her tax plans and another expressed astonishment she only devoted eight minutes to explain her decision to fire her chancel lor. The third predicted she will be gone within weeks – if not days.

Truss’s reversal is also a victory of sorts for Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, after the central bank was forced into the contradictory posi tion of buying bonds to shore up the gilt market while raising rates to try to rein in inflation.

This week, Bailey reiterated that the emergency program would end as planned on Friday, putting the BOE’s credibility on the line in the face of pressure

to extend the purchases. The ongoing market jitters appear to have forced the government into changing its mind on tax.

Kwarteng earlier posted his resignation letter on Twitter, saying the premier had asked him to go. The two politicians had portrayed themselves as being in lockstep on the economy, and had staked their reputations on an all-out push for growth when the now former chancellor announced his economic strategy on Sept. 23.

“We share the same vision for our country and the same firm conviction to go for growth,” the premier wrote in her reply to Kwarteng, which was emailed by her office.

As well as appointing Hunt, Truss replaced Kwarteng’s deputy, Chris Philp, with Edward Argar. Philp moved to a ministe rial post in the Cabinet Office.

Hunt is seen as a calm, sober pair of hands who may be able to soothe the markets. He was a longserving cabinet minister under former prime ministers David

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Travis Credit Union appoints Johnson as chief people officer

Catherine Johnson has been named senior vice president and chief people officer for Travis Credit Union.

Johnson’s selec tion was announced in a press release.

She will have over sight and responsibility for the credit union’s Human Resources; Learning and Development; and Diver sity, Equity and Inclusion engagement programs, as well as be an integral member of the executive leadership team, accord ing to Kevin Miller, president and CEO of Travis Credit Union.

Johnson will be responsi ble for setting the strategic direction for all disciplines that fall under human resources and training, to include execution of the credit union’s long-range human capital business plan that includes organizational learning, internal communi cations, cultural alignment, leadership development, succession planning, orga nization design, human resource management, and diversity and inclusion initiatives to support the culture, values and strategic vision for the organization comprised of more than 600 employees.

Prior to her appoint ment, Johnson spent five years as the vice presi dent of Human Resources with the Center for Elders’ Independence in Oakland. Her background includes positions as director of global human resources programs for Menlo World wide/Con-Way Inc., an international logistics and supply chain business with more than 5,000 employ ees in 22 countries, in San

Mateo; and director of HR programs at Kaiser Perma nente in Oakland.

Travis Credit Union is based in Vacaville.

Sprouts launches Koita Italian plantbased milks

Koita Foods announced Friday that its Organic Almond, Organic Coconut and Organic Almond Coconut Plant-Based Milks are now available in all 380 Sprouts Farmers Market locations.

Koita Foods is the maker of premium Italian plantbased milks. Their milks are produced and packed in Italy and designed by a group of experienced Italian baristas.

The milks are made from organic almonds grown in the Italian alps and organic coconuts from Thailand, the company said in a press release. All Koita milks that will be sold at Sprouts are organic, non-dairy, vegan, gluten free, non-GMO and free of carrageenan.

Sprouts has a store in Power Plaza at 1041 Helen Power Drive in Vacaville.

Do you have some busi ness-related news to share? Send it to Susan Hiland at shiland@dailyrepublic.net. Be sure to include Biz Buzz in the subject line.

Daniel Leal/Pool/AFP via Getty Images/TNS Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss holds a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London following the sacking of the finance minister in response to a budget that sparked markets chaos, Friday.

Student loan forgiveness applications available online

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The U.S. Department of Education has started accepting applications for student loan forgiveness on a trial basis, but said access to the forms would be “periodic.”

The “beta test” began Friday night evening, but the form was not avail able and a notice posted at https://studentaid.gov/ debt-relief/application instructed borrowers to “check back soon.” By Saturday morning, the form was available again.

The department has said it will make a final version of the form avail able by the end of this month. If you manage to get access to the applica tion during the beta test, you won’t have to apply again once the final form is released.

The one-time debt relief program, which the White House announced in August, will offer up to $10,000 in federal loan for giveness to borrowers who meet the income limits. For borrowers who meet the income limits and received a Pell Grant, the government will forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loans.

To qualify, your adjusted gross income must have been less than $125,000 in 2020 or 2021 as a single tax filer, or less than $250,000 as a couple.

The relief will be offered automatically to you if you’ve already reported your income to the Department of Edu cation – for example, as part of an income-driven repayment plan. If not, you’ll have to submit an application form.

The department has also said that the forms, which are due by the end of 2023, will be simple to fill out. And the version

unveiled this week is exactly that, asking for so little information that you could fill it out on a smart phone in minutes.

The application asks only for your name (or former name, if that’s what is on your loan records), Social Secu rity number, date of birth, phone number and email address. Instead of requesting copies of tax returns or other financial records, the form simply asks you to attest, under penalty of perjury, that you met the program’s income limits.

Specifically, you have to attest that at least one of the following things is true in 2020 or 2021:

n You made less than the income required to file federal taxes;

n You were a single taxfiler or you filed a return separately from your spouse, and you made less than $125,000;

n You were a married person filing a joint return, a head of house hold or a qualifying widow

or widower, and you made less than $250,000.

The form states that the department may ask you to submit proof of your income, which you’ll have to do by March 31, 2024.

One wrinkle not men tioned on the form is that if your parents claimed you as a dependent on their federal income tax form, their income, not yours, may determine whether you’re eligible for the one-time relief.

According to studentaid. gov, “if you were enrolled in school as a dependent student for financial aid purposes between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022, your eligibility is based on parent income.”

If you fall into that cate gory, the department said, it will contact you after it receives your applica tion form to have your parent submit a “Parent Income Form.”

Which loans are eligible

The forgiveness applies

only to loans issued or held by the federal gov ernment. It doesn’t extend to loans issued or held by private lenders.

Generally, if the pay ments and interest on your student-loan debt are still paused because of the pandemic, that debt is eli gible for forgiveness.

Some Federal Family Education Loans and Perkins loans, which are guaranteed by the federal government, are held by private lenders and are not eligible for forgive ness. To determine if your loan is held by the gov ernment or by a private lender, sign into your account at studentaid.gov and call up the “My Loan Servicers” list. If the ser vicer’s name is preceded by “DEPT OF ED,” that loan is held by the federal government.

If you consolidated or applied to consoli date privately held FFEL or Perkins loans into a federal direct loan before Sept. 29, the consolidated loan should be eligible

for the one-time forgive ness program.

If you have more than one eligible loan, the department said on its website, it will decide where to apply the for giveness – although it did not say what crite ria it would use to make that decision.

Can you opt out?

No one is required to accept the loan for giveness, which would be considered taxable income in some states. If you qualify automatically for relief, the department said, it will email you to confirm that you want to accept it before forgiv ing the applicable amount of your debt.

What happens after you apply?

The department said it will email you to confirm that it received your application. If it needs more information, such as proof of your income or your parents’ income, it will ask for it. And if the department determines that you do not qualify, it will contact you with the bad news.

When will my debt be reduced?

If your application is approved, the depart ment said, it will notify the company or compa nies servicing your loans about the reduction in your debt. But the depart ment’s website cautions that “it may take some time for your account to reflect this change.”

The relief is expected to arrive before federal student loan payments, which were put on hold during the pandemic, are set to resume in January. Your servicer or ser vicers will let you know what your new balance is and, if you have remaining debt, what your monthly payment will be.

If you’re on an incomedriven repayment plan, your income, not the amount you owe, will dictate your payment amount. If you are on a standard payment plan, the department said, your servicer will reduce your monthly payments to reflect the lower balance. You can opt to write a bigger monthly check to pay off the loan faster and

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Post-debate: Walker rallies while Warnock fact-checks

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SAVANNAH, Ga. —

Fresh off his only debate in the race for U.S. Senate, Republican Herschel Walker rallied with sup porters, urging them to get to the polls as early voting begins Monday.

The campaign of Dem ocrat Raphael Warnock, meanwhile, released three clips from the Friday night faceoff that it said demonstrated Walker’s lack of knowledge about key issues.

“These are just the latest examples of Her schel Walker showing he isn’t ready to serve Georgia in the U.S. Senate,” Warnock cam paign manager Quentin Fulks said in an email.

Walker was smiling

as he greeted more than 100 supporters outside a Bass Pro Shop at the Savannah Mall Satur day morning.

“It’s time for us to stand up, wake up and get up,” Walker said. “For those of you who feel that taking a chance on a non-politician like myself,

think abut the damage that Sen. Warnock and Joe Biden will do if you give them six more years.”

An enthusiastic crowd greeted Walker and praised his performance in the pre vious night’s debate, “Crushed it,” Chatham County resident Gary Harper said.

Warnock’s campaign had a different take.

They noted that Walk er’s response to a question about a cap on insulin prices “showed a com plete lack of understanding of diabetes, a health con dition that impacts more than one million Georgians across the state.”

In the debate, Walker said those with diabetes need to “eat right.

Warnock backed a $35 monthly cap on out-

only debt forgiven as part of an income-driven payment plan or public-service loan forgive ness program.

reduce the amount of interest you’ll pay over the life of the loan.

Again, if you don’t qualify auto matically for relief, you have until the end of 2023 to submit an applica tion form. The longer you wait, the longer you delay any reduction in your monthly payments.

Will the debt relief be taxable?

Under federal law, the amount of loan forgiveness you receive will not be considered taxable income by the IRS. But it will be considered taxable income in California, the state Franchise Tax Board has said, unless legislators change state law.

That’s because state lawmak ers didn’t conform California tax law to the 2021 American Rescue Plan, which excluded all forgiven student-loan debt from federal taxes. Instead, state law excludes

In a tweet last month, the state’s two top lawmakers pledged to push through legislation early next year to prevent the state from taxing the loan amounts forgiven by the Biden administration.

Can I get a refund for past payments?

If you owe less than $10,000 in federal loans (or $20,000, if you received a Pell Grant), the one-time relief will wipe out that debt, but you won’t receive a check for any amount left over.

However, if you’ve been making student loan payments voluntarily during the pandemic, you’ll get that money back automatically. The amount you’ll receive in forgiveness and refunded payments is capped at $10,000 (or $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients).

The department also said it won’t refund any of the voluntary pay

of-pocket insulin costs which passed as part a health care spending bill. Walker said said he would have voted against the bill, which President Joe Biden signed into law earlier this year.

The Warnock camp also took aim at his responses to questions on student loans and health insurance.

Walker has declined to participate Sunday’s Senate debate sponsored by the Atlanta Press Club and Georgia Public Broadcasting. Warnock and Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver will attend.

Warnock and other Democrats in the state will get a boost when former President Barack Obama announced Sat urday he would visit the state on Oct. 28.

ments you made if your federal student loan debt is greater than $10,000 (or $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients). All the relief will be applied to your loan debt.

Is there anything that could block the debt relief?

At least two federal lawsuits have been filed by conservative opponents of the loan forgiveness program, which the Congressio nal Budget Office estimated would cost taxpayers $400 billion. A court could enjoin the department from carrying out the debt relief until the legal issues are resolved.

A common argument against the debt relief is that blanket loan for giveness can only be done through an act of Congress. For its part, the Department of Justice asserts that the HEROES Act, a post-9/11 law enacted to help service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, authorizes the administration to cancel student loan debt broadly during times of emergency, such as the pandemic.

California may reallocate shrinking water supply

While it’s not yet formal policy, those who manage California’s vast water system are edging toward a historic reallo cation of the state’s shrinking supply that could have a life-altering impact on its largest-in-the-nation agricultural industry.

For many years, farmers have used about 80% of the water diverted from rivers for human use, with the rest going to urban areas for drinking, watering lawns, main taining swimming pools, taking showers, cooking and commer cial or industrial use.

Prolonged drought has com pelled all users to make do with less. However, the biggest loser has been the environment – free flows to maintain habitat for fish and other aquatic species –which generally gets about 50% of the total flow.

In recent years, federal judges have ordered cuts in agricultural water diversions to enforce the Endangered Species Act and the state Water Resources Control Board has moved in the same direction on an emergency basis due to drought. However, environmental groups want perma nent habitat-enhancing reductions.

Former Gov. Jerry Brown and his successor, Gavin Newsom, have sought “voluntary agree ments” by which agricultural water agencies would curtail diversions to maintain river flows, but results have been scanty at best.

Without such agreements, the water board could implement mandatory reductions, but they would be viewed by farmers as an assault on their historic water rights and probably trigger massive legal battles.

The key principle in these conflicts is that water belongs to the public as a whole and must be put to “beneficial use,” as defined in a 1943 amendment to the state constitution, which declares that authorities must prevent “waste or unreasonable use or unreasonable method of use of water. . . .”

Environmentalists believe the constitution thus authorizes the state water board to curtail agricultural diversions for the protection of habitat, but the 1943 amendment also declares, “In the enactment of this code the Legislature does not intend thereby to effect any change in the law relating to water rights.”

