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HEALTH CARE’S FINANCIAL STRAIN SETS IN Even largest systems struggling, which could affect insurance costs BY PAUL SISSON Health systems across the county are scrambling to cut costs and find new revenue sources as increased labor and supply costs fray bottom lines. Signs of financial stress are starting to nudge into public view at even the largest pro viders, local household names that have generally been prof itable enough to shrug off market fluctuations. Last week, University of Cali fornia health providers in San Di ego and across the state worked to avoid a contract lapse, warn ing their patients with Aetna health insurance coverage that they faced losing access as an April 21 deadline loomed. Sharp HealthCare posted a layoff notice for 118 jobs last week, about one month after Scripps Health notified the pub lic that it intends to cut 70 jobs in its administrative ranks. These numbers, said Uni versity of California Los Angeles economist Glenn Melnick, are the current reality in health care. “Health care providers pretty much everywhere are dealing with increased costs at the same time as their investment income is shrinking and they are losing that extra revenue that they got during the COVID pandemic,” Melnick said. “And then you’ve also got to SEE STRAIN • A12

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Inside San Diego’s mental health crisis

he mental health system in San Diego County is over whelmed. There are too many people in crisis and too few people to help them. And the situation is getting worse. But what does this public health emergency look like inside the system? For three days last year, The San Diego UnionTribune followed patients, family members, jail guards, clinicians, 911 dispatchers and a host of others to capture a firsthand, minutebyminute account of this suffering. We found a community struggling at every level. During this 72hour period, law enforcement received at least 238 mental health calls from people at transit centers and gas stations, schools and hotels. But most calls came from homes. A subsequent analysis of years’ worth of data showed that the rate at which adults were placed on involuntary mental health holds has nearly doubled over the last three decades. For children, the number has increased almost tenfold. Mental health calls for service to law enforcement have spiked by more than 120 percent since 2009. Out of nearly three dozen police shootings in San Diego County from 2018 through June 2022, 40 percent involved someone with mental health issues. That’s nearly triple the percentage found during the previous 25 years. See our comprehensive coverage of this topic, which includes commentaries by those on the front lines, in today’s 26page section, “72 Hours Inside the Mental Health Crisis in San Diego County.”

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BY DAVE PHILIPPS, JENNA RUSSELL, JACEY FORTIN & HALEY WILLIS

Above: Patients at Exodus Recovery in Vista. The facility is like an urgent care for people in a mental health crisis. Many were brought in by law enforcement. Nurses evaluate who needs to go to a hospital.

INSIDE THE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY

For his high school senior yearbook, Jack Teixeira got to pick a quote to appear below the photo showing him smiling in a green hoodie. His choice: “Ac tions speak louder than words.” On Friday, Teixeira, a 21year old airman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was charged with two counts under the Espio nage Act because, federal prose cutors say, his actions caused harm to the country he had de voted himself to serving. He did not enter a plea. They said he repeatedly shared classified documents on the Internet through a gaming group he belonged to that fo cused on war, guns, and some times, racist and antisemitic memes. It was a remarkable turnabout for a young man who grew up with a passion for the military and weapons — at times to an unnerving extent, some who knew him said. Teixeira grew up in a family with strong military ties in Dighton, Mass., a town of about 8,000 people near the Massachu SEE LEAK • A9

EXDEPUTY’S SEXUAL MISCONDUCT COST TAXPAYERS $7M That’s how much county has paid to settle at least 18 cases against Fischer BY JEFF MCDONALD The disgraced former San Di ego sheriff ’s deputy remains locked up in a Vista jail cell, with al most no hope of being released un til sometime in December. But while Richard Fischer pays his debt to society for groping, kis sing or otherwise molesting more than a dozen women — many times while in uniform — San Di ego County taxpayers are continu ing to incur more legal costs. In the six years since women began coming forward with allega tions that they were sexually har assed by Fischer, the county has

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Exdeputy Richard Fischer pleaded guilty to four felonies and three misdemeanors related to onthejob sexual misconduct.

paid more than $7 million to settle at least 18 civil lawsuits filed by his victims. Six other lawsuits remain pending in San Diego Superior Court, records show — legal dis putes in which the county is pay ing to defend him. County records show that at torney Joseph Kutyla, the private sector lawyer representing Fis cher, has been paid just under $1.1 million in public funds since the cases were filed. Kutyla will continue to collect attorney’s fees until the last case is resolved. Neither Kutyla nor San Diego County responded to questions about the payments and settle ments related to the Fischer cases. The attorney representing most of the 37yearold former SEE FISCHER • A14

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Architecture, urban planning experts discuss possibilities BY JENNIFER VAN GROVE A group of around 30 civicminded San Diegans, including some of the city’s preeminent thinkers in the realm of architecture and design, gathered Saturday morning to learn more about Mayor Todd Gloria’s plan to remake the six block, 8acre downtown complex home to City Hall and other municipal build ings. The lecture, put on by the Friends of San Diego Architecture and hosted at the NewSchool of Archi tecture & Design, centered around the manifesto drafted by architect Jenni fer Luce and her peers on the Civic Center Revitaliza tion Committee. The volun teer group of nearly two dozen local leaders and stakeholders was organized by Gloria in September in advance of marketing San Diego’s Civic Center real es tate for lease or sale. The document encour ages prospective devel opers to create iconic build ings and celebrated public spaces. It implores them to take inspiration from places such as London’s new City Hall, the Oslo Opera House, Lincoln Center and the Oculus transit hub at the World Trade Center. “We decided to write a manifesto, and I know that seems like a somewhat po litical word, but for us it was,

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Jennifer Luce, a member of the Civic Center Revitalization Committee, dis cusses the project at the NewSchool of Architecture & Design on Saturday. what is our true passionate belief about what this site should be for our city?” said Luce, who is the founder of LUCE et studio and was be hind the transformation of Balboa Park’s Mingei Muse um. “A civic center isn’t just a city hall. It’s a civic place of gathering where conversa tion happens, where gov ernment happens, where community and govern ment come together.” Luce’s bigpicture ideas seemed to enthrall attend ees even as the city’s pre ferred process for redevel oping its real estate raised red flags. “My observation... is that there’s no way that, in 60 days, you’re going to get

proposals that even begin to address the kind of stuff that Jennifer was talking about,” said Frank Wolden, an urban design expert who runs his own studio and pre viously worked for both the city and its downtown re development agency. “It sounds to me like we’re just doing what San Diego al ways does — I hate to be a cynic — but (we’re) just jumping to a conclusion on something.” Wolden was referencing a seemingly speedy process that might not allow time for a comprehensive master planning effort. In early May, the city is expected to solicit bids for the sale or lease of five of the

Civic Center blocks under California’s Surplus Land Act. The site is bounded by A Street and C Street to the north and south, and First Avenue and Third Avenue to the east and west. It ex tends to the empty office tower at 101 Ash St. San Diego will simulta neously undertake a sepa rate, municipal process to construct a new City Hall at 1222 First Ave., where the City Administration Build ing is today. The Surplus Land Act requires the city to distrib ute a notice of availability to affordable housing builders registered with the state who then have 60 days to re spond with interest. The

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city must then engage in a 90day negotiation period with respondents and give “first priority” to the entity proposing the highest num ber of affordable housing units, meaning those deed restricted for families mak ing 80 percent or less of the area median income. The process was used by the city to select devel opment team Midway Ris ing to redo San Diego’s sports arena real estate and has been criticized as singu larly focused on affordable housing. The Civic Center timeline, along with the city’s preference to maxi mize the production of housing for lowincome families, worried several in the crowd that the city would end up with mediocre proposals. “Unless the (request for proposals) are structured properly, I think you’re go ing to have a whole bunch of different developers not knowing exactly what to do,” said Ray Varela, who is president of Carrier John son + CULTURE. “I think it’s really important the way you frame this... because you have the Civic Center, the five blocks, and then you have the City Hall. Those need to work together; not two different things at one time.” San Diego is moving too fast, said urban economics expert Bill Anderson. He said the city is best served by retaining all of the City Center blocks as opposed to declaring them surplus.

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Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have been as close as brothers on and off the set for years — though are they actually related? According to Mc Conaughey, maybe! In Wednesday’s episode of “Let’s Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa,” the “Mag ic Mike” actor said that while vacationing in Greece with his and Harrelson’s families several years ago, McConaughey’s mom re vealed that she “knew” Harrelson’s dad. “Everyone was aware of the ellipses that my mom left after ‘knew.’ ... It was a loaded KNEW,” Mc Conaughey said, drawing laughter from host Ripa. “We went on to unpack this, what ‘knew’ meant, and did some math and found out that his dad was on furlough at the same time that my mom and dad were in their second di vorce,” McConaughey con tinued. “Then there’s pos sible receipts in places out in West Texas where there might have been a gather ing, or a meeting, or a ‘knew’ moment.” Ripa asked Mc Conaughey if they’ve taken a DNA test to confirm their theory. He said they were on “the precipice” of doing one. And although Harrelson, 61, has been enthusiastic about the test, McConaughey, 53, said he’s been waffling a bit. “It’s a little harder of me because he’s asking me to take a chance and go, ‘Wait a minute, you’re trying to tell me my dad may not be my dad after 53 years of believ ing it?’”

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EARTH DAY IN THE SOUTH BAY Hundreds gathered to show Mother Nature some love at the South Bay Earth Day celebration at Chula Vista’s Bayfront Park on Saturday. The zerowaste event was packed with green, handson activities. Students from Otay Ranch and Hilltop high schools created a mosaic pattern out of fruit, seen above, showcasing food they collected from their classmates that would have been dis carded. The collected food can now be donated to those in need. To the left, Cory Downs offers tips to Sofia Vega, 8, on cre ating her own tiedyed Tshirt.

OFFICIALS SEEKING COMMUNITY’S IDEAS ON INVESTING GRANT MONEY Gloria, Moreno drum up support for lowincome areas in particular BY JEFF MCDONALD It’s not every day that San Diego elected officials ask regular people for help deciding how to raise and spend government money. But Saturday was one such oc casion. Mayor Todd Gloria and Coun cilmember Vivian Moreno ap peared at the Logan Heights Pub lic Library on Saturday morning to raise awareness about tens of mil lions of dollars in state grants that are soon to be awarded and solicit suggestions on how the money should be invested. “We have an opportunity here to secure $30 million from the state of

California, with $15 million in lever aged funds,” Gloria said. “This is about the community finally get ting its fair share.” The mayor and council member were drumming up support for funding from the California Strate gic Growth Council, which doles out hundreds of millions of dollars a year for public transit, affordable housing, urban greening and other local projects. Moreno said her council district historically has been denied state and federal funding for those proj ects and others. As a result, she said, District 8 suffers from envi ronmental injustices like higher air pollution, weakened landuse poli cies and displacement due to rising rental costs. “We have yet to receive the same support as other communities in San Diego,” said Moreno, whose dis trict includes Barrio Logan, Sher

man Heights, Memorial and Grant Hill, among other neighborhoods. “Here we are together putting pressure on the state and letting them know that we need that fund ing,” she said. The San Diego Foundation has agreed to match half of the funds San Diego is awarded under the state program, meaning nearly $30 million could translate to just under $45 million for a variety of projects. The Saturday event was co hosted by the Environmental Health Coalition, a local nonprofit that works to promote public health across lowerincome com munities that historically are more polluted by industry and busi nesses than higherincome areas. “We’re fighting for environmen tal justice,” said Jose Franco Gar cia, the coalition executive direc tor. “We really are fighting together

to create the community that we want to see.” In addition to trying to generate support for the state grant money, which will be awarded later this year, the officials were seeking feedback from community mem bers about what kinds of projects the city should invest in. The second of three workshops was held inside the library immedi ately following the press conference. Visitors were asked to respond to a survey to determine which ef forts they consider their highest priorities — workforce devel opment, community engagement, displacement avoidance and a host of other issues. In a corner of the library meet ing room, Khea Pollard was study ing one of the posters, and was about to fill out a survey. “This is my first workshop,” said Pollard, coowner of the Cafe

X: By Any Beans Necessary coop erative coffee house in nearby Sherman Heights. “I’m really interested in anti displacement efforts,” Pollard said. “If people don’t have busi nesses and products that they can own, they’re not going to be able to stay in the community.” The third workshop to generate support for the grants and suggesti ons on how the revenue might be in vested is scheduled June 17. The application is due Aug. 1 and the funds will be awarded later this year. To learn more about the Strate gic Growth Council’s transforma tive climate communities pro gram, visit sgc.ca.gov. To take the survey developed by the Environmental Health Coali tion, visit bit.ly/41ckk4u.

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NATION + WORLD SUDAN ARMY, RIVAL PARAMILITARY FORCE BATTLE IN CAPITAL STREETS Hundreds wounded, dozens killed amid fears of civil war

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Airstrikes slammed into neighborhoods in the Su danese capital of Khartoum and planes were raked with gunfire or set aflame in the main airport as the military and a heavily armed para military force battled in the streets on Saturday, pushing the troubled Horn of Africa nation to the cusp of a civil war. The violence in the na tion of 46 million follows years of ratcheting tensions between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a major para military group led by Vice President Mohamed Ham dan Dagalo — universally re ferred to as Hemedti — and the military, headed by the president, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah alBurhan. Shooting broke out around 9 a.m., residents said, and quickly escalated as artillery, armored vehicles and then fighter jets were de ployed. Doctors in the capi tal urgently appealed for sur geons and blood supplies as wounded people poured into hospitals. Nearly 400 people were injured and at least 27 killed, mostly in Khartoum, according to an internal U.N. document. It did not include three U.N. workers reported killed in Darfur. The RSF claimed it had taken control of sites includ ing the presidential palace, Khartoum International Airport and the airport in Merowe, north of the capital. The Sudanese armed forces dismissed RSF statements as “lies.” Both sides blamed the other for attacking first. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Hemedti described Burhan as “a criminal and a

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Smoke rises from a neighborhood in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday after clashes between Sudan’s military and the country’s paramilitary erupted. liar who will destroy Sudan” and pledged to “hand him and his associates over to face justice.” He said 100 mil itary officers and thousands of soldiers had defected to him, without providing evi dence. Burhan, during his own Al Jazeera interview, said the RSF attacked the seat of the Sovereignty Council and his home that morning and har assed members of the army in an area south of the capi tal. He also said the RSF had set fire to some aircraft in Khartoum Airport, but that the army had repulsed them and still controlled the army’s general command center, key military facilities and the Republican Palace. He also did not provide evi dence. The Sudanese air force is conducting strikes against RSF positions, the military said. Khartoum residents confirmed seeing military jets and helicopters in the skies. Tensions have spiked

this year between Sudan’s army and the RSF, after dis agreements regarding a De cember deal on power shar ing and a timeline to dissolve paramilitary forces as part of a transition to civilian rule. The violence dates to the time of former president Omar alBashir, who ruled for 30 years and was indicted by the International Crimi nal Court on charges of war crimes, crimes against hu manity and genocide. A spiraling cycle of civil ian protests and bloody crackdowns toppled Bashir in 2019, ushering in a brief euphoria and civilian gov ernment before the military and RSF seized power in a 2021 coup. Diplomatically isolated and economically crippled, the two sides agreed late last year to turn over power to a civilianled government. But the deal left key problems unre solved, said Kholood Khair, founding director of the Khartoumbased think tank Confluence Advisory.

The fighting has wider re gional implications: Hemedti is linked to Russia’s Wagner mercenary group and returned from a trip to Moscow last year pledging deeper ties with Russia and discussing Russia opening a naval base on Sudan’s Red Sea coast. Burhan has sup port from neighboring Egypt, a major military power and the Arab world’s most populous nation. Un confirmed footage on social media appeared to show some Egyptian soldiers at Merowe airport under RSF control. Even if the fighting stops in Khartoum, Khair said, it might continue elsewhere in the country. “Sudan is on the preci pice of civil war,” warned Alan Boswell, director for the Horn of Africa for the In ternational Crisis Group. “This is the doubleheaded monster that seized power after Bashir. Now the two heads have turned on each other.”

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuat ed unharmed Saturday after someone threw an explosive device in his direction while he was campaigning at a fish ing port in western Japan, of ficials said. Police wrestled a suspect to the ground as screaming bystanders scrambled to get away and smoke filled the air. One police officer was slightly hurt and Kishida con tinued campaigning Sat urday, but the chaotic scene was reminiscent of the assas sination nine months ago of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which also came on a campaign tour. Kishida was visiting Saikazaki port in Wakayama prefecture to sup port his ruling party’s candi date in a local election. The explosion occurred just be fore he was to begin his speech. A young man believed to be a suspect was arrested Saturday at the scene after he allegedly threw “the sus picious object,” Chief Cab inet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters. Matsuno refused to com ment on the suspect’s mo tive and background, saying police are still investigating. TV footage shows Kishida standing with his back to the crowd. His secu rity detail suddenly points to the ground near him, and the prime minister whips around, looking alarmed. The camera quickly turns to the crowd just as several people, including uniformed and plainclothes police offi cers, converge on a young man wearing a white surgi cal mask and holding what appears to be another de

vice, a long silver tube. As they collapse on top of the man, working to remove the tube from his hands, a large explosion is heard near where Kishida had been standing. The crowd scat ters in panic as police roughly drag the man away. It wasn’t immediately clear what the explosive de vice was or how many the suspect had, but some re ports said it was a smoke or pipe bomb, possibly with a delayed fuse. No injuries among the crowd were reported in the incident, which came on the eve of a major international forum in Japan. Kishida was not hurt and continued his campaign speeches later Saturday, Matsuno said. One police officer was slightly injured. The investigation at the scene continued late into the night. Japanese media re ports said the suspect re fused to talk to police until his lawyer arrived. Kishida did not mention the explosion and returned to the Tokyo region in the eve ning after campaigning in Chiba for another candidate. “Elections are the core of democracy, and we should never tolerate threats or ob struction by violence,” Mat suno said. He said he instructed na tional police to ensure their utmost effort for the protec tion of dignitaries who are visiting Japan in the period leading up to the Group of Seven summit in May. Abe’s assassination, which shocked a nation that prides itself on public safety and extremely tight gun con trols, came as he delivered a campaign speech in the west ern city of Nara. Amid a na tional outcry, police have tightened their protective measures following a subse quent investigation that found holes in Abe’s security.

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Yemen’s warring sides resume prisoner swaps Hundreds of detainees from Yemen’s conflict were released Saturday as part of a major prisoner exchange that began a day earlier, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. The deal, brokered by the United Nations last month, has been the most significant ex change of prisoners in years. It comes amid concerted efforts diplomatic efforts to negotiate an end to the longrunning war in Yemen. It involves the release of more than 800 prisoners from all sides of the war that began in 2014 when the Iranbacked Houthi rebels seized Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, overthrowing the internationally recognized government. The Houthi takeover prompted a Saudiled coalition to intervene months later, and the conflict turned into a re gional proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The implementation of the threeday prisoner exchange started Friday with the release of 318 former detainees from all sides, including Maj. Gen. Mah moud alSubaihi, who was the defense minister when the war erupted, and Nasser Mansour Hadi, the brother of former Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. The ICRC said all parties re leased a total of 357 war detain ees on Saturday.

U.S., VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS PLEDGE TO BOLSTER TIES Blinken visits Hanoi, breaks ground on new embassy compound BY MATTHEW LEE HANOI

Fifty years after the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam, Secretary of State Antony Blinken looked Saturday to strengthen America’s ties with its old foes in Hanoi as it seeks to counter Chi na’s growing assertiveness in the IndoPacific. Blinken and Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh pledged to boost relations to new levels as they met just two weeks after the 50th anniversary of the U.S. troop withdrawal that marked the end of America’s direct military involvement in Vietnam. And it came as Blinken broke ground on a sprawling new $1.2 bil lion U.S. embassy compound in the Vietnamese capital, a project the Biden administration hopes will demonstrate its commitment to further improving ties less than 30 years after diplomatic relations were restored in 1995. Despite concerns over Viet nam’s human rights record, Wash ington sees Hanoi as a key compo nent of its strategy for the region and has sought to leverage Viet nam’s traditional rivalry with its much larger neighbor China to ex pand U.S. influence in the region. “We think this is an auspicious

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Vietnam For eign Minister Bui Thanh Son meet Saturday in Hanoi. time to elevate our existing part nership,” Blinken told reporters af ter meetings with Chinh, Vietnam’s foreign minister and Communist Party chief. “This has been a very compre hensive and effective relationship and going forward we will continue to deepen relations,” Chinh said. “We highly appreciate the role and responsibility of the U.S. towards the Asia Pacific, or, in a larger scheme, the IndoPacific.” He added that Vietnam’s com munist government is keen to “fur ther elevate our bilateral ties to a new height.” Along with a number of China’s smaller neighbors, Vietnam has

maritime and territorial disputes with Beijing in the South China Sea. The U.S. has responded by of fering diplomatic support and bol stering military cooperation with the Philippines and the selfruled island of Taiwan, which China claims as a renegade province. Blinken noted that the U.S. is currently finalizing the transfer to Vietnam of a third Coast Guard cutter, which will complement ex isting maritime security co operation that has seen Washing ton give Hanoi 24 patrol boats since 2016 along with other equip ment and training. “All of these elements bolster Vi

etnamese capacity to contribute to maritime peace and stability in the South China Sea,” he said. Just last month, China threat ened “serious consequences” after the U.S. Navy sailed a destroyer around the disputed Paracel Is lands in the South China Sea for the second day in a row, in a move Beijing claimed was a violation of its sovereignty and security. The Paracels are occupied by China but also claimed by Taiwan and Viet nam. U.S. officials are reluctant to de scribe any visit to Asia in terms of China, preferring instead to dis cuss the importance of improving bilateral ties. But they frequently speak to broader concerns in the region that are clearly directed at China. “We focused on how our coun tries can advance a free and open IndoPacific; one that is at peace and grounded in respect the rules based international order,” Blinken said. And five decades after the Nixon administration pulled U.S. combat forces out of Vietnam on March 29, 1973, Blinken said the U.S. is seeking a more strategic ori entation with the country. Blinken’s visit comes as the ad ministration grapples with its own record of troop withdrawals and is facing congressional criticism and demands to explain the chaotic U.S. departure from Afghanistan two years ago.

Lee writes for The Associated Press.

Archaeologists in Italy unearth ancient relics

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Excavations in southern Ita ly have unearthed terracotta bull heads and a figurine of the Greek god Eros riding a dol phin, shining new light on the religious life and rituals of an ancient city, culture ministry of ficials said Saturday. It's the first trove of artifacts identified from a sanctuary in the ancient Greek city of Paes tum, which dates from the 5th century B.C. Paestum, famed for its three massive Doriccol umned temples, is near the ar chaeological site of Pompeii, but farther down the Almalfi coast. The small temple was first identified in 2019 along the an cient city walls but excavations were halted due to the COVID19 pandemic, the Ital ian Culture Ministry said in a statement.

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BY ELAINE KURTENBACH SAPPORO, Japan

Japan and the United States agreed Saturday to cooperate on developing geothermal energy, one of the most plentiful re sources on this volcanic island chain. The memorandum of commit ment was signed Saturday on the sidelines of a meeting of the Group of Seven energy and envi ronment ministers in the north ern city of Hokkaido. Japan’s famed hot springs re flect its abundant geothermal ac tivity, but the spas and resorts clustered around them have slowed efforts to use that re

source to generate power. The pact signed by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Japan’s minister of economy, trade and industry, Yasutoshi Nishimura, says that geothermal energy is recognized as a “renew able energy technology that the United States and Japan can work together to advance.” It calls for collaborating in re search and development and ex change of information and in pur suing geothermal projects in the U.S., Japan and other countries. It’s one of an array of areas where the two countries intend to col laborate in reducing reliance on fossil fuels and cutting carbon emissions that contribute to cli mate change. “The prospects of offshore wind are enormous. The prospec ts of geothermal. We’re very ex cited about partnering with Japan on these kinds of issues,”

Granholm said in an interview with The Associated Press on Fri day ahead of the G7 meetings. The agreement did not specify expected spending but said each side would bear the costs associ ated with their own activities. Adding more geothermal power could make it possible for Japan to provide 90 percent of its power generation from renewable sources, according to an estimate by the Lawrence Berkeley Na tional Laboratory. That would amount to a 92 percent reduction in the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, it said in a recent study. So far, Japan’s geothermal ca pacity has been underutilized: it has dozens of small power plants run on the steaming hot springs dotted across the country, but to gether they account for less than 1 percent of its total powergener ating capacity.

Both Japan and the U.S. are looking to export geothermal technology. Japanese companies are par ticipating in a joint project to build what is expected to be the world’s largest geothermal power station, in Indonesia’s Sumatra, with 320 gigawatts of electricity. Biomass and geothermal power also contribute less than 1 percent of U.S. generating capac ity, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The U.S. has the largest esti mated geothermal potential, ac cording to Japan’s National In dustrial Institute of Science and Technology, followed by Indone sia and Japan. But Japan ranks ninth in installed geothermal power generating capacity, while the U.S. is the global leader.

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MISSILE ATTACK ON RESIDENTIAL AREA IN UKRAINE KILLS AT LEAST 11 Fighting intensifies in the battle for contested Bakhmut

Foreign ministers to hold three days of talks starting today BY MATTHEW LEE

BY MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG KYIV, Ukraine

Rescue workers pulled more bodies from the rub ble Saturday after a Rus sian missile attack on a resi dential neighborhood in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk killed at least 11 people, as fighting raged farther southeast for con trol of the city of Bakhmut. On Saturday, emergency workers retrieved two bodies from the remains of a five story apartment building, a spokesperson for the State Emergency Service, Veronika Bahal, told Ukrain ian television. A 2yearold boy had been rescued from a building Friday but then died in an ambulance, offi cials said. Russia sent a barrage of missiles into a residential area of Sloviansk on Friday, according to Ukrainian offi cials. The head of the re gional military administra tion, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said that 21 others had been in jured. He added that 34 apartment buildings were damaged in the barrage, along with an administra tive building and shops. On Saturday morning, Vadym Lyakh, a local official, told Ukrainian broadcaster Suspilne that five people were still believed to be trapped under the rubble. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy con demned the attack and noted that it had taken place on Good Friday, at the start of one of the Orthodox Church’s most important religious festivals. “Another strike by ter rorists,” Zelenskyy said in an overnight speech, add

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Emergency workers search for victims in the rubble of an apartment building that was hit by shelling Friday in Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine. ing: “This is an evil state,” he said in reference to Rus sia, “and it will lose. To win is our duty to humanity.” Many Ukrainians argue that such attacks show that the true face of the Krem lin’s fullscale invasion, launched in February 2022, has more to do with cruelty than with any specific stra tegic objective. Russia’s Ministry of Defense made no reference to the city of Sloviansk in a daily update Saturday. Sloviansk, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, lies behind the front line of the combat, and is about 34 miles west of two cities seized by Russian forces over the summer, Sievierodonetsk and Lysy chansk. But it remains within range of Moscow’s ar tillery. Sloviansk has been hit by Russian strikes so often that, for months, the Ukrain ian authorities have urged ci vilians to evacuate, although

many are reluctant to do so because of poverty, ill health, attachment to the city and other reasons. The city is about 25 miles northwest of Bakhmut, which has been the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in recent months. Col. Sergei Cherevaty, spokesperson for Ukraine’s eastern military command, said Saturday that battles of an intensity not seen in Europe for decades were taking place in the city and that Russia had launched 158 missile strikes in the past day alone. “The enemy set the goal above all to take this im pregnable fortress city,” he said on national television, adding that Ukrainian forces were “trying to inflict maximum damage on the enemy.” Russian forces have been bombarding Bakhmut since the summer in a battle that has exacted heavy casualties on both sides. Soldiers there

in recent weeks have been locked in blockbyblock combat. In recent days, Rus sia has made incremental progress. Russia’s defense ministry said that its forces had taken control of two more blocks and that Ukrainian fighters were de stroying infrastructure to impede their advance. There was no independent confir mation of the reports. Both sides have sus tained large numbers of casualties in the battle. While military experts say that Russian losses in Bakhmut have been much higher, the toll for Ukraine has also been considerable, leading to questions about at what point saving the city might prove unsustainable. “Saving the lives of our soldiers is a priority for the military command,” Ukrain ian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said on the Telegram messaging app.

Bigg writes for The New York Times.

While the Biden adminis tration sees minimal damage from the disclosure of highly classified documents related to the war in Ukraine and U.S. views of its allies and part ners, that assessment will get its first real test when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets in Japan with counterparts from six of America’s closest foreign friends. The three days of talks be tween the Group of Seven for eign ministers, which begin today, may shed light on whether the disclosure has harmed trust between the al lies or is only the latest embar rassment for the U.S, which has been grappling with the fallout from leaks of highly sensitive secrets over the past decade. Blinken said Saturday he had heard no concerns from allies, but the revelations, and the arrest of a relatively low level suspect in the leaks, will loom over the G7 meeting, the first major international diplomatic conference since the documents were discov ered online and made public. “We have engaged with our allies and partners since these leaks came out, and we have done so at high levels, and we have made clear our commit ment to safeguarding intelli gence and our commitment to our security partnerships,” Blinken told reporters in Hanoi before leaving for Japan. “What I’ve heard so far at least is an appreciation for the steps that we’re taking, and it’s not affected our co operation,” he said. “I just haven’t seen that, I haven’t heard that. And, of course, the investigation is taking its course.”

That argument may be wishful thinking, especially as the world digests what is be ing revealed almost daily with new revelations. Apart from military analy ses of Ukraine’s capabilities and Russian losses, the leaked documents also reveal assessments of the defense capabilities of Taiwan and in ternal arguments in Britain, Egypt, Israel, South Korea and Japan. “There’s now, as you know, a suspect in custody, but im portantly as well, I know, mea sures being taken to further safeguard information,” Blinken said. “But to date, based on the conversations I’ve had, I have not heard any thing that would affect our co operation with allies and partners.” Yet the U.S. has had simi lar problems before, most no tably when thenSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clin ton was forced to apologize for numerous embarrassing rev elations in leaks of U.S. diplo matic cables by WikiLeaks in 2010. Regardless of the legal im plications for Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, 21, and the find ings of the internal adminis tration investigation, Blinken and top aides are not likely to escape questioning about the leaks, which are at least the fourth from U.S. sources since 2010. The 2010 WikiLeaks release involved 251,287 State Depart ment cables, written by 271 American embassies and con sulates in 180 countries and were dated December 1966 to February 2010. The cables were passed by Julian Assange to media partners and published in stages from Nov. 28, 2010, with the names of sources re moved. WikiLeaks said it was the largest set of confidential documents ever to be re leased into the public domain.

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LEAK FROM A1 settsRhode Island border that re tains a distinctly rural character, with tractors in backyards, fresh eggs for sale in roadside honor boxes and old stone walls rambling through woods. It is also reliably conservative. The Teixeira home sits at the end of a long, densely treed lot, where Teixeira’s mother runs a home floral business. His stepfather retired as a master sergeant from the same Air Force intelligence unit where Teix eira worked, headquartered on a base on nearby Cape Cod. He also has a stepbrother in the Air Force, according to a profile for the brother on LinkedIn. Nearly two dozen people who knew Teixeira when he was in high school did not respond to interview requests or declined to comment. But several former classmates at DightonRehoboth Regional High School remembered him as a quiet and somewhat awkward teenager who sometimes wore camouflage and boots to school. Kailani Reis, 20, a high school classmate in Teixeira’s graduating class, said that as a student, the airman expressed his interest in weapons often enough that she and some other students found it “unsettling” and avoided him. She said few of the former classmates she knew were surprised when he was arrested. She did not recall that he talked politics but said he spoke often about joining the military and on occasion told teachers who encour aged him that he did not plan on going to college. He even skipped his high school graduation in 2020 to report to ba sic training in the Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. “Congratulations to my son Jack Teixeira who was not able to attend the ceremony,” his mother posted on Facebook at the time. “It’s too bad they didn’t mention his name at some point.” In the Air Force, Teixeira be came a lowlevel computer tech at Otis Air National Guard Base in Sandwich, Mass., where his mother said he worked nights, helping maintain secure networks. There, he had broad access to a se cure facility where he could access a global network of classified mate rial from the military and 17 other U.S. intelligence agencies. Authorities say that Teixeira eventually leaked dozens of docu ments containing potentially harmful details about the war in Ukraine and other sensitive na tional security topics. That a 21yearold with so little authority could have access to a

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DightonRehoboth Regional High School in Dighton, Mass., where Jack Teixeira was remembered as a quiet and somewhat awkward student, is seen Friday. such a vast trove of top secret infor mation might surprise the general public, but people who have worked in the intelligence world say untold thousands of troops and government civilians have ac cess to top secret materials, includ ing many young, inexperienced workers the military relies on to process the monumental amount of intelligence it collects. Those workers can log on to the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Com munications System — essentially a highly classified version of Google — and in milliseconds pull up briefings on Ukraine, China or nearly any other sensitive subject that the U.S. government collects intelligence on. Though his motivations may be different, Teixeira is remarkably similar to two other highprofile leakers in recent years, Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner, said Javed Ali, a former senior U.S. coun terterrorism official who held intelli gence roles at the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Depart ment of Homeland Security. Manning was a 23yearold Army intelligence analyst who was convicted in 2013 of giving more than 700,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks. Winner was a 26 yearold former Air Force linguist working as a military contractor who in 2017 printed out a classified report on Russian hacking, hid it in her pantyhose and gave it to The Intercept. Unlike Manning and Winner,

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Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira (right) appears in U.S. District Court in Boston on Friday. who came to be seen as whistle blowers motivated by ideology, Teixeira did not appear to be driv en by government policies, accord ing to people who knew him online. But all three were relatively young and had security clearances that were the classified intelligence equivalent of having the keys to dad’s red convertible. “Clearly their relatively young age is a common factor, and I would hope the intelligence community is thinking about that,” said Bennett Miller, a retired Air Force intelli gence analyst. “The problem is that the community needs these people. It can’t work without them.”

The words “top secret” may con jure images of pristine vaults and retinal scanners, Miller said, but in reality, while some highly classified material is siloed in special access programs, most of the rest is acces sible to thousands of ordinary peo ple who have security clearances. And security can be surpris ingly lax. Often, these systems are basi cally just a bunch of computers on a desk and there is “nothing really stopping anyone from printing something and carrying it out,” Miller said, adding, “It ain’t as Gucci as people think.” According to some of the

gamers who belonged to a small group created by Teixeira on the social media site Discord, he liked to play the apocalyptic zombie game Project Zomboid, as well as Arma 3, a tactical shooter game known for its lifelike attention to detail. He also liked to lecture the Discord group about the war in Ukraine and conflicts around the globe, sometimes typing for a half hour at a time to share what he was learning from classified intelli gence at work. One group member told The New York Times that the briefings were largely ignored by the group, so Teixeira, in frustration, started posting photos of actual classified materials. Those materials were later shared on other online plat forms, eventually attracting the at tention of federal authorities, who arrested him at gunpoint at his home Thursday. No evidence has emerged to suggest that Teixeira sought a par ticular change in how his country was handling the war between Russia and Ukraine, for instance. Rather, he seemed to want to share classified documents because he could, because it seemed like the rebellious thing to do, and because he naively trusted his pals on Dis cord to keep the classified materi als among themselves, according to others in the chat group. Restricting access to classified material might lead to fewer leaks, Miller said, but it also might cut off the flow of information, leading to intelligence failures that are far more dangerous than what any of the leakers have done. “That’s what happened before 9/11,” he said. “We were too locked down and couldn’t put together the pieces of the puzzle. As we look for a fix, we have to make sure we don’t make the same mistake.” At a Pentagon briefing Thurs day, Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, a spokesperson, addressed con cerns about Teixeira’s age, noting that the military routinely gives young people tremendous respon sibility. “Think about a young combat, you know, platoon sergeant, and the responsibility and trust that we put into those individuals to lead troops into combat,” he said. “You receive training and you will re ceive an understanding of the rules and requirements that come along with those responsibilities, and you’re expected to abide by those rules, regulations and responsibil ity. It’s called military discipline. And in certain cases, especially when it comes to sensitive informa tion, it also is about the law.”

Philipps, Russell, Fortin and Willis write for The New York Times. The Washington Post contributed to this report.

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The UC San Diego Health system reported spending $980 million on wages and benefits in its 201819 budget year; it spent $1.3 billion on the same categories in 202122.

“We’re not going to simply costcut our way out of this. We’re looking for new ways ... to transform our care.” Christopher Howard • Sharp president and CEO ment we are seeking would begin to address substan tially higher costs that UC’s nonprofit academic health centers, like many nation wide, are experiencing due to inflation of supply and equipment prices, rising la bor costs and increasing in terest rates at a time when large commercial insurers, such as Aetna, are delivering billions of dollars of profits each quarter,” the organiza tion said in a statement. A look at UC financial documents does produce significant sticker shock. In its 201819 budget year, UC San Diego Health reported that it spent $980 million on wages and benefits com pared with $1.3 billion in its mostrecent budget report for 202122. That’s an addi tional $367 million added in just three years. “Eight months in, we’re about $70 million off budget and I’d say the vast majority of it is staffing costs,” said Patty Maysent, chief execu tive officer of UC San Diego Health.

Financial disclosures to bondholders show similar situations at Scripps and Sharp. Both reported wage and benefit costs in the final three months of 2022 that were more than $100 million greater than they were in the same threemonth period of 2019. Annual reports show that labor costs were about 20 percent greater in 2022 than they were in 2019. A move toward “traveler” labor during the pandemic caused wages to swing wildly out of control, with some reporting paying staffing companies more than $300 per hour for con tract nurses. Sharp re ported that its expenditures on travelers increased from $18 million in 2019 to $97 mil lion in 2022. Chris Van Gorder, chief executive officer at Scripps, said in a recent email that the wage problem goes deeper. “I think many like to just blame travelers, but that’s just part of the problem,” Van Gorder said. “Like

everything in health care, it’s more complicated. “It’s premium pay, which is partially travelers, but also overtime and much larger annual increases for all staff than normal be cause the market moved sig nificantly due to the econo my (inflation) and market changes.” And, noted Christopher Howard, president and chief executive officer at Sharp, raises granted during the pandemic were not tempo rary. “You can’t take them back, so those are now the new normal and what, over time, has to happen is health care systems, hospitals, have to find ways to be as ef ficient and effective as they can in what they do,” How ard said. “When your cost for your team members has es calated to the extent we have realized, every tool in the tool chest has to come out to find ways to pay for that.” Add to that a loss of “Cares Act” funding during the COVID19 pandemic.

Sharp reported that it re ceived more than $200 mil lion in such funding over the past three years, but that revenue is no more. For Sharp, financial pres sures have spurred a deep look at operations, leading to the decision to shut down an existing home health divi sion, which is the reason for the 118 upcoming layoffs. While executives said the de cision to stop taking new pa tients into the program on March 29 has been under consideration for some time, analysis determined that “it is no longer operationally and financially feasible.” Existing clients, Sharp said in a state ment, will be transitioned “to other home health providers in our community.” Sharp has been working, like many others, to reduce the number of expensive shortterm contracts it has with traveling nurses and other health care workers. At the peak of the pan demic, said Brett McClain, Sharp’s executive vice presi dent and chief operating of

ficer, the organization was spending about $9 million extra per month on about 600 travelers. Today, he said, that number is down to about 150 and is expected to fall lower still. McClain said many have filtered back into staff jobs at wages that are higher than they were when they left but less than the cost of tempo rary workers. Travelers, Mc Clain noted, tend to work on threemonth contracts which don’t include benefits, and, even when hospitals were paying $300 per hour for their services, a significant portion of that cash went to the staffing companies who placed them in their gigs. “Some of it is these folks coming back and saying, ‘OK, now what’s the next step in my career gonna be? I’m not gonna go travel to Iowa or, you know, Chicago or wherever. I now want to come back to San Diego,’” McClain said. And yet, there is no expec tation that wages will return to levels similar to those seen before the pandemic. And hospitals have lost extra reve nue paid by the federal gov ernment to help defray costs caused by the pandemic. Some of the methods to cope with this new financial reality, Howard said, involve innovation. Sharp, for exam ple, just purchased two out patient surgery centers to help shift some procedures outside its hospitals, which cost more when patients stay overnight. And it is about to open a new innova tion center focused on find ing and disseminating new ways to operate more effi ciently while maintaining quality results. “We’re not going to simply costcut our way out of this,” Howard said. “We’re looking for new ways, new ventures, to transform our care.” And yet, health care pro viders nationwide note that private health insurance and government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid have not yet shown that they are willing to pay more in or der to close current financial gaps. “Inflation, in combina tion with cost increases and anemic increases in govern ment reimbursement and commercial payers, is cre ating a financial crisis,” Van Gorder said.

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FISCHER Six other lawsuits pending against him FROM A1 deputy’s victims, however, said county lawyers deliberately slow-walked resolutions in order to protect elected officials. “These cases are the poster children for the government’s willingness to waste millions in taxpayer money by delaying settlement for the sole purpose of giving political cover to the powers that be,” San Diego attorney Dan Gilleon said. “Since early 2018, we have attempted to resolve these cases for reasonable amounts,” he added. Gilleon said the county’s strategy of dragging out settlement negotiations has revictimized his clients and their families, which in turn has made them less willing to settle and further driven up the legal costs. “This mindset seems so embedded with the county, I think the only fix is to mandate the use of private-sector adjusters to make financially sound decisions, free of influence from politically minded officials,” Gilleon said. In 2017, San Diego County began receiving legal claims — allegations that must be submitted before a public agency can be sued — accusing Fischer of kissing, groping and in some cases stalking women who had called 911 for help or had been pulled over on minor traffic violations. The complaints from unrelated women differed in their details but contained a thread of consistency: A deputy responding to a woman’s call or pulling over a female driver had made inappropriate sexual comments or groped her. By November of that year, at least five women had leveled sexual misconduct allegations against Fischer. More complaints followed as The San Diego Union-Tribune and other news organizations picked up the story. For months, the Sheriff ’s Department said little more than that the case was under investigation and Fischer had been placed on administrative leave. In February 2018, by which point 14 different women had filed sexual-misconduct civil claims against the Sheriff’s Department, prosecutors formally charged Fischer with eight felonies and six misdemeanors. He pleaded not guilty to all charges and was allowed to remain free on $100,000 bail. “Mr. Fischer has a strong desire to go through this process to clear his name,”

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Former sheriff ’s deputy Richard Fischer is taken into custody in 2019 after being sentenced to 44 months in jail. “Unfortunately, you disgraced your uniform … And I don’t know if you get it. I can’t imagine what you were thinking,” Judge Daniel Goldstein said. criminal defense attorney Richard Pinckard said during the court appearance. Within months, county lawyers began settling some of the civil cases filed by Fischer’s victims. By May 2018, as more women were coming forward with additional allegations against the deputy, the county had resolved four cases for more than $900,000. As had become typical by then, county officials declined to comment on the payments. The claims kept coming. In July 2018, a Vista woman identified as T.D. said in a legal complaint that Fischer was among a group of deputies that responded to a 911 call from a group home. After the emergency was resolved, the lawsuit asserted, Fischer returned to the woman’s apartment adjacent to the group home and hugged and groped her against her will. He showed up again in the months that followed — and on one occasion sexually assaulted her, the suit said. “Inside, Fischer grabbed T.D. by one hand, pulled her into her bedroom” and forced oral sex on her, the complaint stated. “This rape occurred for about two minutes until Fischer suddenly stopped and said he had to leave.” T.D. settled her case for $1.2 million earlier this month. Another defendant identified as K.H. agreed to resolve her lawsuit this

Civil litigation against former deputy Richard Fischer San Diego County has paid more than $7 million to settle 18 lawsuits against the former sheriff’s deputy, who currently resides in a Vista jail cell. Amount

Case name

Status

T.D. v. Fischer

Settled

$1,200,000

K.H. v. Fischer

Settled

$750,000

L.R. v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

$522,115

S.H. v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

$490,000

K.P. v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

$466,250

P.S. v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

$460,000

Wendy Falsetto v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

$421,396

C.M. v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

$375,000

Jane Doe v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

$350,000

T.M. v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

$300,000

C.P. v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

$282,756

D.N. v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

$264,440

T.S. v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

$262,514

A.C. v. Fischer

Settled

$250,000

Jane Doe v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

$225,000

P.B. v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

$176,683

Eric Jacob v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

$150,000

D.F. v. Fischer, et al.

Settled

N.G. v. Fischer

Pending

A.H. v. Fischer

Pending

T.R. v. Fischer

Pending

A.W. v. Fischer

Pending

D.A. v. Fischer

Pending

M.Y. v. Fischer

Pending

$80,000

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was just conduct that was abhorrent to the appropriate behavior of a law enforcement official.” The criminal case took an unusual turn in 2020, when Fischer was quietly released from custody after just five months in jail. According to a sheriff ’s spokesperson at the time, jail officials were presented with a court order indicating that Fischer was due for release under a recalculation of his credits. In late 2021, after prosecutors realized the credits had been miscalculated, the District Attorney’s Office confirmed that Fischer was returned to jail in November 2021. But he was released again last April while a state appeals court examined the situation. The court denied Fischer’s appeal late last year, and he was again booked into custody in January. According to the Sheriff ’s Department, Fischer is now due to be released in December. Under former Sheriff Bill Gore, who resigned in midterm last year, the Sheriff ’s Department saw a spate of allegations of sexual misconduct by deputies beyond Fischer. Two years ago, former Deputy Earle Yamamoto was convicted of 16 criminal counts, including forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and lewd acts on a child. The same year, former Deputy Jaylen Fleer was sentenced to prison for committing illegal sex acts on a 14-year-old girl. In 2019, then-Deputy Juan Pascua was accused of propositioning a woman who was nine months pregnant while she was in sheriff ’s custody. The year before that, former Deputy Timothy Wilson was caught on security video grabbing the backside of a teen girl at a fast-food restaurant. Also in 2018, Assistant Sheriff Richard Miller was allowed to retire after twice being accused of sexual harassment.

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BOSTON REMEMBERS DEADLY MARATHON BOMBING A DECADE LATER Memorial held to mark tragedy’s 10th anniversary BY MICHAEL CASEY BOSTON

With a bagpiper playing “The Bells of Dunblane” and a few runners looking on, families of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the 10th anniversary of the tragedy early Sat urday by slowly walking to gether to the memorial sites near the finish line and lay ing wreaths. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who was making her first run for City Council when the bombing happened, joined the somber procession along with Gov. Maura Healey. At each memorial site — marked with three stone pillars — they stood with the families in silence. Thousands, including many marathon runners in their blue and yellow wind breakers and several former Boston Red Sox players,

came out to a second ceremo ny Saturday afternoon near the finish line. Church bells were rung and the Boston City Singers and Boston Pops performed “Amazing Grace” and “America the Beautiful.” The 127th running of the Boston Marathon takes place Monday. “The day never leaves me,” said Jennifer Black, 71, a Realtor from Loveland, Ohio, who was watching the morning procession and re counted how her race in 2013 was cut short due to the bombing and talked about those who died in the attack. She is back in Boston to run this year. “So much loss, so much pain all because of hate,” she continued, tears streaming down her face. “We have to stand up for people. We have to look out for each other, and we have to pray for these families every day.” Standing next to Black, Karen Russell, of Boston, said she felt it was important to witness the procession, especially on the 10th anni versary.

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Jennifer Black, 71, speaks Saturday about her experi ence during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. “The families are still suf fering even though we’ve gone on,” Russell said. “There are a lot of people that got hurt that day and that pain will never go away. ... I feel it’s important to be here to let them know we still care.” Three people were killed and more than 260 were in jured when two pressure cooker bombs went off at the marathon finish line. Killed

were Lu Lingzi, a 23yearold Boston University graduate student from China; Krystle Campbell, a 29yearold restaurant manager from Medford, Mass.; and 8year old Martin Richard, who had gone to watch the marathon with his family. During a tense, fourday manhunt that paralyzed the city, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer

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Sean Collier was shot dead in his car. Boston Police Officer Dennis Simmonds also died a year after he was wounded in a confrontation with the bombers. Police captured a blood ied and wounded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston sub urb of Watertown, where he was hiding in a boat parked in a backyard, hours after his brother died. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, had been in a gunfight with police and was run over by his brother as he fled. “I think we’re all still liv ing with those tragic days 10 years ago,” Bill Evans, the former Boston Police Com missioner, said recently. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death and much of the attention, in re cent years, has been around his bid to avoid being ex ecuted. A federal appeals court is considering Tsarnaev’s lat est bid to avoid execution. A threejudge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Ap peals in Boston heard argu ments in January in the 29

ASSOCIATED PRESS A forensic anthropolo gist believes investigators are a step closer to identify ing victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre after six sets of remains exhumed in 2021 and 2022 had yielded DNA profiles that could be traced to living relatives. Although the six bodies associated with the 19 sur names are not confirmed massacre victims, nor do they show signs of trauma such as gunshot wounds, identifying them would pro vide a possible road map to the most likely areas of the cemetery to search for vic tims, according to Phoebe Stubblefield. Identifying the remains would help lead to death cer tificates that contain the date of death, indicating when the person was buried, said Stubblefield, a member of the team that conducted excavations in the cemetery the past three years.

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COAST GUARD JOINS SEARCH FOR SAILORS The U.S. Coast Guard is assisting the Mexican navy in its search for three Ameri can sailors who were headed to San Diego but have been missing for more than a week, federal officials said. Kerry and Frank O’Brien and William Gross were last heard from on April 4 near Mazatlán, Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a news release. The three men re portedly left the city on a 44 foot La Fitte called Ocean Bound with plans to stop in Cabo San Lucas, but there are no reports that they ar rived. Search and rescue coor dinators have contacted marinas throughout Baja California, but the vessel has not been located, federal of ficials said. Urgent marine broadcasts have also been issued over very high fre quency marine radio re questing sailors be on the lookout for the missing group and their boat. Anyone with information about the disappearance was asked to contact the U.S. Coast Guard’s search and rescue coordination center at (510) 4373701. LYNDSAY WINKLEY U-T

tersection of Columbia and West Hawthorn streets, po lice said. An unknown man driving a gray, fourdoor Nissan Frontier made a left from West Hawthorn onto Co lumbia, struck the woman and then fled, according to police. The pickup had a 4X4 de cal on the rear quarter panel. The driver did not stop to assist the woman and was last seen headed south on Columbia, police said. The woman was taken to a hospi tal with serious injuries. Video of the crash shot by OnScene TV shows para medics loading the woman, dressed in what appeared to be medical scrubs, into an ambulance. OnScene re ported she was a nurse who had come home after a night shift at a hospital. Anyone with information about the crash was asked to call the San Diego Police De partment at (619) 5312000 or Crime Stoppers anony mously at (888) 5808477. LYNDSAY WINKLEY U-T

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San Diego police are ask ing the public to help find the hitandrun driver who struck a pedestrian in Little Italy, leaving the woman with serious injuries. The victim was hit shortly before 6:30 a.m. Thursday while walking west in a crosswalk at the in

A woman was arrested in Fallbrook on suspicion of identity and mail theft after being found with hundreds of unused gift cards and stolen mail in her car, the Sheriff ’s Department said Friday. A deputy pulled the wom an over for driving with an expired registration near the intersection of Tecolote Drive and Pala Lake Drive on April 8, sheriff ’s officials

said in a statement. During the stop, the dep uty determined the woman was wanted on warrants out of Orange and Riverside counties and went to arrest her, officials said. A subsequent search of her vehicle turned up hun dreds of unused gift cards from Walmart, Target, Ralphs, Bath & Body Works and other brands, along with a ledger listing gift card bar codes and correspond ing PIN codes, according to the Sheriff ’s Department. The discovery is likely tied to a gift card scam in which thieves steal the gift cards and record the bar code and access codes, offi cials said. The cards are then returned to the store for pur chase and monitored by the scammers. If money is add ed to the cards, the thieves can use the access codes to steal the funds. Deputies also found stolen mail from addresses in Carlsbad, Fallbrook, Encini tas, Escondido, Ramona and San Marcos in the vehicle. The woman was booked into the Vista Detention Fa cility on the outstanding warrants and suspicion of identity theft, conspiracy to commit crime, committing a crime while out on bail and possessing burglary tools. Anyone who believes they are a victim or has infor mation about the thefts can call the Sheriff ’s Depart ment’s nonemergency line at (858) 5655200, or anony mously report the tip to Crime Stoppers at (888) 580 8477.

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BY MICHAEL CASEY Several cars on a freight train derailed and caught fire early Saturday in rural Maine, officials and the train operator said. Three work ers were hurt, but their in juries were said not to be life threatening. The Maine Forest Serv ice said in a statement that three locomotive engines and six cars carrying lumber and electrical wiring went off the track at about 8:30 a.m. in Sandwich Academy Grant Township in Somer set County. They derailed into a wooded area and started a small forest fire, which emer gency responders contained and were monitoring, the service said. The three rail

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COAST

INLAND

Today: Some sun.

Along the coast can have low clouds and patchy fog to start the day; otherwise, it will be partly to mostly sunny across the county today. Dry conditions will continue at night with partly cloudy skies. Low clouds can develop at night at the coast.

Today: Partly sunny.

Today: Mostly sunny.

62° 54°

71°

51°

66° 45°

90° 59°

High

Low

High

Low

Monday: 61/56 Monday: 70/53 Low clouds breaking for some sun. Low clouds, then some sun; cool.

Low

Monday: 63/40 Partial sunshine.

Tuesday: 62/55 Some sun; fog early in the day.

Tuesday: 67/49 Tuesday: 59/36 Cool with times of clouds and sun. Partly sunny; breezy in the p.m.

Tuesday: 79/49 Sunshine; breezy in the afternoon.

Wednesday: 62/52 Partly sunny.

Wednesday: 67/48 Partly sunny and remaining cool.

Wednesday: 57/41 Cool with clouds and sunshine.

Wednesday: 78/57 Mostly sunny.

Thursday: 67/54 Mostly sunny.

Thursday: 79/50 Mostly sunny.

Thursday: 68/42 Mostly sunny and milder.

Thursday: 86/63 Plenty of sunshine.

AIR QUALITY INDEX High index levels impair breathing.

Temecula 73/49/s 77/49/0.00

0-50 51-100 101-150 151-200 201-300 301+ Moderate

Unhealthy, Sensitive

Unhealthy

Yesterday

Today

Main offender

61 46 51 54 47 51 55 49

67 53 54 51 48 54 57 50

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Alpine Downtown El Cajon Miramar North coast North inland Otay/border South Bay

Very Unhealthy

Hazard

RIVERSIDE COUNTY SAN DIEGO COUNTY San Onofre

Oceanside

Wind (am) . . . . . . 6 knots NW Wind (pm) . . . . . 9 knots WNW Waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ft. Swells . . . . . . . . . . . SSW 2 ft.

Offshore Baja California

Wind (am) . . . . . 12 knots NW Wind (pm) . . . . . 15 knots NW Waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ft. Swells . . . . . . . . . . . SSW 4 ft.

Cosmos

New

First

Full

Last

Apr 27

May 5

May 12

Rise

Del Mar

Lake Hodges Rancho Bernardo

63/51/pc 65/52/0.00

4:29 am 8:20 am 10:49 am 6:13 am 4:03 am

Moon Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn

3:52 pm 10:35 pm 1:14 am 7:00 pm 3:10 pm

Today Mon. Tue.

High 7:05am 8:06pm 7:57am 8:35pm 8:46am 9:04pm

Ht. 5.5’ 5.3’ 5.6’ 5.8’ 5.5’ 6.2’

Low Ht. 1:11am 1.5’ 1:42pm -0.7’ 1:59am 0.7’ 2:17pm -0.5’ 2:43am 0.0’ 2:50pm -0.2’

Mission Bay 62/54/pc na/na

San Diego

Lemon 64/55/pc Grove 65/54/0.00

65/49/pc 67/51/pc 65/49/0.00 69/52/0.00

Point Loma

Coronado

64/54/pc 60/54/pc 63/51/0.00 na/na

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Northern

n Crescent City

Eureka Redding Santa Rosa Ukiah

A couple of showers at the coast this afternoon; partly sunny elsewhere.

Sierra Times of clouds and sun today.

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0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

59/34/pc 77/42/s 55/32/s 56/31/s 63/36/pc 66/38/s

49/27/c 71/40/pc 47/30/c 49/28/pc 55/34/c 60/34/pc

Bakersfield Chico Fresno Sacramento Stockton Visalia Yuba City

77/46 72/45 78/48 69/46 72/42 77/43 72/45

0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

75/51/s 70/48/pc 76/49/s 69/46/s 68/45/s 76/47/s 72/46/s

70/46/pc 61/44/c 69/46/pc 61/44/c 60/44/c 70/43/s 61/44/c

Napa Oakland San Jose

66/43 61/49 59/50 63/48

0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

67/43/pc 62/48/pc 61/49/pc 64/47/pc

60/41/c 58/48/c 58/50/c 61/47/c

Big Sur Monterey Salinas San Luis Obi. Santa Barbara Santa Cruz

68/38 56/47 65/46 66/42 65/46 72/42

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59/48/pc 60/48/pc 58/47/pc 64/44/c 66/51/pc 58/46/pc

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82/53/pc 92/60/pc 93/72/pc 92/62/pc 74/46/pc

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69/51/pc 59/34/pc 92/59/pc 70/53/pc 88/59/pc 72/45/pc 73/49/pc 59/50/pc

Partly sunny today; pleasant in the south. Rather cloudy tonight. A shower in places Monday.

Bay Area

n San Francisco

Coast Partly sunny today; pleasant in the inland valleys. Mainly clear tonight.

Desert

n Barstow

Mostly sunny today. Partly cloudy tonight. Mostly sunny Monday.

Tomorrow hi/lo/sky 51/40/r 51/41/r 58/43/sh 60/43/c 58/40/sh

Alturas Bishop Lake Tahoe Mammoth n Susanville Yosemite

Valley

Areas of low clouds, then sun today; breezy in the afternoon.

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Blythe Death Valley Needles n Palmdale

Southern Mostly sunny today. Partly cloudy tonight. Partly sunny Monday.

Yesterday’s extremes 91° MEXICO Today

Acapulco Cancun n Ensenada n Guadalajara La Paz Mazatlan

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Average 0.41” 9.03”

Actual 0.10” 13.73” 6.07”

70° 60°

3/31

4/15 Actual high/low

Polluted waters to avoid.

Ocean Beach - Dog Beach: San Diego River outlet to 300 feet south Imperial Beach Shoreline: The ocean shoreline from the south end of Seacoast Drive to Carnation Ave.

M E X IC O

Tecate

Mission Bay: North Cove - Vacation Isle, 150 feet each side of the southern drain

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Tijuana

Coronado Shoreline: The ocean shoreline from Avenida Lunar to North Beach 5 miles

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72 HOURS INSIDE THE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY

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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ..................................................................3 MONDAY ...........................................................................49 How did we get here and where are we headed? ..........................5 County jail is placed in tough role as provider .............................7 Schools ramping up mental health support for youth ...................8

TUESDAY.........................................................................914 How does behavioral health court work? ...................................10 Shifting to chronic care instead of crisis care .............. ..............11 Care court designed to expand treatment .................................14

WEDNESDAY ................................................................1519 County to unwind law enforcement from mental health cases ......15 Vets have high rate of mental health issues ..............................16 Homeless people are focus of programs ...................................17

EPILOGUE ..........................................................................20 PERSONAL ESSAYS....................................................2124 BACKSTORY .......................................................................25 EDITORIAL..........................................................................25 To view this coverage online and watch its related videos, go to sandiegouniontribune.com/72hours or scan this code with your phone. ON THE COVER: Mental health associate Jose Romo stands guard at a door broken the day before by a patient at Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital in San Diego on Monday. K.C. ALFRED UT TOP: Emergency Services dispatcher John Buie fields calls on Monday at the Sheriff ’s Department Communications Center in San Diego. Dispatchers can be flooded with requests for help, and it’s not always clear if mental health is a factor.

RIGHT: Ketema Ross rests while waiting for lunch to be served on Monday at San Diego’s Connection 2 Community Clubhouse, which offers services for people with mental health concerns.

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72 HOURS INSIDE THE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY

SAM HODGSON UT

an Diego County has a mental health crisis. It’s on the streets and in the jails, in classrooms and suburban homes. The problem isn’t new, but only in the past few years has it burst into the public consciousness in a way that’s forced elected leaders to pledge more and more time and money toward a fix. Yet, by any metric, the situation is worsening. Over the last three decades, the rate at which adults were placed on 72hour mental health holds has nearly doubled. For kids, the number has increased almost tenfold. Mental health calls for service to law enforcement have spiked by more than 120 percent since 2009, creating backlogs at all levels. During a threeday period last year — April 2527 — people sometimes stayed in crisis stabilization centers beyond a 24hour limit set by the state because there were no hospital beds available. The same went for emergency rooms. At one point, there were more than 40 psychiatric patients waiting in ERs for a mental health facility to take them. Rady Children’s Hospital always had at least 10 kids in a similar situation. Things were hardly better in hospitals. During the threeday period, there were 742 psychiatric beds available in the county, and during this time many facilities reported few, if any, empty beds. And an empty bed wasn’t always an available bed. More than a quarter of the 60 spaces at the county’s psychiatric hospital stayed open during the period because the facility lacked enough employ ees to take more people, especially as some patients needed one onone attention every hour of the day, county officials said. Yet the region has no comprehensive realtime system for track ing when behavioral health beds are available, making it nearly im possible to know when the county teeters at capacity. Some patients ready to leave the hospital may not be able to live on their own, but residential care facilities that provide meals and dispense medication have been disappearing. Over the past dec ade, the county has effectively lost 68 places that had supplied more than 500 beds, state data show. That sometimes leaves people stranded. About half the beds at the county hospital as well as Scripps Mercy in Hillcrest were occu pied by people ready but unable to leave because there was no where for them to go for further treatment. At the end of last April, one person in Sharp Mesa Vista had been there 242 days. Scripps had a patient for 530 days. Another patient at the Psychiatric Hospital of San Diego County hit 711 days. Those who do get out sometimes enter a seemingly endless cycle of confrontations with law enforcement. There are clinicians who help officers field some of the tens of thousands of mental health calls that come in each year, but they’re often not available and the county doesn’t track how often those psychiatric teams can’t respond. Unsurprisingly, the largest provider of mental health care in the county isn’t a hospital system or a nonprofit or a crisis center. It’s jails. More than a third of people jailed last April were on psychotro pic medication for a mental health disorder. But what all this looks like on an individual level — between the people struggling every day to give and get help — is often hidden, which is why The San Diego UnionTribune spent much of the past two years working to pull back the curtain.

72 HOURS STAFF Project editors........................................................... Tarcy Connors, Dana Littlefield Lead writers ................................... Blake Nelson, Teri Figueroa, Lyndsay Winkley Reporters ... Emily Alvarenga, Andrew Dyer, Teri Figueroa, David Hernandez, Dana Littlefied, Jeff McDonald, Tammy Murga, Blake Nelson, Alex Riggins, Paul Sisson, Deborah Sullivan Brennan, Gary Warth, Lyndsay Winkley Photojournalists........................................................... K.C. Alfred, Nelvin C. Cepeda, Eduardo Contreras, Adriana Heldiz, Sam Hodgson, Meg McLaughlin, Denis Poroy, Ana Ramirez, Alejandro Tamayo Photo editor .................................................................................................... Roger Wilson Video editor......................................................................................................... John Kelley Photography director ............................................................................... Sam Hodgson Graphics artist...................................................................................... Michelle Gilchrist Graphics director ...................................................................................... Cristina Byvik Personal commentary editors .................................. Laura Castañeda, Matt Hall, Tania Navarro, Chris Reed Copy editors .............................................................................. David Clary, Lora Cicalo Online design art director .................................................................. Gloria Orbegozo Digital creative director ........................................................... Michael James Rocha NELVIN C. CEPEDA UT

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‘She has knives in her hands. I thought she was going to kill me.’

MONDAY

n anMonday afternoon in Spring Valley, a man called 911.911. a Monday afternoon in Spring Valley, a man called He’d been out driving when he spotted a homeless woman by a bus stop. He pulled over, hazard lights flashing, to protect her from traffic. “She’s out of her mind,” he told the dispatcher. The woman could be heard yelling in the background, her words unintelligible. “Please hurry,” the man said. He gave the woman’s age, race and clothing.

“What color is her hair?” the dispatcher asked. “It’s full of dirt.” He asked if any mental health clinicians were available. None were. “Do you know her name, sir?” the dispatcher asked. “She’s my daughter.” San Diego County, like many places nationwide, faces a mental health crisis. But what that crisis looks like minute by minute is rarely seen. For 72 hours in April 2022, nearly two dozen journalists with The San Diego UnionTribune spread across the county to follow clinicians and police, patients and relatives, jail guards and 911 dispatchers. The threeday period mirrors one of the mental health care system’s main

ANA RAMIREZ UT

After she was arrested, Crystal Jenkins was given the option of joining a program for people with serious mental illnesses. If she committed to therapy, living in a group home, curfews and taking medication, she could stay out of jail.

tools: The 72hour hold, which is when police or mental health professionals hospitalize someone against their will if they’re believed to be a threat to them selves, a risk to others or “gravely disabled.” The reporting found a system overwhelmed at every step. While reforms are under way, some will likely take years to fully implement, and it’s not clear how they will be paid for. Reporters received unprecedented access to psychiatric facilities and con

TOP: In the early morning hours on Monday, wails can be heard near the corner of F Street and Seventh Avenue downtown. Nobody’s visible. Just a howl, then silence.

ducted a firstofitskind analysis of yearsworth of data. Many of the following scenes were witnessed firsthand. Others are based on interviews with partici pants and from court, health care and law enforcement records. At the start of this 72hour period, there was no way to predict that a woman hearing voices would repeatedly thrust knives into her own neck as her brother tried to pull her from a secondstory window. Or that another woman’s recovery would go so well that a courtroom full of people would burst into applause. Or that a young graduate student would be released from a mental health facility Monday only to find himself in handcuffs by Wednesday, charged with at tempted murder of a police officer. Some stories don’t have a clear resolution, such as the woman at the Spring Valley bus stop: While her father knew she wasn’t taking her schizophrenia med ication, it’s unclear if she ever got help. But any three days could have been picked, because these days are every day.

WARNING This story includes descriptions of suicide. If you’re struggling with thoughts of hurting yourself, call the national crisis hotline at 988.

7:15 A.M.: Crystal Jenkins bows her head. Heavenly Father, thank you for waking me up today. I ask for your protection around my family. The 51yearold doesn’t live with her 11yearold daughter. Maybe someday. In her National City group home, she spreads cream cheese and jelly on a bagel. Jenkins takes a bite. Then she pops a single white tablet into her mouth. Around her, roommates pour cere al. The place can get crowded. Yet it beats jail. Two years earlier, around the time the pandemic shutdown began, Jenk ins heard voices. You’re going to be murdered, they said. Your daughter will be molested. She grabbed a knife, left her apart ment and confronted a neighbor. The neighbor called police. Jenkins was arrested and charged with brandishing a knife, a misde meanor, and making a criminal threat, a felony. Before the case was resolved, her public defender told her about Behav ioral Health Court. If she was willing to commit to ther apy, living in a group home, curfews and taking medication, she could stay out of jail. The program is only offered to peo ple with serious mental illnesses, like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, which Jenkins has. Since the court launched in 2009, more than 300 have participated. Nearly half didn’t make it through. Jenkins is now at the halfway point, and tomorrow a judge will decide if she can move to the next level. If Jenkins advances, she’ll be one step closer to her daughter. 8:30 A.M.: Eugene Wheeldon drives to the airport. In some ways, Wheel don is an oldschool beat cop. He makes daily rounds and greets people by name. The difference is, Wheeldon is the Harbor Police De partment’s homeless outreach officer, and his residents live on the street. Inside Terminal 1, by the baggage claim, Wheeldon spots the man he’s

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The number of mental health holds placed on children in the county in ﬁ scal 2021

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The rate of holds placed on children for every 1,000 residents in the county in ﬁ scal 2021

ADRIANA HELDIZ UT

looking for: A big guy in sweatpants. The officer approaches. “I’m tired of being homeless,” the man says. This is progress. Wheeldon asks if he has thought about hurting any body. “I feel like I’m going to kill myself,” the man says. That answer changes things. Section 5150 of California law de tails when people can legally be held against their will without committing a crime. Because of that statute, a 72 hour hold is known as a 5150, and it can be used for suicide threats. Wheeldon places the man in hand cuffs, needing two pairs to hold his large arms. He’s not under arrest, but handcuffs are standard. The rate that people are placed on 72hour holds locally has increased sharply over the past two decades. More than 10,200 holds were placed on adults in San Diego County in fiscal 2021, according to state data. The program launched in 1995 to help officers handle mental health calls, and the county funds 72 clinician positions. Depending on the day, nearly all clinicians might be working. At times, the number could be as low as 25. Wheeldon drives the man to the Midway District and parks outside the Psychiatric Hospital of San Diego County. A staff member is waiting to open the door. 9 A.M.: Brian Cardoza heads to work. Cardoza has been a nurse for decades, and most of that time has been spent partnered with police as a member of a Psychiatric Emergency Response Team, which most people know as PERT. The program launched in 1995 to help officers handle mental health calls. While the county funds 72 clini cian positions, only about half that number may be on duty on any given day. Cardoza never knows if there will be enough. MIDMORNING : Elvie Del Rosario feels a squeeze on her shoulder. It’s her 33yearold son, Steven. He says he’s going to the store. The Del Rosario family lives in a twostory home in Chula Vista.

Steven just moved back this month, after working as a software en gineer and web developer in Riverside County. He’s been having trouble con centrating. Elvie doesn’t know what’s wrong. Steven recently woke her in the middle of the night and asked to go to the hospital, but the trip didn’t hap pened. Her son leaves the house. 9:50 A.M.: At the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department dispatch center, in Kearny Mesa, a school principal calls 911 to report a suicidal student. PERT responds to the North County facility. The teen is taken to a hospital.

BLAKE NELSON UT

Brian Cardoza has spent most of his nursing career as part of a Psychiatric Emergency Response Team. As a PERT clinician, he works with law enforcement on mental health calls.

Adults placed on 72-hour holds Adults were placed on more than 10,000 72-hour psychiatric holds across San Diego County in fiscal year 2020-21. The rate has nearly doubled over the last three decades. 60 per 10,000

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10 A.M.: Inside a Vista strip mall, Kathy Shoemaker looks through a window. She sees a large room filled with recliners. Men and women hud dle under blankets, and some watch a television on the wall. The space is a crisis stabilization center, which is like an urgent care for people having a breakdown. Anyone can come any day. Many were brought in by law enforcement on 5150s, and nurses will evaluate who needs to go to a locked hospital unit. Drawings from patients line the walls. One person wrote, “My family thinking I’m crazy is the biggest barri er.” Shoemaker is the chief clinical offi cer for Exodus Recovery Inc., which runs the facility on behalf of the county. They currently have a dozen peo ple. State rules say nobody is sup posed to stay in the stabilization cen ter for more than 24 hours. Shoemaker knows four who have already stayed past the legal limit. There are just not enough hospital beds to take them. MIDMORNING: In a Del Mar hotel, Yuhao Du calls his mother. “I don’t want to study in the States anymore,” Du says. “I want to go home.” This would be a major change. Du grew up in China, where he fell in love with physics. He applied for a student visa and moved to the United States in 2015. Four years later, he graduated from the University of Cali

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Patients recline in chairs at Exodus Recovery in Vista. The facility is like an urgent care for people in a mental health crisis. Many were brought in by law enforcement on 5150s, and nurses will evaluate who needs to go to a locked hospital unit.

Yuhao Du, who left China years ago to study at UC San Diego, had spent time at various mental health facilities.

HOW DID WE GET HERE AND WHERE ARE WE HEADED?

SANDY HUFFAKER U-T

fornia San Diego with two bachelor’s degrees. He’s now 25 and in a physics graduate program at the same uni versity. But on the Chinese app WeChat, he tells his mother he doesn’t feel safe. He doesn’t say he was released ear lier today from a mental health facility. Du has checked into several of them since March, according to his at torney. One month Du was in and out at least four times, and he was diag nosed with schizophrenia. He recently called 911 and asked to return to China. Friends have been trying to con tact Du’s mom. They want to tell her something’s wrong. 10:12 A.M.: San Diego Police De partment dispatchers work on the fourth floor of the downtown head quarters. A 911 caller reports a potentially suicidal woman downtown. PERT heads out.

RUNNING TALLY:

8 5150 calls have been logged by this time.*

10:30 A.M.: Cyra Mabalot learns she has an empty bed. This can be a good thing. Mabalot runs the Fancor Guest Home in El Cajon, an adult residential care facility. People come to her when they’re well enough to leave a hospital but not stable enough to, say, cook their own food. If someone leaves, it can be because they’re ready for inde pendent living. The man who left Monday was not ready. During the night, residents heard screaming. Later, glass shattered in a bathroom. The man ran off, then came back. Police took him away. Mabalot’s surprised officers took him at all. Sometimes it feels like offi cers look for every excuse not to take somebody. Among first responders, a call that doesn’t quite qualify for a hold is dubbed a 5149½. Regardless, an open bed is a pre cious commodity. In Mabalot’s office is a stack of names, and every one needs a place to stay. Once she lets the world know there’s a vacancy, she says she can get 20 to 30 calls a day from caseworkers, begging for the spot. She needs to make a decision soon.

San Diego County reached an inflection point around mental health care in 2018, when TriCity Medical Center closed its 18bed psychiatric unit at the Oceanside hospital.

SANDY HUFFAKER FOR THE U-T

Yuhao Du’s mother, Xiuqin Li (right), received a message from her son saying he did not feel safe. She didn’t know that he had recently been released from a mental health facility.

“I don’t want to study in the States anymore. I want to go home.” Yuhao Du

It also put a spotlight on the fragility of the region’s system of care for people with urgent mental health needs. Many people picked up on temporary, involuntary holds in North County had to be transported to other alreadyfull facilities, taking law enforcement officers off their beats for hours.

Though there has been some investment in increasing bed space in locked hospital units, there is an evengreater focus on creating more places for people to live and pursue longterm recovery after intensive treatment. SAM HODGSON U-T

A woman in Vista dials 911 and tells a dispatcher at the sheriff ’s communications center in San Diego that she’s suicidal. But when deputies get to her apartment, the woman says she’s OK.

Children placed on 72-hour holds Children up to age 17 were placed on nearly 2,700 72-hour psychiatric holds across San Diego County in fiscal year 2020-21, a rate more than 1.5 times that of the California. FY 2020-21

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11:17 A.M.: A 14yearold at a San Diego middle school threatens to gouge out her classmates’ eyes. Staff take tacks and nails from the girl.

11:34 A.M.: A student in San Diego’s Grant Hill neighborhood has a his tory of depression and anxiety, a caller says. She just used a piece of glass to cut herself 16 times. Officers are still busy where the man jumped from the bridge.

The decision surfaced a broad community conversation already under way among advocates, health providers and the county government, which is legally re sponsible for providing behavioral health care services to the region’s 1 million MediCal recipients.

Since then, the public has acted at the ballot box, electing leaders who have increased funding and engaged in a long term rethinking of how mental health care is provided.

11:16 A.M.: Callers say someone’s about to jump off the San DiegoCo ronado Bridge. Four units are en route, but PERT isn’t available. One team is still downtown.

11:19 A.M.: Eight officers are now at the bridge. Three people report a man has already jumped.

Directors said the closure was necessary because of expensive federal upgrade requirements and staffing difficulties.

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It is a far cry from where the region was in 1995 when the county Board of Supervi sors outsourced mental health care serv ices in the hopes of saving money. That situation led the county to spend millions purchasing and renovating its current mental health hospital on Rose crans Street in San Diego. About 37,000 Californians lived in state run facilities in 1955, but that number dropped to 8,531 individuals in just five facilities as of 2020, according to the California Department of State Hospitals. Though it was never home to a state hospital, San Diego built its first mental health care facility in Hillcrest in the late 1950s after the closures. In 1963, the Mental Health Services Act called for 1,500 community mental health centers to provide a wide range of serv ices that could pick up the slack. However, according to a 2021 study in the American Journal of Psychiatry, “states built approx imately half” of the centers that the act envisioned. Without enough facilities to meet the demand, the report concludes, “care often fell to families, friends and associates,” and “those without homes often ended up on the streets, with many entering an institutional circuit of acute care hospi tals, jails, prisons, and forensic facilities.” PAUL SISSON U-T

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Therapist Victoria Sahagun (center) and community outreach worker Shawn Keating (right) offer assistance to people near the Carlsbad Village Station on Wednesday. Both are members of a Mobile Crisis Response Team.

COUNTY JAIL IS PLACED IN TOUGH ROLE AS PROVIDER

NOON: Two 5150 calls in San Diego are waiting for somebody to arrive. AFTERNOON : For months, Ange lina Juarez has been hearing voices. The 33yearold believes people are coming to hurt her. Juarez lives in a Lincoln Park con dominium with her mother, sister and brother. Her family says she was raped as a teenager, which pushed her to drink. She recently went through rehab. In a journal Juarez wrote, “Why can’t I seem to get a break? Every time I try, my demons awake.” Juarez tells her family: If someone is going to take my life, it’s going to be me.

17 5150 calls have been logged by this time.

12:30 P.M.: Elvie Del Rosario opens her front door in Chula Vista. Police are on her porch. Del Rosario thinks she knows why they’ve come. She asks if they’re fol lowing up on an identity theft report she’d filed. Officers say it’s about her son. Steven had told her he was going to the store. But as soon as Del Rosario hears his name, she starts to cry. The police say Steven just jumped from the Coronado Bridge.

In San Diego County, about one in every three people in Sheriff’s Department custody is on prescribed medication to treat a mental illness, making the county jail the largest mental health provider in the region. DENIS POROY FOR THE U-T

An external view of the San Diego Central Jail downtown. More than a third of people locked up in April were on psychotropic medication for a mental health disorder, officials said.

The result has been a stunning growth in both the jail population and the number of suicide attempts, overdoses and deaths in sheriff’s facilities. In 2021, a record 18 people died in San Diego County jails, many of whom had a history of mental illness. In 2022, 19 people died in sheriff’s custody, and one man died hours after he was released from county custody.

1:30 P.M.: A principal reports a high school student in San Ysidro who says he wants to die.

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2 P.M.: Six 5150s are holding in San Diego. 2 P.M.: Fadi Nicolas isn’t nervous when the interview begins. The doctor is behind his desk at Sharp Mesa Vista, San Diego’s largest private psychiatric hospital. Framed diplomas hang on his wall, charting his rise to chief medical officer at Sharp Behavioral Health. Sitting across from him is a woman in her 30s. Have you seen a psychiatrist re cently? Nicolas asks. You cannot ask these questions, the woman says. What does your husband do? Nico las asks. This is top secret, she says. The woman was brought in by wor ried relatives. The husband says she’s delusional and won’t take her medi cation, even after stays at two psychi atric units. In the next room, Nicolas’ assistant hears the conversation going no where. She walks into the office and tells Nicolas he has a phone call. This isn’t true. But it gives the doc tor an excuse to leave the room. Out of earshot, Nicolas picks up a phone. I need a silent code, he says. Word is quietly passed: A team is needed at Nicolas’ office. The doctor walks back in. I’m going to keep you here a few days, he tells the woman. He opens a door, revealing more than a dozen peo ple. The woman dives for her bag. Nicolas swears to himself. She’s got a gun, he thinks. Staffers grab the woman’s arms. She starts yelling. You can’t do this, she says. I need a lawyer. Nicolas can hear her voice fade as they walk away. He checks her bag. No gun. Just diapers. 2 P.M.: In Rancho San Diego, Melinda Wollitz waits to hear from her son.

It is a responsibility illsuited to depart ment officials — and rankandfile depu ties — who are expert law enforcers but not so skilled in recognizing mental illness or differentiating between crimi nality and psychosis.

The problem of incarcerating rather than treating mentally ill people has been recognized for years, but policymakers have been slow to implement meaningful changes to the criminal justice system. BLAKE NELSON U-T

Fadi Nicolas is chief medical officer at Sharp Mesa Vista, San Diego’s largest private psychiatric hospital. He sometimes must decide whether to hold somebody against their will.

Mental health in San Diego County jails About a third of prisoners were on some kind of psychiatric medication in 2022, up from about 15 percent in 2006. An even greater proportion — more than half — of people in jail were receiving mental health services in 2022. That's up from about 20 percent two decades ago. September 2022

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“We have created conditions that make criminal behavior all but inevitable for many of our brothers and sisters who are mentally ill,” the study concluded. “In stead of treating them, we are impris oning them.” Local policymakers are trying to address the medical and mental health needs inside San Diego County jails. The correc tional health budget has climbed past $100 million a year, roughly 10 percent of the Sheriff’s Department spending. But institutionally, the department has been slow to improve. Officials have long considered the people they incarcerate to be the problem — not so much the poli cies and practices inside county jails.

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“The largest contributor to jail deaths is not the actions or inactions of the sheriff, but rather a jail population in which a high percentage of inmates have serious mental illness, and a jail population that engages in extremely selfdestructive behavior,” thenSheriff Bill Gore said in 2019, in response to a UnionTribune investigation that disclosed the high number of deaths in custody. Gore retired early in 2022 — on the same day state auditors reported that condi tions in San Diego County jails were so dangerous that legislation was needed to force reforms on the department. JEFF MCDONALD U-T

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At their El Cajon home on Monday, Bruce and Melinda Wollitz sit next to photos of their son, Marshall, from when he was a boy. He’s long struggled with mental illness, and his parents haven’t heard from him since he got out of jail months ago.

She doesn’t have much hope he’ll call. “The last time I saw Marshall was Oct. 9, after he was released from jail,” she says. That was more than six months ago. As a kid, Marshall excelled in school, but he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and severe depres sion, his parents say. They repeatedly called the police, and Marshall was placed on multiple 5150s. Three days would pass, he’d get out and the cycle would repeat. He’s now 27. As part of his parole, he was supposed to call his parents once a week. He hasn’t called once. Wollitz has no idea where he is. She wonders if the system can do anything for her son. “You can’t cure somebody in 72 hours,” she says.

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3:30 P.M.: Max Disposti often doesn’t want to call the police. When somebody has a breakdown at the North County LGBTQ Re source Center, where Disposti is the executive director, just the presence of a gun might push somebody over the edge. The county’s new Mobile Crisis Re sponse Teams, however, feel like an improvement. MCRT was pioneered in 2021 by county officials and Exodus Recovery, the group overseeing the crisis center. Anyone can call MCRT directly and get a team of mental health profes sionals, although they let police deal with the armed and dangerous. There are now 35 teams, with more on the way, and they’ve already shown up more than a dozen times to the LGBTQ center. “It was so refreshing,” Disposti says. 3:41 P.M.: A man in El Cajon says his girlfriend’s daughter is slamming items around the house. The teenager is manic and on med ication, he says. The call is coded 5150. When deputies arrive, they decide the situation is actually a 415F, a “fam ily disturbance.” Deputies tell the family about Mobile Crisis Response Teams and leave. 4:08 P.M.: Laura Thill catches her breath. In just the last hour at Sharp Mesa Vista, Thill rushed to four “code greens,” which occur whenever some body in the psychiatric hospital needs to be restrained. As administrative liaison, Thill is a “safety observer.” When a woman ar rived, took off her clothes and began

“You can’t cure somebody in 72 hours.” Melinda Wollitz

throwing things, or a man became combative at discharge, Thill watched carefully as hospital staff stepped in. She made sure nurses had space to run away. She monitored flailing limbs. And she kept especially close watch on patients’ mouths and noses. Nothing should cover the face. A little later, Thill checks her smartwatch. She’s walked almost 10 miles today. 4:44 P.M.: A man says his homeless brother is at their mother’s home in Encinitas. “He is dangerous.” The caller says his brother drinks, has schizophrenia and a violent history. The 911 dispatcher reaches out to a counterpart at a Mobile Crisis Re sponse Team, and the two talk through what the teams can and can’t do. We need a “longterm solution,” the 911 dispatcher says. “We’re not really long term,” the MCRT dispatcher responds.

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Max Disposti is founder and executive director of the North County LGBTQ Resource Center in Oceanside.

Mental health calls for service From 2009 to 2021, mental health calls for service have more than doubled. In 2009, the county was seeing nearly 17,300 calls. In 2021, the total had topped 38,000. 2021

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4:45 P.M.: The woman is easy to spot. Early 30s. Yellow dress. Teetering on heels. Brian Cardoza, the PERT clinician, approaches with Harbor Police offi cers. Someone had reported a woman trying to open car doors on Shelter Is land, and while Cardoza doesn’t see her grabbing any vehicles, the woman is clearly confused. She speaks in monotone, her words soft and slightly slurred. Sometimes she stares at the ground, hair over her face. While they talk, a man in a flannel shirt walks out of a nearby bathroom. He says the woman is his girlfriend. They’re visiting from Las Vegas and he’s worried about her. The woman’s been hearing voices and she keeps calling her boyfriend the wrong name. Cardoza must assess if the woman can safely be left alone. The law says someone can be detained if they’re “gravely disabled,” meaning they can’t care for themselves, but this woman is welldressed and clean and the boyfriend says she’s not a danger. Then two things change. First, an officer running a back ground check finds a felony warrant for the woman. She must be arrested. Second, some officers wonder if she’s being trafficked. The woman is in a nice dress, stay ing at a hotel, bouncing back and forth from Vegas. Taken individually, those facts don’t mean much. But together?

