Daily Republic: Wednesday, May 3, 2023

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Supervisors eliminate Ag Advisory Commission

Hold off final vote on Historical Records panel

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County supervisors on Tuesday considered the fates of eight advisory commissions: Keeping two, dissolving two – including the Agriculture Advisory Commission – while melding another with a related panel and effectively holding off final decisions on the rest.

In what were sometimes contentious, even heart-stirring discussions, not a single public comment – though mostly directed to a single board by the individual speakers – favored dissolving any of the commissions.

“My biggest challenge for all of this is we

need community input to do the work we do,” said Supervisor Erin Hannigan, adding at one point she could not support dissolving any of the commissions, though ultimately she did join the unanimous majority in closing down the Solano Partnership Against Violence.

Hannigan also was critical of the ad hoc committee that reviewed the commissions’ usefulness, calling its reports “incomplete work product.”

Joined by others, Hannigan was especially concerned that the ad hoc members – board Chairman John Vasquez and Vice Chairwoman Monica Brown – apparently did

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FAIRFIELD — A former student, concerned parents, educators and Travis Unified School District governing board members walked the walk Tuesday afternoon to bring attention to the safety concerns they have, with no safe school route after Markeley Lane was blocked off at Peabody Road.

It was closed when construction began on the Peabody Road overcrossing, which opened in August 2016. The overcrossing converted a two-lane rural road into a sixlane street.

Markeley Lane used to offer easy access to Center Elementary,

Davis stabbings are likely work of a local serial killer, experts say

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SACRAMENTO — Davis police are hunting a monster. And it’s highly likely the suspect is a serial killer, experts say.

The person behind three stabbings in the normally quiet college town is likely full of rage and has targeted his victims with no clear connection to one another, criminal experts told The Sacramento Bee. Given Davis’ relative isolation, 15 miles west of Sacramento and surrounded by farmland, the suspect probably lives in the city.

It’s also possible the person responsible is battling mental illness.

“The chances that these cases are not linked is very small,” said Mark

Safarik, a former Davis police detective and investigator with the FBI’s behavioral analysis unit. “One of the things here is we don’t really have a motive, Davis is a relatively small community, and it’s very likely these cases are linked.”

By definition, Sararnik said, two or more homicides separated by time are serial killings. The nature of the killings has added to the gravity of the case. The first two victims died of multiple stab wounds after being attacked in city parks. The third was a homeless woman stabbed multiple times through her tent; she was in critical condition Tuesday.

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Golden West Middle and Vanden

High schools. Now, buses and cars must turn onto Dobe Lane and then DeRonde Drive to reach Vanden and Golden West. One must travel the same streets, in addition to Forbes and Armstrong streets, to get to Center.

Maria Figueroa, who sought a seat on the TUSD, drives one of her children to Center, the other to Golden West. They live in the Gold Ridge neighborhood, off Peabody Road, between Air Base Parkway and the California Medical Facility. She leaves about 30 minutes early to get her children to school on time.

Letting them walk is out of the question. While the overcrossing

has a bike lane, it’s only a few feet wide, said one parent.

There is no sidewalk on one side of Peabody Road as it nears Huntington Drive.

Figueroa was told developers were to pay for Markeley Lane, and that the Solano Transportation Authority was going to help develop Safe Routes to School.

Since 2022, TUSD board member Matt Bidou has been meeting with Solano County supervisors, the city of Fairfield’s city manager and STA.

He said the topic of having TUSD contribute money to build the road surfaced in one

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VACAVILLE — Solano County Educators of the Year Awards honors excellent teachers and classified employees from Solano County schools.

It was a full house of friends and family members Tuesday night at the Sunrise Event Center to help honor those people.

Maria Williams, an eighth-grade math teacher at Grange Middle School, was nominated as Teacher of the Year.

She didn’t prepare a speech but spoke from the heart at the evening event.

“I work for the greatest school and district,” she said. “They allow me to do what I do.”

Williams knew from a very young age that she was destined to be a teacher.

“It is always what I wanted to do,” she said. “Being a teacher gives me the opportunity to make an impact.”

She watches her students work hard to grasp

Teaching history like Ken Bruce

Ken Bruce passed away a couple of weeks ago at the age of 94. Ken was a legendary Bay Area high school history teacher who during the 1960s and ’70s was, in many ways, ahead of his time.

Although I never had the opportunity to take one of Ken’s classes, his reputation among my fellow students was HUGE. Unlike many of his contemporaries who taught history as if it was a lifeless chronology of people and events, Ken made high school history come alive through a rich combination of his deep passion for the subject and innovative teaching methods.

Instead of simply memorizing historical facts, Ken’s students learned to evaluate the trustworthiness of important historical issues and to look for patterns and corroborating sources of evidence before concluding what was true, what was not, and what was most likely to be true or false. Ken’s students were taught to dig deep into history by examining and debating historical events and characters through multiple points of view. They learned that understanding the past was essential to understanding the present and to forecasting the future.

For Ken Bruce, history was “life” itself. He saw history as an expansive and evolving accounting of human experience on earth. Columbia University sociology professor

C. Wright Mills aptly described Ken’s view of history – “Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.”

Imagine, if you will, living in a constant state of amnesia with no memory whatsoever of your own past. Imagine a society that lived the same way. Without question an absurd and inconceivable notion – and precisely the central argument Ken made for studying history in school (and beyond).

Although Ken’s students had use of district approved textbooks, they were also introduced to primary historical literature written by those who actually made the histories described in texts. Such materials brought depth, authenticity, and nuance to past events and allowed students to think deeply about the motives, intentions, desires, and perspectives of historical “actors.”

In Ken’s classes students often worked collaboratively to inves-

tigate historical events and issues, to diagnose the critical elements of messy historical controversies, to develop plausible hypothesis about why certain events occurred, to compare and contrast interpretations of past events, and to reach well-reasoned judgments about them. Lessons often incorporated student-centered role playing and creative project-based activities.

Ken’s depth of knowledge about historical events and the people who participated in them was both remarkably broad and exquisitely detailed. Not surprisingly, Ken was also an engaging and colorful storyteller. His students described with great delight the times when “Mr. Bruce” would show up to class dressed in an historical costume(s) just for the sake of adding flavor to the lesson. Students regularly talked about how Ken’s vibrant teaching methods piqued their imaginations and inevitably led to more student questions and even independent efforts to dig deeper into the topic at hand.

Understandably, Ken Bruce’s passing has generated considerable commentary among my former classmates. One would hope that in the era of Common Core Standards there would be many more history teachers like Ken Bruce, and there undoubtedly are. Nevertheless, trying to convince teenaged high school students that studying history is important remains as challenging today as it was 50 years ago. The late Boston University professor Howard Zinn offered an interesting and relevant perspective. “History is instructive. What it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper … Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much larger flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then changes take place.”

The following quote from author James Baldwin sums it up nicely: “People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”

I’m sure Ken Bruce would agree.

Stephen Davis is a career educator who writes a column that publishes every other Wednesday in the Daily Republic. Reach him by email at stephen davis71@gmail.com.

Fla. man started as a tree planting vigilante; now he’s planted 30,000

Tribune ConTenT AgenCy ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A mysterious phenomenon occurred all around Tampa Bay in the late 1970s and early 1980s. When the sun went down and the streets were empty, someone clandestinely planted trees in parks, thoroughfare and empty lots.

“People had no idea where they were coming from,” William Moriaty laughed.

Moriaty eventually admitted he was the culprit leading a group of volunteers in the rogue plantings. In 1983, he went legit by forming the Tampa Bay Reforestation and Environmental Effort.

In the 40 years since then, the organization has planted 30,742 trees, according to Moriaty, who still helms the nonprofit. He’s been nicknamed the Johnny Appleseed of Tampa Bay due to his efforts.

Moriaty considers it the highest compliment to be compared to the pioneer nurseryman who planted apple trees throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and West Virginia. But the nickname also does not give proper credit to the scope of the nonprofit’s work.

Yes, Moriaty’s group has planted apple trees –Anna and Dorsett Gold, which he said can be grown in Central Florida.

But the group’s 40 members don’t limit themselves to apple trees.

“If it is native to this area, we have planted it,” said the 68-year-old, who lives in (we can’t make this stuff up) Plant City.

In all, the Tampa Bay Reforestation and Environmental Effort, which Moriaty calls “T.R.E.E.” because “Bay” was only recently added to its name, has planted 266 different types of trees at 619 locations throughout the area.

Their latest planting happened on April 13, when Moriaty led volunteers in adding four trees – an Olympian fig, a Lady papaya, a Florida Prince Peach and a black sapote – to a vacant corner lot in the Deuces Live District of St. Petersburg.

The property owner, Ramona Brayboy, is

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turning the lot into the 22nd Street South Community Garden, where neighborhood residents can grow fruits and vegetables to eat or sell.

“We want to address the food insecurity in this area as well as promote local businesses,” she said.

Moriaty heard of her plan and offered to have his organization plant the first four trees. Those cost a little more than $200. Jerry Riggers Crane & Tree donated 40 yards of mulch toward the effort.

Moriaty next hopes to raise around $2,700 to plant another 10 fruit trees there.

“We plant where there is a need,” said Moriaty, a retired Florida Department of Transportation vegetation coordinator. “That’s pretty much our motto.”

Sometimes, he drives by a property, thinks it needs trees and reaches

out to the owner or managing government.

“Trees offer so many great benefits,” Moriaty said. “They cleanse the atmosphere. They help stabilize soil. They help ameliorate water pollution. They provide shade and food and can help purify water.”

Moriaty was living in Clearwater in 1971 when he first fell in love with the Florida woods.

“We had one of those great Florida summer thunderstorms,” he said. “I walked through the woods right after it and saw the water beads on the needles of the trees and the sun was creating rainbows within each bead. It was beautiful. I was hooked on the outdoors. But I quickly found out that our native Florida woods were being nuked for development.”

Over the next few years, Moriaty thought

of ways to save trees from being removed for construction.

“I soon realized that I could never battle those people in court,” he said. “I could plant trees. But I didn’t want to deal with the bureaucracy it would take to plant them.”

So, he didn’t. Instead, he planted trees without permission.

“Bayshore Boulevard, Picnic Island, Robles Park, other places,” Moriaty said. “Sometimes the trees remained. Sometimes, someone would pull them up.”

Then, Moriaty slipped up. He donated trees to the city, the same types that were being illegally planted. It didn’t take long, he said, for a city landscape artist to do the math.

“He didn’t turn us in,” Moriaty said. “But he did say that we had to stop what we were doing. He suggested we legitimize our efforts.”

The nonprofit was incorporated on Feb. 8, 1983. A couple of months later, they planted slash pines on the Palm Harbor campus of Ozona Elementary School, the first legitimate venture.

“It’s hard to believe it’s been 40 years,” Moriaty said. “I know we’ll never go back to the time when Florida woods were on both sides of a road, and you’d run into 8-foot diamondback rattlesnakes in whichever side you chose. But that doesn’t mean we can’t try to keep some of Old Florida around. That’s what we are trying to do.”

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From left, Lauren Mones of St. Petersburg, Florida Urban Forestry Council executive director Deborah Hilbert and Tampa Bay Reforestation and Environmental Effort president Will Moriaty plant an Olympian fig tree at the 22nd Street South Community Garden in St. Petersburg, Fla., April 13.

Vallejo police make arrest linked to Sunday shooting in city

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VALLEJO – Police officers arrested a local man not long after responding to a Sunday afternoon shooting in the area of Sonoma Boulevard and Tennessee Street.

Army serviceman receives honors procession through Vacaville

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VACAVILLE — Local police, fire and members of the Patriot Guard Riders motorcycle group joined an honors procession for U.S. Army serviceman Clement Charway as it made its way through Vacaville Monday evening.

The flag-draped casket, carried in a white hearse, was brought from Sacramento International Airport to McCune Garden Chapel, down westbound Interstate 80, along Mason Street to Cernon Street.

The procession was at the request of the USO, Vacaville police said.

From McCune, Charway will be taken to his final resting place at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery outside of Dixon. The service is scheduled for May 26. Charway, 33, was from the Antioch area.

Rodriguez student creates winning water awareness video

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lenged to explore the reasons and ways Solano County residents can conserve water to make the world a better place for their families and future generations of residents,” organizers said.

The videos, serving as public service announcements, were 60 seconds.

“Entrants explored why and how Solano County residents can and should conserve water to make the world a better place

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expected to survive,” the police statement said.

Police said in the statement that Delano Bell, of Vallejo, was identified as a possible suspect.