That obvious legal dichotomy is the crux of the situation.

Whether, indeed, the state water board is gearing up for a showdown over water rights, some of which stretch back to the 19th century, is the subject of much speculation in water circles.

Early this year, water board chairman Joaquin Esquivel told a gathering of water offi cials, “We know we have to change the system. Water rights can be there as a tool to be able to manage supplies through not just a drought but when there is water again. Our water rights system can be there to facilitate decisions on projects and help us make decisions, or they can be a hindrance.”

While the water rights issue percolates in Northern California, there’s a similar con flict underway in Southern California over how much water the state diverts from a severely threatened Colorado River.

California is legally entitled to 4.4 million acre-feet per year, with the vast majority of that going to the Imperial Irrigation District and other agricultural users, but the Colorado’s flow has dropped dramatically.

The federal government demands that Cali fornia and other states that draw from the river, principally Nevada and Arizona, reduce diver sions by 2 to 4 million acre-feet per year, and threatens to mandate cuts under the “beneficial use” doctrine if they cannot agree.

California has offered a 400,000 acre-foot reduction, only 9%, but that’s not enough to satisfy the other states and the outcome is very much in doubt.

Farmers’ water rights are clearly not as sacrosanct as they once seemed to be, and as drought persists the stage is being set for a mon umental reckoning of some kind.

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

New billboard solicits info on Ralph Moore’s death

If you haven’t yet noticed the new billboard recently redesigned by Western Sign Company at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Highway 12 in Fairfield, please drive by to see it. It has a new photograph of Ralph Moore with an aluminum overlay process. It is very bright and outstanding.

Feb. 20, 2023, will be 21 years since Ralph was viciously attacked and left for dead in his home in Fair field. He died Feb. 28, 2002, from his injuries at UC Davis Medical Center. The case remains unsolved; the $60,000 reward remains in effect.

Ralph’s son, Chuck Moore, and his friends, built and erected a taller support for the sign, making it more visible and legible to the public. Hopefully someone will see it and come forward with information that will help the Fairfield Police Depart ment and the Solano County District Attorney’s Cold Case Unit solve the case so that Ralph can get the justice he deserves.

If you know anything at all about this case, please call Fairfield Major Crimes Unit at 707-428-7600.

The Moore family, Martha, Terry and Donny Wallar and Chuck and Liz Moore, thank Holly Hobbitt, Kyle Urban and Rudy Urban for all their efforts and fine work throughout the years. Hopefully soon, Ralph’s case will be solved and when that happens, the billboard will certainly have helped to accomplish that.

Our sincere thanks and appreciation.

Martha Moore, The Ralph Moore family Vacaville

Editor’s note: A version of this letter published online and in the Oct. 9 print edition of the Daily Republic but did not include the loca tion of the sign. The headline of the original letter also incorrectly stated there was a new reward being offered. The reward remains unchanged. We apologize to the Moore family for the errors.

Time for new thinking on Fairfield council

Elected officials routinely rub ber-stamp what the staff puts in front of them. Often, when a proposal or revision to an existing contract comes up, they don’t seem to care that such spending might necessi tate more taxes. They approve every pay raise for staff with no concern about their already underfunded pension liability.

I respect the current City Council members. They’re good people. But even they should recognize that incumbency leads to complacency and voluntarily take a break.

I’m voting for David Verza for Fairfield’s District 3 seat. He’s a young businessman, an Air Force veteran and a computer/internet expert. He’ll bring a fresh approach to government.

He’s walking the dis trict and learning residents’ ideas and what concerns them. He’s come to our Taxpayer Group and explained his views on spending. He’ll bring those to the council.

He reminds me of another young council member who could have done

good things for us. It’s time for new thinking.

John Takeuchi Fairfield

Amazed people can’t remember a few short years ago

I guess it’s time for another rewind. I am fairly active on Twitter, Facebook and even the Daily Repub lic opinion letters comment section; it’s just amazing how the general public lives in today’s world and somehow forgets the previous six years and cannot connect the dots.

For two years now it’s been all about an insurrection, the peaceful trans fer of power and that democracy is in danger.

Let’s go back six years.

Hillary Clinton and the Dem ocratic Party machine and media all claimed the 2016 election was stolen and that the Russians helped Donald Trump win the election. They declared Trump an illegitimate pres ident. The “resist” movement begins. An insurrection can look like the right thing to do when you use the Justice Department to do it under the guise of lawful proceedings.

The Mueller Russian collusion investigation was instigated when using a fake dossier paid to an infor mant to Christopher Steele by an FBI agent to frame Trump but couldn’t paste together any evidence of col lusion, only a smear campaign. FBI internal emails read “the coup has started”; “we have a backup plan.” Falsified FBI documents were used for a FISA warrant to spy on Trump. When that coup didn’t work, Nancy Pelosi spoke: “We’ve been working on this impeachment for more than two years.” That means she was plotting for an opportunity to press charges and remove the president from office not once but twice.

There was never a “peace ful transfer” of power to Trump. It was combat politics from day one to remove him by any means necessary and it continues to this day.

The question is, who is endanger ing our constitutional republic?

Hank Schwarzbach Fairfield

Thurmond running again for election

Four years have flown by and our erstwhile state superintendent of public instruction, Tony Thurmond, the darling of the teachers’ union and SEIU, is unabashedly seeking four more years of relative obscurity.

Eschewing the helm of California’s educational efforts and programs, he has been quite content to lurk in the stern or hide in the hold. He exerted zero leadership during all the Covid caveats and left the school districts to fend for themselves. No guidance. No directives. No nothing. No wonder the teachers love him. He’s an empty suit.

Now, with his re-election to a non partisan position purportedly in the bag, this acknowledged Democrat with a huge war chest of donations finally has a critical problem he’ll have to tackle. That is, when should the exam results of the Smarter Bal anced tests, administered last spring, be published for public consumption?

Rumor has it that those scores for

student progress will be abysmal and that kind of news is not the best way to get re-elected. Expect him to wait until Nov. 10.

Bill Ferguson Fairfield

Endorsement for George Kennedy

I’m proud to be a sixth-grade teacher in the Fairfield-Suisun School District. The Fairfield area has a strong sense of community and part of that is a result of people like George Kennedy.

I first met George playing pickle ball. As a new player, I quickly began to love the game. I soon realized George was the pickleball ambassa dor for Fairfield and he was active with the Fairfield community and has a heart for local youth. I spoke to him about starting a pickleball club at David Weir for our students. At the time, I had one net and four paddles that were donations from a parent.

George came up with an idea to hold a round-robin tournament with the local pickleball club as a fun draiser to raise donations for the pickleball club at David Weir. The tournament raised $1,200! Now our club has plenty of nets and paddles. George and several others even came to David Weir and spent over three hours taping pickleball courts on the blacktop. Now we were ready and the students were so excited to learn how to play.

The dedication and commitment George displayed with his efforts to help me organize our club were astounding. He was energized to help our students and thanks to his efforts and the kindness and generosity of all of the people who donated to our club, we are able to play pickleball at David Weir. I am so thankful for all of the contributions toward this venture.

Through this experience, I can confidently state George Kennedy will be an asset to the Fairfield com munity as a Fairfield City Council member. He will serve the com munity well.

Valerie Miner Dixon

Who are the best candidates for election?

Several Suisun City residents have asked me who would be best to move Solano County and Suisun City forward.

I have served on the FairfieldSuisun Sewer District Board of Directors with Chuck Timm and he is a great leader, someone who cares about our cities and meets his commitments to our citizens. His years of experience dealing with the budget of a large city and the multi tude of services are four times that of Suisun City.

I am, without a doubt, voting for Chuck Timm for Solano County supervisor.

I have attended forums and lis tened to responses of candidates for Suisun City mayor and council members. The present city leaders are taking us in the wrong direction, therefore, I am voting for James Berg for mayor, and Katrina Garcia and Charles Lee Jr. for City Council.

Mike Segala, former Suisun City councilman,

Suisun

Dan

Crime logs

FairField

FRIDAY, OCT. 14

1:34 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 2000 block of WALTERS ROAD

2:26 a.m. — Grand theft, 2200 block of SANDPIPER DRIVE 5:08 a.m. — Trespassing, 300 block of GREGORY STREET 7:25 a.m. — Reckless driver, WESTBOUND AIR BASE

PARKWAY 8:47 a.m. — Reckless driver, PEABODY ROAD 8:55 a.m. — Grand theft, 1600 block of JAMES STREET

11:11 a.m. — Vandalism, 700 block of MADISON STREET

12:24 p.m. — Vandalism, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD

12:34 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE

1:28 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 1600 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

2:02 p.m. — Robbery, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 2:50 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 500 block of EAST TABOR

AVENUE

3:24 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2800 block of AUTO MALL PARKWAY

5:11 p.m. — Forgery, 1600 block of KIDDER AVENUE 5:59 p.m. — Drunken driver, HIGHWAY 12 6:50 p.m. — Reckless driver, DOVER AVENUE 7:19 p.m. — Battery, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE

7:56 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1300 block of WASHINGTON STREET

8:19 p.m. — Reckless driver, 1800 block of UNION AVENUE 8:42 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 3900 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 10 p.m. — Robbery, 1400 block of WASHINGTON STREET 10:26 p.m. — Shots fired, 200 block of SANTA BARBARA WAY 10:29 p.m. Reckless driver, 2900 block of GULF DRIVE

SATURDAY, OCT. 13

2:27 a.m. — Vehicle bur glary, 1700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

4:23 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1300 block of CROWLEY LANE 4:35 a.m. — Trespassing, 1600

block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

6:54 a.m. — Trespassing, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

7:23 a.m. — Reckless driver, WESTBOUND HIGHWAY 12 12:25 p.m. — Vandalism, GATEWAY COURT

12:52 p.m. — Trespassing, 1100 block of TEXAS STREET

2:02 p.m. — Vandalism, 4800 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE

2:52 p.m. — Grand theft, 1900 block of BLOSSOM AVENUE

3:32 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 4800 block of BIRKDALE CIRCLE

3:47 p.m. — Indecent exposure, NORTH TEXAS STREET

4:01 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1500 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD

4:31 p.m. — Vandalism, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD

4:40 p.m. — Prowler, 3400 block of NORWALK PLACE

4:41 p.m. — Reckless driver, 3200 block of RANCHO SOLANO PARKWAY

4:42 p.m. — Shooting into a dwelling, 2400 block of WATERMAN BOULEVARD 6:28 p.m. — Drunken driver, 1400 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

7:50 p.m. — Reckless driver, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 10:08 p.m. — Trespassing, 2100 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

SuiSun City

FRIDAY, OCT. 14

9:29 a.m. — Assault, 300 block of WALTERS ROAD 12:52 p.m. — Vehicle theft, CHIPMAN LANE 3:11 p.m. — Shooting into a dwelling, 500 block of WHISPER ING BAY LANE 3:34 p.m. — Fraud, 500 block of SNOW DRIVE 4:56 p.m. — Vandalism, 200 block of RAILROAD AVENUE

SATURDAY, OCT. 13

8:24 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1100 block of SCHOOL STREET 8:45 a.m.

of BRIDGEWATER CIRCLE 4:46 p.m.

als and families overcome obstacles and tap into their inner resources to move forward and thrive,” she said.

Russia

winter to regain its ter ritory and to be effective on the battlefield,” U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters in Brussels this week. “Most recently we’ve seen them be very effective both in the east and down in the south as they’ve taken back quite a bit of terri tory from the Russians.”

The tempo of the fight has already slowed in recent days as Ukraine consolidates the posi tions it has recently won. Russia has made some incremental gains, seizing some villages near the eastern Donbas town of Bakhmut, which the Russians have been trying to capture since July. Ukraine has cap tured several more settlements in the south ern province of Kherson, where it has made steady advances in recent weeks.

The pace will slow further as winter brings snow and ice in the east and mud in the south to the terrain on which most of the recent battles have been fought, mil itary experts say. At some point in the months ahead, the weather may force Ukraine to halt its advances, said a Western official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive sub jects. But for now, “the Ukrainians maintain the initiative and the momen tum,” he said.

was heavily outgunned by Russia at the start of the war, now outclasses the Russian military by almost every measure, he said, from the sophis ticated Western artillery systems it is using to pin point Russian targets far from the front lines to the availability and quality of the soldiers it can bring to the fight.

Russia continues to suffer heavy losses of its forces and equip ment and is digging into defensive positions while Ukraine is steadily receiving supplies of new and technologi cally advanced weaponry from its Western allies. U.S. intelligence assess ments say Russia has lost 6,000 tanks, armored vehicles and other mil itary equipment during the course of the war, and some of those are being captured intact by the Ukrainians, further replenishing their arsenal.

“Ukraine has the advantage and Russia is struggling to match those advantages. As long as Ukraine keeps getting NATO support and keeps getting supplied with artillery, Ukraine should keep having suc cesses,” Lee said.

