Daily Republic: Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022

Volunteers brave blustery weather to honor veterans

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DIXON — Gusting winds and pouring rain didn’t stop volunteers from coming out Saturday to place boughs of greenery on the graves of veterans at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery.

The Remember-a-Vet Wreath Project purchased the boughs, which have changed from wreaths used in previous years because they cost less. People were allowed to place boughs individually on the pre vious weekend if they wanted a more private remembrance.

Bill and Cindy Limneos of Fairfield had never been out to the cemetery before but she saw that the “wreath”

laying was happening and thought it would be interesting to attend.

“We buried my fatherin-law about a month ago,” Bill Limneos. “I thought this was a nice way to honor him and those that served.”

Because they had a truck, they were asked to pick up the used cardboard boxes and deliver them to the huge recycling containers.

“This might become a yearly tradition for us,” he said.

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Pacific storm will pummel US with snow, floods and tornadoes

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A Pacific storm uncoiling itself over California with heavy rain and snow is forecast to deliver a severe risk for tornadoes, high winds and thunderstorms across parts of Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas by the middle of next week.

Upwards of 2 inches of rain could drop suddenly in the valleys of Southern California Saturday into Sunday with

up to 6 inches in coastal foothills and mountains, touching off floods and landslides, the U.S. National Weather Service said. Then snow could fall by the foot in the Sierra Nevada range, as well as in parts of Oregon and Washington.

The tornado threat comes almost a year after a series of tornado outbreaks in the Midwest killed at least 75 people

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MOSCOW — Russian forces are attacking positions in Luhansk and Donetsk, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow, with a spokesperson saying on Saturday that soldiers had taken positions near two towns.

“In the Donetsk area, Russian units have continued their attacks and driven the enemy out of their fortified positions,” ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said. He claimed positions had also been captured in the north between the small towns of Kreminna and Lyman.

However, Ukrainian missiles damaged a bus station and a school in the eastern city of Donetsk, according to Russian officials cited by the TASS news agency.

ceremony took place Friday morning in Hangar 837. In all, 27 airmen from those missions were to be honored.

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Maj. Gen. Corey J. Martin, commander of the 18th Air Force and former commander of the 60th

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— Thirteen Americans – 11 Marines, one soldier and one sailor – were killed in a suicide bomber attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul,

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were injured and were in need of care. The U.S. sent Moose 98 from Travis Air Force

members of that C-17 crew, and eight members of Reach 651, also a Travis C-17,

had gone in to airlift out more than 450 Afghan citizens four days earlier, were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for going “above and beyond” their duty in the air evacuation missions at the Kabul airport.

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Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic ceremony at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Friday. 27 Airmen received the Distinguished Flying Cross medal for their service in Afghanistan in Sep. 2021.

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veterans at the annual Remember-a-Vet Wreath Laying day at the Sacramento National Cemetery in Dixon, Saturday.

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic Cpt. Spencer Yacos of the 21st Airlift Squadron receives the Distinguished Flying Cross medal during a ceremony at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Friday.

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Ukrainian soldiers from the 68th brigade fire a mortar launcher at a position along the front line in Donetsk region amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dec. 9.

Complex legislative acronyms provide chance for local benefit

Unless you follow Congress closely, you may not know the legislative branch of our federal government is obsessed with acronyms. Especially acronyms that spell out words.

Often, it’s ridiculous.

A recent article in The Atlantic pointed out some particularly crazy examples: the DAYLIGHT Act (Daylight All Year Leads to Ideal Gains in Happiness and Temperament), the ZOMBIE Act (Zeroing Out Money for Buying Influence after Elections), the CROOK Act (Countering Russian and Other Overseas Kleptocracy) and the GIVE MILK Act (Giving Increased Variety to Ensure Milk Into the Lives of Kids).

Silly, right?

There are others, too. The tortured acronyms usually indicate the goal of the legislation. The Atlantic cites the CONFUCIUS Act (anti-China), the SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP Act (pro-U.K.) and the CONSCIENCE Act (anti-vax). The acronyms are called “backronyms,” because the authors obviously came up with a word for their bill, then found awkward phrasing that results in CROOK or ZOMBIE or GIVE MILK.

It’s kind of brilliant.

I think it’s time to bring it home. It’s time for local representatives to introduce legislation that benefits us and spells out words to reflect that.

For instance, as county, state and federal representatives

head into 2023, they should consider the following:

The Save Our Last Attempt to Name Our Multi-Attributed Layaway Land (SOLANO MALL) Act. This would permit residents to legally call the mall in Fairfield the “Solano Mall,” which was its name for most of its first few decades. It was then the Westfield Solano Mall and has been the Solano Town Center for a decade, but who can remember that? This law would allow people in my demographic to freely call it Solano Mall and not be corrected.

Funding Areas In Relative Financial Interrelationship with Evolving Landing Domains (FAIRFIELD) Act. This would provide millions of dollars for cities that have a long-standing relationship with military bases where a large number of

airplanes land. The FAIRFIELD Act would keep Travis Air Force Base open indefinitely and provide money for residents because that would be nice.

Withdraw Another Duo Entangled in Being Rather Obscure, Tremendously Heated, Exasperating Raiders Supporters (WADE BROTHERS) Act. This would provide free counseling for local newspaper columnists who are overly passionate fans of an NFL team that has twice moved from its area and whose management that virtually assures disappointing seasons.

The WADE BROTHERS Act could help local people, although I’m not 100% sure who. Even if someone fit the bill, I suspect they would resist the help, due to jealousy of the San Francisco 49ers.

The Benefit Ridiculous Aging Diabetics (BRAD) Act. This would provide an annual stipend to baby boomers who have newspaper columns in which they occasionally mention they have diabetes. The BRAD Act could come in handy if, for instance, I were to remind you I have lived with Type I diabetes since I was 14 and it was the eighth-leading cause of death in the United States in 2021. If I did that, the BRAD Act would provide a stipend. Cha-ching!

There’s more (The VACAVILLE Act, the SUISUN CITY WATERFRONT Act, etc.), but I’m tired because I’m a Type 1 diabetic and have been for a long time.

Cha-ching!

Reach Brad Stanhope, a diabetic, at bradstanhope@ outlook.com. Cha-ching.

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Unicorns are mad deningly elusive beasts. Although they have captured the human imag ination for thousands of years, no one has yet cap tured one in return. Or even seen one.

But that’s no bother for one Southern California girl. A Los Angeles County first-grader recently won government approval to keep a unicorn as a pet in her backyard should she be the first to find and tame one of the magical and majestic creatures.

The girl, identified only as Madeline by the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control, wrote to officials Nov. 14 with the request. She was polite but short and to the point.

“Dear LA County I would like your approval if I can have a unicorn in my backyard if I can find one. Please send me a letter in response.”

Two weeks later, the department’s director, Marcia Mayeda, wrote just such a letter. Her response, dated Nov. 30, said she was granting Madeline’s request – with conditions. To legally keep a unicorn,

certain rules to ensure her magical-beast-turned-pet was well taken care of.

They include polishing the unicorn’s horn monthly with a soft cloth, treating it to watermelon at least once a week and giving it “regular access to sunlight, moonbeams, and rainbows.” And if Madeline decides to bedazzle her mythical pet, she must guarantee that any “sparkles or glitter used on the unicorn must be nontoxic and biodegradable to ensure the unicorn’s good health.”

Mayeda told The Wash-

last month, she had never received a request for a unicorn license in her 21 years at the department – or for any other mythical beast, for that matter. When Madeline’s letter arrived, “everybody was just so touched and charmed and just thrilled with it,” Mayeda said.

But, she added, if she gets a request for a dragon license, “I’m referring them to the fire chief.”

Mayeda said that she and her colleagues regularly see the horrible things people do to animals – torture and neglect that sometimes

proves fatal. They see the horrible things animals do to people – brutal maulings that are also occasionally deadly. And they often have to make tough decisions to euthanize animals when they’re deemed too sick or too dangerous.

“It can be very emotionally draining to deal with that sort of life-anddeath stuff all the time,” Mayeda said.

So Madeline’s letter was a boon, one that’s buoyed Mayeda and her colleagues for weeks, she said.

Part of their joy comes from how impressed they are with Madeline, Mayeda said. Even though she’s in first grade, she didn’t assume she’d be able to keep a unicorn. When her mother told her that she might need some sort of

government approval, the two of them went online to learn which agency was responsible for issuing pet licenses and how to get one. Within an hour, Madeline had written her request. Mother and daughter did more research to figure out where to send it.

“She put a lot of thought into this,” Mayeda said. “She was doing the right thing by contacting the licensing agency to make sure that it would be okay for her to have a unicorn. And we wanted to definitely respond and encourage that sort of behavior.”

“She’s got a bright future ahead of her,” she added.

Even though Mayeda dated her letter Nov. 30 and the department posted a photo of it on Tuesday,

Madeline hasn’t received it yet, the director said. Mayeda consulted with the girl’s mother, who said that her daughter would get the most joy by learning about her unicorn license on her birthday.

So animal control has a few things waiting for her when she comes to the department late next week, including Mayeda’s letter, the actual unicorn license and a red, heart-shaped “Permanent Unicorn License” tag that they hung around the neck of a stuffed animal unicorn.

But that’s only a placeholder for the real deal. Now that she’s won animal control’s blessing to have a pet unicorn, Madeline must now find and catch one.

Happy hunting.

Brad Stanhope Like I was sayin’

2nd – now annual – tractor crawl illuminates Suisun Valley

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SUISUN VALLEY —

A line of tractors weaved their way down the Valley Loop on Saturday for the Christmas in Suisun Valley Tractor Crawl.

The fun kicked off at Farmer’s Closet with trac tors and trailers lining up for two hours before the big roll out.

Lacey Dequattro and her sister Amber Sales are co-owners of Farmer’s Closet and were excited to see a childhood dream come to fruition.

“When we were little we would see parades in town and I always said that they should have one here along the Valley Loop,” Dequattro said.

Local businesses in Suisun Valley opened their doors with some wine sipping, food and some fun activities for children.

“This is great because it creates business for the valley,” Dequattro said.

The sisters helped with the planning and organizing, joining forces with Pioneer Taproom to make the event come together.

This is only the second year for the event, according to co-organizer Tifanie Powell, whose husband Anthony Powell is the owner of Pioneer Taproom, which is where the trail of tractors and trailers ended.

Anthony Powell had the same idea as the sisters and with a lot of planning, they all came together to make it happen.

“He wanted to get other businesses involved and get a lot of participants,”

Tifanie Powell said.

The crawl had 35 participants. Businesses from small to large joined in bringing lighted tractors.

“Pioneer doesn’t have enough parking space for everyone,” Tifanie Powell said. “So are asking people to call ahead to their favorite businesses and see if they are open and what they are planning.”

Since a lot of the “loop” includes wineries, not every business is open

to having children and young adults.

The event included an ice cream truck along with food trucks so people could get dinner.

Wooden Valley Winery brought the Grinch that Stole Christmas tractor with siblings Gracey and Rylee Lanza joined by their cousin Nolan Lanza. All were dressed the part: Nolan as Santa, the Grinch was Gracey and the Elf Helper was Rylee.

“I love being involved in this,” Gracey Lanza said. “It is our first year but this is really good for the valley.”

Emily Smith of FP Smith Parts and Equipment couldn’t agree more.

“This is economically good for the valley because it brings business in,” she said. “The valley is growing and more businesses are coming in, so there are lots of places for visitors to go.”

Everyone was talking about the rain, but it had stopped just in time for the parade at 5 p.m., making it a chilly but fun evening.

Tree of Memories honors lost loved ones

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FAIRFIELD — Londa Mayfield, 74, was fondly remembered by her family Saturday as part of the annual Tree of Memories, a tradition of NorthBay Hospice and Bereavement for those who have gone through hospice or lost loved ones.

Mayfield died in September after going to the hospital for an operation.

“She didn’t recover,” said her husband of 56 years, Robert Mayfield. “Her death is very fresh.”

Her daughter, Wendy Elston, wiped tears off and on during the two-hour remembrance ceremony.

“This is a way to honor our mom,” she said, giving her brother, Robert E. Mayfield, a hug.

NorthBay Hospice and Bereavement for the past 35 years has provided this service each year with a video filled with pictures of people’s loved ones, a reading of all the names along with a quiet ceremony.

They also had a special remembrance for veterans.

“Forty five people sent in photos this year,” said Brenda Boyd, Hospice volunteer coordinator. “We had 75 people respond that they would be attending.”

Despite the down-

pour and wind early in the morning, the event was well attended by nearly everyone who was expected to take part.

“This is our first inperson Tree of Memories since 2019,” Boyd said.

“The last two years we did this by Zoom.”

Those who wished to participate sent in a picture of their loved one. Some purchased a keepsake ornament as a remembrance, which included the name of the person who died. All proceeds from the donations go to fund the Hospice and Bereavement program.

“The keepsake ornaments were really popular,” Boyd said.

“People missed them so we are happy to bring them back.”

This year’s theme was “Precious Memories.”

The Rev. Dale Walker gave a prerecorded talk on inspiration. He spoke on precious memories being worth talking about.

“They are treasures worth sharing,” he said in the video.

Walker talked about how sometimes people get stuck in memories and feel they can’t escape them. He reminded everyone that you can go forward even with tough memories.

Ways to help with moving forward from grief he suggested include to remember gratefulness.

“Because allowing yourself to be grateful, allows for contentment,” he said. “You can live life with the idea that you are entitled to this or that but that leads to the feeling of never having enough.”

Walker also spoke of creating a legacy, something that will outlive the individual through their actions in life.

NorthBay Health has provided end-of-life services for patients and their families for more than 30 years through its Hospice and Bereavement program. It is a small hospice unit, with nurses, home health aides, a chaplain, volunteers and social workers who visit those at the end of life in their homes or at the hospital, typically within the final six months of life. They provide medication and support, as well as respite for caregivers.

They also provide grief counseling for survi-

Joint meeting set in Benicia

BENICIA — A study session on the General Plan Housing Element and zoning text will be conducted during a joint meeting Tuesday of the City Council and the Planning Commission.

A public hearing on the draft Environmental Impact Report is also scheduled.

The panels will meet at 6 p.m. in the council chamber at City Hall, 250 E. L St.

The public session will follow a closed session during which the legal matter of 1000 Friends Protecting Historic Benicia v. City of Benicia will be discussed.

An agenda for the meeting is available at https://www.ci.benicia. ca.us/agendas.

New Vacaville mayor, council take seats

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VACAVILLE —

Mayor-elect John Carli, City Council members Sarah Chapman, who is new to the council, and returning incumbents Greg Ritchie and Jeanette Wylie will take their oaths of office Tuesday.

But not until the current City Council finishes its last agenda of business items.

I ncluded on the agenda is consideration of an ordinance for the Greentree Specific Plan and related zone changes, as well as several items related to the North Village Development.

Those include reaffirming the environmental impact report, land-use designation changes and changes to the zoning map for

the project located east of Interstate 505, south of Midway Road, north of Vaca Valley Parkway and west of Leisure Town Road.

The council will say its goodbyes to Mayor Ron Rowlett and Councilman Nolan Sullivan, neither of whom chose to seek reelection. Chapman takes Sullivan’s chair as the District 4 representative.

Ritchie represents District 2 and Wylie represents District 6. Carli is the city’s former police chief.

The council meets at 6 p.m. in the chamber at City Hall, 650 Merchant St. The entrance is in the back.

An agenda for the meeting is available at https://www.ci.vacaville. ca.us/government/ agendas-and-minutes.

vors monthly. The program is open for donations from the community. For more information on the NorthBay Hospice and Bereavement Center, go to www. n orthbay.org/services/ hospice-bereavement.

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The second annual Suisun Valley Christmas Cruise had 35 participates making there way toward Pioneer Taproom for a fun evening, Saturday.

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One of the memory ornaments was placed on the Tree of Memory, in Fairfield, Saturday.

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FAIRFIELD — Despite a dip in the daily and the 10-day daily case average, Solano County health officials said the county is still in a rising Covid-19 surge.

Dr. Bela Matyas, reporting Thursday’s update on Friday, said of the 658 new coronavirus cases since the prior update Dec. 1, 634 were from the actual seven-day period. That relates to a daily case average of 90.57, up from about 71.84 per day on the 1st.

The 10-day average, however, was at 81.4, down from 87.7.

There were no new deaths reported, holding the pandemic total at 441, but the number of residents who are in area hospitals with positive coronavirus tests is up from 30 to 33, and the number of patients in the intensive care units with Covid went from four to six, the county reported.

