Daily Republic: Sunday, November 21, 2022

CHP reports 2 dead after crash in Suisun Valley

Incident comes a day after 1 dies in

head-on collision in Rio Vista

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SUISUN VALLEY —

A crash after dark Friday on Suisun Valley Road left two people dead –one a preteen – and shut down a stretch of the rural roadway well into the night.

Authorities are inves tigating whether alcohol may have contributed to the incident that involved three vehicles.

The crash was reported shortly after 6:05 p.m. near Morrison Lane.

Initial reports Friday from the California Highway Patrol indi

cate two vehicles – a sedan and an SUV – col lided, leaving a four-door Honda sedan with major damage. A coroner was soon called to the scene. An update Saturday from the CHP provided addi tional details.

A Mazda was trav eling south on Suisun Valley Road, south of Morrison Lane, when it left the southbound lane and hit a Honda traveling in the northbound lane, the CHP reports. The Mazda continued south, left the roadway and hit a tree. The Mazda then veered to the right where

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Harvest Festival welcomes families to Rush Ranch

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SUISUN MARSH —

The sun warmed visitors Saturday while the wind took their breath away at the second annual Rush Ranch Harvest Festival.

“This was the first event we did after coming out of lockdown last year,” said Diana Holokahi, engagement specialist for Solano Land Trust. “In April we have been doing the Rush Ranch Open House and now in Novem

ber we will be doing the Harvest Festival.”

Rush Ranch is owned by the Solano Land Trust, which purchased the property in 1988. The ranch is nestled 2 miles south of Highway 12 on Grizzly Island Road on the fringe of the Suisun Marsh.

The ranch has several historical buildings, including barns with barn owls and bats. It also offers an opportu nity for self-guided trail

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FAIRFIELD — The Battle of the Bands Tourna ment of Champions landed in a new venue this year with the Rodriguez High School Entertainment Unit hosting the annual tourna ment for the first time.

“Everything is pretty much the same as before,” said Scott Miller, direc tor of music for Rodriguez High School.

The event was relocated because of construction at perennial host Fairfield High School.

“We will be hosting the event for at least the next two years,” Miller said.

This is the 32nd year for the beloved tournament, which brings together hun dreds of students from across the state. The Scarlet Brigade at Fair field High School usually hosts the event each year. The event didn’t take place in 2018 because of nearby wildfires and in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Thirty schools were spread out all over the Fairfield campus last year, but this year the number was up to 34 schools with several returning after a hiatus because of the pandemic.

There were 76 competi tion times on the schedule throughout the day.

“We started at about 5 a.m. and will finish the day at around 11 p.m.,” Miller said.

Alumni came from far and wide to support the Rodriguez High School Entertainment Unit and the Rodriguez Music Boosters Club.

“That was a real sur prise,” Miller said. “They have a tent for the day.”

Devyn Gourdine flew in from New Mexico to help out. The Rodriguez alumnus of the Class of 2008 now serves in the U.S. Air Force.

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Jennifer Smetzer, left, and her 2-year-old granddaughter, Luna Hernandez,

the corn husk dolls during the Rush Ranch Harvest Festival, Saturday.

Ranking Thanksgiving foods, from potatoes to the best of the day

America’s greatest meal happens this week: Thanks giving dinner. Whether you’re commemorating the holiday alone, with friends, with families or oth erwise, you’re participating in a uniquely American ritual. There are very few things that remain largely unchanged from decades ago, but this is one: A big meal on a day devoted to expressing thankfulness, eaten after football games.

As we prepare for America’s meal, it seems appropriate to rank Thanksgiving foods, since I rank every thing else (household furniture, fruits, office supplies, Christmas songs, minor U.S. holi days, etc.).

Here are the top eight Thanksgiving foods, in reverse order (and yes, I realize this is a list of traditional foods. I’m not trying to insult the spe cialty food that your family consumes):

8. Mashed potatoes. Not this high on my per sonal list (partly because I’m a Type 1 diabetic and mashed potatoes are pure carbohydrates), but a favorite of Mrs. Brad’s, which influences my list. Adding gravy helps, although gravy has such a wide range of possible outcomes, it’s dicey.

7. Sweet potatoes/ yams. They may be the same thing or differ ent things, but I don’t want to waste keystrokes on Google to find out. Does anyone eat these any other time but on Thanksgiving? Not at my house. Grocery stores probably carry them year-round, but they drop those 29-ounce cans Nov. 1, because they’re a Thanksgiving treat. Another favorite of Mrs. Brad.

6. Rolls. Fifty years ago, rolls were a part of most regular dinner rotations, but now they seem to be food for special days only. Rolls –even generic white bread rolls – seem like the perfect counterpoint to other Thanksgiving food. An island of normality in a sea of uniqueness.

5. Cranberries/cran berry sauce. The perfect topping for turkey, but

have you ever eaten cran berries by themselves? Not so great. Which makes the combination of cranber ries and turkey even more remarkable.

4. Pre-meal snacks. An upset! You probably don’t have this on your list, but most of us have rituals for Thanksgiving (for a majority of Americans, that means watching football. The Lions in the morning, the Cowboys in the afternoon). Since Thanksgiving dinner usually happens midaft ernoon (if you’re normal, like me), lunch is com promised. Which means snacks. Tostitos or lumpia or deviled eggs or whatever you eat. Whatever it is that builds a bridge from breakfast to the big Thanksgiving dinner, it’s usually good.

3. Stuffing/dressing. These may be different things, but like yams/ sweet potatoes, I didn’t want to waste keystrokes on Google to learn the difference. This might be the best-tasting Thanks giving food. If I go for seconds (OK, when I go for seconds), I will always get stuffing. Or dressing. Whatever.

2. Pumpkin pie. The Scottie Pippen of Thanksgiving food (Michael Jordan is coming next). We all seem to like pumpkin pie, yet we rarely eat it other than on Thanks giving, so is it possible pumpkin pie is a victim of its own success? Is it so tied to Thanksgiving that it is otherwise over looked? This selection includes whipped cream. They go together.

1. Turkey. The Michael Jordan of Thanksgiving food. Even vegans acknowl edge this, because they’ll digest some sort of mock turkey this week. They’ll use the word turkey Turkey isn’t the great est meat. It’s not even the greatest fowl. But it’s spectacular at Thanks giving, which is the only time all year many of us eat a regular turkey. It’s No. 1 on the list with reason.

Reach Brad Stanhope at bradstanhope@ outlook.com.

53 dogs survive a plane crash

Now you can adopt them

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Tony Wasielewski pulled crate after crate from the wreckage of a plane that was supposed to carry 53 rescue dogs from New Orleans to Wauke sha, Wis., on Tuesday morning. Instead, it crashlanded on a snow-covered golf course just outside of Milwaukee.

As the deputy fire chief went to grab yet another crate, one of the rescues –roaming the fuselage after freeing herself during the crash – leaped into his arms and slathered him with kisses.

Wasielewski, 47, didn’t know it yet, but less than 48 hours after leaving the crash site, he would welcome that dog into his family.

It all started around 9 a.m. Tuesday when several employees at the Western Lakes Golf Club in Pewaukee, Wis., watched a twin engine tur boprop airplane crash onto the green of the fifth hole, Jason Hoelz, the club’s general manager, told the Milwaukee Journal Sen tinel. The plane then shot through some trees – snap ping off the wings – before plowing through a marsh, skidding across the second hole fairway and ramming into a tree on hole No. 3, where it came to rest.

“This was a relatively catastrophic landing,” Matthew Haerter, assis tant chief at Lake Country Fire and Rescue, said Tuesday at a news con ference, just hours after it happened.

Everyone and every dog aboard the plane sur vived, although all three of the people and some of the pups suffered minor injuries. About 300 gallons of jet fuel spilled onto the golf course and into a marsh, triggering cleanup efforts from the state Department of Natural Resources, Haerter said.

For now, it’s unclear what caused the crash. The Federal Aviation Admin istration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.

Upon collision, golf course employees rushed to the wreckage, pulling the pilot, co-pilot and another person from the plane before offloading the dog crates. When firefight ers arrived, the employees used golf carts to ferry them to the crash site.

Maggie Tate-Techt mann, a director for the

states to shelters in the Waukesha region. TateTechtmann said they usually organize two such trips a month, although most are done by van.

On Tuesday morning, HAWS had assembled a large team of employ ees and volunteers at the Waukesha County Airport to welcome the incoming dogs discombobulated by a roughly 1,000-mile trip. Learning about the crash, they scrambled to the golf course, about six miles away. Once there, staff veterinarians examined all of the dogs and relayed 21 of them to HAWS and the rest to other shel ters in the area, as had been the plan.

“It is a lot of just com forting them and caring for them,” Tate-Techt mann said at Tuesday’s news conference. “Every

money to “help cover the unforeseen medical and other costs that resulted from the incident.” By Thursday afternoon, they’d raised more than $6,500, surpassing their goal of $5,000.

On Wednesday, the shelter started adopting out seven of the 53 dogs “that we’re now affection ately calling the Western Lakes Loves.” By the end of Thursday, they had upped that number to 19, Tate-Techtmann said.

“It is very remark able that all of them are doing as well as they are,” she added.

At least one has already found a home: Wasielewski’s.

But it took a minute. After the anonymous pooch thrust herself into the deputy chief’s arms and licked him, he held

her for a bit. But then Wasielewski handed her off to continue his work pulling crates from the wreckage and carrying them to HAWS vehicles.

About an hour later, Wasielewski saw the dog again. This time, someone was walking her near the golf club’s maintenance shed to the HAWS vans. She spotted him and tried to come over.

That was the first time the thought popped into his head: “Uh-oh, I might be getting another dog.”

Wasielewski said his wife had wanted another to join the two they already had at home.

After working the plane crash, Wasielewski went home and told the story about the nameless dog to his wife, who went online to help him identify her. They made a Wednesday appointment at HAWS, where workers retrieved the dog he now knew was named CeeCee.

“As soon as the lady opened up the door, she bypassed my wife, jumped in my arms and started giving me kisses,” Wasielewski said.

He teared up.

“It was over,” he said.

He adopted CeeCee, renaming her after his favorite reggae musi cian. Marley has since joined her two new sisters: Minka, an 11-year-old yellow Lab, and Maci, an 8-year-old Cane Corso mix.

“They’ve basically taken her in like she’s one of them. It’s actually mind-boggling how she’s getting along with every one,” Wasielewski said.

“It’s like she’s lived here for years.”

Brad Stanhope Like I was sayin’

Photo courtesy of Humane Animal Welfare Society An employee of the Western Lakes Golf Club holds one of the 53 rescue dogs pulled from the wreckage of a plane that crash-landed on the club’s golf course in Pewaukee, Wis., Tuesday.

a tick higher in October than in September

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FAIRFIELD — The

Solano County job base grew by 1,800 jobs in October, but the unem ployment rate rose ever so slightly to 3.9%.

That compares to 3.8% in September, the Labor Market Division of the state Employment Devel opment Department reported Friday.

Educational and Health Services in the private sector and government

jobs each added 600 jobs to the local count, which went from 139,400 jobs in September to 141,200.

State and local education, split with 300 jobs apiece, accounted for the gov ernment increases, the EDD reported.

Retail outlets and the Leisure and Hospital ity sector each added 300 jobs while construc tion was up 200.

The farm sector held at 1,900 jobs.

Overall, however, there were 200 fewer Solano

County residents working and 200 more seeking unemployment benefits, the EDD reported.

The civilian workforce dropped from 201,600 to 201,500, while the number of residents employed in October was reported at 193,700 and the number of residents seeking unem ployment was at 7,900, the EDD reported.

The county unem ployment rate in October 2021 was at 6%.

The state jobless rate also rose slightly, from

Fairfield police post stops for Santa in December

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FAIRFIELD — The Police Department Santa returns this year with appearances around town beginning Dec. 2.

“Every night, we’ll post Santa’s schedule to our Facebook and Instagram pages (@FairfieldPolice) so you can track his journey, and we encour age you to tag us in your photos using the hashtag #FFPDSanta,” the depart ment said in a statement.

Santa’s schedule includes these stops:

n Dec. 2: Crowley Lane, Park Lane, Ken tucky Street Pocket Park (1700 block), Fairview Elementary School, and Linear Trail at Second Street.

n Dec. 3: 1220 Dana Drive, Tabor Avenue at Bristol Lane, Peach Tree Drive at Peach Tree Court, 100 Tabor Ave., and

Plumber plans to give away turkeys

VACAVILLE — Marin County-based plumber Peter Levi will give away turkeys in Vacaville on Tuesday as part of his 10th year of providing the holiday bird to fami lies in need.

“Levi has held a turkey drive for the last 10 years and has been able to provide 3,500 holiday meals to local families –with another 500 to come this month,” according to a statement released by Peter Levi Plumbing.

The giveaway will begin at 6 p.m. at Orchard Avenue Baptist Church, 301 N. Orchard Ave.

Travion Court.

n Dec. 9: 1350 Phoenix Drive, Flamingo Drive at Wren Court, San Marco Street Pocket Park (400 block), and 313 E. Tabor Ave. (rear parking lot).

n Dec. 10: Laurel Creek Park, Villa Court, Grande Circle (1950 area), and Santa Ana Court.

n Dec. 16: Woodcreek Park, Mankas Park, Meadow Glenn Park, and Rolling Hills Elementary School.

n Dec. 17: Nelda Mundy Elementary School, Oakbrook Elemen tary, Cordelia Community Park, Cordelia Hills Ele mentary.

3.7% to 3.8%, and the national rate went from 3.3% to 3.4%, the EDD reported. Those rates in October 2021 were 5.8% and 4.3%, respectively.

Solano ranked 30th among the state’s 58 counties, with San Mateo having the lowest jobless rate at 2% and Imperial County having the highest at 16.2%.

Solano had the highest rate among the nine Bay Area counties. The next closest was Contra Costa County at 3.2%.

Participants deem Vacaville’s newest seasonal craft fair a roaring success

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VACAVILLE — Brooke Fox has done hundreds of events for the city but has never orchestrated her own craft fair. She recently started her own business, UptownFox. This was the first crafty Christmas fair for the new business.

The inaugural Very Merry Holiday Craft and Gift Fair kicked off Sat urday with 50 vendors and several food trucks.

“I love gift events,” Fox said. “I’ll do anything for the community.”

Fox found herself between events and decided to give a craft fair a try.

“I knew plenty of vendors and I felt like I needed to personally con tribute something to the community,” she said.

Fox had to get some help, though. Her husband got drafted into being her assistant.

“We went out and looked for new vendors from various craft fairs,” Kurt Gellersted, her husband/assistant, said.

Finding a venue for the event was a big question mark at the beginning, but a few friends at the city’s Parks and Recreation Depart ment told her about the parking lot at the Ulatis Community Center.

“It was perfect,” Brooke Fox said. “There is so much space here to

work with.”

So Fox decided this weekend would be a test to see how it all would work.

“The weather even cooperated. It’s not too hot, or windy, and no rain in sight,” she said.

Katie Marie Becker of Vacaville said she was thrilled to be able to share her new busi ness, Katie Marie’s Bags, with visitors.

She recently started her own nonprofit orga nization designed to give backpacks to hospitals and shelters.

Becker has been dealing with some serious and frightening health issues, landing in the hospital 26 times this past year.

“They have no idea what is wrong with me,” she said.

It got to the point Becker just put a bag

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The Fairfield Police Department Santa returns this year with appearances around town beginning Dec. 2.

Susan Hiland/Daily Republic A total of 50 vendors set up shop at the Very Merry Holiday Craft and Gift Fair in Vacaville, Saturday.

Deborah Corinne Newcomb Dec. 24, 1952 — Nov. 12, 2022

Deborah Corinne (Browning) Newcomb, 69, passed away Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022, surrounded by family.

Debbie was born Dec. 24, 1952, in Fair field, California, to Max and Mary Jane Browning, the oldest daughter of three children.

She met her future husband, Randy, in Fairfield and they dated for five years. They married in Reno, Nevada, on April 27, 1974, and raised their two children in Fairfield for several years, before settling in Winters in 1989. They were married for 45 years when Randy passed away in 2019.

Debbie worked for over 30 years with the state of Califor nia, the majority of those years as a Case Records Special ist in Sacramento and Vacaville. She enjoyed lunch dates with friends, family fishing and camping trips, and spending time at their cabin in the Mount Shasta Forest. Debbie was a compassionate person who loved helping those in need, and especially loved animals.