Whether the influx of up to 300,000 freshly mobilized Russian sol diers will serve to blunt Ukrainian advances is harder to predict, said Konrad Muzyka, director of the Polandbased Rochan defense consultancy.

and we understand that if 200,000 arrive on the battlefield things could change,” he said.

There are, however, doubts about Russia’s capacity to adequately train and equip such a large number of inexperi enced troops, the Western official said. The ones that have shown up so far “have been fielded with very, very limited train ing and very, very poor equipment,” he said. “It’s really unlikely they will have any positive impact in the near term.”

Even the onset of winter can be expected to favor Ukraine, said a Ukrainian government defense adviser who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he isn’t authorized to speak to the news media. Russia is struggling to provide sleeping bags and other winter gear for all its sol diers, while Ukraine’s cold-weather allies such as Canada, Estonia and Lithuania are contribut ing tens of thousands of winter uniforms, he said.

match Russia’s deploy ments, it is determined not to be drawn into fighting pitched, bloody battles with the Russians.

Rather, Ukraine is hoping to continue to outsmart the Russians, by focusing on hitting their command posts, key equipment and supply lines.

“Russia is hoping to get some victories through numerical supe riority,” the adviser said. “If we want to win this war we should be think ing about technological superiority. It shouldn’t be an infantry-to-infan try, Soviet way of fighting.

“We are ready to fight to the end, but at the same time we shouldn’t play this game, according to the Russian vision, in which soldiers’ lives don’t matter,” he added.

help set up.

“I hope that people become more aware of the services in Solano County,” Sinohul said.

“This is a great opportu nity for families to come out and meet with vendors to learn more.”

People could also get Covid-19 vaccines along with flu shots.

“If people got immu nization shots, we have a van which is state-funded that offered free food,” Sinohul said.

There were several new vendors, includ ing the Victims Empowerment Support Team, which was the sponsor of the event.

VEST was created by Tanya Brownrigg, execu tive director and founder, Oct. 4, 2021, with an office in the Solano Family Justice Center.

Brownrigg has a long family history with domestic violence and has traced it back in her family for generations. With her master’s degree in social work, she vol unteered at the Justice Center and soon realized there was a need for edu cational empowerment for victims of abuse – both male and female.

“VEST is committed to providing an environ ment of compassion and support to help individu

Brownrigg took note of things they didn’t have for victims, like support groups, and created a cur riculum to address the varied needs of people coming out of a bad relationship and growing in personal empower ment. She created a support group called New Beginnings for survivors 18 years old and older, with a small size of 10 participants.

“I realize some people don’t want to come to a support group so we work to accommodate that,” she said.

Survivors meet once a week for eight weeks to get education and support.

“Some people are also dealing with PTSD from abuse so we can guide them to resources,” Brownrigg said.

It became apparent to Brownrigg during the pandemic that there was a need for additional services when domestic violence cases increased significantly in Solano County. She placed that increase at more than 200% in a press release at the launch of VEST.

For more infor mation on VEST, call 707-8247-5521 or visit vestsolano.org.

The Solano Family Justice Center is located at 604 Empire St. Contact the center at 707-784-7635.

No longer, however, is there an expectation that Russia will be in a posi tion to seize significantly more ground. So dramat ically has Ukraine turned the fight around that the only outstanding ques tion is how much more territory Ukraine will be able to take back – not whether Russia will be able to achieve its goals, said Rob Lee of the Phil adelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Ukraine’s army, which

Ukrainian officials say that they have not noticed any discern ible impact from those that have already shown up on the front lines, put at 16,000 by Presi dent Vladimir Putin on Friday. But they don’t discount the possibil ity that a huge influx of troops could complicate Ukraine’s hopes of prog ress, said Yuriy Saks, an adviser at Ukraine’s defense ministry.

“We don’t want to underestimate our enemy

the election. “They know who they are, and they know what they do,” Moy said.

Mobilizing tens of thousands of inexperi enced and ill-equipped soldiers into a harsh winter environment such as Ukraine’s, where temperatures rou tinely plunge well below freezing, could lead to deepening demoral ization among forcibly recruited soldiers, the adviser said. Moreover, Russia also needs expe rienced and capable officers and command ers to lead the new men, but its existing leader ship ranks have already suffered heavy casual ties and are worn down from months of fight ing, he said.

Russia appears to be hoping that by flood ing the battlefield with tens of thousands of new men it can use “a human wave” to blunt Ukraine’s advances, almost cer tainly suffering huge casualties in the process, the adviser said. But although Ukraine has the reserve forces to

Russia’s capacity to sustain the missile strikes is expected to dwindle, further constraining its options on the battle field, Western officials and military experts say. In particular, Russia is believed to be running low on the precisionguided missiles that can be used to target key sites. The Ukrai nian Defense Ministry said Friday that Russia began the war with 1,844 precision guided missiles – including sealaunched Kalibr missiles, ground-launched Iskan ders and air-launched Kh-101s and Kh-555s – of which only 609 remain. Western officials said the numbers are in line with their estimates.

Russia does still have sizable stocks of unguided missiles that it can use to hit cities, without precision, and it is likely to continue to use them in an attempt to demoralize the Ukrainian population, the govern ment adviser said.

But as long as the strikes are hitting civil ians and civilian infrastructure rather than core military targets, “they are not going to turn the tide in this war,” said Muzyka.

allegations for which he was arrested. Moy also misinterpreted a restraining order Banks has against his mother, as one his mother has against him.

Moy flat out denies ever spreading any kind of rumor about a city employee, even though a third-party investigation found there was evi dence that “Moy told or intimated to (then-City Manager Stefan) Chatwin and (former city man agers) David White and Sean Quinn, that (the employee) was having an affair with a married man or referenced the existence of rumors to that effect.”The state ment was part of a letter written by Human Resources Director Farbod Pirouzmand to the employee and dated Feb. 22, 2021. The employee, con tacted by the Daily Republic, denies ever having an affair with a married man.

The same letter, however, clears Moy of allegations that she had retaliated against the employee, and interfered with the employee par ticipating in community activities.

Moy called the investi gation part of a campaign to discredit her by a group she refers to in general as “the cabal.” She said the complaint against her was in retalia tion to her own complaint about the employee on a performance basis.

Moy did not back away from her state ment about some of her council colleagues being corrupt, and said she will provide more details after

Nor did she apologize for comments critical of Showcase LLC, the can nabis firm, which she has called protected speech. The company, which was awarded a city retail permit, has filed a claim against the city and the councilwoman.

Statements by her detractors that she has cost the city “thousands and thousands” because of her comments, was refuted by city sources.

Moy also has been crit ical of Shelter Inc. and said she still thinks a more thorough investiga tion is needed. She called out some of her council colleagues for their stances against a grand jury report. Moy’s stance was answered by Coun cilwoman Pam Bertani, who objected to Moy saying the other council members “attacked” the grand jury.

Moy said in the inter view she does not believe she said that, adding her intention was to point out that she could not under stand why the others were willing to back up Shelter Inc. and its offi cials, but not support the citizen grand jury efforts.

Moy became emo tional, even teary, when confronted with the aver ments that she is a loose cannon who is willing to say or do anything for political gain.

“Yes, it hurts,” she said. “But if you’re over the target, that’s where you get the flak.”

Moy said it has been the same group every election, and that she has overcome by not only winning, but by being the top vote-getter, and some times by a wide margin. Moy said she thinks she will prevail this time, too.

As for the conten tion that her statements of late will make it diffi cult for her to work with other council members if elected mayor, she said it will not be an issue at all, and she will work closely with each to do what is right by the city. She said she is working with those same people now.

Being mayor “is very different than being a councilwoman. The mayor’s job is to set the agenda,” Moy said.

“So I will meet indi vidually with them . . . to find out what they need and see in their dis tricts and maybe put on agendas,” she said.

Her own agenda includes being tougher on homeless issues. She said she fully agrees with the city’s efforts to use the City Attorney’s Office to prosecute the lesser crimes by those individu als as a way to force them into getting help.

“And I think one of the reasons so many people are on the streets is because the drugs that are coming in . . . are so much stron ger,” Moy said.

She noted the county building a mental health residential facility and the 62-bed detox and transitional housing unit

coming to the city are big pluses, but the issue is making sure those in need of help get that help.

“We need to use the carrot and the stick . . . and we have been missing the stick,” Moy said.

The councilwoman pointed to the city’s new Community Action Team as a way to better educate businesses about their rights and to implement trespassing laws more vigorously. But, she said, businesses need to do a better job keeping their areas cleaned up, and the city needs to be willing to enforce those obli gations, too.

The Business Watch Program, she said, would be similar to a Neigh borhood Watch program with businesses watch ing out for each other and coordinating enforce ment and other needs in their area.

Moy, a native of Fair field, was appointed to the City Council in October 2008 after the death of Councilman Frank Kardos. She was elected to another term in 2009, 2014 and 2018. She and her husband, also a native of Fairfield, have been married for more than 20 years and have one teenage daughter.

The election is Nov. 8.

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic file (2016) Councilwoman Catherine Moy speaks to an attendee during a Fairfield community meeting on homeless and vagrancy at the City Council chamber, Aug. 23, 2016.

Toll rises to 41 in Turkey mine blast

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ISTANBUL — Rescue teams reached the body of the last worker trapped after a blast at a state-run coal mine in northern Turkey, bring ing the death toll from the accident to 41, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday.

The blast is one of the deadliest industrial disasters in Turkey’s recent history.

“We are greatly sad dened as a nation,” Erdogan told reporters at the site in the Black Sea province of Bartin, where he was joined by Cabinet members.

“We believe in fate’s design . . . these [acci dents] will always happen whatever you do,” Erdogan said, arguing that the most advanced systems were in use at the mine.

However an audit court report from 2019 found safety shortcomings at the Bartin mine, opposition parties claimed, accusing the authorities of having failed to heed warnings.

Main opposition Republican People’s Party lawmaker Deniz Yavuzy ilmaz shared what he said was a copy of the 2019 report on Twitter.

The report states there is a risk of an explo sion due to high methane gas levels recorded at the mine, at a depth of 300 meters (984 feet).

“This is not an acci dent but murder,” tweeted Umit Ozdag, the leader of small opposition Victory Party.

The state coal mining authority, which runs the mine, rejected the allegations.

Turkey has a bleak record of mine accidents due to weak safety regula

the country’s worst industrial accidents in years.

tions. In 2014, 301 people were killed in Turkey’s worst mining disaster at a coal mine in the Aegean province of Manisa.

Shortly afterwards, Erdogan, who was prime minister at the time, came under fire when he called mining accidents part of the “nature of the business.”

An investigation is underway to determine the cause of the explo sion, Erdogan added on Saturday as he promised financial assistance to the victims’ families.

Workers at the Bartin mine had been working beyond their capacity, broadcaster Halk TV reported, citing local trade union representatives on Saturday.

A suspected blast of coal mine gases occurred at around 6:15 p.m. Friday at the mine in Bar tin’s Amasra district. It remains unclear what exactly caused the blast.

Foreign diplomats, including from Germany and the EU, sent their con dolences on social media.

Eleven people were injured and 58 were rescued out of a total of 110 people who were at the mine at the time, Interior Minister Suley man Soylu said earlier on Saturday.

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were critically wounded were taken to hospitals in Istanbul and Ankara, state broadcaster TRT said.

“Everything fell apart with a huge blast. I nar rowly escaped within two minutes,” mine worker Aydın Kalayci told private news agency Demiroren.

“We dragged dead bodies of our colleagues . . . I can not explain the feeling,” said another worker, his face black ened by heavy smoke.

Meanwhile the author ities began investigating 12 people for alleged “pro vocative” posts on social media about the blast, the police department said.

Users are accused of “inciting hatred,” the department said in a tweet, without elaborating on the content of the posts.

The probe comes two days after Turkey passed a controversial media law, setting penalties of up to three years in jail for spreading what the authorities consider false news.

Iranian forces extend crackdown as protests enter fifth week

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Security forces in Iran extended their crack down against protesters across the country as demonstrations aimed at bringing down the gov ernment enter a fifth week with little sign of abating.

Social media footage showed violent clashes in the northwestern city of Ardabil, which have gained in intensity since unconfirmed reports that a young girl was killed Thursday after plain clothes officers stormed her school. The staterun Islamic Republic

News Agency denied reports of the killing in Ardabil on Thursday, citing a police statement. Bloomberg couldn’t sub stantiate the reports or verify the footage of Sat urday’s protest.

In another unveri fied video from the city of Karaj, a woman is seen being forced into a passenger car by plain clothes guards as they point their guns to dis perse a jeering crowd.

A plethora of clips showed gatherings across Iranian univer sities, where protesters call for the release of detained students.

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I Fairfield

8 p.m. Friday and Saturday

‘The Rocky Horror Show’ Downtown Theatre, 1035 Texas St. www. downtowntheatre.com.