Fairfield added 167 cases for a new total of 30,802. Vallejo added 207 for a count of 34,575. Vacaville is at 28,592 after 156 new reports.

Suisun City (7,958) added 46 cases; Dixon (5,390) added 30; Benicia (4,696) added 38; Rio Vista (1,603) added 13; and one new case in the unincorporated area took that total to 228, the county reported.

Matyas has previously indicated Covid-19 case counts are likely much higher with the use of in-home testing, results

of which are not generally reported to government agencies and in many cases are not shared with medical providers if medical treatment is not needed. He has also said the availability of vaccines and changes to personal behavior have slowed the disease throughout the Bay Area.

Vaccination rates held at 71% for residents 5 or older who have been fully vaccinated and 81% of that population has received at least one shot. There were 139 more booster shots administered, taking the number of 183,665, the county reported.

There have been 2,549 children, ages 6 months to 4 years, who have received a vaccine shot, representing 11.3% of that population; and 15,192 children, ages 5 to 11, have been vaccinated, representing 40.9% of that population.

The number of monkeypox cases in the county stayed at 42.

Robert Earl Carter Sr., perpetual jokester with a penchant for timing, passed away in the early morning of Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24, 022, at the venerable age of 94.

He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Jan. 15, 1928. At age 16 he forged his father’s name on enlistment documents and joined the military. He saw the world, married the love of his life, raised a family, and enjoyed the life he had built.

He was a good person, loving husband, patient father, a joy to be around, a rock to cling to in any storm, and will be

Matthew Garcia was born in Richmond, California, on June 12, 1964. He loved his family and friends. He loved all kinds of music, but he really enjoyed the Oldies and Motown. His hobbies were old cars and his beloved Ford Mustangs. He was known for his quick wit and ability to make people laugh.

He is survived by his children, Briana Owen (William), JoJo Garcia (Jessica) and Lilianna; grandchildren, Ansel, Landon, Mylah and Lilly; mother, Chris; and brothers, Mike, Marty and Mark.

He is preceded in death by his father, Joseph; brother, Joe; daughter, Alianza; and son, Matt.

thoroughly missed by all who knew him. He passed with pride in the legacy he’d wrought, a legacy forged of the people he’d left to carry on.

He begins his next chapter preceded in death by his wife, Patricia; and daughter, Pege.

He is survived by his son, Robert Jr.; grandsons, Jerome, Matthew, Branden, Kennan, Robert III and Scott; and great-grandchildren, Chloe, Xander, Mateo, Kyler, Kayden, Orion and Tycho.

Robert wished to have his remains scattered at sea in a private ceremony.

He was very proud of his late son Matt Garcia, who is a former Fairfield City Council member and was one of the youngest council members elected in the state of California at age 21.

Viewing and service will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, at the Fairfield Funeral home, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave., Fairfield. Immediately following, a reception will take place at the Hilton Garden Inn, 2200 Gateway Court, Fairfield, California.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests to please make donations to The Matt Garcia Foundation, P.O. Box 3301, Fairfield, CA 94533.

Kaethe Hall

July 10, 1941 — Dec. 3, 2022

Kaethe Hall, 81, of Vacaville, California, passed away on Saturday morning, Dec. 3, 2022, at Pacifica Senior Living in Vacaville.

A private family service will take place at Vaca Hills Chapel. Cremation rights have been accorded.

Kaethe Hall was born on July 10, 1941, in Dusseldorf, Germany, an only child of Hedwig (Zeimet) and Johann Link. Gifted with artistic skills, she graduated from the German school system with two scholarships, one for Business and another for the Arts.

She would attend a private school for dress design during 1958 and 1959, yet transitioned to work in the wine production industry for several years to assist in supporting her parents financially.

In 1961, she met and fell in love with Leon E. Gibson, who had been stationed at Spangdahlem Air Force Base. She married and became Kaethe Gibson in 1962, and would cross the ocean for love in 1963 to the United States and eventually become an American citizen. That same year, she gave birth to her only child, Clay A. Gibson, and remained married for 15 years. Leon Gibson remarked in his later years that he owed his career success in life to her incredible support as his spouse.

She would later find love and remarry in 1982 to Lawrence C. Hall, and once again crossed the ocean for love to support her husband’s work with Lockheed Martin for assignments in Bahrain and Germany. Lawrence Hall

would also credit his career success to her devotion as his wife.

A beautiful Lady inside and out, she was an inspiration for leading with eternal grace, poise, laughter, love and kindness that touched the lives of many. She loved gardening and animals, including cats and hummingbirds.

She cherished her relationships and kept cards received throughout life.

Meaningful writings that spoke to her included ‘Desiderata’ and a timely passage that read:

‘God saw that you were getting tired, And a cure was not to be, So he put his arms around you, And whispered, ‘Come to Me.’ A golden heart stopped beating; Hard working hands now rest. God broke our hearts to prove to us, He only takes the best.’

Those left to honor her memory include her husband of over 40 years, Lawrence C. Hall; son, Clay A. Gibson and spouse, Gary Collins; as well as Lawrence Hall’s children, Edna HallLove, Terry L. Hall Sr. and Kathy A. Spruill; and cousin, Elisabeth Platz; additionally, her extended family including long-term, loving Friends, Violet and Yvonne Bittner, Elke and Pete Sjoberg, and Heide Trupe.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and first husband, Leon E. Gibson.

The Vaca Hills Chapel in Vacaville is caring for the family. You are welcome to leave notes of condolence or leave words of comfort on the funeral home website at https://www.vacahills chapel.com.

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VALLEJO — Police turned to the community Thursday night to help find those responsible for a shooting in the city that left a man dead.

Police responded shortly before 5:35 a.m. Thursday to a report of a shooting on the 1600 block of Tennessee Street. Officers who arrived there found a man who had been shot at least one time, police report.

The man was pronounced dead by medical personnel.

Detectives have taken over the investigation.

The motive and circumstances related to the shooting remain under investigation. The man’s identity was withheld pending next of kin notification by the Solano County Coroner’s Office, police report.

Anyone with informa-

tion about the shooting is asked to call Detective Bradley A. Phillips at 707648-4514 or Detective Stephanie McDonough at 707-648-5425.

This is the city’s 25th reported homicide of the year.

The total includes an incident shortly after 7 p.m. June 19 in which a Solano County sheriff’s deputy shot Jason T. Thompson, 29, near the corner of Pennsylvania and Sutter streets.

Thompson, who had previous ties to Fairfield, was armed with saw blades and appeared to charge toward one of the deputies, who shot him. Thompson died at the scene. He had previously been shot with a Taser but did not stop his approach toward deputies, the Sheriff’s Office reports.

Sheriff’s deputies were responding to a call in the city at the request of Vallejo police.

Vaca PD uses flashbang, chemical agent to get vehicle theft suspect to surrender

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VACAVILLE — A man who locked himself in a stolen vehicle was captured by police late Thursday after they used a flash-bang and a chemical agent to subdue him.

Jacob Auguila-Price, 25, was the driver and sole occupant in a stolen Lexus SUV. He locked himself inside the vehicle in the area of Walnut Avenue and Lovers Lane, police report, and refused commands to exit the vehicle as well as negotiations to gain cooperation even after police threw a flash-

bang distraction device near the vehicle.

Police eventually broke out the back window and tossed a chemical agent inside.

Auguila-Price soon got out of the vehicle and was taken into custody without incident, police report. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment of chemical agent exposure and was later taken to the Solano County jail, where police report he was held on suspicion of vehicle theft.

The incident was resolved shortly after 11:35 p.m.

Raymond ‘Ray’ Cernota, a resident of Travis AFB and Fairfield since 1962, passed away on Nov. 21, 2022, with his loving family at his side during his long illness. He was just one week and a day short of his 92nd birthday.

Ray was born Nov. 29, 1930, in Nashua, New Hampshire, the oldest of six siblings of Paul and Mary Cernota. He was always very proud of his Czechoslovakian heritage.

In 1950, Ray enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed in Japan during the Korean War where he helped conduct in-flight refueling of planes and was responsible for airplane engine maintenance. After his discharge, he tried a few business ventures, then re-enlisted in the USAF in 1959.

In 1960, while stationed at Bolling AFB, he met and married the love of his life, Catherine ‘Kay’. Their first daughter was born in 1961 while the couple was stationed in the Azores Islands. In 1962, after transferring to Travis, their second daughter was born, followed by daughter number three in 1965.

Having risen to the rank of Tech Sargent, he retired from the service in 1971. Ray dabbled in a few business ventures including owning and operating a pig farm in West Sacramento.

Ultimately, he made his living as a successful real estate investor. He had a huge heart and tried to help those who needed help one person at a time.

He is survived by his daughters and son-in-laws, Julie and Thadd Curry of Pinole, Helen and Jim Lissick of Fairfield and Carolyn and Alan Montanelli of Manteca who will miss him dearly; five siblings, Stella, Albert, Edward, Arnold and Arthur who all still reside at least part of the year in their native New Hampshire; Ray was very proud and fond of his grandchildren, Brandon and Timothy Curry and Gunner and Sierra Lissick.

Ray joins his parents; and his bride, Kay, in heaven, where they are no doubt riding around in a Lincoln Town Car with RAY KAY license plates.

Visitation and rosary will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, at Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 1850 W. Texas St., Fairfield.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to The Alzheimer’s Foundation.

Arrangements under the care of Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, 707-4254697, www.bryanbraker. com

Jan. 26, 1935 — Nov. 24, 2022

Patricia Sylvia Dacy passed away after a prolonged fight with cancer at home with family at her side on Nov. 24, 2022, at 87 years of age in Colorado Springs. Born Jan. 26, 1935, to Fred and Rose (Tkachyk) Galas in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Pat attended local schools in North Edmonton.

Preceded in death by her parents; sister, Pauline ‘Alice’ (Jim) Furnell; brother, Kenneth; and former husband, Gene Dacy.

Survived by her son, Patric (Stefanie); brother,

Raymond; four grandsons; and seven great-grandchildren.

After retirement from AAFES where she traveled the world, she was the grandma to the kids in the neighborhood, their tutor and babysitter when the need arose. She loved her pets as they were her fur babies and companions throughout her life.

No service to be held.

Mom requested to have her ashes spread with those of her beloved pets.

Helen Lucille Whiting

Dec. 17, 1929 — Sept. 21, 2022

Helen Lucille Whiting was born Dec. 17, 1929, in San Diego, California, and passed away Sept. 21, 2022, at Paradise Valley Estates in Fairfield, California.

Her inurnment was held on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2022, at the Cromberg Cemetery, where she was laid to rest aside her husband, Erle.

Her daughter, Cecilie Anne Hewitt, gave a memorial tribute at the gravesite

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that included mention of numerous family veterans, including Lucille’s father and brother, both Navy veterans, and her nephew, who served in Vietnam. Lucille’s husband, Erle Whiting, was a U.S. Army veteran. Erle’s sister, Violet McAuliffe, served as a verbatim reporter for seven U.S. presidents in Washington, D.C.

A full obituary can be found at plumasnews.com.

Cortijo, Timothy, 63, of Vacaville, died Nov. 27, 2022. Burial will be held at 10:45 a.m. Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, California. A Celebration of Life to follow at at American Legion Veterans Hall, 1305 N. First St., Dixon, California.

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Robert Carter Jan. 15, 1928 - Nov. 24, 2022

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Raymond ‘Ray’ Cernota Nov. 29, 1930 - Nov. 21, 2022

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Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic Carol, left, and Marcella Tenorio wear face masks during the FsUsD/special olympics Basketball event at armijo High, Friday.

Supervisors set to celebrate Solano’s centenarians

FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors will celebrate the county’s oldest residents Tuesday and will receive an update and public comment concerning the draft 2023-31 Housing Element of the General Plan.

The meeting is set to begin at 9 a.m. in the first-floor chamber of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. The public session follows a closed session at 8 a.m. during which the board will be updated on property negotiations involving the county fairgrounds in Vallejo, negotiations with AT&T at 675 Texas St., and anticipated litigation.

Also on the agenda is a video proclamation declaring Dec. 11-17 as Centenarian Week in Solano County.

This is the 16th year for the Centenarian Celebration. However, due to pandemic concerns, again this year there will be no in-person event.

“To date, the Board of Supervisors has honored

In brief

Solano LAFCO board to consider Robert’s Ranch water

FAIRFIELD — The Solano Local Agency Formation Commission will consider detaching the Robert’s Ranch Village D area from the Solano Irrigation District when it meets at 10 a.m. Monday.

If the action is approved, Vacaville will provide water service to the 2015 approved development of the Robert’s Ranch Specific Plan.

The commission meets in the Board of Supervisors chamber on the first floor of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield.

An agenda for the meeting is available at https://www.solano lafco.com/.

Legislative priorities go before STA board

SUISUN CITY —

The Solano Transportation Authority board on Wednesday will consider the release, for public comment, of its draft 2023 Legislative Platform and Priorities.

The review period is 30 days.

Agency directors will also recognize outgoing members Solano County Supervisor Jim Spering and Fairfield Mayor Harry Price.

The board meets at 6 p.m. in the board room of the Solano Transportation Authority office, 423 Main St., in Suisun City.

An agenda for the meeting is available at https://sta.ca.gov/ meetings-agendas/.

County Planning Commission to review rural Dixon garage plan

FAIRFIELD —

A request for setback variances for a new 780-square-foot detached garage at Robben and Hackman roads, east of Dixon, is the only matter before the Solano County Planning Commission when it meets at 7 p.m. Thursday.

The commission meets in the Board of Supervisors chamber on the first floor of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield.

An agenda for the meeting is available at https://www. solanocounty.com/depts/ rm/b oardscommissions/ solano_county_planning_ commission/agendas.asp.

more than 275 centenarians, the oldest of them, Reta Wills, of Vallejo, who reached super-centenarian status in 2021,” the staff report states.

It has been described as “the best thing we do” by the supervisors.

The oldest Solano County resident this year, of the 42 listed as 100 or older, is Hazel Booher of Fairfield, who is 108. Navarre Marshall of Vallejo is 106. There are four residents who are 105 and one who is 104.

This year’s honorees are, from Benicia, Muriel Mines, 101, and Rosita Cruz, 102; and from Fairfield, Arthur Child, 100, Anna Cong, 100, Phyllis Craig, 100, Walter McDaniel, 100, Farideh Amirkhizi, 101, Richard Betchley, 101, Juliette Thomas, 101, Margaret Koehler, 101, Earl Chinnock, 101, Robert Dittmer, 101, John Knebel, 101, Caroline Low, 101,

Rosalind Faraday, 101, Mary Alice Powe, 102, Tsuyako (Grace) Miya gashima, 102, Charlotte Stack, 102, Irene Bruce, 104, LaVonne Eyred, 105, Charlotte Hahn, 105, Maria Luz Tobias Galang, 105, and Hazel Booher, 108.

From Vacaville are Evelyn Ewing, 100, Shirley Helmich, 100, Angie King, 100, Robert Kuznick, 100, Joe Pearl, 100, Blanche Richardson, 100, Xanthia Warren, 101, Virginia Ruth Plunkett, 101, John Gonge, 101, Guadalupe Vidales, 101, Stanley Emerson, 103, Marjorie Bors, 104, and Bruce Sooy, 105; and from Vallejo, Walter Carroll, 100, Eunice Hilton, 100, Philomae Dixon, 101, Leona Young, 101, CW Cal laway, 102, and Navarre Marshall, 106.

An agenda for the meeting is available at https://www.solanocounty. com/depts/bos/meetings/ videos.asp.

Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic file (2021) solano County supervisors, from left, Mitch Mashburn, John Vasquez and Monica Brown receive packages with materials celebrating the county’s centenarians, during the board meeting, oct. 26, 2021.

Thompson announces APP Challenge winners

Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — Olivia Pettit and Elizabeth Beauparlant of Solano County won first place in the 2022 Congressional App Challenge.

Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, also announced that Allison McCabe and Anthony Kam of Solano County tied for second with Sonoma County’s David Zechowy, and the team of Elian Malessy, David Wang, Arman Bance and Kanvar Sidhu, who come from Solano, Yolo and Napa counties, taking third.

The winning app was a carbon counter. Learn more at www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Fi_XxWjUSTs.

“Every year, I am excited to see the results of the Congressional App Challenge as it highlights the creativity and skill of students from our district,” Thompson said in a statement. “Olivia and

Elizabeth’s app helps users of all ages understand how daily decisions impact carbon emissions and demonstrates their awareness of climate change. Congratulations to Olivia and Elizabeth, and they should be proud of the app they created.”