SCHOOLS RAMPING UP MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT FOR YOUTH A 15-year-old student with a history of psychosis is “confused” and not recog nizing the school staffers he sees almost every day. A 14yearold diagnosed with depression threatens to stab and gouge the eyes of other students in her middle school classes. A high school student reports to a school therapist that he has made a plan to take his own life. Each scenario — reported in 911 calls made to local law enforcement last April — demonstrate that young people across San Diego County grapple with mental health crises much like their older

counterparts, and that teachers, counsel ors and school administrators are often in key positions to respond. What that response looks like varies by the severity of the behavior and whether there is a threat to the safety of the stu dent and/or others on campus. In 2021, about 44 percent of high school students nationwide reported in a survey that they felt persistently sad or hopeless, up from 37 percent in 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. School administrators said authorities should approach student mental health in a traumainformed manner that

explores how adverse events can trigger problem behavior. “You don’t always know the source of why a person is acting or behaving a certain way,” particularly since the pan demic, said Sandra Ceja, director of student support services for the Vista Unified School District. Vista Unified created a threetier system for addressing mental health services, with tier one consisting of preventative measures, tier two where school counselors provide individual or group counseling and tier three involving additional interventions, such as lessons on emotional intelligence and decision making, Ceja said.

Escondido Union School District employs a fulltime clinical social worker at each of its 24 schools, along with other social workers assigned to specific groups including homeless students, foster children and those from military families, according to district spokesperson Michelle Breier. The San Diego County Office of Education convened a Student Wellness and School Culture team that helps schools adopt suiciderisk screening protocols, prepares teachers and staff to address suicide risks and trains parents on suicide pre vention, according to chief of staff Music Watson. DEBORAH SULLIVAN BRENNAN U-T

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Judge Cindy Davis speaks to a participant during Behavioral Health Court at the Superior Court in San Diego. Davis has been a Superior Court judge for almost a decade and believes this program can heal people with serious mental illnesses.

Cardoza sets his laptop on the hood of an SUV to research her mental health history. Officers will have the woman sit down with a trafficking expert. While Cardoza’s working, another request comes in from dispatch. A man is chasing somebody on the boardwalk. Is PERT free? Cardoza can’t leave the call he’s on.

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7:41 P.M.: A San Diego woman comes home to find her sister hanged herself. 7:50 P.M.: A naked man is seen on Seventh Avenue and Robinson Street yelling “child molester!” Earlier, a naked man was reported on state Route 163 at Balboa Avenue. That followed several callers who said a naked man was in the street near Hillcrest’s DMV office. They are three different men. 8 P.M.: After the woman in a yellow dress is interviewed by a trafficking expert, she’s driven to Santee and booked at the Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility. Brian Cardoza helps check her in. Through plexiglass, he tells a nurse everything he knows. The woman’s history does not make her an outlier. More than hospitals or crisis cen ters or nonprofits, San Diego jails are the region’s largest provider of mental health care. More than a third of people jailed in April were on psychotropic medi cation for a mental health disorder, ac cording to the Sheriff ’s Department.

46 5150 calls have been logged by this time.

49 5150 calls have been logged by this time.

9 P.M.: Sitting on a bed, not far from a bulletin board with pictures of her daughter, Crystal Jenkins stares at her homework. She recently began an online pro gram through Eastern Gateway Com munity College, in Ohio, to earn an as sociate’s degree in social work. After everything she’s been through, Jenk ins wants to help people navigate the same road. Her program asked her to talk to someone in crisis, so she interviewed a roommate to write up a personalized care plan. Jenkins finds the assignment thrilling. The care plan is also similar to the one she’s following. Behavioral Health Court has four steps, and each one gives you a little more freedom. Jenkins is at the sec ond phase. Her next court date is now hours away. 10:57 P.M.: A woman calls 911. “My daughter is losing her mind,” she says, adding expletives. “She has knives in her hands. I can’t even go downstairs to open the door for you guys.” “Is she threatening you with a knife?” the dispatcher asks. “I thought she was going to kill me,” the mother replies. An officer is at the Lincoln Park condominium within minutes. Angelina Juarez, the 33yearold who’d told her family that people were coming to hurt her, is partially outside a secondstory window. She has a knife in each hand and threatens to jump. “Definitely going to need an ambu lance,” an officer says. “She’s actively trying to stab her neck.” In the background, a woman can be heard screaming.

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An entry from Angelina Juarez’s journal as seen at her moth er’s house in National City. The 33yearold woman had told her family that people were coming to hurt her.

The process for initiating a 72hour hold There are three scenarios in which you can lose your freedom with out breaking the law. The first is if you’re suicidal. The second occurs if you’re deemed a danger to others. The third is when you’re so disabled you can’t care for yourself. If police or mental health professionals find one to be true, you could be involuntarily held for three days.

INTAKE PROCEDURES FOR A 5150

You'll likely first be placed in handcuffs. You’re not under arrest, but it’s common to be restrained until you can be evaluated.

You might then be taken to a crisis stabilization unit or an emergency room. During this threeday period, Rady Children’s Hospital always had at least 10 mental health patients in the ER because there was no space at a psychiatric unit. Their average emergency room stay is three days, according to Sandy Mueller, Rady’s senior director of behavioral health services. She said the hospital typically gets more than 20 suicidal children every day.

If a psychiatrist decides you’re unstable, you’ll be taken to a psychiatric ward or hospital. You gener ally cannot appeal your stay during the first 72 hours. There were 742 psychiatric beds available in the county during this period. Many facilities reported few, if any, empty beds, including Rady, Scripps Health, Alvarado Parkway Institute, Aurora San Diego and UC San Diego Health. Others, including the VA, didn’t say how full they were. At the same time, even empty beds weren’t necessarily available. More than a quarter of the Psychiatric Hospital of San Diego Coun ty’s 60 beds were always open, even as emergency rooms backed up, because the facility lacked the staff to take more people, accord ing to Luke Bergmann, the county’s behavioral health director.

If clinicians believe you need to stay longer than three days, they must file additional paperwork and receive approval from a San Diego Superior Court official.

Even when you get the green light to leave, you might not have a home to go back to. Furthermore, if you're so disabled you need an assisted living facility, you could be stuck waiting for months. During these three days, about half of all beds at the county hospital were occupied by people who were ready but unable to leave. The same went for nearly half of the 36 beds at Scripps Mercy in Hillcrest.

12:01 A.M.: The clock ticks past midnight. In Lincoln Park, Angelina Juarez drops both knives, disappears inside, then reappears at the window. “And, she has another knife,” a cop says. Another reports, “She’s trying to get the knife deeper into her neck.” Juarez teeters, almost falls. An offi cer sees her cough up blood. Her brother appears. He holds her up and reaches for the knife, wrestling his sister from the win dow. Officers move in. One sees that Juarez has stabbed herself in the neck more than 30 times. She’s taken to Scripps Mercy Hos pital in Hillcrest. 2:38 A.M.: Craig Tenma is asleep when his iPhone lights up, signaling an incoming call. He already missed one hours earlier. He sees the third attempt after sunrise. Tenma picks up. The man calling has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. “He just wants someone to talk to,” Tenma says later. The 59yearold paramedic is with San Diego’s Resource Access Pro gram, which works with people who repeatedly dial 911. The man on the phone has reached out to Tenma directly up to five times a day, for months. That’s the goal. Staffers sometimes spend up to a year guiding chronic callers, some of whom have mental illnesses, through the health care system. The effort is partially to reduce pressure on 911 dispatchers and emer gency rooms, but proponents also ar gue that people are more likely to ac cept longterm solutions if they build relationships with caretakers. Tenma plans to visit the man in the afternoon. 8:30 A.M.: On the 12th floor of the downtown San Diego Central Court house, Judge Cindy Davis looks around. About a dozen people are spread throughout her courtroom. A public defender is at one table, a deputy city attorney at another. Two probation officers are in the jury box, while a doctor appears virtu ally on a monitor. The group forms the backbone of Behavioral Health Court. Later today, they plan to hear from participants like Crystal Jenkins. But first, they need to decide whether to accept someone new. “Welcome back, team,” Davis says. Davis has been a Superior Court judge for almost a decade and believes this program can heal people with se rious mental illnesses. As long as par ticipants commit to changing their lives, Davis is committed to keeping them free. The man in question has an illness that causes him to hallucinate, and he recently pleaded guilty to serious as sault. He appears to want help, but he lacks a support system. The team believes they can provide that support. A clear consensus emerges: He’s accepted. 9:49 A.M.: A woman in her 70s tries to hit people with her walker. PERT arrives. She is deemed 5150.

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Crystal Jenkins steps before Judge Cindy Davis at Behavioral Health Court in San Diego on Tuesday. Today she’ll learn whether she can advance to the next phase of the program, which would bring her one step closer to living with her daughter.

HOW DOES BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COURT WORK?

10 A.M.: In the recliner room at the Vista Crisis Stabilization Center, five clients have stayed past the 24hour limit.

Behavioral Health Court is a program in San Diego Superior Court offered to a small number of defendants in criminal cases who suffer from serious mental illness. It’s an intense program designed for the most serious cases. The most common path for entry is through a track called BHC Probation, and it offers 75 spots for San Diego County adults who meet specific criteria. To qualify, candidates — most of whom are facing felony charges, although some are facing misdemeanors — must have a serious mental illness as defined by Title IX of the California Code of Regulations, like schizophrenia, schizoaffective disor der or bipolar disorder.

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Judge Cindy Davis becomes emotional speaking about Behav ioral Health Court, which she oversees, while at the downtown San Diego Central Courthouse.

A guilty plea to a gun charge would bar admission to the program. Registered sex offenders and registered arsonists are not eligible. Candidates must have tried and failed at lowerintensity, courtordered programs or solutions. They must be mentally competent to stand trial and agree to plead guilty and to follow the strict re quirements of the program.

Applicants are screened by mental health professionals, then the applications are reviewed by the judge, prosecutors, defense attorneys and others, including probation and treatment professionals. They decide as a team whether to accept someone into the program. Once accepted, participants can leave jail — most of them are in custody— and move into group homes. They are pro vided with treatment, medication, group therapy and individual counseling. All participants are required to take their prescribed medication, and they must remain sober. Behavioral Health Court has four phases. The entire program lasts a minimum of 18 months. As of October, 357 people had taken part in the program since it started in 2009, according to the county. Of that number, 150 people graduated — a completion rate of about 51 percent. Those who did not complete the program were sent to jail or prison to serve the sentence they’d faced before being accepted into the program. The county pays about $100 a day per participant for Behavioral Health Court. By comparison, the county pays between $126 and $240 a day to house a person in jail. TERI FIGUEROA U-T

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1:22 P.M.: At San Diego police dis patch, a 28yearold calls to say she’s considering shooting herself. She has bipolar disorder and a history of vi olence toward her mom; she asks for PERT.

Candidates are usually referred to the program during the pleabargaining phase of a case. Many defendants are referred by the Office of the Public Defender, which represents about 90 percent of all crimi nal defendants in the county. The office has a special unit focused on mental illness diagnosis and treatment for its clientele.

NOON: Hail Mary, full of grace Elvie Del Rosario and her siblings sit around a picture of her son. The Lord is with thee They’ve gathered in Chula Vista to pray since Steven Del Rosario jumped from the San DiegoCoronado Bridge. The rosary is a Catholic tradition meant to guide loved ones to heaven, and Elvie plans to pray it at noon for the next several weeks. Blessed art thou among women And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus Elvie had always felt close to her son. They loved to hike together. She confided in him, and he called her “Elvs.” Holy Mary Mother of God Steven had talked about seeing “darkness” but Elvie hadn’t known just how low Steven was. Pray for us sinners Now and at the hour of our death Steven kept a journal on his com puter. Many of the 140plus pages were addressed to God. “If your plan is for my story to end, please let it happen sooner than later,” Steven once wrote. “I am not afraid.” Amen

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Another participant in Behavioral Health Court listens to Judge Cindy Davis on Tuesday. The program focuses on people with serious mental illnesses who’ve committed crimes.

“It helps me to notice my thoughts before I have a reaction.” A Behavioral Health Court participant speaking about therapy

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1:46 P.M.: Behavioral Health Court is now in session. Thirteen participants wait to be called. On a bench near the back, Crys tal Jenkins sits in a white Tshirt and green shorts, a bobby pin holding her hair in place. Judge Cindy Davis calls up the first participant, who says he just applied to the University of Phoenix. “Keep up the good work,” Davis says. The judge summons a second man. He says he’s almost finished a treat ment program, and Davis asks if ther apy has helped. “It helps me to notice my thoughts before I have a reaction,” he replies. Before long the judge says, “Crystal Jenkins.” She walks to a podium across the room. Jenkins talks about her social work program and the desire to coach peo ple with similar struggles. She says she wants more supervised visits with her daughter. The judge looks Jenkins in the eye. It’s time to move to Phase 3, the judge says. “You’re well on your way to graduating.” The courtroom bursts into ap plause. 2:32 P.M.: A basketball swishes through a hoop. Men and women shout for joy. As peaceful as the courtyard is, nearby concrete walls and a heavy metal gate don’t let anyone forget they’re inside the Psychiatric Hospital of San Diego County. The Midway facility is the region’s only safetynet hospital, meaning as long as space is available, nobody is turned away — regardless of whether they can pay or how many times they’ve checked in.

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This gate can be one of the first things people see when they’re admitted to the Psychiatric Hospital of San Diego County in the Midway District. The facility is the region’s only safetynet psychiatric hospital. If there is space available, no one is turned away.

SHIFTING TO CHRONIC CARE INSTEAD OF CRISIS CARE

Many people have been abandoned by their families and believe doctors will similarly walk out on them, says Michael Krelstein, the facility’s direc tor. Sometimes a patient cycles through more than a dozen times “be fore they begin to believe that change is possible,” the doctor says. Though courts can order patients to take medications, sometimes ther apy isn’t complicated. A silver box on a nearby wall holds a blanket warmer. “You put a blanket on them and they’re asleep, you haven’t even talked about medication,” says administra tor Angela Warneke.

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Existing research supports that assertion.

3:03 P.M.: A middle school in south San Diego reports a 13yearold who’s thinking about suicide. 3:30 P.M.: This case makes Fadi Nic olas mad. The Sharp Mesa Vista doctor is in a meeting with colleagues, discussing a patient in his 60s. The man has schizophrenia and de mentia and had been living at a skilled nursing facility. A court oversees his care, and paperwork to renew his con servatorship needed to be filed the previous November. But the facility forgot, Nicolas says. Someone realized their mistake and dropped the man off at Sharp Me morial’s emergency room Friday, ac cording to Nicolas. “It just shows, once again, how frag mented and just disjointed this whole mental health system” is, Nicolas says later. “You have to be keeping a close eye on every insurance piece, every le gal aspect.” Sharp asked the facility to take the man back. They said no, he says. The hospital threatened to report the facility. The nursing home backed down. In the meantime, Nicolas did the conservatorship paperwork himself. 3:30 P.M.: Dennis puts on a pair of headphones. He hears a string of notes that sound like they’re going up. In response, he clicks an “up arrow” on a computer screen. Watching him is Gregory Light, vice chair of the University of California San Diego psychiatry department. The two are in a small room for a clini cal trial on schizophrenia. Researchers have found the illness warps how the brain processes sound, leading people to hear voices that ar en’t there. “I think I shut out a lot of the world,” Dennis says. “People who have mental illness are shunned a lot, and I’m one of them.” This therapy will hopefully retrain brains to process noises more accu rately. Dennis, who asked that his last name not be used, isn’t sure it’ll work. But just participating gives him a boost.

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Treatment of mental illness takes time. Experts say many people struggling with their mental health need repeated help to stay on the path to success.

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San Diego County Psychiatric Hospital’s Michael Krelstein says patients sometimes require more than a dozen stays “before they begin to believe that change is possible.”

3:53 P.M.: A woman says her 35 yearold son is having a mental break in Rancho Peñasquitos.

A similar examination from 2015 of cognitive behavioral therapy, commonly treating a wide range of disorders from anxiety to substance use, found that nearly 16 percent of people dropped out before starting a treatment program and about 26 percent stopped participating after getting started. In light of such evidence, Luke Bergmann, San Diego County’s behavior al health director, has convinced his bosses to invest in a broad range of resources — from care coordinators to drug and alcohol treatment — instead of simply providing more treatment beds to accommodate growing numbers of patients.

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Larry Richer takes a break playing the guitar at San Diego’s Connection 2 Community Clubhouse, which helps homeless people who have mental health concerns.

“Currently, we have a system that is heavily weighted toward crisis; most resources spent on mental health serv ices are meant to address crises like hospitalizations, emergency department visits, law enforcement interventions, jails and the like,” Bergmann said in an address to the county Board of Supervi sors in 2019. “What we need to do, in other words, is shift from a crisis system to a chronic system ... with better coordination on ongoing care, better links to housing and better integrated with primary care,” he said. “I get asked all the time how many beds San Diego County needs,” Bergmann said. “And the answer is, we will only know as we begin to invest in chronic care management because good chronic care will reduce the need for inpatient beds.” In September 2022, the county published a new “optimal care pathways” model that aims to prevent up to 40 percent of mental health care hospital admissions by funding a more holistic system that uses specially trained peer educators and provides “continuous care and housing” to those who need it.

3:38 P.M.: San Diego police have five 5150 calls waiting for PERT. 3:43 P.M.: Staffers at the Jane Westin Center, a downtown clinic, say they have a client planning to kill himself. He was released from a hospital nearly a week ago and hasn’t eaten in six days. No PERT clinicians are available. Officers are dispatched.

A scholarly paper published in 2020 that analyzed a broad set of medical studies found that, on average, 49 percent of people prescribed medication to treat severe mental illness stop taking the drugs or quit following dosing schedules.

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Dennis, who asked that his last name not be used, participates in a UC San Diego study on schizophrenia Tuesday. The ther apy tries to retrain brains to process noises more accurately.

“I think I shut out a lot of the world. People who have mental illness are shunned a lot, and I’m one of them.” Dennis

Cost and workforce shortages are the main impediments to this vision. A re cent study by the San Diego Workforce Partnership showed that local providers are underpaid and in short supply. Advocates say the way to pay for a more comprehensive system is by reducing expensive hospital admissions. However, the county has not yet performed a full financial analysis. PAUL SISSON U-T

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San Diego police Officers Jeff Martinez, Michael Padgett and PERT clinician Jes sica Aguirre speak with homeless residents downtown on Monday.

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On Tuesday, workers from Father Joe’s Villages check an area downtown wellknown for encampments to see if anyone needs help. Similar outreach groups have popped up around the region in recent years as the number of homeless people rises.

CARE COURT DESIGNED TO EXPAND TREATMENT

He has a history of hearing voices and has been texting to say a police helicopter is hovering over his home. There is no police helicopter. “He’s afraid they are going to take him away and he is not going to see me again,” she says. The woman asks for PERT. None are available. 6:10 P.M.: San Diego police have six 5150 calls waiting for an officer.

In 2022, California launched an effort to address one of the state’s most frustrat ing issues: How to get mental health care to people who may not want it. The new approach Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last March was the Commu nity Assistance, Recovery and Empower ment Court, or CARE Court, which has been heralded as a way to expand the number of people who could be man dated treatment for mental health disor ders. Under the CARE Act, which legislators approved last year, courts could mandate people undergo up to 24 months of treatment that would be community based and individualized. Treatment could include shortterm stabilization medications and connection to housing and other support services. The new approach is seen as an alterna tive to conservatorships, hospitalizations and incarcerations, and it revises what has been followed since the 1967 adop tion of the LantermanPetrisShort Act, which created strict dueprocess protec tions for people with mental health issues who otherwise could be institu tionalized. Over the decades, the LPS Act often has been seen as too restrictive, leaving people with mental issues to languish in the streets. Courtordered treatment often came as part of the criminal justice system and only after a person had been arrested. Under the new approach, family mem bers, first responders, clinicians and community members could refer a per son to CARE Court to be evaluated for eligibility to a treatment program. To be eligible, a person must be either unlikely to survive safely without supervi sion or be a threat to themselves or others. The state has set a timeline for San Diego, San Francisco, Orange, Riverside, Stanislaus, Tuolumne and Glenn counties to establish new CARE Courts by Oct. 1 of this year.

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Downtown, Jessica Aguirre, a PERT clinician and member of the San Diego Police Department’s Homeless Outreach Team, speaks Monday with a person looking for a shelter bed.

Staffing on the rise at San Diego County Behavioral Health Services The county of San Diego has boosted staffing and spending in its Behavioral Health Services office, with the 2023-24 spending plan employing more than 1,200 people. 1,207.5 1,200

6:20 P.M.: A woman says her 28 yearold son is not taking his schizophrenia meds and has not slept in three days. He’s threatened to kill her. She’s hiding in the garage.

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9:25 P.M.: Because she’s now in Phase 3 of Behavioral Health Court, Crystal Jenkins doesn’t have to be home until 10 p.m. She makes it with about a half hour to spare. Jenkins had been eating straw berry cheesecake sundaes with a friend. After today’s hearing, she can’t get over how much she’s changed since the start of the program. Jenkins recently applied to be a peer support specialist at the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She’s al ready certified for that work through a twoweek online course she took from Recovery International, an Illinois based nonprofit. She finished the class impressed. Whoever was working at Recovery seemed to know what they were doing.

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6:15 P.M.: Xiuqin Li is worried about her son. Yuhao Du called yesterday from Del Mar, saying he felt unsafe. It had been unsettling. It’s hard to know what to do. Li, a cardiologist, is still in China. She had seen concerning behavior while raising her son. Around age 13, Du was sent home from school for drinking ink. He would repeatedly turn lights on and off, and his parents learned he has a compulsive disorder. But Li knew of few psychiatric serv ices available. When Du moved across the world to study at UC San Diego, he seemed his normal, warmhearted self. Then his demeanor changed. He told his parents he’d been seeing a doctor for mental health issues. Li suspected it was pressure from school.

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Crystal Jenkins is now in Phase 3 of Behavioral Health Court. She applied to be a peer support spe cialist at the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

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Lisa Garcia puts on makeup at her El Cajon home on Monday before hosting a Zoom meeting for Recovery International. Garcia experienced a series of crises, was twice hospitalized and struggled to find the correct medication before she was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

COUNTY TO UNWIND LAW ENFORCEMENT FROM MENTAL HEALTH CASES Out of nearly three dozen police shoot ings in the county from 2018 through June 2022, 40 percent involved someone with mental health issues, a review by The San Diego UnionTribune found. That’s nearly triple the percentage found during the previous 25 years.

ne of the most intractable problems in the mental health crisis is how to reduce confrontations with law enforcement. About 14 percent of people shot by police in the county from 1993 through 2017 had documented mental health issues, according to the District Attorney’s Office. An additional 16 percent showed “unstable behavior.” The UnionTribune analyzed 35 additional police shootings from 2018 through midJune and found an even greater propor tion. In 40 percent of cases, the person shot either had a docu mented diagnosis or mental health issues were suspected. PERT and MCRT were partly created to lessen the bloodshed, and the county has more than tripled the number of law enforce ment and mental health clinician teams since 2008. It’s still not enough to handle the volume of calls. And sometimes officers are the ones in danger.

It’s an increase that underscores how volatile interactions between law enforce ment and those in crisis can be. Every year, police officers and sheriff’s deputies respond to tens of thousands of calls about people in behavioral health crises, and the county has been working for decades to disentangle law enforce ment from those kinds of emergencies. Critics have long argued against law enforcement involvement in such situa tions, saying they are more likely to escalate mental health emergencies than provide the kind of help that is needed. Sometimes those emergencies become violent. About 14 percent of the 451 people shot by police or sheriff’s deputies in the county from 1993 through 2017 had documented mental health issues, ac cording to a report from the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. An additional 16 percent showed “unsta ble behavior.” The UnionTribune reviewed documents from the District Attorney’s Office sum marizing shootings from 2018 through June 15, 2022, and found an even greater proportion. In 35 incidents, five people had a documented mental health diagno sis and nine people had suspected men tal health issues. An additional 21 shootings occurred during this time frame but remain under review or were withheld because of a pending criminal case. Shootings by law enforcement inspired county and mental health leaders to create the Psychiatric Emergency Re sponse Teams in 1996, officials say. The program, often referred to as PERT, pairs licensed mental health clinicians with law enforcement officers. During the pilot program, there was one PERT team working out of the San Diego Police Department’s Western Division. Now, there are 72. Two years ago, another alternative was created: Mobile Crisis Response Teams, which are made up of behavioral health clinicians, case managers and peer support specialists. The teams respond to those in crisis, connect people with mental health re sources and follow up to ensure they get any additional care they might need. LYNDSAY WINKLEY U-T

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Members of Chula Vista’s Homeless Outreach Team talk with Gary Burke who was living in his motor home on Wednesday. Burke was open to help, but he needed transportation.

Mental illness in police shootings A District Attorney's Office review of 439 police shootings found 30 percent of those shot either had a documented mental illness or exhibited unstable behavior. A Union-Tribune analysis of an additional 35 shootings found an even greater proportion: 40 percent of those shot had a mental illness or suspected mental health issues. Documented mental illness Exhibited unstable behavior Suspected mental illness No mental illness

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WEDNESDAY 6:30 A.M.: Stuck to the wall of Lisa Garcia’s bathroom is a small piece of paper. The text, taken from a book, reads almost like a prayer. A thing is valuable if it promotes inner peace. The attainment of inner and outer peace is your supreme value. Garcia opens her medicine cabinet and grabs five bottles. Three have the letter “M” scrawled in Sharpie, for “morning.” The other two have a “B” for “both,” meaning they’re for both morning and night. In her El Cajon home, she pours eight pills into her hand and pops them all into her mouth. It sure beats the hospital. In 1989, Garcia’s mom died. She broke up with her boyfriend. She stopped going to her catering job and stopped taking her 8yearold to school. She was hospitalized after her fam ily staged an intervention. But it wasn’t clear what was wrong. Medica tions were tried and abandoned. Gar cia crashed her car into the back of a semitruck. Another time she disap peared for days in a casino. After another hospitalization, she got the correct diagnosis: She has bipolar disorder. Garcia found the right pills and a therapist told her about Recovery In ternational, the same organization from which Crystal Jenkins took a course. Garcia has now worked at Recov ery for nearly 25 years. She credits the nonprofit’s ap proach with helping keep her well. 8:26 A.M.: Gary Burke needs a ride. His home is a beige and orange RV parked on C Street by downtown Chula Vista. A small crowd of police, nurses, PERT clinicians and nonprofit staffers gather around, part of the Chula Vista Police Department’s Homeless Outreach Team. Similar groups have popped up around the region in recent years. There were more than 8,500 home less people in the county near the start of last year, a 10 percent increase from the previous tally, according to the San Diego Regional Task Force on Homelessness. That’s almost cer tainly an undercount. More than a third of those surveyed on the street said they had a mental health disorder. From the RV, Burke says he’s a homeless veteran with brain trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder, and he’s willing to go to the San Diego Veterans Affairs Medical Center. But the facility’s in La Jolla, about 20 miles away. RV parking is hard to find, and gas is expensive. “He can go on the trolley,” one per son says. “He’ll need a bus pass,” says anoth er. “We have the numbers to give him a ride,” Lt. Ernie Pinedo says. “Maybe he decides in the trolley, ‘You know what, I’m not gonna go.’ So, let’s just take him straight there.” Someone tells Burke that a cop will drive. Burke begins to cry. “First time ever — and I’m sur prised — that somebody even knows that I’m this bad,” he says. 9:30 A.M.: Josh Barder enters a consultation room. Barder normally supervises social

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Dispatcher Jayda Meza works at the San Diego County Sheriff ’s Emergency Communication Center on Wednesday. Callers some times ask for PERT, but clinicians aren’t always available to help with situations ranging from suicidal students to violent relatives.

He wanted to come back to Fancor Guest Home in El Cajon. The man doesn’t have a lot of op tions. Over the past decade, San Diego County has effectively lost 68 similar facilities that had supplied more than 500 beds, state data show. The reasons are legion: Costs have increased and licensing requirements have tightened. Residents pay their way with Social Security payments, which inch up incrementally, if at all, administrators say. Mabalot told the man no. She doesn’t feel he’s safe anymore. This leaves her with a choice. She can pick a random name from her list, call their case worker and set up an interview. She’ll do her best to choose somebody who appears stable, but a new person is a new person. Or she can call someone she knows. She remembers meeting one guy at a sister facility. He’d been evicted years ago after he stopped taking medi cation, took methamphetamine and attacked somebody. But he never made Mabalot feel threatened, and he had called her and apologized. She thinks he might be OK. Mabalot gets on the phone with his case worker. They hash out the details. He’ll move in Friday. Her 44 beds are now filled again.

workers at Sharp Mesa Vista, the psy chiatric hospital, but with the pan demic keeping staffing tight, today he meets directly with patients. COVID protocols keep Barder at a distance, his face covered by a mask and plastic shield. Barder speaks with a man who’d voluntarily checked in a day earlier, saying he felt unsafe. But now he’s agi tated and worries about missing work. He can leave if he wants. But Barder suspects he isn’t stable. The social worker steps away and calls the man’s case manager. This is a pattern, the case manager says. The man works nights and takes drugs in the morning to stay awake. They trigger hallucinations, so he checks himself in somewhere and then immediately asks to leave. Barder returns to the man, who’s waiting in a hallway. What if I write a letter to your boss, Barder says. It won’t give details about why you’re here, but it will say you’re being treated at a hospital and can’t take shifts. The man agrees to stay. 10:41 A.M.: A woman in Mira Mesa appears to be hanging dead rats from a window. Adult protective services is called.

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11:11 A.M.: A woman says her sister is holed up in her room in the family’s Vista apartment. The sister has schizophrenia and bipolar and multiple personality dis orders. Voices are telling her to kill their mother and the family is hiding outside in their car. The closest PERT team is at a school with a suicidal student. Depu ties head over. 11:30 A.M.: Wherever Victoria Sah agun and Shawn Keating turn, the re quest is the same: Do you have hous ing? “I’ve been on the waiting list since 2018, 2019,” says one middleaged man at the Oceanside Transit Center. Sahagun and Keating make up a Mobile Crisis Response Team. Today, they walk the transit center in face masks, handing out water bottles as part of their outreach work. The job’s personal for Keating. Be fore becoming a community health worker, the 43yearold former Marine was diagnosed with major depressive disorder and PTSD. A back injury led to an opioid pre scription, which turned into an opioid addiction, then homelessness. It’s hard to find support on the streets. Keating found he didn’t qual ify for some federal aid because he struggled with both addiction and mental health. Many programs are only built to handle one, Keating says later. Salvation finally came from a faith based organization for veterans. He’s now been sober for seven years. 11:56 A.M.: A 76yearold says an adult son broke into her Bay Park home. He pushed a sliding window so hard it snapped the handle, she says. He drinks 10 to 15 energy drinks a day. “Why is this taking so long?” she says. Dispatch asks for PERT. None are available. NOON: The guy who two days earli er smashed a mirror called Cyra Ma balot.

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Tim Brown, a Navy veteran, lives on the street under Interstate 5 in Mission Valley. He was hesitant to accept help Wednesday from an outreach worker with Veterans Village of San Diego.

VETS HAVE HIGH RATE OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES With more than 100,000 activeduty service members and 240,000 veter ans, San Diego County has one of the largest concentrations of military personnel in the nation.

increase in relationship issues within marriages, families and with older children since the start of the pan demic, as well as an increase in anxiety among all family members.

Along with that population comes a high number of enlisted personnel and veterans struggling with mental health issues.

Finney said more resources are now available for healing and there is less stigma associated with the need.

Between October 2018 and Septem ber 2022, the number of veterans seen annually at local mental health clinics grew from more than 25,300 to more than 27,100 — a 7 percent increase over four years, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. During that time, 22,590 patients sought help for posttraumatic stress disorder. When including nonVA clinics, the number of San Diego veterans seeking help for PTSD in creased to 27,800. Veterans Village of San Diego op erates clinics in Mission Valley and Oceanside specifically for post9/11 service members, veterans and their families. In addition to PTSD, the clinic provides therapy and counsel ing for depression, grief, anxiety and anger, as well as other kinds of is sues, including transitioning out of service and into civilian life. Shari Finney, regional clinic director of the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinics at Veterans Village of San Diego, said the clinics are seeing an

Studies show service members expe rience a disproportionately high number of mental health issues when compared with the general popula tion. A 2014 study by JAMA Psychia try found almost 25 percent of 5,500 activeduty, nondeployed Army soldiers were diagnosed with a men tal health disorder of some kind — including major depression, intermit tent explosive disorder and PTSD — and 11 percent were diagnosed with more than one mental illness. According to the National Alliance on Mental Health, about 20 percent of American adults experience mental illness each year. Other studies found 3 percent of the population has more than one mental health issue. A California Department of Public Health report found 583 veterans and active service members died by suicide in 2020, including 85 in San Diego County, more than in any other county in the state, including Los Angeles, which had 81. There were 3,355 civilian suicides in California that year. GARY WARTH & ANDREW DYER U-T

12:23 P.M.: A therapist asks for a welfare check on a schizophrenic pa tient who’d said rats were eating her food. Deputies visit her in Pine Valley. They see “abhorrent” living condi tions, but the woman doesn’t meet cri teria for a 5150.

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12:27 P.M.: Someone in Vista spots an older woman pushing a stroller full of broken glass. She’s behind a restaurant dump ster, yelling that she hates her daugh ter and wants to die. 1:00 P.M.: Tony Pacheco starts his shift. Today, the California Highway Pa trol officer will monitor Interstate 8, from the coast to the edge of La Mesa. Married with two children and a baby on the way, Pacheco has been on the job for seven years. He never knows what a shift will bring. 1:06 P.M.: Deputies and PERT take a teenage girl to the Emergency Screening Unit, a downtown San Di ego facility that evaluates kids in a mental health crisis. The Lakeside 15yearold tried to kill herself earlier in the month. Now she’s threatening to kill her mom. 1:30 P.M.: Fadi Nicolas steps in front of his computer for a virtual meeting. The woman who’d lunged for the diaper bag Monday is resisting treat ment, and the man whose conserva torship lapsed is on track to soon leave Sharp Mesa Vista. Nicolas deals with similar situations regularly. Today’s discussion will address a rarer situation: How should clinicians treat a cop in crisis? Nicolas logs onto Microsoft Teams. Joining him are representatives from the San Diego Police Department. They’re hoping to shape a new ap proach. The doctor used to get calls a few times a year from first responders con cerned about a colleague, he says lat er. That number increased amid the pandemic.

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Emmanuel Navarro and Deborah Valera, outreach workers from Father Joe’s Villages, stop Tuesday along 17th Street and Imperial Avenue downtown to check on a person who has lived on the street for the past nine years.

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It’s a delicate situation. Officers are afraid of losing their jobs, and they’re definitely hesitant about entering a place where they’ve detained people. Nicolas hopes the hospital can de velop new training in the coming months.

On any given day, it isn’t hard to find evidence of a mental health crisis among San Diego County’s homeless popula tion. Recently, it was found on 17th Street in downtown San Diego, when Father Joe’s Villages outreach worker Deborah Valera asked a man in a wheelchair if he needed help. “I’m not all here,” the man told her. “I’ve got PTSD and ADD.” He then began talking about the Illuminati and drawing patterns on a box. He began barking like a dog. Society has turned a blind eye to the problem for decades, sometimes only reacting in response to violent incidents that result in jail time rather than mental health care. Restrictions on mandated treatment, a lack of psychiatric hospital beds and an overall shortage of resources have com pounded the problem.

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A sign shows the codes for emergency responses at the Sharp Mesa Vista psychiatric hospital in San Diego on Monday. A “Code Green” is for a “combative individual.”

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Annual counts conducted by the Re gional Task Force on Homelessness have found about 37 percent of homeless people living without shelter say they have a mental health condition. Mental illness, along with generational poverty and substance abuse, can con tribute to homelessness. The realities of life while homeless, however, have been called contributing factors to addiction and mental health issues, creating a vicious cycle for peo ple living on the street. In December 2021, a 44bed shelter opened in a city of San Diegoowned building that once was a Pier One Im ports store. With funding from the county, Family Health Centers of San Diego was con tracted to provide substance use coun selors, peer support, mental health clinicians and nurse practitioners for medical consultation. The shelter was the first of its kind in the region to focus specifically on popula tions struggling with addiction and mental health issues. Since then, several nonprofits, including Healthcare in Action and Father Joe’s Villages, have added mental health professionals to their street medicine teams. GARY WARTH U-T

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Lisa Garcia, a program manager at Recovery International, participates in a Zoom meeting from her home Wednesday. The organization focuses on processing daytoday frustrations.

“Over the last few years, there’s been no season. It’s just been referrals coming every day, all the time.” Tania Beaudoin

3:50 P.M.: In the San Diego Central Jail downtown, Capt. Carl Darnell walks by a cell. Through a window he sees two men. One lies still, his eyes closed. Darnell raps the glass. The man opens his eyes. The captain moves on. People die in San Diego County jails at rates far exceeding other large California counties. One therapist wrote in court re cords that “I have observed my pa tients … suffer in what can only be de scribed as filthy, inhumane condi tions, and in some cases, die by sui cide.” The Sheriff ’s Department has made changes, like adding more de tailed interviews between medical staff and detainees and body scans to check for ingested drugs. Darnell says he talks with the medical director and chief clinician daily. The Central Jail is the only one of the region’s six detention facilities with a dedicated psychiatric ward, but staffing is difficult. Overtime is re quired for nurses, and clinicians keep resigning due to poor working condi tions, according to department re cords. Release from custody can compli cate recovery. One homeless man recently said he was afraid to keep his medication, Deputy Dan Nguyen has said. “He says he can’t have it because he’ll get jumped.”

148 5150 calls have been logged by this time.

5:41 P.M.: Alex Aiello closes the tabs on her computer. On a typical day, the counselor at Chula Vista’s Southwestern College might meet with four students. Today she saw 14. Across town, therapist Tania Beaudoin is wrapping up a session with a client. Beaudoin once saw patient num bers ebb and flow with the seasons. “Over the last few years, there’s been no season,” Beaudoin says. “It’s just been referrals coming every day, all the time.” 5:53 P.M.: Lisa Garcia looks at a dozen faces on her laptop. Each is an employee with Recovery International, where Garcia is a proj ect manager. “This is a place where we can deal with the trivialities of everyday life,” says a man on the screen. “Even though you may have been doing this 20, 25, 30 years, you still deal with emo tional distress.” Garcia believes healing can hap pen when the sick listen to the sick, and she both leads and participates in Recovery meetings that focus on day today frustrations. Garcia hasn’t been hospitalized since 1997. She didn’t fall apart when her dad died in 2010, or when she lost her sister a year later. Sometimes, Garcia will ask her sons about going off her meds. They won’t have it. She once pinky promised her youngest that she’d al ways take her pills, and she’s kept her word. Even if she did relapse, Garcia knows that wouldn’t be the end of her story.

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Law enforcement investigate a scene on Interstate 8 in Mission Valley where a California Highway Patrol officer was shot during rush hour on Wednesday. The road was closed in both directions as officers swarmed the area.

“You might feel hopeless,” Garcia tells the group, “but there are no hope less cases.” 6 P.M.: In China, Xiuqin Li has re peatedly tried to call her son. Yuhao Du hasn’t picked up. At this moment, he’s in his Audi, driving east on Interstate 8. As he nears the 805 overpass in Mis sion Valley, his car leaves the lane and slams into a concrete divider. The Audi comes to a stop. A passer by calls 911. 6:16 P.M.: Officer Tony Pacheco is dispatched to a wreck. He’s near the 805 overpass on Inter state 8 when he spots a car on the side of the road. The officer stops and gets out. The car’s driver is outside, blood running down his face. Pacheco gets closer. This guy has a 1,000yard stare, the officer thinks. The driver opens his mouth. “I want to kill myself,” he mumbles. “Can you kill me?” “What?” Pacheco says. “Can you kill me?” “No, man,” Pacheco replies. “Stand by.” We need an ambulance, the officer thinks. Pacheco also needs backup. He reaches for his radio. He doesn’t get to it in time.

158 5150 calls have been logged by this time.

6:21 P.M.: Traffic slows in Mission Valley. Travis Almond turns onto Inter state 8, heading home from work at a yacht management company. He sees a crash ahead. There’s a wrecked Audi, and an SUV belonging to California Highway Patrol. Almond’s pickup gets closer. He sees two men wrestling in the road. One is Tony Pacheco. The officer is fighting for control of his gun, and his leg is covered in blood. Almond brakes and jumps out. Pacheco and the other man sepa rate.

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Law enforcement officials work into Wednesday night on Interstate 8 in Mission Valley where a California Highway Patrol officer was shot. A passerby stopped his truck after he saw two men, one of whom was partially covered in blood, wrestling in the road for control of a gun.

“I want to kill myself. Can you kill me?” Driver standing on highway

“What?” California Highway Patrol Officer Tony Pacheco

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The portion of people shot by police who had a documented or suspected mental illness from 2018 to 2022 U-T data analysis

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The gun lands on the ground. Pacheco drops to the asphalt. I’m going to die, the officer thinks. Almond stops by Pacheco. A bullet hole appears to be in his right thigh. “Tourniquet,” the officer says. Al mond grabs a sweatshirt from his truck and ties it around Pacheco’s leg. Blood keeps coming. More drivers stop. One is a nurse, already in scrubs. He cuts straps off his backpack to fashion a better tourniquet. Others grab the man seen strug gling for Pacheco’s gun and push him against a concrete divider. His eyes and mouth are open, but Almond doesn’t hear him make any sounds. Almond tries to call 911. The line’s busy. Pacheco asks for his radio. 6:27 P.M.: In San Diego County Sheriff’s Dispatch, a code flashes on every screen. 1199. Officer down.

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Yuhao Du, 25, who is accused of shooting a California Highway Patrol officer during rush hour on Interstate 8 in Mission Valley, speaks to his attorneys several months later during a pre liminary hearing at the San Diego Central Courthouse.

“Can you kill me? Driver standing on highway

“No, man. Stand by.” California Highway Patrol Officer Tony Pacheco

6:30 P.M.: Flashing lights flood the Mission Valley freeway. Someone gives the nurse a real tourniquet for Tony Pacheco. He’s tak en to Scripps Mercy in Hillcrest. The second man is arrested. Officials later identify him as Yuhao Du and say he lunged, unpro voked, toward Pacheco and tried to grab the officer’s gun. Pacheco says he punched Du four times in the face before he heard a “pop” that caused his ears to ring. Du tells police that a voice in his head ordered him to crash the car, ac cording to an investigator. Du also re portedly admits to pulling the trigger. Xiuqin Li knows none of this. Throughout the night, Li keeps try ing to reach her son. Nobody picks up. She spends hours calling. She tries old friends, classmates. Li emails a professor. The professor writes back: A police officer was shot and Du is in jail.

159 5150 calls have been logged by this time.

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EPILOGUE By the end of the three days, law en forcement received at least 238 mental health calls. San Diego officers alone logged nearly 350 hours on these crises. People called for help from transit centers and gas stations, schools and ho tels. But most, almost 54 percent, came from homes. Nearly threequarters were potential 5150s. Another quarter were related to su icide and at least five people took their own lives countywide. The call total is thought to be only a portion of the actual number of psychiat ric emergencies handled by police. It’s not always clear when someone’s in crisis, and therefore those episodes are not nec essarily flagged in the data. Ninety people were admitted to psy chiatric facilities just by PERT and MCRT. PERT spent more than 547 hours handling 212 interventions. And the calls came from all over the county.

Local officials believe three things must change. First, they need to hire more people. While about 17,000 work in the field right now, researchers at the San Diego Workforce Partnership have said the county needs 8,000 more. That’s complicated by the fact that many current employees are underpaid and burned out, a survey of nearly 1,600 behavioral health workers found. Forty four percent said they might soon seek a different job, and some described their work as “merciless,” “brutal” and “incred ibly demoralizing.” In jails, the Sheriff ’s Department is having a similarly tough time recruiting mental health clinicians. Second, the region needs more facili ties. Plans are under way to expand and build new units, especially in nursing homes, shortterm care centers and adult residential facilities. Third, and perhaps most significantly, the county wants to shift mental health care to a more preventive model. Part of this involves hiring people who’ve been diagnosed with mental ill nesses who can act as peer support spe cialists. By offering help sooner, leaders believe hospitalizations can be pre vented. What this overhaul will cost and how long it will take is unknown. “We want to reshape the system, and it’s going to take time,” said Luke Bergmann, the county’s behavioral health director and the plan’s principal architect. “But in this moment, we have to stay focused and vigilant on ensuring that there are more acute health care re sources available as soon as possible.”

Officer Tony Pacheco was released from the hospital two days after the shooting. Blood clots in his leg and lungs forced two more stays in the following weeks. Months after the shooting, he was still recovering. Pacheco’s dialogue with the driver of the crashed vehicle was based on testi mony the officer gave in court, while most of the shooting’s aftermath was con structed from interviews with witnesses. Du has not yet testified. He faces sev eral charges, including attempted mur der of a peace officer, and has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. If a judge or jury finds he was insane, he could spend years, if not decades, in a hospital. Fadi Nicolas, the Sharp Mesa Vista doctor, got a call last year from the wom an who’d dived for her diaper bag. Her stay at the hospital had been con tentious. But now she was out, stable and wanted to thank Nicolas for all he’d done. Angelina Juarez, the woman who cut her own throat, was released from Scrip ps Mercy after two weeks. On Aug. 3, she wrote in her journal, “I can’t handle it. My mind is made up. I’m walking out the door but the angel on my shoulder makes my knees hit the floor.” Two days later, on Interstate 5, she jumped from a moving vehicle into rush hour traffic. Officials believe it was a suicide. Elvie Del Rosario prayed the rosary for her son for 40 days. She visits Steven’s grave on Sundays. Therapy is helping her process the grief. Every night, her older son calls and says, “I love you.” Crystal Jenkins moved home, got a car and has been allowed unsupervised visits with her daughter, who turned 12 in Au gust. The two went bowling to celebrate. She never got a job with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, but her GPA was recently 3.4. Lisa Garcia’s youngest son, who once made his mom pinky promise to always take her medication, got married and moved back to San Diego. Garcia is thrilled. In Rancho San Diego, Melinda and Bruce Wollitz went more than a year without knowing where their son, Mar shall, was. Then one morning in December, the phone rang. Bruce picked up. The voice on the other end said Mar shall had overdosed and been found face down in a puddle. He was now in a hospi tal. “I think I probably sounded funny to the person,” Bruce said later. “I was a lit tle bit happy because, one way or anoth er, he was alive.” Marshall spent the next several months at two medical centers and was recently moved to a rehab facility. His dad said he’s slowly getting better. “There’s a little bit of the old guy com ing back,” Bruce said. “It’s the first time we’ve had any hope.” ■

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Maria Madriaga holds a photo of her daughter, Angelina Juarez, while going through her belongings last September at home in National City. Months after Juarez stabbed herself, she jumped from a moving vehicle and was killed.

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At their El Cajon home, Melinda and Bruce Wollitz hold an old photo of their son, Marshall. Months later, an unexpected phone call offered them their first news in more than a year about where Marshall was.

Mental health calls from Monday through Wednesday By the end of the three days, law enforcement received 238 mental health calls for service. More than 70 percent of calls were about mental health emergencies, or 5150s. Just over a quarter were suicide-related, or 1145s and 1145Ts. A handful started as some other type of call and were later determined to be related to mental health. The five noted ZIP codes saw the most calls during the three-day period.

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BORREGO SPRINGS

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SAN MARCOS JULIAN

RAMONA

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POWAY

92105 City Heights

LAKESIDE

9 LA JOLLA

EL CAJON

92101 San Diego

ALPINE

20 92113 Logan Heights

CHULA VISTA

CAMPO

91910 Chula Vista

92114 Skyline

ZIP codes that are gray had no calls from April 25 through 27. ZIP codes can cross city and neighborhood boundaries. ZIP codes listed may include multiple neighborhoods. Sources: San Diego County law enforcement agencies

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hey’re 911 dispatchers and physicians, judges and police officers. All have witnessed firsthand the toll of mental illness. As part of the UnionTribune’s look at the state of mental illness in San Diego County, we spoke to people on the front lines — people who, beyond the 72 hours, experience it day in and day out. Here’s what they had to say, in their own words.

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No one should have to ﬁ ght addictions without help BY FADI NICOLAS ong before the COVID19 pandemic, millions of children and adolescents in the United States struggled with their mental health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that in 2003, 5.4 percent of youth ages 6 to 17 had previously been diagnosed with either anxiety or de pression. The percentage climbed to 8.4 percent in 2011 and 2012. Unfortunately, the COVID19 pan demic exacerbated these issues. Our youth had to adapt to difficult changes such as quarantining, social distanc ing and virtual learning. The CDC states that in 2021, more than a third (37 percent) of high school students reported they experienced poor men tal health during the COVID19 pan demic, and 44 percent reported they persistently felt sad or hopeless in 2020. When our youth struggle with be havioral health issues, multiple inter personal problems can arise, causing conflict in school, in families and with peers and friends. Additionally, poor mental health can cause various phys ical ailments. As a society, we must collectively support the whole health of our children and adolescents. While any of these predicaments can occur in the present, significant concerns may also develop in the fu ture, as negative mental health can deteriorate our youth’s overall well being and selfworth. This is a stark difference from the effects of positive mental health, which aid in cultivating several vital traits such as discipline, resilience and confidence. At Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital in Serra Mesa, we offer 14 comprehensive behavioral health programs, including child and adolescentspecific inpa tient, outpatient and partial hospital ization services to ease the growing concern surrounding San Diego’s increasing behavioral health needs. Our team members include board certified child psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, child psychologists, recreation therapists and special education instructors who help treat individuals experiencing significant mental health issues. Together, we care for San Diegans suffering from various kinds of emotional distress, such as suicidal thoughts, severe ag gression or selfharm. We partner with a patient’s loved ones to create a per sonalized intensive treatment plan and use modalities like cognitive be havioral therapy to help them better manage their thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Our hospital also focuses on treat ing young patients with substance use disorders. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Adminis tration, the percentage of people in 2019 with such disorders was highest among young U.S. adults ages 18 to 25 — affecting 24.4 percent, or more than 8 million individuals.

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Substance use disorders are com plex and result in the inability of an individual to control use of alcohol, medication or drugs. It can cause or contribute to other health conditions, such as depression and anxiety. By integrating behavioral training, group therapy and 12step recovery princi ples in our treatment programs, we help teens build and maintain a sober, healthy lifestyle. We also encourage intensive family involvement with multifamily group sessions and paren tal support and education. Substance use disorders are a national health issue for individuals of all ages, not just our youth. Last year, more than 100,000 people in the U.S. died from an opioid overdose. Fentanyl — a synthetic drug — is the No. 1 killer among people ages 18 to 45, nationally and locally. In San Diego County, at least 817 deaths last year have been classified as unintentional fentanyl overdoses, and there has been a 2,300 percent increase in fentanyl deaths in the region since 2016. We provide a comprehensive hospi talbased addiction treatment pro gram through Sharp McDonald Cen ter in Linda Vista to support adults with substance use disorders. Through our inpatient and outpatient services, we collaborate with patients to devel op a recovery and aftercare plan. Lean ing on a community of support gives patients a higher chance of recovery.

Leaning on a community of support gives patients a higher chance of recovery.

That’s why our boardcertified addic tionologists, psychologists, registered nurses and licensed therapists work with patients and welcome their loved ones into the treatment process. Tending to our emotional, psychol ogical and behavioral health needs is essential to our overall wellbeing, as all of these facets influence one’s liveli hood. With this belief, we are dedicated to healing and support through our services at Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital and Sharp McDonald Center. As the San Diego region’s largest private behavioral health care pro vider, Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital serves as a critical county partner for mental health services. Since 1963, our hospital has provided treatment for approximately 200,000 children, teens, adults and seniors challenged by sig nificant mental illnesses. Visit sharp.com/mesavista to learn more about it. At Sharp McDonald Center, we believe that no one should overcome addiction alone. We offer the most comprehensive hospitalbased pro gram in San Diego that crosses the entire continuum of care. Visit sharp.com/mcdonald to learn more about it.

Nicolas, M.D., is chief medical officer of Sharp Behavioral Health, and a boardcertified psychiatrist with specialties in adult psychiatry and addiction medicine. He lives in North County.

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Schizophrenia is devastating and often misunderstood BY GREGORY LIGHT & NEAL SWERDLOW

chizophrenia is a devastating mental illness and one that is often misunderstood. Roughly 1 out of 100 individuals suffers from lifelong symptoms of schizophrenia or its related conditions; this is true in virtually all cultures and countries around the world. People living with schizophrenia often experience serious symptoms like auditory hallucinations — for example, hearing “voices” when no one else is talking — and delusions, which are fixed, irrational beliefs. Symptoms often begin in the late teens, though they can begin at any time from early childhood through the third or fourth decade of life. Individu als with schizophrenia often experi ence significant problems in their attention, memory and problemsolv ing abilities, all key aspects of cogni tion that can significantly impact functioning in daily life and make it difficult, perhaps impossible, to live independently, maintain employment and engage in social relationships. Antipsychotic medications can often blunt the severity of hallucina tions and delusions, but they do not generally provide relief for the ex tremely disabling problems in cogni tion or life functioning. But research is identifying other avenues of treatment that can be used in addition to these medications that can bring important benefits to indi viduals with schizophrenia. In recent years, controlled research studies have demonstrated that specific brain training exercises, when delivered in the appropriate context, “dose” and intensity, can produce meaningful improvements in symptoms, like hear ing voices, and in cognitive and daily functioning, even among those with the most severe forms of schizophre nia. These brain exercises take advan tage of the brain’s ability to change and learn, a process called “plasticity,” to produce meaningful improvements in important areas of functioning by finetuning the participant’s ability to efficiently process sensory informa tion. The training is delivered by com puter “games,” in which the computer continuously adjusts the level of diffi culty to match the person’s changing abilities and performance. As patients achieve correct responses, the digital exercises adapt to present the perfect amount of challenge to promote maxi mal learning. At the UC San Diego Center for

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Advanced Neurotherapeutics, partici pants are shuttled to our program approximately three times each week to complete these computerized cogni tivetraining exercises. Everyone in our National Institutes of Healthfunded studies gets a “full dose” of these train ing exercises. In parallel, we are work ing to identify medications that help patients perform these exercises better and faster. Rather than target symptoms like hallucinations, these medications are being used to make brain training more efficient. These might be called “proplasticity” medications. Impor tantly, the medications are used only during training periods — typically 10 weeks — and are not intended to be used on a longterm basis. Current and past participants come to enjoy the training sessions, which can result in an enhanced qual ity of life, something not necessarily provided by medications alone. The next treatment breakthrough for improving schizophrenia outcomes —

Symptoms often begin in the late teens, though they can begin at any time from early childhood through the third or fourth decade of life.

in addition to new medications target ing symptoms — will include treat ments that allow the brain to learn how to repair itself and better process infor mation from the world around it. It is important to note, however, that the results of the braintraining exercises may vary, and they are not a substitute for traditional medical treatment. In fact, individuals must remain on their current medications in order to participate in these studies. If you or a friend or family member suffer from schizophrenia and want to participate in our studies of brain training exercises, you can be evaluat ed for study enrollment by calling (619) 5432314.

Light is a professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine and director of Mental Health Research and the Mental Illness, Research, Education and Clinical Center at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and lives in Chula Vista. Swerdlow is a distinguished professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine and lives in La Jolla.

Our LGBTQ resource center offers help, advocacy BY MAX DISPOSTI

hen the North County LGBTQ Resource Cen ter first opened its doors in that warm December 2011, we learned right away that the responsibility and the project we invested in was going to be bigger than what we had initially ex pected. Since the very beginning, being the only LGBTQI+ service provider in North County has meant being at the center of any request for help, support and advocacy that LGBTQI+ North County families and individuals were searching for. We quickly learned that just provid ing services was not going to be enough. Education, advocacy and policy changes were also needed in order to reduce the harm and dispari ties that centuries of discriminatory practices have inflicted on queer peo ple. Among our many programs, behav ioral health was and still is where these disparities in our community are most noticeable. In fact, the American Psy chiatric Association and the American Psychological Association have caused more harm to the LGBTQI+ commu nity than any other community by classifying homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1952. Several religious institutions have crusaded and preached against us as an entire com munity of humans. It wasn’t until 1967 that homosexuality was partially de criminalized in the United Kingdom and until 2003 that sodomy laws were declared unconstitutional in the U.S. Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas. It wasn’t until 2012 that the American Psychiatric Association withdrew its official position that transgender people had a mental disorder. Until 1973, homosexuality was considered — in the Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — a perversion, a mental health disor der often addressed with heavy medi cations, where practices of lobotomy, isolation, conversion or reparative therapies were quite frequent. Without any scientific or medical research, our community was scrutinized for just existing, and even after 1973, political and religious institutions have used that old criminalizing narrative as an excuse to deprive LGBTQI+ people from accessing education, career paths, and overall equality and repre sentation. Nowadays, that discrimination and violence is still a known history among LGBTQI+ folks, especially when they are using behavioral health services. In fact, some residual stigmatizations among mental health providers — and at times just plain ignorance and bi

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ases in approaching transgender expe riences and identities — are still the cause of distrust and unpleasant expe riences among members of the LGBTQI+ community. LGBTQI+affirming practices are still quite rare in California. But in other states, they are often taboo or, when it comes to mental health help for minors, even prohibited by law. Practices of conversion therapy that have been defined as harmful, life changing and traumatic by both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Associ ation are still legal in the majority of states. For these very reasons, LGBTQI+ people seek free therapy services at our center even when they have insurance or the means to pay. They come to us because we have LGBTQI+ therapists who understand the psychological implications of trauma that LGBTQI+ individuals experience and how cer tain heteronormative expectations on how to relate with the opposite sex can affect our selfesteem, and how stigma and bigotry — but also family, religion and violence — can make our exist ences a challenge when compared to

other nonminority groups. When people also live the intersectionality of being Black, Indigenous or people of color and queer, the reasons for seek ing therapy outside the more conven tional provider are even more compel ling. At our center, 67 percent of the people we serve through our behavior al health programs are also part of a community of color. When it comes to our youth, the search for an LGBTQI+affirming mental health provider becomes very difficult even when they are supported by their parents. In fact, many of the providers with competency are private, and those under insurance are usually allowed to cover just a few sessions. It is more difficult when a 12yearold needs services but doesn’t have family support. In these cases, reaching out to an LGBTQI+ service provider is the only way to go. This is also why a school’s partnership with a local LGBTQI+ Center becomes not only necessary but also vital. A 12yearold in California can reach out for behavioral health serv ices without the consent of a guardian or parent, and many fortunately do so. Research has proved that allowing

minors to seek out help, especially when their family might not be sup portive of their LGBTQI+ identity, can be lifesaving. Yet despite the research and the proven validity of these ap proaches, negative political narratives are taking root in the country, and simplistic headlines about parental rights are undermining the safety and wellbeing of children. Contesting the right of a child to seek help is an ap proach that has very recently escalated into book banning around issues of gender identities, protests outside drag show venues, and even violence against LGBTQI+ organizations and individuals. Accessible and culturally aware behavioral health services for LGBTQI+ people are sometimes the only places where we LGBTQI+ peo ple can be supported, affirmed and recognized. Decades of LGBTQI+ movements, research and struggle did that, and centers like ours are here to make sure we are not going back in time.

Disposti is founder and executive director of the North County LGBTQ Resource Center. He lives in Oceanside.

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As a judge, I know the system can improve — and how BY CINDY D. DAVIS

s a Superior Court judge specializing in mental health cases, I have the unique opportunity to view the intersection of mental health and the justice system from “the trenches.” You might be surprised how mental health issues weave their way through and touch on so many areas of the law. Mental health often determines whether, when and how cases proceed, as well as the restriction and restora tion of important rights. For example, whether criminal defendants can be held for trial depends on their mental competency. Legal proceedings deter mine whether they will be released from a mental hospital at their request or receive treatments such as electro convulsive therapy. Individuals who cannot take care of themselves may become subject to courtordered con servatorships, permitting certain kinds of life and health decisions to be made for them by others. The Superior Court handles all of these kinds of cases. But in my years on the bench, hear ing these types of cases, certain themes emerge. One common thread I have found is each person that has a mental health issue is a unique individual. The variety of issues, diagnoses, functional ity, needs and community placement options differ so widely that any solu tion to our “mental health crisis” can not be onesizefitsall. Someone who is actively experiencing visual and audi tory hallucinations, for example, is by no means the same as someone suffer ing from an anxiety disorder. Addition ally, many are dual diagnosed, which means they have a substance use disor der along with mental illness, and the challenges of treating both conditions simultaneously cannot be under stated. So we must be creative in our solutions. We need to tailor treatment and resources to the individual. Working within the existing system, I have seen the frustration of family and community members when, for exam ple, an adult child violates a restraining or protective order and refuses treat ment or medication. I have seen fam ilies who have run out of options, who must protect themselves through “tough love,” who throw up their hands in despair wishing that the system would do more. Here is where a greater understand ing of one judge’s perspective may be helpful. As judges, we work to maintain a delicate balance. Your adult child is an individual with his or her own con stitutional rights and freedom to make choices. There is also a need to protect the community and to provide vital help and care when a tipping point is reached, and individuals are no longer able to make those choices for them

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selves. We view each person and each case as unique, which means that the process is not simple; complications and delays arise that can engender frustration and even anger. My person al goal in presiding over these cases is to honor and balance all of the compet ing interests with sensitivity in order to create the fairest and most construc tive possible outcome. How can we improve the system? Personally, I would love to see more services, more treatment, more beds, more compassion and more alterna tives for individuals with mental health issues. And that is why, when I get up and go to work every day, I am profoundly honored to be able to work with the court, behavioral health services, probation, the prosecution and de fense, and all the agencies and individ ual contributors involved in our col laborative justice court. In San Diego County, the Behavior al Health Court program is a shining example of what the justice system can do to improve outcomes for justice involved individuals who are living with mental illness. The program, which began in 2009, helps people move from jail to lives of selfsufficiency by divert ing participants from prison to group homes, supported by wraparound

One common thread I have found is each person that has a mental health issue is a unique individual.

mental health services, formal proba tion and strict oversight by the court. All participants come to court monthly, and their progress and com pliance is monitored and, more impor tant, applauded. I have seen amazing transforma tions over the years. Many of our gradu ates first joined as felony offenders. They can be mentally unstable and often are homeless. And through com mitment, hard work and insight, they graduate as selfsustaining and men tally stable to reunite with loved ones and move on to a much brighter future. Family members share, often tearfully, how grateful and proud they feel. I know that not all criminal defend ants are appropriate for our communi tybased program, but the members who do participate (even if they do not make it all the way to graduation) leave better off as individuals and can face their future with more tools for success. So at the end of the day, when I head home from the courthouse, I know, in some small way, we helped make our community a better place for everyone.

Davis is a judge with the San Diego Superior Court, assigned to the downtown courthouse, specializing in mental health cases. She lives in San Diego. The views expressed in this article are her own.

We all can help prevent suicide. Here’s how to help. BY AMY CHAVEZ

uicide continues to be the secondleading cause of death for youth ages 10 to 14 and the thirdleading cause of death for those ages 15 to 24. This is a staggering number of lives lost and countless others impacted every day, especially considering that many suicides are preventable. San Diego Youth Services’ HERE Now schoolbased suicide prevention and early intervention program fo cuses on creating awareness, promot ing conversations and inspiring con nections to prevent suicide — one community, one school, one life at a time. In collaboration with North County Lifeline and South Bay Com munity Services, HERE Now is now active in over 70 schools across San Diego County, creating a safer place to learn, with suicide and bullying preven tion education for seventh to 12th graders. The County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency’s Mental Health Services Act funds HERE Now. This program’s focus on prevention and early intervention starts these conversations at the community level, with youth, families, community mem bers and school staff frankly discussing suicide and mental health. The goal is to talk about these topics that typically have stigma and shame attached to them in a way that provides truth, perspective and hope. Suicide and mental health can be tough topics for parents to talk about with their children. Many parents are worried that talking about suicide or depression could increase the risk, but that has been proved to not be accu rate. Talking about mental health, discussing how to manage stress, asking specific questions about suicide and providing hope to young people gives them permission to speak about how they feel and find the support that they need. It is so important to stay curious about your children as they develop in their mental and physical health. Staying curious can involve asking openended questions about their day, their experiences, their friendships, and their likes and dislikes. Creating playful rituals around asking could mean a weekly checkin. An example is asking them to share a peak (some thing positive that they experienced or did) and a pit (a challenge, stress or frustration that they encountered) in

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recent days. You can also share your own peak and pit as appropriate to model how you celebrate and handle challenges. This can give you more insight as a parent about any themes or concerns, especially if done as a ritual over time. It also helps establish trust and gives you a foundation to build on when you need to have a corrective conversation or talk about something serious. These conversations can increase mental health and connection, both of which are a big part of suicide prevention. Since we know a significant number of those who die by suicide will show warning signs, it’s important to edu cate ourselves on what to look for when someone might be thinking about suicide. This could include extreme and sustained changes in behavior (eating, sleeping and lack of energy) as well as a lack of interest in things that they once enjoyed. Additional warning signs could be disconnecting and

withdrawing from friends and family, verbal or written comments about suicide and engaging in risky behav iors. We don’t want to make automatic leaps without asking, so it’s important to check in with those you’re concerned about and let them know about the specific concerns you have based on their behavior and/or words. It is OK to ask someone directly, “are you thinking you want to die by suicide?” If the answer is yes, you can not hesitate to act. Know that you are not alone. This might mean accessing the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988 (available 24/7) or taking that person to get a higher level of support. If it’s not an emergency, consider tap ping into a network of support that could include your child’s school coun selor, primary care physician, confi dential family and friends, and com munity and faith leaders. Providing support services, talking

about suicide, reducing access to means and following up with loved ones are just some of the actions we can all take to help others. We can all help prevent suicide by talking openly about mental health in our families, schools and communities. The follow up piece is also important: We must act; we must advocate for our youth; we need to provide hope. Hope can look like advocating, supporting and providing resources, because hope conveys, “You matter. We will find a solution even if it is plan A through Z. We will never give up.” Visit sdyouthservices.org to learn more about San Diego Youth Services.

Chavez is a program manager at San Diego Youth Services, a nonprofit that helps the community’s most vulnerable youth, including foster children and those experiencing homelessness, family conflict, abuse and neglect, mental health struggles and substance abuse. She lives in San Diego.

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Dispatchers trained to be calm voices in an emergency BY BRIAN JENSEN rom a very early age, we are all taught that if you have an emergency, you dial 911 and you’ll get help. When you dial 911, you aren’t talking to a police officer, a fire fighter or even a paramedic. You are talking to an emergency telecommuni cator, more commonly known as a dispatcher. In San Diego and most other parts of the world, dispatchers are the calm voice in the chaos of an emergency, helping people through their worst days. Dispatchers gather information, ask questions and serve as the vital first link in the emergency response chain. Despite all of that, the most important part of the fire dis patcher’s job is to provide lifesaving care until first responders can arrive on scene. The San Diego FireRescue Depart ment employs up to 51 fulltime fire dispatchers who are crosstrained as emergency medical dispatchers. Each fire dispatcher completes a rigorous sixweek academy, which includes training in emergency medicine using a program known as the Medical Priority Dispatch System. This system was developed in 1978 by Dr. Jeff Clawson and is now overseen by the Interna tional Academy of Emergency Dis patch. Dispatchers are trained to triage a variety of common ailments or chief complaints and then provide postdispatch and prearrival instruc tions. The triage helps dispatchers determine the most appropriate re sponse level and resource to send to emergencies. Before leaving the classroom, dis patchers spend an extensive amount of time practicing and learning how to properly use prearrival instructions for many crisis situations, including bleeding control, use of tourniquets, how to help someone perform the Heimlich maneuver, how to assist with delivering a child over the phone, and, most importantly, how to give CPR instructions over the phone. When people call 911, it’s often be cause they are in a crisis and don’t know what to do. This is where a trained fire dispatcher can immedi ately intervene with lifesaving care in the form of those prearrival instruc tions. Likewise, in a crisis many people are scared, confused, shocked or even angry, so dispatchers are taught differ ent techniques to effectively manage the range of emotions someone may be going through in an effort to ensure effective patient care and a safe scene for the responding units. Dispatchers spend an additional nine to 12 months on the job with a communications training officer, where they hone their skills as fire and medical dispatchers, learning how to deal with a wide variety of emergencies

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and continuing to practice their pre arrival instructions. Every two years, emergency medical dispatchers must recertify on the Medical Priority Dis patch System, recertify in CPR, and stay up to date on the latest devel opments in prehospital care by com pleting a minimum of 24 hours of con tinuing education. One area of training that is fairly new for dispatchers is that of mental health and wellness. When the San Diego fire agency retained Focus Psychological Services to provide counseling for its members, fire dispatchers were included. Dis patchers have the same access to mental health services as firefighters and paramedics, which is crucial be cause dispatchers can experience posttraumatic stress disorder and mental trauma just as first responders can. New dispatchers get an opportu nity to meet the team from Focus dur ing the dispatch academy and learn about what services are available and how to access them. Focus counselors also periodically provide refresher training for all dispatchers on topics including effective coping mecha nisms, how to manage stress, and how to avoid bringing the stress of the job home to family and friends.

Being a dispatcher is a tough, stressful and often emotionally draining job, but for all the dark calls, there are a few bright spots.

In addition to the normal services provided by Focus, San Diego fire provides additional mental health services for dispatchers, including a dedicated chaplain, trained peer sup port personnel and inclusion in critical incident stress debriefs and defusings. For many dispatchers, once a call is over, it’s forgotten, but there are always those calls that hit differently, calls that are replayed over and over in the dispatcher’s mind, and those calls that always leave you wondering if you did everything you could. Those are the calls that make it so important to have mental health services for dispatchers. Being a dispatcher is a tough, stressful and often emotionally drain ing job, but for all the dark calls, there are a few bright spots. Sometimes that immediate intervention by a dis patcher allows a young life to be brought safely into the world or allows someone to have a second chance at life. Those bright spots, the times you really make a difference in someone’s life, make this career worth it.

Jensen has been a dispatcher with the San Diego FireRescue Department for more than nine years and is currently a fire dispatch administrator. He lives in San Diego.

How 911 dispatchers care for their own mental health BY ALEXIEUS PERKINS ental health is a complex topic in and of itself. Add fastpaced, highstress and emergencybased work into the mix and you’ll turn that one complex topic into a tangled web of thoughts and emo tions. That web is where most 911 dispatchers live, but fortunately where there is chaos, there is order, and I would say that most of us have found that order. There is no right or wrong way to find inner peace when we listen to the horrors of strangers’ lives al most every day. We all have different ways of finding that peace. Some may be unconventional, but what’s impor tant is that the job gets done. As I continue to explain the inner workings of the dispatch psyche, keep an open mind and remember there isn’t a standard procedure to mental health. Not all emergencies are created equal. While we do treat every call as an emergency, many of them don’t emotionally bother most of us. These types of calls are your standard “I’m feeling sick,” cutanddried, bythe book calls that many of us could han dle in our sleep. While these calls can become cumbersome over the course of a 12 to 16hour shift, as any long task would, there is still no emotional attachment involved. There are also calls of fires, or someone lost on a mountain, or other miscellaneous things; again, no emo tional attachment and, for the most part, these calls are forgotten soon after the call is completed. Then there is the small percentage of calls that aren’t so rare that they’re shocking but that are rare enough to get the heart racing and send chills down your spine. The call of a grand mother holding her dying grandchild because he slipped into the backyard pool, unnoticed. The call of a wife who came home to find her husband not breathing on the ground, not sure how this could be happening to her. Even worse still, the call of a parent who finds their baby, lying stiff in the crib, begging for a reason why this has happened. Those are the calls most of us spend the remainder of our lives trying to bury. It’s at this point that we can get tangled in the web and that we must find a way to the surface or be consumed by our grief. So how do we cope? How do we

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continue to answer the constant calls coming in? How do we spend years in this profession? There are many ways that we do this, and it starts with our dispatching community. We spend a large portion of our lives with our coworkers, and these are people who understand you in a way that someone outside of the pro fession couldn’t. We are all in a room together, listening to one half of the call, reading call notes to see what is happening, and when one of us faces a terrible incident, we all flock to that person to give support, love and kind ness. We have programs such as Focus Psychological Services that give us the opportunity to speak with professional counselors about emotional and men tal traumas, as well as chaplains that can be at the dispatch center immedi ately for those occasions when the job

is overwhelming. Outside of that, many of us have what is considered to be “dark humor” — we tell inside jokes that someone on the outside would never understand, nor should they. This type of humor helps us cope with the dark things we hear. We cling to the bits of comedy in our lives that keep the light shining. Sometimes you have to downplay the humanity of it all and turn things into humor to keep from being con sumed by the negative emotions. On top of that, we treat our dispatch center like one big family. We celebrate holidays, special occasions and joyous moments such as birthdays, weddings or births. Many of us will gather out side of work for outings, trips and even game nights. Just like any family, we bicker and squabble, but in the dark est moments, there isn’t a doubt in any of our minds that the person sitting

next to us will provide comfort. Outside of our little environment, individual dispatchers treat them selves in whatever way they see fit. I personally get monthly facials and massages to help with the physical manifestations of my stress. Some travel any chance they can, and others spend precious moments with their families and loved ones. A vast major ity of us have pets and, well, who can be sad with a fur baby giving you kisses? Our mental health web of chaos may seem frightening to someone on the outside looking in, but for us, we’ve found a way to navigate the tangles and move forward for the betterment of those we serve.

Perkins has been a fire dispatcher with the San Diego FireRescue Department for more than three years. She lives in San Diego.

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o call what’s happening to so many Americans, so many San Diegans, so many of our children a mental health crisis is not enough. We need new words to describe it — and new solu tions, too, because help too often is elusive, ineffective, insufficient. Calling something a crisis means we can’t agree on the solution, means we’ll fight over it. The label relegates the problem to a long list of intractable issues that never get solved because we lack the time, the money, the consensus, the commitment, the fillin theblank to make hard choices and stick to them. Everything’s a crisis these days. Cli mate change. Housing. Energy. Immigra tion. You name it. Calling this a crisis means it’s just one more crisis — when it’s really at the root of so many of society’s problems. We’re all fraying. We’re straying. We’re saying, “Help!” or struggling to ask for it. Chronic absenteeism is surging locally and nationwide as mounting mental health issues have left far too many kids falling behind and even out of school. Mounting mental health issues have also left far too many adults in need of limited behavioral health beds, or sleeping on increasingly crowded city streets, or behind bars, where problems in the San Diego County Sheriff ’s Department’s jails can prove fatal. One in 5 Americans will experience a mental illness in a given year, and 1 in 25 live with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression. The pandemic’s lockdowns have focused more attention on our nation’s men tal health as more and more families have found themselves one step closer to the issues that underlie some of our communi ty’s most grievous problems. The reporting in this section reveals how profound a role mental health plays in overdoses, police shootings, incarceration, homelessness, student behavioral issues, and suicide. There’s work to be done. A large number of San Diego County’s 5,000 jail inmates, 8,000 homeless people, 185,000 public high school students and 3.1 million residents need help. The 17,000 peo ple working in the county’s behavioral health field need it, too. A recent survey of 1,600 county behavioral health workers revealed something stunning: 44 percent may soon seek a different job. They’re overwhelmed and using words like “brutal” and “incred ibly demoralizing” to describe their work. So what would help? Three things, experts agree: More work ers. More facilities. More prevention. Research by the San Diego Workforce Partnership shows that the county needs 8,000 more workers, including people diag nosed with mental illness who could be peer support specialists. Nursing homes, short term care centers and adult residential facilities need hundreds of new units. Over all, the field needs a more preventative mod el to help people before they go into hospi tals, facilities, shelters and jails. One big problem is that so much more help is needed than is being provided. A range of people are doing righteous work individually and collectively, with new mo mentum building behind tools as varied as red flag laws, conservatorship and non police 911 responses. Just last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom visited San Diego to propose a 2024 bond measure to raise billions of dollars to house and treat thousands of people with mental health issues. But help is still provided by underpaid and overwhelmed (and demoralized!) be havioral health workers, by police officers being asked to do too much, by nonprofit organizations with lean budgets, and by politicians who mean well but move onto other offices and leave the hard work to the less experienced.

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As a community, we say keep up the good work, but we can’t keep up. The aforemen tioned experts don’t even know how much all of it — more workers, more facilities and more prevention — will cost or when it will materialize. We’re failing. Consider these details from The San Diego UnionTribune’s 72hour project, in which dozens of journalists spent a year analyzing the region’s mental health sup port system: • San Diego County’s Psychiatric Emer gency Response Teams launched in 1996 to assist people having mental health break downs. Today, the county funds 72 of these clinicians, but they’re often not available when needed. Depending on the day, there may only be about a third of them working. • The county’s Behavioral Health Court launched in 2009 to provide alternatives to incarceration for people with mental ill nesses. Today, more than 350 people have taken part. Sixtysix people were moving through the program at last count in Octo ber. Of the other 291, only 51 percent had completed the program. • The county’s Mobile Crisis Response Teams launched in 2021. Today, there are 35 teams. All for a population of 3.1 million county residents. After reading The San Diego Union Tribune’s 72hour project, it’s clear some thing needs to happen. Soon. It’s also clear more work is needed. By all of us, but by the UnionTribune itself. The 72hour project is not the end of our work. It’s the start of it. We’re only beginning to look at this issue holistically, with an eye toward solutions. Next we are planning a series of indepth public forums featuring people with exper tise and experience in the mental health system. And we are inviting you to take part and help us prepare a variety of new solu tions and collaborations. We want to hold three forums this year, in the summer, fall and winter, in person and streamed online. We will have more specifics soon. We hope the idea intrigues potential cohosts and participants alike, and we ask those inter ested to reach out to us with ideas for how we might join forces. For now, we pledge to convene these public forums to listen, to learn and to lead on this fundamental issue of our time and of our region. For all of us. In calling new attention to a massive problem, we will celebrate successful ap proaches that have helped others, spotlight mistakes to avoid repeating them and work to reduce stigmas to allow for an honest, inclusive conversation all year long. If you are a current or former (or future!) behavioral health worker, we say thank you. If you or your family are facing mental health issues, we say you are not alone. To helpers and those in need of help alike, we say that we care about your mental health, that things can get better, and that we truly hope you will seek new solutions with us. We are interested in your personal sto ries, your ideas for panelists, and your thoughts on which specific subjects we should explore at these forums. Please email our journalists today, to morrow or throughout the year at 72hours@sduniontribune.com and help shape the conversation to come. And please watch this space for more information on the forums as we plan them. We hope you will lend a hand. We are in this together, and that’s how we’ll try to emerge from it.

SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS To share your own struggles or ideas about what might help, please email 72hours@sduniontribune.com and include a phone number we won't publish but may use to call you. STEVE BREEN UT ILLUSTRATION

THE BACKSTORY Tarcy Connors

PROJECT HAS PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL MEANING On Mother’s Day in 2009, my 26yearold son jumped from the balcony of a fourthstory apart ment building. He had been diag nosed with bipolar disorder and, as often happens, he struggled to find the right medications that would treat both his bonecrush ing depressions and his high flying mania. He miraculously survived that leap over the iron railing, but the cost was a shattered back that is held together with titanium rods and an addiction to the opiates prescribed to treat his pain. And so began the cycle that so many in our community live with: grateful for the moments of joy when my son is sober and stable and we get to share a laugh, de spairing when yet again he tinkers with his meds and careens into crisis, destroying everything in his path. And you are helpless. Over the last 14 years, my son has received a patchwork of care from a variety of providers, some of whom were kind and caring, others who were indifferent and downright contemptuous. On any given day, I was angry, desperate, sad, but most of all determined to protect my son from a system so

fractured it’s a miracle that more people aren’t homeless, disabled or dead. So I had a very personal reason for wanting to undertake a project that would expose the frailties of San Diego County’s behavioral health system. But I also have had a profes sional interest in the subject for decades, first as a Statehouse reporter in Augusta, Maine, in the 1980s. My beat included the Au gusta Mental Health Institute, the staterun, locked psychiatric hospital. It was an overcrowded, outdated facility where patients struggled for dignity and basic care, and workers despaired of ever being able to help the state’s most seriously mentally ill people. It took the death of 10 patients and a sweeping court settlement to initiate action. Unfortunately, a recent assess ment of Maine’s mental health system, which is still under court order, found tens of thousands of seriously mentally ill adults had insufficient care. There was inad equate funding, and seriously mentally ill people often ended up in jail or prison. Sound familiar?

I moved to San Diego in 1988. Over the next 35 years, I wit nessed the dismantling of the county’s safety net for its most vulnerable residents as the county Board of Supervisors shifted from an elected body focused on offering a hand up to the mentally ill, the poor, the disabled and the homeless to one that perceived any assistance as a handout. The result: a smoldering suf fering throughout our communi ty. The San Diego UnionTribune staff has chronicled the break down of the mental health system in news stories big and small in recent years. But we weren’t really capturing the immense toll it was taking because it was happening in places we couldn’t see. Like my house. My son, my only child, was a cheerful, bright, funny human being who loved acting and sing ing. He thrived in the gifted and talented program in elementary school. In high school, he ran track, sang in the choir and was a member of the history club. I considered his mood swings to be normal adolescent behavior. Until

they weren’t. And then I wit nessed the unraveling of a young man who has struggled to remain tethered ever since. In the summer of 2021, report ers and editors came together and talked about ways we could tell this story. We decided to frame our reporting around a 72hour period, the amount of time some one can be held against their will if they are deemed a threat to them selves or others. But we needed buyin from those with the power to grant us access to places ordinarily shielded from public view. In midJuly, public safety editor Dana Littlefield, photo editor Sam Hodgson and I reached out to the region’s top officials and invited them to sit down in August to hear about the project: San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit, District Attorney Summer Stephan, thenSheriff Bill Gore, Mayor Todd Gloria and Supervisor Nathan Fletcher. All except Gloria attended (he sent a representative from his office) and pledged to give us as much access as possible while protect ing people’s privacy. To my sur prise, they did.

The staff then spent months laying the groundwork for the eventual launch of the project, building relationships and writing stories. Finally, we decided to launch in late April 2022. For three days — 72 hours — 20 reporters and photographers visited schools, jails, police dispatch centers, the county psychiatric hospital, mobile crisis response teams, crisis stabilization centers, and the homes of parents and those diagnosed with a mental illness. Because we had sat down with the power brokers, because we had taken time in the months up to the launch to learn from and listen to those in the field, we gained that access we so sorely needed to tell the story. It was a privilege we did not take lightly. Nearly two years after we embarked on this endeavor, we share what we found with you. My hope is that when we look back in 10, 20, 30 years, we don’t look like Maine and its missed opportuni ties. I also hope that people like my son will choose to step away from that balcony because they know there is a lifeline out there. And that people care.

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Deborah Valera and Emmanuel Navarro, outreach workers from Father Joe’s Villages, walk along 17th Street and Imperial Avenue downtown, offering help to people on the street.

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Lisa Garcia, a program manager at Recovery International, takes her medication at her home in El Cajon. She once prom ised her youngest son that she’d always take her pills.

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Crystal Jenkins waits for a trolley to the San Diego Central Courthouse downtown in late 2021. She was recently allowed unsupervised visits with her daughter.

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NATIONAL CITY PD SEEKS OK TO BUY GUNS MICHAEL

Request to council part of law requiring agencies to ask before purchasing

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More signs of climate threat — and a little bit of hope It’s a familiar refrain: Studies show the impacts of global warming could be severe and coming on faster than expected. At the same time, en couraging reports surface about innovations that show promise in combating cli mate change. This is another good newsbad news installment about the Earth’s atmos phere heating up. It would be nice if, for once, there was a balance here, but there never is. The threats from climate change are increasing and so are the humangenerated greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to it. The recent bad news comes in the form of two studies that conclude sea level rise along the coasts of southern states is occurring faster than anticipated, threatening lowlying com munities. (Listen up, Del Mar.) While the Gulf Coast is a long way from San Diego, the research has broader application looking ahead — so much so that a local mem ber of Congress felt com pelled to sound the alarm. “The ocean is rising at unprecedented levels,” Rep. Sara Jacobs, DSan Diego, wrote on Twitter, referring to a Washington Post article about the studies. “Entire communities could soon be underwater. We can’t just shrug our shoulders and pretend this isn’t happening — we need to act.” A researcher involved in one of the studies said the rate of sealevel rise is so high along southern coasts that it’s similar to what would be expected at the end of the century in a very high greenhouse gas emis sions scenario. “It’s a window into the future,” lead author Sönke Dangendorf of Tulane Uni versity told the Post. The author of the other study, Jianjun Yin of the University of Arizona, said: “The entire Southeastern coast and the Gulf Coast (are) feeling the impact of the sea level rise accelera tion.” The studies note there SEE SMOLENS • B3

BY TAMMY MURGA NATIONAL CITY

The National City Police Depart ment is seeking permission from the City Council to purchase shot guns, rifles and ammunition as part of a state law that took effect last year requiring law enforcement agencies to ask before buying.

Its Annual Military Equipment Use Report shows the department wants $50,500 worth of military style gear. Most of the total cost would go toward purchasing 40 shotguns to replace 33 less lethal shotguns over 30 years old. All new shotguns would be converted to less lethal ones that would fire beanbag rounds and have orange grips to in dicate that they are “for less lethal use,” said Police Chief Jose Tellez. The report also includes a re quest to replenish its inventory of less lethal ammunition and two ri

fles that would substitute older ri fles used by the department’s SWAT unit. NCPD is requesting to acquire the following: • Remington shotguns / 40 / $544.31 each • Accuracy International AT ri fles / 2 / $4,900 each • .308 rifle ammunition / 8,000 rounds / $499 per case of 500 rounds • 12 gauge less lethal munitions / 1,500 rounds / $5.10 per round • Glass breakers / 250 / $77.19 per container of 125 • SABRE .68 caliber less lethal

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Frank Tangherlini, 99, dances with Cami Asher, 24, during a weekly Firehouse Swing Dance event on April 5. Tangherlini, a retired professor, met Asher as a teenager and inspired her to pursue a degree in chemical engineering.