Debbie is survived by her daughter, Kelli Rivera and husband, Rikki; son, James Newcomb and wife, Alicia; sister, Leslie Hartman and husband, Bill; brother, Kevin Browning and wife, Mary; and grandchildren, Mayce, Kennedy and Easton.

Debbie was preceded in death by her parents, Max and Mary Jane Browning; and her husband, Randy.

Friends and family are invited to a funeral service at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, at Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 1850 W. Texas St., Fairfield, California.

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

Our precious mother, June Louise Price, passed into the loving arms of God on Nov. 10, 2022, at the age of 99.

She died peace fully and in grace surrounded by her four children, Thais O’Shea, Carol Riv endell, Catherine (Tom) Bors and John (Annette) Price. She also leaves behind nine grandchildren; 16 great-grandchil dren; and one greatgreat-grandchild.

She was a lifelong resi dent of Fairfield, California. She graduated from Armijo High School in 1940.

In 1942, she married the love of her life, William (Bill). They were happily married for 74 years before Bill died in 2016 at the age of 94.

Both loved nature and together they built a cabin in Bartlett Canyon where they created many happy family memories.

We are all grateful for her abounding love and affec tion, which she displayed

in things large and small. From the meals she cooked, the clothes she sewed, the books she read to us, the endless hugs and smiles, every thing was done with abiding tenderness and devotion.

June was also a woman of great faith and an active member of Holy Spirit Catholic Church community her entire life. She brightened all our lives and she will be greatly missed.

Friends are invited to say goodbye to June at a Mass at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, at Holy Spirit Church, 1070 N. Texas St., Fairfield, California.

The following interment will be private.

In lieu of flowers, please donate in June’s name to Sisters of the Holy Faith, 12322 S. Paramount Blvd., Downey, CA 90242.

Arrangements under the care of Fairfield Funeral Home, 707-425-1041.

Adam Paul Ruffer

Oct. 3, 1978 — Oct. 27, 2022

Adam Paul Ruffer, 44, passed away Oct. 27, 2022. He was born Oct. 3, 1978, in Vallejo, California, to Donna (Williams) Ruffer and the late, James Ruffer.

Adam was a graduate of Fairfield High School, Class of 1997. During high school he was a member of the Scarlet Brigade Marching Band and marched in the Rose Parade in 1994.

Adam served in the U.S. Navy. He was a volunteer fire fighter for Fairfield Fire and Arvada, Colorado Fire depart ments. He was a paramedic and enjoyed shooting, snow boarding and dirt biking.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife of 12 years, Tiffany; children, Dustin, Scarlett, Evan, Jace and Makenna Ruffer; mother, Donna Ruffer; and brother, Ryan Ruffer.

Memories and condolences may be left for the family online at www.mfhcares.com.

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Assemblywoman plans food giveaway

VALLEJO — Assemblywoman Lori Wilson will host Operation Gobble Gobble this weekend.

Food boxes will be handed out to the first 500 families who attend. The event also is designed so people can talk to Wilson, D-Suisun City, about legislative matters.

The event will take place from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday at the Solano County Fairgrounds, 900 Fairgrounds Drive.

Wilson represents the 11th Assem bly District, which currently includes Fairfield, Suisun City, Vacaville, Rio Vista and the surrounding areas in central and southern Solano County. The newly configured 11th District, which, based on unofficial results of the Nov. 8 election, Wilson will also represent, includes all of Solano County.

For more information, call 916-319-2011.

Suisun waterfront board sets session via Zoom

SUISUN CITY — Restaurant Week and Christ mas activities will be discussed Monday at the Historic Waterfront Business Improvement District board meeting.

Restaurant Week is Jan. 13-22.

Also on the agenda is consideration of the year-end report and budget.

The online meeting starts at 5 p.m. and may be accessed at https://zoom.us/join. The Webinar ID is 816 2478 0180. Or the public may call in at 707-438-1720.

A full agenda for the meeting is available at https:// www.suisun.com/business-improvement-district.

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FAIRFIELD — State tax revenue from the can nabis industry dropped in the third quarter of 2022.

The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration reported the excise tax ($128.4 million) and the sales tax ($113.6 million) totaled $242 million. That compared to the revised

number of $299.8 million in the second quarter.

“Since January 2018, total cannabis tax revenue to date is $4.4 billion, including $2.2 billion in cannabis excise tax, and $1.7 billion in sales tax. That total also includes $500.3 million in cul tivation tax,” the agency reported.

However, since July – the start of the third quarter – the state

no longer collects cul tivation tax, the agency reported. The tax revenue in the third quarter of 2021, for example, was $322.34million–$80million more than in 2022.

Nor do the state numbers include taxes generated at the local levels: cities and counties.

One Suisun City resi dent told the City Council on Tuesday that taxes gen erated by the pot retailers

should be placed in a special fund to help with the city’s beautification efforts. The city has put that figure at $2 million once all the new cannabis shops are open.

Additional cannabis tax revenue data is available at https:// cdtfa.ca.gov/data portal/dataset. htm?url=Cannabis TaxRevenues.

Council honors Rio Vista city worker for dockside rescue

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RIO VISTA — Tom Havens is a modest guy. In spite of his command ing stature, one could see him blush as folks sur rounded him Tuesday in the City Council chamber. People came to see Havens feted by the City Council for what hap pened early this month.

Havens is a city employee who, while checking some city equipment at City Hall at approximately 1 p.m. Nov. 1, heard cries for help coming from the floating dock at the end of Main Street. He quickly

went to the dock and saw a man hanging onto the dock, yelling for help. The man somehow fell in and didn’t know how to swim.

Acting quickly, Havens pulled the man from the water. After assuring Havens he was OK, the soaking wet man got into his car, which was parked in front of City Hall. Havens asked the fellow if he wanted a sweatshirt that he had in his truck, which the shiv ering man refused.

When asked about the event, Haven said, “He looked at me and started tearing up and said, ‘You saved my life.’ You know, I volunteered for the Rio

Vista Fire Department about 20 years ago or so. I helped a lot of people and I saw a lot of things, but I never felt the way I felt that day.” When asked if the man reached out to him after the harrow ing event, Havens replied with a smile: “You know . . . he hasn’t.”

The City Council pre sented Havens with a Life Saving Commen dation and a Certificate of Recognition, which read, in part: “Let it be known by all that on Nov. 1st at approx imately 1 p.m., Mr. Tom Havens was checking city equipment in front of Rio Vista City Hall, when

he heard a call for help. Checking the area, he saw hands clinging to the city dock. He ran to the dock and pulled the man out of the water and saved him.”

The commendation notes Havens’ “swift action resulting in the saving of a human life” and extends the city’s “sincerest appreciation.”

Those present Tuesday included Mayor Ronald Kott and Vice Mayor Rick Dolk; City Council members Walt Stanish, Robin Williams and Edwin Okamura; Chief of Police Jon Mazer and Fire Chief Jeff Arm strong; and Havens and his wife, Cindy.

Sustainable Solano looks to build network of home gardeners to support one another

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Dropping pot cultivation tax costs state millions in revenue In

FAIRFIELD — The Solano Gardens program is offering garden resources to Solano County communities “to create a network of home gardeners to support one another.”

“Solano Gardens is offering a limited number of chickens, chicken coops, beehives, vertical or container farming, and aquaponics kits to com munity gardens, with the hope that some of these

community gardens will eventually become ‘hubs’ around the county,” Sustainable Solano announced in a statement.

Sustainable Solano, in partnership with the Solano County Depart ment of Public Health, operates the Solano Gardens program.

“Hubs would demon strate different growing methods, host educational events and supplies give aways, and have kitchen space to prepare some of what is growing for

the community as part of education, sharing healthy food, and creating social enterprises,” the statement added.

Anyone interested in support for growing food at home can fill out a form at www.surveymonkey. com/r/ZVKVRH2.

“Sustainable Solano intends to increase incounty food production, supporting communi ties to grow and process

their own food and help eliminate food insecurity. Building com munity, health, wealth and systems of care that are culturally responsive are at the heart of these efforts,” the statement said. “Each garden design is unique to the commu nity it serves and is cared for by community cham pions passionate about sustainable food.”

June Louise Price June 1, 1923 — Nov. 10, 2022

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alex Reyes helps a customer during the soft opening for Embarc in Fairfield, Feb. 8.

Grand jury indicts Vaca felon on drug, firearm offenses

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VACAVILLE — A federal grand jury in Sacramento this week indicted a Vacaville man on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and manufacturing a con trolled substance.

The indictment was handed down Thursday and announced in a press release by U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California.

Charges against Robert Charles Crist, 56, stem from a police search exe cuted Sept. 20 at Crist’s home where, according to court documents cited in the press release, authori ties found a lab he used to manufacture N,N‑Dimeth yltryptamine, or “DMT,” a Schedule I con trolled substance.

Authorities suspect Crist traveled to Hawaii to obtain plant materials for manufacturing DMT, which he mailed back to California in order to turn the plant materials into a crystalline controlled sub stance, Talbert reports in the press release.

Officers also found Crist in possession of a firearm, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Crist is prohibited from possessing firearms because he has five prior felony convictions.

The Drug Enforcement Agency characterizes DMT as a hallucinogen. Its uses likely date back hundreds of years. The drug is associated with a number of religious prac tices and rituals. DMT is a naturally occurring sub stance in many species of plants. It is used in a number of South Amer ican snuffs and what the DEA describes as “brewed concoctions.”

A British chemist first produced DMT synthet ically in 1931, the DEA reports. The drug gained in popularity in the 1960s and was placed under federal control when the Controlled Substances Act was passed in 1971.

DMT is used illic itly for its psychoactive effects, the DEA reports. The intense effects and short duration of action are attractive to people who want the psychedelic experience but do not choose to experience the mind altering perceptions over an extended period of time as occurs with other hallucinogens like LSD, the DEA reports.

Crist faces a maximum statutory penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on the firearm count and a maximum of 20 years in prison if convicted for the manufacturing of a controlled substance count, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reports.

This case is the product of an investigation by the Drug Enforce ment Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; the U.S. Postal Inspection Service; and the Solano County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Sauvageau is pros ecuting the case.

International Bird Rescue hosts hikes to share their newly acquired habitat

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FAIRFIELD — International Bird Rescue has been awarded nearly 40 acres by the Pacific Flyway Fund in order to bring wildlife and environmental lit eracy to the next generation of advocates for nature.

The property has riparian and marsh habitat and is located just off Ramsey Road at the Gold Hills property. They will use this space to lead field trips for children under the project title “Cordelia Slough Youth Educa tion Program.”

Tours are scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 26 so visi tors can share the beauty of the lands and introduce children to the space.

The tour will take place 0.4 miles south of 3190 Ramsey Road. Look for flags at the site.

Nature walks will depart every 45 minutes.

The Cordelia Slough is part of the Pacific Flyway, a superhigh

way for migratory birds.

International Bird Rescue since 1971 has become a global conservation organization for birds in a changing world. They have responded to more than 250 oil spills and other wild life emergencies, caring for more than 160,000 birds on six continents, according to the orga nization’s website.

The organization, which has crisis response centers in Fairfield, Los Angeles and Anchor age, Alaska, specializes in emergency preparedness and response, day to day aquatic bird care and scientific research. Innovations are shared worldwide to inspire the next generation of wildlife specialists.

Bird Rescue aims to give a voice to waterbirds through con servation, advocacy and wildlife literacy that builds empathy and encourages action.

For more information, visit www.birdrescue.org.

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International Bird Rescue Center volunteers released 24 birds at Fort Baker, in Marin County, Jan. 27, 2015.

SolTrans announces holiday schedule changes

VALLEJO — Solano County Transit will begin its holiday schedule Dec. 4.

SolTrans SolanoExpress and local routes will not operate Thanksgiving Day, and the will be on a Saturday schedule for the day after.

SolTrans school Trippers Routes 15, 17 and 38 and Solano Express Green Line and Route 82 will not operate. Regular service resumes that Saturday. Most of the holiday

schedule changes affect the SolanoExpress Blue, Red, Yellow Lines, and the Sol Trans Local Route, 7A.

n SolanoExpress Blue Line will have small sched uling adjustments to reduce the midday gap for travel within Solano County.

n SolanoExpress Red Line will now have a.m. and p.m. peak 20-minute fre quency between the Vallejo Transit Center and the El Cerrito del Norte BART station.

n SolanoExpress Yellow Line has been realigned to

Vaca Park & Rec sets Neighborhood Santa parade

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VACAVILLE — The city Parks and Recreation Department will host its second annual Neighbor hood Santa, a free parade that passes by 20 neigh borhood parks.

The event is scheduled to take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 12-16. Plans call for the parade to pass by four parks each night.

“Police, fire and the Police Activities League light up the neighborhood with color and cheer, with

a sweet treat for all the children this year. Santa and his elves are excited to celebrate the holiday season together,” the city announced.

Follow Santa’s route using the Santa Tracker at https:// www.ci.vacaville.ca.us/ government/parks-andrecreation/special-events/ neighborhood-santa.

The parade will be canceled in the event of inclement weather, with cancelations posted on social media and the website by 3 p.m.

Nonprofit plans biggest mission to Philippines

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FAIRFIELD — The Green Valley nonprofit Para Ti Global will be trav eling to the Philippines for what will be the group’s biggest charity mission since forming in 2014.

“Several Para Ti found ers and ambassadors will be traveling to be part of the mission. We are feeding a total of 8,000plus children,” Camille Anderson said in an email. Anderson was born and raised in the Philippines.

Anderson’s children, Sophia and Luke, founded

the organization after wit nessing the poverty near a Mexican resort where the family was vacationing.

The group has missions in Mexico, the Philippines, in Solano County and around the Bay Area as well as other U.S. and international locations.

Para Ti Global also is launching its annual toy drive for local families. UFC Gym in Concord is again partnering with the organization.

For more information about the group, the toy drive and how you can help, go to https://www. paratiglobal.org.

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together with things to keep her entertained and left it by the door.

“I realized other people were coming into the hos pital with nothing to do but wait,” she said.

Becker’s intention is to give bags to patients who need a to-go bag for constant trips to the Emer gency Room and medical appointments.

“I would also like to give these bags to people that are released from hospitals for mental ill nesses,” she said. “There are also backpacks for homeless people that are going into a shelter and

Becker brought out her handmade jewelry to sell Saturday, with all the profits going back into her organization.

Haley Kenney from Fairfield brought out her 10-week-old daughter, Marlo, for her first Christ mas craft fair.

“My husband called me and said, ‘This is a great opportunity for you to go spend some money,’ ” Kenney said.

The craft fair will con tinue from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at 1000 Ulatis Drive.

begin and end at the Vallejo Transit Center. The long layover at the SolTrans Curtola Park and Ride Hub has been replaced with a standard stop time.

n Local Route 7A will hold at the Vallejo Transit Center to connect with Jesse Bethel School dismissal, departing the Vallejo Transit Center at 2:55 p.m. instead of 2:45 p.m. No other trips are affected by this hold.

The full schedule changes can be found at https://sol trans.org/getting-around/ holiday-schedule/.

‘Three threats at once’

State urges caution amid spread of RSV, Covid, flu

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LOS ANGELES — Cal ifornia officials are urging preventive measures to thwart the spread of respiratory illnesses and alleviate a health system already contending with the triple threat of Covid19, influenza and RSV.

For weeks, public health leaders across the most-populous state have sounded the alarm about the challenges posed by simultaneous circula tion of the three viruses. With Thanksgiving and the rest of the holiday season around the corner, ways in which residents address these health chal lenges can help chart the state’s course through the next few months, officials say.

“We are dealing with three threats at once,” California Health and Human Services Sec retary Dr. Mark Ghaly said this week. “In every category that we track –whether it’s test positivity, case rate numbers, waste water surveillance, clinical surveillance, hospitalizations – we’re seeing increases for RSV, flu and Covid.”

Of particular concern is RSV, respiratory syn cytial virus, which can cause significant illness and death in young chil dren and older people. It has struck with a ven geance, sickening so many children that some hospitals have reported running short of pediatric beds.

“We have seen an abrupt increase in all of our RSV cases,” said Dr. Vidya Mony, a pedi atric infectious disease specialist at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. “If you look at a lot of the curves, it’s almost linear . . . so this is significantly more than we have seen in quite a few years.”