“To all of our students, thank you for your participation and I hope that you continue to develop these skills and further your education in computer science and other STEM fields,” Thompson said in the statement.

The McCabe-Kam app was titled Climate Savers (www.youtube. com/watch?v=H_ UM95YARm8) and Zechowy’s was titled HSpost (www.youtube. com/watch?v=k8qmB XcvTSU).

Food Facts (www.youtube. com/watch?v=oVhc AF4DsXs&ab_ channel=DavidWang) was the app created by the third-place winners.

Teen connected to deadly 2021 attack at Vallejo home awaits next court date

Daily Republic Staff

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VALLEJO — A teen sought for several months in connection with the death last year of a 78-year-old woman in a home was caught this week by U.S. marshals and awaits criminal proceedings in Solano County Superior Court.

Linda Tyrrell was found dead shortly before 9:45 a.m. Aug. 13, 2021, by officers responding to a call of a woman found dead inside a home on the 200 block of University Avenue. An autopsy later determined her cause of death was the result of an assault.

City police identified Elijah T. Pulealii, 19, as the subject in the case. He was subject to arrest based on a homicide warrant issued in April

by the Solano County District Attorney’s Office, police report.

Vallejo police had searched since then for Pulealii and in December turned to the U.S. Marshal’s Office for help.

U.S. marshals found and arrested Pulealii Wednesday in Brisbane. He was transported that day and booked into the Solano County Jail.

He was held without bail after a court appearance Thursday and awaits further arraignment at 1:30 p.m. Monday before Judge William J. Pendergast in Department 11 in Fairfield.

The case remains under investigation.

Anyone with information about the attack is asked to contact Vallejo Police Detective Brian Murphy at 707-648-5430 or Brian. Murphy@cityofvallejo.net.

Armijo High School hosts Special Olympics basketball

Crash into Vallejo bank building leads to man’s arrest

VALLEJO — A man who crashed his car late Friday into the side of a bank building was jailed on suspicion of drunken driving and for a suspected weapons offense after a loaded and unregistered assault rifle was found inside the vehicle.

No injuries were reported.

Police received a report shortly after 9:20 p.m. that a 2007 Infinity G35 had crashed into the side of the Chase Bank building on the 900 block of Tennessee Street. Officers who arrived at the scene found the driver was still seated in the vehicle – slurring his words, eyes bloodshot and

California delegation calls for tax relief for wildfire victims

Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson and Doug LaMalfa and Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla led a delegation of California representatives calling for tax relief for wildfire survivors.

The PG&E Fire Victim Trust was established after California wildfires in 2015, 2017 and 2018.

“The trust began issuing payments to survivors in

2020. While the current tax code does provide some relief to wildfire survivors in the event of property loss in a disaster area, these provisions do not make sufficiently clear that survivors should not face a tax burden upon receipt of their settlement award,” the letter states. “No wildfire survivor should have to pay taxes on their settlement awards. These families and individuals have lost their homes. Survivors should be entitled

to the full amount of their award, and should not owe taxes on payments made to lawyers they never hired.”

Thompson, D-St. Helena, and La Malfa, R-Richvale, introduced legislation in March that would ensure survivors are not taxed on the set-

tlements they receive from the trust.

The full letter can be found at https://mikethompson.house.gov/sites/ evo-subsites/mikethompson.house.gov/files/ e vo-media-document/ thompson-ca-delegationleadership-letter.pdf.

with what police describe in a press release as “a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from his breath.”

The man initially refused to get out of the vehicle when asked to do so by officers, Instead, he tried to start the vehicle by turning the ignition switch, “not realizing that his Infiniti was inoperable and dead,” police said in the

press release. The man was helped out of the vehicle and arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

A search of the vehicle yielded a loaded, unregistered AK-47, police report.

The driver has two prior DUI convictions, police report. His name, age and city of residence were not released. The vehicle was totaled, police report.

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic photos

armijo High school student alison Hnatko, 16, shoots the ball during the FsUsD/special olympics High school

Basketball event at armijo High school’s E. Gary Vaughn Gymnasium, in Fairfield, Friday.

Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic file (2017) Burned vehicles in the Wooden Valley area, oct. 12, 2017.

FTX failure shakes crypto world to its core

The cryptocurrency world has been shaken to its core by the recent bankruptcy of FTX, which seems to be just the first is a string of failures happening almost daily.

Mark Sievers Wealth matters

To begin, note that cryptocurrency is an alternative currency which some advocates hoped would replace sovereign currencies like the dollar. The supposed benefits were separation from banks, government regulation and oversight. Often block chains are mentioned as part of cryptocurrency, but that is just an accounting method which is supposedly secure and prevent any tampering. This assumption has been proven inaccurate many times over the past few years.

Holders of cryptocurrency can use it to buy goods and services but often need a way to exchange it for other currencies. What they need is a currency exchange. Enter FTX, founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. Holders of crypto could deposit their coins at FTX, which essentially functioned like a bank but without any oversight.

Here are some explanations and comments from recent news reports and analysis.

Bankman-Fried was considered a creative genius and compared to other titans of finance. Now that investors and regulators are seeing inside the operation of his company, they are finding flaws and horrible management on a scale not seen before.

FTX suffered a run on its deposits and could not fulfill the demands. It had an $8 billion shortfall and some deposits and assets seemed to be missing. The damage has rippled across the industry, destabilizing other crypto companies and sowing widespread distrust of the technology.

John Jay Ray III was appointed by the courts as the person to take over managing FTX. Earlier in his career, Ray took over the management of Enron during its bankruptcy and has stated the FTX situation is much worse than what he saw at Enron. Ray wrote a court filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, using blistering language to describe an astonishing level of disarray and said he had never seen “such a complete failure of corporate control.” He listed a series of “unacceptable management

practices,” including the use of an unsecured group email for access to sensitive data, and said the financial information maintained by FTX was deeply untrustworthy.

He wrote, “From compromised systems integrity and faulty regulatory oversight abroad, to the concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of inexperienced, unsophisticated and potentially compromised individuals, this situation is unprecedented.”

Further comments from Ray included: Supervisors approving payment requests with emojis; homes being purchased for employees with corporate funds; Bankman-Fried communicating with messages set to auto-delete after a short period – and encouraging employees to do the same; bank accounts and company financials not being tracked; and software being used to conceal the misuse of customer money.

Before founding FTX, Bankman-Fried created a trading company called Alameda Research. The relationship between Alameda and FTX was the root of BankmanFried’s downfall. He founded Alameda in 2017 in rented offices in Berkeley. Soon the company made millions of dollars exploiting inefficiencies in the bitcoin market.

Bankman-Fried in 2019 relocated Alameda to Hong Kong, a friendlier regulatory environment. He brought along a small band of currency traders and then went on to start FTX, a marketplace for crypto investors to buy, sell and store digital assets.

FTX promoted itself using celebrities, Super Bowl ads and other “flashy” stunts. Flash but apparently little substance.

FTX and Alameda were closely linked. Alameda used the FTX platform for trading. This interaction meant Alameda sometimes benefited when FTX’s other customers lost money, clearly a conflict of interest. BankmanFried explained that Alameda provided crucial liquidity, meaning FTX used Alameda money temporarily to enable other customers to complete transactions on the exchange. That was very self-serving.

As the relationship evolved, FTX and Alameda became intertwined in a way that

created other conflicts of interest, which it appears Bankman-Fried ignored. He also had dominant overlapping ownership of both companies without any real oversight, much less regulation.

Bankman-Fried repeatedly said Alameda did not have any special privileges on FTX. Recent revelations reveal the opposite. According to bankruptcy filings, Alameda had a “secret exemption” from the exchange’s process for liquidating bad trades, i.e. a loophole that meant Alameda could take on more risk than other customers.

Bankman-Fried moved FTX in 2021 to the Bahamas, attracted by a regulatory environment that allowed him to offer risky trading options that were not legal in the United States. On the exchange, investors could borrow money to make big bets on the future value of cryptocurrencies. Such leverage amplifies the risks many fold.

Bankman-Fried developed relations with other crypto trading companies, creating interlaced and complicated conflicts of interest. He embarked on a buying spree this year, investing in several beleaguered crypto companies, but he was not sharing information with his key staff. In fact, he was sorely understaffed, especially by those who might understand what was going on.

Behind the scenes, FTX used billions of dollars of customer money to fund risky trades by Alameda Research. Alameda had accumulated a large “margin position” on FTX, essentially meaning it had borrowed funds from the exchange.

Bankman-Fried stated, “It was substantially larger than I had thought it was, and in fact the downside risk was very significant.”

He said the size of the position was in the billions of dollars but has declined to provide further details.

In other words, they borrowed back and forth, calling the money an asset with huge risks, but not

really acknowledging the debts. As the majority owner of both companies, he says he did not know. Really?

Then there is the long list of extravagant personal living and spending, which is too lengthy to discuss here.

When crypto prices plunged earlier this year, Alameda’s risky bets soured. Facing potential catastrophe, BankmanFried made a fateful decision: FTX would use customer money to help Alameda cover its funding gap. FTX also used customer money to cover other debts. As uncertainty rose, lenders wanted their loans back. Then customers wanted their deposits back. It all added to a huge amount and neither FTX nor Alameda could produce the money, defaulting on loans and exposing the fact that its debts and liabilities greatly exceeded its assets.

FTX owes its 50 largest creditors a combined $3.1 billion. The firm’s lawyers estimate there may be more than

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Planning panel OKs biomanufacturing campus for Vaca Valley Business Park

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VACAVILLE — The city Planning Commission has approved plans to develop Axiom Point, a 375,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art biomanufacturing campus.

Axiom Point will deliver in two phases: the first comprising 252,000 square feet and the second 123,000 square feet designed for maximum flexibility; the project is ideal for tenants in biomanufacturing, laboratory research and development, medical device manufacturing, food science, agricultural technology and health care, Transwestern announced.

The development will be located on 22.4 acres in the Vaca Valley Business Park at the interchange of Interstate 80 and Interstate 505.

“We are excited to move forward with Axiom Point,” Transwestern Managing Director Ken Meyersieck said in the statement. “The city of Vacaville has been a tremendous partner, providing excellent guidance and moving nimbly to approve the project. We are proud to offer this dynamic biomanufacturing campus in a region known for extraordinary talent and innovation.”

Meyersieck, along with Laboratory + Life Sciences experts Peter Conte and Andrew

Wheeler, are handling leasing for the project.

Axiom Point is the first life science campus to take advantage of the city’s Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing Initiative, a fast-track program committed to completing the planning procedures in 100 days or less.

“The very fast approval – just 90 days from the date of when the plans were submitted – is indicative of the excitement for the project, from all parties, and for the tremendous need for biomanufacturing space,” Transwestern stated in the press release.

The Planning Commission action was Tuesday.

“Vacaville has the land, infrastructure and workforce that the biotechnology industry needs to grow, along with a long-standing commitment to a streamlined and frictionless process,” Mayor Ron Rowlett said in the statement. “We are building on our proven success with the industry to secure Vacaville’s continued leadership as a biomanufacturing center going forward, and are fortunate that Transwestern sees the potential and value to investing in Vacaville. We look forward to the project getting underway.”

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Sam Bankman-Fried speaks during a House Committee on Financial Services hearing on cryptocurrency, Dec. 8, 2021.

Could the Pacific Ocean be state’s savior?

From the earliest exploration by European explorers of what became California, its position on the western coast of the North American continent has been its most important attribute. Its coastline allowed that exploration and the development of outposts while most of the continent was still a mysterious wilderness. It fostered the 1849 gold rush that hastened California statehood. Its beaches drew millions of visitors. It made California the arsenal and staging point for World War II’s Pacific Theater and, finally, it became a focal point of global oceanic trade. Could California’s coastal waters now become its savior, ending ever-increasing shortages of water and electrical energy that threaten the state’s economic and societal future?

Yes it could, but only if California’s political and civic leaders overcome their tendency to muff big public works – as symbolized by the bullet train’s history of over-spending and under-performing, decades of foot-dragging on much-needed water storage projects and crippling bottlenecks at the state’s ports.

Finally, after decades of dithering, California’s Byzantine bureauracy is finally warming up to desalination of seawater as a vital piece of the state’s water supply, although it still resists big projects that could have real impact on shortages as it does in other watershort nations.

Meanwhile, California is just beginning to grasp the potential of offshore windmills to generate huge amounts of renewable electrical energy that would help close the state’s current supply gap, fill enormous new demands and meet the state’s ambitious goals for ending its dependence on fossil fuels.

Last week, the federal government conducted auctions for windpower development rights on two oceanic sites, one 20 miles west of Morro Bay and the other off Humboldt County.

Advocates believe the sites could generate up to 8 gigawatts of electrical power, about onesixth of the state’s current peak power demand on hot summer days and about a third of the state’s goal of 25 gigawatts of offshore windpower by 2045.

“Offshore wind is a critical component to achieving our world-leading clean energy goals and this sale is an historic step on California’s march toward a future free of fossil fuels,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement.

However, given the state’s sorry record on big-impact projects, will it really happen? Will we, as state plans now suggest, really see offshore power begin to flow into the grid within 10 years?

Don’t count on it.

The floating platforms to support the immense windmills, anchored in more than 2,000 feet of water, face critical attention from environmental groups and a phalanx of federal and state regulatory hurdles. They also would require onshore support facilities in coastal communities where resistance to development is culturally ingrained, plus cables to bring the power to shore and extensive expansions of transmission facilities to tie into the grid.

The time frame to make all of this happen, as the state assumes in its overall plan to shift California to renewable electric power, is very short. We’re now 22 years into the 21st century and supposedly all of this would occur in just 23 more years – simultaneously with many other elements of decarbonization, such as shifting to battery- or hydrogen-powered cars and trucks and eliminating natural gas in homes, business and industry.

It would take an immense cultural change in the state’s governing apparatus to make it all happen by the designated deadline, a sense of urgency, a unity of purpose and much more managerial competence than California has mustered in the past half-century.

The ocean could, indeed, be our savior. Theoretically, it could provide limitless amounts of clean water and clean power. But it won’t happen unless we make it happen.

CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters.

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COMMENTARY

We’ll all pay for US’s cheap debt fantasies

All the talk lately about the size of the national debt is obscuring the real problem: The U.S. government made the wrong bet on interest rates, and that will cost taxpayers for years to come.

The government took on an unprecedented amount of debt in the past five years. Reasonable people can disagree about the level of spending, but the clear policy error was choosing to finance that spending with short-term debt while rates were at record lows. Now that rates are rising, so are the costs of financing all this debt.

It didn’t have to be this way. We could have locked in rates when they were low. But at the time there was a pervasive belief that rates would never increase – even though, eventually, they always do. Now, as we face high debt service costs for decades, we can’t afford to ever forget this lesson.

We got used to low rates, since they have been well below 5% for nearly two decades and only seemed to go down. Now rates are rising and causing all kinds of disruption in many sectors of the economy. One saving grace is that many households have a fixed-rate mortgage that shields them from interest-rate risk. The government could have made a similar choice when it took out its debt. Borrowing short is the basic equivalent of taking on an adjustablerate mortgage when a fixed-rate loan could have been obtained at an absurdly low interest rate. Now the government – and its taxpayers – face interest-rate risk that may limit spending in the future.

Outstanding U.S. debt increased to $30.5 trillion from $19.8 trillion between 2017 and the second quarter of 2022. A lot of that spending was used to get the economy through the pandemic disruptions. But in the years before, macroeconomists argued governments should spend more and not worry so much about debt because interest rates were so low. When rates are low, they said,

the economic growth generated by the spending would more than pay for the cost of borrowing. If you borrow at 2% and invest the money in something that pays 8%, you’ll make a big profit.

But that thinking – just like many an asset manager selling a leveraged bet – was based on an assumption of no risk: that growth would be positive and interest rates wouldn’t increase. The government might have reduced its risk by locking in the low rates and issuing more long-term debt. A 20-year Treasury was yielding only about 1% in 2020. Instead, the government mostly financed its spending with debt that would mature in less than five years.

Financing its spending with short-term bonds means the government must roll over the debt as it comes due. The yield on a one-year Treasury is now more than 4.7%; compared with a 20-year rate of 1.46% the government could have locked in in 2021.