99-YEAR-OLD STAYING RIGHT IN STEP WWII veteran, scientist, Lindy hopper stays active and keeps his mind sharp BY LAUREN J. MAPP When Frank R. Tangherlini walks into a Lindy hop event, other dancers immediately take notice and smile. They walk over to greet him, sit and chat as he changes into his dance shoes and partner with him as he cuts a rug on the floor. Last month during Tangherlini’s birthday jam — a tradition where other Lindy hoppers take turns cut ting in to dance with the person of honor — a steady stream of follow

ers made sure they could each groove with him to a few bars of mu sic. That celebratory dance was for his 99th birthday. For years, Tangherlini has been a staple in the San Diego scene for Lindy hop, a style of dance created in Harlem during the late 1920s that gained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s. While Lindy hop spread around the world, the United States joined World War II. As the conflict grew, many of Tangherlini’s friends who he grew up with in Boston were drafted. Al though he was exempt because he was an electrical engineering stu dent at Boston College, he volun teered for the draft and enlisted in the Army.

“Some of the kids I had grown up with had been drafted, and I didn’t feel it was right that they’d be risk ing their life and I was getting by be cause I was a little better in math ematics than they were — I felt it was only fair,” he said. Tangherlini fought in the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of Alsace as part of the 101st Airborne Divi sion. He fondly remembers a windy day of parachute training where a second lieutenant jumped before everyone else to make sure it was safe. Once he landed, Tangherlini and the rest of the trainees followed, but they couldn’t find him again un til hours later. “Finally at midnight they found

ICONIC LA JOLLA COTTAGES MIGHT BE UPGRADED Rare tenant of both Red Rest and Red Roost recalls stays BY ELISABETH FRAUSTO LA JOLLA

Though they have stood vacant and rundown for decades, La Jolla’s Red Rest and Red Roost cot tages were once home to dozens of inhabitants over the years. “It is a segment of my life that I wouldn’t trade for anything else,” said Charlie Marsden, a rare tenant of both historic cottages. Red Rest and Red Roost, which are next to each other at 1179 and 1187 Coast Blvd., respectively, were built in 1894 for George Leovy and Dr. Joseph Fish burn. They are the oldest

projectiles / 1,500 / $789.38 per con tainer of 375 count. If the City Council approves the department’s requests, the city will use money from its general fund to cover costs. The Police Depart ment’s budget makes up about 46 percent, or $30 million, of the mu nicipality’s $65.1 million in expendi tures, according to its fiscal 202223 budget. The 75page equipment use re port includes information about each requested item, such as life spans, the purpose for which they SEE POLICE • B12

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The Red Rest and Red Roost cottages in La Jolla remain uninhabitable today, though plans are in the works to rehabilitate them. buildings on their original sites in La Jolla. Some 2½ years after a fire destroyed Red Rest and damaged Red Roost, plans are in the works to rehabili

tate the cottages and build a new fourstory, eightunit condominium building nearby with an under ground parking garage. Before the last resident

left in 1977, the cottages saw regular movement of ten ants through their doors. Famed Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist Walter Munk and his sec ond wife, Judith, lived in Red Rest in 1952, according to the La Jolla Historical Society. When Marsden, now a sheep rancher in Doyle, moved into Red Rest in 1964, the structures be longed to Hewitt Cochran and Mary Jane Cochran Thompson, who bought them in 1960. Marsden, who then was a gastroenterology assist ant in the Scripps Clinic for merly on Prospect Street, was tired of commuting to La Jolla from Ocean Beach and called Realtor Virginia Dalton. “She said, ‘I don’t really SEE COTTAGES • B12

him in a pub. After that, we all want to be jumped as dummies,” he said. In recognition of his birthday last month, he received a proclama tion from the San Diego City Coun cil designating March 14 as Dr. Frank Tangherlini Day. The council members cited his service in World War II, contributions to the field of science and years of living in San Di ego. Because he shares a birthday with Albert Einstein, maybe it was inevitable that Tangherlini would go into the field of theoretical phys ics. When the war ended, he re turned to college and earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University in 1948. He later SEE STEP • B12

PUBLIC INPUT SOUGHT FOR WETLANDS PRESERVATION San Diego weighing changes to section of Mission Bay Park BY REGINA ELLING SAN DIEGO

In the past, wetlands — areas of land saturated by ei ther fresh or salt water — were considered messy, muddy and unwanted. In many places, these marshes or swamps were mostly dredged or filled. Wetlands, however, are now becoming more appre ciated as they act as natural water purification systems. They also serve to filter out contaminants, protect against flooding, provide wildlife habitat and more. In California, only 10 per

cent of the state’s historic wetlands remain. But pre serving wetlands, while re taining the recreational areas they border, requires a delicate balance of meeting the needs of many disparate groups. Coastal residents of Pa cific Beach and other nearby areas are now faced with a choice concerning the wet lands in Mission Bay — how much marsh to preserve? Now is the time for locals to make their voices heard on this issue by submitting comments to the San Diego Planning Department. “During my inaugural town hall meeting in Pacific Beach, I had the privilege of listening to the concerns of over 100 families regarding the preservation of McEvoy SEE WETLANDS • B12

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Poet laureate brings community with him, in his work Jason Mag abo Perez thinks about communi ty, sees commu nity, and is in spired by com munity, bringing it into his work. That can look like his early work in activism and organizing as a stu dent at UC San Diego in the late ’90s and early 2000s; or the way that hip hop music spoke to him politi cally as he was growing up along side friends and neighbors who were Black and Brown; or imagin ing his paternal grandmother’s migration from the Philippines to the United States and how it may have felt for her, and maybe for other grandmothers with similar journeys. Perez is San Diego’s poet laure ate for 2023 and 2024, and director and associate professor of ethnic studies at California State Uni versity San Marcos, not far from where he grew up in Oceanside and went to El Camino High School. On Monday, as part of his public facing work as poet laureate, he’ll read from two of his books at 6:30 p.m. at the Mission Hills/Hillcrest Library. He took some time to talk about what he’ll be sharing at this even, his relationship with poetry, and the worthiness of continuing in the struggle for the rights and dignity of marginalized peoples. (This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. For a longer version of this discussion, visit sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut lisadeaderickstaff.html.)

about her and give honor to her story, wanting to evoke her (she passed away in 2006 at the age of 90). If we have healthy relationships with our grandmothers, I think we should always bring them in the room. Being able to share that story is important for me.

On Monday, you’ll be reading from your books, “This is for the mostless” and your latest work in progress, “I ask about what falls away.” Can you talk about what’s going into your decisions about what you’re going to read and share from each of your books for this event, and why? Whenever I do a reading, and for this reading, I’m hoping to share some words that, in some ways, reintroduces myself to the poetry community. I want to share the trajectory of my work and where I was aesthetically, and early on in my early identification of what it meant to be a poet, and sort of trace where I’ve come to now. One of the key things I like to explore in my work is precisely what “This is for the mostless” covers. I’m still inter ested in how we decide what is the raw material for poetry. In that book, I’m really trying to explore what it means to write directly to my communities, to think about that expansively. I am writing to other Filipinos and Filipino Ameri cans, but I am also writing to all of the communities and folks who I’ve encountered in my life, so wanting to tell those stories. I have a poem in there that’s like a speculative reflec tion on my paternal grandmother’s migration and I always like to think about her story as a way of imagin ing one of the people who came here from the Philippines and maybe, immediately upon arrival, regretted being here for all of the reasons we can think of in terms of sexism, colonialism, racism, these kinds of things. So, just wanting to think

You’ve said that, as part of your work as poet laureate, you want to help make poetry Jason more accessible to Magabo those who might feel Perez alienated by it. Did you ever feel alienated by it? If you did, what changed that for you? Yeah, I’ve had an alienating relationship with the Eng lish language from day one. My first language spoken was English, that’s my primary language. My parents spoke Ilocano and Spanish at home, but also spoke English. Because of my mother’s trauma, my father’s old trauma and experiences and reflections, they wanted to make sure we can do well in English, speaking and writing it informally, and then formally through school. Then, this capital Ppoetry that’s being introduced to us, that didn’t reflect our experiences most of the time, or at all, I felt very alienated by it. I didn’t know what kind of poetry was around me, my whole life. This music and the intimations of Ilo cano and English and Spanish that we heard in the neighborhood, or AAVE (African American Vernacu lar Expression), there’s music in

that. The music that I listened to, hip hop, and just really honoring that as poetry. When I was in reflec tion on the role of the poet laureate, or what I take as my responsibility, is to try to democratize poetry, that lowercase “poetry,” to invite folks to think about the fact that poetry, at its root, means “to make.” If any body has known how to make, to made do, it’s those of us who are surviving this system.

When did you first begin to understand social justice issues as being important to you, to the point that you began centering your work as a writer and educator around them? I think they emerged to gether. I think that I have always had a very deep and inti mate sense of social justice and a way to analyze and think about power through the ways that my family raised me. My mother was framed by the FBI in the early ’70s in Michigan, which is a big part of, probably the most major part of why we migrated West because of the trauma from that moment [she was a nurse at a VA hospital in Ann Arbor in 1975, when she and another Filipina nurse were accused and convicted of allegedly poisoning patients, some of whom died. In 1977, the judge in their case ruled that there had been insufficient evidence and that “the overwhelm ing prejudice to the defendants arising from the government’s persistent misconduct prevented the jurors from receiving the case free from taint.”]. My mother was

framed, racially scapegoated, a victim of the racism and patriarchy and White supremacy of the state, and I think, in that particular expe rience, it worked through their parenting in terms of trying to protect us, trying to ensure we could navigate these systems with some resilience, but also with some cre ativity. It wasn’t an outspoken thing in my upbringing, but I had that sense. By the time I got to college, my social consciousness and my politi cal consciousness, my principles, became much more pronounced because I was being invited to think about these things in my communi ty with peers, my involvement with student organizations, but also in some of my classrooms to really honor and think about my history. I think the vocabulary of social jus tice and liberation and these larger political goals to honor the dignity of our communities and to fight for the life of our folks, was central to the thesis of me, of how I wanted to be in the world. Things like solidari ty and care and really extending our labor in service of a larger goal of our community empowerment, in our community selfdetermination. That was a layered thing for me, so that vocabulary really shaped who I served as the central core of how I wanted to be and how I wanted to move in the world within these structures of power, but also imag ining alternatives to these struc tures and building relationships outside of that.

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Chicano Park Day returns in person

Sheriff’s captain takes on new post

For the first time since 2019, thousands of San Diegans will converge in Barrio Lo gan to celebrate Chicano Park Day in per son next weekend. The event commemorates the hard fought history of Chicano Park, which sits under the San DiegoCoronado Bridge where it splits from Interstate 5. The park is well known for the colorful murals adorning the pylons and its role as a cornerstone of the Chicano rights move ment. Construction of the freeway in the mid1960s tore the community in half and displaced many of its residents. But in April 1970, when crews began to build a parking lot for a California Highway Patrol substation where the community had been pleading for a park, hundreds of people took over the site. After successfully occupying the land under the bridge for 12 days, they began to build the park on their own. The park is now designated a national historic landmark, filled with various mu rals that commemorate the area’s vibrant culture and heroes of MexicanAmerican history. The 53rd annual Chicano Park Day is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. It is open to the public and will feature a car show, variety of vendors and food trucks, familyfriendly activities, guest speakers and nearly two dozen performances by Chi cano musicians and traditional dancers. Alberto Pulido, a University of San Diego professor and a member of the Chicano Park Steering Committee, says the per formers and keynote speakers will help to share the story of the park’s 53 years of resil ience and its cultural significance in the community. In the Aztec calendar, Pulido explained, time was divided into “centuries” of 52 years. “Within the Mesoamerican or Indige nous tradition, 52 years marks a life cycle,” he added. “And there’s a new beginning year 53.” This year’s Chicano Park Day theme is “Kindling the New Fire,” as a way to cele brate that new beginning.

The Poway Sheriff ’s Station and the 4S Ranch and Ramona substations have a new leader. Capt. Nancy Blanco has been in the post since March 24. Blanco oversees a staff of 46 sworn and professional personnel in Poway, with an ad ditional 13 in 4S Ranch and 30 in Ramona. Lt. Daniel Vengler will continue to oversee the daytoday operations at the Ramona Sheriff’s Substation, she said. One of the biggest issues she anticipates working on is traffic safety and making sure the communities’ roads are safe. “It is one of the concerns across the state of California,” Blanco said. “One of my goals is to continue working with the community to figure out its needs and concerns over qualityoflife issues.” As a youth, Blanco aspired to a law en forcement career. She followed in the foot steps of her father, Sgt. Jim Blanco, who re tired from the San Diego County Sheriff ’s Department in 2010. As soon as she was old enough, she joined the department’s Explorer Program in the 1990s. Similar to the Senior Volunteer Patrol, but for those ages 1620, Explorers assist with a multitude of tasks. “It is a volunteer program for teens and adults interested in law enforcement,” said Blanco, who grew up in the South County area. “It gives you a mini background. You’re assigned to a station, go on ridealongs and work with the community.” The Explorers volunteer at parades, crime prevention programs at schools and community events. After six years in the Explorer Program, she applied to the Sheriff’s Department and was hired as a sworn deputy in 2000. Her assignments over the years included working in patrol, communityoriented po licing and various supervisory roles. This in cluded a brief stint at the Poway Sheriff ’s Station from December 2014 to February 2015 after being promoted to sergeant. Blanco has also worked for the Narcotics Task Force, which involves personnel from various federal, state and local agencies. Last year, she was promoted to the rank

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Performers at the Chicano Park Day celebration in 2019. The 53rd annual event will be held Saturday. “We’ve ended one cycle; we give thanks for that, we release all those things that from the past have been challenging,” Pulido said, “and we start all over and are thankful.” Pulido says this tradition is especially meaningful with the celebration’s return in person after being held virtually through the pandemic. This is also the first year the adjacent Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Cen ter, which sits at the north end of the park, will be open for the Chicano Park Day cele bration. The museum serves as a place to edu cate the public about Chicano, Latino and Indigenous culture and history, according to Pulido, who is also vice chair of the muse um board. Those who purchase museum tickets on Chicano Park Day will be able to see the in augural exhibit, “PILLARS: Stories of Re silience and SelfDetermination,” a collec tive historical narrative of Chicano Park and Logan Heights from more than 35 dif ferent Chicano and Indigenous artists. Preregistration is recommended due to the high volume of people expected. Tickets are $10 for adults; youths 18 and under get free admission with preregistration online. For more information on the celebra tion, visit chicanopark.com.

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NAPALM TRAIN HAD NO PLACE TO GO IN 1998 In April 1998, a rail car full of napalm, which had been stored at the Fallbrook Naval Weapons Station near Camp Pendleton since the Vietnam War, was left in limbo after a firm in East Chicago, Ind. — citing public and political pressure— reneged on its agreement to take the load. The shipment made it by rail from San Diego to Kansas City, Kan., before it was ordered back to California. Three years later, the Pentagon announced it had finally destroyed the last of the U.S. stockpile of napalm. From the San Diego Union-Tribune, Thursday, April 16, 1998:

HOT POTATO ON SIDING IN KANSAS BUT THE SHIPMENT COULD HEAD BACK TO CALIFORNIA

By Susan Gembrowski, Staff Writer The train carrying 12,000 gallons of sur plus Vietnam Warera napalm from Fall brook to nowhere had a home, albeit tempo rarily, in Kansas City, Kan., last night. And soon it may be headed back to Southern California. The flatbed rail car carrying two 6,000 gallon tanker containers of liquid napalm was diverted to a Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail yard yesterday, where it was ex pected to remain until at least today. Burlington Northern railroad officials have agreed to allow the napalm to stay at its yard for 48 hours, where “it will be treated like any other shipment,” said Jerry Jenkins, a railroad spokesman. A source close to the project, who asked

not to be identified, said the Navy is explor ing the option of temporarily storing the na palm at China Lake Naval Weapons Center, 150 miles north of Los Angeles. The Navy and its prime napalm disposal contractor, Battelle Memorial Institute, plan to identify a temporary storage site for the controversial shipment by midday today, said Greg Koller, a Battelle spokesman in Richland, Wash. Both the Navy and Battelle are searching for a spot to put the napalm, a form of jellied gasoline. The tankers left the Fallbrook Naval Weapons Facility on Saturday, bound for Pollution Control Industries in East Chi cago, Ind. But the company backed out of its contract Monday, citing political and gov ernmental pressure, and leaving the napalm

with no place to go. Battelle and the Navy had little time to decide what to do with the shipment after PCI balked. PCI President Robert Campbell said that if the load of napalm arrived, “We would just reject it, just turn around and send it back.” Koller declined to comment on which companies Battelle was reviewing to take over the disposal work. Besides PCI, three other companies also qualified in the original bid process, Koller

of captain and assigned to the Human Re sources Bureau, a department responsible for recruiting and hiring. Blanco was given her new assignment af ter Karla Menzies, her predecessor, was pro moted to commander. Menzies now oversees the sheriff’s investigations division. Over the past two decades, Blanco said she has seen the number of women choosing a law enforcement career grow. Not only has the Poway, 4S Ranch, Ramona area had two women leading their fa cilities, but voters elected Kelly A. Martinez as sheriff last year. Blanco said there are cur rently 455 women in sworn Capt. positions throughout the Nancy San Diego County Sheriff ’s Blanco Department. According to the department’s website, there were more than 2,350 sworn personnel in 2022, in addi tion to more than 1,670 professional posi tions. “It’s an amazing job with many different opportunities,” Blanco said. “There is sup port regardless if you are male, female or your race. The department is great.” She has had a wide range of experiences during her career, including some that were dangerous. In 2008, she was named “Deputy of the Year” by the city of El Cajon and the Elks Club for saving her partner’s life. Blanco said the incident happened in late 2007, when she and her partner responded to a call in the unincorporated area of El Cajon. “There was a female victim who was very distraught because a neighbor had attacked her,” Blanco recalled. “As we were gathering information she pointed ‘there he is.’ The suspect was around the corner. We told him to stop and talk to us ... and he attempted to attack her (again).” Blanco said they used something like a Taser to subdue the 17yearold suspect, but it had no effect. “He went after my partner over his hand gun, so I had to subdue him,” she said.

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said. PCI was chosen because of cost and technical expertise. Four other companies also submitted proposals to the original bid request, he said. “We couldn’t just roll over to the second choice since the bids are no longer valid,” Koller said. Even so, the decision to stop the train from heading toward East Chicago, Ind., does not absolve PCI of its contractual obli gations, Koller said. “We still think this is a valid contract, and that they did not have the right to back out.” Asked if Battelle would sue, Koller said: “Legal action is one possibility that has been raised.” The process of removing 23 million pounds of napalm, in more than 34,000 canisters that have been stored in a field at the Fallbrook Naval Weapons Facility for more than 20 years, has become a political football. California legislators were pitted against those in Illinois, who said they did not want the napalm traveling through their state. Reps. Ron Packard, RCarlsbad, and Randy “Duke” Cunningham, REscondido, contended that members of the Illinois con gressional delegation were using the napalm issue as a political platform for reelection. Congressmen from Illinois have hotly denied that charge, and cited safety concerns at the Indiana disposal firm. Packard has sent a letter to a federal watchdog agency, the General Accounting Office, requesting an investigation into whether PCI was forced to renege on the con tract because of political pressure. HISTORICAL PHOTOS AND ARTICLES FROM THE SAN DIEGO UNIONTRIBUNE ARCHIVES ARE COMPILED BY MERRIE MONTEAGUDO. SEARCH THE UT HISTORIC ARCHIVES AT SANDIEGOUNIONTRIBUNE.NEWSBANK.COM

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SANTEE EFFORT TO REDUCE RIVER ENCAMPMENTS TO BEGIN BY BLAKE NELSON SANTEE

Santee next month plans to begin punishing people who start fires by the river bed, weeks after a new ordi nance took effect that lead ers hope will reduce the number of encampments. Starting May 15, cita tions will be issued to anyone along the corridor found with firestarting equip ment, trash that threatens local habitats or camping gear affecting the flow of wa ter, according to City Attor ney Shawn Hagerty. The more aggressive ap proach is intended to come before the region’s vegeta

tion, which has grown rap idly under heavy rains, dries out in the summer and in creases the risk of fire. “We want to get in there and address these activities before it’s too late,” Hagerty told the council Wednesday, stressing that the ordinance applies to anyone by the river. “It is not specific to any particular community.” Leaders passed the ordi nance in January and it took effect late February, part of an effort to sidestep limits set by a federal court on when cities can force people off public space. Santee is currently trying to spread the word about the rules.

In addition to press re leases and social media posts, about two dozen signs are planned for the San Di ego River and Forester Creek that warn, “No Fire,” “No Fire Ignition” and “No Pollution,” city records show. Council members asked staffers to set up even more. The ordinance also bans “camping” along the river “while using or possessing a Competent Ignition Source.” Officials have said more than 200 fires have been re ported since September 2020, and leaders have placed much of the blame on the 100plus people esti mated to live along the corri dor.

The head of the local sheriff ’s station said earlier this year that the depart ment would not be heading into the riverbed to force a mass evacuation. If deputies encountered a violation, the offender would be given a misde meanor citation, which comes with a court date, ac cording to Capt. Michael McNeill. Not showing up could lead to an arrest warrant. Homeless advocates have previously worried the measure will only move peo ple around without address ing the core issues that lead people to sleep outside. When San Diego police re

SMOLENS FROM B1 have been abnormal surges in sea levels in that region since 2010. The danger isn’t just to small bayou fishing villages. New Orleans, Mi ami, Houston and other heavily populated coastal areas could be at greater risk of sealevel rise than once thought, according to the Post. Recent hurricanes — Michael in 2018 and Ian last year — were made worse by the fasterrising ocean, one study suggests. From 2010 through 2022, the rise in southern waters was more than double the global average rate of about 4.5 millimeters per year since 2010, based on satellite observations of sea level from experts at the Uni versity of Colorado at Boul der. Given the relatively short period of time observed, researchers say it’s not clear whether the pace of sea level rise will maintain or fall back toward the average of global rates. Yin’s study was pub lished in the Journal of Climate. Dangendorf ’s study was published in Nature Communications. So what are the positive developments? Well, they’re nothing that’s going to offset those grim studies and projections anytime soon, but maybe in the future. UCLA researchers are testing a process to remove carbon dioxide from the

TO DAY I N H I STO RY Today is Sunday, April 16, the 106th day of 2023.

Today’s highlight On April 16, 1945, a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoed and sank the Goya, a Norwegian motor freighter that Germany was using to transport civilian refugees and wounded soldiers; it’s esti mated that up to 7,000 people died.

On this date In 1789, Presidentelect George Washington left Mount Vernon, Va., for his inaugura

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A truck drives through a flooded subdivision in Port Charlotte, Fla., the day after Hurricane Ian made landfall, on Sept. 29. ocean, according to the Los Angeles Times. Times coastal writer Rosanna Xia notes that the ocean is a “silent hero” in climate change because it absorbs huge amounts of heattrapping carbon diox ide. But like the atmos phere, the ocean has been warming at a worrisome clip, contributing to sea level rise and raising havoc with ecosystems. A multimilliondollar project by the UCLA Insti tute for Carbon Manage ment sucks carbon out of ocean water, which when returned can then absorb more CO2. Meanwhile, the resulting residue of calcium carbonate — a natural min eral that’s part of the ocean’s balance — can be put safely on the ocean floor, accord ing to researchers. At this stage, it’s uncer

tain whether such a process eventually could become cost efficient or scaled up enough to make an impact — that would require 1,800 industrialscale versions of the smaller test system, according to Xia. That’s a common con cern. Technological break throughs may be able to help reduce or clean up globalwarming emissions, but — at least early on — cost and scope may not make them feasible. That’s the case with test projects that suck carbon out of the atmosphere — socalled “direct air capture.” Things change, however. Those were issues with solar panels and wind turbines in their formative stages, but costs have come down and their production and use have ramped up dramati cally.

tion in New York.

on a voyage to the moon with astronauts John W. Young, Charles M. Duke Jr. and Ken Mattingly on board.

In 1947, the cargo ship Grand camp, carrying ammonium nitrate, blew up in the harbor in Texas City, Texas; a nearby ship, the High Flyer, which was carrying ammonium nitrate and sulfur, caught fire and exploded the following day; the blasts and fires killed nearly 600 people.

In 2007, a college senior killed 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech before taking his own life.

Today’s birthdays

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from Birm ingham Jail” in which the civil rights activist responded to a group of local clergymen who had criticized him for leading street protests; King defended his tactics, writing, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Bobby Vinton is 88. Kareem AbdulJabbar is 76. Former Massachusetts first lady Ann Romney is 74. NFL coach Bill Belichick is 71. Actor Ellen Barkin is 69. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is 61. Singer Jimmy Osmond is 60. Come dian Martin Lawrence is 58. Actor Jon Cryer is 58. Actor Peter Billingsley is 52.

In 1972, Apollo 16 blasted off

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Renewable energy — wind, solar and hydropower — accounted for 22 percent of the country’s electricity at the end of last year, accord ing to projections published in Scientific American. That’s more than coal (20 percent) and nuclear energy (19 percent). Wind and solar produced more than a fifth of the European Union’s electricity last year, for the first time delivering more power than natural gas, according to the think tank Ember. That’s also more than coal. That’s particularly sig nificant because there was the concern of a possible resurgence in the use of coal because of gas reductions from Russia as a result of its war in Ukraine. The study noted that there was only a small initial uptick in coal use, but the authors said

cently forced some people from downtown streets ahead of the Padres’ open ing day, the head of East County’s only shelter saw a surge of new faces. At the same time, others have pointed out that fires and pollution endanger everybody, including the homeless. Mayor John Minto, who was absent during Wednes day’s meeting, previously said the move “does not punish somebody for being homeless” but “gives us the ability to protect our com munities.”

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that was just a bump in the road toward more reliance on clean energy. And then, of course, there was news about cli mate change and availabili ty of water in California. As has been said ad nauseam, this past historic wet and snowy winter won’t solve the state’s projected longterm water shortage problem. Various strategies are mov ing forward to try to deal with that. One is the muchdis cussed idea of covering water canals with solar panels to limit evaporation and generate renewable energy. The state is helping finance a pilot project in Stanislaus County that could determine where else to put the panels on the state’s 4,000 miles of canals, according to The New York Times. As one official involved in the project said, “It’s just common sense.”

Tweet of the Week Goes to Rep. Scott Pe ters, DSan Diego. “When Dobbs was han ded down, we were told a national ban wasn’t the goal. Now we’re seeing the very real consequences. What’s next? An antivax judge taking down COVID vaccines? What about birth control, Plan B, or PrEP? . . . Perhaps we should let a singular judge halt the sale of Viagra and see the reac tion?”

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MAN ADMITS TO FEDERAL COUNT OF STALKING COWORKER BY CITY NEWS SERVICE SAN DIEGO

A former contract em ployee at a San Diego Navy hospital who prosecutors say harassed a female co worker and installed a hid den camera in her office pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal stalking charge. According to his plea agreement, Jonathan San doval, 30, of Calexico, re corded the coworker as she was changing clothes in her office, then emailed her nude images of herself that he captured from the recording. The U.S. Attorney’s Of fice says the email he sent read, “This is you naked. I’ll make sure and send all your videos of you chang ing. Have fun at work.” One week before that in cident, prosecutors say Sandoval went into the woman’s office and looked through her belongings “while disregarding her re quests to stop.” The U.S. Attorney’s Office said he then showed her a knife and later that day, sent her numerous messages after she told him to stop con tacting her. A grand jury indictment charging Sandoval does not indicate where the pair worked or their specific oc cupations. Sandoval was described by the U.S. At torney’s Office as a former contract employee of the unnamed hospital, while the woman was described as a U.S. military service member. The stalking charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. “Mr. Sandoval deserves to be held fully accountable for his reprehensible ac tions to harass, surveil and intimidate a service mem ber,’’ Special Agent in Charge Joshua Flowers of the NCIS Southwest Field Office said in a statement. “NCIS and our law en forcement partners remain committed to fully investi gating and rooting out criminality within the ranks that threatens the safety of the Department of the Navy family.”

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School boards Chula Vista Elementary School District, 6 p.m. Wednesday; Coronado Unified School District, 4 p.m. Thursday

Marine Science Day at San Diego State today

community. Come dressed to impress and meet or interview with employers looking to hire. If you need resources or assistance, there will be resource booths to browse showing what’s available in the community. Visit adulteducation.sweetwaterschools.org.

Spring Into Sports at Terra Nova Plaza

San Diego State University is hosting a free Marine Science Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at its Coastal and Marine Science Institute, 4165 Spruance Road, San Diego. This once-a-year event is kid-friendly and open to all members of the public. Take this opportunity to explore the university’s marine lab and learn about the university’s research. Marine Science Day will feature a scuba demo, touch tanks, games and raffles, time to talk with marine biologists, food trucks and free parking. Visit mebsa.wordpress.com/ marine-science-day-2023.

Spring Into Sports takes place from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at Terra Nova Plaza, 394 East H St. in Chula Vista. The free event features Slap Shots with the San Diego Gulls, skill activities with the San Diego Loyal FC and San Diego Wave Fútbol Club, and BMX Shows with stunts by bicycle professionals. Other free activities include games and random drawing giveaway of two bicycles from Dick’s Sporting Goods; Robeks smoothie sampling; healthy pet food sampling from Unleashed by Petco and other giveaways; plus football, lacrosse, soccer and volleyball skill games with Hilltop High School coaches and team members. No reservations needed.

Seminar for caregivers of those with dementia

Community invited to 'Healthy Living' event

The Alzheimer’s Association and the George G. Glenner Alzheimer’s Family Centers invite all to a free seminar for caregivers of those with dementia at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Innovative Town Square Adult Day Center at 2765 Main St., Ste. A, Chula Vista. Learn how to better support and empower caregivers facing the challenges associated with dementia. Lunch will be provided by the Community Congregational Development Corporation. RSVP to DementiaCareEducation@glenner.org.

The community is invited to "Healthy Living for Your Brain and Body," from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday at the Norman Park Senior Center, 270 F. St. in Chula Vista. The event is sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association San Diego/ Imperial Chapter. Attendees will learn about Alzheimer's, dementia and memory loss, as well as research in diet and nutrition, exercise, cognitive activity and social engagement. Breakfast will be provided, along with giveaways and a healthy-drink demonstration. Register by calling the 24/7 Helpline at (800) 272-3900.

High school district holds career and resource fair The Sweetwater Union High School District hosts a free Adult Education Career/Resource Fair from 10 a .m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Chula Vista Adult School, 1034 Fourth Ave. This event is for students, families and the

Volunteers invited to help with park cleanup Registration closes Friday for the Community Service Day park cleanup from 9 to 11 a.m. April 29 at El Toyon Park, 2005 E. 4th St., National City. Volunteers are invited to sign up at

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joinnatcity.com, Activity 5388. Call (619) 336-4290 or email communityservices@nationalcityca.gov.

Gun owners group hosts meeting The San Diego County Gun Owners, a political action committee advocating for Second Amendment rights, will host a monthly membership meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at La Bella Pizza, 373 Third Ave., Chula Vista. The meeting is free and open to the public. Guests welcome. Topics will include updates on the committee’s education and advocacy efforts, gun safety training classes and recent legal rulings. Visit sandiegocountygunowners.com.

A rendering of Southwestern College’s new center.

Day of the Child celebration at Chula Vista park

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The Chula Vista Community Collaborative hosts a Day of the Child celebration from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Chula Vista Memorial Park, 373 Park Way. This free family event provides games, food, live music, prizes and a classic car show, plus art, science, sports and health pavilions. Parents can also find resources to stay well informed and to keep children safe and healthy. Contact Jovita Arellano at (619) 227-4588 or jovita.arellano@cvesd.org.

Police Department hosts pancake breakfast The National City Police Department hosts a “Shop With a Cop” fundraiser pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at American Legion Post 255, 35 E. 18th St. Enjoy pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee and juice, plus a K-9 demo, music, opportunity drawing and more. Tickets are $7 at bit.ly/3maezFp before 3 p.m. Friday, or $10 at the door. “Shop With a Cop” is sponsored annually by local law enforcement, SeaWorld, Target and STAR/PAL to give needy children a happier holiday season and to encourage positive relationships with police. This year’s host agency is the National City Police Department. Send notices to fyi.south@sduniontribune.com at least two weeks before events are to take place.

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COLLEGE BOTANIC GARDEN AREA GETTING A MAKEOVER BY TAMMY MURGA The South Bay Botanic Garden has long been a hidden jewel at Southwestern College’s Chula Vista campus. It opened nearly 50 years ago with only a greenhouse. Over the years, it has evolved into a public, four-acre space with hundreds of plants, flowers and trees and multiple areas to learn, study or relax. There are also classrooms and two greenhouses that are part of the Landscape and Nursery Technology Department. The college wants to give the space a facelift, envisioning the unnoticed corner as a “premier sustainable learning and teaching center.” That time has come. Officials broke ground on new construction earlier this month. “This project is a once-in-a-generation retrofit to the garden, designed to cover for the next 50 years,” said Mark Valen, the department’s professor of horticulture. The area’s footprint will stay relatively the same, but upgrades will make better use of spaces for teaching and learning, he said. Three department structures will be replaced with modern classrooms, including a floral laboratory and a maintenance and construction room. Plans also include buildings for multipurpose and administrative uses. The buildings are designed to connect the indoors with the outside environment. They’ll include exposed wooden beams, a glass so-

lar chimney and clerestories — rows of windows above eye level that fill spaces with natural light. The botanical garden will be refreshed with green walls, water features, boardwalks and bridges over cobble-bed streams. There are also plans to create an urban farm for students wanting to learn how to grow their own food. Valen said the project was thoughtfully designed to accommodate the department’s shift in environmental horticulture. “We’re not only thinking about how we can benefit from our gardens and landscapes in the form of growing our own food, but how can we be preparing habitat for local wildlife,” he said. “How do we do restoration and take care of wild lands so that it’s good for everybody, including the bees and the pollinators.” The $18 million construction project was designed by architect Gensler and is being funded by Measure Z, according to the college. In 2016, voters approved the $400 million general obligation bond that has allowed the college to renovate multiple facilities across South County. Through Measure Z, the institution has built its performing arts center, a college police building and a public safety training center. Most recently, officials broke ground on a new student union. The department offers more than 45 various courses and has an average of 150 students.

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East County 6 p.m. Friday at the Fletcher Hills Recreation Center, 2345 Center Place. Attendees will learn about water and sun safety, and take miniCPR lessons. The day at the pool will feature free swimming and a free bag filled with activities for each family.

and help identify park and recreation needs. For those who can’t attend on Thursday, a second workshop will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. April 26 at the La Mesa Adult Enrich ment Center, 8450 La Mesa Blvd., or people can attend via Zoom at bit.ly/3GVdvMX. Contact recreation@city oflamesa.us or (619) 667 1300.

City workshops on recreation and parks

Spring Valley Day seeking volunteers

La Mesa residents are invited to a workshop from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Parkway Sports and Health Academy, 9009 Park Plaza Drive, on the future of the city’s recreation and parks. The city is developing a Recreation and Parks Master Plan and the workshop will collect feedback on how its parks are serving residents,

The Spring Valley Day Plan ning Committee is looking for vendors, sponsors and volun teers to participate in Spring Valley Day 2023, which cele brates the diversity and beauty of the unincorporated commu nity of Spring Valley, including La Presa. The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 29 outside Bancroft

EAST CO U N T Y H A P P E N I N GS City councils Lemon Grove, 6 p.m. Tues day

School boards Alpine Union School District, 5:30 p.m. Wednes day; Jamul-Dulzura Union School District, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday; Lakeside Union Elementary School District, 6 p.m. Thursday; La Mesa-Spring Valley School District, 6 p.m. Tuesday; Lemon Grove School District, 6 p.m. Tuesday; Santee School District, 6 p.m. Tuesday

Rec center hosts ‘April Pools Day’ El Cajon residents are invited to “April Pools Day” from 4 to

Elementary School, at Ban croft Drive and Tyler Street, and will feature local mer chants, a craft market, live music, food, car show, free pony rides, kids’ zone and information booths for county services. Sponsorship pack ages are available. Planners are looking for food, arts and crafts, merchandise and nonprofit vendors to sign up for booth space. Volunteers are needed to help monitor parking and traffic, and setup and breakdown. Visit Spring ValleyDay.com or contact the planning committee at Spring ValleyDay@gmail.com.

Grossmont Center hosts health fair Sat. The East County Chamber of Commerce and Grossmont Center host a free health fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sat

urday at the shopping center, 8585 Grossmont Center Drive, La Mesa. This annual event features vendors specializing in the health field. Booths will include information on health, insurance providers, health care presentations, health screenings, and live demon strations. All ages welcome. Learn about preventive health care measures and ways to improve your lifestyle for the future. Booth rental and spon sorship information at bit.ly/3KOPgSU. Contact events@eastcountycham ber.org.

AAUW author luncheon and auction coming up The American Association of University Women’s La Mesa El Cajon branch is hosting its annual fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 29 at the Han

dlery Hotel, 950 Hotel Circle North, San Diego. The event is an author luncheon and auc tion to fund scholarships and enhance career development for girls. Guest speaker is Susan Carol McCarthy, award winning author of three novels, “Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands,” “True Fires,” and “A Place We Knew Well.” Tickets are $70; registrations must be received by Saturday. Find printable registration form at bit.ly/3zP6sRI. The event also includes a silent auction and raffle. Online auction opens Saturday at 32auctions.com/ AAUWauction23. Visit bit.ly/3GvMtvf. Send notices of events to fyi.east@sduniontribune.com at least two weeks before events take place.

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GIRLS’ HOOPS COACH SANDOVAL MOVING ON FROM MOUNT MIGUEL BY STEVE BRAND SPRING VALLEY

For 23 years, there was one constant at Mount Miguel High. Coaches in every sport would come and go, but in girls’ basketball, Mount Miguel and Robbie San doval were synonymous. More than that, Sandoval was the epitome of coaching success, winning 23 straight Grossmont Hills League ti tles, making 13 CIF section championship games and winning seven of them, in cluding the Open Division ti tle in 2018. But two oncourt inci dents with Del Norte High last season led to Sandoval being suspended just before the Southern California Re gional playoffs and eventu ally released. Currently Sandoval, who was an oncampus coach, is

taking time off, in addition to continuing to head up the EBO club basketball pro gram that he cofounded and for the past decade has been the standard for club basketball in the county. His record certainly did not enter into the equation. He went 568167 during which time the Matadors were 1844 in league play. “I’m not happy about what happened. It was not my decision to leave Mount Miguel,” Sandoval said. “My biggest disappointment is the decision to let me go. “I’ve done a lot for the community besides basket ball, and that gets lost in all of this.” Several community col leges and high schools have already contacted Sandoval, but he plans to take his time and make sure wherever he lands, it’s a good fit. The coach, like all teach

ers, has gone through sev eral principals, some more supportive than most. Change is a fact of life on the high school campus. This year, Sandoval was forced to compete with just seven play ers, five of whom played a huge major ity of minutes while compil ing a 248 overall record Robbie and an 80 Sandoval Grossmont Hills mark. His club made the Open Di vision playoffs as the No. 2 seed but lost in the quarter finals to Del Norte, 5756. Based on a previous ex perience with Del Norte, a 4846 win in which players exchanged words after the game, he decided it would be better for all concerned if his team bypassed the tradi

tional postgame hand shakes after the loss. Sandoval says it was a matter of safety and that he knows of several other in stances where teams de cided it would be in every one’s best interest to just keep the teams separated rather than take a chance on another incident. The school suspended him. That Del Norte game would be his last at Mount Miguel. He did not coach the team in the Southern Cali fornia Regionals, where the Matadors went 21. Three weeks after he was suspended, Sandoval was informed he would be let go. “I just said, ‘OK,’” said Sandoval, who admits he was stunned and said he appreci ates the support he received from former players and par ents when word got out. In his 23 years, he sent 30 players to Division I or II col

lege programs — better than one a year. Those players included Danielle Miller (200811), who went to the University of Nevada Las Vegas; Jerica Williams (2005), who played at UCLA and SDSU; and Precious Robinson (2004 2007), who played at Okla homa State. Among the players he cited as having a having a major impact was Jennifer Moreno off this year’s club, whom he called “the smart est, best shooter I’ve had at Mount Miguel.” She is still unsigned. His commitment to his former players was shown when a year after former star Genevieve Costello died of breast cancer in 2013, Sandoval started the “Live for Gen” game every year where the Matadors would play a pinkout con test in her name, even wear

ing pink uniforms. He also kept close ties with the community until COVID hit, annually hosting more than 300 Avondale Ele mentary School students, the school closest to Mount Miguel, to an afternoon game. On the court, he men tioned the 2005 Southern California Regional champi onship team, the 2007 club that lost to Santa Margarita in the regionals, the 2017 team that had five Division I signees and this year’s club that did ironman duty as ones that stand out. “You know, all good things come to an end, that’s how it works in life,” said Sandoval. “I can’t cry, I just feel bad for the kids.” Grossmont Union High School District administra tors declined to comment.

Brand is a freelance writer.

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E R N I E C O WA N Outdoors

Fire lookout shift offers sense of duty with amazing views The sleepy summer day suddenly turned angry as clouds, booming thunder and torrential rain moved in to ruin my milliondollar penthouse view. Maybe penthouse is a slight exaggeration. While the view is spec tacular, my accommoda tions were spartan and I was there to be alert for any puff of smoke that might mean San Diego’s wildlands were on fire. This will be my fifth summer as a U.S. Forest Service volunteer fire look out on Palomar Mountain. Starting May 1, I will join about 100 other dedicated and trained volunteers with the Forest Fire Lookout Association who will staff two lookouts daily until fire season ends sometime late this fall. High Point Lookout is located at 6,143 feet on the east side of Palomar Moun tain with views that extend from the desert mountains to the east, south into Mexi co, north to San Bernardino and west to the Pacific Ocean. The climb on an open staircase is 96 steps to reach the cab of the tower. This remote tower can only be

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The Milky Way provides a spectacular backdrop for High Point Lookout on Palomar Mountain. reached by a dirt fire road. Visitors are welcome at High Point but are not permitted in the tower. Boucher Lookout is a 30foot wooden tower, lo cated at 5,438 feet in Pa lomar Mountain State Park. It offers commanding views to the south, west and north to Lake Elsinore. On a clear day, you can see Catalina and San Clemente islands and ships at sea. When

operational, the public can visit. On this late July day at High Point, tropical mois ture from Mexico was bring ing afternoon thunder storms to the desert and mountains. My quiet sum mer day had now become tense. Perched in the 13by13 foot allsteel cab, on top of a 70foot metal tower on one of our highest mountains,

can be an exciting place in the middle of a thunder storm, especially when the lightning starts dancing. And it was getting close. The flash of lightning and roar of thunder were seconds apart. The tower was swaying in the wind and now rain was pouring from the metal roof. As a safety measure, I had turned off radios and I was standing on a wooden stool that has glass insulators on the legs that offers protection should lightning strike the tower. I was focused on record ing the location of down strikes since those locations will be closely watched for smoldering fires that might erupt when things dry out. That’s easy to do when a lightning bolt hits several miles away. It’s a bit harder when lightning and thunder are simultaneous, meaning it’s hitting where you are. While this was one of the more exciting days in the tower, many lookout shifts are a peaceful, daylong sitandsee visit with na ture. A typical day in the tower starts with checkin by radio with the fire dispatch cen ter, taking weather record

ings and reviewing previous logs for any important infor mation. Throughout the day, however, lookouts are con stantly scanning the land scape for any hint of smoke. Early detection is critical so aircraft and fire equipment can be dispatched as quickly as possible. Lookouts also spend a lot of time watching nature. It’s common to see hawks or eagles soaring around the towers, flocks of bluebirds, woodpeckers, or a covey of quail. Deer, foxes, bobcats and even a mountain lion may wander past the tower, oblivious to the lookout watching from above. The silence of the forest might be interrupted with a siren salute from a passing law enforcement helicopter, or a wing waggle from fire fighting aircraft passing en route to a fire. It’s fascinating to watch weather develop through a bird’s eye view from the top of a mountain. Tiny clouds on the distant skyline can slowly grow into towering thunderheads, or a rain squall moving in from the coast directed by the whim of the wind. Lookouts work only during the day, but many will occasionally spend the night at High Point because of the remote access. Sunrises and sunsets are spectacular, especially early and late in the season when

cold and warm weather fronts clash creating layers of clouds, fog and mist. On nights when a marine layer brings in a blanket of valley fog, the heavenly view from the tower is spectacu lar with a sparkling Milky Way painted on an inky sky, or the occasional bright meteor flash. Being a volunteer fire lookout is mostly a calm and relaxing activity, punctuat ed by moments of frenzy when smoke is spotted. That’s when you spring into action, using the Os borne fire finder to plot bearing and estimated distance so this information can be radioed to dispatch. In the meantime, look outs are part of a long tradi tion of service by people who care about our wild places. A day in a fire lookout tower gives you an intimate look at the cycles of weather, plants, birds and wildlife that, in a sense, lookouts are protecting. The Forest Fire Lookout Association is always look ing for interested volunteers to work in the towers. Train ing includes three days of classroom instruction and three shifts in each tower to become certified. If you are interested, visit fflasandiego.org. Maybe I’ll see you in the penthouse.

Cowan is a freelance columnist. Email ernie@packtrain.com or visit erniesoutdoors.blogspot.com.

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Life Tributes LAKE FOREST — Beverly Diane Wallace (nee Pruett) passed away in her sleep after a brief hospice in her daughter’s Orange County home on March 13, 2023. She was 84 years old. Born January 30, 1939, near Malibu, Diane was born to Hurshel and Lulu (Linkhart) Pruett. They paid $30 cash for a physician to make a house call in the pouring rain. It proved to be a good investment, and Diane’s love for agriculture continued throughout her life as she grew up on numerous cattle ranches in California. Diane was soon joined by two younger sisters, Shelba and Joan. Despite the family’s frequent moves between Missouri and California for both work and family obligations, Diane always managed to excel in school and especially loved to read. As a young 4-H member, Diane raised an Angus steer named Gus, the year of her final year of high school. Gus was named Grand Champion Steer

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Beverly Diane Wallace

Oliver ‘Rags’ Moniz

January 30, 1939 - March 13, 2023

April 13, 1926 - March 13, 2023

at the California State Fair in Sacramento. The sale of Gus at the fair’s annual auction funded her dreams of attending college. She became the first of her family to attend University, studying Home Economics at the University of California, Davis. After graduating from UC Davis in 1960, Diane moved to San Bernardino to begin her career working for the University of California’s Cooperative Extension Service (UCCE), where she worked as a 4-H and home advisor. She met and married Jerry L. Wallace in 1961, and one child, Andrea

Brian Keith Foster March 8, 1957 - April 9, 2023 ESCONDIDO — Brian kicked his oxygen habit on Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023. We’re pretty sure there is a Jesus and resurrection joke in there somewhere, but we’ll leave it to the reader to ponder that to avoid any pearl-clutching. Brian was born on March 8, 1957. If you’re good at math, he died way too early, and we are all pretty angry about that. A good son, Pop, Dad, Grandpa (or PPaw if he would have had his way when first tasked with the role), friend, coworker, and neighbor. He is predeceased by his mom, Donna (Byron), and his brother Bruce (Karla). He is survived by his daughters Jodi (Ashley) and Megan (Dan), grandchildren Christi, Hayden, DJ, Eliot, and Maeve, and dogs Otis and Pepper. He is also

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survived by many relatives and more friends than we would ever have space to afford. Please visit his memorial page at https:// everloved.com/life-of/ brian-keith-foster/ where you will find a laundry list of a life well-lived, details on his celebration of life, and where to donate in lieu of flowers. Please sign the Guest Book online obituaries.sandiegouniontribune.com

Diane, arrived in 1964. She returned to UC Cooperative Extension in 1968 to develop and further expand 4-H, farm, and home advisor programs in San Diego. She served 14 years as a 4-H Youth advisor when she was named the first female County Director for UCCE. She enjoyed a 24-year career in this role before retiring in July 2002. Besides being a single parent, her work with San Diego’s 4-H Youth, as well as so many homemakers, farmers, and ranchers in San Diego County was truly her joy and passion. As a female, some of her early constituents were dubious about her abilities, but they soon learned that Diane was the “real deal.” She worked tirelessly to ensure the support and funding for her office professionals and staff, who recalled her ability and willingness to mentor and empower the team. She achieved numerous awards during her career, including being named a Woman of

Achievement by the City of San Diego President’s Council and numerous Distinguished Service awards. She was also named the first Friend of Agriculture award by the San Diego County Farm Bureau. Diane is survived by daughter Andrea (Andi) Doddridge and three grandchildren (Zach, Jacob, and Madelyn Doddridge), along with her two sisters, Shelba (Lloyd) Crenna and Joan (Kermit) Walker, as well as nephew, Rick, and niece, Sandi. Diane is also survived by two treasured and dear friends, Kathy Sevelson and Marciel Klink, who brought much laughter and love (and quite a few great adventures) into her life throughout the years. Donations may be made in her name to the Cal Aggies Alumni Scholarship fund at UC Davis. A private family internment service will be held in Galt, California, June 2023. Please sign the Guest Book online obituaries.sandiegouniontribune.com

Shauna Leigh Zoul December 29, 1974 - April 4, 2023 CARLSBAD, CA — Shauna Leigh Zoul, 48, of Carlsbad passed away peacefully on the evening of Tuesday, April 4th. She was born in Apple Valley, California. She worked as a professional model, was the owner and operator of a Fitness Gym, and was currently a Stretch Therapist. Shauna was beautiful..... She was beautiful for her kindness, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved, for her ability to make other people smile even if she was sad, for her strength everyday. No, I’m not talking about something as temporary as her looks. Shauna was beautiful deep down to her soul. Survivors include parents Jim and June Zoul, and Scott and Teri

SAN DIEGO — Beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, uncle, cousin, and a friend to many, Oliver “Rags” Moniz passed away peacefully on March 13, 2023, just one month shy of his 97th birthday. Rags was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, and was the second child of Manuel Joseph and Angela Rodrigues Moniz. Through his passing, he is now reunited in heaven with his parents, wife Marilene, son Richard, brothers Manuel “Skee” Moniz and Joseph Moniz, and sisters Algerina Methey and Florence McKinney. Rags was an inspiration to all who knew him even the doctors and nurses who cared for him over the past few months all commented on what a joy he was to get to know and wanted him as their own. Rags served in the US Army in the early 1940s. He then made his way to California where he met his beautiful wife, Marilene, with whom he shared 28 years of marriage before her passing in 1983. He also had a long and successful career in the flourishing San Diego tuna industry where he was known as, “the best mastman in the

business.” At the age of 62, after making his last fishing trip, Rags realized he wasn’t ready for retirement and embarked on a second career with KMP Plumbing, where he continued to make dear friends until his retirement in 2008. Rags was preceded in death by his wife Marilene, and son, Richard Moniz (Lynette). He is survived by his devoted son, best friend and caretaker, Regan Moniz (Pam), grandchildren Jennifer, Richie (Kristin), Ryan (Diane) and Nicole, six great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews, and many friends – both lifelong and new. A Rosary & Memorial Mass will be held at St. Agnes Catholic Church, Friday, April 21st at 10:30am. Please sign the Guest Book online obituaries.sandiegouniontribune.com

Maria de la Luz Martinez July 25, 1937 - February 12, 2023

Lucus; brothers James Zoul and Wes Lucus and sister Brittany Brennan. A remembrance of life will be held in the coming months, details forthcoming. In lieu of flowers please donate to Southern California Care Community, socalcc.org. Please sign the Guest Book online obituaries.sandiegouniontribune.com

CHULA VISTA — Maria de la Luz (Cabrera) Martinez passed away peacefully at home surrounded by the love of her family. Those who knew her remember her kind spirit, her faith in God, her dedication to her family, her cooking, and her indefatigable spirit which challenged all around her to keep up. She will be remembered and celebrated on Saturday, April 22nd in a memorial mass at Corpus Christi Catholic Church (450 Corral Canyon Rd, Bonita, CA 91902) at 11:00 a.m. followed by a

reception at Glen Abbey Memorial Park & Mortuary (3838 Bonita Rd, Bonita, CA 91902) at 12:30 p.m. Please sign the Guest Book online obituaries.sandiegouniontribune.com

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Life Tributes

Everlasting memories of loved ones

Fran Wellins Foley

Christopher John Esch

November 21, 1936 - April 3, 2023 RANCHO SANTA FE — Fran Wellins Foley, a 47-year resident of Rancho Santa Fe, CA, passed peacefully in the home that she loved, surrounded by those that loved her. Fran was born in Brooklyn, NY, but spent her early years in Mamaroneck. In 1942, the family relocated to Chappaqua where her father, a Pharmacist, owned the local Rexall Drug and her mother ran the store and soda fountain. Fran’s life during WWII had a profound impact on her and led to her lifelong passion and appreciation of US history and genealogy. In 1946, the family moved from NY to Florida. Fran attended school in Coral Gables, where she learned to play the bass drum and saxophone. A graduate of Miami Senior High’s class of ‘54, Fran played saxophone in the marching band and Oboe in the Orchestra, traveling to Cuba to perform. Fran attended Ithaca College, where she studied Radio & Television. There she produced & DJ’d a radio program (WITJ) spinning the hits of the day. She then pursued a modeling career in Manhattan, where she worked for

fashion designer Louis Reinstein. Fran returned to Florida when her father promised to buy her a Jaguar convertible. She joined the Miami Sports Car Club and continued that love of cars when in 1983 she bought a classic ’49 Chrysler Town and Country Woody Convertible. Fran loved collecting antiques and in 2002 appeared on “Antiques Roadshow” with a rare Wooten Desk. At age 20, during spring break in Miami Beach, Fran met and married Herman Chanin on March 30, 1957. Her daughter Meritt (Cari) was born in 1961 and Fran liked to say that she was “the best thing I ever did.” Fran moved to Los Angeles in 1967 where she worked for Columbia Pictures conducting audience studies. With

her exceptional business acumen, Fran decided in 1969 to start her own business, opening the well-known “Hearth & Hamper”, a kitchen/ bath boutique located in Marina del Rey. It was there she met her soul mate and in 1973 married her husband of 48 years, Benson Foley. In 1976, Fran and Ben relocated the family to Rancho Santa Fe, after the mail order business they started quickly grew. They founded The Company Store, Inc., a marketing and merchandising firm with permanent showrooms in five US cities. Fran had the foresight to approach the venerable Jack Daniel’s distillery to create a branded men’s giftware line. They soon expanded to other luxury goods from notable companies; Johnnie Walker, Remington Firearms, Elie Bleu and French champagne companies, Perrier-Jouet and Veuve Clicquot. They sold the firm in 1985 to pursue other interests. Fran enjoyed cruises with friends and was an avid traveler. She drove throughout Europe in 1971 to pick up her beloved Mercedes SE 4.5. She and Ben traveled to the former Soviet Union,

China, Japan and Tahiti and also explored much of the USA together. For the 1988 opening of the San Diego Automotive Museum in Balboa Park, Fran volunteered to create the gift shop. The Rancho Santa Fe Historical Society and the DAR honored her for her contribution to the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, where she conducted oral interviews with over 60 local WWII veterans. In 2003, she received the Bagnall Award for Excellence in Philanthropy. Fran was active as a Board Member and the Archivist at the Rancho Santa Fe Historical Society from 2000 – 2004. Fran is survived by her daughter Cari Chanin; stepchildren, Robert Foley and Heather Ikerd; granddaughter Emma Ikerd. Her husband Benson Foley and brother Col. Stanley L. Wellins, USAF, predeceased her. Fran will be sorely missed, but will stay forever in our hearts. In lieu of flowers, we request that a donation be made to her favorite charity, Tunnel to Towers Foundation, in her memory.

CENTENNIAL, CO — Christopher John Esch (Chris) of Centennial, Colorado died peacefully surrounded by his wife and two children on October 12, 2021. Chris was born April 29, 1962, in Chicago, Illinois to James C. Esch, M.D. and Diantha Duvall Esch. He was raised in Vista with his sisters, Mary Ann, Megan, and Aimee. He loved the beach and could often be found body surfing, boogie-boarding, or water-skiing during his youth. He enjoyed the mountains as well and was an excellent downhill skier. After graduating from Vista High School in 1980, Chris attended Cal Poly Pomona, where he was a member of the university’s ski team. He graduated in June 1985 with a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and married his high school sweetheart shortly thereafter. Chris was proud of being an engineer, but he was more than that. He was creative in many areas of his life. He enjoyed woodworking and crafting stained glass works of art. His family and friends were the delighted recipients of his

talent. He loved music, learning to play guitar as a child, and he continued to play throughout his life. Chris was a barbecue genius, creating his own spice blends and rubs, participating in BBQ competitions, and ultimately becoming a BBQ judge. He was a motorcycle enthusiast who enjoyed riding through the Colorado mountains and across the southwest. He was a devoted husband and a loving father. Chris is survived by family and friends across the country. He was preceded in death by his mother. A funeral mass will be held at 11:00 a.m., Friday, April 28, 2023, at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, 1450 S. Melrose Dr., Oceanside. Please sign the Guest Book online obituaries.sandiegouniontribune.com

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Donald Leroy Schmautz April 17, 1936 - April 2, 2023

Byron Ernest Ellsworth December 20, 1937 - April 2, 2023 SANTEE — The heavens are a heartier place with the arrival of our beloved Byron. A man of great faith, love, compassion, and charity; Byron lived an extraordinary life in the service of his God and humanity, loving his family and friends, and pursuing his many passions. He lived joyfully with the “best decision of his life”, his eternal companion Barbara, by his side. Byron passed away peacefully in the arms of his family on April 2, 2023. Born December 20, 1937, in Oxnard, California, Byron grew up in the oil fields of northern California with his father, Joseph, whom he admired, and his mother Lucille, whom he loved dearly and lost to cancer when he was a young boy. The profound loss of his mother set his life on a trajectory of self-reliance, self-improvement, and a deep desire to share his life fully with those around him, especially his brother Robert and sister Linda. Byron attended Fillmore High School and Ventura College. After completing his Associate of Arts degree

in 1957, he honorably served his country in the Army for two years. Upon returning home, he attended San Diego State College, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961 and was a member of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He proudly remained an Aztec for life, and his love of learning continued until his passing through his love of reading and attending various study courses. Byron pursued many other passions during his life including learning to garden, speak Spanish, play guitar, skydive, write, and of course book collecting. His greatest passion project was learning to fly. After his solo flight in 1991, he spent the next two decades up in the air

any chance he got, and when he wasn’t flying, he was watching the planes from his front porch. Byron’s desire for service led him to a 35-year career in public service with the San Diego County Probation Department. He experienced many successes and made many life-long friends during his career. The greatest reward from his service was a sweet little mail clerk named Barbara, whom he met, loved, and married six months later in 1962. He made their home in Santee, California where during their nearly 61 years of devotion to one another he lovingly raised two children, three granddaughters, and two great-granddaughters. Byron was a man of deep faith and had a profound love for his Creator. As a Latter-Day Saint, he demonstrated this love in action through his service, love, and generosity with everyone he met. In Byron’s heart, his friends were his family, and his family were also his friends. He loved his country, all humanity, and this earth with great concern. He prayed often, gave freely, loved openly with acceptance for all

mankind, and smiled at everyone he passed. Byron is survived by his dear wife Barbara, son Michael (Linda), daughter Terri (Wayne), granddaughters Heather (Miguel), Heidi (Logan), Jessica (Will), and great-granddaughters Lillyana and Ruby. He is also survived by his sister Linda (Arnie) and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends that he loved dearly. He is preceded in death by his brother, Robert. The family would like to thank all the doctors, nurses, aides, and support services at Sharp Hospital for their compassionate and competent care. A funeral service for Byron will be held on April 22, 2023, at 10:00am at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 10052 Magnolia Ave. Santee, CA 92071. Visitation will begin at 9:00am. A graveside service will occur Saturday, April 22, 2023, at 11:30 at El Camino Memorial Park, 5600 Carroll Canyon Rd, San Diego, CA 92121. Please sign the Guest Book online obituaries.sandiegouniontribune.com

Alexander Franklin Ward September 3, 1934 - April 13, 2023 RAMONA, CA — Alex was born to Frank and Lois Ward in Kansas City, Missouri the oldest of their three children. After his family relocated to California, he spent a number of years in Eureka where he enjoyed a rustic life. He hunted rattle snakes for sport. He loved to read and was a life-time learner. When he was a teenager, he and his family moved south to San Diego and he graduated from Grossmont High School, where his mother and daughter did as well. Alex fell in love with his wife, Doris, and they raised their daughter, Paula together in La Mesa California. Alex and Doris were very proud to witness Paula become an

attorney who has helped thousands of people. Alex and Doris lived in La Mesa for over 20 years and retired to Ramona, where they were active with the Ramona VFW. Alex was an Air Force Veteran. He was also a volunteer sheriff reserve with his close friend and brother-in-law, Bert

Kilburn. He was a tree trimmer and braved many lightning storms to keep his San Diego County community safe. Alex became an iron worker in the 1970s and helped build parts of the San Diego Zoo and Sana Onofre. Alex was an award winning shootist. He passed down his marksman enthusiasm to his daughter, Paula and his grandson, Sam Fisher. He was also an inventor. A life-time martial arts enthusiast, Alex was awarded an honorary Black Belt at age 87 by his sensi, Joe Tarengo. At age 86 and beyond, he trained and boxed with coach Ruben Arcega from Finetic Fitness. Alex was preceded

in death by his father, Frank Ward, his mother, Lois Ward, his wife Emily Doris Ward and his sister, Doralin Kilburn. Alex is survived by his daughter, Paula Fisher, and her husband, Theron Fisher, and their children, Shaun Leach and Stephanie Leach-Bozzuto (daughter-in-law) Chloe Fisher, Madeline Fisher, Sam Fisher, his niece Rhonda Guaderrama and her family, as well as Bert Kilburn, his brother-in-law and Bert’s children. Alex will be missed. His impact on this world was tremendous and inspiring. He lives on in all who knew him. Please sign the Guest Book online obituaries.sandiegouniontribune.com

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CHULA VISTA, CA — Donald L. Schmautz of Chula Vista, CA passed away peacefully on April 2, 2023. Don was born in North Dakota, to John and Frieda Schmautz on April 17, 1936. He moved to San Diego as a young boy and he graduated from Chula Vista High School with the Class of ’55 where he was the star half back of the winning CIF Champion Football team that same year. He married his high school sweetheart Patricia, and they were happily married for 55 years. Don served his country in the United States Marine Corps Reserves from March 1960 until May 28, 1965. Don had a dedicated 39-year career in aerospace with Rohr Industries where he diligently worked his way up from the factory floor to becoming a Director and member of the Senior Management Team. When he wasn’t working, Donald loved to fish, hunt and spend time with his wife, kids and family. Later in life, he spent his summers with his wife Pat

at their cabin in Panguitch Lake, Utah. Don was a terrific cook and he never passed up an invitation to happy hour or a full glass of wine. Don is survived by his brothers Jim and wife Gina Schmautz of CA and Ray and the late Jan Schmautz of FL, and his two children, Denise Meyer of San Diego, CA and Darrin Schmautz of Shrewsbury, MA. Don has four grandchildren: Keith and Derek Meyer, and Justin and Connor Schmautz, and two great-granddaughters. The family will be having a Celebration of Life later this summer in California. Please sign the Guest Book online obituaries.sandiegouniontribune.com

Beatrice Veronica DeSilva December 6, 1937 - March 31, 2023 SAN DIEGO — Beatrice Veronica DeSilva passed away peacefully at 2:10am on Friday, March 31, 2023 at the age of 85. She was predeceased by her parents Oscar and Estelle Rodrigues, husband Joseph DeSilva, son Marc DeSilva, daughter Denice DeSilva and brother Ralph Rodrigues. She is survived by her son Randy (Resa) DeSilva and daughter Bridget (Brennand) Schoeffel; grandchildren Michael (Rachael) DeSilva, Chris (Marina) DeSilva, Braden Schoeffel and Briley Schoeffel; greatgrandchildren Kayla, Jazlyn, Macy, Daven, Gabe, Paisley and Mekai DeSilva; Sister Eileen (Maurice) Correia. Born in Lowell, Mass. Bea moved to San Diego with her parents and siblings when she was eight years old. She grew up in Point Loma and graduated from Point Loma High School in 1956.She was engaged to Joseph (Joe) DeSilva her senior year. After Joe returned from being stationed in Japan during

the Korean war they got married on September 29, 1957 at Sacred Heart Church in Ocean Beach. She gave birth to Denice, Randy, Marc, and then 13 years later Bridget. Bea loved her husband more than life itself. She battled dementia for six years and passed peacefully in her sleep at her home. Donations in Bea’s memory may be made to UPSES Inc. c/o Bea and Joe DeSilva Memorial Scholarship Fund, 2818 Avenida de Portugal, San Diego, CA 92106. Please sign the Guest Book online obituaries.sandiegouniontribune.com

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Life Tributes Michael Schultz April 25, 1958 - March 13, 2023

Timothy ‘Tim’ Cunningham

Arie de Jong January 24, 1939 - April 6, 2023

May 4, 1921 - March 31, 2023

TEMECULA — Michael (Mike) Schultz, 64 of Temecula, CA passed away on March 13, 2023. Mike was raised in San Diego, CA and graduated from Morse High School. He worked for the City of Escondido. He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Sandra Schultz. He is survived by his sons Bryan (Susi) Schultz and Stephen Schultz; brother, Mark Schultz; sister Michele (Tim) Zacharzuk and five grandchildren. Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, April 29th at 11am. Chula Vista Golf Course, 4475 Bonita Rd, Bonita, CA.

SAN DIEGO — Timothy Michael “Tim” Cunningham, longtime resident of San Diego, born in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 4, 1921, passed away on March 31, 2023. Viewing will be on April 25, 2:30-4:30 pm, at Clairemont Mortuary, 4226 Mt. Abernathy Avenue, San Diego. A Funeral Mass will be held on April 26 at 10 am, St. Mary Magdalene Church, 1945 Illion Street, San Diego. Burial will follow at Holy Cross Cemetery with a reception afterward. Please sign the Guest Book online obituaries.sandiegouniontribune.com

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Robert W. ‘Brick’ Nelson, Jr.

Edward Lowell ‘Ed’ Ohler Sr

August 11, 1950 - January 23, 2023

December 7, 1927 - March 21, 2023

CORONADO — A gifted strike fighter pilot and respected leader. Family and friends loved him. His memory lives on in our hearts. Rest in peace brother Brick. Please sign the Guest Book online obituaries.sandiegouniontribune.com

••• Colleen Merideth June 6, 1931 - March 19, 2023

SAN DIEGO — Ed passed away at home in Allied Gardens at the age of 95. Memorial service will be held on Friday, April 21 at 11am at First Baptist Church, Clairemont at 3219 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. Service will also be live streamed, please visit the church online at fbcclairemont.org for more details. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the Prostate Cancer Foundation at pcf. org or a favorite charity in Ed’s memory. Please sign the Guest Book online obituaries.sandiegouniontribune.com

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ESCONDIDO, CA — Local entrepreneur and business leader, Arie de Jong, died on April 6, 2023. He was 84 years old. Arie was born to Arie and Maartje de Jong in Alphen aan de Rijn, the Netherlands, on January 24, 1939. He was the youngest of 7 brothers, between an older sister and two younger sisters. He enjoyed a very close relationship with his siblings, particularly his sister Ellie. In 1949, the family immigrated to the United States, settling in Poway CA where they worked in the dairy industry. Through much hard work and cooperation, the family established Hollandia Dairy, which remains in business in San Marcos today. Arie attended school in Poway until his 16th birthday, when he went to work full-time. In 1956, Arie and his brother Karel joined the US Army and served for two years as medics in post-war Germany. In 1958 he went back to Hollandia Dairy, working in whatever capacity was required. In 1961, he met a sweet Dutch girl named Anneke. They were married in 1964 and settled in San Marcos CA, where Arie

employees. He then turned his attention to developing real estate. Always a risk taker, over the years he had purchased many pieces of undeveloped property. A notorious rule breaker, his favorite motto was to “ask for forgiveness, not permission,” which often got him into trouble with county and city officials. In the early 2000s he restored Melrose Ranch in Valley Center, where he and Anneke lived for 15 years before retiring to Meadowbrook in Escondido in 2016. He was at his happiest with multiple projects in the works and continued to work on developing properties until the very end of his life. Arie had an unforgettable, vibrant personality. He didn’t know a stranger and had a story or song for every occasion. Many people bear witness to his generosity, particularly with his philanthropy work at Green Oak Ranch, a center that serves those recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. He was a long-time member of the Kiwanis Club and enjoyed the relationships he developed there. He attended Crossroads Christian Reformed

drove a milk delivery route for Hollandia. Arie and Anneke welcomed their first son, Arie Eric in 1966 and a second son, Johnnie in 1969. Two daughters, Dorinda and Serena, followed in 1971 and 1973. In 1976 Arie decided to leave Hollandia Dairy and strike out on his own. He started North County Disposal, and after purchasing a struggling trash company at an auction, he established Coast Waste Management in Carlsbad, CA. Years of long hours and hard work followed as he turned the refuse company into a successful business. Along the way he acquired one of his favorite ventures, Standard Feeding, a food waste recycling hog ranch in Chino, CA. In 1997, he sold the thriving Coast Waste to USA Waste, sharing the profit with his

William ‘Bill’ Duvall

Norman L. Davis

Diana Mildred Craft

March 24, 1942 - April 10, 2023

October 3, 1942 - March 22, 2023

April 17, 1919 - March 11, 2023

SAN DIEGO — Live, love, laugh - this was his motto! Fiercely independent, lived on his own. Best story & joke teller. Memorial 4/29, Duvall & Chapin family. Info: nanya@comcast.net

SAN DIEGO — Proud father, grandfather, soccer coach, and animal lover. Norm enjoyed playing golf, Padre games, and watching football. His Celebration of life May 21st 1pm Marina Village.

SUN CITY WEST — Diana Mildred Craft, 80, former resident of Chula Vista and retired teacher of Smythe Elementary, passed on March 22, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona due to issues following surgery.

ENCINITAS — Loving wife to Ed; mother to 4 daughters (Rosa, Evelyn, Amy, Melinda), teacher, poet, WWII vet, Methodist; universally beloved to her last breath.

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Wade-Robinson, John Marc 10/17/1999 - 03/30/2023 Preferred Cremation and Burial Washington, Dwayne 04/14/1966 - 03/25/2023 Preferred Cremation and Burial Webb, Viola Irene 04/17/1935 - 03/13/2023 Preferred Cremation and Burial Yacko, Hadia 07/01/1927 - 04/09/2023 www.EastCountyMortuary.com

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IT’S DARK SKY WEEK. JUST WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? BY DOUGLAS SOLLOSY

ark sky advocacy, a relatively new form of social activism, has already made a big im pact here in San Diego County. Re sponding to a call from a coalition of San Diego dark sky advocates, as tronomers, environmentalists and wildlife preservationists, all commit ted to reversing the alarming growth of light pollution, the Board of Super visors announced that on Saturday, at the Santa Ysabel Nature Center, it would proclaim April 1522 as Inter national Dark Sky Week. Following the presentation of the proclama tion, a public star party organized by the Julian Dark Sky Network was planned as the evening sky darkened. Now, who are these “dark sky advocates” and how did this activism come about? We are astronomers, amateur and professional, city resi dents, wildlife and habitat preserva tionists. Why do we get involved in this dark movement? Here’s my story. In 1959, I was a sixthgrader at camp on Mount Pa lomar, far from TV, the tedium of school and city life in Hillcrest. Sit ting at the campfire one night, I happened to glance up and suddenly discovered a dark sky with thou sands of stars, something unlike anything I’d ever seen before. For the first time in my young life, I had actually made direct eye contact with the cosmos! The camp counselor’s storytelling faded as I stared up, taken in by the wonder of it, and never to be the same. This happens to people every night in dark sky places like Julian, and everyone de serves that experience. Words aren’t enough, but maybe I’ve persuaded you to come up and see for yourself! Back to the movement. By the early 2000s, Borrego Springs, like Julian and other backcountry areas, was becoming known as a great place for watching meteor showers and glimpsing the Milky Way, unlike the light polluted sky of the cities and suburbia. Residents of Borrego no ticed, however, that light pollution was increasing and consequently the naturally dark nighttime environ SEE SOLLOSY • B11

Sollosy is a retired educator and lives in Julian.

TOO MUCH LIGHT IS ALSO AN ISSUE IN URBAN AREAS

THE PROBLEM WITH NIGHT LIGHT

BY CATHY HANDZEL

t’s just light, right? Unfortunately, we’re learning that artificial light is not only obliterating our view of stars, it’s wreaking havoc on wildlife, ecosystems and human health. As we celebrate International Dark Sky Week during April 1522, let’s ask ourselves: What do we want to see at night, a bunch of bright glaring lights, or billions of twinkling stars? The choice is ours! The International Dark Sky Asso ciation was founded in 1988 by David Crawford, a professional astronomer, and Tim Hunter, a physician and amateur astronomer. Through educa tion, outreach and advocacy, the San Diego County chapter (SDDark Sky.org) raises awareness about light pollution and promotes responsible lighting to reduce glare, light trespass and sky glow. Our membership in cludes high school students, retirees, and people from all professions and walks of life. I’m not an astronomer, but I’ve always enjoyed gazing up at the moon and stars. I began researching light pollution and joined the association after encountering overly bright LED street lights and increased light spilling into my home and yard from neighbors’ lights. A report in the AsianPacific Journal of Cancer Pre vention concluded artificial light at night was significantly correlated with all forms of cancer and advised imme diate measures should be taken to limit light in cities and in homes. Ironi cally, my early advocacy was inter rupted by a breast cancer diagnosis — women living in brightly lit areas are more likely to experience this disease. Numerous cities moved away from daylight white 4,000 kelvins color temperature street lights following the American Medical Association’s 2016 blue light guidance which con cluded lighting should not exceed 3,000 K. Using 2,200 K and dimming technology for streets and parking lots could keep us healthy, achieve significant cost savings, reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emission, and benefit astronomical research at the Mount Laguna and Palomar observa tories. SEE HANDZEL • B11

Handzel is San Diego County chapter vice president of the International Dark Sky Association and lives in San Diego.

The fight for the night sky has long been a focal point in communities and organizations where people believe dark sky education may be the only way to save it. Below, three members of the International Dark Sky Association explain the effort and why they see light as pollution.

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GIVE EVERY RESIDENT IN EVERY CITY A VIEW OF INFINITY BY JOHN GARRETT

feel most free when my neighbors and community allow me to see into infin ity. By infinity, I mean the naturally dark night sky. There, with the naked eye, I see stars, nebula and galaxies up to millions of light years distant. Adding binoculars, I observe stages of star forma tion spanning billions of years. With a telescope, I hunt for undiscovered aster oids, comets, novas and supernovas. Add imagination, I connect with artists across time and geography. All of these make great science, math, literature and art projects for K12 schools, where I and likeminded amateur astronomers share our knowledge and telescopes. However, individually and collectively, we often choose outdoor lighting that destroys our view of the night sky’s gifts. Our night sky looks bleached, appears brown in photos, and just aiming a tele

scope requires overcoming the intrusion of neighbors’ carelessly aimed lights. The widely adopted norm for high beams and lowbeams in vehicles, and the number of us who drive cars, gives hope for protecting our night sky. Set aside for the moment that new LED headlights are blurring the high/lowbeam distinction, and instead, consider what we still do when our highbeams (of any type) are about to zap an oncoming car. We switch to lowbeams. It’s safer; it’s courteous. The same lowbeam ethic, when ap plied to residential and commercial light ing, demonstrates neighborly courtesy, respects property rights, protects scien tific and aesthetic discovery, preserves animal and human health, saves money, and, by ensuring that your neighbors can see as well as you, allows them to be better observers, aiding your security and theirs. The primary skill needed to win these benefits is aim — specifically, aiming a

light onto, and only onto, one’s own prop erty. Unfortunately, we often ignore aim with residential and business lighting and choose light fixtures that throw light in all directions: upward, to create light pollu tion’s glow and waste energy, outward to intrude into neighbors’ windows, across the street as glare for pedestrians and motorists. However, to our collective cred it, we do aim much of our roadway light ing. We place street lights overhead, effi ciently aiming all of the light downward. The downward direction minimizes glare and maximizes safety and energy use. And if the lights use a soft yellow shade instead of harsh white, they preserve our night vision better to see objects and people in shadows. The softertoned light also scat SEE GARRETT • B11

Garrett is a member of the Temecula Valley Astronomers and lives in Wildomar.

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ATKINS’ JAIL REFORM BILL HAS GREAT PROMISE The outstanding work of The San Diego Union Tribune’s Watchdog team in exposing years of ex cessive inmate deaths at county jails — and the cruelty, incompetence and indifference that led to many of the deaths — has also led to the recognition that this problem extends far beyond San Diego. While the failures may be most acute here — where there have been more than 220 jail deaths since 2006, including a record 20 fatalities last year — they are common across the state. Elected local sheriffs who prefer to use limited resources for active law en forcement seem to be betting that much of the pub lic doesn’t care what happens in custody to those accused of breaking the law, even if some are inno cent, and even if the reason that many people are in California county jails isn’t their alleged crimes but because they just can’t afford to pay bail. California Senate President pro Tem Toni Atkins, DSan Diego, thinks someone needs to stop these deaths if the sheriffs won’t, and she has set out to do something about it. Her Senate Bill 519 would give county supervisors unsatisfied with jail conditions the authority to take control of the facilities. The bill would also mandate the release of internal records involving incustody deaths and expand the respon sibilities of the Board of State and Community Cor rections, which is supposed to oversee county jails. Jail deaths are “not just a San Diego problem,” she said last week. “We have been the tip of the spear.” This is on stark display in Riverside County, where 18 people died in county jails in 2022, the most in at least 15 years, often because of poor screening for physical and mental health issues, a lack of med ical care, the availability of fentanyl and other illegal drugs, and the callousness of staff members — a litany that will be familiar to those who have read the coverage of San Diego County jails by Watchdog reporters Jeff McDonald and Kelly Davis. One of the most telling aspects of Riverside County’s lethal jail problem is that it has only worsened since 2016, when the county was placed under a federal consent

L E T T E R S TO T H E E D I TO R New fee structure will erase solar incentives

Basing utility rates on income is unjustifiable

Re “A fixed monthly charge is coming to your electric bill. Will it make CA rates more affordable?” (April 10): It’s clear that San Diego Gas & Electric, Pa cific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison, which are losing money to residential solar power users, support yet another plan to increase their prof its. If the current proposal for incomebased electrical usage is enacted, why would anyone conserve electricity? How is the state going to verify the income of a house hold? Match all income tax returns for a given address? If the state truly wanted to fight climate change and help poor people, California would offer substantial discounts and loans to homeowners to install insu lation, residential solar panels and batteries. This would create goodpaying jobs and reduce power bills. The application would require a onetime check on income and not a yearly check, which will be re quired for an incomebased power service. Alternatively, the state could just give poor people money and let them decide how best to spend it. Gary Powell Encintas

First thing that came to mind upon reading this article was “socialism.” Adopting socialist policies is sheer madness. Allowing utilities like SDG&E to dictate how much we each pay based on income is grossly discrimi natory and inexcusable. This is a form of punish ment. Isn’t this what they do in China and Cuba? The audacity of SDG&E to even entertain this idea is a trav esty. However much gas and electricity a household uses, that is what it should pay for regardless of income. In comes are becoming targets to be chipped away at in order to fund others in a tier system. This is unethical, partisan, unjustifiable and just plain wrong. Nicoline Richardson Mission Hills

Inaction would be most costly response of all Re “S.D. aims to cut natural gas use; what’s the cost?” (April 7): Cost to taxpayers is the wrong question. It should be, what’s the cost to society if we don’t eliminate natural gas and other fossil fuels? If we’d acted three decades ago when climate scientists widely informed us fossil

decree that was supposed to ensure it provides “minimally adequate medical and mental health care” to the incarcerated. A similar federal consent decree in 2018 related to Sacramento County’s ap palling jail conditions has also not slowed reports of inmates dying there. These decrees’ ineffectiveness shows the need for change that can be accomplished by county officials enabled by state government. Atkins believes that getting her bill enacted is no longer the long shot it would have been in the past because of a “sea change” in how society considers some criminal justice issues. San Diegans should hope she is right — because even here, at “the tip of the spear,” unrelenting attention to the jail deaths crisis has produced nowhere near enough progress. Department veteran Kelly Martinez — who was elected sheriff last year with the backing of tarnished former Sheriff Bill Gore — vowed to bring a new era to county jails in the wake of a scathing state audit. Her most important promise was that the analyses of incustody death prepared by the department’s Critical Incident Review Board would be available to the public, going beyond legal obliga tions. This reflected her recognition that her agency had little credibility after years of Gore claiming it was doing its best to stop jail deaths even as they kept increasing. Gore served from 2009 until leaving the day of the state audit’s release in February 2022. Yet when Martinez began her own term this year, the department retained its practice of releasing terse summaries of review board findings — sum maries which years of lawsuits over jail deaths have shown can be incomplete or misleading. To be clear, The San Diego UnionTribune Edito rial Board is not saying county supervisors should wrest control of jails from Martinez if Atkins’ bill passes. That may prove necessary, but we hope the bill’s passage lets Martinez and other sheriffs know they risk profound consequences — beyond huge legal settlements and embarrassing headlines — if they keep failing to keep people in their jails alive. energy leads to doom, we wouldn’t be in such dire straits now. We didn’t and Earth has warmed since. Decarbonization is a process with a time compo nent. Naysayers seem not to get that. They say the tran sition will hurt the economy. Evidence contradicts this notion. Since the Great Recession, California’s GDP has risen while carbon emissions per GDP have fallen 50 percent relative to 2000, all while transitioning to clean, green energy. A wealth tax would increase funding. After all, the wealthy are the most culpa ble in climate crisis attribu tion. They should pay for reparation. Wyman E. Hack El Cajon

Consumers may lose under credit card plan Re “Action on credit card swipe fees is needed to reduce the burden of rising prices” (April 10): We all love a good David vs. Goli ath story, but will we con sumers truly benefit from the Credit Card Competi tion Act? Phil Ortiz failed to mention “swipe” fees are a tax writeoff for his busi ness. The fees fund card rewards programs that will go away under the act. Visa and Mastercard lose a fortune in fraudulent charges every year so we consumers don’t. Interbank networks like Pulse or

SHAZAM are debit net works so if your card num ber is “skimmed” and $1,000 is fraudulently charged, you are responsible for pay ment. Will retailers stop surcharging if their rates decrease? Not likely. Com petition from financial technology like Venmo and Paypal along with crypto currency are eating into the credit card industry. I’m surprised a small government Republican like Ortiz would push for ex panded government in this case. David Bennett Highland Valley

Glad to see steps taken on affordable housing Re “Affordable housing with an ocean view? Del Mar developer moves ahead with plans for 259unit complex” (April 4): For cities like Del Mar, there’s no more kicking the can when it comes to helping solve our region’s housing crisis. The state has made it clear to every city: You’re going to provide your fair share of affordable housing one way or another. Either you can come up with an actionable plan or we’re going to take your landuse authority away and let developers take the lead. The city’s latest proposed use of the Del Mar fair grounds is not actionable in any reasonable time if ever. The mixedincome Sea

What America needs now is a combination of a modernday Abraham Lincoln and a reallife Ted Lasso. A leader who will inspire all of us, remind us of the better angels of our nature and who believes in what we can become. Most Americans are unhappy with the direction of the country. In an NBC poll from January, 71 per cent of respondents said the country is headed in the wrong direction. It was the eighth time in the last nine NBC News surveys since October 2021 when the wrongtrack response has been above 70 percent. Americans are also eco nomically anxious and say the economy is the nation’s top issue. We have been living during a time of pro found change to our collec tive culture. School shoot ings have sadly become commonplace. We are hy perpolarized, living amid siloed media bubbles and unable to agree on common truths. On April 4, the country experienced a historically sad day. No matter what you think of the arrest and arraignment of Donald Trump, one should be able to admit that he has added to a list of firsts for the country and he has consis tently poked the bear of our national divide. Since he came down the golden escalator in Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, he became the first U.S. president to be impeached twice and to incite an insurrection, and now the first expresident to be indicted on felony charges. The rhetoric and comments surrounding Trump’s arraignment were highly disruptive. Ahead of his indictment, Trump had warned of potential “death & destruction” if he were to face criminal charges at a time when 88 percent of Americans had already feared some type of political violence. April 4 was also an elec tion day whose results proved just how divided we are in terms of ideologies and our approaches to solving problems. Progres sives won primarily in blue urban areas and conserva tives won in red communi ties with hardly a moderate to be seen. The statewide Wisconsin Supreme Court race was the one exception where progressives pre vailed. Amid all this political chaos, there was the newest episode of “Ted Lasso” on that same Tuesday. For those of you who have yet to watch this delightful come dy series, Lasso is an American college football coach who is hired to coach a British soccer team. Lasso is remarkably opti mistic and always seems to have an enthusiastic phrase for his fellow coaches and players. A sign proclaiming

side Ridge project will be good for Del Mar and the region. It will provide afford able housing in a city with basically none, and offer equitable coastal access to San Diego County residents from all walks of life. Mark D. Richter Del Mar

We all are contributing to inflated valuations What or who is driving inflation? One example: “UC San Diego chancellor given $500,000 pay raise to prevent him from taking presidency at private school” (April 11). Who’s guilty? We all are. Roger Newell El Cajon

Easter stories package, cartoon appreciated Re “Religious rebirth” (April 9): After years of people trying to turn Easter into bunnies and egg hunts, it was refreshing to read articles about the true meaning of Easter. Our Founding Fathers were a spiritual people and in

“Believe” hangs in the locker room. In Season 1, Lasso tells his players: “So I’ve been hearing this phrase y’all got over here that I ain’t too crazy about. ‘It’s the hope that kills you.’ Y’all know that? I disagree, you know? I think it’s the lack of hope that comes and gets you. See, I believe in hope. I believe in belief.” After Tuesday’s episode was over, I turned off my device and was encouraged, knowing that there have been darker days in Ameri ca’s history than what we are facing now and believ ing (thanks, Ted) that we may yet find a leader who can galvanize us to better days. Lincoln was one such leader back when times were much worse than now. In his 1861 inaugural ad dress, Lincoln stated: “I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We

America needs a leader who believes in what we can become. must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every bat tlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” Lincoln expressed hopes to maintain the union and avoid Civil War by high lighting our common his tory and encouraging citi zens living in both the North and the South not to view each other as adver saries. In his 1865 inaugural address, Lincoln told Americans to “let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation’s wounds.” Our nation’s trauma may not be as severe as it was then, but we are frac tured nonetheless. Who knows where this person will come from, but I trust that he or she is out there. This person is someone who believes in all of us, not just the ones who voted for that person, identifies the virtue in each other, knows we are not each other’s enemies, and affirms that there are better days ahead. In another scene, Lasso tells reporter Trent Crimm: “For me, success is not about the wins and losses. It’s about helping these young fellas be the best versions of themselves on and off the field.” In other words, the better angels of their natures.

