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Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed an executive order laying the groundwork for a bold plan to expedite transportation, water, clean energy and other major infrastructure proj-

ects across California. 11 budget trailer bills “This is about adand an executive order dressing the issues of — comes amid an influx our time,” Newsom of federal funding for said during a briefing infrastructure projects. at the site of a future California is also poised solar farm in Stanislaus to spend as much as $180 County. “We’re here to billion on new infraassert ourselves a difstructure over the next Gavin ferent paradigm, to comdecade, Newsom said. Newsom mit ourselves to results The governor wants and prove that we can to make sure delays asactually do more with taxpayer sociated with permitting and money.” the California Environmental Newom’s plan — made up of Quality Act, or CEQA, don’t get

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during lengthy legal and permitting processes. It would broaden similar procedures in California that helped to substantially fasttrack the completion of major NBA stadiums like Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center and San Francisco’s Chase Center. “I love sports,” Newsom said. “But I also love roads. I love transit. I love bridges. And I love clean energy projects like the one we’re seeing here.” TURN TO NEWSOM » PAGE A10

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“American Graffiti”enthusiasts check out Shawn Anderson’s 1932 Ford during Friday’s 2023 Salute to American Graffiti Car Show Cruise-In and Kickoff Social in Petaluma. Anderson of Sweet Home, Oregon, finished the car in January in preparation for this year’s show. By AUSTIN MURPHY THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

he guy who owned the bar in San Rafael had a bone to pick. The nocturnal shooting schedule of the movie being filmed on the street outside his tavern was hurting business. He threatened to sue. “City Hall wanted to kick them out,” recounts Terry Park, a Petaluman and crack researcher who has become an expert on the making of “American Graffiti,” which turns 50 this year.

And so, after just two nights of filming in San Rafael in the summer of 1972, the movie’s then-28-year-old director, George Lucas, moved production 20 miles up the highway. That serendipitous switch was good for both Lucas and Petaluma, where most of the movie was shot. His critically acclaimed coming-of-age comedy-drama, which cost $775,000 to make, has since earned an estimated $200 million. In addition to serving as a springboard for the director’s next project, a “space opera” called “Star Wars,” “American

Graffiti” has become a fair-sized — make that a Ford Fairlane-sized — piece of Petaluma’s identity. On Thursday, the city’s Historical Library and Museum opened its latest exhibit, “Celebrating 50 Years of American Graffiti,” which will run through Sept. 3. Curated by Solange Russell, researched largely by Park, composed mainly of archival photos and memorabilia from the collection of past museum president Susan Villa, it explores and exalts the

They come from four counties and have only months to work. Their interests often diverge and sometimes even conflict with one another. But they have a common goal: Find a path forward in a world without Pacific Gas & Electric’s Potter Valley power plant. The stakeholders include water providers, agricultural users and elected officials whose constituents depend on diversions from the Eel River to help fill Lake Mendocino and feed the upper Russian River in Mendocino and Sonoma counties. They also include fishery interests that want two aging dams removed from the Eel River to improve fish passage and restore the river’s ecological function. Among those interests are Native American tribes, who for more than a century had their historic fisheries and water sources seized from their control for the benefit of others. The tribes are joined by Humboldt County representatives long troubled by impairment of the Eel River’s salmon fishery and water supply. And still other interests come from Lake County, which could face the loss of Lake Pillsbury, a well-developed community and recreational hub formed by the

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Grid operator OKs $89M in upgrades NORTH BAY » Without work on lines, Sonoma and Napa counties could experience power overloads Planners for California’s electrical grid have eyed up to $88.6 million in needed upgrades to transmission lines and equipment in Sonoma and Napa counties to prevent

forecast overloads in certain segments in coming years. The California Independent System Operator Board of Governors on Thursday unanimously approved those North Bay projects amid a “historic” slate of transmission system upgrades totaling 45 projects and $7.13 billion in estimated cost. The local projects include an estimated $37 million to $74 million to replace 115,000volt lines between the Fulton and Lakeville substations in north Santa Rosa and south

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Petaluma, and $7.3 million to $14.6 million to swap out the 60,000-volt lines and certain equipment between the Tulucay and Basalt substations in southern Napa Valley. If approved, the projects would go out for competitive construction bids, and the California Public Utilities Commission would coordinate sites and line routes, according to a spokesperson for the grid operator. Those projects are among two dozen re-

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NFL RUNNING BACK JIM BROWN DIES AT 87 The Cleveland Browns fullback who was acclaimed as one of the greatest players in pro football history and who remained in the public eye as a Hollywood action hero and a prominent civil rights activist, has died. Brown shattered the league’s record books in a short career spanning from 1957-1965. Story, Page C1.

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making of the movie as well as Petaluma’s robust car culture. On Saturday much of the downtown will vibrate along with the engines of the 550 vintage vehicles registered for this year’s “Salute to American Graffiti,” the annual car show put on by the nonprofit Cruisin’ The Boulevard. Released in 1973, the movie was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of nostalgia. “No sociological treatise,” raved the film critic Roger Ebert, “could duplicate the movie’s success in remembering exactly how it was to be alive at that cultural instant.” “American Graffiti” was nominated for five Oscars, and helped launch the careers of then-young actors Harrison Ford, Ron Howard and Cindy Williams, among others. In Petaluma and across the Republic, the film sparked a short-lived revival in “cruising,” which had long since faded. Downtowns were once again occluded with old cars driven by rowdy young people. This revival, said Terry Parks, prompted communities to pass anti-cruising ordinances, “and then, over a period of a year or two, that all died away.” Released a decade after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — “the seven seconds that broke the back of the American century,” as novelist Don DeLillo once wrote — “American Graffiti” fulfilled a deep, national longing for less complicated times.

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“American Graffiti” enthusiasts check out hot rods during Friday’s 2023 Salute to American Graffiti Car Show Cruise-In and Kickoff Social in Petaluma.

Jerry Causwold graduated from Rancho Cotate High School in 1979. “But I’ve always loved ‘50s cars.” He recalls the Petaluma of his youth as “a hay town, a dairy town, somewhat remote. Fairs were a big deal. Cruising was a big deal. “It’s still very historic and special. There’s just them that streets will be on the street and drinking a hell of a lot more people shut down, and let them beer and just teasing the there now, which is why I know what to expect. police.” live in Philo, up in MenThis year he got pushThe cops, he recalled, docino County. back from just one busi“were just about ready to “I miss Cattlemens, I ness owner, said Furrer. arrest all of ‘em,” when miss Old Chicago (Pizza). “She said, ‘You take a the Stockers themselves I miss the water, I miss weekend, Butter and Egg “just shut the club down the soil. But the rest of it I takes a weekend.’ It was completely.” don’t miss.” nothing against ‘American In its place sprung up The number of times Graffiti.’ She’s just not the Petaluma Pacers, a he’s seen “American happy we block off the more law-abiding outfit Graffiti,” he estimates, is street.” whose approach, said approaching 1,000. Baur, was “We wanna be “I probably know more Robust car culture friendly with the police, about that movie than — I Better known for its and race on legal drag know too much, put it dairy and agricultural strips, not on the street.” that way,” said Causwold. heritage, the city also has Pacers raced, yes, but “When I’m in a bad mood a colorful history of car also hosted dances and or depressed, which is clubs, cruising and drag other charitable endeavrare, I’ll flip that movie on racing, legal and otherors. They’re featured and watch it, and it puts Durable appeal wise, as depicted in the prominently in the mume in a whole different That loving, slightly book “Third Street Petaseum’s current exhibit, mood. wistful backward gaze — luma,” a vibrant history and in Baur’s book — not “It takes people to a the appeal of going back to of the city’s robust car surprising, as he was a cheerful place.” the way things were — res- culture written by native member of the club, whose When Furrer informed onated powerfully in Petson George Baur. alumni still meet most him in 2012 that the Citroaluma, a city that’s done a “I was cruising around Tuesdays at the Petaluma en driven by Dreyfuss was splendid job presiding over doing all that stuff” deElks Lodge. owned by a woman in St. its own preservation. picted in the movie, says The Stockers sound Helena, and that she was “You walk downtown Baur, who got his driver’s like a real-life version of looking to sell, Causwold Petaluma, it’s like taking license in 1962 — the year The Pharoahs, the club in quickly went to see her. a step back in time,” says in which Lucas’ comingAmerican Graffiti whose Elevating the car on John Furrer, a founding of-age film was set. “I was slightly sinister members a floor jack, he began board member of Cruisin’ there for it. It was a fun menace, then eventually inspecting it, searching The Boulevard, which has time.” befriend college-bound telltale dents and marks donated over $200,000 to Those clubs came toCurt, played by Richard that would confirm its auvarious local causes. “And gether after World War II, Dreyfuss. thenticity. “I was finding right now, a lot of people he recounted. Men came everything I was looking ‘A cheerful place’ need that.” home “with all these new for” — the round dent on The movie’s appeal mechanical abilities. Cars The theme for this the fender, the rearview has proved highly durawere inexpensive, everygolden anniversary mirror repaired with Bonble. It was screened in body wanted to go fast and Cruisin’ The Boulevard do, the rust spot visible April by the Petaluma it just all came together.” celebration, as depict“when Richard Dreyfuss is Film Alliance. Before the Among the trove of ed on the cover of the talking to Wolfman Jack.” lights were dimmed that photos in his book is one program painted by local But the Hard Rock Café evening, a lecture was deof a 1958 Press Democrat artist Elise Durenburger, had heard the Citroen livered by Isaac Holiday, story warning readers of is “Take a Ride With the was for sale, and drove a 22-year-old teacher’s teens “who test their speed Pharoahs.” up the bidding. Causwold assistant at Santa Rosa in a deadly competition It’s dedicated to Bo prevailed. Junior College. known as ‘dragging’” in Hopkins, who died last He was also obsessed, The world depicted “’hot rods’ with lowered May at the age of 80. (Cin- it’s fair to say, with the in “American Graffiti,” front ends.” dy Williams, who played T-Bird, then owned by a he said in an interview Such cars “are meant for Ron Howard’s girlfriend couple from Southern Calwith The Press Demorace tracks, yet they are Laurie, then co-starred in ifornia. Causwold rented it crat, “seems like a nicer, licensed as highway trans- the hit sitcom “LaVerne & from them each year, from simpler time” that “really portation,” a CHP captain Shirley,” died in January.) 2007 through 2014, to drive resonated” with him and told the reporter. (That In “American Graffiti,” in Cruisin’ The Boulemany of his peers in class, reporter, by the way, was Hopkins played Pharoahs vard’s annual car show. In “even though we didn’t Gaye Notley, who would ultracool alpha Joe Young, 2014, he finally bought it. experience (it), we don’t go on to become a beloved who persuades Curt to Causwold has since sold know it firsthand.” Press Democrat columnist attach a hook to the rear both vehicles. But he’ll be They enjoyed the movie, and local historian, better axle of a police car that is there Saturday, sitting by even as they acknowledged known by her married subsequently, and spectac- the Citroen, answering its homogeneity. Those name of Gaye LeBaron.) ularly vandalized. questions about the movie, classmates of Holiday’s “These kids are orgaPiloting his baby blue watching his fellow aficiowho were minorities and nized,” the CHP captain Citroen, Dreyfuss spends nados pilot their classic women, he said, “could lamented further. “They the movie in search of cars down the main drag, enjoy and appreciate the have CHP radios in their a mysterious blonde one more time. nostalgia and the fun” cars, and now we have (Suzanne Somers), who is So they will cruise on of “American Graffiti,” to use code … They use driving a white Thunder— to paraphrase F. Scott “while at the same time flag signals, lookouts and bird. In this quest he venFitzgerald — cars against kind of recognizing that all forms of law-avoiding tures to the edge of town, the current, borne back it doesn’t really represent devices.” seeking the counsel of ceaselessly into the past. them. Or only partly repThat tracks with Baur’s iconic DJ Wolfman Jack, resents them.” memories of the Flying who lays down the movie’s You can reach Staff Writer Furrer still makes the Stockers, one of the first stellar soundtrack. Austin Murphy at austin. rounds of downtown car clubs to come to For years, one man murphy@pressdemocrat. businesses a couple weeks Petaluma. “They were for owned both those cars, the com or on Twitter @ausbefore the event, to remind loud exhaust and racing Citroen and the T-Bird. murph88.

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The North Coast Miyoko’s Creamery, ex-CEO end fight PETALUMA » Legal disputes withdrawn; both parties seek to move on By SARA EDWARDS THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Petaluma-based Miyoko’s Creamery and its ousted founder and CEO Miyoko Schinner have withdrawn all legal disputes against one another, a joint statement released Thurs-

day said. “Miyoko’s Creamery acknowledges the tremendous creativity, hard work, and integrity of its founder, Miyoko Schinner, a true pioneer in vegan creamery products, and appreciates her many contributions to the company over the years,” read the statement. Legal disputes between Schinner and the Petaluma-based company emerged in February when Miyoko’s Creamery board

members filed a civil Schinner filed a lawsuit alleging Schincountersuit against the ner stole company propcompany a few weeks erty, including “its trade later alleging she was secrets and confidential discriminated against information.” because of her gender The lawsuit also aland was wrongfully terleged Schinner tried to minated and retaliated cover her tracks by deagainst by the company. Miyoko leting her activity from She also protested the Schinner company devices. continuous use of her Schinner, who foundname and face on its ed the company in 2014, was re- marketing materials. moved as CEO in June 2022. It’s not clear who initiated the

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resolution and withdrawal of the claims. The Press Democrat has reached out to Schinner and the company for comment. Schinner’s lawyer, Lisa Bloom, was not able to comment beyond the released statement. Schinner commented on Instagram that she is moving on and looking forward to a future filled with “friends, community TURN TO MIYOKO’S » PAGE A4

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The Cesar Chavez Language Academy band had been honing their skills for months to march for the first time in Santa Rosa’s Luther Burbank Rose Parade on Saturday. Band director Kyle Thompson had been working to rebuild the program at the southwest Santa Rosa school and the city’s century-old parade was a perfect opportunity to showcase his students’ abilities. About a month ago, though, hopes were dashed and preparations halted when it became clearer the event likely wasn’t going to take place, extending a now four-year hiatus over the pandemic. “My heart sank to realize that it wasn’t happening again this year,” Thompson said. “We had it on our calendar, we were ready to go but we’ll have to wait until next year.” Prospective participants were not the only ones waiting for word on the Rose Parade, as city officials said they’ve been inundated with inquiries from residents about the parade’s return. Some appealed to event organizers on social media. On Thursday — after multiple inquiries by The Press Democrat and city officials over weeks, with little to no success — event organizers confirmed what many had already accepted: This year’s

shaded table for dozens of VIP guests stretched Friday far across the manicured grounds of Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates and Gardens, where one of Wine Country’s newest events eased into its second day with a sumptuous feast. Friday’s feast, above, featured a menu prepared by Chef Maneet Chauhan and Chef Tracey Shepos Cenami, at right, during the Garden-to-Table Lunch. The 2nd annual Healdsburg Wine and Food Experience, which began Thursday and continues through Sunday, is geared toward tastings of the best the world has to offer, with wines from France, Italy, Australia and Spain next to those from closer to home. The marquee event, the Vintners Plaza Grand Tasting, goes from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday in downtown Healdsburg. Individual tickets start at $189. For tickets and information visit healdsburgwineandfood.com

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Two masked men held a Boyes Hot Springs couple at gunpoint and left at least one of them bloody during a violent attempt to rob them at their home Wednesday morning. The robbery, reported around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, failed after neighbors were drawn to the commotion from the home in the 100 block of Mountain Av-

community north of Sonoma. Sheriff’s deputies found the victims with their neighbors who came to help. One victim was bleeding from abrasions and had a bloody nose, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The victim was treated by medics at the scene. Investigators used evidence, witness statements and area surveillance footage to identify one of the suspected robbers as David Averill, a 46-year-old Valley resident, according to the Sheriff’s Office. He was booked into the TURN TO ROBBERY » PAGE A4

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A bicyclist remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after colliding with a car in west Santa Rosa on Thursday, police said. The cyclist, a Santa Rosa woman whose name was not released, was riding westbound on West Steele Lane when the crash occurred, Santa Rosa Police Sgt. Summer Gloeckner said in a news release. Multiple 911 callers summoned police to the scene at 5:07 p.m., Gloeckner said. As she passed McBride Lane, the cyclist, who police said is in her 50’s, appeared to swerve into the lane with westbound traffic. She was struck by the left side of a westbound Honda and thrown to the ground, according to witnesses and the Honda’s driver, Michael Steven Gutierrez, said Gloeckner. The Honda was trav-

eling about 15 mph, Gutierrez and witnesses estimated, according to Gloeckner. The cyclist, who was not wearing a helmet, was transported to a hospital where she remained in critical condition on Friday, said Santa Rosa Police Lt. Chris Mahurin. Gutierrez, 65, of Santa Rosa, was found to not have been driving under the influence. But officers searched his car because they spotted drug paraphernalia in it during their investigation, Gloeckner said. “Several large bindles of suspected methamphetamine” were discovered in the car, Gloeckner said, along with a scale and other drug paraphernalia. Gutierrez was arrested on suspicion of possession of narcotics and possession of narcotics for sale. The crash remains under investigation, Gloeckner said.

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THE PRESS DEMOCRAT • SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2023 counts of assault with a firearm against Averill plus one count each of kidnapping for ransom, attempted robbery, wearing a mask for unlawful purposes and being a felon in possession of a gun and ammunition. Court records show Averill has three previous convictions in Sonoma County for drug-related offenses dating to 2000.

Court records show Averill is being represented by the Sonoma County Public Defenders Office and he’s scheduled to appear in court May 26 to address his bail, which is set at $1 million. You can reach Staff Writer Colin Atagi at colin.atagi@pressdemocrat. com. On Twitter @colin_atagi

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Police: Man found dead in intersection The body of an unidentified man was found Thursday night at the intersection of West Steele Lane and Royal Oak Place in northwest Santa Rosa, authorities said. An area resident found the body in the intersection, located near Hilliard Comstock Northwest Community Park, and called police about 10:35 p.m., said Lt. Christopher Mahurin, a spokesperson for the Santa Rosa Police Department. Officers found the man lying face down in the road “with apparent injuries,” but officials weren’t able to release details of the injuries Friday afternoon, Mahurin said. The man’s identity is not known and his cause of death is under investigation, he said. No further information was released Friday. — Alana Minkler

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Indigenous peoples event this weekend The Indigenous Peoples Gathering will return for its second year Saturday and Sunday in Santa Rosa and is expected to draw many to celebrate local, national and international Indigenous cultures. “This is an event to bring together Indigenous communities ... and for those who are disconnected to reconnect,” said Reuben Crowfeather of Hunkpapa Lakota and master of ceremonies. He also encourages the greater community to join and learn. First held in 2022, over 30 tribes were represented at the daylong event that drew hundreds of participants from as far away as Wisconsin, Minnesota and Canada, Crowfeather said. This year will open with a ground blessing at 10 a.m. Saturday, followed by a schedule that includes various tribal and intertribal events. There will also be captivating dance performances, Indigenous vendors and workshops. A portion of the event Sunday will be dedicated to the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women movement, and attendees are asked to wear red in support. The alcohol- and smoke-free celebration is free for the public and will be held at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Parking is free. — Jennifer Sawhney

MIYOKO’S CONTINUED FROM A3 and activism.” She recently became more active on her YouTube channel, which hadn’t seen a new video since 2013 when she posted a preview video for a vegan cooking series, “The Vegan Good Life with Miyoko.” The most recent videos show Schinner in the kitchen making vegan versions of different foods. She also announced a vegan travel tour with travel company Tierno

Tours that will take place mid-September in Umbria, Italy. Last week, before the two sides released the statement, Schinner was a guest on the podcast “Walk the Talk Show” and said she wished the company well as they go their separate ways. “I hope they stay true to the path of veganism and the mission I started,” she said on the podcast. You can reach Staff Writer Sara Edwards at 707-521-5487 or sara. edwards@pressdemocrat. com. On Twitter @ sedwards380.

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Leo Kalson dances to the sounds of the band Burning Ice on Fourth Street during the 122nd annual Luther Burbank Rose Parade & Festival in Santa Rosa. This year’s parade has been canceled.

PARADE CONTINUED FROM A3 event would also be canceled. Peter Briceño, president of the event’s board of directors, said the all-volunteer organization has seen a drop in active members, which complicated efforts to organize an event. Remaining members met earlier in the year to see if they could pull off a parade but the group ultimately felt it wasn’t possible, he said. “What we didn’t want to do was put something together that didn’t feel like the parade,” Briceño said. “We rather put out a product that everybody can enjoy and stay in a positive light.” Briceño said organizers hope to bring back the hallmark event in 2024. The event, typically held on the third weekend in May, once drew as many as 400 participants from school bands, equestrian groups and service organizations and up to 10,000 people to Santa Rosa’s Old Courthouse Square. It was first held in 1894 as the Rose Carnival and had been held every year since 1950 until being canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic. Organizers had hoped to return last year after a two-year hiatus but opted to cancel again out of concern for public health and because of planning delays related to a winter surge in COVID-19 cases. That was despite other large events like the St. Patrick’s Day 5K race in Healdsburg and the Butter and Egg Days Parade and Festival in Petaluma returning last spring. Longtime former organizers fear the longer the parade remains on hiatus and without a champion to step up to help organize it, the harder it will be to revive it. “I think the longer it goes the harder it is to come back and come back

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A group of young dancers participate in the 125th annual Luther Burbank Rose Parade in 2019. as it was,” said Judy Groverman Walker, who managed the parade for 20 years until 2020. “I know the community values this and if there’s some champions behind it, it definitely could come back and should come back.”

Depleted board Briceño said Rose Parade board members felt there wasn’t enough time to organize a successful event and organizing an event so late in the season would lead to poor attendance and ultimately impact their efforts to keep the festival running longterm. Planning for the event typically begins in earnest around Thanksgiving, Briseño said, but a lack of manpower made it difficult to get the ball rolling. Briceño, who has been involved with the organization for more than a decade, said the nonprofit lost many of its longtime key board members in the pandemic and the group hasn’t been able to boost membership. There are only about five to six active members, he said. He hopes to attract more volunteers to the board and also usher in a younger group of people who can keep the event going in the future. “For us, it’s about rebuilding our board, attracting more board members and training the next group of people,” he said.

“I don’t want to make it a call to action but if people want to get involved and help with the lift, that’s really what we need, some motivated folks.” City officials with Santa Rosa and the Santa Rosa Metro Chamber offered to help with this year’s event and hope the festival continues in the future. Mayor Natalie Rogers called the parade “a long-standing Santa Rosa tradition in our downtown streets.” “It will definitely be missed this year, and I — along with many Santa Rosans — are looking forward to celebrating its return in 2024,” Rogers said. (The city stepped in to host a smaller Cinco de Mayo event this year after organizers of the annual Roseland festival opted to not go forward with their plans.)

Parade celebrates city Walker and her predecessor Toni Bodenhamer said the event offers a chance for people to come together as a community, celebrate local youth, civic organizations, and build pride in Santa Rosa. They lamented the extended cancellation. “There are so few opportunities in any community for everyone to applaud everyone else,” Bodenhamer said. “The people on the parade route come to see junior in the band but they’re applauding for the Kiwanis float or the

Redwood contingent or the dancers from ballet folklorico and that’s so rare to have that opportunity these days.” Bodenhamer said when she got involved in the early 1990s, the prior organization that sponsored the event faced similar membership challenges. It was a heavy lift to revamp the parade and it took a group of four or five people who dedicated several hours a week to reach out to sponsors and participants to pull it off. About 100 groups walked in the parade the first year they organized it, she said. Both were confident it could return with more support. Thompson, the band director, said during his nearly 20 years leading the marching band at Elsie Allen High School, the school participated in the parade annually. It was a chance for students to showcase their school spirit and help change negative perceptions people may have of the school, Thompson said. “It was an opportunity to show the community what our school was made of, what kind of spirit we had, and be part of something that was bigger,” he said. Thompson has been working to revamp the music program both at Elsie and Cesar Chavez in the aftermath of the pandemic, and the schools were expected to march together at the Rose Parade. They’ll march at the Twilight Parade in Healdsburg on May 25. “It’s a bummer that we aren’t able to share that with Santa Rosa,” he said. “Whatever way they can bring it back would be fantastic, it meant a lot to a lot of people and it gave us something to focus on and a chance to celebrate our city.” You can reach Staff Writer Paulina Pineda at 707-5215268 or paulina.pineda@ pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @paulinapineda22.

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THE PRESS DEMOCRAT • SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2023

Alert: ‘We need to be prepared’ El Niño likely returning, bringing danger for both California and the world

by El Niño. Flooding in the Peruvian Andes, for example, could disrupt copper mining and reverberate through the supply chain, Mankin said. “When a few major commodities producers get hit, that can just create this economic backlog that just propagates like a wave through the global economy that could potentially have impacts on California,” Mankin said, not unlike what happened during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The good news is that “improving our resilience to El Niño will pay dividends in improving our resilience to global climate change,” he added.

By HAYLEY SMITH LOS ANGELES TIMES

LOS ANGELES — It’s Earth’s original disrupter — a recurring climate pattern so powerful that it can drive global average temperature to record highs, and generate both cliff-crumbling storms and crop-destroying droughts across the planet. Now, after a long hiatus, El Niño is showing signs of a strong return in 2023. This week, federal forecasters said there was a 55% chance that a strong El Niño would occur, effectively flooding the surface of the Equatorial Pacific with water so unusually warm that it can alter weather patterns and devastate some ocean fisheries. El Niño is “the most important global form of climate variability, just given how much of the Earth it affects,” said Justin Mankin, a climate scientist at Dartmouth College. “The sloshing of sea surface temperatures totally reorganizes weather and climate around the world, and its tendency is to kind of amplify a lot of the kinds of impacts that we expect with something like global warming.”

Winter of losses? For California — a state already bracing for potentially devastating floods due to epic snowmelt — a strong El Niño could bring a second consecutive winter of above-average precipitation, accompanied by landslides, floods and coastal erosion. For the rest of the world, El Niño threatens to inflict trillions of dollars in global income losses. “This looks like a really big El Niño event,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said during a briefing this week. “This looks like it has a high potential of being the real deal, and it’s going to have large global effects.” El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-La Niña Southern Oscillation pattern, sometimes

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Jameson Lane in Montecito, Santa Barbara County, was flooded in January after heavy rainfall in the area. referred to as ENSO, and officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday that a transition into El Niño is very likely in the next two months. While a weak El Niño is possible, there is currently an 80% chance it will be moderately strong and a 55% chance it will be strong, the agency said. There is also a 90% chance that the system will linger through the winter and into 2024. The report came only days after the World Meteorological Organization released its own outlook, which found that in the next five years, worldwide temperatures are likely to surpass record levels due to heat-trapping greenhouse gases and the incoming El Niño. There is a 66% likelihood that the annual average near-surface global temperature will surge beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels at least once between 2023 and 2027, the agency said. (The Paris Agreement of 2015 established 1.5 degrees Celsius as the global goal for avoiding the worst effects of

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greenhouse gas emissions and Median losses from the inhuman-caused climate change.) coming event could be at least $3 trillion by 2029, said Mankin, one Record temps likely ahead of the lead authors of the study. The WMO predicts that there The costs are much larger than is a 98% likelihood that at least previous estimates, he said, and one of the next five years, and reflect the ways in which econothe five-year period as a whole, mies endure persistent depreswill be the warmest on record. sions for several years following “A warming El Niño is ex- El Niño events. pected to develop in the coming It is also not a coincidence that months and this will combine the Earth’s hottest year on rewith human-induced climate cord, 2016, was an El Niño year, change to push global tempera- he said. Already, NWS forecasts tures into uncharted territory,” for the next three months favor WMO Secretary-General Profes- above-normal temperatures over sor Petteri Taalas said in a state- the western United States and ment. “This will have far-reach- many other parts of the country. ing repercussions for health, But while the system will infood security, water manage- fluence weather and climate ment and the environment. We patterns across the world, it need to be prepared.” will also have knock-on effects Indeed, El Niño has historic for myriad industries includimplications for a variety of sec- ing energy, metals, agriculture tors, including the economy. The and transportation, he said. In1982-83 El Niño contributed to an surance losses will be high, and estimated $4.1 trillion in global changes in banking and interest income losses in the five years rates in response are possible. that followed, and the 1997-98 El Such global impacts can also Niño contributed to an estimated trickle into California, as import $5.7 trillion in losses, according and export markets in South to a study published Thursday in America, Indonesia and other the journal Science. parts of the world can be affected

However, there are also potential direct effects to agriculture, said Tapan Pathak, a specialist in climate adaptation in agriculture at the University of California Cooperative Extension. El Niño’s agricultural effects in the state are usually most evident during wintertime, when warmer temperatures — especially warmer minimum temperatures — can negatively affect crops that require a higher chill during winter dormancy, such as pistachios, cherries and pears, Pathak said. Warmer winters can also mean more pressure from pests, which might start their cycle earlier, he said. Earlier bud-breaks and flowering, as well as a longer growing season, are also possible. Less certain are the impacts of precipitation, since the precise timing and location of El Niño-related rainfall in California is dependent on factors such as the magnitude of the system, the position of the jet stream and other related atmospheric and oceanic oscillations, Pathak said. “There have been El Niño years when we had extreme wet conditions as well as dry,” he said. “But if we were to see another wet year, agriculture might face challenges related to flooding damages, increased diseases due to increased moisture, difficulties in farming operations [depending on the timing of rain], among others.”

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THE PRESS DEMOCRAT • SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2023

“When you appoint somebody to office you get one ingrate and nine people who are pissed off at you.”

Governor’s vow looming large GARRY SOUTH, a Democratic political consultant, on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “kind of a no-win situation”

With Feinstein ailing, Newsom’s promise over Senate seat in spotlight BY THOMAS FULLER AND SHANE GOLDMACHER NEW YORK TIMES

SAN FRANCISCO — Two years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vowed on national television that if Sen. Dianne Feinstein stepped down early, he would appoint a Black woman to replace her. It was a promise that was only theoretical at the time even though questions were already emerging about the fitness of Feinstein, who turns 90 next month, to serve out her term. But after Feinstein contracted shingles earlier this year, was homebound and then returned to Washington frailer than ever, the contingency plan has become far more pressing — and more politically complicated. A heated 2024 campaign to replace Feinstein is already underway, featuring three heavyweights from the California congressional delegation: Rep. Katie Porter, a favorite of the progressive left; Rep. Adam Schiff, who earned national fame managing the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump; and Rep. Barbara Lee, the only Black woman of the three, who is best known for casting the lone vote in Congress against the war in Afghanistan more than two decades ago. Now, if a vacancy comes, Newsom would have to decide whether to elevate Lee over her white rivals or find a caretaker who would agree not to seek a full term in 2024, presuming he keeps his pledge. “The hard part now is the race is not that many months away, right?” Newsom said in a local television news interview this month about the upcoming Senate election. “The primary is early next year so it’s now a very

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Megan Kracalik Bayar glances at a bust of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, in San Francisco’s City Hall, where Bayar got married on Thursday. Voters interviewed in California on Thursday had mixed views on the meaning and consequences of fresh and troubling revelations about Feinstein’s condition. different place — it’s not an academic conversation, like it was a year ago.” Black leaders are watching closely. “The one thing we have as political people is our word,” said Lori D. Wilson, the chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus, who supports the appointment of Lee. Newsom has already appointed one senator, replacing Kamala Harris, after she became vice president, with Sen. Alex Padilla, who is California’s first Latino senator. The decision in December 2020, however, left no Black women in the Senate, disappointing Black leaders and party activists. Nearly three months later, Newsom promised to appoint a Black woman to replace Feinstein, if she ever were to resign, during an interview on MSNBC with Joy Reid, the network’s most prominent Black woman

anchor. Feinstein has given no indication that she plans to step down even as her condition has plainly worsened. A New York Times report this week revealed that Feinstein had suffered from encephalitis, a previously undisclosed complication of the bout of shingles that kept her away from the Senate for more than two months. The condition, which is characterized by swelling of the brain, can result in lasting memory or language problems. Newsom has expressed his wishes for her improved health, calling her “a mentor and a friend.” But he cannot escape the political ramifications if she were to leave office early, since he would be forced to pick her replacement. “I hope I’ll never have to make that decision,” Newsom said last month.

Decades apart in age, Newsom, 55, and Feinstein both cut their teeth in bare-knuckle San Francisco politics and they have mostly been allied, with a notable exception coming in 2004, after Newsom decided to issue gay marriage licenses in City Hall. When Democrats suffered losses that fall, including the White House, Feinstein blamed the mayor obliquely for motivating conservatives, calling it “too much, too fast, too soon.” Garry South, a Democratic political consultant who worked in the administrations of former governors in California and Ohio, says Newsom’s dilemma recalls what he describes as the poisoned chalice of political appointments. “It’s kind of a no-win situation,” he said of Newsom’s choice of candidates. “When you appoint somebody to office you get one ingrate and nine people

who are pissed off at you.” South, who once served as a campaign manager for Newsom, predicted that the governor would not “put his thumb on the scale” among the three candidates. “I think he would be perfectly excused for appointing a caretaker until the Democrats can sort out which of these three major Democrats they want to move onto the general election,” he said. Even the notion of appointing a caretaker can be fraught. Newsom, who has spoken little in public about whom he might appoint, has seen up close that short-term appointees do not necessarily keep their word. When he left San Francisco’s mayoralty, Newsom backed Ed Lee as his interim replacement. At the time, Lee promised not to seek a full term but he eventually did. Some allies of Barbara Lee, who is not related to Ed Lee, have publicly ratcheted up pressure for Feinstein to resign, most notably Rep. Ro Khanna of California. But Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker who has endorsed Schiff for Senate, has rejected calls for Feinstein to step down as sexist. South points out that from a horse-race standpoint, Barbara Lee is polling in the single digits in early polling, running third behind Schiff and Porter. “What kind of sense would it make to elevate a candidate in a distant third position over the other two better-known, better-polling candidates?” he said. The situation is further complicated by the fact that Newsom’s own circle of political strategists have split loyalties. The firm of his longtime advisers, Ace Smith and Sean Clegg, is working for a pro-Schiff super PAC. His former spokesperson, Nathan Click, is advising Porter. Two other Newsom strategists, Dan Newman and Brian Brokaw, are working for a pro-Lee super PAC.

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SAN FRANCISCO — On her way to get married inside San Francisco’s City Hall, Megan Kracalik Bayar walked past a bronze statue of Sen. Dianne Feinstein that honored her years as the city’s mayor. Bayar had heard on the radio that Feinstein, a Democratic eminence in California politics for decades, had suffered from brain swelling and was increasingly frail, forgetful and impaired. “I didn’t realize she was so unwell,” Bayar said, minutes before posing for her wedding photos in the cavernous rotunda. “I feel sorry for her.” But she was not ready to pass judgment on whether Feinstein, 89, should step down. “I haven’t reached a conclusion,” she said. Voters interviewed in California on Thursday had mixed views on the meaning and consequences of fresh and troubling revelations about Feinstein’s condition. But they did not seem to share the sense of urgency expressed

by some of the state’s political players, the politicians, donors and activists who were distressed over the possibility that Feinstein’s condition would slow the Democrats’ agenda and effectiveness in Washington. Denise Dixon, a lifelong Democrat who lives in Anaheim, southeast of Los Angeles, said she was still unsure of Feinstein’s mental capacity and whether the senator was able to carry on with her job. “As a voter, I’d hope she would be responsible and make the right choice whether to step down now or later,” said Dixon, who voted for Feinstein in 2018. Feinstein has already announced that she will retire when her sixth term ends in January 2025, but there are growing doubts that she can fulfill her duties until then. “She’s not able to do everything, do all the things that she’d like to do; she just doesn’t have the energy,” said Tanya Berger, 72, a retired real estate agent and a Democrat, who was strolling through the city of Orange on Thursday afternoon with her friend

and bridge partner after an Italian lunch. “It is time. We just need some new blood. We just need some people that are more in tune with the times.” Feinstein has been such a fixture of California Democratic politics — she was first elected to the Senate more than three decades ago — that her presence and her continued political victories have been taken for granted by many voters. Jeremy Levine, a Democrat who works at a housing policy nonprofit organization and lives in Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco, did not bother to vote for Feinstein in 2018 because he was so confident she would win. Now he thinks she should resign if she cannot carry out the most fundamental parts of a senator’s job: voting on bills and the confirmation of judges. “Feinstein has been an amazing senator for California for a long time. Long before I was alive, she was leading the charge,” he said. “I’m not going to criticize her values. It’s just, like, can she do the job?”

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Cops: Thumbs down on ‘Fast and Furious’ Release of new movie prompts police to warn of street racing’s dangers BY NATHAN SOLIS LOS ANGELES TIMES

LOS ANGELES — A car barreling through the air in a highspeed action movie does not follow the same laws of physics in the real world, and law enforcement officials hope to drive home that point in a new anti-street racing campaign unveiled this week. The California Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies launched the campaign by staging a baby blue Lamborghini crashed into a light pole on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.

The effort to deter street racing arrives just as “Fast X” is released nationwide Friday, in what promises to be the last entry in the “Fast and Furious” car-racing action franchise starring Vin Diesel. Street racing in movies can influence copycats in the real world who think they too can drive on surface streets like a stunt driver, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore said during a news conference Thursday. “The popularity of movies such as the ‘Fast and Furious’ series and their upcoming latest release we believe is likely to influence copycats because of the movie glamorizing this very dangerous activity,” Moore said.

“Movies like this are fantasies.” It makes sense for law enforcement agencies and others to take advantage of the movie’s release to remind the public about the dangers of street racing, said Lili Trujillo Puckett, founder of Street Racing Kills, an advocacy group that shares testimony from survivors and relatives of street racing victims. “Some people know it’s movie magic, but there are some people who seek that thrill from speed after they watch a movie,” Puckett said in an interview Friday. Puckett founded Street Racing Kills after her 16-year-old daughter, Valentina, was killed in a car crash in 2013 after the driver giving her a ride tried to race the car and wrecked it. When she found-

Wild horses found dead at Mono Lake LOS ANGELES TIMES

Several wild horse carcasses have been discovered this spring on the southwestern shores of Mono Lake, after California endured a cold and snowy winter. As multiple feet of snow finally melted around one of Mono County’s greatest attractions, U.S. Forest Service officials and volunteers found remnants of a large presence of wild horses — ones that typically range much farther east — that wintered around Mono Lake and left behind massive amounts of manure, ecological damage and in some cases, decaying skeletons.

Warning to visitors “Visitors should be prepared to come across horse carcasses and manure,” Inyo National Forest officials posted on Facebook last week. “There have been reports of several horse carcasses around the South Tufa and Navy Beach areas of the lake, and this may increase in areas where the wild horses have roamed over the winter season.” The Forest Service said the horse deaths were probably linked to the long, cold winter, but it noted that an official cause of death hadn’t been determined. “Land managers are not particularly concerned [by these deaths], as this was somewhat of an expected outcome from the long and harsh winter we’ve had, along with the fact that this horse herd had grown so large in size,” Lisa Cox, a spokesperson for the Inyo National Forest, said in a statement. “This has been and will be the case for many other wildlife species in this area.”

Toll unknown It’s also not clear how many horses were found dead. But some Mono Lake ecologists and volunteers worry the deaths, massive amounts of manure and disrupted habitat are the latest signs of a growing problem as more wild horses keep migrating into the Mono Lake Basin. “Nearly every square meter of trail at South Tufa and Navy Beach was covered in manure, and manure piles blocked handicap access along the boardwalk from the parking lot to the lake,” according to an online post Thursday by the Mono Lake Committee, a nonprofit that works to protect the lake and its habitats. “Several horses died at South Tufa over the winter and their scavenged carcasses were draped between tufa towers and along the lakeshore.” Bartshe Miller, the committee’s Eastern Sierra policy director, said based on anecdotal evidence and game cameras, they estimate there could have been a dozen to 200 horses spending the winter in the area, where springs, wetlands and tufa towers

are particularly fragile and easily damaged by the large animals. This region is well beyond the horses’ typical range, which is more than 20 miles east of the lake in a federally designated herd management area surrounding the California-Nevada border, but Miller noted the animals have started moving west in recent years. Cox said the wild horses cause “negative ecological impacts to the sensitive hydrological resources of Mono Lake.” “The recent deaths of these horses provide further evidence that the size of this herd cannot be supported by the landscape which they are expanding onto,” Cox said. She said the Forest Service is “exploring options” to update the wild horse management plan — which hasn’t been updated since 1988 — but no changes have been made yet. A 2019 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture recommended the Inyo National Forest work on updating the management plan over the next five years for this herd, known as the Montgomery Pass Herd, but that hasn’t started. Earlier this month, Inyo National Forest officials and volunteers removed two of the horse carcasses and more than 1,000 pounds of horse manure “to lessen visitor impacts in the main trail areas,” Inyo National Forest officials wrote on social media.

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Animals on the move The wild horses, which are federally protected, are part of the Montgomery Pass Herd, for which officials have designated almost 200,000 acres, 70,000 of which are in the Inyo National Forest, according to federal reports. But the horses started moving west beyond that designated territory and into the Mono Lake Basin in 2015, said Geoff McQuilkin, the Mono Lake Committee’s executive director. Last winter, the horses made it to the western side of the lake, where this year they made their presence even more evident. “They’ve been generally pushing westward as the population increased,” McQuilkin said. “Based on the amount of manure at the site [this year], they were probably caught there due to the heavy snow.” McQuilkin said the horses were probably attracted to the location because of the availability of some grasses, the lake’s freshwater and, especially so this winter, the absence of human activity, as snow shuttered access to the lake. A 2020 census conducted by the Forest Service counted approximately 654 horses in the Montgomery Pass Herd, which is three to four times the appropriate management level established in 1988, with 76% of those horses being outside of the established range, Cox said.

of Angelino Heights. The first movie, released in 2001, prominently featured the neighborhood, which over the years has become a sort of mecca for street racers and movie fans. During the filming of “Fast X” in August, protesters marched around the neighborhood demanding more efforts by the city to combat copycats. Rene Favela, a resident of the neighborhood, was angry about black tire marks on the street outside his home at the time. But the city recently re-engineered the street, adding traffic bollards and other barriers that narrowed a large intersection in front of Bob’s Market, an iconic location in the “Fast and Furious” movies.

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OPINION Jim Sweeney, Editorial Director Judy Coffey, Editorial Board Community Member Mick Menendez, Editorial Board Community Member

EDITORIAL

Restoring civility to civic discourse I t’s no revelation that civic discourse in this country is anything but civil, with regular displays of profanity, racism and even violence. In 2016, our once and wouldbe future president offered to pay legal fees for supporters in Iowa if they got violent with protesters. As president, he encouraged police officers to get rough with people they arrested — “Please don’t be nice” — and whipped up a mob ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Greg Gianforte pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for body-slamming a reporter on the eve of a special congressional election in Montana in 2017. He still won the election and is now governor of Montana. In 2019, an anti-vaccine activist hurled a cup of blood at state senators from a public gallery in the state Capitol in Sacramento. Just this week, a man armed with a metal baseball bat attacked two employees, one a young intern on her first day of work, in the district office of a Virginia congressman. There are too many examples of coarse language, threats and outright violence to list them all. And while we might want to believe such things can’t happen here, Sonoma County isn’t exempt from the disheartening trend in public behavior. The most recent Santa Rosa Board of Education meeting was interrupted by a despicable display of racism. During an otherwise routine business on May 10, two racial slurs — we won’t repeat them — were directed at school board member Ed Sheffield by an online participant before another board member interceded. “We do not tolerate hate speech in this district,” board member Alegria De La Cruz said. “Please cut his microphone.” Sheffield is the longest-serving member of the school board and

the parent of two children in Santa Rosa schools. He didn’t respond to the ugly comments and has no need to defend his record of service to the community. The speaker, who wasn’t on camera, identified himself as Shelby Pryor — a name familiar to local elected officials, some of whom have been subjected to inflammatory and even threatening remarks at public meetings. In the case of Supervisor James Gore, the comments extended to his wife and children. In June, the county secured a court order prohibiting Pryor from going within 100 yards of Gore, his family, their home, vehicles and schools. Judge Patrick Broderick ruled that Pryor made “a credible threat” against Gore and prohibited Pryor from owning, possessing or buying firearms or ammunition for the threeyear duration of the order. Despite his behavior, Pryor still is allowed to speak at public meetings. Whatever his grievances are, he shouldn’t expect anyone to listen if he chooses threats and racists slurs over civil discourse. The National Council for Social Studies defines civil discourse as “a conversation in which there is a mutual airing of views. It is not a contest, and is rather intended to promote mutual understanding.” Sheffield and most other local elected officials receive little or no compensation for long hours devoted to studying issues and budgets, meeting with constituents and making policy decisions. They didn’t sign up to be insulted or threatened. Neither did officials, elected or otherwise, who are paid full-time salaries for public service. Politics can get emotional, and disagreements go with the territory. But free speech entails mutual respect, and there is never any justification for racist remarks, threats or violence.