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Officers were dispatched to the scene about 3:45 and found an adult male suffering from at least one gunshot wound, the Vallejo Police Department reported in a statement released Monday.

“The male was transported to a local trauma center where he received medical attention, underwent surgery and is

“Officers were able to locate Bell inside his vehicle and took him into custody without incident. Officers then searched the vehicle Bell was in and found a firearm,” the police statement said.

The statement did not indicate whether the firearm was the one used in the shooting. Bell was booked into the Solano County Jail on suspicion of “numerous firearms charges and the assault on the victim,” the police statement said.

Suisun City gets $2.3M to fund PAL

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SUISUN CITY —

The Suisun City Parks, Recreation and Marina Department was successful in securing funding for the creation and operation of a Police Activities League through the Proposition 64 Public Health and Safety Grant.

The $2.3 million grant, awarded over five years, will fund youth prevention and intervention programs focused on helping people under the age of 21 build the skills and competencies they

need to become successful adults. The programs will address substance use and addiction, promote healthy behaviors and environments, and minimize the harms associated with substance use, said a press release.

“We are thrilled to have received this grant funding for our youth development and prevention programs,” Mayor Alma Hernandez said in the press release. “Investing in the future of our children is always a top

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Vacaville firefighters carry the casket of Staff Sgt. Clement Charway into McCune Garden Chapel in Vacaville, Monday.

Vacaville firefighters salute as the casket of Staff Sgt. Clement Charway arrives at McCune Garden Chapel in Vacaville, Monday.

Animals, music, history featured at Kids Day at Peña Adobe Park

VACAVILLE —

The Peña Adobe His torical Society on Saturday will host Day at the Adobe” at Peña Adobe Park.

“Come see the his toric Peña Adobe, one of the oldest structures in Solano County. Dating back to 1842, the Adobe was once the home of the Juan Felipe Peña family, who with the Vacas, settled in Vacaville over 180 years ago. Meet Peña family member descendants! Stop in the adjacent Mowers-Goheen Museum, and see local artifacts that include Peña family children’s toys and a woolly mammoth bone,” organizers said in a statement.

“There will be lots of fun activities, including grinding corn on authentic mortar and pestles. Learn how the early settlers made butter! Make a corn

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priority for our city, and this grant will allow us to provide even more opportunities for our young people to grow and thrive.”

The Recreation, Parks, and Marina Department will be implementing the Suisun City Police Activities League, which will include leadership programs, education opportunities, enrichment activities, and field trips. The program will also build

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for their families and future generations of residents,” organizers said. “The winning entries tell a compelling story about the need for water conservation, woven into information about everyday actions people can take to limit water use both inside and outside of their home.”

Taking second place, and splitting $1,000, are Regina Perez and Sophia Villaruel of Vanden High, and their sponsoring teacher Anthony Mueller, for the video, “Saving the Future One Drop at a Time.”

The third-place prize winners are Sofia Velasco of Vanden High, and her sponsoring teacher Darcy Pritchard, for the video, “The Dos and Don’ts of Saving Water.” They will split $500.

A team of regional water efficiency experts whittled down the videos to the top finalists, and then a panel of community leaders selected the winners. The judging panel included Ron Tuner, district representative for state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, John Young of 93.5 KUIC, and

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wisdom and heart. Proceeds from her book supports the CETA Foundation/Phoenix Ranch.

Quinton Mendoza, local diving coach of the 707 Diving team, will also be on hand to share his love of reptiles, and Fairfield police Officer Michael Peña and his K9 partner, Cort, also will be at the event.

Cort, an 8-year-veteran of the Police Department, recently was awarded the rarely given Purple Heart medal.

The Vacaville Jammers, directed by Terry and Leslie Cloper, will be providing the entertainment.

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FAIRFIELD — Neighborhoods interested in holding a National Night Out event in August can register with the city now.

This will be the 4oth Night Out event in the city. It is planned for 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 1.

“On this day, residents in neighborhoods throughout ... Fairfield are asked to lock their doors, turn on outside lights and spend an evening outside with neighbors, Fairfield police, Fairfield fire and city officials,” the city said in a statement.

borhoods safer, more caring places to live,” the statement said.

The city also is hosting its first centralized National Night Out event in the downtown. Scavenger hunts, free food, games, prizes and karaoke activities are planned. A Marty McFly Back to the Future Truck will be at the 600 block of Madison Street.

Traditionally, neighborhoods get together for potlucks, front yard chats and barbecues and some organize block parties, ice cream socials and much more.

husk doll to take home! Our Native American Park Docents Armando Perez and James Tunstall will be speaking with park visitors of the Native Americans who lived here before the Peñas and Vacas arrived in the Lagoon Valley.” Sue Chan, from Cali-

relationships between law enforcement officers and young people in the community.

“We’re excited to see the positive impacts that the Suisun City Police Activities League will have on our community’s youth,” said deputy city manager Kris Lofthus in the press release. “As a former Executive Director of a local Police Activities League chapter, I’ve seen firsthand how these programs can change lives. This is a fantastic opportunity for the young people in our community to learn,

Jim Reikowsky, retired longtime film-office liaison from the Solano County Film Commission.

“Selections were based on entertainment value and originality, videography, style and organization, audio/sound, and movie content and accuracy,” organizers said.

Earning $100 Target gift cards were:

n “Juanita and Bartholomew Learn a Lesson on Saving Water” by Scarlett Becerra Gutierrez and Isabella Castro (Debra Striek, teacher) of Public Safety Academy

fornia Education Through Animals Foundation, will bring a few animals from her Phoenix Ranch on Midway Road and will chat about her new book, “The Whisperers’ Way” for teaching and healing children and animals through knowledge,

grow, and connect with others from across California and the nation.”

Proposition 64 Public Health and Safety Grant Program funds are generated by state revenues from cannabis sales as a part of the implementation of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act. This grant funding is only available to local government agencies that have not banned both indoor and outdoor commercial cannabis cultivation or retail sale of marijuana or marijuana products.

in Fairfield.

n “Save Water and Save Our Earth” by Victoria Lopez (Bridgette Eldridge, teacher) of Rodriguez High School in Fairfield.

n “A Bear’s Way with Water” by Sarina Patel (Darcy Pritchard, teacher) of Vanden High School in Fairfield. Eldridge, Pritchard and Striek each received $200 Target gift cards. Watch the top-scoring videos at http://tinyurl. com/scwavideo. For tips on using water efficiently, visit www.scwa2.com.

Michele Nichole Butler

Michele was an 18 year resident of Vacaville and lived her last 13 years in Fairfield. She was a 2010 graduate of Will C. Wood High School. Michele loved traveling with her family to Ireland, Scotland and Greece as well as several U.S. states. Michele had a love of Irish and Christian music as well as video games. She loved all things lavender. Michele passed peacefully at her home. Michele is survived by her mother, Deborah; her father, John; her sister Ashley; her brother-in-law, James; nephews Johnathan and Andrew; and, Al and Patti Brown, maternal grandparents. Services will be held @ New Life Church 5900 Cherry Glen Rd., Vacaville, CA on May 20, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. followed by a celebration of her life.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

Elizabeth Rodriguez, died April 16, 2023 in Fairfield, CA. She was born in Clayton, NC in 1929.

She w as preceded in d ea th by he r husband, Angelo, her parents Ira Paul and Lillie Lassiter, brothers, Paul Morris and Joseph Dale Lassiter and sisters, Emma Jean Williams and Carol Snively.

She grew up in Sanford, NC; Galt, Broderick, Sacramento and Richmond, CA and t old many st ories of her adventurous child hood. For instance, she liked to tell of how her family lived in the shell of an abandoned bus while building their first home in California from adobe bricks they made themselves, and of her first job working as a file clerk at the newly formed Oakland Kaiser Hospital at age 14 during WWII.

She graduated from Richmond High School in 1947 and held degrees in Psycholog y, Zoology and English from UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University.

She was a loyal and devoted daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, educator, and friend. She was a wise counsel, gentle and self-assured. She loved California and thought Fairfield was paradise. She was a reader, a swimmer, a world traveler and much more. She was a tireless advocate for her students as an English instructor at many colleges including Sacramento State UC Davis, Los Medanos and Solano Community College

In l at er years, her gr eat pleasure w as exercising daily at the Kroc and birthday luncheons with her Alpha Chi Ome ga Pi siste rs

She is survived by her son, Steven (Britt Trimble), he r daughters; Cynthia (Roy Marubayashi), Laura (Jeff Kranz) and Linda Rodriguez, her grandsons; Stanley (Suge Lee), Angelo, Mitchell (Reet) Marubayashi and Louis Rodriguez, her granddaughter, Elizabeth Marubayashi, her great granddaughters, Rosa and Laura Marubayashi, and by Nicholas and Jay Kranz.

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5, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. All are welcome.

The event, originally scheduled for April 1, is free and is slated to run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, call 707447-0518 or send an email to penaadobe@gmail.com. The park is located at 1 Peña Adobe Road off of Interstate 80.

“National Night Out is an annual crime prevention event and community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie that make our neigh-

Manuel Escano

Manuel G. Escano passed away peacefully on April 21, 2023 after a brief illness at age 97-1/2. He was born in Vacaville in a small clinic on Elizabeth Street. He had two wonderful parents who emigrated from southern Spain in the early twentieth century eventually settling in Vacaville. The marriage produced ucia born in 1924, Manuel in 1925, and Mary in 1935. His mother taught him the Catholic faith and he learned all his prayers in Spanish. Manuel attended Fairfield Grammar School, and Armijo High School. When World War II started in 1941, he enlisted in the United States Navy on his 17th birthday in 1942. He was sent to basic training in Farragut, Idaho. In 1943 he departed from Mare Island on the USS Lang. Before he turned 18 he had been in two battles, with seven more to come. He said he saw terrible things.

When the war ended in 1945 he was sent to China and South Korea for a little over a year, receiving an Honorable Discharge in December of 1946.

When he returned to Fairfield, he worked on the family ranch on Rockville Road, and the family grocery store on Texas Street where he met his future

Charles Allen Ewing

Lt. Col. Charles Allen Ewing, 81, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Easter morning, April 9, 2023. He was born in Binghamton, NY, on June 2, 1941, Charles Russell Ewing and Dorothy Lucille Smith. His formative years were spent in Jamestown, NY. He joined the USAF in 1962 where he met the love of his life, Miss Judy Moses, while stationed at Dow Air Force Base in Bangor, ME, where they were married in 1965.

After his tour in Vietnam, in 1971 he was transferred to Travis AFB in CA to become a C-5 Pilot in the 75th Squadron where he remained until he retired in 1981. After retiring from the Air Force, he found another dream job at the local Pacific Hardware

Medina Bulatao

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Medina Bulatao Martinez was called home to Heaven on April 4, 2023; she was 72. Medina was born to Tomas ) Bulatao on June 1, 1950, in angasinan, Philippines. She was the third child, the eldest daughter of 6 children, including Alfonso (✝), Salvador, Victor, Victoria, and Carmen. Medina graduated from Luzon College in Dagupan City, Philippines, with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce. After graduation, she would work at FACOMA, where she would meet the love of her life, David. After David enlisted in the United States Navy, the two were married on March 31, 1977. Together they would embark on their greatest adventure across the seas and worldwide while raising a family. Medina devoted her life to her family. She was a proud military spouse, a dedicated mother of three, and the foundation of her family Medina valued education and knowledge. She believed it was something that could never be taken away from you. She continued to learn about the world around her by reading. She loved to read the newspaper. She was a long-time subscriber to the local newspaper, The Daily Republic, for almost 30 years. She would read every section from beginning to end. Her favorite gameshow was Jeopardy! Medina also valued seeking

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wife, Ina Claire Freitas (Tyke). They were married in 1953, and had three children. They settled in Vacaville until moving to Paradise Valley Estates in 2010. Manuel’s father had bought the Dixon ranch in the 1930’s to raise sheep. In 1959 the Monticello Dam was built bringing water to the area via Putah Canal which allowed Manuel to begin his long farming career. He considered himself a diversified farmer raising a variety of row crops. Around 1995 he retired” from full-time farming, leasing the land.

Manuel and Tyke traveled extensively together visiting numerous countries and most of the United States. He was a member of St. Mary’s Church in Vacaville for more than 60 years. In 2010 he and Tyke moved to Paradise Valley Estates in Fairfield where they were members of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. His faith in God was the center of his life. He gave glory to God for keeping him healthy to be able to provide for his family with a long, successful career. He always had a smile on his face, and had a terrific sense of humor. Manuel was a joy to be around, and will be greatly missed by all.