If rates continue to rise, even as inflation falls, this will impose big costs on the government and potentially taxpayers. The Congressional Budget Office calculated that if 10-year rates gradually rise to 4.6%, then servicing the debt will cost 7.2% of GDP by 2052. It was only 1.6% of GDP last year and hasn’t exceeded 3.2% since 1960. We should be so lucky. Interest rates already far exceed the CBO’s 2021 forecast, and are going up much faster. If rates rise to their historical average – above 5% – servicing the debt will cost far more.

The government had its reasons for issuing the short-term debt. If interest rates had stayed low forever, issuing short-term debt and rolling it over would have been cheaper than financing the spending with longterm bonds. After all, short-term rates tend to be lower than longerterm debt, and we saved a few basis points. Larry Summers co-authored a paper in 2016 examining the wisdom

of financing debt with short-term bonds, weighing the benefit of lower costs against the risk of interest rates rising. If rates were anywhere close to their historical average, that is a reasonable question. But when rates are near zero, the risks clearly outweigh the benefits. Rates were at historic lows, which meant odds were they would eventually go back up.

And they did.

The Trump administration’s Treasury Department also claimed that there was not much demand for long-term bonds. Though it’s not clear that’s true. The UK issues more long-term bonds. The average maturity on their conventional bonds is about 14 years, compared with about 5.5 years on U.S. debt. And the UK treasury (until very recently) found ample demand for long-term debt. Both insurance companies and pension funds tend to need more duration in their portfolios as they issue very long-term liabilities. Longer-term debt helps them hedge their risk.

But when rates were at historic lows, we made a different choice. And now we are all vulnerable to rising rates becoming a fiscal burden. It’s worth noting that average maturity on debt increased in the past year as spending fell and some short-term debt matured and didn’t need to be refinanced. But the average maturity of marketable debt has remained around five years, no matter the interest rate.

There are sharp divides among policymakers and economists on how much money was spent, how it was spent and if we should spend even more. But one important lesson they should all learn is no matter how much you spend, always lock in low rates when you can.

Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she is author of “An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk.”

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THURSDAY, DEC. 8

6:24 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1200 block of BROADWAY STREET 9:11 a.m. — Forgery, 600 block of JULMAR CIRCLE 9:50 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 700 block of STALLION CIRCLE 10:11 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 400 block of JACKSON STREET 10:15 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1400 block of FARWELL STREET 10:15 a.m. — Grand theft, 600 block of TEXAS STREET 10:40 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2800 block of AUTO MALL PARKWAY 10:46 a.m. — Vandalism, 2400 block of OCEANIC DRIVE 11:53 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2400 block of DIGERUD DRIVE 12:03 p.m. — Reckless driver, WESTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 12:06 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

12:19 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1500 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 12:25 p.m. — Vandalism, 4900 block of VANDEN ROAD 1:11 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2900 block of MARKELEY LANE 1:33 p.m. — Forgery, 400 block of EAST ALASKA AVENUE 1:51 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2100 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 2:25 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 3:21 p.m. — Battery, 700 block of LARGO COURT 3:45 p.m. — Vandalism, 600 block of BECK AVENUE 3:46 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 800 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 4:02 p.m. — Vandalism, 2300 block of FAIRFIELD AVENUE 5:04 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 4500 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 5:08 p.m. — Prowler, 2000 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 6:29 p.m. — Reckless driver, MANUEL CAMPOS PARKWAY 6:35 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 1300 block of MCKINLEY STREET 6:43 p.m. — Battery, 1400 block of MONROE STREET 8:56 p.m. — Drunken driver, WALTERS ROAD FRIDAY, DEC. 9 3:43 a.m. — Sexual assault, 900 block of HARDING STREET 5:48 a.m. — Grand theft, 1400 block of MARYLAND STREET 6:10 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1200 block of DANA DRIVE 6:31 a.m. — Shots fired, UTAH STREET 7:04 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2900 block of MARKELEY LANE 8:03 a.m. — Indecent exposure, FLICKER LANE 9:06 a.m. — Forgery, 2600 block of ELMHURST CIRCLE 9:43 a.m. — Residential burglary, 2300 block of FAIRFIELD AVENUE 10:17 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1600 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD 10:18 a.m. — Trespassing, 2300 block of ESTATES DRIVE 10:23 a.m. — Indecent

exposure, QUAIL DRIVE 11:12 a.m. — Battery, 2600 block of DERONDE DRIVE 11:56 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 1100 block of WESTERN STREET 1:02 p.m. — Reckless driver, WESTBOUND AIR BASE PARKWAY 1:45 p.m. — Forgery, 1500 block of MICHIGAN STREET 1:54 p.m. — Reckless driver, WESTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 3:04 p.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, 1700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 3:25 p.m. — Grand theft, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 3:50 p.m. — Vandalism, 4700 block of CANYON HILLS DRIVE 3:59 p.m. — Residential burglary, 2600 block of LAUREL DRIVE 4:12 p.m. — Residential burglary, 600 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 4:40 p.m. — Battery, 1700 block of FAWN GLEN CIRCLE 5 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2800 block of AUTO MALL PARKWAY 5:03 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2800 block of AUTO MALL PARKWAY 5:17 p.m. — Reckless driver, 2500 block of EAST ATLANTIC COURT 5:25 p.m. — Grand theft, 1100 block of ALASKA AVENUE 7:18 p.m. —Battery, 1700 block of RIVER OAKS CIRCLE 7:21 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, SUNSET AVENUE 7:26 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1500 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 7:40 p.m. — Trespassing, 2900 block of GULF DRIVE 8 p.m. — Battery, 2500 block of ROWE DRIVE 9:36 p.m. — Robbery, 3000 block of ROADRUNNER DRIVE 9:55 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 2500 block of ROWE DRIVE

SuiSun City

THURSDAY, DEC. 8 8:13 a.m. — Vehicle theft, WHISPERING BAY LANE 9:28 a.m. — Fraud, 400 block of CHYRL WAY 10:31 a.m. — Fraud, 100 block of SUNSET AVENUE 1:54 p.m. — Reckless driver, PETERSEN ROAD / FULMAR DRIVE 4:02 p.m. — Vehicle theft, WHISPERING BAY LANE

FRIDAY, DEC. 9 9 a.m. — Fraud, 1000 block of FREEDOM DRIVE 5:14 p.m. — Reckless driver, HIGHWAY 12 / SUNSET AVENUE 11:02 p.m. — Hit-and-run no injury, HIGHWAY 12 / WALTERS ROAD

Mobility Wing at Travis, presided over the ceremony with close to 400 in attendance, including family members of some of the honorees.

They, too, were thanked for their sacrifices by 60th Air Mobility Wing commander Col. Derek M. Salmi, who made the closing remarks.

It was noted during the ceremony that the family members watched the events at the Kabul airport and knew that Americans had been killed during rescue missions.

The 13 deaths and others in the final evacuation missions were politicized, but there was no politics Friday in acknowledging the bravery, dedication, duty and mission successes.

Rep. John Garamendi sent a video with remarks praising the work of those men and women, of the Air Force, and specifically Travis Air Force Base for its global reach.

Martin apologized to the airman for taking 15 months to honor them, but emphasized the delay in no way diminished their tenacity, courage and heroics.

With a C-17 serving as a backdrop, the riveting, sometimes frightening details of those missions were detailed as part of the ceremony, including the specific exploits of many of the individuals honored.

These were the tales of the men and women of the U.S. Air Force willingly risking their own lives to save others, to fly into an airport knowing the dangers that awaited, but with the uncertainty of what they would find.

Medical, logistical and other decisions had to be made in real time, often without enough resources. They were decisions with many lives in the balance, including their own.

It should not be lost in the narrative, that many of those treated by the Moose 98 crew were badly injured American servicemen who were at the Kabul airport to secure and otherwise untenable situation.

The Distinguished Flying Cross was authorized by Congress on

July 2, 1926. The first recipient was Charles Lindbergh for his famous 3,600-mile solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927. He was a captain in the Army Corp Reserves.

The medal’s purpose was given greater significance soon after, and is now awarded for exceptionally meritorious service or achievement under combat conditions.

The recipients presented the medal during the ceremony were:

Moose 98

n Lt. Col. William Street, aircraft commander, 21st Squadron, Travis Air Force Base. He piloted the Moose 98 C-17.

n Lt. Col. Raul Montiague, Critical Care Air Transport Team physician, 911th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, Pittsburgh International Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania.

n Maj. Katelyn Dunahoe, 2nd Flight Nurse, 60th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Travis Air Force Base.

n Maj. Katie Lunning, Critical Care Air Transport Team registered nurse, 133rd Medical Group, Minneapolis Saint Paul Joint Air Reserve Station, Minnesota. (Not in attendance).

n Maj. Pete Traylor, Critical Care Air Transport Team registered nurse, 60th Surgical Operations Squadron, Travis Air Force Base.

n Maj. Dominick Vitale, Critical Care Air Transport Team physician, 959th Medical Group, Joint Base San Antonio Brooke Army Medical Center, Texas.

n Capt. Cody Apfel, pilot, 8th Airlift

Centers for Environmental Information.

and destroyed an Amazon delivery station in Illinois.

Since 1980, there have been a total of 182 severe storms and major winter storms that have caused at least $1 billion in damage and killed at least 3,296 people, according to the U.S. National

There is a lot of springlike air across the central U.S., and when the powerful winter storm hits, that will touch off the dangerous weather across the South, said Bob Henson, a meteorologist and author with Yale Climate Connections.

The storm will then cross the Rocky Mountains and intensify in the

country what it is today.

Squadron, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

n Capt. Jedd Dillman, medical crew director/ flight nurse, 514th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.

n Capt. David Stuppy, 3rd Flight Nurse, 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. (Not in attendance).

n Capt. Spencer Yacos, pilot, 21st Airlift Squadron, Travis Air Force Base.

n Master Sgt. Matthew Newman, Critical Care Air Transport Team respiratory technician, 514th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.

n Tech. Sgt. Matthew Keefer, 4th Aeromedical Evacuation Technician, 142nd Aeromedical Staging Squadron, New Castle Air National Guard Base, Delaware.

n Tech. Sgt. Michael Raucci, flying crew chief, 860th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Travis Air Force Base.

n Tech. Sgt. Katherine Rosa Orellana, Critical Care Air Transport Team respiratory technician, 375th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. (She received medal at Scott Air Force Base.)

n Staff Sgt. Idaliz Alicea, 2nd Aeromedical Evacuation Technician, 439th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts. (Not in attendance).

n Staff Sgt. Courtney Smith, 3rd Aeromedical Evacuation Technician,

Great Plains to potentially bring blizzard conditions and days of heavy snow from Montana across to the Dakotas and Nebraska, said Marc Chenard, a senior branch forecaster at the U.S. Weather Prediction Center.

The potential for tornadoes, damaging winds and flooding rainfall will spread from Texas across the South. After that the system will likely con-

18th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan.

n Senior Airman Mario Hernandez, Charge Medical Technician, 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

n Senior Airman Deniece Lobban, loadmaster, 326th Airlift Squadron, Dover Air Force Base, Delaware; former 21st Airlift Squadron Beeliner.

n Senior Airman Alexis Sanchez, loadmaster, 517th Airlift Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.

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n Maj. Drew Dela Cruz, aircraft commander, 21st Airlift Squadron, Travis Air Force Base.

n Maj. Alexander Arcidiacono, pilot, 21st Airlift Squadron, Travis Air Force Base.

n 1st Lt. Ryan Corvin, pilot, 21st Airlift Squadron, Travis Air Force Base.

n Staff Sgt. Brandon Jensen, flying crew chief, 869th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Travis Air Force Base.

n Staff Sgt. E-Quantay Mason, Security Forces Raven, 435th Security Forces Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

n Senior Airman Kimberly Heiser, loadmaster, 58th Training Squadron, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico; former 21st Airlift Squadron Beeliner.

n Senior Airman Matthew Williams, Loadmaster, 21st Airlift Squadron, Travis Air Force Base.

n Airman 1st Class Jeremy Eda, Security Forces Raven, 60th Security Forces Squadron, Travis Air Force Base.

tinue toward the East Coast by Thursday and Friday, though it isn’t clear what the impact will be, Chenard said.

“There is quite a bit of uncertainty,” Chenard said. “Before then, for the heavy rain in the West there is high confidence, the snow in the Plains there is high confidence, and for the severe weather in the South there is high confidence.”

people coming out seems to double every year,” he said. “It is quite the endeavor.”

Mashburn said he thinks it is wonderful to remember people who helped to make the

Sarah and John Houge of Fairfield are military parents with all three of their children going into the military. Their son Malachi, 24, is serving in the Navy in Illinois.

They came out as part of the Sutter Health Military and Veterans Inclusion Resources Group.

“This is a way for survivors to pay tribute,” Sarah

Houge said. “Everyone deserves to be remembered for their sacrifices.”

“It is about recognition and remembrance,” John Houge said.

Next weekend will be the official Wreaths Across America placement event.

On December 17, at 9:00 a.m., Wreaths Across America will be at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery

Volunteers will place remembrance wreaths on the graves of the country’s fallen heroes at 9 a.m. Saturday at both the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery and the Mare Island Naval Cemetery in Vallejo.

Brief ceremonies are planned before volunteers place the wreaths at the gravesites.

The Russian officials reported multiple missile strikes. There were no reports of victims.

For weeks, there have been reports that the Ukrainian army is on the defensive in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, and is trying to hold its line in front of the industrial city of Donetsk and east of the urban area between Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

There is fierce fighting in the area, particularly near the town of Bakhmut, with both sides reporting significant losses.

Russia unilaterally annexed the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya in September, despite protests by Ukraine and the West that the move violated international law.

Moscow does not have full control of all the regions and Ukraine recently freed further parts of them from Russian occupation.

Further north, however, Ukrainian troops still have the upper hand after forcing out Russian fighters from the Kharkiv region. Both sides are reporting reciprocal attacks on enemy positions in the area.

Observers also reported that Russian troops have built fortifications 60 kilometers long (37 miles long) in the area up to the Russian state border.

Earlier, the head of the Russian State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, blamed Germany and France for the failure of

a peace plan in eastern Ukraine that was upended by Russia’s February invasion.

Volodin, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, also demanded reparations payments from Germany and France in a post to the social messaging service Telegram on Saturday.

“Germany and France must pay compensation to residents of the Donbass region,” Volodin wrote. “The current situation in Ukraine is a result of the mendacious policies of the leaders of these states.”

Volodin accused the governments in Berlin and Paris of staging a “state overthrow” in Ukraine in 2014 under the guise of a peaceful transition of power amid protests in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

Volodin went on to claim that neither Germany nor France planned to comply with the peace plans signed by the two countries along with Urkaine and Russia in the Belarusian capital of Minsk.

The Minsk peace plan for the east of Ukraine, which was under Russian influence, after the start of

hostilities in 2014 provided for far-reaching obligations for the parties to the conflict. But most of the terms were never implemented. Russia and Ukraine blamed each other for this.

His comments came after Putin claimed on Friday that recent statements by former German chancellor Angela Merkel on Ukraine indicated that the Minsk agreement was signed only to give Ukraine time to arm itself and prepare for war with Russia.

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Airmen stand after receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross medal during the Distinguished Flying Cross Ceremony at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Friday.

Thyroid Awareness Month deserves recognition

Many of us are trying to shed a few pounds as the new year approaches.

The bow-tie shaped thyroid gland, located at the front of our necks, controls the body’s metabolic level. As a result, an underactive thyroid gland can contribute to obesity. January is Thyroid Awareness Month, and a great time to assess our thyroid health. The American Thyroid Association website is a good resource. How might we recognize thyroid awareness?

Examining your neck is a good start. This requires a mirror and a glass of water. As you swallow, look at the area on the front of your neck, above the collarbone level and just below the Adam’s apple, or thyroid cartilage. Do you see any suspicious enlargement, compared to before? An enlarged thyroid gland, or goiter, may be a sign of thyroid overactivity or underactivity. Any asymmetric bulge could represent a nodule in the gland, which could be benign or malignant. See your physician if you note any disconcerting observations.

Talk to family and friends about thyroid health. A doctor’s visit may shed light on weight gain or weight loss, dry skin, intestinal disfunction, poor concentration or temperature intolerance problems. More than 30 million Americans may suffer from thyroid disorders. At least half of cases, however, remain undiagnosed.