I Suisun City

Noon Sunday Jazz Sunday Brunch Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marinalounge suisun.com.

6 p.m. Wednesday Hot Mic

Wednesdays Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marinaloungesu isun.com.

7 p.m. Thursday Karaoke Thursdays & Open Mic Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marinalounge suisun.com.

I Vacaville

9 p.m. Friday

Dueling Pianos: Jason & Lindsay Makse Restaurant, 555 Main St. dueling pianovacaville.com/ events.

7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday

‘Legally Blonde the Musical Jr.’ Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive. https:// vpat.net.

8 p.m. Friday Cisco Kid – Music of War Journey Downtown, 308 Main St. www. journeydowntown venue.com.

9 p.m. Saturday Dueling Pianos: Jason & Dave Makse Restaurant, 555 Main St. dueling pianovacaville.com/ events.

I Benicia

2:30 p.m. Sunday Crossman Connection

The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therellik tavern.com.

5:30 p.m. Thursday CBD

The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therellik tavern.com.

5:30 p.m. Friday Hipster Cocktail Party

The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therellik tavern.com.

8:30 p.m. Friday Crossman Connection

The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therellik tavern.com.

5 p.m. Saturday 5-0 Boyz and Wyldz

The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therellik tavern.com.

8:30 p.m. Saturday Soul Squad

The Rellik, 726 First St. www.therellik tavern.com.

I Vallejo

1 p.m. Sunday Private Practice

Vino Godfather Winery, 1005 Walnut Ave. www. vinogodfather.com.

5:30 p.m. Wednesday

Kid Anderson and the All-Stars Empress Lounge, 330 Virginia St. https:// empresstheatre.org.

1 p.m. Saturday Cut Loose Vino Godfather Winery, 1005 Walnut Ave. www. vinogodfather.com.

Be sure to visit for future events

Circus thrills

of otherworldly

kind coming to Fairfield

Todd R. H ansen THANSEN@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — No one under 13 is allowed.

“Slow down so you can take it all in . . . but if you scare easily, you might want to run . . . as we welcome you into this new world of Paranormal Cirque,” the website greeting for the show states.

But the no one younger than 13 being allowed is a directive, and anyone younger than 17 must be accompanied by an adult who is 21 or older. To buy tickets, a patron must be at least 17 with a photo identifica tion that includes a birth date.

It would seem Paranormal Cirque has taken the circus world to an other worldly place.

“It is definitely an R-rated show from the horror content to the comedic content,” said Steve Copeland, one of the two ghost hunter hosts, along with Ryan Combs.

Shows are scheduled Oct. 20-23, with showtimes at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

Paranormal Cirque is coming to the Solano Town Center mall parking lot in Fairfield.

An hour before each show there is a haunted attraction during which cus tomers can meet and interact with the performers, with food and other goodies available as well.

The show is performed under a large black and red circus tent, which will be set up near Dick’s Sporting Goods at the Solano Town Center mall at 1350 Travis Blvd. It takes about a day and a half to get every thing ready, and just four to five hours to break everything down.

Copeland and Combs are the only

Horror has new home in Fairfield –all to boost PAL youth program

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FAIRFIELD — What’s become a mainstay attrac tion of the Halloween season in Fairfield is open for business and ready to scare teens and adults alike.

“Terror on Texas Street,” operated by sKreamZ Haunted

Attractions, opened Oct. 7 and continues from 7 to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through the end of the month at 2256 N. Texas St.

Proceeds benefit the Fair field Police Activities League and its Career Cafe program.

Ticket prices start at $10 for students, military and EMS personnel. General tickets

are $12 per person. No refunds or exchanges will be possible.

All participants will be required to sign a tour waiver and follow any Solano County Covid-19 health guidelines in place at the time of their visit. Parental guidance is recom mended for anyone 14 and younger. Parents are advised not to bring children who are

10 or younger.

Each visit features enclosed spaces, special effects light ing, gore and horror effects that are designed to cause fright and nightmares.

Tickets will be available at the door or at skreamz. net. For more information, call 707-330-8757 or visit the sKreamZ website.

FAIRFIELD — “In the Country” featuring artist Dennis Ariza continues through Oct. 29 at the Solano Town Center Gallery.

The Fairfield-Suisun City Visual Arts Association invites the public and art enthusiasts to view the show, which fea tures work by some of the more than 70 participating associa tion members that focus on what is described in a statement as a wide-open and inspiring theme.

Northern California offers ample nature scenes from the San Pablo Bay to the foot hills of the Sierra Nevada, and everything in between. The association’s award-winning artists specialize in painting and photography, make jewelry and

glassware, and sculpt.

They will sum up all their creative juices to express the beauty that surrounds them. In addition to the show’s featured work.

The featured artist is award-

SUISUN VALLEY — The Black Friday Arts and Crafts Fair at the Village 360 is looking for artisans.

This year’s event will be organized by the Fair field-Suisun City Visual Arts Association.

The return of Black Friday will include fine art this time. This will be the second event of its kind at the Village 360 and organized by the Fair field-Suisun City Visual Arts Association. The event will offer artwork from nearly 30 fine artists and crafters and will take place at a new facil ity, the Village 360, located at 4949 Suisun Valley Road in rural Fairfield.

The Landing will supply a variety of types of food, The

Point will offer a variety of drinks. BackRoad Vines Vine yards will supply a variety of fine wine for guests to enjoy as they stroll among the vendors and enjoy the holiday music and purchase holiday gifts for friends and family.

The event will offer a wide variety of artwork including acrylic, watercolor, oil paint ings, color and black and white photography, ceramics, fused glass, drawings, jewelry, mixed media, kitchen holders, sculp ture, pottery, wreaths, wood crafts and custom holiday centerpieces.

Organizers said the event will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 25-27. Several oneand two-day booths are still available. Additional informa tion for vendors and the public is

‘In the Country’ show continues at mall gallery

Visual arts group puts out call for ‘Black Friday’ show

Courtesy photos

Courtesy photo Dennis Ariza is the featured artist for In the Country,” the current show at the Solano Town Center Gallery. The show continues through Oct. 29.

Noah plans to do ‘everything’ after ‘The Daily Show’

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Trevor Noah is opening up about his plans after his run at “The Daily Show” comes to an end this year.

Noah shocked viewers Sept. 29 when he announced that he will be leaving as host of the longrunning Comedy Central program. The network announced this week that his final episode will air Dec. 8.

On Thursday, the 38-year-old comedian went on “The Tonight Show” and talked with host Jimmy Fallon about why he’s leaving “The Daily Show” and what lies ahead for him.

“I think every body has gone through a period of looking at their lives – every single person. We were in our apartments for two years, the world changed.” Noah said. “We experienced col lective grief. I think if you don’t look at your life and think about what you’d like to do differently, then you haven’t experienced what we’ve all experienced, and so I think [my departure] is a joyous thing.”

In his departure announcement last month, Noah said, “It’s been absolutely amazing. It’s something that I never expected. And I found myself thinking through out the time, you know, everything we’ve gone through, the Trump pres idency, the pandemic, just the journey of, you know, more pandemic

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Americans among the 20-plus performers. Copeland is from Walter boro, South Carolina, and Combs is from Boston.

“We have acrobatic zombies and a serial killer who flies through the air with the greatest of ease,” Copeland said.

There are also roller skating vampires.

Copeland called it an “immersive performance” with the performers some times getting cozy with the paying customers, and most definitely drawing them into their acts with “eye-to-eye contact.”

“We do one act that we bring volunteer audi ence members onto the stage,” he said.

This big top perfor mance is Paranormal Cirque II, which is making

. . . and I realized that after the seven years, my time is up.”

Noah restated his grat itude for the opportunity to host the show to Fallon, adding that he decided to depart from the show while he’s still “good” and “loved.”

“I don’t take anything for granted anymore. I don’t believe that life is a given. I don’t assume that things will come to me,” he said. “And so, I just go, ‘This is it, this is the time.’ And leave when people say, ‘Why are you leaving?’ Because imagine if it was the other way around? I go like, ‘I’m leaving’ and people are like, ‘Yeah, yeah.’”

The discussion shifted to what the South African comedian planned to do next, to which he enthusiastically said, “Everything. Everything. . . . I’m so excited to do everything.

“I’m gonna get drumming lessons from [‘Tonight Show’ bandleader Questlove],” he joked, before discussing the matter more seriously.

“I didn’t get to travel as much doing stand-up around the world. I’m excited,” Noah explained. “I used to go to a country and I would be there for weeks on end, I would learn the parts of the lan guage or learn about the culture, and I’d do a show based around that. I’m gonna get back to doing that.”

its American debut this year. The first group was formed four years ago and is working on the East Coast.

The parent company is Cirque Italia, of Italy, which also has three family centric circus shows.

“Our performers are from all over the world, and a lot of our perform ers are making their American debut,” Cope land said. “This makes a perfect date night or a night out with friends.”

The ticket office opens at 10 a.m. each day in front of the circus tent. Tickets also are available at paranormalcirque.com.

The troupe arrives at Fairfield from a stop in Lodi, and heads out afterward to Petaluma (Oct. 27-31) and Monterey (Nov. 3-6).

A sneak peek video is available on the group’s website.

danielle deadwyler appears as Mamie Till-Mobley in “Till.”

How ‘Till’ reframes the enduring story of a brutal American murder

Sonia R ao THE WASHINGTON POST

The brutal murder of 14-yearold Emmett Till at the hands of two White men in Jim Crow-era Mississippi is deeply embedded in the American psyche. As a major catalyst to the burgeoning civil rights movement, the horror of the 1955 lynching reverberates with racially motivated hate crimes of the modern era, expos ing the injustices that persist. The politics of this dialogue remain fraught; just five years ago, Black artists protested the Whitney Biennial’s decision to feature a White woman’s painting of Emmett’s corpse.

The artist, Dana Schutz, based her painting off David Jackson’s widely publicized photograph of Emmett’s mutilated body, taken and published at the urging of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who held an open-casket funeral in Chicago because she “wanted the world to see what they did to my boy.” At the center of debate over Schutz’s work was a question of cul tural ownership. Emmett’s murder, which occurred after he was accused of flirting with a White woman working at a grocery store, was a pivotal moment in history –but whose story was it to tell?

Enter “Till,” a new film by director Chinonye Chukwu looking back at what is inarguably the most impactful telling of what happened to Emmett: his own mother’s. Chukwu reframes the story by focusing on Mamie, following her journey as she reluctantly steps into the spotlight and transforms from shellshocked parent to deter mined activist. The film grants viewers a fuller understanding of the woman who made a choice to grieve with the world, inspiring action for decades to come.

winning photographer Dennis Ariza, who is dis playing images featured in two of his published books, “Bodie, A Ghost Town!” and “Photograph ing California.”

“Bodi, A Ghost Town!” takes the long view of a town that once was and chronicles its history over time through pho tography. The book was released last year. “Pho tographing California,” which was published this year, is largely about day trips in California that sometimes include over

night stays around the eastern Sierra Nevada. The book also makes rec ommendations on where to stay and times associ ated with visitor centers and major destinations.

Ariza is president of the Fairfield-Suisun City Visual Arts Association and a member for the past 10 years.

The Solano Town Center Gallery is located at 1350 Travis Blvd. D-8, in Fairfield, inside the Solano Town Center, upstairs and across from Macy’s. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. For more infor mation, visit https://www. fvaa-arts.org/solanotown-center-gallery.

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“One of the things I asked myself is, how do I tell this story in a way that feels fresh even though we know there’s not going to be a guilty verdict?” Chukwu said in a recent interview with The Wash ington Post. “The narrative arc is not about whether they’re going to be guilty or not. It’s Mamie realiz ing that, ‘Oh, my activist work . . . is bigger than that.’ “ Chukwu wrote “Till” with pro ducers Michael Reilly and Keith Beauchamp, the latter of whom grew close to Till-Mobley in real life while conducting extensive research for his 2005 documentary “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till” (which contributed to the Justice Department reopening the case). According to Chukwu, pro ducers spent nearly two decades trying to make “Till”; its longanticipated release happened to land the same year as “Women of the Movement,” an ABC miniseries also centering on Mamie.

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available at www.fvaaarts.org/Black-Friday.

While visiting the Village 360 during the Black Friday event, guests are encouraged to ask for a private tour of the new Village 360 Art Gallery

People may view or purchase all the artwork on display in the Village 360 at any time at https:// www.fvaa-org/fsvaagalleries. Admission and parking are free.

For addition informa tion and to sign up as a vendor, call Dennis Ariza at 707-688-8889.

Danielle Deadwyler, who plays Mamie in the film, said the process of embodying the character was “deeply, deeply spiritual.” Chukwu took great care in guiding Dead wyler through the scene in which Mamie sees her son’s deceased body for the first time, perhaps the most daunting challenge for an actress in the role. Together they broke down the individual emotional beats, which build to a harrowing crescendo.