Manuel was preceded in death by his wife of 67 years in 2020, and his son Michael in 1993. He is survived by his children Ed of Newport Beach, California, and Sue Noonan (Dennis), Fairfield, sister Mary Wright, Sacramento, grandson David Kissling (Annmarie) and great-granddaughter Layla Grace, McKinleyville, California.

Rosary will be held at 10:30 a.m. with a funeral mass at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, May 11, 2023 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 2700 Dover Avenue, Fairfield. Private burial will be at the family plot in Rockville Cemetery

Store in downtown Vacaville where he could use his knowledge of building a house from scratch. His trademark mustache was a fixture there for over 20 years. At home, when Chuck wasn’t flying or fixing elsewhere, he was either tinkering in the garage, tending his roses, riding his Harley, or doing crossword puzzles.

He leaves behind his loving wife Judy of 58 years, a son, Charles Jr. (Leslie) of Vacaville, a daughter, Katy Cava (Matt) of Salinas, CA, seven grandchildren, and four great grandchildren – all bright stars in Grampa Chuck’s universe. He also leaves behind two siblings, sister Joan Ewing Nickels (Tom) of VA and nephew Doug of FL, and brother Jim Ewing (Su) of NY, as well as a brotherin-law, Ed Moses of NH and numerous cousins that he was still in contact with. And let’s not forget his extended family — all the wonderful friends he has made along the way in our various postings with the Air Force and over 52 years living in Vacaville. He will be sorely missed by all who knew and loved him.

Please join us for a celebration of his life on June 16, 2023, from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the Vacaville Veterans Memorial Building at 549 Merchant Street

happiness. You could often find her at her “playground” or Cache Creek, where she would meet up with her friends and family, who are lovingly known as her “classmates,” to enjoy food, collect free giveaways, and try her luck on the machines!

Also known as Mom; Atsi Med; Auntie Medy; Grandma Medy; and Lola, Medina was an incredible woman. She would do anything for her family; she was always happy to see you and always smiling. Her outlook on life was inspiring. Each day she tried to live her best life, however she wanted. Even when she faced challenges in her health, she did so with great optimism, a smile on her face, and laughter to go around. She will be greatly missed.

Medina is survived by her loving husband of 46 years, David; her children, Maribel (Marvin) Deyro, Melody (Chad) French; and Davis Mark Martinez; and her four grandchildren, Kiralynn, Analise, Cadence, and Maddox. She is preceded in death by her parents, Tomas and Mercedes Bulatao, brother Alfonso Bulatao, and grandson, Xavier Deyro.

Visitation and viewing will be at Skyview Memorial Lawn, 200 Rollingwood Dr, Vallejo, CA 94591, on May 3. 2023, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and May 4, 2023, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Memorial mass will be held on Friday, May 5, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 1070 N Texas St, Fairfield, CA 94533. Internment following the memorial mass at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Rd, Dixon, CA 95620, at 12 p.m. A Celebration of Life to immediately follow.

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Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic file (2019) Jasnoor Kang, 3, grinds acorn during Kids Day at Peña adobe Park in Vacaville, nov. 2, 2019.

Y-S air district urges residents to sign up for air quality alerts

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FAIRFIELD — The Spare the Air season for the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District started this week.

“The Spare The Air program provides residents valuable air quality information and actions they can take to help reduce vehicle emissions in our region that contribute to increased ozone levels,” district Executive Director Gretchen Bennitt said in a statement.

“Registering to receive Spare The Air alerts, and knowing when an alert is issued, provides the oppor-

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tunity for our residents to protect themselves and their loved ones on days when air quality may be less than optimal. This can include whether to stay indoors, limiting rigorous activity outside or reaching out to check on family and friends who may have compromised health,” Bennitt added.

A Spare The Air alert is issued when the regional AQI is forecast to reach 126 or higher. On these days, residents can do their part by:

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Freezer fire forces evacuation at Vaca Safeway

VACAVILLE — Employees stocking the shelves at the Safeway store in Vacaville smelled something burning in the early hours Monday, then found black smoke and flames coming from under a meat freezer in the back of the store.

The call came into the Vacaville Fire Department about 2:30, Battalion Chief Gary Mahlberg said.

A fire crew was able to put out the fire, then worked to blow the smoke out of the store, which is located at 2090 Harbison Drive.

The Safeway employees were evacuated. There were no injuries, Mahlberg said.

The estimated damage was $50,000.

Fairfield Garden Club hosting garage sale

FAIRFIELD — The Fairfield Garden Club will be holding a garage sale Saturday.

The event runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 2869 Bay Tree Drive, Fairfield.

All proceeds will go to the club’s scholarship fund.

The Fairfield Garden Club gives two scholarships every year to graduating seniors who are pursuing education in horticulture and environmental science.

For more information, call Mary Colridge, 707-330-9920.

Wildfire Awareness Day set for Saturday at county center

FAIRFIELD — Solano County and its firesafety partners will host the inaugural Wildfire Awareness Day event Saturday, in line with National Wildfire Community Preparedness Day.

The free local event, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., is “designed to help encourage everyone to take an active role in protecting their homes and communities against wildfire,” the county administration said in a statement.

The event will be at the county administration complex, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. Free parking is available in the county’s parking garage, with entrances on Jefferson and Delaware streets.

“Representatives from the Solano Fire Safe Council, Solano County Office of Emergency Services, local fire safe councils, city fire departments and local fire protection districts will be

Solano Fire Safe Council meets May 15

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano Fire Safe Council will hold its next online meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday.

The Zoom link is https://zoom.us/j/930 30006222?pwd=aVZ

available to answer questions, listen to concerns and share ideas on ways to protect our communities against wildfire,” the county statement said.

Visitors can sign up for a biomass chipping program, get an emergency go-bag checklist, register for Alert Solano, participate in fire extinguisher demonstrations.

“For our younger guests, children and their families are invited to explore fire engines, come meet Sparky the Fire Dog

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The Meeting ID is 930 3000 6222. The passcode is 760928.

For more information, contact Karin Young at karin.young@ solanorcd.org or at oes@solanocounty.com.

and express their creativity at the coloring table,” the county statement said.

There will be food trucks at the Solano Courthouse Pavilion.

The event comes on the heels of the inaugural Wildfire Safety Expo held on April 15.

“It became apparent our community needed to be informed and work together,” Rose Loveall, owner of Morningsun Herb Farm on Pleasants Valley Road and an organizer in the start of

the Pleasants Valley Fire Safe Council, said at the expo. “As a community we were not prepared. There was no system in place to help each other. We were super lucky we didn’t lose a large part of Vacaville.”

Rochelle Sherlock, who helped launch the Green Valley Fire Safe Council in 2019, said the expo was designed to expand its audience regarding fire preparedness and to educate more individuals about the risk.

It also follows county voters in November rejecting a one-eighth cent general sales tax for wildfire prevention and protection. The measure would have generated an estimated $9 million annually.

For more information, see the event flier at @ CountyOfSolano.

For more information about National Wildfire Community Preparedness Day, go www. nfpa.org/events/events/ national-wildfire-community-preparedness-day.

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Cal Fire firefighters gave insight into their work during the first Wildfire safety Expo at solano College, april 15.

Two more Dodd bills pass committee scrutiny

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FAIRFIELD — Contractor-oversight legislation was one of two bills authored by state Sen. Bill Dodd that recently cleared committee reviews.

Senate Bill 630, according to Dodd, D-Napa, would “boost consumer protection by improving oversight and training of California’s

nearly 300,000 licensed contractors.”

“Ensuring contractors work in a safe, competent and professional manner is at the heart of our commitment to California consumers,” Dodd said in a statement. “We achieve that through better communication and education, as well as clear pathways for improvement when things go wrong.

My proposal advances

these principles among the licensed trades to strengthen an industry that is essential as we continue to build out our state.”

Additionally, the legislation is expected to save the state money on mailing contractors tens of thousands of educational bulletins and documents by requiring submission of an email address with license applications so that communications can be

sent electronically. The bill passed the Senate GovernmentalOrganization Committee.

The other bill, SB 263, would “add consumer protections for people investing in annuities, including many vulnerable seniors, to ensure they are not misled or steered into inappropriate products

Semi tips over on Highway 12

Fairfield council gives nod to proposed assessments with districts including city-owned property

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FAIRFIELD — Cityowned property in proposed new landscape and lighting maintenance districts were voted on at Tuesday’s city council meeting. Council members living or working in the proposed district recused themselves.

There are nine proposed districts. Council members decided to take action on eight of the nine. No action was taken for the Rancho Solano district after vice mayor Pam Bertani said she had heard the residents were thinking about including the assessments through the homeowners association.

Councilman Scott Tonnesen, who has signed paperwork for a downtown location, wanted to know if the assessments could be spread out.

He cited future downtown improvements for the request.

Christ Lewis, city planner, said that was a possibility. As an example, she said 20 to 30% of the assessment would be needed the first year.

The council took the vote after two residents spoke about their experiences educating their fellow district residents.

Rick Johnson, from District 11 (Paradise Valley), said he got varying results. “Mostly the people were upset or they didn’t have time,” he said. “We gave them a voluminous amount of information.”

He suggested such proposals in the future have an easy-to-understand summary. “Simplicity is the point we lost people on,” he said.

June Johnsen seconded the idea. She lives in Rolling Hills. She also

thanked city staff for their prompt responses to her questions.

Sue Campbell noted she ended up being a one-woman committee to educate her fellow residents in North Cordelia. “We had to get a lot of information out fast,” she said. In the end, the biggest question she

got was “what is a landscaping lighting maintenance district.”

Tuesday’s action represented the council members’ votes on city-owned properties in the district. Residents in the proposed districts need to return their ballots by June 6.

by unscrupulous insurance agents,”

a statement released by Dodd’s office said.

Dodd is partnering with Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on the legislation. It cleared the Senate Insurance Committee. “Consumers’ best interests must always

come ahead of insurance company sales,” Lara said in the statement. “SB 263 will protect consumers, especially vulnerable populations like our seniors, by requiring all sales of annuities be based first and foremost on the consumers’ best interest and the facts of their individual insurance needs, financial situation and goals.”

Tractor Supply Company hopes to open Suisun City store in the fall

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SUISUN CITY —

Tractor Supply Company, the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States, recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for its newest location in Suisun City. The ceremony was attended by local officials, business leaders and community members. Hilbers Inc. is the developer and general contractor, and company owners, Curt and Mary Hilbers, personally attended the groundbreaking.

“On behalf of Suisun City, we are pleased to welcome Tractor Supply Company to our community,” Suisun City Mayor Alma Hernandez said in

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ozone pollution is at its lowest.

n Combine errands into fewer trips to drive less.

n Postpone driving, if possible, until the Spare The Air alert is over.

n Taking public transit – it is easy on the air and the wallet. Many transit agencies offer free

a press release. “We are thrilled that they chose to build and create jobs in our city and their commitment to providing quality products and services is in line with the values we hold dear in Suisun City.” Tractor Supply Company’s newest store will be located at 71 Sunset Ave. in Suisun City, right off of Highway 12 next to the Sunset Shopping Center, and will provide products for pet and livestock care, agriculture, lawn and garden maintenance, and more. The new Tractor Supply Company store will be a 22,135-squarefeet retail center that will include a pet wash area, a garden center and an outdoor display area for

rides on Spare The Air days.

n Sharing a ride with a co-worker or friend.

n Telecommuting.

The Spare the Air season continues through October. Sign up for alerts at ysaqmd.enviroflash. info. Learn more ways to do your part at www.spare theair.com.

The air district includes all of Yolo County and the Dixon, Rio Vista and Vacaville areas of Solano County.

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In honor of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Mattel has debuted an elegant new Barbie doll in the image of trail blazing Chinese American actor Anna May Wong.

On Monday, the toy company unveiled the doll as part of its “Inspiring Women” collection. The Barbie wears Wong’s signature hairstyle (bangs and a low bun), a dragon-embroidered gown and red and gold accessories.

In a statement featured on the Barbie Instagram account, the toymakers at Mattel said they are “proud to spotlight the courageous life and legacy of Anna May Wong, widely considered

to be the first Chinese American movie star.” Last year, Wong became the first Asian American to be printed on United States currency.

“Earning her first leading role at age 17, she founded her own production company at 19 after growing frustrated at being typecast or sidelined as a supporting character,” the statement read.

“#AnnaMayWong changed the course of Asian representation in Hollywood and left an indelible stamp on audiences around the globe, paving the way for generations of girls to dream bigger than ever before.”

The Wong doll is now available to purchase for $35 on the Mattel website.