Anatomically, the thyroid is classified as an endocrine gland, secreting triiodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4) and calcitonin into the blood. Metabolic rate, protein synthesis and childhood development are influenced. When the thyroid hormone secretion level is normal, we refer to patients as being “euthyroid.” An over-

active gland renders one “hyperthyroid” and an underactive one causes one to be “hypothyroid.” Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) is secreted by the pituitary gland. If the TSH level is persistently elevated in the setting of normal (or “euthyroid”) blood tests for T3 and T4, a clinician may diagnose “subclinical hypothyroidism.”

Since “subclinical” cases sometime evolve into thyroid deficiency states, we often treat subclinical disease with thyroid supplements. This practice, however, continues to be debated in scientific articles.

I tend to treat subclinical hypothyroidism, in many cases. Patients sometimes feel more energetic, and I feel the elevated TSH means the pituitary gland is struggling to stimulate the thyroid. Watchful waiting is another approach.

An overactive thyroid gland is often caused by Graves’ disease. Other causes include multinodular goiter, thyroid adenomas, pituitary adenoma secreting high levels of TSH, or excess consumption of iodine, along with other more arcane conditions. Potassium iodide tablets block thyroid uptake of radioactive iodine after nuclear disasters, such as the Chernobyl reactor meltdown in 1986.

An increase in thyroid cancers occurred after the Chernobyl event. If tactical nuclear weapons are deployed in the Ukraine war, potassium iodide pills might be discussed.

Hypothyroidism, an underactive thyroid, may be due to autoimmunity, including Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Iodine deficiency can also lead to goiter and decreased thyroid function. Iodized salt is mandated in 122 countries to prevent “congenital iodine deficiency syndrome” referred to historically by the currently obsolete and pejorative term

of “cretinism.” Drugs, including amiodarone and lithium, and infiltrative diseases, including sarcoidosis, may also cause secondary hypothyroidism.

Hypothyroidism causes fatigue, weight gain, constipation, cold intolerance and even coma. Reversing “myxedema coma” with thyroid medication can prove lifesaving. Overactive thyroid conditions may cause weight loss, heat intolerance, tremor, diarrhea and muscular weakness.

Treatment of thyroid conditions can be undertaken by primary care physicians. Consultation with an endocrinologist may also be deemed appropriate. Head and neck surgery may also be required. Thyroid surgeons possess impressive technical skills. The gland is highly vascular and lies in proximity to the recurrent laryngeal nerve, which innervates the vocal cords. Pathological analysis of removed thyroid tissue is routine.

Scott T. Anderson, M.D., Ph.D. (standerson@ucdavis.edu), is a clinical professor at the University of California, Davis Medical School. This column is informational and does not constitute medical advice.

Run into a coyote? Here’s what to do (and not do)

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SACRAMENTO —

Hundreds of thousands of coyotes roam California – and these “extremely intelligent” predators don’t mind hanging around humans.

Coyote sightings in urban areas are common. Sacramento’s close proximity to habitats like the American River Parkway, for example, means sometimes these animals can make their way all the way to midtown.

An estimated 250,000 to 750,000 coyotes live in the state, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“Coyote attacks on people are very rare,” stated the Humane Society on its website. In most cases, people were bit by a coyote as a result of trying to feed it or “trying to rescue their free-roaming pet from a coyote attack.”

While coyotes prefer prairies and deserts, they appear in the city, hiding behind bushes and wooded patches, according to the Urban Coyote Research Project. In these areas, there’s garbage, mice, rabbits, pet food, compost and cats they can hunt.

In a recent California coyote attack, a father saved his toddler from being dragged away in their Woodland Hills neighborhood.

Guy Galante, Wildlife Educator at Project Coyote, shared tips with The Sacramento Bee on what to do if you encounter a coyote:

Coyote in your neighborhood

Spotting a coyote in your neighborhood can be a scary encounter.

“The coyote is an extremely intelligent predator that has adapted to living in close proximity to humans,” the city of Sacramento said on its website.

Though it is important to keep in mind if a coyote is in an urban setting they are typically trying to get from point A to point B, Galante said. Here are some tips to keep handy if you find yourself in a coyote encounter:

n Keep your distance and let the coyote move through.

n If the coyote starts approaching you, and you’re feeling threatened, make yourself big. If you’re wearing a jacket, put your arms out and flap them like they are wings.

n Stomp your feet.

n Yell at the coyote and be very firm and say things like, “hey coyote, go away coyote!” In other words, use loud noises to scare it off.

Walking your dog

If you encounter a coyote while walking your dog you want to assure you have your dog on a leash and have control of your dog, too. If your dog is little, you should just pick it up.

“It’s really about self preservation, but coyotes will engage with domestic dogs if they’re really threatened,” Galante said.

Scott Anderson Ask Dr. Scott

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The bow-tie shaped thyroid gland is located at the front of the neck.

future events

This week

THINGS TO DO

I Fairfield

2 and 6:30 p.m. Saturday

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

I Suisun City

Noon Sunday Fashion Show

Featuring Stephanie’s Boutique Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marinalounge suisun.com.

8 p.m. Friday and Saturday

Joe Torry Dreaming of BLAQ XMAS Comedy Show & Holiday Party Marina Lounge, 700 Main St., Suite 106. www.marinalounge suisun.com.

I Vacaville

5 p.m. Friday

Gerry Ramos Music Studio’s Christmas 2022 Piano & Vocal Recital

Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive. https://vpat.net.

9 p.m. Friday

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

2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday Chapkis Dance Holiday Showcase

Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive. https://vpat.net.

2 p.m. Saturday

‘Jack Wright’s: A Neil Diamond Cherry Cherry Christmas’ Journey Downtown, 308 Main St. www. journeydowntown venue.com.

9 p.m. Saturday

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

I Benicia

5:30 p.m. Thursday

Sweet Tooth Duo

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

9 p.m. Thursday

DJ Glenn Snyder

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

4:30 p.m. Friday

Tune Riders

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

8:30 p.m. Friday

The Inflatables

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

4:30 p.m. Saturday

Cloudship

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

8:30 p.m. Saturday

Sixteen Scandals

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

I Vallejo

5:30 and 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday Takezo Takeda Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St. https:// empresstheatre.org.

2:30 and 5 p.m. Saturday

Christmas with Soul Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St. https:// empresstheatre.org.

Lovers

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The Vallejo Center for the Arts will present a special musical offering to ring in the new year at the historic Empress Theatre.

Tchaikovsky’s “Star-Crossed Lovers” will be conducted by Grammy award-winning Maestro Thomas Conlin, who will lead the Vallejo Festival Orchestra for a performance that will feature the full orchestra as well as inter-

Benicia Ballet Theatre presents ‘The Nutcracker’

ROCKVILLE — Benicia Ballet Theatre welcomes the public next weekend to its 2022 production of “The Nutcracker” at the Solano Com munity College Theatre.

Showtimes are 7 p.m. Satur day and 1 and 5 p.m. Dec. 18. Each performance will feature the talents of community youth between the ages of 3 and 18.

Tickets prices are $36 for general admission and $19 for students. Tickets are available through Solano Community Col lege’s Theatre Department and at www.beniciaballet.com. The theater is located on the Solano College campus at 4000 Suisun Valley Road in rural Fairfield.

Benicia Ballet Theatre is a nonprofit community dance production organization. This will

nationally renowned opera stars soprano Sarah Tucker and baritone Michael Adams.

The performance starts at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 14.

“Tchaikovsky, who gave us ‘Swan Lake,’ ‘Nutcracker’ and the ‘1812 Overture,’ is surely the most popular Russian composer of all time,” Conlin said in a press release. “His music has always had great appeal owing to its tuneful, heartfelt melodies, rich, warm harmonies, and colorful orchestration, all of which evoke a profound emo-

tional response.”

Tchaikovsky’s “Star-Crossed Lovers” will include three masterpieces that Tchaikovsky himself considered among his very best works: musical portrayals of “Romeo and Juliet” and “Francesca da Rimini,” along with the most romantic excerpts from his greatest opera, “Eugene Onegin.” These compositions are characterized by his signature voluptuous melodies embedded in classical

Gallery 621 ‘Holiday Celebration’ continues

BENICIA — Gallery 621 continues its “Holiday Celebration” exhibit that features small works from the gallery’s 19 member artists.

A reception for the artists occurred Dec. 3. The exhibit continues through Dec. 31.

The gallery, located at 920 First St, Suite 203, is open each week from noon to 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday.

Gallery 621 features contemporary artists working in a variety of media that includes painting, printmaking and sculpture. The gallery is dedicated to increasing public awareness of contemporary art.

Members artists are Loralee Chapleau, Kenneth Cook, Nikki Basch Davis, Pam Dixon, Warren Dreher, Dean Evans, Kathleen Gadway, Stephanie Gray, Daniel

For more information, call 707-297-6860 or visit www. gallery621.com.

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Hunter, Craig Moline, Cherry Moore, Pat Moseuk, Robert Nelson, Jean Purnell, Stephen Daniel Schümm, Linda Stevenson-Dunlop, Jerrold Turner, Kelly Webster and Angela White.

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This painting by Nikki Basch Davis is part of Gallery 621’s “Holiday Celebration” at the gallery in Benicia.

Peter Lichty/Courtesy photo Ella Albrecht enchants as she dances across the stage as Snow Queen. Benicia Ballet Theatre plans its 2022 production of “The Nutcracker” at the Solano Community College Theatre in rural Fairfield, Dec. 17-18.

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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Maestro Thomas Conlin, Michael Adams and Sarah Tucker.

Starbound seeks sponsors for foster youth gingerbread house party

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VACAVILLE — Starbound Theatre is planning its second annual Gingerbread House Dec orating Party for foster youth and seeks community support for the program.

A total is 60 Solano County foster children are expected to take part in the day’s activities. The program, offered through the Solano County Resource Family Association, is described as “a fun opportunity for local foster youth to decorate their very own gingerbread house to take home.”

Organizers seek sponsors and donations for supplies and gift cards for the foster children. Sponsorships cost $32 per child but any donation amount is appreciated. Organizers have partnered for the second year with Neverland Creations, which will provide the gingerbread house kits.

Volunteers are needed the day of the event: Dec. 18. Various shifts are available from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For more information, to sponsor the program or to volunteer, send an email to starboundoffice@yahoo.com or visit https://starbound.regfox.com/ gingerbread-house-decoratingparty-2022.

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be the first live performance of “The Nutcracker” since 2019. Live performances did not occur in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

For more information, send an email to info@beniciaballet.com.

Children’s theater program continues Holiday Adventure Scavenger Hunt

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VACAVILLE — Starbound Theatre this week continues a citywide Holiday Adventure Scavenger Hunt in the city

Participating teams navigate a series of fun, interactive tasks located at Vacaville businesses for chances to win daily prizes in the Twelve Hours of Christmas Giveaway. This event is a fundraiser for Starbound Theatre’s Arts in Education Campaign, the Annual Gingerbread House Decorating Party for Foster Youth,

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forms and his brilliant use of the orchestra.

While Tchaikovsky was born in Russia, his paternal family was from Ukraine, therefore his Ukrainian origins were hardly celebrated by the Soviets nor by Russians of today. Russia on April 2 launched a missile attack on the city of Kremenchuk, the birthplace of Tchaikovsky’s great-grandfather Fedor Chaika, a Cossack, who along with many of the composer’s ancestors battled against Russia and other empires seeking to dominate the territory of Ukraine.

Tucker has appeared with the opera companies of San Francisco, Santa Fe, Dallas, Philadelphia, North Carolina, Virginia and Utah, the symphony orchestras of Dallas, Richmond, Lexington, Dayton and Las Colinas, at the Crystal Cathedral in Orange and with New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center. In her debut last season as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” with San Diego Opera,

she was described by Opera News as a “standout” with “impeccable pitch and phrasing.” She sang in October the premiere of “My Sister’s Voice,” by Indian-American composer Reena Esmail with the Dayton Philharmonic.

Tucker was a National Semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and was an Arizona Opera Young Artist.

Adams, praised by Opera News for “brandishing a beautiful, evenly produced, nicely ripe sound,” returned to his home state of Texas last season to perform “Sharpless” in “Madama Butterfly” with Dallas Opera and the Count in “Le nozze di Figaro” with Austin Opera. He has sung recently with Deutsche Oper Berlin, Utah Opera, Grand Teatre del Liceu, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Omaha Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Knoxville Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival. He was a 2018 winner at The William Matheus Sullivan Musical Foundation and 2015 winner of first place in the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, the

and Starbound Theatre’s Scholarship Fund.

Tickets are available online at www.starboundtheatre.com.

Families must complete the Scavenger Hunt by 8 a.m. Dec. 18. Ticket holders will receive 12 tasks for their team to complete at locations within the city. Teams are encouraged to wear festive holiday attire during the scavenger hunt and tag Starbound Theatre in their team photo on social media. Eligible photos will be entered to win bonus cash prizes for Most Festive Team and Most Festive Duo.

Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Vocal Competition, and the Mario Lanza Competition.

Adams sang the title role in “Eugene Onegin” with Seattle Opera.

Conlin is a frequent guest conductor with opera and ballet companies and symphony orchestras on five continents, most recently in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Turkey and throughout the United States.

He conducted the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra on a recording of George Crumb’s “Star-Child,” which won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition and is part of a complete edition of the American composer’s works, which ClassicsToday. com calls “one of the most significant recording projects currently in progress, as well as one of the most artistically successful.”

Conlin’s performance of Mozart’s opera “Lucio Silla” in 1968 marked the first-ever use of projected translations, or

Each team that purchases a scavenger hunt ticket is eligible to win a daily bonus prize to be awarded daily through Dec. 18.

Starbound Theatre is located at 318 Main St. in downtown Vacaville. Students perform at community events, the Junior Theatre Festival in Sacramento and attend workshops through Disney Performing Arts at Disneyland.

For more information on shows and programs, call 707-416-8990 or visit the theater group’s website.

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“A season of classical music anywhere in the world is unimaginable without works by Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, to name but a few on the list of great and important Russian composers,” Conlin said in the press release, “but Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is today regarded everywhere as the quintessential Russian composer. What would Christmas in America be without the ‘Nutcracker’ ballet performances that dominate theaters during the holiday season? Can anyone imagine Christmas shopping unaccompanied by ‘The Dance of the Sugar Fairy’ or an outdoor concert on the Fourth of July without the stirring ‘1812 Overture?’ ”

The Vallejo Festival Orchestra, founded in 2020 as the resident ensemble of the Vallejo Center for The Arts, is the centerpiece of classical music and opera programming at the Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St. Tickets for Tchaikovsky’s “Star-Crossed Lovers” are available at EmpressTheatre. org or by calling 707-552-2400.

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Emhoff vows to use perch to take on rising antisemitism

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president, said he would use his historic position to speak out against rising antisemitism in the U.S. and urged Americans to join him.

“As long as I have this microphone, I’m going to speak out against hate, bigotry, lies. I’m going speak out against those who praise fascist murderers and idealize extremists. I’m going to speak out against Holocaust deniers and then call those out who won’t do it,” Emhoff said Wednesday at the start of a roundtable discussion with White House officials and leaders of 13 major Jewish organizations.

“I will not remain silent,” he said.

While Emhoff did not mention anyone by name in his remarks, the long-planned event took on added significance after former President

Donald Trump last month hosted Nick Fuentes, a White supremacist, at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, along with the rapper Kanye West, who now goes by Ye and has made a series of antisemitic comments.

Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, said the roundtable was the beginning of a conversation to encourage Americans to forcibly condemn what he called “an epidemic of hate facing our country” that has generated a national outcry and alarmed the Jewish community.

“It hurts. It hurts me to see what we’re going through right now. Antisemitism is dangerous. We cannot normalize this. We all have an obligation to condemn these vile words,” he said.

“There’s only one side. Everyone, all of us, must be against this, must be against antisemitism. We know when people refuse to condemn this vile speech

or these vile acts, refuse to condemn them, it only serves to incite violence.”

Ye praised Adolf Hitler and Nazis during a recent interview with the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Basketball star Kyrie

Irving posted a link to an antisemitic video on his Twitter account and only apologized after a suspension. Hate speech on Twitter has surged in the weeks after Elon Musk acquired the site and prom-

ised to restore banned accounts, according to The New York Times.

Emhoff spoke out last Friday, saying he was “in pain” over the antisemitic episodes and had a “responsibility” to

condemn them, given his position.

On Wednesday, he also invoked his personal story as the descendant of Jews who arrived in the U.S. after fleeing persecution and his decision to become a lawyer to fight inequality.

The Jewish organizations at the meeting represented the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform movements, Emhoff’s office said. Also joining in the roundtable were top White House advisers Susan Rice and Keisha Lance Bottoms, and Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism.