“It’s not just, ‘All right, a mother is sobbing over her son’s body,’ ” Chukwu said. “There is an under lying anger that’s built up, and rage

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. . In breaking down that scene, what is the emotional journey that leads to the release that Mamie lets out, and then leads to her critical decision? All of that is unspoken.”

Deadwyler added that this level of vulnerability was often in real life “something that publicly wasn’t seen because [Till-Mobley] had to perform a particular kind of Black personhood, and a respectability.”

Ellen Scott, a professor of cinema and media studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, said “Till” exists among narratives that have “historically been viewed as not interesting to Hollywood or actively repressed because of what they say about race in America.” That a major release so thoroughly examines the inner life of a Black mother – and one who lost her son to reprehen sible hatred – is notable, according to Scott, who found it significant that “Till” was co-written and directed by a Black woman as well. It wasn’t until the 1980s that Black American women directed narra tive feature films, she said: “That history is really key.”

Scott echoed Chukwu in expressing how narrative story telling techniques can “support emotional buildup,” as the profes sor put it. Because of its framing, “Till” explores how Mamie’s deci sion to publicize her son’s murder was “a kind of personal activism that I think is resonant in our par ticular moment.”

“Film history has its own canon,” Scott said, “and I think putting a film like this into that canon changes the conversa tion about what deserves to be an epic story.”

As a study of grief, “Till” depicts the full spectrum of emo tions experienced by those close to Emmett (Jalyn Hall), from the heartbreak suffered by his grand mother, Alma Carthan (Whoopi Goldberg), to the guilt wrack ing his great-uncle Moses Wright (John Douglas Thompson), whose family Emmett was visiting in Mis sissippi. Among the most moving moments in the film is a quiet con versation between Mamie and Myrlie Evers (Jayme Lawson), the wife of activist and NAACP leader Medgar Evers, about the diffi culties of raising Black children in the United States and the sac rifices involved in fighting for a greater cause.

Till-Mobley evokes a sort of mythic archetype, according to Thomas Allen Harris, a Yale Uni versity professor of film and media studies who likened her “dealing with a tragedy and coming out on

the other side” to a hero’s journey. But in literary tradition, he added, the hero myth often involves stories of men.

“I think it’s so important to rede fine womanhood through the lens of a film like this,” said Harris, who also teaches African American studies and noted that Till-Mobley defied much of what was societally expected of women, and especially Black women, in the 1950s.

The most famous Hollywood depictions of American civil rights leaders tend to center on men as well. “Till” sheds light on the instrumental role a Black woman played in the movement, which Harris said continues to reso nate with racial justice efforts today. Black Lives Matter, for instance, was co-founded by three Black women.

Chukwu approached making “Till” as an extension of Till-Mob ley’s original mission. The film doesn’t visually depict the acts of violence carried out against Emmett; at the world premiere in New York, Chukwu stated that “where the camera focuses is its own act of resistance.” But “Till” does feature a recreation of Emmett’s corpse, which Mamie can still identify as her son despite him having become unrecogniz able to others.

“It was so critical to the story and her journey,” Chukwu told The Post of showing the body in her film.

In addition to the photo graph, the real-life cruelty of Emmett’s murder remains acces sible through a visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, where his casket is on display. While the Justice Department closed Emmett’s reopened case last year without filing charges, President Biden in March signed into law the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, which made lynching a federal hate crime after more than a century of similar attempts. If the high-profile murder of George Floyd “taught us anything, it’s that we are still way too close to the same racial issues and problems that we were in Emmett Till’s day,” said Scott, the UCLA professor.

“To the people who say, ‘Enough is enough, we don’t need any more of that,’ I understand where that’s coming from and I understand the need to look away,” Scott said of art that engages with racial vio lence. “But the extent to which we have not reckoned with our past is a big part of why we are where we are today.”

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Andre D. Wagner/Orion Pictures director Chinonye Chukwu, left, works with danielle deadwyler on the set of “Till.”

Kanye West spews more antisemitic conspiracy theories in leaked Tucker Carlson footage

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Less than a week after Kanye West sat down with Tucker Carlson for a two-part, two-hour conversation that aired on Fox News, clips have surfaced that add more troubling layers to the already-controversial interview.

West, now known as Ye, makes an assortment of antise mitic remarks in the unreleased footage obtained by Vice’s Moth erboard. He said he’d rather his kids learn about Hanukkah instead of Kwanzaa because the former holiday would come with some “financial engineer ing,” and compared Black people judging one another on their “whiteness” to “a Jewish person judging another Jewish person on how good they danced.” He then attempts to clean it up by saying the metaphor was a bad example, before adding, “I prob ably want to edit that out.”

West also pushed the notion that reproductive health care organization Planned Parent hood was created by Margaret Sanger and the KKK to control

the “Jew population.” Although Planned Parenthood has dis tanced itself from Sanger’s views on eugenics – which the group called “an inherently racist” ideology that rules “inferior” groups of people should not have children – the group’s origin has been used by Ben Carson and others to spread the conspiracy that Planned Parenthood cur rently exists to prevent the birth of Black children.

West also claimed that Black people are the true Jewish race, a long-standing antisemitic trope that implies Jews have stolen the identity and “birthright” of Black people.

“When I say Jew, I mean the 12 lost tribes of Judah, the blood of Christ, who the people known as the race Black really are,” West said. “This is who our people are. The blood of Christ. This, as a Christian, is my belief.”

Elsewhere, Ye states he had been vaccinated against the coronavirus, which was edited out of the final broad cast. Carlson frequently spreads

Covid-19 misinformation on his show and lashes out against vaccine mandates.

The previously unreleased clips add to the flood of outland ish and insulting statements by Ye that already aired on Fox News. During the origi

nal conversation, West said he thought the idea of him wearing the “White Lives Matter” shirt during Paris Fashion Week was “funny,” while claiming the media’s celebration of Lizzo and her “clinically unhealthy” weight is “demonic.”

He also stated he “will even tually be” president, and that he wants Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk to be an influen tial voice in his ear when that time comes.

“But if I was in office right now, I’d be calling Elon every day,” he said. “I’d have him sleeping in the White House. I’d say, ‘How do we use our platform as the most influ ential company’ – that’s a Freudian slip – ‘the most influen tial country in the world to show the rest of the world how to live a simplified life?’”

West was recently barred from Instagram and Twitter after posting antisemitic state ments on both platforms.

“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” he wrote on Twitter. “The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also . . . You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone who opposes your agenda.”

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Julien De Rosa/AFP/Getty Images/TNS file Rapper Kanye West, center, attends the Givenchy Spring-Summer 2023 fashion show during the Paris Womenswear Fashion Week, in Paris, Oct. 2.

My snoopy sister is monitoring my bank account online

Dear Annie: One of my sisters has been monitoring my bank account online for a while now. I don’t monitor her account or our brother’s account, so I have no idea why she is doing this. To me, it is a major violation of my privacy, and so I feel disrespected.

To stop her from doing it, I went to my bank recently and had them close the existing account and open up a new one.

Hopefully, this will put an end to my sister’s 100% uncalled for treatment.

What is your take on this sit

uation, Annie? — Coping with a Snoopy Sister Dear Snoopy Sister: Your bank account is none of her business, and her snooping is a huge violation of your privacy. I don’t under stand how your sister was even granted access to your bank account in the first place. Regard less, you handled it well by opening a new account.

But what’s up with your sister? If you haven’t asked her, I would suggest that you have a serious conversation with her.

Dear Annie: sent in anything to a column

Horoscopes

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday

Finally, you’ll obtain the material symbol of status and/or security you’ve long worked toward.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). The reason for the endeavor of the day is best summed up in four words: It’s in your blood. You come by this particular drive honestly. In fact, it would be harder to resist than it is to follow through.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Cleaning a closet is like a trip to the museum filled with artifacts of historical meaning and aesthetic value, if not practical use. How (and whether!) to keep them all – that is the vexing question.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Don’t be surprised if practical concerns take a back seat to what you really want. Desire disassembles your powers of prioritiza tion. An unconscious part of you that’s much stronger than reason emerges to handle matters.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). The plot twists; the action ramps up; and you rise to the occasion, doing what the situa tion calls for. Don’t be afraid of conflict. It will lift the energy like spice lifts the flavor of food.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’re inter ested in people. You want to find out what they’re into, what they think about life and what their experience has been. People enjoy being around you because they feel seen and heard. They feel important.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Smart and funny – the characteristic combination of your favorite company. Those who bring humor to your world are the treasures of your day; your laughter is a celebra tion of them.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’ve been working on the same problem, but you’re ready for a new approach. Instead of treating the symptoms, you’ll go right to the source of the issue. An earth sign (Taurus, Virgo or Capricorn) will be part of the remedy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You remain optimistic even when others aren’t. You’ll renew this optimism through the rituals you create and repeat. If you don’t already have a sanctuary to call your own, you’ll create one.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). No matter how life-changing a decision may seem, make it quick. Taking a lot of time for a decision won’t make it go any better and will in fact cause you to doubt your gut instinct, which is the purest one you have.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ve a talent for creating a picture in the mind of others. Your stories and descriptions will be like impressionistic paintings, giving the hint of basic forms and highlighting all the main colors without going into too much detail.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Don’t fall into the trap of doing too much, which ultimately causes digression. Undoing or redoing will only waste precious time. Thought for the day: Sometimes it’s enough to just be there.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’d rather own fewer things at a higher value than lay claim to heaps of mediocrity. The problem is, some junk tries to pass as high-quality. Be sure to look at things in a different light before you buy them. Also, keep receipts.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Though he’s a world-renowned bassist, Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers first played the drums, next the trumpet, and didn’t start the bass until the age of 17 when his friend asked him to join a band. Flea’s sun and Mercury in harmonious Libra indicate the perfect bandmate. Mars in theatrical Leo gives a showman’s edge whether he’s playing an arena or acting in movies.

before, but I’d like to say something from a grandkid’s perspective about “Broken hearted Grandma.”

I do not acknowledge my grandmother unless I have to because we are usually in the same room. I will not go out of my way to talk to her. I actively avoid any situation where that would be a necessity. “Broken hearted Grandma” sounded just like mine.

But the other side of the story is that she’s a horrible person.

kids,” despite lucrative careers and a solid base in life.

She is narcissistic, con niving and pouts when she doesn’t get her way. She tries to play victim – like your letter writer – all the time. She and my grandfather were emotion ally abusive and dismissive of all of their kids, and it took until this year for my mom to finally realize that none of us could stand her mother and that our grandmother acts like a spoiled 16-year-old.

lazy. Sometimes, they actually want nothing to do with a rela tive, and because we’re adults, we can make the decision to cut toxic people out of our lives. And it’s not like she’s not aware of it, but she plays the victim card very well. — The Other Side of the Coin

Dear Other Sign of the Coin: Every family situation is differ ent, and if your grandmother is all those things you say, I don’t blame you for wanting to ignore her. Hearing about the other person’s perspectives is

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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Many people have some general knowledge about breast cancer, usually because they have known someone who was diagnosed with the disease. They may know of patients with uncomplicated courses of treatment or others, whose treatment course was long, compli cated and devastating.

These experiences often form their opinions about the disease, including whether or not to pursue breast cancer screening or treatment of any kind. As a family physician for more than 30 years, I believe I have encountered patients all along the spectrum.

I am thankful for months like Breast Cancer Awareness Month because it often provides physicians and other health care team members an opportu nity to engage in these conversations. Further, many sites provide lower cost or even free breast cancer screening to those in need.

Women should also know how their breasts normally look and feel and report any breast changes to a health care provider right away.

Several years ago, the breast cancer screening guidelines dropped the rec ommendations for clinical breast examinations annually and for monthly self-breast exams.

The scientific liter ature did not find

of these increased early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.

Patients often tell me they are not certain of what they are feeling and/or seeing. If the patient wants a clinical breast exam, I will provide one, educat ing the patient on understanding what their breasts look like and how they feel when touched. Any patient, who identifies dimpling or puckering of the breast tissue, new changes in shape or texture or drainage and/or discharge from the nipple, should contact their physicians immediately.

Below are the current guidelines for mammogram screenings:

n Women ages 40 to 44 should have the choice to start annual breast cancer screening with mammograms (X-rays of the breast) if they wish to do so.

n Women ages 45 to 54 should get mammograms every year.

n Women 55 and older should switch to mammograms every two years, or can continue yearly screening.

n Screening should continue as long as a woman is in good health and is expected to live 10 more years or longer.

n All women should be familiar with the known benefits, limitations and potential harms linked to breast cancer screening.

It should be stressed that guidelines should not supersede any specific rec ommendations from your physician.

If a patient has specific risk factors that cause them to need earlier or more frequent screening, they should discuss the details with their individual medical care provider and understand all the possible implications.