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Crime logs

6:10 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 4400 block of CENTRAL PLACE

8:23 p.m. — Reckless driver, 1400 block of MICHIGAN STREET

8:25 p.m. — Drunken driver, 1400 block of MICHIGAN

conversation. Bidou’s reply was the district spent its money on education, not Fairfield road construction.

“If we had to evacuate, would we get out?” he asked rhetorically.

“Many community residents have requested information and timelines of when this road (Markeley) would be completed over the past few years to be met with no responses, or the response of ‘when that area is developed it will be the developer’s responsibility to build out Markeley Lane,” said a press packet from the

STREET

6:37 p.m. — Reckless driver, WEST TEXAS STREET

9:01 p.m. — Battery, CLAY BANK ROAD

10:52 p.m. — Reckless driver, CLAY BANK ROAD

10:56 p.m. — Battery, 200 block of EAST COLORADO STREET

11:21 p.m. — Trespassing, 2200

block of GATEWAY COURT

11:36 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 500

block of ALASKA AVENUE

11:50 p.m. — Hit-and-run

property damage, 2200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

SUNDAY, APRIL 30

12:38 a.m. — Reckless driver, MANUEL CAMPOS PARKWAY

1:17 a.m. — Trespassing, 1600 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

2:43 a.m. — Shots fired, 400 block of SAN JOSE STREET

3:24 a.m. — Hit-and-run with

injury, 800 block of BRETON

DRIVE

4:48 a.m. — Trespassing, 1400

of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

6:26 a.m. — Robbery, 4300

of CENTRAL PLACE 7:05 a.m. — Drunken driver, EASTBOUND AIR BASE PARKWAY

a.m. — Vehicle theft, 200

1100 block of ALASKA

DRIVE

10:59 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1000 block of TYLER STREET

12:20 p.m. — Drunken driver, HIGHWAY 12

12:29 p.m. — Forgery, 800 block of ANTIQUITY DRIVE

2:42 p.m. — Reckless driver, 2900 block of GULF DRIVE

3:19 p.m. — Robbery, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

5:30 p.m. — Reckless driver, 200 block of EAST ATLANTIC AVENUE

5:33 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

5:36 p.m. — Reckless driver, MICHIGAN STREET

5:41 p.m. — Grand theft, 1500 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

not contact the members of those panels for input.

Vasquez defended the work, while Brown was mostly quiet throughout the discussions.

But the desire or – in the case of the Historical Records Commission – the need for more information emerged as a common thread that ran through the debates.

In fact, if not for the mention of a 2018 report on the Historical Records Commission – one that cost $60,000 to produce and never made it to the Board of Supervisors –the board seemed ready to dissolve the group.

Instead, on a 4-1 vote, with Vasquez dissenting, the board held off a final decision until the report could be studied.

Hannigan said that focus was misplaced altogether, and that the board should be looking for a local location for the vast records collection so the Solano public could have easier access.

Right now the records are stored in Contra Costa County. The board was told it costs the county $5,000 a year to store the material, and $8,000 a year in staff time to maintain it and do record

organizers of Tuesday’s stand-in at Markeley and Peabody Roads.

The packet noted that county assessor maps and reports show Markeley Lane as completed.

“This blatant misinformation has caused the residents of our community to go years without

searches when requested.

Staff time and costs related to the commissions’ work were clearly factors in the ad hoc committee’s consideration on whether certain panels should be kept or eliminated.

The most moving comments came from a woman who lost her son to drug abuse.

Pattie Vargas told her story of how her family lost its life savings and their home trying to save the son who, in 2017, eventually lost his battle with drug addiction. She said she nearly lost her daughter, too.

She all but begged the board not to eliminate the Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board, which she argued provides parents with another resource in their search for help. Without that help, the outcome is uncertain.

“Desperate parents do desperate things,” she said.

The board, facing a future state mandate to merge substance abuse and mental health care, put off a decision until the staff could come back with a plan to work the ADAB efforts into the Mental Health Advisory Commission framework.

The ag committee vote was 3-2 with Vasquez, Brown and Supervisor Mitch Mashburn voting to retire the panel, which

past 40 years.

“This is different,” he told reporters Tuesday. “These attacks were particularly violent and brazen.”

the proper and safe road conditions to be provided for our students at four school sites within the school district and the city of Fairfield,” the packet said.

Maria Gunning, a 2016 graduate of Vanden High School, showed up to support the efforts. She

was created to provide agriculture a voice in the General Plan revision.

Supervisor Wanda Williams, the most vocal advocate for the ag commission, and Hannigan dissented. Williams argued the supervisors have not used the advisory board sufficiently, and that there is still a place for a restructured, more limited version.

Mashburn said the Farm Bureau better represents the whole of the agriculture community, and its $1.6 billion value to the county, as well as the various associations such as the Suisun Valley vintners, fruit growers and cattlemen groups.

Relatedly, the board, at a recent strategic planning session, noted that the General Plan may have to be tweaked to meet new housing and other demands, including an evolving and more tech-reliant ag industry, and that the right-to-farm provisions in Solano need to be beefed up as well.

Gone with the ag committee is the Solano Partnership Against Violence – with the restructured Family Justice Center now the primary center for addressing domestic violence and related issues. The board also agreed that the Library Advisory Council will be melded with the Measure L Over-

got to feel the force of the weapon as it penetrates the body.

began driving her senior year of high school, when the road was shut down. She also attended Center and Golden West and there was always traffic.

Bidou agreed there has always been traffic, but state-mandated school times conflict with other traffic using Peabody, which is used by Fairfield and Suisun City residents to travel to Vacaville and vice versa. “The impact is twice as bad,” Bidou said of the new school times.

The Daily Republic sent an email to Fairfield City Manager David Gassaway on Tuesday afternoon. He had not replied of 8 p.m. but was in a closed session with the city council that got underway at 5 p.m. followed by the city council meeting.

sight Committee. The Nut Tree Airport Advisory Committee, with its role in economic development, was left untouched, as was the Parks and Recreation Commission, which serves as the de facto Fish and Wildlife Commission in the county.

The ad hoc committee also had recommended dissolution of the Solano Commission on Women and Girls, but as Brown explained, the recommendation came from the perspective of giving the group more autonomy.

“I took it as the same model as (Court Appointed Special Advocates) when it was under the county ... It has flourished as an independent (agency),” Brown said.

But even there, disputes existed, including the fact the ad hoc committee seemed confused that the commission, while under the county umbrella, had its own nonprofit that supports its funding needs.

Hannigan said not knowing about the separation of the commission and the nonprofit was another example of the “incomplete work product” by the ad hoc.

In the end, the board kept the commission as is, but will consider within the next year what direction the commission should go.

“It could be someone so rageful, so intent on doing harm that he’s just seeking out the most vulnerable,” said Michael Vitiello, a criminal law scholar at the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law. “Think about the violence, the rageness that you have to have.”

Law enforcement officials have not definitively linked the three attacks, but have said they share similarities, including the “brutal nature” of the crimes. Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said law enforcement agencies in the region are responding with “all hands on deck.”

Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel said, to his knowledge, the city has never encountered a wave of stabbings similar to this one in at least the

Davis police are likely being cautious before labeling the crimes the work of a serial killer.

“Once you label someone as being a serial killer, the case takes on a whole other life,” Safarik said. He said media attention intensifies and task forces are formed, attracting law enforcement from around the nation.

“It’s going to change the dynamics of the case,” he said. “They want to be absolutely certain.”

Stabbing murders are not rare, but serial stabbings involving multiple victims are uncommon, law enforcement officials said.

“It’s a completely different kind of crime,” former Sacramento County Sheriff John McGinness said. “It’s up close and personal. You’ve

“Stabbings are not rare, certainly, but a serial stabbing? I’m not thinking of any.”

A series of stabbings presents an unusual challenge to law enforcement.

When victims are killed by gunfire, the shots are often heard by others, hastening police response to the scene. In stabbings, however, there may be little audible evidence, giving suspects extra time to flee, experts said. All three of the Davis attacks have also occurred at night, police said.

The first killing occurred Thursday, when 50-year-old David Henry Breaux was found dead in the city’s Central Park. Breaux, known in the community as the “Compassion Guy,” was likely killed hours before his body was found, meaning there were no witnesses to the act, Pytel said.

There appeared to be

a witness to the killing of UC Davis student Karim Abou Najm, 20, in Sycamore Park on Saturday night. Police said a neighbor heard a disturbance and went outside to find Najm suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Multiple people were also nearby when a homeless woman was stabbed late Monday in an encampment near Second and L streets. Police conducted a “detailed search of the downtown Davis area,” the department said. Still, after a brief call to shelter in place, an army of officers from multiple jurisdictions ended the manhunt without a suspect in custody.

Police said they were looking for an assailant described as a “light-complected male,” between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-9. The man had a “thin build wearing a black or blue sweatshirt, black Adidas pants with white stripes, black shoes carrying a brown backpack.”

the district.

now the program has expanded to recognize outstanding teachers and classified school employees for Solano school districts and charter schools.

the material and when they finally get it, that breakthrough is the greatest feeling for her.

Her advice to potential teachers is that children don’t care what you know until you show them that you care about them.

“You must take time to show them,” she said.

SCOE has hosted the annual Solano County Educators of the Year since 1978 when they began recognizing exemplary teachers, and

Each Solano district or independent charter school can select two employees to represent their organizations in the countywide Educator of the Year program. One educator from each category will then be selected to represent Solano County at the state level.

This year’s honorees for Classified School Employees of the Year were Nathaniel Paeste, Benicia Unified School District; Audrey Madden,

Dixon Unified School District; Martha Foley, Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District; Jaspreet

“Jessie” Khangura, Solano County Office of Education; Stephanie Westfahl, Travis Unified School District; Ana “Anita” Kelley, Vacaville Unified School District; and Terry Cheeseman, Vallejo City Unified School District.

Teachers of the Year honorees were Justin Koeppen, Benicia Unified School District; Stephanie Roupp, Dixon Unified School District; Maria Williams, Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District; Jason Hicks, Solano County Office of Education; Mary King, Travis Unified School District; Buchanan Miles, Vacaville Unified School District; and Lena

Chatterjee, Vallejo City Unified School District.

Taking home the Classified Employee Award was Audrey Madden, an office coordinator for the Dixon Unified School District office.

She noted that the school district has a great culture of support and everyone helps each other out.

“You don’t think about being the best classified employee,” Madden said. “You think about doing the best to meet the needs of the day.”

The winners took home a check for $1,000 from Travis Credit Union. The money is to be used for the school site or a program in

All nominees took home a handmade lantern as a trophy, which were made by a Golden Hills Community School construction class.

Lisette Estrella-Henderson, Solano County superintendent of schools, explained that nominees were chosen by a Blue Ribbon Committee. They needed to fill out paperwork and do an interview for the nomination.

“Everyone that has been nominated are those that go above and beyond,” she said. “They all play a key role in supporting the school environment.”

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic Travis Unified School District board members, faculty and members of the community wave to passing cars during a protest at Peabody Road and Markeley Lane, Tuesday.

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic Audrey Madden, office coordinator at Dixon High School, accepts a trophy as she is recognized as Solano County Classified School Employee of the Year, Tuesday.

US to send 1,500 more troops to southern border

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WASHINGTON —

The Biden administration plans to send 1,500 active-duty soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border for 90 days, federal officials announced Monday.

The move comes ahead of the anticipated increase of migrants at the southern border when a pandemicrelated border policy expires May 11, though U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials said service members would not perform law enforcement functions or interact with migrants in custody.

Troops will begin to arrive as soon as May 10.

About 2,500 National Guard members are already stationed at all nine sectors of the southwest border doing support work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, one official said. The new increase will bring the total to 4,000 military personnel on the border.

Officials said the 1,500 Army and Marine Corps troops, requested by the Department of Homeland Security, will fill critical “capability gaps,” such as watching for crossings, monitoring camera feeds, data entry and warehouse support.

“(Department of Defense) personnel have been supporting CBP at the border for almost two decades now, so this is a common practice,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at Tuesday’s briefing.

“This would not be necessary if Congress would act,” she added.

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trailers, utility vehicles, ATVs and similar items.

Once opened, normal hours will be 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.

“Suisun City is excited to have Tractor Supply Company join our business community,” City Manager Greg Folsom said in a press release. “We believe their presence will not only provide great value to our residents but also attract more visitors to our city.”

The new store will bring job opportunities and economic growth to Suisun City. Tractor Supply Company will hire approximately 30 new employees. Tractor Supply Company plans to open its doors to the public in the fall 2023 in time for Christmas holiday shopping.