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LET THE PUBLIC SPEAK A shortsighted decision EDITOR: Yet another incident in the Santa Rosa school district made headlines on May 13 (“No arrests after gun reported”). How many similar headlines did Santa Rosans read during the 30 years that school resource officers worked for students, teachers and parents on school campuses? As a retired Santa Rosa police chief who supervised those officers, I’ll give you a hint: there weren’t any murders, and potential fights rarely occurred. Kids were allowed to be more like kids on school campuses. People were safer and preempting potential violence was the rule — not the exception. Instead, you elected to revert to having peace officers respond to calls for help on school campuses. Rather than benefit from a higher level of service for children and teachers, you lowered it. You have elected to forgo using your peace officers to develop constructive relationships on campus with students, teachers and parents, with the primary goal of keeping everyone safe. One knee-jerk, shortsighted decision has placed your children and your teachers in the same old traditional place of long ago: waiting for the police to respond to a crisis situation. Instead of working together to intervene, relate, learn and enhance safety. For crying out loud, wake up!

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Punishing the poor EDITOR: Congress has a responsibility to pay the bills it runs up. For decades, this was not an issue. But now House GOP leaders are refusing to pay unless they get deep cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, housing assistance and core global poverty programs. For them, people struggling to make ends meet are the problem, not reck-

less tax cuts for the rich that Congress enacted over the past 40 years. These proposed budget cuts would force deep hardship onto tens of millions of people still recovering from the COVID economic downturn and the rising costs of basic needs. Even worse, a default would trigger a deep recession and throw millions of Americans out of work. Instead of being responsible, House leaders are holding the U.S. economy hostage to punish Americans experiencing poverty. This must stop. I strongly urge President Joe Biden and congressional leaders to reject any budget cuts that would increase poverty and to lift the debt ceiling immediately.

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and one is a bagel shop. The clue that these were once gas stations, in both cases, is the concrete island that once housed the gas pumps. The third became an auto repair business more recently, but the islands were removed, making for a larger parking lot. Second, the Santa Rosa gas stations may be in limbo as the oil company involved, the past franchise owner, possibly previous franchise owners, and regulatory agencies hash out who will be responsible for removing the underground gas tanks and addressing any environmental issues. That can go on for years before the land becomes available for other uses. Here’s hoping those sites do wind up as productive businesses — or housing.

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EDITOR: No offense, God, but I’m tired of hearing our wonderful politicians say they are praying for victims and families after mass shootings. That is nice, but it does not solve the problem. What will solve the problem is these politicians coming to their senses and realizing we have a major situation here and we need to act. Pass laws to end the availability of weapons capable of mass shootings. Until that is done, all the prayers in the world are not going to stop these atrocities.

LINDA ELLIOTT Cloverdale

Converting gas stations EDITOR: Bill Krumbein suggested that two out-of-business gas stations be repurposed into other businesses (“Repurposing ‘eyesores,’ ” Letters, May 12). This is not a novel idea. Walking from downtown Sebastopol to my house at the end of South Main Street, I go past three old gas stations. One became an auto repair business well over 50 years ago,

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Trump’s new debt take EDITOR: One answer by Donald Trump during his CNN town hall told me all I need to know about him. He was asked about the debt ceiling showdown and answered that if Joe Biden didn’t agree to “massive” cuts, Republicans should let the nation default for the first time in its history. When pressed by Kaitlan Collins that he was against default the three times the debt ceiling was raised during his tenure and asked why he changed his mind, his answer was, “I am not president now.” He is OK now with the country being thrown into chaos because he sees it to be to his advantage. America first always meant Trump first. Trump thinks about himself before the country. If sending the nation into default, potentially causing severe pain to many Americans, is the way to make America great again, you could have fooled me.

TERRY McBROOM Petaluma

We have the power to control our nuclear fate I

n centuries to come, our descendants will wonder why we chose to live so long with the urgent threat of self-annihilation. They will wonder why we spent decades playing Russian roulette with nuclear weapons. President Joe Biden arrived on Friday for a summit of the Group of Seven wealthy nations in Hiroshima, Japan, the city that was instantly obliterated on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, by the silent flash of an atomic bomb dropped by a U.S. plane. Biden’s host, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, is a distant cousin of a 4-year-old boy who was killed in that instant of hellfire — his body reduced to melted flesh, according to the aunt who found him. That detonation and the similar U.S. bombing of Nagasaki three days later miraculously remain the only instances when atomic weapons have been used in anger. Between 110,000 and 210,000 Japanese civilians were killed in the two blasts, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which keeps a “doomsday clock” estimating how close the world is to the “midnight” of

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cataclysmic nuclear war. Before the explosions in Japan, there were precisely two armed-and-ready nuclear weapons in the world. Today, according to the Federation of American Scientists — founded after World War II as the Federation of Atomic Scientists by experts alarmed at the destructive power of the atomic bomb — there are roughly 12,500 nuclear warheads in the stockpiles of nine nuclear nations. And many of those weapons are thousands of times more powerful than the rudimentary devices used against Japan in 1945. Kishida decided to hold this year’s meeting of G-7 leaders in Hiroshima to focus renewed attention on the existential question of nuclear disarmament. The issue deserves a more serious response than what Kishida is likely to get: high-minded speeches, and perhaps establishment of some kind of mid-level “working

group” whose studies and proposals go nowhere. With Russian President Vladimir Putin threatening to use “tactical” nuclear weapons in his bloody attempt to conquer Ukraine, and with China and North Korea both developing new missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads, the response from the G-7’s nuclear powers — the United States, France and Britain — is not going to be a genuine push for disarmament. Instead, it will be to spend whatever is necessary to ensure that allied nuclear capabilities match or exceed those of our adversaries. Three decades after the end of the Cold War, we are still trapped inside the conceptual framework of mutual assured destruction. No leader dares to use nuclear weapons because the response would be a devastating retaliatory nuclear strike. Nuclear powers go to great lengths to avoid direct armed conflict with one another, given the risk that a conventional war might somehow go nuclear. It is even possible to argue that because of this deterrent effect, nuclear weapons are not a bane to humanity, but a blessing.

Possible, but crazy. One problem with mutual assured destruction is that it doesn’t work unless all the nations that possess nuclear weapons are truly prepared to use them. Another problem is that the system incentivizes nations engaged in ideological or territorial conflict with the West to develop nuclear weapons of their own: Once you have the bomb, nobody is going to mess with you. Iraq failed to make a nuclear bomb, and Saddam Hussein was deposed. North Korea succeeded, and Kim Jong Un remains comfortably in power. It is only logical that Iran’s mullahs would race to follow Kim’s example — rather than suffer Hussein’s fate. Consider India and Pakistan. Perhaps the fact that both are nuclear powers keeps their occasional border clashes from escalating. But what if a skirmish somehow gets out of hand, perhaps fueled by the rising militancy of Hindu nationalists? A nuclear exchange on the subcontinent could kill tens or even hundreds of millions. If you want some idea of what nuclear war would be like,

read “Hiroshima,” written by New Yorker journalist John Hersey one year after the bombing. He interviewed survivors and reconstructed a shockingly vivid account of the blast and its aftermath. A Methodist minister, Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, described the detonation as “a sheet of sun” and saw houses 2 miles from the epicenter flattened. Survivors had horrible burns from the explosion and the massive firestorm that followed. The lucky died quickly; the less fortunate died in agony from radiation sickness in the days and weeks that followed. The detonation of a single modern nuclear warhead over a large city anywhere in the world would be exponentially worse. We cannot unlearn how to make nuclear weapons; that’s not how human knowledge works. But we can, as a civilization, decide that nuclear holocaust will not be our fate. We had the ingenuity to unlock the cataclysmic power of the atom. We must somehow find the wisdom to forswear its use. Eugene Robinson is a columnist for the Washington Post.

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If California’s regulations are THE LAST WORD so strict, why is our air so bad? WRITE-A-CAPTION

By CHRISTINA DUNBARHESTER

alifornia just took another step to burnish its reputation as a leader in fighting pollution. Last month, the state’s air regulators set emissions rules for heavier vehicles and locomotives, including a requirement for all cargo trucks entering seaports and rail yards to be “zero-emission” by 2035. This plan reflects the contradiction that has long characterized California’s air policy. The state seems at the forefront of pace-setting regulations — but it pursues those regulations because it has bad air. This year the American Lung Association reported Los Angeles to be the smoggiest metropolitan area in the nation, a title it has held all but one of the past 24 years. We can enact the new rules because the federal Clean Air Act made California the only state allowed to set its own motor vehicle emission standards, in recognition of our unique air quality challenges: abundant sunshine that produces more ozone and the geography of mountains and valleys that traps particles released from combustion, allowing them to build up. California’s air has improved in recent decades. The San Joaquin Valley, known for having among the worst air in the nation, saw fewer days in violation of the federal ozone threshold in 2005 compared with 1995; 2015 was better still, with about half as many bad days as 1995. But starting from such a poor baseline means that even with improvements, in 2015 the valley still had 55 days of health-compromising ozone — slightly more than one day per week. Now we’re also increas-

ingly dealing with wildfire smoke: Eight of California’s 10 largest fires have been within the past decade, undermining recent progress and sending smog levels up again. Our more frequent, more intense fires increase pressure on California to get serious about combating deadly pollution. The new regulations on trucks and trains answer part of this call. But we’ll need more expansive solutions to ensure that people’s health and mobility take precedence over goods movement in the quest for cleaner air. Freight movement, including the trucks used to move most goods within and through the state, is responsible for about 50% of our air pollution. In line with broader patterns of environmental injustice, cargo movement concentrates pollution in specific neighborhoods. Coastal communities tend to be within or closer to pollution limits. The corridor connecting the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, downtown L.A. and the Inland Empire — now the dominant region for distribution warehouses — sees many more days of extreme violation of those limits, with some of the worst air in the nation. The Central Valley sees similarly dismal conditions. To reduce these harmful emissions, there is a push to electrify everything, a transition that will be imposed on heavy vehicles and locomotives under California’s new standards. For some ground transportation, electrification adds a lot of benefit. It is ideal for lighter vehicles doing short-haul trips, which can charge between shifts. Lastmile delivery (such as the U.S. Postal Service and Amazon) can be accomplished by electric trucks, delivery golf carts or even lighter cargo bikes.

Long distances and heavy cargo are harder. Eliminating the diesel and dirty shipping fuel they currently rely on is necessary to meet emissions targets. But heavy trucks require large batteries (while already carrying weighty cargo), and they lose more time recharging batteries on long trips. There are prototypes for vehicles powered by alternative fuels, including hydrogen-powered trucks, which would refuel quickly and more conveniently than electric vehicles. But hydrogen fuel is likely to be sourced from fossil gas. Besides, even if it were practical for all vehicles, electrification is no panacea. About 40% of California’s electricity comes from burning fossil fuel, meaning electric vehicles are “zeroemission” only at tailpipes, not overall. (And tires, not only combustion, also release significant toxic particulates near roadways.) All of this indicates that swapping in new fuel sources alone won’t be enough to get emissions to healthful levels. We need to reexamine system-level choices and put novel solutions on the table. Instead of just thinking about how to make new technology replicate exactly the transportation systems we have, California should rethink its economic dependence on moving freight at the current volume, distance and speed, which come at the expense of human health. This mentality can be instructive for other state-mandated environmental changes. For example, beginning in 2024, California has banned sales of new gas-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers (running a commercial leaf blower for one hour emits pollution comparable to that of driving a new passenger car about 1,100 miles).

But existing machines are allowed to operate for as long as they can be maintained, meaning it could take another decade before related emissions drop significantly. Why not incentivize raking rather than leaf blowing, alongside planting drought-resistant trees and native plants that demand less water, absorb carbon and particulates and are more resilient to worsening climate stress than high-maintenance lawns? Instead of just pushing people to transition to electric cars — while permitting egregiously polluting private jets — why don’t we retool infrastructure to encourage walking, biking and public transportation? These are more democratic and less deadly forms of mobility, using less fossil fuel and less electricity. Even people with cars will benefit from having better alternatives to driving. Reduced reliance on petroleum will also make it easier to carry out California’s setback law banning oil extraction near homes, schools, playgrounds and parks, which is embattled despite being popular with state residents. Given California’s challenges, officials may be tempted to continually grant “state of exception” permits, which allow industries to exceed pollution thresholds. But we are in a new normal, not a state of exception. Californians, our regulators and our elected officials have to not only stick with ambitious rules to replace fossil fuels, but also envision ways for us to use less energy, period.

“You know if you beat him, he’ll just come back in 2028.” BROOKE CLYDE, Santa Rosa

“Maybe we should call for the Corvette?” JACK BAUMAN, Windsor

“If you say ‘Hi Ho, Silver! Away!’ one more time, I’m bucking you off.” RICHARD SMITH, Santa Rosa

“Yes, Joe, the past is much rosier than the future.” JON YATABE, Fort Collins, Colorado

“Giddee up or giddee off, Joe. But we gotta giddee going sooner or later.” JOHN F. SHEA, Santa Rosa

“Back in the saddle again.” JUDITH VAN ARDEN, Rohnert Park

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NEWSOM CONTINUED FROM A1 Some of the projects that could benefit from the governor’s proposal include transit construction, bridge maintenance, Sites Reservoir and the Delta Conveyance Project — the state’s solution for repairing its aging water delivery system from the north. Newsom’s plan to speed up infrastructure projects The proposal would prevent lawsuits involving certain climate and transportation projects from lasting more than nine months. And ultimately, Newsom said, he hopes to

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT • SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2023 reduce that time span to just six months. The bills also include several tweaks to CEQA to streamline procedures around record retention and accelerate permitting for such projects, Newsom said. Through an executive order, Newsom instructed a slew of public agencies to stand up a strike team tasked with working on a plan to accelerate clean infrastructure projects across the state. The governor wants to incorporate the package of legislation into the next year’s budget. The Legislature has until June 15 to pass the budget, and the governor must sign budget-related

bills before July 1. Newsom unveiled his plan by standing in front of dozens of laborers at the future site of Proxima Solar Farm near Patterson. The project, which is expected to be up and running by the end of the year, could power up to 60,000 homes and generate hundreds of megawatts of clean energy and battery energy storage. Also in attendance was former Los Angeles mayor and California infrastructure advisor Antonio Villaraigosa, who said he had been working with the governor’s team on this effort since becoming an advisor in August. “Our legislative partners

have to review this, but I think almost everybody agrees: You put a man or a woman back to work and in good middle-class jobs, you change a life,” Villaraigosa said. Newsom’s plan quickly garnered support across the aisle. Senate Minority Leader Brian W. Jones, R-San Diego, and Senate Minority Caucus Chair Janet Nguyen, R-Huntington Beach, said in statements that they were both eager to work with the governor to reform CEQA. “California Senate Republicans have been advocating for CEQA reform for years,” Jones said in a statement. “... We remain

eager to collaborate with the governor and our colleagues across the aisle in a bipartisan manner to fix California with solutions that address our state’s myriad issues ranging from homelessness to housing to water infrastructure.” What about CEQA reform to ease California’s housing crisis? Absent from Newsom’s announcement were any major changes to address concerns CEQA is being used by some homeowners and anti-housing NIMBYs — a term that stands for “Not in my backyard” — to legally challenge and delay housing projects they oppose.

After a Feb. 24 state court ruled that UC Berkeley violated CEQA in its plans to build a new student and homeless housing project, Newsom said the law was being “held hostage by NIMBYs” and vowed to work with lawmakers to change it. He has not elaborated since then. On Thursday, Newsom changed his tune, saying the state had made “tremendous progress in this space.” He celebrated some of the more modest CEQA overhaul bills that he signed last year and said he was looking forward to signing other bills introduced this year by lawmakers to ease the housing crisis.

or contributed to Wednesday’s dialogue. Their interests overlap with local tribes, some of whom revealed in their comments the pain and offense suffered over a century of diversions. Those diversions came at great cost to their people’s water supplies and fishing traditions, even after their ancestors had stewarded the rivers “for time immemorial,” as one said. Some speakers challenged the underlying assumption that continued water transfers were automatically a desired result. Glen Spain, regional director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen, which has a member on the Planning Group, said

the water diversions represent “100 years of gross injustice” made at the cost of what was once the fourth largest salmon producing river in the country.“ “It is not acceptable to us to be robbing Peter to pay Paul,” he said. In an unexpected rant that abruptly closed the meeting, Scott Greacen, conservation director for Friends of the Eel River, said Sonoma Water’s consideration of using any part of Cape Horn Dam in the future disregarded state and federal regulations as well as his group’s starting point for participation in the Water Forum. He called their historic water rights claims “a remnant of a fundamentally racist, conquest-oriented system that has no proper role” in the modern day. Lake County Supervisor Eddie “EJ” Crandell, as well as leaders of the Lake Pillsbury Alliance, which was granted a seat on the Planning Group on Wednesday, also reflected on their sense of exclusion from past conversations about the future of the PG&E facility. Crandell noted that earlier talks were centered on a “two-basin solution,” even though “the water originates in Lake County.” Crandell was referring to an earlier iteration of the new group called the Two-Basin Solution Partnership. The organization formed in 2019 as an expansion of an ad hoc effort by North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman in response to PG&E’s initial uncertainty about re-licensing its small, inefficient hydroelectric plant. PG&E later decided not to seek a new license and, when the plant transformer failed, eventually decided not to fix it, even though it will take some years before the license is fully surrendered. The utility more recently announced it would allow Lake Pillsbury to fill only three-quarters full because of increased seismic risk calculated for Scott Dam. The company expects to

file its draft decommissioning plan with federal regulators by November, with a final surrender application submitted in January 2025. If interested parties want to influence any part of that — say, include retention of part of Cape Horn Dam or anything else — it needs to be determined in the coming month, Thompson, with Sonoma Water, said. The Water Forum Planning Group won’t make any decisions but is considered a deliberative group. It will explore options for satisfying the needs of various interests. It will explore the economics, potential funding sources and structures for solutions. It will also identify governance and ways to resolve water rights issues. A grant from the state Department of Water Resources already has supplied about $400,000 for the work, facilitated by San Francisco-based Kearns & West, a communications firm. Sonoma Water is hoping to get a $2 million grant, which would require a local match of $650,000, Thompson said. The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approved a $350,000 contribution this week, and water districts are offering another $150,000, he said. Mendocino County also plans to provide some funding. Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore, whose district includes the vineyard-rich upper Russian River area of agricultural producers, opened Wednesday’s meeting by acknowledging the “people with different positions, different ideas in this room,” including some “who have fought in the past.” But he said it was time for the “tough conversations.” “We’re the ones we’ve been waiting for,” he said.

“The identified issues in the CAISO transmission plan at this time are not expected to affect new electrical customer connections in the Santa Rosa, Petaluma or surrounding areas,” the company said in a statement. “PG&E continues to monitor actual demand development in the area and develop interim mitigation plans as needed until newly identified projects become operational.” That’s in line with the unspecified “operating action plans” the grid operator’s draft transmission plan said would be a stopgap measure until 2028. Grid capacity has become an issue and statewide in recent months. As reported in December and March, a few warehouse projects in the Sonoma County airport industrial area have received notice from PG&E that interconnecting the new buildings to the grid could be delayed until late 2025. The utility said that was because of needed upgrades to distribution lines from the Fulton substation.

Santa Rosa Chief Building Official Jesse Oswald said only a few projects in the city have been affected by power interconnection delays. As for the Napa Valley transmission line project, it adds to a $5 million to $10 million project the grid operator approved in 2020 to deal with projections at the time of overloads starting in 2024. The new switches and jumpers, set to come on line by the end of 2025, are forecast to push back the overload problem to 2032. The new transmission lines, expected to come on line in 2028, are set to deal with the overloads at that later date. Further on the horizon is the state’s needed upgrades to handle the offshore wind project off Humboldt Bay and innovation projects envisioned for The Geysers geothermal field along the borders of Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake counties. Sonoma Clean Power, an energy supplier for Sonoma and Mendocino counties, is promoting a geothermal opportunity zone, or GeoZone, to create 85%

more power in The Geysers area using cutting-edge low-water-use and lower-heat technologies. The power agency in March voted to move forward with up to 60 megawatts of demonstration geothermal projects from Cyrq Energy, Eavor and Chevron New Energies, scaling up to as much as 600 megawatts if the technologies prove economically viable. The agency also requested the grid operator plan for the coming geothermal power, and 79 megawatts were factored into the current transmission plan. “We found that you have to put resources into longrange planning on faith they will study the transmission needs,” said Geof Syphers, CEO of Sonoma Clean Power. He said that’s similar to how the grid operator included in the transmission plan 4,400 megawatts from the Humboldt offshore wind project, after analysis found more potential output than the 80 megawatts of power production originally envisioned.

WATER CONTINUED FROM A1 impoundment of the Eel River behind Scott Dam. Finding consensus through the mire would seem a Herculean task — and not a very fun one. But more than 30 people have agreed to give it a go as members of a newly formed group called the Russian River Water Forum, initiated by the Sonoma County Water Agency and several partners. The goal is to explore ways to maintain flows in the Russian River once PG&E decommissions an inoperative power plant while also “protecting Tribal interests and supporting the stewardship of fisheries, water quality, and recreation in the Russian River and Eel River basins,” according to its draft charter. The power plant for more than 100 years required transfers of Eel River water through a milelong tunnel to turn turbines for hydroelectric power. The water then streamed into the East Fork of the Russian River. There, some was extracted for irrigation in Potter Valley. The remainder made its way to Lake Mendocino for release into the Russian River for fish, recreation, agriculture and human consumption. The stakes are high — “scary,” says Mike Thompson, assistant general manager of the Sonoma County Water Agency, known as Sonoma Water, a wholesale provider that supplies water to more than 600,000 people in Sonoma and northern Marin counties. Studies using 110 years of hydrologic data show Lake Mendocino would go dry in roughly two of every 10 years without continued Eel River contributions. In eight out of 10, the reservoir would be unable to meet all the demands on it. “The potential impacts are pretty severe, especially in the upper Russian River,” Thompson told The

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Water from the Eel River collects at Van Arsdale Reservoir and flows over Cape Horn Dam. Press Democrat. And tensions already were evident in a kickoff meeting Wednesday that was held in-person in Ukiah and on Zoom, though online participants were challenged to follow the conversation because of poor audio from the conference room. Feasibility studies already underway show retaining some remnant of Cape Horn Dam, the smaller of two dams that are part of the hydroelectric project, may allow continued water transfers into the Russian River, according to Sonoma Water’s David Manning, environmental resources manager. Conservation representatives from groups like Cal Trout and Friends of the Eel River, however, were plain in their calls for urgent removal of Scott Dam and Cape Horn Dam, located 12 miles downstream at the entrance of the diversion tunnel. Scott Dam blocks access to hundreds of miles of upstream watershed that historically provided critical spawning and nursery habitat for federally protected Chinook salmon, steelhead trout and Pacific lamprey. Cape Horn Dam, though equipped with a fish ladder, is only partially functional

Water diverted from the Eel River flows out of the Potter Valley Powerhouse into the east fork of the Russian River in Potter Valley on April 6, 2017. and exposes vulnerable fish to predation and high water temperatures that can harm already threatened species. PG&E plans to have the dams removed as part of decommissioning process, but with its license already expired, conservation and fishery groups say it’s currently violating the Endangered Species Act. Tuesday they filed suit against the utility to that effect. Several of the five plaintiffs — Friends of the Eel River, the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, the Institute for Fisheries Resources, California Trout and Trout Unlimited — have representatives on the Water Forum Planning Group

UPGRADES CONTINUED FROM A1 liability-focused efforts statewide in the agency’s 2022-23 transmission plan, updated May 10, at an estimated cost of $1.76 billion. The grid operator annually analyzes the suitability of the network of high-voltage lines that connect suppliers such as power stations to points where the power is stepped down for distribution to commercial and residential users. But emphasis on reliability in the current transmission planning cycle was ratcheted up in December by the utilities commission, which said the focus must be on preparing the grid for electrification of transportation and buildings. The current transmission plan’s assessment of reliability of Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s North Coast and North Bay lines found undisclosed “contingencies” that starting next year would lead to overloads between the Corona

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Power lines and equipment at Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s Lakeville substation on Frates Road in Petaluma. and Lakeville substations in Petaluma, Santa Rosa and Corona substations, and Fulton and Santa Rosa substations. Details are in a confidential section of the plan. Replacing the Santa Rosa-Petaluma lines, called reconductoring, would take care of the potential for overloads issue in 2028, when the new lines are expected to be in service, according to the plan. To deal with the local overloads, the grid operator had considered imple-

menting what’s called a remedial action scheme, currently used in Southern California to balance power production and demand in a given area. But the agency said in the plan that it was “not feasible” because the number of systems to be monitored was more than its standards allow. PG&E said Sonoma County transmission capacity wouldn’t impact interconnections of new homes or businesses to the grid.

You can reach Staff Writer Mary Callahan (she/her) at 707-521-5249 or mary. callahan@pressdemocrat. com. On Twitter @MaryCallahanB.

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Debt talks on again, off again Negotiations whipsaw at Capitol as Biden, GOP face ‘real differences’ By LISA MASCARO AND FARNOUSH AMIRI ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Debt limit talks halted again late Friday at the U.S. Capitol shortly after resuming, another sudden turn of events after negotiations had come to an abrupt standstill earlier in the day when Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

said it’s time to “pause” negotiations, and a White House official acknowledged there are “real differences.” Top Republican negotiators for McCarthy exited the brief meeting shortly after talks restarted Friday evening. They said there were no further negotiations planned for Friday and they were uncertain on next steps. But a top White House adviser to President Joe Biden said they were hopeful for a resolution. The negotiators are racing to strike a budget deal to resolve the standoff.

“We reengaged, had a very, very candid discussion, talking about where we are, talking about where things need to be, what’s reasonably acceptable,” said Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., a top McCarthy ally leading the talks for his side. Another Republican negotiator, Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, said McCarthy had left for the night, and they would be briefing the speaker on the latest developments. Asked if he was confident an agreement over budget issues could be reached with the White

House, McHenry said, “No.” As the White House team left the nighttime session, counselor to the president Steve Ricchetti, who is leading talks for the Democrats, said he was hopeful for an outcome. “We’re going to keep working,” he said. Biden’s administration is reaching for a deal with Republicans led by McCarthy as the nation careens toward a potentially catastrophic debt default if the government fails to increase the borrowing limit, now at $31 trillion, to keep paying the nation’s bills.

Earlier in the day, McCarthy said resolution to the standoff is “easy,” if only Biden’s team would agree to some spending cuts Republicans are demanding. The biggest impasse was over the fiscal 2024 top-line budget amount, according to a person briefed on the talks and granted anonymity to discuss them. Democrats staunchly oppose the steep reductions Republicans have put on the table as potentially harmful to Americans. TURN TO TALKS » PAGE B2

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Senator running for GOP top spot Scott makes it official: He’s entered the race for the White House By MEG KINNARD ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina made it official Friday: He’s running for president. Scott, the Senate’s only Black Republican, filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission declaring his intention to seek his party’s nomination in 2024. His candidacy will test whether a more optimistic vision of America’s future can resonate with GOP voters who have elevated partisan brawlers in recent years. The deeply religious 57-yearold former insurance broker has made his grandfather’s work in the cotton fields of the Deep South a bedrock of his political identity. Yet he rejects the notion that racism remains a powerful force in society, and he has cast his candidacy and rise from generational poverty as the realization of a dream only possible in America. Scott, who last month formed an exploratory committee allowing him to raise and spend money while weighing a White House campaign, has scheduled a formal announcement on Monday at Charleston Southern University, a private Baptist college and Scott’s alma mater, in his hometown of North Charleston. Scott already has scheduled TV ads to begin airing in the early voting states Iowa and New Hampshire early next week, the most significant advertising

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A U.S. Air Force F-16 refuels in midflight from a KC-135 Stratotanker during a Red Flag exercise over the Nevada Test and Training Range. President Joe Biden on Friday endorsed plans to train Ukrainian pilots on U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets.

Biden clears way for jets In a sharp reversal, U.S. to allow Ukraine to get training, F-16s Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, is greeted Friday by Prince Badr Bin Sultan, deputy governor of Mecca, upon his arrival at Jeddah airport, Saudi Arabia, to attend the Arab summit.

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HIROSHIMA, Japan resident Joe Biden told U.S. allies on Friday that he would allow Ukrainian pilots to be trained on American-made F-16 fighter jets, several U.S. officials said, adding that the president is prepared to let other countries give F-16s to Ukraine — a major upgrade of the Ukrainian military and a sharp reversal. Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine 15 months ago, officials in Kyiv have pleaded for advanced warplanes to overcome Russian air superiority. But Biden has resisted, concerned that the jets could be used to hit targets deep inside Russia, and prompt the Kremlin to escalate the conflict. Pentagon officials have said that other weapons, especially air defenses, were needed more urgently, and the high cost of the F-16s could squeeze out other materiel. But several European countries that be-

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long to the NATO alliance and have F-16s in their arsenals have called for an international effort to provide the training and transfer of their jets to Ukraine. Doing so would require American permission, because the weapons were first sold to them by the United States. Though not the most advanced U.S. fighter, the F-16 carries

powerful radar that can spot targets from hundreds of miles away and modern missiles and other technology that American officials do not want duplicated or falling into hostile hands. Biden told other leaders of the Group of 7 TURN TO UKRAINE » PAGE B2

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AI pumping fake news all over the internet TECHNOLOGY » Reports point to misinformation generated at scale on fringe sites by new set of tools By STUART A. THOMPSON NEW YORK TIMES

Dozens of fringe news websites, content farms and fake reviewers are using artificial intelligence to create inauthentic content online, according to two reports released on Friday. The misleading AI content included fabricated events, med-

ical advice and celebrity death hoaxes, the reports said, raising fresh concerns that the transformative technology could rapidly reshape the misinformation landscape online. The two reports were released separately by NewsGuard, a company that tracks online misinformation, and ShadowDragon, a provider of open-source

intelligence technology. “News consumers trust news sources less and less in part because of how hard it has become to tell a generally reliable source from a generally unreliable source,” Steven Brill, CEO of NewsGuard, said in a statement. “This new wave of AI-created sites will only make it harder for consumers to know who is feeding them the news, further reducing trust.” NewsGuard identified 125 websites, ranging from news

to lifestyle reporting and published in 10 languages, with content written entirely or mostly with AI tools. The sites included a health information portal that NewsGuard said published more than 50 AI-generated articles offering medical advice. In an article on the site about identifying end-stage bipolar disorder, the first paragraph read: “As a language model AI, I don’t have access to the most up-to-date medical information

or the ability to provide a diagnosis. Additionally, ‘end stage bipolar’ is not a recognized medical term.” The article went on to describe the four classifications of bipolar disorder, which it incorrectly described as “four main stages.” The websites were often littered with ads, suggesting that the inauthentic content was produced to drive clicks and fuel advertising revenue TURN TO AI » PAGE B3

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Airman in leak case detained until trial Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Air Force National Guardsman accused of posting a trove of secret documents online, will remain in prison pending trial because he poses a continuing threat to national security and public safety, a federal magistrate judge ruled Friday. Judge David Hennessy cited Teixeira’s history of seeking out and posting classified intelligence materials in defiance of his superiors at an Air Force base in Massachusetts, in denying his request to be released on bond into the custody of his father. Teixeira’s actions were “a profound breach” of his vow to protect sensitive information when he received his security clearance, Hennessy said.

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DA signals August for Trump charges The Georgia prosecutor leading an investigation into former President Donald Trump and his allies has announced remote work days for most of her staff during the first three weeks of August, asking judges in an Atlanta courthouse not to schedule trials for part of that time as she prepares to bring charges in the inquiry. The moves suggest that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expecting a grand jury to unseal indictments during that time. Willis outlined the remote work plan and made the request to judges in a letter sent Thursday to 21 Fulton County officials, including the chief county judge and the sheriff.

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State to restrict abortion, transgender care Nebraska lawmakers voted Friday to restrict access to abortion and medical care for transgender youth, after weeks of vociferous debate. Conservative legislators bundled provisions restricting access to both forms of medical treatment into a single bill in the final days of the legislative session. State Republicans initially had sought to ban most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, but that measure failed, and the amended proposal set the limit at 12 weeks. On transgender care, the bill bans surgeries and calls on the state’s chief medical officer to establish criteria under which puberty blockers and hormone therapy may be administered to people younger than 19. Republican Gov. Jim Pillen, who pushed for the bill, has promised to sign it into law.

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Thousands flee as fires punish region Weeks of out-of-control wildfires raging across western Canada have ushered in a potent sense of fear, threatening a region that is the epicenter of the country’s oil and gas sector. The blazes have also helped unite a vast and sometimes polarized nation, with volunteers, firefighters and army reservists from other provinces rushing in to lend a hand. Roughly 29,000 people in Alberta have been forced from their homes, though that number has been cut in half in recent days as fires subsided. Fires have broken out throughout western Canada, including British Columbia, but hardest hit has been neighboring Alberta, a proud oil and gas producing province sometimes referred to as “the Texas of the North,” which has declared a state of emergency. More than 94 active wildfires were burning as of Friday afternoon.

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Direct flights from Russia met with jeers As passengers on the first direct flight from Russia to Georgia in more than three years disembarked Friday, they were met by protesters cursing their arrival. Shouts of “Why did you come here? Your country is an occupier!” echoed through the arrivals hall at Tbilisi International Airport. Outside, a crowd of about 200 hundred demonstrators unfurled a banner saying, “You are not welcome.” Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, and it wields military control over one-fifth of its territory. — Press Democrat news services

IF YOUR BIRTHDAY IS TODAY: You are intuitive and sensitive and can form close bonds with others. You are warm and caring because you identify with others. This is a year of change, which means you should stay flexible so that you can seek out new opportunities or suddenly go in a new direction. Travel is likely. ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH It’s a tricky day! Be careful of ego battles and aggressive moves, especially in sports or issues related to kids. (It’s too easy to go overboard today.) This also applies to your relations with your kids. This is a day that requires moderation and patience so that there are no regrets. Tonight: Discussions. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HH The gloves are off, and difficulty with authority figures, bosses, parents and the police are likely today. This also might mean conflict at home, within the family or with people related to your home. The wise move is not to engage. Instead, take a step back and give everyone some breathing room. Tonight: Check your possessions. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH This is an argumentative day because power struggles are likely. Instead, use your clever communicating skills — you are the wordsmith of the zodiac. Be diplomatic, patient and understanding when dealing with others. Don’t take the bait. Tonight: Patience. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Money squabbles might arise today, or perhaps arguments about possessions or shared responsibilities. Don’t jump into the fray without thinking. Instead, take a step back and assess things. Be

part of the solution, not part of the problem. Tonight: Solitude. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HH Today fiery Mars is in your sign opposing Pluto, which is the classic sign of power struggles and ruthless opposition. Avoid situations or locations of potential violence. Don’t try to gain control over others. Walk away from a nasty struggle, just for today. Tonight: Seek peace. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Today you might strive hard to get ahead and achieve your aims; nevertheless, you will encounter opposition. For some, this opposition will be hidden, which means you have to watch your back. Ideally, assess the situation and don’t get involved. You have to know when to hold and when to fold. Tonight: You’re noticed. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Don’t fight with a friend today or a member of a group. You will regret it later. At heart, you value harmony. In fact, you’re a people pleaser. Steer clear of these ego battles and arguments that can arise today. This is just a temporary dark cloud on your horizon. Tonight: Compromise. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HH All your dealings with authority figures will be challenging today. (We’re talking parents, bosses, teachers and the police.) Don’t even go there. When it comes to arguments and opposition, timing is everything. And today the time is all wrong. Sit this one out. Tonight: Check facts. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21) HHH Do not fall for the propaganda or rhetoric of others regarding controversial issues about

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Rep. Garret Graves, R-Louisiana, top mediator in the debt-limit talks for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, leaves a meeting room after negotiations came to an abrupt halt Friday at the Capitol in Washington. Graves told reporters it’s time to “press pause” and it’s “just not productive” to continue at this point.

TALKS CONTINUED FROM B1 “We’ve got to get movement by the White House and we don’t have any movement yet,” McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters at the Capitol. “So, yeah, we’ve got to pause.” The White House official, who was granted anonymity to talk about the private discussions, had said at that time there are “real differences” between the parties on the budget issues and further “talks will be difficult.” The official added that the president’s team is working hard towards a “reasonable bipartisan solution” that can pass both the House and the Senate. Wall Street turned lower as negotiations on raising the nation’s debt limit came to a sudden halt, raising worries that the country could edge closer to risking a highly damaging default on U.S. government debt. The president, who has been in Japan attending the Group of Seven summit, had no immediate comment. Biden had already planned to cut short the rest of his trip and he is expected to return to Washington Sunday. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden had planned to be briefed on the negotiations by his team Friday evening. Biden had departed early from a Friday night dinner with G7 leaders in Hiroshima. Negotiators met Friday for a third day behind closed doors at the Capitol

politics, religion or race. This is a nasty day for arguments and disagreements. Knowing this, don’t get involved. Take the high road — the view is better. Tonight: Cooperate. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Disputes about inheritances, shared property, taxes, insurance matters or, possibly, who is responsible for what, could become nasty today. Don’t get boxed into a corner. And likewise, don’t box anyone else into a corner. Postpone these decisions for another day. Tonight: Work. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HH Patience is the antidote to anger, and today you will need to be patient with those who are closest to you — partners, spouses and dear friends. This is because the energy today will foment friction and conflict with almost anyone. Steer clear of this, for your own peace of mind. (And the peace of mind of others.) Tonight: Relax. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Arguments about work or perhaps over a pet might arise today and become a nasty standoff with someone. This will do you no good. Instead, be wise and mature and postpone these discussions for another day when everyone is in a more reasonable frame of mind. Today is about power struggles. Tonight: Rest.

with hopes of settling on an agreement this weekend before possible House votes next week. They face a looming deadline as soon as June 1, when the Treasury Department has said it will run out of cash to pay the government’s incurred debt. Republicans want to extract steep spending cuts, arguing the nation’s deficit spending needs to get under control, rolling back spending to fiscal 2022 levels and restricting future growth. But Biden’s team is countering that the caps Republicans proposed in their House-passed bill would amount to 30% reductions in some programs if Defense and veterans are spared, according to a memo from the Office of Management and Budget. Any deal would need the support of both Republicans and Democrats to find approval in a divided Congress and be passed into law. Negotiators are eyeing a more narrow budget cap deal of a few years, rather than the decade-long caps Republicans initially wanted, and clawing back some $30 billion of unspent COVID-19 funds. Still up for debate are policy changes, including a framework for permitting reforms to speed the development of energy projects, as well as the Republican push to impose work requirements on government aid recipients that Biden has been open to but the House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has said was a “nonstarter.” “Look, we can’t be spending more money next year,” McCarthy said at the Capitol. “We have to spend less than we spent the year

before. It’s pretty easy.” But McCarthy faces pressures from his hardright flank to cut the strongest deal possible for Republicans, and he risks a threat to his leadership as speaker if he fails to deliver. Many House Republicans are unlikely to accept any deal with the White House. The internal political dynamics confronting the embattled McCarthy leaves the Democrats skeptical of giving away too much to the Republicans and driving off the Democratic support they will need to pass any compromise through Congress. Experts have warned that even the threat of a debt default would send shockwaves through the economy. Markets had been rising this week on hopes of a deal. But that shifted abruptly Friday after negotiators ended late morning an hour after they had begun. Graves, McCarthy’s lead negotiator, emerged from an hourlong session at the Capitol and said gaps remained between House Republicans and the Democratic administration. “It’s time to press pause because it’s just not productive,” Graves told reporters. He added that the negotiations have become “just unreasonable” and that it was unclear when talks would resume. McHenry, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said there is a “serious gap” between the sides. “We’re in a tough spot,” McHenry said as he left the meeting.

The S&P 500 went from a gain of 0.3% to a loss of 0.1% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from a gain of 117 points to a loss of about 90 points. As Republicans demand spending cuts and policy changes, Biden is facing increased pushback from Democrats, particularly progressives, who argue the reductions will fall too heavily on domestic programs Americans rely on. Some Democrats want Biden to invoke his authority under the 14th amendment to raise the debt ceiling on his own, an idea that raises legal questions and that the president has so far said he is not inclined to consider. Pressure on McCarthy comes from the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which said late Thursday there should be no further discussions until the Senate takes action on the House Republican plan. That bill approved last month would raise the debt limit into 2024 in exchange for spending caps and policy changes. Biden has said he would veto that Republican measure. In the Senate, which is controlled by majority Democrats, the Republican leader Mitch McConnell has taken a backseat publicly, and is pushing Biden to strike a deal directly with McCarthy. McConnell blamed Biden for having “waited months before agreeing to negotiate” with the speaker. “They are the only two who can reach an agreement,” McConnell said in a tweet. “It is past time for the White House to get serious. Time is of the essence.”

UKRAINE CONTINUED FROM B1 nations, the world’s wealthiest democracies, of his decision on pilot training, opening a path to supplying Ukraine with fighter jets, at their summit meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, according to several officials who requested anonymity to speak candidly about sensitive deliberations. They said the United States and its allies would discuss in the coming months how to supply Kyiv with the jets themselves, and one senior administration official said the White House was prepared to approve that step. The United States is not expected, at least under current plans, to send its own F-16s. “I welcome the historic decision of the United States and @POTUS to support an international fighter jet coalition. This will greatly enhance our army in the sky,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, who is expected to address the Group of 7 this weekend, wrote on Twitter. In a joint statement, allied leaders said they were committed “to continuing our security assistance to

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U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets fly over the Osan U.S. Air Base during a combined air force exercise with the United States and South Korea in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia’s aggression, tailoring our support to Ukraine’s needs.” The group vowed to provide “financial, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support Ukraine requires for as long as it takes.” Earlier Friday, Zelenskyy had addressed an Arab League summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he challenged the neutral stance many Arab countries have adopted on the war and implored them to help save Ukrainians “from the cages of Russian prisons.” “Unfortunately there are some in the world, and

here among you, who turn a blind eye to those cages and illegal annexations,” he said. “I am here so that everyone can take an honest look, no matter how hard the Russians try to influence.” Western officials said Zelenskyy planned to travel to Hiroshima this weekend to attend the summit meeting. Ukrainian officials gave conflicting accounts, however, with some saying he would appear in person and others saying he would speak to the leaders by video link. The vagueness appears to reflect security concerns as Zelenskyy moves across the globe.

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AI CONTINUED FROM B1 for the website’s owners, who were often unknown, NewsGuard said. The findings include 49 websites using AI content that NewsGuard identified this month. Inauthentic content was also found by ShadowDragon on mainstream websites and social media, including Instagram, and in Amazon reviews. “Yes, as an AI language model, I can definitely write a positive product review about the Active Gear Waist Trimmer,” read one five-star review published on Amazon. Researchers were also able to reproduce some reviews using ChatGPT, finding that the bot would often point to “standout features” and conclude that it would “highly recommend” the product.

SCOTT CONTINUED FROM B1 expenditure by a potential or declared candidate in the early stages of the 2024 nominating campaign. Scott tries to focus on hopeful themes and avoid divisive language to distinguish himself from the grievance-based politics favored by those leading the GOP field, such as former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who hasn’t yet entered the race but is expected to do so soon. The senator refuses to frame his own life story around the country’s racial inequities. He insists that those who disagree with his views on the issue are trying to “weaponize race to divide us,” and that “the truth of my life disproves their lies.”

Study in contrasts During a February visit to Iowa, which holds the first GOP presidential caucuses, Scott spoke of a “new American sunrise” rooted in collaboration. “I see a future where common sense has rebuilt common ground, where we’ve created real unity, not by compromising away our conservatism, but by winning converts to our conservatism,” he said. But Scott has his limits. During that same trip, he railed against political correctness in much the same fashion as Trump and DeSantis. “If you wanted a blueprint to ruin America, you’d keep doing exactly what Joe Biden has let the far left do to our country for the past two years,” he said. “Tell every white kid they’re oppressors. Tell Black and brown kids their destiny is grievance, not greatness.” Scott speaks often about his hardscrabble roots. He was raised by a single mother who worked long hours as a nurse’s assistant to provide for him and his brother after her divorce from their father. Scott, who describes himself as a lackluster student, graduated from Charleston Southern University with a political science degree before opening an insurance business.