Patients often have questions about breast MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging. Breast MRI is not indicated as a routine screening tool for all patients.

Indications for breast MRI include:

n Staging of breast cancer that has been diagnosed.

n Assessment of possible recur rence.

n Patients who are high-risk for breast cancer, such as a strong family history or a mutation in genes BRCA1 or BRCA2.

If someone is diagnosed with breast cancer or is worried about their risk or a possible diagnosis of breast cancer, there are several opportunities to contact support groups, health care team providers or local chapters of the American Cancer Society or Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for more information. For more infor mation and resources, visit https:// www.komen.org.

Alesia J. Wagner, D.O., FACOFP dis tinguished, is the associate dean of Academic Affairs and an associate pro fessor of Primary Care Department at Touro University of California, a partner of Solano Public Health.

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Women ages 45 to 54 should get mammograms every year and women 55 and older should switch to every two years.

American, Canadian vie for Fairfield title

ROCKVILLE — Michael Mmoh has trained with Sam Riffice but hadn't squared off against him on the tennis court since playing in a junior level match a decade ago.

That changed Satur day as the two met in the first semifinal of the Taube-Haase Men's Pro Championship at Solano Community College on Cammisa Court. Mmoh

broke Riffice's service just twice but it gave him the edge he needed in a 6-4, 6-4 victory.

The 24-year-old Mmoh is an American who lives in Florida but was born in Saudi Arabia. He has been playing profes sionally since 2016 and has five career titles on the ATP Challenger tour.

He's also made appear ances in all four major championships: the Aus tralian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.

Mmoh came in as the tournament's third seed. He needed only one set (6-2) in his opening match to beat Paul Jubb of Great Britain. Jubb was forced to retire with an injury. Mmoh then beat Alexandr Cozbinov of Moldova 6-2, 6-2 and topped Juncheng Shang of China 6-3, 6-1 in the quarterfinals.

The 23-year-old Riffice was born in Sacramento but moved to the Sun shine State and played at the University of Florida, winning the 2021 NCAA

Singles Tournament. The veteran Mmoh was able to knock down five service aces to one by Riffice. The match lasted one hour and 34 minutes.

"I train with him quite a bit, so I had an idea of how he played," Mmoh said, "but I was happy with the way I executed. It was a high level match. I think he can live with that, only being broken twice in the whole match."

Mmoh's opponent in

3 first-half TDs all Rodriguez needs in 18-0 win over Armijo

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FAIRFIELD — Rodriguez High School’s football team scored three first-half touchdowns, but the defenses really ruled the day as the Mustangs held on to outlast Armijo 18-0 at Brownlee Field.

Neither team had much luck pro ducing sustained drives and both quarterbacks were left scrambling. But Rodriguez came out with the win and took a step closer to staying in the playoff chase.

“I’ll have to watch the film, but we made a lot of plays on defense and did an excellent job,” Rodri guez head coach Myles King said. “We have to do a better job exe

cuting offensively, but at least we didn’t have any turnovers.” Rodriguez improved to 2-1 in the Monticello Empire League and 5-3 overall. Armijo remained winless in the MEL at 0-3 and moved to 3-5 overall.

“I take responsibility as the offensive line coach,” Armijo head coach Don Moseley said. “That’s on me. I thought we had the best line in the county and we should be playing at a higher level. We lost up front in the trenches. It was tough to watch.”

Rodriguez found the end zone first on its second offensive pos session. Quarterback Kenen Jones capped a six-play drive with a 9-yard touchdown run.

The Mustangs tacked on two

second quarter scores. Jones threw a short pass that receiver Leroy Bryant added yards to after the catch that led to a 35-yard touch down completion.

Gabriel Batres recovered a fumble on Armijo’s next offen sive possession. Two plays into Rodriguez’s next drive, Jones went 1 yard for a touchdown and his second score.

Rodriguez missed an extra point kick and came up short on a pair of two-point conversion runs after the touchdowns. The teams exchanged scoreless drives in the second half as the halftime score remained the same as the final.

Strong third quarter helps push Vanden past league foe Wood

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VACAVILLE — Vanden High scored 28 unanswered points in the second half en route to a 49-21 win Thurs day night over host Will C. Wood High.

Trailing 21-14 at the half, the Wildcats (5-3 overall, 2-1 Monti cello Empire League) pulled even less than two minutes into the third after Manny Delatorre made a 180-degree spin move on the 1 to catch Mason Sayre’s 12-yard pass for a touchdown, their second TD hookup of the night.

Unfortunately for the Wildcats, it was rough going from that moment on.

Vanden (7-1, 2-1 MEL) took a lead it would never relinquish two minutes later when Eiljah Fish

erman sprinted around the left side of his line and inside the pylon for a 5-yard TD tote.

Two minutes later, the Vikings took a 35-21 lead after sopho more cornerback Chris Clark intercepted Sayre for a 38-yard pick six. The interception was Clark’s third of the night.

“He had a very emo tional week, so to see him come out and perform well, he had a great effort,” Vanden head coach Sean Murphy said after the game.

Murphy said Clark was emotional after the previous week’s loss against Vacaville.

Wood head coach Jacob Wright said “too many big plays” in the second half cost the Wildcats.

“We were rolling, 21-21. We were rolling,”

Wright said. “I thought we were playing well defensively with them. It was those big jump plays made it hard, then the scores. They flipped the field on us.”

Vanden added another touchdown in the third, a 44-yard bomb from Tre Dimes to Leon Rob inson, and one more in the fourth, when Jordan Jones blasted through the line into a wide-open sec ondary on a 23-yard score.

“We just had to execute. We weren’t exe cuting in the first half,” Murphy said.

Vanden in the first half scored on the game’s opening kickoff with Kasai Cox sprinting down the Wood sideline en route to a 72-yard kickoff return for a TD. Raheem Holt added a 2-yard rushing score.

In the second quarter,

on a quarterback keeper on 1st-and-goal from 9 yards out, Vanden’s Dimes dropped the ball at the 1. Vikings offensive lineman Mason Wedertz dove on the loose ball in the end zone for a score.

Rafael Ortiz Velez booted seven extra points for Vanden.

For the Wildcats, in addition to the two passing touchdowns between Delatorre and Sayre, Diego Madriz picked off a pass from Dimes for a 48-yard inter ception TD return.

Due to a late-running JV game – which Vanden won, 52-21 – and “senior night” halftime festiv ities, the game ended at 11:02 p.m.

In week nine, Wood visits Rodriguez (4-3, 1-1 MEL) while Vanden visits Fairfield (0-8, 0-3 MEL).

Big keys for 49ers to avoid more drama in Atlanta

Cam Inman BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

ATLANTA — Too much drama has unfolded in the 49ers’ history with the Falcons for this Sunday’s affair to be a humdrum, run-theball matchup.

Before rehashing old tales, this is the here-andnow situation:

The 49ers (3-2) are seeking a third straight win, and, for the third straight year, they’re looking to sweep both games of an East Coast swing that included a week-long layover in West Virginia.

The Falcons (2-3) are 5 ½-point home underdogs, ready to welcome in a former NFC West rival (19672001) for its maiden voyage into the Mer cedes-Benz Superdome, which opened in 2017.

If the 49ers win this 82nd all-time meeting, they’ll pull even at 20-20-1 in visits to Atlanta. Rather than exhume this series’ total ity, just remember these dramatic moments and key players: Fantastic finishes: the Falcons’ Billy

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“White Shoes” Johnson (1983 Hail Mary catchand-run) and Julio Jones (2019, last-second touch down catch-and-lean), and the 49ers’ Terrell Owens (2001 overtime score) and NaVorro Bowman (2013 ‘Pick-Six at The Stick’)

Playoff games: The 1998 49ers lost a divi sional playoff at Atlanta, after losing Garrison Hearst to a broken ankle on the first snap.

The 2012 49ers rallied behind Frank Gore’s two touchdowns and their defense’s late stop to clinch the NFC Champi onship in Atlanta.

Record setters: Joe Montana threw a careerhigh six touchdown passes and Jerry Rice caught a career-high five in a 1990 win at AtlantaFulton County Stadium.

More recently, the 49ers won last Decem ber at home behind strong efforts from their

Warriors, Poole finalizing 4-year contract extension

By m adelIne K enney BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

Golden State is on the brink of locking in a pillar of its future.

The Warriors and Poole are finaliz ing a four-year contract extension worth up to $140 million with incen tives, leagues sources confirmed Satur day morning.

The two are expected to shore up the details on the off day and announce the agreement soon.

ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski was first to report the deal, which will kick in after this season. Poole is slated to make $3.9 million for the 2022-23 campaign.

The rookie contract extension deadline is Monday, the day before the Warriors open the season with a champi onship ring and banner ceremony before their game against the Los Angeles Lakers. If a deal wasn’t reached Poole would’ve become a restricted free agent next summer.

But it appeared the Warriors were never going to let it get

to that point. Extend ing Poole was always among Golden State’s top priority of this offsea son, though three other players – Andrew Wiggins, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson – are also extension eligible.

Poole was one of the league’s biggest break out stars of last season who served as a key contributor on their championship team and this deal further estab lishes his spot as the future of the franchise. Poole’s $140 million is the most out of the 2019 rookie class exten sion. The Heat recently signed guard Tyler Herro to a four-year, $130 million extension.

Poole, the 28th pick in the 2019 draft, seems to have a higher upside than Herro after he took a major developmen tal leap last season and seems poised to be even better as the Warriors’ sixth man in their title defense this year.

After spending some time in the G League trying to get his footing and work on every aspect

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Rodriguez High School quarterback Kenen Jones stretches to land the ball in the end zone for a touchdown during the first quarter against Armijo at Brownlee Field, Friday. The Mustangs won the game 18-0.

Courtesy of Robin Miller/NorthBay Health Michael Mmoh of the United States volleys a return against Sam Riffice of the U.S. during their semifinal match Saturday at the Taube-Haase Men’s Pro Championship at Solano Community College.

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• MLB Playoffs, N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, TBS, 4:07 p.m.

• MLB Playoffs, San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, FS1, 6:07 p.m., if necessary.

Basketball

• High School Boys, Top Flight Invitational, ESPN2, 2 p.m.

• High School Boys, Top Flight Invitational, ESPN2, 4 p.m.

• High School Boys, Teams TBA, ESPN2, 6 p.m.

Football

• NFL, San Francisco vs. Atlanta, 2, 40, 10 a.m.

• NFL, Baltimore vs. N.Y. Giants, 5, 13, 10 a.m.

• NFL Buffalo vs. Kansas City, 5, 13, 1:25 p.m.

• NFL, Dallas vs. Philadelphia, 3, 5:15 p.m.

Golf

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• Champs, SAS Championship, GOLF, 11 a.m.

Motor Sports

• NASCAR, South Point 400, Cup Series, 3, 11:30 a.m.

Soccer

• EPL, Manchester United vs. Newcastle, USA, 6 a.m.

• EPL, Liverpool vs. Manchester City, USA, 8:30 a.m.

• MLS, Real Salt Lake vs. Austin, 7, 10, Noon.

• MLS, Orlando City vs. Montreal, ESPN, 5 p.m.

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• College Women, Michigan vs. Wisconsin, ESPN2, 10 a.m.

Kings’ Murray placed in health, safety protocols

By Jason a nderson THE SACRAMENTO BEE

Kings rookie Keegan Murray has entered NBA health and safety proto cols, leaving his status for Wednesday’s season opener against the Portland Trail Blazers in question, a league source told The Sac ramento Bee.

A source with knowl edge of the situation said Murray entered the league’s protocol system Friday night as the Kings concluded preseason play with a 133-86 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers.

Murray will not par ticipate in Fan Fest on Sunday at Golden 1 Center and his status for Wednesday’s game against the Blazers is uncertain, the source

said, adding Murray will be reevaluated daily.

The 22-year-old forward missed Sacramento’s last two preseason games due to what the team initially described as a non-Covid-19 illness. He participated in Thurs day’s practice but was ruled out for Friday’s game against the Lakers.

Murray, who came out of Iowa as the No. 4 pick in June’s NBA draft, led the Kings in scoring with 16 points in each of their first two pre season games. Murray was remarkably efficient in those games, shooting 70.6% from the field and 70% from 3-point range.

Murray is widely regarded as a top Rookie of the Year candidate fol lowing a strong summer for Sacramento.

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Former Sharks GM Doug Wilson still faces tough health challenges

By Curtis Pashelka BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

SAN JOSE — Doug Wilson said his physical health has improved but that he still faces a long recovery process from an unspecified illness that caused him to step down as the Sharks’ general manager earlier this year.

“I am not where I need to be. I’ve got some work ahead of me,” Wilson said Saturday morning at a news conference, hours before the special recogni tion ceremony the Sharks are holding for him at SAP Center.

“I have tremendous empathy for the people that deal with things that you need to be proac tive and deal with. I let some things slide and I got to not a great place, to be honest.