Hollywood’s writers on strike

Here’s five things you need to know

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LOS ANGELES — This week, 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike.

Since talks with Hollywood studios began March 20, the two sides have failed to reach an accord on a new three-year film TV con tract to replace one that expired Monday.

A long strike could have a ripple effect on not only film and television produc tion but also the Southern California economy. The impact is also likely to be felt in Georgia, New York, New Mexico and other production hubs nationwide. Without writers, scripted television shows will struggle to continue filming and live latenight shows will stop immediately.

Here is a primer on what to know about the union’s first strike in 15 years.

How did we get here?

The roots of the current labor conflict were planted during the previous writers strike in 2007-08, the first big clash over so-called new media. The rapid growth of Netflix and other online platforms since then has dramatically changed how entertainment is consumed, and how writers are paid for creating that entertainment.

Even as streaming content has boomed, however, writers argue that the new models have streadily eroded their pay and the ability to earn a living in Hollywood.

There were early signs of tensions.

WGA leaders have been signaling for some time that this bargaining cycle would be tough because, they say, so many guild members are working at minimum pay levels.

In an interview with The Times in 2021, WGA President Meredith Stiehm described the situation as a financial emergency.

“It’s sort of like a turning point, the way it was in 2007 with the internet,” Stiehm said.

Less than a week before negotiations began with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on March 20, WGA leaders warned of an “existential” threat to writers.

They presented to the studios a package of demands – from boosting minimum pay levels to higher streaming resid-

uals – valued at nearly $600 million.

By early April, the WGA said the progress in talks was not sufficient, and it called for members to vote in favor of a strike authorization. The WGA strike authorization was granted by an historic margin – 98% to 2% –(among 9,218 ballots cast.)

Writers returned to the bargaining table on April 14. Still, by the midnight Pacific time deadline on May 1, there was no deal to be had.

So what are the main sticking points for writers?

In short, writers argue that their pay hasn’t kept up with the rapid pace of technological change.

They say they are working for shorter periods of time and having to find several gigs a year to make ends meet. Typically, broadcast networks would order about 20 episodes for shows that would be worked on over 10 months. But in recent years, studios have more often focused on streaming short-order series with eight to 10 episodes.

In particular, writers have complained that residuals –the royalties they collect when the shows they create are reaired – are much lower in the age of streaming than they were when working for broadcast networks, when successful shows would run for years in syndication.

Another sticking point is the growing use of of mini-rooms, where small groups of writers lay out the foundation of a series before it goes into production and are often paid near minimum levels.

Half of series writers now earn scale (the

minimum episodic or weekly rate) versus 33% during the 2013-14 season, according to a recent WGA survey. Median screenwriter pay hasn’t risen since 2018 and, adjusted for inflation, has fallen 14% in the last five years. And the median weekly pay for writer-producers declined 23% over the last decade when adjusting for inflation, the union said.

What are the rules for writers during the strike?

The WGA released a long list of instructions to members last month about what work they can or cannot do. Film, TV, animation and fiction podcasts will be affected.

During a strike, a WGA member or their agent cannot meet with or negotiate with the studios and may not write or sell or option material, according to rules sent to members viewed by The Times.

Additionally, a writer can’t revise existing work, start a new project or deliver work to a struck company, whether they work from home or an office. Writers can’t even discuss work with studios, and they must save a digital date-stamped copy of all un-produced literary material within 24 hours of when the strike begins.

Even writer-producers or writer-directors are heavily limited in the work they can do during production and post-production as showrunners. For example, they can’t make cuts for time, make minor changes to dialogue or even change stage directions.

Although the WGA can’t stop members from doing purely production work, they are encouraging members not to

do any such work in a show of support. During the 2007-08 strike, many showrunners refused to do any work for struck companies, according to the WGA.

Who is on strike?

So far, only the 11,500 member of the WGA are on strike, but that could change pending the outcome of other potentially contentious negotiations.

SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild of America have contracts that run through June 30, meaning their members cannot legally join in any job walkout until after the contracts expire.

However, the Teamsters have already said they will joint WGA members on the picket lines. The 6,500 members of Local 399 include drivers and transport dispatchers, location managers and casting directors.

“Teamsters local 399, as well as the rest of Teamster locals across the country, within the motion picture industry, are in full support of WGA’s fight,” Lindsay Dougherty, secretary general of Hollywood Teamsters Local 399 told The Times. “We will definitely be honoring the picket lines.”

SAG-AFTRA, the DGA and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which represents crews, also issued statements expressing strong support for the WGA, although the DGA told its members last month that under their current contract, employers could replace them if they choose not to work.

The solidarity stands in

contrast to previous cycles of bargaining, when other guilds sometimes sparred with the WGA over strategy, and it may strengthen the writers’ leverage in negotiations.

How long will this strike last?

No one knows, but history suggests it won’t be over quickly. The longest WGA strike was in 1988 and lasted 153 days. The last WGA strike, in 2007-08, lasted 100 days. The contract and terms that the two sides have to renegotiate – such as sorting through byzantine residual calculations across a range of work and distribution platforms – is complex and time-consuming.

Macro conditions do not point to a quick resolution. It’s not clear how willing studios will be to cut a deal at a time when many entertainment companies such as Walt Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are being roiled by cutbacks and layoffs as Wall Street investors pressure them to increase the profitability of their streaming platforms.

Some studios may even view a walkout as an opportune time to scrap unprofitable writer deals through so-called force-majeure clauses in contracts. A walkout could last weeks or months, depending on how negotiations play out with other Hollywood unions.

AMPTP has to start negotiations with the DGA on May 10, followed by SAG-AFTRA, which is scheduled to begin bargaining a month later.

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Steph and Magic link Warriors, Lakers with feats of greatness

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As the Golden State Warriors take the court at Chase Center in Game 1 of the Western Conferences semifinals, they will be facing the franchise of their spiritual forefathers, and Stephen Curry’s audience will include a magical fellow who was the prototype for Curry.

Forty-three years ago, Magic Johnson played a game for the ages to lead his Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA championship. A sportswriter who sat courtside for that remarkable performance got flashback goosebumps Sunday in Sacramento while watching Curry go for 50 points to close out the

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Sacramento Kings in Game 7 of the first round of the playoffs.

Comparing Johnson’s signature game to Curry’s classic show Sunday, similarities abound.

Tuesday night’s playoff game between the Warriors and Lakers finished after the Daily Republic’s press run. Look for more coverage on the series in Friday’s print edition. Those two games were representative of the two most exciting, innovative dynasties of the last half-century, the ‘80s “Showtime” Lakers and these Warriors. Back in 1980, the Lakers were just beginning their Magic dynasty.

They had captivated the basketball world that season with a new, dazzling style and flair, super fast and super fun.

This season’s Warriors are somewhere in the latter stages of their run of astounding excellence, but they continue to amaze and thrill with the freedom and fun they bring to the party.

Magic’s big moment was in Game 6 of those ‘80 Finals, at Philadelphia. Steph’s was in Game 7 of the first round, but it was as tense and impactful as a Finals game.

Johnson scored 42 points that night in Philly, and had 15 rebounds and seven assists. He was a 20-year-old rookie playing

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recently was named All-Atlantic Coast Conference in singles and doubles for the Georgia Tech men's tennis team. McDaniel, ranked No. 82 collegiately, earned third-team honors in singles. He finished the dual match season 18-7 with 15 of those wins coming in the No. 2 spot in the Yellow Jackets' lineup. The Vacaville native has five wins over nationally-ranked opponents combined throughout the fall and spring.

During the ACC season, McDaniel tallied five singles victories. With partner Andres Martin, the duo was ranked No. 28 in doubles and earned second team honors. Together, they have a record of 10-6. Martin and McDaniel were able to take down two ranked doubles pairs

this season, including South Carolina's Connor Thomson and Toby Samuel, the current No. 1 team in the NCAA. Martin and McDaniel will represent the Yellow Jackets at the upcoming NCAA Men's Tennis Singles and Doubles Championship.

Here's a look at how other area athletes excelled this past week: Track and Field

Freshman Aspin Oliver (Vacaville) was 10th overall for Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, at the Fresno State Invitational in the 400 hurdles (1:02.23) and was a member of the 4x400 relay team that finished eighth (3:56.35).

Junior Quinton Alexander (Vanden), also a member of the Cal Poly track and field team, was sixth in the 800 meters (1:50.95).

Sophomore Daysha Ford (Rodriguez)

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Solano College softball opens NorCal playoffs Friday at Sierra

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College Football Playoff sets new 2024

The College Football Playoff has unveiled its schedule for the new 12-team model set to begin in 2024.

The first round of games will take place at home sites Dec. 20 (Friday) and Dec. 21. Then, the quarterfinals will be held on Dec. 31 (Fiesta Bowl) and Jan. 1 (Chick-fil-A Peach, Rose Bowl, and Allstate Sugar Bowl), with the semifinals taking place on Jan. 9 (Orange Bowl) and Jan. 10 (Cotton Bowl).

The national championship game will occur two weeks later on Jan. 20, 2025, at Mercedes-Benz

Stadium in Atlanta. “We are pleased to be able to announce these game dates today,” said Bill Hancock, executive

director of the College Football Playoff. “We appreciate the efforts of all the parties involved in finalizing this schedule.

This is the next significant step in bringing clarity to the launch of the 12-team playoff format in 2024. We still have a lot of work ahead of us, but this is an important milestone along the way.”

The expanded playoff model features the six conference champions ranked highest by the 13-member selection committee and the six highest-ranked atlarge teams. The top four teams receive first-round byes, while the remaining eight teams will play in first-round games set at the home sites of the next highest-ranked teams.

ROCKVILLE — The Solano Community College softball team is gearing up to face off against top-ranked Sierra College in the first round of the Northern California playoffs.

The Falcons won the Bay Valley Conference with a 12-0 record. Solano is 17-20 overall.

The first-round games will take place at Sierra College in Rocklin. The opening game is 2 pm on Friday, followed by the second game on Saturday at noon.

“We’re excited to take on Sierra College in the first round of the CCCAA playoffs,” said head coach Taryn Sigl. “Our team has worked incredibly hard this season, and

we’re ready to show what we’re made of. We know Sierra College is a tough opponent, but we’re up for the challenge.”

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VACAVILLE — The Rodriguez High School softball team picked up a 5-3 win Monday at Will C. Wood.

Sofia Coleman pitched 5 1/3 innings with five strikeouts, two walks and six hits. Brooklyn Denina pitched 2 2/3 innings with two strikeouts, one walk and just one hit. Jaedyn White and Juli McClain had two hits apiece. McClain drove in

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FAIRFIELD — The Sac-Joaquin Section recently announced its A. Dale Lacky Scholar-Athlete Award winners for outstanding athletic performance, community service and academic success during four years of high school.

Four student-athletes from the region were honored.

The award, named after former Section and State CIF President, A. Dale

Lacky, recognizes the top male and female studentathletes within the section. The scholarship committee has selected four male and four female students as the recipients of a $1,000 scholarship. The remaining nominees are awarded a $500 scholarship from the Section. All of the winners were recognized at the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Breakfast Awards Ceremony Tuesday in Lodi.

Kaden Wilde of Rodriguez was a $500 winner.

Wilde has played baseball for all four years. He was named allleague two times and he won the Mustang Award for baseball leadership. He won the Chinese American Association of Solano County Scholarship. He’s a member of the Key Club, Interact Club and Faith/ Love/Care Club.

Wilde volunteers with We Love Our City, Fairfield

Expos, Vacaville Veterans, Meals on Wheels, Vacaville Boys and Girls Club and Center for Non-Profit and Volunteer Leadership. Wilde has a 4.2 GPA and will attend Cedarville University in Ohio. There, he'll play baseball while majoring in mechanical engineering with the future goal of working in mechanical design in the automotive industry.

Garrett Kuch of Vacaville Christian is a $500 winner. Kuch played basketball and volleyball for three seasons each and

he played golf twice. In basketball, he was named all-league three times and in volleyball, he was named all-league twice.

Kuch is an Eagle Scout, AP Scholar with honors, member of the National Society of High School Scholars and he won the American Legion Award of Good Citizenship. He volunteers with the St. Mary’s Church Food Bank, Boy Scouts, Adopt-A- Block and with his church.

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Garrett has a 4.02 GPA and is undecided on his college choice, where he

will major in pharmaceutical science with the future goal of becoming a research pharmacist.

Brynlie Headrick of Vacaville is a $1,000 winner. Headrick played basketball for four years, competed for the track and field team for two seasons and she played tennis once. In basketball, she was team captain twice, all-league twice and team MVP once.