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serted that belief into our founding documents. Un fortunately, we have strayed far from that vision, chang ing the school week of Easter vacation into “spring break,” for instance — try ing to take God out of circu lation. There are still many of us who care about the true meanings of Christmas and Easter. Jesus said, “Enter in at the straight gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruc tion and many there be which go in thereat. Straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leads unto life and few there be that find it.” Thank you for going down the narrow road on this important occasion. Glenda de Vaney Chula Vista Thank you so much for Steve Breen’s editorial cartoon in the Easter paper. It was so calming, peaceful, uplifting and beautiful. It added so much joy to our day as we celebrated Easter. Virginia Redman Encinitas

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SOLLOSY FROM B9 ment was degrading and needed to be protected, so they formed the Borrego Springs Dark Sky Coali tion. With guidance and support from the Interna tional Dark Sky Associ ation, they began a cam paign of community edu cation and lighting reme diation. Local residents rallied around their efforts, and in 2009, Borrego earned the designation of Inter national Dark Sky Com munity. Borrego remained the only International Dark Sky Community in California for the next 12 years, but this would finally change. In 2016, after hearing a presenta tion at the Julian Library about the benefits of being a dark sky commu nity, by Betsy Knaak, of the Borrego Springs group, a handful of us astronomers, outdoor educators, residents and students became inspired. We decided that Julian’s natural darkness was as much of an asset as its apple pie and came to gether to form the Julian Dark Sky Network. Our goals were to put on year round star parties, edu cate the community about the value of natural dark ness, foster good lighting practices and achieve the status of International Dark Sky Community. The road to that desig nation was more complex than we imagined, espe cially upon learning that San Diego County’s light ing code had become outdated since it was enacted in 1986. After we worked with the county’s Planning & Development Services agency, a new lighting code amendment was developed for unin corporated communities, like Julian, looking to become International

GARRETT FROM B9 ters less when reflected into the atmosphere; less scattering means less light pollution. Unfortunately, the excellent model found in streetlights is only a small portion of our overall lighting. So, what does one do? Personally? Collectively? Here are some suggesti ons: Use neighborly cour teous and nightsky friendly lights on your property and request the same standards for home owners’ associations and for city and county build ing codes. Specifically, use lights that are shielded, such that they can be aimed solely onto one’s own property, thus respecting the property rights of neighbors. The specifica tion to look for is “full cutoff shielding.” If shielded with a reflective hood, as you see in a flashlight or streetlight, such lights use less energy than brighter lights for the same illumination. If lights are decorative, and not aimable, use the low est wattage bulbs and softest colors available (both will enhance the aesthetics of decorative lighting). If floodlights are not aimable, control them with motion detectors. Distributed, fully shielded

HANDZEL FROM B9 Lighting ordinances in San Diego, the county and other local municipalities address light pollution, but they’re often not adhered to or effectively enforced. This perpetuates blinding glare and trespassing light — an intrusive invasion of privacy impacting quality of life by ruining enjoyment of one’s home or yard. Improperly aimed motion lights spray daylight into neighboring bedroom windows, reducing melatonin and contributing to daytime fatigue and increased risk of diabetes, obesity, cancers and cardio vascular disease due to disruption of our body’s internal clock — the circadi an rhythm. We recognize the sense less waste of a dripping faucet or misaimed sprink ler — money pouring down the drain. Shining light into the sky is wasteful, too. Use your lighting dollars wisely by shielding and directing light downward, where it’s useful. Likewise, while most are at home in bed sleeping, empty parking lots and office buildings, closed businesses and government

Dark Sky Communities. After five years of edu cation, advocacy, star parties and growing com munity support, in 2021, we met the requirements of the International Dark Sky Association, and became California’s sec ond International Dark Sky Community. Previ ously, in 2017, Joshua Tree and in 2018, Anza Borrego State Park, were desig nated International Dark Sky Parks in California. Here and around the world, the association’s work started to gain trac tion, as health care profes sionals, such as those in the American Medical Association, and officials in the National Park Sys tem, the Audubon Society and others began to add their voices about the harm of light pollution to our wildlife and to human health. Following Julian’s designation, residents of Valley Center, Fallbrook and other parts of Cali fornia contacted us, telling us that they were inspired by the news and wanted to learn how we did it. Since then, Fall brook and Valley Center have started educating and organizing in their communities. Also in 2021, after camping overnight in the Cleveland National Forrest, high school stu dents committed to work ing with the park staff for a major section of the forest to become an Inter national Dark Sky Park. This is so heartening! The challenge is huge, especially since the ad vent of LED lights. Light pollution is growing at an alarming rate, but our movement continues to grow as well! As we head back out into space, curi osity about our universe has grown dramatically, and hopefully the value we place on being able to make that “eye contact” with it will grow as well.

lights are more effective than single, highintensity floodlights. And last, mimic the sunset. Our biology evolved with orangered light for the transition between day and night. Now, we re place this transition with artificial light that mimics the color of noontime. The blue content in artificial light (which colors the sky by day; and pollutes most by night) triggers wake fulness, and exposure to it at night correlates with some forms of cancer. The specification to look for in choosing color is “color temperature.” Appropriately, this term applies in astronomy: Objects the temperature of stars radiate visible light. Our star is nearly 6,000 kelvins and sets our standard for white light, which is fine indoors during the day, but too harsh, too blue, for night. Hotter stars radiate more blue light, so a star (or light) of 10,000 K appears very blue. Cooler stars radiate more red, so stars and lights of 3,000 K share a soft yellow color. Industry provided us with ample lighting, faster than we could say “Ouch, too bright.” It is now time to reward the development of neighborly courteous, and nightsky friendly lighting, so that every city, every resident, enjoys a view of infinity.

facilities blaze all night long. How much light do we need? Is it too much when it’s visible from 35,000 feet in an airplane or from space? Turning in? Why not turn it off? Porch lights can dis rupt navigational abilities of migrating monarch butter flies. Millions of migrating birds and pollinating moths, bats and bees die unneces sarily. We have so much to gain from addressing light pollution. This is one prob lem that costs less to fix than to let it continue. Add ing a shield or reaiming a fixture is often all that’s needed. San Diego County is fortunate to have three International Dark Sky Places: Borrego Springs, Julian and Anza Borrego Desert State Park, where natural darkness is pro tected for future genera tions. We’re uniquely posi tioned with coastal, wet land, forest, mountain, grassland and desert habi tats to reap economic bene fit from ecotourism and astrotourism, which are on the rise. Dark skies aren’t just for national parks and rural communities. Urban areas benefit from reduced light pollution, too. Urban Night

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TH E CA RTO O N CA PT I O N CO N T EST The trophy this week goes to Paul Dragos! Congrats, Paul. He will receive Steve Breen’s signed cartoon in the mail. Thanks to all those who participated. The art for next week’s contest is below. To enter, email your submissions to cartooncontest@sduniontribune.com by 10 a.m. Tuesday. Please limit your captions to three and keep ’em brief. Good luck! THE WINNER

“Look what I found on the UConn bus!” Paul Dragos, San Diego

THE FINALISTS “I thought you said you wished I could urn more!” Stewart A. Halpern, Pacific Beach

“This proves I’m your trophy husband.” Tricia Hay, Del Mar

“It’s official ... Lulubelle is the fattest hog in the county!” Gene Basye, San Diego

“It’s my ‘Completely Clueless’ award … whatever that means.” Kevin Naughton, Spring Valley

“Just won firstplace for overall best overalls!” Maya Schonian, online submission

“It’s perfect for our fireplace mantle and nobody will know that I scored it from a garage sale!” Mark Oliver, La Jolla

“Back from EDCO … told you I’d find your mom! Crisis averted!” Brad Sandstrom, Escondido “I won the feed store pickleball tournament!” Rich Heckman, San Diego “The auctioneer said it could be the remains of Juan Cabrillo.” Stewart Witt, San Diego “Edna, I heard a genie snoring inside.” Bernard Hideo Jackson, Oceanside “I just won a trophy from the World Skeptic Society ... I can’t believe it.” Sara Mationg, Imperial Beach “It’s a major award!” Loretta S. Godfrey, San Diego

“I won this at my 10th reunion just for having the most teeth.” Kevin Hippensteel, Bullhead City, Arizona “My possum au gratin took first place at the roadkill cookoff!” Lyn Angene, La Mesa “You never believed me when I told you I was taking a latenight pottery class. Well, here’s the proof.” Geoff Beaver, Scripps Ranch “Look, Ma, I won the Seed Spittin’ Contest.” Larry Salvadori, San Diego “Who needs Breen’s original artwork with a consolation prize like this?” Barry Drucker, Oceanside

K12 WINNERS “I won this for you and Fuzzball!” Olive Kanemasu, eighth grade, Correia Middle School

“Wow, they really do give trophies just for showing up.” Joey Semler, sixth grade, Dana Middle School

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Sky Place designations may be sought for municipal parks where the night sky can be appreciated. Con sider the increased property values this could bring to your neighborhood. Let’s flip the switch on light pollution! Help bring back the stars and allow wildlife to survive and thrive by lighting only when and where it’s needed, use warm color light instead of bright, daylight white, install shielded fixtures and aim light downward. Dark sky approved lighting is afford able and attractive. It in creases safety, restores the peaceful ambiance of night time, encourages evening strolls and connections with neighbors, and instills a sense of tranquility which contributes to health and wellbeing, improving qual ity of life. International Dark Sky Week is a global celebration of our night sky. Visit SD DarkSky.org for a list of events, online activities and resources, including how to certify your home as dark sky friendly! Step outside, turn your gaze upward, and contemplate the human heritage of the night sky that is at stake for current and future generations.

Have ‘Your Say’ this Saturday WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HELP SAVE THE PLANET?

K.C. ALFRED U-T

For Earth Day 2023 on April 22, the theme is Invest In Our Planet, a directive to businesses, governments and citizens to play constructive roles in responding to the climate emergency. What if anything have you done to reduce your carbon footprint and to encourage others to do so? Please email us your essay of up to 500 words at yoursay@sduniontribune.com by 10 a.m. Wednesday morning and we may publish it in the newspaper and online. Include your name, community and a phone number we may use to contact you. Thanks for joining our conversation.

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S T E V E N P. D I N K I N A Path Forward

AS MENTAL HEALTH EMERGES FROM SHADOWS, AMERICA GAINS It’s backtowork week for Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetter man, following his release from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at the end of March. Fetterman had checked in six weeks prior to be treated for clinical depression. No matter your political per suasion, Fetterman’s openness about his mental illness — likely related to a stroke last February — is admirable. Politicians, after all, aren’t expected to show vulnera bility (and aren’t very good at it). Fetterman is a Democrat. He was praised for his decision to seek treatment — and go public with it — by colleagues from both parties. In an April 2 interview with Jane Pauley on “CBS Sunday Morning,” Fetterman said depres sion had caused him to stop leav ing his bed. He lost interest in eating or drinking and dropped weight. And, he told Pauley, “I’d stopped engaging in some of the most — things that I love in my life.” Fetterman said the symptoms gathered strength after he won the November election. And while he knew he won, objectively, Fetter

man shared, “depression can absolutely convince you that you actually lost — and that’s exactly what happened.” It was the start of his downward spiral. When he was sworn in as Penn sylvania’s new senator on Jan. 3, Fetterman felt indifferent about living — an infrequent admission in politics, because of the conse quences. In 1972, Missouri Sen. Thomas Eagleton was picked to run with presidential candidate George McGovern, in part because it was thought he could unite Demo crats. Eighteen days later, Eagleton withdrew his candidacy, following revelations he had been hospitalized for depression and treated with electroshock therapy. Missouri voters stood with Eagleton, reelecting him to the Senate for two additional terms. Fifty years later, it’s not just politicians openly sharing their mental health struggles. Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka withdrew from the 2021 French Open, citing depression and anxiety. That same year, gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics, still grappling with the

aftereffects of sexual abuse by her former USA Gymnastics doctor. The spotlight on mental health and willingness to talk about it, openly, is beneficial for all of us. Nearly 53 million Americans — 1 in 5 adults — experience mental illness every year, according to the National Alliance on Mental Ill ness. More than half of Americans will experience mental illness in their lifetime. The Society for Human Re source Management reported last year that employers have seen a surge in mental health issues and requests for accommodations, as required by the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and other nondiscrimination laws. Pan demicrelated stress at work and at home contributed to this trend, exacerbated by economic uncer tainty. And according to SHRM, gun violence has played a role, too, with more mass shootings than days so far this year. The tragedies are taking a toll on employees’ mental health, especially those who have kids in their lives. Events like the March 27 rampage at an elementary school in Nashville,

Tenn., only add to their worries about safety. But fewer than 1 in 5 workers has accessed mental health care through their employer. Maybe it’s a lack of awareness about avail able services, or maybe the per ceived stigma of mental illness hasn’t gone away (or both). A discussion on the topic of mental health in America must also include our youth, who are dealing with depression, anxiety and loneliness at record rates — compounded by social media (or caused by it, some would say). Like adults, they are experiencing postpandemic stress and econo mic worries. Everpresent gun violence is eroding the sense of wellbeing and safety that is es sential for their healthy devel opment. Now, a majority of American teens say they are very or some what worried about the possibility of a shooting at their school. At the National Conflict Reso lution Center, we have been work ing with youth for more than a decade. Our approach has evolved. When harm occurred, we facilitated restorative conferences

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FROM B1 have anything for rent ex cept for these two old red houses by The Cove,’” Mars den said. “I knew what they were. I never even in my fondest memories or dreams ... thought I’d be liv ing there.” Marsden toured Red Rest with Dalton 30 minutes after learning it was empty. “It was a little dirty and dusty, but I was sold,” he said. Marsden rented the cot tage for $160 a month, find ing a couple of roommates to help with the rent. After moving to Point Loma in 1966 to help after his father had a stroke, he got married to his first wife, Linda, in 1969. They had two children and lived all over San Diego County before getting divorced in 1974. Marsden wound up back in La Jolla, this time at the Red Roost cottage. His kids would stay with him on weekends, he said. “I was lucky to do that,” he said. “I tell my daughter, Robin, ‘You’re one of the only people that ever stayed in one of those red houses.’ She’d get to sleep in my old bed. There was a little tiny breakfast place on the cor ner of Girard and Prospect we’d visit.” “There’s no experience that can compare” to living in the cottages, he said. “I would come home at night a lot of times and I would go swimming,” Mars den said. Before La Jolla Cove became an ecological reserve and later a state Marine Protected Area, many of his meals consisted of abalone and lobster he caught in those waters. “I can remember going out one afternoon (and find ing) a halibut ... and that was dinner,” he said. In 1967, the cottages were bought by Jack Heimburge, president of the adjacent La

POLICE FROM B1 will be used, who will be au thorized to use them and the training needed, costs for maintenance and who manufactures them. It also lists the department’s exist ing inventory of military style equipment and its de scriptions. A summary of any con cerns received regarding the equipment must also be in cluded in the report, which says the department has re ceived none on any of its gear

WETLANDS FROM B1 Youth Field and the tennis courts at De Anza in Mission Bay,” said Councilmember Joe LaCava, referencing a March 21 event. Mission Bay Park — the largest aquatic park of its kind in the country — was created in the 1950s from 4,000 acres of marshland. More than 15 million visi tors enjoy the park annually. With equal parts land and water, the area offers 27 miles of shoreline, including 19 miles of sandy beaches. Many points of the park ex tend into the bay, making for numerous coves and two is lands. Land lovers can hike or ride bikes among numerous trails, visit playgrounds, have picnics and enjoy other leisure and sports activities. For those wanting to hit the water, there are abun dant swimming locations

that led to equitable resolution for all concerned — outside of the juvenile justice system. Now, we have incorporated Cognitive Be havioral Therapy into the pro gram, not just addressing harmful behavior but identifying and tack ling the underlying causes. We may very well be at the beginning of a generational change when it comes to our think ing about mental health. As Sara Guillermo recently wrote in The Hill, “ The idea that a political leader must be ‘strong’ and ‘tough,’ traits typically attributed to men, is less popular than it used to be. As leaders encounter less of the old stigma around mental health as a barrier, it will lead to more humane policymaking and more authentic, open leadership.” Welcome back, John Fetter man. Your return to the Senate could foreshadow a more compas sionate future for our country.

Dinkin is president of the National Conflict Resolution Center, a San Diegobased group working to create solutions to challenging issues, including intolerance and incivility. To learn about NCRC’s programming, visit ncrconline.com

Jolla Cove Hotel. A few years later he announced his in tent to demolish the cot tages and replace them with an apartment building. Several community members led an opposition campaign and eventually succeeded in getting Red Rest and Red Roost listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. However, Heimburge continued to fight for a de velopment permit. Marsden remembers be ing part of the preservation effort and standing at The Cove with fellow cottage ten ant George Ravenscroft ask ing for signatures on a peti tion to save the cottages. Ravenscroft had 2,000 signatures and went to the city of San Diego to “stop any

construction of anything,” Marsden said. San Diego Coast Re gional Commission hearings on the matter were crowded, Marsden said, with mem bers of the public clamoring for an opportunity to com ment. “You had a hard time getting out of the building,” he said. The commission denied Heimburge a permit in 1977, and he issued eviction notic es to all cottage tenants, cit ing liability concerns if dete rioration of the structures led to tenant injury. Red Rest and Red Roost have since been unin habited, their state of disre pair worsening. Preserva tion advocates have claimed the cottages were being de stroyed through neglect.

Heimburge died in 1989 and the cottages were ac quired in 2014 by Denver based Apartment Invest ment and Management Co. In 2018, AIMCO sold the cot tages and the La Jolla Cove Hotel & Suites to a group of investors in the hotel busi ness. Marsden said he hopes the cottages will again be suitable for tenancy some day. San Diego city spokes man Perette Godwin said discretionary permits for the rehabilitation and condo project are still under review. Project applicant Paul Benton did not respond to requests for comment.

listed within the inventory. Law enforcement agen cies are now required by the state to produce these re ports annually and publicly share them with the public and City Council. Assembly Bill 481 man dates that police depart ments receive permission from their governing boards, such as a city council or board of supervisors, to con tinue using the equipment and before buying new tools. The law was passed to im prove transparency and oversight of costs associated with law enforcement use of

militarystyle equipment, such as grenades, armored vehicles and drones. The City Council last March approved the Police Department’s policy that es tablished the “guidelines for the approval, acquisition, and reporting requirements of military equipment,” reads NCPD’s policy. On Tuesday, police offi cials held their first commu nity meeting, as required by law, to share the report be fore presenting it to elected officials. “Our goal is, we want peo ple to know what we are us

ing our equipment for and to respond to critical incidents and ultimately to protect the community,” said police Capt. Chris Sullivan. “If we can evaluate what we’re do ing with the input from the community, then that’s what we’re all about.” Tellez said the depart ment expects to present the report and make its re quests before the City Coun cil at Tuesday’s meeting, for which the public will have another opportunity to pro vide feedback.

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FROM B1 earned a master’s degree from the University of Chi cago and his doctorate from Stanford University. Tangherlini and his ex wife raised four sons in Worcester, Mass. He now has eight grandchildren ranging in age from 12 to 31. Over the course of his ca reer, Tangherlini held re search teaching positions at several prestigious universi ties, including the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Duke University and George Washington Uni versity. He retired from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester in 1994, becoming an associate professor emeri tus. Soon after, he moved to San Diego to be close to his younger brother, Burt Tangherlini. The two broth ers would regularly attend the weekly Firehouse Swing Dance, and he supported Burt through a quadruple bypass surgery and other health conditions until his brother’s death five years ago at age 90. Erin Roos, who coowns The Firehouse Swing Dance hall along with her husband, recalls dancing with Tangherlini when she first moved to San Diego. Each year, his birthday is celebrated at The Firehouse with cake and ice cream, but Roos said he motivates other dancers in the scene throughout the year. “Beyond just swing danc ing, I think it’s great just to be able to have a hobby that you love and enjoy so much that you can continue to do it until you’re 99,” she said. “In the swing dance scene, I think he represents joy. You look at people watching him dance, and they’re just happy.” Just as Tangherlini in spires many on the dance floor, he’s also an inspiration to scientists around the world. His research in the field of theoretical physics has spanned decades and cov ered topics such as black holes, the velocity of light, di mensionality of space and relativity and quantum me chanics. A 1963 paper Tangherlini wrote on why space has three dimensions has been cited 1,069 times to date, including in 58 papers last year alone. He also inspired a young woman and fellow dancer to become an engineer. When University City res ident Cami Asher first started Lindy hopping at 16, Tangherlini was a friendly face who made navigating a

and thousands of acres of waterways for boating, ski ing, windsurfing and more. Fishing is allowed, with exceptions, and Fiesta Is land is a wellknown leash free dog area. Nature lovers enjoy bird watching throughout Mis sion Bay, with KendallFrost Marsh being home to a vari ety of birds, including en dangered lightfooted clap per rails and Belding’s Sa vannah sparrows, as well as unique plants and a variety of animals. Covering about 40 acres, KendallFrost Marsh, 1 per cent of the original saltwater marsh habitat, is nearly all that remains of the original 4,000acre wetland site. One of its most valuable aspects may be underfoot — wetlands are known for the natural carbon sequestra tion that takes place in the mud, which is important for setting climate action goals. Estimates show the top me ter of mud in the marsh con

tains about 1,052 metric tons of carbon. KendallFrost Marsh is managed jointly. The KendallFrost Mission Bay Reserve — part of the Uni versity of California Natural Reserve System — is man aged by UC San Diego. The city of San Diego manages the adjacent Northern Wild life Reserve. The Robin Stribley Marsh, in the southernmost section of the reserve, is owned by the city. While the master plan of Mission Bay Park has called for wetland restoration for more than 25 years, the marsh area has basically been unchanged. As more information is learned about the environ mental aspects of wetlands, and climate change and ris ing seas increasingly be come topics of conversation, talks about restoring the original marshlands have become more urgent. Last month, the city of

San Diego released a draft environmental impact re port and addressed its wet land restoration plan for the northeast corner. The city’s plan — known as De Anza Natural — can be found at tinyurl.com/DeAnzaNatu ral. The 446page draft in cludes plans for a combina tion of marshland, recre ation areas and campsites for the northeast corner. Included in the proposal are 219 acres of marshland and 38 acres of dunes and en vironmental buffers, more land for active recreation areas (to be taken from land now used for passive recre ation) and buildings, such as a clubhouse for nonmotor ized boats and a planned wildlife interpretation cen ter. Preserving marshland has long been a concern of the San Diego Audubon So ciety. The society and the ReWild Coalition, which in cludes more than 65 commu

nity partners, joined to gether for ReWild Mission Bay, which seeks to enhance and restore the natural wet lands in Mission Bay’s northwest corner. ReWild has issues with the city’s document, specif ically calling out the lack of hard science and projec tions for sealevel rise mod eling. The ReWild Mission Bay Wetlands Restoration Feasi bility Study developed and analyzed a range of wetlands restoration options and came up with three concep tual plans. The plans, which the group calls “Wild,” “Wilder” and “Wildest,” can be found at rewildmission bay.org/resources. ReWild’s comments on the city’s plan, as explained on its website, focus on re storing 315 acres of habitat in the “Wildest” level plan. “I am closely monitoring this process and working toward an amendment that maintains a balance be

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The historic Red Rest cottage in La Jolla is pictured in 1978, a year after all ten ants were evicted. It was built in 1894.

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new social scene less intimi dating. “Because he worked in education, he was really good at scaffolding his dances to appropriately meet the dancer at what lev el they were at,” Asher said. “I think that that’s a unique skill that Frank brought be cause he had, even at his age, a wide breadth of moves. He was able to make every dance incredibly welcoming because I didn’t need to know everything.” Over time, the pair bonded over their shared in terest in engineering, and he started bringing Asher sci entific papers to read so they could discuss them the fol lowing week. As she prepared for col lege, it was a recommenda tion letter written by Tangherlini that helped her get accepted to California Polytechnic State Uni versity, San Luis Obispo, to pursue a degree in chemical engineering. Asher, now 24, continues to draw inspiration from the theoretical physicist, who decades after retiring from teaching continues to make significant contributions through his research and publications. “Frank highlights every thing good about continuing to acquire knowledge and push the boundaries of what knowledge and exploration of your interests can be throughout your life,” she said. Most recently, he’s been particularly interested in re searching and publishing papers on wildfire manage ment. In 2021, his paper on using catapults with water filled containers to put out fires as a safer alternative to sending firefighters into wildfires to extinguish them from the inside was pub lished in the Open Journal of Safety Science and Technol ogy. When he isn’t swing dancing, Tangherlini stays active by taking walks around his neighborhood and chatting with his friends. He’s proud to have recently renewed his driver’s license, which will remain active until he turns 104. The secret to Tangherli ni’s longevity? He attributes it to a diet primarily based on fish and vegetables. With a newly replaced pacemaker, he’s hoping to continue dancing and writing for the foreseeable future. “I am working on dark matter right now, so I have plenty to do intellectually — I could write a half a dozen papers,” Tangherlini said.

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tween preserving recre ational uses and maximizing wetlands creation,” LaCava said. “De Anza Natural pro vides a unique opportunity to forward our climate objec tives and accommodate our popular recreational spot for San Diegans and visitors who enjoy youth sports, golf and birdwatching,” he add ed. Both ReWild and the city are asking for public com ments on the plans. The public review period closes April 20. To leave comments, visit tinyurl.com/DeAnza Comments and scroll to the bottom of the page. The draft plan process in cludes community meetings for feedback. Future meet ings include hearings before the Mission Bay Park Com mittee, Parks and Recre ation Board, Planning Com mission, Environment Com mittee and City Council.

Elling is a freelance writer.

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The 90 million taxpayers who have filed as of March 31 got refunds that were an average of nearly 10% less than last year. C2

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They lent their friend a van, but it’s getting awkward — now what? Dear Liz: A friend of ours had a huge problem with car repairs last year. This friend got ripped off by a mechanic who took money for the work to repair his car and never repaired it. So my husband and I were kind enough to loan him our van for what we thought would be a short time. The loan has now lasted a year. He put a lot of repair work into it, but we need to ask for the vehicle back. It is not titled to him. I feel bad that he has spent money working on the van. Should we offer him any money or reimburse him for the work? I have a feeling it’s not going to go over very well. Any thoughts or advice on how to handle this would be appreciated. Answer: As you probably know, the pandemic and a lingering microchip short age have upended the car market, dramatically rais ing prices for both new and used cars. Interest rates have gone up as well, mak ing car loans a lot more expensive. Your friend may well have made the calcula tion that repairing a bor rowed vehicle made a lot more economic sense than trying to buy a replacement. He avoided lease or loan payments, plus he may have benefited from free insur ance coverage if you contin ued to pay those premiums. One approach would be to put a rough dollar value on those savings compared with what he spent on re pairs and offer to reimburse him for the difference. Should you ever again want to loan a potentially valuable asset to a friend, consider discussing in ad vance who will be responsible for maintenance and repairs as well as how long the loan is expected to last. Putting the details in writing could help both parties avoid awkward misunderstandings.

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About 1.6 million homes and businesses in California have installed rooftop solar, more than any other state.

HOMES WITH SOLAR NOT EXEMPT FROM FIXED ELECTRICITY FEES Charges to be decided by CPUC will vary by income; critics warn solar customers won’t be happy BY ROB NIKOLEWSKI

Another view of house bequest Dear Liz: You recently answered a question about a mother who gave her home to her two children shortly before she died. You wrote that when a home is gifted, the recipients also get the original owner’s tax basis and thus there is no step up in tax basis at death. However, if the mother continued to live in the home and didn’t pay rent, an argument could be made SEE DEAR LIZ • C2

y all indications, a new law that would establish monthly fixed charges on electricity bills that vary according to household income will also apply to customers who have installed solar in the service territories of power companies regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission, includ ing San Diego Gas & Electric. The question at this early stage is, how high will those fixed charges be each month? Ulti mately, that will be decided by the commission. The law’s supporters say the charges will help lowerincome customers and more accurately re flect the fixed costs that go into running the state’s electric system. But the solar industry and rooftop installers say if the monthly fee is set too high, it will under

mine one of the main reasons customers in stalled their rooftop systems in the first place — to dramatically slash their monthly electric bills. “It’s not the fixed charge that’s necessarily the problem,” said Michael Powers, cofounder of Stellar Solar, based in Oceanside, “it’s how big is that as a portion of your total bill.”

Where did this fixed charge come from? Last summer, the Legislature passed Assem bly Bill 205, a wideranging piece of legislation dubbed the “energy trailer bill” that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law. Most of the floor debate focused on one section of the bill that created a strategic reliability reserve to be overseen by the California Department of Water Resources. But the legislation also included a provision calling on the commission — or CPUC — to adopt a fixed monthly charge based on household in

come. The rationale was based on giving lower income Californians some financial relief from everincreasing electrical bills. Currently, monthly utility bills include not only the cost, transmission and distribution of the electricity itself but also the dollars that in vestorowned utilities spend on other programs — such as reducing wildfire risk, “public purpose programs” like the California Alternative Rates for Energy (CARE) and the Family Electric Rates Assistance (FERA) that help lowincome customers pay their utility bills, and the myriad clean energy programs aimed at reaching the state’s decarbonization goals. Under AB 205, the idea is to separate the costs of many of those programs not directly related to the price of electricity and put them into a fixed charge that customers would pay each month. SEE FIXED • C6

UNEMPLOYMENT IS LOW. INFLATION IS FALLING. BUT WHAT COMES NEXT? BY BEN CASSELMAN

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Many forecasters — including economists at the Federal Reserve — have said that the recent banking turmoil has made a recession more likely.

There are two starkly dif ferent ways of looking at the U.S. economy right now: what the data says has hap pened in the past few months, and what history warns could happen next. Most of the recent data suggests that the economy is strong. The job market is, in credibly, better today than it was in February 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic ripped a hole in the global economy. More people are working. They are paid more. The gaps between them — by race, gender, edu cation or income — are smaller. Even inflation, long the black cloud in the economy’s sunny sky, is showing signs of dissipating. Government data released Wednesday showed that consumer prices were up 5 percent in March from a year earlier, the slowest pace in nearly two years. Over the past three months, prices have

risen at the equivalent of a 3.8 percent annual rate — faster than policymakers would like, but no longer the fivealarm fire it was at its peak last year. Yet for all the good news, economists remain worried that a recession is on the way or that the Federal Reserve will cause one in trying to rein in inflation. “The data has been reas suring,” said Karen Dynan, a Harvard economist and for mer Treasury official. “The things that we’re nervous about are all the things that we don’t have a lot of hard data about.” Beginning with the banks: Most of the recent data predates the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the upheaval in the banking sys tem that followed. Already, there are signs that small and midsize lenders have be gun to tighten their credit standards in response to the crisis, which, in turn, could push the businesses that are their clients to cut back on

hiring and investment. The extent of the economic ef fects won’t be clear for months, but many forecast ers — including economists at the Fed — have said that the turmoil has made a re cession more likely. The Fed began raising in terest rates more than a year ago, but the effect of those increases is just beginning to show up in many parts of the economy. Only in March did the construction industry begin to shed jobs, even though the housing market has been in a slump since the middle of last year. Manufac turers, too, were adding jobs until recently. And consum ers are still in the early stages of grappling with what higher rates mean for their ability to buy cars, pay credit card balances and take on other forms of debt. The economic data that paints such a rosy picture of the economy is “a look back into an old world that doesn’t exist anymore,” said SEE ECONOMY • C5

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The Biden administration has proposed that twothirds of new cars sold in the United States be emissionfree by 2032.

CONFUSED ABOUT ELECTRIC CARS? WE HAVE SOME ANSWERS What buyers need to know about the Biden administration’s proposal to push the industry to sell more EVs BY VIKAS BAJAJ

he Biden administration on Wednesday proposed ambitious auto emis sions rules that could significantly change the kinds of cars and trucks on sale in the United States — but not right away. The regulations, if carried out, will effectively require automakers to replace fossil fuel cars with elec tric vehicles starting with cars for the 2027 model year as part of President Joe Biden’s larger effort to address climate change. Ulti mately, the administration wants twothirds of all new cars sold in the country to have zero emissions by 2032. The proposal, put forward by the Environmental Protection Agency, is likely to accelerate a transition to electric cars that is already underway. It is also sure to create a lot of confusion for people who drive cars but do not closely follow the auto industry and emis sions regulations.

What do the new fuel emissions rules mean for me as a driver and car buyer? Even if adopted as proposed, the rules will have no major impact on consumers for at least a few years. The rules will not require Americans to buy a new car or to sell the one they own now, and car

dealerships will still sell models similar to the vehicles that people are used to driving. Things will start to change in 2027, when the government will begin imposing tougher standards on the emissions from cars and trucks. Over time, automakers will find that the only way they can comply with those tightening regu lations is by selling more electric cars, which release no pollution from tailpipes, and fewer conven tional combustionengine cars.

Is this a good time to buy an electric car? That depends on your circum stances. For much of the past two dec ades, electric cars tended to appeal only to affluent early adopters or people very committed to protect ing the environment. The vehicles available tended to be luxury mod els that cost a lot more than com parable gasoline vehicles or that were very small. The cars couldn’t travel far before needing a charge, and finding a place to plug them in could be incredibly difficult. But much of that has changed recently. Tesla, Ford Motor and other carmakers have recently cut prices for batterypowered models like the Model 3 and the Mustang MachE, and some now cost less than similar gasoline models, or nearly so. General Motors and

other companies will introduce even cheaper models this year, like an electric Chevrolet Equinox SUV that is expected to start around $30,000. And many electric models can be driven comfortably for 200 miles or more before recharging. Electric vehicles are generally cheaper to operate because the electricity needed to move them tends to cost less than the equiva lent amount of gasoline. They are also cheaper to maintain.

What is happening with federal tax credits for electric cars? Electric cars assembled in the United States qualify for a $7,500 federal tax credit, but the rules governing those incentives will change Tuesday. A certain percent age of the components and miner als in vehicle batteries will have to come from North America or coun tries with which the United States has a trade agreement. Tesla, GM, Ford and other automakers have already said that some of their electric cars will no longer qualify for credits or will qualify for only a partial credit. Electric vehicles assembled in Germany, Japan, South Korea and other countries will remain ineligi ble. The government also limits eligibility based on how much a car, truck or SUV costs and how much individuals and couples earn in a year.

I can’t find an electric vehicle that meets my needs. Are there other options? Some people will probably con clude that an electric car is not right for them, for now. They may need a pickup truck that can haul heavy loads and trailers over long dis tances — something today’s battery powered trucks are not very good at. Or they may live in apartments or rental homes where they cannot install a dedicated electric vehicle charger and there aren’t many pub lic chargers available nearby. In such situations, you could consider hybrid or plugin hybrid cars without making the full leap to an electric vehicle. Many automak ers offer hybrids, which have a com bustion engine, a battery and an electric motor. These cars tend to be more expensive than conventional vehicles, but owners can recoup that higher cost by saving on fuel. How much you have to drive to come out ahead will depend on the model. One thing to keep in mind is that electric vehicle technology is changing fast, and industry ex perts believe that these cars will only get better and more afford able. So your best option might be to make do with the car you are driving for another couple of years until you see a batterypowered model that makes sense for you.

Bajaj writes for The New York Times.

FROM C1 that it wasn’t a real gift and the home should be in cluded in her estate at death. Then the children could get the step up in basis and not owe capital gains taxes when they sell. Answer: The estate tax experts at Wolters Kluwer tax research firm agree that if the mother continued to live in the house, IRS Code Sec. 2036(a)(1) could apply, “assuming that there was an express or implied agree ment between the mother and the children that she would live in the home rent free until her death.” Then the fair market value of the home could be included in the gross estate and the children would receive a step up in basis at the moth er’s death. A similar argument could be made if the mother had added the children as joint tenants and continued to live rentfree in the home until death. Making such arguments to the IRS might require hiring knowledgeable tax and legal help, however. Plus, adding children to home deeds can create other problems. The chil dren’s creditors could go after the house, for example, and transfers of home own ership can complicate Medi caid eligibility. It would probably be much more cost effective to get tax and legal advice before changing a home’s deed than to hope your heirs prevail against the IRS afterward.

Securities Investor Protection coverage Dear Liz: This is a follow up question to your column concerning stock brokerage accounts and the coverage provided by Securities Investor Protection Corp. My husband and I are puz zled as to how the failure of a brokerage, which does not actually own our shares of stock, could cause us to lose that stock, leaving us to the limited protection the SIPC can provide. Can you ex plain what the sequence of events would be? Answer: SIPC coverage kicks in when a brokerage fails and customer assets are missing. You’re correct that brokerages are required to keep customer assets sepa rate from their own, so miss ing stocks and other invest ments would probably be due to fraud, which is rare. Most of the time when a brokerage fails, all customer assets are simply transferred to another firm. SIPC protects up to $500,000, including a $250,000 limit for cash. Many brokerages also have pri vate insurance in addition to SIPC coverage to protect against such losses.

Weston is a certified financial planner. Questions may be sent to her at 3940 Laurel Canyon, No. 238, Studio City, CA 91604, or by using the “Contact” form at asklizweston.com.

THE AVERAGE TAX REFUND IS NEARLY 10 PERCENT LESS THAN LAST YEAR BY CORA LEWIS Expecting a tax refund? It could be smaller than last year. And with inflation still high, that money won’t go as far as it did a year ago. The 90 million taxpayers who have filed as of March 31 got re funds that were an average of nearly 10 percent less than last year, in part due to pandemic relief programs expiring. The filing deadline for most taxpayers is Tuesday. The average refund is $2,910, down from $3,226, a difference of more than $300, according to the most recent IRS data. For many households, espe cially working families, the tax refund is the biggest onetime financial windfall of the year, said Kathy Pickering, chief tax officer of H&R Block. “We know that working families in general are the most cash strapped,” she said, adding that the expanded earned income tax and child tax credits during the COVID pandemic provided a lot of benefits for families with children. The child tax credit, for exam ple, is reverting to $2,000 per child, while the pandemic credit was as high as $3,600 per child. The child and dependent care credit, a tax break available to parents and those who care for family mem bers while they work, had been expanded to a maximum of $8,000 in 2021 and is now a maximum of $2,100. “As those provisions expired, that’s had a big impact,” Pickering said. Rachel Zhou, 20, a college stu

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The 90 million taxpayers who have filed as of March 31 got refunds that were an average of $316 less than last year accord ing to the IRS, in part due to pandemic relief programs expiring. dent in Boston whose father works in food delivery and whose step mother is a social worker, said her family has used refunds in the past for things like home repairs that require big onetime payments. One rebate they received during the pandemic went toward fixing her house’s heating, air, and venti lation system, she said. Zhou has worked since she was a teenager, and has already filed her taxes this year. Her refund? $1.

Last year and the previous year she received “upwards of several hundred dollars,” she said. “Overall it does make the situa tion a bit more tenuous,” said Zhou. “It is nice to have (the re fund) at the end of the year — tax season — for when there are gaps to be made up for in the budget.” Zhou has worked as a recep tionist, at a grill and an ice cream shop, and in other jobs. For her father, who has shifted more

toward self employment in the past few years (receiving 1099 forms for DoorDash and other delivery work), she said taxes have also become “more of a hit and less of a refund.” Pickering said that more Ameri cans took on side hustles, gig and freelance work during and since the pandemic, and so they may be experiencing the selfemployment tax and the consequences of a lack of withholding. A traditional em ployer who provides a W2 would withhold taxes from each pay check, meaning less of a potential shock at the end of the tax year. Ted Rossman, an analyst with Bankrate.com, said those who receive refunds tend to use the money “very practically,” often to pay off debt and boost savings. “What I do think is definitely significant is the fact that other costs have gone up,” Rossman said. “It’s bad enough that this is taking 10 percent off your tax refund, but on top of that, your groceries might be up, and rent, and gas prices. This is money that a lot of people really count on every year.” “Even a difference of $300 on the tax refund, that does pale in comparison to the stimulus people received during the pandemic,” he said. “Psychologically, economi cally speaking, it probably feels like, ‘Just one more thing.’ So maybe it weighs on confidence more than actual spending.” Alaina, 32, a Floridabased fiber artist who asked to be identi fied by her first name to protect her privacy, said her refund will go toward house repairs and “clear ing up debt.”

“I have a lot on credit cards and have had to borrow money from people that I need to pay back,” she said. “I wish it could go for fun stuff, but money is too tight.” Alaina, who sells her work online, has been selfemployed since she lost her job in the health care sector in 2021. She said she hasn’t yet filed her taxes this year but that last year she and her husband, who is unemployed, received about $3,600 after filing jointly. According to Bankrate’s Ross man, there’s a possibility that this year’s lower tax refunds could weaken consumer spending and, as result, help slow inflation. “It’s bad news for households because people want higher re funds, obviously, but I think per haps quietly the Fed might cheer,” he said. To combat inflation, the Fed has been raising interest rates to increase the cost of borrowing money, with the hope of slowing the economy. Unfortunately, for those house holds that have spent through their savings, who are now relying on credit cards to get by month to month, those higher interest rates have also led to average credit card interest rates of over 20 percent. “That becomes a tough cycle to break,” Rossman said. “We are dealing with fairly blunt tools when you talk about raising inter est rates and changing the price of money. High inflation left unchecked will be bad for everyone — but it will be worst for the lowest end of the income spectrum.”

Lewis writes for The Associated Press.

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Solid business, fat dividend AT&T (NYSE: T) is a stable business with a skyhigh dividend yield — recently over 5.6 percent. A few years ago, the telecom giant was not the kind of stock you could buy and forget. Its foray into the media business was turning into an expensive disaster, muddling the results of the core wireless business. AT&T has since shed its media assets, completing its transition last year back to a pure telecom company with the separation of WarnerMedia. Its story is now dead sim ple: wireless and fiber Internet. AT&T can focus its efforts and its resources on growing both businesses, and its ample cash flow generation fuels a solid dividend. AT&T isn’t immune to a tough economic environment, but what it sells is about as necessary as electricity and water for most people. The company expects wireless serv ice revenue growth of at least 4 percent in 2023 not a bad result, given the economic backdrop. In the fiber business, it plans to reach over 30 million homes and businesses by the end of 2025, up from 22 million at the end of 2022. Meanwhile, AT&T is cutting costs, which will help it meet its goal of producing $16 billion in free cash flow this year. That’s up from $14.1 billion in 2022 and more than enough to support the current dividend. What’s left over can help the company reduce its debt. Longterm investors, especially those seeking income, should give AT&T a closer look.

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An investor group debuted plans recently for a soccer stadium in Chula Vista, but there’s one group not very enthusiastic: Major League Soccer. The proposal from Petra Development Group is located on the Chula Vista Bayfront with up to 50,000 seats and two hotels on a 136acre site. An MLS representative said it was not in discussion with Chula Vista developers and was firm on San Diego being the preferred site of a possible expansion team. Chula Vista is one of the fastestgrowing cities in Southern California with a population of around 277,500. In recent years, it’s become the county’s center of new home construction and a bedroom community for the region’s workforce. Yet it lacks a vibrant downtown or heavy commercial presence like Mission Valley. Last year, the UnionTribune reported that the local Sycuan tribe had teamed with Londonbased Mansour Group and was angling to secure a team to play at Snapdragon Stadium.

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MLS could certainly consider the ambitious Chula Vista stadium and entertainment complex, but hopefully the project’s viability is justifiable by developers with or without the soccer league embracing Kelly Cunningham it. The project entails opportunities to San Diego Institute attract other professional league sports, for Economic including potential NFL, NBA, and/or Research NHL interest, as well as other largescale events such as the World Cup, NCAA bowl and tournament games. Access for Mexican fans to the location is a consider ation as well.

We are a binational region with economic activity coordinated on both sides of the border with Mexico. If a developer wants to privately finance this stadium complex and put it where more fans from both Haney Hong sides of the border can spend money in San Diego County the region’s secondlargest city, then why Taxpayers Assoc. not consider it? Maybe MLS should consider putting two teams in San Diego, one at Snapdragon and one here.

Not at this time. The 30th MLS expansion team is NO expected to be named by the end of the

We already have a perfect facility for MLS in Snapdrag NO on Stadium. Snapdragon was designed

year, so Chula Vista has no realistic chance of being selected over Las Vegas or San Diego. If MLS opts to expand David Ely again, and planning for the sports com San Diego State plex is further along, Chula Vista may University have a better chance in the future. How ever, there is no shortage of cities contending to become an expansion site.

not just for college football but for MLS and a variety of other concerts and events. The San Diego region benefits if Jamie Moraga venues are booked yearround. Instead of Franklin Revere spending time, money and effort in building another stadium, Snapdragon seems like the logical answer for an MLS team. It’s already built, it’s centrally located, and it’s comparable to other MLS stadiums.

Buying a home tends to be costly and stressful. You can save a lot of money and headaches by avoiding blunders such as these. Having a low credit score: Folks with high credit scores could recently qualify for mortgage interest rates around 5.7 percent, while those with poor scores were getting 7.3 per cent or more. That can cost tens of thousands of dollars in interest over the life of a loan. Raise your score by paying bills on time and paying down debts. Considering only one kind of mortgage: When interest rates are low, fixedrate loans can be smart. But if rates are high and you expect them to fall — or if you won’t be in the home long — consider an adjustablerate mortgage (ARM). Learn the pros and cons of each (and consider mortgages for terms of less than 30 years, too). Accepting the first mortgage a lender offers you: Shop ping around can result in a lower interest rate, which can save you a lot. Spending too much: Don’t buy more home than you can afford. Remember that you’ll be paying for property taxes, insurance, utilities, maintenance, repairs and possibly homeowner association (HOA) fees — along with all your regular and other nonhousing expenses. Leave room in your budget for unexpected expenses and events (like a job loss), and aim to live below your means to free up money for retire ment savings and more. Failing to do your research: Take some time to read up on homebuying and mortgages, and learn more about your options. You may qualify for a Federal Housing Adminis tration (FHA) loan, a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) loan or a U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) loan. Learn about your prospective new home’s town and neigh borhood, too. Thinking of your home mostly as an investment: Real estate doesn’t typically appreciate as briskly as, say, the stock market. Learn more at TheAscent.com.

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I know that Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns lots of stocks, like CocaCola. Can I get the same return as Berkshire by buying the same stocks? — N.D., Sacramento, Calif. Nope. The company does own shares of many stocks, such as Apple, Bank of America, Chevron and Ameri can Express. But you can’t duplicate their performance exactly, because Berkshire’s holdings are generally only reported quarterly via required filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). You might buy or sell the same stocks that Buffett or his investing lieutenants do, but you can’t do so at the same time as they do, so you probably won’t be buying at the same price. Also, there’s much more to Berkshire Hathaway. It entirely owns many businesses in which you can’t invest directly. These include Benjamin Moore, Brooks, Duracell, Forest River, Fruit of the Loom, GEICO Auto Insurance, International Dairy Queen, Johns Manville, Justin Brands, McLane, NetJets, Pampered Chef, Pilot Travel Centers, See’s Candies and the BNSF railroad. There is a way to have your returns match Berkshire’s, though: You can simply buy stock in Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA) (NYSE: BRKB) itself. (The Motley Fool owns shares of Berkshire Hathaway.)

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The Chula Vista proposal is interesting and the closer NO proximity to Mexico might help for

San Diego County is YES overdue to have a pro fessional soccer team. San Diego’s popu

attendance. But in terms of branding, San Diego would have a bigger appeal to MLS than Chula Vista. Even though Chula Alan Gin Vista is growing and is in the same University region, MLS will probably want to avoid of San Diego a “Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim” situation. The success of the Wave shows that Snapdragon Stadium would be an excellent site for an MLS expansion team.

lation, proximity to Mexico (fun rivalry with the Xolos?), weather and an existing Loyal team make our city ideal for the Austin Neudecker 30th team. MLS should consider both Weave Growth the Mission Valley and Chula Vista stadium options. Ultimately, I hope the league approves the Snapdragon Stadium either as the permanent home or as a temporary solution to enable the team to start in 2024.

While the NFL uses the threat of leaving in order YES to extort huge taxpayer subsidies, this

By the time the new stadium idea comes down to a NO public vote, there will be a request for

project is privately financed. It would bring tremendous economic benefits to San Diego and would give us a profes James Hamilton sional team in a sport that is No. 1 out UC San Diego side the U.S. and growing quickly in popularity here. When private developers put their own money behind a vision this big, it is time for the rest of us to say yes to new opportunities.

funding. Sure, San Diego is a great soccer town and Chula Vista is arguably the fastestgrowing city in California. But Bob Rauch Snapdragon Stadium is gorgeous, already R.A. Rauch built and can attract people from the & Associates U.S.Mexico border to the northern and eastern reaches of the county. If we needed a stadium, I would say yes! We do not!

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Heavy loads Way back in the 1980s, I knew that I should start plan ning for my future. I was making good money at the time due to having a job with nearly unlimited overtime. The best available options were savings accounts, which all paid about 5 percent. I walked into a Dean Witter Reynolds office and asked what I could do to get started with investing. I assumed I was getting good advice when I was told to invest money monthly into a mutual fund. Not knowing anything about load fees, I got signed up for the best investment ever — for the salesman. He got nearly 6 percent upfront, and I also got the pleasure of paying a 2 percent fee when I sold. When I did eventually sell, I barely got back my initial in vestment. — C.Y., online The Fool responds: It’s not necessarily bad advice to invest in a mutual fund, but those with heavy “loads” (fees) are best avoided. There are also thousands of noload funds out there these days, so it’s easy to avoid investing in one. For many (perhaps most) investors, the best kind of mutual fund is a lowfee, broadmarket index fund, which simply invests in the many stocks that make up the index it tracks. It’s an easy way to earn roughly the market’s return without having to learn how to study stocks.

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Name that company I trace my roots back to 1866, when my namesakes founded me in Cleveland. I introduced the first readymixed paint in 1873 and patented the first resealable paint can in 1877. Today, with a market value recently near $58 billion, I’m a leading global paint and coatings business, with over 60,000 employees and more than 4,800 companyoperated stores. My brands include Cabot, DupliColor, Dutch Boy, Krylon, Minwax, Purdy, Thompson’s WaterSeal and Valspar. My goal is to cover the Earth. My stock has appreci ated by an annual average of more than 17 percent over the past 20 years. Who am I? Last week’s trivia answer: Marriott International

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SUNDAY • APRIL 16, 2023

TESLA GOES AFTER THE TOPSELLING SUVS IN U.S.

THE COUNTRIES SENDING THE MOST TOURISTS TO THE U.S. BY ANDREW VAN DAM Tens of millions of overseas tourists flock to the United States each year, singlehandedly keeping America’s purveyors of creepy plush toys afloat. Where do they — the tourists, not the creepy plush toys — come from? The pandemic scrambled everything you ever knew about overnightvisitor data from the National Travel and Tourism Of fice — which might be a surpris ing amount. (Overnight visitors include holders of business and student visas, but about 85 per cent are tourists). For years, the highest share of tourists crossed the Atlantic from Europe, with arrivals from Asia ranking second. But during the pandemic, visits from Europe and Asia plummeted as travel re strictions swept the Eurasian su percontinent. For the first time on record, South America briefly became the top source of interna tional visitors to the United States. It held that spot through most of 2021, before being over taken by a reopening Europe. It’s unclear whether travel trends will ever return to what we still stubbornly insist on calling “normal.” Tourism from Asia has been particularly slow to recover, remaining mired at a third of its prepandemic level, even as trav elers from other continents ap pear to be rapidly rebooking their trips to New York, Miami and L.A. Only about 18 percent of tour ists are currently arriving in the United States from Asia, down from about a third prepan demic. South Koreans, Japanese and Chinese are visiting at tiny fractions of the rates they did be fore the virus hit. Of Asia’s one time tourist titans, only India has

BY TOM RANDALL This much is clear from Tesla’s fifth price cut this year: Elon Musk is dead set on seizing much more of America’s SUV market. Tesla’s Model Y already became one of the three bestselling sport utility vehicles in the U.S. last year. That was remarkable considering the starting price of the Model Y was more than double the Toyota RAV4 and Honda CRV, the mar ket’s perennial favorites. Now, that cost barrier has been reduced to a speed bump. Since January, Tesla has lowered the Model Y starting price by 24 per cent, the biggest drop of any of its vehicles. On top of that, the Model Y became eligible for $7,500 federal tax credits for the first time. Tak ing that into account, an allwheel drive Tesla SUV with 279 miles of range can now be had for 10 percent less than the average price of a new vehicle sold in the U.S. Bloomberg has been tracking what Tesla charges for its models relative to the industry average since the beginning of this year

Model Y drop is transformative A 24 percent price decline in three months is practically un heard of for such a highvolume ve hicle. The closest analog may be the Model T, which Ford made dra matically cheaper in the 1920s by way of the moving assembly line. The Model Y now starts at $49,990, or $42,490 for those who qualify for the federal incentive. That’s about $5,300 less than the average price paid for a new vehicle in the U.S. during the month of

DAVID PAUL MORRIS BLOOMBERG

Elon Musk’s price war means the Model Y can now be purchased for less than the average new vehicle in the U.S. recently was in late 2020, just be fore Tesla redesigned the interiors of the Model S and X. Immediately following the release of the new ver sions, prices jumped. It’s not clear whether that dy namic will repeat with the Model 3 and Y, which Reuters has reported will be refreshed later this year. The Model S and X refresh coincided with supply shortages that drove up prices industrywide. As those disruptions have eased, so have prices.

March, according to Edmunds.

Models have never been cheaper The base versions of the Model 3 and Y have never been cheaper relative to the average new vehicle selling price. The Model S and X were slightly less expensive on this basis in late 2020. The Standard Range Model 3 now starts at $41,990. It’s eligible for a $3,750 federal tax credit as of April 18, which would bring the price to $38,240 for eligible con sumers. That’s considerably less than the BMW 3 Series — a model it’s often measured up against — which starts at around $44,000.

Bad news for other automakers? Analysts disagree on whether Tesla’s price cuts are indicative of weakening demand or part of a longterm strategy to expand its addressable market while cutting costs. Regardless, the markdowns are putting pressure on other car makers that already were having issues making money from manu facturing electric vehicles. Tesla has started a price war be tween battery and internal com bustion engine cars, and that bat tle has only just begun.

Look out for refreshes Tesla’s constantly fluctuating prices are unique in the auto indus try, although as Bloomberg estab lished early this year, they tend to track closely with the broader U.S. market. The base Model 3, for ex ample, rarely drifted far from the U.S. average the last couple years, while the Model S typically went for about twice as much. The only time prices veered as far from these trends as they have

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posted a nearcomplete recovery. Until shockingly recently, In dia didn’t even rank among the top 20 countries sending trav elers to America. By 2020, when the novel coronavirus began its spittleborne spread, India was on the verge of cracking the top 10. Now, with India poised to over take China as the world’s most populous country, it has seized a spot among the top five or six sources of U.S. visitors. (Most In dian visitors are tourists, but like China, India also sends an un usually large share of students.) India is far from overtaking the true tourist leaders, however. Canada and Mexico have insur mountable leads, aided by 5,525 and 1,954 miles of Americafront real estate, respectively. Our neighbors to the north have long held the top spot, though Mexico passed them during much of the pandemic. The United Kingdom, Germany and France round out the top five, though that could change as pandemic travel re strictions ease in East Asia. Those are national numbers. But the biggest source of tourists varies by state. Each global re gion has its own preferred set of U.S. destinations, with Europe an, African and Middle Eastern tourists typically starting in New York. Tourists from South and Central America and the Carib bean typically begin in Florida, while tourists from Asia and Oce ania start in California. The U.K. leads in most states, but India is now the top source of tourists in most of the Midwest. Japan leads in Hawaii, Colombia leads in Puerto Rico, and Ger many and Italy have eked out leads in a few states in the Mid west and South.

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Apollomcs n 5.93 ProDvrs rs 2.67 SHL Tele n 10.83 AgileThr rs 6.98 ContxtLg rs 7.57 AgileThg A 2.12 EverQuo 8.66 OffPrpInc 7.78 Arrival rs 4.07 Adtran 10.33

Chg. %Chg.

-6.26 -2.73 -10.47 -4.52 -4.73 -1.24 -5.05 -4.02 -2.03 -4.57

-51.4 -50.6 -49.2 -39.3 -38.5 -36.9 -36.8 -34.1 -33.3 -30.7

Diary

Vol (00s) Close

Chg.

NASDAQ

Last

Prev. Wk.

Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows

2,088 1,523 145 3,756 200 420

1,215 2,400 123 3,738 151 394

Friday Sales Weekly Sales Prev. Week

4,284,606,787 21,662,951,920 16,005,441,986

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185.00 -.06 102.51 +.45 165.21 +.55 11.97 +3.99 91.75 -.72 4.07 -2.03 12.79 -1.22 13.48 +4.32 13.85+12.35 267.58 -2.79

Wk. %Chg. YTD%

Companies that have a large presence

Market indexes

Stocks of local interest

Wk. High

Wk. Low

Wk. Chg.

30 Industrials 20 Transportation 15 Utilities 65 Stocks

34082.94 14440.97 977.31 11336.21

33343.43 13846.58 949.93 11087.19

33886.47 14246.60 956.47 11271.23

+401.18 +280.28 -14.32 +114.56

STANDARD & POOR’S Wk. High

Wk. Low

Wk. Chg.

S&P 100 S&P 500 Midcap 400 Smallcap 600

1861.34 4072.55 2437.61 1145.59

1894.12 4137.64 2489.47 1163.71

+12.08 +32.62 +42.38 +13.70

1903.02 4163.19 2519.91 1181.90

NYSE

Wk. High

Wk. Low

Wk. Chg.

Composite

15707.81

15297.78

15601.78

+222.65

NASDAQ

Wk. High

Wk. Low

Wk. Chg.

Composite 12205.72 Nasdaq 100 13152.29 Telecommunications 400.18

11916.54 12833.31 391.44

12123.46 13079.52 394.15

+35.51 +16.92 -2.64

Wk. High

Wk. Low

Wk. Chg.

NYSE American 4410.34 Wilshire 5000 41151.50 Russell 2000 1805.02 Value Line Geo 561.35 Bloomberg (commod.) 108.44 Phila Semicond. 3146.00

4288.30 40194.48 1745.46 544.60 105.95 3036.03

4385.79 40870.25 1781.15 554.87 107.82 3070.45

+87.93 +363.53 +26.69 +7.84 +1.58 -1.31

INTERNATIONAL

NASDAQ active

NYSE

DOW JONES

OTHER INDEXES

NASDAQ gainers

Diary

Vol (00s) Close

FordM 3025404 BkofAm 2826997 AMC Ent 1766551 BcoBrad 1663377 Palantir 1635606 ItauUnH 1556268 WellsFargo 1369601 AT&T Inc 1296523 Carnival 1291586 Schwab 1199113

10,000

NYSE losers

Stock

Wk. High

Wk. Low

Wk. Chg.

Buenos Aires 276242.63 Frankfurt (DAX) 15807.50 London (FTSE 100) 7904.04 Hong Kong (IDX) 20750.73 Paris (CAC 40) 7533.41 Mexico (Bolsa) 54908.53 Tokyo (Nikkei 225) 28515.51

256747.72 15597.89 7741.56 19885.53 7312.61 53446.68 27597.18

275717.41 15807.50 7871.91 20438.81 7519.61 54460.06 28493.47

+22558.59 +209.61 +130.35 +107.61 +194.86 +961.67 +1020.84

+1.20 +2.01 -1.48 +1.03

+2.23 +6.38 -1.13 +2.81

Wk. %Chg. YTD%

+.64 +.79 +1.73 +1.19

+10.82 +7.77 +2.43 +.53

Wk. %Chg. YTD%

+1.45

+2.75

Wk. %Chg. YTD%

+.29 +.13 -.67

+15.83 +19.56 +6.11

Wk. %Chg. YTD%

+2.05 +.90 +1.52 +1.43 +1.49 -.04

+6.06 +7.34 +1.13 +3.45 -4.43 +21.26

Wk. %Chg. YTD%

+8.91 +1.34 +1.68 +.53 +2.66 +1.80 +3.72

+35.86 +13.53 +5.64 +3.32 +16.16 +12.37 +9.19

Stock

Weekly High Low

Wk. Chg.

BallCorp Biogen CACI CalavoGr h Caterpillar DR Horton Deere FairIsaac FordM GenDynam GenMotors HomeDp HonwllIntl IBM Intuit JohnContl Kroger L3Harris LeidosHld NorthropG PacWstBc ParkerHan PresPty RaythTch SciApplic SeaWorld ServcNow SonyGp Starbucks

53.03 290.90 311.45 29.70 225.83 101.17 389.85 702.26 13.08 231.07 36.06 298.44 197.73 131.10 445.96 58.44 48.91 201.94 93.25 478.17 10.52 326.90 1.06 102.35 109.56 59.98 485.58 91.46 108.17

49.94 280.29 298.03 28.73 209.32 95.21 368.51 664.41 12.16 226.00 33.72 285.66 190.32 126.00 434.39 55.76 46.38 196.48 91.35 466.03 9.36 310.06 .96 97.65 107.00 56.36 454.69 87.73 103.07

50.03 -2.60 288.13 +1.33 308.60 +9.84 29.38 +.47 223.68 +14.51 98.25 +2.61 387.77 +18.12 698.06 +25.64 12.52 +.19 227.69 +1.30 34.49 -.10 292.19 +3.58 196.55 +6.09 128.14 -2.36 441.62 -5.14 57.49 +1.51 46.65 -1.87 200.51 +3.50 91.91 +.50 472.57 +2.18 9.98 +.27 319.11 +6.64 1.00 -.05 101.68 +3.47 107.93 +.44 57.09 -1.17 463.03 -10.10 90.86 +2.69 107.47 +2.79

NAV

Wk. Chg.

%Rtn/Rank YTD 12-Mo.

90.14 13.70 345.54 345.53 101.74 259.90 141.69 10.09 90.00 26.66 17.65 33.34 20.64 36.39 24.51 40.68 9.70 9.70 30.24 18.08 99.82 99.83 68.83 60.00 70.05

+1.27 +.01 +2.80 +2.79 +1.30 +3.44 +1.30 -.04 +1.43 -.01 +.04 +.13 +.12 +.27 +.22 +.41 -.11 -.11 +.53 +.32 +.89 +.89 +.11 -.10 +.75

Top 50 mutual funds The top mutual funds by assets. NAV is the net asset value per share. Fund

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NAV

Wk. Chg.

29.70 55.36 64.63 64.36 55.12 22.95 44.09 52.61 53.09 12.48 47.07 219.88 143.63 13.56 45.82 113.94 10.41 10.45 8.64 63.64 381.91 41.61 35.69 83.90 128.08

+.07 +.79 +.27 +.90 +.66 +.13 +.40 +.77 +.49 -.08 +.77 +2.95 +1.16 +.18 +.89 +.80 -.12 -.03 -.09 +.52 +3.08 +.04 +.29 +1.09 +.73

Interest rates

%Rtn/Rank YTD 12-Mo.

+3.6 +7.7 +3.3 +7.1 +11.4 +2.2 +7.3 +11.2 +2.5 +3.3 +9.2 +3.1 +8.3 +13.8 +11.2 +7.7 +3.1 +3.2 +3.7 +8.5 +8.3 +5.9 +1.4 -.2 +16.9

Commodities Last

Wk. Ago

Prime rate 8.00 8.00 Discount rate 5.50 5.50 Fed funds 4.75-5.00 4.75-5.00 3-month Treasury bill 5.12 4.91 6-month Treasury bill 5.03 4.94 2-year Treasury note 4.10 3.83 5-year Treasury note 3.60 3.37 10-year Treasury note 3.52 3.30 30-year Treasury bond 3.74 3.55 6-month Libor 5.34 5.01 11th Dist. funds cost 0.223 0.223 Fannie Mae 30-year 5.67 5.72 Money mkt 7-day yld 4.51 3.98

Commodity

-3.5/C -1.5/C -1.9/B -3.2/B -9.7/D -3.0/A -2.7/B -4.4/C -3.2/B -.8/A +3.5/C -4.5/D -4.2/C -5.3/B +4.4/B -5.5/D -2.0/A +.4 -3.1 -5.2 -4.2/C -3.9/C -1.7/A -1.6/B -7.3/C

Fund

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Wk. YTD Chg. %Chg.

Gas blend 2.84 +.02 +15.30 Crude oil 82.52 +1.82 +2.82 Natural gas 2.11 +.10 -52.76 Copper 4.11 +.08 +7.94 Gold 2002.20 -9.70 +10.03 Platinum 1044.60 +37.70 -2.71 Silver 25.42 +.40 +6.55 Cattle 1.75 +.04 +12.87 Coffee 1.92 +.10 +14.47 Corn 6.66 +.23 -1.81 Lumber 419.30 +34.40 +12.20 Sugar .24 +20.26 Wheat 6.83 +.07 -13.83

Foreign exchange fgn cur. in dollars

Argentina Australia Brazil Britain Canada Chile China Czech Euro Hong Kong India Indonesia Israel

$1 in fgn. cur.

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+3.7 +3.3 +8.3 +8.3 +12.5 +3.3 +8.3 +2.2 +2.8 +5.1 +5.8 +6.3 +6.7 +7.0 +7.4 +7.6 +3.2 +3.2 +8.8 +8.7 +7.6 +7.6 +4.3 +2.1 +5.9

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fgn cur. in dollars

$1 in fgn. cur.

Japan .007474 133.80 Mexico .055471 18.0274 N. Zealand .6208 1.6108 Philippines .0181 55.35 Poland .2368 4.22 Russia .0122 82.2707 Singapore .7514 1.3309 South Africa .0553 18.0919 South Korea .000766 1305.48 Sweden .0969 10.3244 Switzerland 1.1187 .8939 Taiwan .0328 30.50 Venezuela .0001250000.000

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Weekly Wk. Vol. Wk. Wk. High Low (000s) Close Chg. %Chg. 88.24 18.88 .40 5.99 16.52 18.65 22.44

81.47 17.71 .38 5.55 15.43 17.28 20.74

3330 9417 259 62 3587 2844 1309

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.26 69.69 118.76

882 1106 27712

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ECONOMY FROM C1 Ian Shepherdson, chief economist of Pantheon Mac roeconomics. Shepherdson expects overall job growth to turn negative as soon as this sum mer, as the combined im pact of the Fed’s policies and the banklending crunch hit the economy, leading to job cuts. Fed policymakers “have done more than enough” to tame inflation, he said, but appear likely to raise rates again anyway. Other economists, how ever, argue that the Fed has little choice but to keep rais ing rates until inflation is de finitively in retreat. The re cent slowdown in consumer price growth is welcome, they argue, but it is partly a result of the declines in the price of energy and used cars, both of which appear poised to resume climbing. Measures of underlying in flation, which strip away such shortterm swings, have fallen only gradually. “Inflation is coming down, but I’m not sure that the momentum will contin ue if they don’t do more,” said Raghuram Rajan, an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a former gov ernor of India’s central bank. The Fed’s goal is to do just enough to bring down inflation without causing such a severe pullback in borrowing and spending that it leads to widespread job cuts and a recession. Striking that balance per fectly, however, is difficult — especially because policy makers must make their de cisions based on data that is preliminary and incomplete. “It is going to be ex tremely hard for them to finetune the exact point,” Rajan said. “They would love to have more time to see what’s happening.” A miss in either direction could have serious conse quences. The recovery of the U.S. job market over the past three years has been nothing short of remarkable. The un employment rate, which neared 15 percent in April 2020, is down to the halfcen tury low it achieved before the pandemic. Employers have added back all 22 mil lion jobs lost during the early weeks of the pandemic, and

3 million more besides. The intense demand for labor has given workers a rare mo ment of leverage, in which they could demand better pay from their bosses, or go elsewhere to find it. The strong rebound has especially helped groups that are frequently left be hind in less dynamic econo mic environments. Employ ment has been rising among people with disabilities, workers with criminal re cords and those without high school diplomas. The unemployment rate among Black Americans hit a record low in March, and pay gains have in recent years been fastest among the low estpaid workers. All of that progress, crit ics say, could be lost if the Fed goes too far in its effort to fight inflation. “For this tiny moment, we finally see what a labor market is supposed to do,” said William Spriggs, a How

ard University professor and chief economist for the AFL CIO. And the workers ben efiting most from the labor market’s current strength, he said, will be the ones who suffer most from a recession. But other economists caution that there are also risks in the Fed’s doing too little. So far, businesses and consumers have treated in flation mostly as a serious but temporary challenge. If they instead begin to expect high rates of inflation to con tinue, it could become a self fulfilling prophecy, as com panies set prices and work ers demand raises in antici pation of higher costs. If that happens, the Fed may need to take much more aggressive action to bring in flation to heel, potentially causing a deeper, more painful recession. That, at least according to many economists, is what hap pened in the 1970s and 1980s, when the Fed brought infla

SUNDAY • APRIL 16, 2023

tion under control at the cost of what was, outside of the Great Depression and the pandemic, the highest unemployment rate on record. The real debate isn’t be tween the relative evils of in flation or unemployment, argued Jason Furman, a Harvard economist . It is be tween some unemployment now and potentially much more unemployment later. “You’re risking losing millions of jobs if you wait too long,” Furman said. There have been some encouraging — though still tentative — signs in recent weeks that the Fed may be succeeding at the delicate task of slowing the economy just enough.

Data from the Labor De partment this month showed that employers were posting fewer open positions and that workers were changing jobs less frequently, signs that the job market was beginning to cool. At the same time, the pool of available workers has grown as more people have rejoined the labor force and immigration has rebounded. The combination of in creased supply and reduced demand should, in theory, al low the labor market to come back into balance without leading to widespread job cuts. So far, that appears to be happening: Wage growth, which the Fed fears is con tributing to inflation, has slowed, but layoffs and unem ployment remain low.

Jan Hatzius, chief econo mist for Goldman Sachs, said the recent job market data made him more optimistic about avoiding a recession. And while that outcome is far from certain, he said, it is worth keeping the current de bate in perspective. “Given the incredible downturn in the economy that we saw in 2020 — with obvious fears of a much, much, much worse outcome — if you actually manage to get back to a reasonable in flation rate and high em ployment levels in, say, a three to fouryear period, it would be a very good out come,” Hatzius said.

Casselman writes for The New York Times.

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ROB NIKOLEWSKI En un intento de hacer más accesibles las crecientes facturas de electricidad, California instituirá en los próximos dos años un cargo fijo mensual a los contribuyentes que variará en función de los ingresos familiares. La Comisión de Servicios Pú-

blicos de California determinará el importe exacto y otros detalles. La decisión final se aprobará a mediados de 2024 y se aplicará plenamente en 2025. La medida afectará a todos los contribuyentes del estado que reciben electricidad de las tres grandes empresas inversionistas: San Diego Gas & Electric, Pacific Gas & Electric y Southern California Edison. El nuevo cargo fijo basado en los ingresos no afectará a la parte de gas natural de las facturas de los clientes —solo a la electrici-

dad— y es un mandato del estado como parte de un amplio proyecto de ley de energía que la Legislatura aprobó el verano pasado. El viernes finalizó el plazo para que las compañías eléctricas y otras partes interesadas (como las asociaciones de consumidores) presentaran propuestas a la comisión, conocida abreviadamente como CPUC, sobre el funcionamiento del nuevo sistema de cuota fija. Según las instrucciones de la VER CUOTA • 2

No estar atento al volante puede causar accidentes e incluso la muerte ALEXANDRA MENDOZA De 2021 a la fecha, se han registrado casi 28 mil accidentes automovilísticos debido a que un conductor estaba distraído, lo que ha dejado un saldo de 185 muertes y casi 20 mil personas heridas, según datos de la Patrulla de Caminos de California (CHP). Con motivo del Mes para crear conciencia sobre conductores distraídos, autoridades locales exhortaron a la comunidad a evitar estar al tanto del teléfono mientras se maneja. “A algunas personas se le hace fácil voltear a ver el celular o contestar un mensaje de texto, pero solo se necesitan unos segundos para que ocurra una tragedia”, dijo Anlleyn Venegas, portavoz con

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¿LAS PALABRAS IMPORTAN? ESTA EXPERTA DICE QUE SÍ La profesora Ana Zentella investiga el poder sociopolítico del lenguaje LISA DEADERICK Ana Celia Zentella es conocida y respetada en el ámbito de la lingüística por su extensa obra de investigación sobre el lenguaje, sus variedades (especialmente en el español de las comunidades latinas de Estados Unidos) y las formas en que el poder social y político se otorga o se anula en función de la forma en que una persona habla. Sus libros han sido galardonados por organizaciones de antropología y lingüística, se le ha honrado con un Día de la Doctora Ana Celia Zentella en su ciudad natal de Nueva York, y anteriormente fue nombrada intelectual pública del año por la sección de estudios latinos de la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos. Un logro reciente que añade a esa lista es su ingreso en la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Ciencias. “Me enteré del honor cuando estaba junto a la cama de mi querida hermana, Nolda, en un hospicio de Nueva York, dos meses antes de que muriera, y las dos lloramos de alegría porque se reconocieran el duro trabajo, las lenguas y las culturas de nuestros padres inmigrantes”, dice. “También le debo a ella gran parte de lo que he conseguido. Estoy agradecida de que la Academia reconozca mi trabajo sobre las contribuciones lingüísticas y las tribulaciones de los inmi-

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FIXED FROM C1 At the same time, the per kilowatthour rate for elec tricity that customers pay would be lowered. San Diego Gas & Electric estimates the current average rate of about 47 cents per kilowatt hour would drop to 27 cents — a reduction of 42.6 per cent. By separating out those costs, supporters of creating a fixed monthly charge such as Severin Borenstein at the Energy Institute at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, say a fixed charge based on household income will help lowincome cus tomers. And a lower rate per kilo watthour, the thinking goes, would make it more fi nancially attractive for all ratepayers to adopt clean energy options such as in stalling electric heat pumps in their homes and buying electric vehicles that can be charged in their garages. “The system we have right now is disproportion ately forcing lowincome people to shoulder these costs” because high utility bills impact people who have less disposable income more than wealthier ratepayers, Borenstein said. “And at the same time, (the current sys tem) massively distorts the price of electricity.”

How it would work? Customers would pay the fixed charge each month, in addition to the electricity component of their bill (which equals the amount consumed multiplied by the rate per kilowatthour). Borenstein acknowl edges the net effect will be higher utility bills for most customers, which won’t make them happy. “But a large share who you won’t hear from unless you go out and find them will say, ‘This is great. I’m paying less,’” Borenstein said. “And then the people who are thinking about getting a heat pump water heater are going to see that it actually pencils out now and it didn’t before.” The fixed charge would be set according to the in come level of each house hold.

Collecting and verifying the annual income data from each of the 11 million households served by the in vestorowned utilities in California could be a prob lem. SDG&E officials have said they don’t want to take on that extra responsibility and some customers will doubtless raise questions about privacy. Supporters of AB 205 say details can be hammered out by working with existing state agencies including the Franchise Tax Board to co ordinate the data while at the same time ensuring cus tomer confidentiality. What would be the size of the fixed charges? That cru cial question will ultimately be determined by the CPUC. According to the lan guage of AB 205, it’s up to the commission to “establish reasonable fixed charges,” which gives the commission a lot of latitude regarding the exact amounts, as well as other specifics. The law in structs the CPUC to make a decision by July 1 of next year. Seeking input, the CPUC recently instructed the util ities, environmental organi zations and others to submit proposals as to how a fixed charge system would work and at what price points. The commission told the parties their proposals had to include at least three in come tiers. The proposals ran the gamut. The three big investor owned utilities — SDG&E, Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric — have long supported cre ating a fixed charge and they submitted a joint proposal. In the SDG&E service terri tory, the brackets break down like this: • Households earning less than $28,000 a year would pay a fixed charge of $24 per month • Households with annu al income between $28,000 to $69,000 would pay $34 per month • Households earning be tween $69,000 and $180,000 would pay $73 per month, and • Those with incomes above $180,000 would pay $128. Among the proposals, the

Natural Resources Defense Council and The Utility Re form Network (TURN) sug gested fixed charges ranging from $5 per month for lowin come households in San Di ego to $60 per month for those earning more than $150,000. The Sierra Club’s propos al goes as low as zero fixed charges for SDG&E custom ers on CARE and FERA to $145 per month for upperin come households.

What about solar customers? The Solar Energy Indus tries Association’s proposal to the CPUC calls for fixed charges ranging from $7.43 per month to $13.14 in SDG&E’s service territory. The solar industry wants low fixed charges, arguing residential utility customers have already spent tens of thousands of dollars to in stall solar systems on their rooftops — not only to con tribute cleaner forms of elec tricity across the state but also to drastically reduce their monthly electric bills by generating energy from the sun. Adding a high fixed charge to solar customers “would make it very difficult for customers to be able to pay back their solar sys tems,” Powers of Stellar So lar said. “The whole idea for incentivizing clean energy was that there’s a return on investment. That’s always been the case.” Ahmad Faruqui, an econ omist who’s worked for years on rate design, is more blunt, calling AB 205’s in comebased fixed charge “a terrible idea.” Faruqui does not think the numbers and changes in consumer behavior will be realized. “It’s like a shell game,” Faruqui said. “I lower the volumetric charge but I raise the fixed charge. For many customers, it will be ignored. They would just see their to tal bill ... and if the total bill doesn’t change much, they’re not going to buy a heat pump.” The discussion on how the CPUC will implement AB 205 comes as the rules have changed regarding the compensation rooftop solar customers receive when their systems send excess

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“That’s the equivalent of saying, let’s not do anything and continue the status quo,” Borenstein said. “We (in California) have the most aggressive lowincome pro gram in the country. We have spent the most on R&D and early stage renew ables in the country. We have the biggest wildfire costs and compensation costs in the country. Some body’s gotta pay for that.” Powers of Stellar Solar isn’t pushing the panic but ton yet. “There’s going to be some argument about what the amount of the fixed charge is,” Powers said. “I’m not go ing to say it’s not going to happen, but I think when the state tries to implement all the facets of this, like basing it on income level, I think it’s go ing to be really unwieldy. And you know what? The Legisla ture meets every year.”

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Why new grads shouldn’t fear a recession

By Trea Branch NerdWallet In 2023 alone, there have been over 118,000 U.S. tech layoffs, according to Crunchbase News, a business publication. That’s in addition to two major bank collapses and two federal rate hikes. The class of 2023 will graduate into this economic upheaval while facing another variable: student loan payments. This can be an overwhelming and confusing time for those set to begin repayment of student debt, says Barry Coleman, vice president of program management and education at the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. Coleman cites the expected end of a three-year pause on federal student loan payments, legal challenges to federal student debt relief programs and the potential impact of inflation on the job market as reasons new graduates could feel uneasy Here’s how they can weather a potential recession and the financial uncertainty that might come with it. HAVE A PLAN FOR YOUR STUDENT LOANS, NO MATTER THE ECONOMY Understanding your student debt is one of the best strategies to stay on top of your loans, regardless of how the economy is performing, says Betsy Mayotte, founder of The Institute of Student Loan Advisors. There is typically a six-month grace period after graduation before you’re required to make your first student loan payment. Before it’s due, gather details like the types of loans you have and who holds them, advises Mayotte. Then, know your expected income, your expenses and how your student loan payments will fit into your budget, says Coleman.

IF YOU HAVE A JOB, PAY OFF STUDENT DEBT FASTER If you land a job, you have more flexibility. A steady income gives you the opportunity to explore putting more money toward your student loan debt — if you’re already contributing to your retirement and emergency savings. For borrowers who have the capacity to make more than the minimum payment on their student loan, this is the chance to get rid of student debt as quickly as possible, notes Coleman, while saving as much as they can on interest. And don’t overlook your employer. Twenty-one percent of employers offer company-paid financial services as part of their benefits package, explains Jim Link, chief human resources officer for the Society for Human Resource Management. Programs can include access to financial advisors or even student loan repayment programs.

IF YOU DON’T HAVE A JOB, KNOW YOUR OPTIONS TO STAY CURRENT Graduating without a job offer can be terrifying. But with low or no income, you can take steps to stay on top of your student debt. Start with your loan servicer, the company that manages your loans. Let them know as early as possible that you’re not employed, says Coleman. Ask what your options are to avoid delinquency. There are many repayment options for federal student loan borrowers, says Moyette. You can lower your payments with an income-driven repayment plan, or temporarily stop payments through student loan deferment. Just note that interest can still accrue while in deferment. And while conducting your job search, it

may be worth considering a career with a nonprofit organization or government entity if you have federal student loans. These positions could qualify you for Public Service Loan Forgiveness — where your remaining student loan balance is forgiven after 10 years of qualifying payments. GET FREE HELP MANAGING YOUR DEBT Even in a slow economy, you can get student loan help from organizations like The Institute of Student Loan Advisors and the Student Borrower Protection Center that won’t charge anything. Whether you’re exploring how to pay your loans off faster or how to afford the monthly payments, nonprofit organizations like those available through the National Foundation for Credit Counseling can connect you with counselors and help you create an action plan, says Coleman. AP

The Week In Review

Retiring and taxes

GAS, FOOD PROVIDE SOME RELIEF FROM US INFLATION U.S. consumer inflation eased in March, with less expensive gas and food providing some relief to households that have struggled under the weight of surging prices but likely still keeping the Federal Reserve on track to further raise interest rates. Consumer prices rose just 0.1% from February to March, down from 0.4% from January to February and the smallest increase since December. Measured from a year earlier, prices were up just 5% in March, down sharply from

February’s 6% year-over-year increase and the smallest rise in nearly two years. Much of the drop resulted from price declines for such goods as gas, used cars and furniture, which had soared a year ago after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “It’s comforting that headline inflation is coming down, but the inflation story has had some shifts under the hood in the last couple of years,” said Sonia Meskin, head of U.S. economics at BNY Mellon’s investment division.

Will you face a tax bomb in retirement?

Tax breaks now could cause tax pain later Most retirement accounts offer a tax break when you put money in. Eventually, though, Uncle Sam wants to get paid. Required minimum distributions, or RMDs, typically must start at a certain age — currently 73 and rising to 75 for people born in 1960 and later. Retirement fund withdrawals usually are subject to regular income tax rates. That’s still a good deal for most retirees because their tax bracket will be lower in retirement than when they were working. But people who don’t need to spend down their savings early in retirement may find that required minimum distributions push them into higher tax brackets.

EPA POLLUTION LIMITS AIM TO BOOST US ELECTRIC VEHICLE SALES The Biden administration is proposing strict new automobile pollution limits that would require as many as two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032.

That’s a nearly tenfold increase over current electric vehicle sales. The proposed regulation was announced Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The regulation would set tailpipe emissions limits for the 2027 through 2032 model years that call for far more new EVs than the auto industry agreed to sell

less than two years ago. EPA Administrator Michael Regan called the proposal “the most ambitious pollution standards ever for cars and trucks,” and he said it would reduce dangerous air and climate pollution and lower fuel and maintenance costs for families. With electric vehicles accounting for just 7.2% of U.S. vehicle sales in the first quarter of this year, the industry has a long way to go to even approach the administration’s targets. However, the percentage of EV sales is growing. Last year it was 5.8% of new vehicles sales. If finalized next year, the plan would represent the strongest push yet toward a once almost unthinkable shift from gasoline-powered cars and trucks to battery-powered vehicles.

IMF ISSUES DIM OUTLOOK FOR WORLD ECONOMY The outlook for the world economy this year has dimmed in the face of chronically high inflation, rising interest rates and uncertainties resulting from the collapse of two big American banks. That’s the view of the International Monetary Fund, which has downgraded its outlook for global economic growth. The IMF now envisions growth this year of 2.8%, down from 3.4% in 2022 and from the 2.9% estimate for 2023 it made in its previous forecast in January. The fund said the possibility of a “hard landing,” in which rising interest rates weaken growth so much as to cause a recession, has “risen sharply,” especially in the world’s wealthiest countries. “The situation remains fragile,” Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, the IMF’s chief economist, told reporters Tuesday. “Downside risks predominate.”