Compounding matters is the fact that pediatric hospital beds can be in short supply even in the best of times.

“Many hospitals have only a small number of

pediatric beds, meaning that just a small number of new pediatric hospital izations have the potential to put a hospital at capac ity,” Los Angeles County Health Officer Dr. Muntu Davis said.

Orange County this month declared a health emergency amid a high level of RSV and other respiratory illnesses that required “hospitalization of children exceeding the capacity and infrastruc ture of our designated children’s hospitals,” officials said.

On Tuesday, L.A. County reported average daily occupancy of staffed pediatric hospi tal beds at 64%, up from 60% on Nov. 1. For pedi atric ICU beds, average daily occupancy was 75%, up from 67%.

Both figures are higher than at any point in the last 17 months, accord ing to Davis.

“These numbers do not translate to a dire sit uation at hospitals at this time,” he said, but the “increases in pediatric bed occupancy are con cerning, especially given the fact that we are still early in the typical respi ratory virus season.”

Whether that means the state is in for a vir ulent season, or just an atypically early one, is unknown.

“We have already experienced levels of test positivity for RSV

infections among the youngest Californians that rival peaks from other years. And we’re not sure if they’re going to continue to go up or start to level off,” Ghaly said.

Adding to that uncer tainty is the collision of Covid-19 and flu. The much-discussed “twindemic” failed to materialize in the last two years, as the state was wracked instead with horrific coronavirus waves. But that’s not the case this year.

“This is the first year where we’re not only facing Covid but also increased influenza activ ity and unusually high levels of RSV,” said Dr. Sarah Rudman, Santa Clara County’s deputy health officer.

While all three dis eases may cause mild symptoms in older chil dren and young adults, “they’re all espe cially dangerous for our youngest children, our oldest adult com munity members and people with other medical problems,” she told reporters Wednesday.

“Right now, we are already seeing these dis eases hit our youngest children and impact our hospitals and our doc tor’s offices to get care for these children,” Rudman

said. “So with the hol idays approaching, it’s especially important we do everything we can to prevent these diseases.”

Over the week ending Nov. 12, the most recent period for which data are available, flu activity was considered high in Cali fornia, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preven tion. That assessment is based on monitoring for respiratory illnesses that include a fever plus a cough or sore throat, not just on laboratory-con firmed flu cases.

The early hot spot remains the state’s south eastern corner – San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Impe rial counties – but overall flu activity is increasing throughout California, state data show.

Pressures from respi ratory illnesses have prompted some San Diego County hospi tals to use overflow tents outside their emergency departments. Ghaly said Thursday he wouldn’t be surprised if other facili ties are similarly strained or soon will be.

“It’s not surprising to me at all that some facili ties – whether it’s because of flu or because of flu plus Covid plus RSV plus some other respiratory viruses that are circu lating – are beginning to need to use alternative spaces, whether it’s tents outside or some areas indoors, to help create triage spaces, treat ment spaces, to meet the need of their communi ties,” he said.

The last two flu seasons were relatively mild, a development offi cials credit in part to infection-prevention protocols intended to stymie Covid-19.

But many of those – widespread masking, physical dis tancing and avoiding

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Riders exit a solano Express bus at the Fairfield Transportation Center.

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David Tran, an emergency department technician, left, prepares to put a cardiac monitor on a patient as he has his blood drawn by Jessica smith, a registered nurse, at scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas in Encinitas, nov. 11. scripps recently opened an overflow tent outside of the hospital after an increase of flu patients.

GVM Law marks 50th anniversary

GVM Law is celebrat ing its 50th anniversary serving clients across much of the greater Bay Area and Sacramento regions.

The firm special izes in strategic estate planning and business and tax services to indi viduals, families and privately held compa nies. It is based in Napa and has offices in Fair field and Roseville.

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helps children reach Santa Claus for Christmas

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FAIRFIELD — Elf Stacy Rose has lots of exciting things going on at her Legendary Letters shop in Fairfield and the VnA’s Gingy House in Suisun City.

This is the 26th Christ mas that Rose has been helping Santa write letters to good boys and girls.

Rose, the owner of Legendary Letters, is again giving away a free letter from Santa Claus to at least 100 children who mail a letter to him at Legendary Letters in downtown Fairfield or

at VnA’s Gingy House in Suisun City.

A Festive Forest will soon open in the back lot at her shop.

The grand opening of the forest will occur Dec. 2 during the Fairfield Tree Lighting Ceremony and then continue through December during regular business hours.

The forest will be made up of trees decorated by local businesses, schools, organizations and clubs. Visitors may vote for their favorite tree. People who visit may donate canned food for the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano

or a new unwrapped toy for the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation. The forest will serve as an official drop site for both campaigns.

The free letters from Santa Claus will not be personalized as the other greetings available in Rose’s shop, but they will still be printed on color ful holiday stationery and stamped with a faux North Pole postmark. If fam ilies prefer a completely personalized letter be sent to their children or grandchildren, they are available for order through Dec. 3 at legendary

letters.com.

Children may mail a letter to Santa Claus up until Dec. 15 in the special mailboxes at 707 Kentucky St., Fairfield or 340 Shov eller Drive, Suisun City. Afterward, all letters collected will go to the Macy’s Believe program, which donates $1 to the Make-a-Wish Foundation for every letter.

If you would like to help, Rose is in need of Forever holiday postage stamps. If you have a couple left over that you would like to donate, drop them off before Dec. 15 at Legendary Letters.

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Stacy Rose of Legendary Letters stands next to Christmas trees in the back of her Fairfield shop that will be featured

as part of the Festive Forest, Wednesday. Visitors to the forest can vote for their favorite tree.

original partners Dave Gaw and Nick Van Male, GVM Law is led today by equity partners Jamie Watson, Erik Law rence, Nick Donovan and Jeffrey Stephens, along with Chief Operating Officer Ameris Cleary. The current

Bidens host rare WH wedding for granddaughter Supershear earthquakes are super powerful

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden hosted a private White House wedding for his granddaughter, wel coming about 250 guests on the South Lawn and opening the State Dining Room for a cele bratory lunch.

The president’s grand daughter, Naomi Biden, married Peter Neal in the 19th wedding to be held on the grounds of the executive mansion – a day before Joe Biden, the oldest sitting president in U.S. history, turns 80.

“It has been a joy to watch Naomi grow, dis cover who she is, and carve out such an incred ible life for herself,” the president and the first lady said in a White House statement. “We wish them days full of laughter and a love that grows deeper with every passing year.”

Saturday’s event took place almost entirely out of the public eye. News media were barred from the event, prompt

ing formal objections from the White House press corps.

The secrecy contrasts with the public fanfare when then-President Richard Nixon’s daugh ter Tricia was married in the Rose Garden before 400 invited guests in 1971. Hundreds of jour nalists were accredited for the event and tele vised coverage drew tens of millions of viewers.

White House Press Secretary Karine JeanPierre called it a private “family event” and said Friday that the couple “asked that their wedding be closed to the media.”

Naomi Biden, 28, met her 25-year-old fiance through mutual friends in 2018.

Neal is a recent grad uate of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Naomi Biden is the daughter of Hunter Biden, who is the subject of a federal tax probe and a top GOP target. House Republicans have vowed to investigate his busi ness dealings, though he has denied wrongdoing.

They are also a lot less rare than previously thought

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On April 18, 1906, San Francisco phonograph dealer Peter Bacigalupi’s day began like none other.

“I was awakened from a sound slumber by a ter rific trembling, which acted in the same manner as would a bucking broncho [sic],” he wrote of the historic earthquake that seemed to toss his bed “up and down in all four directions at once.”

Across town, mission ary Donaldina Cameron jolted awake at 5:12 a.m. to a surreal scene in which “the solid earth took on the motions of an angry ocean while chimneys crashed on to our roof, while plaster and orna ments strewed the floors.”

Bacugalupi and Cameron survived to tell their stories of California’s deadliest natural disaster. An estimated 3,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area did not.

Though definitive measurements weren’t available at the time, the magnitude 7.8 disas ter is believed to have been a particular type of earthquake known as a supershear.

In a supershear quake, the fault – in the 1906 case, the San Andreas – rup tures faster than seismic shear waves can travel through rock. The result is an accumulation of energy that bursts through rock in the way that sound waves piling up against a speed ing fighter jet erupt in a sonic boom.

Supershear earth quakes were thought to be relatively rare, with fewer

than a dozen such events confirmed and six others debated since 1906.

But new research from UCLA finds that this type of violent earthquake is more common than previously believed, par ticularly along mature strike-slip faults like the San Andreas.

Using advanced imaging technology, a research team led by UCLA geophysicist Lingsen Meng examined all 86 earthquakes of mag nitude 6.7 or greater along strike-slip faults between Jan. 1, 2000, and Feb. 1, 2020. After analyzing each event, the team con cluded that 14% of them were in fact supershear earthquakes – a consid erable leap, given that supershears were previ ously believed to account for less than 6% of all earthquakes.

The findings were published last month

in the journal Nature Geoscience.

“They’re applying these imaging methods really comprehensively to study many, many large earth quakes, most of which have not been studied with these advanced imaging methods,” said seis mologist Eric Dunham, an expert in supers hear earthquakes at Stanford University who was not involved with the research.

In the absence of tools that could effectively analyze fault ruptures on continents and oceanic crust alike, “we were just sort of guessing” at which events counted as supers hear, Dunham said. “This paper shows that they may not be as rare as we thought.”

Previously, seis mologists suspected that this kind of earth quake occurred more often on continents than

in faults running under the sea, since most con firmed supershears were recorded on land.

But using a technique called backprojection, which analyzes delays between seismic waves to determine how fast they are traveling, the team realized that supershear earthquakes are just as common in the ocean as on dry ground – they just have been historically a lot harder to monitor.

Their analysis found that in addition to five previously confirmed supershear earthquakes documented in their data set, a further seven also met the supers hear criteria.

“I’m a little bit sur prised we found this many,” Meng said of the newly identified super shear quakes, all of which took place along

Adam Schultz/The White House/Getty Images/TNS President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden attend the wedding of Peter Neal and Naomi Biden Neal on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., Saturday.

Arnold Genthe/Getty Images/TNS file (1906) From a vantage point on Nob Hill, San Franciscans watch the approach of fires caused by that day’s earthquake, April 18, 1906. They are on Sacramento Street at Miles Place (now Miller Place).

‘This is life-changing’

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Cory Lee has visited 40 countries on seven continents, and yet the Georgia native has never explored Cloudland Canyon State Park, about 20 minutes from his home. His wheel chair was tough enough for the trip to Antarctica but not for the rugged terrain in his backyard.

Lee’s circumstances changed Friday, when Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources and the Aimee Copeland Foun dation unveiled a fleet of all-terrain power wheel chairs for rent at 11 state parks and outdoorsy des tinations, including Cloudland Canyon. The Action Trackchair models are equipped with tanklike tracks capable of traversing rocks, roots, streams and sand; clear ing fallen trees; plowing through tall grass and tackling uphill climbs.

“I’ll finally be able to go on these trails for the first time in my life,” said the 32-year-old travel blogger, who shares his adven tures on Curb Free with Cory Lee. “The trails are off-limits in my regular wheelchair.”

Georgia is one of the latest states to provide the Land Rover of wheelchairs to outdoor enthusiasts with mobility issues.

In 2017, Colorado Parks and Wildlife launched its Staunton State Park TrackChair Program, which provides free adaptive equipment, though guests must pay the $10 entrance fee. Michigan’s Depart ment of Natural Resources has placed off-road track chairs in nearly a dozen parks, including Mus kegon State Park. In 2018, Lee reserved a chair at the park that boasts three miles of shore line on Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake. “It allowed me to have so much independence on the sand,” he said.

In 2019, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lake shore in Michigan became the first national park to offer a track chair, super intendent Scott Tucker said. This year, Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes, the nonprofit that oversees the program, added a third.

South Dakota is also expanding its squadron: On Tuesday, the South Dakota Parks & Wild life Foundation unveils its second all-terrain chair. South Dakota res ident Michael M. Samp is leading a fundraising campaign to purchase up to 30 chairs. Last year, Samp’s father packed up his fishing pole and piloted a track chair to Center Lake in Custer State Park. He reeled in trout, just

diagnosed with spinal cerebral ataxia.

“The plan is to have the chairs spread throughout the state and available for various outdoor activities including, but not limited to, park and trail enjoy ment, hunting and fishing,” said Kristina Coby, the foundation’s director.

This month, the Min nesota Department of Natural Resources will wrap up its months-long pilot program that tested out the chairs in five parks. On Nov. 16, the agency will evaluate the success of the amenity. Early indications are positive.

“We want to create an unforgettable outdoor experience for everyone, not just for people who can walk,” said Jamie McBride, a state parks and recreation area program consultant with the Parks and Trails Division of the Minnesota DNR. “People have told us this is life-changing.”

The Georgia initia tive was spearheaded by Aimee Copeland Mercier, who suffered a zip-lining accident in 2012 and lost both hands, her right foot and her left leg to a flesheating bacterial infection.

Copeland Mercier, a psy chotherapist and licensed clinical social worker, tested several types of all-terrain chairs before committing to Action Trackchair, which

several other state pro grams also use.

The Minnesota-based company was founded by Tim and Donna Swenson, whose son Jeff was para lyzed in a car accident. The original design resembled a Frankenstein of sport ing goods parts, with snow bike tracks and a busted boat seat. Today’s model could be an opening act at a monster truck rally.

“I was floored by what it could do,” said Copeland Mercier, whose foundation raised $200,000 to purchase the chairs at $12,500 each. “Oh my gosh! I can go over a whole tree trunk, up a steep incline and through snow, swamps and wet lands. If I took my regular wheelchair, I’d get stuck in five minutes.”

Each program has its own reservations system and requirements. For Georgia’s service, visitors must provide proof of their disability and a photo ID, plus complete an online training course avail able through All Terrain Georgia. Once certi fied, the organization will forward the rental request to the park. Copeland Mercier urges visitors to plan ahead: The certifica tion course takes about an hour, the foundation needs 72-hour advance notice and the park requires a 48-hour head’s up.

“These are 500-pound chairs,” she said. “There are some risks involved.”

The Minnesota DNR, which owns and maintains its five chairs, advises vis itors to call the park to reserve a chair.

“We have a few screen ing questions,” McBride said, “ but we leave the eli gibility up to the user.”

Since launching the program in June, McBride said the chairs are booked three to four days a week, with heavier interest on weekends. “We haven’t turned too many people away at this point,” he said.

Track chairs can conquer a range of obsta cles, but they do not work in all environments.

“You need the width. If two trees are too close together, the wheelchair can’t pass between them,” Copeland Mercier said.

“And some inclines are too steep. The chair also can’t go down staircases.”

To steer visitors in the right direction, parks have created maps highlight ing the trails designated for the track chairs, such as Staunton State Park’s trio of routes that range from roughly three to four miles. The visitors center staff are also ready with recommendations. (To transfer from chair to chair, visitors will need a companion to assist.)

McBride said one goal is to erect markers that would provide detailed information about the hike, such the extent of accessibility. “We want to let people know if they can get all the way to the waterfall or halfway,” he said, using a hypotheti cal example.

Copeland Mercier also has a wish list. She hopes to expand the network of chairs to other parts of Georgia, such as the coastal, south

ern and central regions. Once the foundation acquires several vans (another aspiration), the staff could move the 30 to 40 chairs (ditto) around the state to fill fluctuating demand. She is also eyeing other states.

“North Carolina is next,” said Copeland Mercier, who divides her time between Atlanta and Asheville, N.C. But the grand plan is even bigger.

“The goal is to alter the U.S.A.” she said.

Georgia Department of Natural Resources ABOVE: Caleb Feather uses the Action Trackchair in a Georgia state park.

LEFT: A wheelchair user in a track chair traverses the snow at Minnesota’s Myre-Big Island State Park on March 22.

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Melanie Dunn and park ranger Leslie Mobley with the all-terrain track chair.

Deborah Rose/Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

California has a home ownership crisis

When the California Legislature recon venes in a few weeks, it will have dozens of new members, thanks to term limits and legislative dis tricts redrawn after the 2020 census.

There is no shortage of critical issues the Legislature, and a newly reelected Gov. Gavin Newsom, should address but none is more important than a chronic shortage of housing. That shortage not only causes severe overcrowding, par ticularly in urban areas, but rents that are the primary factors in California’s high est-in the-nation poverty and homelessness rates.