‘Born-again believer’ Scott’s faith is an integral part of his political and personal story. Describing himself as a “born-again believer,” Scott often quotes Scripture at campaign events, weaving his reliance on spiritual guidance into his stump speech and using “Faith in America” to describe his series of political appearances before joining the race. On many issues, Scott aligns with mainstream GOP positions. He wants to reduce government spending and restrict abortion, saying he would sign a federal law to prohibit abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy if elected president. But Scott has pushed

The company also pointed to several Instagram accounts that appeared to use ChatGPT or other AI tools to write descriptions under images and videos. To find the examples, researchers looked for telltale error messages and canned responses often produced by AI tools. Some websites included AI-written warnings that the requested content contained misinformation or promoted harmful stereotypes. “As an AI language model, I cannot provide biased or political content,” read one message on an article about the war in Ukraine. ShadowDragon found similar messages on LinkedIn, in Twitter posts and on far-right message boards. Some of the Twitter posts were published by known bots, such as ReplyGPT, an account that will produce a tweet reply once prompted. But others appeared to be coming from regular users.

the party on some policing overhaul measures since the killing of George Floyd, and he has occasionally criticized Trump’s response to racial tensions. Scott called it “indefensible” after Trump retweeted a post — that he later deleted — containing a racist slogan associated with white supremacists. In the days that followed Trump’s widely criticized response to a 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Scott said Trump’s principles had been compromised and that without some introspection, “it will be hard for him to regain ... moral authority.”

Agree to disagree Throughout their disagreements, Scott has maintained a generally cordial relationship with Trump, saying in his book that the former president “listened intently” to his viewpoints on race-related issues. A potentially more awkward rival for Scott will be Nikki Haley, Trump’s former U.N. ambassador who helped fuel Scott’s political rise when she was South Carolina’s governor and appointed him to the Senate in 2012. In filing the seat that had been held by Republican Jim DeMint, Scott became the first Black senator from the South since just after the Civil War. In a 2014 special election to serve out the remainder of his term, Scott became the first Black candidate to win a statewide race in South Carolina since the Reconstruction era. He easily won reelection last year and had long said his current term, which runs through 2029, would be his last. As a senator, Scott has been a go-to Republican voice on issues including policing and was the GOP’s chief negotiator on legislation that ultimately stalled in 2021. He has also spoken on the Senate floor about his personal experiences as a Black man in America. “I have felt the anger, the frustration, the sadness and the humiliation that comes with feeling like you’re being targeted for nothing more than just being yourself,” Scott said in 2016, recounting how he was pulled over seven times in a year. He was once stopped by a U.S. Capitol Police officer who recognized the Senate lapel pin that Scott was wearing — but did not recognize Scott. Scott rejects the notion that the country is inherently racist and has repudiated the teaching of critical race theory, an academic framework that presents the idea that the nation’s institutions maintain the dominance of white people. “Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country,” Scott said. “It’s backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination. And it’s wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.”

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Smiths’ bassist dies at 59 Musician helped band skyrocket to stardom in 1980s By ALEX MARSHALL NEW YORK TIMES

Andy Rourke, the bass player for the Smiths, one of the most influential bands of the 1980s, died early Friday in New York. He was 59. His death from pancreatic cancer, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, was confirmed by a representative. Rourke played on all of the British band’s most well-known songs, including “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” and “This Charming Man,” helping turn the Smiths into a cult act in the United States and a chart-topping group in his home country. Robert Palmer, reviewing the band’s 1984 debut album, “The Smiths,” for The New York Times, said

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Andy Rourke, bassist for the Smiths, died Friday in New York at 59. that “their music, their lyrics, their overall sound and stance, are individual and quite extraordinary.” Rourke’s melodious bass playing was always “habitually unsung,” wrote David Cavanagh, an Irish journalist, in 1993, but it was also “incontrovertibly top drawer.” Morrissey, the band’s lead vocalist, once said Rourke

was good enough to have been in Elvis’ band, Cavanagh added. The Smiths formed in 1982 in Manchester, England. The group had a couple of bassists before Marr asked the teenage Rourke, a childhood friend, to join. In a 2012 interview with The Guardian, Rourke recalled playing his first show with the band in a tiny gay club. The Smiths always “rehearsed to death,” he said, so it was unsurprising when they quickly soared in popularity. Within two years, the Smiths had their first top 10 hit in Britain with “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now,” but success brought problems, including Rourke developing a heroin habit. In 1986, Morrissey fired Rourke because of his drug use, reportedly via postcard, but he soon rejoined. The Smiths broke up for good in 1987 having re-

leased four albums. Two years later, Rourke and Mike Joyce, the band’s drummer, began legal proceedings against their former bandmates, claiming they had been equal partners and should have been paid a bigger split of the royalties (they had been given only 10%). Rourke, who went on to play in several other bands with limited success, dropped his case after being offered 83,000 pounds (about $100,000). But Joyce went to court, where a judge found in his favor, saying that Morrissey should pay him compensation of around 1 million pounds, according to news reports from the time. In 2007, Rourke told the BBC that the Smiths’ breakup “still smarts a bit.” But, he added, at least the tunes he contributed to “stand the test of time.” A list of survivors was not immediately available.

Life Tributes WHITAKER, Ben

IN THIS SECTION LIVINGSTON, Barbara WATERMAN, Lorna

Ben Whitaker

September 14, 1941 - April 28, 2023 Now here’s a challenge. Try writing an obituary for a man whose life directly influenced over 30,000 people and, indirectly, an entire community. Ben Whitaker — the master welder — spent 50 glorious years on faculty at Santa Rosa Junior College teaching many of you the fine points of welding. For Ben, it was part occupation, art, and always fun. The “indirectly” among you also know Ben. For local athletes, he repaired your batting cages and football tackling sleds. For anyone with a disability, he fabricated handrails, ramps, wheelchair systems, and other specialized equipment to make the world a more accessible, welcoming place. For night students at the Junior College, Ben kept the light poles vertical when an errant vehicle knocked them down. The school’s once-broken wrought-iron Legion Gate stands as a sentinel to Ben’s skill and his love for all students. Oh, and let’s not forget the wine drinkers among you. Ben taught nearly everyone who welds stainless steel tanks for our wine industry. Give Ben a toast the next time you open a Sauvignon Blanc. Fair goers? Ben was there to repair the broken gates and corrals before you arrived. State Park visitors? Ben volunteered hundreds of hours at the California Youth Authority guiding the hands and hearts of young offenders as they made fire rings and picnic tables for the parks. But Ben was about much more than welding. Yes, he could TIG weld an aluminum Coke can (his favorite) — a thin-walled feat that only the most experienced can manage. If a job applicant scored a recommendation from Ben Whitaker, industry bosses knew to hire the applicant. If you met Ben’s standards as a welder and a person, you were certified in welding and life. You were a person who had learned from Ben to work really hard and show up to the job on time, every day. You learned about kindness and respect and putting away your tools. You learned about tough love. If Ben’s midwinter class started at 8:00 a.m., and you showed up at 8:01, the door was locked and you were left standing in the cold. Enough said; lesson learned. Ben mastered welding at an early age. But he mastered everything that interested him. He was a legend on his Bultaco two-stroke, flat-track motorcycle. Then, it was on to the rugged Rubicon in the Sierras in his Willys Jeep (license plate: SRJC) where nearly everyone broke down in tears or trouble and turned to Ben for repairs and a steady hand. Ben canned 60 quarts of Joe Imwalle’s cucumbers every summer

Lorna Waterman

October 3, 1937 - May 8, 2023

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Lorna Marlene Waterman at the age of 85. She was born in Bellingham, Washington on October 3, 1937. She spent her early years in Washington before her family moved down the coast. They spent time in Oregon and different cities in California before finally settling in Oakland. In 1954, she met her husband, Phil Waterman, (“the best puckin’ fickles you ever at her sister’s wedding. They were ate”) and took blue ribbons at the married shortly after and in 1955 fair for his efforts. He brewed beer moved to Petaluma. Phil and Lorna had three children, Phil Jr. until you could not tell his beer (Wendy), Julie and Keith (Gina). from that of famous breweries. He built fishing rods and invented Lorna was a fantastic mother and grandmother. While she was a lures to attract kokanee salmon strict mother, she seemed to have in Stampede Reservoir — a feat that landed him on the cover of a lost that once she had grandkids and took great joy in spoiling magazine. He took up shooting them. Julie was born in 1957 trap and sporting clays until he with Down’s Syndrome and this earned perfect scores and the Presidency at a local gun club. He was her defining time as a mother. There were not a lot of resources cooked in cast iron, a tradition in those days and Lorna searched he blamed on his mother and Fanny Farmer from his childhood for any programs to aid Julie in her development. Julie went on to days in Missouri and Utah. Ben have a truly fantastic life thanks to believed that a thing isn’t worth Lorna’s efforts and advocacy. doing unless you do it well. His Lorna worked as a teacher’s end-of-semester BBQs with carbon soot and Randy Travis wafting in aide in special education for many years. Her greatest joy was to the air were legendary. be a mother and grandmother There are trucks and trailers

and her time in the classroom was an extension of that. She enjoyed traveling and has been to many places in the U.S. and the world. She spent her 60th birthday in Hong Kong. She was also a fantastic cook and baker. Her Christmas cookies and cheese balls were world famous. Her legacy of holiday meals and traditions continue to inspire close family ties. She also enjoyed spending time in her garden. Lorna was predeceased by her parents, Henry and June Stiglitz, her husband of 67 years, Phil, and her daughter, Julie. She is survived by her sons and her grandchildren, Jacob, Lindsay, Andrew and Alexandria. We will miss her very much. No services will be held at this time.

and motorcycles (and people) that have escaped the trash heap thanks to Ben. When a repair shop told you that a crack in your aluminum engine block was May 29, 1950 - April 18, 2023 beyond repair, you took it to Ben. He repaired it. Then, you took the Barbara Sue Livingston, engine back to the repair shop just Wife, Mother, Daughter, and to show off. Ben’s boat (and your Grandmother, passed away with trailers, trucks, homes, and cabins) her daughter by her side on April shine with his “Cal custom” touch- 18, 2023, at 72 years of age. es in stainless steel and aluminum. Born in San Bernardino, CA, she He could have launched his lived in Orange County prior own version of Sierra Nevada to moving to Healdsburg with Brewing. He could have launched her husband (Robert Livingston, a career as a boat manufacturer. 75) to reside with her daughter Instead, he unselfishly launched Christy Livingston (41), son-in-law the careers of others, then watched Geovanni Mora, and grandson them fabricate and flourish from Rudy Livingston Mora (four) for Funeral service to be held at noon beneath his own welding helmet, the remainder of her days. She is emblazoned with the Jack Daniels also survived by sister Phyllis Stine on May 20, 2023, at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, followed logo. He was proud of you. He (84), and met her brothers Donald by a private Celebration of Life. made you feel like an adopted and Thomas Konzem in heaven. child. Ben is also survived by siblings, many children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and innumerable friends. Ben Whitaker — the stuff of a Jack London novel. There is so much more to tell. In lieu of May 20, 1978—May 16, 2016 flowers, plant a garden. Come celebrate Ben’s life at noon on Saturday, June 24, Gold You are forever in our hearts and souls, and we miss you every hour Ridge Fire Department, 1690 of every day. You were smart, Watertrough Road in Sebastopol. funny, and playful, a naturalist Please RSVP by email at from birth, you knew all of the 1941BOW@gmail.com by June birds in flight. 20th with the number of guests that will be attending. Wear your Your family will mourn the loss of cleanest blue jeans. your sweet creative soul every day and will always love you.

Barbara Livingston

In Loving Memory James Scott Helmer

FAMILY CIRCUS Bil & Jeff Keane

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BIZARRO Wayno & Piraro

BLISS Harry Bliss

THE ARGYLE SWEATER Scott Hilburn

PEANUTS Charles Schulz

ZITS Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

NON SEQUITUR Wiley Miller

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE Stephan Pastis

DOONESBURY Garry Trudeau

BABY BLUES Rick Kirkman & Jerry Scott

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE Lynn Johnston

TUNDRA Chad Carpenter

GARFIELD Jim Davis

BALDO Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos

LUANN Greg Evans

MUTTS Patrick McDonnell

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE Chris Browne

BLONDIE Dean Young & John Marshall

PICKLES Brian Crane

CANDORVILLE Darrin Bell

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PEOPLE

ADVICE + GAMES pressdemocrat.com/games DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips

CROSSWORD Thomas Joseph

Childhood trauma resurfaces for new mom

VIANNEY LE CAER / INVISION

“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” marks Harrison Ford’s fifth and final movie in the franchise. He was honored Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, where the film premiered.

Ford explains reprising ‘Indiana Jones’ Harrison Ford is not an “80 is the new 40” kind of guy. He’s very aware that he is old, and he has no problem with everyone else being aware of it as well. In fact, his decision to dust off the ol’ fedora and resurrect his most famous character in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” was not an attempt to defy age, but to explore it. “I wanted to round out the story,” he told journalists the day after “Dial of Destiny” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. “To see this man who depended so much on his youth, the vigor of youth, I wanted to see him feel the weight of life. I wanted to see him require reinvention, and support,” he added, motioning to Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who plays Indy’s fearless goddaughter. “I wanted him to have a relationship that wasn’t a flirty kind of relationship, that was a deep relationship.” “I saw ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ when I was 17,” said director James Mangold. “It’s one of the reasons I’m a movie director. Harrison is an actor, always looking for what he’s going to play. He was looking for ‘Why does this movie exist?’ beyond all the business reasons for it to exist.”

Rushdie makes surprise appearance in NYC Salman Rushdie walked onstage at PEN America’s annual gala Thursday night, his first public appearance since he was stabbed and gravely wounded in an attack in August at a literary event in western New York. His appearance at the gala, which had not been announced, was a surprise. But no surprise, to those Salman who know him, was that he began his Rushdie speech with a joke. “Well, hi everybody,” Rushdie said, as the crowd at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan greeted him with whoops and a standing ovation. “It’s nice to be back — as opposed to not being back, which was also an option. I’m pretty glad the dice rolled this way.” His remarks, just a few minutes long, in accepting an award for courage may have been uncharacteristically terse. But Rushdie, who lost sight in one eye because of the attack, was his voluble self during the cocktail hour, for which he had slipped in through a side door before taking his place for a red-carpet photo op.

Jenkins loses show, gains family Jeannie Mai Jenkins and Jeezy are teaching their baby girl about her mixed roots at an early age. Jenkins, one of the Emmy-winning co-hosts of “The Real,” chatted earlier this week with Jennifer Hudson about how much her life has changed since the daytime series was canceled in April 2022. Before “The Real,” Jenkins Jeannie Mai said she thought she would never reJenkins marry, let alone have a family. “Now I’m a mom, I got married, I fell in love,” she said on the “Jennifer Hudson Show” on Tuesday. “You just never know what happens. The best part is really being true to yourself.” Jenkins married rapper Jeezy in March 2021after meeting him on “The Real.”

Birthdays Actor-author James McEachin is 93. Actor Anthony Zerbe is 87. Singer-actor Cher is 77. Rock musician Jane Wiedlin (The Go-Go’s) is 65. Actor Bronson Pinchot is 64. Actor Mindy Cohn is 57. Rock musician Tom Gorman (Belly) is 57. Actor Gina Ravera is 57. Actor Timothy Olyphant is 55. Rapper Busta Rhymes is 51. Actor Angela Goethals is 46. Actor-singer Naturi Naughton is 39. Country singer Jon Pardi is 38.

Dear Abby: Throughout my childhood, my mother was controlling in many ways. One of them was my clothes. She dressed me in ridiculous outfits that I found humiliating. If I expressed an opinion about anything, I was treated as being “bad.” It affected my mental health, which resulted in me hating the way I look. I went through multiple eating disorders and addiction, and I had plastic surgery 15 years ago. After many years of therapy, I am now doing better emotionally. I also endured many years of heart-shattering infertility, but I am finally a mother, working hard to give my child a better life than I had. My mother continues buying clothes for my child, and receiving these “gifts” fills me with rage. My son is too young to pick out his own clothes, but I know what he likes and choose clothes accordingly. I allow him to

select which items he wears, guilt-free. My mother seems to buy clothes based on my son’s interests, but I resent her buying any clothes for him. I want her to stop. It’s my turn to be a parent! I feel so much guilt, anger and shame giving away or selling clothes I don’t want, like I’m being “bad.” Despite therapy, my childhood trauma persists. How can I ask my mother to stop buying unwanted “gifts”? — Bad Kid for Life Dear Bad Kid: Do not ASK your mother to stop buying clothing for your son — TELL her. While you’re at it, tell her what you have been doing with them, AND WHY. Then, if she doesn’t already know, explain exactly how the way she raised you affected you. To do that isn’t being “bad”; it is honest and long overdue. Write Dear Abby at P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles 90069 or www.DearAbby.com.

PET CONNECTION Kim Campbell Thornton

Meet the smallest of all dogs, the Chihuahua If you love Chihuahuas, you might know that May 14 is International Chihuahua Appreciation Day. While Chihuahuas might be tiny in size, they are huge in personality. It’s one of the things that makes them popular companions for everyone from celebs to grandmas to long-distance truckers. As the author of the third edition of “Chihuahuas for Dummies” and owner of the late, great, much-missed Chihuahua-mix Gemma, I thought it would be fun this week to share some fascinating facts about these widely loved dogs. Modern Chihuahuas are largely descended from Eurasian dogs introduced to the Americas between the 15th and 20th centuries, but about 4% of their ancestry is from pre-Columbian dogs. Chihuahuas were “discovered” in the late 19th century by American visitors to Mexico, some of whom brought the little dogs home as souvenirs. They’re named for the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The first Chihuahua was registered with the American Kennel Club in 1904. Chihuahuas have made a name for themselves in film and TV, with Moonie starring in “Legally Blonde” and “Legally Blonde 2,” and Gidget grabbing attention as the Taco Bell spokesdog. Neither variety of Chihuahua — smooth coat or long coat — has ever won Best in Show at Westminster (yet), but a smooth-coated Chihuahua named Ch. Quachitah For Your Eyes Only took the Toy Group in 1984. Typical Chihuahuas weigh between 3 and 6 pounds, but some are larger or smaller. Oversize Chihuahuas are sturdier and can make better pets for families with kids than tiny and more fragile dogs. There’s no such thing as a “teacup” Chihuahua; that’s

simply a marketing term used by breeders selling extra-tiny dogs. Chihuahuas can have short or long coats, but they all have large, erect ears that flare to the side. The large ears help them to dissipate heat. Chihuahuas come in a rainbow of colors and patterns. To name just a few, they can be any solid color, including fawn, peach, sable, blue, black or white; spotted or splashed with white; tricolor; or black and tan or chocolate and tan. Both shorthaired and longhaired Chihuahuas shed, but you might be surprised to learn that the shorthaired variety sheds more. Smooth-coated Chihuahuas are always growing new hairs and shedding old ones, while long-coated ones shed seasonally — a few thorough brushings are called for during shedding season, then they don’t shed for a while. Both varieties should be brushed at least weekly to distribute skin oils and, in longhairs, to prevent development of mats. Chihuahuas are considered “natural” dogs, meaning their coats don’t need to be trimmed, shaved, stripped or plucked; their ears aren’t cropped; and their tails aren’t docked. Chihuahuas don’t shiver because they’re scared, but because they’re sensitive to cold. Get them a coat or sweater! Chihuahuas are born with a soft spot on their skull known as a molera, or fontanel. Usually it closes by the time they’re 6 months old, but sometimes it remains throughout life. Chihuahuas can have long life spans, living well into their teens. One, named TobyKeith, is 22 years old.

4 Starting bids ACROSS 5 Tiny opening 1 Barbershop needs 6 Sow’s place 7 Tater 7 “Paradise Lost” figure 11 Brewing need 8 Mundane 12 Florence’s river 9 Open, as a gate 13 Blood line 10 First lady of 1812 14 Bridge fee 16 Wanderer 15 Peace goddess 18 Dismay 16 Said with a twang 20 Rig 17 Be bold 22 Italian port 18 Give 23 Stir up 19 Paper pack 24 Yellow gems 21 Quite cold 25 Handout seeker 22 Yeti’s cousin 28 Dice, e.g. 25 Chips buy 30 Set off 26 Take apart 31 Brink 27 Draw out 32 Church leader 29 Make lots 34 Green hue 33 Costume 36 Soaked 34 Jacket flap 35 Seize 36 Harry Potter, for one 37 Pot starter 38 Come into view 39 Old World deer 40 Fragrance counter bottle DOWN 1 Solemn 2 Caesar’s land 3 Critic, at times

YESTERDAY’S PUZZLE

JUMBLE David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

SUDOKU Michael Mepham

Today: Moderate Complete the grid so each row, column and 3 x 3 box (in bold border) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.

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YESTERDAY’S PUZZLE

BRIDGE Frank Stewart Beginners are taught to “return partner’s lead.” Indeed, not doing so is a near-felony. A shift is perilous: If you return partner’s lead and it doesn’t work well, unlucky; but if you switch and that’s wrong, he may want to stake you to an anthill. Today’s West led the queen of spades against 3NT, and East correctly overtook with the king to get out of his partner’s way. South played low. Since East wanted to avoid recriminations, he returned his last spade. South won, lost a club finesse to East’s king, won a diamond shift and lost a heart finesse. He won the next diamond and had nine tricks. East should see that returning West’s lead is futile. West can’t have an entry to his spades; the deck doesn’t

have enough points. But if East shifts to a diamond at Trick Two (hoping West has the jack), careful defense beats the contract. East has the entries to set up and cash his own long suit. Daily Question: You hold: S A 7 3 H Q J 10 5 D A K 8 C J 10 8. Your partner opens one heart, and you respond 2NT (a conventional forcing raise). He then bids three spades. What do you say? Answer: After your 2NT, partner’s three spades shows a spade singleton. The idea is to let you judge whether you have useful honors opposite his singleton. Here, the K-Q of spades would be wasted, but your ace is ideal. Cue-bid four diamonds to encourage slam. He may hold 2, A K 9 7 2, Q 5 4, A 9 5 3.

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Business

SONOMA COUNTY » BUSY TRAVEL SUMMER AHEAD DOW 32,426.63 -109.28

NASDAQ 12,657.90 -30.94

S&P 500 4,191.98 -6.07

STRICTLY BUSINESS NEW YORK

Wall Street’s best week since March stalls Wall Street’s best week since March ran out of steam Friday as worries rose about the U.S. government’s efforts to avoid a potentially disastrous default on its debt. The S&P 500 slipped 6.07 points, or 0.1%, to 4,191.98. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 109.28, or 0.3%, to 33,426.63, while the Nasdaq composite gave up 30.94, or 0.2%, to 12,657.90. Despite its weak Friday, the S&P 500 still managed to break out of a long, listless stretch where it failed to move by 1%, up or down, for six straight weeks. It gained 1.6%, with much of the strength earlier in the week coming on rising hopes that Washington can avoid a debt default.

SAN FRANCISCO

Bay Area rebounds with big job gains in April The Bay Area and California both powered to robust job gains in April, an upswing that suggests the economies in both regions have managed — so far — to offset a steady drumbeat of layoffs in the tech sector. The gain of 11,200 jobs in the Bay Area in April provided an especially welcome counterpoint to an unsettling loss of 4,400 jobs in the nine-county region during March, according to a report released Friday by state labor officials. The gains in the Bay Area were led primarily by an increase of 6,400 jobs in the East Bay, along with a gain of 300 jobs in the Santa Clara County region and an increase of 1,600 jobs in the San Francisco-San Mateo metro area. All of the numbers were adjusted for seasonal volatility.

SAN FRANCISCO

Officials investigating Musk’s ‘Twitter Hotel’ San Francisco officials are investigating Twitter after six former employees allege that owner Elon Musk’s leadership team broke laws by turning the company’s headquarters into a “Twitter Hotel” for workers who were pushed to stay up late to transform the social media platform. The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said Friday that it has opened a new complaint and will be conducting an investigation into the new allegations. The San Francisco Chronicle earlier reported on the city’s latest investigation into the company that Musk took over late last year. That’s after the ex-employees, including a former vice president of real estate, alleged in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Delaware that Twitter didn’t pay them promised severance.

WASHINGTON

Target recalls nearly 5M Threshold candles Target is recalling almost 5 million candles over laceration and burn hazards, according to a Thursday notice from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The recall impacts some 4.9 million Threshold-branded glass jar candles sold in multiple sizes and various scents — including water mint and eucalyptus, apple blossom and breeze and warm cider and cinnamon, among others. According to the CPSC notice, Target received 137 reports of the Threshold candles’ jars breaking or cracking during use. ——Press Democrat news services

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Thomas Trumper checks in for his flight at the Alaska Airlines ticket counter in the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa. The regional airport’s passenger traffic has been steadily climbing this year, evidenced most recently in April’s passenger figures released Tuesday.

Airline volume up 7% Airport set for June launch of Oregon flights, terminal completion By CHERYL SARFATY THE NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL

harles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport is gearing up for a busy summer of travel activity. “Right now, (looking at) the forecast for the remainder of the year, August looks like it'll be our peak travel month, based on our airline schedules,” Airport Manager Jon Stout said Wednesday. That projection is also based on Avelo Airlines launching its central Oregon flights starting June 23, he said. The regional airport’s passenger traffic has been steadily climbing this year, evidenced most recently in April’s passenger figures, released Tuesday. For the first four months of the year, the Sonoma County airport has flown 183,512 passengers, up 7% from a year earlier, according to the numbers. Comparatively, the regional facility flew 52,431 passengers through the first four months of 2021, and 95,182 passengers in the same time span in 2020. For context, the first four months of 2020 included two pre-pandemic months. Looking at the statistics only for April 2023, the Sonoma County airport’s three commercial carriers — Alaska Airlines,

American Airlines and Avelo Airlines — collectively flew 56,615 passengers. That’s up 6.7% from a year earlier, and nearly 7,000 more travelers than in March, according to the report. Alaska Airlines in April flew 35,045 passengers through the Santa Rosa facility, up 15.7% from a year earlier. Its load factor — the measure of how full airplanes are on average — was 83%. The carrier flew 30,363 passengers through the airport in March. American Airlines flew 10,683 passengers through the Santa Rosa airport last month, up 16.4% from the year prior and nearly 3,000 more than the number of passengers served in March. American’s load factor in April was 81%. Avelo Airlines last month flew 10,887 passengers through the Sonoma County airport, down 8.5% from the year prior, and roughly 500 fewer passengers than the carrier flew in March. Avelo’s load factor was 90%. When Avelo next month debuts its flights to central Oregon, it will mark the budget carrier’s fourth destination served at the regional airport. Avelo also flies to its Burbank hub, Las Vegas and Palm Springs, the latter on a seasonal basis. The Oregon flight is also expected to be seasonal,

depending on how the market performs, Stout said last month. Avelo will fly to Bend/Redmond on Mondays and Fridays on a Boeing Next-Generation 737 aircraft. Introductory one-way fares will start at $34, and customers can make reservations at AveloAir.com. The Sonoma County airport is also getting closer to the finish line of its $40 million terminal improvement and modernization project, Stout said. “We're still looking at roughly mid-July for substantial completion,” said Stout, adding it will take another four-to-six weeks for project closeout, final commissioning, training and turnover. The long-awaited construction project kicked off in November 2020 after eight years of planning, changes, disruptions and delays, as the Business Journal and sister publication The Press Democrat have been following and reporting about along the way. Schematic reviews of what might be needed for the airport master plan began even longer ago, in 2012. Once complete, the terminal will have renovated 7,000 square feet and added 33,000 square feet, bringing the total square footage to approximately 56,000 square feet, as previously reported.

Pay transparency: What small firms need to know By OLIVIA CHEN NERDWALLET

Eight states have adopted pay transparency laws, including California and New York, with several more considering legislation. Much of the buzz around these laws has been regarding large corporations and their employees, but how do small businesses fit into the picture? Here’s what you need to know.

Who must comply? In the states and several localities that have pay transparency laws, employer requirements vary based on number of employees. For example, in Washington state, businesses with 15 or more employees must disclose pay information in job postings, whereas in New York, the number is four or more. If you are a company looking to source remote talent from any state that is subject to laws, you must also include a pay range even if your company isn’t located in that state.

What happens if you don’t comply?

Monetary penalties, assessed per violation or per job post-

ing, can range from hundreds to several thousands of dollars and are currently only assessed against companies that have been reported by a candidate. Penalties may be assessed right away or 30 days after a complaint is filed, if the company hasn’t rectified the issue during that time, according to Lulu Seikaly, senior corporate attorney at Payscale, a company that helps businesses with compensation management. Small-business owners may also consider other costs of not complying, such as damage to reputation, employee retention or recruiting, especially for businesses in industries that target younger candidates. For example, according to a recent study from Adobe, 85% of recent and upcoming graduates say they are more likely to pass on a job application if the posting doesn’t include salary information.

How can small businesses comply?

As it currently stands, companies subject to pay transparency laws must post a “good faith” salary range, meaning a range that they reasonably expect they will

pay for the role — but that can still be negotiated in either direction based on the candidate. If you don’t typically post job openings, your obligation to provide transparent pay information is upon request by a candidate or current employee, according to Marina Vitek, a mentor at the Coachella Valley, California, chapter of SCORE, a nonprofit that offers free resources to small-business owners. Whether you are a local cafe with a five-person staff or a consulting firm with 80 employees, it’s prudent to take inventory of your internal pay structure before posting any salary information to avoid conflict with current employees. However, this process doesn’t have to be complicated, says Jim Emanuel, a human resources knowledge advisor at the Society for Human Resource Management. Keep up-to-date information like hire date, previous performance review ratings and pay increases in a spreadsheet to reference when making hiring decisions. If you use payroll or HR software, this data can be even easier to gather. “I think for smaller businesses it’s just about pulling data,” Emanuel

says. “It doesn’t have to be fancy.”

Benefits, complications of pay transparency

While pay transparency can help businesses move toward pay equity, it also raises concerns for some small businesses — which often pay less than larger corporations — that they won’t be able to attract good employees. One workaround that could have unintended negative consequences is to avoid posting openings altogether. Businesses may be tempted to instead opt to leverage referrals or reach out to candidates directly, resulting in less diverse candidate pools, said Jen L’Estrange, founder and managing director of Red Clover, a human resources management consulting firm, in an email. However, L’Estrange also noted that oftentimes job candidates are more responsive to how companies talk about money rather than the money itself. And when it comes to employee retention at smaller companies, it’s more often a result of recognition and the ability to learn and grow, she said.

Sports

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STARTING SRJC outplayed in loss LINEUP COLLEGE BASEBALL » Bear Cubs must win next two games to reach state finals By GUS MORRIS THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

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Montgomery’s Hanne Thomsen wins the 1,600-meter race at the NBL championships this month.

TRACK AND FIELD

Sonoma County athletes seeking tickets to state Members of the local contingent of runners, hurlers, jumpers and other track and field athletes at the North Coast Section Meet of Champions in Dublin today have one goal in mind — making the state meet. Competitors include Montgomery sophomore phenom Hanne Thomsen, who will take part in three events: the 1,600-meter run, the 3,200 and the Vikings’ girls 4x800 relay. Those who place high enough during Saturday’s events will head to Clovis next weekend for the state championships. To find results from Saturday’s Meet of Champions, visit www.cifncs.org/sports/track and click on “live results.”

For the first time this postseason, the Santa Rosa Junior College baseball team has its back against a wall. The top-seeded team in the California Community College Athletic Association NorCal playoffs dropped the opening game of their sectional series to No. 5 Sierra 9-4 on Friday at Cook Sypher Field on the Bear Cubs’ campus.

The loss, the first of the playoffs for the Bear Cubs (33-11), means they must win Game 2 on Saturday to keep their season alive and force a deciding Game 3 on Sunday. The winner of the best-of-three series advances to the CCCAA state playoffs next weekend in Folsom. First pitch of Saturday’s elimination game is scheduled for 1 p.m. Game 3 would start at 1 p.m. Sunday. Sierra (33-12), which went 2-2 against the Bear Cubs in the regular season, broke the game open with a five-run third and then held off the hosts as they tried to rally down the stretch. SRJC

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SRJC’s Joe Brown scores against Sierra College during Friday’s game in Santa Rosa.

JIM BROWN » 1936-2023

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49ers fans tailgate at Levi’s Stadium before an Aug. 12 preseason game in Santa Clara.

NFL

Could Super Bowl be back in Bay Area soon? Levi’s Stadium is expected to make a Super Bowl encore in 2026. Next week’s NFL owners meeting in Minneapolis should yield a vote that awards Super Bowl LX to the 49ers’ home field, according to Ben Fischer of the Sports Business Journal. An announcement could come as soon as Monday or Tuesday. “I feel very confident we’ll get a Super Bowl in the near future,” 49ers CEO Jed York said in March. A Super Bowl would add to Levi’s Stadium’s busy docket for 2026, as it will serve as one of North America’s World Cup venues later that summer.

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Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner warms up prior to a May 12 preseason game.

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Griner back on court as league season tips off Just a few months removed from her release from Russian detainment in a dramatic prisoner exchange. the Phoenix Mercury’s Brittney Griner took the court late Friday as the WNBA’s regular season began. Griner’s saga dominated the league’s offseason, and the All-Star and Olympic champion made it very clear upon her release that rejoining her team would indeed be part of her plans for life back in the U.S. Also of note, the Chicago Sky’s opening roster includes Santa Rosa native Morgan Bertsch, a Santa Rosa High and UC Davis grad originally drafted by the Dallas Wings in 2019. — Staff and wire reports

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A life of legacy

Jim Brown, center, holds a trophy presented to the members of the Cleveland Browns’ 1964 championship team in 2004 by then-NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue. At left is Bernie Parish and at right is Paul Wiggin. Brown died Thursday at 87.

Hall of Famer broke barriers as running back, actor, civil rights activist By TOM WITHERS ASSOCIATED PRESS

CLEVELAND ro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, an unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, died Thursday. He was 87. A spokeswoman for Brown’s family said he passed away peacefully in his Los Angeles home Thursday night with his wife, Monique, by his side. “To the world, he was an activist, actor, and football star,” Monique Brown wrote in an

Instagram post. “To our family, he was a loving husband, father, and grandfather. Our hearts are broken.” One of football’s first superstars, Brown was chosen the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1965 and shattered the league’s record books in a short career spanning 1957-65. Brown led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964 before retiring in his prime after the ’65 season to become an actor. He appeared in more than 30 films, including “Any Given Sunday” and “The Dirty Dozen.” A powerful runner with TURN TO BROWN » PAGE C4

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Jim Brown visits with heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali in 1966 on the film set of “The Dirty Dozen” in England.

Scheffler among leading trio at Oak Hill GOLF » Conners, Hovland also out front at PGA Championship By DOUG FERGUSON ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Scottie Scheffler watches his tee shot on the sixth hole Friday during the PGA Championship.

PITTSFORD, New York — Oak Hill is delivering a little bit of everything at this PGA Championship. One constant is Scottie Scheffler, who is getting used to chasing majors. A frost delay at the start gave way to warmth and wind Friday morning before rain showers brought out the umbrellas in the afternoon. Scheffler was steady as ever, posting a 2-under

68 that gave him a share of the lead with Corey Conners and Viktor Hovland. “These are the positions I want to be in,” Scheffler said. “I show up to the tournaments to perform at my best. I’m proud of how I did the first few days, and I’m excited to be in a good position going into the weekend. With that being said, I’m going to keep my head down and keep doing what I’m doing.” Hovland, who shared the 54-hole lead at St. Andrews last summer, is getting used to this, too. He dropped only one shot early in his round of 67, and closed with a 7-iron out of wet, thick rough to 5 feet for birdie. It

was his 10th consecutive round in the majors when he ended the day among the top 10 on the leaderboard. Conners had a 68, at one point building a two-shot lead until he had to rely on his short game to account for some errant drives and tough holes on the front nine. They were at 5-under 135, two shots clear of Bryson DeChambeau (71) and Justin Suh (68). The leading seven players — that includes Brooks Koepka, who shot 31 on the back nine in his round of 66 — came from the same side of the draw. They TURN TO GOLF » PAGE C6

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CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Western Conference: Denver 2, L.A. Lakers 0 Game 1: Denver 132, L.A. Lakers 126 Thursday;s Result: Denver 108, L.A. Lakers 103 Saturday: Denver at L.A. Lakers, 5:30 p.m. Monday: Denver at L.A. Lakers, 5:30 p.m. x-Wednesday: L.A. Lakers at Denver, 5:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 26: Denver at L.A. Lakers, 5:30 p.m. x-Sunday, May 28: L.A. Lakers at Denver, 5:30 p.m. Eastern Conference: Miami 1, Boston 0 Game 1: Miami 123, Boston 116 Friday: Miami at Boston, late Sunday: Boston at Miami, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday: Boston at Miami, 5:30 p.m. x-Thursday: Miami at Boston, 5:30 p.m. x-Saturday, May 27: Boston at Miami, 5:30 p.m. x-Monday, May 29: Miami at Boston, 5:30 p.m. Thursday’s late game

At Foro Italico, Rome Purse: EUR 7,705,780 Surface: Red clay (seedings in parentheses): Women’s Singles Semifinals Anhelina Kalinina (30), Ukraine, def. Veronika Kudermetova (11), Russia, 7-5, 5-7, 6-2. Elena Rybakina (7), Kazakhstan, def. Jelena Ostapenko (20), Latvia, 6-2, 6-4. Men’s Doubles Semifinals Hugo Nys, Monaco, and Jan Zielinski, Poland, def. Marcel Granollers, Spain, and Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, 6-3, 7-5. Robin Haase and Botic Van de Zandschulp, Netherlands, def. Wesley Koolhof, Netherlands, and Neal Skupski (1), Britain, 7-6 (2), 6-4.

At Oak Hill - East, Rochester, N.Y. Purse: $15 million Yardage: 7,394; Par: 70 Second Round Corey Conners, Canada 67-68 — 135 Viktor Hovland, Norway 68-67 — 135 Scottie Scheffler, United States 67-68 — 135 Bryson DeChambeau, United States 66-71 — 137 Justin Suh, United States 69-68 — 137 Brooks Koepka, United States 72-66 — 138 Callum Tarren, England 71-67 — 138 Taylor Pendrith, Canada 70-69 — 139 Justin Rose, England 69-70 — 139 Michael Block, United States 70-70 — 140 Keegan Bradley, United States 68-72 — 140 Min Woo Lee, Australia 73-67 — 140 Shane Lowry, Ireland 73-67 — 140 Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland 71-69 — 140 Keith Mitchell, United States 69-71 — 140 Matthew NeSmith, United States 70-70 — 140 Sepp Straka, Austria 69-71 — 140 Adam Svensson, Canada 70-70 — 140 Patrick Cantlay, United States 74-67 — 141 Eric Cole, United States 67-74 — 141 Cameron Davis, Australia 71-70 — 141 Ryan Fox, New Zealand 68-73 — 141 Beau Hossler, United States 71-70 — 141 Dustin Johnson, United States 67-74 — 141 Kurt Kitayama, United States 70-71 — 141 Kyoung-Hoon Lee, South Korea 73-68 — 141 Collin Morikawa, United States 71-70 — 141 Mito Pereira, Chile 72-69 — 141 Harold Varner III, United States 70-71 — 141 Stephan Jaeger, Germany 72-70 — 142 Victor Perez, France 70-72 — 142 J.T. Poston, United States 72-70 — 142 Adam Scott, Australia 68-74 — 142 Sahith Theegala, United States 71-71 — 142 Hayden Buckley, United States 69-74 — 143 Joel Dahmen, United States 74-69 — 143 Tommy Fleetwood, England 72-71 — 143 Adam Hadwin, Canada 70-73 — 143 Padraig Harrington, Ireland 72-71 — 143 Nicolai Hojgaard, Denmark 76-67 — 143 Max Homa, United States 71-72 — 143 Sihwan Kim, United States 75-68 — 143 Hideki Matsuyama, Japan 72-71 — 143 Taylor Moore, United States 74-69 — 143 Patrick Reed, United States 72-71 — 143 Sam Stevens, United States 71-72 — 143 Matt Wallace, England 73-70 — 143 Dean Burmester, South Africa 73-71 — 144 Lucas Herbert, Australia 75-69 — 144 Tom Hoge, United States 74-70 — 144 Pablo Larrazabal, Spain 69-75 — 144 Thriston Lawrence, South Africa 75-69 — 144 Adrian Meronk, Poland 75-69 — 144 Jon Rahm, Spain 76-68 — 144 Chez Reavie, United States 76-68 — 144 Xander Schauffele, United States 72-72 — 144 Cameron Smith, Australia 72-72 — 144 Ben Taylor, England 72-72 — 144 Thomas Detry, Belgium 74-71 — 145 Tony Finau, United States 72-73 — 145 Tyrrell Hatton, England 77-68 — 145 Kazuki Higa, Japan 72-73 — 145 Lee Hodges, United States 75-70 — 145 Rikuya Hoshino, Japan 75-70 — 145 Mark Hubbard, United States 71-74 — 145 Zach Johnson, United States 74-71 — 145 Chris Kirk, United States 70-75 — 145 Denny McCarthy, United States 75-70 — 145 Phil Mickelson, United States 73-72 — 145 Taylor Montgomery, United States 75-70 — 145 Yannik Paul, Germany 76-69 — 145 Thomas Pieters, Belgium 69-76 — 145 Patrick Rodgers, United States 70-75 — 145 Alex Smalley, United States 73-72 — 145 Jordan Spieth, United States 73-72 — 145 Justin Thomas, United States 72-73 — 145 Missed cut Adri Arnaus, Spain 76-70 — 146 Christiaan Bezuidenhout, South Africa 73-73 — 146 Matt Fitzpatrick, England 76-70 — 146 Rickie Fowler, United States 73-73 — 146 Brian Harman, United States 72-74 — 146 Billy Horschel, United States 71-75 — 146 Si Woo Kim, South Korea 73-73 — 146 Andrew Putnam, United States 74-72 — 146 Jordan L. Smith, England 73-73 — 146 Brendan Steele, United States 72-74 — 146 Davis Thompson, United States 77-69 — 146 Luke Donald, England 72-75 — 147 Ben Griffin, United States 75-72 — 147 Russell Henley, United States 73-74 — 147 Matt Kuchar, United States 74-73 — 147 Anirban Lahiri, India 74-73 — 147 Francesco Molinari, Italy 74-73 — 147 Alex Noren, Sweden 74-73 — 147 Davis Riley, United States 72-75 — 147 Nick Taylor, Canada 71-76 — 147 Brendon Todd, United States 76-71 — 147 Wyndham Clark, United States 77-71 — 148 Jason Day, Australia 76-72 — 148 Mackenzie Hughes, Canada 74-74 — 148 Colin Inglis, United States 77-71 — 148 Tom Kim, South Korea 73-75 — 148 Trey Mullinax, United States 77-71 — 148 Joaquin Niemann, Chile 74-74 — 148 Adrian Otaegui, Spain 75-73 — 148 Callum Shinkwin, England 74-74 — 148 Scott Stallings, United States 74-74 — 148 Gary Woodland, United States 73-75 — 148 Nicolas Echavarria, Colombia 75-74 — 149 Harris English, United States 74-75 — 149 Emiliano Grillo, Argentina 78-71 — 149 Nick Hardy, United States 76-73 — 149 Rasmus Hojgaard, Denmark 75-74 — 149 David Micheluzzi, Australia 76-73 — 149 Seamus Power, Ireland 75-74 — 149 J.J. Spaun, United States 74-75 — 149 Jimmy Walker, United States 73-76 — 149 Brandon Wu, United States 74-75 — 149 Cameron Young, United States 74-75 — 149 Matt Cahill, United States 78-72 — 150 Talor Gooch, United States 76-74 — 150 Abraham Ancer, Mexico 76-75 — 151 Maverick McNealy, United States 78-73 — 151 Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark 74-77 — 151 Danny Willett, England 74-77 — 151 Y.E. Yang, South Korea 76-75 — 151 Steven Alker, New Zealand 80-72 — 152 Steve Holmes, United States 76-76 — 152 Sadom Kaewkanjana, Thailand 76-76 — 152 Greg Koch, United States 78-74 — 152 Robert Macintyre, Scotland 76-76 — 152 Sam Ryder, United States 78-74 — 152 Braden Shattuck, United States 79-73 — 152 Jeremy Wells, United States 74-78 — 152 Sungjae Im, South Korea 80-73 — 153 Ben Kern, United States 76-77 — 153 J.J. Killeen, United States 73-80 — 153 Kevin Kisner, United States 75-78 — 153 David Lingmerth, Sweden 76-77 — 153 Adam Schenk, United States 74-79 — 153 Ockie Strydom, South Africa 77-76 — 153 Sam Burns, United States 74-80 — 154 Webb Simpson, United States 77-77 — 154 Aaron Wise, United States 75-79 — 154 Chris French, United States 78-77 — 155 Jesse Droemer, United States 77-79 — 156 John Somers, United States 76-80 — 156 Alex Beach, United States 80-77 — 157 Anthony Cordes, United States 79-78 — 157 Josh Speight, United States 75-82 — 157 Wyatt Worthington, United States 75-82 — 157 Russell Grove, United States 79-79 — 158 Kenny Pigman, United States 81-78 — 159 Gabe Reynolds, United States 85-75 — 160 Shaun Micheel, United States 81-82 — 163 Chris Sanger, United States 84-81 — 165

Western Conference W L T Pts GF GA Seattle 7 3 2 23 19 9 Los Angeles FC 6 1 3 21 20 8 Saint Louis City SC 6 4 1 19 22 13 FC Dallas 5 3 3 18 13 11 San Jose 5 4 3 18 16 16 Portland 4 5 3 15 18 19 Houston 4 4 2 14 10 9 Vancouver 3 3 5 14 15 12 Minnesota United 3 5 3 12 10 14 Colorado 2 5 6 12 10 18 Real Salt Lake 3 6 2 11 10 20 Austin FC 2 5 4 10 10 17 Sporting Kansas City 2 7 3 9 8 16 LA Galaxy 2 7 3 9 10 20 Eastern Conference W L T Pts GF GA Cincinnati 8 1 3 27 18 12 New England 7 2 3 24 19 11 Atlanta 6 4 3 21 25 21 Nashville 5 3 4 19 15 7 Columbus 5 4 3 18 23 14 Philadelphia 5 4 3 18 17 14 Charlotte FC 5 5 3 18 18 23 D.C. United 4 5 4 16 16 16 New York City FC 4 5 4 16 15 16 Orlando City 4 4 4 16 13 15 Inter Miami CF 5 6 0 15 12 12 CF Montréal 5 7 0 15 11 20 Chicago 3 4 5 14 15 18 New York 2 4 7 13 8 11 Toronto FC 2 4 7 13 13 17 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Saturday’s Games Nashville at Charlotte FC, 4:30 p.m. Columbus at Cincinnati, 4:30 p.m. LA Galaxy at D.C. United, 4:30 p.m. Orlando City at Miami, 4:30 p.m. CF Montréal at New York, 4:30 p.m. New England at Philadelphia, 4:30 p.m. Toronto FC at Austin FC, 5:30 p.m. Atlanta at Chicago, 5:30 p.m. Houston at FC Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 6:30 p.m. Sporting Kansas City at Saint Louis City SC, 6:30 p.m. Earthquakes at Los Angeles FC, 7:30 p.m. Minnesota at Portland, 7:30 p.m. Seattle at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.