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Savers could pay more for Medicare — and cost their kids Higher incomes can mean higher Medicare premiums as well, thanks to the income-relat-

would be smart to have at least some money in accounts that aren’t subject to taxes or required minimum distributions — such as Roth IRAs , Roth 401(k) plans and Roth 403(b) plans. With Roths, contributions aren’t deductible, but withdrawals in retirement are tax-free. You aren’t required to tap a Roth IRA during your lifetime, and legislation passed at the end of last year removes required minimum distributions from workplace Roths starting in 2024. Non-spouse heirs are required to drain the account within 10 years, just as with regular retirement plans, but the withdrawals aren’t taxable.

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Small Business Monitor

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Help (still) wanted Filling jobs with qualified applicants remains a top problem for small businesses, who say they’re still having trouble finding good candidates for open positions. While the overall U.S. job market has been robust, small businesses, which employ nearly half of all U.S. workers, have struggled to retain staff since they can’t offer the pay and perks that bigger companies can. A survey from the National Federation of Independent Businesses shows labor quality is the top small business operating problem in March. “The labor force participation rate remains below pre-COVID levels, which is contributing to the shortage of workers available to fill open positions,” said NFIB Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg. Forty-three percent of all owners reported job openings

they could not fill in March, down four points from February. Overall, 59% reported hiring or trying to hire in March, down one point from last month. Of those hiring or trying to hire, 90% of owners reported few or no qualified applicants for the positions they were trying to fill. Overall in the first quarter, small business employment growth was nearly flat, ticking up just 0.06%, according to the Paychex IHS Markit Small Business Employment Watch, which surveys 350,000 Paychex clients with fewer than 50 employees. “The small business economy continues to demonstrate durability with the jobs index advancing each month this year along with moderate wage gains,” said James Diffley, chief regional economist, S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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Good savers, beware. The money you’re stuffing into your 401(k) and other retirement accounts has to be withdrawn someday. If you’re not strategic about how you save, you could face unnecessarily high tax bills and inflated Medicare premiums in retirement. The earlier you start defusing this potential tax bomb, the better.

Generative Ge erativ rativve AI steps eps ps into in nto to hacking to hac ha ngg wars wa w rs The buzz around artificial intelligence is deafening these days. You’d almost forget that cybersecurity products have used it for years to flag unusual activity in networks. Now, Microsoft has upped the game. It’s out with what it bills as the first product to leverage so-called generative AI for cybersecurity. Dubbed Security Copilot, it uses the same technology Microsoft has added to its Bing search engine. Security Copilot aims to assist human analysts – not replace them — in addressing malicious hacks. How? By leveraging Microsoft’s vast array of threat intelligence. Microsoft has 8,000 employees working in

security. It tracks billions of hacking attempts a day. In incident response, Security Copilot will analyze hacks and generate PowerPoint documents. And yes, like any product based on the technology that yielded ChatGPT, it will make mistakes. But Microsoft says it will learn from them, and get smarter. Analyst Allie Mellen of the tech intelligence firm Forrester says to expect hostile actors to compromise Security Copilot — and create exploits from what they learn. The AI cybersecurity wars are about to be joined, with predictions that AI chatbots will help craft stealthy malware. AP

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As profit recession hits, Wall Street hopes it’s the bottom Profits are falling for companies, and the only question is how much worse they will get. Big U.S. companies are lining up to report how much profit they made during the first three months of the year. The widespread expectation is that companies across the S&P 500 will report the biggest drop in earnings since the spring of 2020. That’s when the pandemic was demolishing the global economy. Still-high inflation, a struggling manufacturing industry and signs of slowdown elsewhere in the economy mean analysts expect S&P 500 companies to report a 6.6% drop in earnings per share from a year earlier. Besides being the sharpest drop in nearly three years, it would also mark a second straight quarter of profit decline for the S&P 500, according to FactSet. That’s something

By Stan Choe; Jenni Sohn

Finding bottom

investors call a “profits recession.” The good news for companies is that many analysts see this as the bottom. They’re forecasting profit declines will moderate from here, before flipping back to growth later this year. The bad news for companies is many skeptics think such forecasts are way too optimistic. Many of the forecasts for first-quarter results don’t account for much damage from the banking industry’s struggles. A crisis of confidence last month unleashed massive movements of cash through the banking system, and the worry is that all the turmoil could lead banks to pull back on lending. That would come on top of already high interest rates meant to drive inflation lower, and it could result in lower hiring, growth and economic activity overall.

Analysts expect this upcoming earnings season to mark the low for earnings declines at big companies in the S&P 500.

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Bank failures and what’s next Consumer Bankers Association

BUFFETT SAYS PEOPLE SHOULDN’T WORRY ABOUT BERKSHIRE, BANKS Billionaire Warren Buffett assured investors Wednesday that Berkshire Hathaway will be fine when he’s no longer around to lead the conglomerate because Vice Chairman Greg Abel will do a great job and the conglomerate’s basic model won’t change. Buffett and Abel appeared Wednesday on CNBC during a trip to Tokyo. Buffett said there will be more bank failures in the future but most people shouldn’t worry about it because their deposits are protected. Buffett and Abel also acknowledged that railroads have room to improve after recent high-profile derailments, but they defended the safety record of Berkshire’s BNSF and the other major freight railroads.

seem shaky. Prices have also risen as the U.S. dollar has weakened, in a turnaround from 2022. The failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March and the government’s financial measures to support confidence in the broader sector helped bolster gold’s gains as well. The Federal Reserve started hiking interest rates in 2022 to fight inflation, but that has increased the risk of a recession. The broader economy has been showing more signs of a slowdown, especially in the once robust employment market.

Gold is shining bright in 2023 as prices rise amid recent turmoil in the banking industry and with worries rising about a possible recession. Prices for the precious metal are up about 11% this year to just below the all-time high of $2,069.40 set in August 2020. “In the case of gold, it’s appearing to be an ‘asset for all seasons’,” wrote Tim Waterer, chief market analyst at Kohle Capital Markets, in a research note. Gold is often sought as a haven for investors during times of uncertainty or during a crisis when other investments, such as stocks,

Lindsey Johnson President, Consumer Bankers Association Lindsey Johnson became president of the Consumer Bankers Association in 2022, representing the trade and lobbying organization for the nation’s big retail banks like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, US Bank, PNC and others. Before she joined CBA, she was president of the trade association for the mortgage insurance industry. She spoke to The Associated Press during the CBA’s annual conference in Las Vegas, the first industry-wide gathering since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.

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What’s the talk among your member banks as the industry faces its biggest test since the Great Recession? We went in on planning this conference around the idea of “what’s next” for banking, which last year was all about the economy and what’s going to happen to interest rates. But these failures made us have to alter our agenda, no doubt about that. We’ve had more of these unique black swan events, and bankers see it as their mission to be prepared for these events when these happen. How has the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank impacted how people see the broader industry? I think there’s been a lot of misinformation about the industry as a whole with these two banks’ failures. These two banks had a very specific demographic of depositors that is very different from every other bank. Most banks know you need to have a very diverse deposit base and that you need to protect yourself against interest rate risk, which these banks didn’t do. The conversations I’m having are focused around making sure you have a diverse deposit base, and more importantly, how do you plan to make sure that your risks are well managed. You put out a statement after those banks failed calling what happened a Twitter bank run. What did you mean by that? Other bank runs we’ve had in history, like Continental Illinois or Washington Mutual, took days, weeks for them to happen. And in those cases, it was about bad loans that hurt those banks. These banks’ failures were entirely different. It was just fear and uncertainty that spiraled out of control. And in Silicon Valley Bank’s case, you had a group of depositors who had a bit of a groupthink mentality, where if one pulled out, the rest did so as well. At this point, things seem to be stabilizing a bit. Deposits aren’t flowing out from the banks as much, the emergency facilities by the Federal Reserve are being less used. Why do you think things are calming? I think regulators have done a much better job at telling the public that our nation’s banking system is strong and not every bank is the same as Silicon Valley Bank. I think our banks also did a good job at differentiating themselves from the failed banks, making sure people understood the difference. Interviewed by Ken Sweet. Edited for clarity and length.

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SECTION D

SUNDAY • APRIL 16, 2023

MEG MCLAUGHLIN UT

Padres shortstop Xander Bogaerts (left) and second baseman Jake Cronenworth celebrate Cronenworth’s second home run of the game against the Brewers.

DAY OFF DOES WONDERS Finally, Padres flash that predicted pop

Cronenworth’s first multihomer game comes after forced sitdown

Soak up what the Padres could and rightfully should be doing, offensively. Nagging, persistent trouble in all direc tions. Batonpassers who send pitch counts soaring. Patient and productive. Deep and damaging and clutch. It’s one game — just nine innings in the briskness of April — but a 103 win Saturday at Petco Park against the BRYCE solidly assembled Brewers provided a MILLER lens into what can be possible with a Columnist moneysoaked bunch that, so far, has been more payroll than punch. Bottle it, Padres, if you can. “That should be typical, you know,” Padres designated hitter Nelson Cruz said. “That’s what we are looking to do every day. We understand it’s not going to happen every day, but we’re definitely capable of doing stuff like that on a daily basis.” The Padres’ offense had been a headscratcher to this point, languishing at No. 27 in baseball for batting average with runners in scoring position. They’d struck out 50 times since the start of the recent Mets series, the most of any National League team in that span. The 11 runs they scratched across in those five games SEE MILLER • D4

Jake Cronenworth woke up Saturday morning reluc tantly refreshed. He felt like he had found something while getting some extra work in the bat ting cage the day before. But no matter whether the tweak worked, he told himself as he prepared to head to Petco Park for the first day of the rest of his season that all he could do was all he could do. He had left the ballpark frustrated beyond words on Thursday night, was given a game off that he didn’t want Friday and opened his eyes Saturday with a resolution. “(Expletive) it,” Cronen worth said to himself. “Just go and compete your ass off.” Then he went out and did it. Cronenworth was the biggest contributor on a day

D 5 • Question and answer time with Jake Cronenworth.

BY KEVIN ACEE

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Padres infielder Jake Cronenworth launches his first homer of the day, this one in the fifth inning.

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Brewers at Padres

Today: 1:10 p.m., Petco Park Pitchers: Brewers LHP Wade Miley (11, 2.45 ERA) vs. Padres RHP Yu Darvish (01, 4.76) On the air: BSSD, 97.3FM, 860AM (Spanish) the Padres team that was supposed to show up more often showed up in a 103 vic SEE PADRES • D4

D 7 • ExPadres outfielder Wil Myers hits two homers.

AZTECS’ UPDATED DEPTH CHART INCLUDES SOME TURNOVER Three from SDSU’s ’22 recruiting class moving on to portal BY KIRK KENNEY Wide receivers Hassan Mahasin and Jacoby Kelly were part of San Diego State’s 2022 recruiting class,

arriving last fall with high hopes. If they are to realize their college dreams, however, Mahasin and Kelly will have to go somewhere else for an opportunity to do so. Mahasin, Kelly and an other member of the Class of 2022, offensive lineman Laakea Kapoli, all mutually agreed to enter the transfer

portal, which opened Sat urday. Mutual in this case means the three were en couraged to leave, and they then agreed to go. It is one of the cold real ties of college athletics. Wooed, then shooed. SDSU needs immediate help at wide receiver and on the offensive line, and the

moves open spots for poten tial impact players from the portal. The Aztecs now have 67 scholarships available, not that all of the schol arships will be used on por tal players. One scholarship cer tainly has been earned — though not yet awarded — by walkon starting safety Davaughn Celestine.

As for Mahasin and Kelly, both players said they were disappointed things didn’t work out with the Aztecs. Both were sidetracked by injuries. It also didn’t help that their biggest advocate, wide receivers coach Hunkie Cooper, was fired after the season. Mahasin spent last sea son recovering from surgery

for a knee injury suffered during his senior season in high school. Kelly suffered a broken collarbone during the sea son that kept him off the field for several weeks. Both players said they wanted to stay. “The coaches had a sit down with me after our first SEE AZTECS • D8

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SUNDAY • APRIL 16, 2023

What to watch Baseball San Francisco at Detroit, 10 a.m........................MLB Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers, 1 p.m. ................MLB Milwaukee at Padres, 1:10 p.m.........................BSSD Texas at Houston, 4 p.m. .................................ESPN Bowling (PBA) W.S. of Bowling, U.S. vs. The World, 9 a.m. ........5/69 College baseball Evansville at S. Illinois, 11 a.m. ......................ESPNU College golf (Women) SEC Tournament, 5:30 a.m. ...............................SEC College lacrosse (Men) Penn St. at Michigan, 3 p.m. .........................ESPNU Maryland at Rutgers, 4 p.m. ..............................BTN College softball Duke at Boston College, 9 a.m...........................ACC Northwestern at Wisconsin, 9 a.m. ................ESPN2 Syracuse at North Carolina, 11 a.m. ...................ACC Rutgers at Penn St., 11 a.m. ...............................BTN Tennessee at Kentucky, 11 a.m. ......................ESPN2 Alabama at Mississippi St., 11 a.m. ....................SEC UCLA at Arizona, noon...................................PAC12 Clemson at NC State, 1 p.m...............................ACC LSU at Auburn, 1 p.m. ...................................ESPN2 Mississippi at Missouri, 1 p.m. ...........................SEC Oregon at Arizona St., 2 p.m. .........................PAC12 College water polo (Women) Harvard at Michigan, 9 a.m. ..............................BTN Football XFL, Arlington at D.C., 9 a.m............................ESPN USFL, Michigan vs. Houston, 9 a.m. ..................7/39 XFL, Seattle at St. Louis, noon .......................ESPN2 USFL, Pittsburgh vs. New Orleans, 3:30 p.m........FS1 Golf PGA, The RBC Heritage, 10 a.m. ......................GOLF PGA, The RBC Heritage, noon ................................8

OFF THE WALL We just couldn’t let this stuff go … Tracy Perlman, the NFL’s Broadcasting senior vice president of player bootcamp not as operations, said there are always surprises over who applies, but easy as it looks some of their personalities Jason Kelce has excelled as one of the NFL’s best offensive linemen for his ability to quickly adjust blocking schemes and make splitsecond decisions to ensure his quarterback has a clean pocket, writes Joe Reedy of The Associated Press. The Philadelphia Eagles center (pictured) has discovered that translating that to a televi sion or radio audience is more challenging than it seems. Kelce was one of 25 current and former players who partici pated last week in the league’s Broadcasting and Media Work shop, which used to be known as the Broadcast Bootcamp. This was the 16th time the event was held. For the past two years, it has taken place at the NFL Media headquarters, which opened in 2021 and is a 30yard pass from SoFi Stadium, the home of the Rams and Chargers. “This is all new territory for me. I have even more respect for

it now,” Kelce said. “It’s very hard to do something live, reac tive of stimulus that just hap pened and having something clever and meaningful to say.” The threeday session allows participants to call a game on radio or television and work in the studio as an analyst. Nine of last year’s 24 partici pants worked in some media capacity. The two biggest names were Richard Sherman, who was part of the pregame and postgame coverage on Amazon Prime Video’s first season of “Thursday Night Football,” and Jason McCourty, who was an analyst for Westwood One radio and is a cohost on NFL Net work’s “Good Morning Football.”

emerge during the process. “Some of them come here, unsure about wanting to be in the media. But they get a full experi ence and see there are many ways they can be in media,” she said. “Guys are looking for what they will do in their transition from playing. And they want to be around football.” Changes, including smaller classes and more oneonone time, have made it a more valu able experience. “I think every time you see automatic improvement and how much more comfortable they are. There’s a lot of little things that even though they know the game, they have to learn how to fit their thought in between snaps the best way they can,” said Fox playbyplay announcer Chris Myers, who was part of the TV sessions. Kelce also said the other tricky thing could be remember ing to pronounce someone’s

name correctly. “It’s a lot easier when you’re sitting on the couch or have heard the name over and over. Certainly some of the names are difficult to remember on the spot,” Kelce said.

Trivia question The Toronto Maple Leafs were the first NHL team to win three straight titles, the last of which came on this date in 1949. The Leafs have won 13 overall titles. When was the last Stanley Cup for Toronto?

A funny From jokes4us.com: “What do the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Titanic have in common? They both look good until they hit the ice!”

Trivia answer Toronto last won a Stanley Cup in the 196667 season. COMPILED BY BOYCE GARRISON FROM U-T NEWS SERVICES, ONLINE REPORTS

Horse racing CoasttoCoast, 9 a.m. ....................................FDTV America’s Day at the Races, 10 a.m....................FS2 Men’s soccer La Liga, Elche at Girona, 5 a.m. .....................ESPND EPL, Arsenal at West Ham United, 6 a.m............USA La Liga, Barcelona at Getafe, 7:15 a.m. ..........ESPND EPL, Man. United at Nottingham, 8:30 a.m. .......USA MLS, LAFC at Galaxy, 1:30 p.m. ........................5/69 Liga MX, Tigres UANL at Queretaro, 3:30 p.m. .TUDN Liga MX, Santos Laguna at Monterrey, 6 p.m. ...FOXD Motorsports The Grand Prix of the Americas, 11:30 a.m. .....CNBC NASCAR Cup Series, The NOCO 400, noon .........FS1 IndyCar, Acura G.P. of Long Beach, 12:30 p.m. ...7/39 NHRA FourWide Nationals, 6:30 p.m. (delayed)..FS1 NBA Playoffs (First round) West, LA Lakers at Memphis, Gm 1, noon..............10 East, Miami at Milwaukee, Gm 1, 2:30 p.m. ........TNT West, L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, Gm 1, 5 p.m. ......TNT West, Minnesota at Denver, Gm 1, 7:30 p.m. .......TNT Rodeo PBR, The Wrangler Invitational, 9:30 a.m................8 PBR, The Wrangler Invitational, 1 p.m. ...........CBSSN Tennis ATP, Monte Carlo, 5:30 a.m. ..............................TEN Whiparound coverage, 8 a.m. & 4 p.m. .............TEN Women’s soccer Liga MX, Atlas at Tijuana, 8 p.m.......................FOXD

U.S. TO FACE RIVAL CANADA IN WORLDS GOLD MEDAL GAME BY JOHN WAWROW BRAMPTON, Ontario

With a familiar berth in the women’s world hockey championship gold medal game on the line, leave it to the United States’ socalled old guard of Hilary Knight and Amanda Kessel to set the tone in a 91 rout of Switzerland on Saturday.

U.S. 9, Switzerland 1 And the Americans will be facing two time defending champion Canada, with the crossborder rivals meeting in the final to day for the 21st time in 22 tournaments. Despite being the top seed, the Canadi ans experienced more difficulty advancing in their semifinal, with Sarah Fillier scoring three times — including two goals in a six minute span in the second period — of a 51 win against Switzerland. Knight and Kessel scored two goals each to lead a young and retooled American team, which has never failed to reach the gold medal game. “It wasn’t going to be an easy game,” said Kessel, of her and Knight settling their young team by combining to score the Americans’ first three goals. “Nobody’s rolling over. They’re in that game for a rea son. So I think having that experience and knowing that it’s going to be a battle no mat ter who you’re playing.” Next up is Canada, which is undefeated through six games, but having trouble fin ishing scoring chances and holding leads. Swiss goalie Andrea Braendli stopped 49 shots and handled the first 21 she faced before Fillier finally beat her with a shot from the right circle 11:06 into the second period. Jamie Lee Rattray also scored, and AnnRenee Desbiens stopped eight shots. Canada was coming off a scare in the quarterfinals in which it pulled out a 32 overtime victory after blowing a 20 lead. The Canadians also blew a 31 lead in the fi nal minute of a 43 shootout win over the Americans on Monday. With nine titles to Canada’s 12, the U.S. (51) has never missed a gold medal game in tournament history, and it will be seeking to reclaim the title after losing to Canada in each of the past two finals. U.S. coach John Wroblewski already was itching for a chance to play Canada before the matchup was set. “Getting over the hump of beating that team is something,” he said. “It’s not like there’s one thing to shut down against Canada. There’s a multitude of expe rience and confidence,” he added. “To de throne someone that’s that good at what they do is going to take an outstanding per formance from every single player and very few mistakes as well from the coaching staff.” What’s been validating so far for the sec ondyear coach is going with a lineup featur ing five players making their tournament debuts. The mix of veterans and youngsters — Tessa Janecke and Caroline Harvey — filled the scoresheet against the Czechs.

Wawrow writes for The Associated Press.

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At left, Juan Soto, already emerging as a generational player. At right, Shohei Ohtani, twoway megastar a la Babe Ruth.

Soto or Ohtani? Choice isn’t that hard Sez Me … Pardon me for getting ahead of myself, which in this calen dar year is easier than getting NICK around my C A N E PA self. Columnist But there are questions the size of giant meatballs that will be hanging out there for quite a while: Do the Padres keep Juan Soto or go after Shohei Ohtani? Or both? Or neither? They form a conundrum that can’t be truthfully answered this early by anyone. Except me, the original April Fool. Team owner Peter Seidler may not even know as yet. But I have a hunch he has a hunch. The earth’s greatest geolo gists have met and have conflict ing thoughts on the exact depth of Seidler’s pockets. The consen sus was that, on Earth, they’re just above the Mariana and Tonga trenches. So, you know, slightly deeper than our pot holes. But gathering both fellows? It would be beyondwildest dreams good. Together, they will amount to the national debt. Not that I’m saying it’s im possible, because every so often Peter Padre does his magic trick and pulls millions out of his opera hat. But, cash available or not, getting both stars, while a feelgood plot, could have an unpopular denouement. Going by that, a choice must be made. And it’s not that hard. It’s Soto. And that would mean passing on one of the greatest allaround baseball talents in history. Soto is four years younger and knows the real estate, but what’s far more significant is that Ohtani also carries a higher risk quotient. Shohei already may be a Hall of Famer. Dominant, the great est hitter/pitcher since Babe Ruth. More than a generational player. A centennial player. There’s no question he’s a better allaround athlete than Soto, and Shohei, who becomes a free agent after this season, isn’t returning to the Angels and may get a longterm, guaranteed

$500 millionplus deal. But is this remarkable pony worth it if he becomes one trick instead of two? As with Ruth, I easily can see a time when he drops one of his specialties, and he’s so good at both, it’s hard to say which he will choose — although I can see him giving up mound work. Who knows? I seriously doubt it, but he may play anoth er 10 years doing doubleduty. His career ERA is 2.83, but he started just 10 games in 2018 and none in ’19 because of Tommy John surgery. Through three starts this season, his ERA is down there with Seidler’s pock ets. So, he’s going to be the best pitcher on a staff, but not the ace. Soto, who still has two sea sons before free agency, is one of the finest young batsmen in the game. Granted, we have not seen the entire bouquet of his hitting talents since he arrived at Petco late last year. But he will hit. There will be good batters around Juan, and experience tells me great hitters hit. It wasn’t as though Soto had just one good season prior to getting here. Again, we’re dealing with something unknown in San Diego — a sports team spending wildly, and flocks of fans flocking to Petco. So, while I can’t say Seidler’s moneyclip finger remains ter ribly itchy, he is on record stating Soto is a priority. Peter wants championships, and he obvi ously can afford what he’s doing or he wouldn’t be doing it. One would be great. Two would be phenomenal. If neither, the Pads will remain hard to play. … Too many Padres fans are getting off the KoolAid and drinking downstream from the cattle drive. Borrowing from Hubert Vogelsinger, April base ball isn’t worth the time I don’t spend watching it. … It’s only a Costco sample, but from what I’ve seen of his minor league stint, Fernando Tatis Jr. remembers how to play baseball and should be called up soon. What are they waiting for? … If I were running from the firstbase stands on a Padres catcher, I wouldn’t make it to second base, but I’d still be safe. …

Do you have a word for Manny Machado being miced up and interviewed live at third base during a game in Atlanta? Here’s one: Stupid. … I would have paid plenty to see ESPN try to interview Bob Gibson in between pitches. … Carson Palmer says Joe Burrow is a better quarterback than Patrick Mahomes. Quite possibly. But there’s a big bowl of legumes in front of Joe and, as my daddy would say: “He has to eat a few beans yet.” … Can we really believe Odell “One Catch” Beckham Jr. would have signed with the Ravens if he thought Kyle Boller would be quarterbacking? … The entire NFL offseason is being constructed around the eventual whereabouts of two star quarterbacks. … Kliff Kingsbury has moved to USC as quarterbacks coach. But knowing Caleb Williams prob ably can teach him the position’s nuances, the Trojans also are hoping Kliff can play linebacker. … Chris Simms says Alabama linebacker Will Anderson “isn’t elite.” I hope he is, but he’s over rated now. … Zion Williamson: “Physically, I’m fine. Now it’s just a matter of when I feel like Zion.” He has to feel like Zion. Zion isn’t playing. … The NBA no longer randomly tests players for marijuana. How about the fans? … Jon Rahm is the world’s greatest golfer. Until he isn’t. Since Tiger, the over/under on the life expectancy of a world No. 1 is that of a mayfly. … As many of you are aware, I am no great fan of Tiger, the person. But we have known few greater competitors. … There are times when Phil Mickelson becomes a warlock. A 7under 65 on Sunday at Au gusta, 31 on the back nine? At 52 years of age? If there’s a greater round in all future Masters, it likely will be done by a calm, young man of faith whose resur rection was celebrated last Sunday. … If Phil had “backed into” that Masters win, it would have been the greatest thing to happen to golf since some sick Scotsman knocked around a rock. … Jim Nantz insists CBS didn’t intentionally snub Phil at Au gusta. Let’s roll that Jim Healy

tape right here. Nixon: “That’s just plain poppycock.” Healy: “I don’t make ’em up, pally.” … CBS or not, LIV LIVed well at Augusta. … RIP, Al Jaffe. Ever read “Mad’s Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions”? Please do. People were funnier back then. … RIP, Herb Meyer, my first interview. My initial assignment for this paper was covering the OceansideCarlsbad high school football game. Herb was Ocean side’s coach. Legend. … RIP, Jim Harrick Jr. While interim basketball coach at SDSU, he burned off more ener gy during a game than his dad did in a season. … Last week’s LiverpoolAr senal match has been described as “spectacular” and “sensa tional.” It was 22. But the uphol stery on the edge of my seat is worn to the wood. … Spotted restaurant robots delivering food to tables. I refuse to tip a robot. What would you tip a robot? An improved charg ing station? … Advice, please. What do I do with all this damn toilet paper?

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FITZPATRICK HAS CAREER ROUND, LEADS HERITAGE ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick shot his best round on the PGA Tour with a 63 Saturday for a one shot lead over Patrick Cant lay through three rounds at the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head Island, S.C. Fitzpatrick had six bird ies and an eagle when he holed out from 149 yards away on the par4 third hole. He was at 14under 199, poised for his first tour win since that major title 10 months ago. “For me, that’s ideally the start you need on a Sat urday, isn’t it?” Fitzpatrick said of the unexpected hole out. “It just gets you off to a good start.” Cantlay, who lost in a playoff to Jordan Spieth a year ago, shot 66 to move to 13 under and into position for another try at the plaid, tartan winner’s jacket. Spieth was also again in the hunt, another stroke back after a 66. He’s seeking to do something he hasn’t in his career — defend a title. World No. 2 Scottie Schef fler and secondround

leader Jimmy Walker were among five players tied at 11 under. Scheffler shot 69 and Walker 72. Walker, who opened 65 65, reached 14 under and was tied with Fitzpatrick before blowing up with with three bogeys on the back nine and falling back. Walker missed a par putt inside 2 feet on the 11th to fall out of first. Then, his tee shot on the par3 14th caromed off a wood piling and way off the green, leading to a sec ond bogey. On the par5, 15th, Walk er’s second shot appeared to stay in one of that tall, stately trees that front the green, or at least there was no video evidence his ball splashed into the water haz ard alongside. Walker took a onestroke penalty and had a third bogey in a fivehole stretch. Masters champion Jon Rahm gave spectators who’ve celebrated his sec ond major victory all week something to scream about at Harbour Town when he opened with three straight birdies and closed within three strokes of the lead.

But the feelgood, Rahm com storyline fell apart on the par3 fourth when his tee shot stopped on a wood fac ing short of the water. He fol lowed with a onehanded, backhand shot that stopped 65 feet from the cup and needed three putts for a dou blebogey. Rahm never found that same swagger the rest of the way. The world’s No. 1 player finished at 8under after a 69 and is 18 holes away from a welldeserved rest after win ning at Augusta National last week for his second ma jor title. He’ll return to the tour in two weeks to defend his Mexico Championship ti tle. Fitzpatrick has struggled much of the year, missing four cuts in his last seven events before arriving at Au gusta National last week. That’s where he finished tied for 10th and came to one of his favorite courses — he’s played this tournament eight seasons — with confi dence. “I think this is a golf course that’s shown that there are low scores around here this week,” said Fitz

patrick, whose family took vacations to Sea Pines Re sort when he was a child. Fitzpatrick played Har bour Town as a young guy and took tennis lessons on the green clay courts that used to host the WTA’s an nual pro tennis tournament, now called the Charleston Open. How was his tennis game? “Not as good as my golf game at the time,” he said. Fitzpatrick, who sur passed his previous tour low of 64 last accomplished at this venue two years ago, looks to add a championship trophy to his Harbour Town memories. Cantlay has had four top seven finishes at Harbour Town in five previous ap pearances. He had birdies on three of his first six holes to give himself a chance at another high finish.

Kim wins in Honolulu Grace Kim of Australia defeated upstart third round leader Yu Jin Sung and Yu Liu on the first play off hole to claim the LPGA Lotte Championship in Honolulu.

Kyle Kirkwood won the first pole of his IndyCar ca reer on Saturday with a fly ing fast lap around the downtown streets of Long Beach — giving the series three different pole winners through the first three races of the season. The Andretti Autosport crew erupted in celebration when Kirkwood, a 24year old from Jupiter, Fla., re turned to his pit stall. He was immediately congratulated by teammate Romain Gros jean and team owner Michael Andretti. Kirkwood, in his second season of IndyCar, will lead the field to green today in the most prestigious street course race in the United States. “I am just ecstatic at the moment,” Kirkwood said. “I couldn’t be happier with this, the third weekend with the team.” Kirkwood was part of the Andretti development sys tem but after winning the Lights championship in 2021 had to leave the organiza tion because it didn’t have an IndyCar seat for him to be promoted. So he spent last year with AJ Foyt Racing un til Andretti could bring him back this season as the re placement for Alexander Rossi. “He’s the real deal, I can tell you,” Andretti said. “He’s been a pleasure on the team, we really enjoy him.” Andretti two weeks ago made a strategy change for Kirkwood and Colton Herta, swapping team leaders ahead of the race at Texas Motor Speedway. Kirkwood was given Bry an Herta, Colton’s father, who has guided two different drivers to Indianapolis 500 wins. “Right now it’s working out really well,” Andretti said. “Bryan being on his radio will be a lot more beneficial for Kyle and the organiza tion. He’s great for a young driver and he helped Colton when he started out. We just

felt it was better for the team.” Marcus Ericsson, winner of the seasonopening race, qualified second for Chip Ganassi Racing and was fol lowed by Grosjean. Ganassi drivers Alex Palou and Scott Dixon quali fied fourth and fifth as Honda drivers took the top five spots.

Preece has Martinsville pole Ryan Preece put his No. 41 Ford on the pole for to day’s Cup Series race at Martinsville (Va.) Speed way, capping a strong day of qualifying for StewartHaas Racing. All four SHR cars quali fied in the top seven on Sat urday. Daniel Suarez and Preece’s teammate, Aric Almirola, were tied for the best qualifying lap before Preece took the halfmile track last among the top10 drivers in the final round and zipped around the paper clipshaped course in 94.78 mph, besting the effort of 94.298 shared by Suarez and Almirola. Chase Briscoe, also of SHR, qualified fourth. Qualifying didn’t go all that well for fan favorite Chase Elliott, who is return ing from a sixweek absence after suffering a broken leg in a snowboarding accident in Colorado. He will start 24th after brushing the wall on his second lap of qualifying.

Elsewhere Roger Penske earned his first IMSA sports car victory since partnering with Porsche with a win at the Grand Prix of Long Beach. Mathieu Jaminet won Sat urday’s race under caution for Porsche Team Penske when Ricky Taylor of Wayne Taylor Racing crashed try ing to pass him for the win. • John Hunter Ne mechek was on fire all night at Martinsville Speedway. So maybe it was fitting that he set his car on fire after a lengthy burnout upon win ning his second Xfinity Se ries race of the season.

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Carlsbad and Torrey Pines have played four prep baseball games this season. All four have been onerun victories for Torrey Pines. There was the fourthran ked Falcons’ shutout to win the Open Division of the Li ons Tournament, a walkoff and an extrainning game. The topper, however, came Saturday. With his team trailing at home by a run with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning and a runner on sec ond base, Carlsbad’s Peyton Ellis punched a single to right. Pinch runner Jett Kenady came roaring around third with the potential tying run. Torrey Pines right fielder Gavin Strup threw a bolt to catcher Dolan Maher, who tagged out Kenady on a bangbang play at the plate, giving Torrey Pines a 21 Coastal North County League win and a share of the league lead with No. 1ranked La Costa Canyon. “Absolutely, sending the runner was the right thing to do,” said Carlsbad coach Scott De Jong, who vehe mently argued the call. For Strup, the throw was redemption. In the sixth inning, Carls bad’s Camden Burdick lined

a ball to right. With a runner on first and a chance at a double play, Strup took his eye off the ball and it clanked off his glove. Burdick went on to score the only run of the game for No. 5 Carlsbad on Tyler Fos ter’s RBI groundout. Then came the bottom of the seventh. “Carlsbad had a pinch runner, and I knew the guy was fast,” Strup said. “The ball was hit right at me. I got a good hop, so I took my time. “I knew I had to make a strong throw, give my catcher a chance to tag him out. I had a mishap the in ning before, but I stayed composed and got the job done.” Torrey Pines’ pitchers have gotten the job done four straight times against Carls bad. The Lancers hit .134 (14 for104) in four games against Torrey Pines. Falcons pitch ers have a 1.40 ERA against Carlsbad with only six walks and 35 strikeouts in 30 in nings. Righthander Chase Blease beat the Lancers 10 in the title game of the Lions Tournament and threw a completegame fivehitter Saturday with six strikeouts. Chase Klemke staked

Blease to a lead with a homer to start the game. Strup’s sixthinning sacrifice fly made it 20. Mitchell Gibson was the toughluck loser for Carls bad, allowing five hits and two runs over six innings. “Pitching is contagious,” said Blease, who needed 79 pitches but threw 65 strikes. “We all want to do the job, get it done. “For me, it’s about throw ing strikes, pounding the zone. And we play great de fense (with left fielder Aidan Stroot, center fielder Peyton and third baseman Jace Barajas making great plays Saturday). “Carlsbad has a good team, so to beat them four times but one run every time is crazy. And that last play was crazy. I saw the ball hit. I saw Gavin make the throw. And the game was over. “This league is so tough, you need every win you can get.” Torrey Pines, which is 132 overall, is tied for first with La Costa Canyon at 41. Carls bad, which plays No. 3 RB this week, is 134, 13. “The league race isn’t over,” De Jong said. “The lit tle things decided these four games against Torrey Pines. “The little things will de termine who wins it.”

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THE SERIES Brewers at Padres

GAME 4 of 4 1:10 p.m. today Brewers LHP Wade Miley 11, 2.45 ERA The 36yearold veteran has a 5.28 ERA in 15 starts (87 IP) against the Padres, including allowing three runs in three innings last year.

Padres RHP YU Darvish 01, 4.76 ERA Darvish has a 2.22 ERA in eight career starts (442⁄ 3 IP) against Milwaukee, including allowing two runs in 62⁄ 3 innings last year in a loss.

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WHAT VOIT REALLY SAID FRIDAY NIGHT BY JEFF SANDERS After rumbling from first to home on Mike Brousseau’s firstinning double on Friday, Luke Voit popped up from his slide around Luis Campu sano’s tag, pumped his fist and pulled open this jersey to air out that “chest lettuce” and exclaimed something that wasn’t quite picked up by the onfield mic. There was definitely an expletive, but given his brief history in San Diego — he was swapped in the Juan Soto trade to Washington when Eric Hosmer exercised his notrade clause — theories abounded on social media as to exactly what Voit said, some going so far as to try to enlist lipreader extraordi naire Jomboy for the job on Twitter. A day later, after a three hit day, Voit was more than happy to solve the mystery. “I think I blacked out,” Voit said with a laugh. “But I think I said, ‘That’s what hap pens when you let the (ex pletive) big boy run.’ ” At 6foot2 and 258 pounds, Voit was certainly gassed. Unlike an earlier steal this season — which may or may not have had something to do with bigger bases and limited pickoff throws, this sprint was all him. Voit was out of the start

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Brewers’ Luke Voit (45) slides safely home and past the tag of Padres catcher Luis Campusano on Friday. ing lineup on Saturday but in good spirits in his new home with the Brewers, where he is beginning his tenure in a left right rotation at first base and DH with Rowdy Tellez and Jesse Winker. The 32yearold Voit ad mits it stung to move from a contending team in San Di ego to the lastplace Nation als. Still no hard feelings, ei ther. He’s the kind of guy that looks in the mirror before he points fingers and he had a .733 OPS when the Padres were forced to move him in stead of Hosmer to complete the Soto trade. “They wanted me for a reason,” said Voit, who’d been acquired from the Yankees last spring to serve as the Pa

dres’ primary. “I blame my self. I didn’t put up the num bers that I wanted, but I have a new start here.” He added: “My wife loved it (in San Diego). Bob (Melvin) was great to me. It sucked the way it ended. Ob viously I wish I could have helped the team, because it was a really good team and obviously going to DC and be ing in last place, it sucked. It was definitely a low point in my career.”

Rotation changes coming? Seth Lugo was already at 92 pitches when a 12 fastball with two outs in the fourth ran up and in on Winker, plunking the Brewers’ desig nated hitter above his elbow. The errant pitch forced in the

gametying run and fetched Padres manager Bob Melvin from the dugout much earlier than he would have liked. Again. Michael Wacha could not complete five innings on Fri day. Nick Martinez finished six on Thursday, but the bullpen covered four innings in both of Blake Snell’s and Ryan Weathers’ starts on Wednesday and Tuesday, re spectively. “It’s tough, it’s tough,” Melvin said. “We have to try to press through it right now. Hopefully Joe (Musgrove) comes back. We get some off days coming up. It doesn’t help, (24 games in 25 days) to start the season. You have a short bullpen. It’s tough to navigate. Hopefully get some offdays that refresh us a little bit, therefore we’re not as taxed.” The Padres’ next day off is April 25. They get another on April 28, then five days off in May. Musgrove is throwing per haps his final rehab start to day for low SingleA Lake El sinore. If all goes well, he could rejoin the rotation over the weekend in Phoenix, forc ing perhaps Weathers to the bullpen or to TripleA El Paso to continue starting.

of Jackie Robinson, threw out the first pitch to Trent Grisham as part of the Pa dres’ Jackie Robinson Day celebration. All teams players and onfield staff across all games wear No. 42 every year on April 15 to mark the day Jackie broke MLB’s color barrier in 1947. Grisham was also part of a “Breaking Bar riers” forum on Friday in front of 200 students at San Diego High School. Also par ticipating: Billy Bean, MLB senior vice president and spe cial assistant to the commis sioner; Miles McPherson, former NFL defensive back and pastor of The Rock church; and Captain Amy Bauernschmidt, the first fe male commander of a U.S. aircraft carrier. • RF Fernando Tatis Jr. homered in his first and sec ond atbats at TripleA El Paso on Saturday, went 4 for5 with three RBIS and is hitting .536 with a 1.868 OPS and six homers through sev en rehab games. Tatis will play with El Paso today, rejoin the Padres on Monday and could play in a game at low SingleA Lake Elsinore on Tuesday. OF Adam Engel (hamstring) also began his rehab assignment with El Paso, going 1for4 with a walk as the DH.

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PADRES FROM D1 tory over the Brewers. Cronenworth hit two home runs in a game for the first time in his career and finished with a careerhigh six RBIs. He drove in at least one run in four of his five plate appearances. The Padres had lost three in a row and were down 20 after a halfinning Saturday — the third time in three games in this series they trailed by multiple runs be fore coming to bat. This time, they bounced back quickly and kept scor ing en route to evening their season record at 88. Two quick outs in the bot tom of the first were followed by Juan Soto’s fullcount walk and fullcount singles by Xander Bogaerts and Nelson Cruz, which made it 21. Cronenworth followed with a single on the first pitch he saw from Brewers starter Freddy Peralta. The Padres scored on a double by Trent Grisham and single by Many Machado in the second before the Brew ers tied the game with a run off Seth Lugo that ran him from the game with two outs in the fourth. Steven Wilson inherited loaded bases and escaped with a fly ball out before fol lowing with a scoreless fifth. He got the win because Cro nenworth followed a twoout single in the bottom of the fifth by sending a firstpitch changeup from Peralta just over the wall in right field. Cronenworth’s seventh inning homer made it 83, and his basesloaded walk in the ninth capped the Padres’ scoring. Saturday was the first game this season the Brew ers (105) allowed more than

MILLER FROM D1 tied the White Sox and punchless Nationals for the fewest in the game. They’d been a woeful 16 in games when an opponent scored first, as the Brewers did with a 27pitch, tworun first inning Saturday. This offense was not just inexplicably lost, it had gone to the airport with preseasonexpectation tickets to Tahiti and ended up in Dayton, Ohio. Coming into the game, the Padres were 20th in onbase per centage, 18th in onbase plusslugging numbers and had grounded into more double plays than all but one team in baseball. Then came Saturday, when seven of the 10 runs were driven home with two outs, including the first five in the first, second and fifth innings. “Well, it hasn’t been

Up next: The homestand continues with three more games against the Braves. The Padres took three of four last weekend at the defending NL East champs.

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Padres’ Juan Soto (22) scores a run as Brewers catcher Victor Caratini tries to grab throw in the first inning. seven runs. Peralta, who allowed a to tal of six hits and one run while going six innings in two starts this season, was lifted after five innings Saturday having yielded five runs on nine hits. The Brewers took the first two games of the series by winning 43 in 10 innings on Thursday and 112 on Fri day. Between those two games and Wednesday’s 52 loss in New York, the Padres had scored a total of seven runs and gone 1for20 with run ners in scoring position dur ing a losing streak that dropped them to 78 on the season. They entered Sat urday’s game batting .192 with runners in scoring posi tion, worst in the major leagues. They were 4for8 Saturday, including 3for3 with two outs.

“It hasn’t been there very often for us,” manager Bob Melvin said of the big two out hit. “It’s been there in games. It hasn’t been there consistently. We feel like we have the ability to do that. So, you know, hopefully this is start of a trend.” The Padres’ first five runs and seven in total Saturday came with two outs. They had at least one baserunner in all eight innings they bat ted, and all but one starting player reached base safely. Asked what he liked most about the offense on Sat urday, Melvin grinned and said, “Well, Cronenworth. You can start with him.” The smile on Cronen worth’s face after the game contrasted with a few postgames this season. An 0 for4 performance Thursday, in which his second time fail ing with a runner in scoring

position came in the 10th in ning, left him hitting .196/.321/ .326 this season, which began with him signing a seven year, $80 million contract ex tension. “I was in a great place in spring training — the best spring training I’ve ever had,” he said Saturday. “I felt good coming into the season. I felt great a lot this season. And I’ve just had no results.” Manager Bob Melvin gave Cronenworth his first day off Friday night, something that was met with resistance. “He always wants to play 162,” Melvin said. “But at least I have some ammo for him next time I give him a day off.” A laughing Cronenworth, who has started 362 of the Padres’ 400 games since the start of his rookie season in 2020, acknowledged the for tuitous timing after Sat

urday’s game. “I don’t like days off, but I think it was a good spot to have it in,” he said. “It’s the only time I’ll ever say that.” Cronenworth is a tinkerer at the plate, by nature. He spent some of his time Fri day trying to find something that felt right. He did so, and it still felt good there Sat urday morning. “You dive in, you try to find something that feels comfortable and relaxed,” he said. “So when you get up to the plate you don’t have to think about your swing. You just go up there and com pete. … No matter where you’re at in the season — you feel great and you haven’t gotten out in three days or you feel like crap — there’s al ways one thing you can do, and that’s go compete.”

there very often for us,” manager Bob Melvin said of the twoout production. “… It hasn’t been there consis tently. We feel like we have the ability to do that. So, you know, hopefully this is start of a trend.” Struggling infielder Jake Cronenworth, who was hitting .196 this season with four extrabase hits, drove in runs in four of his five trips to the plate on a single, two homers and an RBI walk. The smallsamplesize bump pushed him to .240 and sent his onbaseplus slugging total rocketing nearly 200 points, to .841. The 29yearold with a fresh $80 million contract jumped on the first pitch he saw in the first to help an swer the Brewers, who had scored two to lead off the game. A sevenpitch walk from Juan Soto, an eight pitch infield single from Xander Bogaerts and a sevenpitch RBI single from Nelson Cruz set the table.

“I think it shows how deep the lineup is,” Cronen worth said. “That first inning we scored two two out runs and it all started with a walk. With the lineup that we have, the way you look at it, you go down the order, it seems like no mat ter what point we are in the game, no matter what in ning it is, it seems like just that one little thing can just spark this lineup.” Cruz alone delivered a clinic on diversified scoring production. He singled in that run with two gone in the first, drove in Juan Soto with a sacrifice fly in the seventh and walked in a third in the eighth. This team, the one that showed up against the Brewers, felt like the one trumpeted in the spring: You don’t know how the runs are coming, but they’re coming all the same. “You go through stretches where the offense feels like that,” said Cruz,

when asked if the offense had been pressing thus far. “The good thing and the positive, we got it done today. … It shows what we can do as a team.” The showing part has been the thing. Against the Brewers, the Padres started three innings with two outs. In all three, they breathed life into the slow starts to dig out runs. It allowed them to stop a threegame losing streak with an offensive flourish. “We’ve got to sustain it, right?” Melvin said. “We’ve got to do it more.” The fact that the out burst came against Brewers starter Freddy Peralta added a bit of earlyseason validation. Peralta entered the game 20 with a 0.75 ERA and one earned run allowed. The 10 runs were the most allowed by the NL Central leaders this season. “If you can have a game where it seems like every

body is having a quality atbat and everybody feels good, it’s one of those things where hopefully it rolls on for a little bit,” Cronenworth said. One game against the Brewers? Sure. It offered a glimpse, though, of the blueprint that could make this team as scary as every one has predicted it will be with big bat Fernando Tatis Jr. five games away from returning from a PED sus pension. “I think that’s the key, is do it consistently,” Cronen worth said. “We did a really good job with it today. But we’ve got to come out to morrow and the following days and do it the same and expect that out of every body.” It’s been expected this season, without a doubt. That’s been the issue. As always, doing it is the thing.

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Milwaukee AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Yelich lf 4 1 1 0 1 2 .242 Winker dh 4 1 1 2 0 1 .300 Adames ss 5 0 1 0 0 0 .273 Tellez 1b 4 0 2 0 1 1 .239 Anderson 3brf 5 0 1 1 0 0 .286 Mitchell cf 3 0 0 0 0 3 .261 aBrosseau ph3b 0 0 0 0 1 0 .280 Caratini c 4 1 4 0 0 0 .438 Turang 2b 3 0 1 0 0 1 .275 bMiller ph2b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .267 Wiemer rfcf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .200 Totals 37 3 12 3 3 10 San Diego AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Grisham cf 5 1 2 0 0 1 .237 Machado 3b 5 0 1 1 0 1 .254 Soto lf 2 3 0 0 3 1 .182 Bogaerts ss 4 2 3 0 0 0 .361 Cruz dh 3 1 2 3 1 0 .333 Cronenworth 2b1b 4 2 3 6 1 0 .240 Carpenter 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .172 Kim 2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .234 Nola c 3 0 1 0 1 1 .121 Azocar rf 4 1 0 0 0 0 .250 Totals 35 10 12 10 6 5 Milwaukee 200 100 000— 3 12 1 San Diego 210 020 32x—10 12 0 awalked for Mitchell in the 8th. bstruck out for Turang in the 8th. E—Adames (3). LOB—Milwaukee 11, San Diego 9. 2B—Winker (3), Grisham (4). HR—Cronenworth (2), off Peralta; Cronenworth (3), off Milner. RBIs— Winker 2 (9), Anderson (13), Cruz 3 (12), Cronen worth 6 (8), Machado (7). SB—Yelich (3), Azocar (3). SF—Cruz. Runners left in scoring position—Milwaukee 6 (Yelich, Anderson, Adames 2, Winker 2); San Di ego 4 (Carpenter 2, Kim 2). RISP—Milwaukee 2 for 12; San Diego 4 for 9. Runners moved up—Adames, Cronenworth, Machado. GIDP—Anderson, Machado. DP—Milwaukee 1 (Adames, Turang, Tellez); San Diego 2 (Machado, Cronenworth, Carpenter; Bo gaerts, Cronenworth, Carpenter). Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Peralta, L, 21 5 9 5 5 1 5 98 3.18 Payamps 1 1 0 0 1 0 12 2.84 Milner 1 2 3 3 1 0 27 4.50 2 Varland ⁄ 3 0 1 0 0 0 15 2.70 1 Guerra ⁄ 3 0 1 1 3 0 19 4.05 San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lugo 32⁄ 3 8 3 3 1 5 93 2.70 1 S.Wilson, W, 10 1 ⁄ 3 1 0 0 0 1 18 0.93 Honeywell Jr., H, 2 1 2 0 0 0 2 20 1.93 Garca, H, 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 9 5.87 Hill 1 1 0 0 1 1 22 2.35 Tapia 1 0 0 0 1 0 16 4.32 Inherited runnersscored—Guerra 11, S.Wil son 30. IBB—off Guerra (Soto). HBP—Lugo (Winker), Guerra (Bogaerts). WP—Peralta. Um pires—Home, Dan Bellino; First, Phil Cuzzi; Sec ond, Mark Ripperger; Third, Shane Livensparger. T—3:12. A—42,284 (40,222).

FRIDAY’S LATE SUMMARY

Brewers 11, Padres 2 Milwaukee AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Yelich lf 5 2 2 1 0 0 .241 Adames ss 3 3 2 1 2 0 .280 Contreras c 3 1 1 0 2 0 .350 Tellez dh 5 2 2 4 0 1 .214 Anderson rf 5 2 2 2 0 1 .295 Voit 1b 5 1 3 2 0 1 .276 Brosseau 3b 5 0 1 1 0 0 .280 Miller 2b 5 0 2 0 0 1 .286 Wiemer cf 4 0 0 0 1 0 .195 Totals 40 11 15 11 5 4 San Diego AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Bogaerts ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .333 Machado 3b 2 0 1 0 1 0 .259 Odor 2b 1 0 1 1 0 0 .143 Soto lf 3 0 0 0 1 0 .189 Cruz dh1b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .303 Kim 2b3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .239 Campusano c 4 1 1 1 0 0 .238 Dixon 1bp 4 0 0 0 0 4 .100 Grisham cf 4 0 2 0 0 0 .222 Azocar rf 4 1 2 0 0 0 .292 Totals 34 2 9 2 2 7 Milwaukee 410 023 010—11 15 0 San Diego 000 010 010— 2 9 1 E—Machado (1). LOB—Milwaukee 7, San Diego 7. 2B—Yelich (2), Adames (2), Anderson 2 (3), Brosseau (2), Miller (1), Azocar (2), Grisham (3), Cruz (3). HR—Yelich (2), off Wacha; Tellez (4), off Wacha; Tellez (5), off Crismatt; Campusano (1), off Lauer. RBIs—Adames (9), Anderson 2 (12), Voit 2 (2), Brosseau (6), Yelich (5), Tellez 4 (12), Campu sano (2), Odor (2). SB—Miller (1). Runners left in scoring position—Milwaukee 5 (Voit, Miller, Yelich 2, Adames); San Diego 4 (Bo gaerts 2, Kim 2). RISP—Milwaukee 5 for 15; San Diego 1 for 10. Runners moved up—Tellez, Ander son. LIDP—Kim. GIDP—Brosseau, Soto. DP—Mil waukee 2 (Miller, Adames, Miller; Adames, Voit, Miller, Voit); San Diego 1 (Machado, Kim, Dixon). Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lauer, W, 21 6 5 1 1 2 5 94 5.28 B.Wilson, S, 22 3 4 1 1 0 2 50 1.00 San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Wacha, L, 21 41 ⁄ 3 11 7 7 1 3 93 6.06 Crismatt 22⁄ 3 4 3 3 2 1 60 10.12 Tapia 1 0 1 1 2 0 26 4.91 Dixon 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 0.00 Inherited runnersscored—Crismatt 11. WP— Wacha. Umpires—Home, Shane Livensparger; First, Dan Bellino; Second, Phil Cuzzi; Third, Mark Ripperger. T—2:42. A—43,822 (40,222).

Results and schedule OVERALL RECORD (88) MARCH (02) Date Opponent Results 30 COLORADO L, 72 31 COLORADO L, 41 APRIL (86) Date Opponent Results 1 COLORADO W, 84 2 COLORADO W, 31 3 ARIZONA W, 54 4 ARIZONA L, 86 6 at Atlanta L, 76 7 at Atlanta W, 54 8 at Atlanta W, 41 9 at Atlanta W, 102 10 at N.Y. Mets L, 50 11 at N.Y. Mets W, 42 12 at N.Y. Mets L, 52 13 MILWAUKEE L, 43 (10) 14 MILWAUKEE L, 112 15 MILWAUKEE W, 103 Date Opponent Time 16 MILWAUKEE 1:10 p.m. 17 ATLANTA 6:40 p.m. 18 ATLANTA 6:40 p.m. 19 ATLANTA 1:10 p.m. 20 at Arizona 6:40 p.m. 21 at Arizona 6:40 p.m. 22 at Arizona 5:10 p.m. 23 at Arizona 1:10 p.m. 25 at Chicago Cubs 4:40 p.m. 26 at Chicago Cubs 4:40 p.m. 27 at Chicago Cubs 11:20 a.m. 29 SAN FRANCISCOx 3:05 p.m. MAY Date Opponent Time 1 CINCINNATI 6:40 p.m. 2 CINCINNATI 6:40 p.m. 3 CINCINNATI 1:10 p.m. 5 L.A. DODGERS 6:40 p.m. 6 L.A. DODGERS 5:40 p.m. 7 L.A. DODGERS 4 p.m. 9 at Minnesota 4:40 p.m. 10 at Minnesota 4:40 p.m. 11 at Minnesota 10:10 a.m. 12 at L.A. Dodgers 7:10 p.m. 13 at L.A. Dodgers 4:15 p.m. 14 at L.A. Dodgers 1:10 p.m. 15 KANSAS CITY 6:40 p.m. 16 KANSAS CITY 6:40 p.m. 17 KANSAS CITY 1:10 p.m. 19 BOSTON 6:40 p.m. 20 BOSTON 7:10 p.m. 21 BOSTON 1:10 p.m. 23 at Washington 4:05 p.m. 24 at Washington 4:05 p.m. 25 at Washington 1:05 p.m. 26 at N.Y. Yankees 4:05 p.m. 27 at N.Y. Yankees 10:05 a.m. 28 at N.Y. Yankees 10:35 a.m. 30 at Miami 3:40 p.m. 31 at Miami 3:40 p.m. JUNE Date Opponent Time 1 at Miami 10:10 a.m. 2 CHICAGO CUBS 6:40 p.m. 3 CHICAGO CUBS 7:10 p.m. 4 CHICAGO CUBS 1:10 p.m. 5 CHICAGO CUBS 6:40 p.m. 6 SEATTLE 6:40 p.m. 7 SEATTLE 1:10 p.m. • All HOME games played at Petco Park • Game times TBD (to be determined) • Times subject to change • xat Mexico City

THE SAN DIEGO UNIONTRIBUNE

SUNDAY • APRIL 16, 2023

PA D R E S TALKIN’ WITH ...

JA K E C R O N E N WO R T H

JACOB IS NOW KNOWN AS JUST JAKE Jake eight years ago. So it’s kind of Jake now, which is completely fine.

BY ANNIE HEILBRUNN Padres infielder Jake Cronenworth signed a sevenyear, $80 million contract three days into the 2023 season, ostensibly keeping him with the Pa dres through 2030. Drafted out of college by the Tampa Bay Rays in 2015, the 29 yearold lefthanded hitter toiled in the minors for five seasons before being traded to San Diego as part of the Tommy Pham deal. Cronen worth’s role was fairly ambiguous when he ar rived, having pitched and played multiple positions for much of his career. He moved around the infield, playing second base and shortstop and cementing his place in the lineup en route to finishing third in National League Rookie of the Year voting. He has played in the past two All Star games. In October, Cronenworth drove in the goahead run against the Dodgers to clinch the Na tional League Division Series. A native of St. Clair, Mich., Cronenworth played hockey and baseball grow ing up and holds an appre ciation for good coffee and classic rock.

But your friends and family call you Jacob. And so do the guys in the clubhouse. Yeah, for the most part.

A: Q: A:

Then you have Jake the Rake, though. It sounds better. There’s much more room for nicknames (with Jake) and everything.

I will tell you though, Jacob John Cronen worth — which is your full name — has a nice ring to it. Did anyone ever call you JJ? Or Jakey? No ... and no.

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MEG MCLAUGHLIN U-T

What were your emo tions like when you heard that your new con tract was official? I think it’s a combina tion of everything that everybody works for. I mean obviously, main goal is to win the World Series, but to get security and be here for the next technically eight years — including this year — it’s pretty special.

Padres’ Jake Cronenworth took advantage of an injury to Eric Hosmer in 2020 and has started ever since.

You always have to believe in yourself and have faith that you’re going to make it. But when you were with Tampa and you weren’t sure where you were going to land or at what position, did you ever dream about a moment like this or think it could be possible for you? You always like to hope. But you never know until it becomes a realization. But I think it goes back to the hard work and everything, and trying to become the best player you can each year. No mat ter what point you’re at in the season, you always have belief in yourself to be the best. And to be rewarded with that is pretty awesome.

Q: A: Q: A:

Who did you call first? I called my dad first.

And what was his reaction? He couldn’t talk. So, (it was) good. He was happy. (My family) was all here for opening weekend. That was pretty special for them.

Q: A:

What do you think your first big pur chase will be? I don’t know. I don’t own a house. I don’t

own a car. … I’ve been driv ing the same car for like seven years. It’s my dad’s old car that I still have. I don’t own anything so there’s only one way, and it’s up.

Let’s go back to St. Clair, Mich., your hometown. Population 5,500. What was it like grow ing up there? Yeah, small town on the St. Clair River connecting Lake Huron to Lake St. Clair. Everybody knows everybody. Play on the same Little League team, the same guys all the way through high school; play hockey, baseball, every thing together . So it’s one of those small Midwest towns. … I think all of us, no matter who was playing sports or whatever, we always had a tightknit group. It was always a tightknit commu nity.

Your mom passed away when you were young and your grandmoth er was influential in helping to raise you. There’s a bench at the Little League field in her name because of how much she gave to the com munity. What are they going to do for you with this kind of success? Maybe build you a statue? I don’t know about after me (laughs). She probably had more influ ence on Little League than I did. … It seems like ever since I was in Little League and left high school there’s been kids going to play college and seems like every year, a guy in the (National Hockey League). For some reason this little town pro duces some pretty good athletes.

Do you know that a “Jake from St. Clair” Facebook page exists and is quite popular? Do you ever peruse that? I don’t have Face book, but I know about it.

You went to college at the University of Michigan, and one of the best headlines to come out of that time is ‘Jacob Cro nenworth is Michigan’s Mr. Everything.’ You did it all. In four Big Ten tournament games, for example, you had four saves while hitting .389 with three RBIs. You would literally play second base, hit leadoff and pitch. How special were those days for you? Yeah, I mean, my friends that I have now that I’m the closest with are guys that I played with in college and we talk all the time. We all live next to each other in the off season. So I get to see them. And they come out here, which is great.

You’ve been telling Matt Carpenter that you can still pitch. Can you still pitch, Jake? Do you work on this in the off season? No, I don’t work on it. But yes, I can.

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You, Carpenter and Trent Grisham are next to one another in the clubhouse. Carpenter re cently said that you and Grisham are the messiest locker mates he’s ever had. Agree or disagree? I disagree. Trent is messy. I’m not messy. I just keep things on my chair. But it’s my chair so I

can put whatever I want on it.

It’s kind of crazy to think back to how you got here. You were kind of anonymous, the “throwin” guy in the Tommy Pham trade. No one really knew what your role was going to be or how much you were going to be used. In 2020 came the pandemic, which ended up being beneficial for you because you were able to work daily with the infield coaches here at Petco before games started. Then you make your debut be cause Eric Hosmer couldn’t play and it’s been full steam ahead ever since. Do you ever think about how life changing that series of events was for you? I mean, it’s honestly, it is insane. Because you know, there’s plenty of guys that get the same opportu nity and who knows, if I don’t get a hit in that first pinchhit atbat or I don’t play as well on the field the first couple games, might not be here today. So it’s one of those things, just try to take advantage of every opportunity you have and just make the most of it.

The Padres have put up pictures around the stadium of big moments throughout the organiza tion’s history and your clutch hit against the Dod gers, to clinch the National League Division Series, is up on the wall. Is it cool to realize how historic that moment was and will con tinue to be? I mean, yeah. Now that I’ve seen pictures and what they’re doing around the park and around the city, I’m kind of starting

to realize what it meant to the team and franchise and the community and every thing. It’s pretty awesome.

Whenever players or coaches talk about you — and this goes back even to your first AllStar game with Dave Roberts and Bud Black — they al ways say how you do things the “right way.” What do you think they’re all talking about when they say that? I would like to think it’s just how I play the game. No matter if I’m struggling or on the hottest streak I’ve ever been on, I’m always gonna be the same player, trying to take the extra base, playing hard on defense, having good at bats even if I’m not having success. Putting in the work every day.

Q: A:

You’re very even keeled. Do you ever get mad at anyone or yell? I yell at myself. I’m probably harder on myself than anybody is. Which is good. I’m competi tive and I want to be the best so it’s pretty hard not to be hard on yourself.

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Where would we see you show emotion outside of baseball? Probably at a Michi gan football game.

In spring training we learned that no one ever called you “Jake” until you were drafted. It was always Jacob. But for some reason you get drafted as “Jake Cronenworth” and suddenly that’s your new first name. Yeah, everybody started calling me

We were the ones who talked about your name in spring training. I put out a tweet that said Jacob is actually the name you grew up with, thinking a few hundred Padres fans might be interested in it. But that thing took off. It got more than half a million views. I had no idea ... but it just showed me how you are not this anonymous guy anymore. People absolutely love you. Have you felt that in the last year or two? I think ever since (2021), since we’ve had fans at the stadium — obviously, didn’t really feel much of it in ’20 because no fans — but since then, it’s been awesome. Never would have imagined it but we’re here now and it’s great.

You played hockey when you were younger and you were pretty good, right? I thought I was pretty good.

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Which one of your teammates would be a good hockey player if he knew how to play? Probably Nick Mar tinez. Nick would be a great hockey player.

I could see that. And he would Red Bull it up so much that he wouldn’t feel anything anyways. Favorite rock band of the past? Probably Van Halen or Mötley Crüe.

A: Q: A: Q: A:

What’s your music mix of choice? I listen to a lot of oldschool rap.

Very nice. Go to coffee order? Just a cold brew in the summer. And then hot in the winter.

Q: A: Q: A:

Simple. Favorite ice cream flavor? Cookies and cream.

Best offday spot? My apartment.

Note: The story was edited for clarity and length. Heillbrunn is a freelancer.

PADRES MINOR LEAGUE REPORT

YOUNG LEFTY SNELLING PHYSICALLY IMPOSING ON MOUND BY JEFF SANDERS At 6foot3 and up to 235 pounds in high school, there was purpose to Robby Snelling’s physique at Reno’s McQueen High School. He’s a bit leaner now that he’s eating and training like a fulltime pitcher, but there’s still a little bit of line backer to his game. “Pitching with a chip on your shoulder, I want to have that mentality that I own the box,” Snelling said. “ … I definitely do bring a lit tle bit of that football men tality to it.” It served him well in last week’s professional debut. The 19yearold left hander struck out three over three shutout innings at low SingleA Lake Elsin ore last weekend, scattering one hit and one walk in an unveiling that was several months in the making. The Padres drafted Snelling 39th overall last summer, signed him for $3 million and stashed him away in extended spring training to begin working on his foundation. For starters, nutritional and training changes helped shave some 10 pounds off a physical frame that had been built to withstand im

pact as a bluechip football recruit. “When you’re playing football, the lifts are com pletely different,” Snelling said. “You’re padding your body for con tact and hit ting people. When it comes to baseball, you’ve got to loosen up so you’re more Robby whippy. So Snelling the two posi tions I played were kind of butting heads.” Snelling’s work at the Pa dres’ spring training com plex also placed an empha sis on adding a changeup to complement a 9496 mph fastball and a curveball that was regarded as among the best in last year’s high school draft class. The curve was so elite that Snelling never needed more than two pitches, not even while setting a Nevada state record with 20 punch outs in a seveninning game last April. Given Snelling’s makeup as a coach’s son and his aptitude with the curve, the rate at which the new secondary pitch is devel oping is not a surprise. “Extreme professional

ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERS (Through Friday; min. 16 plate appearances, 5 innings pitched) Batting average: .500 — C Anthony Vilar (A) On-base percentage: .625 — Vilar Slugging percentage: 1.167 — Vilar Homers: 3 — 1B Alfonso Rivas (AAA) RBIs: 13 — 3B Yorman Rodriguez (AAA) Steals: 4 — OF Jakob Marsee (A+) Wins: 1 — Several tied ERA: 0.00 — RHP Joe Espada (AA) WHIP: 0.500 — Espada Saves: 2 — RHP Cole Paplham (A) Strikeouts: 14 — LHP Jay Groome (AAA) SO/W: 5.50 — RHP Julio Teheran (AAA) ism,” said Storm manager Pete Zamora, whose team is off to a 60 start. “Goes about his day like a guy that’s been around for a while, for as young as he is. Obviously what the percep tion is, is how big and strong he is, and mentally he’s just as good as far as I’ve seen. “Great kid. Busts his butt and his stuff plays.” And “kid” is right on the money. Only 10 players are

younger than Snelling as he begins his stay in the Cali fornia League after a couple long months in extended spring training, the fall in structional league, a winter back home in Reno and fi nally minor league spring training. “I love it (in Peoria),” Snelling said last month, “but I can’t wait … to start my career, see what my pro gression is and what type of player I can become.”

Another sticky situation

Youth movements

For the second time in three years, Anderson Es pinoza was tossed from a game following a check for foreign substances on his person. The 25yearold old righthander was ejected by home plate umpire Sam Burch after leaving the bases loaded in the first in ning Friday night at TripleA El Paso Espinoza allowed two singles and a walk before a strikeout and a flyball got him out of the inning. After the inning, Es pinoza was ejected after what was reportedly a calm but long conversation with Burch. Once the Padres’ top prospect before his career was derailed by backto back Tommy John sur geries, Espinoza served a 10 game suspension in 2021 af ter a foreignsubstance check in July 2021, when baseball first began crack ing down on concoctions added to baseballs to in crease spin rate and ball movement. He was traded to the Cubs later that summer and rejoined the Padres this off season on a minor league deal.

Snelling is not the only Padre beginning the 2023 minor league season among the youngest at their level, as two Storm teammates — infielder Rosman Verdugo and outfielder Samuel Zavala, both 18 — are the second and thirdyoungest players in the league, ac cording to Baseball Ameri ca’s assessment of rosters across the game. At 19, righthander Vic tor Lizarraga is the young est player in the high Sin gleA Midwest League, while shortstop Jackson Merrill, who turns 20 on April 19, is the ninthyoung est.

Around the farm • San Antonio (AA): Out fielder Tirso Ornelas has two homers in his first seven games (.250/.444/.600) back in the Texas League. Or nelas had finished 2022 at TripleA El Paso, but is a ca reer .372 slugger in the mi nors. • Fort Wayne (A+): Mer rill, the Padres’ top prospect, is 4for26 (.154/ .214/.269) with a homer and one steal to start his stay in the Midwest League.

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SUNDAY • APRIL 16, 2023

BASEBALL

National League

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Standings and statistics

Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Hoerner 2b 3 0 0 0 1 0 .321 Swanson ss 3 0 0 0 1 2 .333 Happ lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .319 Suzuki rf 4 0 1 0 0 3 .222 Bellinger cf 3 0 1 0 1 2 .245 Mancini 1b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .234 Hosmer dh 2 0 0 0 0 0 .256 aTorrens ph 0 0 0 0 0 0 .286 bRos phdh 1 0 0 0 1 1 .077 1Madrigal prdh 0 0 0 0 0 0 .316 Wisdom 3b 4 1 1 1 0 0 .233 Barnhart c 2 0 1 0 1 1 .313 Totals 29 1 4 1 6 11 Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Betts rf 4 0 0 0 0 3 .232 Freeman 1b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .310 Muncy 3b 3 0 0 0 1 2 .224 Martinez dh 3 0 0 0 0 2 .246 Outman lf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .279 Vargas 2b 4 1 2 0 0 0 .219 Heyward cf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .190 Rojas ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .143 cPeralta ph 1 0 1 2 0 0 .207 Barnes c 3 0 0 0 0 2 .000 Totals 31 2 5 2 3 13 Chicago 000 010 000— 1 4 0 Los Angeles 000 000 002—2 5 0 Two outs when winning run scored. a for Hos mer in the 7th. bstruck out for Torrens in the 7th. csingled for Rojas in the 9th. 1ran for Ros in the 9th. LOB—Chicago 7, Los Angeles 7. 2B—Vargas (2). HR—Wisdom (5), off Grove. RBIs—Wisdom (8), Peralta 2 (4). SB—Hoerner (8), Bellinger (2), Mad rigal (2). CS—Suzuki (1). Runners left in scoring position—Chicago 6 (Wisdom, Swanson, Hosmer, Ros, Suzuki 2); Los Angeles 3 (Betts, Outman, Barnes). RISP—Chi cago 0 for 8; Los Angeles 1 for 6. Runners moved up—Rojas, Barnes. GIDP— Hosmer. DP—Los Angeles 1 (Vargas, Rojas, Freeman). Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Taillon 5 2 0 0 2 7 85 4.50 Leiter Jr., H, 3 1 0 0 0 0 3 20 0.00 K.Thompson, H, 1 2 0 0 0 1 2 28 1.08 2 Fulmer, L, 01 ⁄ 3 3 2 2 0 1 16 4.50 Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Grove 52⁄ 3 2 1 1 2 6 79 9.00 Vesia 1 1 0 0 1 1 20 7.71 2 Almonte ⁄ 3 1 0 0 2 1 19 6.00 2 Ferguson ⁄ 3 0 0 0 0 2 9 3.38 Miller, W, 10 1 0 0 0 1 1 17 0.00 Inherited runnersscored—Almonte 10, Fer guson 30. HBP—Leiter Jr. (Martinez). WP—Vesia. PB—Barnes (1). Umpires—Home, Mike Muchlin ski; First, Sean Barber; Second, Alan Porter; Third, Jim Wolf. T—2:45. A—52,375 (56,000).

West Arizona

W 8

L 7

Pct .533

GB —

Dodgers 2, Cubs 1

Str L2

L10 64

Home 52

Away 35

Los Angeles

.533

—

PADRES

.500

San Francisco

.357

2½

Colorado Central Milwaukee

5 W 10

10 L 5

.333 Pct .667

3 GB —

37 L10 64

L4 Str L1

34 Home 51

26 Away 54

Pittsburgh

.600

Chicago

.538

Cincinnati

.429

3½

St. Louis East Atlanta

6 W 11

9 L 4

.400 Pct .733

4 GB —

46 L10 73

L1 Str W5

36 Home 43

33 Away 71

New York

.600

Miami

.533

Philadelphia

.333

Washington

.267

SAT U R DAY ’S R E S U LTS

Marlins 3, Diamondbacks 2: Luis Arraez hit a tiebreaking pinch hit single in the seventh inning and host Miami rallied to win its fourth straight. Pirates 6, Cardinals 3 (10): Andrew McCutchen hit a tiebreak ing, tworun homer in the 10th inning and Pittsburgh beat host St. Louis. David Bednar (20) pitched a scoreless ninth inning, and Dauri Moreta worked around a leadoff walk in the 10th to earn his first save of the season. Reds 13, Phillies 0: Wil Myers went 4for5 with two home runs, and host Cincinnati rode a stout pitching performance by Gra ham Ashcraft (20) to shut out Philadelphia. Dodgers 2, Cubs 1: Pinch hitter David Peralta hit a walkoff, tworun single off Chicago reliever Michael Fulmer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to deliver a dramatic win. (IL) Guardians 6, Nationals 4: Jose Ramirez drove his first ho mer of the season into the second deck for a tworun, goahead shot in the fifth inning and Cleveland erased a deficit for the second consecutive game to beat host Washington. F R I DAY ’S L AT E R E S U LT

Cubs 8, Dodgers 2: Yan Gomes homered twice, Ian Happ had four hits, and Cody Bellinger scored in his return to Los Angeles. TO DAY ’S GA M E S Milwaukee (Miley 11) at PADRES (Darvish 01), 1:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Bieber 10) at Washington (Corbin 12), 10:35 a.m.

Philadelphia (Nola 02) at Cincinnati (Cessa 01), 10:40 a.m.

Arizona (Gallen 11) at Miami (Alcantara 11), 10:40 a.m.

Pittsburgh (Keller 10) at St. Louis (Mikolas 01), 11:15 a.m.

Chi. Cubs (Smyly 01) at L.A. Dodgers (Urias 30), 1:10 p.m.

M O N DAY ’S GA M E S Atlanta at PADRES, 6:40 p.m.

San Francisco at Miami, 3:40 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, 3:40 p.m.

Arizona at St. Louis, 4:45 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Colorado, 5:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.

American League Standings and statistics West Texas

W 8

L 6

Pct .571

GB —

L10 55

Str L1

Home 63

Away 23 44

Los Angeles

.500

Houston

.467

1½

Seattle

.467

1½

Oakland Central Minnesota

3 W 10

12 L 5

.200 Pct .667

5½ GB —

19 L10 64

L3 Str L1

26 Home 42

16 Away 63

Marlins 3, Diamondbacks 2 Arizona AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Marte 2b 3 1 1 0 0 0 .218 Rojas 3b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .390 Gurriel Jr. lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .250 Walker 1b 3 0 1 1 0 0 .173 Longoria dh 4 0 0 0 0 2 .286 Carroll cf 4 1 1 0 0 0 .273 Ahmed ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .367 bSmith ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .273 Moreno c 4 0 1 1 0 2 .231 McCarthy rf 2 0 0 0 2 0 .186 Totals 31 2 6 2 3 8 Miami AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Chisholm Jr. cf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .231 Berti ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .255 Cooper 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .340 De La Cruz lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .302 Garca dh 2 1 2 0 0 0 .171 Snchez rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .095 Segura 3b 3 1 1 1 0 0 .176 Fortes c 3 0 1 0 0 0 .179 Hampson 2b 2 1 1 1 0 0 .167 aArraez ph2b 1 0 1 1 0 0 .511 Totals 30 3 9 3 0 5 Arizona 100 000 100—2 6 1 Miami 000 010 20x—3 9 1 asingled for Hampson in the 7th. bstruck out for Ahmed in the 9th. E—Moreno (1), Cooper (1). LOB—Arizona 7, Mi ami 4. 2B—Gurriel Jr. (3), Carroll (2), Garca (1). HR—Hampson (1), off R.Nelson. RBIs—Walker (8), Moreno (5), Hampson (2), Segura (1), Arraez (6). SF—Walker. Runners left in scoring position—Arizona 3 (Gurriel Jr. 2, Longoria); Miami 3 (Snchez 2, Chis holm Jr.). RISP—Arizona 1 for 6; Miami 2 for 5. Runners moved up—Marte, Snchez. GIDP— Gurriel Jr., Snchez, Cooper. DP—Arizona 2 (Rojas, Marte, Walker; Walker, Ahmed); Miami 1 (Segura, Hampson, Cooper). Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA R.Nelson 6 5 1 1 0 4 90 3.71 McGough, L, 02 1 ⁄ 3 3 2 2 0 0 9 9.64 2 Chafin ⁄ 3 1 0 0 0 1 7 0.00 Castro 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 2.84 Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA 2 Garrett 5 ⁄ 3 4 1 1 1 5 81 3.38 2 Barnes ⁄ 3 2 1 1 0 0 13 3.86 2 Nardi, W, 11 ⁄ 3 0 0 0 2 1 16 6.00 Brazoban, H, 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 12 4.35 Scott, S, 11 1 0 0 0 0 1 12 6.35 Inherited runnersscored—Chafin 21, Barnes 10, Nardi 10. HBP—Garrett (Marte). Umpires— Home, Paul Emmel; First, Chad Fairchild; Second, Nic Lentz; Third, Jeremie Rehak. T—2:33. A—11,038 (37,446).

Cleveland

.600

Chicago

.400

Reds 13, Phillies 0

Detroit

.357

4½

Kansas City East Tampa Bay

4 W 13

11 L 2

.267 Pct .867

6 GB —

37 L10 82

L2 Str L2

18 Home 100

33 Away 32

Toronto

.667

New York

.600

Baltimore

.533

Boston

.467

Philadelphia AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Stott 2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .375 Turner ss 3 0 0 0 1 0 .308 Schwarber dh 3 0 0 0 1 0 .211 Castellanos rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .286 Pache lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .267 Marsh cf 3 0 0 0 1 2 .333 Bohm 1b3b 2 0 1 0 2 1 .333 Cave lfrf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .182 Sosa 3b 2 0 2 0 0 0 .344 Clemens 1b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .083 Stubbs c 4 0 0 0 0 1 .154 Totals 31 0 5 0 5 7 Cincinnati AB R H BI BB SO Avg. India 2b 2 1 2 1 1 0 .327 Vosler 1b 2 1 2 0 0 0 .195 Steer 3b 4 1 0 0 1 1 .298 Fairchild rflf 4 1 1 1 0 3 .250 Stephenson dh 3 2 1 1 2 1 .294 Myers 1brf 5 4 4 5 0 1 .269 Senzel cf2b 4 1 1 1 1 0 .083 Friedl lfcf 4 0 1 2 1 1 .327 Barrero ss 4 1 1 2 1 2 .229 Casali c 5 1 1 0 0 2 .167 Totals 37 13 14 13 7 11 Philadelphia 000 000 000— 0 5 0 Cincinnati 013 130 05x—13 14 1 E—Barrero (1). LOB—Philadelphia 9, Cincinnati 8. 2B—Stott (6), Sosa (3), India (5), Fairchild (1), Myers (2). HR—Myers (1), off Strahm; Myers (2), off Bellatti. RBIs—Myers 5 (9), India (6), Friedl 2 (5), Fairchild (4), Stephenson (8), Senzel (1), Bar rero 2 (7). SB—Senzel (1), Barrero (1). SF— Fairchild. Runners left in scoring position—Philadelphia 4 (Stubbs, Cave, Marsh 2); Cincinnati 4 (Steer, My ers, Casali 2). RISP—Philadelphia 0 for 6; Cincin nati 7 for 17. Runners moved up—Steer. GIDP—Cave. DP—Cincinnati 1 (Barrero, Myers). Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Strahm, L, 11 22⁄ 3 2 3 3 3 6 67 2.13 Bellatti 11 ⁄ 3 2 2 2 1 2 30 5.62 Moore 1 3 3 3 1 1 30 18.90 Vasquez 1 1 0 0 1 2 22 0.87 Soto 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 5.40 Harrison 1 6 5 5 1 0 27 45.00 Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Ashcraft, W, 20 6 4 0 0 4 4 89 1.42 Farmer 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 7.11 Legumina 2 1 0 0 1 3 38 0.00 Inherited runnersscored—Bellatti 22. WP— Legumina. PB—Stubbs (2). Umpires—Home, Jer emy Riggs; First, Chris Guccione; Second, David Rackley; Third, Edwin Moscoso. T—2:39. A—25,860 (43,891).

SAT U R DAY ’S R E S U LTS

Yankees 6, Twins 1: Domingo German (11) retired his first 16 batters and New York beat visiting Minnesota. White Sox 7, Orioles 6 (10): Yasmani Grandal tied the game in the 10th inning with a bloop RBI double, and Oscar Colas fol lowed it with an RBI single to lift host Chicago over Baltimore. Blue Jays 5, Rays 2: Yusei Kikuchi struck out a seasonhigh nine over six innings, Danny Jansen had two hits and an RBI and Toronto again beat visiting Tampa Bay. Red Sox 9, Angels 7: Yu Chang snapped an 0for28 drought with a tworun homer and delivered a goahead, tworun single after Los Angeles’ Matt Thaiss was called for his second catcher’s interference in the eighth inning, lifting host Boston to a win. Astros 8, Rangers 2: Yordan Alvarez doubled with three RBIs to back up a strong start by rookie Hunter Brown (20) and host Houston beat Texas. (IL) Braves 9, Royals 3: Sean Murphy homered among his three hits and drove in four runs, Ozzie Albies also had four RBIs, and Atlanta beat host Kansas City. (IL) Tigers 7, Giants 6 (11): Miguel Cabrera’s walkoff single in the 11th inning capped Detroit’s rally from a fiverun deficit to beat visiting San Francisco. (IL) Mets 3, Athletics 2: Mark Canha homered leading off the seventh inning and Brandon Nimmo followed with an RBI double with two out that scored pinchrunner Tim Locastro as visiting New York rallied to beat Oakland. (IL) Mariners 9, Rockies 2: Julio Rodriguez’s basesloaded triple highlighted a fiverun fourth for Seattle, which added a fourrun sixth to beat visiting Colorado. FR I DAY ’S L AT E R E S U LTS

(IL) Mariners 5, Rockies 3: Jarred Kelenic homered for the fourth consecutive game in Seattle’s win over visiting Colorado. (IL) Mets 17, Athletics 6: New York’s Francisco Lindor hit a grand slam and a threerun double to tie his career high of seven RBIs. TO DAY ’S GA M E S San Francisco (Webb 03) at Detroit (Boyd 01), 10:10 a.m.

L.A. Angels (Detmers 00) at Boston (Whitlock 01), 10:35 a.m.

Minnesota (Lopez 10) at N.Y. Yankees (Cole 30), 10:35 a.m.

Tampa Bay (McClanahan 30) at Toronto (Manoah 10), 10:37 a.m.

Baltimore (Rodriguez 00) Atlanta (Wright 00) at Kansas City (Greinke 03), 11:10 a.m. at Chi. White Sox (Cease 20), 11:10 a.m. N.Y. Mets (Butto 00) at Oakland (Sears 01), 1:07 p.m.

Colorado (TBD) at Seattle (Castillo 10), 1:10 p.m.

Texas (Heaney 11) at Houston (Valdez 11), 4 p.m.

M O N DAY ’S GA M E S L.A. Angels at Boston, 8:10 a.m.

Cleveland at Detroit, 3:40 p.m.

Philadelphia at Chi. White Sox, 4:10 p.m. Texas at Kansas City, 4:40 p.m. Toronto at Houston, 5:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Seattle, 6:40 p.m.

Chi. Cubs at Oakland, 6:40 p.m.

Pirates 6, Cardinals 3 (10) Pittsburgh AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Hayes 3b 4 2 2 1 1 0 .182 Reynolds lf 5 1 1 0 0 2 .322 McCutchen dh 4 1 1 2 1 1 .310 Santana 1b 4 0 0 0 1 1 .231 Joe rf 4 2 2 1 1 1 .355 Castro ss 5 0 3 2 0 1 .344 Mathias 2b 2 0 0 0 1 0 .067 bMarcano ph2b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Bae cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .217 Delay c 3 0 1 0 0 2 .259 cSmithNjigba ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .182 Hedges c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .100 Totals 37 6 10 6 6 10 St. Louis AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Donovan 1b 4 1 3 0 1 0 .273 Burleson lf 3 1 1 1 0 0 .293 aCarlson phlf 1 0 0 0 1 1 .240 Goldschmidt dh 4 0 1 1 1 0 .327 Arenado 3b 5 0 0 0 0 4 .328 Gorman 2b 4 0 1 1 0 2 .326 Walker rf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .273 Nootbaar cf 1 1 0 0 3 1 .200 Edman ss 3 0 1 0 1 0 .250 Knizner c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .083 dW.Contreras phc 1 0 0 0 0 1 .174 Totals 32 3 7 3 7 11 Pittsburgh 101 000 010 3 —6 10 0 St. Louis 200 000 100 0 —3 7 0 astruck out for Burleson in the 7th. bstruck out for Mathias in the 8th. cwalked for Delay in the 9th. dstruck out for Knizner in the 9th. LOB—Pittsburgh 8, St. Louis 9. 2B—Delay (2), Castro (2), Donovan (3), Burleson (4). 3B—Joe (1). HR—Hayes (1), off Matz; McCutchen (2), off Hicks. RBIs—Hayes (4), Joe (4), Castro 2 (4), Mc Cutchen 2 (6), Burleson (4), Gorman (13), Gold schmidt (8). SB—Goldschmidt (2), Reynolds (3), Hayes (2), Donovan 2 (2), Nootbaar (1). CS—Gor man (1), Hayes (1). SF—Gorman. S—Knizner. Runners left in scoring position—Pittsburgh 3 (Marcano, Castro 2); St. Louis 7 (Knizner, Walker, Gorman 2, Arenado 3). RISP—Pittsburgh 2 for 7; St. Louis 2 for 13. Runners moved up—Goldschmidt, Burleson.