Much of the political debate over housing has, for good reason, centered on the lack of affordable rental housing for low- and moder ate-income families. Building more of that housing is the flashpoint in the running con flict between the state and local governments. That said, there’s another dimension to California’s housing quandary – the increas ing inability of families, even those with six-figure incomes, to purchase homes and build generational wealth.

Fewer than 55% of Californians live in homes they or their families own, the second lowest rate of any state and just slightly higher than New York.

Why? It’s that houses cost more in Cali fornia than in any other state except Hawaii, with a current home sale median well above $800,000, reflecting both the lack of supply and the state’s high construction costs.

Construction overhead includes high land and labor costs, heavy regulatory hurdles, mandatory features and fees that add tens of thousands of dollars to the cost of each unit. Even construction of relatively small rental apartments meant for low- and mod erate-income families averages more than $500,000 a unit and can range as high as $1 million.

The bottom line, according to the Califor nia Association of Realtors, is that only 18% of California households can afford a medianpriced single-family home of $829,760. That’s because it requires an income of at least $192,800 to make payments on a 30-year mortgage with a 5.72% interest rate. Since those data were calculated, mortgage interest rates have climbed to more than 7%, reducing affordability even more.

The relationship between home prices and income is the key to understand just how affordability has taken a beating in California.

Yes, California families have relatively high personal incomes vis-à-vis other states, well over $100,000 on average. But they are low in relation to home prices.

Recent research by a Southern California real estate brokerage, Los Feliz Realtors, tells the story. It assembled data on incomes and home sizes and prices for each state to deter mine relative affordability.

It found that West Virginia is the nation’s most affordable housing market. The average home of 1,714 square feet (larger than Cal ifornia’s average) costs $129,103, or just twice the state’s average family income of $66,332. Not surprisingly, West Virginia also has the nation’s highest rate of home owner ship, 77.8%.

California, meanwhile, has the nation’s second lowest affordability index, with only Hawaii lower. At the time the data were col lected, California had a $760,000 average home price, nearly seven times as much as its average income of $111,622.

Texas, California’s arch-rival in economic, cultural and political fields, isn’t as afford able as West Virginia, but is the 12th most affordable state, with an average price of $289,896 and an average income of $89,506.

Underlying these numbers is a socioeco nomic crisis. California has evolved into a two-tier society and one of its many divi sions is between those who own their homes and those who have little or no hope of ever becoming homeowners as their rent receipts pile up. It also explains why so many Cal ifornians are fleeing the state for more affordable locales.

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.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Who governs FairfieldSuisun School District?

From watching the Nov. 10 Fair field-Suisun School District board meeting, the board discussed switch ing their meeting schedule to a once-a-month meeting, rather than the current two times a month.

From reviewing agendas, there is a lot of prep work the trustees need to do to be able to govern to the best of their ability, mainly a lot of documents to read. Seeing how these people already juggle busy schedules outside of the board, I’m always impressed with how they do their prep.

That’s why I’m disappointed that Trustee David Isom stated he does little to no prep for these meetings. When he rattled off all of the organi zations he does work with, along with going to school to improve his min isterial duties, he said, “I read it (my board packet) as I can. There are some things that I do not need to read because the people who make a whole lot of money have done the work.”

From reviewing the board’s poli cies, the board sets forth the direction by supporting the superintendent. Sounds like Isom said the quiet part out loud. Who governs the district?

Is it Superintendent Kris Corey (an appointed employee) or is it the board who is held accountable to voters?

We’ve already seen Trustee Jonathan Richardson lose his seat. Isom and Trustee Craig Wilson had no opposi tion, so they are safe for four years.

Is the school board really a board that will listen to input from the com munity or are they just a rubber stamp

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for whatever the superintendent requests? If the latter is true, then they should be called the Fairfield-Suisun Stamp Club.

Eric Campbell Fairfield

A Veterans Day thank you

A big thank you to the city of Suisun City, Wanda Williams, Solano County 3rd District supervisor-elect, and committee members along with distinguished VIP Rep. John Gar amendi, the keynote speaker of the day, as they honored all veterans Nov. 11 in downtown Suisun City at the waterfront park.

Thank you, citizens!

Larry Brumfield, Suisun City short-term mayor-elect Suisun City

So long to a friend, Gary Mooring

For years, many of us have traveled outside of Solano County for work. Most of us had great rapport with our Vallejo drivers so we were appre hensive about how Fairfield drivers would treat us. Within a few months, we bonded with our Fairfield drivers. And in many cases, we became friends. Those drivers who took care of us know how much we appre ciated them.

One bus driver, Gary Mooring, was an amazing driver who greeted every passenger with an ear-to-ear grin and hello. No matter how bad the traffic

was, you knew Gary would move heaven and earth to deliver us safely to and from BART. He was confident and skilled.

One day, he spotted smoke as we exited the freeway in Fairfield. He pulled the bus over and explained that we could remain with him until service advised him and took care of the situation or we could walk to the Transit Center. We chose to walk. Gary understood he had been entrusted with the safety of all of us.

When I first announced that Gary was ill and that I had cards for him, people anxiously passed around the cards. Some wrote notes and some signed their names. The concern for him was constant.

People would stop me even when I was shopping to ask about Gary. I would update them if there was an update. The outpouring of concern and prayers reflected how deeply and completely the passengers loved and cared about Gary.

Gary was a quiet and soft-spoken man who kept his own counsel. He maintained his composure and treated everyone with respect and dignity. Gary had compassion and kindness. He handled his pain valiantly.

When changes were occurring with the bus, Gary accompanied his fiancée, Lani, to our meetings. Gary offered the wisdom and perspective of the bus drivers. Gary understood both viewpoints.

Gary’s legacy will be his smile and his cheery greeting that brightened our morning commute and lightened our evening journey.

Maureen Lechwar Fairfield

Spering letter a misguided personal attack

Supervisor Jim Spering attacked both of us in his Nov. 6 letter to the editor. We agree with the headline, Enough is Enough.

Leveling personal attacks is not pro ductive. Jim clearly didn’t like Mari lyn’s letter spelling out the dona tions and other assistance by local developer Anthony Russo and his family and interests to the cam paigns of Chuck Timm for Super visor and Harry Price for Mayor.

We get he was mad. We only wish he would be factual.

As to Supervisor Spering’s charges: Farley and her husband Duane Kromm have spent their lives trying to deny others the opportunity to buy an affordable home . . . .”

Pretty amazing that Supervisor Spering is unaware that Marilyn came to Fairfield to run the city’s housing programs. She managed the HUD Section 8 program (and its prede cessor), providing rental assistance to hundreds of low-income Fairfield residents. Many affordable housing residents have Marilyn to thank for her work, which includes:

n Cleaning up and modernizing Fairfield’s operations to ensure tenants and owners were treated fairly and equitably.

n Helping the tenants of two different mobile home parks to buy the parks to stabilize their long-term site rentals.

n Developing a home purchase program to enable 326 families to buy their first homes in the early 1980s. She researched California law and discovered the Housing Authority could issue bonds and offer mortgages

around 6% (when market rates were 14% or more). She worked with local Realtors and the mortgage lenders to create a much-needed boost to Fairfield’s languishing housing market.

n She developed a housing rehabilitation program helping lower-income homeowners make needed repairs to their homes. It offered both technical assistance and low interest-rate loans.

n When the senior housing project next to the post office was set to revert to market rate apartments, Marilyn arranged for the Fairfield Housing Authority to buy this project to continue providing affordable housing to our neediest seniors.

Another charge: “. . . [they] are taking settlement money from your monthly garbage bill to sue the city and county on projects they don’t like.”

Again, Spering’s claim is dead wrong. Duane led the effort by the Solano County Orderly Growth Com mittee to require the city and county of San Francisco to mitigate for impacts when San Francisco garbage started coming to the Hay Road Landfill outside of Vacaville in 2015. Negotia tions with Recology, San Francisco’s garbage provider, resulted in San Francisco ratepayers paying a fee for every ton of waste hauled into Solano County. This fee continues for the duration of Recology’s contract with San Francisco.

Neither Solano County nor any of Solano’s cities went after San Fran cisco to mitigate the environmental impacts caused by the transporting and dumping of garbage here. Orderly Growth did and with the specific

intent of using all mitigation money to protect our open space, create a park district and do other activi ties to make it easier for families to enjoy Solano’s natural lands, such as Solano Land Trust’s Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi open space. To date, over $2.5 million has been raised for such activities, with grants made to Solano Land Trust, Greenbelt Alliance, Putah Creek Council and Solano Resource Conservation District.

Patwino will soon be open to the public thanks in part to Orderly Growth grants and Marilyn’s prior work as executive director of the land trust to negotiate the purchase of the land and raise the money to finance the purchase.

A goodly portion of our grants to other environmental organizations has been directed to education pro grams. We firmly believe that helping teachers and volunteers work with the best natural scientists, kids, is money well spent.

This work will truly benefit the res idents of Solano County.

Contrary to what Supervisor Spering said, none of our settlement money is used for political advocacy or litigation. Please check out our Form 460 reports at the Solano County Reg istrar of Voters if you have any doubts.

Orderly Growth consistently advo cates for farmland and open space protections. When we have legal or political expenditures, we raise that money separately. Call Duane if you have any questions, 707-580-7321.

We personally support many worth while local organizations, such as the food bank and Habitat for Humanity.

Dan Walters

Marilyn Farley and Duane Kromm are longtime residents of the greater Fairfield area.

Duane Kromm Marilyn Farley

Crime logs FairField

THURSDAY, NOV. 17

6:51 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1600 block of PARK LANE 8:20 a.m. — Battery, 400 block of SAN JOSE STREET 9:16 a.m. — Indecent expo sure, UNION AVENUE 10:55 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1300 block of OLIVER ROAD 12:50 p.m. — Reckless driver, TRAVIS BOULEVARD 1:13 p.m. — Reckless driver, 1300 block of HOLIDAY LANE 1:30 p.m. — Vandalism, 1400 block of CANTERBURY DRIVE 1:48 p.m. — Sexual assault, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 2:07 p.m. — Grand theft, 2300 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 2:25 p.m. — Battery, 3700 block of HILBORN ROAD 2:48 p.m. — Grand theft, 1100 block of TABOR AVENUE 3:03 p.m. — Sexual assault, 900 block of HARDING STREET 3:22 p.m. — Trespassing, 200 block of EAST ATLANTIC AVENUE 3:55 p.m. — Grand theft, 1000 block of SPARROW LANE 5:11 p.m. — Battery, 3500 block of SUNNY HILL COURT 6:45 p.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND HIGHWAY 12 7:22 p.m. — Embezzlement,

In brief

2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 8:27 p.m. — Shots fired, MANGELS BOULEVARD 9:10 p.m. — Drunken driver, 1700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:35 p.m. — Residential burglary, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE 11:40 p.m. — Drunken driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80

SuiSun City

THURSDAY, NOV. 17 9:42 a.m. — Grand theft, 100 block of SUNSET AVENUE 10:02 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1500 block of EL PRADO LANE 9:07 p.m. — Fraud, 1100 block of SUISUN STREET 9:13 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 100 block of MAIN STREET 9:11 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 400 block of KINSMILL COURT

Musk: Trump will be reinstated on Twitter

Elon Musk said he will allow former Donald Trump’s Twitter account to be restored after users on the social media website voted 52% to 48% to allow the former president’s return.

The 24-hour poll garnered more than 15 million votes. Musk earlier reinstated accounts tied to conser vative media personality Jordan Peterson and satirical website Babylon Bee.

Trump was permanently banned from Twitter in 2021 “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Earlier this week, he formally entered the 2024 U.S. presidential race, making official what he had been teasing for months.

Still, it’s not a done deal that the former president will return. Trump said earlier Saturday that he sees “a lot of problems at Twitter” and will stick to his own social-media platform.

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roadway was reopened shortly after 9:15 p.m., the CHP reports.

COP27 talks poised for deal after breakthrough on climate payments

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The COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which had appeared close to collapse on Saturday morning, were poised for a last-minute deal after progress on a landmark agreement to pay poorer countries for harm caused by global warming.

The proposal would establish a new fund next year for the cost of climate disasters. In return Europe, pushed for tougher language on reducing emissions. After hours of wrangling with countries including China, Brazil and Saudi Arabia, changes were agreed to that part of the deal, putting a final text within reach.

Work was still going on late into Saturday night, however. As officials in a closed-door meeting debated the final draft to take to the closing public session for sign off, the U.S. made a late interven tion that the deal should include a call to phase out all unabated fossil fuels, according to people familiar with the matter.

If it survives, it would go significantly beyond the language agreed last in Glasgow, which called only for the phase down of coal.

The day had started with a threat from EU climate chief Frans Tim mermans to walk out of the negotiations in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, risking the prospect of the first annual COP meeting

without a deal for more than a decade. He has been a prime mover at the summit, trying to unlock progress through a grand bargain exchang ing the promise of loss and damage cash for a harder line on emissions.

“The EU is united in our ambition to move forward and build on what we agreed in Glasgow,” Timmermans said, flanked by a group of European energy min isters. “Our message to partners is clear: We cannot accept that 1.5C dies here and today.”

The breakthrough on loss and damage came with the addition of a line that ensures funds will go only to the most vulnera ble countries, like small island states and least developed nations. The text also includes a ref erence that could include other countries – like China – contributing to

solve the problem.

The European demand for global emissions to peak by 2025 and a pledge to phase down all fossil fuels weren’t in the latest version of text, but work was ongoing to find lan guage that could assuage European concerns.

The U.K., a key ally of the EU on climate, said the latest text threatened to take climate action backward from Glasgow, an indication that move ment would have to be made on mitiga tion before Europe could sign the deal.

“The text right now does not go beyond Glasgow and it doesn’t even take us to Glasgow,” said Alok Sharma, the U.K.’s lead negotiator, who was president of last year’s COP in the Scottish city.

Still, the deal on loss damage pleased African delegations, which had

set securing promises on compensation before the summit started.

“It is a victory, not only for Africa, but for developing nations,” said Ephraim Mwepya Shitima, the chairman of the African Group of Negotiators. “We will be going back smiling.”

South Africa’s envi ronment minister, Barbara Creecy, said the payments could become significant in time.

“Loss and damage can potentially take an enor mous amount of funding,” Creecy said in an inter view. “The purpose of allowing another year so that further sources of funding and financing can be identified.”

Saturday also brought the resumption of climate cooperation between China and the U.S., a further sign that the meeting between pres idents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden at the Group of 20 summit in Bali thawed relations between the world’s two largest emitters. China’s chief negotiator Xie Zhenhua made the announcement in a press briefing. His U.S. counterpart John Kerry is isolating because of a Covid infection.

“Today, we have agreed that after this COP we will continue our formal consulta tion,” Xie said.

Talks on climate were suspended after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan earlier this year.

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it collided with a Chrysler that was headed north.

The driver and left rear passenger of the Mazda died as a result of the vehicle hitting the tree, the CHP reports.

Both of their names were withheld pending family notifications. They were identified as 38-yearold Fairfield woman and an 11-year-old Fairfield girl. A 6-year-old Fair field boy who was also in the Mazda survived and was sent to NorthBay Medical Center for what the CHP describes as minor injuries.

The driver of the Honda, a 56-year-old Fair field woman, was not injured, the CHP reports. A passenger in the Honda, a 3-year-old Fairfield boy, had what the CHP char acterizes as minor injuries and was released to his father. The driver of the Chrysler, identified only as a Fairfield woman, also has minor injuries and was taken to North Bay Medical Center for treatment. Her age was not released.

Authorities shut down Suisun Valley Road between Rockville and Ledgewood roads. The

This collision is still under investigation and alcohol is considered a factor in this collision, according to the CHP.

Anyone with infor mation that is pertinent to the investigation is asked to call the CHP’s non-emergency line at 1-800-TELL-CHP (1-800835-5247) or the CHP Solano Area Office at 707-639-5600. State that you have information for CHP-Solano and Officer Daniel Her, who is han dling the investigation.

This is the second fatal crash in the county in as many days.

Authorities report a man was killed when the sedan he was driving crashed head-on with a minivan Thursday on the 200 block of River Road in Rio Vista.