Denver 108, L.A. Lakers 103 FG FT Reb L.A. LAKERS Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS James 40:08 9-19 4-4 0-9 10 2 22 Vanderbilt 16:48 1-2 2-2 0-2 0 1 4 Davis 40:57 4-15 9-11 1-14 4 4 18 Reaves 36:03 8-16 1-1 1-3 5 3 22 Russell 32:50 3-8 3-4 0-3 5 2 10 Hachimura 30:07 8-10 4-4 1-2 1 4 21 Schroder 29:57 2-9 0-0 1-6 0 2 4 Walker IV 12:58 1-3 0-0 0-1 1 1 2 Thompson 0:12 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 36-82 23-26 4-40 26 19 103 Percentages: FG .439, FT .885. 3-Point Goals: 8-30, .267 (Reaves 5-9, Hachimura 1-2, Davis 1-3, Russell 1-5, Walker IV 0-2, Schroder 0-3, James 0-6). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 7 (Davis 4, James 2, Russell). Turnovers: 12 (Davis 4, James 3, Reaves 2, Hachimura, Russell, Schroder). Steals: 10 (James 4, Russell 2, Davis, Hachimura, Reaves, Schroder). Technical Fouls: None. FG FT Reb DENVER Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS Gordon 38:56 5-9 0-0 2-4 2 2 10 Porter Jr. 31:17 5-10 2-2 0-7 3 3 16 Jokic 41:57 9-21 5-6 4-17 12 3 23 Caldwell-Pope 25:39 3-8 0-0 1-3 2 3 8 Murray 42:42 11-24 9-10 2-10 5 1 37 Brown 37:17 5-11 0-0 1-5 3 2 12 Green 14:46 1-4 0-0 0-2 0 2 2 Braun 4:30 0-2 0-0 1-1 0 2 0 Jackson 2:56 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 39-89 16-1811-49 27 18 108 Percentages: FG .438, FT .889. 3-Point Goals: 14-38, .368 (Murray 6-14, Porter Jr. 4-7, Brown 2-4, Caldwell-Pope 2-5, Braun 0-1, Gordon 0-2, Green 0-2, Jokic 0-3). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: 2. Blocked Shots: 2 (Brown, Gordon). Turnovers: 15 (Jokic 5, Gordon 3, Murray 3, Porter Jr. 3, Caldwell-Pope). Steals: 8 (Murray 4, Jokic 3, Brown). Technical Fouls: Nuggets, 9:21 first. L.A. Lakers 27 26 26 24 — 103 Denver 27 21 28 32 — 108 A—19,742 (19,520). T—2:29.

NHL Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Western Conference: Vegas vs. Dallas Friday: Dallas at Vegas, late Sunday: Dallas at Vegas, Noon Tuesday: Vegas at Dallas, 5 p.m. Thursday: Vegas at Dallas, 5 p.m. x-Saturday, May 27: Dallas at Vegas, TBA x-Monday, May 29: Vegas at Dallas, TBA x-Wednesday, May 31: Dallas at Vegas, TBA Eastern Conference: Florida 1, Carolina 0 Thursday: Florida 3, Carolina 2, 4OT Saturday: Florida at Carolina, 5 p.m. Monday: Carolina at Florida, 5 p.m. Wednesday: Carolina at Florida, 5 p.m. x-Friday, May 26: Florida at Carolina, TBA x-Sunday, May 28: Carolina at Florida, TBA x-Tuesday, May 30: Florida at Carolina, TBA

TRANSACTIONS Baseball American League BOSTON RED SOX — Reinstated RHP Kutter Crawford from the 15-day IL. CLEVELAND GUARDIANS — Placed RHP Peyton Battenfield on the 15-day IL, retroactive to May 18. Recalled LHP Tim Herrin from Columbus (IL). HOUSTON ASTROS — Reinstated 2B Jose Altuve from the 10-day IL. Optioned SS David Hensley to Sugar land (PCL). KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed RHP Brad Keller on the 15-day IL, retroactive to May 16. Recalled RHP Max Castillo from Omaha (IL). MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed INF/OF Nick Gordon on the 10-day IL, retroactive to May 18. Recalled OF Kyle Garlick from St. Paul (IL). OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed RHP Zach Jackson on the 15-day IL, retroactive to May 17. Designated RHP Zach Neal for assignment. Selected the contract of RHP Lucas Ereg from Las Vegas (PCL). National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Placed SS Ehire Adrianza on the 60-day IL, retroactive to May 18. Selected the contract of 3B Charlie Culberson from Gwinnett (IL). Placed LHP Dylan Lee on the 15-day IL, retroactive to May 17. Activated LHP Lucas Luetge from the 15-day IL. CINCINNATI REDS — Placed RHP Derek Law on the 15-day IL, retroactive to May 17. Recalled RHP Alan Busenitz from Louisville (IL). COLORADO ROCKIES — Selected the contract of RHP Karl Kauffmann from Albuquerque (PCL). Transferred RHP Germain Marquez from the 15-day IL to the 60-day IL. Optioned RHP Riley Pint to Albuquerque. CHICAGO CUBS — Reinstated 2B Nico Hoerner from the 10-day IL. Placed 1B Cody Bellinger on the 10-day IL. Recalled INF Edwin Rios from Iowa (IL). Selected the contract of OF Mike Tauchman from Iowa. Optioned RHP Keegan Thompson to Iowa. Designated INF Eric Hosmer for assignment. CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with RHP Ryan Meisinger on a minor league contract. CLEVELAND GUARDIANS — Optioned SS Brayan Rocchio to Columbus (IL). Reinstated 3B Jose Ramirez from the bereavement list. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Selected the contract of RHP Tyler Cyr from Oklahoma City (PCL). Optioned RHP Andre Jackson to Oklahoma City. NEW YORK METS — Reinstated RHP Carlos Carrasco from the 15-day IL. Placed LF Tim Locastro on the 60-day IL. Selected the contract of C Gary Sanchez from Syracuse (IL). Optioned C Michael Perez to Syracuse. Optioned LHP Josh Walker to Syracuse. Assigned C Tomas Nido to St. Lucie (FSL) on a rehab assignment. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Reinstated LHP Rob Zastryzny from the 15-day IL. Designated OF Miguel Andujar for assignment. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Selected the contracts of C Patrick Bailey and RHP Ryan Walker from Sacramento (PCL). Designated OF Cal Stevenson for assignment. Recalled OF Heliot Ramos from Sacramento and placed him on the 60-day IL. Placed C Joey Bart on the 10-day IL, retroactive to May 18 and RHP Ross Stripling on the 15-day IL, retroactive to May 18. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Reinstated INF Joey Meneses from the paternity list. Optioned INF Jake Alu to Rochester (IL).

Football National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed WR Brian Cobbs and DB Garrett Williams. BUFFALO BILLS — Named Malik Boyd senior personnel advisor, Chris Morrow and Curtis Rukavina co-directors of pro scouting, Luke Dawson senior executive and A.J. Highsmith national scout. HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed DE Jacob Martin to a one-year contract. Signed DE Dylan Horton. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed DE Felix Anudike-Uzomah. LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Signed G Greg Van Roten. LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Signed DT Nicholas Williams. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed DL Justus Tavai. NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed CB Deonte Banks to a four-year contract. WASHINGTON COMMANDERS — Signed OL Ricky Stromberg and OT Braedon Daniels.

Hockey National Hockey League NHLPA — Named Ron Hainsey assistant executive director. BUFFALO SABRES — Signed D Nikita Novikov to a three-year, entry-level contract. NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Signed F Kyle MacLean to a one-year, two-way contract and F Daylan Kuefler to a three-year, entry-level contract.

Soccer Major League Soccer MLS — Fined Orlando City M Cesar Araujo an undisclosed amount for simulation-embellishment during a May 17 match against New York City FC. Issued Charlotte FC a warning for violation of mass confrontation during a May 17 match against Chicago Fire FC. Fined Charlotte D Nathan Byrne, Ms Brandt Bronico and Ashley Westwood and F Enzo Copetti an undisclosed amount for their roles in inciting or escalating a mass confrontation during a May 17 match against Chicago Fire FC. Fined Chicago Fire FC and head coach Frank Klopas an undisclosed amount for violating the mass confrontation policy during a May 17 match against Charlotte FC. Fined Charlotte D Bill Tuiloma, Chicago Ms Gaston Gimenez, Federico Navarro and Jairo Torres an undisclosed amount for their roles in inciting or escalating a mass confrontation during a May 17 match against Chicago Fire FC.

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COMING UP

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Playoffs

WTA Trophee Clarins At Lagardere Paris Racing Club, Paris Purse: $115,000 Surface: Red clay (seedings in parentheses): Women’s Singles Quarterfinals Caty McNally (6), United States, def. Nao Hibino, Japan, 6-2, 5-3, ret. Varvara Gracheva (2), Russia, def. Kamilla Rakhimova (9), Russia, 6-2, 7-5. Diane Parry, France, def. Linda Noskova (4), Czech Republic, 7-5, 6-2. Katie Volynets, United States, def. Alize Cornet (7), France, 7-5, 2-6, 6-2. Women’s Doubles Quarterfinals Vera Zvonareva, Russia, and Anna Danilina, Kazakhstan, def. Jang Su Jeong, South Korea, and Zhaoxuan Yang, China, 6-3, 4-6, 10-7. Nadiia Kichenok, Ukraine, and Alycia Parks (1), United States, def. Alicja Rosolska, Poland, and Olivia Nicholls, Britain, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 12-10.

ATP rankings Singles Through Tuesday 1. Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 6775 2. Carlos Alcaraz, Spain, 6770 3. Daniil Medvedev, Russia, 5330 4. Casper Ruud, Norway, 5165 5. Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greece, 5015 6. Andrey Rublev, Russia, 4190 7. Holger Rune, Denmark, 3865 8. Jannik Sinner, Italy, 3525 9. Taylor Fritz, USA, 3380 10. Felix Auger-Aliassime, Canada, 3235 11. Karen Khachanov, Russia, 3025 12. Frances Tiafoe, USA, 2755 13. Cameron Norrie, Great Britain, 2680 14. Rafael Nadal, Spain, 2535 15. Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, 2525 16. Borna Coric, Croatia, 2240 17. Tommy Paul, USA, 2170 18. Alex de Minaur, Australia, 1995 19. Lorenzo Musetti, Italy, 1960 20. Matteo Berrettini, Italy, 1832 21. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, 1785 22. Alexander Zverev, Germany, 1630 23. Marin Cilic, Croatia, 1600 24. Daniel Evans, Great Britain, 1480 25. Roberto Bautista Agut, Spain, 1475 26. Nick Kyrgios, Australia, 1465 27. Denis Shapovalov, Canada, 1390 28. Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, 1387 29. Sebastian Korda, USA, 1265 30. Botic Van de Zandschulp, Netherlands, 1250 31. Francisco Cerundolo, Argentina, 1200 32. Yoshihito Nishioka, Japan, 1171 33. Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, 1125 34. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Spain, 1115 35. Ben Shelton, USA, 1095 36. Tallon Griekspoor, Netherlands, 1091 37. Miomir Kecmanovic, Serbia, 1055 38. Bernabe Zapata Miralles, Spain, 1016 39. Jiri Lehecka, Czech Republic, 992 40. Sebastian Baez, Argentina, 985 41. Maxime Cressy, USA, 985 42. Andy Murray, Great Britain, 965 43. Emil Ruusuvuori, Finland, 957 44. Richard Gasquet, France, 931 45. Adrian Mannarino, France, 927

WTA rankings Singles Through Tuesday 1. Iga Swiatek, Poland, 9625 2. Aryna Sabalenka, Belarus, 7881 3. Jessica Pegula, USA, 5300 4. Caroline Garcia, France, 5025 5. Coco Gauff, USA, 4345 6. Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstan, 4195 7. Ons Jabeur, Tunisia, 4116 8. Maria Sakkari, Greece, 3516 9. Daria Kasatkina, Russia, 3505 10. Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, 3162 11. Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, 2750 12. Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, 2660 13. Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic, 2616 14. Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, 2245 15. Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazil, 2206 16. Liudmila Samsonova, Russia, 2172 17. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 2127 18. Martina Trevisan, Italy, 1878 19. Magda Linette, Poland, 1820 20. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, 1795 21. Zheng Qinwen, China, 1784 22. Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russia, 1775 23. Madison Keys, USA, 1742 24. Donna Vekic, Croatia, 1713 25. Anastasia Potapova, Russia, 1601 26. Elise Mertens, Belgium, 1474 27. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, 1443 28. Petra Martic, Croatia, 1395 29. Zhang Shuai, China, 1385 30. Simona Halep, Romania, 1350 31. Bianca Andreescu, Canada, 1322 32. Bernarda Pera, USA, 1315 33. Shelby Rogers, USA, 1294 34. Sorana Cirstea, Romania, 1293 35. Paula Badosa, Spain, 1253 36. Sloane Stephens, USA, 1246 37. Camila Giorgi, Italy, 1214 38. Marie Bouzkova, Czech Republic, 1213 39. Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia, 1192 40. Marta Kostyuk, Ukraine, 1190 41. Danielle Collins, USA, 1177 42. Zhu Lin, China, 1175 43. Mayar Sherif, Egypt, 1140 44. Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, 1122 45. Elisabetta Cocciaretto, Italy, 1081

FOOTBALL USFL North Division W L T Pct PF PA New Jersey 2 3 0 .400 96 87 Pittsburgh 2 3 0 .400 82 86 Michigan 2 3 0 .400 83 103 Philadelphia 2 3 0 .400 90 130 South Division W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 4 1 0 .800 135 111 Houston 3 2 0 .600 142 129 Birmingham 3 2 0 .600 144 104 Memphis 2 3 0 .400 97 119 Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh at Memphis, 9:30 a.m. Birmingham at Michigan, 1 p.m. Sunday’s Games New Orleans at Philadelphia, 9 a.m. New Jersey at Houston, 1 p.m.

ON THIS DATE May 20 1900 — The second modern Olympic games open in Paris. 1919 — Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox wins a game on the mound and at the plate as he hits his first career grand slam to beat the St. Louis Browns 6-4. 1941 — Ten days after his Preakness victory, Whirlaway races against older horses for the first time and defeats four rivals in the Henry of Navarre Purse at Belmont Park in New York. 1950 — Heavily favored Hill Prince, ridden by Bill Boland, wins the Preakness Stakes by five lengths over Middleground. 1964 — Buster Mathis beats future world heavyweight champion Joe Frazer on points at the trials in Flushing, New York, to qualify for the U.S. Olympic boxing team; Mathis injures his thumb and is replaced by Frazier, who wins the gold medal. 1967 — Damascus, ridden by Willie Shoemaker, wins the Preakness Stakes by 2¼ lengths over In Reality. 1972 — Bee Bee Bee, a 19-1 long shot ridden by Eldon Nelson, wins the Preakness Stakes by 1½ lengths over No Le Hace. 1972 — Indiana’s Roger Brown scores 32 points to lead the Pacers to 108-105 to win over the New York Nets and the ABA championship. 1978 — Affirmed, ridden by Steve Cauthen, continues the battle with Alydar and wins the Preakness Stakes by a neck. 1983 — American heavyweight boxer Larry Holmes beats countryman Tim Witherspoon by split decision to retain his WBC title at the Dunes Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas. 1985 — Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title. 1990 — Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf’s 66-match winning streak and takes the German Open with a 6-4, 6-3 victory. Graf’s streak is the second longest in the modern era of tennis. Martina Navratilova won 74 straight matches in 1984. 1990 — The 18th triple dead heat in modern thoroughbred history takes place in the ninth race at Arlington International Racecourse. All Worked Up, Marshua’s Affair and Survival are timed in 1:24.45 over seven furlongs. 2005 — Nextel Cup rookie Kyle Busch becomes the youngest winner in Craftsman Truck Series history, holding off Terry Cook and Ted Musgrave in a three-lap closing sprint at the Quaker Steak & Lube 200. 2006 — Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro breaks down at the start of the Preakness, galloping a few hundred yards while his eight rivals pass him. Bernardini wins the $1 million race, beating Sweetnorthernsaint by 5¼ lengths. 2007 — Roger Federer ends Rafael Nadal’s 81-match winning streak on clay with a 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 win in the final of the Hamburg Masters. It’s Federer’s first clay-court title in two years.

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English Premier League GP W D L GF GA Pts Man City 35 27 4 4 92 31 85 Arsenal 36 25 6 5 83 42 81 Newcastle 36 19 12 5 67 32 69 Man United 35 20 6 9 51 41 66 Liverpool 36 19 8 9 70 42 65 Brighton 35 17 7 11 67 49 58 Tottenham 36 17 6 13 65 59 57 Aston Villa 36 17 6 13 48 44 57 Brentford 36 13 14 9 54 45 53 Fulham 36 15 6 15 52 49 51 Chelsea 35 11 10 14 36 41 43 Crystal Palace 36 11 10 15 37 46 43 Wolverhampton 36 11 7 18 30 52 40 Bournemouth 36 11 6 19 37 69 39 West Ham 36 10 7 19 38 52 37 Nottingham Forest 36 8 10 18 36 67 34 Everton 36 7 11 18 32 56 32 Leeds 36 7 10 19 46 71 31 Leicester 36 8 6 22 49 67 30 Southampton 36 6 6 24 31 66 24 Saturday’s Games Tottenham vs. Brentford, 4:30 a.m. Bournemouth vs. Man United, 7 a.m. Fulham vs. Crystal Palace, 7 a.m. Liverpool vs. Aston Villa, 7 a.m. Wolverhampton vs. Everton, 7 a.m. Nottingham Forest vs. Arsenal, 9:30 a.m. Sunday’s Games West Ham vs. Leeds, 5:30 a.m. Brighton vs. Southampton, 6 a.m. Man City vs. Chelsea, 8 a.m.

Germany Bundesliga GP W D L GF GA Pts Bayern 32 20 8 4 89 34 68 Dortmund 32 21 4 7 78 42 67 RB Leipzig 32 18 6 8 57 38 60 Union Berlin 32 17 8 7 48 34 59 Freiburg 33 17 8 8 50 42 59 Leverkusen 32 14 7 11 55 44 49 Wolfsburg 33 13 10 10 56 46 49 Eintracht 32 12 10 10 54 49 46 Mainz 32 12 9 11 51 49 45 Cologne 32 10 11 11 47 51 41 Monchengladbach 32 10 9 13 48 53 39 Bremen 32 10 5 17 50 62 35 Augsburg 32 9 7 16 42 58 34 Hoffenheim 32 9 5 18 43 54 32 Bochum 32 9 4 19 36 71 31 Schalke 32 7 9 16 31 65 30 Stuttgart 32 6 11 15 40 55 29 Hertha Berlin 32 6 7 19 39 67 25 Friday’s Result Freiburg 2, Wolfsburg 0 Saturday’s Games Hoffenheim vs. Union Berlin, 6:30 a.m. Hertha Berlin vs. Bochum, 6:30 a.m. Schalke vs. Eintracht, 6:30 a.m. Bremen vs. Cologne, 6:30 a.m. Bayern vs. RB Leipzig, 9:30 a.m.

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GP W D L GF GA Pts Napoli 35 26 5 4 70 25 83 Juventus 35 21 6 8 54 28 69 Inter 35 21 3 11 66 37 66 Lazio 35 19 8 8 54 28 65 AC Milan 35 17 10 8 55 41 61 Roma 35 17 8 10 45 33 59 Atalanta 35 17 7 11 56 42 58 AC Monza 36 14 10 12 46 46 52 Turin 35 13 10 12 37 39 49 Fiorentina 35 13 10 12 47 40 49 Bologna 35 12 11 12 43 44 47 Udinese 35 11 13 11 45 43 46 Sassuolo 36 12 8 16 44 56 44 Empoli 35 9 12 14 32 45 39 Salernitana 35 8 14 13 43 56 38 Lecce 35 7 11 17 30 43 32 Spezia 35 6 12 17 30 56 30 Verona 35 7 9 19 28 52 30 Cremonese 35 4 12 19 31 61 24 Sampdoria 35 3 9 23 21 62 18 Friday’s Result AC Monza 2, Sassuolo 1 Saturday’s Games Cremonese vs. Bologna, 6 a.m. Atalanta vs. Verona, 9 a.m. AC Milan vs. Sampdoria, 11:45 a.m.

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Ukraine’s Kalinina dedicates win to nation Anhelina Kalinina’s family home in Ukraine was destroyed in a Russian attack last year. Her elderly grandparents have had to relocate from the southern city of Nova Kakhovka — which is held by Russian forces — to Kyiv. So when Kalinina beat Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 at the Italian Open on Friday to reach the biggest final of her career, it seemed only natural that she dedicated the victory to her war-torn country. “It’s really important to win every match, because of what Ukraine goes through,” Kalinina told the crowd. “I really hope that I give a tiny, small light, maybe some positive emotions for my country. I really hope that Ukraine a little bit enjoys (this). “I was feeling so much support,” Kalinina added later. “The whole stadium was cheering me up. ... I have never experienced something like that.” She and Kudermetova did not shake hands after the semifinal, which lasted nearly three hours.

Ex-No. 1 Halep faces 2nd doping charge Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been accused of a second doping offense by the International Tennis Integrity Agency for irregularities in her Athlete Biological Passport. The charge announced Friday “is separate and in addition to” the provisional suspension Halep received last year after failing a drug test during the U.S. Open, the ITIA said. Halep is a 31-year-old from Romania who reached No. 1 in the WTA rankings in 2017. The ITIA said the new charge “was based on an assessment” of Halep’s biological passport profile by an expert panel. Such passports provide a baseline reading of substances in an athlete’s body and are considered a way to help chart doping.

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USC athletic director Bohn resigns Southern California athletic director Mike Bohn has resigned. USC confirmed the 62-year-old Bohn’s resignation Friday, roughly 3½ years after he succeeded Lynn Swann in the high-profile job. The Trojans’ athletic department experienced a surge of success during Bohn’s tenure, headlined by USC’s lucrative decision to move to the Big Ten in 2024. The long-struggling USC football team made a dramatic one-year return to national title contention after the hiring of coach Lincoln Riley last year, while the men’s basketball team has made three straight NCAA Tournament appearances under Andy Enfield. —Associated Press

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Contender scratched Little rest after 4 overtimes from Preakness race enough to have Maurice wonder aloud how long both teams could go without risking injuries, while leaving players from both rosters to scarf down snacks or chug fluids in hopes to hanging in there through 15-minute intermissions before each OT. Now the Panthers and Hurricanes have a compressed window to rest, recharge and — in Carolina’s case, particularly — regroup before Game 2 on Saturday night. “It definitely stings,” Carolina defenseman Brady Skjei said. “Long game, both teams went through it though, so both teams are feeling that today.” Both teams were coming off multiday breaks before the series, but they burned through that stored-up juice in a game that stands as the sixth-longest in

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BALTIMORE — Brad Cox-trained First Mission has been scratched from the Preakness on the advice of veterinarians, taking one of the top contenders out of the Triple Crown race 36 hours before post time. Owner Godolphin and the Maryland Jockey Club announced the scratch early Friday, saying vets identified an issue with First Mission’s left hind ankle. The withdrawal comes in the aftermath of five scratches for the Kentucky Derby and one horse who was scheduled to run being among the seven who died of various causes at Churchill Downs over a 10-day span. Godolphin USA bloodstock director Michael Banahan said examination of First Mission at Pimlico Race Course “was sort of inconclusive.” “They thought that he was maybe not quite 100% on his left hind and tried to figure that out, do some diagnostics, something on the track there, which was difficult to do,” Banahan told the Associated Press in a phone interview. “The veterinary scrutiny is very heightened on the big days. Obviously they saw something that they were concerned about. ... Brad is conservative and cautious, as well. When they thought that there was maybe a little issue, we said we’d just have to collaborate with them and go with their advice.” First Mission is set to go to Kentucky to be evaluated further next week by Dr. Larry Bramlage at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington. “We decided the best thing for the welfare of the horse was not to take any chances and get him evaluated fully and see where we are and see what we need to do to get him back on track again,” Banahan said. “Our utmost concern from an owner perspective, and the same with Brad from a trainer’s

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Preakness contender First Mission runs on the Pimlico track Tuesday in Baltimore.

TODAY’S RACE 148th Preakness Stakes Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore Time: 3 p.m. TV: NBC perspective, is the best care of the horse and the welfare of the horse. And when there was a little bit of a concern there, we felt what we needed to do was pull him from the race and get him evaluated fully and see what we have.” The removal of First Mission leaves seven horses in the field for the $1.65 million race. He was the early second choice at odds of 5-2 behind only 8-5 favorite Mage, who won the Kentucky Derby. “You don’t like to see that,” said Hall of Famer trainer Bob Baffert, who is back at a Triple Crown race for the first time in two years with contender National Treasure. “We still have another day to go. Trainers, we don’t relax until we get the saddle on. Until I get the saddle on the horse, then you can just relax completely. It’s one of those things where you don’t want to wish any bad luck on anyone because we’ve all been there.” It’s an all-too-familiar feeling this spring after the defections from the Derby left 18 to run instead of the usually full field of 20. That included favorite Forte hours before, when

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Kentucky racing officials expressed concern about a bruised right front foot. Forte landed on the state’s vet list, grounding him from racing for at least 14 days, and trainer Todd Pletcher was suspended 10 days for Forte failing a postrace drug test in New York in September. Racing officials who own and operate tracks in Maryland have increased testing and veterinary review procedures for horses running in the Preakness and other top stakes races this weekend at Pimlico Race Course as preventative measures to limit injuries. That includes multiple independent doctors examining horses, with each one needing to be cleared before racing. National Treasure is Baffert’s first horse at the Preakness since 2021 with Medina Spirit, whose disqualification that year after winning the Kentucky Derby for failing a drug test caused Baffert to be barred from the sport’s best-known race since. He was not eligible to enter a horse in the Preakness or Belmont last year because of a 90-day suspension in Kentucky that Maryland and New York honored. “We just keep on moving forward,” Baffert said of his return from suspension. “We have other horses to worry about. A lot of it is noise, so you keep the noise out and continue working, stay busy.”

Division 3: (8) Saint Mary’s at (1) C. Newman, 1 p.m. Division 4: (11) Healdsburg at (3) Arcata, Noon SOFTBALL Friday’s quarterfinal results Division 2: (2) Casa Grande 10, American Canyon 3 Division 3:

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RALEIGH, North Carolina — His Florida Panthers were not even a half-day removed from surviving a four-overtime thriller to open the Eastern Conference Final when Paul Maurice wrapped up his news conference with a question. “OK, everybody, I’ll see you eight hours from now,” the coach said Friday. “Is that the routine we’re on now?” It sure feels like it after the Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes played one of the longest games in NHL postseason history, one that left players’ legs wobbly and minds weary in a contest that seemed at times destined to keep going. And going. And going. Along the way, it was

NHL postseason history (139:47), the longest for either franchise and representing more than two full games’ worth of hockey. The final numbers flirted with the absurd, prompting PNC Arena public-address announcer Wade Minter to greet fans for the intermission after the third OT by saying: “I’m so, so sorry.” Five defensemen saw more than 50 minutes of ice time, led by Florida’s Brandon Montour posting 57:56 of ice time — the ninth-highest playoff total of all skaters since 1997-98 — along with Gustav Forsling (55:41), and Carolina’s Brent Burns (54:43). And the goaltenders stood out under duress, with both Sergei Bobrovsky (63 saves) for the Panthers and Andersen (57) for the Hurricanes shining.

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initiatives outside their sport.” Off the field, Brown was a contentious figure. CONTINUED FROM C1 While he had a soft spot speed and endurance, for those in need, and his Brown’s arrival sparked generosity changed lives, the game’s burgeoning he also was arrested a popularity on television. half-dozen times, mostly on As Black Americans charges of hitting women. fought for equality, Brown In June 1999, Brown’s used his platform and voice wife called 911, saying to advance their cause. Brown had smashed her “I hope every Black car with a shovel and athlete takes the time to threatened to kill her. educate themselves about During the trial, Monique ASSOCIATED PRESS Brown recanted. Jim this incredible man and what he did to change all Brown was acquitted Browns running back Jim Brown in action against the New of our lives,” NBA star of a charge of domestic York Giants in 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio. LeBron James said. “We threats but convicted of all stand on your shoulders the greatest to ever put Black athletes to do the misdemeanor vandalism. Jim Brown. If you grew on a Browns uniform same. Our thoughts are The Los Angeles judge up in Northeast Ohio and and arguably one of the with Jim’s wife Monique, sentenced Brown to six were Black, Jim Brown greatest players in NFL his children, and everyone months in jail when he was a God. history. Jim was one of the who knew and admired refused to attend domestic "As a kid who loved foot- reasons the Browns have him.” violence counseling. ball, I really just thought of such a tremendous fan Indeed, Brown was He also feuded with him as the greatest Clevebase today. unlike any back before Browns coach Paul Brown land Brown to ever play. “So many people grew him, and some feel there and later with the team’s Then I started my own up watching him just dom- has never been anyone management, although he journey as a professional inate every time he stepped better than Cleveland’s played his entire career athlete and realized what onto the football field but incomparable No. 32. At with Cleveland. he did socially was his true his countless accolades 6-foot-2, 230 pounds, he was When his playing days greatness. When I choose on the field only tell a relentless, fighting for evended, Brown set off for to speak out, I always think small part of his story. His ery yard, dragging multiple Hollywood and eventuabout Jim Brown. I can commitment to making defenders along or finding ally settled there. Brown only speak because Jim a positive impact for all holes where none seemed advised Cleveland coach broke down those walls for of humanity off the field to exist. Blanton Collier of his me.” is what he should also be After Brown was tackled, retirement while the team In June 1967, Brown known for.” he’d slowly rise and walk was in training camp and organized “The Cleveland On the field, there was even more slowly back to he was on the set of “The Summit,” a meeting of no one like Brown, who the huddle — then domiDirty Dozen” in England. the nation’s top Black would blast through would- nate the defense when he Among his films were athletes, including Bill be tacklers, refusing to let got the ball again. “100 Rifles,” “Mars AtRussell and Lew Alcindor, one man take him down NFL Commissioner tacks!” Spike Lee’s “He who later became Kareem before sprinting away from Roger Goodell offered his Got Game,” Oliver Stone’s Abdul-Jabbar, to support linebackers and defensive condolences on behalf of “Any Given Sunday” and boxer Muhammad Ali’s backs. He was also famous the league. the satire “I’m Gonna Git fight against serving in for using a stiff arm to shed “Jim Brown was a You Sucka,” in which he Vietnam. defenders in the open field gifted athlete — one of the parodied the blaxploitation In later years, he worked or push them away like most dominant players to genre. In 2002, Brown was to curb gang violence in LA they were rag dolls. ever step on any athletic the subject of Lee’s HBO and in 1988 founded Amer“I was too young to field — but also a cultural documentary “Jim Brown: I-Can, a program to help remember Jim Brown’s figure who helped promote All-American.” disadvantaged inner-city playing days, but I knew change,” Goodell said. In recent years, Brown’s youth and ex-convicts. his legacy,” said former “During his nine-year relationship with the “Jim Brown is a true President Barack Obama. NFL career, which coinBrowns was inconsistent. icon of not just the “One of the greatest footcided with the civil rights He served as an adviser to Cleveland Browns but the ball players ever, he was movement here at home, owner Randy Lerner and entire NFL,” said Browns also an actor and activist he became a forerunner was hired to counsel the owners Dee and Jimmy — speaking out on civil and role model for athletes team’s younger players. Haslam. “He was certainly rights, and pushing other being involved in social However, in 2010, Brown

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parted ways with the team after having his role reduced by incoming team president Mike Holmgren. Brown felt slighted by the perceived demotion — when the club unveiled a “Ring of Honor” inside its downtown stadium, Brown didn’t attend the ceremony in protest. The Browns erected a statue of Brown outside their stadium in 2016. Brown was an eight-time All-Pro and went to the Pro Bowl in each of his nine years in the league. When Brown walked away from the game at age 30, he held the league’s records for yards (12,312) and touchdowns (126). And despite his bruising style, Browns never missed a game, playing in 118 straight. A two-sport star at Syracuse — some say he is the best lacrosse player in NCAA history — Brown endured countless racist taunts while playing at the virtually all-white school at the time. Still, he was an All-American in both sports and lettered in basketball. Brown was the sixth overall pick of the 1957 draft, joining a team that routinely played for the title. He was the Offensive Rookie of the Year that season. Running behind an offensive line featuring Hall of Fame tackles Lou Groza and Mike McCormack, Brown set a league mark with 1,527 yards and scored 17 TDs on his way to the league’s Most Outstanding Player award — a precursor to the MVP — in 1958. Over the next three seasons, he never ran for less than 1,257 yards before picking up just 996 in 1962. He led the NFL in rushing eight times, gaining a career-best 1,863 yards in

1963. He averaged 104 yards per game, scored 106 rushing touchdowns and averaged 5.2 yards per carry. A dangerous receiver as well, Brown finished with 262 catches for 2,499 yards and another 20 TDs. “I’ve said many times, and I will always say, Jim Brown is the best,” Hall of Fame running back Gale Sayers once said, “and he will still be the best long after all his records are broken.” Brown’s No. 32 was retired by the Browns in ’71, the same year he entered the Hall of Fame. But he rarely visited Cleveland during the 1970s and ’80s. He and Cleveland owner Art Modell were at odds over his sudden retirement; the two later patched up their differences and remained good friends. Brown supported Modell’s decision to move Cleveland’s franchise to Baltimore in 1995. It was both a reflection of his loyalty to Modell and another sign of his fierce independence. Brown was one of the few former Browns players not angry with Modell for moving the team. Many of the modern players couldn’t appreciate Brown or his impact on American sports. “They have grown up in a different era,” former Browns coach Romeo Crennel said. “He’s one of the greatest players in NFL history and what he was able to accomplish in his time was tremendous. I don’t know that anybody could do what he did, the way he did it, under the circumstances that he had to operate and the things that he had to endure. "And for him to go out on top, that’s something that not many guys are able to appreciate either.”

PUBLIC NOTICE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SONOMA 3055 Cleveland Ave. Santa Rosa, CA 95403 Case No. SCV-000014 Petition of: Michelle Love Rutherford for change of name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS Petitioner Michelle Love Rutherford filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Michelle Love Rutherford to Michelle Love. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why this petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING JULY 12 2023 at 3:00PM in Dept 16, located at 3035 Cleveland Ave., Suite 200 Santa Rosa, CA 95403/Zoom. Zoom.us/join Meeting ID: 824 7526 7360 Password: 840359 Phone Number: *67 1 669 900 6833 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Press Democrat. Dated: MAY 10 2023 Hon. Patrick Broderick Judge of the Superior Court W0045719 - May 13,20,27,June 3 2023 4ti. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SONOMA 3055 Cleveland Ave. Santa Rosa, CA 95403 Case No. scv-273136 Petition of: Ivan Andres Climaco for change of name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS Petitioner Ivan Andres Climaco filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Ivan Andres Climaco to Andres Paulino Ceballos. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why this petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING June 28, 2023 at 3:00pm in Dept 18, located at 3055 Cleveland Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 95403/Zoom. Zoom.us/join Meeting ID: 83856098726 Password: 000169 Phone Number: *67 1 669 900 6833 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Press Democrat. Dated: April 26, 2023 Hon. Christopher Honigsberg Judge of the Superior Court W0045464 - April 29,May 6,13,20 2023 4ti.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 202301313 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Ignite Laser Engraving located at 2362 Alvarado Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA, 95404; Sonoma County, is hereby registered by the following owner(s): Michael Benjamin Shain 2362 Alvarado Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA, 95404 An Individual The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name or names above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed: Michael Benjamin Shain This statement was filed with the County Clerk of SONOMA COUNTY on 04/26/2023 I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. DEVA MARIE PROTO Sonoma County Clerk By /s/ Julianna Garfia Deputy Clerk SEAL W0045487 - April 29,May 6,13,20 2023 4ti. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 202301474 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: JADED TOAD BBQ & GRILL located at 500 E. COTATI AVE, COTATI, CA, 94931; Mailing Address 2078 CANOVER CT, SANTA ROSA, CA 95403 Sonoma County, is hereby registered by the following owner(s): BADII, LLC 500 E. COTATI AVE., COTATI, SONO, 94931 A CA Limited Liability Company The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name or names above on 2015. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed: INGRID CLARK This statement was filed with the County Clerk of SONOMA COUNTY on 5/10/23 I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. DEVA MARIE PROTO Sonoma County Clerk By /s/ Christina Prado-Mendoza Deputy Clerk SEAL W0045895 - May 20,27,June 3,10 2023 4ti.

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Giants call up catching prospect PRESS DEMOCRAT NEWS SERVICES

The San Francisco Giants called up one top catching prospect to take the place of another Friday, adding Patrick Bailey to the roster and placing Joey Bart on the injured list prior to Friday night’s series opener against the Washington Nationals. The Giants’ first-round draft pick in 2020, Bailey has only 14 games under his belt at Triple-A but has shown exceptional defensive ability and made strides at the plate as a switch-hitter. He replaces Bart (left groin strain), the Giants’ first-round pick in 2018 who landed on the IL for the second time this season. In a series of roster moves, the Giants also placed starter Ross Stripling (low back strain) on the 15-day IL and recalled reliever Ryan Walker. Outfield prospect Heliot Ramos (oblique strain)

SRJC CONTINUED FROM C1 got runners into scoring position every inning but the seventh, but stranded 13 on base. For the game, they were 4-for-22 with runners on base and 3-for17 with runners in scoring position. “Somebody’s gotta deliver,” SRJC head coach Damon Neidlinger said. “That’s what it is. When you’re getting pushed around a little bit — and I’m not saying our guys didn’t compete; we don’t get to this spot if we don’t compete — but they need to compete better. At one point in time, they had three times as many hits than we had. We made a little Chihuahua bark at the end but this time of year, you’re not looking for that.” Trailing 6-0 after two innings, the Bear Cubs plated solo runs in the third and fourth before Jake McCoy made it 6-4 with a two-run double in the fifth, giving the hosts some momentum heading into the later innings. But the game slipped away late as the Wolverines added a solo run in the eighth and two more in the ninth to win comfortably. Sierra starting pitcher Kai Peterson, a Rice commit, walked four and struck out three with four hits and three earned runs allowed through six innings before Caden Hunter tossed a scoreless final three innings with three

C5 STANDINGS, SCORES, SCHEDULE

Pittsburgh 13, Arizona 3

Detroit 8, Washington 6

Arizona AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Rojas 3b 5 0 2 2 0 1 .262 Marte 2b 2 0 0 0 2 0 .275 Ahmed ss 1 0 0 0 0 1 .253 Carroll rf 2 0 0 0 1 1 .275 Walker 1b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .263 Rivera 1b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .340 Gurriel Jr. lf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .309 Smith dh 4 0 0 0 0 0 .244 Moreno c 3 1 0 0 1 1 .313 Fletcher cf 3 1 0 0 1 2 .356 Perdomo ss-2b 4 1 1 1 0 2 .326 Totals 32 3 4 3 5 11 Pittsburgh AB R H BI BB SO Avg. McCutchen dh 4 2 3 0 1 1 .267 a-R.Castro ph-dh 1 0 0 0 0 0 .257 Reynolds lf 4 2 1 4 1 0 .294 Joe 1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .264 Suwinski cf-lf 4 1 2 2 1 1 .236 Santana 1b 5 1 1 0 0 2 .240 Owings ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143 Hayes 3b 5 1 3 3 0 0 .239 Marcano ss-2b 4 2 1 0 1 0 .258 Bae 2b-cf 4 2 3 1 1 0 .254 Palacios rf 4 1 3 3 1 1 .231 Hedges c 5 1 0 0 0 0 .159 Totals 41 13 17 13 6 5 Arizona 001 000 200 — 3 4 1 Pittsburgh 010 730 02x — 13 17 1 a-popped out for McCutchen in the 8th. E—Rojas (3), Reynolds (2). LOB—Arizona 8, Pittsburgh 10. 2B—Rojas (12), Santana (14), Hayes 2 (11), Bae (4), Suwinski (6). HR—Perdomo (4), off Oviedo; Reynolds (6), off Misiewicz. RBIs—Perdomo (21), Rojas 2 (21), Hayes 3 (13), Palacios 3 (3), Reynolds 4 (27), Suwinski 2 (22), Bae (12). Runners left in scoring position—Arizona 4 (Moreno, Rivera, Carroll, Fletcher); Pittsburgh 3 (Joe, Hedges 2). RISP—Arizona 1 for 8; Pittsburgh 8 for 16. Runners moved up—Perdomo, Marte, Bae. GIDP—Reynolds. DP—Arizona 1 (Perdomo, Marte, Walker). Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gallen, L, 6-2 3⅔ 8 8 5 4 2 78 2.95 Misiewicz 1⅓ 4 3 3 0 2 34 5.62 Frias 2 1 0 0 2 1 31 14.54 Herrera 1 4 2 2 0 0 27 18.00 Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Oviedo, W, 3-3 6 2 1 1 3 7 96 4.69 Underwood Jr. ⅓ 1 2 2 2 0 19 5.48 Ramirez 1⅔ 1 0 0 0 2 24 1.29 Holderman 1 0 0 0 0 2 12 2.65 HBP—Ramirez (Carroll). Umpires—Home, Chris Segal; First, Ben May; Second, Jeff Nelson; Third, CB Bucknor. T—2:59. A—25,903 (38,753).