“I’ve got some work and we have great doctors and we’ll just leave it at that.”

As he spoke on a stage inside a confer ence room at a downtown hotel, Wilson, 65, was still bothered at times by the persistent cough that he had last fall prior to his decision to take what was then believed to be a tem

porary medical leave.

Wilson, still looking tanned and fit Saturday morning, dressed casu ally in a familiar plaid shirt and jeans, offi cially stepped down as the Sharks’ GM in April to fully focus on his health, ending a 19-year reign as the team’s top hockey executive.

“I’m in good hands. I think I’m in a better place than I was 10, 11 months ago,” Wilson said. “I’ve got to be a better patient. That’s what I’ve been told. But it was concern ing. I feel like there’s lots of light at the end of the tunnel.”

Asked how long he

wrestled with the idea of leaving the Sharks before he did, Wilson said, “It was the right thing. I don’t want to do timelines or anything. I’m probably a bad patient. I knew where I was at and where I was getting to, and I proba bly should have addressed it earlier.

“But I don’t look back and I’m very, very proud of the fact that (new Sharks GM) Mike Grier, one of our former players, is going to do a great job and I’m a supporter of his. It was the right time.”

At the time of his res ignation, Wilson said he would like to get back to working in an NHL

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Sunday's final will be Gabriel Diallo of Canada.

Diallo needed just over an hour Saturday to knock off his University of Ken tucky teammate Alafia Ayeni, 6-3, 6-1. Diallo was much in charge, as he has been the entire tournament.

Diallo opened the tour nament with a 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 win over Leandro Riedi of Switzerland, defeated Ben Shelton of the U.S. 5-7, 7-6(3), 6-3 in

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“I thought we played a phenomenal game on the defensive side,” Moseley said. “We’ve got to get cracking on the offensive side. We need to find a spark and sustain it these next two games.”

Armijo had scored just six points in each of its

Poole

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of his game, Poole became one of the Warriors’ most reliable players last season as he exceeded expectations when tasked

team’s front office. But now he’s putting all of his energy into his health and recovery.

“My priority is to get my health all the way back,” Wilson said. “I’ve got seven grandkids that I want be able to chase around – they’re probably tougher to chase around than 23 players.

“I’ve always realized how important health is, and that’s been ampli fied a little bit over the last year or so. That truly is important and I’ve got to get that back before I con sider any other choices or activity.”

Prior to the Sharks’ game with the Chicago Blackhawks at SAP Center on Saturday, the team will raise a banner to the arena’s rafters that will detail Wilson’s accomplishments with the organization.

Wilson had a 16-year NHL playing career, including 14 seasons with the Blackhawks from 1977 to 1991. In his NHL career, Wilson had 827 points in 1,024 games and won the Norris Trophy as the league’s best defenseman after the 1981-82 season when he had 39 goals and 85 points.

a hard-hitting match and then defeated Enzo Coua caud of France 7-6(5), 7-5 in the quarterfinals.

Diallo won his first Challenger in August in Granby, Canada.

The singles final is scheduled for noon Sunday on Cammisa Court.

Also Saturday, the British duo of Julian Cash and Henry Patten defeated India's Anirudh Chandrasekar and N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth for the doubles title in just over 50 minutes, 6-3, 6-1. This was the third Chal lenger title together for Cash and Patten.

last three games. This time Rodriguez held them scoreless. Malik Dawson, Batres, Kashaun Gresham and Trevor Crommie helped lead a Mustangs defense that made several tackles behind the line of scrimmage.

The Royals had a fumble recovery from Jordan Brown, a sack by Jayson Hubbard and continued big plays and a pass deflection from Jericho Johnson.

with filling in for both Klay Thompson and Steph Curry when they were injured.

Poole, 23, went from averaging 12 points during the 2020-21 season to 18.5 points last season, and has become a valu able part of the rotation.

Randy Vazquez / Bay Area News Group/TNS file (2019) Sharks general manager Doug Wilson talks to the media during a press conference at SAP Center in San Jose, Dec. 12, 2019.

Vacaville football earns shutout win at Fairfield

FAIRFIELD —

Vacaville High School’s football team rolled to a 38-0 win Thursday night at Fairfield High.

The Bulldogs scored 10 points in the first quarter and added 14 points in the second and third periods for the victory.

Vacaville remains unbeaten in the Mon ticello Empire League at 3-0 and improved to 5-3 overall.

Fairfield suffered its third straight shutout loss and fifth of the season. The Falcons are 0-8 overall and 0-3 in MEL games.

Eric Gladney had two short touchdown runs. Cristian Diosdado raced to a 25-yard touchdown and had 65 total yards. Elijan Reich also had a 15-yard touchdown run.

Micah Navarro kicked a 32-yard field goal and made four extra point kicks.

Vacaville finished with 264 yards of total offense.

Vacaville will be home next week to face Armijo in another Thursday night game. Fairfield will be at Vanden next Friday night.

Volleyball Vanden girls net senior night triumph

FAIRFIELD — The Vanden High School girls volleyball team enjoyed a victory over Armijo on senior night Thursday as the Vikings rolled to a 25-11, 25-7, 25-12 victory.

Breanna Davis, Sumer lyn Spencer, Soleils Sands and Fran King were the seniors honored. Vanden improved to 10-3 in Mon ticello Empire League matches and 15-9 overall.

Davis was 16-for-17 serving with five aces, one kill, five digs and 16 assists. King fin ished 13-for-15 serving with seven aces, one kill, three digs and four assists. Spencer also was 8-for-11 with three aces, eight kills, nine digs and one assist.

“These are the out standing seniors and the core of our team this year,” Vanden head coach Cindy Scolavino said in an email.

Vanden won a junior varsity match against Fairfield 25-14, 25-12. Danica Rubi was 14-for-15 serving with four aces, two digs, two kills and one assist. Lamir acle Lebon had six kills and one block. Piper Olson contributed two kills, was 10-for-12 serving with four aces. Izzy Taylor added one block and four kills.

The Vanden JV squad is 10-3 in MEL matches

and 12-4 overall.

The JV “B” team beat Fairfield 25-4, 25-16. Erin Veatch was 8-for-9 serving with an ace. Miyaka Otomo was 13-for-15 serving with 11 aces and four kills. Nehara Saavedra was 4-for-5 serving with three aces.

Buckingham serves up pair of victories

VACAVILLE — The Buckingham Collegiate Charter Academy girls volleyball team earned a 12-25, 25-6, 25-12, 25-18 win over Cristo Rey on Thursday night in Sacramento.

Brooke Maurice had 25 assists and three kills for the Lady Knights. Wyievee Binda added 10 kills, nine aces and six blocks. Jessica Taylor, Sophia Lozano and Justice Wright provided solid defense to hold on to the fourth set.

Buckingham beat Western Sierra at home Tuesday 25-8, 25-17, 25-17. Drew Peters scored the first game with five aces. Binda closed the night with 11 kills, seven blocks and two service aces. Kai Bautista added 11 aces along with seven kills and two assists. Brooke Maurice had 13 assists and Kimber Coultrup added five kills.

Tennis

Vacaville girls roll with senior lineup

VACAVILLE — Vacav ille High School’s girls tennis team remained unbeaten after a 9-0 win Thursday over Armijo that featured a senior-laden lineup on Senior Night.

Nia Macay, Victo ria Silva, Lily Holman, Brooklyn Purcell, Alexis Gormley and Ella Aguirre all won singles matches. Macay, Holman and Aguirre are all seniors. Gormley need a thirdset tiebreaker to beat Marian Supapo of Armijo 5-7, 6-4, 10-2.

All three Vacaville doubles teams earned vic tories as senior duos with the pairings of Ruby Bra zelton-Delaney Misaps, Callie Headrick-Brynlie Headrick and Vicki LiZamira Haynes.

Vacaville improved to 11-0 in MEL matches and 14-0 overall.

College Falcons pitch nice shutout in soccer

ROCKVILLE — KateLynn Jimenez scored two

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goals as the Solano Com munity College women’s soccer team enjoyed a 4-0 win Friday over Marin.

The Falcons scored three times in the first half to take a commanding lead they wouldn’t relin quish. Solano improved its record to 2-7-1.

Ani Lopez scored off an assist from Abigail Arteaga at the 13:45 mark of the first half. Jimenez scored her first goal unas sisted at the 28:30 mark. Amber Morales scored an unassisted goal five minutes later for a 3-0 lead at halftime.

Jimenez scored her second goal 60 minutes into the second half off an assist from Rebecca Smith. Goalkeeper Jessica Biasotti notched the shutout victory. Solano takes on Yuba at 4 p.m. Tuesday at home.

Solano women earn victory in volleyball

ROCKVILLE — The Solano Community College women’s volley ball team was challenged for five sets Friday night but came out a winner against Santa Rosa, 25-22, 19-25, 14-25, 25-23, 15-10.

The teams were making up a match that had been postponed Sept. 14. It was a non conference match so the Falcons improved to 17-6 overall.

Kelsey Wall led the offense with 18 kills. Hannah Del Rio added 11 kills and three blocks. Lili Ayala led at the net with four blocks and added six kills. Crystal Carroll led the defense with 25 digs.

Sammy Brown added 20 digs and was 20-for-21 serving with three aces. Dani Rydjord ran the offense with 42 assist, added 20-for-20 serving with four aces and chipped in 16 digs. Rachel Lin chipped in seven kills, nine digs and two aces. Eryka Ferrer added 10 digs, served 8-for-8 and was perfect on her passing.

“I was very pleased with our fight back after being down two sets,” Solano head coach Darla Williams said in an email. “The team pulled it together to play a hardfought fourth and fifth set. This is a big win for power rankings. Santa Rosa is a tough college and very competitive.”

Solano will travel Monday to play another nonconference match at Shasta College.

The Falcons return Friday to host Men docino College.

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defense, Jimmy Garop polo and Jeff Wilson Jr. Those should also be Sunday’s key factors. Here are some keys to this matchup:

Turning a corner

Losing cornerback Emmanuel Moseley to an anterior cruciate ligament tear was remi niscent of Jason Verrett’s last season: Yes, on syn thetic grass, but also on the opening game of a 10-day road trip that led to sullen words about losing a well-liked leader.

This cornerback corps is deeper than last year’s. With newcomer Char varius Ward comfortable saying he’s “CB1” – and deservingly so – the 49ers must turn to one of their young, some what untested draft picks to replace Moseley, at least until Verrett’s ACL comeback is cleared, which isn’t likely for this game.

Deommodore Lenoir is up for that challenge, after being targeted a lot in Carolina. “I like that. I get to show my ball skills, my instincts and that I can make plays,” said Lenoir, who’s following his mentor Richard Sher man’s advice to evoke “supreme confidence.”

If not Lenoir, then the 49ers could turn to Sam Womack III, Ambry Thomas, Qwuantrezz Knight and, perhaps, veteran Dontae Johnson.

Offensive hot streak

This is the game George Kittle goes big (see: over 50 yards for the first time this season). This is the game Brandon Aiyuk or Deebo Samuel or both eclipse 100 yards. This is the game Jauan Jennings gets the ball

in his hands more, as Garoppolo suggested after last game.

Look, the 49ers want to run more than pass. That said, it would serve them well to parlay last week’s offensive outburst and get as many offen sive weapons involved.

Why? Because of what looms next Sunday at Levi’s Stadium: a poten tial shootout against the NFL’s No. 1-scoring team, the Kansas City Chiefs.

The 49ers kept their humility in check this past week by saying they could have scored more in Carolina than 37 points (actually 30 if you don’t count Moseley’s pick-six).

Second-line action

Defensive tackles Arik Armstead (feet, ankle) and Javon Kinlaw (knee) remain out, and with Nick Bosa (groin) ailing but possibly playing, the 49ers’ depth must come through and get through to Marcus Mariota.

Bring on the “B” team! Inside will be Kevin Givens and Hassan Ridgeway, with likely cameos from Charles Omenihu and Kerry Hyder Jr., that latter pair of veterans also helping on the edge rush.

Those ends, includ ing Samson Ebukam and Drake Jackson, must stay on task and not allow Mariota (or the Falcons’

running backs) to bounce outside. Mariota was sacked five times in last Sunday’s loss to the Bucs, and he ranks just 30th in completing 57 percent of his passes.

The 49ers beat Mariota in his only other appearance against them: December 2017, in Garoppolo’s first start at Levi’s Stadium when Mariota was with the Titans.

Keep Jimmy clean

Grady Jarrett deliv ered one of the NFL’s most controversial plays this season when a sack of Tom Brady resulted in an unnecessary rough ness call, for merely wrapping Brady up and rolling him to the ground.

Garoppolo, Brady’s former understudy with the Patriots, took notice of the Falcons’ “very dis ciplined” defense. “It starts with Grady Jarrett up front. He’s a wrecker in the run game and pass game,” Garoppolo said.