A 13-year-old boy who was in the sedan sur vived the crash, as did the woman who was driving the minivan and two young children, who authorities describe as around 3 years old and 3 months old. They were all taken to area hos pitals for treatment of their injuries.

Authorities did not describe the severity of the injuries.

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walks. An area has been designed for picnick ing and also to listen to bands play throughout the summer months.

“Many people don’t know about the ranch,” Holokahi said. “We hope they come out to see what is here.”

The festival featured 18 vendors. Community partners set up tables around the ranch.

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the Sheriff’s Posse out with several horses that visitors could ride.

Fairfield High School track and field students cooked up some nachos and hamburgers to feed hungry visitors.

The day also included hiking, bingo and a little shopping.

Solano Land Trust has partnered with several community groups to create Xplore Solano, a new app that people will be able to download and see what is going on in the county, Holokahi said.

“It will include all the

where to go,” she said.

Jennifer Smetzer brought her 2-yearold granddaughter, Luna Hernandez, over from Napa for a fun family afternoon.

“This is the first time we have come here,” Smetzer said. “This is a very special place. We had no idea it was here.”

Little Luna got a nice corn husk doll made for her by one of the vol unteers from the Peña Adobe Historical Society.

It was also a first time visiting Rush Ranch for Jameelah Hanif, who

Me Grow Inc. in Vallejo, which offers child care services to clients in the area.

“I had no idea all this was here,” she said. “It is so beautiful.”

Hanif said it is great to see all the things that are happening with Solano County partners like the Solano Land Trust.

“Rush Ranch has so much potential for events that could be done with the youth,” she said.

Hanif’s son had a great time playing bingo.

“He is stunned at what all is here,” she said.

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this on Facebook and I wanted to make the trip out,” he said.

The alumni group plans to raise money to create a scholarship fund for one lucky performer.

“We are looking at a $1,000 scholarship to start with, then over the years raise that up to $5,000,” Gourdine said.

The alumni group is working toward becom ing an official nonprofit to make the dream happen and plans to start in 2024.

her sister, Vanessa Sisne ros, were excited for all the students return ing for another year of competition.

“We have lost a lot of students because of illness,” Veronica Sisne ros said. “Some of these kids have only been doing this for two months.”

This event is one the youth enjoy. Sisne ros said she hopes they take away from it some good memories.

“I want them to have that feeling when you finish something that you worked so hard for and then are finally done and you did a great job,” she said.

Hundreds of students practiced in the school’s parking lot, including

the Pinole Valley High School band. Coach Veronica Sisneros and

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Students from Benicia High School are ready to march during the 32nd Annual Tournament of Champions Battle of the Bands at Rodriguez High School in Fairfield, Saturday.

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Visitors at the Rush Ranch Harvest Festival were treated to a ride from the Solano County Sheriff’s Posse, Saturday.

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Frans Timmermans, European Commission vice president, delivers a speech at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of the same name, during the COP27 climate conference, Tuesday.

crowds – have gone by the wayside as pandemic con ditions have improved.

In lieu of more strin gent steps, health officials say, there are several ways residents can protect themselves and those around them. Wearing a mask in crowded or indoor public spaces, washing hands regularly, wiping down frequently touched surfaces, cover ing sneezes and coughs and holding events out doors – or maximizing ventilation for those held indoors – can lessen the chance of transmission.

Officials also urge Cali fornians to get vaccinated against both Covid-19 and flu. There is no vaccine available for RSV.

“I realize that many people are thinking that it’s too late to get vaccinated before Thanksgiving,

Quakes

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underwater fault lines beyond the reach of most land-based monitors.

Supershear earth quakes are more likely to happen along long, mature faults like the San Andreas, where many years of activity have ground away a lot of the twists and bumps that might slow down an earth quake’s energy.

In the same way that it’s easier to pick up speed on a long straight runway than on a winding road, a rupture will acceler ate faster along a long, straight-ish fault than a snarled one, Meng said.

The strength of a

because the vaccines need time to be effective,” Davis said. “While pro tection does ramp up over one to two weeks after you are vaccinated, this doesn’t mean that you will have zero protection until this point. You still have some protection, and you will be prepared for future events.”

Many experts say they expect Covid-19 to rebound this winter.

In L.A. County, the daily number of newly reported cases has jumped almost 70% from last month – though it remains well below previous waves.

“Cases are rising, new variants are emerg ing, and there is concern about hospitals reach ing capacity,” Davis said. “I encourage everyone to use this information as a reminder that we need to take advantage of the resources that we have and use layered protections to have a safe holiday.”

supershear earthquake comes from the speed of that rupture. When sound waves accumulate in front of a jet moving faster than the speed of sound, they eventually merge into a single wave that a person on the ground hears as an explosion, or sonic boom.

And just as a sonic boom is louder than a typical engine’s roar, a supershear earthquake shakes harder.

“The same amount of energy released by the fault is being released in a shorter amount of time. So that always gives you a stronger shaking,” Meng said.

Current building codes are already designed to accommodate the possibility of a supers hear-strength earthquake, said Elizabeth Cochran, a

Meanwhile, the corona virus landscape continues to shift. The CDC esti mates that BA.5 – the omicron subvariant that has long been the dominant version circulating nation wide – has been surpassed by two of its descendants: BQ.1 and BQ.1.1.

While this could indicate that newer sub variants enjoy a growth advantage over BA.5, some health officials remain confident that the existing therapeutics and vaccines will blunt the worst of any winter wave. Included in that kit now are updated bivalent boosters that target both the original coronavirus strain and the dominant omicron sub variants, including BA.5.

“It’s really up to all of us. We really have this golden opportunity to stay safe during this fall season as we prepare for the holidays,” said Dr. Rais Vohra, Fresno County’s interim health officer.

seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Pas adena. But the violence of a supershear may be more likely to cause the sec ondary crises that cause so much devastation in a major quake, such as fires and landslides.

“It is a concern,” she said. “If you do have supershear rupture, you can then expect stron ger shaking intensities, which then can translate into larger possibilities for damage.”

Only about 2% of the 28,000 buildings lost in the 1906 earthquake collapsed from the tremors. The vast majority were destroyed by raging fires after the tremors ruptured gas and water pipes. The strength of an earthquake matters, and so does what happens after the shaking stops.

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KARISSA BROWN KATHY GILLESPIE –PRIZE CHAIRPERSON KELLY JAIMEZ

KRISTIN RUSSELL KRITIKA CURTIS

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LOUISE JACOB

MARIA DANEZIS MARIA ESPINOSA

MAURICE GEDDISL

MICHELLE SALDANA

MIKE JAIMEZ

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This week

THINGS TO DO

I Fairfield

2 and 6 p.m. Sunday

Missouri Street

Theatre Presents

“Elf Jr.: The Musical”

Downtown Theatre, 1035 Texas St. https://www. downtowntheatre.com.

I Suisun City

Noon Sunday

Sunday Champagne

Brunch

Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.

5 p.m. Monday

NFL Monday Night Football

Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.

6 p.m. Wednesday

Indie Artist Symposium

Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.

7 p.m. Thursday

Karaoke Thursdays & Open Mic

Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marina loungesuisun.com.

I Vacaville

5:30 p.m. Sunday

Makaha Sons Journey Downtown, 308 Main St. www.journey downtownvenue.com.

9 p.m. Friday

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

9 p.m. Saturday

Dueling Pianos: James & Lindsay Makse Restaurant, 555 Main St. duelingpianovacaville. com/events.

I Benicia

6 p.m. Sunday Poker Night

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

4:30 p.m. Friday

5-0 Boyz & Wyldz

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

9 p.m. Friday Goth Night

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

4:30 p.m. Saturday

Ticket to the Limit

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

8:30 p.m. Saturday Fog 5

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

I Vallejo

5:30 p.m. Wednesday

Tia Carroll Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St. https:// empresstheatre.org.

SOLANO WINDS BRINGING Yuletide

SOUNDS TO DOWNTOWN THEATRE

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The Solano Winds Com munity Concert Band is bringing the sounds of the yuletide season to the Downtown Theatre with its “Holiday Traditions: New & Olde” concert.

The event is scheduled for Dec. 2.

“The performance begins at 8 p.m. with Christmas March, a holiday medley by one of Amer ica’s foremost march composers, Edwin Franko Goldman,” the organizers said in a statement.

“From the secular to the sacred, the ensemble next per forms César Franck’s Panis Angelicus as we celebrate the composer’s 200th birthday. Vasily Kalinnikov’s Finale from

Symphony No. 1 is a spectacular blend of melody and vigor. The first half of the program con cludes with Josef Strauss’ polka ‘Ohne Sorgen,’ loosely translated as ‘Without Worries,’ arranged by Solano Winds trombonist Glen Lienhart.”

The recently debuted Jazz Ensemble will be part of the per formance, as well as Berklee School of Music alumnus

Black Friday arts and crafts fair returns to Village 360 for 3-day run

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FAIRFIELD — The Fair field-Suisun City Visual Arts Association and Village 360 invite the public to the 2nd Annual Black Friday Arts and Crafts Fair, which this year will include the addition of fine art.

The event offers fine arts and crafts by more than 30 fine artists and crafters

and it will take place on two floors of the conference build ing at the Village 360, located 4949 Suisun Valley Road in rural Fairfield.

Available artwork will include acrylic, watercolor, oil, color photography, black and white photography, ceramic, fused glass, draw ings, jewelry, computer art, mixed media, desserts, center pieces, books, kitchen items, wooden games, Hawai

ian art and more, according to event organizers.

This year’s event will also offer a free photo booth oper ated by Francisco Balandran, owner of Valuable Exposure Photography located on the second floor of the Solano Town Center. Each guest will receive a free 4x6-inch portrait. Valuable Exposure Photography will book studio

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‘Dead to Me’ enters its bittersweet last stage of grief

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When “Dead to Me” premiered in the spring of 2019, it set viewers up for one shocking reveal after another. The Netflix dark comedy wasn’t exactly honest with us when it introduced Jen Harding (Christina Applegate) and Judy Hale (Linda Cardellini) as two grieving women who form an unlikely bond after meeting at a bereavement support group.

Jen, cynical and jaded, is reeling from the sudden death of her husband, Ted, in a hit-and-run accident. Judy, bubbly and free-spir ited, is grieving several painful losses herself, but the story she shares – about her fiance, Steve, dying of a heart attack – is a doozy of

a lie. Jen and Judy connect over “Facts of Life” reruns, Entenmann’s cookies and TV’s go-to wellness treat ment for White women over 40: jumbo glasses of wine and the nostalgic, legalized

contraband of their youth.

(“It’s legal, relax,” Judy tells Jen while sparking a joint on the beach.)

Their friendship endures following the series’ first big reveal – that Steve (James

Marsden) is very much alive – and deepens in the episodes leading up to Judy’s confession that she was driving the 1966 Mustang that killed Ted. “Dead to Me” required viewers to suspend disbelief enough to buy that a woman would continue to be friends with someone she knows played a part in killing her husband, but even in those early episodes, it was clear that Jen and Judy were meant to be in each other’s orbit. Their entangled lives became the show’s inexora ble truth as the fallout from

Melvin Brito, who has com posed “Rudolph Ala Swing.” This will be its world premiere performance.

“Following the jazz lead, the Solano Winds Flute Choir adds a rhythm section to its ranks to perform ‘Sleigh Ride Samba,’ a clever new take by arranger Calvin Custer of Leroy

Vaca Jazz Society, musicians prep for annual AMO Christmas show

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VACAVILLE — Alive Music Orchestra swings into its 31st Annual Christmas Big Band Show as part of the Christmas production Dec. 9 at Valley Church.

The orchestra will incorporate traditional sing-along carols and popular Christmas songs made famous by a host of celebrity singers such as Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley and Nat King Cole. All are meant to remind people the holidays are a season of peace, family and most importantly the miraculous birth of Christ, the prince of peace, Stout AMO’s founder Keith Stout said in a press release.

Alive Music Orchestra’s big band vocalist the Rev. Frank Salamone of Cornerstone Church in Dixon and his daughter, vocalist Leah Walker are featured in the show, “Child is Born.”

Members of the Stout family will help to anchor the vocals with local musicians performing memora ble and popular Christmas songs. The orchestra’s newest director, renowned jazz saxophonist Ken Stout, who is the AMO band leader, takes the baton from twin brother Keith Stout, who led the orchestra for 32 years.

As it has for past decades past, the Alive Music Orchestra show incorporates an American tradition originally founded by Bob Hope’s USO Christmas tours overseas, hon oring and entertaining our troops.

“We always include a special dedication to our troops and their

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The Solano Winds Community Concert Band performs at the Paradise Valley Estates in Fairfield, Oct. 6, 2015.

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Christina Applegate, left, as Jen Harding, and Linda Cardellini as Judy Hale in the final season of “Dead to Me.”

the fatal hit-and-run grew more complicated and Season 1 ended with Steve’s bloody body in a pool. Season 2 upped the drama ante, introducing Steve’s “semi-identical” twin Ben (played to goof ball heights by Marsden) as a love interest for Jen.

Grief remains an ach ingly central theme as “Dead to Me” returns Thursday for its third and final season, which picks up just moments after Season 2’s cliff hanger ending: the scary car accident Jen and Judy get into after Ben, off the wagon after years of sobriety, swerves into Jen’s car at a dan gerous intersection. As with previous seasons, it’s hard to describe much (or any) of the plot without giving away the twists, but the dramedy’s final 10 episodes find Jen and Judy juggling life –messy and confounding as ever – while trying to conceal their roles in the active murder investi gation still surrounding Steve’s death.

“Dead to Me” has never been a perfect show, and the final outing is particularly uneven when it comes to the criminally minded storylines. One could quibble over the super ficial way the series incorporates characters of color – particularly police detectives Ana Perez (Diana Maria Riva) and Nick Prager (Brandon Scott), who both feel an outsize duty to protect Jen and Judy in various ways –and certain plot points wrap up with the shod diest metaphorical caution tape.

It might not matter to viewers, though.

The series, from creator Liz Feldman, excels in its depiction of two dynamic women who become each other’s chosen family. Their complex and intense relationship has always been the best part of “Dead to Me,” anchored by Emmy-nominated performances from Applegate and Cardel lini. In between Jen and Judy’s uniquely foul-mouthed banter and their murderous schemes, the show has explored more true-to-

life issues such as the emotional abuse that Judy comes to term with following Steve’s death and Jen’s pain surround ing intimacy issues she and Ted had following her preventive double mastectomy. Applegate, a breast cancer survi vor who underwent the surgery in 2008, urged Feldman to incorporate her personal experi ence. “[The surgery] is an incredibly painful thing to go through. It’s an amputation of a part of you,” Applegate told the Hollywood Reporter in 2019. “It’s part of being a woman, and I wanted to be honest. So I brought it to Liz and she was like, “OK, let me see how we can weave this in.” I think she did it beautifully.”

Other sobering sto rylines have revolved around Judy’s strug gle with infertility and Jen’s insecurities around motherhood. Though both have confessed unspeakable misdeeds to one another, the series spends a little more time this season grappling with what they owe to the other people in their lives: namely Ben, and Jen’s teenage son Charlie (Sam McCarthy). Whether it’s an adequate amount of time is up for debate; there is a certain audacity in continuing to lie to the people you love.

Despite its many twists and narrative falsehoods, “Dead to Me” was always authen tically about something bigger: the shared grief that brought Jen and Judy together. This season yet again brings us back to the bereave ment support group where the duo met. There, the same earnest pastor that introduced them explains that the group is referred to as a “circle” not just because of the way the seats are arranged, but because “grief is a continuum, it goes on and on and on and . . .”

The show knows when to close the loop on its unwieldy narrative; the murder mysteries become secondary as the show focuses more on the core friendship at its center. “Dead to Me” returns, as always, to grief, but it’s the cathartic and beautiful kind – the kind that stays with you, reminding you of what you lost and what it meant to your life.

Taylor Swift feels your pain

She likens fans’ Ticketmaster woes to ‘bear attacks’

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Well. Taylor Swift is not happy with Ticketmaster. Not happy at all.

Swift has finally spoken out about the ticketing disaster that played out this week as frustrated fans tried – and often failed – to buy tickets to the “1989” singer’s Eras concert tour.

“Well. It goes without saying that I’m extremely protective of my fans,” she wrote in a statement posted Friday in her Ins tagram stories. “We’ve been doing this for decades together and over the years, I’ve brought so many elements of my career in house. I’ve done this SPECIFICALLY to improve the quality of my fans’ experience by doing it myself with my team who care as much about my fans as I do.”