LIDP—Goldschmidt. GIDP—Reynolds, Mar cano, Edman. DP—Pittsburgh 2 (Santana, Castro, Santana; Hayes); St. Louis 2 (Gorman, Edman, Donovan; Gorman, Edman, Donovan). Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA R.Contreras 6 6 2 2 3 6 87 6.00 1 Zastryzny ⁄ 3 1 1 1 2 0 15 7.94 2 Stephenson ⁄ 3 0 0 0 1 1 12 0.00 Holderman 1 0 0 0 0 2 11 0.00 Bednar, W, 20 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 1.50 Moreta, S, 11 1 0 0 0 1 1 19 3.86 St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Matz 52⁄ 3 3 2 2 5 6 110 6.48 Stratton 2 2 1 1 0 1 23 3.24 Helsley, BS, 35 11 ⁄ 3 2 0 0 1 2 27 2.57 1 Hicks, L, 01 ⁄ 3 3 3 2 0 1 16 12.71 2 Cabrera ⁄ 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 4.50 Inherited runnersscored—Stephenson 31, Stratton 10, Helsley 11, Cabrera 10. IBB—off R.Contreras (Edman). WP—Moreta. Umpires— Home, Will Little; First, Ryan Additon; Second, Dan Merzel; Third, Lance Barksdale. T—2:54. A—40,042 (44,494).

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Red Sox 9, Angels 7 Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Ward lf 5 1 0 0 0 1 .259 Trout cf 4 2 3 0 1 1 .300 Ohtani dh 4 1 2 1 0 0 .313 Rendon 3b 4 1 1 1 1 0 .280 Renfroe rf 4 1 1 0 1 1 .283 Urshela 1b 5 1 2 5 0 0 .347 Drury 2b 4 0 0 0 0 3 .182 Neto ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .000 Thaiss c 2 0 0 0 0 2 .000 Totals 36 7 9 7 3 10 Boston AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Verdugo rf 4 1 1 0 1 1 .305 Turner dh 3 1 1 0 1 0 .255 Refsnyder lf 3 1 2 2 2 0 .200 Devers 3b 5 1 1 2 0 0 .276 Hernndez cf2b 3 1 1 0 1 0 .157 Arroyo 2b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .159 aTapia phcf 0 1 0 0 0 0 .333 Casas 1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .133 Wong c 3 1 2 0 0 1 .172 bMcGuire phc 0 1 0 0 0 0 .391 Chang ss 4 1 2 4 0 1 .100 Totals 32 9 11 8 5 6 Los Angeles 400 021 000—7 9 2 Boston 201 300 03x—9 11 1 apinch hit for Arroyo in the 8th. bpinch hit for Wong in the 8th. E—Thaiss 2 (2), Wong (2). LOB—Los Angeles 8, Boston 7. 2B—Trout 2 (5), Refsnyder (1), Turner (4), Wong (3). HR—Urshela (1), off Pivetta; Devers (7), off Anderson; Chang (1), off Anderson. RBIs— Urshela 5 (8), Rendon (7), Ohtani (9), Devers 2 (15), Chang 4 (4), Refsnyder 2 (6). SB—Hernndez (1). Runners left in scoring position—Los Angeles 5 (Rendon 3, Neto 2); Boston 3 (Arroyo, Devers 2). RISP—Los Angeles 5 for 11; Boston 4 for 9. Runners moved up—Devers. GIDP—Turner, De vers. DP—Los Angeles 2 (Rendon, Drury, Urshela; Neto, Urshela). Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Anderson 4 8 6 6 4 2 81 6.75 Moore 2 1 0 0 0 3 32 2.84 Estvez, H, 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 1.50 2 Tepera, L, 11 ⁄ 3 2 3 1 1 1 33 11.25 1 Davidson ⁄ 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 2.45 Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Pivetta 4 5 6 6 3 4 99 4.50 Ort 1 1 0 0 0 2 13 5.62 Bleier 1 1 1 1 0 1 23 11.81 Schreiber 1 1 0 0 0 2 13 1.12 Brasier, W, 10 1 1 0 0 0 1 19 5.40 Jansen, S, 44 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 0.00 Inherited runnersscored—Davidson 30, Ort 21. HBP—Pivetta (Thaiss), Bleier (Thaiss), Tepera (Turner). WP—Anderson(2), Ort, Bleier(2). Um pires—Home, Cory Blaser; First, Carlos Torres; Second, Jansen Visconti; Third, Ron Kulpa. T—2:59. A—36,594 (37,755).

Blue Jays 5, Rays 2 Tampa Bay AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Daz 1b 4 0 0 0 1 3 .229 Franco ss 5 1 3 0 0 0 .339 Paredes 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .255 Arozarena lf 4 0 0 1 0 1 .293 Ramrez dh 4 0 1 0 0 0 .314 Walls 2b 3 1 1 1 0 2 .286 J.Lowe rf 1 0 1 0 0 0 .353 Margot cf 3 0 1 0 1 2 .211 Meja c 2 0 0 0 1 1 .167 bRaley ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .226 Brujn rf 2 0 0 0 0 2 .300 aB.Lowe ph2b 2 0 1 0 0 0 .333 Totals 35 2 8 2 3 12 Toronto AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Springer rf 3 0 0 1 2 0 .254 Bichette ss 4 0 0 1 0 0 .368 Guerrero Jr. 1b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .390 Varsho lf 4 1 0 0 0 0 .264 Chapman 3b 3 1 1 0 1 0 .453 Kirk dh 2 1 2 1 1 0 .265 Merrifield 2b 4 1 1 1 0 1 .250 Jansen c 3 0 2 1 1 0 .107 Kiermaier cf 4 1 0 0 0 1 .333 Totals 30 5 7 5 6 3 Tampa Bay 000 100 010—2 8 0 Toronto 001 201 10x—5 7 0 aflied out for Brujn in the 7th. bstruck out for Meja in the 9th. LOB—Tampa Bay 9, Toronto 8. 2B—Franco (8), Merrifield (2). HR—Walls (1), off Kikuchi. RBIs— Walls (3), Arozarena (17), Bichette (11), Merrifield (6), Jansen (4), Springer (8), Kirk (9). SB—Spring er (3), Kiermaier (1). Runners left in scoring position—Tampa Bay 4 (Franco 2, Arozarena, Daz); Toronto 3 (Bichette 2, Guerrero Jr.). RISP—Tampa Bay 1 for 10; Toronto 3 for 9. Runners moved up—B.Lowe, Arozarena, Bichette, Merrifield. GIDP—Merrifield. DP—Tampa Bay 1 (B.Lowe, Daz). Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Faucher 22⁄ 3 2 1 1 1 2 42 4.15 Kelley, L, 01 2 2 2 2 1 0 31 9.00 Fleming 31 ⁄ 3 3 2 2 4 1 68 6.10 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Kikuchi, W, 20 6 4 1 1 1 9 94 4.70 Swanson, H, 6 1 0 0 0 2 1 19 2.16 Cimber 1 1 1 1 0 0 13 2.45 Romano, S, 67 1 3 0 0 0 2 24 3.38 Inherited runnersscored—Kelley 10, Fleming 10. IBB—off Fleming (Jansen). HBP—Kelley (Kirk). Umpires—Home, Ramon De Jesus; First, Alfonso Marquez; Second, Doug Eddings; Third, Lance Barrett. T—2:34. A—41,679 (49,282).

Astros 8, Rangers 2 Texas AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Semien 2b 4 0 1 1 0 0 .237 J.Smith ss 3 0 1 0 0 1 .154 Lowe 1b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .276 Garca rf 4 0 1 1 0 1 .218 Jung 3b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .275 Heim c 3 0 0 0 1 0 .270 Grossman dh 2 0 0 0 1 1 .135 1Thompson prdh 1 0 0 0 0 1 .250 Jankowski lf 3 1 2 0 1 0 .389 Taveras cf 4 1 0 0 0 1 .091 Totals 32 2 7 2 3 8 Houston AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Dubn 2b 5 2 2 0 0 0 .356 Bregman 3b 4 1 1 0 1 0 .203 Alvarez dh 4 1 1 3 1 0 .292 J.Abreu 1b 4 1 0 1 0 1 .254 Tucker rf 2 0 1 0 2 0 .314 Pea ss 4 1 2 2 0 1 .222 Julks lf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .289 Diaz c 3 1 1 1 0 0 .222 Meyers cf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .174 Totals 34 8 10 7 4 5 Texas 002 000 000—2 7 1 Houston 002 100 50x—8 10 2 1ran for Grossman in the 7th. E—J.Smith (1), Dubn (1), Brown (1). LOB—Texas 7, Houston 7. 2B—Alvarez (3), Pea (5). RBIs— Semien (8), Garca (14), Alvarez 3 (20), Diaz (2), J.Abreu (5), Pea 2 (9). SB—Tucker (4). SF—Diaz. Runners left in scoring position—Texas 5 (Taveras 3, Jung 2); Houston 4 (Julks, J.Abreu, Di az 2). RISP—Texas 2 for 8; Houston 2 for 8. GIDP— Lowe, Jankowski. DP—Houston 2 (Dubn, Pea, J.Abreu; Dubn, Pea, J.Abreu). Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gray 2 1 1 1 1 2 29 3.21 Ragans, L, 21 4 5 2 2 0 3 55 2.00 1 Kennedy ⁄ 3 2 5 4 2 0 21 12.27 Sborz 12⁄ 3 2 0 0 1 0 26 0.00 Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Brown, W, 20 7 5 2 0 1 5 99 1.93 B.Abreu 1 1 0 0 0 1 10 1.17 Montero 1 1 0 0 2 2 23 2.57 Inherited runnersscored—Ragans 11, Sborz 22. HBP—Brown (J.Smith). Umpires—Home, Erich Bacchus; First, Ryan Wills; Second, Mike Estabrook; Third, Laz Diaz. T—2:35. A—39,257 (41,000).

Yankees 6, Twins 1 Minnesota AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Julien 2b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .143 Correa ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .227 Buxton dh 4 0 0 0 0 4 .250 Larnach lf 4 1 1 0 0 2 .255 Miranda 3b 3 0 1 1 0 1 .237 Solano 1b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .341 Kepler rf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .105 Vzquez c 3 0 1 0 0 0 .364 Taylor cf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .264 Totals 31 1 5 1 0 13 New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg. LeMahieu 3b 4 1 1 1 0 1 .262 Judge cf 2 1 1 0 2 0 .302 Rizzo 1b 4 1 1 1 0 0 .314 Stanton dh 4 0 1 2 0 1 .269 1Hicks prdh 0 0 0 0 0 0 .158 Torres 2b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .283 F.Cordero rf 4 1 0 0 0 1 .222 Cabrera lf 4 0 0 0 0 3 .261 Higashioka c 4 1 1 2 0 2 .150 Volpe ss 2 1 1 0 2 0 .186 Totals 31 6 6 6 5 9 Minnesota 000 000 100— 1 5 1 New York 021 010 20x—6 6 0 1ran for Stanton in the 7th. E—Mahle (1). LOB—Minnesota 3, New York 7. 2B—Larnach (1), Miranda (2), Judge (2), Stanton

(3). HR—Higashioka (2), off Mahle; Rizzo (4), off Mahle. RBIs—Miranda (6), Higashioka 2 (4), Rizzo (9), LeMahieu (4), Stanton 2 (11). SB—Volpe 3 (6). Runners left in scoring position—Minnesota 2 (Correa 2); New York 5 (F.Cordero 3, Stanton, LeMahieu). RISP—Minnesota 2 for 5; New York 2 for 10. Runners moved up—Julien, Rizzo. GIDP—Kep ler. DP—New York 1 (Torres, Volpe, Rizzo). Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Mahle, L, 12 41 ⁄ 3 4 4 2 3 5 90 4.11 2 Moran 1 ⁄ 3 0 0 0 1 2 26 5.68 Alcala 2 2 2 2 1 2 44 2.35 New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Germn, W, 11 61 ⁄ 3 3 1 1 0 11 78 3.86 King 22⁄ 3 2 0 0 0 2 38 1.86 Inherited runnersscored—Moran 20, King 11. HBP—Alcala (LeMahieu). Umpires—Home, Nate Tomlinson; First, James Hoye; Second, D.J. Reyburn; Third, John Libka. T—2:27. A—38,363 (47,309).

White Sox 7, Orioles 6 (10) Baltimore AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Coulombe pp 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mullins cf 3 0 2 1 3 1 .218 Rutschman dhc 4 0 0 1 2 0 .351 Mountcastle 1b 6 0 0 0 0 1 .234 Santander rf 5 1 2 1 0 1 .189 Hays lf 4 2 2 0 1 0 .345 Frazier 2b 4 1 1 0 1 2 .256 Uras 3b 1 0 1 0 2 0 .250 1Henderson pr3b 1 1 0 0 0 0 .146 McCann c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .091 aO’Hearn ph 0 0 0 1 1 0 .600 Baker p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Prez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 bVavra ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .235 Cano p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gillaspie p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mateo ss 4 1 3 2 0 0 .350 Totals 36 6 11 6 10 7 Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Benintendi lf 5 0 2 1 0 1 .276 Robert Jr. cf 5 0 0 0 0 1 .290 Vaughn 1b 5 1 2 1 0 1 .275 Jimnez dh 4 1 0 0 1 1 .185 2Gonzlez pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 .158 Grandal c 5 0 3 1 0 0 .298 3Zavala pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 .308 Burger 3b 4 1 2 3 0 0 .353 Cols rf 5 0 1 1 0 0 .250 Sosa 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .167 Andrus ss 2 2 2 0 2 0 .204 Totals 39 7 13 7 3 4 Baltimore 001 003 100 1 —6 11 3 Chicago 000 112 100 2 —7 13 0 No outs when winning run scored. awalked for McCann in the 7th. bstruck out for Prez in the 9th. 1ran for Uras in the 7th. 2ran for Jimnez in the 10th. 3ran for Grandal in the 10th. E—Gibson (1), Mateo (3), Henderson (3). LOB—Baltimore 13, Chicago X 10. 2B—Mullins (2), Grandal 2 (5), Benintendi (3), Vaughn (7), Sosa (1). 3B—Hays (1). HR—Mateo (3), off Kopech; Santander (1), off Kopech; Burger (3), off Gibson. RBIs—Mateo 2 (11), Santander (5), Mullins (11), O’Hearn (5), Rutschman (13), Burger 3 (6), Benintendi (4), Vaughn (10), Grandal (6), Cols (5). SB—Mullins (8). CS—Mateo (1). SF— Burger. S—Mateo. Runners left in scoring position—Baltimore 5 (Hays, Vavra, Mateo 2, Santander); Chicago 5 (Be nintendi, Grandal, Jimnez 2, Cols). RISP—Balti more 1 for 14; Chicago 3 for 12. Runners moved up—Mountcastle. GIDP—Mc Cann, Rutschman, Vaughn, Burger. DP—Baltimore 2 (Mateo, Frazier, Mountcastle; Uras, Frazier, Mountcastle); Chicago 4 (Burger, Sosa, Vaughn; Grandal, Andrus, Grandal; Andrus, Sosa, Vaughn; Sosa, Andrus, Vaughn). Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gibson 51 ⁄ 3 7 4 4 2 1 96 4.18 Coulombe, H, 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 15 1.35 Baker, BS, 01 1 1 0 0 0 0 15 3.24 2 Prez ⁄ 3 1 0 0 1 0 14 4.70 Cano 1 0 0 0 0 2 11 0.00 Gillaspie, L, 01 0 3 2 1 0 0 7 7.20 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Kopech 5 6 3 3 4 4 97 6.32 1 Middleton ⁄ 3 2 1 1 1 1 16 3.86 2 Bummer ⁄ 3 0 0 0 1 0 8 3.38 Graveman 1 1 1 1 2 0 33 6.35 Banks 1 0 0 0 1 0 11 0.00 Lpez 1 2 0 0 0 2 15 7.36 Lambert, W, 10 1 0 1 0 1 0 13 2.25 Inherited runnersscored—Baker 11, Middle ton 11, Bummer 31. IBB—off Prez (Andrus). HBP—Graveman (Uras). Umpires—Home, Todd Tichenor; First, Brian Knight; Second, Alex Tosi; Third, Alex MacKay. T—3:21. A—32,091 (40,241).

INTERLEAGUE

Mets 3, Athletics 2 New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Nimmo cf 4 0 2 1 0 1 .289 Marte rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .277 Lindor ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 .245 Alonso 1b 4 1 1 1 0 1 .268 McNeil 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .212 Canha lf 4 1 1 1 0 1 .204 Vogelbach dh 2 0 0 0 1 0 .182 1Locastro prdh 1 1 0 0 0 0 .000 Guillorme 3b 3 0 0 0 1 2 .240 lvarez c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .091 Totals 32 3 5 3 2 6 Oakland AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Kemp 2b 5 0 0 0 0 0 .192 J.Peterson 3b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .217 aK.Smith phss 2 0 0 0 0 2 .111 Rooker dh 3 0 0 0 1 0 .310 2Wade prdh 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Laureano rf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .235 Daz ss3b 3 1 1 0 0 0 .184 Aguilar 1b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .256 bNoda ph1b 0 0 0 0 1 0 .176 Capel lf 4 0 0 1 0 2 .250 Prez c 2 0 1 0 1 1 .600 3Langeliers pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250 Ruiz cf 1 0 1 1 0 0 .326 Totals 30 2 5 2 3 8 New York 000 100 200—3 5 0 Oakland 020 000 000—2 5 0 astruck out for J.Peterson in the 7th. bwalked for Aguilar in the 8th. 1ran for Vogelbach in the 7th. 2ran for Rooker in the 8th. 3ran for Prez in the 9th. LOB—New York 5, Oakland 9. 2B—Lindor (6), Nimmo (4), Daz (2), Aguilar (2). HR—Alonso (7), off Fujinami; Canha (2), off Fujinami. RBIs— Alonso (13), Canha (5), Nimmo (8), Capel (3), Ruiz (7). SB—Marte (6), Locastro (3), Ruiz (3), Wade 2 (2), Noda (1). S—Ruiz. Runners left in scoring position—New York 3 (Marte, McNeil, Alonso); Athletics 7 (Kemp 3, K.Smith 2, Capel 2). RISP—New York 1 for 8; Ath letics 1 for 12. Runners moved up—Lindor, Capel 2, Kemp. LIDP—Aguilar. DP—New York 1 (Alonso). New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Carrasco 5 4 2 2 1 3 88 8.56 D.Smith, W, 10 11 ⁄ 3 0 0 0 0 2 26 2.84 2 Raley, H, 6 ⁄ 3 0 0 0 0 1 5 6.75 Ottavino, H, 2 1 0 0 0 2 1 28 1.50 Robertson, S, 33 1 1 0 0 0 1 12 0.00 Oakland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Fujinami, L, 03 6 4 3 3 2 5 92 11.37 May 1 1 0 0 0 1 15 7.94 Jackson 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 1.17 Jimnez 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 4.26 Inherited runnersscored—D.Smith 10, Raley 10, May 11. HBP—Carrasco 3 (Prez,Ruiz,Daz), Fujinami (Marte), D.Smith (Ruiz). Umpires— Home, Scott Barry; First, Clint Vondrak; Second, Gabe Morales; Third, Dan Iassogna. T—2:46. A—12,967 (46,847).

Tigers 7, Giants 6 (11) San Francisco AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Wade Jr. rf 3 1 0 0 2 0 .242 dRamos phrf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .200 Estrada 2blf 6 1 2 0 0 2 .365 Yastrzemski cf 5 1 1 0 0 2 .255 Davis 3b 4 1 2 3 1 1 .341 Beaty dh 2 0 0 1 0 0 .250 aRuf phdh 2 0 0 0 0 1 .273 bConforto phdh 1 0 0 0 0 1 .220 Flores 1b 5 0 1 0 0 1 .270 Crawford ss 4 0 0 0 1 1 .186 Bart c 5 1 2 0 0 1 .375 Sabol lf 4 1 1 2 0 2 .194 cVillar ph2b 0 0 0 0 1 0 .186 Totals 42 6 9 6 5 12 Detroit AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Maton 2b 5 1 1 0 0 1 .195 Greene cf 4 1 1 0 1 2 .232 Bez ss 5 1 2 2 0 2 .184 Carpenter dh 5 1 1 1 0 0 .212 Torkelson 1b 5 1 1 1 0 0 .214 Baddoo lf 4 1 1 0 0 0 .250 eCabrera ph 1 0 1 1 0 0 .233 McKinstry 3b 4 1 1 1 0 2 .185 Haase c 3 0 1 0 1 0 .194 Vierling rf 4 0 0 1 0 0 .234 Totals 40 7 10 7 2 7 San Francisco 222 000 000 00 —6 9 2 Detroit 010 020 030 01 —7 10 0 No outs when winning run scored. agrounded out for Beaty in the 5th. bstruck out for Ruf in the 10th. cwalked for Sabol in the 11th. dpopped out for Wade Jr. in the 11th. esingled for Baddoo in the 11th. E—Crawford 2 (4). LOB—San Francisco 10, De troit 7. 2B—Estrada (4), McKinstry (2), Bez (3). HR—Sabol (2), off Lorenzen; Davis (4), off Loren zen; Carpenter (2), off DeSclafani. RBIs—Davis 3 (13), Beaty (1), Sabol 2 (4), Carpenter (3), McK instry (2), Vierling (4), Bez 2 (5), Torkelson (8), Cabrera (3). SB—Baddoo (1). Runners left in scoring position—San Fran cisco 5 (Estrada, Flores, Sabol, Davis, Crawford); Detroit 4 (Torkelson, McKinstry, Greene 2). RISP— San Francisco 1 for 13; Detroit 3 for 13. Runners moved up—Beaty, Carpenter, Maton. GIDP—Torkelson, Carpenter. DP—San Francisco 2 (Estrada, Crawford, Flo res; Estrada, Flores). San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA DeSclafani 62⁄ 3 6 3 2 0 5 105 1.42 1 Brebbia, H, 3 ⁄ 3 2 3 3 1 0 28 7.94 Hjelle, BS, 01 1 1 0 0 0 1 18 7.04 Ty.Rogers 2 0 0 0 1 1 23 0.00 Ta.Rogers, L, 02 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 18.90

Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lorenzen 4 8 6 6 2 6 79 13.50 Holton 3 1 0 0 0 2 34 0.00 Wingenter 1 0 0 0 0 1 7 8.31 Lange 1 0 0 0 1 1 17 2.70 Foley 1 0 0 0 1 2 15 1.29 Shreve, W, 11 1 0 0 0 1 0 16 2.45 Inherited runnersscored—Brebbia 10, Hjelle 11. WP—Ta.Rogers. Umpires—Home, Mark Weg ner; First, Bruce Dreckman; Second, Stu Scheuwater; Third, Malachi Moore. T—3:05. A—18,344 (41,083).

Guardians 6, Nationals 4 Cleveland AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Kwan lf 4 0 0 0 1 0 .246 Rosario ss 5 1 2 0 0 2 .222 J.Ramrez 3b 4 1 1 2 1 0 .310 Naylor dh 4 0 0 0 1 1 .173 1Gonzalez prdh 0 1 0 0 0 0 .147 Bell 1b 4 1 2 1 1 0 .167 2Arias pr1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .125 Gimnez 2b 4 2 2 0 1 0 .305 Brennan rf 4 0 1 1 0 1 .281 Straw cf 4 0 3 2 0 0 .319 Gallagher c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .143 Totals 36 6 11 6 5 4 Washington AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Call lf 5 1 0 0 0 0 .208 Smith 1b 5 0 1 0 0 1 .245 Meneses dh 4 1 2 1 0 0 .224 Candelario 3b 4 1 1 1 0 1 .242 Garca 2b 4 1 2 0 0 0 .257 Ruiz c 4 0 3 2 0 0 .265 Thomas rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .310 Abrams ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .208 Robles cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .298 Totals 38 4 11 4 0 4 Cleveland 010 220 001—6 11 1 Washington 300 100 000—4 11 0 1ran for Naylor in the 9th. 2ran for Bell in the 9th. E—J.Ramrez (3). LOB—Cleveland 9, Washing ton 7. 2B—Bell 2 (4), Candelario (3), Ruiz (3). 3B— Rosario (1). HR—J.Ramrez (1), off Kuhl. RBIs— Straw 2 (6), Brennan (7), J.Ramrez 2 (9), Bell (6), Meneses (3), Candelario (7), Ruiz 2 (5). SB—Kwan (4), Gimnez (5), Straw (7). CS—Straw (1), J.Ram rez (1). Runners left in scoring position—Cleveland 6 (Gimnez 2, Gallagher 2, Kwan, Naylor); Washing ton 3 (Abrams, Robles 2). RISP—Cleveland 4 for 12; Washington 3 for 10. Runners moved up—J.Ramrez, Garca, Abrams. Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Plesac, W, 10 5 7 4 2 0 1 79 6.92 2 ⁄ 3 2 0 0 0 0 21 0.00 Morgan, H, 1 DeLosSntos, H, 1 11 ⁄ 3 0 0 0 0 0 18 1.35 Karinchak, H, 5 1 2 0 0 0 3 23 4.50 Clase, S, 56 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 3.00 Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Kuhl, L, 01 42⁄ 3 7 5 5 3 2 96 8.59 E.Ramrez 21 ⁄ 3 1 0 0 0 1 28 5.40 1 Banda ⁄ 3 2 0 0 0 0 9 9.00 Ward 12⁄ 3 1 1 1 2 1 34 4.91 Inherited runnersscored—De Los Santos 20, E.Ramrez 10, Ward 20. HBP—E.Ramrez (Galla gher). WP—Karinchak. Umpires—Home, John Tumpane; First, Ryan Blakney; Second, Marvin Hudson; Third, Hunter Wendelstedt. T—2:55. A—24,909 (41,376).

Braves 9, Royals 3 Atlanta AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Acua Jr. rf 4 2 0 0 1 0 .365 Olson 1b 4 1 2 1 1 1 .317 Riley 3b 5 2 1 0 0 2 .316 Murphy c 3 2 3 4 1 0 .308 Albies 2b 5 0 3 4 0 0 .246 Grissom ss 5 0 2 0 0 0 .333 Ozuna dh 4 0 0 0 1 0 .075 Pillar lf 5 1 2 0 0 0 .211 White cf 5 1 1 0 0 2 .111 Totals 40 9 14 9 4 5 Kansas City AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Witt Jr. ss 5 2 3 0 0 1 .298 Melendez rf 4 0 0 0 1 0 .180 Pasquantino dh 5 0 1 0 0 0 .265 Perez c 5 0 2 1 0 2 .232 Isbel cf 3 0 1 1 0 0 .231 aOlivares phlf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .257 Massey 2b 4 0 0 0 0 3 .116 Dozier 1b 4 1 2 0 0 2 .167 Lopez 3b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .200 Bradley Jr. lfcf 4 0 1 1 0 0 .115 Totals 38 3 11 3 2 9 Atlanta 103 010 040—9 14 0 Kansas City 100 011 000—3 11 0 aflied out for Isbel in the 7th. LOB—Atlanta 10, Kansas City 10. 2B—Murphy 2 (7), Perez (3), Witt Jr. 2 (2), Isbel (4), Bradley Jr. (1), Lopez (3). HR—Murphy (3), off Bubic. RBIs— Murphy 4 (13), Albies 4 (10), Olson (15), Perez (7), Isbel (3), Bradley Jr. (1). SB—Dozier (1). Runners left in scoring position—Atlanta 4 (Al bies, Ozuna, Grissom 2); Kansas City 8 (Bradley Jr. 2, Isbel 2, Melendez, Perez, Massey 2). RISP— Atlanta 3 for 11; Kansas City 1 for 13. Runners moved up—Melendez. GIDP—Ozuna. DP—Kansas City 1 (Lopez, Massey, Dozier). Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Elder, W, 20 51 ⁄ 3 8 3 3 2 4 93 1.53 2 Chavez, H, 5 ⁄ 3 1 0 0 0 1 14 0.00 Lee, H, 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 9 0.00 Anderson 1 1 0 0 0 2 16 2.70 Yates 1 1 0 0 0 1 13 4.76 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Bubic, L, 02 5 10 5 5 1 3 100 3.94 Yarbrough 21 ⁄ 3 3 4 4 1 0 46 9.00 2 Hernndez ⁄ 3 1 0 0 1 1 18 1.42 Barlow 1 0 0 0 1 1 17 5.79 Inherited runnersscored—Chavez 11, Hern ndez 33. HBP—Yarbrough 2 (Murphy,Acua Jr.). WP—Yarbrough. Umpires—Home, Junior Valen tine; First, Adrian Johnson; Second, Manny Gon zalez; Third, Quinn Wolcott. T—2:48. A—17,644 (38,427).

Mariners 9, Rockies 2 Colorado AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Profar lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .200 Bryant rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .298 Castro cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .167 Blackmon dh 3 0 0 0 0 1 .320 Cron 1b 4 2 2 0 0 1 .250 McMahon 2b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .200 Daz c 4 0 2 1 0 0 .370 Montero 3b 3 0 1 1 0 1 .333 Daza cfrf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .268 Tovar ss 3 0 0 0 1 1 .188 Totals 32 2 6 2 2 7 Seattle AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Rodrguez cf 5 1 1 4 0 1 .254 Hummel lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .111 France 1b 3 1 0 0 1 1 .339 Surez 3b 4 1 1 2 0 2 .295 Raleigh c 4 1 1 1 1 1 .234 Hernndez rf 5 0 2 1 0 3 .250 Kelenic lfcf 4 1 1 0 0 3 .356 La Stella dh 1 1 0 0 1 0 .071 aPollock phdh 2 0 0 0 0 0 .143 Wong 2b 3 2 0 0 1 1 .098 Crawford ss 2 1 2 1 2 0 .250 Caballero ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 33 9 8 9 6 12 Colorado 010 000 100—2 6 1 Seattle 000 504 00x—9 8 0 aflied out for La Stella in the 6th. E—Tovar (2). LOB—Colorado 7, Seattle 8. 2B— Profar (2), Daz (4). 3B—Rodrguez (1). HR—Surez (2), off Feltner. RBIs—Montero (5), Daz (8), Surez 2 (13), Crawford (3), Rodrguez 4 (9), Raleigh (9), Hernndez (9). Runners left in scoring position—Colorado 4 (Cron, Blackmon, Tovar, Daza); Seattle 3 (France, Kelenic 2). RISP—Colorado 1 for 9; Seattle 3 for 6. GIDP—Daza. DP—Seattle 1 (Crawford, France). Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Feltner, L, 02 32⁄ 3 5 5 5 3 5 75 8.78 Suter 2 1 4 0 1 1 34 1.74 Seabold 11 ⁄ 3 2 0 0 1 3 40 6.75 Johnson 1 0 0 0 1 3 24 6.35 Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Kirby, W, 11 61 ⁄ 3 6 2 2 0 3 90 3.78 Murfee 12⁄ 3 0 0 0 1 4 31 0.00 D.Castillo 1 0 0 0 1 0 18 7.94 Inherited runnersscored—Suter 10, Seabold 33, Murfee 10. HBP—Suter (France), Seabold (Surez), Murfee (Blackmon), D.Castillo (Montero). Umpires—Home, Adam Hamari; First, Brock Bal lou; Second, Jerry Layne; Third, Nick Mahrley. T—2:49. A—27,549 (47,929).

THIS DATE IN BASEBALL April 16 1929 — Cleveland’s Earl Averill became the first American League player to hit a home run in his first major league plate appearance. The Indians won the game 54 in 11 innings on Carl Lind’s dou ble. 1935 — Babe Ruth, 40, made a sensational Na tional League debut in Boston. His single and ho mer off Carl Hubbell led the Braves over the Giants 42. 1940 — Bob Feller of Cleveland defeated the Chicago White Sox 10 in the only opening day no hitter in major league history. 1948 — WGNTV televised a baseball game for the first time. It was an exhibition game at Wrigley Field with Jack Brickhouse doing the playbyplay. The White Sox defeated the Cubs 41. 1961 — Beginning his historic chase of Babe Ruth’s 60 home run seasonrecord, Roger Maris connects for his first homer in the twelfth game of the season for the Yankees. 1978 — Bob Forsch of the St. Louis Cardinals nohit the Philadelphia Phillies 50. Less than a year later, Bob’s brother Ken of the Houston Astros pitched a nohitter against Atlanta. They are the only brothers to throw nohitters. 1983 — LA Dodgers first baseman Steve Gar vey appears in his 1,118th straight National League game, breaking the mark held by Billy Williams. 1997 — The Chicago Cubs set the mark for worst start in National League history, making three more errors as they extended their losing streak to 12 with a 40 loss to the Colorado Rockies. Chicago broke the modern NL record of 010 set by Atlanta in 1988 and the overall NL record of 011 by the 1884 Detroit Wolverines. 2007 — The Cleveland Indians became the first team in nearly 55 years to win a game with their only hit coming in their first atbat. Grady Size more led off Cleveland’s 21 win over the Chicago White Sox with a double.

THE SAN DIEGO UNIONTRIBUNE

SUNDAY • APRIL 16, 2023

EDDIE BROWN

MLB REPORT

On NFL Draft

Stroud’s high floor tops this QB class

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Cincinnati’s Wil Myers hits a solo home run during the second inning Saturday. He would later add a threerun shot.

MYERS HOMERS TWICE, LEADS REDS IN A ROUT OF PHILLIES ASSOCIATED PRESS Wil Myers’ slow start in a Cincinnati Reds uniform is now a distant memory. The 11year veteran, who signed with the Reds in December, went 4for5 with two home runs and five RBIs on Saturday, and the Reds rode a stout pitching performance by Graham Ashcraft to a 130 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. “It’s great to come out on the right side of one of those games, for sure,” Cincinnati manager David Bell said. “A lot of good things happened. We caught some breaks. But you create your own breaks, too. It starts with Graham and his start.” Ashcraft (20, 1.42 ERA) allowed just four hits in six scoreless innings to stay perfect on the young season. “I feel like I’m making progress and going in the right direction,” Ashcraft said. “I mean, mechanically, there’s still a couple things that we need to tweak and keep pounding at, but pitchwise, we had some really good sliders coming on, which made me really happy. But, to me, the biggest take away today is just how good the twoseam was. I was able to get the right action off of it, pound the zone with it and get good swing and misses. That’s a big plus. Just need to carry it over to the next outing.”

Reds 13, Phillies 0 The Reds (68) have now played six of its first 14 games against the Phillies (510). The two clubs split the six meetings. Myers tagged Philadelphia starter and former Padres teammate Matt Strahm (11) with a home run in the second inning to put Cincinnati on the board first. The solo shot to left field marked Myers’ first of the season. Strahm was pulled in the third after throwing just 67 pitches. Strahm had run ners on second and third with two outs and Myers coming to the plate. Phillies manager Rob Thomson said Strahm cut his thumb on his third warmup pitch going into the third inning. With Strahm gone, Myers took the first pitch he saw from reliever Andrew Bellatti 401 feet to center field to put the Reds ahead 40. “It was just one of those things where I got some good pitches early in the count and I was able to put some good swings on them,” Myers said. “I’ve been working on some things in the cage, and was just able to get some good pitches today.”

Notable The Angels called up highly touted short

stop Zach Neto from DoubleA before the game, demoting SS David Fletcher to TripleA. The 22yearold Neto was the club’s first pick from the 2022 draft and he’s the initial player from that class to make their MLB de but. He went 0for4 with two strikeouts. • Mets RHP Max Scherzer was scratched from his scheduled start today due to back soreness. Manager Buck Showalter said it’s likely Scherzer will return for the series finale in Los Angeles against the Dodgers on Wednesday. • The Giants placed OF Joc Pederson (wrist) on the 10day injured list, retroactive to April 12, and recalled IF/OF Matt Beaty from TripleA Sacramento. • Rangers’ righthander Jon Gray left Saturday’s game against the Astros in the third inning after being hit on his throwing elbow by a line drive. • The Pirates placed first baseman Ji Man Choi on the 10day injured list retroac tive to Friday with a left Achilles tendon strain and recalled infielder Tucupita Mar cano from TripleA Indianapolis. • The Cardinals activated OF Lars Noot baar (left thumb contusion) from the 10day injured list and optioned IF/OF Juan Yepez to TripleA Memphis.

NO TIME FOR SMALL TALK WITH PITCH CLOCK BY PAT GRAHAM DENVER

Home plate used to be a place where the sociable Brandon Crawford would touch base with catchers and umpires. Just a casual conversation to catch up: How’s the family? What’s up? That sort of thing. These days, the San Francisco Giants in fielder keeps the chatter to a minimum. There’s simply no spare time for small talk while on a pitch clock. Because that 15 seconds between pitches — 20 when someone’s on base — goes by fast at the plate. The penalty for idle chatter could be stiff — a called strike on the hitter. Social hour just has to wait. “You have to figure out a different time to get your conversations in, whether it’s pregame or going to dinner or breakfast,” Crawford said. The pitch clock hasn’t just made baseball quicker. It’s quieter now, too. There’s no real chance to talk shop on the bases with former teammates, good friends or umpires. Batters only get 30 seconds between atbats to get set. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts can’t even imagine the strikes he might’ve had called on him if he was playing under these rules. He’s well known for his affable person ality and would always greet the homeplate umpire when he batted, along with the catcher. He’d carry it right over to the bases, too, when he got aboard. “Some guys are having a little harder time with it,” Roberts said of cutting back on con versations. “I think the salutations and stuff like that have to be more minimized.” Roberts joked that he could strategize around his gift for gab — maybe engage play ers he knows before they dig into the box. “Try to get his attention and get that clock going,” Roberts cracked. The players, though, are starting to realize that silence is golden. This is no social call when they step up. They can’t afford to fall be hind 01 in the count. Last week, Padres slugger Manny Machado became the first player ejected in an argument that followed a pitch clock viola tion, which carries a penalty of an automatic strike for hitters and an automatic ball for pitchers. It wasn’t for talking, but rather he thought he had called timeout as the pitch clock wound down to eight seconds — the deadline for batters to be alert to the guy on the mound. A cautionary tale, though, that every sec ond matters. “It’s all business,” Giants outfielder Joc Pederson said. Rangers first baseman Nathaniel Lowe once received friendly advice from longtime

DAVID ZALUBOWSKI AP

First base umpire Dan Bellino talks briefly with St. Louis first base coach Stubby Clapp earlier this month. There’s less time for small talk with the new rules. umpire Joe West: Greet each ump by their first name and make a little small talk. It’s guidance Lowe took to heart. It’s guid ance that’s now hard to follow. “It feels like I’m more worried about, ‘Am I facing the pitcher with 14, 12 seconds? Should I have my foot on the gas?’ ” Lowe explained. “I think the pitch clock definitely takes away from the social aspect of it.” Know this about Dominic Smith: He’s not going to be as inviting at first base this season. The slickfielding Washington Nationals play er means no offense by the silent treatment, either. “I’m trying to just kick people’s butt, I guess, so I don’t talk as much as I used to,” Smith said with a smile. “I don’t mind not talk ing to guys over there. I like being in my own space, thinking about the game, trying to fig ure out ways to help us win.” Dodgers pitcher Dustin May never quite understood being on speaking terms with the opposition during a game. “Once I cross the lines, I didn’t really talk to anybody” on the other team, May said. Consider May a fan of the new rules. Bat ters can’t step out as much to refasten their batting gloves over and over. “We’d stand on the mound forever waiting on them,” May said. “Now they’re kind of forced to get in. They’re on our pace now.” Rockies first baseman C.J. Cron prefers the quicker pace, too. He can afford to be a lit tle more antisocial due to the time crunch. “I’m not much of a converser over there,”

Cron said. “Just say, ‘What’s up?’ and then move on with my life.” The lack of talk on the bases may actually fuel more rivalries — or at least that’s the thinking of Dodgers infielder Max Muncy. “Because you’re not having a chance to converse with people and you don’t get to know people as much,” Muncy said. “Maybe there’s a chance of that?” But it takes some getting used to. Craw ford would greet the umpire behind the plate before the game and the catcher as he stepped into the box. It was almost part of his routine. The times have changed. “It’s such a rush from the ondeck circle to the plate that you don’t have time to do that,” Crawford said. “I’ll say that real quick as I’m walking by. But there’s no more conversations after that.” That’s good, said Giants manager Gabe Kapler. “I don’t love seeing players talking to the first baseman and umpires,” Kapler said. “I hope that is erased by the time.” Some players, though, simply enjoy hold ing conversations while holding on runners. “If I know the guy or if I’ve got a pretty good rapport with him, for sure, absolutely,” Mets first baseman Pete Alonso said. “If it’s just like an awkward silence, that’s no fun.”

Dunbar writes for The Associated Press. AP writers Janie McCauley, Mike Fitzpatrick and Schuyler Dixon contributed to this report.

Welcome to draft season! This is the fourth of 11 positional breakdowns leading up to the NFL Draft (April 2729). Here are my top 10 quarterbacks: 1. CJ Stroud (So., Ohio St., 6foot3, 214 pounds) Despite dealing with several injuries at wide receiver, Stroud didn’t miss a beat last season — he was second in touchdown passes (41) and QBR (88.9) in 2022 — and nearly beat the defending national champi ons with 348 yards and four touchdowns, while showcasing scrambling ability many believed he didn’t possess. He matches the poise of a Miss America contestant with the accuracy of an atomic clock from the pocket, giving him the highest floor of any signal caller in this draft class. How he develops as a creator when the pocket inevitably breaks down will determine his ceiling. Projected: Top 3 2. Bryce Young (Jr., Alabama, 510, 204) The 2021 Heisman Trophy winner has showcased an elitelevel skill set for two straight seasons, featuring special athleti cism and intangibles with a dash of improv — and he did it this past year with fewer playmakers surrounding him. Young is capable of being special in the NFL, but the pertinent question may be for how long? Stroud can practice against pressure. An thony Richardson can work on his footwork. Will Levis can refine his mechanics, but Young can’t grow four inches and he doesn’t have the body type to get much bigger. He measured 204 pounds at the combine, but his playing weight is closer to 190 pounds. A coaching staff will have to scheme around Young’s size and he will have to become more mindful of the risk he’s taking once he exits the protective force field known as the NFL pocket. Projected: Top 3 3. Anthony Richardson (So., Florida, 64, 244) Richardson’s combine performance set the standard going forward for the position — but his footwork and postsnap recog nition leave a lot to be desired. The good news is he made legit strides during last season and he appears to be very coachable. The team that drafts him will need a quarterback whisperer like the Bills had in Brian Daboll when they drafted Josh Allen, who had to scream “Fore!” every time he passed at Wyoming. Until he figures out how to properly use his rare arm talent, his explo sive playmaking abilities alone may keep a team above water. He broke 39 tackles on 103 carries last season for 654 yards and nine TDs, and he’s a threat to score from any where on the field. Projected: Round 1 4. Will Levis (Sr., Kentucky, 63, 229) Levis’ senior season was a mixed bag compared to his impressive 2021 campaign — he lost his top receiver (Wan’Dale Rob inson) and offensive coordinator to the NFL while dealing with nagging injuries. The twotime team captain features the combi nation of arm talent, size and mobility that usually sparks the imagination of an offen sive coordinator. There are serious accu racy/decisionmaking issues that will need to be ironed out in the NFL, but he’s further along than Richardson in that regard. Proj ected: Round 1 5. Hendon Hooker (Sr., Tennessee, 63, 217) Hooker was the early Heisman Trophy favorite in 2022 before suffering a torn ACL in November. His age could be an issue as well — he’ll be a 25yearold rookie — but he mixes pocketpasser size with dualthreat athleticism when healthy. He played in a gimmicky offense, but finished with 68 total TDs against only five interceptions in his two seasons with the Volunteers after trans ferring from Virginia Tech. Projected: Rounds 12 6. Jake Haener (Sr., Fresno St., 511, 207) This threestar recruit transferred from Washington in 2019 and became a threetime team captain for the Bulldogs. Haener is undersized, and his accuracy wanes outside the numbers the farther down the field he throws, but he’s a fearless competitor who stepped it up against highlevel competi tion. In five career starts against Pac12 opponents, he completed 67.7 percent of his passes for 302 yards per game and eight total TDs. Haener also was named the 2023 Sen ior Bowl MVP after an impressive week of practices in Mobile. Projected: Rounds 35 7. Dorian ThompsonRobinson (Sr., UCLA, 61, 203) ThompsonRobinson was the No. 2 dual threat quarterback in the 2018 recruiting class (behind Justin Fields). He features a quick release and is elusive in the open field. He was one of only two FBS quarterbacks with 25plus passing touchdowns and 11 plus rushing touchdowns in 2022. Thomp sonRobinson was a fiveyear starter in Westwood, but he plays panicked at times. He’ll need to address his ball security issues in the pros (39 fumbles in his collegiate career). Projected: Rounds 47 8. Tanner McKee (So., Stanford, 66, 231) McKee is a pure pocket passer with prototypical size, arm talent and touch. He could be overlooked because of the Cardi nal’s lack of success the past two seasons. According to Pro Football Focus, Stanford’s offensive line posted the eighthlowest pass blocking grade in the Power Five and more than half of his throws 10plus yards down field were charted as tight window passes. So he wasn’t working with a lot in Palo Alto. Projected: Rounds 56 9. Clayton Tune (Sr., Houston, 62, 220) Only Heisman winner Caleb Williams and Stroud threw more TD passes (40) last sea son. Tune is a threetime captain and product of the Cougars’ Air Raid offense, but he fea tures good size, mobility and instincts to go with NFLready arm strength and accuracy. Projected: Rounds 57 10. Stetson Bennett (Sr., Georgia, 511, 192) Bennett’s collegiate career could have easily been produced on the Warner Bros. lot. Redshirted his first year in Athens only to be exiled to a junior college in Mississippi before being buried on the depth chart upon his return. He perseveres and leads the Bulldogs to backtoback national titles while being named MVP in all four College Football Playoff games during that stretch. He turns 26 in October. Does he have a se quel in him? Projected: Rounds 47

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SUNDAY • APRIL 16, 2023

LEBRON GREETS PLAYOFFS WITH RESPECT, FOCUS

NBA REPORT

BY DAN WOIKE

NBA playoffs MEMPHIS

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Warriors’ Andrew Wiggins (22) blocks a shot by Kings forward Domantas Sabonis (10) in second quarter.

KINGS TAKE HOME 1ST GAME OVER WARRIORS U-T NEWS SERVICES De’Aaron Fox finished off a dazzling playoff debut that was years in the making and had one more task to do. With the home crowd counting down following an exhilarating return to the postseason, Fox pressed the button and lit the ceremonial beam, letting out 17 seasons of frustration for Sacramento. “Sacramento showed out tonight,” Fox said. “But doing this for the fans, just knowing the way that they support this team through thick and thin — really thin. It’s just a testament to the way they are.” Fox was the biggest reason why, scoring 38 points to tie for the second highest playoff debut in NBA history to lead the Kings to a 126123 victory over the defendingchampion Golden State Warriors on Saturday night. Fox scored 29 points in the second half after taking time to adjust to the playoff phys icality and hit the 3pointer that gave Sacramento the lead for good late in the fourth quarter. Fox took until his sixth season to reach the postsea son stage but announced himself as a star as only Luka

Kings 126, Warriors 123 Doncic scored more points in a playoff debut with 42 against Dallas three years ago. “You need guys like that on your side because they know everything that we’re throwing at them,” coach Mike Brown said. “There’s no secrets. You have to have guys on your team that can go make plays and Foxy went and made plays tonight.” The first playoff meeting between the Northern Cali fornia neighbors lived up to the hype and delighted the raucous crowd that had been waiting for a playoff game since 2006. The inexperienced Kings closed the game strong against a Warriors team that won four titles in the previous eight seasons. After Stephen Curry hit a corner 3pointer to give Gold en State a 114112 lead with about four minutes left, the Kings responded with seven in a row starting with a 3 pointer from Fox. The Warriors didn’t go away and cut the deficit to one on a layup by Curry in the final minute. But Andrew Wiggins missed a corner 3 for the lead

in the closing seconds of his first game in more than two months. “That last one felt amaz ing,” Wiggins said of the last shot. “Only up from here. … I’m here to compete and I be lieve in myself.” Malik Monk made two free throws to make it 126123 with 2.9 seconds left. Curry missed a runner from 3 at the buzzer, giving the Kings their first playoff win since April 30, 2006, against San Antonio. “That first game is kind of a feelingout process,” Curry said. “We responded. That’s what we are capable of doing. It was a highenergy game from start to finish.” Monk finished with 32 points off the bench and Do mantas Sabonis had 12 points and 16 rebounds. Curry led the Warriors with 30 points, Klay Thomp son added 21 and Wiggins and Jordan Poole scored 18 apiece. Knicks 101, Cavaliers 97: Jalen Brunson shook off foul trouble and scored 21 of his 27 in the second half, Julius Randle returned from an an kle injury to add 19 and visit ing New York welcomed Cleveland back to the NBA playoffs by holding off the Cavaliers in Game 1.

Brunson was limited to nine minutes in the first half, but hit several big shots down the stretch as the Knicks turned back Cleveland’s late rally led by Donovan Mitchell. Mitchell finished with 38 for the Cavs. Celtics 112, Hawks 99: Jaylen Brown had 29 points and 12 rebounds, and Boston capitalized on a woeful shoot ing performance by visiting Atlanta in Game 1 of the East ern Conference firstround matchup. Jayson Tatum scored 25 points, 21 in the first half. Der rick White finished with 25 points and 11 rebounds for Boston, which hosts Game 2 on Tuesday. 76ers 121, Nets 101: James Harden hit seven 3pointers and had 23 points and 13 as sists, NBA MVP finalist Joel Embiid scored 26 points and host Philadelphia pushed back Mikal Bridges and Brooklyn in Game 1. Tobias Harris added 21 points and the 76ers hit a postseason teamrecord 21 3s in the opener of this Eastern Conference playoff series. The Sixers are trying to win their first NBA championship since 1983 and advance past the second round for the first time since 2001.

LeBron James should be excited to be back in the playoffs, the misery of watching from home a year ago erased by the buzz sur rounding the Lakers’ first round series with the Mem phis Grizzlies. After a oneyear absence from the playoffs, James might be energized by a re turn to the postseason. May be he’ll channel all of that on the court today in Game 1 at Memphis. Yet Saturday, when James walked off the prac tice court, he seemed noth ing but serious, his focus ramping up as the Lakers are about to play their big gest games of the season. “It’s definitely an honor to be a part of the postseason,” James said flatly. “You can never take that for granted. So we’re excited to be a part of this one.” While no one will know for sure until today, James seemed to have a different level of focus Saturday after practice in Memphis as he answered questions directly and without emotion. Is the West wide open? “It’s 16 teams in the post season and there’s opportu nity for all 16,” James said. What did he miss last year when he sat out the playoffs? “I’d rather play in them than watch them,” he said. Does it ever get old being in the playoffs? “No. Never.” Once the ball gets tipped today, there will be little use in looking back at the games that preceded the playoffs. That everyone agreed on, but the way the Lakers played following the AllStar break has them operating with a quiet confidence. With an empty injury re port — James, Anthony Davis and Dennis Schroder are listed as probable — the Lakers know they’ve won nine of the last 11 games in which James and Davis both have been healthy. “I just knew having a healthy LeBron and a heal thy AD at the right time, the sky’s the limit. And those segments of the season when they weren’t available, we just had to kinda just con tinue to swim and throw our arms and kick our feet to stay above water and main tain,” coach Darvin Ham said last Sunday after the fi nal regularseason game. “We were able to improve our roster at the deadline,

(7) Lakers vs. (2) Grizzlies Today: Noon, FedEx Forum, Memphis, Tenn. On the air: Ch. 10 and also those guys coming back healthy, and now hav ing everybody entirely heal thy, the sky’s the limit. I understood the process. Be ing around it so long, it’s a marathon. It’s not a sprint.” The challenges playing against the secondseeded Grizzlies are obvious. “When you get in the play offs, it’s zerozero. I think seeding doesn’t matter,” Davis said. “Once you get in, it’s all about matchups and things like that. We don’t look at ourselves as under dogs, obviously. Knowing that this team we’re facing is a really, really good team. They’re second for a reason. And that’s with and without Ja (Morant). We’ve got to come in locked in and pre pared.” The Lakers will need to keep Morant from easy paths to, and above, the rim. They’ll have to attack Jaren Jackson Jr. and keep him from dominating defen sively. They’ll need to min imize the impact Memphis’ supporting cast — Dillon Brooks, Desmond Bane, Xa vier Tillman and Tyus Jones — has on games while cut ting back on turnovers and fast breaks by their oppo nents. “They got a lot of weap ons. That’s why they’re ran ked where they are in the West and they’re the type of team that they are,” Ham said. “They’re very well coached. They have a lot of dangerous pieces. And we just have to be active and alert.” While the Lakers have had time to dissect the Griz zlies since they earned their way into the playoffs Tues day in the opening playin game, the final message de livered by James was simple. “Just go out and have fun. Go out and hoop,” James said he told his team. “Don’t change much from what we’ve done. Those guys have been playing exceptional basketball so don’t put too much added pressure on yourself. “At the end of the day, it’s still just basketball.”

Woike writes for the Los Angeles Times.

NHL REPORT

KINGS HEAD INTO CUP WITH TOP GOALIE TANDEM ASSOCIATED PRESS Rarely does a team go into the Stanley Cup playoffs with a pair of goaltenders who wer en’t on the openingnight ros ter. It’s where the Los Angeles Kings find themselves as they prepare to face the Edmon ton Oilers in the opening round for the second straight season. As unsettling as that sounds, Joonas Korpisalo and Pheonix Copley have been solid over the past six weeks. Copley has been the team’s top goalie since early December, when he was called up due to the earlysea son struggles of Jonathan Quick and Cal Petersen. And Korpisalo is 731 since being acquired from the Columbus Blue Jackets on Feb. 28. The Kings also have the

AZTECS FROM D1 week back from spring ball,” Kelly said, “and suggested the idea of entering the trans fer portal because I had underperformed in the spring and they could not see me playing there next sea son. “With that in mind, I agreed that a change of sce nery/fresh start was needed and that I would be doing myself a favor by entering the portal.” Mahasin had a similar discussion. “They kind of forced me out of here,” he said. “They recommended that I enter the transfer portal because they said I am not going to get playing time this season.” Mahasin, nicknamed “The Missile,” said he was

secondlowest goalsagainst average in the league since March 1 at 2.20. “To see both of them enter our team and have perma nent stays for different rea sons has been pretty reward ing,” coach Todd McLellan said, “It has been an ex tremely odd year to start the year with two goalies that we thought we were going to run with until this time of the year and end up with two different ones. It doesn’t happen often, and if it does, it’s usually due to injury.” Whoever gets the start, it will mark the first time since 2002 that it won’t be Quick, who was in net for 92 consecu tive postseason games and led the franchise to both of their Stanley Cup titles in 2012 and 2014. Quick was traded to Co lumbus for Korpisalo, de fenseman Vladislav Gavrikov

limited by a knee brace in practice and “I never really got to feel the speed of foot ball.” “But this spring they let me loose and I felt great out there,” he said. “I never wanted to leave SDSU. “I was all in when I com mitted here. I never quit no matter what obstacles are in my way. I know I will per severe through anything, so the fact that they didn’t really give me a chance kind of rubbed me the wrong way. “I do understand that this is a business at the end of the day and things happen. You can only control what you can control, and I will use this as motivation and keep work ing toward my goals.” Kelly also remains opti mistic. On the eve of the spring portal window opening, he said, “The portal is such a

and a pair of draft picks. Quick was then subsequently dealt to Vegas. McLellan hasn’t said who will be his primary goalie, but it is likely to be Korpisalo. The 28year old from Finland had two shutouts for the Blue

Jackets during the 2020 play offs and was 35 with a 1.90 GAA. He holds the NHL record for saves in a playoff game with 85 in a 32 five over time loss to Tampa Bay dur ing the first game of the East ern Conference quarterfinals.

Korpisalo’s quick adjust ment to Los Angeles also helped ease tensions in a locker room that wasn’t happy with how Quick was traded. The move happened during a Kings’ game in Win nipeg and GM Rob Blake was unable to tell Quick or team leaders until after word started to circulate. “Korpisalo and Gavrikov coming together I think was a benefit to those two. They supported each other and the team opened up their arms after an emotional day or two and welcomed them quickly,” McLellan said. Korpisalo said it has been easy for him to settle in with the Kings. He is 21 this sea son against the Oilers, but both wins came with Colum bus. Copley went 2463 in 36 games. His wins since his de but are tied for sixth in the

new facet in the football world that there is always a guise of uncertainty that comes with it, but I hope that something good comes out of it so that I can produce, wher ever it may be.”

spectively, Armstead and Sutton fit the big back bill. • SDSU plans to empha size the tight end position more this season, which places added significance on sophomore Cameron Har pole’s emergence alongside senior Mark Redman in two tight end alignments. • The order of quarter backs remained the same coming out of spring ball as it was going in, with senior starter Jalen Mayden fol lowed by redshirt freshmen Kyle Crum and Liu Au mavae and walkons DJ Ralph and Tobin O’Dell. • Junior Mehki Shaw and sophomore Phillipe Wesley Jr. emerged as the top two wide receivers, with senior Brionne Penny, junior trans fer Raphael Williams Jr. and sophomore Josh Nicholson listed as backups. • Competition along the

defensive line, where SDSU needs to identify three new starters, will continue when the Aztecs reconvene in Au gust. Senior Garret Fountain claimed one of the starting spots at defensive end. Six other players lead the com petition for the other defen sive end and defensive tackle. Sophomore Dominic Oliver and seniors Wyatt Draeger and Daniel Okpoko are vying at DE. Sophomore Darrion Daulton and a pair of trans fers, junior Tupu Alualu and senior Samuela Tuihal maka, are competing at DT. • Senior Cooper McDon ald and sophomore Zyrus Fi aseu earned two of the start ing linebacker spots. Sopho more Brady Anderson and junior Cody Moon, a New Mexico transfer, will contin ue to compete at weakside linebacker.

DAVID ZALUBOWSKI AP

Kings goaltender Joonas Korpisalo is 731 since be ing acquired from Columbus on Feb. 28.

Notable Gleaned from the re centlyreleased postspring depth chart ... • Senior Kenan Christon (Madison High) emerged from camp as the team’s top running back out of camp, followed by sophomore Cam Davis, junior Jaylon Arm stead and redshirt freshman Lucky Sutton (Cathedral Catholic High). The 510, 185pound Christon’s sprinter speed could be problematic for op ponents, especially if the Aztecs find ways to get him the ball in space. At 220 and 210 pounds, re

league but his .903 save per centage was 28th. He has 68 NHL games under his belt, but none in the playoffs. And Copley split his two meetings against the Oilers this sea son.

Notable Brad Larsen, 45, was fired as coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets after two sea sons without a playoff ap pearance, a move GM Jarmo Kekalainen called “abso lutely a necessary change that we needed to make.” Larsen became the third head coach since the NHL’s regular season ended to lose his job. Dallas Eakins will not return to the Ducks after four consecutive losing seasons, and Peter Laviolette won’t be back for a fourth season with the Capitals, who missed the playoffs for the first time in nearly a decade.

• The departure of senior starter Patrick McMorris, who planned to enter the portal and transfer to Cal, left the Aztec safety position vacant. Sophomore Max Garri son and true freshman Mar cus Ratcliffe continue to compete at the position. The 63, 190pound Rat cliffe made one of the biggest impressions of the spring af ter graduating in midyear from Cathedral Catholic High and enrolling early at SDSU. • Senior Jack Browning, the 2022 Mountain West Spe cial Teams Player of the Year, again will handle all three kicking specialties. Christon and Garrison are listed as the top two kick returners. Shaw is the pri mary punt returner.

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HOCKEY NHL Playoff Glance First Round (Bestof7; xif necessary) Eastern Conference Boston vs. Florida Monday: at Boston, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: at Boston, 4:30 p.m. Friday: at Florida, 4:30 p.m. Sun., April 23: at Florida, 12:30 p.m. xWed., April 26: at Boston, TBA xFri., April 28: at Florida, TBA xSun., April 30: at Boston, TBA Carolina vs. N.Y. Islanders Monday: at Carolina, 4 p.m. Wednesday: at Carolina, 4 p.m. Friday: at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m. Sun., April 23: at N.Y. Islanders, 10 a.m. xTue., April 25: at Carolina, TBA xFri., April 28: at N.Y. Islanders, TBA xSun., April 30: at Carolina, TBA New Jersey vs. N.Y. Rangers Tuesday: at New Jersey, 4 p.m. Thursday: at New Jersey, 4:30 p.m. Saturday: at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. Mon., April 24: at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m. xThu., April 27: at New Jersey, TBA xSat., April 29: at N.Y. Rangers, TBA xMon., May 1: at New Jersey, TBA Toronto vs. Tampa Bay Tuesday: at Toronto, 4:30 p.m. Thursday: at Toronto, 4 p.m. Saturday: at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m. Mon., April 24: at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m. xThu., April 27: at Toronto, TBA xSat., April 29: at Tampa Bay, TBA xMon., May 1: at Toronto, TBA Western Conference Edmonton vs. Los Angeles Monday: at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Wednesday: at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Friday: at Los Angeles, 7 p.m. Sun., April 23: at Los Angeles, 6 p.m. xTue., April 25: at Edmonton, TBA xSat., April 29: at Los Angeles, TBA xMon., May 1: at Edmonton, TBA Dallas vs. Minnesota Monday: at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday: at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Friday: at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m. Sun., April 23: at Minnesota, 3:30 p.m. xTue., April 25: at Dallas, TBA xFri., April 28: at Minnesota, TBA xSun., April 30: at Dallas, TBA Colorado vs. Seattle Tuesday: at Colorado, 7 p.m. Thursday: at Colorado, 6:30 p.m. Saturday: at Seattle, 7 p.m. Mon., April 24: at Seattle, 7 p.m. xWed., April 26: at Colorado, TBA xFri., April 28: at Seattle, TBA xSun., April 30: at Colorado, TBA Vegas vs. Winnipeg Tuesday: at Vegas, 6:30 p.m. Thursday: at Vegas, 7 p.m. Saturday: at Winnipeg, 1 p.m. Mon., April 24: at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m. xThu., April 27: at Vegas, TBA xSat., April 29: at Winnipeg, TBA xMon., May 1: at Vegas, TBA AHL Standings Western Conference Pacific Division

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xCalgary 51 17 4 106 256 174 xCoachella Valley 48 17 7 103 257 194 xColorado 40 22 10 90 210 187 xAbbotsford 40 25 7 87 229 203 Bakersfield 37 31 4 78 212 212 Ontario 34 32 6 74 206 211 Tucson 30 33 9 69 219 245 San Jose 31 34 7 69 205 249 Henderson 29 38 5 63 201 221 GULLS 20 49 3 43 180 281 Note: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss. Top four teams in each division advance to playoffs. xclinched playoff spot Saturday’s Results Belleville 7, Toronto 2 Cleveland 4, Rochester 3 Charlotte 5, WB/Scranton 4, OT Hershey 6, Lehigh Valley 4 Utica 5, Syracuse 4, OT Providence 5, Bridgeport 3 Springfield 1, Hartford 0 Chicago 4, Grand Rapids 1 Manitoba 3, Rockford 2 Texas 2, Iowa 1, OT Colorado 3, GULLS 1 Bakersfield 4, Coachella Valley 2 San Jose 4, Tucson 2 Calgary 3, Abbotsford 2 Henderson 4, Ontario 1 Today’s Games Rochester at Cleveland, noon Springfield at Providence, 12:05 p.m. Belleville at Toronto, 1 p.m. Manitoba at Chicago, 1 p.m. Iowa at Texas, 3 p.m. Rockford at Milwaukee, 3 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL Baseball Saturday’s Results Sweetwater 14, Crawford 0 Rancho Buena Vista 7, Ramona 4 Del Norte 2, Sage Creek 0 Bonita Vista 9, Canyon Crest 0 Chula Vista 11, High Tech CV 1 San Dieguito 9, Oceanside 4 Westview 9, Mission Hills 5 Torrey Pines 2, Carlsbad 1 San Diego 7, Canyon Hills 6 La Jolla 4, Mission Bay 3 Brawley 6, San Ysidro 3 San Pasqual 4, Mt. Carmel 2 Softball Saturday’s Results Hilltop 9, University City 1 El Capitan 8, Clairemont 6 Olympian 7, Helix 3 San Pasqual 6, Grossmont 1 Otay Ranch 2, Calexico 1 Valhalla 13, Mount Miguel 0 Steele Canyon 11, Mt. Carmel 1 Cathedral Catholic 8, Our Lady of Peace 1 Mater Dei 2, Cathedral Catholic 0 San Marcos 1, San Pasqual 0 El Capitan 6, Calexico 2 Mission Hills 3, Clairemont 0 Mater Dei 5, Our Lady of Peace 3 Otay Ranch 6, EC Southwest 3 Holtville 12, Point Loma 2 Mission Hills 4, University City 1 Steele Canyon 7, Olympian 3 Hilltop 2, EC Southwest 1 Boys Tennis San Diego Section Team Championships All matches now later than 3 p.m. Open Division Tuesday Quarterfinals (8) La Jolla at (1) Canyon Crest Academy (5) St. Augustine at (4) Del Norte (6) La Jolla Country Day at (3) Torrey Pines (7) Scripps Ranch at (2) Bishop’s Division 1 First Round Tuesday (16) Mission Bay at (1) Cathedral Catholic (9) Patrick Henry at (8) Mt. Carmel (12) Bonita Vista at (5) San Marcos (13) Rancho Bernardo at (4) Westview (11) San Diego at (6) Poway (14) San Dieguito Academy at (3) Eastlake (10) Sage Creek at (7) Carlsbad

(15) La Costa Canyon at (2) Santana Division 2 First Round Tuesday (16) Calexico vs. (1) University City at South westEl Centro HS (9) Mater Dei Catholic at (8) Mission Hills (12) Valley Center at (5) Steele Canyon (13) Mira Mesa at (4) Pacific Ridge (11) Otay Ranch at (6) Valhalla (14) Helix at (6) Francis Parker (10) Olympian at (7) Coronado (15) Clairemont at (2) Santa Fe Christian Division 3 First Round Tuesday (16) Grossmont at (1) Point Loma (9) Montgomery at (8) Rancho Buena Vista (12) Classical Academy at (5) Canyon Hills (13) TriCity Christian vs. (4) Vincent Memorial at Central Union HS (11) Monte Vista at (6) Christian (14) Madison at (3) Brawley (10) El Capitan at (7) El Camino (15) SouthwestEl Centro vs. (2) High Tech San Diego at University City HS SOCCER International Results (Home teams listed first) England Premier League Aston Villa 3, Newcastle 0 Chelsea 1, Brighton 2 Everton 1, Fulham 3 Southampton 0, Crystal Palace 2 Wolverhampton 2, Brentford 0 Tottenham 2, Bournemouth 3 Man City 3, Leicester 1 France Ligue 1 Rennes 3, Reims 0 PSG 3, Lens 1 Spain La Liga Villarreal 1, Valladolid 2 Athletic Bilbao 2, Sociedad 0 Betis 3, Espanyol 1 Cadiz 0, Madrid 2 Italy Serie A Bologna 1, AC Milan 1 Napoli 0, Verona 0 Inter 0, AC Monza 1 Germany Bundesliga Bayern 1, Hoffenheim 1 RB Leipzig 3, Augsburg 2 Cologne 1, Mainz 1 Stuttgart 3, Dortmund 3 Eintracht 1, Monchengladbach 1 MLS Standings

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Saint Louis City Seattle Los Angeles FC FC Dallas San Jose Minnesota United Houston Vancouver Austin FC Portland Colorado Real Salt Lake LA Galaxy Sporting K.C.

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Eastern

T Pts GF GA

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New England 5 1 2 17 13 7 Cincinnati 5 1 2 17 10 9 Atlanta 4 1 3 15 16 12 Columbus 4 2 2 14 18 9 New York City FC 3 2 3 12 9 9 Nashville 3 3 2 11 7 4 Orlando City 3 2 2 11 7 7 Chicago 2 1 4 10 11 10 Toronto FC 1 1 6 9 10 9 Philadelphia 2 4 2 8 10 11 D.C. United 2 4 2 8 8 12 New York 1 2 5 8 6 7 Inter Miami CF 2 5 0 6 6 8 Charlotte FC 1 4 3 6 9 16 CF Montréal 1 6 0 3 3 17 Note: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Saturday’s Results Colorado 2, Charlotte FC 2, tie New England 1, Columbus 1, tie D.C. United 1, CF Montréal 0 Houston 1, New York 1, tie New York City FC 2, Nashville 1 Atlanta 2, Toronto FC 2, tie Vancouver 0, Austin FC 0, tie Philadelphia 2, Chicago 2, tie FC Dallas 2, Real Salt Lake 1 Orlando City 2, Minnesota 1 Portland 4, Seattle 1 San Jose 3, Sporting Kansas City 0 Saint Louis City SC 5, Cincinnati 1 Today’s Match Los Angeles FC at LA Galaxy, 1:30 p.m. USL Championship East W L T Pts GF GA Charleston 4 0 2 14 12 6 Louisville 4 2 0 12 6 9 Birmingham 3 2 1 10 8 8 Pittsburgh 2 1 3 9 7 4 Loudoun 2 2 1 7 7 6 Tulsa 1 3 3 6 10 10 Tampa Bay 1 3 2 5 5 9 Indy 1 2 2 5 2 5 Hartford 1 3 2 5 9 12 Detroit City 1 4 1 4 3 5 Miami 0 2 4 4 3 6 Memphis 0 2 1 1 3 7 West W L T Pts GF GA LOYAL 3 1 2 11 9 5 San Antonio 3 1 2 11 7 4 Sacramento 3 0 2 11 8 1 Colo. Springs 3 1 1 10 5 3 Mont. Bay 2 2 2 8 12 10 Oakland 2 2 1 7 7 6 El Paso 2 3 1 7 8 8 O.C. 1 2 3 6 6 8 R.G. Valley 1 1 3 6 4 5 Phoenix 1 1 3 6 6 8 New Mexico 1 2 1 4 4 6 Las Vegas 0 0 3 3 3 3 Note: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Saturday’s Results Charleston 2, Tulsa 1 Loudoun 3, Birmingham 0 Pittsburgh 2, Rio Grande Valley 0 Detroit City FC 0, Miami 0, tie Louisville 1, San Antonio 0 LOYAL 1, New Mexico 1, tie Orange County 1, Indy 0 Hartford 2, Oakland 1 Monterey Bay FC 1, Phoenix 1, tie Colorado at Sacramento, late Las Vegas at Memphis, late Saturday, April 22 Monterey Bay FC at Indy, 4 p.m. Louisville at Charleston, 4:30 p.m. New Mexico at Colorado, 5 p.m. Memphis at Rio Grande Valley, 5 p.m. Phoenix at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at El Paso, 6:30 p.m. Birmingham at Orange County, 7 p.m. Detroit City FC at Sacramento, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 23 Oakland at Loudoun, 1 p.m. Las Vegas at Miami, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at LOYAL, 3 p.m. NWSL

W L T Pts GF GA Washington 2 0 1 7 5 3 Portland 2 0 1 7 9 2 WAVE 2 1 0 6 6 4 Gotham FC 2 1 0 6 4 3 OL Reign 2 1 0 6 3 1 Houston 1 0 2 5 3 2 Angel City 1 1 1 4 5 5 Chicago 1 2 0 3 7 7 N. Carolina 1 2 0 3 3 5 Louisville 0 0 3 3 4 4 Kansas City 0 3 0 0 3 9 Orlando 0 3 0 0 1 8 Note: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Saturday’s Results Washington 2, North Carolina 1 Gotham FC 2, Orlando 0 Chicago 4, Kansas City 2 Louisville 2 Angel City 2, tie OL Reign 1, WAVE 0 Saturday, April 22 Chicago at OL Reign, 12:30 p.m. Houston at Washington, 4 p.m. North Carolina at Gotham FC, 4:30 p.m. Louisville at Portland, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 23 Orlando at Kansas City, 2 p.m. WAVE at Angel City, 5 p.m. TENNIS ATP MonteCarlo Rolex Masters At Monte Carlo, Monaco Purse: $5,779,335 Singles Semifinals Andrey Rublev (5), Russia, def. Taylor Fritz (8), United States, 57, 61, 63. Holger Rune (6), Denmark, def. Jannik Sinner (7), Italy, 16, 75, 75. Doubles Semifinals Romain Arneodo, Monaco, and TristanSamuel Weissborn, Austria, def. Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz, Germany, 76 (7), 46, 107. Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Austin Krajicek (5), United States, def. Fabrice Martin, France, and An dreas Mies, Germany, 76 (1), 64. GOLF PGA RBC Heritage At Hilton Head Island, S.C. Purse: $20 million Yardage: 7,213; Par: 71 Third Round Leaders Matt Fitzpatrick ....................667063—199 14 Patrick Cantlay ....................696566—200 13 Jordan Spieth.......................686766—201 12 Tommy Fleetwood................696568—202 11 Mark Hubbard .....................686668—202 11 Taylor Moore.........................686767—202 11 Scottie Scheffler ..................686569—202 11 Jimmy Walker.......................656572—202 11 Hayden Buckley ...................696866—203 10 Cameron Davis.....................706766—203 10 Rickie Fowler........................676868—203 10 Emiliano Grillo .....................686768—203 10 Matt Kuchar .........................686768—203 10 Chez Reavie .........................726665—203 10 Xander Schauffele ................676670—203 10 Keegan Bradley ....................736764—204 9 Brian Harman ......................657069—204 9 Russell Henley .....................726666—204 9 Sungjae Im...........................667266—204 9 Patton Kizzire ......................706569—204 9 Corey Conners .....................706867—205 8 Lee Hodges..........................706768—205 8 Jon Rahm ............................726469—205 8 Aaron Rai ..............................637171—205 8

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SCO R E BOA R D BASKETBALL NBA Playoff Glance First Round (Bestof7; xif necessary) Eastern Conference Milwaukee vs. Miami Today: at Milwaukee, 2:30 p.m. Wednesday: at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. Sat., April 22: at Miami, 4:30 p.m. Mon., April 24: at Miami, TBA xWed., April 26: at Milwaukee, TBA xFri., April 28: at Miami, TBA xSun., April 30: at Milwaukee, TBA Boston 1, Atlanta 0 Saturday: Boston 112, Atlanta 99 Tuesday: at Boston, 4 p.m. Friday: at Atlanta, 4 p.m. Sun., April 23: at Atlanta, 4 p.m. xTue., April 25: at Boston, TBA xThu., April 27: at Atlanta, TBA xSat., April 29: at Boston, TBA Philadelphia 1, Brooklyn 0 Saturday: Philadelphia 121, Brooklyn 101 Monday: at Philadelphia, 4:30 p.m. Thursday: at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m. Sat., April 22: at Brooklyn, 10 a.m. xMon., April 24: at Philadelphia, TBA xThu., April 27: at Brooklyn, TBA xSat., April 29: at Philadelphia, TBA New York 1, Cleveland 0 Saturday: New York 101, Cleveland 97 Tuesday: at Cleveland, 4:30 p.m. Friday: at New York, 5:30 p.m. Sun., April 23: at New York, 10 a.m. xWed., April 26: at Cleveland, TBA xFri., April 28: at New York, TBA xSun., April 30: at Cleveland, TBA Western Conference Sacramento 1, Golden State 0 Saturday: Sacramento 126, Golden State 123 Monday: at Sacramento, 7 p.m. Thursday: at Golden State, 7 p.m. Sun., April 23: at Golden State, 12:30 p.m. xWed., April 26: at Sacramento, TBA xFri., April 28: at Golden State, TBA xSun., April 30: at Sacramento, TBA Denver vs. Minnesota Today: at Denver, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday: at Denver, 7 p.m. Friday: at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m. Sun., April 23: at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m. xTue., April 25: at Denver, TBA xThu., April 27: at Minnesota, TBA xSat., April 29: at Denver, TBA Phoenix vs. L.A. Clippers Today: at Phoenix, 5 p.m. Tuesday: at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Thursday: at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m. Sat., April 22: at L.A. Clippers, 12:30 p.m. xTue., April 25: at Phoenix, TBA xThu., April 27: at L.A. Clippers, TBA xSat., April 29: at Phoenix, TBA Memphis vs. L.A. Lakers Today: at Memphis, noon Wednesday: at Memphis, 4:30 p.m. Sat., April 22: at L.A. Lakers, 7 p.m. Mon., April 24: at L.A. Lakers, TBA xWed., April 26: at Memphis, TBA xFri., April 28: at L.A. Lakers, TBA xSun., April 30: at Memphis, TBA

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Patrick Rodgers ....................687166—205 Justin Rose...........................666772—205 Adam Scott .........................696868—205 Sahith Theegala ...................706867—205 Brendon Todd ......................706768—205 Carson Young ......................686869—205 Wyndham Clark....................677366—206 Ben Griffin............................706571—206 Chris Kirk ............................696968—206 Denny McCarthy ..................716669—206 Collin Morikawa ...................726866—206 Scott Stallings......................667268—206 Michael Thompson ...............716867—206 Nate Lashley .........................696771—207 Nick Taylor............................707067—207 Gary Woodland ....................696870—207 Sam Burns ..........................697069—208 Tony Finau ...........................706870—208 Tyrrell Hatton .......................687070—208 Adam Long ..........................687268—208 Adam Svensson ....................716770—208

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LPGA LOTTE Championship At Ewa Beach, Hawaii Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,573; Par: 72 Final Round xwon on first playoff hole 276 (12) xGrace Kim ....................................71677068 Yu Liu..............................................69727164 Yu Jin Sung.....................................68687169 277 (11) Peiyun Chien ..................................72696967 Linnea Strom ..................................70677169 279 (9) Georgia Hall .....................................71667171 Lauren Hartlage ..............................69707070 Natthakritta Vongtaveelap ...............66707370 280 (8) You Min Hwang ................................70717267 Siyun Liu.........................................71697070 281 (7) Brooke Henderson ...........................71706971 Caroline Inglis..................................71707070 282 (6) Celine Boutier .................................74696772 Hye Jin Choi ...................................72726969 Esther Henseleit ..............................72726870 283 (5) Perrine Delacour .............................73707169 Nasa Hataoka ..................................68707174 284 (4) Celine Borge......................................71717171 285 (3) Karis Davidson ................................75717069 Amanda Doherty..............................70717470 Emma Talley ....................................72717072 Gabriella Then .................................74687172 286 (2) Ayaka Furue.....................................75687271 Erika Hara........................................72717469 Frida Kinhult ....................................66767371 Stacy Lewis ......................................71727172 Lucy Li.............................................72717073 Bailey Tardy ....................................68776576 Charlotte Thomas .............................71717470 Dewi Weber.......................................71717173 287 (1) Dana Fall .........................................72737072 Christina Kim ...................................71677178 Aline Krauter ...................................75707270 Mi Hyang Lee...................................74697371 Stephanie Meadow ..........................75707270 Jing Yan..........................................70766873 Arpichaya Yubol ...............................72707273 288 (E) Marina Alex ......................................71737371 Brittany Altomare............................73706976 Sarah Kemp ....................................74697372 Stephanie Kyriacou ..........................70737273 Polly Mack.......................................75717369 Yuna Nishimura................................75707271 Ryann O’Toole ..................................72737172 Lauren Stephenson ..........................72717075 Maria Torres ....................................72747468 Xiaowen Yin .....................................72707373 289 (+1) Soo Bin Joo ....................................77697568 Hyo Joo Kim ....................................68787172 Gina Kim ..........................................71757172 Valery Plata.....................................70737670 Pauline Roussin ...............................72707473 Sarah Schmelzel...............................75717172 Magdalena Simmermacher ..............73737370 Jennifer Song..................................70757569 Pavarisa Yoktuan..............................75717073 290 (+2) Ilhee Lee ..........................................73717175 Pernilla Lindberg .............................70707476 Emily Pedersen................................72697277 Hinako Shibuno ...............................69737375 291 (+3) WeiLing Hsu ....................................73727274 Ines Laklalech...................................74727174 SuHyun Oh.....................................74707572 Amy Olson ......................................75697572 MOTORSPORTS NASCAR Cup Series NOCO 400 Lineup for today’s race At Ridgeway, Va. Lap length: 0.53 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (41) Ryan Preece, Ford, 94.780 mph. 2. (99) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 94.298. 3. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford, 94.298. 4. (14) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 94.153. 5. (19) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 94.120. 6. (45) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 94.078. 7. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 93.975. 8. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet, 93.952. 9. (23) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 93.896. 10. (17) Chris Buescher, Ford, 93.784. 11. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 93.617. 12. (54) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 93.594. 13. (38) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 93.433. 14. (16) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 93.295. 15. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 93.262. 16. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 93.249. 17. (8) Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 93.161. 18. (3) Austin Dil lon, Chevrolet, 93.038. 19. (5) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 93.024. 20. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford, 92.997. 21. (6) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 92.928. 22. (20) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 92.906. 23. (48) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 92.906. 24. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 92.896. 25. (2) Austin Cindric, Ford, 92.851. 26. (31) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 92.846. 27. (7) Corey Lajoie, Chevrolet, 92.787. 28. (43) Erik Jones, Chevrolet, 92.783. 29. (42) Noah Grag son, Chevrolet, 92.511. 30. (78) Anthony Alfredo, Chevrolet, 92.470. 31. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 92.339. 32. (21) Har rison Burton, Ford, 92.339. 33. (51) Zane Smith, Ford, 92.052. 34. (1) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 91.838. 35. (77) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 91.815. 36. (15) JJ Yeley, Ford, 91.598. NASCAR Xfinity Series Call811.com Before You Dig. 250 At Ridgeway, Va. Lap length: 0.53 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (2) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 250 laps, 60 points. 2. (7) Sammy Smith, Toyota, 250, 51. 3. (1) Cole Custer, Ford, 250, 50. 4. (6) Josh Berry, Chevrolet, 250, 42. 5. (10) Brandon Jones, Chevrolet, 250, 38. 6. (8) Justin Allgaier, Chevro let, 250, 36. 7. (13) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 250, 40. 8. (12) Derek Kraus, Chevrolet, 250, 30. 9. (16) Brett Moffitt, Ford, 250, 28. 10. (11) Chandler Smith, Chevrolet, 250, 32. 11. (4) Parker Retzlaff, Chevrolet, 250, 28. 12. (14) Ryan Truex, Toyota, 250, 29. 13. (23) Blaine Perkins, Chevrolet, 250, 24. 14. (31) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 250, 23. 15. (19) Kaz Grala, Toyota, 250, 22. 16. (15) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 250, 21. 17. (21) Parker Kligerman, Chevrolet, 250, 20. 18. (17) Ryan Sieg, Ford, 250, 19. 19. (20) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 250, 18. 20. (25) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, 250, 17. 21. (36) Patrick Emerling, Ford, 250, 16. 22. (26) Matt Mills, Chevrolet, 250, 0. 23. (37) Gray Gaulding, Ford, 250, 14. 24. (38) Anthony Alfredo, Chevrolet, 250, 13. 25. (30) Leland Honeyman, Chevrolet, 250, 12. 26. (24) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, 250, 11. 27. (3) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 250, 10. 28. (35) Ryan Ellis, Chevrolet, 249, 9. 29. (32) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 246, 8. 30. (9) Riley Herbst, Ford, accident, 222, 16. 31. (5) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, accident, 221, 13. 32. (22) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, accident, 210, 5. 33. (18) Connor Mosack, Toyota, 205, 4. 34. (27) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet, suspension, 198, 3. 35. (28) Kyle Sieg, Ford, accident, 145, 2. 36. (29) Dawson Cram, Chevrolet, accident, 143, 1. 37. (34) Joe Graf Jr, Ford, accident, 133, 1. 38. (33) Kaden Honeycutt, Chevrolet, engine, 83, 0. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 59.396 mph. Time of Race: 2 hours, 12 minutes, 50 seconds. Margin of Victory: Caution. Caution Flags: 10 for 82 laps. Lead Changes: 7 among 6 drivers. Lap Leaders: C.Custer 05; J.Nemechek 665; A.Hill 6673; J.Berry 74100; S.Smith 101106; J.Nemechek 107211; J.Allgaier 212217; J.Ne mechek 218250 Top 16 in Points: 1. A.Hill, 277; 2. R.Herbst, 265; 3. J.Nemechek, 259; 4. C.Smith, 253; 5. J.Berry, 234; 6. J.Allgaier, 231; 7. S.Creed, 219; 8. S.Mayer, 208; 9. S.Smith, 203; 10. C.Custer, 196; 11. D.Hem ric, 193; 12. P.Kligerman, 188; 13. R.Sieg, 175; 14. B.Jones, 161; 15. J.Burton, 149; 16. B.Moffitt, 141. 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ANOTHER RECORD FOR MAN CITY’S HAALAND The records keep coming for Erling Haaland at Man chester City. The losses are mounting for Frank Lam pard at Chelsea. City’s 31 win over Leices ter on Saturday, which moved the defending champions three points behind Premier League leader Arsenal, was inevitably propelled by Haa land even though the prolific striker had just 45 minutes on the field. By the time he was substi tuted at halftime, the Norway international had scored twice — one from the penalty spot, another a clipped finish following Kevin De Bruyne’s through ball — to move to 32 league goals for the season. That left Haaland tied with Liverpool forward Mo hamed Salah for the most goals in a 38game Premier League season. Salah’s haul came in the 201718 campaign. While there’s so much still to play for at the top of the league, Chelsea’s woeful cam paign is finishing with barely a whimper as Lampard, the interim manager, fails to get anything out of a squad as sembled at such great ex pense. A 21 home loss to Brigh ton was a third straight defeat for Lampard since he came in as the replacement for the fired Graham Potter until the end of the season. Chelsea is languishing in 11th place with seven league games remain ing and some fans were seen showing their fury toward the club’s coowner, Todd Boehly, who was in the direc tors’ box.