Headrick won the Bionic Student award twice and received a

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The College Football Playoff logo is seen before the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship Game at Raymond James Stadium n Tampa, Florida.

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We have no sex life due to my husband’s new porn addiction

Dear Annie: I am writing about an issue that I believe is affecting many couples now. The issue is pornography.

My husband and I have been married for 25 years, and we had a happy marriage while raising our three children. They all turned out to be good, responsible adults. We bought a house together, went on vacations and really lived a pretty good life over the years. However, things seemed to change two years ago. Suddenly, I find myself yearning for his attention and compliments. I know I’m not as young as when he met me, but I stay in relatively good shape and spend time taking care of myself. My problem is that I believe he is addicted to

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

Once upon a time, you cultivated a spirit of gratitude, and now it’s your default. You don’t expect people to fill in the gaps between what you have and what you want, but, with a thankful heart, you’ll notice when they do.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

Mistakes are a normal part of any endeavor, and you should allow for one or two slip-ups. But if you find that it’s just one problem after another, consider that it may be a sign that there’s a better path out there for you than this one.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

There’s enough that’s already outside of your control. Why leave fun to chance, too? You’d rather take charge. If the purpose of life is to experience it to the utmost, you prefer to start with things you actually think you’ll enjoy.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

You’re a dedicated lifelong learner. It’s crucial to give yourself the necessary time to cultivate and develop your mind. Taking a break from learning is like taking a break from eating – such a break cannot be sustained over time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

Though the process you face is trial and error, you won’t be granted do-overs automatically. Take the initiative to ask for additional chances. Achieving success will require repeated attempts, and eventually, you’ll triumph.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

You made your play, and the results are in. Before you react,

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pornography.

Before Christmas, he decided that he needed a 75-inch flatscreen TV. I could not understand why, but he went ahead and had it installed while I was at work. I also noticed that he gets very anxious when I’m home on a day off and he doesn’t have the television and living room to himself. I recently went through the cable bill (which is one he pays) and found that he is paying several hundred dollars a month on pornography channels. I feel that he has become so taken by his addiction that he is not satisfied with how any woman looks if they don’t look like the girls he watches on the screen. Our sex life has become nonexistent. I’ve tried talking to him about this, but he quickly shuts off the conversation by

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birthday

You’re a favorite of the muses this year. Inspiration can truly be found wherever you look for it! Upgrades and solutions will allow you to move from survival mode to focus on what’s enjoyable to you. You’re so intuitive, you’ll read the thought bubbles above people’s heads. More highlights: You’ll be called to the stage, and a sale or decree turns the tables. Gemini and Aquarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 28, 9, 44, 16 and 3.

consider that just because you get what you want doesn’t mean you win. And if you don’t get it, you get experience, which is often the best prize there is.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Thinking about what might have been can be an interesting stretch for your imagination, but don’t dwell there. Trust the choices that led you here. There’s no reason to turn back the clock; you just need to change its battery.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

It’s fun when you get to lead with your curiosity instead of your sense of duty or your need. You could technically put your curiosity first and still tend to all of the tasks that require your presence. Your inner game is no one’s business but your own.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). You will be trusted with a job that seems insignifi-

saying, “Everyone watches porn, what’s the big deal?”

To me, it has become a very big deal and a big addiction. Any advice? — Left for the Television in New York

Dear Left for the Television: You are not alone. There are many spouses who find themselves in similar situations. While it might seem like you are left for the television or pornography, what you are really left for is a sick man who is in the middle of an addiction.

There are many support groups online and in person. Please encourage your husband to seek help. If he is completely in denial, then it is time to seek the help of a professional counselor – for you, so you can decide what to do. You might also seek couples therapy.

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cant, but it’s anything but. This task is really a test. When you do your best with the small things, people will trust you with the big things.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Don’t worry about whether you’re aligned with your true calling. It’s not like there’s just one. Many things will ring true, and you’ll be called on plenty. Just answer in the order they come to you and you’ll be golden.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). Even though “happy ever after” is made up for fairytales, there’s definitely such a thing as “happy for now,” and it’s a wonderful thing to celebrate. The more happiness you celebrate, the more you get.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). People often think one thing then say another. Even so, the more congruent your mind and mouth are, the better understood you’ll be. Work on thinking something different first, and the rest will take care of itself.

CELEBRITY PROFILES:

From “Mad Men” to “Good Girls,” Christina Hendricks lends a savvy edge to the characters she creates. These characters are often underestimated in their world and well aware of their power to leverage perceptions and surprise the enemy. Hendricks is a Venus-ruled Taurus who uses her beauty to make artistic statements about women, power and the complicated nature of societal roles.

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problems. Now that title is held by Jeff Rubens, the editor and publisher of Bridge World magazine.

Eventually, I found it in a single-dummy problem composed by Lukacs. (In single-dummy, you are given only the North and South hands. In a double-dummy problem, you can see all 52 cards.) After West leads a low trump, how would you play in four spades?

A 26-CARD QUIZ SOLVES A FULL-DEAL MYSTERY

Today’s deal has caused controversy.

The late Giorgio Belladonna, the Italian superstar who won 16 world championships, was credited with finding the right line at the table. However, he always denied that he played the deal. Others claimed it was composed by the late Paul Lukacs, who used to be the world’s best composer of declarer-play

The risk is that you might lose one spade and three heart tricks. If you could peek at the opponents’ hands, you would see several ways to make the contract. But even without the advantage of X-ray vision, there is an almost guaranteed line of play. Take trick one, cross to dummy’s diamond king and lead the heart six from the dummy. If East wins with the queen or ace, you will lose at most one spade and two hearts. So let’s assume East plays low and West takes your jack with the queen. If the remaining trumps are 2-1 and West leads one, you won’t have a spade loser. Alternatively, if West leads a trump from king-third, you play another heart. If West wins with the ace, he cannot remove dummy’s last spade without sacrificing his king. You will get a heart ruff in the dummy. If you found the right play without having seen this deal before, very well done.

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Sudoku by Wayne Gould

Difficulty level: GOLD

Yesterday’s solution:

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9, with no repeats. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box. Solution, tips and computer program at www.sudoku.com

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When state laws go too far, courts intervene

Early explorers believed California to be an island, and while its physical attachment to the rest of North America eventually became evident, it nevertheless has sought to forge an island-like cultural and political identity – a “nation-state” in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s description.

There are, however, limits. Legally, California is still just one of 50 states and thus is subject to federal law, including the U.S. Constitution.

California politicians sometimes ignore that basic fact of civic life in their zeal to lead the parade. But when they cross the legal line, as defined in federal law, they get their comeuppance.

For instance, the federal appeals court that oversees California recently overturned an ordinance passed by city leaders in Berkeley, one of the state’s more adventuresome jurisdictions, to ban natural-gas service in newly constructed buildings.

The 2020 ordinance, cheered by environmentalists as a gesture to reduce greenhouse gases, was challenged by the California Restaurant Association for violating federal authority to set energy efficiency standards.

A federal trial judge upheld the ordinance but the 9th District Court of Appeals declared that federal law did, indeed, preempt the issue so Berkeley could not strike it out on its own.

California’s governors and legislators are also prone to enacting new laws that run afoul of the U.S. Constitution, federal law or, in some cases, the state’s own constitution.

Chris Micheli, a lobbyist who is also a student of legislative procedure and teaches at the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law, has assembled a lengthy list of legislative decrees that later fared poorly in the courts.

They include such recent laws as those mandating female and members of “unrepresented communities” on corporate boards and prohibiting doctors from making politically incorrect statements about Covid-19.

One entire class of California laws, those imposing sometimes unique restrictions on private gun ownership, has fallen prey to constitutional challenges in recent months, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s expansive interpretations of the constitutional right to bear arms.

While gun organizations have been challenging California’s array of gun control laws for years, the Supreme Court’s landmark Bruen decision last year, invalidating New York’s almost total ban on the carrying of personal weapons, opened the door. One by one, California’s laws are being invalidated.

Just last month, for instance, a federal judge in Southern California overturned the state’s law prohibiting the sale of handguns that don’t meet stringent – and technically unworkable –safety requirements, declaring that it runs afoul of the Bruen decision.

Even before the Bruen decision, a San Diego federal judge, Roger Benitez, had tossed out California’s ban on magazines holding more than 10 rounds, the state’s ban on assault rifles, and a law requiring background checks for ammunition purchases.

Another law that fell recently was one dreamed up by Newsom and the Legislature as a symbolic stunt – authorizing lawsuits against some gun manufacturers with conditions that made defense almost impossible. It was patterned after a Texas law making it easier to sue those who performed abortions, and Attorney General Rob Bonta didn’t even try to defend it when the inevitable lawsuit challenged it.

Undeterred by the serial invalidation of California gun laws, Newsom and legislators are working on another measure that, they say, would fit within the constraints of the Bruen decision. Senate Bill 2 would create new standards for the issuance of concealed weapons permits and list a number of new places where carrying weapons would be prohibited, even by those having permits.

Whatever emerges from this year’s session would face new legal challenges, and given the state’s recent record, would also likely be shot down in court.

CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to Commentary.

In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen a teen shot for ringing the wrong doorbell, a 6-year-old girl and her father shot for allowing a ball to roll into a neighbor’s yard, two cheerleaders shot for opening the wrong car door, and a 20-year-old woman shot and killed when her boyfriend turned into the wrong driveway. And this past weekend we were horrified that a man killed five people after being asked to stop shooting his rifle in his front yard because his neighbor’s baby was trying to sleep.

It’s unsettling that in these recent shootings the victims did nothing wrong. Every day mistakes and interactions led to gunfire. I’ve turned around in people’s driveways, knocked on the wrong door, got into the wrong car as a kid, had a basketball repeatedly land in the neighbor’s yard and have asked people to lower their music, put a dog on a leash or curb their dog’s barking. And I’m sure you have as well. Never in our craziest nightmares would we expect gunfire to be the result.

There’s no question these incidents would not have happened and does not happen in nations that aren’t

awash in firearms. Living in a society with armed, trigger happy, paranoid people is disturbing when you don’t know what innocuous act is going to unleash those people’s inner demons. But we needn’t live in fear, afraid of basic human interactions. Sometimes we need to turn around in a driveway and sometimes we make mistakes. The penalty shouldn’t be death and we shouldn’t be afraid to live our lives in the wake of these horrible events.

While the victims in the aforementioned cases did nothing wrong, there are things that people do that make violent outcomes more probable. Road rage comes to mind. Aggressive driving, unsafe lane changes, tailgating, brake checking and angry hand gestures can often lead to violence.

Last year saw 141 people shot and killed during road-rage incidents. In fact, someone is shot or killed every 16 hours due to road rage.

Sometimes road rage can be one way, a reckless aggressive driver tormenting another. But all too often it’s a mutual mishmash of idiocy with two irate people endangering themselves and others with petty games of one-

upmanship. Half of drivers respond to aggressive driving with aggressive moves of their own, which is probably why there’s been more than 12,000 injuries due to road rage in a seven-year period.

Studies show that just having a firearm in a vehicle results in drivers driving more aggressively. My friend Chumly stopped carrying a gun after catching himself reaching for it after someone cut him off on the freeway.

Nuts who do the reckless dangerous acts I began this column with are one thing. We can’t predict the hostile behavior of strangers to our non-hostile acts. But when it comes to road rage, we don’t have to participate in it. We can go on our way without responding in kind. Do what you need to do in order to get to your destination safely.

At times living in post-pandemic, trigger happy America feels like we spend our time navigating unnecessary trip wires. Unfortunately, we can only control our behavior. And too often, that isn’t enough. Be careful out there. Peace.

Kelvin Wade, a writer and former Fairfield resident, lives in Sacramento. Reach him at kelvinjwade@ outlook.com.

President Biden began his jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Satur day by quipping, “In a lot of ways, this dinner sums up my first two years in office. I’ll talk for 10 minutes, take zero questions, and cheerfully walk away.” The audience laughed.

Why were you laughing, reporters? The president was joking about how easily he can avoid interacting with you, and how little consequence there is for his refusing to answer your questions. You’re the butt of the joke, White House correspondents!

Biden was minimally accessible during the 2020 election season – the “basement campaign,” purportedly to avoid the risk of catching Covid-19 –and now he barely interacts with the press as president.

It is already May, and Biden hasn’t held a solo news conference in 2023; he has held two joint news conferences so far this year with foreign heads of state. Biden did just five solo news conferences in 2022.