Detroit AB R H BI BB SO Avg. McKinstry 3b 4 1 1 1 0 0 .274 Baez ss 5 1 0 0 0 0 .240 Greene cf 4 2 2 1 1 0 .296 Torkelson 1b 5 0 1 0 0 1 .232 Ibanez 2b 4 1 0 1 0 0 .232 Short 2b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .238 Maton dh 3 1 1 0 2 1 .155 Baddoo lf 4 1 2 4 1 0 .253 Haase c 3 0 0 0 1 1 .257 Vierling rf 4 1 2 1 0 0 .231 Totals 37 8 9 8 5 4 Washington AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Thomas rf 3 1 1 2 1 0 .281 Garcia 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .255 Meneses dh 4 0 1 0 0 2 .294 Candelario 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .247 Smith 1b 2 1 0 0 2 0 .275 Garrett lf 3 1 1 0 0 1 .247 a-Dickerson ph-lf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .250 Ruiz c 3 2 2 2 0 1 .233 Call cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .228 Abrams ss 4 1 1 1 0 0 .238 Totals 32 6 7 5 3 8 Detroit 303 011 000 — 8 9 0 Washington 000 003 300 — 6 7 2 a-struck out for Garrett in the 8th. E—Irvin (1), Garcia (1), Abrams (8). LOB—Detroit 8, Washington 3. 2B—Ruiz (7), Abrams (6), Meneses (11), Call (8). HR—McKinstry (3), off Irvin; Baddoo (1), off Irvin; Vierling (3), off Harris; Greene (4), off Ward; Thomas (6), off Boyd; Ruiz (4), off Englert. RBIs—McKinstry (7), Ibanez (6), Baddoo 4 (8), Vierling (11), Greene (16), Abrams (23), Thomas 2 (21), Ruiz 2 (15). SB— Baddoo (4). Runners left in scoring position— Detroit 5 (Baez 2, Baddoo, Haase 2); Washington 2 (Garcia, Candelario). RISP—Detroit 3 for 8; Washington 3 for 8. Runners moved up—Ibanez, Abrams. GIDP—Abrams, Garcia. DP—Detroit 2 (Baez, Torkelson; McKinstry, Baez, Torkelson). Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Boyd, W, 3-3 5⅔ 4 3 3 1 4 91 6.21 Englert ⅓ 3 3 3 1 0 21 5.25 Shreve, H, 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 9 4.67 Foley, H, 7 ⅔ 0 0 0 1 1 14 1.50 Lange, S, 8-9 1⅓ 0 0 0 0 2 13 0.98 Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Irvin, L, 1-2 2⅔ 5 6 4 4 1 75 5.50 Harris 2⅓ 3 1 1 0 1 39 5.40 Ward 2 1 1 1 1 1 31 4.86 Machado 2 0 0 0 0 1 24 3.65 Inherited runners-scored—Englert 1-0, Shreve 1-0, Lange 1-0, Harris 2-0. HBP—Harris (McKinstry), Boyd (Ruiz). WP—Englert, Irvin. PB—Ruiz (3). Umpires—Home, Clint Vondrak; First, James Hoye; Second, D.J. Reyburn; Third, John Libka. T—2:47. A—19,985 (41,376).

Acuna Jr. rf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .343 Olson 1b 4 1 2 2 0 0 .236 S.Murphy c 4 1 2 0 0 0 .275 Riley 3b 4 1 2 0 0 0 .251 Rosario lf 3 1 0 0 0 1 .246 a-Pillar ph-lf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .263 Albies 2b 3 1 1 0 1 0 .266 Ozuna dh 4 0 2 3 0 2 .189 Arcia ss 4 0 1 1 0 1 .338 Harris II cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .184 Totals 35 6 11 6 1 6 Seattle 000 000 200 — 2 8 0 Atlanta 100 000 23x — 6 11 0 a-flied out for Rosario in the 8th. LOB—Seattle 3, Atlanta 6. 2B—Crawford (10), Rodriguez (8), Acuna Jr. (13), Olson (8). HR—Olson (12), off Topa. RBIs— Suarez (22), Hernandez (23), Olson 2 (32), Ozuna 3 (17), Arcia (13). CS—Kelenic (3). Runners left in scoring position—Seattle 0; Atlanta 3 (Rosario, Acuna Jr., Harris II). RISP—Seattle 2 for 5; Atlanta 5 for 13. Runners moved up—Raleigh, S.Murphy. LIDP—France. GIDP—France, Trammell. DP—Atlanta 3 (Arcia, Albies, Olson; Harris II, S.Murphy, Harris II; Albies, Arcia, Olson). Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Miller, L, 2-1 6⅓ 4 3 3 1 4 102 1.42 Gott, BS, 0-2 ⅓ 2 0 0 0 1 8 2.08 Topa ⅓ 3 3 3 0 0 13 2.60 Saucedo 1 2 0 0 0 1 15 0.00 Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Elder 6 7 2 2 1 6 87 2.06 McHugh, W, 2-0 1 1 0 0 0 0 12 2.81 Anderson, H, 7 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 2.79 Iglesias 1 0 0 0 0 1 13 6.75 Inherited runners-scored—Gott 2-2, Topa 2-0, Saucedo 2-2, McHugh 2-1. WP—Elder(2). Umpires—Home, Edwin Jimenez; First, Edwin Moscoso; Second, Chris Guccione; Third, David Rackley. T—2:29. A—40,412 (41,149).

b-Mervis ph-1b 2 1 0 0 1 2 .209 Gomes c 4 1 2 1 0 1 .292 Morel cf-lf 4 3 1 2 1 1 .359 Madrigal 3b 4 2 2 2 1 1 .253 Totals 39 10 12 9 7 13 Philadelphia AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Stott 2b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .279 Turner ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .257 Harper dh 4 0 1 0 0 2 .309 Castellanos rf 2 0 0 1 1 0 .300 Schwarber lf 3 0 0 0 1 2 .172 Realmuto c 3 0 0 0 1 0 .298 Bohm 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .265 Marsh cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .274 Sosa 3b 3 0 1 0 0 1 .263 Totals 30 1 3 1 3 7 Chicago 040 040 002 — 10 12 2 Philadelphia 100 000 000 — 1 3 1 a-walked for Wisdom in the 5th. b-struck out for Mancini in the 5th. c-flied out for Happ in the 9th. E—Suzuki (1), Mervis (1), Turner (6). LOB—Chicago 11, Philadelphia 6. 2B—Hoerner 2 (8), Suzuki (7), Harper (4). HR—Morel (6), off Bellatti. RBIs—Madrigal 2 (9), Hoerner 4 (23), Gomes (18), Morel 2 (12), Castellanos (26). SB—Mastrobuoni (3), Suzuki (1). SF—Gomes, Castellanos. Runners left in scoring position—Chicago 5 (Tauchman, Wisdom 2, Swanson, Gomes); Philadelphia 3 (Schwarber, Realmuto, Harper). RISP—Chicago 3 for 14; Philadelphia 0 for 3. Runners moved up—Turner. GIDP—Sosa. DP—Chicago 1 (Swanson, Hoerner, Mervis). Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Stroman, W, 3-4 6 3 1 1 2 4 88 3.05 Merryweather 2 0 0 0 0 2 23 5.09 Burdi 1 0 0 0 1 1 14 9.00 Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Suarez, L, 0-1 2 5 4 4 3 4 66 10.50 Hoffman 2 1 0 0 0 3 33 0.00 Uelmen 1 2 4 1 2 1 33 9.00 Vasquez 2 2 0 0 0 2 37 1.33 Kimbrel 1 0 0 0 0 3 16 6.19 Bellatti ⅓ 1 2 2 1 0 10 6.17 Clemens ⅔ 1 0 0 1 0 14 0.00 HBP—Vasquez (Happ). Umpires—Home, Andy Fletcher; First, Erich Bacchus; Second, Laz Diaz; Third, Mike Estabrook. T—2:54. A—42,110 (42,901).

Kikuchi, L, 5-1 4⅔ 3 3 3 4 3 81 4.08 Richards 1⅓ 1 1 1 0 2 22 4.67 Mayza 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 1.15 Bass 1 0 0 0 1 1 22 5.79 Swanson ⅔ 2 2 2 0 2 14 2.86 Hatch ⅓ 1 0 0 0 0 5 0.00 Inherited runners-scored—Richards 1-0. WP—Gibson. Umpires—Home, Adam Beck; First, Dan Iassogna; Second, Gabe Morales; Third, Nate Tomlinson. T—2:49. A—32,485 (49,282).

Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Greinke, L, 1-5 5⅔ 5 2 2 0 4 86 4.82 Kowar 2⅓ 0 0 0 2 3 38 0.00 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Kopech, W, 2-4 8 1 0 0 0 10 98 4.83 Graveman, S, 3-3 1 0 0 0 0 0 13 3.44 Inherited runners-scored—Kowar 1-0. Umpires—Home, Ryan Wills; First, Phil Cuzzi; Second, Shane Livensparger; Third, Dan Bellino. T—2:06. A—20,329 (40,241).

went on the 60-day injured list, clearing one 40-man roster spot for Bailey. Bailey, 23, has split 28 games this season evenly between Double- and Triple-A, posting a combined slash line of .276/.358/.419 (a .777 OPS) in 120 plate appearances. San Diego Padres slugger Manny Machado was placed on the 10-day injured list Friday because of a hairline fracture in his left hand after he was hit by a pitch Monday night. ■■ Milwaukee Brewers left-hander Wade Miley is expected to miss six to eight weeks with a muscle strain in the back of his throwing shoulder, manager Craig Counsell announced before Friday night’s game. ■■ Texas Rangers pitch- Atlanta 6, Seattle 2 Seattle AB R H BI BB SO Avg. er Jacob deGrom said Crawford ss 4 0 2 0 0 0 .244 Chicago Cubs 10, Philadelphia 1 1b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .266 Friday he has “turned France AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Rodriguez cf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .211 Chicago 6 0 3 4 0 0 .310 3 1 1 0 1 0 .283 Hoerner 2b a corner” by throwing Kelenic lf 4 0 0 0 2 0 .263 Suarez 3b 4 0 1 1 0 3 .224 Swanson ss a 25-pitch bullpen ses- Raleigh c 4 0 1 0 0 3 .301 3 0 1 0 0 0 .235 Happ lf c-Tauchman ph-cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Hernandez rf 3 0 2 1 0 1 .244 sion after being sidelined Trammell dh 4 1 2 0 1 2 .293 3 0 0 0 0 2 .129 Suzuki rf 2 0 0 0 0 2 .235 3 0 0 0 0 1 .280 Wisdom dh since April 28 with elbow Caballero 2b a-Mastrobuoni ph-dh 2 1 0 0 1 1 .200 Totals 31 2 8 2 1 8 inflammation. 2 1 1 0 0 0 .265 Atlanta AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Mancini 1b

AMERICAN LEAGUE West Division W Texas 26 Houston 24 Los Angeles 23 Seattle 21 A’s 10 Central Division W Minnesota 24 Detroit 20 Cleveland 20 Chicago 17 Kansas City 14 East Division W Tampa Bay 33 Baltimore 29 New York 27 Toronto 25 Boston 24 NATIONAL LEAGUE West Division W Los Angeles 28 Arizona 25 Giants 20 San Diego 20 Colorado 19 Central Division W Milwaukee 24 Pittsburgh 24 Chicago 20 Cincinnati 19 St. Louis 19 East Division W Atlanta 28 Miami 23 New York 23 Philadelphia 20 Washington 18

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AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday’s Results A’s at Houston, late Tampa Bay 1, Milwaukee 0 N.Y. Yankees 6, Cincinnati 2 Atlanta 6, Seattle 2 Detroit 8, Washington 6 Baltimore 6, Toronto 2 Chicago White Sox 2, Kansas City 0 N.Y. Mets 10, Cleveland 9, 10 innings Texas 7, Colorado 2 Minnesota at L.A. Angels, late Boston at San Diego, late Saturday’s Games Kansas City (Lyles 0-7) at Chicago White Sox (Giolito 2-3), 11:10 a.m. Baltimore (Rodriguez 2-1) at Toronto (Manoah 1-4), 12:07 p.m. Colorado (Freeland 4-4) at Texas (Gray 3-1), 1:05 p.m. Detroit (Faedo 0-1) at Washington (Corbin 2-5), 1:05 p.m. Cleveland (Bibee 1-1) at N.Y. Mets (Scherzer 3-2), 1:10 p.m. Milwaukee (TBD) at Tampa Bay (Eflin 5-1), 1:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (TBD) at Cincinnati (Weaver 1-2), 1:10 p.m. A’s (Sears 0-3) at Houston (Brown 4-1), 1:10 p.m. Seattle (Gilbert 1-2) at Atlanta (Chavez 0-0), 4:15 p.m. Minnesota (Varland 1-0) at L.A. Angels (Sandoval 3-2), 7:07 p.m. Boston (Sale 3-2) at San Diego (Musgrove 1-1), 7:10 p.m. Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Cincinnati, 8:35 a.m. Detroit at Washington, 10:35 a.m. Seattle at Atlanta, 10:35 a.m. Baltimore at Toronto, 10:37 a.m. Milwaukee at Tampa Bay, 10:40 a.m. Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 11:10 a.m. A’s at Houston, 11:10 a.m. Colorado at Texas, 11:35 a.m. Minnesota at L.A. Angels, 1:07 p.m. Boston at San Diego, 1:10 p.m. Cleveland at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday’s Results Miami at Giants, late Tampa Bay 1, Milwaukee 0 N.Y. Yankees 6, Cincinnati 2 Pittsburgh 13, Arizona 3 Atlanta 6, Seattle 2 Detroit 8, Washington 6 Chicago Cubs 10, Philadelphia 1 N.Y. Mets 10, Cleveland 9, 10 innings Texas 7, Colorado 2 L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, late Boston at San Diego, late Saturday’s Games Arizona (Pfaadt 0-1) at Pittsburgh (Keller 5-1), 1:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Taillon 0-2) at Philadelphia (Nola 3-3), 1:05 p.m. Colorado (Freeland 4-4) at Texas (Gray 3-1), 1:05 p.m. Detroit (Faedo 0-1) at Washington (Corbin 2-5), 1:05 p.m. Miami (Garrett 1-2) at Giants (Webb 3-5), 1:05 p.m. Cleveland (Bibee 1-1) at N.Y. Mets (Scherzer 3-2), 1:10 p.m. Milwaukee (TBD) at Tampa Bay (Eflin 5-1), 1:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (TBD) at Cincinnati (Weaver 1-2), 1:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Syndergaard 1-3) at St. Louis (Mikolas 2-1), 4:15 p.m. Seattle (Gilbert 1-2) at Atlanta (Chavez 0-0), 4:15 p.m. Boston (Sale 3-2) at San Diego (Musgrove 1-1), 7:10 p.m. Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Cincinnati, 8:35 a.m. Arizona at Pittsburgh, 10:35 a.m. Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia, 10:35 a.m. Detroit at Washington, 10:35 a.m. Seattle at Atlanta, 10:35 a.m. Milwaukee at Tampa Bay, 10:40 a.m. L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, 11:15 a.m. Colorado at Texas, 11:35 a.m. Miami at Giants, 1:05 p.m. Boston at San Diego, 1:10 p.m. Cleveland at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m.

Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lively, L, 1-2 5⅔ 2 2 2 1 8 83 2.45 Gibaut 1⅓ 3 1 1 0 1 17 3.10 Young 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 2.79 Bracho ⅔ 1 3 3 3 0 26 8.10 Busenitz ⅓ 1 0 0 0 0 8 9.00 Inherited runners-scored—Cordero 2-2, Gibaut 1-1, Busenitz 2-1. Umpires—Home, Brian O’Nora; First, Pat Hoberg; Second, Emil Jimenez; Third, Nestor Ceja. T—2:42. A—35,177 (43,891).

Payamps 1 0 0 0 0 2 14 2.45 Strzelecki, L, 2-3 1 1 1 1 0 1 18 3.54 Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA McClanahan 7 6 0 0 1 7 83 2.05 Adam, W, 1-1 1 1 0 0 0 2 20 2.84 Fairbanks, S, 4-5 1 1 0 0 0 1 12 2.00 HBP—Strzelecki (Raley). WP—Fairbanks. Umpires—Home, Jerry Layne; First, Adam Hamari; Second, Nick Mahrley; Third, Vic Carapazza. T—2:06. A—18,961 (25,025).

hits, a walk and two strikeouts. For the game, Sierra outhit Santa Rosa 14 to seven. “They were on time with our guy and we weren’t on time with their guy,” Neidlinger said. “If you go through the history of the game of baseball, if you’re not on time with their guy and they’re on time with your guy, guess who’s gonna win? They are. “Tomorrow is a new day, but that’s what it is.” For Santa Rosa, Alex Leopard had two hits and two walks, Joe Brown had N.Y. Yankees 6, Cincinnati 2 Tampa Bay 1, Milwaukee 0 a pair of hits, including a New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Milwaukee AB R H BI BB SO Avg. double, and Keenan Morris Bauers lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .194 Miller 2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .345 b-Bader ph-cf 2 0 1 1 0 0 .286 Contreras c 4 0 1 0 0 2 .246 drove in a run. Baltimore 6, Toronto 2 Judge rf-cf-rf 4 2 1 1 1 2 .278 Yelich lf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .252 Starting pitcher Evan Baltimore AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Rizzo 1b 4 1 2 2 0 0 .300 Adames ss 4 0 1 0 0 2 .211 cf 5 0 1 0 0 0 .264 Torres 2b 3 1 0 0 1 0 .248 Ruf dh 2 0 2 0 1 0 .250 Johnson, who was San- Mullins Rutschman c 3 1 0 0 2 1 .280 Calhoun dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .219 a-Winker ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .247 Mountcastle 1b 3 1 1 3 1 0 .249 Volpe ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .216 1-Turang pr ta Rosa’s most consistent Santander dh 0 0 0 0 0 0 .244 2 1 1 1 2 0 .266 Cabrera 3b-rf-lf 3 1 1 0 1 0 .207 Anderson 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .234 pitcher in conference play, Hays lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .303 Chicago White Sox 2, Higashioka c 4 1 1 2 0 3 .200 3 0 1 0 0 2 .230 rf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .306 Hicks cf 2 0 0 0 0 2 .188 Brosseau 1b allowed eight hits and six McKenna b-Tellez ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .248 Kansas City 0 Mateo ss 4 1 1 0 0 2 .252 a-LeMahieu ph-3b 1 0 0 0 1 0 .260 Taylor rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .180 4 1 1 2 0 0 .229 Kansas City AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Totals 34 6 7 6 4 10 runs over his six innings of Frazier 2b Wiemer cf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .208 Ortiz 3b 3 1 1 0 0 1 .238 Witt Jr. ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .230 Cincinnati AB R H BI BB SO Avg. work. The six runs are the a-Henderson ph-3b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .195 Pasquantino 1b 34 0 8 0 1 10 3 0 0 0 0 2 .263 India 2b 3 1 1 0 1 2 .290 Totals Tampa Bay AB R H BI BB SO Avg. 33 6 7 6 5 8 Perez c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .277 McLain ss 4 1 2 0 0 1 .333 second most he’s allowed Totals Toronto AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Melendez rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .305 3 0 0 0 0 1 .220 Fraley lf 3 0 1 2 0 1 .277 J.Lowe rf 4 0 2 0 0 0 .228 Olivares dh 4 0 0 0 0 0 .286 3 0 0 0 0 1 .228 c-Fairchild ph-lf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .214 Franco ss all year and the first out- Springer rf Bichette ss 4 0 0 1 0 0 .321 Pratto lf 3 0 0 0 0 3 .314 Steer 1b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .255 Arozarena lf 2 0 0 0 1 1 .313 ing he’s allowed more than Guerrero Jr. dh 4 0 1 0 0 2 .311 Dozier 3b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .183 Stephenson c 4 0 0 0 0 0 .250 B.Lowe 2b 3 0 1 0 0 2 .204 Varsho lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .212 Massey 2b 3 0 1 0 0 1 .217 Senzel 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .264 Ramirez dh 3 0 0 0 0 0 .319 three since February. Chapman 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .303 Bradley Jr. cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .150 Ramos dh 2 0 0 0 2 1 .242 Paredes 3b-1b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .281 2 1 1 0 2 1 .255 Totals 27 0 1 0 0 10 Myers rf 3 0 1 0 1 1 .205 Raley 1b The challenge that Si- Belt 1b 2 1 0 0 0 1 .248 Merrifield 2b 3 0 1 0 1 2 .264 Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Barrero cf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .230 Walls 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .269 erra poses doesn’t get any Jansen c 4 0 2 1 0 0 .202 Anderson ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .254 Totals 30 2 6 2 5 11 Siri cf 3 0 2 0 0 1 .240 Kiermaier cf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .325 Benintendi lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .278 New York 100 002 003 — 6 7 0 Mejia c easier Saturday. 2 0 1 1 0 0 .221 Totals 33 2 8 2 3 8 Robert Jr. cf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .266 Cincinnati 000 002 000 — 2 6 1 Totals 26 1 5 1 1 7 4 1 1 0 0 0 .317 “They have another guy Baltimore 003 001 002 — 6 7 0 Moncada 3b Milwaukee 000 000 000 — 0 8 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 .240 a-flied out for Hicks in the 7th. b-popped out for 010 000 010 — 2 8 1 Vaughn 1b who’s better than (Peter- Toronto Tampa Bay 000 000 01x — 1 5 0 Sheets rf 2 0 1 1 1 0 .253 Bauers in the 8th. c-struck out for Fraley in the 8th. a-struck out for Ortiz in the 9th. E—Bass (1). LOB— E—Gibaut (1). LOB—New York 5, Cincinnati 6. Marisnick rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 a-singled for Ruf in the 9th. b-struck out for Brosseau son),” Neidlinger said. “So, Baltimore 5, Toronto 7. 2B—McKenna (5), Mullins Burger dh 3 0 1 0 0 0 .279 2B—Higashioka (3), McLain (2), Fraley (6). HR— in the 9th. Belt (9), Springer (2). HR—Mountcastle (10), Gonzalez 2b 2 0 0 1 0 1 .132 Judge (13), off Lively; Rizzo (10), off Gibaut. RBIs— if we get through this, then (10), 1-ran for Winker in the 9th. off Kikuchi; Santander (8), off Richards; Frazier (5), off c 3 0 0 0 0 2 .155 Judge (29), Rizzo 2 (25), Higashioka 2 (11), Bader E—Contreras (5). LOB—Milwaukee 8, Tampa Bay 4. (13), Fraley 2 (31). SB—Fraley (6). CS—Ramos (1). our guys have dug in, but Swanson. RBIs—Mountcastle 3 (34), Santander (25), Zavala Totals 28 2 5 2 2 7 2B—Contreras (8). RBIs—Mejia (6). SB—Miller (4), Frazier 2 (18), Jansen (22), Bichette (30). SB—Mateo Runners left in scoring position—New York 3 Kansas City 000 000 000 — 0 1 1 (Judge, LeMahieu 2); Cincinnati 3 (Ramos 2, Stephenthat’s what the challenge is (14). Runners left in scoring position—BalJ.Lowe (8), Turang (7). SF—Mejia. Chicago 020 000 00x — 2 5 0 son). RISP—New York 2 for 5; Cincinnati 1 for 6. timore 3 (Hays 2, Rutschman); Toronto 3 (Varsho, Runners left in scoring position—Milwaukee right there.” Kiermaier 2). RISP—Baltimore 2 for 6; Toronto 1 E—Witt Jr. (3). LOB—Kansas City 0, Chicago 5. Runners moved up—Steer, Stephenson. GIDP— 4 (Wiemer, Taylor, Adames 2); Tampa Bay 2 (Franco, RBIs—Sheets (17), Gonzalez (2). SB—Robert Jr. (2). The Bear Cubs will look for 7. Runners moved up—Mullins, Bichette. Myers, Stephenson. DP—New York 2 (Volpe, Torres, Ramirez). RISP—Milwaukee 0 for 9; Tampa Bay GIDP—Jansen. DP—Baltimore 1 (Mateo, Frazier, SF—Gonzalez. Rizzo; LeMahieu, Torres, Rizzo). 0 for 3. to rise to that challenge Mountcastle). Runners left in scoring position—Kansas City New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Runners moved up—Yelich. LIDP—Anderson. IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA 0; Chicago 2 (Burger 2). RISP—Kansas City 0 for 0; Schmidt, W, 2-4 5 5 2 2 2 6 81 6.00 DP—Milwaukee 1 (Adames, Contreras, Brosseau, Saturday. Their season, Baltimore Gibson, W, 5-3 7 5 1 1 2 5 95 4.27 Chicago 2 for 4. Cordero, H, 2 1 1 0 0 1 2 21 2.25 Adames); Tampa Bay 1 (J.Lowe, Paredes, J.Lowe). 1 2 1 1 0 1 19 0.40 Runners moved up—Moncada. GIDP—Bradley and state title aspirations, Cano, H, 9 Abreu, H, 3 1 0 0 0 1 1 21 4.50 Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Bautista 1 1 0 0 1 2 25 1.29 Jr.. Peralta, H, 4 1 0 0 0 0 2 15 2.04 Houser 6 4 0 0 1 4 84 3.07 depend on it. Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA DP—Chicago 1 (Gonzalez, Anderson, Vaughn). Ramirez 1 0 0 0 1 0 11 2.45 You can reach Staff Writer Gus Morris at 707-304-9372 or gus.morris@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @JustGusPD.

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Dear Car Talk: My neighbor has a 1994 Toyota Camry with only 28,500 miles on it. The car has been garage kept, serviced according to schedule, and is in perfect condition. He’s looking to sell it to me and I’m thinking about buying it for my 16-year-old daughter. Should I be concerned about buying a car that old? Are there certain parts of a car that deteriorate over time? It would make a great first car for my daughter and wouldn’t break the bank either. -- Grif In many ways, it’s an ideal car for a new driver. It’s cheap, it’s probably reliable, and if she does back into a telephone pole while learning to parallel park, you won’t cry too hard over it. Although your neighbor might. It has airbags and anti-lock brakes, but obviously it lacks other modern, electronic safety features that newer cars have, like automatic emergency braking and blind spot warning. Crash protection has also improved over the years due to more stringent testing, so it’s not the safest car you can put her in, but it’s a substantial sedan and certainly not unsafe either. It’s an especially good car if you’re certain that your daughter is a sensible young

woman. If it were for a 16-year-old son, no. I’d want him in a 2023 M1 Abrams tank, because teenage boys are numbskulls. But if she’s just going back and forth to the convent, I’d feel fine about it. Ask your neighbor if he has the service records. He probably does. Take those, along with the car, to your mechanic, and ask him to review what’s been done already. Then have him inspect the car from stem to stern. If the belts, hoses, or tires are degraded from age, you’ll want to replace them before you hand the keys to your kid. Obviously, if he turns up any safety issues, you’ll want to fix those, too. But on a carefully maintained, garage-kept Toyota from that company’s bulletproof era, there may be nothing that needs to be fixed or replaced. In which case, it’ll be a good first car. And still give her something to aspire to someday. Like a ‘98 Camry.

Dear Car Talk: In a recent article about a tire pressure warning light that wouldn’t turn off, you didn’t mention checking the spare tire. It’s possible that it was the spare tire that was low on pressure, setting off the warning light, rather than a problem with one of the other tires. -- Jeff Good point, Jeff. Unfortunately, we can’t know for certain whether the spare tire is included in a car’s tire pressure monitoring system. Some manufacturers do it, some don’t. And some have systems that only monitor the four tires that are actively mounted on the car, even if there’s a TPMS sensor in the spare. I’ll take a guess as to what the regulators were thinking when they excluded the spare from this requirement. First, lots of spares these days (if you even have a spare) are temporary, donut spares. As such, they’re designed to be used for fewer than 50 miles, and then removed. So, the feds may have felt the cost of requiring a TPMS sensor in the spare was not worth the benefit. Also, the purpose of the TPMS is to prevent high-speed blowouts and the collisions

that result from them. If you got a flat tire, opened your trunk, and found your spare was flat, you’d be chapped, no doubt. But you wouldn’t be in danger of having a high-speed blowout. If you rotate your tires, and include a full-size spare in the rotation, you probably do want a TPMS sensor in your spare. And it’s possible your car comes with one. If it does, your system may monitor the spare tire pressure. So, if your TPMS light comes on, and all four of your road tires are filled, it makes sense to then check the spare. Of course, it’s a good idea to check the pressure of your spare tire regularly anyway, so it’ll be available and ready to go when you do run over that errant Ginsu knife.

Got a question about cars? Write to Ray in care of King Features, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803, or email by visiting the Car Talk website at www.cartalk.com (c) 2020 by Ray Magliozzi and Doug Berman Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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WEATHER REPORT

TODAY IN WEATHER HISTORY

On May 20, 1982, Cincinnati’s eastern suburb of Milford was swamped by 2.50 inches of rain in just a half of an hour.

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SANTA ROSA

TODAY’S FORECAST

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SUNDAY

MONDAY

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MENDOCINO COUNTY: Mostly sunny inland today; times of clouds and sun at the coast. Partly cloudy tonight.

Fort Bragg 61/51

Ukiah 85/52 Clouds, then sun

Decreasing clouds

Mostly sunny

EXTENDED: Monday: mostly sunny and nice. Tuesday: clouds to start, then sunshine returns.

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0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

31.77 48.18 45.33 57.10 50.53 46.28 53.93 43.21 33.89 47.53 33.44 33.16 41.83 40.78 47.63 33.64 39.82 38.70 49.38

56/49 77/46 77/47 89/60 85/49 64/51 89/60 77/47 85/53 87/57 67/50 70/51 75/49 60/47 70/46 76/47 81/48 88/51 80/46

Not as warm Gualala

REGIONAL OUTLOOK: Low clouds followed by sunshine near Santa Rosa and the bay today; mostly sunny to the north. Low clouds, then perhaps some sun at the coast.

17.14 28.68 26.60 35.34 23.51 32.97 29.58 22.95 20.64 26.09 18.04 23.23 25.51 22.17 28.78 17.41 23.11 18.80 27.89

*Season runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30 Lakeport temperatures temporarily unavailable.

66/53 NORTHERN COAST: Wind from the northwest at 15-25 knots today. Wind waves 3-5 feet with a south swell 5-9 feet at 14-second intervals. Visibility generally clear.

Record low: 33 in 1938 Average rainfall since Oct. 1: 30.66 inches

CALIFORNIA City Alturas Bakersfield Barstow Bishop Blythe Chico Concord Crescent City Eureka Fresno Livermore Long Beach Los Angeles L.A. Airport Marysville Monterey Mt. Shasta Needles Oakland Palm Springs Pasadena Paso Robles Redding Redwood City Riverside Sacramento Salinas San Diego San Francisco S.F. Airport San Jose San Luis Obispo San Rafael Santa Ana Santa Barbara Santa Cruz Santa Maria Santa Monica Stockton Susanville Tahoe Valley Truckee Vallejo Yosemite Valley

Friday Hi/Lo Prec. 86/49 T 95/67 99/69 94/49 T 96/74 91/64 79/55 59/51 56/52 94/64 75/52 68/59 68/61 64/59 90/57 61/52 89/50 100/74 0.06 63/54 98/75 70/55 92/48 94/61 70/51 78/55 85/56 68/56 66/60 60/50 64/55 73/54 71/54 71/49 67/60 67/57 66/52 0.01 69/52 66/58 89/52 88/48 73/37 79/36 72/53 76/44

Today Hi/Lo Sky 85/47 t 93/66 pc 93/70 pc 88/55 sh 96/72 s 91/59 s 75/54 pc 62/51 c 59/52 r 92/61 s 74/50 s 74/61 pc 75/58 pc 69/59 pc 86/53 s 64/55 c 86/52 pc 95/75 t 64/54 pc 95/75 pc 78/57 pc 86/49 s 92/64 pc 67/53 c 84/59 pc 80/53 s 66/55 pc 68/61 pc 63/54 pc 64/55 pc 73/53 pc 68/52 pc 70/53 c 73/63 pc 67/55 pc 69/53 c 65/52 pc 67/58 pc 83/53 s 86/52 t 68/42 t 75/39 t 69/54 pc 76/51 s

Guerneville 76/49

Petaluma 70/51

First qtr. May 27

Look westward at nightfall, just above brilliant Venus. Five nights ago, did you see the straight line formed by the “twin-stars” Castor and Pollux, along with the planet Mars? The red planet has now moved out of line with the stars. Venus sets at 11:50 p.m. Mars sets at 12:44 a.m. Jupiter rises at 4:38 a.m. Saturn rises at 2:24 a.m. Source: Morrison Planetarium, California Academy of Sciences

Today Sunrise Sunset Sunday Sunrise Sunset

PACIFIC JET STREAM

Mt. Shasta 86/52 Eureka 59/52

Redding 92/64 Chico 91/59

Sacramento Tahoe 80/53 68/42 San Francisco 64/55 Yosemite San Jose 76/51 73/53 Monterey 64/55

5:55 a.m. 8:20 p.m.

Bakersfield 93/66

Death Valley 104/92

San Bernardino 85/58

Santa Barbara 67/55

LAKES & RIVERS

Los Angeles 75/58

NATIONAL FORECAST

Palm Springs 95/75

San Diego 68/61

Russian River At Hacienda Bridge: 4.17 feet; 579 cfs.

Source: Sonoma County Water Agency Operations Department readings as of 7 a.m. Friday

Clear Lake 7.46 feet Rumsey. (The Rumsey scale starts at 1,318.26 feet above sea level.)

Source: USGS

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Viktor Hovland lines up a putt on the 15th hole during Friday’s second round of the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York. the key to my success over the weekend,” McIlroy said. Some players were simply happy to still be around for the weekend. Masters champion Jon Rahm, the No. 1 player in the world, opened with a 76 and couldn’t get a putt to fall. He was running out of holes, one shot over the cut of 5 over, when he ran off

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Today Tomorrow City Hi/Lo Sky Hi/Lo Sky Albuquerque 73/55 t 75/54 t Anchorage 59/42 pc 56/41 s Atlanta 80/65 t 81/64 sh Atlantic City 71/62 r 76/53 pc Baltimore 80/60 sh 81/58 s Bismarck 79/48 pc 82/53 pc Boise 91/60 pc 89/56 t Boston 64/59 r 76/56 c Buffalo 62/49 r 68/49 s Burlington, Vt. 72/55 sh 73/43 pc Cheyenne 70/45 s 74/46 t Chicago 69/53 s 76/54 pc Cincinnati 71/50 pc 75/54 s Cleveland 64/49 pc 73/52 s Columbia, S.C. 83/65 pc 79/60 t Dallas-Ft. Worth 79/62 c 77/61 c Denver 70/49 t 76/51 t Des Moines 71/50 s 77/54 s Detroit 65/47 pc 79/54 s El Paso 81/62 c 88/64 t Fairbanks 73/50 c 70/49 pc Flagstaff 65/37 t 67/40 t Hartford 65/57 r 76/56 pc Helena 84/55 t 80/57 pc Honolulu 86/76 sh 85/75 sh Houston 88/68 t 82/66 c Indianapolis 70/48 s 76/54 pc Jackson, Miss. 87/65 t 82/61 pc Kansas City 70/51 s 78/55 pc Las Vegas 93/74 pc 93/75 s Little Rock 78/57 s 77/57 pc Louisville 74/53 s 78/58 s Medford, Ore. 86/57 pc 80/51 pc Memphis 74/58 r 78/59 pc Miami Beach 89/76 t 90/75 t Milwaukee 68/54 s 73/52 pc Mpls-St. Paul 73/53 s 77/57 s Nashville 73/54 r 78/56 pc New Orleans 90/73 t 85/73 pc New York City 68/58 r 77/60 pc Oklahoma City 70/52 pc 74/56 pc Omaha 73/49 s 80/53 s Orlando 90/72 t 91/73 t Philadelphia 74/59 sh 79/61 s Phoenix 97/76 pc 98/76 s Pittsburgh 67/46 sh 74/49 s Portland, Ore. 80/57 pc 72/54 c Providence 65/60 r 75/55 c Raleigh-Durham 84/65 pc 75/57 sh Reno 88/58 c 83/57 t Richmond 82/61 t 78/54 c St. Louis 73/54 s 79/59 s Salt Lake City 85/63 s 87/64 t San Antonio 82/66 c 80/63 pc Santa Fe 69/48 t 71/48 t Seattle 77/52 pc 64/47 c Spokane 89/61 pc 76/50 t Tampa-St. Pete. 92/76 t 90/77 t Tucson 91/66 s 95/68 s Washington, D.C. 81/60 t 79/60 s Wichita 71/49 pc 77/55 pc s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, r-rain, sf-flurries, sn-snow, t-thunderstorms, i-ice, T-trace

City Acapulco Amsterdam Athens Auckland Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Berlin Buenos Aires Cairo Calgary Cancun Caracas Copenhagen Dublin Frankfurt Geneva Havana Ho Chi Minh Hong Kong Istanbul Jerusalem Johannesburg Kabul Lima Lisbon London Madrid Manila Mecca Mexico City Montreal Moscow New Delhi Oslo Paris Rio Rome Sao Paulo Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Vienna Warsaw

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he hit the ball badly — and sounded like it on one drive — and was mildly stunned when he glanced at the leaderboard after his 69 to find himself in range. “I think how terribly I’ve felt over the golf ball over the last two days, the fact that I’m only five back ... I guess that’s a good thing, because I know if I can get it in play off the tee, that’s

Flurries

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GOLF were delayed by two hours from freezing temperatures and a coat of frost on the grass. They avoided the wind Friday morning, and then passing showers took some of fire out of Oak Hill. “The rain ... just thankfully we didn’t have any wind, so that kind of helped us out,” Hovland said. “With that rain, the ball went a little bit short. And if you’re in the rough, it tends to make that rough a little bit juicier. At the end of the day, it makes the greens softer, and you can maybe be a hair more aggressive.” There were some impressive turnarounds, to be sure. Shane Lowry had six birdies in an eight-hole stretch in the rainy afternoon until closing with a pair of bogeys. He had to settle for a 67, leaving him in a large group at evenpar 140, five shots behind but still very much in the thick of it. That group included club pro Michael Block (70), and it includes Rory McIlroy, who felt as though

High pressure across California will keep the main jet stream to the north into Canada through Saturday. The jet stream will shift south into Oregon Sunday.

Lake Pillsbury Capacity: 74,933 acre-feet. Storage: 57,049. Water supply pool: 74,993, 76.07% Elevation: 1,900 feet. Release: 682 cfs.

Ultraviolet: 9

(for the 48 contiguous states)

INTERNATIONAL

Fresno 92/61

San Luis Obispo 68/52

Lake Mendocino Capacity: 116,500 acre-feet. Storage: 99,414. Water supply pool: 111,000, 89.56% Elevation: 755.39 feet. Release: 169 cfs.

SAN FRANCISCO: Low clouds followed by sunshine today. Oakland, 64/54.

San Francisco 64/55

Crescent City 62/51

5:56 a.m. 8:19 p.m.

Lake Sonoma Capacity: 381,000 acre-feet. Storage: 262,380. Water supply pool: 244,833, 107.17% Elevation: 457.48 feet. Release: 93 cfs.

LAKE COUNTY: Mostly sunny today. Mainly clear tonight. Clouds and sun Sunday. Monday: sunny and very warm.

Vallejo 69/54

San Rafael 70/53

STATE FORECAST

SUN & MOON

New June 17

SANTA ROSA PLAIN: Low clouds giving way to sunshine today. Mainly clear this evening followed by low clouds late. Napa Rohnert Park, 71/51. 74/53

Sonoma 73/51

Sebastopol 73/51

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

RUSSIAN RIVER/COAST: Low clouds followed by sunshine today. Mainly clear during the evening followed by low clouds tonight. Forestville, 76/49.

Calistoga 80/54

Santa Rosa 73/51

Bodega Bay 62/50

Date Time High Time Low May 20 1:26 p.m. 4.5’ 6:29 a.m. -1.0’ 11:45 p.m. 6.0’ 6:06 p.m. 2.9’ May 21 2:18 p.m. 4.5’ 7:09 a.m. -1.0’ --6:52 p.m. 3.2’

Last qtr. June 10

Middletown 83/56

Healdsburg 80/49

BODEGA BAY TIDES

RECORDS FOR FRIDAY SANTA ROSA Average temperatures: High 75, Low 48 Record high: 95 in 1931

Cloverdale 84/54

SAN FRANCISCO BAY: Wind from the west-southwest at 10-20 knots today. Waters a moderate chop on the bay. Visibility generally clear.

Full June 3

SONOMA/NAPA: Low clouds giving way to sunshine today. Mainly clear this evening, then becoming cloudy. Increasing amounts of sun Sunday.

Lakeport 85/55

Nation’s hottest and coldest

three straight birdies and salvaged a 68 to make the cut with one shot to spare. Jordan Spieth walked off the tee at the drivable 14th figuring he would have a good look at birdie. And then he found such an awkward lie in a front bunker that his shot sailed over the green, over the boundary fence and landed somewhere on the grounds of

Irondequoit Country Club. He had to try it again, scratched out a bogey, birdied the 15th and ended his day saving par with a 10-foot putt to make the cut on the number. He was tied at the bottom with defending champion Justin Thomas, who took two shots to escape a bunker on the 18th and had to make a 7-foot bogey putt to get to the weekend. And now the focus shifts to the top, a mixture of major champions, players making their debuts in the PGA Championship, a PGA Tour rookie and a club professional. All of them were within five shots of the lead. DeChambeau began the round in the lead. Eric Cole was one shot ahead in the morning and still had four holes to complete the frost-delayed first round. His first swing of the day went into the water, he shot 67 to finish one behind and then had a 74. DeChambeau had a rugged start, too, particularly on the par-4 sixth hole, so difficult that it yielded only three birdies out of 156 players and had an average score of 4.75. He was in a greenside bunker, took two shot to get out and made double bogey.

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He didn’t make his first birdie until the par-3 11th hole — DeChambeau hit 6-iron from 248 yards to 6 feet — and had two more birdies before a bogey finish. And then he headed to the range as darkness fell. “I know what to do. I’ve done it before,” said DeChambeau, the U.S. Open champion at Winged Foot in 2020. “It’s been a few years, but it doesn’t mean I don’t know how to do it, and if it’s not my time, it’s not my time. I feel like I’m definitely trending in the right direction finally.” So does Scheffler, who contended at the PGA Championship in 2020 as a rookie, won the Masters a year ago and missed a U.S. Open playoff by one shot at Brookline. He opened with two birdies, made his first bogey of the tournament on the seventh hole and caught Conners for the lead with a tough up-and-down from thick rough on the 14th and a wedge to short range on the 131-yard 15th hole with a front pin. “The tournament is halfway done,” Scheffler said. “I had two good days so far, and I’m just hoping to continue that as the week goes on.”

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GEYSERVILLE » Formal flower garden gets a makeover

Succulent sensation An echeveria blooms in the succulent garden.

Echeveria ‘Ruby Red’ is a bright spot in the garden.

The spiky teeth can be seen on a close-up of this aloe.

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don’t like to talk while you walk in,” Vicki Pate tells a visitor, putting conversation on a brief pause. Pate wants you to fully experience the wonder of entering her hidden roomful of roses in full May bloom. “It just feels like ‘The Secret Garden’ to me” she said of the neat parterres of roses almost completely concealed behind high hedges. But this lovely spot isn’t her destination. She is more excited about what lies beyond, partially visible through a portal in the farthest wall of greenery. This formal English-style garden opens onto a vast terrace overlooking a forested mountainside. The view is stippled with beds of succulents in many colors, shapes and sizes from tiny to tall. It looks out over a panorama of forested hillsides, edged at this time of year by purple TURN TO SUCCULENTS » PAGE D8

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Garden designer Lisa Mattson tends a peach-colored aloe barbadensis in a Geyservile garden she redesigned with all succulents. In the foreground is an octopus agave.