Locally Roy Sommer, the win ningest head coach in Ameri can Hockey League history, announced his retirement be fore the San Diego Gulls dropped their season finale at Colorado 31. The Gulls fin ished the season with a fran chiseworst record of 2049 21. • San Diego Loyal SC ex tended their unbeaten streak with a 11 USL Championship draw on the road against New Mexico United. Evan Conway

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Manchester City’s Erling Haaland scores his side’s third goal during an EPL match against Leicester City. scored for the Loyal (312). • Olivia Van der Jagt scored in the waning minutes of extra time to give the OL Reign (210) a 10 victory over the San Diego Wave FC (210) in NWSL play. • The San Diego Seals lost a fourthperiod lead Friday night when they allowed two powerplay goals in a 1514 de feat at Colorado. Wesley Berg had a gamehigh six goals and Curtis Dickson had five as sists.

PLNU complete a series sweep of Concordia with a pair of victories by scores of 21 and 63. With the two ho mers, Christian tied the sin gleseason program record for home runs with 20 on the year. SDSU (1318, 84) was dealt a 40 loss at Fresno State (1617, 88) in the second game of a Mountain West se ries. Portland jumped out early with seven runs en route to a 95 win at the University of San Diego.

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In women’s water polo, freshman Maja Layden scored four goals to pace 14th ranked UC San Diego (1116, 33) to a 158 Big West victory on the road over No. 22 CSUN (1612, 06). No. 24ranked San Diego State (1115, 42) spot ted Azusa Pacific (1410, 24) an early onegoal lead in its Golden Coast Conference game and then roared back with five unanswered scores in a 144 victory at Citrus Col lege Aquatic Center. Sopho more Klara Goldstein led the Aztecs offense with a career best five goals. • In softball, SDSU (2711, 114 MW) cruised past Ne vada (2511, 66) 101 in six in nings in the first game of a weekend series on the road. The Aztecs have won 11 of their last 12 games. • In baseball, Jakob Chris tian homered twice, includ ing a walkoff shot to win the first game, helping No. 25

Jessica Pegula sent the U.S. into the Billie Jean King Cup finals with a 61, 63 vic tory over Austria’s Julia Grabher. The victory gave the Americans a 30 lead and clinched the bestoffive tie in Delray Beach, Fla. • Fifthseeded Andrey Rublev reached the Monte Carlo Masters final for the second time after rallying to beat eighthseeded American Taylor Fritz 57, 61, 63 in a raininterrupted contest at Monaco. The Russian player, who lost in the final two years ago, goes for his 13th career title and first at Masters level against sixthseeded Holger Rune. Rune also fought back to win 16, 75, 75 against No. 7 Jannik Sinner of Italy in an other rainmarred match, which finished under flood lights at 9:45 p.m. local time. U-T NEWS SERVICES

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CRAZY COMES TRUE Hummer a crabwalking, necksnapping, offroading, mobile charging station BY HENRY PAYNE

nce upon time, Detroit automakers debuted crazy concept vehicles for auto shows like the sixwheeled Chrysler Voyager III and the V10 powered Tomahawk motorcycle and the 16cylin der Cadillac Sixteen coupe. Now, crazy gets put into production. Behold the allelectric, 8,800pound 2023 GMC Hummer SUV circus act in my hands. Fourwheel steer! 830 horsepower! Thirteeninch suspension travel! Super Cruise drive assist! Zero60 mph in a necksnapping, WattstoFreedommode 3.5 sec onds! If you can afford this $105,000 calliope, you should park it in the neigh borhood square like a play ground attraction and schedule regular hours to show it off. Kids will love it. With a looooooong press of the rotary mode selector in the console, I activated Crab Walk mode. Using the 4 Wheel Steer function (4WS) that turns the wheels in sequence, I glided from side to side down the road at 20 mph like an Olympic distance skater. A great party trick, but its real purpose is to dem onstrate the dexterity of 4WS, which is useful in numerous ways. On San Francisco’s storied Lom bard Street, I negotiated the tight brick Sturns with ease. In the middle of cramped Dixon Street, I did a Uturn using Hum mer’s ridiculous 35.4inch turning radius (similar to a subcompact Chevy Bolt). And in the hills of Napa Valley north of Frisco, the big ute danced through tight radius turns. Try that in other megautes. AWS comes in handy offroad, too, which is the Hummer’s natural habitat going all the way back to the badge’s origins as an Army troop carrier. To

gether with the electric Hummer pickup intro duced in 2022, the ’23 Hum mer SUV was greenlighted for production to announce General Motors’ historic mission to go allelectric in the next 10 years. GM calls that risky journey a moonshot, and the Hummer twins are decorated with moon refer ences — tiny astronaut footprints on the dash board, rubber mats etched with the Sea of Tranquility — to drive home the point. Created in just 18 months, the Hummer pickup was fasttracked to market and GMC is paying the price in hiccups, like a recall of all 2022 models to replace its enormous 200 kWh battery at a reported cost of $60,000 per truck. Fingers crossed the ’23 Hummer SUV, which GMC expects to be the bigger seller, avoids those teething pains. With its square jaw, broad shoulders, three amber lights (required for vehicles wider than 80 inches) and 35inch tires, the Hummer’s as hard to miss as a full moon. Califor nians gaped wherever I drove. The SUV is little changed from the pickup.

The 2023 GMC Hummer EV SUV’s screen has multiple offroad data readings.

2023 GMC Hummer EV SUV Vehicle type: Batterypowered, allwheeldrive fourdoor SUV Price: $79,995, including $1,995 destination charge ($106,645 First Edition as tested) Powerplant: 177.3kWh (est.) lithiumion battery driving two or three electric motors Power: 830 horsepower, 1,200 poundfeet of torque (First Edi tion) Transmission: Singlespeed automatic Performance: 060 mph, 3.5 seconds (mfr.); top speed, 124 mph Weight: 8,800 pounds Fuel economy: Est. range, 250280 miles

The interiors are identical, as are body panels from the rear doors forward. The few changes are significant. The narrow greenhouse hatchback not only looks awesome, but allows Hum mer to hang a full spare off the swing gate for easy access (the pickup spare is tied down in the bed, com promising cargo). And let’s face it, rear spares are fashionable in this Wran gler v. Bronco age. Who knows (nudge, nudge) maybe GMC will make a compact Hummer 2 to take on that terrific twosome. A

word on the swing gate. It’s huge and would smack you like a flyswatter were it not for electronic sensors. Hummer SUV’s wheel base is a significant 9 inch es shorter than the pickup, giving the ute more maneu verability (see that turning radius above) and even crazier approach (49.6 inches) and departure (49 inches) angles. The last figure benefits from the lack of a bed hanging out back. I look forward to taking Hummer offroading in Michigan, as Napa Valley

was underwater after days of rain. Mud begged the question of weight. Though the SUV’s offroad specs are impressive — and mag nified further by optional 35inch BF Goodrich Mud Terrain tires (which you can air down in the console screen) — its 8,800 pounds give pause. To wit: If you get stuck, what will pull you out? Make sure there’s a Caterpillar front loader nearby. Weight concerns aside, Hummer has more offroad tricks. I recently highsided a Ford Lightning — 8.4 inches of ride height stand ard — at Holly Oaks (Mich.). Hummer has an answer for that, and it’s not just its 10.9 inches of ride height. The EV comes equipped with Extract Mode, which raises its skirts to 16 inches off the ground. Hummer SUV also differs from the pickup by offering less range. The shortened wheelbase comes at the expense of fewer battery cells. And while the First Edition Hummer I tested still had three electric motors, its WattstoFreedom mode is

slightly slower. Watts to Freedom? Yes, Hummer SUV launches from 060 mph in “only” 3.5 seconds, shy of the pickup’s 3. OMG. To give you a sense of how incredible 3.5 still is, it’s the same as a Porsche 911 S. Really. Pile the kids into the roomy back seat (it’ll hold a firstgrade class) and give them the full Wattsto Freedom show. It takes a few moments, but it’s worth watching the cool Unreal Engine graphics walk you through the proc ess: 1, doubletap the trac tion control switch; 2, wait for the Hummer to crouch to just 7 inches off the ground like a steel cheetah; 3, flatten the brake and accelerator pedals; 4, re lease the brake; 5, to the moon, Alice. Oh, the kids will howl with delight. But once back to earth, you’ll appreciate the most practical update for Hummer SUV over pickup: an onboard genera tor. EVs are notorious for underestimating battery range, and Hummer is no different. I got about 80 percent of expected range during my Bay Area drive. Watts to Freedom, 75 mph speeds on interstates and 50degree weather will do that. But if you come across another prone EV, you can charge them up thanks to a 19.2 kWh, onboard charger and plug accessory. How? 1, plug the charge chord into the prone EV; 2, plug the accessory plug into the other end of the cable; 3, plug into your Hummer’s charge port. The recharge rate is about as quick as a 240volt Level 2 wall outlet — or about 24 miles in an hour. It’s not as sexy as Watts to Freedom, but it should be enough to get an EV to the next charging station.

Payne is auto critic for The Detroit News. This story was provided by Tribune Content Agency.

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Vehicles of a certain age should be inspected regularly Dear Car Talk: My husband, sentimentally, drives a 2000 Toyota Tundra pickup truck with suicide doors that once belonged to his dear, departed father. The mileage is below 100,000. While I miss his father, too, I can’t help but think my husband is creating a safety hazard for himself (and for me when I am in the car) by driving a vehicle that is 23 years old. Normally he only drives it a few miles to go to work, or we take it when attending baseball games (so if a baseball hits it, we don’t care). However, on occasion we use

the truck for hauling stuff to our mountain cabin, which is a long drive. When we drive home on those curvy, downhill roads, putting the brakes on causes the whole car to shimmy! He has had this checked out with our mechanic many times and has been assured that it is not an issue, so my husband keeps insisting on keeping the car. In addition to the shimmy, I worry about airbags that have probably degraded to dust and the fact that the safety features available on newer cars do not exist on this one. I need the answer to two ques

tions: 1. Is the car safe? 2. What can I suggest to my husband to sway him to buy a new, safer, more energy efficient truck should I catch him at a weak moment?

— Sharon Is the truck safe? That’s not an easy “yes or no” question, Sharon. There’s a continuum from more safe to less safe. It’s certainly less safe than more modern vehicles that have advanced, electronic safety sys tems. But if he figures out the cause of the shaking (probably warped brake discs or drums, but possibly wornout steering com

ponents) and fixes it, it might still be reasonably safe. But a truck of this age should really be fully inspected on a regular basis to make sure all the key safetyrelated compo nents are in good working order. So, I think that’s the minimum you should ask for, Sharon. Now, if you sense a weak moment, or, when it turns out to cost $4,000 to fix everything the inspection turns up, since he’s a sentimental guy, I’d try making a sentimental argument. Some thing like: “Hey Frank, I was thinking — at some point, your dad’s old truck is going to wear out. I

know it means a lot to you. But I think your dad would want you to be safe, above all else, don’t you? “So, what do you think about selling the old Tundra, and using that money to make a down payment on a new one? It’ll be like your Dad helped you get your new truck — so he’ll still be with you, in spirit, whenever you drive.” And if the sentimental ap proach doesn’t work, Sharon, pitch the 2023 Tundra’s JBL Premium Audio system and 400 horsepower. Good luck.

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he list of longestablished artists whose names have appeared on the San Diego Music Awards ballots over the past four decades includes such onceobscure bands and solo artists as Jewel, blink182, P.O.D., Slightly Stoopid, AJ Croce, Mojo Nixon, Rebecca Jade and Rocket From the Crypt. The list also includes 2021 Oscar nominee Andra Day and at least three Grammy Award winners — Jason Mraz, Nickel Creek and 1997 SDMA Best New Artist victor Switchfoot. ■ It remains to be seen if any of this year’s Best New Artist contenders achieve similarly longlasting success. ■ But each of the nominees — Ash Easton, Coastal Wolves, Mercedes Rides Out, Strange Bouquets, The Plagues, Swive and Zavala Sol — is eager to make a bigger impact. And one of them will be in the spotlight on April 25, when winners are announced at the 32nd annual edition of the awards fete at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay on Shelter Island. ■ “What makes the San Diego music scene stand out is the support we have for each other,” said San Marcosborn singer songwriter Easton. “You can go out any night of the week and you’ll run into fellow musicians and bands. They go to your show, you go SEE SDMA • E8 to theirs. We’re all cheering each other on.”

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“Juno Lucia from The Aqueous Myths,” a photograph in the exhibit “The Water Holds Me: Photographs by Suda House.”

“The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty” by Julia Margaret Cameron.

Museum of Photographic Arts “Video Portraits: Robert Wilson”: Through Sept. 24 “The Water Holds Me: Photographs by Suda House”: Through Oct. 15 “Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron”: April 29 through Sept. 3 Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. ThursdaysSundays Where: 1659 El Prado, Balboa Park Admission: Pay what you wish Phone: (619) 2387559 Online: mopa.org

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“Lady Gaga: Mademoiselle Caroline Riviere,” a 2013 highdefinition video by Robert Wilson, is featured in “Video Portraits: Robert Wilson” at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.

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eborah Klochko remembers a time, not so long ago, when she would have to walk to the neighborhood drugstore to get her film developed. The executive director and chief curator at the Muse um of Photographic Arts says photography has always been her passion. “Even as a child, I had cameras,” Klochko says. “I had (Kodak) Brownies (cameras), the little tiny miniature ones, and you would take the film to the drugstore to get devel oped.” Even then, however, she says she took a more artis tic approach to taking pictures. “My father would always say things like, ‘why do you always cut the heads off of the people,’ ” she says, laughing. “And I’d just tell him I like it that way. Pho tography for me was always a means of selfexpression.” This creative approach to recorded images remains her approach and is still at the heart of the museum’s mission as it begins to celebrate two important

milestones. Dubbed the “40/50 anniversary,” it com memorates the 40th anni versary of the opening of the museum’s “permanent home,” as Klochko puts it, as well as the 50th anniver sary of the organization that was instrumental in cre ating what would eventually become MOPA. “Both anniversaries are important. I think most people understand and recognize the Museum of Photographic Arts as being located in Balboa Park and being a museum devoted to photography,” Klochko explains. “But I think what’s surprising to people is that there was a 10year history of a nonprofit devoted to photography before it was located in Balboa Park.” That nonprofit was

called the Center for Photo graphic Arts. Klochko goes on to explain that the or ganization hosted a variety of photographic exhibitions in a number of locations that included Grossmont Col lege. Eventually, the organi zation transitioned from what Klochko describes as a “museum without walls” to moving into Balboa Park in 1983. And while she adds that it’s a history that isn’t particularly welldocu mented in writing, the photographic proof is abun dant. “There was a strong enough commitment and, working with the city, they were given 9,000 square feet in what I believe was the original (San Diego) Hall of Champions,” says Klochko, referring to the sports muse um that was once located in the Casa de Balboa building in the park. “They also changed the name to the Museum of Photographic Arts and began actively collecting and adding to the permanent collection. When the Hall of Cham pions moved its location in 1999, MOPA tripled its amount of space, which

afforded it more galleries and the ability to add things such as classrooms and a 22,000volume library. After a yearlong renovation, the museum also added a 226 seat theater (the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theater) in 2001, where it hosts film screenings and annual film festivals. “It just made a big differ ence in terms of the presence that the organization brought to Balboa Park,” Klochko says. To celebrate the concur rent anniversaries, MOPA has three photographic exhibitions that should give patrons a sense that, while the technologies that drive the medium have changed, the imaginative and discern ing approaches to artistic photography remains the same. First, there’s the recently opened exhibitions “The Water Holds Me” by Suda House and “Video Portraits” by Robert Wilson. House is a local photographer who has perfected a vibrant, awe inspiring blend of por traiture and nature photog raphy. The MOPA exhibition features work from two

series, “Aqueous Myths” and “Seven Sisters of the Ple iades.” While the series are separated by nearly 40 years, both dutifully deal in themes of environmentalism and women’s rights. “She talks about her photographs as being a form of selfportraiture,” says Klochko, adding that it’s only fitting that House’s work is being displayed for the 40th anniversary since the genesis of “Aqueous Myths” began at MOPA’s grand opening in 1983 where House set up a large Polar oid camera to take pictures. “She uses models in both series, but they are embody ing who she is as an artist and as a woman.” “Video Portraits” is a multidecade, careerspan ning exhibition from the multitalented Wilson. Also known for this largescale theatrical productions, Wilson’s series of animal and celebrity portraits (think Lady Gaga, Robert Downey Jr. and Brad Pitt) blends stillbased photography with sound and chirographi cal components, which results in a transfixing, almost hallucinatory high definition video. Each por trait can take up to 30 people to produce, and they are often directly influenced by everything from Renais sance art to iconic cinematic moments. “There’s a real precision that he requires in terms of lighting, in terms of color, movement, dress and sound,” says Noah Khosh bin, the chief curator of the “Video Portraits” exhib itions, which have been shown at museums and galleries all over the world. He goes on to compare the process to a cross between a fashion photography and TV commercial shoot. “Each one is a work of art at the end of the day,” Khoshbin adds. “Each one has its own power, and while the technology he’s used has changed over time, we just continue to make them. Nothing has changed as far as how we approach the subjects.” Equally powerful, albeit analog in nature, is “Arrest ing Beauty,” an exhibition from pioneering closeup photographer Julia Mar garet Cameron, which opens April 29. Working in mid1800s Great Britain at the advent of the photo graphic medium and using a collodion wet plate process, Cameron took longexpo sure portraits of people and children. Klochko says Cam

eron’s pictures are “the essence of what art photog raphy is,” and while Camer on’s work was dismissed in her time, it is now seen as both technically innovative and creatively pioneering. “She made works that were exquisite,” says Klochko, adding that Cam eron didn’t even begin shooting photography until she was given a camera in her 40s. “She liked the blur red quality of the portraits. These were not documents, this was artistic expres sion.” On the surface, patrons might not immediately see similarities between the three MOPA exhibitions given that the respective works were created cen turies apart. In the case of Cameron and Wilson, this assessment is understand able. One was working with photographs while the medium was still in its in fancy, while the other uses the latest in digital technol ogies. Look closer, however, and the viewer begins to see the similarities in each of the exhibitions; that while they are, as Klochko puts it, “three completely different approaches to portraiture,” they are all attempting to capture that ineffable es sence of the subject. “There’s a connection all the way through and with all three exhibitions,” says Klochko, adding that she sees all three as “technol ogydriven” in their own ways or, rather, an artful form of portraiture that is driven by the technology the photographer used at the time. What’s more, all three exhibitions, while por traiturebased, are excellent encapsulations of the spirit of MOPA itself. The medium has grown and changed over the centuries, both aestheti cally and technologically, but whether someone is shooting on an iPhone or a bulbous tintype camera, the results can be magical and inspiring. Those results, says Klochko, will always have a home at MOPA. “I think MOPA’s history is one that deserves to be recognized,” Klochko says. “Really, we wanted to make a statement this year.” She pauses before add ing, “Well, we make a state ment every year really, but this year, the kind of think ing that went into the selec tion of exhibitions was very deliberate and works on multiple levels.”

Combs is a freelance writer.

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“The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder” by David Grann: January, 1742: A com pany of starving, halfdead men on a ramshackle raft washed up on the Brazilian shore with an extraordinary tale. They had been on the Wager, a British ship dispatched during a conflict with Spain that wrecked off the coast of Patagonia. Months later, three more men landed in Chile — and claimed that the others were actually muti neers. Grann, a New Yorker staff writer and the author of “Killers of the Flower Moon” and other books, narrates this story with plenty of verve. “Enter Ghost” by Isabella Hammad: In her second novel, Hammad follows a British Pal estinian actor who travels to Israel, where her sister lives, in the wake of a breakup. Soon, she is pulled into a production of “Hamlet” staged in the West Bank, prompting a deeper look at her own political and artistic values.

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San Diego author discusses the second book in his trilogy and his retirement plans

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n Tuesday, Don Winslow’s latest novel, “City of Dreams,” will arrive in bookstores and San Diegans will get the first crack at hearing the bestsell ing author talk about the second book in his “The City” trilogy. Winslow is a longtime San Diegan, and he’ll celebrate his book’s release Tuesday eve ning at Warwick’s bookstore in La Jolla. Winslow is the celebrated author of 23 novels that in clude “The Force,” “The Kings of Cool” and “Isle of Joy.” His novel “Savages” was made into a movie by filmmaker Oliver Stone, and his “Cartel” novels trilogy (“The Power of the Dog,” “The Cartel” and “The Border”) is being adapted into an FX series later this year. Earlier this month, news broke that Oscar nominee Austin Butler has been cast to play Danny Ryan in the film adapt ation of “City on Fire,” the first book in Winslow’s “The City” trilogy. “City of Dreams” picks up where last year’s “City on Fire” left off. On the run from the mob, police and FBI, Rhode Island crime boss Danny Ryan ends up in Hollywood, where he gets into the movie busi ness and falls for a beautiful movie star with secrets of her own. Winslow recently talked about the new book, his pas sion for San Diego, and his plans to retire from novel writing after the final book in the trilogy, “City in Ruins,” is published next year.

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ADVENTURES BY THE BOOK, (619) 3002532, adventuresbythebook.com Virtual: Laura Morelli will discuss her book about Michelangelo’s David, “The Giant,” at 11 a.m. Thurs day via Zoom. THE BOOK CATAPULT, (619) 7953782, thebookcatapult.com Rachael Cohen, spiritual coach and author of “Every day Plant Magic” will present an air plant and crystal terrarium workshop at 10:30 a.m. Saturday . $60 includes all materials plus copy of the book. DIESEL, A BOOKSTORE, DEL MAR, (858) 9257075, dieselbookstore.com Noa Nimrodi will discuss and sign copies of her children’s book “Not So Shy” at 3 p.m. today. MYSTERIOUS GALAXY, (619) 5397137, mystgalaxy.com Six authors of the shortstory collection “The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie” — Stacia Deutsch, Henry Herz, Dee Leone, Jonathan Maberry, Steve Pantazis and Scott Sigler — will discuss and sign copies of their book at 7 p.m. Tuesday. SALLY T. WONGAVERY LIBRARY, UC SAN DIEGO, https://cvent.me/93DlM7 UC San Diego Library hosts a moderated conversation with “The Ministry for the Future” novelist Kim Stanley Robinson, with student presentations on climate change at 6 p.m. Monday. WARWICK’S, (858) 4540347, warwicks.com Laura McKowen will discuss her book “Push Off From Here” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. $27 (includes book). Susan Meissner will discuss her book “Only the Beautiful” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. $28 (includes book). U.S. Rep. Katie Porter will discuss her book “I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan” at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. $28 (includes book and admission for two).

before “City on Fire” was re leased last year. Together, they’re a modern retelling of the “Iliad.” If the first book was inspired by the cause and beginning of the Trojan War, what are the classic story parallels we will see in “City of Dreams”? Well, Danny Ryan’s story arc follows Virgil’s “Aeneid,” while we track other characters through the “Odyssey” and Greek tragic dramas. I was really fascinated to learn what happened to the characters after the Trojan War ended — so many of their stories read like noir fiction. Having said that, it was impor tant to me that “City of Dreams,” like “City on Fire,” could be read as a standalone crime novel, without reference to the classics at all.

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Congratulations on the success of “City on Fire.” Was it heartening to see the first book of this long gestating project so well re ceived by both readers and critics? Thank you. Yes, as you alluded to, I’ve been working on this trilogy for decades — I think I wrote the first sentence 28 years ago. I kept picking it up and putting it down as I was working on other projects — so when I finally finished it, and it was published

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A San Diegobased décor company is bringing a diverse range of creations into the home, helping increase the representation of Black and Brown communities. “There is a lack of diversity in the home goods industry,” said Jasmine Williams, the creator of SUNNY&TED, an online retailer specializing in prod ucts that represent people of color. “My voice is important. It’s kind of become this mission that I’m spearheading.” In 2018, Williams — who was expect ing her first son — went on an “extreme scavenger hunt” in search of a Christ mas mug with a Black Santa Claus to pass down to her child. She grew disheartened when she

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and more. In May, the company will release The Merfolk Collection, a new line of mugs, plates and cups featuring mer maids with different skin tones in spired by the new adaptation of “The Little Mermaid,” coming to theaters this year. While Williams created her brand for Black and Brown communities, she said everyone relates to the products. “It’s been amazing to see Asian, Mexican, Black and even White people (respond),” she said. Find SUNNY&TED products on line and at select retailers including Socialite Party Parlor in downtown Chula Vista.

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BY ROXANA BECERRIL First Light Surf Club is uniting early risers in North County who share a love of surfing, hoping to foster a healthier community. “Starting the day in the ocean, surfing with friends, starts my day off on the right foot,” said John Hall, First Light’s founder. “I’m able to be a better employee and be in a better head space (when I begin) the day with intention, doing something I love.” A Carlsbadbased “community, brand and lifestyle,” First Light Surf Club made a splash last year when Hall began noticing he wasn’t the only one who enjoyed catching some waves early in the morning before heading to work. After years of working in the surf industry at companies like Reef, Hall’s career took a turn when he joined his family’s construction business in 2019, leaving little time for his favorite pas time of surfing. Many early visits to the beach later, Hall realized there was a dedicated community of surfers like him who knew the benefits of starting the day in the water. Last summer, he began designing tshirts, hoodies and other merchandise and launched his own brand and surf club to build up that community and “promote mental health and physical wellness through surfing.” In January, Hall hosted his first “Sip

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Taking away woman’s keys to stop drunken driving ends their longtime friendship Dear Abby: I am heartbroken over the loss of my best friend of more than 30 years. “Barb” and I met in college. We live and are raising our families in the same city and are godmothers to each other’s children. My children and hers have grown up together and are best friends. My friendship with Barb ended abruptly about six months ago at my daughter’s wedding. Barb had a lot to drink at the reception. When she was ready to go home, my son and I walked out with her and quietly told her we would give her a ride home. Barb was adamant about driving herself home, although we knew she was too drunk to get there safely. We eventually had to physically take away her keys so she couldn’t drive herself. This was done away from the party so as not to make a scene. Barb finally agreed, but during the drive she announced that our friendship was over. I assumed she would call me in the next couple days, embarrassed about her behavior, and everything would be good again. Instead, she wants nothing to do with me or my family! She has forbidden me or my children to enter her house and won’t answer my phone calls. I have never known

Barb to be spiteful, and I’m confused about her behavior. I know if the situation happened again, I still wouldn’t let her drive drunk. I care too much about her and her children to let her take that risk. Do you think there is any hope for a renewed friendship? Inconsolable In Illinois Dear Inconsolable: No, I do not. You were worried because your friend could have caused an accident, injured herself or someone else or been arrested for DUI. Under the circumstances, you did the right thing, and Barb should be grateful instead of punishing you for your good deed. She owes you an apology. For your own sake, take a step back. The ball is in Barb’s court, and you can’t make her stop dropping it. Dear Abby: I’m in a relationship with a beautiful, smart, funny woman. She has made me want to become a better person. She’s the love of my life, and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. But she has a problem: She steals from storage units, taking other people’s personal belongings, memorabilia and valuables that they worked and saved for over who knows how many years.

I cannot stand a thief. It makes me furious when she does this. I have threatened to call the police, tell her family or leave her to try to get her to stop. It’s caused so many problems between us. I’m at the end of my rope. I don’t want to lose her, but I can’t watch it anymore. What should I do? Turned Off In Texas Dear Turned Off: Is this “beautiful, smart, funny” woman stealing for profit or because it’s an impulse she can’t resist? If it’s the latter, she needs professional help. If it’s the former, then realize that if the authorities get wind of it and you live together, you would both be accused of possession of stolen property, which is a crime. The best thing you could do for both of you would be to insist she get professional help before moving to further this relationship.

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Teenage son on the brink of adulthood turns against mom after his father’s death Dear Carolyn: My son is 17. His dad and I divorced ﬁve years ago. We shared custody. After my son went to high school, he mostly stayed with his dad because he went to school nearby, and I saw him a few times a week for a meal and homework help. I’ve lived alone since the divorce. My relationship with my son has been fraught. I love him to death, but he doesn’t see that. He thinks I have no emotions, I am cold, I don’t love him. He doesn’t talk to me unless he needs something from me. I have said many times I love him so much. I often ask him if he is all right. My son has never told me he loves me. He has never asked how I am doing. He is rude to me and has said very hurtful things. When I help my son with his homework, he gets very irritable. I can handle these things. My ex-husband recently died of cancer. That was devastating to my son and to my relationship with him. He is being very difficult. I suggested putting his shoes by the door and got, “Don’t [expletive] tell me what to do.” I knocked at his door at his dad’s house to announce supper, and he came out and said, “First, this is my house. You need to call ﬁrst. Second, there is [product] out next week. Can I get it? Third, [friends] and I want to go [away] for spring break. Can I go?” I also inherited money from my ex, and my son says I am not sharing it with him, which is untrue. I am not complaining. I am doing what a mother should do. I just don’t understand why the disrespect for me and disregard for facts. His grades fell badly in the past quarter. I hope he will pick up his schoolwork and start thinking for his future.

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‘Blue economy’ expert joins Intesa Communications Greg Murphy has joined Intesa Communications Group as senior manager of strategic partnerships in San Diego. Murphy brings 15 years of policy, government and consulting experience to his new role. His hiring expands Intesa’s govern ment affairs services to include Coastal Commission advocacy, and work within the burgeoning blue economy and increases the firm’s local and statewide relation

ships for existing clients, the com pany said in a news release. “I have known Greg for more than a decade and could not be more thrilled to have him join our impressive team,” said Intesa partner Maddy Kilkenny. “Greg’s govern ment experience and deep relation ships, as well as his unique knowledge of the blue economy Greg and its drivers, are Murphy welcome and much anticipated assets to our client partners.” The blue economy is often defined as the sustainable use and

management of ocean resources for economic growth and ecosys tem health. It represents a signifi cant growth sector in the state, and a natural opportunity for Intesa’s clientservice expansion, the company said. “Intesa is already a trusted government relations and policy change partner for some of our region’s most recognized leaders,” Murphy said. “It’s a treat to be a part of this respected and uniquely positioned team. Now, Intesa can provide meaningful support in navigating the Cali fornia Coastal permitting process, nurturing relationships at the state and local level, and executing big wins for blue economy leaders

throughout California.” Prior to joining Intesa, Murphy founded and managed Blue Econ omy Strategies, and served as director of corporate development and strategic partnerships at BlueNalu, a venture backed cell cultured seafood startup. Before that, he was executive director of TMA BlueTech, a leading trade association for ocean and water technology companies. Murphy also served as policy advisor for then San Diego County Supervisor Greg Cox from 2010 2015 during the time Cox served on the California Coastal Commis sion and the National Ocean Council. In addition to his professional

accomplishments, Murphy serves on the executive committee of the board of directors for the Maritime Museum of San Diego, where he is helping to preserve and promote San Diego’s rich maritime herit age.

More career news Alexandra Noe is starting a new position as medical spa man ager and media marketer at San Diego Skin. Arcelia Gonzalez is the new human resources manager at San Diego American Indian Health Center.

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Dip into Avocado Festival, luxury cars, Chicano Park Day and more Chow down at some of the year’s best food festivals, enjoy an elite car show, support Chicano history or party for the planet in honor of Earth Month. Whatever you’re interested in, there’s a fun activity in San Diego to support it. Start saving these dates:

Fallbrook Avocado Festival Hundreds of booths and tens of thousands of people will line Fall brook’s Main Avenue on Sunday, April 23, for a day of fun, food, music and contests celebrating all things avocado. The Fallbrook Avocado Festi val will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Vendors will be offering all kinds of tasty treats and bever ages, as well as unique crafts, jewelry, bath and body products, clothing and more. Locally grown fruits and vege tables, as well as gorgeous flowers, plants and herbs will be offered in a Farmers Market area. Contests include bestdressed avocado, children’s avocado derby racing, best guacamole, Little Mr. and Miss Fallbrook and an avocado costume contest. Shuttles are available.

Nature Night at museum Help the kids learn more about taking care of the planet with Nature Night from 57 p.m. Sat urday at the San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum. This familyfriendly activity is open to all ages and features a series of science, technology, read ing, engineering, art and math (STREAM) activities, as well as the chance to chow down on local food truck offerings and get ex cited about conservation. Tickets are required. Museum members are $10 and nonmem bers are $15. Visit sdcdm.org/naturenight.

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Concours d’Elegance The much anticipated Con cours d’Elegance is zooming into La Jolla Village on Friday through Sunday, April 23, highlighting the best automobiles on the planet. The popular luxury car show takes place at Scripps Park. Last year’s event featured about 150 mostly classic cars in a wide range of judging categories. There are several exclusive ticketed events for this worldclass attraction, but a free display will take place from 59 p.m. Saturday

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Chicano Park Day The 53th Chicano Park Day is taking place from 10 a.m to 5 p.m. Saturday, with music, activities and a variety of food and items for sale. It’s the first inperson Chicano Park Day in three years. The celebration commemo

rates the April 22, 1970, takeover of the thenvacant site, which had been promised to the community as a future park but was instead slated for a parking lot. Activists occupied the property for 12 days and began to build the park on their own. Chicano Park Day has been celebrated every April since. Tick ets are $10 for adults; youths 18 and under get free admission with preregistration online. Visit chicanopark.com.

Party for the Planet Get tickets in advance if you’d like to Party for the Planet from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 2223 and 2930 at the Birch Aquarium’s Earth Day Event. The event is part of a nation wide effort to get families more involved in conservation. Activ ities are included with your aquar ium admission and range from crafts and projects to an interac tive station that can help answer your questions. Visit aquarium.ucsd.edu/expe riences/events/partyplanet.

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GAMES The New York Times Crossword Puzzle: Artistic Differences BY JEREMY NEWTON AND TRACY GRAY / PUZZLE EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

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ACROSS “Nah, you’re not!” retort Comedy-club sounds Port of Mexico Where to hear amateur bands? Wear down “It is better to be ____ than to be pitied”: Herodotus Spaceship battle?/ An iconic van Gogh Big hit Timbre ____-nest Some fairy-tale characters Coffee-maker insert Student-council electee, informally Booze it up, old-style Grp. with cryptanalysts Sounds of saxophones Flying invention by a classic automaker?/ An iconic Klee “You’re on!” Why cases might go cold N.F.L. sportscaster Andrews Slangy reply when Bart’s sister asks, “What’s Covid?”/An iconic Leonardo West Coast football powerhouse, in brief Gravy, you might say Curmudgeons Come next Maximal ending Anago or unagi Dance accompanied by pahu drums Blue berry Popular a.m. show, familiarly Essential qualities Reason Mercury gets eclipsed?/An iconic Botticelli Remark from the financially or vertically challenged “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” e.g. War game Put out Word of advice Academic must: Abbr. Cause of some Yellowstone traffic jams Hang loose? Like some covers and kisses Zip it! Post-dinosaur period?/An iconic Magritte What a wristwatch wraps around Hated with a passion No small favor

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Bridge TANNAH HIRSCH LEAKY SHIP 95 Opposite of liberal doves?/An iconic Hopper 98 Participate in a marathon, say 99 Notice 100 Notice 101 “Unfortunately, yes” 105 Schumer of comedy 108 In fashion? 111 “Cute” vowel sound 112 California city whose name means “tar” 113 Dalmatians, e.g. 115 Planning one’s 24-hour itinerary?/ An iconic Michelangelo, with “The” 119 Ill considered 120 U.S. swimming gold medalist Ledecky 121 Private meeting 122 Like in-flight smoking 123 Tell jokes until PowerPoint unfreezes, e.g. 124 Apt word spelled by the new letters that alter this puzzle’s seven works

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Rocky Mountain state: Abbr. Flag carrier in the Mediterranean Quagmire Subject of the biography “Mr. Playboy” Crop up Enjoy more than one’s fair share Focusing issue, in brief Pitted against one another Where fur coats get cleaned? Loosen, as a spool Nefarious Real doozy No. for a résumé Work of praise Dot-com start-up? Cornerstone figs. Zoos, so to speak Los ____, vacation hot spot in Mexico One may be on the house Start for made or paid Big ball Records of the past Relaxing soak ____ de vie N.Y.C. ave. east of Park Hankering

42 Drive-____ 43 Prey for a polar bear 44 N.F.L. team with the mascot Sourdough Sam, to fans 45 Old spy org. 46 Giggle alongside (not at!) 49 First pope in a line of 13 51 “How could you?!” playfully 54 Punk offshoot 56 Scored, as free throws 59 Super-dry 60 Rainbows in the sky, perhaps 62 Sporting a natural style 64 It’ll cost you 66 Per musician Charlie Parker, “If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your ____” 67 Neighbor of the “~” key 68 Tree climbers, perhaps 69 Vampire’s cry in sunlight 70 “Stranger Things” actress ____ Bobby Brown 71 Wipe clean, as a car 75 Baby’s first word, commonly 76 Hoppy offerings, in brief

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Both vulnerable, North deals NORTH ♠Q983 ♥AK2 ◆AKJ75 ♣K WEST EAST ♠ A 10 7 4 ♠J ♥ J 10 6 ♥84 ◆Q86 ◆ 10 9 4 3 2 ♣ J 10 2 ♣Q7543 SOUTH ♠K652 ♥Q9753 ◆ Void ♣A986 The bidding: NORTHEASTSOUTH WEST 1♦ Pass 1♥ Pass 1NT* Pass 2♣ Pass Pass 2♠ Pass 2♥ 3♠ Pass 4♣ Pass 4♦ Pass 4♠ Pass 5NT** Pass 6♠ All pass *Artificial, at least 18 points **Bid seven with 2 of the top 3 spade honors Opening lead: Jack of ♣

Robson and his partner were playing an unusual system. We are told that North’s one no-trump rebid showed any hand with at least 18 high-card points. Robson won the opening club lead with dummy’s king and played a spade to the jack, king and ace. This was a good start. West switched to a heart, which Robson won with dummy’s ace and ruffed a diamond in his hand. A spade to dummy’s eight was followed by the king of hearts and another diamond ruff, this time with Robson’s last trump. Robson cashed the ace of clubs, shedding the last heart from dummy, and led the queen of hearts, discarding a diamond. Robson led another heart and there was nothing West could do. Should West South in today’s deal was ruff, dummy would over-ruff, Andrew Robson, perhaps draw the last trump, and take England’s greatest player. The the rest of the tricks with diadeal is from a recent team monds. Should West never ruff, competition and the declarer his trumps would be picked up at the other table failed by two on the last two tricks in a clastricks in the same contract. sic trump coup. Well done!

Chess SHELBY LYMAN Premier Crossword: Icky Ending BY FRANK A. LONGO #2,138 ACROSS 1 Brief ad 5 Resistance units 9 Circular paths 15 Imprison 19 Starch-yielding plant 21 They may disturb sleep 22 — -Seltzer 23 Nut acquired with great effort? 25 Nail salon job, in brief 26 — box (TV) 27 Cathedral in London 28 R&B’s Brown 29 Prohibits 30 Erfurt article 31 Sprinkle sofa shams with water drops? 35 Calf-roping event 37 Link with 38 Casino cube 39 “Boo!” shouter 43 French city on the Rhone 47 Tax org. 48 Stan of jazz saxophone 49 Catholic dignitary’s vigorous strength? 52 West African country 54 Juneau native 55 Directives 57 Like Stoker’s “Dracula” 61 Steal from 62 Liking a lot 64 Overly crooked? 66 Quite dry 68 Stock debut, for short 70 “Nope” 71 Often-twisted cookie 72 Long-billed wading bird that loves perching on flexed arm muscles? 78 Testing stage 81 Early 1960s atty. gen. 82 Navy engineer 83 Made airtight, say 85 Liken (to) 87 Joan of folk 89 Climate that promotes the growth of powdery fungus? 91 Pale-looking 94 “Get ’em, Fido!” 96 Model X carmaker 97 Runs after 98 Aussie leaper 99 Grand house 101 “You’re — pal!”

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Chess is facing its own women’s championship, #MeToo moment. Jennifer Shahade beats Two-time U.S. women’s Tatev Abrahamyan in a chess champion Jennifer game en route to her secShahade alleged on Twitter ond national title. on Feb. 15 that she was twice sexually assaulted by grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez a decade ago. She said she felt ethically obliged to warn the chess world now after hearing other women complain about Ramirez. Then in early March, The Wall Street Journal reported that in interviews, eight women accused Ramirez of unwanted advances since 2011. As the scandal widened, Ramirez lost positions as a resident grandmaster and commentator for the St. Louis Chess Club and as a chess coach at St. Louis University. White Shahade White Shahade The club and the U.S. Chess Black Abrahamyan Black Abrahamyan Federation — for which Sha1. e4 e6 17. b4 Na6 hade is women’s program 2. d4 d5 18. a3 Kg8 director — said they are in3. Nd2 Nf6 19. Bd3 h6 vestigating the matter. N(f)d7 20. Bxe7 Qxe7 In statements to the media, 4. e5 5. Bd3 c5 21. R(f)c1 Be8 Albert Watkins, a lawyer 6. c3 Nc6 22. Rc3 Rd8 for Ramirez, said the player 7. N(g)f3 cxd4 23. Qd4 Nb8 “categorically denies the Qb6 24. b5 b6 allegations.” He added: “Su- 8. cxd4 9. O-O Nxd4 25. h4 g6 perimposing today’s mores Qxd4 26. Qb4 Qb7 on erroneous recitals of acts 10. Nxd4 11. Nf3 Qb6 27. R(a)c1 Rd7 of yesteryear is a recipe for Be7 28. Nd4 Kg7 disaster for both the accused 12. Qa4 13. Qg4 Kf8 29. Nc6 h5 and the accuser.” 14. Bg5 Qd8 30. Qf4 Rc7 The scandal highlighted Nc5 31. Nd8 Black problems endured by women 15. Qf4 16. Bc2 Bd7 resigns. in a male-dominated enterprise. In a chess.com interview, Shahade said The Wall Street Journal “brought to light some extremely disturbing, heartbreaking, infuriating things that have been going on in the chess world for too long. ... Men, the adults, really have to do better to create a better culture.” She said mistreatment of women “was just very normalized, and that just needs to stop. We need to step up and make Hint: Checkmate in two. sure that our game is safe Solution: 1. Qxg5ch! Nxg5 2. Ne7ch and fun for everyone.” checkmate (a double check)! Below, at the 2004 U.S.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed County of Riverside Peter Aldana Assessor –County Clerk – Recorder R-202304346 03/22/2023 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RAINBOW RETREAT PROPERTIES LLC at 43980 BARLETTA ST, TEMECULA, CA 92592 RIVERSIDE Registrant Information: 2a. RAINBOW RETREAT PROPERTIES LLC 43980 BARLETTA ST, TEMECULA, CA 92592 This business is conducted by: Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2023 I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) /s/ RICHARD VIGIL VICE PRESIDENT NOTICE In Accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, A Fictitious Business Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in this statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this State of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another Federal, State or Common Law (See Section 14411 Et Seq., Business and Professional Code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana Riverside County Clerk. 03/26/23, 04/02/23, 04/09/23, 04/16/23

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed County of ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Riverside Peter Superior Court of California, County of Riverside Aldana Assessor Case Number: CVSW2301858 –County Clerk – MELISSA RENEE HOUSE Recorder R-202303537 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: MELISSA RENEE HOUSE 03-09-23 Notice is hereby given that PODS Enterprises, LLC, located at 2402 filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: The following Main St, Suite B, Chula Vista, CA 91911, will sell the contents of certain person(s) is (are) containers at auction to the highest bidder to satisfy owner’s lien. Auca. Melissa Renee House to Melissa Renee Thorp doing business as: tion will be held online at www.StorageTreasures.com starting on RELIGION OF May 2, 2023 and ending on May 9, 2023. Contents to be sold may THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear HEALTH include general household goods, electronics, office & business equip- before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, at 29605 SOLANA ment, furniture, clothing and other miscellaneous property. The name why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any WAY TEMECULA, CA of the occupants and the respective items to be sold are as follows: person objecting to the name changes described above must file a 92591 Riverside Antoinette Douglas: Kid Scooter, Kid Toys, boxes and totes, and other written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least Registrant miscellaneous items; Teresa Hargrove: Gaming Chair, boxes and totes, two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must Information: and other miscellaneous items; Larry Oldham: Lawn Mower, boxes and appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be 2a. QUEEN CITY totes, and other miscellaneous items; Venessa Cabral: boxes and totes, granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the ENTERPRISES, INC. and other miscellaneous items; David Sokolowski: Surfboard, furni- petition without a hearing. 43537 RIDGE PARK ture, and other miscellaneous items. DR. NOTICE OF HEARING TEMECULA CA CITY OF OCEANSIDE Date: 5-4-2023 Time: 8:00 AM Dept.: S101 92590 The address of the court is This business is REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Superior Court of California County of Riverside conducted by: 30755-D AULD ROAD SUITE 1226, MURRIETA, CA 92563 Corporation PROJECT: On-Call Engineering Support Services Registrant A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once commenced to 1.1 PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Oceanside (City) each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing transact business is requesting proposals, including a Statement of Qualifications (SOQ), on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, under the fictitious from consulting firms that demonstrate qualifications and experience printed in this county: The Californian business name(s) of services as described herein. listed above on The City of Oceanside Engineering Division is an integral part of the Dated: MARCH 14 2023 /s/ JAMES F. HODGKINS 2022 City’s Development Services Department charged with the design, Judge of the Superior Court I declare that all the management and construction of Capital Improvement Projects, in- Published: 03/26/23, 04/02/23, 04/09/23, 04/16/23 information in this spection of Capital and Development projects, plan review of develstatement is true and opment plans including Subdivision Maps, Grading Plans, Lot Line correct. (A registrant adjustments, on and off-site improvement plans FEMA elevation cerwho declares as tifications, stormwater and water quality plan review, etc. Consulting ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME true any material firms are encouraged to submit a proposal for one, some or all of the Case Number: 37-2023-00015023-CU-PT-NC matter pursuant to following requested services: Superior Court of California, County of San Diego Section 17913 of 325 South Melrose Drive, Vista, CA 92081 the Business and • Category A – Engineering Design Project Management Petition of Dimitri Kim Karavokiris Professions Code, that • Category B – Construction Project Management FOR CHANGE OF NAME the registrant knows • Category C – Construction Inspection/Observation To all Interested Persons: Petitioner: Dimitri Kim Karavokiris filed a to be false is guilty • Category D – Design & Construction Surveying and Survey Plan Re- petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: of a misdemeanor view a. Dimitri Kim Karavokiris to Dimitri Kim Trigonis punishable by a fine • Category E – Stormwater and Water Quality Plan Review FICTITIOUS The Court Orders that all persons interested in this matter shall apnot to exceed one • Category F – Geotechnical Engineering Design and Construction pear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if BUSINESS thousand dollars Support NAME STATEMENT any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any ($1,000).) • Category G – Land Development Plan Review Support Services File No.: person objecting to the name changes described above must file a /s/ ASHLEY 2023-9007768 written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least AUGUST, Those firms wishing to provide a submittal for multiple categories will two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must Filed with Jordan SECRETARY need to submit a proposal work plan for each category separately in appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be Z. Marks Recorder/ NOTICE In order to keep the review process clear and concise. The separate pro- granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the County Clerk County Accordance with posals may be compiled under a single cover letter with a single set of petition without a hearing. of San Diego: Subdivision (a) of resumes, company bios, etc. 04/07/2023 NOTICE OF HEARING Section 17920, A The selected consultant(s) shall provide the following services in acFictitious Business Date: 6/9/2023. Fictitious Business cordance with the applicable regulations and policies of the State of Name(s): Time: 8:30am. Dept: 25. Name Statement California and the City of Oceanside. The selected consultant(s) shall a. Shelltown The address of the court is the same as noted above. generally expires have experience working for a municipality or local agency. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once Productions at the end of five The City is seeking up to three (3) consulting firms for each category each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hear- Located at: 3825 years from the date based on the quality of the technical proposals received. The City ing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, Birch St, San Diego, on which it was will enter into a contract that will expire June 17th, 2026 with two (2) printed in this county: The San Diego Union Tribune. CA 92113, San filed in the Office of single year extensions pending consultant performance during the NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE ABOVE DATE; SEE ATTACHMENT Diego County. the County Clerk, initial period. Each Category will have an annual budget impact cap; Dated: 4/13/2023 Mailing Address: 3825 except, as provided Brad A. Weinreb contracts will not be exceeded in any one budget year without written Birch St. San Diego, Judge of the Superior Court. in Subdivision (b) of authorization from the City Council. ATTACHMENT TO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME (JC CA 92113 Registered Section 17920, where The prospective Consultant will be evaluated based on information FORM #NC-120) NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED Owners Name(s): it expires 40 days after submitted in response to the criteria included in this Request for Pro- IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents a. Doodare LLC , any change in the posal (RFP). filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of 3825 Birch St. San facts set forth in this Once a selection is made, the City will enter into contract negotiations Name (JC Form #NC-120). If all requirements for a name change have Diego, CA 92113, statement pursuant with the consultant firm. Upon successful negotiations, the City and been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has California. This busito Section 17913 consultant will enter into a professional services agreement with an been received (required at least two court days before the date speci- ness is conducted by: other than a change in anticipated start date of June 2023. fied), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be grant- a Limited Liability the residence address Digital copies of the RFP are available for viewing and downloading ed without a hearing. One copy of the Order Granting the Petition will Company. The first of a registered owner. on the City of Oceanside Website at www.ci.oceanside.ca.us. Written be mailed to the petitioner. To change a name on a legal document, in- day of business was A new Fictitious requests may also be made to the Associate Engineer via the email cluding a birth certificate, social security card, driver license, passport, 04/07/2023. Business Name noted above. and other identification, a certified copy of Decree Changing Name I declare that all Statement must PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION (JC Form #NC-130) or Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing information in this be filed before the To respond to this request for proposals, the City of Oceanside asks for Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (JC Form statement is true and expiration. The filing a proposed scope of work for each category contemplated, proposed #NC-230) may be required. Contact the agency(ies) who issues the le- correct. (A registrant of this statement does project manager, and cost proposal. Digitally submit the proposal via gal document that needs to be changed, to determine if a certified who declares as true not of itself authorize PDF. The PDF shall be no larger than 10 megabytes and shall include copy is required. A certified copy of Decree Changing Name (JC Form any material matter the use in this State of all relevant signatures. #NC-130) or Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing Change pursuant to Section a Fictitious Business Submit Proposals digitally to the following (do not mail or ship over- of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (JC Form #NC-230) 17913 of the Business Name in violation of night): may be obtained from the Civil Business Office for a fee. Petitioners and Professions code the rights of another Kymberly Corbin, PE, Associate Engineer who are seeking a change of name under the Safe at Home program that the registrant Federal, State or City of Oceanside – Engineering Division may contact the assigned department for information on obtaining knows to be false is Common Law (See 300 North Coast Highway certified copies. If all the requirements have not been met as of the guilty of a misdeSection 14411 Et Oceanside, CA, 92054 date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with meanor punishable Seq., Business and (760) 435-3534 further directions. If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a hear- by a fine not to Professional Code). kcorbin@oceansideca.org ing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions. A RE- exceed one thousand I hereby certify that Due Date: 4:00 pm April 28, 2023 SPONDENT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN dollars (1,000).) this copy is a correct All data, documents, and other products submitted in response to this OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and Registrant Name /s/ copy of the original RFP remain the property of the City. City reserves the right to retain all holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the Alexander Dare, statement on file proposals submitted and to use any idea(s) in a proposal regardless of specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future hear- CEO in my office. Peter whether that proposal is selected. Submission of a proposal indicates ing date. Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed 04/09/23, 04/16/23, Aldana Riverside acceptance by the Consultant of the conditions contained in this RFP by only one parent must have this Attachment served along with the 04/23/23, 04/30/23 County Clerk. and any appendices hereto, unless clearly and specifically noted in the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other non-signing parent, 04/02/23, 04/09/23, Put your ad into action! 04/16/23, 04/23/23 proposal and confirmed in the contract between the City and the se- and proof of service must be filed with the court. lected Consultant. Published: 04/16/23, 04/23/23, 04/30/23, 05/07/23 866-411-4140

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 2023-9005551 Filed with Jordan Z. Marks Recorder/ County Clerk County of San Diego: March 10, 2023 Fictitious Business Name(s): a. Miss San Diego Empire b. Miss South San Diego Empire c. Miss East San Diego Empire Located at: 32780 Hayden road, Menifee, CA 92584, Riverside County. Mailing Address: 32780 Hayden road, menifee ca 92584 Registered Owners Name(s): a. Lowona l. Crawford, 32780 Hayden road,menifee ca 92584. This business is conducted by: an Individual. The ﬁrst day of business has not yet started 03/10/2023. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a ﬁne not to exceed one thousand dollars (1,000).) Registrant Name /s/ Lowona L.Crawford 04/09/23, 04/16/23, 04/23/23, 04/30/23

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was 01/01/1997. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a ﬁne not to exceed one thousand dollars (1,000).) Registrant Name /s/ John Rowles 03/26/23, 04/02/23, 04/09/23, 04/16/23

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed County of Riverside Peter Aldana Assessor –County Clerk – Recorder R-202305075 04/03/2023 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NICE FIND ESTATE SERVICES at 29426 CRESTA DRIVE MENIFEE CA 92584 Riverside Registrant Information: 2a. PAMELA DENISE MARSHALL 29426 CRESTA DRIVE MENIFEE CA 92584 This business is conducted by: Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the ﬁctitious name(s) listed above. I declare that all the

I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) /s/ PAMELA MARSHALL NOTICE In Accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, A Fictitious Business Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after

Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in this statement pursuant to Section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this State of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another Federal, State or Common Law (See Section 14411 Et Seq., Business and Professional Code). I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Peter Aldana Riverside County Clerk. 04/09/23, 04/16/23, 04/23/23, 04/30/23

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed County of Riverside Peter Aldana Assessor –County Clerk – Recorder R-202303704 03/13/2023 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RUFF LIFE MOBILE PET SPAW at 38017 GREENLEAF PL MURRIETA, CA 92562 Riverside Registrant Information: 2a. VALERIE VOGEL 38017 GREENLEAF PL MURRIETA, CA 92562 This business is conducted by: Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the ﬁctitious name(s) listed

name(s) listed above. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and Professions Code, that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) /s/ VALERIE VOGEL NOTICE In Accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, A Fictitious Business Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after

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BY STACY P E R M A N A N D A N O U S H A SA KO U I

I F T E E N Y E A R S after Hollywood writers walked out, another strike is looming. ¶ Back then, the Writers Guild of America’s fight to secure resid ual payments for shows distributed online forced a standoff that shut down Hollywood for 100 days. ¶ In retrospect, that contest over digital pay and home video residuals appears quaint. This time, tensions have reached a boiling point over the way streaming has steamrolled the industry. ¶ The WGA re cently asked members for a strike authorization as negotiations stalled with the Alli ance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The union, whose contract expires May 1, argues that while the shift to streaming has brought an unprecedented surge in content, it also has depressed pay across the board. ¶ Half of series writers now earn scale (the minimum episodic or weekly rate) compared with 33% during the 201314 season, according to a recent WGA survey. ¶ “While the companies are making billions of dollars, spending more and more on streaming, writers are making less and less. That’s untenable. It’s unsustainable,” Chris Keyser, cochair of the negotiating com mittee, said recently. ¶ The Times spoke with five writers who shared their stories.

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“Working gig to gig, you’re budgeting, ‘How do I pay my rent the next seven months?’ ” KAMRAN PASHA

One of the most hotly debated issues is the pervasiveness of “minirooms,” in which fewer writers are hired for shorter periods of time. They’re a direct result of the profound shift in the way television is made and fueled by the rise of dominant streamers like Netflix. The traditional network television model of ordering a 22episode series based on a pilot show is rarer. Instead, studios and networks now frequently arrange what are known as “short or ders,” series of perhaps eight or 10 epi sodes, convening small groups of writers to flesh out the themes of a show before deciding whether to go into production. The upshot, the guild argues, is that fewer writers are squeezed to work more for less pay. Television writer Kamran Pasha says the practice has turned what was once a remunerative and relatively steady job into just another gigeconomy hustle.

“A lot of these streamers, cable net works as well, are using minirooms,” Pasha said. “Studios are relying on these more and more, upending the traditional method of hiring writing staffs, which can be more expensive.” Pasha, 51, started writing for television in the early 2000s, racking up a string of credits that includes Showtime’s crime thriller “Sleeper Cell,” “Kings” on NBC and “Roswell, New Mexico” for the CW. Pasha recalled being invited by a ma jor cable network, which he declined to identify, to participate in a writers room in 2017 as a producer with six other writers for a series about terrorism. The show featured Pakistani or Middle Eastern Muslim characters. Pasha, a Muslim of Pakistani descent, was brought in specif ically to help provide an authentic voice to one of those characters. “It was something new for me that I had never experienced,” he said. “It was an experience that made me realize why people were critical of minirooms.” In Pasha’s case, the group of seven writers was tasked with laying out the foundation of the proposed show. Pasha had budgeted that about three months’ work would include weekly pay as well as the script fee for writing one episode. He was paid $7,373 per week for 16 weeks. A script fee would have added another roughly $30,000, he said. Accord ing to Pasha’s calculations, he would need

at least two such gigs a year to exceed his budgeted $200,000 annual salary. However, Pasha later discovered the network had commissioned six episodes and that all the writers would get a script fee — except for him. “The showrunner called me into the room and said, ‘Unfortunately, I just want to let you know we don’t have a script for you,’ and I was quite shocked. When I took the position, I budgeted the weekly rate, plus the presumed script fee that I was going to get. Working gig to gig, you’re budgeting, ‘How do I pay my rent the next seven months?’ ” It was more than just a financial hit for Pasha, who also was a producer on the show. “It also, for me, reflected how the in dustry defaults to ‘The brown guy doesn’t need a script,’ ” he said. :: When Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos hailed the success of the streamer’s 2020 period romance “Bridgerton” — watched by 82 million accounts for a total of 625 million hours — Leila Cohan, a writer on the series, fumed. Then she turned to Twitter. “This is cool news! You know what would also be cool? If i was getting resid uals commensurate with working on a huge hit! New media is … just media. Pay up accordingly,” Cohan tweeted. Cohan worked on the series for 20plus weeks in 2018 and 2019, contributing to every episode; she was nominated for an Emmy in 2021. Yet she and other writers say they haven’t reaped much of the fi nancial benefits for contributing to such a massive hit. “The amount of residuals I’ve seen from ‘Bridgerton,’ or ‘Santa Clarita Diet’ [also on Netflix], is very minimal,” she said. Residuals are the royaltylike fees paid out based on a matrix of calculations when shows are replayed. Traditionally, writers working on network television shows could expect residuals well into the six figures, cush ioning them during the lean times be tween projects. However, streaming residuals are not only significantly less, they are paid out on an annual basis as long as the show remains on the platform. And how these rates are formulated re mains opaque. When Cohan started her career in network television 11 years ago, writing

“The amount of residuals I’ve seen from ‘Bridgerton,’ or ‘Santa Clarita Diet,’ is very minimal.” LEILA COHAN

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has not fully recovered from the pan demic. And while streamers are buying more feature scripts, the new demand has done little to fill the void, writers say. According to a recent WGA survey, median screenwriter pay hasn’t moved since 2018 and, adjusted for inflation, has actually declined 14% in the last five years. West Hillsbased writer Sid Quashie can attest to that. A graduate of USC’s prestigious film school, Quashie joined the WGA in 1998. When Quashie started in the business, selling screenplays on spec, or writing scripts based on a studio’s existing prop erty, would typically involve two steps of guaranteed payment. Today, however, Quashie said that guarantee has been reduced to just one step, depressing his overall compensa tion. For example, in 2003, Quashie said he sold a script for a big fantasy movie to Walt Disney Studios. He was guaranteed to be paid around $250,000. The money was split into payments for the first and second drafts over six months. “If they didn’t like your first draft, they could still kick you off, but they would still have to pay you that second guaranteed step,” he said. Fastforward to 2019. Quashie sold a script to Netflix for a movie adapted from a youngadult book, but he said the streamer would guarantee only one step for less than $100,000. While deals vary, Quashie said that with the onestep deal, he earned about half what he did with guaranteed twostep deals 15 years ago. Meanwhile, studios are buying fewer scripts, especially for lowerbudget mov ies, he said. Quashie has continued to sell features but said that in recent years his main income stream has come from selling TV pilots and writing for TV shows, including

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“The middleclass writers who could subsist on two guaranteed steps were kind of getting squeezed out.” SID QUASHIE

was a lucrative job. Typically, a series had a set schedule of around 20 episodes and writers worked on them over 40 weeks. For the past seven years, Cohan has worked almost exclusively for streaming, where her work has been punctuated by shorter, 20week jobs with eight to 10 episodes. That has meant significantly less revenue from residuals. Cohan worked on two seasons of MTVs drama “Awkward” in 2013 to 2015, contributing to 45 episodes. She receive writing credit on five and collected $115,345.15 in residual payments, or $23,069 per episode. By contrast, Cohan earned $16,213.20 in residuals from one episode of Netflix’s “Santa Clarita Diet” that aired in 2017; and $12,581.88 for two episodes of the 2021 Netflix comedy series “Special.” Cohan said she was paid $33,878.26 in residuals for writing one episode of “Brid gerton.” While that’s more per episode than what she made on “Awkward,” the shorter eightepisode first season for “Bridgerton” meant fewer writing oppor tunities — and less money, Cohan said. Moreover, she said, the residuals did not reflect “Bridgerton’s” global popularity. “If [“Bridgerton”] had been on ABC and had been such a hit, they probably would have rerun it a lot and I also would have gotten a substantial payment for when it sold to foreign markets, and I would have gotten a payment when it went to streaming,” Cohan said. “And considering how much the companies are profiting off it, that doesn’t necessarily feel fair.” Netflix declined to comment on Co han’s specific claims. However, a spokes person said the streamer pays more than other companies for residuals, noting that they are tied to fixed rates such as licensing fees, and not to viewership. :: The streaming tsunami has walloped screenwriters too. Studios are releasing fewer movies, and theatrical attendance

the CW fantasy drama “Charmed.” “The middleclass writers who could subsist on two guaranteed steps were kind of getting squeezed out. You just had to take the only guaranteed step or you just didn’t work,” he said. :: Los Angelesbased Terri Kopp began writing for television more than 25 years ago, on network shows like NBC’s “Law & Order” and later “Proven Innocent” on Fox. But the rapid shift to shortorder series has meant a significant erosion of her pay. While the number of episodes has decreased, the span of time to produce them is often drawn out over many weeks — without compensation, she said. “I’m making half the money I made,” said Kopp, whose writing and producing credits also include “The Chi” on Show time and “BMF” on Starz. The WGA implemented socalled span protections in 2017, ensuring that if a writer works more than 2.4 weeks per episode, then they must be paid more. But not all shows are covered under these protections. “With streaming and a lot of cable outlets now, they’re just stretching out 10 episodes over an entire year,” said Kopp, who is an executive producer and writer on Starz’s “PowerBook IV: Force.” “My episodic fee suddenly gets diluted, and I have found myself getting paid scale.” Kopp, who began her career as a public defender in New York City, said she be came acutely aware of this new reality when she created the show “In Contempt,” about a Manhattan legal aid society lawyer, in 2016 for BET. “I’ve achieved the sort of thing that all of us TV writers are hoping for, that you get to create your own show. And that feels like where you’re finally going to make a lot of money,” Kopp said. However, after she opened a writers room where they wrote 10 episodes, the 24week schedule was extended to 30 weeks and the network paused produc tion. According to Kopp, the length of the writers room just covered her episodic fee at scale. “I actually was making less money as a creator of the show than I was 15 years prior on ‘Law & Order’ as a producer,” she said. A year later, when BET put the show back into production, Kopp didn’t fare much better financially. While she was paid a royalty fee of $5,000 per epsiode as its creator, and a fee for writing the pilot,

she earned the base scale rate. And Kopp said she wasn’t paid for the additional six weeks of postproduction, about $40,000 at scale, because that pay was not considered part of writing serv ices. “It’s demoralizing,” she said. “You can’t really say no. I mean, you can drive as hard a bargain as you can in the negoti ation, but at the end of the day, you want your show to get made.” :: For writers coming up during the age of streaming, the boom in production has not necessarily been matched by financial or career opportunities. Anthony Florez, 37, a Native American and member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, grew up splitting his time between Reno and the reservation about 35 miles away. His path to television began in 2016, while he was serving in the Navy. By chance, he became a military technical advisor on shows like TNT’s “The Last Ship.” “I didn’t grow up near television, no where near art, nowhere near any sort of a life that I thought I’d be a TV writer, that’s for sure,” Florez said. “All the men in my family are in the military.” Working as a military technical advisor — giving notes, helping to craft pitches and characters, making dialogue more authentic — gave him a taste for scriptwriting. In 2018 Florez was accepted into a Writers Guild Foundation veterans writ ing project and the Fox Writers Lab, a fellowship program supporting diverse voices. That year at NYU he was awarded the Tisch School of Arts Dean’s Fellow ship in dramatic writing, which led to a staff writing job on the Fox noir/western crime drama “Deputy” in 2019. A year later he wrote and directed the short feature “Two Bears.” Florez, who is a cochair of the WGA Native American and Indigenous Writers Committee, said that it’s been the indus try’s renewed focus on inclusion more than the upsurge of content that has propelled his career. Last year, he was one of an allNative American writing staff on the AMC series “Dark Winds,” about two Navajo police officers in the 1970s. “I do think that the push for diversity and hearing from different voices in Hol lywood helped make [“Deputy”] happen,” he said. “And so, I was a beneficiary of sort of those social movements.” But Florez notes there is a significant chasm between opportunities to write and the ability to earn a living from it. “It does feel awkward to be in an abovetheline job and feel like I’m barely living a decent life, you know, and I can’t buy a house,” he said. Florez said he was executive story editor on six episodes of “Dark Winds” and earned a writing credit and script fee for an episode he wrote. Nonetheless, he said the production would not pay for him to work on set producing his episodes, costing him $20,000 and the opportunity to gain crucial experience. “I’m a coproducer now, and I’ve never been on set of a single show that I worked on or have been able to give notes on a table read or ask actors to work through things and get better at my job,” said Florez, who aims to eventually become a showrunner. “And so, I don’t have the opportunity to actually go be better at my job. “The irony is that I was on more sets when I was a military technical advisor,” he added. Florez said that he’s had to accept writing projects with no financial security and uncertainty just to get his foot in the door. Between 2020 and 2022, Florez said he worked on an “ifcome” deal with 20th Century Studios to develop an hourlong drama series. In this scenario, writers are given a contract for a payout only if their television concept is picked up for distri bution by a network. In Florez’s case, when networks declined to buy the show, the studio dropped the project and Florez says he didn’t earn a dollar for his time. “It’s very frustrating because you’re at the whim of their notes and you’re at the whim of their timeline,” he said. “They don’t have to pay us and can shop our project without putting any money down.”

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“I actually was making less money as a creator of the show [‘In Contempt’] than I was 15 years prior on ‘Law & Order’ as a producer.” TERRI KOPP

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Story doesn’t have a quick wrap-up Layoffs, hints of a recession and an uncertain future for streaming set the scene for contentious contract negotiations between the WGA and Hollywood studios

BY ST E P H E N BAT TAG L I O, A N O U S H A SA KO U I A N D W E N DY L E E

S K A H O L LY WO O D studio executive about the state of the entertainment business these days, and many will say, “Don’t ask.” ¶ Firms such as Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney have laid off hundreds of employees. Companies are under pressure from Wall Street to cut costs and deliver reliable profits while they make risky investments in streaming. Meanwhile, talk of a recession percolates every day. ¶ The uncertain economic landscape is complicating the alreadyfraught contract negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and film and TV studios as they try to hammer out a new deal this month. ¶ Failure to reach a new agreement could lead to the first strike by Hollywood writers since the disruptive work stoppage that hit the industry in 20072008.

“It’s going to be a tough environ ment for them to come to a deal quickly because of the dynamics with studios having to make some cost cuts,” said David Smith, a pro fessor of economics at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School. “We’re still in this uncertain period about where digital stream ing is going to end up.” Adding to the complexities, the makeup of the trade group repre senting the major film and TV stu dios and networks — the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Pro ducers, or AMPTP — has changed dramatically since the last WGA strike in 20072008. With tech giants now in the mix, some members have competing priorities that could affect their willingness to hold the line as screenwriters demand more money from their work on streaming series, according to people familiar with the talks who were not author ized to speak publicly. Deeppocketed Amazon and Apple, for example, are looking to keep their relatively new film and TV operations humming to fuel their streaming businesses but are less accustomed to dealings with the entertainment unions than the more traditional members, like Warner Bros. and Disney. Others close to the negotiations push back on the notion that the alliance is fractured. They note that despite their divergent business interests, all the major studios — with the exception of Sony — have a shared interest in growing their burgeoning streaming businesses. “I do think there’s an interest on the part of streaming companies to continue to make gains in this indus try,” Smith said. “They probably don’t want their momentum to stop with an extended work stoppage. And they’re flush with cash so they might be willing to give up a little bit

more to the writers.” The AMPTP de clined to comment for this story. For their part, the writers are seeking improvements such as a minimum number of scribes hired for TV shows, taking aim at the socalled “mini rooms” becoming increasingly common in the streaming era. They also want an increase in residuals for streaming series, many of which do not benefit from the “back end” of traditional television, in which shows earn money from syndicated sales to TV stations and cable networks. The WGA and AMPTP began talks on March 20 to come up with a deal before the current contract expires May 1. The WGA has asked its 11,500 members to vote to autho rize a strike, a standard procedure as the union looks for leverage in the talks. The union has dismissed talk of the studios’ economic hardship as a convenient, frequently cited excuse to justify not paying writers what they deserve. “Every three years, writers are told why the current conditions make addressing their issues unten able,” the WGA said in a statement to The Times. “The current condi tions now are that the studios re main extremely profitable, while writers are losing ground. In this negotiation, writers are demanding protections that address all the ways the studios have cut pay, squeezed more work into less time or onto fewer writers, and de manded more work for free.”

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What’s more, the guild argues, many of the studios’ wounds are selfinflicted. The rapid rise of Netflix sent companies such as Comcast, Pa ramount, Disney and others scram bling to catch up with heavy invest ments in streaming. Recently, that shift has come under the unforgiv ing glare of Wall Street analysts after Netflix’s oncetorrid sub scriber growth sputtered. The writers say that’s not their problem. “It’s not for writers to pay for the poor decisionmaking of companies who decide to pursue expensive mergers or take on large amounts of debt,” said the WGA’s chief negotia tor, Ellen Stutzman. “Those are shortterm things that will change and we have to negotiate a contract that will live on for decades.” A WGA analysis said entertain ment operating profits for AMPTP members rose from $5 billion in 2000 to $28 billion in 2021, which is down from $30 billion in 2019. Studio reve

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seeks more residuals from stream ing shows such as “Stranger Things” and “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”

nue has risen from $155 billion in 2013 to more than $220 billion in 2022. And spending on original content for streaming is expected to reach $19 billion this year — nearly four times the spending level in 2019. The union’s fighting words are one reason why the studios are preparing for the worst. Producers say privately that the market for scripted programming has already softened because networks don’t want to tie up money in projects that could be hobbled by a lengthy strike. Studios are terminating projects that have been in active devel opment or are about to commence produc tion, said Elsa Ramo, managing partner of entertainment law firm Ramo Law PC. In the runup to the 20072008 strike, studios and producers stockpiled scripts so they’d have something to run. Companies are once again hedging against a potential work stoppage by producing additional episodes this year and banking them for later. But buyers may be less panicked this time around because Netf lix of changes in how consumers watch in the streaming era. While big homegrown hits such “Stranger Things” on Netflix and Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” get streaming customers into the tent, once inside they dis cover a massive catalog of older shows providing thousands of hours of programming. It’s how decadesold, longrunning series such as “Friends,” “The Office” and “Seinfeld” became hot again. Consumers may not feel the impact of a strike until the tradi tional television season begins in the fall and they don’t find new episodes of their favorite shows. Amazon and Apple are report edly set to each spend $1 billion annually to produce movies for theatrical release. (It was the deep pockets of tech players that drove Rupert Murdoch to sell his TV and movie production assets to Disney in 2019.) The ripple effects of a strike would be significant. Without writ ers, thousands of other employees involved in other aspects of TV and movie production will have to sit and wait for the two sides to come to an agreement. But there are other economic reasons why the studios would be willing to sustain a strike. If a job action goes several months, studios can cancel highpriced contracts with writers citing circumstances beyond their control, as many of them have socalled force majeure clauses. “No one will say it,” said one producer and former network exe cutive, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “But I think they’re secretly happy if there is a strike because it allows them to get out of some of their overall deals.”

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THIS TIME, THE STUDIOS WOULD FACE A WHOLE NEW REALITY Networks and streamers may have to rely on unscripted TV once again. But since the 200708 writers strike, it has matured into a formidable genre BY M E R E D I T H B L A K E A N D YVO N N E V I L L A R R E A L

H AT W I L L W E WAT C H if a Hollywood writers’ strike once again rattles the television universe? ¶ If history is any indication, there’s at least one answer: reality TV. And plenty of it. ¶ Most of the producers who craft reality TV story lines are not affiliated with a union and will not be affected by a strike. The genre also tends to be cheaper and less timeconsuming to produce than scripted TV, making it an ideal alternative during past work stoppages. ¶ The 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, which lasted 153 days, helped popularize shows like “Cops” and “America’s Most Wanted” for Fox, then an upstart network. And the last writers’ strike, which spanned November 2007 to February 2008, prompted networks and studios to order new unscripted programming and accelerate the return of others, including “Paradise Hotel,” “Big Brother” and “Celebrity Apprentice,” to plug programming holes during prime time.

Now, as the WGA continues tense negotiations with studios on a new master TV and film contract, the possibility of another strike is on the horizon. Unscripted programming is once again poised to serve as a stop gap for networks and streaming serv ices in the event of a prolonged halt in scripted production. However, this time it’s more complicated. The TV landscape has undergone dramatic changes over the last decade and a half as traditional broadcast networks competed with cable outlets and streaming services for audiences, meaning there is already a glut of content — unscripted and otherwise — for viewers to watch. Therefore, the need to summon more shows may be less urgent. Viewers may even breathe a sigh of relief if they finally have time to catch up on “The Wire” — or “The Great British Baking Show.” And while reality TV has proved to be the industry’s inexpensive pinch hitter, it has matured into a formida ble genre, and in the entertainment industry’s union ecosystem, it has a complex history. This time around, it is likely to draw more attention to ongoing labor issues. Compared with scripted TV, wages for unscripted series are lower, hours are longer and efforts to unionize have been met with fierce resistance. Work ers at a handful of production compa nies, including Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions and Sharp Entertain ment, maker of the hugely popular “90 Day Fiancé” and its spinoffs, have successfully organized with the Writ ers Guild of America, East. In March, writerproducers at BSTV, a nonfic tion production company specializing in cooking shows, joined them. “We’re all impatient to get as much done as possible, because it’s still a pretty hard place to make a living,” said Lowell Peterson, executive direc tor of the Writers Guild of America, East, citing the long hours, difficulty of obtaining health insurance, and lag ging diversity in reality TV. As it came to prominence in the late ’90s and early 2000s, reality TV was often dismissed and ridiculed as a mindless fad. Since then, it has ma tured into an entertainmentindustry titan and pop culture touchstone that attracts loyal and passionate audienc es even as its novelty has eroded. A new season of Netflix’s “Love Is Blind” can command as much social chatter as “Succession,” and in what seems a weekly occurrence, a must watch docuseries about serial killers, scammers or cult leaders is released. Although Netflix and other stream

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“Celebrity Apprentice,” above, and “Paradise Hotel,” below, aren’t around to fill air time if writers strike again.

ing services are guarded about view ing figures, it’s clear that many of these shows are hits, scoring quick renewals and inspiring spinoffs and crossover shows. Once relegated to the slow summer or winter months, unscripted programming now takes up more primetime and streaming space yearround. “Even though it may be a bit more disposable — you snack on it, and then you kind of move on — it is still the best game in town for most of the programmers,” said one reality TV producer who requested anonymity and did not comment directly on the strike. “It’s still the most viable type of content” when compared with the cost and risk associated with scripted programming. With the media industry in the middle of a transformative shift, fu eled by consolidation and downward pressure on budgets, unscripted TV remains an attractive lowerrisk en deavor. Depending on the network and show, budgets for reality shows can range from $100,000 to more than $3 million per episode. It’s also a nim ble format — it can produce a high volume of content in a short window, which can be useful if networks and studios start to sense a gap in pro gramming.

So far, there hasn’t been a notice able scramble in the marketplace to bank new content to offset any lengthy labor action, according to some reality TV producers. “The market and the buyers have changed so much in the last 15 years. There was such a boom in the last year of programming that we have multiple shows that haven’t aired yet. There hasn’t been that sort of panic that I think we all kind of felt more in 2008,” said another reality TV producer, who also requested anonymity. The dynamic between reality TV and the WGA has a complicated his tory — the format has been viewed by WGA members as a threat to scripted TV’s grip on primetime schedules but also a worthy ally to prevent networks and studios from using it as program ming leverage during a strike. The WGA sought to add animation and reality TV writers under the contract it was negotiating in 2007, but the de mand became one of its concessions. But over the last decade, workers in reality TV have grown more vocal about the grueling hours, low pay and poor benefits they face in what has been likened to an industry sweat shop. Although they don’t necessarily write dialogue, they must create com pelling character arcs and gripping story lines — work that requires skill and should be recognized with ade quate compensation, they argue. ToniAnn Lagana, a reality pro ducer who has spent more than a decade in the business on shows in cluding “American Idol” and “Dancing With the Stars,” hit a breaking point two years ago after regularly working 18hour days for months during the thick of the pan demic. Now a supervising pro ducer on Fox’s “The Masked Singer,” Lagana believes that she and others are skilled storytellers who deserve more respect and im proved working conditions. “We Ali Goldstein NBC are crafting the entire story line before it gets to the editor. We are writing, whether it’s on Avid or paper.” She is hopeful about the prospect of a union for unscripted producers, who often struggle to qualify for em ployerbacked healthcare because they go from one freelance gig to the next, and believes it is essential for the longterm wellbeing of the business, which is losing talented producers to burnout. “I have seen so many people leaving California and the industry. Everyone has their limit,” she said. “All of them loved what they did, but they had to change their lifestyle. I believe we can do the same amount of work but in a more humane way. We don’t need to keep stretching that rubber band to see how far it will go.” But progress has been halting, and unscripted workers who have at tempted to organize often face intense resistance from the production com panies that usually make shows for major networks and streaming serv ices. In 2015, the owners of Jane Street, a New York production company, sent an email urging their writerproducers not to vote for the union. The letter was widely circulated in the industry and even published by Deadline. A 2017 walkout by hundreds of reality writers in New York was dismissed by Left field Pictures, a prolific producer of unscripted content, as “a feeble at tempt to leverage publicity.” “Companies have been particularly oppositional,” said the Writers Guild’s Peterson. “This subsector of the enter tainment industry was set up [to be] intentionally nonunion. Not just writ ers, but they didn’t want to deal with IATSE or anybody. They thought they could produce this content much more cheaply. And if they have to start paying people their real value, it’s more expensive. It’s our job to make sure the value is recognized.”

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Tensions from last writers’ strike loom over current fight Mistrust between big media companies and their Hollywood workers lingers from ‘the last time the town shut down’ in 200708, and it has cast a long shadow over current WGA talks

Mark Boster Los Angeles Times

which we were all struggling to understand,” Verrone said. “We knew the world was going to change, and we needed to plant the flag.” For weeks, some executives were dismissive of writers’ demands to address what was then called “new media.” “The studios were posturing, saying: ‘This is a small sliver of our business, and we’re uncertain whether there’s going to be a lot of H E T OW N S H U T D OW N. ¶ Decades of distrust, a growing pay gap and adoption because people preferred rising technology propelled nearly 12,000 members of the Writers Guild of physical media,’ ” recalled David America in November 2007 to join picket lines in defiance of Hollywood’s entrenched media Smith, an economics professor at companies. ¶ The companies, led by the Walt Disney Co. and Fox, were determined to protect Pepperdine University’s Graziadio their bottom lines. Writers, in contrast, wanted to wrangle a bigger slice of the industry’s riches. Business School. “The studios were After all, how successful would the entertainment industry be without its writers? ¶ The bitter saying [the internet] shouldn’t be a strike stretched 100 days, and both sides emerged bloodied. ¶ Writers lost work and lucrative frontandcenter negotiating point.” contracts. The collateral damage extended to prop houses, hairstylists, carpenters and catering One executive who was deeply firms. Economic losses were estimated at as much as $2.1 billion. Production interruptions added involved on the studios’ side de to the pressures already facing broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. scribed being “caught in a fight of ignorance.” “No one, at that The strike was the moment Holly time, predicted wood first faced its chaotic digital that the business future. would be able to get Back then, Netflix didn’t seem consumers to pay like much of a threat. It mailed cus for programming tomers movie DVDs in red envel that was distribut opes. Although the combatants ed via the internet,” didn’t see that Netflix would become said this person, the great disrupter, they did recog who was not au nize that the shift to digital media thorized to speak would have profound consequences. publicly. “Every Those tensions have cast a long body thought it was shadow over current talks between going to be an ad the WGA and the Alliance of Motion supported busi Picture and Television Producers to ness.” reach a new contract by May 1. The For Verrone and producers group now includes Net other guild leaders, flix and tech giants Amazon Studios the 2007 strike and Apple along with legacy produc proved the neces ers NBCUniversal, Paramount sity of pressing for Global, Sony Pictures Entertain longterm gains, ment and Warner Bros. Discovery. Photo illustration by Los Angeles Times; Charley Gallay Getty Images despite the costs Observers see parallels between and disruption. today’s climate and the previous “Unquestionably, it was a suc edly being too cozy with the stu combustible talks. Guild leaders IN ’07’08 , cess,” Verrone said. “We know from dios.) Studios stockpiled scripts in have asked members to authorize a WGA other work areas — like in reality preparation. strike; results of that vote are ex members television — that if you don’t get Writers entered talks feeling pected this week. struck over jurisdiction from the jump, you’re they’d been outmaneuvered in past Several WGA members have pay gaps never going to get it. It becomes a negotiations. They were particularly taken to social media to voice their driven by a really high hill to climb.” burned by a formula used to calcu support for the authorization, remi rapidly Studio executives, however, pri late residuals payments for home niscent of the broad support guild changing vately grouse that writers lost more video sales, including DVDs, which leaders fomented before their last industry. than they gained — particularly had become huge moneymakers for walkout. Below, actors after companies invoked socalled studios. Guild leaders wanted to “It’s all about writers getting a fair Katherine force majeure clauses in writer boost those residuals. share,” Daniel Kwan, the Oscar Heigl and contracts midway through the AMPTP’s chief negotiator, the winning writer and director of T.R. Knight strike. The move, a French term for late Nick Counter, helped set a more “Everything Everywhere All at joined in “greater force,” enabled studios to adversarial stance. In an attempt to Once,” wrote on Twitter. “It’s about support. cancel generous “overall deals,” display strength, producers initially maintaining a healthy middle/work which compensated TV scribes even failed to show a willingness to give ing class of writers in our industry. if their shows were not picked up. any ground. Instead, the companies It’s about showing our collective A similar scenario could play out suggested reworking existing formu strength as new tech threatens to in the event of another walkout. las. take away our leverage.” The current negotiations are Writers Guild leaders quickly Then, as now, a lack of trust was unfolding at a challenging time as branded the offer as “rollbacks” and evident. most studio owners are desperate to rallied members. Studio bosses in 2007 were wor cut costs. The payTV model is In a major concession on the eve ried about the more aggressive crumbling, the advertising market of the strike, writers abandoned stance of guild leaders, thenWGA has been soft and Wall Street has their DVD demands to focus on the West President Patric Verrone and demanding profitability — not just internet. Executive Director David Young, a streaming signups. “The strike was about the future veteran union organizer. (The WGA Some media companies are strug of media and the future of writing, had fired its previous head for alleg

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gling to manage billions of dollars in debt incurred by recent acquisi tions. And it’s unclear whether corporate chieftains would view a possible strike as a way, at least in the short term, to save money on production costs. Executives at those firms have been scouring cupboards for proj ects to dump. Disney has launched a program to cut $5.5 billion in costs, including eliminating 7,000 jobs. “We’re already in a tenuous economic environment,” Smith said. Writers and the AMPTP in Feb ruary 2008 hammered out an agree ment that doubled residual pay ments for films and TV shows sold online and secured the union’s jurisdiction for shows created for the internet. The breakthrough came a few weeks after the AMPTP turned to another union, the Directors Guild of America, to negotiate its con tract, which undercut some of the writers’ leverage. “Some of the writers were being critical of the DGA for sitting down and trying to work out a deal when they were out on strike,” said prom inent attorney Ken Ziffren, who has long represented the DGA. “Whether that is something that will happen again in 2023, no one knows.” The DGA’s contract with the studios expires just weeks after the WGA’s, similar to 2008. And, just like before, changes in technology hang over the talks. “Again, the major issues are about how technology affects the media and entertainment busi nesses,” Ziffren said. He noted a sticking point has been streaming companies’ refusal to provide data to demonstrate how well, or how poorly, individual shows perform. Without such met rics, writers and other talent feel they are kept in the dark. “My personal opinion is that transparency in data is desperately needed today, if we’re going to have labor peace,” Ziffren said. Another lesson from the past, according to Smith and Verrone, is that studios should not under estimate the WGA’s solidarity. “The writers have generally been a very uniform and united group,” Smith said. “It’s important for the studios to recognize that the threat of the work stoppage is very real.” That’s the most important take away from 200708, Verrone said. “Management didn’t think we would strike — and we did,” Ver rone said. “They didn’t think we would last — and we did. And they didn’t think that we’d win. And we did. I don’t think that this year is going to be any different.”