The White House insists Biden makes up for it with sit-down interviews. Sorry, chatting with Drew Barrymore about favorite Christmas gifts doesn’t count.

And face it, we all know why the 80-year-old Biden doesn’t do a lot of news conferences or one-on-one interviews that might put him on the spot. Even in his prime, Biden had a runaway mouth. His prime far in the past, Biden’s rambling asides and meandering musings have only gotten worse. A few lowlights:

In the White House briefing room on March 27, where Biden had been expected to address the horrific mass shooting at a Nashville school earlier that day, the president first went on an extended riff about his love for ice cream. Last June, he sat on Jimmy Kimmel’s couch and went on a con-

fusing tangent about “biracial couples” on TV. A few months earlier, he contradicted his own Cabinet, calling for regime change in Moscow.

(The White House scrambled to walk that one back.)

After the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2021, Biden said he didn’t recall any advisers recommending leaving a U.S. military presence there; Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., head of U.S. Central Command, and Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both told Congress, under oath, that they had made just such a recommendation to the president.

Given that disquieting context, now let’s consider Biden’s “cheat sheet” at his April 26 joint news conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.

If the White House press staff wants to know the general topic that a reporter plans to ask about, there’s little or no harm done – “So-and-so from that wire service has a question about Ukraine,” etc. It’s reasonable for the White House to want the president to know what topics he should be prepared to discuss.

But what Biden was holding, as seen in a photograph from the event, was much more specific than that.

As The Post’s Paul Farhi laid out, a “card in Biden’s hand, titled ‘Question # 1,’ clearly directs the president to call on a Los Angeles Times reporter, Courtney Subramanian. The card has Subramanian’s name (including a pronunciation guide for her surname), her affiliation and even a headshot. More important, photos taken by an Agence France-Presse photographer show what Subramanian was likely to ask about. Under the heading ‘Foreign Policy/Semiconductor Manufacturing,’ the card reads, ‘How are YOU squaring YOUR

domestic priorities – like reshoring semiconductors manufacturing – with alliance-based foreign policy?’”

Subramanian did not ask that question verbatim, but it was close enough, with a few specifics added. Biden’s cheat sheet went well beyond providing him with a “what topic” tip, and it turns the White House press corps into collaborators in an exercise intended to protect the president from embarrassment – and mislead the public into thinking he’s more on the ball than he really is.

There are signs that reporters are growing restive. When Biden, during his recent trip to Ireland, skipped the tradition of holding a news conference while abroad, reporters made clear their general frustration with their lack of access to Biden. The New York Times noted last month that Biden has held the fewest news conferences and granted the fewest interviews – 54 – since Ronald Reagan. Donald Trump, by contrast, gave 202 during his first two years in office.

If reporters covering Biden want him to answer more questions, one way to encourage it would be to make his inaccessibility a recurring theme of their coverage. But, again, it’s reasonable to surmise that if Biden could handle the mental and physical rigors of holding news conferences with greater frequency, he would do so. His difficulty answering questions without a cheat sheet should be a major issue in discussions of the 2024 presidential race.

Jim Geraghty is National Review’s senior political correspondent, where he writes the daily “Morning Jolt” newsletter, among other writing duties. He’s the author of the novel “The Weed Agency” (a Washington Post bestseller), the nonfiction “Heavy Lifting” with Cam Edwards and “Voting to Kill,” and the Dangerous Clique series of thriller novels.

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‘White House Plumbers’ reenacts mishaps of Watergate’s operatives for laughs

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Outside of home repair, the word “plumbers” nowadays most quickly brings to mind a pair of Italian brothers in overalls. In an earlier time, it might have conjured up the group behind the caper that led to a cover-up that led to a committee that led to a presidential resignation, and that has doomed us to live forever with the suffix “-gate” attached to any kind of scandal.

While this morsel of history has been portrayed in pop culture over the decades, including in last year’s “Gaslit,” it was not until now, half a century after the fact, that the men who planned the bugging of the Democratic National Committee headquarters and didn’t quite pull it off have been deemed worthy of their own miniseries. So we come to “White House Plumbers,” a tale in five parts, which premiered Monday on HBO.

Nominally based on the 2009 memoir “Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House,” by Egil “Bud” Krogh, head of Richard Nixon’s Special Investigation Unit – called the Plumbers, because its purpose was to stop leaks – the series focuses on the misadventures of brothers-in-abbreviatedfirst-names, former CIA operative E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) and ex-FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux). Krogh (Rich Sommer) gave them their first job, overseeing the burglary of the office of the psychiatrist of the Pentagon Papers leaker, Daniel Ellsberg, on a fruitless search for damaging information. The Watergate gig – the least extreme of Liddy’s ideas for messing with the opposition – famously followed.

Even before starting to watch, one would expect a comedy, and that “White House Plumbers” comes from writers Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck and director David Mandel, who all worked on HBO’s “Veep,” only doubles that expectation. And so it is. When Liddy and Hunt go to reconnoiter the psychiatrist’s office, they wear terrible wigs by way of disguise. The bungling of the break-in – there was more than one, trying to get it right –borders on farce. (Even Nixon, on his infamous tapes, can be heard calling it a “comedy of errors.”)

With his greasepaint-black hair and mustache and his pulp-fiction posturing, Liddy was in life already three-quarters of the way to a caricature. Even those with a passing knowledge of him are liable to know that he ate a rat to cure himself of a childhood fear and would hold his hand in a flame to demonstrate how tough he was. (You can find him discussing these things with David

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Letterman.)

Indeed, Liddy’s whole adult life can seem like one long act of overcompensation, and his on-the-record statements, merely translated to the screen – including his readiness to assassinate, and if necessary, to be assassinated, asking only for “a clean head shot” – do come off as bizarrely humorous. Theroux invests his speech with a psychotic precision that doesn’t resemble the real Liddy, yet it gets the point across. Nothing in Hunt’s biography, on the other hand, seems especially humorous, but Harrelson plays him at medium-high boil, with a thrusting chin and gravelly voice and often in some sort of emotional extremity. Together, they enact an on-again, offagain battling bromance – a temperamentally mismatched but ideologically compatible couple, as in countless buddycop flicks, with the difference being that they’re failures.

“Veep” is a certified great comedy, but it’s one thing to create a show about Washington monkeyshines using original characters in original stories and another to make it with some necessary regard for real events and people, especially when, in Hunt’s case, their life was touched with tragedy. (I would be more specific, but it feels like a spoiler.)

As a result,”White House Plumbers” suffers from a kind of tonal confusion that keeps it from being wholly successful either as comedy or, as wellresearched as it is – you can find the oddest of these events in the voluminous record – as believable history.

In the role of Dorothy Hunt, who would play a major role in this story, Lena Headey –perhaps best known as Cersei Lannister on “Game of Thrones” – seems to be acting in a different series altogether.

As Hunt’s children, Zoe Levin (haunted Lisa), Liam James (adoring Saint John), Kiernan Shipka (model daughter Kevan) and Tre Ryder (young and innocent David), similarly inhabit a family drama tonally distinct from the satirical political story. (The Liddy children, by contrast, appear only briefly, lined up on the stairs like the Von Trapps to greet the Hunts at a dinner party, before being sent back to their rooms and out of the series. At which point, Liddy proceeds to entertain his guests with an LP of Hitler’s speeches – played loud – while Hunt begs for some jazz.)

That’s not to say that “White House Plumbers” isn’t interesting or watchable, or sometimes as funny as it wants to be; there’s too much talent behind and in front of the camera for that to be the case. There’s some fine bumbling in the burglary scenes. The production is first-rate, the period work never rings false, crowd scenes are not threadbare, and choice D.C. locations keep the weirdness real. A varied supporting cast includes Ike Barinholtz as Watergate conspirator Jeb Magruder; Gary Cole as Mark Felt, later Deep Throat; F. Murray Abraham as Judge John Sirica; Tony Plana, as Eugenio “Muscolito” Martinez, is the most recognizable of the Cuban burglars; Toby Huss, quietly stealing scenes as burglar James McCord; and Kathleen Turner in a wild, coarse turn as scandalembroiled lobbyist Dita Beard. And there are elements, of course, that speak to our present condition. Even though it came back to bite him, Nixon’s willingness to break the law – and ordering others to break it – does seem to mark the beginning of a win-by-any-means age. At the same time, the archival clips that punctuate the series indicate a markedly different time, when the news was not the business of pundits and a paranoid president’s own party could convince him it would be best for the country if he let someone else drive. It almost makes you nostalgic.

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Bridge

TRY TO PICK A POCKET OR TWO

Howard Scott defined a criminal as “a person with predatory instincts who has insufficient capital to form a corporation.” In bridge, though, maximizing your chances of stealing tricks from your opponents is one of the arts of the game.

How would you try to accumulate nine tricks in today’s deal? West

Alder

leads the spade four: six, jack, queen. What now?

Start by counting those top tricks. You have seven: two spades (given the first trick), three hearts and two diamonds. Clearly, the clubs will generate the extra two tricks you need – eventually.

Almost every player would run the club jack at trick two, but it is one of those bearish days. East wins with the queen and fires back the spade five. Whether South finesses the 10 or wins with the ace, the contract is bankrupt. The defenders’ share will be three spades and two clubs. South should have tried to bully East into an error. At trick two, enter dummy with a heart. Then call for a low club.

True, if East plays his queen, the contract is overthrown, but how many Easts do you know who would take that option? An unsophisticated East will normally play low. The dividend is a guaranteed contract. West may win with the ace, but he cannot defeat you.

Now suppose West can win this trick with the club queen. How does West hurt you? He cannot. A spade costs a trick, and if he switches to a red suit, you win and knock out the club ace. At the worst, you will have traded away an overtrick.

If you found that play, your stock is rising rapidly.

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Justin Theroux, left, as G. Gordon Liddy and Woody Harrelson as E. Howard Hunt in HBO’s “White House Plumbers.”

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Aerosmith is saying “Peace Out” on its forthcoming farewell tour.

The tour announcement came Monday morning, after last week’s teaser from LCA’s social media.

Tickets for the show go on sale at 7 a.m. Friday via Ticketmaster channels.

The Black Crowes will open the show, part of a 40-date run that kicks off Sept. 2 in Philadelphia and wraps Jan. 26 in Montreal. (See dates below.)

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers’ self-titled debut album. Over the course of its legendary career, Aerosmith has sold more than 150 million albums worldwide and has racked up a number of classic rock staples, from “Dream On” to “Sweet Emotion” to “Walk This Way.” Interestingly, the band hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart just once, with its 1998 ballad “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” from that summer’s hit film, “Armageddon.”

In a tour announcement, the band noted the tour dates will not include drummer Joey Kramer, who took a break from the band in 2019 while nursing a shoulder injury and later sued his bandmates after reportedly being asked to re-audition for his job.

“While Joey Kramer remains a beloved founding member of Aerosmith, he has regrettably made the decision to sit out the currently scheduled touring dates to focus his full attention on his family and health,” the group said in a joint statement. “Joey’s unmistakable and legendary presence behind the drum kit will be sorely missed.”

Aerosmith’s ‘Peace Out’ tour dates

Sept. 2: Philadelphia (Wells Fargo Center)

Sept. 6: Pittsburgh (PPG Paints Arena)

Sept. 9: Belmont Park, New York (UBS Arena)

Sept. 12: Toronto

(Scotiabank Arena)

Sept. 15: Chicago

(United Center)

Sept. 18: Detroit (Little Caesars Arena)

Sept. 21: Cleveland (Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse)

Sept. 24: Raleigh, North Carolina (PNC Arena)

Sept. 27: Washington, D.C. (Capital One Arena)

Oct. 11: Tampa, Florida (Amalie Arena)

Oct. 14: Atlanta (State Farm Arena)

Oct. 17: Charlotte, North Carolina (Spectrum Center)

Oct. 20: Sunrise, Florida (FLA Live Arena)

Oct. 23: Austin, Texas (Moody Center)

Oct. 26: St. Louis (Enterprise Center)

Oct. 29: Indianapolis (Gainbridge Fieldhouse)

Nov. 1: San Antonio, Texas (AT&T Arena)

Nov. 4: Tulsa, Oklahoma (BOK Center)

Nov. 7: Dallas (American Airlines Center)

Nov. 10: Omaha, Nebraska (CHI Health Center)

Nov. 13: St. Paul, Minnesota (Xcel Energy Center)

Nov. 16: Kansas City, Missouri (T-Mobile Center)

Nov, 19: Denver (Ball Arena)

Nov, 22: Salt Lake City (Vivint Arena)

Nov. 25: Portland (Moda Center)

Nov. 28: Seattle (Climate Pledge Arena)

Dec. 1: San Francisco (Chase Center)

Dec. 4: San Jose, California (SAP Center)

Dec. 7: Los Angeles (The Kia Forum)

Dec. 10: Phoenix (Footprint Center)

Dec. 28: Newark, New Jersey (Prudential Center)

Dec. 31: Boston (TD Garden)

Jan. 4: Cincinnati (Heritage Bank Arena)

Jan. 7: Louisville, Kentucky (KFC Yum! Center)

Jan. 10: Nashville, Tennessee (Bridgestone Arena)

Jan. 13: Knoxville, Tennessee (ThompsonBoling Arena)

Jan. 16: Buffalo, New York (KeyBank Center)

Jan. 19: New York City (Madison Square Garden)

Jan. 23: Columbus, Ohio (Schottenstein Center)

Jan. 26: Montreal (Bell Centre)

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Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis

Candorville Darrin Bell

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CALENDAR

Wednesday’s TV sports

Baseball

MLB

• San Francisco vs. Houston, NBCSBA, 11 a.m.