Lipstadt said the rise in domestic antisemitism had complicated her efforts to encourage nations to stand with the U.S. against discrimination.

“I can’t go to these countries and say ‘you have a problem.’ “Lipstadt said.

“Now we have to say, ‘we have a serious problem.’”

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Second gentleman Doug Emhoff speaks during an announcement on roadway safety at the U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters in Washington, D.C., Jan. 27.

Am I a softy or a sucker for financially helping my relatives?

Editor’s note: Annie Lane is off this week. The following column was originally published in 2019.

Dear Annie: One of my young relatives came to me when she was thrown out of her house at the age of 23 by her parents for “no reason,” she claimed. I agreed to cosign her lease so she could get an apartment, and I also agreed to pay her rent until she could find a good job. Two years later, she hadn’t found a job, and I was still paying for her apartment. I informed her I expected her to start contributing a small amount for rent. She became angry and stopped returning my calls. Then she vanished. Her friends told me she was

now living with some guy out of state. The manager of her apartment contacted me and said I still owed rent for the next 10 months, as I was the cosigner, unless I could find someone to take over the lease.

My question is: What should be my reaction to this level of dishonesty?

Should I try to find her and take her to court or just forget the $18,000 dollars I’ve spent along with the $7,000 more I still owe?

Is this cause for some kind of retribution? Disown her? Upon my death, she was to get my $200,000 house, and now I don’t believe she deserves anything.

Is it reasonable to expect a 26-year-old to be responsible?

Just as an addendum, my nephew did something similar years ago, and she knew all

Horoscopes

by Holiday Mathis

Today’s birthday

Your cosmic birthday gift is an emboldened spirit. Whatever was holding you back before, it will get handled in one swift move. Love is your rock, and good relationships will help you sail through this change. Something ordinary, like washing your hair, will have spiritual significance. Cancer and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 1, 3, 33 and 11.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You like to be taken care of, but at what price? If it’s more than you make in a day, you’ll think twice. But if the cost is emotional, or if you have to pay by handing over your power, there’s no question it’s not worth it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll work with people who are taking life, or at least the project at hand, at a completely different pace than your own. You don’t have to sync up completely, but it will help to at least seem like you are in the moments you’re together.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). People’s voices can seem as pleasant to your ears as wind chimes, or as grating as Styro foam friction, depending more on your circumstance than on their actual sound. It benefits you to socialize only when you’re in the right mood.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). In your feed, it may seem like all are having fun without you, but that’s the lie everyone believes. The primary purpose of social media is to influence perceptions. See your friends in person; they need it as much as you do.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Even though it is logical to seek out places where generosity, tenderness and kindness flourish, you may feel lured toward excitement that promises none of these things. Should you really have to work that hard for love?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You used to worry about how you were coming across to people, but now you know your presentation down pat, and you’re happy with it. Settle in your groove and enjoy the long streak of effortless social grace you have before you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). When someone says you can’t do something, you usually respond by making sure you can. This time is no exception. You’ll get straight to work disproving the cynics.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). People who share your sense of humor are the spice of life. Often these humor-kindred are in your own family, as there’s a sensibility handed down. Outside your family, kindred humor can be hard to find. It’s worth the effort to look.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Getting the cooperation of others is more important to the task at hand than it seems. While you are perfectly capable of handling things on your own, it’s better when there’s someone to cheer for you at the finish line.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll have the direct realization that life is wonderful without having to psych yourself into the idea. There’s no need to build a case for it because there is no reason behind the notion. Life simply is wonderful.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). No matter what the field of interest is, too much information on one subject will eventually bore you to tears. Instead of sticking with one thing until you’re saturated by it, move around.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You have a system of reward and punishment for yourself, but you haven’t necessarily considered it on a conscious level until now. You’ll ponder the fairness of your methods and tweak for effectiveness.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: It’s rumored that Hailee Steinfeld will join the Marvel Universe in an Avengers movie scheduled for 2025. The Sagittarius actress was an Academy Award nominee at age 14 and has continued to soar, with projects in music and film and a social media account with enough followers to rival a small country. Steinfeld was born with her moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune all in the ambitious sign of Capricorn.

about it and how it had upset me. Did she figure I was a soft touch? I wrote my nephew out of my will. Doesn’t she deserve the same fate? — Financially Abused Father Figure

Dear Financially Abused: In a word, yes. Yes, there’s a good chance that she saw how her brother took advantage of you and decided that she could do the same. And yes, I think you should write her out of your will. There are many more deserving people than her.

As for recouping your expenses from the apartment, your course is less clear. As credit expert LaToya Irby wrote for The Balance: “Either the lender or a debt collection agency . . . can file a lawsuit against you for any unpaid part of the debt, even if they don’t sue the person you co-signed for.” Your best option might be

to look for someone who can sublet her apartment for the duration of the lease, if the lease permits subletting. If the lease does not permit subletting, perhaps you can work out an agreement with the landlord to do so, given the circumstances.

It’s always worth consulting with an attorney and a financial adviser on matters this serious, so I encourage you to do so.

Dear Annie: I read your recent column regarding the couple that gives so much to family and friends, yet get little in return (“Feeling Used”). I thought your reply was spot on from a practical perspective.

Additionally, “Feeling Used” mentioned the theme of the pastor’s homily being “as you give to others, so you will be rewarded.” I think perhaps what they missed in the pastor’s homily was “in giving to

others, they are serving the Lord and will be rewarded by Him” (Colossians 3:23-24). In other words, their generosity will not necessarily be reciprocated by those to whom they give, although I think that’s what they’re looking for by way of at least a little appreciation, which is understandable.

I just thought that was worth mentioning. By the way, writing this was harder than I thought it would be. From here on out, I’ll stick to my day job. — Mike

Dear Mike: Whatever job you have, I hope you continue to keep finding time to share your insightful thoughts with the world. Thanks for writing.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

A new drug appears to slow Alzheimer’s

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An experimental drug appears to slow cognitive decline in people with early onset Alzheimer’s.

New data on lecanemab, which is manufactured by Biogen and Esai, was published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine that showed people who took the drug experienced “moderately less decline on measures of cognition and function.”

However, some patients also experienced negative side effects like brain swelling and bleeding — meaning people with early Alzheimer’s disease should be aware of the risks before seeking treatment.

How does it work?

Lecanemab decreases the amount of amyloid plaque in the brain. The protein deposits have long been hypothesized to be linked to the progression of Alzheimer’s.

The theory goes like this: Decrease the plaque and you’ll slow the effects of the memory disease.

The new data on lecanemab provides the strongest support for that theory to date.

“That is huge because it gives the person living with the disease an opportunity to be able to live at a higher level of functioning in their life,” said Keith Gibson, director of diversity, equity and inclusion at the Florida Alzheimer’s Association. “It gives them a greater chance to be as normal as possible before the disease really runs its

full course. We’re very, very excited about that.”

The 18-month study, which was funded by its manufacturers and involved people aged 50 to 90 with early Alzheimer’s, nevertheless concluded by noting that “longer trials are warranted to determine the efficacy and safety of lecanemab in early Alzheimer’s disease.”

Who can take it?

The drug is intended for people with early-onset Alzheimer’s or mild cognitive impairment.

People who have more advanced stages of Alzheimer’s will likely not be eligible for the treatment.

Given the negative side effects experienced by some patients involved in the study, patients should speak with their doctors when considering whether to seek out lecanemab.

Can I get it now?

People interested in the drug might not have to wait long.

The Food and Drug Administration is considering lecanemab for accelerated approval, and will make its decision on Jan. 6.

How much will it cost?

Esai has said lecanemab could cost between $9,249 and $35,605 a year, a broad estimate that has yet to be narrowed down.

It’s unclear if the drug will be covered by the Centers for Medicare

& Medicaid Services should it receive accelerated approval.

Currently, based on an agency decision made in April, Medicare and Medicaid has said it generally will not pay for Alzheimer’s treatments aimed at attacking amyloid plaque until they receive full approval by the Food and Drug Administration, except in clinical trial settings.

A spokesperson for Medicare and Medicaid said it is reviewing the publication in the New England Journal of Medicine and “has met with manufacturers to learn about their efforts” since the April criteria decision.

What if I’m already on another drug that attempts to slow Alzheimer’s?

There’s currently only one drug on the market that attempts to slow progression of Alzheimer’s by reducing the level of plaque in the brain.

Known as Aduhelm or aducanamab, the controversial treatment received federal approval last year, despite limited results that the drug helped patients.

It’s currently unclear how doctors will advise the limited number of patients who are already receiving Aduhelm treatments and want to switch over to lecanemab, which appears to have more conclusive data about its efficacy.

People who are currently taking Aduhelm and are interested in lecanemab should speak to their physicians about next steps.

Annie Lane Dear Annie

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Michele Hall, 55, goes on a morning walk with her husband, Doug, at the De Soto National Memorial in Bradenton, Fla.,

Sept. 25. Michele was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease when she was 53.

Talent abounds in northern Solano

5 of the 9 schools had playoff runs this season

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FAIRFIELD — The 2022 high school football season opened under hot August nights and ended just last Saturday night in the rain of a Northern California championship game in San Jose.

Some area teams had memorable runs, while others just tried to get better footing for the future. Vacaville High School won its sixth straight Monticello Empire League title and beat Lodi in the playoffs before a rough 42-0 loss to Manteca in the second round, finishing 8-4 overall.

Like the previous year, one of Vanden’s two losses in an impressive 12-2 season was to Vacaville before the Vikings went on a second consecutive epic playoff run. This time Sean Murphy’s team fell one game short of a repeat trip to the state championship game. Vanden was beaten by host Bellarmine College Prep, 35-21.

Dixon went three rounds deep in the playoffs, posting a 10-3 record before falling to Sonora, 49-34. Will C. Wood and Rio Vista also had seasons that ended in the playoffs. The Wildcats (5-6 overall) lost their playoff opener 48-13 to Capital Christian of Sacramento. Rio Vista (6-5) drew topranked Ripon Christian and lost 57-0.

Rodriguez probably should have earned a playoff berth after a winning 6-4 record but was shut out by the SacJoaquin Section because of a stacked Division II field. Armijo finished its season 4-6, Vacaville Christian was 2-8 and Fairfield went 0-10.

This year’s Daily Republic 2022 All-Region Football Team features representatives from all nine area teams in a season that featured standout play on the field throughout northern Solano County. It’s an overflow squad that covers schools in a large swath of the Interstate 80 corridor, from Fairfield to Dixon, and east to Rio Vista.

First, the individual award winners (Statistics are from those posted on

MaxPreps.com. Vanden’s numbers are through 11 of their 14 games):

Coach of the Year: Sean Murphy, Vanden. The choice for a second straight year is clear. The Vikings have had an unprecedented two-year run that has featured a state championship, a NorCal title, back-to-back Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV crowns and a record of 25-4 in that stretch.

Player of the Year: Leroy Bryant, Rodriguez. The Mustangs’ star could beat opponents so many ways. He was a standout wide receiver, a lock-down cornerback and a threat on special teams. Bryant caught 58 passes for 837 yard and six touchdowns and added one rushing touchdown. On defense, he had 10 solo tackles, three interceptions, a pass deflection, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. There

France, Morocco advance to unique semifinal match

AL KHOR, Qatar — Olivier Giroud’s header in the 78th minute broke a tie and sent France to a 2-1 win over England on Saturday, setting up a World Cup semifinal showdown with Morocco, the first African nation to reach the tournament’s final four.

France dominated possession in the early going but couldn’t capitalize until Aurelien Tchouameni scored on a right-footed strike from distance in the 17th minute.

The goal came at the end of a well-executed counterattack that began with Dayot Upamecano taking the ball from Bukayo Saka deep in the French end and heading the other way. The ball then cycled through Kylian Mbappe,

and into the lower left corner from about 30 yards.

The goal was just the second of 10 scores by a French player not named Mbappe or Giroud and it ended a 287-minute scoreless streak for English keeper Jordan Pickford. It was also the first goal England has conceded from outside the penalty area since the first group-play game in 2014 World Cup.

On the other end, goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, playing in a nationalteam-record 143rd game, came up big twice to keep France in front at the intermission – which

is a reason the University of Washington was eager to have this young man join the Huskies in Seattle next season.

Offensive Player of the Year: Cristian Diosdado, Vacaville. There were times the junior running back carried the Bulldogs’ offense with the same force with which he carried would-be tacklers, especially after an injury to quarterback Brody Fortunati led to a transition to Alex Barkley. Diosdado had 220 carries for 1,149 yards and eight touchdowns, and also had 14 receptions for 97 yards and two TDs.

Defensive Player of the Year: Eric Gladney, Vacaville. There are so many choices here but it is hard to go against the co-Most Valuable Player in the Monticello Empire League. The senior middle linebacker had a hand in 102 tackles and collected

eight sacks.

Lineman of the Year: Jericho Johnson, Armijo. The 6-foot-5, 305-pound lineman is the immovable object. He was a force on the inside of the Royals’ defensive front, finishing the season with 36 tackles and nine sacks. Johnson is the area’s top returning player for 2023 and already has 10 Division I scholarship offers on the table.

Best Player Not at a Fairfield-Vacaville School: Jett Harris, Dixon. The Golden Empire League’s co-Most Valuable Player completed 193 of 338 passes for 3,218 yards and 32 touchdowns. He also rushed for four touchdowns and led the Rams to the playoffs for the first time since 1974.

OFFENSE

The Quarterbacks

n Tre Dimes, Vanden. Like his coach, Dimes had

a record of 25-4 over two seasons and was the Vikings’ starting quarterback for three seasons. He finishes as one of the city of Fairfield’s all-time passers and had a senior season where he completed 83 of 175 passes for 1,479 yards and 11 touchdowns through 11 games. Dimes also rushed for four touchdowns and 210 yards as well.

n Jett Harris, Dixon. As mentioned, a terrific dual threat for the Rams in a historic season.

n Alex Barkley, Vacaville. From starting the season as a backup at quarterback to becoming the full-time starter after an injury to Fortunati, Barkley finished 97 of 168 for 1,093 yards and seven touchdowns.

n Willie Nickson, Armijo. The Royals’ sophomore leader is going to be a dual threat for two more seasons. He completed 67

of 163 passes for 1,294 yards and also rushed for 351 yards and six touchdowns. Nickson had one of the signature plays of the season when he raced 18 yards for a touchdown with no time left to beat Fairfield in the season finale.

n Kenen Jones, Rodriguez. Though he could probably combine with Dylan Burke as the Mustangs did all season, Jones completed 70 of 117 passes for 905 yards and nine touchdowns.

n Brody Fortunati, Vacaville. Special recognition to Vacaville’s first QB-1 before a hip injury ended his season. He stayed involved with the team all season and captained them on crutches.

The Running Backs

n Cristian Diosdado, Vacaville. As noted, the all-MEL back made a huge impact for the Bulldogs and returns next year for a senior season.

n Manny DeLaTorre, Will C. Wood. The 1B to Vacaville’s 1A with Diosdado. The Wood senior was a vital cog in the offense with 208 carries for 1,112 yards and six touchdowns, and 11 catches for 124 yards and two touchdowns.

n Tony Bellante, Rio Vista. The senior running back was the MVP of the Sierra Delta League after rushing 112 times for 718 yards and 13 touchdowns. Bellante added 13 catches for 234 yards and two touchdowns. He is also an outstanding linebacker.

n Elijah Fisherman, Vanden. Fisherman netted most of the carries for Vanden’s vaunted offense his senior season and rushed 86 times for 622 yards and seven touchdowns through 11 games.

n Ryan Baumbach, Dixon. The all-GEL selection rushed 133 times for 740 yards and 13 touchdowns.

n Kai Nunley, Vacaville Christian. The Falcons’ senior was a big offensive threat with 106 carries for 624 yards and seven touchdowns, to go with six receptions for 103 yards.

The Wide Receivers n Leroy Bryant, Fairfield. As stated earlier, one of northern Solano County’s premiere talents.

n Luis Torres, Dixon. The senior was Harris’ top target and he earned all-GEL honors with 63 catches for 1,218 yards and 11 touchdowns.

n Brady Mott,

Brady, Buccaneers standing in the way of 49ers’ sixth straight victory

ture last Sunday and Trey Lance to an ankle fracture in Week 2.

was a good omen since France has never lost a World Cup game it led at halftime, going 24-0-1, while England has never won when trailing at the break at 0-6-2.