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the police not taking it seriously. But the daugh ter has joined an environ mentalist group of radi cal birdwatchers and they take over a natural reserve. At the center of the book is this mother and daughter and this complicated relationship. And it’s set in an immi grant workingclass neighborhood a lot like El Monte.

Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times

SPACE TO GROW AND THEN SOME WHITING AWARD WINNER CARRIBEAN FRAGOZA TALKS ABOUT HER EARLY WRITING LIFE, UPCOMING FIRST NOVEL CA R O L I N A A . M I RA N DA C O L U M N I S T

H E N A phone call from an unidentified num ber turned up on Carribean Fragoza’s cell, she immediately assumed it was a spammer and didn’t pick up. But the phone kept ringing, so she finally answered. “Don’t hang up,” she remembers the voice on the line telling her. “This is the Whiting Foundation.” They were calling to let her know that she had been selected for a 2023 Whiting Award, a $50,000 unrestricted grant for emerging writers. Fragoza says she ended up “crying on the phone.” Fragoza, a writer whose short story collection, “Eat the Mouth That Feeds You,” received wide acclaim when it was published two years ago, is one of 10 authors to receive the prestigious prize this year — and the only one from the Los Angeles area. Fragoza was among 10 Whiting Award winners an nounced last month during a ceremony in New York. Over its 38year history, the prize has frequently served as a harbinger of future literary success. Past winners have included novelists Colson Whitehead and Victor LaValle, playwright SuzanLori Parks and poet and novelist Ocean Vuong. In addition to Fragoza, this year’s recipi ents include dramatists Mia Chung and Emma Wipper man (who is also a poet), fiction writers Marcia Douglas and Sidik Fofana, graphic novelist R. Kikuo Johnson, poets Tommye Blount and Ama Codjoe, and journalists Linda Kinstler and Stephania Taladrid. Fragoza is a fiction writer, essayist and journalist from El Monte who attended UCLA and CalArts. Over the years her writing regularly appeared in publications such as LA Weekly and the L.A. Review of Books. (I came to know her through art circles more than half a dozen years ago, when she was a regular contributor to KCET’s Art bound, writing on topics including art and gentrification.) In early 2020, with three other writers — Alexa Sayf Cumming, Ryan Reft and Romeo Guzman (a historian who is also Fragoza’s husband) — she coedited the essay collection “East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte,” a kaleidoscopic portrait of life in a Latino L.A. exurb that doesn’t generally get much airtime. “Eat the Mouth That Feeds You,” released a year later, immediately drew plau dits for its deadpan surrealism and its focus on the lives of young Chicanas. The New York Times hailed her as “a forceful new voice in American literature.” Fragoza recently took time out of her schedule — she currently teaches at CalArts — to talk about the prize and the writing life. In this conversation (which has been condensed and edited for clarity) she talks about the novel she would really like to finish and why she is so intrigued by the dark recesses of women’s minds.

Where does the novel stand? And will the Whiting help? I worked on it a bunch during the winter break and I felt if I could spend one solid semester work ing on it, I could do it. It was hard to know when I would get that time. Now that I have this grant, I’m going to try to work on it this summer and into the fall. I think I can do it by the end of this year. I’ve

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What first drew you to fiction? I lived in a very small house with my siblings and my parents. Living in a small house, there’s not a lot of space to grow. Books gave me that space, and fiction, in particular, gave me the space to explore. I started writing stories as a kid. Also important were those stories that your family tells you. I grew up on La Llorona and the Chupacabra, that oral tradition of storytelling from my cousins, my tías, my grandparents. What was the first Carribean Fragoza short story? It was fantasy. It was this princess and she was really frigid, everyone was trying to warm her up and pierce through her icy heart. The project was to write a story and illus trate a book. I bound my own book in glittery pur ple paper. My mom has it still — it’s in the garage. You’ve talked about creating your own canon as a Chicana. Who inhabits your canon? From the earliest days, Helena María Viramontes and “The Moths” [from the collec tion “The Moths and Other Stories”]. Then Gabriel García Márquez, of course. And Salvador Plascencia, an El Monte writer who was a huge discovery for me — to find his book and see those elements of magical realism but recast in my neighborhood. It’s called “The People of Paper.” It’s a cool, strange mag ical book. There’s also those weird stories by Leonora Carrington. She

has these bizarre stories that I really dig. How do you feel about the label of magical realism being applied to your work? It can be a freighted term — often applied to any Latino writer who channels a bit of the otherworldly. It’s an imperfect label. I think it serves a purpose. It’s a fast and easy way for people get a really general idea of the magical as pects and the surreal aspects in the work — and I guess I’m OK with that. If a reader is willing to continue entering the work and know that it’s not going to be a Gabriel García Márquez work, that it’s going to be its own thing, that’s fine. I don’t get as mad about it as other folks. There are terms that have been tossed at my book like “speculative” and I don’t think that sticks. Labels aside, I’m interested in exploring the possibility of strange things happening in daily life. It’s about looking at daily life and the mun dane, but through the lens of the weird. I would love to know about your process. What’s the genesis of a story for you? A charac ter? A setting? It’s usually a voice. If I can hear and write the voice pretty clearly, then I follow that voice. Some times, it’s not a specific voice but an idea. “Ini y Fati,” the story I wrote about the child martyr/ saint that befriends a little girl, that came from the idea of a virgin child who was murdered sev eral hundred years ago and comes back for vengeance on the ass— of the world. I wanted to imagine what that would look like. Your stories center on women and girls. What aspects of female interiority are you in trigued by as a writer? Two things: I’m thinking of the interior life of girls, of young women, teen agers, and also the interi

or lives of mothers. It’s vastly overlooked. Girls, even if they’re not sexu ally active, they’re explor ing what their sexuality is and that can scare peo ple. And maybe it’s the gothiness in me, but I’m interested in the dark ness. I don’t mean that in a malevolent way. Just the darker, more complex emotions of girls. It’s not all sunny bows. I am fascinated by the scowl, the unsmiling aspect of little girls, when they’re young enough that they can’t be made to smile if they don’t want to. I’m interested in protecting that. Then there is the aspect of mothering. What is the interior life of a mother? That was a mystery before I became a mother. And it’s a mys tery to me now. I did have a good relationship with my mother, but there were limits of under standing to what her experience was and what her mother’s experience and my great grand mother’s experience was. It is not always talked about — our challenges and emotional lives. It’s still a process of discovery for me. What are you reading right now? And what will you be reading next? I recently read Marytza Rubio’s collection of short stories. She’s a chica from Santa Ana and her book is called “Maria, Maria and Other Stories.” Someone called it tropigoth and that is suitable. I also recently returned to Leonora Carrington. And there’s a collection by Yuri Herrera that’s about to come out that I’m really excited about, [“Ten Planets: Stories”], and Vickie Vértiz has a new collection of poems that came out [“Auto/Body”]. I’m also itching to read “Nightcrawling” by Leila Mottley. I heard her talk at AWP, [the Associ ation of Writers & Writing Programs Conference & Bookfair], and she’s brilliant. Those are the things I’m really excited to read.

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Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times

E B R O N JA M E S ’ L I F E and career make for a storyteller’s dream, a series of highprofile tri umphs and setbacks, a hard upbringing that gave way to the upper echelons of sports, fi nance and celebrity. Raised in Akron, Ohio, by a single mother with little money and plenty of demons, he emerged as the most dominant high school athlete in the country and a oneman industry in the making. Drafted by his home town NBA team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, right out of high school, he broke the city’s heart when he left, then brought euphoria when he returned. Along the way he turned himself into a billiondollar corpora tion with the help of an inner circle composed of three buddies he met as a teenager. He would eventually make friends with the likes of Barack Obama and Warren Buffett. In short, there’s no shortage of material for a biographer to chroni cle the current Los Angeles Laker, and Jeff Benedict’s comprehensive new “LeBron” does a masterful job of shaping that material into a cohe sive and propulsive whole. This is a fast break of a book, slicing into the many mininarratives that James has lived and artfully tying them together to create a portrait of a man who has, by his own design, re mained an enigma except to those he decides to trust. Benedict has con structed a sort of sports opera fueled by the drama and emotion surround ing his subject, but never sensation alistic or unfair. Benedict clearly likes James, but he’s been around long enough — among the subjects of his 17 books are Tiger Woods and the New England Patriots — to steer far clear of hagiography. Burned by many writers in his

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career, sometimes in stories shot through with casual, almost subcon scious racism, James learned early to carefully curate his public life and image (which didn’t prevent him from committing perhaps the great est public relations blunder in sports history). He did not talk to Benedict for “LeBron.” But the author’s reporting here is exhaus tive; he interviewed almost 250 people for the book. The public record on James is voluminous, and Benedict used it extensively. However, this is no clip job. Bene dict writes scenes that make clear the extent of his primary reporting, putting the reader, to paraphrase a popular Broadway musical, in the room where it happens. You can practically see the goop in Miami Heat President Pat Riley’s hair as he seethes in resentment when James announces his departure from South Beach to return to Cleveland. “Le Bron” isn’t just great sportswriting, it’s also vivid narrative journalism. There have been other LeBron books, some written by the man himself (with collaboration from professional scribes). Indeed, writ ers walk on and off these pages like players in a layup line. Buzz Bissinger shows up to ghostwrite

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N SUSANNA MOORE’S 1995 novel, “In the Cut,” Frannie Avery is looking for a bathroom in the basement of a dive bar when she stumbles on a man and woman engaged in a sex act. Even though she isn’t wearing her glasses, she manages to see that the woman is a redhead and has painted nails, and that the man has a tattoo of a spade on the inside of his wrist. Later the redheaded woman turns up dead, and a cop comes to ask her if she’s noticed anything suspicious in the neighborhood. He too has that spade tattoo. Frannie notices all this because Frannie is a writer; in fact she teaches creative writing. Moore is also a writer and a teacher. The author of seven novels, Moore graces us with another one this spring, “The Lost Wife,” a welcome new display of her masterful ap proach to the undercurrent of vi olence that she believes runs be neath all human behavior. The novel is based on the true story of Sarah F. Wakefield, who was abducted by Mdewakanton warriors during the Sioux Uprising of 1862. Wakefield too was a writer. She published an account of her ordeal

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SUSANNA MOORE’S

new novel is based on the true story of a woman abducted by the Sioux.

in 1864 under the title “Six Weeks in the Sioux Teepees: A Narrative of Indian Captivity.” Wakefield, Fran nie and Moore — all writers, and also all women. They all notice things that men do not. “In the Cut,” Moore’s most ac claimed novel, which spawned a movie adaptation that may or may not have destroyed Meg Ryan’s career, depending on who’s asking, is a kind of noir. It takes place in a New York City more dangerous than today’s, and nearly every single male person appears as a possible threat. Frannie notices the holster on Det. Malloy’s ankle. She notices the way his pants fit. She notices the way men look at her at the bar. Walking up Broadway, she notices the slight est sound behind her. “The Lost Wife” is its own kind of crime story. Fleeing an abusive husband, Sarah abandons her young daughter and makes a new life in Minnesota. In the West, she has no name. She needs no past. She finds a husband and settles in. But she is always looking over her shoul der. She notices her husband’s laud anum addiction. She notices the brewing unrest among the Sioux, who expect their annuity payment on their land. One might call this hypervigi lance “the female gaze.” It is the clear result of trauma — a decidedly female trait, but one that is learned. That is, until Sarah meets the Sioux.

“LeBron’s Dream Team,” about James’ high school years; the Pulit zer winner found James’ unwilling ness to open up (or promote the book) maddening. There’s Grant Wahl, who wrote the story that put James on the cover of Sports Illus trated while he was still in high school, a decision that caused much handwringing: What if they mess up this kid’s life? (Spoiler: They didn’t). James soon grew wary of sportswriters, most of them middle aged white men turning his hard scrabble upbringing into a study in urban pathology. There were exceptions, most notably Sports Illustrated’s Lee Jenkins, who gained James’ trust and penned the essay announcing James’ return to Cleveland. This was a public relations master stroke, an antidote of sorts to “The Deci sion,” the illadvised, nationally televised special in which James announced his decision to leave Cleveland for Miami. The spectacle, and its lack of humility, was a disas ter, nearly causing riots back in Ohio and making James, for a time, the most hated person in sports. But James is nothing if not resil ient, and his instincts, on and off the court, tend to be uncanny. There’s

Moore is a master of smallness. Her deceptively simple sentences are like geysers. The churning ener gy underneath is violent, animal and sexual. Her acrobatics in this novel reminded me of a scene from the 1992 film “The Last of the Mohicans” that takes place on the edge of a cliff, in which choices and motivations are conveyed only with looks and gestures — no dialogue. This is how we read the sexual energy in “The Lost Wife.” It doesn’t surprise me that Moore would be moved to write this book once she’d heard the story. Of the violent uprising, Sarah re flects: “It all seemed very orderly and reasonable, the way events in dreams seem to make sense.” Wakefield claimed the only rea son she and her children had sur vived was because of a Native man named Chaska. He bears the same name in Moore’s book. For Sarah, he is her “good Indian.” He tells her the Sioux want to kill her and her chil dren, so he claims her as his wife to protect her. Read how he is de scribed. Not a single other character in the book receives such attention: “I had not seen him in two years, but I remembered him very well. He had a small scar, perhaps an inch and a half long, running from the right side of his mouth toward his ear. It was hard not to notice it, especially as it seemed to change color in different light. He was a favorite among the white women because of his quiet nature and because of a certain innocent beauty ... He was no longer the slender boy who milked cows for white ladies, but thicker and stronger. More solemn, with a certain disdainful gravity, as if someone or something had let him down along the way.” When their wagon falls into a ditch, throwing Sarah and her two

an American dream quality to “LeBron,” the story of a kid who came from very little and gradually, meticulously built a handpicked dream team of advisors and corpo rate partners that helped make him the most famous athlete in the world. His talent, of course, didn’t hurt; built like a particularly tall linebacker, he ran faster and jumped higher than any of his opponents. Benedict covers all of this thor oughly. But he also makes clear that James just thinks differently. He sees around corners, on and off the court. He didn’t just want to be a star, he wanted to transcend sports. As his friend JayZ put it in song, “I’m not a businessman, I’m a busi ness, man.” The same could be said of James. Eventually, James incorporated a social consciousness into his public persona. This process too included some stumbles. Early in his career, with the 2008 Summer Olympics approaching in Beijing, James’ Cavaliers teammate Ira Newble collected the team’s signatures to protest China’s complicity in the Darfur genocide. Everyone signed — except James. James is and was Nike’s biggest business investment, and Nike has big business in China. Still in his early 20s at the time, James didn’t want to rock the boat, and at that point in his career, he didn’t even really know how. In other words, he is mortal, if exceptional. Benedict’s greatest feat here might be the way he cuts through both the public hysteria surrounding James and the super star’s own protective field to paint a portrait of a man in full. Sports fans should eat “LeBron” up. But even casual observers will learn plenty about one of the most visible per sonalities of his generation.

children into a muddy river, Chaska jumps to pull them out. Sarah tells him this is the first time she has seen him smile. “You haven’t been look ing,” he says, “wiping the child’s face.” Finally, Sarah has met a man who is also paying attention. Unfortunately, as you might imagine, it does not end well for Sarah and Chaska. I will leave the sad ending for readers. Sarah finds she must protect herself not from vengeful Natives but from white soldiers, who are perplexed at her defending the Natives who kid napped her and her children. “Sol diers gather throughout the day to watch us, asking to see the white woman who married the Indian. Now and then one of them will shout at me, ‘What did he do to you, lady?’ and the others laugh.” The year is 1862, and there is another war on, of course. Sarah’s husband is eager to get to the battle field. Before they part ways, while taking stock of all their belongings that were destroyed during the uprising, he reminds her that many other white women captives were not “as obliging.” “They refused to dress in buckskin and moccasins and braid their hair, and did not converse happily with their captors in Dakota, yet they are now at home with their loving families, untainted by shame and dishonor.” “‘But perhaps you liked it,’ he said.” At the end of Moore’s subtle reworking of Wakefield’s story, it’s obvious that Sarah’s husband has settled back into the groove of a divided world. For Sarah, her new life is just beginning.

Ferri is the owner of Womb House Books and the author, most recently, of “Silent Cities San Francisco.”

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THE BUZZ BEHIND CELEBRITIES AND BOOZE JASON MOMOA, CO-CREATOR OF MEILI VODKA, MAKES A CASE FOR FAMOUS FACES GETTING INTO THE LIQUOR BUSINESS

BY M AT T B R E N N A N

A S O N M O M OA I S N O T a vodka connoisseur. He doesn’t even particularly like the stuff — he’s more of a beer guy, if he’s being honest. Which admittedly makes it harder to wrap one’s head around the “Aquaman” star’s latest venture, after forays into climbing gear (So iLL x On the Roam) and bottled water (Mananalu). Vodka. Then again, to hear the catalog of inspirations for Meili, launched earlier this year with MadeWorn creator Blaine Halvorson, is to rec ognize that the vodka is not entirely the point. Pronounced “may lee,” the project, as Momoa and Halvorson reveal over the course of a January evening in the latter’s Burbank warehouse, draws on the artistic kinship of Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg, the ram bling energies of the Beats, a pushpin map of Bob Dylan’s love songs; on polar plunges in the Montana wilderness, the Pontiac Ghost Car and the sweetness of wheat; on blue glass and compressed cork dust and yearning. Not the array of influences you expect to find for $24.99 in the liquor aisle at Ralphs. Photographs by Mariah Tauger Los Angeles Times

Momoa, introduced to Halvorson by the actor’s then partner, Lisa Bonet, immedi ately took to a pair of shoes the apparel whiz had cobbled out of an old doctor’s bag, establishing a shared affection for what Halvorson calls “these beauti ful, tarnished things.” After collaborating on Momoa’s wardrobe for “Justice League,” “Aquaman” and “Frontier,” as well as partnerships with Carhartt and HarleyDavidson, that initial affinity became an enduring friendship, one de fined by the commitment, al most transcendentalist in in tensity, to “build,” as Emerson had it, their “own world.” “I’m an early riser, and I’ll get up at 4 in the morning and I’ll have this amazing idea and I’ll call [Halvorson],” Momoa laughs. “I’ll be in the bathtub and I’ll be like, ‘I’ve cracked the code!’ ” Seven years in the making, Meili — Old Norse for “the lovely one,” after the son of Odin — is the culmination of that commit ment, unencumbered by corpo rate bureaucracy or studio interference: “This gave us the opportunity,” Halvorson says, “to actually do something that was ours.” Which is not to say that Momoa, Halvorson and their other partners in the venture — filmmakers, spouses and climb ing community friends Renan Ozturk and Taylor Freesolo Rees — are uninterested in turning a profit. Market forces, more than the spirit itself, led the founders — “Guinness all the way” Momoa and “big Ital ian reds” Halvorson — to choose vodka in the first place. “To us, vodka was broken,” Halvorson says. “We didn’t like the vodka that was out there. It was like rubbing alcohol. ... Literally, made only for mixing with something else.” Still, for all the talk of taking on Tito’s, of securing shelf space in grocery stores and wooing bartenders at fashionable es tablishments like Chateau Marmont, it’s process, not profit margin, that seems to engage this small fraternity most. Some of the conversation, say of a plan to produce Meili in a defunct GM power plant in Michigan, is romantic to the point of absurd ity; some, about the search for the right glass, the right stop per, the right water source, is granular in the extreme. All of it carries the enthusiasm — mostly infectious, maybe a little irrational — of a friend with a good buzz on. And the result, at least to the palate of this rela tive vodka rube, is the one they sought: a smooth, sweet, crys talclear spirit that can be en joyed neat, at room tempera ture. With vodka, as Halvorson is prone to saying, you can’t hide behind anything: “There’s no smoke and mirrors.” When it comes to the smoke and mirrors of Hollywood,

though, to the gloss — and press — that Momoa’s notoriety can bring to the brand, that’s a thornier subject. After all, join ing the gold rush of famous figures to endorse, purchase or establish liquor companies since George Clooney turned Casamigos into a $1billion mother lode in 2017 isn’t exactly a parable of rugged individu alism or selfreliance. “This isn’t a f— celebrity brand,” Halvorson retorts. “That has nothing to do with it. He just happens to be a celebri ty. This is two people who really cared and built this. It wasn’t someone coming along and saying, ‘Hey, man, we made this thing, put your face on it.’ ... Every g— day somebody’s slap ping a celebrity on something. They don’t know s— about it. They got no attachment to it.” Momoa is more introspec tive, careful never to imply that his friends in the sector — Dwayne Johnson, with Terem ana Tequila, and Ryan Reyn olds, with Aviation Gin — are dilettantes. But in Meili’s case, he prefers “the juice to stand on its own.” Two days after launch, he hasn’t posted anything on social media about bottles on shelves. In seven years of work on the project, he hasn’t teased his involvement. “I don’t even think of myself as a celebrity,” he says. “It’s always very awkward to me. It’s very weird. If you knew me, you’re just like, ‘Oh, this is Momoa.’ I’m the exact same person I was before I got into this g— industry.” In other words, he insists, celebrity is no more a part of Meili than it is of Jason Momoa. “The world puts you in that position.” And what a lucrative world it has become. Though the love affair be tween Frank Sinatra and Jack Daniel’s dates back to perhaps 1949, and Sammy Hagar

launched his Cabo Wabo house tequila in 1996, the celebrity booze boom arguably began in earnest with Sean Combs’ partnership with Cîroc in 2007 and reached maturity with Casamigos’ blockbuster sale to Diageo in 2017. Even beyond headline numbers that dwarf the most lucrative Hollywood paydays (see also: the $610 million price tag for Aviation), the financial logic doesn’t re quire an economics degree. The $37.6billionperyear spirits sector remains a major growth area in the alcoholic beverage business overall, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, an industry trade group: The sector has gained 13% market share since 2000, surpassing beer for the first time in 2022. And the repu tational stink once associated with the celebrity “line” of prod ucts has diminished with their ubiquity, creating a winwin — or at least nolosenolose — situation for boldfaced names in search of a foothold in the sec tor. Still, it can feel as though the trend has entered its rococo stage, with the everproliferat ing list of star/brand relation ships reading like a gag out of “BoJack Horseman”: JayZ’s cognac, Scottie Pippen’s bour bon, Vera Wang’s vodka, Cheech Marin’s mezcal, Dita Von Teese’s gin, Bruno Mars’ Pana ma rum, Rita Ora’s tequila, GWAR’s limitedrun rye. The trend has even spawned a back lash of sorts, with Siempre Tequila employing the tagline “Celebrity Not Required.” If, as the New York Times’ Amanda Hess argues, we live in the “golden age of celebrity brand ing,” liquor is the filigree on its balustrades, the inlay on its armoires, the leaf on its chande liers. It’s easy enough to dismiss these partnerships as yet an

JASON MOMOA

and MadeWorn’s Blaine Halvorson, below right, toast to Meili Vodka.

other cash grab in an industry, an economy, a society full of them; just add a stop for “liquor brand” between “Super Bowl ad” and “ghostwritten memoir” to the modern celebrity’s Sta tions of the Cross. To hear Mo moa and company tell it, though, the motivation for a project like Meili isn’t always so simple — and among the range of relationships that fall under the “liquor brand” umbrella, from endorsement deals to coownership stakes to some thing like actual craftsmanship, there is space for ambitions more philosophical than pecu niary. As Momoa says, he still has to sleep at night. “I get offered so many liquor brands. I get of fered so many water brands. Anything. ‘Would you be the face of this?’ “I act and someone goes and edits it, and either it’ll be good or it won’t be,” he continues. “What I love doing is directing and writing and doing it on my own. ... If you’re going to judge me and hate my form, it’s like, ‘I’m responsible for this. I chose this direction. Now pick on me.’ ” In the entertainment busi ness, where the line between feedback and meddling blurs easily and turf battles are as common as collaboration, Mo moa’s thirst to be master of his own fate is understandable. And although it’s inextricable from wealth, the power to achieve such freedom is not exactly coterminous with one’s

Mariah Tauger Los Angeles Times

net worth — a force that ex plains the extent of the celebrity endorsement industrial com plex more satisfactorily than money alone. It’s a sentiment echoed by Halvorson, who counts “never having to work for somebody” among his many blessings, and Ozturk, whose relationship to the industry’s corporate super structure might come closest to that of the Hollywood rankand file. “I think all of us have spent a lot of time in all of these com bined industries and realized life is short and you want to work with people who aren’t a— and you want to have fun,” Ozturk says. “We also do a lot of crazy commercial work. [Mo moa] does it, but it’s more on his own terms than we do. Those commercial jobs, there’s 100 people standing around looking at everything you’re shooting on a live feed and telling you what to do.” Meili, he adds, “does seem like a way out of that perpetual commercial cycle for all of us.” Within the highly specialized sector of the economy we call “celebrity,” in other words, every Emmy winner and platinum artist might be much the same as you or me: fantasizing about the opportunity that will finally free us to be who we want, to do what we want, to afford to an swer to nobody but ourselves. This is also, of course, the logic of capitalism at its most per verse, a way of jumbling Emer son’s directive to build our own worlds with society’s directive to build our own wealth. To survey this particular “golden age” of shapewear and cosmet ics and coffee and throw pillows and, yes, even the world’s smoothest vodka is to surmise that even the most welloff among us are eager to escape the system’s ceaseless rigors, and have decided in turn that the only way out is through. Then again, it’s possible I am reaching for something that isn’t there. Maybe I’ve been blinded by my own yearning for the world of celebrity in which I immerse myself 12 hours a day to add up to something more than box office receipts and shiny gold statuettes and out performing the competition in the demo. Perhaps I am guilty, as Halvorson describes the process by which he and Momoa gathered Meili’s influences into a $20,000 coffee table book with a print run of two, of “pareido lia,” which MerriamWebster defines as the tendency to per ceive a meaningful image in a random pattern. In any case, it’s getting late, and we have had our fill of vodka, and Momoa, still in his wardrobe from “Fast X” re shoots this morning, has anoth er 5:30 a.m. call time. Reality beckons. Even in the town that fac toryproduces the fantasy, it always does.

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F E E D BAC K

JEFF VANDERMEER

B E ST S E L L E R S

The last word on Logan Roy

launched a subgenre of scifi with his debut novel.

Fiction

I am writing to express my disappointment and concern about the fic tional obituary for “Suc cession” character Logan Roy (Brian Cox) [“Logan Roy, conservative media mogul who shaped con temporary politics, dies at 84,” April 9]. While I understand that sensational and attentiongrabbing sto ries can increase ratings, I believe it is irresponsible journalism to report on imaginary and fictional events as if they were real. By publishing this “fake obituary” you are contributing to a culture of misinformation and sensationalism that is already prevalent in the media. This can lead to consequences, such as people making decisions based on false informa tion. Jan Andelson Tarzana :: Thanks for ruining the “Succession” surprise. I’d been recording the shows so that I could watch them in “Succession” but you’ve spoiled it. You should know better than to pull a cute stunt like this. Sean O’Connell Oceanside :: I just want to thank you for the obituary for poor Logan Roy. It was brilliant. I love “Succession” and the whole dysfunc tional family, especially Greg. Maggie Bentley Spokane, Wash. :: Normally, I’m not a fan of fake news (or even April Fool’s hoax stories). However, your Logan Roy obit was a fun idea and a wellexecuted trip down memory lane for we “Succession” fanatics. Eric Lindbom Silver Lake :: Clever! I can’t remem ber when I’ve enjoyed an article in Calendar as much as this morning’s “obituary.” Kudos to the two women who wrote this eversothorough article — made even more realis tic by the note that HBO had declined The Times’ repeated requests to make anyone available for comment. I got a huge laugh out loud. Wendy Mollett Studio City

Kyle Cassidy

It gets even more bizarre REISSUE OF ‘VENISS UNDERGROUND’ SHOWS JEFF VANDERMEER’S GROWING CURIOSITIES BY N OA H B E R L AT S KY

H E Y C O U L D never believe in a giant fish that holds a whole world. They’d laugh. They’d scoff. Even if they saw it, they wouldn’t believe it. That is why the human race is dying — too limited an imagina tion.” The above quote from Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel, 2003’s “Veniss Underground,” is a kind of statement of purpose for his ca reer. As one of the leading writers of the New Weird, VanderMeer has taken it as his aesthetic and ethi cal task to push the bounds of the imagination to bizarre, absurd and disgusting extremes. A new edition of the book, in cluding related stories, fragments and commentary by VanderMeer, shows how consistent his methods and goals have remained over the last 20 years. It also shows, howev er, that even as he’s grown into a bigger fish, he’s become — ad mirably and definitively — weird er. In retrospect, “Veniss” is the relatively conventional, larval VanderMeer, before his metamor phosis into a truly bizarre, cancer ous butterfly creature. This isn’t to say his debut is drab or boring. Like much of Van derMeer’s work, it’s a wonderfully imaginative agglomeration of cyberpunk, Lovecraftian gro tesquerie and magical realism. Set in a confused dystopian future, the novel follows three main charac ters — twins Nicholas and Nicola and Nicola’s lover Shadrach — as

they attempt to confront the mysterious genetic engi neer Quin and his manipu lated mon strosities. Among the highlights of Picador the ensuing adventure is a hyperintelligent meerkat assas sin named John the Baptist, whose head is chopped off and glued to a plate; a creature named the Gollux that speaks out of its anus; and that improbable world fish, vast and openmouthed, in which Quin makes his improbable lair. A series of associated early stories — inspired in part, Vander Meer has said, by Ursula K. Le Guin — are included in this edi tion; they explore other narratives in the same world, treating the landscape as mythic history. A woman tries to find her husband, who has disappeared into a peri patetic and transcendent city; a brother and his Flesh Dog go on a quest to trade for a healthy heart for his sister; an old man defies the AI overlords to swim in the ocean. Even at this early stage, Vander Meer’s imagination was a fertile birthing place for ugly, fleshy, oozing oddities, and he had a gift for filling in just enough of the world to make you feel like there was something even worse just around a corner you couldn’t see.

In later VanderMeer, though, the author is more willing to ac knowledge that the thing around the corner is maybe a thing you want to see. In this early effort, the weirdness is still framed as a con ventional antagonist. Shadrach, the upstanding hero of “Veniss,” goes into the underground to fight the disgusting things in the dark and then he crawls back into the light, heroic and basically un changed, except perhaps purified. Clean and uncorrupted, he’s not that different from a hero out of Robert A. Heinlein. The twisted nightmares of bioengineering, with hideous orifices and unnatural urges, are bad; normal is good. VanderMeer’s later writing rarely puts you quite so straight forwardly on the side of the able bodied and unmonstrous. His famous Southern Reach trilogy is about an alien infestation that transforms coastal wilderness into an even wilder wilderness. The protagonist, a biologist whose primary emotional relationship is with the ecosystem in a puddle, eventually morphs into a titanic Cthulhulike sea creature. In doing so she takes on her true form, even as the alien landscape, scrubbed of its human infestation, is in some sense a truer, more ecologically sound version of the earth. You aren’t really rooting for the hero to conquer the weird. You’re rooting for the weird. Similarly, in VanderMeer’s 2017 novel “Borne,” the titular charac ter is a green lump, both a terrify ing nightmare weapon and a cutie. The protagonist, Rachel, culti vates the thing as a kind of plant, then as a pet, then as a child. The meerkats who want to replace us in “Veniss Underground,” in con trast, are waging brutal war on humankind. The most powerful story in the new edition is about a war in which the meerkats kill humans and then place their consciousness into warrior flesh dogs they send against their for mer loved ones. Borne too is frightening and amorphous; a terrifying evolution ary next step. But he’s also funny and intriguing. Borne “made me rethink even simple words like disgusting or beautiful,” Rachel realizes with wonder. Borne shows her new ways of thinking and being, and that’s why she loves him. Weirdness has its own conven tions; horror makes much of ichor and tentacles, of slithering and maws in the wrong places. Even in his early work, VanderMeer was able to rearrange those conven tions in unusual ways. Over time, though, he began to explore the nature of monstrosity itself — how it might offer the opportunity to expand the perception of what is human and what is normal (or should be). VanderMeer fans who missed “Veniss Underground” won’t be disappointed; it’s an enjoyable, thoughtful novel with a new weird idea on every page. But they’ll also be impressed with how the author has, over the years, cultivated his own aberrant growth, flowering into marvelous, decadent forms out of this misshapen seed.

SUNDAY “100 Foot Wave” (HBO, 8 p.m.): Surf ’s up — way up! — as the docuseries returns for Season 2. “Ciao House” (Food Network, 9 p.m.): Con testants cohabitate at a villa in Italy in this new culinary competition. “Barry” (HBO, 10 and 10:30 p.m.): Our titular hitman/aspiring actor (Bill Hader) is back for a fourth and final season of this pitchblack comedy. “Waco: The Aftermath” (Showtime, 10 p.m.): This sequel to the 2018 mini series charts the rise of the militia movement. With Michael Shannon. MONDAY “The Daily Show” (Com edy Central, 11 p.m.; also Tue.Thu.): Former “Daily Show” corre spondent Jordan Klepper is this week’s guest host.

WEDNESDAY “Nature” (KOCE, 8 p.m.): Visit one of North America’s most impres sive natural wonders in the new episode “Niagara Falls” … slowly, I turned … step by step … inch by inch … “Pretty Stoned” (MTV, 8 p.m.): They feel the need — the need for weed — in this femaleled 2023 comedy. With “RHOA’s” Kandi Burruss. “Home in a Heartbeat with Galey Alix” (HGTV, 9 p.m.): Alix helps every day folks spiff up their cribs in this new series. “Snowfall” (FX, 10 p.m.): This factbased drama about the 1980s crack epidemic ends its run. With Damson Idris.

TUESDAY “Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits” (Prime Video): The “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” costar hosts a variety special. “My Grandparents’ War” (KOCE, 9 p.m.): Keira Knightley learns more about her fore bears’ experiences during WWII in this new episode.

THURSDAY “The Diplomat” (Net flix): Keri Russell por trays America’s ambas sador to the Court of St. James in this new Lon donset drama. “Mrs. Davis” (Peacock): In a world where artificial intelligence threatens humanity, one butt

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BILL HADER stars

in “Barry” on HBO. kicking nun (Betty Gilpin) will rise in this new scifi action drama. “Star Trek: Picard” (Paramount+): Disen gage! This franchise entry starring Patrick Stewart signs off after three seasons. FRIDAY “Dead Ringers” (Prime Video): Rachel Weisz pulls double duty as twin gynecologists in this new series based on David Cronenberg’s disturbing 1988 thriller. “Ghosted” (Apple TV+): Boy meets girl, girl turns out to be a CIA operative in this 2023 action come dy starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas. “Judy Blume Forever” (Prime Video): This new doc celebrates the author of such classic YA novels as “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.”

2. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House: $28) A cynical TV comedy writer who has given up on love falls for a pop star in a novel from the author of “Prep” and “Eligible.”

3. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday: $29) In the 1960s, a female chemist goes on to be a single parent, then a celebrity chef.

4. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (Dial: $28) A college student from a home broken by tragedy falls in love with a woman who has strong bonds with her sisters.

5. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton (FSG: $28) A New Zealand environmental collective forms an uneasy alliance with an American billionaire doomsteader.

6. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai (Viking: $28) A professor of film, who’s also a podcaster, returns to her boarding school and gets drawn into an investigation of a murder that occurred there when she was a student.

7. Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson (Pamela Dorman: $28) Oldmoney wealth gets a onceover in a novel following three women in a Brooklyn family.

8. Demon Copperhead 25 by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper: $33) The story of a boy born into poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia. 9. Biography of X by Catherine Lacey (FSG: $28) The grieving widow of an iconoclastic and secretive artist sets out to write her late wife’s biography.

10. Before the Coffee Gets 19 Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Hanover Square: $20) A Tokyo cafe gives customers the chance to travel back in time.

Nonfiction

weeks on list

1. I’m Glad My Mom Died 34 by Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster: $28) A memoir from the TV star.

2. Sweet Enough by Alison Roman (Clarkson Potter: $35) A cookbook featuring simple desserts.

12 3. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (Penguin: $32) The music producer’s guidance on how to be a creative person. 53 4. Atomic Habits by James Clear (Avery: $27) A guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones via tiny changes in behavior. 3

6. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne: $23) A modern fable explores life’s universal lessons.

7. Outlive by Peter Attia, Bill Gifford (Harmony: $32) A sciencebased guide to living longer.

8. Saving Time by Jenny Odell (Random House: $29) The author of “How to Do Nothing” suggests new ways to experience time.

9. 8 Rules of Love by Jay Shetty (Simon & Schuster: $29) Romantic advice.

“Great Performances: Now Hear This” (KOCE, 9 p.m.): Host Scott Yoo compares notes with Japanese American composer Andy Akiho in this new episode.

10. Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris (Little, Brown: $36) A history of Silicon Valley.

“Secrets of the Ele phants” (Nat Geo, 9 and 10 p.m.; also Sat.): Pack your trunk for this new nature series narrated by Natalie Portman.

Southern California bestsellers from CALIBA

“Life Upside Down” (AMC+): Quarantine breeds contempt for three L.A. couples in this pandemicthemed 2023 drama. Bob Odenkirk stars.

“How Saba Kept Sing ing” (KOCE, 10 p.m.): A Holocaust survivor recalls how his musical talents helped keep him alive at Auschwitz in this 2022 documentary.

1. Tomorrow, and 40 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf: $28) Lifelong BFFs collaborate on a wildly successful video game.

5. Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond (Crown: $28) The author of “Evicted” looks at poverty.

Berlatsky is a freelance writer in Chicago.

TV THIS WEEK By Matt Cooper

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“A Tourist’s Guide to Love” (Netflix): A travel company exec (Rachael Leigh Cook) gets her groove back on a visit to Vietnam in this 2023 romcom.

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CI T Y CO U N C I L M E E T I N GS NOTE: Public participa tion in council meetings is possible in person and by phone links to the meetings, livestreaming meetings and/ or emailing comments. Visit each agency’s website for de tails, usually found under “Meetings” or “Agendas.”

TEMECULA The Temecula City Coun cil meets at 7 p.m. on the sec ond and fourth Tuesdays of the month. The next meet ing is April 25. City Council meetings are televised live on Time Warner Channel 3 and Frontier FiOS TV Chan nel 3 and rebroadcast on the following Tuesday. They can also be streamed live on Te mecula TV; go to temec ulaca.gov/tv. Public com ments may be submitted via email to the city clerk, coun cilcomments@temec ulaca.gov.

BOARD OKS SHERIFF’S EXPENDITURES ON CAPITAL PROJECTS CITY NEWS SERVICE RIVERSIDE

The Board of Supervisors on April 4 approved Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco’s proposed outlays for dozens of capital improvement projects to taling over $16 million. In a 50 vote without comment, the board authorized Bianco to proceed with completing the proj ects, which he first brought to the supervisors’ attention during the 202223 firstquarter budget hearing last fall. To cover the costs, the board allocated $16.08 million from the

county General Fund to a capital improvement account, on which sheriff ’s administrators will rely to pay for the upgrades and re pairs on an asneeded basis going forward, according to county documents. Three dozen of the 77 projects are expected to require more than $100,000 in expenditures. Some of the efforts are in progress, with funds from the sheriff ’s budget al ready appropriated. One of the costlier items in volves repaving the parking lot of the Office of the Coroner on Red lands Avenue in Perris. The total project budget is $3.66 million.

Other big ticket items include construction of a conference room at the Byrd Detention Cen ter in Murrieta and the recon struction of a dry food storage warehouse at the Smith Correc tional Facility in Banning. The conference room project will round to $3.87 million in ex penses, while the Smith jail ware house project is expected to total roughly $2.26 million, according to sheriff ’s officials. Smaller projects involve re placing the alleyway adjacent to the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside for $422,675, renovating the jail’s staff rest

rooms for $819,750, adding pe rimeter security cameras at the Smith jail for $678,294, replacing the main entrance door to the ar mory at the Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center in Riv erside for $39,300, renovating the sergeants’ office at the Smith jail for $209,935, and redesigning the supervisor’s office at the dispatch center in Riverside at a cost of $276,397. It was unknown how many of the projects might be completed in the current fiscal year, and how many may spill over into 202324, potentially requiring additional appropriations.

HEMET The Hemet City Council meets at 7 p.m. on the sec ond and fourth Tuesdays of the month. The next meet ing is April 25. Council meet ings can be viewed live on line at https://hemetca.gov/ councilchamberlive, or can be watched later on the city’s YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/user/ thecityofhemet. Public com ments may be submitted on or before 2 p.m. on meeting days by filling out the form at https://tinyurl.com/hem etcomments.

LAKE ELSINORE The Lake Elsinore City Council meets at 7 p.m. on the second and fourth Tues days of the month. The next meeting is April 25. City Council meetings are tele vised live on Spectrum Channel 29 and Frontier Channel 31. They can also be streamed online at http:// www.lakeelsinore.org/city government/citycouncil/ webcastvideos. Public com ments may be submitted via email to calvarez@lakeel sinore.org.

MENIFEE The Menifee City Council meets at 6 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. The next meet ing is April 19. Council meet ings can be viewed online at http://menifeeca.iqm2.com/ Citizens/calendar.aspx. Public comments can be submitted via email to pub liccomments@cityof menifee.us.

MURRIETA The Murrieta City Coun cil meets at 6 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. The next meeting is April 18. Council meetings can be viewed live via the city’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/ cityofmurrietayoutube. Meeting agendas and min utes are available at https:// www.murrietaca.gov/129/ AgendasMinutesVideo.

PERRIS The Perris City Council meets at 6:30 p.m. on the sec ond and last Tuesdays of the month. The next meeting is April 25. Live meetings can be viewed on Zoom; the link is available at https:// tinyurl.com/perrismeet ings. Public comments may be made during the meeting.

WILDOMAR The Wildomar City Coun cil meets at 6 p.m. on the sec ond Wednesday of the month. The next meeting is May 10. Council meetings can be viewed live online on the city’s website, city ofwildomar.org, by clicking on the livestream link at the top of the homepage, or on TV on Frontier Channel 36 or AT&T Channel 99. Agen das and videos can be viewed online at https:// tinyurl.com/wildomar meetings.

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AT THE WHEEL A mother prepares to take her daughter out of one of the Murrieta Fire Department’s original vehicles during the Murrieta library’s TouchATruck event on April 4, where all types of trucks were on display for children to get up close with.

CO M M U N I T Y CA L E N DA R April 16 TEMECULA Sunday Funday at Vail HQ Vail Headquarters will host its weekly Sunday Funday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with local vendors, train and stagecoach rides, family activ ities and a DJ on the Vail Head quarters Stage. Vail Headquarters is at 32115 Temecula Parkway. For information, visit www.vailhq.com.

April 18 TEMECULA Farmers market

April 19 TEMECULA Evening Mixer

April 22 MENIFEE Better Together & Earth Day

The Vail Headquarters Certified Farmers Market is held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays at 32115 Temecula Parkway. Vendors offer fresh pro duce, cut flowers, local honey, spe cialty foods and more. Information: https://www.vailhq.com/farmers market.

The Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce will hold its April Eve ning Mixer from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 19. The event is free for chamber members, $30 for guests. Register at https://mem bers.temecula.org/events.

The city of Menifee invites the community to help make “Menifee Better Together” and to mark Earth Day in several ways on April 22. Volunteers are invited to partici pate in a city beautification project or partner with Habitat for Human ity to assist a neighbor in need. Resi dents are also invited to clear out their homes of oversized items and take them to the Bulky Item Drop off Event from 8 a.m. to noon at Kabian Park, 28001 Kabian Park. Information: https://tinyurl.com/ menifeebettertogether.

April 1926 SOUTHWEST COUNTY Blood drives

The city of Lake Elsinore and Made Local Market hold their weekly Mornings on Main Farmers Market from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sun days at City Park, 184 Main St. Shop for locally sourced produce and handmade treasures at the farmers market, and stroll down Historic Downtown Main Street to take in the antique shops, novelty stores, museum and fine dining. Visit https://tinyurl.com/wdymz34x for information.

The San Diego Blood Bank will hold several blood drives hosted by local businesses in Southwest Riv erside County through the end of April. Donors must be 17 or older, weigh at least 114 pounds and be in good health. Photo ID is required. For information or to make an ap pointment, call (800) 4697322 or visit sandiegobloodbank.org. April 19: Murrieta Mesa High School practice gym, 24801 Monroe Ave., Murrieta, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 25: Baron’s Market Temec ula, 31939 Rancho California Road, Temecula, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 26: Kohl’s, 24661 Madison Ave., Murrieta, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

April 17 MURRIETA Dog Tales

April 19 WILDOMAR Coffee talks

The Murrieta Public Library holds its Dog Tales program at 4:30 p.m. Mondays, except holidays. The program, in partnership with Love on a Leash, provides trained read ingeducation assistance dogs for children ages 3 to 12 to read to. Ar rive early to sign up for a 10minute slot. The library is at 8 Town Square.

The monthly Wildomar Coffee with the City series returns at 8:30 a.m. April 19. Held the third Wednesday of the month at the Hive Bar & Grill, 32475 Clinton Keith Road, the free events provide an opportunity for residents to con nect with city officials. Email Kim berly Niebla at kim@mwcoc.org for more information.

April 16 LAKE ELSINORE Mornings on Main

April 21 MENIFEE Night Market Made Local will hold its Menifee Trading Post night market featur ing local artists and makers, food and live entertainment from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 21, at Mercato Del Sole, 30141 Antelope Road. The markets will be held the third Fri day of the month. Admission and parking are free. Visit madelocal market.org.

April 2223 RIVERSIDE Air show March Air Reserve Base will hold its inaugural Southern Califor nia Air Show the weekend of April 2223 at the base. In addition to static displays of military and civil ian aircraft, the event will feature the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds in the their F16 Fighting Falcons, the Patriots Jet Team flying L39 sin gleseat trainers, the U.S. Navy’s F/ A18 Super Hornet West Coast Demo Team, the Air Force’s C17 Globemaster West Coast Demo Team, the Canadian SkyHawks Parachute Team and the A10 Thunderbolt Demo Team. The show will be at the base, east of In terstate 15, at Ellsworth Street and Cactus Avenue. For more informa tion, visit socalairshow.com.

April 25 MURRIETA Coffee talks The Coffee with the City of Murri eta series continues at 8:30 a.m. on the fourth Tuesday of the month at the Murrieta Innovation Center, 26442 Beckman Court. The free events provide an opportunity for residents to connect with city offi cials. Information: www.murri etachamber.org.

Ongoing VALLEYWIDE Blood donations Donations of blood and plasma are needed for patients throughout the region. LifeStream hosts mobile blood drives at various locations as well as collections at its regular lo cations. The Murrieta donation center is at 40365 Murrieta Hot Springs Road, and is open seven days a week; hours vary. Informa tion: www.lstream.org.

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wedding, her father, a former CIA agent, takes an instant dislike to him. (2:30) (PG-13) (CC) COM 11 a.m. Spider-Man 2 ››› (2004, Action) Tobey Maguire. Tormented Peter Parker battles a sinister scientist who uses mechanical tentacles for destructive purposes. (3:00) (PG-13) (CC) FX 11 a.m. The Yakuza ››› (1975, Crime Drama) Robert Mitchum. A U.S. private eye invades the Japanese underworld with a martialarts swordsman. (2:00) (R) (CC) TCM 12:30 p.m. Lethal Weapon 2 ››› (1989, Action) Mel Gibson. An accountant leads a wild detective and his cautious partner to a South African diplomat running drugs. (2:30) (R) (CC) AMC 1 p.m. Sully ››› (2016, Drama) Tom Hanks. After landing US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River, Capt. Chesley Sully Sullenberger faces an investigation that threatens to destroy his career and reputation. (2:05) (PG-13) (CC) FAM 1:15 p.m. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ››› (2002, Fantasy) Elijah Wood. Now divided, members of a fellowship take different paths to destroy the ring and defeat evil Sauron and his pawns. (4:00) (PG-13) (CC) PARMT 2 p.m. Pitch Perfect ››› (2012, Musical Comedy) Anna Kendrick. When a new student joins her college’s female a cappella group, she takes the women out of their comfort zone of traditional pieces and introduces them to innovative arrangements. (2:30) (PG-13) (CC) TBS 2 p.m. Dog Day Afternoon ›››› (1975, Crime Drama) Al Pacino. A loser robs a Brooklyn bank with his stupid buddy to pay for his lover’s sex change. (2:30) (R) (CC) TCM 2:30 p.m. The Matrix ››› (1999, Science Fiction) Keanu Reeves. A computer hacker joins forces with rebel warriors to battle a malevolent cyberintelligence. (3:00) (R) (CC) E! 3 p.m. Cast Away ››› (2000, Drama) Tom Hanks. After a plane crash at sea, a Federal Express engineer survives on a remote island for four years in complete isolation. (3:15) (PG-13) (CC) FAM 3:20 p.m. Lethal Weapon 3 ››› (1992, Action) Mel Gibson. Los Angeles police detectives crush a gunsto-gangs operation with a wild woman from internal affairs. (2:30) (R) (CC) AMC 3:30 p.m. Top Gun ››› (1986, Action) Tom Cruise. A hotshot Navy jet pilot tangles with MiGs and flirts with a civilian astrophysicist. (2:30) (PG) (CC) CMTV 5 p.m. The Amazing SpiderMan ››› (2012, Action) Andrew Garfield. Peter Parker’s quest to solve his parents’ disappearance puts him on a collision course with a scientist’s deadly alter ego, the Lizard. (3:00) (PG-13) (CC) FX 5 p.m. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ›››› (1966, Drama) Elizabeth Taylor. A professor and his wife drink and verbally assault each other in front of a younger couple, their dinner guests. (2:30) (NR) (CC) TCM 5 p.m. Superman II ››› (1980, Adventure) Christopher Reeve. The Man of Steel gets serious with Lois Lane and fights three Krypton outcasts in league with Lex Luthor. (2:45) (PG) (CC) TOON 5:30 p.m.

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On his Italian roots, doing stand-up with the greats and that time Robert De Niro kissed him on the cheek

Personality WALTER SCOTT’S

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It was your idea to gender swap this from the film starring Jeremy Irons. What do Elliot and Beverly bring to the story that men would not? The idea came to me when I was looking for material I could act in. I was thinking about relationships between sisters, and thought of that film. I suppose everything changes by the fact that they’re women. Also, nothing. They’re just women. Their jobs are different. They’re obstetricians [rather than gynecologists]. They’re delivering babies, which is very different than the original film.

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RACHEL WEISZ The Constant Gardener star, 53, next takes on the six-episode psychosexual thriller Dead Ringers (April 21 on Prime Video), which is a modern take on David Cronenberg’s 1988 classic �lm. The limited series follows the lives of codependent twin doctors Elliot and Beverly Mantle (Weisz plays both roles) at the top of their professions but with murky medical ethics and highly dysfunctional private lives. The sisters start to unravel under the weight of their obsession with each other and with their career ambitions. PARADE AND NUMBRIX ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF ATHLON SPORTS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.© 2023 THE ARENA MEDIA BRANDS, LLC

There are several graphic birthing scenes with lots of blood and gore. Were there real midwives and doctors on set? Yes, we had real midwives and ob-gyns on set. There were experts there all the time to support us and direct us if something was going wrong in the OR. We actually had real OR nurses doing C-sections with us, so we had a lot of experts there, and I shadowed some obstetricians and watched some births as part of my research. Are you squeamish? I didn’t feel squeamish at all because I was imagining myself in the skin of an obstetrician and they deliver babies, sometimes five in one day. So, for them it was as ordinary as this conversation is between you and me. We’re just doing our job and they were just doing their job. I think we were interested in showing it for that reason and also because it’s just not something that’s often done on screen. In fact, I would say hardly ever and it’s how we all got here. It’s a miraculous moment and we were interested in showing it. Were there special challenges in taking on this dual role, especially when

DEAD RINGERS (APRIL 21 ON PRIME VIDEO) you have to play both sisters in the same day? The two roles came from Alice Birch’s magnificent, extraordinarily brilliant writing. She wrote two women who were massively different from each other psychologically in their relationship to pleasure and in their career choices. Elliot wants to break new ground scientifically and is interested in fertility, whereas Beverly wants to open a birthing center and is really only interested in delivering babies and making the birthing process a beautiful, bespoke service for all women irrespective of their wealth or their access to health care. Beverly’s a big dreamer. I had these two characters on the page that were so beautifully defined, and they fed my imagination, and then I had to go away and shut the door of my office and learn the lines and find the characters. We would often begin shooting with Elliot because she’s more on the front foot. She leads the pace of the scene more, and then I’d go to hair and makeup and wardrobe and change into Beverly. Whilst I was doing that, on the set, the crew were making the change to Beverly, so the lighting, the camera, the VFX [visual effects], the motion control, the props, the set dressing, the continued on page 4

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The Don’t Miss List

Here’s what’s on our radar for the week ahead. Go to Parade.com/entertainment for more.

GUY RITCHIE’S THE COVENANT Meet Rachel Weisz’s “dead ringers”: obstetricians Elliot and Beverly Mantle. ADs [assistant directors]—it was a whole group change, and the other actors as well. The way that Elliot ate so voraciously really stood out. She enjoyed eating so much and so often that it was a surprise that they were the same size. I know. I think Elliot vibrates at such a high energy; her metabolism is just through the roof. She’s throbbing all the time. She’s hungry for food, sex, breaking boundaries and scientific research that pushes through the ethical boundaries that have been set up by the law. She’s a powerhouse. She’s starving all the time and very easily bored. She has a very simple relationship to what she wants. She just wants it, she gets it and then she’s on to the next thing. That would be amazing in some ways to be like that, but she’s a lot. Beverly is more careful and restrained and has a much more complicated relationship to pleasure. She almost doesn’t allow herself that, so they’re both very, very different to each other, and very dependent on each other. The birthing center was this bright star in the series, but would you say the rest is dark and campy? Some of that tone is in the original film, but [we wanted] the show to have drama, dark humor, playfulness, mischief, a love story, some horror beats and some quite operatic over-the-top set pieces. We were hoping that the show would be a pretty wild and exciting ride. So, it begins in a very grounded place. The first episode makes a case for why a birthing center, why maternal health could be improved upon. You meet patients who have unhappy results in their maternal health care. Then it becomes heightened and operatic, and we use the term “near-fi” instead of sci-fi, because some of the science is really just within arm’s reach, so it contains a lot of different tones.

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 He was just 11 years old when he made his bigscreen debut opposite Billy Crystal in City Slickers.

On his 13th birthday, his family volunteered at a homeless shelter and then had his bar mitzvah celebration there.  To Kill a Mockingbird is Gyllenhaal’s favorite novel. In fact, he named his dogs Atticus and Boo Radley.

Gyllenhaal is godfather to his Brokeback Mountain costars Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams’ daughter Matilda. His own godfather is Paul Newman. 

He first worked with sister Maggie Gyllenhaal in Donnie Darko. He was 19 and she was 23.  He successfully completed actor Tom Holland’s “impossible” challenge of putting on a shirt while doing a handstand.

Gyllenhaal and Adam Levine, Maroon 5’s lead singer, have been friends since kindergarten.

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Jake Gyllenhaal, who donned combat gear for Jarhead, once again enlists in the military for this new Guy Ritchie drama. This time out, he plays Sergeant John Kinley, who on his last tour of duty in Afghanistan is saved by local interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim), who risks his own life to carry an injured John across miles of grueling terrain to safety. Later, back in the U.S., Kinley learns Ahmed is pursued by the Taliban. When U.S. authorities refuse to respond, Kinley returns to the wartorn country to rescue the man who risked his life for him. The Los Angeles-born actor, 42, tends to keep his private life private (in spite of that Taylor Swift song about him), but here are some lesser-known facts.

THE DIPLOMAT

(APRIL 20 ON NETFLIX)

The spy drama The Americans, starring Keri Russell in her Emmy-nominated role as Russian agent Elizabeth Jennings, ended in 2018. Five years later, she’s returning with a new political thriller, The Diplomat, which pulled her reluctantly back to TV. “I just couldn’t stop thinking about it,” says Russell, 47, who, after the long shoots on The Americans, was looking more to films like her recent turn in Cocaine Bear as a career path. “So, I was like, this is impossible—and I’m going to do it.” In The Diplomat, Russell plays Kate Wyler, the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Originally slated to head to a crisis zone in Afghanistan—she’s great in a crisis zone— Wyler instead finds herself thrown into the political deep end in London as she tries to make allies, diffuse international crises and survive her marriage to political golden boy Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell). “It’s a really fun world to live in,” Russell says. “I would love to do it again.”

LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING

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Early on in the documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything, one of his former bandmates shares that Elvis Presley came backstage one night and told Little Richard that he was the real King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. The film goes on to prove just that, using an abundance of archival footage that takes viewers into Little Richard’s complicated inner world—that of a Black queer man making his way through the origins of the music genre. In interviews with family, musicians and Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) created an art form for ultimate self-expression, and there is testimony from several famous faces to back that up. “The first song that you love—that your parents hate—is the beginning of the soundtrack of your life,” says filmmaker John Waters. “In my case, it was ‘Lucille.’ Little Richard gave me the fuel to rebel.” And Tom Jones talks about how Little Richard’s appearance in The Girl Can’t Help It was inspirational, saying, “The film came to Britain. It was so different than anything I’d seen or heard, giving me more confidence that that’s what I wanted to do. There was the Big Five: Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis— and Little Richard was the strongest.” Tony- and Emmy-winning actor Billy Porter shares how Little Richard affects him even today, saying, “The reason why I’m finally able as a Black queer man to show up and do anything I want is because of him.”

BILL HADER & HENRY WINKLER are back in the final season of Barry. (April 16 on HBO) BETTY GILPIN The GLOW star headlines the new sciencefiction drama series Mrs. Davis. (April 20 on Peacock) JOAQUIN PHOENIX plays the paranoid Beau in the black comedy Beau Is Afraid. (April 21 in theaters) ANA DE ARMAS The Knives Out and Blonde star can be seen with Chris Evans in the romantic, action-adventure film Ghosted. (April 21 on Apple TV+)

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Books

You can find Judy Blume books in bookstores and online and watch Judy Blume Forever on Prime Video.

W E LOV E

“I don’t think Judy Blume wrote her books to be timeless. I think she wrote them to be timely, and they were so timely that they became timeless.”

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF

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With a new documentary and book-to-movie adaptation, Blume is as relevant as ever. BY NICOLE PAJER

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e must, we must, we must increase our bust.” Recite that line, and millions of women—young and old—will get the reference. It’s from Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, a 1970 book by Judy Blume that clearly captured an 11-year-old’s coming-of-age angst and confusion about religion and puberty (the movie based on the book hits theaters April 28). Blume and her young adult and adult books (29 in all! More than 90 million sold!) have made a huge difference in the lives of so many (boys and men too) that it’s no surprise that her fans are eagerly awaiting the release of Judy Blume Forever, which premieres on Prime Video on April 21st. The documentary about her life and influence explores how a New Jersey housewife became an author who dared to delve into taboo topics around growing bodies, teenage sexuality, relationships and religion. “I grew up as a good girl with a bad girl lurking inside,” Blume, who is 85, says in the

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documentary. “So by the time I started to write, I really had a lot to get out. I could be fearless in my writing in a way that maybe I wasn’t always in my life.” And fearless she was, writing about menstruation (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret), bullying and self-esteem (Blubber), Asperger’s (the Fudge books), depression and grief (Tiger Eyes) and so much more. When Blume’s daughter asked her to write a book about teenagers who fall in love and “do it” but don’t come to some tragic ending, she wrote Forever, a book that actress Kathryn Hahn told Parade was much-beloved contraband when she was growing up. “I remember a very dog-eared and highlighted copy of Forever we had to hide from the nuns. All the girls in my catholic high school would pass it around,” Hahn said.” It was very informative and formative, because we

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—author Jason Reynolds

“Everything I learned about sex or about crushes, I learned from Judy.”

—writer-actor Molly Ringwald

didn’t have many other ways to talk about sex. So thank you, Judy Blume.” When people would ask Blume when she was going to write “a real book,” meaning for adults, Blume responded with “I am writing real books!” But she tackled more adult themes in Wifey (about shaking off the reins of conventional wifehood) and in Summer Sisters (about friendship and betrayal).

husband, George Cooper, was hesitant at first. “She was tempted, but not sure. She loved her life as a bookseller in Key West,” says Pardo. After co-director Leah Wolchok and Imagine Docs signed on, Blume was ready to open up her past to the world. “I knew once I decided to do it, I’d have to be honest about my life and my work. Otherwise, there was no point to it,” Blume told Parade. The 97-minute documentary explores Blume’s writerly beginnings and her tremendous fandom. “She’s had almost a singular impact on readers,” Pardo says. “Her relationship with readers is unique among living writers today.” And that’s the part of the documentary—where she’s emotionally going through boxes and boxes of mail and treating each letter with tenderness—that Blume likes best: “I love it when the focus is on the kids

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CELEBRATING JUDY

Judy Blume Forever was the brainchild of director Davina Pardo, who was inspired on a road trip with her children five years ago while listening to audiobooks. “Judy’s voice filled the car,” she recalls. “It felt very visceral seeing my kids giggle at Fudge and then hearing it again for the first time in so long.” From there, Pardo set out to find out more about the author’s life, realizing the power of the woman behind so many people’s favorite teenage books. “My filmmaker curiosity took over and I decided to reach out to Judy,” she says. Blume, who has retired from writing and runs a bookstore with her

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“She allowed young women to be as complicated and as funny and as messy as we are.” —writer-actor Lena Dunham who wrote to me over the years,” she says. “Kids opened up to me in a way that they couldn’t with their parents. And I would answer.” The documentary, which features author Jason Reynolds, writer-actors Lena Dunham and Molly Ringwald and others talking about Blume’s influence, also dives into Blume’s never-ending fight against book censorship, standing up to conservative Pat Buchanan on Crossfire in 1984 and her work with the National Coalition Against Censorship. (Many of Blume’s books are still banned in communities and libraries today.) The filmmakers, who recently saw Judy Blume Forever with the author and a live audience at The Sundance Film Festival, were blown away by the response. “Judy comes to the film with such an emotional openness, and you can’t help but respond in that way as an audience member,” says Wolchok. Seeing her life play out on screen, Blume told Parade, was “both weird and wonderful. It’s an honor, of course, and the directors have done such a good job, but it’s not easy for me to watch,” she admits. But for her fans, the documentary is a gift, just like her books were— and are. Thank you, Judy Blume. Want more Parade? Go to Parade.com/newsletters for daily stories.

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ROMANO “Families are the same no matter where you’re from.”

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On sticking to his Italian roots for his new movie, Somewhere in Queens, doing stand-up with the greats and that time Robert De Niro kissed him on the cheek. BY MARA REINSTEIN

hen a stranger starts a conversation with the requisite “How are you?,” there’s a 99 percent chance that the other person will answer with some version of “Pretty good, thanks,” and keep it moving. Ray Romano falls into the one percent. “I got a little bit of a head cold,” he answers. Thus begins a tangent in which the actor explains how he recently caught COVID for the very first time and received the news in the makeup room of his next movie that stars Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum that happens to be “really fun and kind of a love story and it’s for Apple and they spared no expense” and he took the medication that tasted like metal and tested negative seven days later but then his immunity was knocked down a little and now he’s sick again and “everybody in my family has it too.” It’s a testament to Romano’s well-honed talent that he can relay all of the above in such an effortlessly amusing way that every word drips with low-key, relatable humor. This same set of skills, after all, is a big reason why his 1996-2005 sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond—which chronicled a New York sportswriter dealing with his wife, brother and pushy parents— remains universally beloved. The former stand-up comic even brought those traits to his subsequent more-dramatic roles in Men of a Certain Age, Parenthood and the films The Big Sick and The Irishman. continued on page 10

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But his latest offering is his most personal yet. Romano co-wrote and directed the film he also stars in, Somewhere in Queens (in theaters April 21), a lived-in dramedy about a close-knit Italian famiglia trying to make it work in the workingclass New York City borough. Romano plays Leo, a proud husband to breast-cancer survivor Angela (Laurie Metcalf ) and ultra-proud father to his introverted-but-talented highschool basketball-playing son ( Jacob Ward). When his boy gets an opportunity to shoot hoops in college, Leo goes to unusual and unexpected lengths to make sure he takes his shot. Like his alter ego, Romano is a native of Queens. His wife of 35 years, Anna, is a breast-can10 | APRIL 16, 2023

cer survivor, and they have four kids. He, too, adored watching his son on his varsity basketball team—perhaps a little too much. “After my son’s last game, I was tearing up a little,” he recalls. “It inspired me to make the story about a guy who felt kind of invisible in his life and had a sense of being somebody because of his son. What if it was all coming to an end? That was the jumping-off point.” Though he hones in on a specific culture and lifestyle, “the goal was to appeal to everyone because it’s about family,” he says. “And we all can bond over these dynamics. They’re all the same no matter where you’re from.” Calling in from somewhere in Manhattan, Romano shares his favorite stories with Parade.

Romano with his Somewhere in Queens family, including Laurie Metcalf, who plays his wife. So, exactly how autobiographical is this movie? Did you meddle in your son’s future like Leo did? My son Joe is 6 foot 5 and was the star of his basketball team in L.A. I loved going to the games. And if I’m being honest, I also enjoyed the attention that I got from it. It’s kind of sad if you think about it because I’m a celebrity from TV and I needed more attention. I lived vicariously through him. But he wasn’t going to play in college, unlike my son in the movie. And did you have immigrant Italian parents? Mine were

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second-generation. My wife’s family came right over from Italy. And for 35 years, I experienced that rich tradition of family and celebrating and eating, and I took in their standards and what they believed in. I wanted to write for that universe. Is it true you lived at home until you were 29? That’s a movie, too. That was my life! I lived in my mom’s house and moved out the day after I got married. And let me tell you, I have a 25-year-old son still living at the house in L.A. and another who’s 30 and moving out. But I have quite a different house than the one I grew up in. For that one, we had one bathroom and [the house] was about 1,600 square feet. I shared it with my mom, dad and two brothers. My kids have a theater, 11 bathrooms, a pool and

tennis courts. I don’t think they want to go anywhere, ever. Why weren’t you in a rush to leave? The Italian mother is not quick to kick you out of the house. And I really didn’t find my direction in life until I started doing comedy when I was about 25. I worked at a bank, where I met my wife. Before that, I delivered futons for my friend’s company. I delivered to college kids, and I delivered to Cher. Well, she came in and picked it up. We put it in the trunk of her car. Describe the stand-up comedy scene in the ‘90s. Was it a dogfight to succeed? My class was, like, Chris Rock, Louis C.K., Denis Leary, Jon Stewart and Dave Chappelle. I’d see them night in and night out at the clubs in New York City. I don’t know if I’m

being naive, but I didn’t find it to be competitive. When Dave got a movie, we were excited about it. The only time I felt threatened was when I had to follow somebody in a club. Like if I’m following Chris Rock, it’s like, Oh my God this is going to be hard. Did you enjoy that life or were you eyeing a bigger prize, like a Seinfeld? Yeah, I could see [ Jerry] Seinfeld and Tim Allen and Roseanne [Barr] were getting development deals. Was I thinking of that? I can’t say I wasn’t. I was happy doing stand-up but it was not a great living. The gigs came in spurts. And I was on the road while my wife was at home in Queens with three little kids. There were times where I remember having to borrow money from my dad to pay bills continued on page 12

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After 11 years doing stand-up comedy, an appearance on The David Letterman Show helped Romano get a development deal. 1. He was nominated for an Emmy 16 times for Everybody Loves Raymond (19962005). He won for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2002 and for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2003 and 2005. 2. He voiced Manfred, the woolly mammoth in five Ice Age films (2002-2016). 3. He starred in Men of a Certain Age (2009-2011), which he co-created. 4. He played photographer Hank Rizzoli in Parenthood (2012-2015). 5. He was dad Terry Gardner in The Big Sick (2017). 6. He was Teamster lawyer Bill Bufalino in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman (2019). Next up: Project Artemis with Scarlett Johansson, Woody Harrelson and Channing Tatum.

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because I was having a slow month. Will you tell the NewsRadio story? So, I’m 36 and wondering if it’s ever going to happen. And this audition came up for an NBC sitcom starring Phil Hartman. I knew it would get on the air. And I got it. But at the table read, I could feel that the magic I had at the audition wasn’t quite the same. And then on day one at the rehearsal, I felt it even less. By the second day, I was in over my head. Now I’m in L.A., and my wife is in New York with the kids. My phone rings at 6:30 AM and it’s my manager telling me the old line: “They’re going in another direction.” I got fired, and Joe Rogan took my place.

RAY HAS HIS SAY All-time favorite movie It has to be the first Rocky [1976]. Favorite Pizza Place in Queens Lillian Pizzeria “in my hometown of Forest Hills.” Last TV binge The White Lotus

It couldn’t have been easy to recover from that. The timing worked out. About three months later, I happened to do my first spot for David Letterman’s show. I did five minutes. His producer, Rob Burnett, called me at my house in Queens on a Saturday afternoon. He said that Dave loved my act and wanted to sign me to do a development deal. He goes, “Don’t sign with anyone else!” And I said, “There is no one else.” His production company put out Everybody Loves Raymond.

Book on the Nightstand Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson. I’m glad I’m reading so I have an answer!

In retrospect, do you think Raymond has received the respect it deserves? Well, Raymond is not hipster and young and sexy. It’s not Friends or Seinfeld. It’s a little more of the family values thing. But I actually think people appreciate it now in a way they didn’t even five years ago. And I’m a glasshalf-empty guy who always finds the negative! But it holds up.

Hobby Playing poker. You’ve got to be willing to go all-in or they’ll push you around.

How can you tell if a sitcom holds up? Look at The Honeymooners. That holds up and it’s just two couples. There’s something about the acting and the writing and it holds up through time even though cultures change. The basic core of the family stays the same. I’m not comparing our show to The Honeymooners, but that’s basically what our show was about. Maybe that’s helped it stand the test of time. Where do you go after a signature sitcom with your name on it ends? I knew I didn’t want to do another traditional four-camera sitcom. Raymond was my legacy in that genre. I was drawn to something with a little more dramatic substance to it. Maybe not an intense straight drama, but I wanted to try and test myself. But having someone cast me in that proved to be difficult because when you see someone for nine years in a role it’s hard to see them in anything else. I ended up co-creating Men of a Certain Age. After that, I called Jason 12 | APRIL 16, 2023

First Comedy Album I don’t remember the name, but it was Cheech and Chong.

Favorite Early Celebrity Encounter I delivered a futon to Larry David in the ‘80s. This was before Seinfeld, but I knew him from a TV show he did called Fridays. I asked him, “What happened with Fridays?” And he goes, “Eh.” Favorite New York Sports Team Baseball is the Yankees and football is the Jets. I grew up in Queens, which is Mets country, but my brother and cousin were Yankees fans and they were older so I just followed them. Secret Talent I can name any capital of any country in the world. I’m not kidding. But it doesn’t mean I’m smart.

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How do you feel about releasing a movie in theaters in 2023? People are going to watch it in their house, that’s fine. But the reward of making a movie for me is being able to sit in a theater with a roomful of strangers and feel the bond. The communal experience is why I hope theaters don’t go away. And stadium-style seating needs to go. If you can’t see anyone and you’re watching a comedy, you’re laughing in a vacuum.

Katims, who was in charge of Parenthood. I told him I loved his show and, by the way, I’m unemployed now. I was on Parenthood for three years. People saw me again in a different role. How did you end up working with Martin Scorsese? I put myself on tape for an HBO drama called Vinyl, which he [co]-created. The crazy thing is that Martin Scorsese sees the tape and says to his team, “I’m interested in this guy, Ray Romano. Who is he?” He had never seen or heard of me. He had never seen an episode of anything that I’d done.

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That doesn’t seem possible. Well, he’s Martin Scorsese. He doesn’t watch sitcom TV! But it ended up being kind of like a blessing because he just looked at my tapes and liked what he saw and he didn’t have to erase my character from his mind. So, I got into his Rolodex, and then he cast me in [2019’s] The Irishman. For The Irishman, you costarred with Al Pacino, De Niro and Joe Pesci. Let’s hear your best anecdote. That was super-frightening. I knew Joe Pesci a little bit because we belong to the same golf club. But acting with De Niro and Pacino was totally surreal. The funny thing happened on day two, which was my first scene with De Niro. I’m the lawyer for the Teamsters, and he’s on trial. So we’re going back and forth, and he’s sitting across from me. Scorsese is right behind me. In my head, I’m going, Oh sh—t. I’m doing a one-on-one scene with De Niro. It takes about three hours to film, and the scene ends, and it’s a wrap. I don’t need anyone to pat me on the back, but nobody said anything. Everyone just walked out. I called my wife and said, “I don’t know if I’m pulling it off.”

Given that you’ve been married to Anna since 1987, do you have any pearls of relationship wisdom? Oh, boy. Well, this came from one of my many therapists I’ve had. And his quote was, “Pretend you’re not a narcissist.” What he means is pay attention. Get out of yourself once in a while and make sure you show them that they matter. Not that I don’t do that, but when you’re in this business, you’re sometimes so wrapped up in yourself that you’ve got to remember it.

Then what happened? We’re all staying at this hotel in Long Island. I go to check in and De Niro walks up. This is a few hours after we wrapped, right? And I hadn’t had a conversation with him. All I hear is “Ray?” and I look and it’s him. I could only say, “Hey.” He doesn’t say a word. He just walks over to me, puts his hand on my shoulder, kisses me on the check and walks away. You know, yes, I was happy. But then I started thinking, Well, this is a mafia movie. A kiss sometimes isn’t good because it means you’re the next to go!

Did you inspire any of your four kids to follow in your footsteps? They’re trying to figure it out. My daughter [Alexandra, 32] works for a PR firm that handles celebrity chefs and restaurants. My twin boys [Matthew and Gregory, 30] are working on a documentary, so they kind of want to get in there. And my younger son [ Joe, 25] has mentioned wanting to take acting classes but he hasn’t really pulled the trigger yet. But they’re attracted to it. Is that a good thing? You know, it depends. I didn’t have any kind of passion until I discovered stand-up. So, it’s a good thing that they’re driven and ambitious and dedicated. But it’s a tough business. There are a lot of rejections. As a father, that scares me a little. One of them has even mentioned stand-up. It’s scary but I think I’d rather have them do it—even if they fail and/or flail, at least they’re out there. In fairness, you’ve done well for a guy who lived at home until he was 29. The only reason why I say I lived in my mom’s house until I was 29 is because I ended up doing OK. Otherwise I’d be embarrassed!

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Taking action to preserve and protect our planet isn’t just a once-a-year sort of thing. Here are some people and places that have made a commitment to fostering real change every day of the year. BY DILLON DODSON

LIVE GREENER Babcock Ranch, Fla. Dubbed “the hometown of tomorrow,” this built-from-scratch community in Southwest Florida is America’s first solar-powered town. Homes in the 18,000-acre area are built to Florida Green Building Coalition standards and residents follow community-wide standards for energy efficiency, conservation and low-impact landscaping. With electric and phone lines buried, Babcock Ranch was barely affected by Hurricane Maria, which devastated Fort Meyers, Fla., 12 miles away. Go to babcockranch.com for more information. 14 | APRIL 16, 2023

TRAVEL SMARTER Madison, Wis. With more than 240 miles of bike paths, Madison is a surprisingly bike-friendly town, even in the winter (on snow days the bike lanes get plowed too). The city also has plenty of bike rideshare programs, which may explain why the percentage of bike commuters in Madison is up more than 50 percent in the past 10 years. Go to peopleforbikes. org for help making your city bike-friendly.

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EARTH DAY EVERY DAY

Since May 2022, it’s against the law for retail and grocery stores and food service businesses in this state to offer customers single-use plastic carryout bags and polystyrene foam food-service products. Depending on store size, paper or reusable bags can be offered or sold. Other states that have banned single-use plastic bags include California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New York and Vermont. Go to earthday.org for ways to celebrate on April 22 and invest in the planet in your state.

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“We need to act now to protect our planet and ensure a livable future for generations to come.” —Henk Rogers based in New York,” Rogers tells Parade. “We're trying to do the same thing for island countries—because they’re similar to Hawaii—and eventually all countries in the world. So our goal is to have 100 percent renewable energy by 2045 and stop climate change—and we are completely con�dent that we're going to do this.” Why the year 2045? “It’s the 100th anniversary of the United Nations,” Rogers says. “What’s better for the United Nations in their �rst 100 years than to �x climate change, an existential threat for humanity?”

CLIMATE CHAMPION Henk Rogers

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The most fascinating climate-change activist you’ll ever meet. Determined. If there’s one word that comes to mind to describe Henk Rogers, that’s it. It was true when he was a mover and shaker in the video game industry and it’s true now as he works to make Hawaii—and the world—fully reliant on renewable energy. If the name sounds familiar, think “Tetris.” After creating 1984’s “The Black Onyx” game in Japan, where he lived at the time, Dutch-born Rogers came across “Tetris,” designed in the Soviet Union by software engineer Alexey Pajitnov. Rogers thought the addictive block-stacking game would be a perfect accompaniment to Nintendo’s soon-to-be-a-hit Game Boy personal gaming device. He worked tirelessly to secure the rights and did, with Pajitnov’s help, in such dramatic fashion that their adventure in the Soviet Union was turned into a fun action-thriller starring Taron Egerton (Tetris, streaming now on Apple TV+). “It's crazy. It's cool,” Rogers, 69, says about seeing part of his life story go Hollywood. “I've cried several times and seen the movie a bunch of times now, so it emotionally impacted me,” he says. What makes Rogers even more emotional? His mission to end the use of carbon-based fuel. His Blue Planet Foundation helped pass legislation to make Hawaii the �rst U.S. state to use 100 percent renewable energy by 2045. And his Blue Planet Energy company makes climate-friendly energy storage systems (batteries that won't catch on �re or cause disposal issues). “In Hawaii, we already hit our 2030 goal of 40 percent renewable energy. Two territories and 21 other states have copied our legislation. But the rest of the world also needs to be done, so I started the Blue Planet Alliance

What can Parade readers do? What’s happening in Hawaii is going to happen everywhere, Rogers believes, so be prepared to embrace alternative forms of energy— from solar and wind to geothermal. Don’t buy another internal combustion car. Ride your bike or take public transportation. Above all: open your mind. “I want people to have the mindset that it is going to happen,” Rogers says. Instead of thinking that you won’t be around when these climate-focused e�orts kick in, be on the right side of history, he urges. “You have children and grandchildren. Can you please think about them? It's just not fair to bring them into the world and then trash the world.” Go to blueplanetfoundation.org for more inspiration. APRIL 16, 2023 | 15

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My new car has a cool safety feature that displays a 360-degree view from somewhere above the car. I can see the top of the car from above, the road in front and behind the car, and the areas on both sides of it. How is this done? I know it’s not from any kind of satellite image because it works even when I’m parked inside my garage. —Jane Anderson, Cincinnati, Ohio Slick, isn’t it? The system works by seamlessly joining camera feeds from all around the car. They typically are located in the front grille, by the side-view mirrors and near the latch on the trunk or by the license plate. The camera lenses have extremely wide angles so their images can be stitched together easily to provide an all-around view. But where is the camera that could possibly provide that birds-eye view? In fact, no camera is involved. Rather, the software adds a stock image of your car to the middle of the 360-degree view to help orient you to the placement of the car on the display. These monitor systems are primarily intended as safety features, but they’re great for helping to prevent scrapes and bumps. Even better are systems that provide audible warnings in case you’re not paying close enough attention to the monitor. Systems vary, and they may require some acquired skill to make the best use of them, but wow—they’re just great.

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Complete 1 to 81 so the numbers follow a horizontal or vertical path—no diagonals.

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CLASSIC ASK MARILYN THE PET PUZZLE JANUARY 21, 2007

Say that a pet hospital houses six dogs, five cats, four parrots, three turtles and two fish. Now call the dogs parrots, call the cats turtles, call the parrots fish, call the turtles dogs and call the fish cats. How many of which kinds of animals are housed in the pet hospital? —Mark Schaper, South Bend, Ind.

THE WORD QUESTION APRIL 27, 2003

Ronald Dodson from San Antonio, Tex., sent in this question 20 years ago: What word should come next in the following progression: aid, nature, world, estate, column, sense, ______? The choices are A. WATER B. MUSIC

C. HEAVEN

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THE PET PUZZLE No matter what you call the anim animals, there are still six dogs, five cats, four parrots, three turtles and two fish!

THE WORD QUESTION The answer to what word comes next in this progression: aid, nature, world, estate, column, sense, _____ is C. HEAVEN

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SAN DIEGO’S LITTLE ITALY

April 29 - 30, 2023 SATURDAY 11AM - 6PM SUNDAY 10AM - 5PM missionfedartwalk.org DANCE by MIEKO ANEKAWA

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Welcome to the 39th Annual Mission Fed ArtWalk! On behalf of Mission Fed’s volunteer Board of Directors, employees and members, I’d like to thank you for making Mission Fed ArtWalk part of your weekend – and part of our San Diego culture. Mission Fed has enthusiastically sponsored this event for the last 15 years. Each year we too look forward to strolling the streets of Little Italy and celebrating the vibrant and rich culture, inspiration and fun that this special arts event brings to all. We recognize the profound impact ArtWalk has on our community – and it’s one of the many reasons why we keep coming back. The rows of artwork combined with live music, cultural expression and art activities fosters an environment that truly celebrates visual and performing arts in San Diego, and from across the border. And with Mission Fed’s roots in the education ﬁeld, we also know that the arts are often the least-funded. Be sure to visit the family-friendly interactive art activities throughout the festival and at KidsWalk to light that creative spark in our next generation of artists. Whether this is your ﬁrst time or 39th time, we hope you enjoy every minute you spend being immersed in creativity. Don’t forget to come visit the Mission Fed family in the Piazza! Yours in creativity,

39TH ANNUAL

Mission Fed ArtWalk April 29 & 30, 2023

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FREE Admission Mission Fed ArtWalk brings color, inspiration, and creativity into the streets of San Diego’s Little Italy district during the last weekend of April each year. Meet artists who travel from across the US and Mexico and add to your original ﬁne art collection. For 39 years, ArtWalk has cultivated artistic talent across many styles of creative expression, providing a platform that enriches San Diego’s cultural landscape.

FREE MTS Trolley Rides to ArtWalk! MTS Trolley supports the festival with free day passes. The ﬁrst 3000 people to take advantage of this offer can avoid parking in Little Italy and ride free thanks to MTS’ generous sponsorship. Secure your free pass at missionfedartwalk.org.

BEACH CRUISER ART beneﬁting ARTREACH ArtWalk’s nonproﬁt partner, ArtReach, is offering a Charity Art Auction that funds art education programs in San Diego County schools. Electra Bicycle Company has donated a collection of cruiser bikes and bike accessories that have been transformed by local artists. Bidding is online and the artsy bikes will be displayed at Mission Fed ArtWalk in the Piazza della Famiglia. Participate in the auction: artreachsandiego.org

INTERACTIVE ART Help create a mural depicting Italy at the Mission Fed booth in the Piazza della Famiglia. Work with artist Sarah Stieber as she hosts a project inspired by her vibrant tape paintings. Visit Artist & Craftsman Supply and Blick Art Materials’ booths…each art materials partner hosts a “make and take” project. You’ll ﬁnd these free activities scattered throughout the festival.

LIVE MUSIC San Diego’s top musical performers are showcased throughout Little Italy on 4 stages. Preview the lineup on the website and plan to spend time enjoying fantastic live music.

KIDSWALK Debra Schwartz President and CEO Mission Fed Credit Union

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Bronze Spring Song nobeart.com Booth #815,816

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Watercolor, Acrylic, Ink Consumed By Chaos artbyjenduran.com Booth #825

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Wood Torrey Pines amberwavesofgrain.gallery Booth #808,809

5 VERONICA LEITON

Oil Alchemy’s Garden veronicaleiton.com Booth #524

6 MELISSA MARQUARDT

Mixed Media Time to Unwind melissamarquardtﬁneart.com Booth #350

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8 CARLOS VARGAS

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MIMMO'S Old school Italian restaurant in business since 1973. An original in Little Italy. 1743 India St. 619-239-3710 mimmos.biz

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Fine dining with left coast edge, featuring a nightly menu of ingredients sourced directly from CARRUTH CELLARS URBAN WINERY local farmers and ﬁshermen Urban winery sourcing 2228 Kettner Blvd. high-quality fruit from Sonoma to make 619-269-9036 award winning wines in San Diego juniperandivy.com 401 W. Ash St. LITTLE ITALY 619-546-9600 FOOD HALL carruthcellars.com Social dining concept COCO MAYA featuring six unique food BY MISS B'S concepts, two bars, Latin Caribbean and a full service restaurant restaurant with a lively atmosphere located adjacent to the and open air patio serving brunch, 10,000 sq. ft. Piazza della Famiglia. dinner and cocktails 7 days/week 550 W. Date St. 1660 India St. 619-269-7187 619-848-7414 inlovewiththecoco.com littleitalyfoodhall.com

PALI WINE Bringing California central coast wine & delicious food to your neighborhood 2130 India St. 619-948-9657 paliwineco.com

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ZINQUÉ Enjoy the warmth, charm and atmosphere of an authentic Parisian bistro 2101 Kettner Blvd. 619-915-6172 lezinque.com

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A luxury boutique hotel located in Little Italy featuring San Diego Bay and city views 401 W. Ash St. 619-546-9600 cartehotel.com

SAN DIEGO FIREHOUSE MUSEUM Museum that preserves and promotes the history of firefighting 1572 Columbia St. 619-232-3473 sandiegofirehousemuseum.com