The implication? Tick etmaster doesn’t care about you like T-Swift cares about you.

It was “excruciating” to watch the situation unfold this week, the singersongwriter said, given that she had “no recourse” to improve it.

Friday’s planned public sale of Swift tickets was canceled Thursday due to “extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inven tory to meet that demand,” Ticketmaster said. That happened after people who registered in advance and got presale codes through the company’s “Verified Fan” process found them

selves bumped out of line repeatedly as the Ticket master system crashed.

“There are a multitude of reasons why people had such a hard time trying to get tickets and I’m trying to figure out how this sit uation can be improved moving forward,” Swift said.

“I’m not going to make excuses for anyone because we asked them, multiple times, if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could,” she said without ever mention ing Ticketmaster by name in her statement. “It’s truly amazing that 2.4 million people got tickets, but it really pisses me off that a lot of them feel like they went through several bear attacks to get them.”

The “bear attacks”

started weeks ago, when fans struggled even to reg ister for possible presale access via the Verified Fan system. Then the West Coast presale was delayed for several hours Tuesday as Ticketmaster struggled to cope with demand.

Ticketmaster explained the situation Thursday as it announced there would be no tickets going on sale to the public at large, as had been planned. The company blamed the situ ation on bots – and on the fans themselves.

“[T]his time the stag gering number of bot attacks as well as fans who didn’t have invite codes drove unprece dented traffic on our site, resulting in 3.5 billion total system requests – 4x our previous peak,” the company said.

“Never before has

a Verified Fan on sale sparked so much atten tion – or uninvited volume. This disrupted the pre dictability and reliability that is the hallmark of our Verified Fan platform.”

Swift set a record Tuesday for the most tickets sold after about 3.5 million people pre registered for the on-sale through the Verified Fan system. Ticketmaster said the typical turnout to buy tickets through this system is around 40%, and it waitlisted 2 million fans.

In her note, Swift also spoke to those fans who wanted tickets but didn’t get them.

“[M]y hope is to provide more opportunities for us to all get together and sing these songs,” she wrote. “Thank you for wanting to be there. You have no idea how much that means.”

Pompeo isn’t fully checked out of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’

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After reducing her duties as surgeon Dr. Mer edith Grey on “Grey’s Anatomy,” longtime star Ellen Pompeo said she hasn’t cut ties with the ABC hit series entirely.

In an Instagram post Thursday, Pompeo reflected on her time with “Grey’s Anatomy,” which was co-created by Shonda

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sessions for the holiday studio at the mall. Pack ages are available for an additional cost.

The Landing will supply an assortment of food, The Point will offer a wide selection of drinks, and BackRoad Vines Vineyards will supply a variety of wines. Guests will be able to stroll among the vendors and enjoy the holiday music, sip fine wine and purchase holiday gifts for friends and family.

The Black Friday Arts and Crafts Fair will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Nov,.27. Additional information for vendors and the public is avail able at www.fvaa-arts. org/fsvaa-art-festivals.

The public will have an opportunity Sat urday to support Play for a Stray, a local dog rescue nonprofit.

The Solano Commu nity Animal Response Team will also be on site Saturday. The team is a volunteer-led 501(c) (3) nonprofit that works in cooperation with local

governmental and non governmental agencies to ensure the best possi ble outcome for animals in Solano and neigh boring counties that need assistance during an emergency.

Team members at the event will discuss what they can provide to the community, including helping homeowners prepare a disaster action plan and educate owners on how the organization can help them during a natural disaster evacuate their animals safely. The team is seeking volun teers to join us them, well as donations to further the nonprofit’s ability to help the community.

For more information, visit https://www.sola nocart.org/.

Ask for a private tour while visiting Village 360 of the new Village 360 Art Gallery in the BackRoad Vines Winery Club Room. You may view or purchase all the artwork on display at Village 360 at any time in person or at www. fvaa org/fsvaa-galleries.

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

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families, praying for a safe return home,” Keith Stout, a self-described Air Force “brat” whose father and father in-law both served in Vietnam and whose grandfa ther and uncle served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, said in the press release. “That’s some thing our family feels strongly about, especially

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Anderson’s holiday classic.”

Minor Alterations No. 2 by David Lovrien is a holiday medley in an unusual key, “while Solano Winds saxophon ist Melinda Ellis takes the podium to conduct this lighthearted selection.”

“ ‘And the Moun tains Echoed: Gloria!’ is filled with fanfare and pomp as it presents com poser Robert Longfield’s interpretation of a famil iar Christmas hymn. The program concludes with some winter fun, as the band takes us along on

Rhimes. In her post, she praised her fans for their support during her tenure and said they have made her 19-season run “so fun and ICONIC!!”

“This isn’t your first time on the rollercoaster . . . you know the show must go on and I’ll definitely be back to visit,” she added.

Pompeo’s final episode as a full-time “Grey’s Anatomy” cast member

during Christmas and the holiday season.”

The show will include AMO’s host/chaplain and lead vocalist for the past three decades, Salamone, encouraging families about love, peace and the miracle of Christmas. The Christmas show will cele brate its 31st anniversary of Christmas produc tions and will recognize AMO musicians, vocal ist, actors and support staff serving and or have served the community for many years.

an exhilarating ride on a toboggan,” the orga nizers said.

Solano Winds musical director Bill Doherty invites all to attend the Fairfield annual Holiday Tree Lighting at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 2, “and stay for the concert.”

Tickets are $17, $13 for students and seniors. They are on sale at the theater box office, 1035 Texas St. or at solanowinds.org.

Proof of Covid-19 vaccinations or proof of a negative test within the previous three days is required.

For more informa tion, send an email to director@solano winds.org or visit the Solano Winds website.

is set to air Feb. 23, when Season 19 makes its winter return. Last Thursday, ABC released a clip teasing Mere dith’s departure.

“Meredith leaves Seattle to begin again,” the teaser said.

In the latest episode, which aired on Nov. 10, Meredith announced that she would be leaving Seattle for Boston, where

The Vaca Jazz Society has for more than two decades sponsored the show with support from their members, spon sors, military and civilian volunteers. The Jazz Soci ety’s 22nd Annual Free “Unify in Music” a North Bay Music Festival in Vacaville will continue next year from Sept. 15-17.

Alive Music Orches tra will accept love offering donations at the end of the program, with proceeds going toward supporting the Vaca Jazz

she will pursue Alzheim er’s research.

The Los Angeles Times previously confirmed that Pompeo will remain an executive producer on the series and will con tinue doing voice-overs for this season’s episodes. Whether Meredith will drop in to see her beloved colleagues at Grey Sloan Memorial has yet to be revealed.

Society’s Youth Music Camps directed by Mike Williams, a retired Air Force senior master ser geant formerly of the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West.

Valley Church is located at 5063 Maple Road in Vacaville. The performance starts at 7 p.m. Visit www. VacaJazzSociety.org for a list of sponsors, and contact the Alive Music Orchestra on Facebook about the upcoming AMO Christmas show.

Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images/TNS file Taylor swift, seen at the Toronto international Film Festival in september, let loose on Ticketmaster on Friday after fans struggled this week to get eras tour tickets.

Abuse survivors rally in Baltimore to demand action

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BALTIMORE — After the more than 270 members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops elected their new president in Baltimore, some observ ers of the nation’s most powerful Catholic body hailed the choice of Arch bishop Timothy P. Broglio as a healthy compromise between the conservative and progressive factions that have emerged into public view in recent years.

Others were less sure about the longtime arch bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA – and they gath ered Wednesday outside the Baltimore Marri ott Waterfront, the site of the bishops’ annual con ference, to make their voices heard.

With icy winds gusting in from the Inner Harbor, representatives of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, held signs and announced three principal

demands of the incom ing conference president: pledge to stop the church from using funds to fight legislation that would give survivors more time to seek justice against abusers; call out a minor ity of bishops who have declined to make public the names of credibly accused priests, and create systems for monitor ing the behavior of those have been separated from

the church over sexual misconduct.

SNAP leaders said they have particular con cerns about Broglio, as the archdiocese he oversees is one of only three arch dioceses and more than 12 dioceses that have yet to make public the names of “credibly accused clergy, deacons, nuns and laity.”

The Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, a 2002 doc

ument by the bishops that established procedures to address allegations of sexual abuse of minors by clergy, calls for “transpar ency” but stops short of requiring such disclosures.

A spokesman for the Archdiocese for the Mil itary Services, Taylor Henry, referred report ers to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for comment. Chieko Noguchi, the organization’s public affairs director, did not respond Wednesday to messages.

According to a state ment issued by SNAP leaders, the election Tuesday of Broglio “sends the message that the trans parency promised” in the bishops’ 2022 charter “is no longer a priority for the church.”

Frank Schindler, a SNAP member and an abuse survivor who lives in Baltimore, called Broglio’s election “a disgrace” and a “clear sign” the church is not backing up its claims of openness.

SNAP leaders said in their statement that Arch bishop Jose H. Gomez, the outgoing conference president, did too little to counteract what they called the “ongoing sexual abuse scandal in the Cath olic Church.”

“We hope beyond hope that this new presi dent will break from the trend set by his predeces sors and actually address this ongoing scourge, as opposed to ignoring it,” the statement continued.

The statement pointed to the March suspension of the Rev. David Marcotte, a priest in Indianapolis, amid allegations of sexual abuse of a minor, and last month’s release of a report by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel about abuse in the Marquette diocese, as evidence that abuse remains a problem.

Inside the Marriott, the bishops on Monday acknowledged the 20th anniversary of the cre ation of what’s also known as The Dallas Charter.

SNAP leaders criti cized what they termed a “victory lap.”

David Lorenz, director of the organization’s Mary land chapter, described the document as “tooth less” because it contains no enforcement provisions.

“What do thoughts and prayers do to solve these problems and help survivors?” he said. “Do you know what happens if a bishop violates the charter? Nothing.”

In Maryland, people who were abused as minors have 20 years after turning 18 to seek civil redress in sex abuse cases. A state law passed in 2017 increased that grace period from seven years. There is no crim inal statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases in the state.

The Archdiocese of Bal timore began posting the names of credibly accused priests on its website in 2002 and continues to update the list.

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From left, Judy Lorenz, David Lorenz, Teresa Lancaster, David O’Kane and Kimberley O’Kane at a news conference, Wednesday, in Baltimore with members of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.

Dear Annie: Back in the ’90s, before cell phones, I discovered

well put the kids in the car and go look for him. However, one day I went

our marriage. That was the secret – lots of talking, which led to changes

it. They didn’t know for many years. They were very hurt, but I hope they’ve forgiven

husband’s commitment, to keeping your marriage and

hard things done efficiently. If you need to make edits to the proceedings, cut from the middle. A good start and a tidy finish are the most important parts.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It’s easy to assume when things aren’t going your way that there’s something you can do differently, but this isn’t always the case. What if it’s them? If you could engineer things in a way that works for you, what changes would be made then?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It’s once again time to have a meeting with your self to catch up on the status of your head and heart. It’s comforting to get honest. You don’t have to pretend about any thing when you’re alone because you accept yourself.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Because you identify as a brave person, you don’t have to take unnecessary risks to prove yourself to anyone. Your goals themselves are bold enough. All the excitement you need can be had by way of intelligent, thoughtful process.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). To be half-interested in people or half-engaged in your scene is not your style. There’s a processing that needs to happen to keep you from being oblivious to the key moments and circumstances, or detached from the beauty around you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Even though you currently cannot con ceive of how you’ll get where you want to be, you know in your heart you’ll get there. There was a time it seemed impossible that you’d ever be where you are now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Trust yourself. Your timing and ability to surmise character is innate. You move on opportunity before you even know exactly what it is. You have a feeling about who you should be around, so follow that instinct.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You will come to the realization that some sit uations that were once a source of stress to you no longer deserve or require your attention. They may be actionable items you must handle.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There’s a shuffle in your social picture. Remind yourself of the qualities you prefer in yourself and others. New people are coming into your world. You’re mindful of how people you spend time with can change who you are.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Happy 80th solar return for President Joe Biden. The abundant Scorpio energy in Biden’s chart (sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars all in the soulful sign) signify a life of constant renewal. Scorpio is a sign of transformation and hope. The water sign aspects are balanced by his natal Taurus moon, the earth sign of money. Financial stability figures into his lead ership karma.

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Want to feel happier?

TRY SNACKING ON JOY

RichaRd Sima THE WASHINGTON POST

Here’s an antidote to an everstressful, busy and uncertain world. Try finding and savoring little bites of joy in your day. I call them “joy” snacks.

By mindfully tuning into the pleas ant, nice and sometimes routine experiences of every day, we can trans form an otherwise mundane moment into something more meaningful and even joyful.

Lunch with a co-worker. Walking the dog. Texting with a friend. Watching a favorite show. Eating a favorite meal. Calling your mom. Just hanging out.

New research shows that finding and savoring these nuggets of joy can be a way of consistently cultivating a good, meaningful life.

“It’s not these big things that we sort of create in our heads, but these smaller day-to-day experiences that bring us meaning,” said Joshua Hicks, psychologist at Texas A&M University’s Existential Psychology Collaboratory.

Understanding the science of joy

Surprisingly, joy has been relatively neglected by scholars.

But recent research suggests that joy is a distinct positive emotion for “when we feel connected, or reunited with something or someone that’s really important to us,” said Philip Watkins, psychologist who studies joy, gratitude and happiness at Eastern Washington University.

Watkins’s research, perhaps unsur prisingly, finds that feeling joy is strongly associated with subjec tive well-being, which is essential for human flourishing.

Big events like weddings or reunions are well-known smorgasbords for joy. But smaller bites of joy in everyday life matter, too, and are easier to attain if we don’t overlook them.

Previous research has shown we derive meaning in life from three key factors – feeling like our life makes sense, having a purpose driven by goals we care about and feeling like our lives matter.

A February study published in Nature Human Behavior involving more than 3,000 participants across

multiple experiments reported that valuing one’s life experiences, or experiential appreciation, is another potent way of making life feel more meaningful.

When asked by researchers to recount their most meaningful expe rience that occurred in the past week, for most people, it was not about their grand, overarching goals, but some thing simpler and more mundane that stood out, such as having an enjoyable conversation or being sur rounded by nature.

“It’s not just about you creating meaning in your head,” said Hicks, who co-wrote the study. “It’s about detect ing meaning that’s already out there.”

Snacking on joy can go beyond focusing on our own experiences. Sharing our joy snacks also helps foster even stronger bonds with those we care about most. Relationship research has found that couples who celebrate small things regularly – not just the anni versaries – had stronger and happier partnerships.

There is also joy to be had when you take the time to reconnect with the person that is always with you: yourself.

Small acts of self-care and setting aside time for simple pleasures and celebrations can be emotional nourish ment you gift to yourself.

How to find more joy snacks

Joy is a mind-set and something we can orient toward by being on the lookout for it.

“You can’t produce joy, but you can prepare for it,” Watkins said.

Researchers are studying how people can become more receptive to joyful moments. Taking time each day to recount past episodes of joy may be one way to increase your predisposi tion for joy in the future, though more work is needed on how best to develop a “lifestyle of joy,” Watkins said.

Cultivating gratitude is another way of cultivating joy. In one study, Watkins and colleagues used questionnaire data to measure participants’ gratitude and joyfulness in the moment and over time. They found that the more grateful a person is, the more likely they were to feel joy in the future. The reverse was also true: The more predisposed to joy someone is, the more likely they would feel gratitude as well.

“Joy and gratitude kind of feed on each other,” Watkins said. “We call it a cycle of virtue.”

Gratitude interventions, such as writing down the things we felt grate ful for during the day, have been found to improve mood and may foster more gratitude.

It is also important not to fall prey to what some psychologists have called “killjoy thinking,” which actively inhib its enjoyment by neutralizing positive moods. For example, watching a beau tiful sunset with a loved one but only focusing on how cold it is about to get is tantamount to stealing a joy snack right out of your own mouth.

“If you’re not able to see the good in your life, you’re always overwhelmed by the bad in your life, you’re probably not going to prepare yourself for expe riencing joy,” Watkins said.

One way to increase joy is to try savoring, which means mindfully paying attention, appreciating and accentuating the positive experi ences we have.