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ADVICE TO GROW BY » SONOMA COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS

The Bees N Blooms lavender labyrinth off Petaluma Hill Road in Santa Rosa contains more than 900 lavender plants and a half-mile of meditative, lavender-scented pathways to walk in.

uestion: I don’t want to use chemical fertilizers and pesticides. What can I do to make sure I have a healthy, productive vegetable garden? Answer: The first thing to remember is the saying, “Feed your soil and your soil will feed you.” Healthy soil is alive with beneficial bacteria, fungi, algae and microbes. Although you can’t see them, these organisms interact with the roots of whatever plants you grow to help them absorb minerals and nutrients. Two components you can add to nurture healthy soil are compost and mulch. Before you plant anything in your garden, top your garden soil with at least 2 inches of compost and gently water. Some of the compost settles in as you plant; the rest is slowly incorporated by the soil microbes. Next, plant your seeds and starts. Mound the area around your plants with mulch, being careful to leave space for air to move around each plant. Mulch retains soil moisture, regulates soil temperature, suppresses weeds and adds nutrients to the soil as it decomposes. You might already have materials you can use as mulch, such as shredded leaves, straw, newspaper, cardboard, grass clippings or more compost. If you want to use newspaper or cardboard, moisten it to

Plant veggies amid flowers, herbs

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Lavender Daze begins at the labyrinth Bees N Blooms farm is welcoming visitors for its Lavender Daze, just in time for the peak lavender bloom. Starting Saturday, the farm will be open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through July 9. There will also be live jazz music May 21, June 18 and July 2. Visitors can cut their own lavender June 24 and 25, July 1 and 2 and July 8 and 9. The lavender maze will be open every weekend. TURN TO CUTTINGS » PAGE D2

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Interplanting vegetables with flowers and herbs makes for a healthier garden, such as this one at the Sonoma Garden Park in Sonoma. encourage decomposition. Be sure the straw does not contain stray seeds and only use grass clippings that are free of herbicides. TURN TO ADVICE » PAGE D2

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Raising chickens takes time, cash, pluck Know rules, safety tips before investing in a backyard flock By CHRISTOPHER VONDRACEK TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

nly once did the chickens fly — or fence-hop — into Nancy Engberg's neighbor's yard in north Minneapolis. And no, it wasn't just to cross the road to get to the other side. “I watched them go over,” Engberg said, describing an alarming incident early in her tenure tending to an urban coop. “Otherwise, they were pretty happy at home.” But other tasks awaited Engberg when she purchased her backyard flock of hens more than a

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The backyard chicken renaissance lifted off the ground awkwardly during the early days of the pandemic. decade ago. Even today — after national egg prices soared in December to more than $4 a dozen, prompting more people to consider becoming poulterers — Engberg warns it's not for the casually interested. It's not just a matter of throwing up a coop

and purchasing chicks from Fleet Farm to source DIY eggs, the experienced flock owner said. “This really is a hobby for animal lovers,” said Engberg, who works for Minneapolis Animal Care and Control by day. “Feed costs money. The initial

always plant mint in pots. While pollinators love mint, it is aggressive and can take over the garden. CONTINUED FROM D1 Other edible plants that Traditionally, garden attract pollinators include beds have distinct and nasturtiums, borage, separate beds for flowers, fennel, chives, rosemary vegetables and herbs. We and thyme. And there are now know that interplantmany beautiful flowers ing flowers and herbs with that attract beneficial vegetables helps your insects, such as calendula, plants grow healthier and marigolds, yarrow, daisies, faster. Flowers can attract lavender, coneflower, milkpollinators and beneficial weed and sedum ‘Autumn insects, while strongly Joy.’ scented plants and herbs Think about the plants may repel pests. Pollinayou combine in foods that tors spread pollen to foster your family likes to eat and vegetable growth and food try planting them together. production. Beneficial For instance, you can cominsects consume harmful bine tomatoes and peppers pests to help protect plants. with basil, cilantro, oregaYou can plant flowers no and parsley in salsa and and herbs in pots or in sauces. So combine these the ground around the pe- plants in your garden. rimeter of your vegetable Taller plants, like corn garden. If you have a small and sunflowers, can shelter garden, try using pots to other plants from the hot hold additional flowers sun. Their vertical growth and herbs. Remember to makes more space avail-

able for other plants, such as cucumbers, peas, squash and melons. Cool-weather crops like lettuces can survive in the summer if you plant them in the shade of tomato plants. Native Americans gave us one popular plant combination, the “three sisters” — corn, beans and squash. When planted together, the corn provides a natural trellis for the beans and squash and the beans fix nitrogen in the soil, reducing the need for fertilizers. The large squash leaves shade the soil and keep the surrounding roots cooler in hot weather. Before you plant your vegetables, flowers and herbs, consider the water and sunlight needs of each plant. Most vegetables need full sun with six to eight hours of sunlight that spans morning to mid-afternoon. Group together or near each other plants that have similar requirements for drainage, light and water. You can enjoy vegetables, herbs and flowers in your garden knowing you’re creating something

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dampening expectations. “If you don’t take care of your dog and do the minimum maintenance, like a rabies shot or a kennel cough vaccine, there's going to be a risk,” Schuft said. “It’s the same with birds.” And roosters? Many cities don't even allow them. Most importantly, Schuft said, backyard birds deserve freedom from hunger, thirst, discomfort, injury, disease and distress. Flock-minders should also allow birds to express normal behaviors. But there are concerns for the bird-owner, too. Birds can be vectors for disease. In 2021, the Minnesota Department of Health counted 56 people across the state infected with salmonella associated with live poultry. And birds can also transfer

disease to other birds. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has found most cases of bird flu transmit to domesticated flocks from wild, migratory birds. While commercial operations often rigorously test birds, experts say the backyard flocks — which naturally live outdoors and might mingle with other birds — need vigilance, too, to prevent the spread of fatal viruses. If farm-fresh eggs and feathered friends still sound appealing, you'll need a coop (a couple hundred bucks), some nutritionally balanced food (about $30 per 50-pound bag) and then the chicks (usually a couple dollars, though it depends on the breed and the hatchery). Lastly, you’ll also need to check state and local ordinances for compliance.

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Bees N Blooms owner Susan Kegley picks a bouquet of flowers from their pollinator and bird-friendly gardens. beautiful and delicious for you, your family, friends, pollinators and beneficial insects, too. For more information on growing vegetables, check out bit.ly/3Ab2Yte from the University of California. Contributors to this

week’s column were Ellen Samuel, Patricia Decker and Karen Felker. The UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County, sonomamg.ucanr. edu, provides environmentally sustainable, science-based horticultural information to Sonoma County home gardeners.

Send your gardening questions to scmgpd@ gmail.com. You will receive answers to your questions either in this newspaper or from our Information Desk. You can contact the Information Desk directly at 707565-2608 or mgsonoma@ ucanr.edu.

including how we garden and what we grow. The Sonoma County Master Gardeners and the Sonoma Ecology Center are collaborating on a workshop Saturday with information to help North Bay gardeners maintain beautiful and sustainable gardens that can withstand climate extremes. Master Gardeners Sharon Mascia and Ellen Scarr, assisted by Sonoma Ecology Center’s Native Plant Nursery Manager Hannah Aclufi, will focus on the efficient use of water to keep a garden healthy in California’s summer-dry climate. Among the topics covered will be where our

water comes from, how and when to water, use of water-wise and California native plants, the role of soil health in conserving water, mulching and conservative use of water for vegetable gardens. The free workshop will be from 10 a.m. to noon at Sonoma Garden Park, 19996 Seventh St. E., Sonoma. For more information or questions, email hannah@sonomaecologycenter.org. RSVP at bit. ly/3AtpE7P.

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outlay for the coop and things ... it’s not easy.” But that doesn't mean you shouldn’t do it, so long as you're prepared to stick out this journey into aviculture. Here are some tips to help your flock take flight. Set you eggs-pectations The backyard chicken renaissance took hold during the early days of the pandemic. Food supply lines tapered to a trickle. Anxieties abounded about the origin of meat to milk to eggs. In response, communities adopted backyard-flock-friendly ordinances. Abby Schuft, a poultry educator with University of Minnesota Extension. works with the commercial industry, but also educates would-be buyers about the logistics of owning a backyard flock. This often involves

Because of limited parking, reservations are required during lavender bloom. Cost is $20 per person on days with live music and $15 on all other days. Kids under 13 are free with an adult.

Tickets and more information are available at bit.ly/3ofWRRU or by calling 707-293-8293. SONOMA

Gardening requires being water wise

The drought emergency may have eased for now, but climate change continues to have a dramatic impact on everything,

Submit Home and Garden news to Staff Writer Meg McConahey at 707-521-5204 or meg.mcconahey@pressdemocrat.com.

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The County is accepting applications for these exciting employment opportunities: Department Analyst $6,250 - $7,598/Monthly Apply by 5/29/23 Enterprise Endpoint Management Analyst $7,835 - $9,524/Monthly Apply by 6/05/23

Delivery Drivers Ability to operate box trucks, vans. Able to lift 25-50 lbs. Must have current Calif DL, good record. Some warehouse duty. Salary: $34,195. Floral Processing/Bouquet Associate Follow Design Mgr’s format; need keen eye, attention to detail. Receive/ Process Products and some unloading of trucks. Salary: $32,552. Wholesale Floral Sales Fill customer orders. Improve and expand the customer base. Carry out & create new marketing programs to generate sales. Salary: $42,120

Residential Service Worker - Extra-Help $18.83 - $22.89/Hourly Apply Now

Ofﬁce Clerk General ofﬁce duties. Prepare forms, letters and reports, manage and maintain databases and post up-to-date company info to social media. Salary: $42,910.

For more information, including minimum qualiﬁcations, beneﬁts, & to apply online, visit www.yourpath2sonomacounty.org or call HR, 707-565-2331. EOE

Warehouse Associate Receive and inspect shipments. Assist sales dept. with their orders for pick up, deliveries. Organize inventory. Salary: $34,632

Sonoma County Movie Trivia: Q: Armstrong Woods was the setting for some scenes in what SciFi movie? A: A. I. Artificial Intelligence

Home selling tip:

Make any minor repairs so buyers are not distracted by potential problems. Patch holes, fix leaking faucets, replace burned-out light bulbs and touch up paint if needed.

Accountant Update & maintain receivable, payable & reconcile payment records. Process deposit & solve discrepancies with banks. Salary: $37,232 Please send your resume to Tegan@sequoiaﬂoral.com

A & B Collision A & B Collision in Lower Lake, CA is looking for new team members in every position. Looking for team players Great pay between $80 to $120 ,000.00 a year. Clean and great shop to work for. Beautiful Lake County, with lake and outdoor activities. Experience required. Se habla espanol. Please call 707-994-8800

Place a Bargain Hunt ad for free! Restrictions apply. Place your free ad at pressdemocrat.com/placead. Sorry, no phone orders.

Maintenance Worker I/II The City of Sonoma is seeking to ﬁll a Maintenance Worker I/II position. The annual salary range for the Maintenance Worker I position is $58,479 – $71,081 and for the Maintenance Worker II is $64,326 – $78,189 DOE. Visit https://www.sonomacity.org/documents/maintenance-worker-brochure/ for a detailed recruitment brochure. Please submit a City of Sonoma application electronically to: City of Sonoma – Attention Cathy Lanning, Human Resources Manager, clanning@sonomacity.org. APPLICATION DEADLINE: Open Until Filled. An application is available online, or by calling 707-938-3681.

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PETS / PET SUPPLIES & SERVICE

ESTATE SALES / CRAFT FAIRS / FLEA MARKETS GARAGE SALE NORTHEAST SANTA ROSA SKYHAWK MULTI FAMILY SALE Multi family sale. Household, furn., bike, jewelry, clothing, misc. Twilight Way, Skyhawk Sat. 8-2

COCKER SPANIEL Three beautiful AKC registered cocker spaniel puppies. Vet checked and fully vaccinated, born February 12. Raised with kids, cats and other dogs. Puppy pack including food, blanket, toys and chews to aid with their transition is included. 1000.00 707-331-5109

NASHVILLE YEEHAWS AND YAH YAHS! Are you a honky-tonkin’ cat savvy person lookin’ for a fun outgoing kitty?  life interesting! I’m a gorgeous young           

5/20 & 5/21 sa/su 9-3 HUGE YARD SALE Antiques, lots of Vintage items including costume Jewelry, Oak table & (6) chairs, Sterling Silver, Collectables, Lead Crystal and Crystal, Stoneware, Pyrex, Porcelain Dolls, China, TV’s, Lamps, Linens,  Nic Nacs, womens clothes, household items and so much more..... 20 Raymond Hts., Petaluma, CA 94952 Sat 5/20 & Sun 5/21 8:00-4:00

GARAGE SALE SEBASTOPOL / GRATON YARD SALE men’s and women’s clothing, shoes, furniture, sporting goods, medical walkers, car, misc items and more! No early birds, please. 2309 Nordyke Ave. SR Sat/Sun 8:30am-2:30pm

GARAGE SALE SAT 5/20 AND SUN 5/21 8-4 Retired builder selling hand and power tools, building supplies, Honda generator, Fender bass, Taylor guitar, wood kitchen table, household, clothes, jewelry, and so much more. 1393 Tilton Road, Sebastopol Sat/Sun 8-4

GARAGE SALE - SONOMA

ROXANNE SEARCHING FOR A SPECIAL SOMEONE I’m a special girl looking for a special kind of adopter. Life hasn’t always been easy for me, I was originally found as a  everything. Luckily, I found HSSC and a new friend brought me home to foster! I’ve been learning the ropes of a calm, loving home and I’m slowly but surely blossoming. I even have a couple doggy housemates who’ve really helped me  someone would have another dog in the home to help me adjust, they wouldn’t have any kids, but they would have a lot of gentle love and patience for me. If that sounds like you, I think it would be very special to meet you!

EASTSIDE SONOMA GARAGE SALE Clothes, highend fashion Eileen Fisher, Misook, J.Jill, Foxcroft shirts, decorative items, linens, wooden folding chairs. 665 Oak Lane (between France and Patten) Sat. May 20 9-3 ESTATE SALE IN THE MCDONALD HISTORIC DISTRICT!!  antiques and collectibles, items from 1800s, Steiffs, kitchen, artwork, beautiful furniture, rugs, home décor, mid-century chairs, drum set, workshop, lots of tools, 67’ Plymouth Belvedere, and tons more. Sat and Sun 10-5 625 McDonald Ave, Santa Rosa 4th Street to 12th Street, Left McDonald Ave

Find out more about me at: humanesocietysoco.org/pets/roxannethe-dog/

GARAGE SALE SOUTHEAST SANTA ROSA

MINATURE LONGHAIR DACHSHUND Only 1 female left for purchase from a litter of 6. She’s 4 weeks old and will be ready to go home on June 12th. 2500.00 7074954388

ANNOUNCEMENTS

GARAGE SALE - PETALUMA ESTATE SALE Tools toys clothing furniture and misc 589 Sonoma drive M

GARAGE SALE MAY 20 AND 21. BBQ, microwave, clothes, kitchen items, furniture, wall items. 2510 Horseshoe Drive, Santa Rosa May 20 & 21, 9:30am - 2pm

MOBILE HOMES

BARGAIN HUNTER’S GARAGE SALE MultiFamily Sale: Furniture, household items,  supplies, small appliances, pet supplies    117 West Agua Caliente Road Sonoma, CA 95476 May 20th and 21st, 9-4 pm both days. MULTIPLE PARTICIPANT YARD SALE Women’s electric bike, vintage garden decor, framed art, BETTER women’s clothing (16/18), lamps, indoor secure cat enclosure, pet stuff, many vintage/arty item, huge wooden rabbit, tons of craft books, vintage children’s books (100 yrs) very huge Christmas wreath with lights and too much more to list! 12t0 Grove Street May 19, 20, 8-3 pm

MERCHANDISE

REAL ESTATE / SERVICES ANTIQUES

WHITE CHEF COATS 4 XLarge, 2 Large, never used $15 each 7078273399

OLD SASH WINDOWS FOR DISPLAY 2=2x4 sash, 1=42x60 non sash free 7074833745

KAYAK 10 foot Native, sit-in. Red, like new $300 7078273399

FARM BASKET

WANTED TO BUY

APRICOTS TREE RIPEND $33. a box 1/2 box $18.00 Also Peaches and Nectarines 707-795-5169 .

CA$H TODAY FOR VIDEO GAMES Hi, I am a serious collector looking for Nintendo, Boxes, Magazines, Signs, Systems, SEGA, PlayStation more.. I can meet today, Thank You Please call (707) 393-0293

WANTED TO BUY

SPECIALIZING IN MANUFACTURED & MOBILE HOMES Buyers & Sellers I have LISTED and SOLD Hundreds of Manufactured Homes Put my Experience to work for you! 707.535.8797

OLD WHISKEY/SCOTCH/BOURBON BOTTLES WANTED Do you have an old whiskey collection sitting around the house that you don’t drink or don’t want anymore? Have you inherited a liquor collection from a family member but don’t drink? Are you not sure what to do with it and need to get rid of it? I will buy it! Contact: sfwhiskeyguy@gmail.com 707289-2618

Coldwell Banker DRE#01353119

CALL US FIRST- WE PAY MORE $$ for Record Collections 45’s, Lps, Rock, Metal, R&B, Blues, Jazz. Personal Collector will travel Darla, 707-620-0067

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY LOAN TURNED DOWN ELSEWHERE? Private Money Loans from the Guys in the White Hats! 707-523-2099  CA DRE #01464899/ NMLS #360993

Q: Sonoma Plaza was used to film scenes from what 2001 comedy starring a contestant from the reality show “Survivor”? A: The Animal, co-starred Colleen Haskell, who was on the first season of Survivor.

BC RICH MOCKINGBIRD Black. Indonesian made. Electric guitar. $360 707-806-2665

ROY ROGERS RODEO RANCH PLAY SET With box looks complete 185.00 7074833745

AWARD WINNING AGENT TROUBLE WITH YOUR MORTGAGE? Time to relocate? Considering selling? Help is here call JEANETTE LYNN MCFALL RE/MAX GOLD 707-483-1559 or email jeanettemcfall@ remax.net DRE# 00956922

REAL ESTATE / SERVICES

Sonoma County Movie Trivia:

ANTIQUE HI-FI WOOD CABINET, AM/AM, TURNTABLE, 707 528 9782 $40.00 707 528 9782

A POWER WHEELCHAIR @ NO COST!! $0 “new” Call to qualify 1-800-350-7033

BERNI BAXTER

REAL ESTATE

2.5%-4% FEE ON MOST PROPERTIES LOWEST LISTING FEE WITH FULL MLS. CALL FOR DETAILS. PHIL ROSE REALTORS 579-3800 DRE 00513057

BOSTON ACOUSTICS SPEAKERS Great sound! Model A100. $125 707-806-2665

HEALTH / DISABLED EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES

LOST AND FOUND - ANIMALS CHECK ROHNERT PARK SHELTER’S FACEBOOK PAGE FOR PHOTOS OF RECENTLY TURNED IN STRAY ANIMALS PLEASE CALL THE SHELTER AT 584.1582 FOR MORE INFO AND REDEMPTION FEES. DOGS: A-3984 Pit mix, Brn/wht, M Young adult A-3991 Pit, Tan, M Adult CATS: A-3990 DMH, Blk/wht, M Adult

WINE BARREL/STAVES 15-16 barrels Take All Only You Load-You Haul 1.00 (415)798-0021

FARMS / RANCHES / COUNTRY PROPERTIES SPECTULAR OCEAN RIVER VIEW IN GUALALA   

Auto buying tip: Find out if a used auto for sale has been stolen or totaled. The National Insurance Crime Bureau offers a free check online at www.nicb.org

WAREHOUSE/OFFICE 3200dutton.com 707-843-4524

Auto selling tip: Create an ad that sells. Make sure and list the year, model, trim level, mileage, condition, color, popular options and price.

Place a Bargain Hunt ad for free! Restrictions apply. Place your free ad at pressdemocrat.com/placead. Sorry, no phone orders.

HARRY’S WAREHOUSE FINAL MONTH MAY LIQUIDATION SALE EXTENSION $1 AND UP TO 75% OFF COLLECTABLES Crystal and glassware, China cabinets, records, framed art, furniture 820 Ripley St. Santa Rosa. 10-3:30pm daily. 707-526-7713

Sonoma County Movie Trivia: Q: Sonoma Plaza was used to film scenes from what 2001 comedy starring a contestant from the reality show “Survivor”? A: The Animal, co-starred Colleen Haskell, who was on the first season of Survivor.

CA$H TODAY FOR COMIC BOOKS Hi, I am looking for all kinds of Comics. Batman, Spiderman, X-Men, Flash and many more. I love all kinds of Comics. I can meet today, Thank you. Please call Sean 707-393-0293 $500 Need to sell your Helicopter? Use The Press Democrat Classifieds!

Auto buying tip: Before buying a used vehicle, check the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) online site at www.dmv.ca.gov for information on smog requirements, to search the storm-damage vehicle database and check previous smog reports.

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$$975,000 3Br/2.5Ba May 21 1:00-4:00 26813 Oak Knoll Terrace Cloverdale DIR: First St to River Rd, left on Palomino Rd, Right Oak Knoll Ter North County Prop c/o W Real Estate, Charles Owens 707-477-2937

$2,850,000 4Br/3.5Ba 05/21, 1-4pm 1010 Trentadue Way. Healdsburg DIR: Grove St to Farm Stand Rd, to Trentadue Way Healdsburg SIR, Mary Hauﬂer 707-328-3868

$745,000 2Br/2Ba 05/21 1-4pm 26807 Oak Knoll Terrace Cloverdale DIR: South on River Rd. to Palomino Lakes, right on Oak Knoll Terrace. The Agency, Robin Gordon 707-291-7952

$1,995,000 1Br/1.5Ba 05/21 1-4pm 516-520 Dry Creek Rd Healdsburg DIR: Healdsburg Ave to Dry Creek Rd Healdsburg SIR, Eric Drew 707-217-9415

$585,000 2Br/2Ba Sun 12-3 7130 Oak Leaf Drive Santa Rosa DIR: Fairﬁeld Dr to Oak Leaf Drive C21 VOM, Tierney Muscatell 707-326-1355

$795,000 1Br/1Ba Sunday 1-3 481 Orchard Ln Penngrove DIR: Old Redwood HWY to Goodwin to Denman to Orchard Coldwell Banker, Nancy Bandettini 707-479-5621

$693,000 2Br/2Ba 5/20/23 10AM-1PM 5/21/23 1-4PM 16003 Drake Road Guerneville DIR: From Highway 116 turn onto Drake Road Vanguard Properties, Amee Sas #01418087 707-695-7000

$1,997,000 4Br/2.5Ba 5/20 & 5/21 12-3pm 3118 Montecito Meadow Drive, Santa Rosa DIR: Chanate to Montecito Meadow W Real Estate, Deanna Reis, Nan Boettger, Carlos Rivas (707) 481-4293

$249,000 3Br/2Ba 05/21 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm 5774 Mobile Cr. Santa Rosa DIR: Google BHGRE, Mari Giblin 707-360-8274

$$99,500 2Br/2Ba 5/20/23 186 Mosscreek Ct Santa Rosa DIR: 7000 Montecito Blvd to Brookwood Park Century 21 Epic , David Harrell 707-888-2363

$669,000 3Br/2Ba 05/20 1-4pm 10556 Woodside Dr Forestville DIR: River Rd L on Scenic Dr R on Old Riv Rd L on Can. Rd R Wdside W Real Estate, Micah V Suard 707-304-2864

Sonoma County Movie Trivia: Q: The Sonoma County Airport was featured in a scene in what 1963 movie? A: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

$615,000 2Br/2Ba Sat & Sun 1-4 6581 Stone Bridge Road Santa Rosa DIR: Oakmont Drive to Stone Bridge on right C21 VOM, Randy Ruark 707-322-2482

$1,595,000 4Br/1.5Ba Sat. & Sun. 1-4 PM 515 Walnut St. Petaluma DIR: Petaluma Blvd. to Oak St. to Walnut St. Teresa Manning, # 707-975-1130

$789,950 3Br/1.5Ba Sat/Sun 12-3 163 California Ave. Santa Rosa DIR: Montgomery Drive to California Ave. RE/MAX Marketplace, Ken Schrier 707-529-4819

Sonoma County Movie Trivia:

Q: Santa Rosa High School was featured in what 1950’s-era film starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Francis Ford Coppola? A: Peggy Sue got Married

Q: What remake of a famous family movie starring Steve Martin filmed scenes in Railroad Square in Santa Rosa? A: Cheaper by the Dozen

Q: What Santa Rosa hotel was featured in the movie “Bandits” starring Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton? A: The Flamingo

$1,100,000 4Br/3Ba 05/21 1-4p 2476 Plum Meadow Ct. Santa Rosa DIR: Brush Creek N to Meadow Creek to Plum Meadow Coldwell Banker Sebastopol, Fred Stoufer 707-481-3958

$$2,200,000 5Br/3.5Ba Sat 5-13 & Sun 5-14 / 1-4pm 5913 Mountain Hawk Dr Santa Rosa DIR: HWY 12, north on Mountain Hawk Dr Christopherson Properties, Inc., Stephanie Pile (707) 486-8727

$$2,084,000 4Br/3.5Ba SAT&SUN 1-4PM 3742 Sawgrass Pl Santa Rosa DIR: Fir Ridge to Sawgrass Compass , Amanda Cream 707-536-8027

$1,675,000 4Br/4Ba 5/21, 12-3 2755 Amber Ln Santa Rosa DIR: Wallace Road to Amber Lane. Go up hill to W Real Estate Sign W Real Estate, Will Lance 707.367.4066

$$1,950,000 5Br/4.5Ba Sat. 1-4 & Sun. 12-3 4823 Bennett Valley Rd Santa Rosa DIR: Yulupa Ave. onto Bennett Valley Rd. to 4823 Julio Cacres, # 707-239-4846

Home buying tip:

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SUCCULENTS CONTINUED FROM D1 irises. A month ago, this intriguing garden didn’t exist. It was a hodgepodge of flowering plants and bulbs that looked past its prime. It also was a little too formal for Pate’s tastes. Since moving to this country home from San Francisco full time, the native New Yorker has embraced organic homesteading with greenhouses, chickens and vegetable gardens. Still, she wanted something beautiful and practical for this stunning space for entertaining and enjoying the view. “It just looked sad, and we weren’t sure what we wanted to do. We are ecologically and environmentally conscious and we didn’t want to use a lot of water,” she said.

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Story sparks inspiration Pate spotted a story in a Healdsburg publication written by Lisa Mattson, reflecting on the garden she and her husband created themselves at their Fountaingrove home, then lost in the Tubbs Fire of 2017. Mattson, a consultant in wine marketing and winery hospitality design, mourned her lost garden. Then she dug in with her husband to design and plant a dramatically different garden to replace it. They came up with a stunning high-desert landscape of cactus and succulents that reminded them of the hot locations where the two native Midwesterners like to vacation. Mattson became so enamored of this whole new palette of artistic-looking plants that are also fire- and drought-resilient that she decided to start a side business designing and installing succulent gardens. Pate thought such a look might be the answer for her heat-drenched terrace that gets full sun, so she called Mattson for a consultation. But the project quickl A friend had reached out to Pate on behalf of a group from the Garden Clubs of America, who were touring Sonoma County and looking for a special garden in which to have a dinner. Pate said yes but knew she would either have to install the new succulent garden quickly, before the event, or wait until it was over. Mattson agreed to get it done in a hurry. With the deadline-driven efficiency of one trained in communications, she dove feetfirst into the project, thinking about the old HGTV TV show “Yard Crashers,” in which a team would work feverishly to

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Garden designer Lisa Mattson has completely made over a former rose garden in Geyserville. Gone are all the roses, replaced with a variety of interesting and attractive succulents high above the Creek Valley. transform a landscape almost overnight.

buy at a nursery. They arrive as bare-root plants. So you have to be careful to get them in pots Hot and cool color quickly to protect the plant. Mattson had little more than Mattson ordered a special a month to design, select and cactus soil mix in bulk from order plants and install the Wheeler Zamaroni, a landscape garden. and building supplies seller in “It was an exciting challenge Santa Rosa. The mix includes to me because there are 1,000 loam, perlite, lava rock, organic different succulents out there, compost, feather meal and sand. and I know only a few hundred She likes to mix in some Pay because I’ve been focusing on Dirt, a blend of chicken manure, succulents for only four years redwood sawdust and mushnow. So I got to do all this reroom compost. Home gardeners search,” Mattson said. can buy Pay Dirt in bags at garThe designer normally goes den centers like King’s in Santa for hot colors like yellows and Rosa and Prickett’s in Santa oranges, but Pate wanted more Rosa and Healdsburg. She mixes cool blues and pinks. She also it in a wheelbarrow at a ratio of wanted an exuberant mixture of three parts cactus soil and one plants of different heights, colpart Pay Dirt. ors, textures and forms rather Also, if you’re planning to inthan uniform rows of the same stall a succulent garden, it’s best plant. to do it now, in summer, once the “With the timeline we had, rainy season has passed. That it was nearly impossible to gives the plants time to acclisource the plants from tramate and establish roots. ditional wholesale nurseries As she talks, Mattson carefulbecause they require a three- to ly “lifted” a freshly planted echfour-week turnaround time for everria ‘Gorgon’s Grotto,’ with orders,” Mattson said. wavy leaves that look almost like She began working on design curly-leaf lettuce. Succulents in the last week of March, but should be planted on a slight the garden-group event was May mound. They don’t like wet feet, 4. That meant she was limited she said, and you want to make to whatever stock the nurseries sure they are high enough and had on hand, which wouldn’t that there isn’t a place for water deliver the variety they were to pool. looking for. It can be like a treasure hunt Instead, Mattson turned to if you have your heart set on a smaller specialty nurseries particular variety that is hard that sold plants through Etsy. to find. Mattson’s wish list for That also meant the plants Vicki’s garden included a Manwere delivered by mail in small gave, a relatively new introducboxes. Mail-order plants do not tion that is a cross between a arrive in pots like you would Manfreda and an agave. These

rare hybrids combine the best of each genus, with the growing behavior of an agave but in much more interesting colors. And they stay fairly small. “I couldn’t find it locally. The only place I could find it was on Etsy, and they sent a teeny-weeny starter plant. It was so sad,” Mattson said. But a plant hound’s nose is always attuned, and when shopping at a local nursery in Santa Rosa recently, Mattson spotted a more robust specimen, arranged a swap and triumphantly grabbed it for Vicki’s garden. Mattson planted the garden in patterns, sometimes portioning off ends of the beds in trapezoidal shapes for interest. The effect is otherworldly because these plants are still relatively unfamiliar to the Northern California landscape. But with climate change, and a rising awareness about the need to conserve water, succulents are becoming more and more popular. Mattson miraculously managed to complete the installation before the garden-group party. The modern design, so foreign to many people from the wetter and colder East Coast, intrigued the visitors. Pate said she appreciates her rose garden and spends more time there than she would have imagined. But roses can be demanding. “Roses aren’t beautiful all yearround, and they take so much work. They’re kind of high-maintenance, like the fancy woman who wears too much makeup.”

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Mammillaria Elongata ‘Copper King’ Not so for the succulents. They will require a bit more water as they get established. But once they’ve taken off, they will live largely on what Mother Nature provides, with a bit extra. If they could offer one bit of advice for anyone inspired to try an all succulent garden, what would it be? Splurge on some larger plants. Having some larger and taller statement plants can make a big difference in the overall look. You can reach Staff Writer Meg McConahey at 707-521-5204 or meg.mcconahey@pressdemocrat. com.

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BAPTIST COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday School 9:00am Worship Service 10:00am Rev. Dr. H. Lee Turner, Pastor 1620 Sonoma Ave, SR 546-0744

BUDDHISM ENMANJI BUDDHIST TEMPLE Jodo Shinshu Services held on selected Sundays. Please see the calendar on the Temple’s website. 1200 Gravenstein Hwy S, Sebastopol 707-823-2252 www.enmanjitemple.com

CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL OF ST. EUGENE 2323 Montgomery Drive Santa Rosa, CA 95405 707-542-6984 MASS TIMES Daily Mass (Mon-Fri) 6:45am and 8:00am Saturday 8:00am; Vigil Masses 4:30pm and 6:30pm (Spanish) Sunday 7:30am, 9:00am, 10:30am, 12:00pm, 1:30pm (Tridentine/Latin High Mass), 5:30pm Tuesday Tridentine/Latin Low Mass 5:30pm

CENTERS FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING, SANTA ROSA Creating a World that Works for Everyone Join us in person Sundays 9 and 11am Sunday Youth Program 11am Wednesday Evening Service 7pm Watch Sunday Service on YouTube.com/cslsr “Spiritual Living with Edward Viljoen” Sundays 8:30am on KSRO 103.5 FM Stepping Stones Books & Gifts Open Sun, Tues, Wed Details at www.cslsr.org

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EASTERN ORTHODOX STS. PETER & PAUL RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LITURGY: Sun, 10am; VIGIL Sat., 6:00pm. Rev. Alexander Krassovsky, 850 St. Olga Ct, SR 584-4092 www.stspproca.org

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JEWISH CONGREGATION BETH AMI (CONSERVATIVE) See our website for remote services and classes with Rabbi Mordecai Miller, 4676 Mayette Ave, SR 95405 360-3000. BethAmiSR.org

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METHODIST FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 1551 Montgomery Dr., Santa Rosa 707-545-3863 We Welcome All to join us For Faith & Fellowship Sundays: 9:00-Traditional, 10:00 Fellowship Hour, 11:00-Contemporary,11:00 Vakaviti Sun.School:10:45 & Bible Study:10:30 or online at www.fumcsantarosa.org Weekly programs include a Preschool, Café for the unhoused & much more. “Grace and Peace Be With You” Pastors Janette Saavedra & Hyun Ho (Peter) Park

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Carillo’s 9th inning home run wins it. C1

Families, entrepreneurs, farmers and pioneers elevate Wine Country. L1

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CELEBRATING THE LATINO COMMUNITY

Bear Cubs battle Sierra today in series finale. C1

Spotlighting families in wine, hospitality industries who elevate Wine Country By ELISSA TORRES

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orking in communion with the land is not only essential to many local families, it is a tradition that has united generations. For some, those roots were established through the Bracero Program in the 1940s when INSIDE farmworkers from Mexico came ■ Santa Rosa’s El Coqui continues to the United States to fill the to thrive near need for agricultural workers. downtown / L2 ■ Napa’s Latinx Because of that program, Wine Wine Summit Country is now home to many prioritizes Latino entrepreneurs, farminclusivity / L9 ers, pioneers and families, who ■ Lake County continue to tend to the land on eateries get support from their own terms and on their community / L12 own acreage. The art of grape ■ Hospitality growing and wine making can workers are essential to local be found at nearly 40 Latinotourism / L15 owned wineries in the North ■ List of Bay. On top of contributing to Latino-owned the world-renowned reputation wineries in the of the wine region, Latinos are North Bay / L23 vital players in the local business and restaurant scenes, which include luxurious, world-class accommodations and award-winning fine dining.

rabajar en comunión con la tierra no solo es primordial para muchas familias locales, es una tradición que ha unido generaciones. Para algunos, esas raíces se formaron mediante el Programa Bracero en la década de 1940 cuando los trabajadores del campo de México llegaron a los Estados Unidos para cubrir la carencia de trabajadores agrícolas. Gracias a ese programa, Wine Country ahora es el hogar de muchos empresarios, agricultores, pioneros y familias latinas, quienes siguen cuidando de la tierra en sus propios términos y en su propia superficie. El arte del cultivo de la uva y la elaboración del vino se pueden hallar en casi 40 bodegas que son propiedades de latinos en North Bay. Además de contribuir a la reputación de renombre mundial de la región vinícola, los latinos son participantes vitales en el ámbito de los negocios y restaurantes locales, que incluyen alojamiento lujoso de clase mundial y cenas de alta alcurnia.

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■ El Coqui de Santa Rosa sigue prosperando cerca del centro / L2 ■ Latinx Wine Summit de Napa le da prioridad a la inclusión / L9 ■ os restaurantes del condado de Lake reciben apoyo de la comunidad / L12 ■ Los trabajadores de la hostelería son esenciales para el turismo local / L15 ■ Lista de bodegas que son propiedad de latinos en North Bay / L23

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Teachers: ‘We are not safe’ SLATER MIDDLE SCHOOL » Staff demands action by district following violent melee By KERRY BENEFIELD AND ALANA MINKLER THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

What teachers described as “absolute chaos” erupted May 4 during the Slater Middle School lunch period, the latest in what teachers and staff in Sonoma County’s largest school district say is an ongoing problem with safety and discipline across campuses.

During the Slater melee, a teacher and an administrator were knocked to the ground as dozens of students — possibly 150 or more — swarmed between fights and refused commands to break up, teachers said. The altercation followed similar unrest during the morning brunch break, teachers said. In the wake of those incidents, a team of veteran staffers who regularly volunteer to su-

pervise students during brunch and lunch told Slater Principal Mitch Tucker on May 15 they refuse to continue until the district offers more adult support on campus. Their ultimatum comes amid a wave of school violence and behavior issues that have engulfed Santa Rosa City Schools campuses even as the district has tried to quell disruptions in the wake of a fatal stabbing of a student in a Montgomery High School classroom on March 1. Superintendent Anna Trunnell was to meet with Slater staff members on May 12, but

that “listening session” was rescheduled after reports of a student being seen with a handgun at Montgomery on the day of the meeting. Anna No gun was Trunnell recovered during the hourslong lockdown, but a knife wrapped in a T-shirt was found hidden in a classroom. The listening session was rescheduled for Monday. “Students and staff safety is

very important to us,” Trunnell said. “It’s not something that we’re just planning for the future. It’s something that we are managing every single day on our school campuses.” After the events at Slater, Trunnell said she deployed three or four additional district workers to be stationed on campus. A district administrator will stay for the remainder of the year to support the principal, she said. A teacher called the Santa TURN TO SLATER » PAGE A11

Finding Grace She lived in a Santa Rosa park for 3 years, but suddenly, she was gone, clouding the debate about how we help homeless people ELISSA TORRES / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

In 2010, I was excited to see the Golden Gate Bridge up close. I graduated from San Francisco State in 2013.

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Grace Davis draws at sunset outside of the yurt where she has been staying since she was evicted April 5, her tent and possessions taken by police, from Steele Lane Park in Santa Rosa, where she had lived for the past three years. Photo taken Wednesday, April 19.

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While fixing up his coffee at Peet’s Coffee shop, Max Leroux stops to chat with Grace Davis after looking over her shoulder at her latest drawing. Davis has an easy way about her and often engages in conversation with strangers, her “community” during her days in local coffee shops. Photo taken Thursday, April 27.

or more than three years, Grace Davis lived on Schurman Drive in north Santa Rosa. She lived alone. No pets, no kids. She spent most of her time in Steele Lane Park, regardless of the weather, making conversation with friends and strangers alike. She seemed to know everyone in the tight-knit neighborhood. The neighbor who lived just behind her. The couple across Schurman Drive. The woman on Steele Lane whose home backs up to the park. The man who walks TURN TO GRACE » Page A13

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Tony Bennett said it best in his 1962 classic, “I Left My Heart In San Francisco.” The song chronicles stops in wonderful cities, but ones that aren’t home. And try as he might, the pull of the city is too strong to ignore. “'I’m going home to my city by the Bay.” “I left my heart in San Francisco.” “High on a hill, it calls to me.” I get you, Tony. And I felt the same way. While I work in Santa Rosa, the place I call home is 63 miles south in San Francisco — a city whose charms and stories are legendary, but it’s a place that has been negatively depicted in public discourse lately. Conservative politicians are

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Carneros enterprise Heirs of My Dream Winery. Read more on Page L18.

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U.S. border officials refuse migrants entry despite new rules By KATE MORRISSEY SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE

Officials at the San Ysidro Port of Entry have been refusing to accept asylum seekers who don’t have appointments obtained through a smartphone app even though new government rules indicate they should be taken in and screened. The Union-Tribune witnessed U.S. officials turning away asylum seekers at the PedEast border crossing on Thursday after attorneys had reported similar incidents earlier in the week. That included a family from the Mexican state of Michoacán who walked up to the U.S.-Mexico border line on Thursday afternoon and told U.S. border officials that they were seeking asylum. The officials asked them to step aside and then told them they couldn’t request protection there. “You have to use CBP One,” an official told them in Spanish, referring to a smartphone application that Customs and Border Protection has used since January to schedule appointments with asylum seekers to come to the port of entry. The official’s instructions contradict what a high-level official from the Department of Homeland Security said earlier in the week are the new protocols with the recent end of Title 42 — which blocked asylum seekers from entering ports of entry during the pandemic. “We are not turning individuals away at our ports of entry,” said Blas Nuñez-Neto, assistant secretary for border and immigration policy, when asked by the Union-Tribune about asylum seekers being turned back during a press call on Wednesday.

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A family of 10 from Michoacan requests asylum Thursday at a border crossing in Tijuana, Baja California. Customs and Border Protection agents told the family that they need to use a smartphone application to request asylum. He said people who requested asylum by approaching ports of entry without appointments would be subject to the new, restrictive asylum rule that limits eligibility if they crossed through another country between their country and the United States. That rule could make their screenings for protection more difficult to pass, but it does not take away their right to be screened. Nuñez-Neto said that CBP is prioritizing processing of people who use the app, which could mean that asylum seekers have to wait long periods of time in line at the port if they don’t have appointments. But that does not appear to be what has been happening in San Diego. CBP officers at the San Ysidro Port of Entry turned away the family from Michoacán and told them the only method for requesting protection is to use the smartphone app. None of the asylum seekers in this article are being fully identified because of concerns that they are still in danger. A federal judge in San Diego ruled in 2021 that, in the absence of Title 42, it is illegal for CBP to turn away asylum seekers at ports of entry. Now that the pandemic-era border policy is no longer in effect, it is not clear under what

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rule. Mexicans who are seeking asylum, such as the family from Michoacán, notably do not have to cross a third country in order to reach the United States, so the rule doesn’t apply to them. “Mexicans are not subject to the asylum ban,” said Priscilla Orta, supervising attorney with Project Corazon at Lawyers for Good Government, using advocates’ term for the new rule. “They have no reason to have an appointment.” The rule also says asylum seekers can come to ports of entry without appointments if they can’t use the app because of language barriers, illiteracy, significant technical failure or because of “exceptionally compelling circumstances,” the Department of Homeland Security has said. But, Orta said, it’s not clear how an asylum seeker would prove such circumstances. And the consequences if they are found not to have exceptionally compelling circumstances could be dire if they are not from Mexico. Orta said under Title 42, she had a “safety valve” — in extreme cases of danger, she could contact CBP directly and ask for the client to be scheduled for processing. Now, she is representing clients who she says are being raped nightly while they wait for appointments in the CBP One app. “The safety valve is gone,” Orta said. “Nothing is more devastating than knowing my clients wait for Friday and then Monday until this administration decides they are worth protecting.” Practices along the border appear to vary under the new rule. There doesn’t seem to be a way for asylum seekers to make a claim of exceptional circumstances or for Mexicans to safely exit the country they are trying to flee.

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The North Coast Sheriff’s wife arrested on DUI charges Car crashes into Santa Rosa home, injuring resident seated inside By JEREMY HAY AND COLIN ATAGI THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

The wife of Sonoma County Sheriff Eddie Engram was arrested on felony DUI charges early Saturday after crashing into a Santa Rosa home and injuring a resident.

Natasha Whittinghill, 47, is suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol and injuring another person in the collision, Santa Rosa Police said. “I’m still traumatized,” said Lori Johnson, 57, who was nursing cuts and bruises inflicted when Whittinghill’s Tesla plowed through her living room wall on Saturday, shortly after midnight. “I’m very lucky to be alive right now,” said Johnson, standing about where she had been

seated on a sectional couch and where she had found herself surrounded by shattered ceramics, lumber and other debris hurled Eddie across the Engram room by the impact of the car. Engram, Sonoma County’s top law-enforcement officer, issued a statement Saturday

afternoon on his personal Facebook page. “As a husband, I am greatly concerned about my wife’s well-being,” said Engram, who took office in January. “As a citizen and Sheriff, I am also concerned about the well-being of the person inside the home who suffered injuries.” Engram also said in his statement: “I understand that our community will have more questions and want answers. So do I. However, because this incident

is being investigated by Santa Rosa, in order to avoid any potential conflict of interest, Santa Rosa Police Department will be handing media inquiries.” According to neighbors, Engram arrived at the scene of the crash about 15 minutes after it happened, before police arrived. He first spoke to his wife — who, a neighbor said, repeatedly had told firefighters who were the first to respond to “call my TURN TO DUI » PAGE A6

Ex-leader of Hells Angels guilty Former president of local chapter convicted in federal conspiracy trial By COLIN ATAGI THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

A former president of the Sonoma County Hells Angels chapter and another man have been convicted on charges of conspiracy to commit murder, racketeering and arson after a two-month federal trial. Raymond Foakes and Christopher Ranieri were convicted Thursday of a slew of charges that Raymond also included Foakes robbery, drug dealing, witness intimidation, and obstruction of justice, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Foakes is a former president of the Sonoma County chapter of the Hells Angels. Ranieri was president of the Salem, Massachusetts, chapter. “Foakes and Ranieri followed a malicious code of conduct that permitted — and sometimes encouraged — the beating, maiming, and even killing of anyone who dared to cross their criminal enterprise,” U.S. Attorney Ismail Ramsey said in a statement. “The defendants now will be sentenced for their conduct and face the consequences of their violent racketeering activities.” A third defendant, Brian Burke, was acquitted of witness

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Downtown Petaluma became hot rod heaven Saturday as show cars celebrating “American Graffiti” lined the closed streets, much to the delight of thousands of classic movie and car enthusiasts. It is the 50-year anniversary of the movie, which was filmed in Petaluma.

Cruisin’ for memories Thousands fill streets, check out show cars honoring ‘American Graffiti’ in Petaluma

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t was a story about coming of age at the end of America’s post-War innocence in 1962. But “American Graffiti,” the nostalgic movie a 29-year-old George Lucas made for $700,000, was also about cars and cruisin.’ And for classic car lovers, the wheels that appeared in the film were stars in their own right, along with actors Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, Mackenzie Phillips and Cindy Williams, whose careers were launched on the streets of Petaluma, where most of “American Graffiti” was shot in 1972. Classic car lovers and film buffs alike turned out by the thousands to downtown TURN TO CRUISIN’ » PAGE A9

Classic car lovers and film buffs turned out by the thousands in downtown Petaluma on Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of the film “American Graffiti.”