LBs must rule 49ers lineback ers Fred Warner and Dre Greenlaw. Or, shall we say Greenlaw first because he leads the team with 49 tackles to Warner’s 34? Regardless, they’re again emerg ing as the 49ers’ best duo since Patrick Willis and NaVorro Bowman.

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How to carve a pumpkin like a pro . . . with tips from an actual pro

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PHILADELPHIA — Have you ever seen a piece of art and thought, “I could totally do that –and better”?

That’s what David Mor genstern realized when searching for pumpkin carving inspiration online 16 years ago. Now, Morganstern runs Stoneykins, where he sells custom-made intri cate jack o’lanterns and design stencils, while also running a Facebook hotline to answer pumpkin carving questions.

Morgenstern, who attended the Art Institute of Philadelphia, hails from South Philly. He is winner of the 2013 Pumpkin Masters Online Carving contest and the 2021 Great Pumpkin Carve in Chadds Ford. He’s known for his intricate, detailed pieces, with carvings for the NFL and Rolling Stone Maga zine among others.

It’s in the basement of his home, where Morgenstern has his lab oratory of tools, tricks and pumpkins to build his creations. Upstairs in his office – filled with more (creepy and friendly) pumpkins – he designs carving patterns and answers the questions of amateur and pro pumpkin carvers around the world.

“I have a year’s worth of work in two months,” he said about the fall season. “One day, I’ll get no orders. One day, I’ll get 25 from the same person.”

Through trial and error, Morgenstern devel oped two jack o’lantern carving methods – for carvings of the Joker to

the gates of Hell – which he shares below.

What tools you’ll need to carve a pumpkin

“The tools are the key,” Morgenstern said, and can make the pumpkin carving process seamless. Find all you need online or at local craft stores.

n Sharpie pen

n Serrated spoon or large spoon

n Large washable glue stick

n Printed designs or stencils (Stoneykins has plenty to choose from.)

n Sheetrock saw n Art transfer paper (Morgenstern recom mends the white Saral paper.)

n Pumpkin carving saw (Morgenstern recommends a Warren Pro.)

n Ceramic loop tool, pear-shaped

n X-Acto knife blade No. 2, with No. 15 keyhole

n Speedball Lino set (Only V and U nibs needed.)

n Clay ribbon tool (This is for final cleanup

of a shaded carving.)

Pro-tip: You’ll also want a pot

Before you begin, place your pumpkin on a pot for ease of carving. Be sure to find one with a rim size that’s just a bit smaller than the pumpkin you’re carving so that it sits nice and snug.

“If you’re putting it on the table by itself without the pot, then you’re con stantly angling it and holding it,” Morgenstern explained. “If you put it on a pot, then both your hands are free.”

1. Cut a hole for the lid

Using your Sharpie pen, outline a carving path at the top of the pumpkin for your lid – the stem will be your handle.

When carving the lid, be sure the Sheetrock Saw is at a 45 degree angle.

“If I was cutting straight, the lid would fall in the pumpkin,” he said. “So if you do it at an angle, it will have a bevel edge.”

Pro-tip: When cutting out the lid, skip the

seemingly obvious circle. Outline a little pumpkin instead – the “stem” of your outline will let you easily place the pumpkin’s top back on later, so you don’t have to adjust the lid until it’s flush.

Cut off the access on the lid for a clean top.

2. Gut your pumpkin

Gut the pumpkin with a serrated or large spoon. Then, use a pear-shaped ceramic loop tool to scrape the excess and thin the pumpkin walls.

Be sure to make the front wall – where your design will be carved –even thinner by about ¾ of an inch. (More on how to gauge the wall’s thickness in the next step.)

3. The glue stick method

Smear a washable glue stick on the back of a printed cut-out design. (Print the designs on sticker paper to skip the glue, if you’re okay spend ing a bit more money.)

Cut slits on the sides of the pattern for the

design to line up with the curves and groves of the pumpkin.

Stick the pattern on the pumpkin and overlap those slits for a nice fit. Smooth out wrinkles.

“Wherever you see grooves of the pumpkin, you wanna get your finger and put that pattern right in the groove,” he shared.

“It only takes a little to make (the pattern) flush.”

Wait about 5 to 10 minutes for the glue to dry. Then, carve right through the pattern with a No. 2 X-Acto Handle with No. 15 keyhole saw blades.

Be sure to test the thin ness of the pumpkin wall with the blade – if most of the blade comes through, you’re all set. (Scrape the wall a bit more till the blade is clearly visible.)

Saw in a continuous motion for quick carving. Move the blade up-anddown without removing it from the pumpkin. Adjust the pumpkin as you carve for the best leverage.

After carving, soak the pumpkin to remove the printed design and excess glue – the paper will fall right off. Scrub off any remaining glue residue.

. . . Or try the transfer method

Tape art transfer paper (white works best) on the pumpkin. Place your printed design on top and use a pen to outline the pattern. Then carve the outline with the Speedball Lino, V nib.

Use the Speedball Lino, U nib for everything in between the outline.

Smooth out ridges with a clay ribbon tool. These

tools allow you to easily scrape and design on the pumpkin skin.

This method works best for carving shaded or three-color patterns.

“The pattern is a neg ative image, but when you carve it and light it, it becomes a positive,” Mor genstern said.

4. How to keep your jack o’lantern alive longer

Pumpkins, like humans, need to stay hydrated, Mor genstern said.

To make it last, dunk the pumpkin in water with bleach after carving –just in and out. For every gallon of water, add four tablespoons of bleach. Get the scented bleach if you wanna get fancy with it.

“It stops mold and mildew,” he shared. “Your pumpkin’s (going to) last longer – it’ll give you like two weeks.”

And to keep squir rels from snacking on your pumpkin, dampen the pumpkin and sprinkle paprika on it.

“They don’t like the taste of it – they’ll take a lick and say goodbye,” he said.

Final pro-tips for some festive fun: Christmas lights are best for light ing a jack o’lantern. But if you’re using a real candle, make sure you have a hole for venting.

Morgenstern’s pro tip: Sprinkle some cinnamon powder on the inside of the lid. The candle will “cook” the spice and your jack o’lantern will smell like pumpkin pie.

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/s/TanikaRechelleHopkins INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVID EDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONSeptember27,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: September28,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001661 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00058309 Published:October2,9,16,23,2022

THE

LOCATEDAT2010-AHarbisonDrive,VacavilleCA95687Solano.Mailingaddress 2010-AHarbisonDrive,VacavilleCA 95687.AREHEREBYREGISTEREDBY THEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)TobyC Lanzarin29PhillipsDriveVacaville, 95688-87.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual

Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/TobyC.Lanzarin INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONOctober11,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: October12,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001738 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00058654 Published:Oct.16,23,30Nov.6,2022

THE

LOCATEDAT935TexasSt,FairfieldCA 94533Solano.MailingAddress2068 ResedaWay,AntiochCA94509.ARE HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)CarsoInvestments LLCCA.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: aLimitedLiabilityCompany

Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveonN /A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/CarlosGonzalez-President

INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONSeptember27,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: September28,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001667 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00058318 Published:October2,9,16,23,2022

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LOCATEDAT888RubyDrive,Vacaville, CA95687Solano.MailingAddress888 RubyDrive,Vacaville,CA95687.ARE HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)SierraMarquez888 RubyDriveVacaville,95687.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual

Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslisted aboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/SierraMarquez INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS

FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER.

ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE

THEEXPIRATIONSeptember6,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONS CODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: September7,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001548 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00058100 Published:Sept.25Oct.2,9,16,2022

LOCATEDAT400BuckeyeSt,Vacaville, CA95688Solano.MailingAddress400 BuckeyeSt,Vacaville,CA95688.ARE HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)JulioCesarHernandezGonzalez400BuckeyeStVacaville, 95688.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual

Theregistrantcommencedtotransact bus inessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/JulioCesarHernandezGonzalez INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASP ROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONSeptember27,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: September28,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001668 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00058326 Published:October2,9,16,23,2022

PUBLICNOTICE

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS)

IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS ABERNATHY LANE

LOCATEDAT2842AndrewsLane, SuisunValley94534Solano.MailingAddress34RamonSt,Sonoma,CA954765418.AREHEREBYREGISTEREDBY THEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)Andrews Vineyards,LLCCA.THISBUSINESSIS CONDUCTEDBY: aLimitedLiabilityCompany Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveo n 08/26/2022. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/JeffreyAndrewsOwner INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONSeptember11,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: September12,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001573 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00058098 Published:Sept.25Oct.2,9,16,2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS)

IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS MAD ALPACA GAMES LOCATEDAT1325GatewayBlvdSteC2,Fairfield,CA94533Solano.MailingAddress1325GatewayBlvdSteC-2,Fairfield,CA94533.AREHEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)TZODGamesLLCCA.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: aLimitedLiabilityCompany Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornam eslistedaboveon 09/14/2002. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/ZacharyBaileyMember INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONSeptember14,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: September15,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001588 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00058118 Published:Sept.25Oct.2,9,16,2022

NOTICEISHEREBYGIVENthattheSolanoCounty

FishandWildlifePropagationFundwillbeacceptingapplicationsbeginningOctober3 2022forthe2022/2023grantawards

Todownloadanapplication,gotowww.solanocounty.com/parks,andclickonthe“Fish andWildlifePropagationFundGrants”linkintheOptionsbar.

ORContact:ChrisDrake,(707)784-6765 crdrake@solanocounty.com

DeadlinetosubmitapplicationisWednesday,November2,2022at5:00p.m.

DR#00058057 Published:October2,16,30,2022

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

ROBERT ALLEN FITZER, II Case Number: P051706

Toallheirs,beneficiaries,creditors,contingentcreditors,andpersonswhomay otherwisebeinterestedinthewillorestate,orboth,of: Robert Allen Fitzer, II

APetitionforProbatehasbeenfiledby: Robert Fitzer, III intheSuperiorCourtofCalifornia,County of: Solano

ThePetitionforProbaterequeststhat: Robert Fitzer, III beappointedaspersona lrepresentative toadministertheestateofthedecedent. ThepetitionrequestsauthoritytoadministertheestateundertheIndependentAdministrationofEstatesAct.(Thisauthority willallowthepersonalrepresentativeto takemanyactionswithoutobtainingcourt approval.Beforetakingcertainveryimportantactions,however,thepersonal representativewillberequiredtogivenoticetointerestedpersonsunlessthey havewaivednoticeorconsentedt othe proposedaction.)Theindependentadministrationauthoritywillbegrantedunless aninterestedpersonfilesanobjectionto thepetitionandshowsgoodcausewhy thecourtshouldnotgranttheauthority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

DATE: NOV. 9, 2022 TIME: 9:00 a.m. DEPT.: 22

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street, Fairfield, CA 94533

If you object tothegrantingofthepetition,youshouldappearatthehearingand stateyourobjectionsorfilewrittenobjectionswiththecourtbeforethehearing. Yourappearancemaybeinpersonorby yourattorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, youmustfileyourclaimwiththecourtand mailacopytothepersonalrepresentative appointedbythecourtwithinthe later of either(1)four months fromthedateof firstissuanceofletterstoageneralpersonalrepresentative,asdefinedinsection58(b)oftheCaliforniaProbateCode, or(2) 60 days fromthedateofmailingor personaldeliverytoyouofanoticeunder section9052oftheCaliforniaProbate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may wantto consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court.Ifyouareapersoninterestedinthe estate,youmayfilewiththecourtaRequestforSpecialNotice(formDE-154)of thefilingofaninventoryandappraisalof estateassetsorofanypetitionoraccount asprovidedinProbateCodesection 1250.ARequestforSpecialNoticeformis availablefromthecourtclerk.

AttorneyforPetitioner: ThomasG.Martin,Esq. 111W.OceanBlvd.,4thFloor LongBeach,CA90802 562-219-3290 DR#00058663

Published:October16,19,23,2022

NOTICES

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS)

IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS DIY MUNECA STYLE

LOCATEDAT10254thStreet,Fairfield, CA94533Solano.MailingAddress860 FernbrookCt,Vacaville,CA95687.ARE HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)MichelleSamayoa 10254thStreetFairfield,94533.THIS BUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornames listedaboveon 01/01/2022. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/MichelleSamayoa INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONOctober4,2027.

THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: October5,2022

NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001703 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00058483 Published:October9,16,23,30,2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS)

IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS COLD STONE OF VACAVILLE, COLDSTONE CREAMERY VACAVILLE, CSC VACAVILLE

LOCATEDAT2091B-1HarbisonDr.,VacavilleCA95687Solano.MailingAddress 131TerrazzoLane,AmericanCanyonCA 94503.AREHEREBYREGISTEREDBY

THEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)D&RLim Inc.CA.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: aCorporation

Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthe fictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/DennisLim-President INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONOctober4,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: October5,2022

NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001705 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00058484 Published:October9,16,23,30,2022

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