That cup of coffee. The cuddliness of your pet. A joke whose punchline hits just right.

Focusing on the sensations and emo tions you feel in these moments can make the joy snack all the richer.

It can take practice to get better at identifying and appreciating these experiences, but “once you learn to slow down and pay attention to those things, put more weight on those things, your life feels more fulfilled and more meaningful,” Hicks said.

Nature is one powerful source of joy snacks that many people can nosh on, in part because of its power of inducing awe.

Hicks and his colleagues found that just having participants watch the two-minute opener to the nature doc umentary “Planet Earth” produced appreciation for the experience and, in turn, a greater sense of meaning.

“Nature is all around us, but it’s very easy to ignore it and downplay it,” Hicks said.

Sometimes taking a walk in the park and smelling the roses – by yourself or with others – is simply all you need to do to find some everyday joy.

“No matter who you are, no matter where you are in life, there’s something out there that can bring you joy and happiness,” Hicks said.

So, what is your joy snack this week?

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Walking the dog can become more meaningful and joyful by mindfully tuning into the experience.

US can’t match World’s fever pitch for Cup

By a ndre mouChard TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY

As she churned on an elliptical at a 24-Hour Fitness in Tustin, Rialto resident Shiana Wash ington looked at a nearby TV screen, saw a count down-style clock that read “3 Days: 13 Hours: 19 Minutes,” and asked what she thought was an obvious question.

“Until what?”

In any other gym, in any other country, people would have thought Wash

ington was joking. Here, her query only resulted in a little man-splaining.

“That’s until the World Cup starts,” said a guy on the machine next to Washington’s. “That’s, you know, soccer.”

The World Cup, which starts Sunday in Qatar, is soccer; 28 days and 32 nations and 96 (regulation time) hours of high-stakes match play featuring national and cul tural rivalries that range from friendly to lethal. An estimated 4 billion earth

lings will watch at least a snippet of the tournament, and in many countries, everything from schools to bars to wars will pause so everybody can take in the action.

“People say soccer is a religion, and you can chuckle at that, but it’s the truth,” said Martin Wall work, a long-time youth and men’s soccer coach from Huntington Beach who grew up in England.

“The sport really means something to people,” Wallwork added.

“Just not as much for most Americans.

“That’s not a bad thing,” he added. “It’s just the way it is right now.”

Though marketing data and sports participation numbers and even TV and online audience ratings all suggest Americans play the game and watch the game and spend money on it, data is only part of the deal when it comes to measuring soccer fandom. For much of the world, the sport is simply bigger than numbers, offering

meaning and solace to people in ways that aren’t easy to track.

Still, if the Burning Man-meets-United Nations vibe of World Cup embodies international soccer fandom, the count down-clock exchange at the gym – a mix of ambiva lence and ignorance – still typifies where the sport stands for many casual sports fans in America.

So, this weekend, as most of the planet gears up to geek out over the world’s biggest sporting

event (get used to those words, you’re going to hear them a lot over the next month), the mar keting wizards of U.S. and international foot ball will continue to chip away at a project that’s been underway for at least a half-century – trans forming the United States from a soccer country, where the game is played and enjoyed and forgot ten about, into a full-blown soccer culture, where

No issues for 49ers ahead of Monday game in Mexico City

Cam Inman BAY AREANEWS GROUP

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — Neither practicing in 9-degree wind chill Thursday, nor moving the next workouts indoors onto artificial turf, could hinder the 49ers’ bountiful health after a week-long stay in these chilly confines.

The 49ers are as close to full strength as they’ve been all season, and that bodes well as they fly Sunday to Mexico City for Monday night’s game against Arizona Cardinals.

Vanden dominates Kimball, earns a return trip to section title game

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FAIRFIELD — The magni tude of the opportunity ahead isn’t lost on head coach Sean Murphy. His Vanden High School foot ball team has the chance to win back-to-back Sac-Joaquin Section championships.

“We could be the first team in school history. Of course, our bas ketball teams do it all the time,” Murphy said with a smile.

Vanden relied on its ground game Friday night in a howling wind that blew hard in one direc tion at George A. Gammon Field. The Vikings were able to put away visiting Kimball 29-6 in the Division IV semifinal.

Running back Jordan Jones had 17 carries for 198 yards and two touchdowns. The Vikings’ defense also continued to deliver, partic ularly against a vaunted passing game in the Jaguars.

“I feel ecstatic,” Jones said. “It feels great. The O-line really came through. As the wind got stron ger, we wanted to run the ball more for sure.”

Vanden will take on Capital Christian next week for the section title. The game will be at 1 p.m. Sat urday at Sacramento City College.

The Cougars beat West Park of Roseville 41-34 to advance to the title matchup with the defend ing state champions. And if the Vikings need a scouting report, Will C. Wood lost to Capital Christian

Vanden boys have high expectations after reaching NorCal semifinals

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FAIRFIELD —

Micheal Holloway says he might have his most tal ented boys basketball team at Vanden High School since 2015, which is saying something after his Vikings are just nine months removed from reaching the Northern California semifinals.

"It should be interest ing," Holloway said. "They are friends and they work well together. Their skill level is extremely high and they are good stu dents. Right now they are averaging a 3.35 GPA."

Vanden opens the season Tuesday at Hiram Johnson in Sacramento.

Vanden went

21-13 overall last season and won the Monti cello Empire League title with a 9-1 record. The Vikings playoff journey was long, winning a Sac-Joaquin Section Divi sion III title with a 57-53 victory over Central Catholic before falling in the regional semifinals to eventual champion Elk Grove, 42-41.

Three starters return from that team. But Hol loway knows talent alone doesn't get a team far in the postseason. A lot has to go right.

"You need everything to fall into place at the right time and you need to catch lightning in a bottle," he said. "You need to make adjustments and have everything

48-13 just two weeks ago to open the playoffs.

Friday’s game couldn’t have started better for Vanden.

Jones capped a four-play opening drive by cutting up the middle for a 25-yard touchdown.

On Kimball’s third play on offense, quarterback Jayden McKey was intercepted by Vanden’s Isaiah Lacy. Six plays later, running back Elijah Fisherman scored from 1 yard out. With one Rafael Ortiz Velez point-after kick, it was 13-0 Vanden five minutes in.

The Vikings scored one time in the second quarter when quarter

This week’s goal: highaltitude acclimation. Did it work?

“I don’t know. That’s what science says,” coach Kyle Shanahan replied.

Wide receiver Deebo Samuel answered: “(Friday) we felt it a lot, because we did a lot at practice. Today we felt it a little bit. I feel we’ll be ready to go.”

Defensive lineman Arik Armstead will not be ready, however, and will miss his sixth straight game as he nears recov ery from a lower-leg stress fracture. Defen sive end Samson Ebukam is the only other player on the 49ers’ injury report, and he is ques tionable because of a quadriceps injury that limited his return to prac tice Friday and Saturday; it kept Ebukam out of last Sunday’s win over the Los Angeles Chargers.

Perhaps the 49ers’

only mystery Saturday involved cornerback Charvarius Ward, who rejoined the team and practiced Saturday after missing the previous two days for a family matter.

The injury-laden Cardinals listed quarter back Kyler Murray and wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins as questionable with hamstring injuries; ruled out were tight end Zach Ertz, left tackle D.J. Humphries, and corner back Byron Murphy.

The 49ers will fly to Mexico City after a light workout Sunday, then return to the Bay Area immediately fol lowing their first game in Mexico since 2005 and first international game since 2013 (London).

Perhaps best illus trating the 49ers’ full-speed-ahead approach is defensive end Nick Bosa, who played all but two snaps last game en route to a season-high, 54-snap performance. “Last game, I was feeling fresh,” Bosa said.

And what of Jimmy Garoppolo’s health, eight months removed from right-shoulder surgery that boomeranged his career back for a sixth season with the 49ers?

“Yeah, I feel good,” Garoppolo said. “No dif ferent than any other year. It was a good offsea son; it wasn’t my typical offseason, so I got to save the body a little bit. I think it’s paying some dues right now.”

Rodriguez boys could be primed for another trip to the postseason

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FAIRFIELD — Head coach Jaquree Sankey believes his Rodriguez High School boys basket ball team has a chance to go far this season, much like the unit he coached last year did in his debut campaign.

cello Empire League and took third place. They lost to champion Vanden twice by only a com bined three points and to second-place Vacaville two times by a combined five points.

work right. We'll see what happens."

Tyler Thomp son returns for his junior senior as a 6-foot-6 guard who earned recognition as an all-MEL selection. Thompson aver aged 16 points a game last season.

Junior Ahsan Huff,

a 6-foot-7 junior, returns after averaging 13.3 rebounds per game as an honorable mention selection. Returning also is senior Sterling McCla nahan, a 6-foot-3 senior guard who was also an honorable mention pick.

“We are guard-heavy, but we play small and scrappy,” Sankey said. “Yeah, I think we can repeat what we did last year. I think we have the opportunity to win the MEL and compete for section.”

Rodriguez went 19-6 under Sankey in his first year as varsity coach. The Mustangs were 7-3 in the Monti

Sankey’s squad opened the Sac-Joa quin Section Division II playoffs last season with a 92-81 win over Acalanes before the season ended with a 68-53 loss to the even tual-champion Grant in the second round.

It all started with a strong preseason.

The Mustangs started 11-2 with tournament titles in Davis and Wood land. They could have

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Vanden High School’s Jordan Jones breaks away for big yardage Friday night against Kimball at George A. Gammon

Field. The Vikings came away with a 29-6 victory in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV Semifinal.

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Tyler Thompson returns to the Vanden lineup after a solid season that earned him all-MEL honors in 2021-22.

CALENDAR

TV sports

Basketball College Men

• Hall of Fame Classic, Championship, ESPN, 10 a.m.

• Myrtle Beach Invitational, Championship, ESPN2, 10 a.m.

• Continental Tire Main Event, Championship, ESPN, Noon.

• Charleston Classic, Championship, ESPN2, 12:30 p.m.

• Continental Tire Main Event, Consolation, ESPN, 2:30 p.m.

• Kentucky vs. Gonzaga, ESPN, 4:30 p.m.

• Houston vs. Oregon, ESPN, 6:30 p.m.

College Women

• South Carolina vs. Stanford, 7, 10, Noon.

NBA

• Detroit vs. Sacramento, NBCSCA (Vacaville and Rio Vista), 3 p.m.

• Golden State at Houston, NBCSBA (Fairfield and Suisun City), 4 p.m.

Football

CFL

• Toronto at Winnipeg, ESPN2, 3:30 p.m.

NFL

• Philadelphia vs. Indianapolis, 5, 13, 10 a.m.

• Las Vegas at Denver, 2, 40, 1 p.m.

• Dallas at Minnesota, 5, 13, 1:25 p.m.

• Kansas City vs. L.A. Chargers, 3, 5:15 p.m.

Golf

• LPGA, CMGE Group Tour Championship, 3, 10 a.m.

• PGA, RSM Classic, GOLF, 10 a.m.

Motor Sports

• F1, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, ESPN2, 4:55 a.m.

Soccer World Cup

• Qatar vs. Ecuador, FS1, 8 a.m.

Torres scores 5 times as Armijo’s soccer team routs Vaca Christian

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FAIRFIELD — Diego

Torres scored five goals and the Armijo High School boys soccer team rolled to a 10-0 win Friday night over Vacav ille Christian in the season opener.

Torres had a hat trick before halftime and added two more scores after the break. Issac Aguirre Valenzuela had two goals, while Dawson Le, Misael Gomez and Abraham Perez Ascencio also scored. Jackson Harrington was the goal keeper in the first half and Miguel Salas protected the net in the second to secure the shutout.

“Overall, it was great work by all our players and everyone got some good play time and learned some valuable lessons to take to our next game,” Armijo head coach Megan Flores said in an email.

Armijo returns to action Nov. 30 with a home match against American Canyon.

Vaca boys soccer opens season with 4-0 win over Vallejo

VACAVILLE — The Vacaville High School boys soccer team opened its season Friday night with a 4-0 win over visit ing Vallejo.

Elias Ordonez and Oscar Rangel had two goals apiece for the Bulldogs. Rangel also assisted one of the goals by Ordonez.

Vacaville also picked up a 7-0 win in the junior varsity match. Fernando Velata led the team with four goals.

Vacaville is back in action Nov. 29, at home against Mount Diablo of Concord.

Basketball Vacaville Christian boys holds off Elite

VALLEJO — Vacaville Christian High School’s boys basketball team

opened its season Friday with a 59-52 win over Elite in Vallejo.

Garrett Kuch led the Falcons with 22 points. Landon Graves scored 16 points and Brian Laxamara added 12. Thomas Lane pulled down eight rebounds and had seven assists.

Vacaville Christian led 28-27 at halftime but was able to pull away some with a 31-25 edge after the break.

The Falcons play again Nov. 29 at Delta in Clarksburg.

Scoreboard

BASKETBALL

Toronto, 4:30 p.m. Anaheim at St. Louis, 5 p.m. Arizona at Nashville, 5 p.m. Colorado at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

6 0 .400 230 258 L.A. Rams 3 6 0 333 148 200 Week 11 Thursday’s Game Tennessee 27, Green Bay 17 Sunday’s Games Chicago at Atlanta, 10 a.m. Carolina at Baltimore, 10 a.m. Cleveland at Buffalo, 10 a.m. Washington at Houston, 10 a.m. Philadelphia at Indianapolis, 10 a.m. N.Y. Jets at New England, 10 a.m. L.A. Rams at New Orleans, 10 a.m. Detroit at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m. Las Vegas at Denver, 1:05 p.m. Dallas at Minnesota, 1:25 p.m. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1:25 p.m. Kansas City at L.A. Chargers, 5:20 p.m. Monday’s Game SAN FRANCISCO at Arizona, 5:15 p.m.

Cal uses 2-fumble play to beat Stanford during Big Game 125

by Steve K RoneR SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

BERKELEY — Forty years after Cal used five laterals to score the winning touch down through the Stanford band to prevail 25-20 in the 1982 Big Game, the Bears scored the go-ahead touch down in Saturday's 125th Big Game on a twofumble play.

Cal, which trailed by 11 entering the fourth quarter, prevailed 27-20, winning back-to-back Big Games for the first time since 2008-09.

Stanford led 17-12 and had the ball at its 38. Running QB Ashton Daniels gained 2 yards before Cal safety stripped the ball from him and cornerback Jer emiah Earby scooped it at the 40.

Earby returned it 3 yards before Daniels jarred the ball loose. Linebacker Jackson Sirmon was the right man in the right spot. He recovered Earby's fumble and motored 37 yards to the end zone.

Like Kevin Moen four decades earlier, Sirmon scored his TD in the south end zone, near the right sideline. Unlike Moen, Sirmon did not knock over a trombone player.

Jack Plummer's pass to Jaydn Ott on the twopoint conversion put the Bears on top 20-17.

After a Stanford punt, the Bears had a chance to add to their lead. They were at the Cardi nal 20 when Plummer threw his second endzone interception of the game. This was picked by Omari Porter.

Later in the quarter,

Stanford was at its 28. Tanner McKee threw a pass deep down the middle that was intercepted by safety Daniel Scott. The sixthyear senior returned it 40 yards to the Stan ford 9 with 2:16 left. The Cal fans could just about assume the Axe would be staying in Berkeley.

Ott ensured it as he scored from the 1 on 3rd-and-goal. Ott fin ished with 97 yards on 18 carries.

The Bears (4-7, 2-6 Pac-12) thus ended their losing streak at six games. They also ended their Memorial Stadium Big Game skid at six games. Cal hadn't won a Big Game in Berkeley since 2008. Fans poured out of the stands to cele brate at game's end.

Stanford (3-8, 1-8) lost its fourth straight and

is assured of finishing last in the conference, either alone or tied with Colorado.

The announced atten dance at Memorial Stadium was 51,892, the first sellout at M.

The Bears had gone seven quarters without an offensive TD when they began a drive at the Stan ford 47 early in the fourth quarter, down 17-6. They took seven plays to finally get in the end zone. Plummer found Monroe Young on a 1-yard slant for the score.

Plummer's pass on a two-point conversion attempt was incomplete and the Bears were still down by five.

Cal fired offensive coordinator Bill Mus grave and offensive line coach Angus McClure last Sunday.

Rio Vista

Buckingham boys hold off

VACAVILLE — The Buckingham Charter boys basketball team notched a 31-28 win Friday night over Rio Vista.