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A book about “Peanuts” comic strip creator Charles Schulz produced last year by the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa has been nominated for the Will Eisner

July 21 at San Diego Comic-Con. “You hear people say, ‘It’s an honor just to be nominated,’ and you question if that is true, but I now get it,” Clark said. “Being distinguished as one of the year’s best books related to comics is so rewarding by itself.” “I am thrilled to shine a light on the Schulz Museum’s notable collections and research.” he added. “So much care goes into preserving Schulz’s legacy

each day here at the Museum, and the book has expanded the ways in which we can share it with ‘Peanuts’ fans around the world.” Through 100 preserved and cataloged artifacts, the book delves into Schulz’s Minnesota youth in 1920s America, World War II Army service and five decades of “Peanuts.” Born in 1922 in Minneapolis, Schulz moved to Sonoma

County in 1958 and died in 2000 in Santa Rosa, after writing and drawing the “Peanuts” comic strip for nearly 50 years. The awards’ namesake, Will Eisner, who died in 2005, was known for his series, “The Spirit,” which ran from 1940 to 1952 and established his reputation for daring experiments in form and content. TURN TO SCHULZ » PAGE A4

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THE PRESS DEMOCRAT • SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2023 A book about Charles Schulz that was co-written by Benjamin Clark, left, curator of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, and Nat Gertler has been nominated for a comic industry award.

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Police identify man found dead in street A man found dead Thursday night at the intersection of West Steele Lane and Royal Oak Place in northwest Santa Rosa has been identified, authorities said. The man was identified as 40-year-old Jesus Silveira, of Santa Rosa, Lt. Christopher Mahurin of the Santa Rosa Police Department said Saturday. His death is being considered “suspicious,” Mahurin said, as officers have yet to determine if he was assaulted or struck by a car. A resident found Silveira lying face down in the intersection near Hilliard Comstock Northwest Community Park and called police about 10:35 p.m., Mahurin, a police spokesperson, told The Press Democrat on Friday. First responders performed life-saving measures, Mahurin said, but Silveira was pronounced dead at the scene. Mahurin said his death is under investigation. Anyone with personal surveillance footage in the area is encouraged to contact Santa Rosa Police Department Accident Investigator John Fisher at 707543-3600, extension 8550, or email jfisher@srcity.org. — Press Democrat staff

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GUILTY CONTINUED FROM A3 intimidation in proceedings overseen by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen. Foakes and Ranieri are the latest members of the organization to be prosecuted and convicted in federal court since an indictment in October 2017. Eleven members and associates were accused of participating in “a broad swath of criminal activity” including murder, conspiracy to commit murder, drug distribution, assault, robbery, extortion, illegal gun possession, obstruction of justice and witness intimidation, according to the DOJ. Most of the indictments involved members with connections to Sonoma County. Several were arrested during a 2017 raid at Wagon Wheel Saloon on Mendocino Avenue in Santa Rosa. Nine people have been

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FBI agents, CHP officers and local law enforcement investigate the area around a bar on Mendocino Avenue in Santa Rosa after members of the Hells Angels were arrested there. convicted, including several last year and earlier this year. Several convictions relate to the 2014 murder of another Hells Angels mem-

ber, Joel Silva. In June 2022, three members were convicted of his Silva’s killing. They were identified as Tulare resident Brian Wayne Wendt

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tagraphics. 2018 – “Celebrating Snoopy,” by Charles M. Schulz, edited by Alexis E. Fajardo and Dorothy O'Brien, Andrews McMeel. Best Comics-Related Book 2002 – “Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz,” edited by Chip Kidd, Pantheon.

Best Publication Design 2005 – “The Complete Peanuts” by Charles M. Schulz, Fantagraphics. Other awards given at the ceremony include the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award, which was awarded to Jean Schulz, the cartoonist’s widow, in 2010.

presidents in Sonoma and Fresno counties, respectively, in 2014. Ott was a former Sonoma County president and “well-respected member” who had Silva’s trust. The three concluded Silva had been creating problems for the Sonoma County chapter and arranged for him to be killed in Fresno. On July 15, 2014, he was lured to the Fresno clubhouse and shot by Wendt. His body was incinerated at a local crematory and his truck was set on fire. In the most recent trial, Ranieri was shown to have helped organize the killing. During a 2014 motorcycle event in Laconia, New Hampshire, Silva threatened a Salem charter close to Ranieri, according to the DOJ. Ranieri agreed Silva should be killed. He met with Wendt and Nelson two days before the murder and was in frequent phone contact with them the day before and

following Silva’s death. After that happened, Ranieri returned to Fresno for a party to celebrate the “successful killing,” according to the DOJ. Foakes’ conviction related to an hourslong beating of a former member who was expelled from the group for having an affair with the defendant’s common law wife, according to the DOJ. During the beating, Foakes beat the former member with a baseball bat, tattooed his forehead and encouraged Nelson to pistol whip his face. Foakes also sexually assaulted the man’s wife during the beating and threatened her to comply with demands not to contact authorities. He faces up to 60 years in prison and Ranieri faces a life sentence. Sentencing hearings haven’t been scheduled. You can reach Staff Writer Colin Atagi at colin.atagi@pressdemocrat.com.

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Lori Johnson stands inside her door Saturday in Santa Rosa. She said she was lucky to be alive after a car crashed into her house while she was sitting watching television.

DUI CONTINUED FROM A3 husband Eddie, he’s the sheriff.” Then Engram stayed at the outskirts of the scene while emergency crews tended to Johnson and police conducted their investigation, said the neighbor, Jordan Atkinson, who lives across the street from Johnson. “He had his head in his hands,” Johnson said of Engram, whom she said she could see from the ambulance gurney. “He was very civil, very calm,” said Atkinson. “He kind of stayed out of the mess of everything and sat over on my side of the property and was making phone calls.” An investigation on the scene, which included sobriety checks and blood tests, determined that Whittinghill was “under the influence at a level that impaired her ability to drive a motor vehicle,“ Santa Rosa Police Lt. Chris Mahurin said in a news re-

lease. The crash happened at about 12:50 a.m. Saturday. That afternoon, the scene — a 3-bedroom house on Beaumont Way at the corner of Calistoga Road in east Santa Rosa — seemed to still reverberate with the impact of about 16 hours earlier. Whittinghill’s car, police and neighbors said, had apparently traveled over the curb, up a bark-covered, boulder-lined slope of earth, between two trees that are about 10 feet apart — shearing off branches from both — through a fence and directly through the corner of the house. Johnson said her husband had just gone to sleep, and she had been watching General Hospital on their 75-inch television, when “I heard the revving of the engine … then I heard this horrific sound and my TV is coming toward me. Then her car was in here, right here. Like the whole front of it, the lights, the blinker.” Johnson said a two-byfour that had been sliced to a point was sitting by her

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Structural damage can be seen at a home on Beaumont Way in Santa Rosa after a car drove into the house early Saturday. on the couch, and other debris — wood, shattered ceramics and glass — was piled against her. Photographs from her wedding album were sprayed around the room. A portable fireplace was flung into an adjoining hallway, denting the washing machine. Atkinson said she rushed out of her house after hearing the crash, As she and another neighbor were rushing to check on Johnson, they saw Whittinghill attempting to get out of the car, Atkinson said. At various points, Atkinson said, Whittinghill attempted to enter Johnson’s house, grew confrontational with another neighbor — saying “I know, I f … d

up everyone’s lives right now” — wandered into Calistoga Road, where a car swerved around her, and fell into a bush. “We just said, ‘It’s clear you’ve had something to drink. Just kind of sit down and wait,’” Atkinson said. Asked whether the sheriff had been in contact with Santa Rosa police, Mahurin said: “I believe the sheriff at some point did reach out and talk to our chief and let him know his wife was arrested. It was more a professional courtesy.” Mahurin added: “Obviously these are difficult situations, in general, especially when they are involving other agencies. For us, we just follow what we

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Madison Kozier of Pinole celebrates onstage Saturday after receiving her diploma at the 2023 Commencement for the School of Business and Economics at Sonoma State University.

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xcited graduates majoring in business and economics kicked off weekend commencement ceremonies for Sonoma State University’s Class of 2023 on Saturday morning at the campus in Rohnert Park. Family and friends gathered to cheer the new graduates on either inside Green Music Center’s Weill Hall or outside on the lawn, where they watched the proceedings via Jumbotron. The university is graduating 2,460 students this weekend. To see more photos, go to pressdemocrat.com.

Family and friends cheer for their graduates as they enter Green Music Center on Saturday for the 2023 Commencement for the School of Business and Economics at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park.

Graduate Emma Williams poses with her grandmother, Judy McKinnon of Groveland, after the 2023 commencement ceremony Saturday in Rohnert Park.

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PORTLAND, Oregon — Clean transportation advocates are in a race to transform the trucking industry in California as the state moves closer to a mandate requiring zero-emission vehicles by 2035. The Advanced Clean Fleets rule, enacted by the

California Air Resources Board (CARB), will transform the state’s sizable ports industry — which supports more than 30,000 drayage trucks traveling more than a billion miles annually — away from diesel power toward electric mobility. Rewiring an industry on this scale will take the collaboration of dozens of local and state leaders spanning utilities, labor and community groups and truck-makers. One looming challenge will be

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CRUISIN’ CONTINUED FROM A3 Petaluma on Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of “American Graffiti.” with a car show and cruise — 1960s style. Locals embrace the filming of the now iconic movie as one of the most significant identifiers of the last century in the river town, right up there with chicken ranching and dairy farming. For eventgoers there was a lot of star gazing at shiny American beauties, many from the golden age of American motors of the 1950s and 1960s, arrayed along downtown streets with hoods open for inspection and ogling. But one of the main attractions looking almost out of place amid the snazzy old Chevys, Mustang convertibles and soupedup roadsters was a nondescript baby blue Citroen 2CV, made in France. While all the other cars were cherried out, owner Jerry Causbrook has done little to restore the Citroen beyond keeping it running. The interior is pretty basic. But that didn’t matter to the faithful, who stopped by to pay homage to one of only two vehicles at the event that actually appeared in the movie. And this one was the only one with a starring role, driven but Dreyfuss’ character Curt and parked at the hangout, Mel’s Drive-In. ““Is this yours? Is this the real one? Is it really,” exclaimed Sal Maldonado, touching the car as if it were a venerated relic. Causbrook, a classic car collector who also once owned the white ‘56 T-bird driven by Suzanne Somers in the film, loves to share and said he’s seen the film about 1,000 times. Do you want to sit in it? It would blow your mind,” he offered. Maldonado’s eyes lit up as he slipped behind the worn wheel. “You just made my day,” he said, shaking his head in disbelief that he had touched movie greatness. Causbrook bought the old car from a woman in St. Helena. “It was in a yard against a hedge. It hadn’t run in years and she was moving to L.A.,” he said. Causbrook, who has lived virtually his whole life in Petaluma, was 11 when Lucas and his film crew came to town after being pushed out of downtown San Rafael. The annual Cruisin’ the Boulevard event is put

on by the local volunteer group of classic car and American Graffiti enthusiasts whose mission is to pay tribute to the film and, as they say, “rekindle the happy days it portrays.” Proceeds are poured back into the community for scholarships and other causes. For this half century year the group coordinated with the City of Petaluma to bring in 150 more cars for the show, said Greg Gustafson, who is president of the board. Among the 525 spreading out over several blocks in the heart of town was the late Helen Putnam’s burgundy red 1937 Packard. Putnam was Petaluma’s mayor during the “American Graffiti” era. The film continues to have a cult-like following. Maldonado, 42, said he was persuaded to move to Petaluma from San Diego by his wife, Jackie, a Sonoma County native, after she told him it was filmed there. They bought a house a few blocks from downtown. “This is the movie that got me into cars,” he said. “Everything is so cool about it. It’s a car movie and a generation movie about the ‘60s. I can’t believe that this is the real car. I’m in awe now.” The event draws uber fans from all over. Wayne Schar and Shelly Sendnes drove down from Canada just to go to the Graffiti salute. They had picked up a brochure eight years ago that mentioned it when they were staying in a Santa Rosa motel on a previous road trip. “That was it,” Schar said. “We decided we’ve got to go and whatever we had to do we would get there.” While the film captures a tiny moment in time, the last night of summer in 1962, “American Graffiti” remains timeless. It was named one of the Top 100 films of all time by the American Film Institute. It was only 10 years in the past when Lucas shot the low-budget film based on his own experience coming of age in the Central Valley. But the culture in the 1960s went through a cataclysmic change in only a few years with political assassinations, Vietnam War protests, social upheaval, the sexual revolution and the drug scene. “American Graffiti” remembers a quaint time that would soon vanish. “I’m 58. I remember

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THE PRESS DEMOCRAT • SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2023

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LOS ANGELES — The Kern River is swollen with so much runoff from the epic Sierra Nevada snowpack that state water officials have decided to open a rarely used relief valve, diverting floodwaters into the California Aqueduct to be used as drinking water in Southern California. Opening this flow relief valve, known as the Kern River Intertie, is intended to prevent floodwaters from reaching Tulare Lake, which in recent weeks has reemerged, replenished by powerful winter storms and now heavy spring runoff. In the early 20th century, the lake was systematically drained and channeled, allowing farmers to transform this arid swath of the San Joaquin Valley into a center of industrial agriculture. Now, the phantom lake’s reappearance has swallowed thousands of acres of farmland and is encroaching on low-lying towns such as Corcoran. It marks the first time since 2006 that the intertie, which connects the Kern to the aqueduct west of Bakersfield, has been activated. The gates of the 320-foot-long channel were to be opened Saturday to begin taking in floodwater. Karla Nemeth, director

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The swollen Kern River seen from Rosedale Highway at Beach Park after Jan. 16 storms in Bakersfield. of the state Department of Water Resources, stressed the move is not a response to an “immediate public safety issue” to residents. The overall goal, she said, is to “do what we can to limit the amount of water that ends up in the lakebed.” “The less water up against the Corcoran levee, the better,” she said. The intertie functions like a gated alley connecting two much larger streets. On one side lies a stretch of the Kern River called the Buena Vista Channel, and on the other is the California Aqueduct,

a simple name for a complex system of tunnels and pipelines that transports water from Northern California and the Sierra to the state’s arid central and southern expanses. To open the connection, operators lower the aqueduct’s water level below the level of the intertie basin. When the gates separating the two are opened, gravity conducts the Kern River water into the aqueduct. The flow is expected to start at a rate of 500 cubic feet per second and will increase to 1,000 cubic feet per second later this month.

Over two months, state officials said, about 75,000 acre-feet of Kern River water will pass into the aqueduct, enough to supply approximately 225,000 homes for a year. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the connection to the aqueduct in 1977 to reduce flood risks for communities around the Tulare Lake Basin by redirecting flows when the Kern River runs fast and high. Dam managers have been releasing unusually high flows from Lake Isabella in the southern Sierra, where the Kern is

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ern Sierra stands at more than 400% of average for this time of year, meaning unusually high runoffs could continue for months. But Nemeth said the peak snowmelt for the Kern watershed will play out “within the next week or two.” In addition to dealing with the enormous snowpack, local water officials have been struggling to develop plans for combating chronic overpumping of groundwater, which has left some residents with dry wells and caused the land to sink several feet in parts of the Tulare Lake Basin. State regulators have declared local groundwater management plans inadequate in six areas of the San Joaquin Valley, including the Kern and Tulare Lake subbasins. With more water flowing in the Kern River than the area can handle, the situation underscores the region’s unrealized potential for aquifer recharge, Nemeth said. Local agencies need to get infrastructure in place that enables them to preserve more of the bounty the next time California gets a wet year, she said. “When we look to the future, we want to be using the intertie less and less frequently, so that local communities and the groundwater sustainability agencies can capture those flood flows and recharge their groundwater basins,” Nemeth said. “That is the future.”

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“It is our duty to help our students understand and learn from decisions that they are making so that we can keep them in school.” ANNA TRUNNELL, Santa Rosa City Schools superintendent

SLATER CONTINUED FROM A1 Rosa Police Department about a fight involving hundreds of students around 12:40 p.m. and after the fighting had ended, said Lt. Christopher Mahurin, a spokesperson for the department. He said the teacher asked about how to go about requesting a resource officer on campus, which is a district-level decision, according to Trunnell. Police did not respond to the scene or take a report, but nearby officers were alerted in case fights broke out after school off-campus, Mahurin said.

Increased criticism Tucker, principal at the school since 2018, declined to comment and referred questions to Trunnell, who has faced increased criticism over the district’s discipline policies, which critics contend allow students who chronically misbehave to remain on campus. “The first thing that I typically share with people is that we have to remember that they are children,” Trunnell said. “It is the law that we provide them a free and appropriate education. And it is also our duty to help our students understand and learn from decisions that they are making so that we can keep them in school.” When a student’s actions have risen to the need for discipline, Trunnell said, the district carries out consequences following state policy and couples that with restorative justice practices. Many of those consequences fall

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Santa Rosa City Schools Superintendent Anna Trunnell. After fights broke out May 4 during the brunch and lunch periods at Slater Middle School, Trunnell said she deployed three or four additional district workers to be stationed on campus. Photo taken in Santa Rosa on Friday, March 3.

WHY WE POSTED THE SLATER VIDEO The video of violence at Santa Rosa’s Slater Middle School is shocking and disturbing. It is also a real-time representation of what happened that captured the chaotic scene much better than words could describe. After much deliberation Press Democrat editors felt it was important to allow readers to see and hear exactly what the teachers at Slater experienced during the May 4 melee. under privacy protections, she added. Restorative justice relies less on punishment, like suspension and expulsion, while encouraging recon-

ciliation through dialogue between offenders and victims of harm. When it was launched 10 years ago, the district’s restorative justice program

represented a radical shift in discipline policy after it was found that Santa Rosa City Schools suspended middle and high school students at a rate exceeded by only three other large districts in California. And it was students of color who were being disciplined the most, according to data collected by the state Department of Education. Nearly three times as many Latinos were suspended than whites, even

though the groups made up roughly equal portions of the student population in middle and high schools. Black students, who represented just 3% of the secondary enrollment, represented 7% of the overall suspensions that year, according to the state figures. District teachers have said restorative programs are deeply meaningful, but that more discipline and consequences are needed for the small number of

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THE PRESS DEMOCRAT • SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2023

“It was 30 minutes of chaos. It was kids running the show. I don’t feel like I should put myself out there to possibly be hurt. We need other resources.” TAMI AXTHELM, 12-year veteran teacher at Slater Middle School

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A screenshot from a video taken May 4 of a fight that broke out during the lunch break at Slater Middle School. A teacher and an administrator were knocked to the ground.

School’s safety committee released an internal report and survey outlining safety concerns there. The report included scores of comments about increasing student defiance and chronic, sometimes violent, misbehavior. The report cites at least three assaults on teachers at Montgomery. In the wake of its release, one member of the committee said school administrators have improved communication and visibility related to safety concerns. Teachers from district elementary schools say they, too, are facing disciplinary issues that are increasing in both regularity and intensity. And they, too, say campus staff and administrators are left with few options to deal with chronic offenders. Trunnell said the district is working on better understanding the catalysts of student behavior and also what the district itself can do differently. “I think that what we can't control is when there are social media challenges, or other things that are really a part of human culture right now for many students,” she said. “By continuing to connect with kids and have them share with us what's going on, that is one way that we can get in front of these kinds of behaviors.“

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During the May 4 melee at Slater Middle School, dozens of students — possibly 150 or more — refused commands to break up, teachers said. But teachers say they need support now. Additionally, they say, the educational experiences of students who are not involved in violent behavior, but are increasingly bearing witness to it, are at stake. And teachers say they are deeply affected, too. “I was scared that day and have never, ever been scared. Ever,” said Nikki Kumasaka, a 17-year veteran teacher at Slater.

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In one video recorded at Slater on May 4, interim assistant principal Tom Fierro can be seen trying to break up a fight between two girls, as a large crowd gathers. He is pulled to the ground as he radios for backup. About five seconds later, Kumasaka can be seen pulling one student off another, and in the process, falls backward on the concrete. "We need help,” she said. Supervisors typically work to keep groups any larger than 8-10 students from forming during any break period. That was impossible on this day, they said. “It was 30 minutes of chaos,” said Tami Axthelm, a 12-year veteran teacher at Slater. “It was kids running the show. “It was probably a rumor that there was going to be another fight, that’s probably what got the large groups out on the blacktop — waiting to see another fight,” she said. “The kids were feeding off each other, feeding off that negative behavior, that defiant behavior.” So unnerved were

Axthelm, Kumasaka and other members of the regular team of teachers and staffers who sign on to supervise during breaks, that they penned a letter to Tucker saying they were done. “It’s not required of us,” Axthelm said. “We are doing our part to keep our school safe, but now we are not safe. “I don’t feel like I should put myself out there to possibly be hurt. We need other resources. We need other campus supervisors.” Teachers acknowledge Tucker and other staffers are doing what they can to keep the campus safe, but a lack of support and additional resources from district officials are becoming untenable. “It’s the district’s fault ultimately,” said King, the 11-year veteran teacher. “Administrators are held to a higher power. Their jobs are in jeopardy if they rock the boat or don’t follow the party line.” In interviews with The Press Democrat, teachers expressed dismay that their school was suffering. “Slater is not a bad school and I don’t want it to have a bad rap,” Kumasaka said. “It’s these 10-15 kids that are out of control and there is not discipline, they just keep coming back and coming back and we have these problems.” You can reach Staff Writer Alana Minkler at 707-5268531 or alana.minkler@ pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @alana_minkler. You can reach Staff Columnist Kerry Benefield at 707-526-8671 or kerry.benefield@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @benefield.

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GRACE CONTINUED FROM A1 his dog in the park. Neighbors, who ultimately became friends, described 58-year-old Grace Davis as friendly, educated and positive. A true source of support. One called her “Amazing Grace.” So when, on the morning of April 5, neighbors saw no sign of Grace, their worry was immediate. A woman who had become a key piece of this neighborhood had simplydisappeared. Tracy Dorrance, Grace’s neighbor across the street, called Santa Rosa police. The only sign that Grace Davis had lived in this neighborhood for more than three years was a nearly perfect rectangle of dirt, the spot where the grass could not grow under herwell-worn 6-person tent in Steele Lane Park. It was the latest in a series of tents she called home for those three years as she forged relationships with her neighbors, kept the park safe for them, and occasionally turned to them for help when the weather got too severe. The fact that a bare spot in the park is all that’s left of Grace’s presence tells us a lot about our community’s relationship with homelessness, an increasingly intractable problem compounded by a scarcity of affordable housing, deepening mental health issues and, in many cases, drug and alcohol abuse. Grace is one of the approximately 2,800 experiencing homelessness in Sonoma County, where chronic homelessness has spiked 43% since 2020. It would be easy to see her as a statistic. But how many other homeless women have lived for three years in the same city park? How many have defended that park and kept drug use and criminal activity at bay? How many were on a first-name basis with their neighbors, so much so that those same neighbors would take her in when the weather got bad and allow her to bathe and do laundry in their homes? And how many prompted worried calls and emails when they suddenly one day disappeared? To Grace’s neighbors around Steele Lane Park, she was not a problem, but a blessing. In that sense, she is unique. An outlier. An exception. But in a twist of irony, our community’s attempt to address homelessness writ large may have caused Grace to lose the place she’s called home for three years. In March, Sonoma County established a controversial $3 million, 87-tent outdoor homeless shelter just a short walk from Steele Lane Park. As officials worked to be good neighbors and calm neighborhood fears over the shelter, Grace’s friends say, she became collateral damage in the well-intentioned efforts to minimize the operation’s impact on the area. Even as officials expressed heartbreak over Grace’s situation, they acknowledged that government policies apply to the many, not the few. If they let Grace stay in the park they would have to let everybody stay in the park. There can be no exceptions for outliers.

Finding Grace I first learned of Grace and her disappearance the day she was evicted. A friend who lives in the area texted me and was concerned. It didn’t take me long to find her. After a few inquiries, I was told she’s a regular at Peet’s Coffee on Mendocino Avenue. There, I saw a woman wearing an off-white fleece pullover, black sweatpants and Ugg bootsengaged in friendly conversation with a Santa Rosa Junior

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Grace Davis, photographed on May 10, leans against the sign for Steele Lane Park in Santa Rosa. Her tent, where she lived without complaint the past three years, was located just behind the sign until her eviction last month. College police officer. Then a Peet’s employee, clearly familiar with her, called out, “Grace, your sandwich is ready.” The coffee shop is just a short walk from the park where Grace lived in a neighborhood of mostly single-story homes that feels far quieter than the busy streets that surround it suggest. For years, neighbors there say they’ve struggled with issues related to homeless people sleeping in the park, parking cars for days on end, and using drugs. When Grace settled in three years ago, that all stopped. Her space — she started out sleeping on the ground, then on a pad, before expanding to a six-person tent — was tidy and self-contained. She was quiet. And she was determinedly protective of the neighborhood park she called home. In a twist that was wholly unexpected, a homeless woman is widely credited by her neighbors for putting a stop to problems associated with homeless people. “I think that she has helped kind of police the area. I thought it was one reason she had been allowed to stay,” said Dona Moberly, 91, who has lived on Rowe Drive for nearly two decades. Grace’s home backed up to Moberly’s fence. Their exchanges have been nothing but friendly, Moberly said. “She has been very friendly. We were on a firstname basis after I met her,” she said. Long before Grace arrived, Tracy Dorrance and her partner tried to be protectors of the space, cleaning up drug detritus and doing their best to make it a family park.

“left on her own accord.” Grace acknowledges she was warned, but says she had done nothing wrong, so she declined to move on her own. Proof of this, perhaps, is that the only belongings she had with her that morning were a tin of drawing pencils, a sketchpad and her phone, all packed in a pastel-colored shoulder bag she carries with her. “I wasn’t trying to be defiant,” Grace said. Still, she has no interest in living in a sanctioned encampment — or any other shelter. She’s been homeless for years and has no use for shelters. Her feelings on people While living on the streets, Grace Davis has taught herself to draw, spending more than living on the street are eight hours to create a pencil drawing for an employee she likes at her local Safeway store. strong. But the work felt like acre park, there were calls the county’s homeless The majority aren’t constantly rolling a boulfor service about drugs and community. there because they don’t der uphill, only to have it abandoned cars, but there After a series of public have housing options, she roll down again. were no calls about Grace. meetings and debate about contends. “It was really bad,” Not about her tent, or its viability and location, “If they stopped getting Dorrance said of the park’s her grill, or her cooler. the shelter opened on high, most of them would up-and-down trajectory. Nothing. March 21, and dozens of have places to go,” Grace “I would clean up the In three years, Santa people were ushered into said. “It’s not a homeless park a lot,” she said. “You’d Rosa Police recorded not a 87 tents on the county problem. It’s a drug probfind needles, but mostly single complaint related to administration campus. lem and it’s an alcohol the orange caps that are Grace. Drug and alcohol use problem. There are people supposed to be the stopper And yet, on April 3, is prohibited, there are wanting to be out there. for the needle.” Grace said she was served quiet hours and a curfew, They have been given Grace’s arrival changed with an eviction notice. as well as 24-hour secuchance after chance after things. Two days later, while she rity. But people are free chance. Standing a lean, fit 5 feet, was away, police removed to come and go as they “We have to stop toler10 inches, Grace wasn’t her tent, sleeping bag, please, prompting new vig- ating that behavior,” she afraid to confront people inflatable mattress, grill, ilance in the surrounding said. she thought were up to cooler and everything else neighborhood. But in some ways, no good. Sometimes she, she had. “With the establishment Grace's choices are toleratDorrance and her partner of the County’s Emered, too. A new vigilance would team up. gency Shelter Site at 2550 For more than two years They called themselves Neighbors feared she Ventura Avenue, the City Grace benefited from “Charlie’s Angels.” was swept up in a rise has received increased relaxed enforcement of Vicky Kumpfer, anof calls and complaints complaints regarding homeless encampments other longtime neighbor, recorded in the days after homeless-related activity because of the COVID-19 has seen Grace in action, the county homeless enin Steele Lane Park and ar- pandemic. working to keep troubling campment opened on Ven- eas surrounding the CounGrace was well aware behavior from taking root tura Avenue, two blocks ty’s site, which included of these protections, but in the park. north of the the park. increased tent and vehicle more than that, she said “She’s very foreboding,” The controversial shelcamping in and around the she proved her worth to Kumpfer said. “She has a ter was to be a temporary park,” a city of Santa Rosa the neighborhood. strong voice. She’s a big, solution to yet another en- spokesman told me in an She felt both protected tall, Black woman and she campment that had taken email. and protective. just goes up there and says, root on the well-used Joe The city’s official stance But in July 2022, the pro‘Not here.’” Rodota Trail — which for is that Grace was offered tections that had allowed And it’s worked. more than five years has services from the HomeGrace to stay in the park Over the years that been a tension point in the less Outreach Services were rolled back, making Grace lived in the small 2.4- debate over how to address Team, but refused and her vulnerable to expulsion at any time. And Grace, ever confident, is not one to make herself small. Her home — a six-person tent, grill and chair — sat directly behind the large brown sign with yellow letters at the main entrance of the park. She was not hiding. And still, no one complained. “She attracts positive vibes,” Kumpfer said. “The whole neighborhood loves her.”

‘Well, what about her?’

Grace Davis’ regular nightly routine includes a visit to the local Safeway gas station to grab a drink and heat up food before heading back to the yurt she is temporarily living in after she was evicted from Steele Lane Park.

Neighbors contend the timing of Grace’s eviction points to the county-sponsored shelter. After the shelter opened, the park was becoming a magnet for people doing drugs, hanging out all day, despite Grace’s vigilance, Dorrance said. Dorrance’s home faces the main entrance to the TURN TO GRACE » PAGE A14

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GRACE CONTINUED FROM A13 park, on the opposite side of a dead-end street separating the ball field at Steele Lane Elementary School and the park across the way. In good times, T-ball and soccer games and practices fill the street with cars and the grass with activity. Other times, things feel less family-friendly. From her home, Dorrance can see most of the happenings in the small park. “We started seeing more and more people showing up in the park doing drugs,” she said. She and others said they can’t be sure these newcomers were residents of the county site, but the timing seemed to fit. Neighbors believe Grace got swept up amid complaints about others’ behavior. PHOTOS BY JOHN BURGESS / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT “Grace just seems like a sacri- Grace Davis found a Bible at a truck stop in Arizona, and found some peace and purpose during her life as fice,” Dorrance said. “I was upset a homeless person living in Santa Rosa. She said she lives her life based on “God’s will” and she accepts her about it. I feel kind of sad for her. situation with grace. She has been no problem.” But Dorrance and others After Grace recognize the problem as it now Davis was exists: Officials from the city and evicted from the county can’t respond to comSteele Lane plaints about homeless activity Park in Santa in the park while turning a blind Rosa, a friend eye to Grace. who lives “You are trying to kick some at the edge people out and they say, ‘Well, of the park what about her?’” she said. offered her backyard yurt ‘Working fairly well’ as shelter. Dave Kiff, the county’s homeThe spacious lessness division director, told permanent me that neighborhood fear and tent is a opposition were loud when the welcome idea for the county camp was respite first floated. He said he believes but only the county has delivered on the temporary as promise to be a good neighbor, she finds a but he recognizes the effect any new camping change that adding 75 people to a location. neighborhood can have. Photo taken He, too, has heard reports of April 19. trash accumulation and drug use. dent air, Grace is not shy. She’s on her phone. offers would somehow turn But, to Kiff’s mind, there was opinionated. She’s thoughtful. She had driven west from permanent. more concern before the site More than one neighbor Arizona and was in Ventura, They never did. opened and less since it’s been joked that she could have hung California, when she says the “I thought, ‘Oh, God, she’s operational. a “Doctor is in” sign at her site, Nissan Murano she had drivgoing to want to move in. But “I have seen some of that. I ha- a la Lucy Van Pelt of “Peanuts” en since leaving New York got nope,’” she said. “I have had her ven’t seen a lot of that,” Kiff said. fame, because she was often repossessed, with her and her come in and eat dinner with me, “Overall, I think it’s working counseling people through six-pound Maltese, Buttons, but she prefers her autonomy.” fairly well.” struggles. sleeping inside. Still, Kumpfer has extended Kumpfer has lived in the In turn, neighbors got to know She tells the story with a herself to Grace for years. neighborhood longer than most, her story, as she told it, of how hearty laugh, how her beloved One day a week, Grace drops about 25 years. she came to be living outside. pooch made nary a sound as the laundry at Kumpfer’s back door. She has seen and felt the ebb She is from New York. Pough- car was hoisted up. Kumpfer washes it and returns and flow of positive and negakeepsie, specifically. “I certainly didn’t have him it. tive activity in the park directly She grew up with her parents for protection,” she said. “What Why not? she asks. behind her home. and two older brothers, with was he going to do? They towed “I’m doing mine, and it’s a big A pathway to the park goes relatives living next door and my car, and he can’t even bark.” old washing machine,” she said. right by her house, and over time around the corner. She said In Ventura, a woman she had Grace has long had regular it had become a thoroughfare of she was raised by the figurative gotten to know gifted her a 2003 access to an outdoor tub on sorts. village. Ford Focus. She headed north. Kumpfer’s property. “It was the trail, down this Her father died in his sleep “I drove eight hours,” she Sometimes they cross paths, driveway back to the park and when Grace was young. The loss said. “God was with me. Oh sometimes they don’t. the barbecue pits,” she said. “It tightened the bond she already Lord, that car needed work.” “I don’t have a lot of money was perfect for homeless people felt with her mother, whom She and the car limped into to support her ongoing in that and drug dealers. It was bad. I everyone called “Sissy.” Sonoma County in September way, but I have resources I could had people coming to my door.” So tight was Grace with her 2017. Santa Rosa was less a desshare,” Kumpfer said. And worse. mom, that they lived together tination than the end of the line. So when Grace was evicted Kumpfer recalls heading out until Sissy’s death seven years She was running out of gas. from the park, turning to Kumpone winter evening to buy Christ- ago. When the car well and truly fer was a logical move. mas lights. College educated, Grace, who died, she became homeless in a “It was probably two days later, She returned to find a man in has also gone by Qua, Ellen and way that she hadn’t been before. she said, ‘My camp is gone,’” her house. ElGrace Cole over the years, She was living on the streets. Kumpfer said. “She knew my “It was really cold,” she said. describes herself as a successful Unable to properly care for yurt was always available to her.” “He took a shower and was in my career woman, but someone who him, she gave Buttons to a couThe clothing she wore the bed. He said, ‘Thank you for the was deeply unsatisfied. ple in Doyle Park. morning she left the park for shower.’” And, in her telling, working “Facts over feelings,” she said. the last time is what she wears Kumpfer recalls the firepits in financial aid and billing at a “I can’t take care of me. I can’t every day — a purple long-sleeve being magnets for people with no small, private university, she take care of him.” shirt, black sweatpants, maroon interest in grilling out. was driven, focused on material As if speaking to her dog she sweatshirt and Ugg boots. Drug use was common and out things, and not at peace. says, “You didn’t sign on for this, When it’s especially cold, she in the open. Suffering from stress and high baby.” has a fleece pullover. The city eventually removed blood pressure, she dealt with She started seeking safe placHer hair is always covered in the firepits. short periods of depression that es to sleep: Creek beds, among a variety of cloth wraps or a knit Even when the city installed she associated with her need to the trees off of Chanate Road, beanie. the new playground equipment, feel in control of every aspect of parks. She always looks put together. few came to use it. The park her life. For 14 months, she lived with In hours of interviews, discusshad gained a certain reputation, When her mother died in 2016 the three surviving members of ing her clothes is the only time neighbors said. after a stroke, Grace became a Bay Area commune. Grace sounds a note of want. In early 2020, when the unmoored, she said. But the dynamics in the house “I’m hot as hell,” she said, COVID-19 pandemic had taken “She was my God,” she said. were a struggle, and after a little sitting at a small shaded table hold and health officials were disGrace had already lost her two more than a year, she left. in Kumpfer’s backyard. “I’m couraging people from congreolder brothers, to leukemia and She calls that period in her life in winter clothes. I want cooler gating, officials placed barricades a heart attack, but her grief over humbling. clothes.” in the road to keep people from her mother was overwhelming. Shortly after leaving, Grace Her possessions, including using Steele Lane Park and parkShe sold the house in Poughstarted living in Steele Lane cooler clothes, are being held by ing indefinitely. keepsie at a steep loss and Park. police free of charge for 90 days. That’s when Kumpfer recalls started driving south. She lived She can collect them any time first seeing Grace. She assumed in New Orleans for about a year. 'She prefers her autonomy’ she wants. she was a city employee. Paralyzed by doubt, she Her world is relatively small. But she refuses. “She would sit right at the bought neither a house nor an She walks everywhere she needs “They took it. They need to mouth of the park,” she said. “I apartment. She lived in a hotel to go unless someone offers her bring it back,” she said. thought she was monitoring and instead, burning through her a ride. That stubborn streak extends I thought, ‘Boy, they are serious money. Peet’s Coffee is a 5-minute to public services. Grace doesn’t about this.’” Broke, she started driving walk from her spot in the park. seek any. She doesn’t receive Grace didn’t work for the city west. It’s where she spends her Social Security, no benefits. or the county Public Health In Arizona, she stopped at days. She chats with regulars. Grace said going without is Division, but she was, in a way, a truck stop to use a shower. She draws. She watches videos intentional, that it keeps her monitoring the park. There she picked up a free Bible. on her phone. She reads the closer to God. She took a kind of homeownHer mother had been a Bible. “I don’t get to see God’s work er’s pride in keeping her space religious person, but until that At night, she stays in a yurt in if (the government) gives me tidy and the wider park free of moment, it had never appealed Kumpfer’s backyard. money,” she said. “Living outtrouble. to Grace. At 12 feet in diameter, the side allows me to see his works.” Still, she started reading. yurt sits on a wooden platform. It also allows her conversation Neighbors lean on neighbors “I just knew. I knew, ‘I got It has a double bed, two chairs and connection with others — In particularly bad weather, this,’” she said of a life that had and a small table. Up until now, one of her deepest joys. Grace would ask to store some been feeling out of control. “It it has served as Kumpfer’s guest If she lived in a house, apartof her things on Dorrance’s just made me feel better.” bedroom. ment, shelter or even continporch. But she came to Jesus not in a Grace has stayed there before, ued staying in the yurt, Grace When her tent was destroyed flash, but rather a slow burn. when her tent had been damworries her connection to others one winter, neighbors replaced “It took time,” she said. aged or the weather had been would be frayed at best, cut off it. Her two Bibles were among particularly rough. entirely at worst. They came to lean on her. the things police took from the Kumpfer recalls initially “How would they get to know Easy to talk to, with a confipark, so now she reads passages worrying that those short-term me?” she said.

She wants to return to the park. “I feel like I live out there and nothing ever happens to me, so they feel safe,” she said. While Grace does not accept government funds and services, she does accept money and she does occasionally ask for money. Friends give her gift cards and cash. And coffee. At Peet’s, where she is a regular, Grace is never without a fresh cup on her table. Throughout our hours of conversations, she routinely pauses to greet friends and acquaintances, asking after their health and business. Then she apologizes for the interruption and returns to the conversation. An artist, Grace will exchange drawings for whatever the recipient feels is fair. She recently completed a pencil drawing of a man’s dog. He paid her $40. After a long interview in the sun one afternoon, Grace began talking about retirement funds, the stock market (which she terms “a casino”) and real estate. She spoke of the value of cash. She then asked if I had any. I’ve been reporting for three decades. We don’t pay for stories or interviews. But it was so disarming, I found myself mumbling, “I can’t do that,” as I pulled out two $5 bills. On another morning, after I asked if she has any way to store food now that her cooler is gone, I bought her a coffee and a sandwich. As a person, I didn’t give it a second thought. As a journalist, I wondered if it was the right thing to do.

Complicating the debate As the debate over how to handle people experiencing homelessness among us turns increasingly black and white, Grace’s situation is decidedly gray. Society, and particularly government, are not well suited to deal with exceptions. They complicate the debate. Rules and policies are crafted for the many, not the few. “Grace’s situation points out something that government struggles with,” Kiff, the county’s point person on homelessness, told me. “We tend to work in absolutes: ‘You absolutely cannot camp here. You absolutely need a home with four walls and a roof.’” But things work until they don’t. “Some … can survive very effectively and happily with little effect to a neighborhood like Grace did,” he said. “But there isn’t a carve-out for Grace.” District 4 Supervisor James Gore, whose district includes the park as well as the county’s sanctioned camp, called Grace’s situation heartbreaking. But officials cannot allow her to stay while barring others. And nobody — not neighbors, not Grace, not city and county officials — wants multiple people sleeping in that park. “That would be illegal, to provide one person an exemption and not provide the same to others,” Gore said. “This is based on rights, not personality. While that is painful, rights come with responsibilities, too.” Santa Rosa City Councilwoman Victoria Fleming, whose district includes the park, said she’s never received a complaint about Grace, only “gratitude.” “I think it’s a beautiful example of how things can work in a community that is close-knit,” she said. But Fleming, too, said it’s problematic to create systems that benefit the few, or in this case, the one. “That’s really risky,” she said. “But I also think that government needs to be creative and innovative. We should be able to try things and if they don’t work, try something else. But we are incredibly risk averse.” I ask Grace what she wants, how she sees this ending. Kumpfer has house guests coming. She needs her yurt back. Grace looks excited at the question. But offers no answer. It’s God’s will, she said. “I can’t wait to see what happens,” she said. “I want to guess, but I’m not going there. I have learned to wait and see. It’s going to be good and it’s going to be good for all of us, and I can’t wait to see it.“ You can reach Staff Columnist Kerry Benefield at 707-526-8671 or kerry.benefield@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @benefield.

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RESIDENT CONTINUED FROM A1 quick to harp on its liberal policies. CNN recently devoted an entire special last weekend to identifying what’s wrong with the city. Comedian Dave Chappelle weighed in, asking the audience at a surprise show in San Francisco’s Nob Hill neighborhood, “What the f**k happened to this place?” He also said, San Francisco has become a “half ‘Glee,’ half-zombie movie.” Whatever that means. On Monday, Twitter and Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk, got in on it, too, when he tweeted, “The disaster that is downtown SF, once bea(u) tiful and thriving, now a derelict zombie apocalypse, is due to the woke mind virus.” San Francisco has its problems, but the numbers tell a different story than the one the critics want you to hear. Yes, fashion retailer Anthropologie has left. Nordstrom is following close behind with its chief store officer citing “changing dynamics” and an increase in crime as reasons for the luxury store’s departure. But the truth is, crime is actually down. As is homelessness. In 2020, San Francisco’s violent crime rate ranked 14th out of 23 cities with populations over 750,000 in the United States, which is lower than New York, Seattle and Dallas, according to reporting in the San Francisco Chronicle. And homeless numbers dropped 3.5% from 2019 to 2022, according to PointIn-Time Homeless Counts, which is conducted once every two years in order to receive federal funding for homelessness services. But apparently, San Francisco “needs f***ing Batman,” said Chappelle — a native of Washington, D.C., a city with a few flaws of its own — in his rant. This assumption was

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Hanging out with San Francisco’s Painted Ladies in 2012. made after he had one dinner in the Tenderloin, a neighborhood that’s always had a tough reputation. The Tenderloin is a gritty hub for the homeless, dive bar enthusiasts and drug users. Only a tourist would venture into the Tenderloin without knowing what they were getting into.

Bye, Gilroy. Hello, SF Growing up in the rural agricultural town of Gilroy, I knew I wanted out the second I had my chance. I’d make a break for it if it came down to that. In, 2009, I got my chance. I was accepted at San Francisco State where, for four years, I worked toward a degree in journalism. My reporting assignments sent me covering the family-owned businesses in Noe Valley, City Council meetings at San Francisco City Hall, observing the sit-lie ordinance at Haight-Ashbury and even a story covering the Tenderloin People’s Garden. And not once did I turn down an assignment or neighborhood because of its name or reputation. I wanted to know who and what made this city. In between assignments and classes, I would hang out with friends in Ingleside, go clubbing in South Beach, wander around West Portal and soak up the history of the Castro. This city and its people brought diversity, new perspectives, situations and a deeper understanding of

what the world looks like.