• Seattle vs. Oakland, NBCSCA, 6:40 p.m.

Basketball NBA playoffs

• Philadelphia at Boston, TNT, 5 p.m.

Golf • PGA Professionals Championship, GOLF, 1 p.m.

Hockey NHL playoffs

• New Jersey vs. Carolina, ESPN, 4 p.m.

• Edmonton vs. Vegas, ESPN, 6:30 p.m.

soccer EpL

• Manchester City vs. West Ham, USA, Noon.

CoNCACAF

• Tigres UANL vs. Leon, FS1, 7 p.m.

Thursday’s TV sports

Baseball

MLB

• Seattle vs. Oakland, NBCSCA, 12:37 p.m.

Basketball

NBA playoffs

• L.A. Lakers vs. Golden State, ESPN, 6 p.m.

Golf

• DP World, Automobiles Italian Open, GOLF, 4 a.m.

• PGA, Wells Fargo Championship, GOLF, 11 a.m.

• LPGA, Hanwa LIFEPLUS International Crown, GOLF, 3 p.m.

Hockey

NHL playoffs

• Florida vs. Toronto, TNT, 4 p.m.

• Seattle vs. Dellas, TNT, 6:30 p.m.

soccer EpL

• Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Manchester United, USA, Noon.

Alumni

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won the 200 meters and the 400 meters for Sacramento State during the Causeway Classic Dual against UC Davis. Ford ran 24:39 in the 200 and moved into sixth place in school history. She won the 400 in 54:57.

Senior Jaiden Moody (Vanden) joined the University of Mount Olive 4x400 relay team in winning the Conference Carolinas championship in a time of 3:53.03.

Baseball

Junior outfielder Kenny Decelle (Vacaville) had five hits, including two triples, and three RBIs as Sonoma State swept a four-game series against Stanislaus State.

Sophomore righthander Tanner Fonoti (Rodriguez) picked up his fifth win of the season for Sonoma State. He went seven innings and allowed five hits, no earned runs and one walk to go with three strikeouts as the Seawolves beat Stanislaus State 8-0.

Sophomore Hunter Dorraugh (Vacaville)

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From Page B1 certificate for scoring a 3 or higher in AP Seminar and Research. She volunteers with Project Linus, Play 4 All Park, Alamo School Fall Festival, Solano County Food Bank, Toys for Tots and as a community tutor. She has a 4.15 GPA and will attend Brigham Young University, where she will major in biology with the future goal of becoming a medical researcher.

Katrina Husby of Vacaville Christian is a $500 winner. Husby ran for the cross country and track and field teams for four years each and she played basketball for one season. In cross country,

Giants blank Astros to snap losing skid

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HOUSTON — Anthony DeSclafani was about as dominant as he’s been in a Giants uniform Tuesday as San Francisco blanked the World Series champion Houston Astros and snapped their losing streak at four games. DeSclafani retired 19 of the first 20 batters he faced, and the Giants got all the offense they needed behind his masterful pitching performance with a pair of RBI knocks from Joc Pederson and Blake Sabol, defeating the Astros, 2-0, to even the three-game series and earn their

Curry

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center (at times) because league MVP Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was sidelined with an injury.

In Curry’s game, he was a 35-year-old guard who, like Johnson 43 years earlier, knew he had to put his team on his shoulders.

In both instances, the magic began the day before the game. Just before the Warriors left for Sacramento on Saturday, Curry gave his boys a little talk. He told them it was time to lose all personal agendas and peeves, and go all-in for the Dubs.

He declared that every man who climbed onto that bus was figuratively signing a contract to give everything to the Warriors in Game 7.

first win of this taxing road trip. San Francisco (12-17) has its ace, Logan Webb, on the mound Wednesday looking to deliver only its third series win of the season. DeSclafani blanked the Astros for eight innings, striking out three and relying mostly on soft contact, before handing off to Camilo Doval to close out the ninth inning. In his longest start since July 4, 2021, DeSclafani combined with Doval to hold the powerful Astros lineup scoreless for the first time this season. It was the Giants’ third shutout effort of the season, and the first with Joey Bart behind the plate for all nine innings.

Jabbar’s bulkhead seat, and, like Kareem always did, wrapped a blanket around his head. During the flight, Johnson told a small group of writers he was confident he could play center. Why?

“I played center in high school,” he said.

“So did I, Magic,” said a spindly 6-1 sportswriter. Magic laughed and said, “I could write your story, too.”

Before both games, there were ominous symbols of what a loss could bring.

In Sacramento, the Warriors could walk from their hotel to the adjacent arena without going outside, but all of them were very much aware of The Beam. The Kings shoot a laser beam into the night sky after every win, to the chagrin of their vanquished foe.

Drawing five walks, the Giants chased Astros starter Hunter Brown after 4 1/3 innings. They loaded the bases in three innings and managed to muster only one run, but it didn’t matter behind DeSclafani’s dominant effort.

After Brown issued consecutive free passes to Pederson and Michael Conforto in the fourth, Sabol cashed in with a double off left-field scoreboard that pushed Pederson across. Pederson got the Giants on the board in first inning, blooping a single. Thairo Estrada, who legged out an infield single and stole second, scurried home.

ramentorepresented a region that had not sniffed the playoffs in the previous16 seasons. The Lakers and the Warriors were both walking into a hornet’s nest, wearing honey-scented cologne.

Johnson and Curry, two Zen masters, flashed killer smiles.

Magic unleashed his ear-to-ear smile before tip-off as he sauntered to midcourt. The Lakers had a taller player ready for the center jump, but Westhead, a former Shakespearean professor, had a more theatrical plan, and he directed the beaming Johnson into the jump circle.

then he threw away a pass, his only turnover of the game. A minute and a half later, he buried a 25-footer for a 10-9 Warriors lead.

My, did those two fellows put on a show, Magic and Steph. Both of them took a graceful leap and sprang to a new level of greatness.

Following their floor generals, the Lakers and the Warriors charged into the fray. Lakers forward Jamaal Wilkes scored a career-high 37 points that night.

Kevon Looney stomped on the Kings’ hearts Sunday with 21 rebounds, 10 offensive.

had five hits, including a double, home run and three RBIs, for San Jose State. The Spartans were swept in all three games by Air Force.

Senior right-hander Aaron Rund had one relief outing of 3 1/3 innings for Campbell in a 4-2 loss to Duke. Rund allowed three hits, one earned run and two walks to go with six strikeouts.

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Senior outfielder Ashley Miller (Fairfield) picked up six hits and an RBI for Simpson in a 2-2 split with Benedictine Mesa.

Senior Hailey Enriquez (Solano) had nine hits in a three-game series sweep by Dickinson State over Waldorf. The Sparks, Nevada, native doubled, homered and drove in six runs.

Graduate student and outfielder Megan Massa (Rodriguez) went 4-for-8 with three RBIs for Concordia Irvine in a split of two games with Azusa Pacific.

Sophomore Tai Wilson (Vanden) had seven hits, a double and a triple for Seattle in a three-game sweep of Utah Valley. Wilson went 4-for-4 in the series finale, a 10-5 victory.

she was all-league three times and league MVP twice. In track and field, she was all-league three times, league MVP once and team captain twice.

Husby has won multiple school academic awards as well as the Framer’s Choice Award, a county-wide essay competition. She’s a member of Interact Club, Mu Alpha Theta, Student Council and National Honor Society. She volunteers with the Vacaville Buddy Club and her church.

Husby has a 4.23 GPA, which is No. 4 in her class of 47. She’ll attend Charleston Southern University, where she will continue her running career while majoring in biochemistry with the future goal of going into medicine research and development.

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Johnson, likewise, got his team ready, but in a distinctively Magic style. Before the Lakers boarded their plane to Philadelphia the day before that Game 6, head coach Paul Westhead informed Johnson he would be playing center against the 76ers. A crazy idea. Johnson was 6-foot-9, but he was a non-leaping rookie point guard.

If Johnson’s teammates were tense heading into Philly without their captain and league MVP, Magic knew what to do. On the plane, he playfully sat in the missing Abdul-

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two runs. Katelyn Kilgore, Hailey Permenter, Denina, Ellie Steiger, Za’raya Garcia and Ann Marie Jasso all had hits. Kilgore, Denina and Jasso drove in runs.

The Lady Mustangs are 7-7 overall and

The 76ers didn’t have a beam, but the Lakers walking into the Spectrum for that Game 6 encountered a foreboding sight. In the arena hallway just outside their locker room, carpenters were hammering together a stage for a postgame trophy presentation, if needed.

Westhead, a rookie head coach, couldn’t shake the thought that the workers were erecting a gallows for his overmatched, underdog Lakers team. Hostile crowds?

Whew. The 18,276 fans in Philly’s Spectrum hadn’t tasted a title in 13 years. The 18,253 fans in Sac-

nals will take place at the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 8 and Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on Jan. 9. Hard Rock Stadium in Miami will host the National Championship Game on Jan. 19. The announcement of the game dates for the 12-team playoff format in 2024 is a significant step towards bringing more clarity to the expansion of the playoffs.

5-4 in the Monticello Empire League. Rodriguez was scheduled to host Fairfield Tuesday.

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Curry broke out his smile – a laugh, almost –when he stepped to the free-throw line in the second quarter, minutes after clanging two freebies. He would say later the grin was his way of telling himself to forget everything and enjoy the moment.

In the opening minutes, Johnson took a pass on the low block. Julius “Dr. J” Erving scooted over to check Magic and, as described by TV announcer Brent Musburger, “Ohhh, the rolling hook shot by the young center!”

Minutes later Johnson drove at Darryl “Chocolate Thunder” Dawkins, a massive 6-foot-11 center, for an and-one power layup. Take that, Doc and Dawk.

OK, Curry didn’t start quite that quickly. A minute into the game, he missed a 3-point attempt,

The Board of Managers approved the expansion from the current fourteam model to 12 teams on Dec. 1 to be implemented in 2024 and 2025. The current television contract between the Playoff and ESPN runs through the end of the 2025-26 season. College football leaders are expected to open the bidding process to maximize revenue by adding

two doubles and three RBIs as the Fairfield High School baseball team enjoyed a 15-8 win at Vacaville Christian Monday night.

Pat O’Reilly delivered four hits and drove in a run for the Falcons. Christian Rambeau contributed three hits. Trustin Mitchell had a triple. Fairfield improved to 9-17 overall. The Falcons

Curry roared all day long, snarling at the crowd and, in pantomime, pushing the button to light his private beam. Johnson, who invented the celebratory chest bump, bruised his teammates all night long and screamed inspiration into their faces.

The Lakers won by 16, the Warriors by 20.

“It was amazing, just amazing,” Erving said of Johnson’s performance.

“Steph Curry you filthy animal lol,” Damian Lillard tweeted.

The current version of the Lakers doesn’t have the magical flash and flair of Johnson’s old “Showtime” squads, but it does have Magic himself, a part owner (4%) of the team. Johnson will be rooting for his guys, surely. But if Curry unleashes his brand of magic, he might have a secret admirer.

more teams. Having the three firstround games on Saturday runs the risk of putting them head-to-head with the final weeks of the NFL season. But playoff officials moved the quarter and semifinals midweek to avoid competing against the NFL wildcard weekend.

have a non-league game at 4 p.m. Wednesday against Pioneer of Woodland. Thomas Lane and Nicko Meadows had two hits apiece. Meadows belted a home run and drove in three RBIs. Steve Dingman also tripled. Vacaville Christian improved to 12-4 overall. The VCS Falcons were scheduled to play at San Juan on Tuesday.