Sophomore Deven Hiroaka-Lee had eight points and four steals for the Knights. Senior Nigel Harrison added six points and eight rebounds.

“The team played well in our first game of the season,” Buckingham head coach Dan Curry said by email. “While we have work to do, I thought that they didn’t give up and played all the way through, even when Rio Vista challenged us.”

No statistical infor mation was available from Rio Vista.

Buckingham returns to action Nov. 28 at home against Delta.

College Solano women net win over

San Jose

ROCKVILLE — The Solano College women’s basketball team picked up a 44-37 win over San Jose on the road Friday night.

Jaslyn Woods scored a team-high 16 points and pulled down 10 rebounds Melody Rafan had 10 points and Janae Jackson added 11 rebounds.

The Falcons improved to 2-3 on the season. Solano was scheduled to play Skyline late Saturday.

Golf Rancho Solano Women’s Golf Club

Game: Criss Cross, Low Net Ace of the Month, and Turkey Shoot

Low Net: Jody Knight - ACE

Low Gross: Pla Lee

First Flight:

Kathryn Houk, 1st

Jody Knight, 2nd Christine Bailey, 3rd

Second Flight: Amy Shively, 1st Nancy Thurow, 2nd Margie Miller, 3rd

Closest to the Pin:

Beryl Bridges, #8 10’10’’

Elaine Peterson, #15 3’6’’

Turkey Shoot Winners:

1. Jody Knight, Net 67

2. Terri Cameron, Net 73

3. Amy Shively, Net 74

4. Pla Lee Net, 75

Birdies:

Christine Bailey #15

Elaine Peterson #15 Kathryn Houk #15 & #18

Chip Ins: Mary Johnsen #7 Kathryn Houk #15 Margie Miller #16 Mary Lou Miller #16

Rio Vista Women’s Golf Club

Turkey Trot Low Net of the Field: KarenAnn Evans, net 60.

Closest to the pin: Pam Fashin gon Hole 10 at 7’ 6”.

Birdies: Pam Fashing, 2. Chip-in birdie: KarenAnn Evans.

Chip-ins: Donna Nunes, 2. Marian Bard, 1. Helen Swarbrick, 1.

First Flight: 7 players

First Place: Denise SargentNatour, net 69 Second Place: Jackie Evans, net 73

Third Place: Pam Fashing, net 74

Second Flight: 7 players

First Place: Loretta Ortenblad, net 74

Second Place: Suzi Masterson, net 75

Third Place: Sharon David, net 76

Third Flight: 6 players

First Place: Donna Nunes, net 66

Second Place: Darl McCarthy, net 68 Third Place: Lynn Grace, net 70

Paradise Valley Women’s Golf Club

Game: Sweeps First Flight: 1st - Chris Moore, net 68 2nd - Jackye Harbert, net 69 3rd - Darlene Goodman, net 71 4th - Lynn Csanyi, net 72 Second Flight: 1st - Jody Knight, net 69 2nd - Sandy Handel, net 71 3rd - Oksun Parrott, net 72 4th - Lisa Finnegan, net 75

Third Flight: 1st - Becky Carroll, net 65

life and death can seem mere stand-ins for what happens on the pitch.

While that goal seems to inch closer every World Cup, the stakes might be rising. That’s because of another countdown, one that’s not yet on any TV screen but might as well be: “3 Years, 200 days.”

That’s the time between the start of this World Cup and kickoff for World Cup 2026, which will take place in 16 North American cities, including Los Angeles.

Soccer country? Yes

If you are under 40 years old, there’s an excellent chance you

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Vanden picked up some solid transfers in senior point guard Justiz Wilson from Rodriguez and senior guard E'Jay Rogers from Benicia. Junior power forward Luka Radovanovic came over from Vacaville but will sit out at this point.

Holloway also has a pair of talented freshmen in guard James Carraway

2nd - Carol Boudreau, net 72 3rd - Rita May, net 72 4th - Karen Moore, net 76

Fourth Flight: 1st - Kelyne Maertz, net 63 2nd - Debbie Dahl, net 69 3rd - Margie Miller, net 72 4th - Amy Shively, net 74

Closest to Pin, #6:

1st - Joan Dominguez,11”

2nd - Lynn Csanyi, 1’5”

Closest to Pin, #15:

1st - Kathryn Houk, 6’7-1/2”

2nd - Joan McCluskey, 9’10”

Birdies:

Jackye Harbert, #12 Rita May, #12

Claudia, #9

Kelyne Maertz, #7, #12

Oksun Parrott, #3 Lynn Csanyi, #3

Joan McCluskey, #9

Chip-Ins: Sandy Handel, #7 Kimmie McCann, #2

Beryl Bridges #3

Henrie Newland, #5

Jody Knight, #1 Kathy Tomko, #2 Kelyne Maertz, #9 Oksun Parrott, #3, #17

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Kuminga believes young guys need to step up for Warriors

by C.J. Holmes SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

SAN FRANCISCO —

Jonathan Kuminga was a little more upbeat than usual after Friday’s shootaround at Chase Center. Typically more reserved, the Golden State Warriors forward approached the podium for his news conference and serenaded report ers with Drake and 21 Savage’s “Rich Flex” from their newest album, “Her Loss.”

Perhaps part of Kum inga’s joy stemmed from getting a clean bill of health, as he was available to play Friday night against the New York Knicks after missing Wednes day’s game in Phoenix because of a non-Covid illness. In Kuminga’s absence, reserve Anthony Lamb played just over 24 minutes in Golden State’s 130-119 loss.

“I feel way better now compared to” the other night, Kuminga said. “Headache, stomach, everything. I’m really excited to be back.

Can’t wait.”

Following the War riors’ eighth road loss of the season, head coach Steve Kerr voiced concerns regarding the team’s apparent lack of cohesion. He said Golden State had been “scat tered” at both ends of the court and sensed a collec tive lack of commitment to winning. Kuminga “kind of” agreed with it.

“Especially for a team to win, there has to be a collective group of guys coming together,” he said. “And it’s not like we’re not together, we just have to put more

effort into being more together (on the court). I feel like that’s going to help us reach whatever we’re trying to reach.”

From Kuminga’s per spective, the Warriors haven’t been able to jell on the court 15 games into the season because Kerr’s rotations remain a work in progress, leaving players – namely the reserves – still searching for their ideal roles.

“It’s not easy,” Kuminga said. “We have a chance to win a champi onship, so it’s kind of hard for everybody to figure out their role and what

they really need to do for this team to get to that. I feel like as soon as that happens, we’re going to be unstoppable again.”

Kuminga, 20, is aver aging 5.2 points and 1.8 rebounds on 42.6% shooting in his 11 games this season. However, his minutes and place in Kerr’s rotation have fluctuated. He feels that he and the Warriors’ other younger players who man the second unit – chiefly Jordan Poole, Moses Moody and James Wiseman (just demoted to the G League) – must do more at both ends of the court to help raise the team’s intensity.

Golden State ranks last in the NBA in bench net rating at minus-7.2.

“I feel like as young guys we just have to come out and give it all we got,” Kuminga said.

“And I feel like that’s going to help all the older guys because Klay, Steph, they’re going to do what they have to do. But the energy has to come from us young guys.”

Kyrie Irving apologizes ‘deeply’ for his antisemitic controversy

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NEW YORK — Kyrie Irving is finally doing what he couldn’t bring himself to do last month: Offer a genuine apology.

“I really want to focus on the hurt that I caused or the impact that I made within the Jewish com munity. Putting some type of threat, or assumed threat, on the Jewish community,” Irving said in a video interview with SNY’s Ian Begley on Saturday.

“I just want to apol ogize deeply for all my actions throughout the time that it’s been since the post was first put up. I’ve had a lot of time to think. But my focus, ini tially, if I could do it over, would be to heal and repair a lot of my close relationships with my Jewish relatives, brothers and sisters.”

five games for his failure to properly apologize for posting a link to an anti semitic film on his social media accounts.

play, or have played, a lot of soccer.

Soccer culture? Maybe

Soccer passion is build ing, at least a little, in pop culture.

“Ted Lasso” is the latest in a long run of TV shows and movies (“Bend it Like Beckham,” “Shaolin Soccer”) to mix soccer and entertainment.

The pitch for “Ted Lasso,” in fact, is built around the same thing soccer marketers are trying to overcome – turning an American (in the show’s case, a football coach) into a passionate soccer fan.

Beyond TV, another huge pop culture force – video games – also boosts soccer.

The “FIFA” series is the most popular sports series in gaming.

and wing Josh Hibbert, who he says will be part of the rotation but factor big into the teams' future.

Vanden's roster also includes senior guard Elijah Lewis, junior point guard AnDrue Perkins, junior guard Jayden Robinso, junior wing Josh Neal, senior forward Eric Dennis and sophomore forward Tru Kendrick.

"It's a heavy sched ule and hopefully we'll be healthy going into league," Holloway said. "But every body around us has also gotten better."

The Nets star point guard has not appeared in a game since he was sus pended by the team on Nov. 3 for a minimum of

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for a score. By halftime, Vanden was up 20-0 and well on its way to victory. Nine points came in the third quarter within a minute of each other. Kimball’s Sebastian Tate was tackled in the end zone by Matthew David son and a swarm of Vikings for a safety. Vanden got a short field after a kickoff and two plays later Jones went 41 yards for his second

He has missed eight games for “conduct det rimental to the team,” but is expected to return to the court for Sun day’s matchup against the Memphis Grizzlies at Barclays Center.

The interview posted Saturday after noon was the first time

touchdown of the game.

The Vikings nearly had a shutout but McKey was finally able to connect with Travis Marieiro for a 14-yard touchdown with 5:31 to go in the game. McKey threw for 337 yards for Kimball in a 26-19 playoff win the previous week over Lincoln. The Vikings were able to hold him to 70 yards.

“Last week, the team we played was a running team,” defensive back Marcellus Chandler said. “This week we knew they were going to pass.

Irving has offered an apology outside of social media since the contro versy began.

While the seven-time All-Star was 0 for 2 in his first few attempts at an apology, Irving defended his initial reaction to the backlash he received for posting a link to the film “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” and receiv ing a suspension for his refusal to “unequiv

We were ready for it and took over.”

Chandler finished with two of Vanden’s three interceptions. Thanks to the howling winds, he even booted a punt for 80 yards that caught the jet stream and rolled down to the 1 yard line, setting up Vanden’s opportunity for the safety. The wind was blowing so hard a couple of times the ball moved on its own when the teams were huddled.

“My punt the other direction went straight up and came down,” Chan

returns after being named an all-MEL honorable mention selec tion last season. Senior guard Joseph Gould will also see major minutes.

ocally say he has no antisemitic beliefs,” as the Nets said in their statement announcing his suspension.

“I felt like I was pro tecting my character,” Irving told SNY. “And I reacted out of just pure defense and just hurt that I could be labeled, or I thought that I was being labeled as antisemitic or anti-Jewish, and I’ve felt like that was just so disrespectful to ask me whether or not I was anti semitic or not.

“Now to the outside world, that may have been seen as a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ Which right fully so, it should’ve been, ‘No, I’m not antisemitic. No, I’m not anti-Jewish.’

I’m a person who believes we should all have equal opportunities and that we should all shower each other with love, and that should be at the forefront.

“But it wasn’t in that initial conversation, and I take my accountability and I want to apologize for that completely.”

dler said. “That one was an NFL kick.”

The Vikings defense had several stops behind the line of scrimmage. Orion Null was also able to recover a fumble.

Murphy gath ered his team after the game and said, “How about some football for Thanksgiving?”

“This is great for our student-athletes,” he said. “They have worked very hard to get to this point. But we still haven’t played a complete four quarters yet.”

junior varsity team before being moved up last year to varsity coach.

conceivably won a third after a 2-0 start at the Damian Lillard Tournament in Oakland before having to pulled out of the event with Covid-19 concerns.

“If we defend and win the battle of the boards, we’ll have a good season and win a lot of games,” Sankey said.

Senior point guard Gianni Miles had 28 points Friday night, 15 in the first quarter, but the Mustangs lost to visiting Justin-Siena of Napa 75-40.

Senior guard Jerel Victor

Senior Cameron Brewer gives the Mustangs a presence inside at center, standing about 6-foot-4. Sankey said he also believes senior guard and wing Zach Shemiah will also step up and be a “sleeper.”

The rest of the squad features senior guard Fred Ferguson, senior forward/center Marco Mantecon, junior center Martin Mantecon, senior guard Jakobe Billups, senior guard Ian Gutierrez and senior wing Isaiah Apelado.

Sankey knows his athletes well after coaching for two years at the freshman level and one with the

“We play at a high speed and our guards are skilled,” he said. “They can dominate inside and out. They also play well with each other.”

The hard news for the Mustangs was that Leroy Bryant won’t be with them this season. Bryant, the MEL co-Player of the Year in foot ball, is now focused on his future on the gridiron with the University of Washington and keeping himself ready for the upcoming season in Seattle.

“We’re going to miss him but we have the talent to pick him up,” Sankey said. “We’ve been develop ing some talented guards that can score in double-digits.”

Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group/TNS file Jonathan Kuminga of the Warriors dunks the ball against the Denver Nuggets, Oct. 14.

Dustin Satloff/Getty Images/TNS file

Kyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets looks on from the bench during a game against the Chicago Bulls at Barclays Center, Nov. 1.

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AREHEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHE FOLLOWINGOWNER(S)#1NicolasA Bonite431BarclayCourtSuisunCity, 94585#2GildaMBonite431Barclay CourtSuisunCity,94585.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: AMarriedCouple Theregistrantco mmencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveon 04/17/2017.

Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/NicolasA.Bonite INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONNovember8,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: November9,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001869 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00059319 Published:Nov.13,20,27Dec.4,2022

LOCATEDAT1300OliverRoadS-240, FairfieldCA94534Solano.Mailingaddress1300OliverRoadS-240,Fairfield CA94534.AREHEREBYREGISTERED BYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)Mining ManagementInternationalCAFairfield, 94534.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: aCorporation Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefi ctitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveonN/A Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/BarbaraAllen INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONOctober31,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411 ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: November1,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001824 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00059151 Published:November6,13,20,27,2022

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PETITION OF: ERIC GARCIA PEREZ CASE NUMBER FCS058851

TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS: Petitioner: Eric Garcia Perez filedapetitionwiththiscourtforadecree changingnamesasfollows: Present Name: a. Eric Garcia Perez Proposed Name: a. Eric Perez Garcia THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING

Date: DEC. 16, 2022; Time: 9:00 am; Dept: 4; Rm. 305 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano Hall of Justice 600 Union Ave. Fairfield, CA 94533

AcopyofthisOrdertoShowCauseshall bepublishedatleastonceeachweekfor foursuccessiveweekspriortothedate setforhearingonthepetitioninthefollowingnewspaperofgeneralcirculation,printedinthiscounty:DailyRepublic Pleasefileproofofnewspaperpublication atleast5businessdaysbeforehearing (newspaperdoesnotfilew/court)zoom ok.zoominvitewillbeemailed1-2days beforehearing Date:Oct.17,2022 /s/E.BradleyNelson JudgeoftheSuperiorCourt FILED:Oct21,2022 DR#00058953 Published:Oct.30,Nov.6,13,20,2022

LOCATEDAT935TexasSt.,FairfieldCA 94533Solano.Mailingaddress935Texas St.,FairfieldCA94533.AREHEREBY REGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWING OWNER(S)CarsoInvestmentsLLCCA Fairfield,94533.THISBUSINESSIS CONDUCTEDBY: ACorporation

Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedabov eon 11/05/2022.

Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/CarlosGonzalez/President INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONNovember8,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: November9,2022

NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001871 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00059330 Published:Nov.13,20,27Dec.4,2022

ACHOLONU

LOCATEDAT1457NorthCaminoAlto, Apt14Vallejo,CA.94589.Mailingaddress1457NorthCaminoAlto,Apt14 Vallejo,CA.94589.AREHEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)FrancisAcholonu1457NorthCaminoAlto,Apt14Vallejo94589.THIS BUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY aIndividual

Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictit iousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveon 10/24/2022

Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/FrancisAcholonu INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OF SECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONOctober24,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: October25,2022

NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001795 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00058931 Published:Oct.30,Nov.6,13,20,2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS FRANCIS