Neither streak would end Saturday, although Saka helped erase England’s deficit early in the second half, going down at the edge of the box under a challenge from Tchouameni to set up a penalty kick, which captain Harry Kane converted to tie the score and match Wayne Rooney as England’s

53 goals.

It was the 13th free-kick goal in this World Cup.

England nearly took the lead for the first time in the 70th minute when Harry Maguire got on the end of a Jordan Henderson free kick but he spun his header inches wide of the post.

Seven minutes later Giroud’s left-footed volley was turned away on a spectacular diving save by Pickford, but Giroud would not be stopped a

SANTA CLARA – Look, it’s not like Tom Brady got a gimmie in his NFL starting debut, either.

On Sept. 30, 2001, Brady made his first career start against Peyton Manning.

Brady won, with the help of the New England Patriots’ stout defense (three interceptions) and a run game that accrued more yards (177) than his passing total (168).

Now, in his 22nd season as an NFL starter, Brady comes home to his native Bay Area to oppose a 22-year-old rookie making his first NFL start. That would be Brock Purdy, who’s taking over a 49ers team that lost Jimmy Garoppolo to a foot frac-

This matchup goes beyond quarterbacks who entered the NFL as draftday afterthoughts. (Brady went No. 199 in 2000; Purdy was the 262nd and final pick this year.)

A month out from the playoffs, the NFC’s Nos. 3 and 4 playoff seeds – as standings now reflect – are meeting at Levi’s Stadium. The 49ers (8-4) are on a five-game win streak. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (6-6) are coming cross country after a last-minute triumph Monday night.

“I’m going to be going up against those guys (the Bucs’ defense) rather

los a ngeles tiMes

Ousmane Dembele and Antoine Griezmann on a six-pass sequence that ended with Tchouameni drilling a shot between the legs of England midfielder Jude Bellingham

leading international scorer with

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Rodriguez High School senior Leroy Bryant, right, returns the ball down the field during a game in September at Benicia. Bryant accounted for over 1,300 all-purpose yards this season and was named Player of the Year.

Vacaville High School’s Cristian Diosdado was the leading rusher in the area and the Offensive Player of the Year.

Vanden head coach Sean Murphy has a record of 25-4 over two seasons, including a state championship.

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France’s Olivier Giroud celebrates after scoring the team’s second goal during the World Cup quarterfinal against England at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, Saturday.

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BASKETBALL

• Louisville vs. Kentucky, ESPN, 10 a.m. • Connecticut vs. Maryland, 7, 13, Noon.

• Oklahoma City vs. Santa Cruz, NBCSBA, 1 p.m. • Stockton vs. Ignite, ESPN2, 5 p.m.

• Sacramento vs. N.Y. Knicks, NBCSCA (Vacaville and Rio Vista), 3 p.m.

• Philadelphia vs. N.Y. Giants, 2, 40, 10 a.m. • N.Y. Jets vs. Buffalo, 5, 13, 10 a.m. • Tampa Bay vs. San Francisco, 2, 40, 1:25 p.m. • Miami vs. L.A. Chargers, 3, 5:15 p.m.

• Alfred Dunhill Cup Championship, GOLF, 2 a.m.

• QBE Shootout, GOLF, 10 a.m.

• QBE Shootout, 3, 11 a.m.

Hockey NHL

• Colorado at St. Louis, ESPN, Noon.

p.m. Carolina at Seattle, 1:25 p.m. Miami at L.A. Chargers, 5:20 p.m.

Monday’s Game New England at Arizona, 5:15 p.m.

Stanford hires Sac State’s Taylor as new head coach

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Stanford is turning to one of its arch rival’s former quarterbacks to help revive its football program.

Sacramento State head coach and Cal grad Troy Taylor was officially hired by Stanford to replace David Shaw on Saturday morning.

Shaw, the winningest coach in Stanford history and a two-time Rose Bowl winner, announced his retirement shortly after midnight on Nov. 27 following the Cardinal’s season-ending loss to BYU.

Taylor, 54, has won Big

Army tops Navy in two overtimes

Connor Bishop smiled as he described the play that led to Army's only offensive touchdown. He said it's called a "power run" in the playbook. It's basically give the ball to the running back and let him plow behind his line. Bishop is the anchor of that line.

"Coach [ Brent] Davis said that was the best run play he'd seen," Bishop said, referring to Army's offensive coordinator. "It was highlight-tape worthy."

The Army-Navy game is moving from Philadel-

phia for a few years, but the service academies left the city with quite a memory and a little bit of history.

Army, looking moribund for most of the game, picked up a 20-17 win in double overtime when Quinn Maretzki kicked a 39-yard field goal for an appropriately wild ending.

It was the first overtime game in series history.

College football adopted overtime in 1996.

Army scored on its first play in the extra session when Markel Johnson ran through a hole created in

part by Bishop.

It was the Cadets' only offensive touchdown of the game, and gave Army a brief 17-10 lead.

Navy responded with its own fireworks when Xavier Arline hit Marquel Haywood with a 25-yard score on its first play of overtime. It was the first pass Navy completed all day.

Maretzki's field goal was set up when Navy fumbled on its second possession of OT.

The first three-plus quarters featured more punts than passes.

on campus (1986-1989) and went 1-2-1 against the Cardinal in the Big Game. Taylor joins Jerod Haase (basketball) and David Esquer (baseball) as Stanford coaches with a Cal pedigree.

After a short NFL career, Taylor returned to Berkeley as an offensive coach from 1996-2000. While Taylor left to coach high school football, he returned a third time to be the color analyst for the Golden Bears’ radio broadcast alongside Joe Starkey. He gave that up to become head coach at the powerhouse Folsom High School outside of Sacramento for four years before moving back up to

the college ranks. After one season as an offensive coordinator at Eastern Washington and two seasons in the same role at Utah, Sacramento State brought Taylor back to Northern California to be the head coach of the Hornets.

Since taking over in 2019, he has helped bring a level of success never before seen in Sacramento, as the Hornets have won at least a share of the Big Sky Conference championship in all three seasons (the Hornets didn’t play in the Covid-delayed spring 2021 FCS season) since being hired, with the Hornets finishing each regular season ranked in

the Top 4 in FCS.

Taylor’s final season in charge at Sacramento State has been questionably the best in program history. The Hornets won double-digit wins for the second time in school history and first time since Sacramento State moved up to Division I in 1993 while also picking up their first FCS playoff win.

Hiring a coach with that level of rapid success at the FCS level is exactly what Stanford did the last time it hired a coach from outside of the program in 2006, when the Cardinal hired Jim Harbaugh from San Diego. Harbaugh was coming off of back-to-back 11-1 seasons.

Sky Coach of the Year in all three full seasons in charge of the Hornets and has a 30-8 after Friday night’s barn-burning 66-63 loss to Incarnate Word in the FCS quarterfinals.

Born in Southern California and raised in the Sacramento area, Taylor first came to the Bay Area to play quarterback at Cal. He was a starter in all four years he was

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Sacramento State Hornets head coach Troy Taylor has become the new football coach at Stanford.

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NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREIT EXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONDecember6,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon:

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(a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONNovember17,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: November18,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001922 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00059604 Published:Nov.27Dec.4,11,18,2022

AnIndividual Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusine ss nameornameslistedaboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/BrianHofacre INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONNovember20,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: November21,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001925 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00059583 Published:Nov.27,Dec.4,11,18,2022

LOWINGOWNER(S)#1MireilleAlskaff 544RosatoCtFairfield,94534#2Elias Alskaff544RosatoCtFairfield,94534. THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: aGeneralPartnership Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedaboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/MireilleAlskaff INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONNovember21,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: November22,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001938 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00059617 Published:Nov.27Dec.4,11,18,2022

TOALLINTERESTEDPERSONS: Petitioner: Robert John Reeder filedapetitionwiththiscourtforadecree changingnamesasfollows: Present Name: a. Robert John Reeder Proposed Name: a. Robert John Lee THECOURTORDERSthatallpersonsinterestedinthismattershallappearbefore thiscourtatthehearingindicatedbelowto showcause,ifany,whythepetitionfor changeofnameshouldnotbegranted. Anypersonobjectingtothename changesdescribedabovemustfileawrittenobjectionthatincludesthereasonsfor theobjectionatleasttwocourtdaysbeforethematterisscheduledtobeheard andmustappearatthehearingtoshow causewhythepetitionshouldnotbegranted.Ifnowrittenobjectionistimelyfiled, thecourtmaygrantthepetitionwithouta hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: January 25, 2023; Time: 8:30 am; Dept: 12; Rm: 1 The address of the court is SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533

AcopyofthisOrdertoShowCauseshall bepublishedatleastonceeachweekfor foursuccessiveweekspriortothedate setforhearingonthepetitioninthefollowingnewspaperofgeneralcirculation,printedinthiscounty:DailyRepublic Pleasefileproofofnewspaperpublication atleast5businessdaysbeforehearing (newspaperdoesnotfilew/court)zoom ok.zoominvitewillbeemailed1-2days beforehearing Date:NOV.8,2022

PUBLIC NOTICES

censedcontractorstosubmittheircompanyforinclusionontheCounty sInformalBiddingContractors Listforcalendaryear2023.

1.OnOctober8,2013,theSolanoCountyBoardofSupervisorsadoptedaResolutionestablishingtheCaliforniaUniformPublicConstructionCostAccountingAct(CUPCCAA) andInformalBiddingProceduresasadministeredundertheStateController sOffice.The InformalBiddingProceduresallowtheCountytocreatealistofqualifiedbiddersbyJanuary1stofeachyearforpublicconstructionprojects.Contractorswishingtobeaddedto, droppedfrom,and/orupdateinformationtotheCounty scurrentqualifiedbidders list needtosubmitarequest.Currentinformationwillotherwisebe carriedforwardonthelist for2023.

2.PerCaliforniaPublicContractCodesection22032,anypublicconstructionprojectthat isestimatedtobe$200,000orless(effectiveasofJanuary1,2019),issubjecttotheInformalBiddingProceduressetforthbytheStateofCaliforniaUniformConstructionCost AccountingCommission.AlltradecategoriesaresubjecttoInformalBiddingProcedures.

3.ContractorsthathaveregisteredontheInformalBidders Listwillbenotifiedaboutthe Countyʼspublicconstructionprojectsvaluedatlessthan$200,000.Projectnotificationwill includeageneralprojectdescription,locationofwheretoobtainmoredetailedinformation,andthetimeandplaceofbidsubmissionatleastfourteen(14)calendardaysinadvanceofthesubmissiondeadlineandbidopening.

4.ContractorsthatareinterestedinbeingonSolanoCounty sInformalBidders Listare requiredtohaveacurrentlicense,tobe listedwiththeDepartmentofIndustrialRelations (DIR)inaccordancewithSenateBill854,andsubjecttoverificationthroughtheContractorsStateLicensingBoardandDIR.

5.Toregister,delete,orupdateinformationfortheInformalBidders List,completethe form,“RequesttoBeIncludedinSolanoCountyʼsBiddersʼ ListforNotificationofInformal Bids”at:http://www.solanocounty.com/depts/genserv/cpm/notices.asp. Whencompletingtheform,providecorrectaddresses,e-mailaddresses,and/orfaxnumbers,andspecifythetypeofcontractor slicense.Businessesthatdonothaveaccurate contactinformationorfailtospecifythetypeofworktheyarelicensedtoperform,may notbenotifiedwhenaprojectislettoinformalbidding.

6.AllinquiriesregardingthisNoticeshallbedirectedtoSolanoCountyDepartmentof GeneralServices,CapitalProjectsManagement,675TexasStreet,Suite2500,Fairfield, CA,94533.ForfurtherinformationemailCPM@solanocounty.com,orphone(707)7847908.

7.PleaseregisterontheBonfirewebsite https://solanocounty.bonfirehub.com/portal/?tab=loginforuninterruptednotificationsand accesstoCountybidopportunities.Instructionsonhowtocreateanaccountandhowto submityourbidcanbefoundathttps://bonfire.wistia.com/medias/r4nf171. Whenregistrationiscompleted,vendorswillreceiveemailnotificationsofbi ddingopportunitiesthatmatchtheserviceand/orcommoditieslistedinthevendorprofile.Itiscritical tolistalltheNationalInstituteofPurchasing(NIGP)codesrelatedtotheservicesand/or commoditiesofferedbythevendors.

8.References: -SolanoCountyBoardofSupervisorsAdoptiononOct.8,2013ofResolutionNo.2013180andOrdinanceNo.2013-1741: http://www.solanocounty.com/depts/bos/meetings/videos.asp -SolanoCountyʼscurrentqualifie dcontractorsʼ bidderʼslist,“CurrentBidderʼsListfor2022 CUPCCAANotice”: http://www.solanocounty.com/depts/genserv/cpm/notices.asp -CaliforniaUniformPublicConstructionCostAccountingCommissionandCostAccountingPolicies&ProceduresManual(January2021Edition): https://www.sco.ca.gov/Files-ARD-Local/cuccac_manual_2021_edition.pdf -BidLimitIncrease: https://www.sco.ca.gov/Files-ARDLocal/New_Informal_Bid_Limit_In crease_Pursuant_to_PCC22032.pdf -ContractorRegistrationwithDIR: https://www.dir.ca.gov/Public-Works/Contractor-Registration.html DR#00059813 Published:December4,11,2022

P051816

Toallheirs,beneficiaries,creditors,contingentcreditors,andpersonswhomay otherwisebeinterestedinthewillorestate,orboth,of: Hector Freire

A Petition for Probate hasbeenfiledby: Geoffrey Freire intheSuperiorCourtofCalifornia,County of:SOLANO

ThePetitionforProbaterequeststhat: Geoffrey Freire beappointedaspersonalrepresentative toadminis tertheestateofthedecedent. ThepetitionrequestsauthoritytoadministertheestateundertheIndependentAdministrationofEstatesAct.(Thisauthority willallowthepersonalrepresentativeto takemanyactionswithoutobtainingcourt approval.Beforetakingcertainveryimportantactions,however,thepersonal representativewillberequiredtogivenoticetointerestedpersonsunlessthey havewaivednoticeorconsentedtothe proposedaction.)Thei ndependentadministrationauthoritywillbegrantedunless aninterestedpersonfilesanobjectionto thepetitionandshowsgoodcausewhy thecourtshouldnotgranttheauthority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: JAN. 17, 2023 TIME: 9:00 a.m.; DEPT.: 22

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO Old Solano Courthouse 580 Texas Street Fairfield, CA 94533

If you object tothegrantingofthepetition,youshouldappearatthehearingand stateyourobjectionsorfilewrittenobjectionswiththecourtbeforethehearing. Yourappearancemaybeinpersonorby yourattorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, youmustfileyourclaimwiththecourtand mailacopytothepersonalrepresentative appointedbythecourtwithinthe later of either(1) four months fromthedateof firstissuanceofletterstoageneralpersonalrepres entative,asdefinedinsection58(b)oftheCaliforniaProbateCode, or(2) 60 days fromthedateofmailingor personaldeliverytoyouofanoticeunder section9052oftheCaliforniaProbate Code.Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. Ifyouareapersoninterestedinthe estat e,youmayfilewiththecourtaRequestforSpecialNotice(formDE-154)of thefilingofaninventoryandappraisalof estateassetsorofanypetitionoraccount asprovidedinProbateCodesection 1250.ARequestforSpecialNoticeformis availablefromthecourtclerk.

AttorneyforPetitioner: KathleenBockStewart 5030BusinessCenterDr,Suite280, Fairfield,CA94534 (707)252-9000 DR#00059861 Published:December7,11,14,2022

Toallheirs,beneficiaries,creditors,contingentcreditors,andpersonswhomay otherwisebeinterestedinthewillorestate,orboth,of: Gus Lewis, Jr. APetitionforProbatehasbeenfiledby: Stonecrest Acquisitions, LLC intheSuperiorCourtofCalifornia,County of: Solano

ThePetitionforProbaterequeststhat: Stonecrest Acquisitions, LLC beappointedasperso nalrepresentative toadministertheestateofthedecedent. ThepetitionrequestsauthoritytoadministertheestateundertheIndependentAdministrationofEstatesAct.(Thisauthority willallowthepersonalrepresentativeto takemanyactionswithoutobtainingcourt approval.Beforetakingcertainveryimportantactions,however,thepersonal representativewillberequiredtogivenoticetointerestedpersonsunlessthey havewaivednoticeorconsente dtothe proposedaction.)Theindependentadministrationauthoritywillbegrantedunless aninterestedpersonfilesanobjectionto thepetitionandshowsgoodcausewhy thecourtshouldnotgranttheauthority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: DATE: JAN. 9, 2023 TIME: 8:30 am DEPT.: 4 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of Solano 600 Union Avenue Fairfield, CA 94533

Probate

If you object tothegrantingof thepetition,youshouldappearatthehearingand stateyourobjectionsorfilewrittenobjectionswiththecourtbeforethehearing. Yourappearancemaybeinpersonorby yourattorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, youmustfileyourclaimwiththecourtand mailacopytothepersonalrepresentative appointedbythecourtwithinthe later of either(1)four months fromthedateof firstissuanceofletterstoageneralpersonalrepresentative,asdefinedinsection58(b)oftheCaliforniaProbateCode, or(2) 60 days fromthedateofmailingor personaldeliverytoyouofanoticeunder section9052oftheCaliforniaProbate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may wantto consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court.Ifyouareapersoninterestedin the estate,youmayfilewiththecourtaRequestforSpecialNotice(formDE-154)of thefilingofaninventoryandappraisalof estateassetsorofanypetitionoraccount asprovidedinProbateCodesection 1250.ARequestforSpecialNoticeformis availablefromthecourtclerk.

AttorneyforPetitioner: HeatherLedgerwood,Esq 1677EurekaRdSuite203, Roseville,CA95661 800-835-2634 DR#00059787 Published:December4,7,11,2022

0501 HELP WANTED

Board of Supervisors Aide $76,592.36 - $93,098.50/annually

Solano County is currently recruiting for a Board of Supervisors Aide to support Supervisor Elect Wanda Williams.

Must have the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external customers.

Needs to be a self-starter, who can work both collaboratively and independently with minimal direction. It is desirable that the candidate live in the Fairfield, Suisun or Travis area and has previous city or county experience.

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OWNER(S)VeronicaJassoLindsey447 RickoverStVallejo,94592.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedab oveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/VeronicaJassoLindsey INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONNovember20,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: November21,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001927 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00059584 Published:Nov.27Dec.4,11,18,2022

FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONNovember14,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: November15,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001900 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00059594 Published:Nov.27Dec.4,11,18,2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

THE FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS OTUGEN GROUP

LOCATEDAT1060GrantSt,Suite3C, Benicia,CA94510Solano.Mailingaddress1525SolanoAve,Apt7A,Berkeley, CA94707.AREHEREBYREGISTERED BYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)OtugenGroupLLCCABenicia,945100.THIS

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Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameorn ameslistedaboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/HaciMustafaToraman INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONNovember21,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: November22,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001939 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00059616 Published:Nov.27Dec.4,11,18,2022

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LOCATEDAT2700SonomaBlvd,Vallejo CA94590Solano.Mailingaddress2700 SonomaBlvd,VallejoCA94590.ARE HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)JoshuaSpinelliTattoosLLCCAVallejo,94590.THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: aLimitedLiabilityCompany Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness n ameornameslistedaboveonN/A. Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/JoshuaSpinelli INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREIT EXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONNovember21,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: November22,2022 NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001941 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00059615 Published:Nov.27Dec.4,11,18,2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

LOCATEDAT2716WaldorfLn,Fairfield CA94533Solano.Mailingaddress2716 WaldorfLn,FairfieldCA94533.ARE HEREBYREGISTEREDBYTHEFOLLOWINGOWNER(S)KevinCotton2716 WaldorfLnFairfield,94533THISBUSINESSISCONDUCTEDBY: anIndividual

Theregistrantcommencedtotransact businessunderthefictitiousbusiness nameornameslistedabove on 12/07/2022.

Ideclarethatallinformationinthisstatementistrueandcorrect(Aregistrantwho declaresastrueinformationwhichheor sheknowstobefalseisguiltyofacrime.) /s/KevinCotton

INACCORDANCEWITHSUBDIVISION (a)OFSECTION17920AFICTITIOUS NAMESTATEMENTGENERALLYEXPIRESATTHEENDOFFIVEYEARS FROMTHEDATEONWHICHITWAS FILEDINTHEOFFICEOFTHECOUNTY CLERK,EXCEPTASPROVIDEDIN SUBDIVISION(b)OFSECTION17920, WHEREITEXPIRES40DAYSAFTER ANYCHANGEINTHEFACTSSET FORTHINTHESTATEMENTPURSUANTTOSECTION17913OTHERTHAN ACHANGEINTHERESIDENCEADDRESSOFAREGISTEREDOWNER. ANEWFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAME STATEMENTMUSTBEFILEDBEFORE THEEXPIRATIONDecember6,2027. THEFILINGOFTHISSTATEMENT DOESNOTOFITSELFAUTHORIZE THEUSEINTHISSTATEOFAFICTITIOUSBUSINESSNAMEINVIOLATION OFTHERIGHTSOFANOTHERUNDER FEDERAL,STATEORCOMMONLAW (SEESECTION14411ETSEQ.,BUSINESSANDPROFESSIONSCODE). FiledintheOfficeoftheCountyClerkof SolanoCounty,StateofCaliforniaon: December7,2022

NewASSIGNEDFILENO.2022001999 CHARLESLOMELI,SolanoCountyClerk DR#00059981 Published:Dec.11,18,25,2022 Jan.1,2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FOLLOWING PERSON (PERSONS) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS ARMADA TATTOO COMPANY

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Vacaville. Mott hauled in 36 catches for 653 yards and five touchdowns as one of the Bulldogs’ deep threats.

n Darrius Hickenbottom, Will C. Wood. A co-MEL Player of the Year, Hickenbottom caught 24 passes for 432 yards and nine touchdowns and was also a stalwart on the Wildcats’ defense.

n Brayden Chavez, Vanden. Chavez was Dimes’ go-to receiver, especially after Vanden lost some big targets from the state championship team. Chavez caught 29 passes for 518 yards and four touchdowns, also rushing for 525 yards and four touchdowns.

n Kaiba Washington, Armijo. The senior caught 20 passes for 456 yards and four touchdowns. Washington also had a nose for the end zone on kick returns.

The O-Linemen

Success of offenses begins with the young men up front. There were several who helped make their team’s offense go. Though there are no clear

statistical measure of a lineman’s value, here are the ones who stood out to area coaches and earned all-league recognition.

n Centers — Avery Beal (Wood) and Elijah Olney (Vacaville).

n Guards — Caleb Noel (Vacaville), Charlie Horton (Wood), TJ Marfil (Vacaville), David Camara (Vanden).

n Tackles — Raymond Lane (Wood), Kayson Dahl (Vanden), Evan Blaettler (Vacaville), Devan Lekhan (Rodriguez), Elijah Hairston (Dixon).

n Kicker — Rafael Ortiz Velez, Vanden. Scored 54 points for the Vikings, including a 26-yard field goal in the Northern California championship game in a driving rainstorm.

n Kicker — Micah Navarro, Vacaville. Accurate and productive for the Bulldogs, Navarro finished with 45 points.

n Kicker — Luis Torres, Dixon. He gets his second spot on the allregion team by scoring 54 points and has a 41-yard kick to his credit this season.

DEFENSE

Defensive Linemen

n Jericho Johnson, Armijo. The premiere

Solano women net win, collect loss in Redding

Daily Republic Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

ROCKVILLE — The Solano Community College women’s basketball team split a pair of games Thursday and Friday at the Shasta X-over Tournament in Redding.

Solano opened with a 58-49 loss Thursday to Siskiyous before rebounding Friday with a big 55-30 win over host Shasta. The Falcons are now 5-6 overall and will be home for a 6 p.m. game Friday against Folsom Lake.

Ale Ibarra led Solano with 11 points and five rebounds in the win over Shasta. Jaslyn Woods scored eight points to go with seven rebounds. Julia Wright had seven points and seven rebounds, Genesis Ernie-Hamilton contributed seven points and six rebounds, while Jade Dickson had seven points and five rebounds.

The Falcons were in control throughout the win but pushed away for the comfortable win with a 19-6 edge in the final period.

Wright led the Falcons with 16 points and 13 rebound against Siskiyous. Woods added seven points, nine rebounds and six assists.

Soccer Alvarado scores twice in Fairfield loss

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield High School girls soccer team lost at Winters 5-2 Wednesday.

Junior Itzy Alvarado scored twice for Fairfield.

The Falcons fell to 2-2 overall. Fairfield played late Friday night at home against American Canyon.

Basketball Vanden JV boys top Rio Americano

FAIRFIELD — The Vanden High School junior varsity boys basketball team secured a 47-43 win Thursday night over Rio Americano in the first round of the Inderkum tournament.

Logan Bailey led the Vikings with 21 points.

Vanden improved to 4-2 overall heading its late Friday night game against Capital Christian.

a video review gave it another penalty kick in the 82nd minute, but he skied his kick over the crossbar.

inside threat in the area.

n Gabriel Batres, Rodriguez. Batres was the co-Lineman of the Year with Johnson in the MEL. He is credited with a hand in 80 tackles, a whopping 19 quarterback sacks, six pass deflections, three fumble recoveries and three caused fumbles.

n Orion Null, Vanden. Null had a hand in 58 tackles, including six sacks, and caused one fumble.

n Noa Siaosi, Vacaville. The Bulldog had a hand in 34 tackles to go with four sacks and four fumble recoveries. He also picked up a couple of those and found the end zone.

n Seyyid Smith, Dixon. The senior helped make 66 stops, 2.5 sacks, one caused fumble and a blocked field goal.

n Abraham Saunders, Vanden. The senior had 77 tackles, four sacks and caused three fumbles.

n Nathan Frisbie, Rio Vista. Only a freshman, his future is bright. He made 38 tackles to earn all-GEL honors and recovered a fumble.

Linebackers

The areas deepest position. Here are 11 choices.

n Eric Gladney, Vacaville. Co-MVP in the MEL and over 100 tackles.

n Devin Martin,

49ers

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than Tom himself,” Purdy said. “But, it’s definitely still awesome to have Tom Brady come and play on the same field and compete against our team.”

Purdy sure could use the 49ers’ top-ranked defense and timely rushing prowess, just as Brady benefitted from that combination in his debut, a 44-13 home win for the New England Patriots over the Indianapolis Colts.

Brady’s made 325 regular-season starts, 47 in the playoffs, 10 in the Super Bowl, and, yet, the pride of San Mateo played in just one previous game at a 49ers’ stadium. That was a 2016 win at Levi’s Stadium rather than a return visit to Candlestick Park, where he and his family used to watch the 49ers’ 1980s dynasty from the upper deck.

“I was lucky to grow

Vanden. The MEL’s Back of the Year and the emotional leader of Vanden’s defense. The senior helped rack up 79 tackles.

n Jarren Ford, Will C. Wood. One of the Wildcats’ elite defenders. The senior collected a piece of 89 tackles, with 1.5 sacks, two pass deflections, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery.

n Malik Dawson, Rodriguez. The Mustangs’ senior helped make 63 stops with 7.5 sacks, one interception, one fumble recovery and three caused fumbles.

n Trevor Crommie, Rodriguez. This Rodriguez senior had 55 tackles, a sack and two pass deflections.

n Liam Flaherty, Vacaville. The senior is in the 100-tackle club with 107 to go with three sacks.

n Jimmy Green, Fairfield. The heart-and-soul of the Falcons defense, Green had 63 tackles and of those 62 were solo. He also had a quarterback sack and a memorable 60-yard fumble return for touchdown against Armijo that helped rally the Falcons back into the game.

n Kobe Powell, Vacaville Christian. The freshman was credited for having a hand in 99

up in the Bay Area at that time. It was just a great time,” Brady recalled this past week. “. . . When they skipped over me six times (in the draft), I started hating the 49ers.”

Here are some keys for the 49ers to make Brady hate this homecoming:

Purdy’s Job

With a star-studded supporting cast, everyone is downplaying what Purdy must contribute other than serve as a turnover-free distributor. It won’t be that simple, but his unflinching resolve last game further convinced the 49ers they’re capable of a smooth transition from Garoppolo.

“He has a similar touch as Jimmy, so it’s not like we’re out there re-inventing the wheel,” tight end George Kittle said.

Bucs’ coach Todd Bowles is known for creative and frequent pressures, so Purdy’s quick release (2.67 seconds last game)

tackles to go with two caused fumbles.

n Seniors Michael Lorton, Tony Bellante, Rio Vista — Lorton had 69 tackles as an all-league selection and Bellante accumulated 84 as the SDL MVP.

n Matt Whitaker, Dixon. Whitaker helped stop 85 ball carriers, picked off two passes and had a fumble recovery.

n Kyren JacksonDavis, Vanden. The Viking helped stop 82 runners alongside Martin to go with one sack, one fumble recovery of 42 yards and two fumbles caused.

Defensive Backs

n Leroy Bryant, Rodriguez. The area’s best.

n Darius Hickenbottom, Will C. Wood. The MEL’s co-Player of the Year. The senior had a hand in 92 tackles, two interceptions, three pass deflections, one fumble recovery and two fumbles caused. Enough said.

n Brady Mott, Vacaville. The senior had a piece of 93 tackles with two interceptions and two caused fumbles.

n Isaiah Turner, Rio Vista. The junior and SDL Defensive Player of the Year made four interceptions and had a hand in 47 tackles.

n Brent Green, Dixon.

and quick thinking must keep the offense on track.

The Bucs will dare Purdy to beat them deep, when the prudent move would be to strike fast, hit receivers in stride between the hashmarks and begrudgingly accept a punt rather than force a turnover.

“It’s obvious we have a rookie quarterback making his first official start, so (the Bucs) are going to put it in his hands and try and make him win the game,” Kyle Juszczyk said. “We’re ready to counter it.”

Purdy could become the first quarterback to win a starting debut against Brady, who is 6-0 against such novices; Brady’s Patriots won by an average of 32-14 in the debuts of Luke McCown, Matt Flynn, Tyler Palko, Jake Locker, EJ Manuel and Luke Falk.

Running it well

The safest way to protect the ball and keep it

The senior all-GEL selection led the state with an incredible 11 interceptions. Green also had a hand in 68 tackles.

n Jeremiah Hill, Rodriguez. Hill played the other side of the field to Bryant and made the Mustangs tough to throw on. He came away with four interceptions.

n Junior Marcellus Chandler and sophomore Chris Clark, Vanden. The Vikings had to rebuild their secondary and did so with some quality talent. Chandler finished with five interceptions and Clark had four.

n Punter: Owen Whitted, Rodriguez. Whitted had 18 kicks for 626 yards, which was the best average in the MEL at 34.8 yards per kick. His best went for 50 yards.

n Punter: Ryan Baumbach, Dixon. Baumbach had 10 kicks for 359 yards (35.9 average per kick).

n Punter: Marcellus Chandler, Vanden. Special recognition to his over 80-yard punt for the Vikings in the playoffs against Kimball when it caught a roaring jet stream across the field and was downed inside the 10-yard line.

out of Brady’s clutches is to dominate on the ground, all due respect to Purdy getting the green light to air out 37 passes last game.

Christian McCaffrey, Deebo Samuel and Jordan Mason should rotate as ball carriers and try to find lanes past an aggressive defense. That weekly plan is getting thwarted by stacked defensive fronts, however.

“The biggest thing, and you’ve seen it with almost every defense we’ve played, is we have to be ready for some sort of heavy package, some sort of six defensive linemen,” Juszczyk said.

Nose tackle Vita Vea, a Milpitas native, is a road block up the middle, and it’s worth wondering if the 49ers will re-insert rookie Spencer Burford as the starting right guard.

Burford missed last game with a sprained ankle, an injury he learned to overcome in his younger days, which included time as a power forward in travelteam basketball.

second time. Following the resulting corner kick, Griezmann picked him out in the box and delivered an exquisite left-footed cross that Giroud headed in despite Maguire draped all over his back.

The goal was Giroud’s fourth of this World Cup, making the 36-year-old just the second player that age or older to score four times in a single tournament.

Kane, who has scored four times from the spot in the last two World Cups, had a chance to pull England even again after

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England peppered Lloris with eight shots on goal and wound up dominating the possession battle but will go home early just the same.

Youssef En-Nesyri headed the historic goal for Morocco in the 42nd minute when he beat Portugal goalkeeper Diogo Costa on a cross from Yahya Attiat-Allah.

Ronaldo was again not in the starting lineup but came on in the 51st minute for his 196th cap, which equaled the world record held by Kuwait’s Bader Al-Mutawa.

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Siskiyous pulled away from a 27-16 halftime lead by Solano with a 25-7 run in the third quarter.