Santa Rosa isn’t for me After graduation, my career took me to Baltimore and Asbury Park, New Jersey, before I found my way back to the Bay Area and landed in Santa Rosa six years ago. I called Wine Country home for three years, but my time in Santa Rosa felt more like I was standing still. When people ask how I liked living there, I say it felt like a relationship that was good on paper. It technically worked, but there was this feeling — a disconnect — that continued to grow as I continued to stay. There’s the exciting food scene, but I’m not a foodie. It’s Wine Country, but I’m not that into wine. Perhaps it was something subconscious that left me wanting to keep Santa Rosa at arm’s length. What I do know is that Santa Rosa, while beautiful, is too quiet for me. It’s too slow. There’s no hustle, no bustle. And I desperately needed hustle and bustle in my life. At 31, I’m not quite ready for the simple suburban life. Five months after I moved to Santa Rosa, the 2017 wildfires roared through Sonoma County. I remember the flames of the Tubbs Fire racing down the massive hills near my Rincon Valley apartment. I grabbed my dog, packed a suitcase, some sentimental items and drove down-

town to a friend’s house where the threat of the fire reaching us wasn’t as great. That drive from Highway 12 to Klute Street took over an hour when normally it took 15 minutes. During that drive, I thought about those who already lost their homes, and their lives, and what I would do if my apartment was gone. I tried to rationalize the situation by telling myself, this was a one-time disaster and would never happen again. I was wrong. Three years later, I was on a weekend trip to Monterey to celebrate my birthday, and as I was returning to Santa Rosa via Highway 101, I heard that the Glass Fire was headed toward Sonoma County. I quickly got to my apartment only to pack a few more items and leave for refuge in Gilroy. This was how I rang in my 29th birthday. To this day, I can’t smell a barbecue or a beach fire without thinking of a wildfire. Like many constant PG&E outages, the looming threat of fire season and hot summers in Sonoma County contributed to me leaving. I knew early on, I wasn’t going to stay in Santa Rosa long-term. It was a pit stop for me, just like it was for Chappelle, who stopped by to perform five shows at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in July. It’s interesting how he didn’t cast a critical eye on Santa Rosa the way he did San Francisco, or maybe he did, but not on a public platform or on stage. I’m sure he didn’t stop by the Joe Rodota Trail on his visit. Santa Rosa and Sonoma County have been working on tackling encampments along the trail for years. And like downtown San Francisco, downtown Santa Rosa has seen plenty of businesses board up and then leave town, like Made Local, Mary’s Pizza Shack and Favorite Things. City officials are hoping to change this trend by investing money in redevelop-

ment and housing. Beyond downtown, Santa Rosa has seen more beloved retailers shut their doors. At Montgomery Village, Prima Linens, Clutch and Classic Duck have closed this year. At Railroad Square, Disguise the Limit Costumes and Rentals shuttered after 43 years in business. My point being, there’s a larger trend happening across the state that isn’t limited to San Francisco.

Finding my way back Before I could leave Santa Rosa and find my way back to San Francisco three years ago, I had some issues to resolve. I was ready to accept the city again, but would it take me back? In 2013, shortly after graduating college, I was a part-time social media intern at a nonprofit and working full-time at a sports bar at Pier 39. Three days a week, my day started at 7 a.m. and ended at 2 a.m. In between those days, I’d work more than an eighthour shift, hoping to snag as many tips as I could to pay rent because city living isn’t cheap. After a few months, I’d had enough. I was physically, emotionally and spiritually spent by the time I left San Francisco. I hated this city. I didn’t respect it. I didn’t want to keep running myself into the ground to pay rent at the house I shared with five roommates at Ocean Beach. My relationship with San Francisco was just that … a relationship. One that worked until it didn’t. It required a breakup, but deep down I longed to return and, I slowly inched my way back into its good graces. When I moved back in late 2020, I joked with my friends that I was “dating” the city. We’d both changed after about five years apart, and I wanted to ease into things. Well, yes, there was that and also a pandemic raging around us. I started urban hiking

and crisscrossed the city from Bayview-Hunters Point to West Portal to the Outer Richmond. I ran up and down massive hills in Potrero Hill and Buena Vista. I bought a bike and rode it through North Beach, the Presidio and the Marina. I took my time to get to know the city again. And it has been working on itself. Mental health services and affordable housing are just a few issues the city continues to address. There’s still work to be done, and no one is denying that. Mayor London Breed hopes to halve the number of those who identify as homeless in the city with a 5-year plan and $600 million invested in the project. Breed recently said $6 million would be invested into the Powell Street corridor near Union Square, a spot tourists frequent for shopping and cable car rides. This is also one block south from the Tenderloin. My advice to Chappelle, if he chooses to come back, is to stay curious about San Francisco and its residents. Explore a little and learn something. Or stick to the Marina neighborhood. Maybe he’ll find solace in making tech bros laugh over espresso martinis. For me, I’ll stick with my 63-mile commute to The Press Democrat newsroom. I’ll happily take Karl the Fog welcoming me home as he twists and turns in between the Golden Gate Bridge. I’ll drive the tunnels through the Presidio and smile at the families carrying grocery bags though Chinatown. I’ll always keep an eye out for the tourists looking at the flashing neon lights of the strip clubs in North Beach. And I’ll take the handfuls of tents along the tourist trap of the Embarcadero. I appreciate you, Santa Rosa, but San Francisco is my home. I’m not leaving. And I don’t need Batman or Chappelle to convince me otherwise.

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Zelenskyy pleads for aid at G-7 Show-stopping entrance in Hiroshima follows trip to Saudi Arabia By DAVID E. SANGER AND PETER BAKER NEW YORK TIMES

HIROSHIMA, Japan — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine landed in Japan on Saturday determined to urge the wealthiest democracies in the world to stick with him as Russia bets on the West growing fatigued by the cost and conse-

quences of the war. Zelenskyy made a dramatic entry into Hiroshima, landing in a French plane after days in which Ukrainian and Japanese officials insisted, presumably for security reasons, that he would join the leaders at the Group of 7 summit only virtually. He was dressed in his signature hoodie, standing out from the coat-andtie diplomatic crowd of this annual summit meeting. Zelenskyy, U.S. and British officials say, seems to sense that when he shows up in person, he can both break through U.S.

resistance to sending more powerful weapons and pressure nations like India and Brazil that have stayed on the sidelines. His presence could make it more difficult for them to maintain their stance as fence-sitters, several officials said. And even as Zelenskyy consulted with countries already in his corner, he sat down with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make his case for support, much as he had done earlier in the week in Saudi Arabia. Zelenskyy was expected to address the G-7 leaders Sunday

as part of his continued efforts to marshal more military aid for his country. He is making his appeals in a city that serves as a sobering reminder of the devastation that arises when a bitter war leads to the use of a nuclear weapon. Zelenskyy plans to go to the peace park that has been built on the island that was ground zero for the explosion in 1945 that ushered in the age of nuclear weapons — an era that has returned amid episodic threats by Russian President Vladimir Putin to turn to his own arsenal.

Even before he landed, Zelenskyy had won a significant victory: On Friday night President Joe Biden told other leaders he would join the largely European effort to train Ukrainian pilots on how to fly the F-16 fighter jet. Reversing his previous stance, Biden said he would work with allies to begin providing the warplanes to Ukraine, weaning it from its dilapidated Soviet-era fighters. Administration officials said they increasingly realized that TURN TO UKRAINE » PAGE B3

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Daniel Penny

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GOP hopefuls flocking to Penny A rush to defend Marine who put NYC subway rider in fatal chokehold By WILL WEISSERT ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged the nation to show Daniel Penny that “America’s got his back.” Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley called for New York’s governor to pardon Penny, and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy donated $10,000 to his legal defense fund. Republican presidential hopefuls have lined up to support Penny, a 24-year-old U.S. Marine veteran who was caught on video pinning an agitated fellow subway passenger in New York City to the floor in a chokehold. The passenger, 30-year-old Jordan Neely, later died from compression of the neck, according to the medical examiner. Penny has been charged with manslaughter. His attorneys say he acted in self-defense. He’s already become a hero to many Republicans, who have trumpeted Penny as a Good Samaritan moving to protect others in a Democrat-led city that they say is unsafe — even though criminal justice experts say current crime levels are more comparable to where New York was a decade ago, when people frequently lauded it as America’s safest big city. The GOP support for Penny has been unwavering, despite the fact that Neely, who was Black, never got physical with anyone on the train before he was placed in the chokehold for several minutes by Penny, who is white.

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Sylvia Zuckerman holds a Native Apache 3-month-old that she and her husband, Jerome, adopted, at their home in Plainview, New York, in 1967. The U.S. Indian Adoption Project intended “to stimulate adoption of American Indian children by Caucasian families on a nationwide basis.”

Ruling on the horizon

The brutal past and uncertain future of Native American adoptions Chris Stearns, an attorney and Washington state represen tative who was placed at birth in foster care by his Navajo mother and later sent to live with a white couple, at his home March 25 in Auburn.

By GABRIELLE GLASER NEW YORK TIMES

hris Stearns has two distinct memories from his childhood in the late 1960s. The first is somewhat hazy: a crowded New York City picnic for white families who had adopted Native American boys and girls, somewhere at a hilly park. Stearns had never seen so many people — he was an only child in a Colonial-style house that backed onto a golf course in South Jersey — and the event was overwhelming. The other recollection is much sharper. One day, he was paid a visit by a man his parents called Chief Sunrise, who arrived at the front door wearing an eagle-feathered headdress and the white buckskin regalia of Plains Indians. His parents ushered Chief Sunrise into the family living room, where he took a seat on the angular modern couch. Then he turned to the young Chris, perhaps 4 years old, and drew him near. He sang a song, offered a blessing and went on his way.

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These events, however well-intentioned to honor Stearns’ Native American heritage, had another effect: They reinforced to the child that he didn’t fit in the all-white world of his parents. “That feeling of not belonging was a pretty common thread for a long time,” said Stearns, now 58. “I didn’t look like the other kids, and I couldn’t really

identify with them, either. I was always just itching to be somewhere else.” Stearns was among the last of the hundreds of thousands of Native children in the United States who had been systematically removed from their families and culture. TURN TO ADOPTIONS » PAGE B8

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Dozen poor nations deep in debt to Beijing WORLD ECONOMY » China’s loans pushing some of most impoverished countries to brink of collapse By BERNARD CONDON ASSOCIATED PRESS

A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China.

An Associated Press analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China — including Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia, Laos and Mongolia — found paying back that debt is consuming an ever-greater amount of the tax revenue needed to keep schools open, provide electricity and pay for food and fuel. And it’s draining foreign currency re-

serves these countries use to pay interest on those loans, leaving some with just months before that money is gone. Behind the scenes is China’s reluctance to forgive debt and its extreme secrecy about how much money it has loaned and on what terms, which has kept other major lenders from stepping in to help. On top of that is the recent discovery that borrowers have been required to put cash in hidden escrow accounts that push China to the

front of the line of creditors to be paid. Countries in AP’s analysis had as much as 50% of their foreign loans from China and most were devoting more than a third of government revenue to paying off foreign debt. Two of them, Zambia and Sri Lanka, have already gone into default, unable to make even interest payments on loans financing the construction of ports, mines and power plants. In Pakistan, millions of tex-

tile workers have been laid off because the country has too much foreign debt and can’t afford to keep the electricity on and machines running. In Kenya, the government has held back paychecks to thousands of civil service workers to save cash to pay foreign loans. The president’s chief economic adviser tweeted last month, “Salaries or default? Take your pick.” TURN TO LOANS » PAGE B6

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NEWSWATCH NATION MINNEAPOLIS

Minnesota to legalize recreational weed Minnesota will become the 23rd state to legalize recreational marijuana for adults under a bill passed by the Senate and sent to the governor’s desk early Saturday morning. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz has pledged to sign the measure, which passed the House Thursday, into law. While lawmakers said it will take a year or longer for the first retail dispensary to open, marijuana possession will be decriminalized and home growing of cannabis will become legal on Aug. 1. “The war on drugs has had devastating, harmful effects on our communities,” Sen. Lindsey Port, a Burnsville Democrat who sponsored the bill, said Saturday. “It is time. Minnesotans are ready. Let’s legalize, regulate and expunge.” The DFL-controlled Senate voted 34-32 along party lines, passing the bill just before 1:30 a.m. Nearly every Republican senator voted against it, with one abstaining from the vote. They raised concerns about public health and safety impacts, among other things.

ALBANY, Oregon

Victims of deadly crash were farmworkers The victims of one of Oregon’s deadliest highway crashes were farmworkers traveling in a van at an hour when agricultural laborers typically commute home after toiling in the harvest, the state’s farmworkers union and Mexican officials said. Authorities have not yet released the names of the seven who died or the four who were injured when a semitruck ran off Interstate 5 on Thursday and slammed into the van as it was parked on the roadside near Albany, in an agricultural area of the Willamette Valley. But the union, the Woodburn-based PCUN, said in a statement late Friday that the 11 people in the vehicle were farmworkers and that it has been in contact with some of their families to support them. It also offered condolences to those affected by the tragedy.

NEW YORK

Tale of migrants displacing vets? Hoax The story seemed tailor-made for opponents of outsiders: “VETS KICKED OUT FOR MIGRANTS,” blared the front page of The New York Post, one of many outlets that last week carried the tale of homeless military veterans being expelled from their temporary hotel rooms north of New York City so that people coming from the Mexican border could stay there, becoming an instant talking point for local Republicans. Problem was, the story was a sham. A group of homeless men said they had been approached at a homeless shelter in Poughkeepsie, New York, and then wined and dined before being propped up to the news media as ousted veterans.

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KEEP HANGING ON: Artists from the CIA Base vertical dance and aerial circus group perform Friday during the International Circus Festival, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. retreated with his wife and toddler to the second floor of their home. Downstairs, the “water was up to my chest,” he said Saturday, adding, “We had nowhere to go.” Italy’s leaders are trying to come to terms with what scientists say is the new normal of climate change, but some lawmakers are asking whether the country missed opportunities to better prepare for the extreme flooding that many saw coming and to protect the country with artificial basins or other solutions.

HIROSHIMA, Japan

G-7 nations wrangle over climate promises In theory, the world’s largest industrialized democracies have agreed to stop using fossil fuels within a little over a quarter-century. But as leaders of the Group of 7 gathered in Japan this weekend, some countries were wrangling over whether to loosen commitments to phase out the use of carbon-emitting fuels such as gas and coal in time to avert the worst effects of global warming. The final communiqué from the summit, released Saturday, included language sought by Japan that blesses continued investment in certain types of coalfired power plants. But leaders only modestly modified language from last year’s meeting that supported some new investment in natural gas infrastructure.

SPAIN

Bezos’ new yacht finally ready to set sail

WORLD LUGO, Italy

Many fear more flooding in store for Italy When floods hit Lugo, Italy, this past week, overflowing a local watercourse and sending water gushing into streets and the surrounding fields, Irinel Lungu, 45,

Just in time for the high season of yachting in the Mediterranean, when multimillion-dollar megayachts descend on ports such as Monte Carlo and St. Tropez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been photographed with his partner, Lauren Sánchez, on his new boat, Koru, off the coast of Spain.

PENNY CONTINUED FROM B1 The rush to back Penny recalls how then-President Donald Trump and other top Republicans fiercely supported Kyle Rittenhouse during the 2020 presidential election. Rittenhouse, a white teenager who killed two men and wounded a third during a tumultuous night of protests in Wisconsin over a Black man’s death, was acquitted. More recently, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to pardon Daniel Perry, a white Army sergeant who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fatally shooting an armed man during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in the state’s capital of Austin. Top Republicans have tried to make rising crime rates a political liability for Democrats. The Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee traveled to New York City last month — before Neely was killed — for a hearing examining “victims of violent crime in Manhattan.”

Democrats: It’s racism Democrats and racial justice advocates counter that GOP messaging around restoring “law and order” plays on deep-seated racism. “They have a playbook of winning elections that is based on really tapping into the worst parts of human nature and really driving it home with division and fear,” said Jumaane Williams, a Democrat who is New York City’s public advocate. “And, if there’s race and class played into it, then it’s like Christmastime for them.” Neely, known by some commuters as a Michael Jackson impersonator, had a history of mental illness and had frequently been arrested in the past. Bystanders said he had been shouting at passengers, begging for money and acting aggressively, but didn’t touch anyone aboard the train. Christopher Borick, director

COURTESY MILLS & EDWARDS

This undated photo shows Jordan Neely. Daniel Penny, 24, a U.S. Marine veteran who used a fatal chokehold on agitated New York City subway passenger Neely, was freed from custody Friday hours after surrendering to face a manslaughter charge filed nearly two weeks after the death. of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion, said GOP presidential candidates see Penny’s cause as a way to excite their party’s base. “There’s very little downside within the Republican electorate, given that it overlays so nicely with the issues that are incredibly salient among Republican voters in terms of law and order and fitting this narrative about the degeneration of urban life,” Borick said. “That’s the message — Trump’s and his bloc of Republicans’ message — that the ‘crazies’ are a threat, and we have to do what we can to protect ‘Americans’ any way we can.” But the GOP defense of white people after Black people are killed is often very different from

incidents in which white people are killed.

Compare, contrast A key example is Ashli Babbitt, the white former Air Force veteran who was shot to death by a Black police officer while trying to climb through a broken window at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Trump called Babbitt an “innocent, wonderful, incredible woman” and labeled the Black officer who shot her a “thug.” Other Republicans have mourned her as a martyr. Adrianne Shropshire, executive director of Black PAC, said the issue goes beyond the presidential race, noting that some Republican-controlled legisla-

Bezos’ vessel is a sailing yacht, a departure from the diesel-powered, floating palaces popular with other billionaires. But it is still massive. At 417 feet, Koru is the world’s largest sailing yacht, according to Boat International, and it cost an estimated $500 million to build, Bloomberg reported.

MEXICO CITY

Mexico moving migrants from borders Mexico is flying migrants south away from the U.S. border and busing new arrivals away from its boundary with Guatemala to relieve pressure on its border cities. In the week since Washington dropped pandemic-era restrictions on seeking asylum at its border, U.S. authorities report a dramatic drop in illegal crossing attempts. In Mexico, officials are generally trying to keep migrants south away from that border, a strategy that could reduce crossing temporarily, but experts say is not sustainable. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reported Friday that in the week since the policy change, Border Patrol averaged 4,000 encounters a day with people crossing between ports of entry. That was down dramatically from the more than 10,000 daily average immediately before. Between the migrants who rushed to cross the border in the days before the U.S. policy change and Mexico’s efforts to move others to the country’s interior, shelters in northern border cities currently find themselves below capacity. In southern Mexico, however, shelters for migrants are full and the government is busing hundreds of migrants more than 200 miles north to relieve pressure in Tapachula near Guatemala. The government has also said it deployed hundreds of additional National Guard troops to the south last week. ——Press Democrat news services

tures passed measures after the wave of protests in 2020 against institutional racism and police brutality, seeking to more severely punish demonstrators. Shropshire, whose group works to increase African American political engagement and voter turnout, said the issue reinforces the GOP’s long-standing commitment to “protecting whiteness, which is what this is fundamentally about.” As for Democrats, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York tweeted before charges were filed that Neely’s “murderer” was being “protected” while “many in power demonize the poor.” New York Mayor Eric Adams called Neely’s death a “tragedy that never should have happened” but warned against irresponsible statements before all the facts are known. Rafael Mangual, head of research for policing and public safety at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative New York think tank, said the case features deep legal ambiguity that many people from both parties are overlooking. “I’ve been very put off to the degree by which politicians on the left have decried Daniel Penny a murderer and politicians on the right have come out and said, ‘This is what we need to do,’ Mangual said. “I don’t want to live in a world in which maintaining public order falls to everyday straphangers.” There was no such hesitation from Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who called Penny a “hero,” or Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, who dubbed Penny a “Subway Superman” and once offered an internship to Rittenhouse. Trump, now running for president for a third time, said this week that he hadn’t seen the video but told The Messenger that he thought Penny “was in great danger and the other people in the car were in great danger.” Helping fuel Republican anger is the fact that Penny’s case is being handled by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is leading the prosecution of Trump on charges he paid

hush money to cover up an affair during his 2016 presidential campaign. “We must defeat the Soros-Funded DAs, stop the Left’s pro-criminal agenda, and take back the streets for law abiding citizens,” tweeted DeSantis, who is preparing to announce his 2024 presidential bid, repeating false claims that billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros orchestrated Trump’s indictment. “We stand with Good Samaritans like Daniel Penny,” DeSantis wrote, including a link to a fundraising page for Penny. “Let’s show this Marine... America’s got his back.” Former ambassador Haley told Fox News Channel that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, should pardon Penny. Ramaswamy donated to the defense fund for Penny via GiveSendGo, a site that also raised funds to support the insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol on the day Babbitt was killed. It has collected around $2 million in donations for Penny.

‘A Good Samaritan helps’ During Neely’s funeral Friday, the Rev. Al Sharpton offered an indirect response to Penny’s supporters, saying that “a Good Samaritan helps those in trouble, they don’t choke them out.” Williams, an ombudsman who can investigate citizen complaints about agencies and services, said prominent Republicans have been capitalizing politically on violence with racial overtones since 1988 political ads featuring Willie Horton, a Black murderer who raped a white woman while on a weekend furlough from prison. He also noted that many of the people now contributing to Penny’s defense fund also are likely to have supported cutting social programs that might have benefited people like Neely. “These folks are not saying, ‘Let’s let it play out, see what happens,’” Williams said. “They’re immediately making someone a hero who killed someone on a train who was screaming and yelling about being hungry.”

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McCarthy sees no progress on debt By STEVEN T. DENNIS AND BILLY HOUSE BLOOMBERG NEWS

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy accused the White House of backtracking in talks on raising the U.S. debt limit and said he doesn’t expect any progress until President Joe Biden returns to Washington from a Group of Seven summit in Japan. “I don’t think we’re going to be able to move forward until the president can get back into the country,” McCarthy told reporters at the Capitol on Saturday. “Just from the last day to today they’ve moved backwards. They actually want to spend more money than we spend this year.” McCarthy’s comments confirmed a renewed shift in tone to mutual recrimination after the White House suggested earlier Saturday that Republicans were negotiating in bad faith. The clock ticking is with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen having said the U.S. could lose its ability to pay all its bills by June 1. Biden signaled earlier Saturday that he remains confident the U.S. government can avoid a catastrophic default. Republicans and the White House are battling over spending cuts, which GOP lawmakers demand as the price for raising the federal borrowing limit. “We have to spend less than we spend this year,” McCarthy said, repeating his bottom-line demand. Lawmakers are stepping up their attacks on each other as talks have stalled — despite showing signs of progress earlier in the week. “I think that Bernie Sanders and the socialist wing of their party has

had real effect on the president, especially with him being out of the country,” McCarthy said. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a press briefing from Hiroshima, Japan, on Saturday that there were “real differences between the two sides.” And Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said House Republicans were “taking the American economy hostage,” and portrayed the GOP caucus as beholden to right-wing members. For a deal to succeed, cuts must be significant enough to pacify conservative Republicans, who have backed McCarthy’s speakership on the condition that he extract serious spending reforms without raising taxes or slashing military spending and veterans benefits. But a plan also has to be palatable to Democrats, who hold a Senate majority and will likely need to provide between 50 and 100 votes in the House. Few in the president’s party want to see domestic programs cut, especially without corresponding cuts to the Pentagon budget or the closing of tax loopholes used by the wealthy and large corporations. The president has already de-facto retreated from his pledge not to negotiate over raising the debt ceiling. The debt limit fight, which could trigger a first-ever U.S. payments default, threatens to inflict pain on the global economy. It has shadowed Biden’s overseas trip and the president previously decided to cut his travels short in order to return to Washington for the final stages of negotiation. Biden is scheduled to return to Washington late Sunday.

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet at the Grand Prince Hotel on Saturday during the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan. STEFAN ROUSSEAU ASSOCIATED PRESS

UKRAINE CONTINUED FROM B1 sooner or later Ukraine would need the new fighters as part of a long-term program to deter Russia from invading anew, and decided they should get out ahead of the effort. But the planes would have little utility in the present stage of the war, where urban warfare rather than air warfare has dominated. Zelenskyy arrived in Japan just as the head of the Wagner paramilitary group said his forces had captured the devastated city of Bakhmut on Saturday, suggesting that the monthslong struggle to control it was over. The Ukrainian military rejected the claim by the mercenary group’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is prone to making bombastic remarks. Much of the discussion in Hiroshima in the past two days has focused on cracking down on sanctions evasion, as countries seeking to play both sides of the war — including India and the United Arab Emirates — have done nothing to curtail a black market trade in semiconductors and materials needed by Russia to keep fighting the war. Biden and Zelenskyy —

and most of the core members of the G-7 — appear intent on maximizing Russia’s pain until it comes to the bargaining table and retreats from Ukrainian territory. While they deny a new Cold War is underway, the surge in sanctions announced over the past two days seems a modern version of the containment strategy that guided the West’s confrontation with the Soviet Union, which collapsed more than three decades ago. This was the first time Zelenskyy has taken his diplomatic tour to Asia, and he landed late Saturday afternoon in the city known to the world for having resurrected itself, in a monumental reconstruction task akin to what many believe Ukraine will have to undertake. A red carpet had been rolled out on the tarmac of an airport in Hiroshima, where live footage on the public broadcaster, NHK, showed Zelenskyy stepping off a French plane in his olive green hoodie. He was immediately whisked away in a black sedan. “Japan. G7. Important meetings with partners and friends of Ukraine,” Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter shortly after landing. “Security and enhanced cooperation for our victory. Peace will become clos-

er today.” Zelenskyy’s visit to Japan for the G-7 meeting followed the trip to Saudi Arabia, where he urged Arab leaders meeting there not to turn a “blind eye” to Russian atrocities in Ukraine. His appearance was arranged after Zelenskyy expressed a “strong desire” to participate in the summit face-to-face, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The visit is the latest in a flurry of trips outside Ukraine to shore up support before an anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive. The leaders — besides Biden, they include the heads of government from Japan, Canada, Britain, France, Germany and Italy; and a top European Union official — will be talking over the weekend about all dimensions of Russia’s war in Ukraine. In addition to questions of when and how to provide Ukraine with the F-16 fighter jets, they may also discuss the possibility of negotiations over an armistice or peace treaty. The G-7 leaders have already pledged at the summit to toughen punishments on Russia and redouble efforts to choke off funding for its war. But they will have to do so without Biden, who cut short his stay to return to

Washington for debt and spending talks. Biden had been scheduled to fly from Japan to Papua New Guinea, where he was to meet with a phalanx of island leaders Monday before heading to Sydney. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia had also arranged for Biden to address Parliament in Canberra and host a meeting of the so-called Quad: the United States, Australia, India and Japan. Now the Quad meeting will happen in Hiroshima on Saturday night instead. Papua New Guinea will get a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Other island leaders will get an invitation to Washington. And Albanese will get a state dinner at the White House this fall, making him the fourth foreign leader to be honored with a state visit since Biden took office. “I truly apologize to you for having to meet here instead of coming to Australia, but we have a little thing going on at home,” Biden told Albanese on Saturday at a hurriedly arranged meeting in Hiroshima after the Australian leader flew north rather than hosting the U.S. president as originally planned. Albanese was gracious. “Certainly, I understand the circumstances,” he told Biden.

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Cate Ogata

May 25, 1932 - May 17, 2023 During the winter of 1945, 13 year-old Cathleen O’Malley astonished the unsuspecting citizens of Wilmette, Ill. by deftly ice skating down a 60-foot long, 30-degree pitched toboggan run near the south shore of Lake Michigan. “She was the talk of the town for that winter season,” her brother Charlie recalled. It was just one of many impressive, if not surprising feats Cate Ogata would manage during her life. She died May 17, 2023. She was 90. Born in Brooklyn N.Y. on May 25, 1932, Cate grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. She attended nearby Quincy College where she met Robert Sweeney. The two were married in 1953, as Bob embarked on his career with the U.S. Marines Corps. Life as a Marine’s wife was challenging. In a 2014 interview, Cate recounted that in 1958 “we were living in WWII Quonset hut housing on Mare Island in Vallejo. The housing was the pits; there were mice and termites.” The Sweeneys kept the legs of the crib their baby Mary slept in set in large coffee cans filled with water to keep ants from reaching her, Cate recalled. In 1965, and now the mother of four children and stationed at the Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps base in Oahu, Hawaii, Cate suffered a devastating blow when her husband Bob died while on duty in Viet Nam. At that juncture, the lives of Cate and her children would have been quite different were it not for the unflagging support from her parents, her mother-in-law, her siblings, and their spouses. Cate moved her family to Encinitas, Calif. in to be near her sister Patsy’s family. In 1966, she took a job as bookkeeper with a fledging manufacturer, Hansen Surfboards, despite lacking any real-world accounting experience. In 1968, she moved her family to Santa Rosa, Calif. to be near her parents, Charlie and Madge, and her brother Jim, and his family. It took a bit of time, but it was in Santa Rosa that Cate hit her stride. She purchased a home in 1968, one in which she would live in for 34 years and raise her family. She worked at the Santa Rosa YMCA during the early 1970s, as it transitioned into its current College Ave. location. She was Cub Scout Den Mother, a precursor to later volunteerism. She met Tom Ogata in the late 1970s and the two were married in 1979 until his death in 1998. A lifetime learner, she earned her B.A. in English from Sonoma State University in 1983 at age 51. It was during the mid 1990s that Cate immersed herself in volunteer work. She took great pride in her efforts with the Home Hospice bereavement volunteer program. In addition to working with with clients, she also provided training to new bereavement volunteers. Cate also was involved in the Sonoma County Library’s Adult Literacy program at the Sonoma County Jail.

In 2002, Cate made the yet another astonishing choice: she opted to move onto the Spring Lake Village campus. She established deep, lasting relationships with residents and staff there during her two-decade residency. She also continued her volunteering ways, tutoring English as a Second Language staffers at SLV to read and write. Cate also sat on SLV’s resident-driven Estate Sales committee and worked hard to streamline the program. She relished her roles as the campus’ flower arranging instructor and manager of the facility’s video lending library. Cate was a competitive Bridge player, too—perhaps not as good as her brother Charlie—but she won her share of tricks. She was an avid crossword puzzler, as well. She also played ping pong into her late seventies. “I don’t keep score any more,” she said in 2010, “I just play.” Cate embraced the arts. She’d make frequent trips to San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum and was a long-time supporter of Santa Rosa Junior College’s Summer Repertory Theatre. She also dabbled in landscape painting. A voracious reader, a book was never far from her reach. She favored biographies but also enjoyed fiction—just not Hemingway. Cate also embraced the digital age. She was a master of her tablet, tapping her stylus on the device with the precision of a surgeon, as she navigated the internet. In the months prior to her death, she became expert in voice dictation of emails to her family and DMs to her Instagram followers. Cathleen Ryan O’Malley Sweeney Ogata is survived by her brother, Charles O’Malley (Ellen), her sister-in-law, Karen O’Malley, two daughters: Mary Alcocer (Tony) and Anne Marie Sweeney, and two sons: Michael Sweeney (Monica) and Mark Sweeney. She is also survived by seven cherished grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren, with a ninth on her way come August, as well as several nieces and nephews. Her sister, Patricia Gowland (George), and brother, James O’Malley, preceded her in death. A memorial service for Cate will be held May 25, 2023, at 4 p.m. at the Spring Lake Village Chapel in Santa Rosa. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests making a donation to the Sonoma County Library Adult Literacy Program in Cate’s name.

Keith Frederick Graham

August 15, 1942 - April 14, 2023 Keith Frederick Graham was born in Colusa August 15th, 1942, and passed away April 14th, 2023. He grew up in Santa Rosa and he attended Santa Rosa High where he discovered a passion for FFA. Keith loved hunting, fishing, and riding horses. He was a member of Operating Engineers Local 3 for 50 years as he was a lifelong equipment mechanic. He is survived by his wife of 50 years Kathy Graham. His sister, Linda (Mario) Gonzalez. His children, Stephen (Kathy) Graham, Shari (William) Cordez, Denise Lee, Elizabeth (Irving) Kaasch. His grandchildren, Gina Boatwright, Karlie, Kailie, Kyle, Klayton Kaasch and Patrick Lynch. His great-grandchildren, Weston and Brody Lewis. He is also survived

by his beloved dog, Maple. There will be a memorial service June 3rd, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. at Saint Coleman’s Outdoor Church with a reception to follow at the family’s home from 12:304:00 p.m. The family requests that donations in Keith’s memory be made to Sutter Hospice.

GRAHAM, Keith Frederick HODSKINS, Paul David KISER, William MARVIER, Philip Donald MCKOY, William Gordon NYE, Deborah Kay

Ben Whitaker

(“the best puckin’ fickles you ever ate”) and took blue ribbons at the fair for his efforts. He brewed beer until you could not tell his beer from that of famous breweries. He built fishing rods and invented lures to attract kokanee salmon in Stampede Reservoir — a feat that landed him on the cover of a magazine. He took up shooting trap and sporting clays until he earned perfect scores and the Presidency at a local gun club. He cooked in cast iron, a tradition he blamed on his mother and Fanny Farmer from his childhood days in Missouri and Utah. Ben believed that a thing isn’t worth doing unless you do it well. His end-of-semester BBQs with carbon soot and Randy Travis wafting in the air were legendary. There are trucks and trailers and motorcycles (and people) that have escaped the trash heap thanks to Ben. When a repair shop told you that a crack in your aluminum engine block was beyond repair, you took it to Ben. He repaired it. Then, you took the engine back to the repair shop just to show off. Ben’s boat (and your trailers, trucks, homes, and cabins) shine with his “Cal custom” touches in stainless steel and aluminum. He could have launched his own version of Sierra Nevada Brewing. He could have launched a career as a boat manufacturer. Instead, he unselfishly launched the careers of others, then watched them fabricate and flourish from beneath his own welding helmet, emblazoned with the Jack Daniels logo. He was proud of you. He made you feel like an adopted child. Ben is also survived by siblings, many children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and innumerable friends. Ben Whitaker — the stuff of a Jack London novel. There is so much more to tell. In lieu of flowers, plant a garden. Come celebrate Ben’s life at noon on Saturday, June 24, Gold Ridge Fire Department, 1690 Watertrough Road in Sebastopol. Please RSVP by email at 1941BOW@gmail.com by June 20th with the number of guests that will be attending. Wear your cleanest blue jeans.

OGATA, Cate VELLUTINI, Mark WATERMAN, Lorna WEBB, Mary WELLS, John Dale WHITAKER, Ben

John Dale Wells

November 18, 1949 - April 27, 2023

John Dale Wells left us far too soon on April 27th, 2023. John was born November 18, 1949, to Orville William Wells Jr. and Mary Jean (Person) Wells in Alliance, Nebraska. John was the second oldest of 6 brothers. His father was employed by Burlington Northern Railroad, so the family moved around the country from Nebraska to Texas and eventually landed in Hannibal Missouri where he graduated from High School. With a low draft number, John voluntarily joined the Army after high school and served in Germany with the Army Security Agency through which he obtained Top-Secret Security Clearance. Upon Army discharge, he returned to Omaha Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and majored in Business. In Omaha he met his future wife, Mary Beth (Ekren) Wells from Santa Rosa, who was completing post graduate work at University of Nebraska Medical Center. While in Europe and during college, John developed a passion and expertise in photography and photofinishing. He began his career managing a variety of specialty and commercial photofinishing labs, eventually becoming a Vice President with Kodak. As the photofinishing industry wound down, John was able to turn his lifelong hobby of gardening into his next career. Combining his management skills and love of gardening he opened a small business ‘Wells and Company: A Garden to Kitchen Store’ in Wildwood, Missouri. The business was housed in a historic 100-year-old building on the original Route 66. Creating and running this business was a true passion for John who “loved going to work every single day.” John and Mary Beth (Ekren) were married in Santa Rosa in 1981. They lived and raised their

family in the Midwest in Omaha, Kansas City, and St. Louis. After their children completed college, John sold the business and they moved to Santa Rosa in 2009. In retirement, John became a Master Gardener with Sonoma County UC Extension and volunteered regularly with many community garden projects. Additionally, he created his own spectacular vegetable and flower garden at home. John and Mary Beth shared a wonderful life exploring their passions for travel, food, gardening, having fun, and spending time with friends and family. John never forgot his midwestern roots and was a lifelong University of Nebraska Cornhusker Football and Kansas City Royals Baseball fan. John will be forever missed by his wife Mary Beth of 42 years, son Matthew, daughter Elizabeth (Greg) and grandchildren, Wyatt, Elliott, Palmer, and Mabel. He is also survived by his brothers: Bill (Judy), Tom (Sherry), David (Deb), Daniel, and numerous nephews and nieces. John is preceded in death by his parents and brother Steve. John was a wonderful husband, father, and friend, who will be remembered for his sense of humor and appreciation for life. ‘Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same.’ With heartfelt thanks, tributes can be made to Harvest for the Hungry Garden, 1717 Yulupa Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95405, or your charity of choice. Funeral Services will be held at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Friday May 26th. Visitation and viewing at 10 am, Service at 11 am, with interment at Santa Rosa Memorial Cemetery for family following the service.

William “Bill” Gordon McKoy February 28, 1935 - April 18, 2023

William “Bill” Gordon McKoy, age 88, passed away at his home on April 18, 2023. February 25, 1961 - May 15, 2023 He was born in Jefferson City, Tennessee on February 28, 1935, It is with deep sorrow that son of William Gordon McKoy we announce the death of Mark and Gladys McMahan McKoy. In Vellutini, who passed away 1967, while serving in the U.S. peacefully on May 15, 2023 at Air Force at Cigli Air Force Base the age of 62. Born Mark Albert in Turkey, Bill met the love of his Vellutini on February 25, 1961, life, Maryl “May” T. McKoy. They in Sebastopol, CA, to Albert were married in England on May and Patricia Vellutini, Mark 15, 1970. grew up in Healdsburg, CA, Bill was preceded in death and attended St. John’s Catholic by his wife May, but is survived School, Healdsburg High School by his daughter, Heather McKoy and Santa Rosa Junior College. Shumaker (Erik Richard); grandMark was a devoted father fan. He also enjoyed hunting and children, Emily Grace and Jack to his two sons, Matthew and fishing with his family. Mark had Ryan Shumaker; and by numerous Dominic. They made their home a wonderful sense of humor and cousins. in Cloverdale, CA, where Mark a special way of making people Bill grew up on a family farm worked for the family business, Tri laugh and smile. Mark is survived in Rutledge, Tennessee, and he Valley Vineyard Management, for by his former wife Leslee Vellutini, joined the U.S. Air Force and 26 years. He was an outstandtwo sons Matthew and Dominic became a pilot straight out of ing athlete from a young age, Vellutini, father Albert Vellutini, college. He was stationed overseas excelling in baseball and football. brother Michael Vellutini (Cheryl), when he met May, and they He began his sports career with sister Kristine Koch (Bill), and enjoyed exploring different parts Peanut League baseball and Pop nephews Riley, Casey, and Cody of the world together. In 1981, Bill Warner football and continued Koch. Mark was predeceased by retired from the U.S. Air Force as playing all the way through the his mother Patricia Vellutini. A a Lieutenant Colonel and the famJC, where his aspirations were Catholic memorial service will be ily moved to Sonoma, California, cut short by a knee injury. He held at St. John the Baptist Church where he enjoyed gardening, enjoyed coaching and watching in Healdsburg on Saturday, May tinkering with machinery, playing his boys’ sporting events, as 27, 2023, at 11:00am. In lieu of bridge with May, serving as an well as being a lifelong, ardent flowers, please send a donation to usher at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Oakland Raiders and Oakland A’s your favorite charity. Church, reading the morning

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newspaper, visiting with friends, spending time with his grandchildren, etc. A beloved husband, father, and grandfather, and a kind friend to all, Bill will be sorely missed by all who knew him. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, May 28, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, 9000 Sonoma Highway, Kenwood, California. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a memorial contribution to a charity of your choice, or to one of Bill’s favorites in his honor (St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, 100 St. Jude’s Street, Boulder City, NV 89005 and/or Pet’s Lifeline, 19686 Eighth St. E., Sonoma, CA 95476).

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Life Tributes Paul David Hodskins Paul David Hodskins of Sonoma, CA passed away March 22, 2022, at the age of 73 after a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). David loved celebrating beginnings: Spring flowers on the verge of blooming. The start of Fall harvest. Sunrise on the deck, cappuccino in hand. Diving into a new recipe. Food, wine, music, travel. Most of all, college basketball and his beloved Duke Blue Devils, filled his heart. Trips that magically bundled up all his passions were pure joy. The power of the spoken and written word was part of David’s DNA. It’s what drew him to a career in advertising, but most of all fueled his love of books and the power of a story (and joke!) well told. His heart and humor were big— and generous; his timing and delivery impeccable. David had an insatiable curiosity and warmth that drew people in, and always had ‘em leaning in for more. His “tribe” of friends dated back to his high school days in Cooperstown NY, it grew bigger at Duke, and bigger still in the Bay Area and most recently Sonoma. Laughter and love were the golden threads that bound friends and family to David—and each other. Born August 10, 1948, in Jeffersonville, Indiana to James and Louise Hodskins, David was one of four boys. Starting in Kentucky, moving through Atlanta, Cooperstown, and finally New Jersey, David’s youth was full of happiness and curiosity. In high school, he had a life-changing year in Cooperstown, where he met a group friends he would stay connected to for six decades. David received a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University (1970), and a Masters in Education from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Soon after graduating from Duke, some of the Cooperstown gang reunited in Durham. They grew organically into a living group known as Monkeytop. For years, this home served as gathering place of friends, ideas, sports, nightly dinners and living together as one. The connecting forces were friendship, love and a shared history. Many memories and experiences

came from these years – and this magical place. David, along with close friends and business associates, Dave “Doc” Searls and Ray Simone, formed Hodskins Simone & Searls, an advertising agency based in Durham, North Carolina. Within a few years, the agency was serving high tech clients nationwide; David went West to the heart of Silicon Valley where client demand was plentiful. He served as agency president, responsible for firm culture, vision and employee morale. Tough and fair, most of all David saw—and helped nourish—the potential in people around him. The award-winning agency was acquired—giving David a meaningful career break allowing him time at home with his young daughter, Rachel. In 2004 he turned his sights toward investment management becoming a registered financial advisor and in 2006 launched Hodskins Financial Management, helping clients set and reach retirement goals. While living in Burlingame, David was set up on a blind date—a date that extended to an Eiffel Tower proposal, and marriage to Kathleen Kendrick. True partners, their love of travel, discovering new foods and local Sonoma gourmet spots filled their days, along with a deep passion for gardening and building a home together in Sonoma. Another great benefit for moving to Sonoma was for David to be closer to Rachel in her journey to joy and independence. David is survived by wife Kathleen; daughter Rachel Hodskins; brothers, James Michael (Mike, since deceased) Hodskins, Roger Hodskins (Joan) and Steven Hodskins (Liza); nieces, nephews, and dozens of lifelong friends.

Louis Berl Louis Berl was born May 21, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York and died May 13, 2023, one week shy of his 88th birthday. He died of natural causes attended by his children and his wife. Lou attended Midwood High School and Brooklyn College. He had many successful years manufacturing children’s wear in New York. In 1979 he and his family moved to San Diego and he changed careers to become a financial broker. He retired in 2000 from PaineWebber after 25 years in a job he loved. In retirement he enjoyed travel, woodworking, and cooking, which he did daily, always trying something new, usually Italian pasta of some sort. Lou and his wife Benay had three children while living in Massapequa on Long Island and enjoyed time at their beach house in West Hampton where there were many happy hours sailing in his sailboat and eating clams and mussels picked fresh from the bay. In 1984 Lou met and later married Diane Beattie Schade and

May 14, 1953 - April 10, 2023

William “Bill” Kiser

October 7, 1930 - May 7, 2023

William (Bill) Kiser passed away peacefully at his home in Sonoma with his Family by his side on Sunday, May 7 th , 2023. Bill was born in Napa, California on October 7, 1930. His family moved to Sonoma in 1943. He graduated from Sonoma Valley High School in 1948 where he was Student Body President. In 1951 Bill was called to serve his country in the Army during (David); grandchildren Katie, pies on Veteran’s Day and cutting the Korean War. He achieved Sergeant First Class and was Greg, and Isabel; and brother out coupons for service men and awarded the Service Medal with Don. Bill was preceded in death women. After her mother passed a Bronze Service Star, a United by his parents Ferd and Iva; away, she moved to an assisted brothers Rich and Bob; and sister group home where she was given Nations service medal, and a Ruth Kiser Sweet. Bill’s dream many duties and her brother took Combat Infantryman’s Badge. He was to spend his life outdoors, her on special outings. Her favor- presented a surprise gift to his ite place was the local McDonalds family when he arrived home from which he accomplished by being a farmer, raising oat hay and grain where her favorite meal was a fish Korea on Christmas Eve 1952. In 1964, he was introduced for more than 60 years. sandwich and Sprite. to a local teacher Cecile Boom. Bill was laid to rest at the In 2012 her sister Pat asked Veterans Memorial Park in her brother if Debbie could come He and Cecile later married and Sonoma, CA. to live with her in California. She celebrated their 58 th wedding anniversary last December. then lived with Pat in Sonoma Bill is survived by his wife County until 2023 at her home Cecile, children Patrick, Matthew and in a Board and Care Home (Elena), and Kathleen Welch in Rohnert Park, and finally a residential home in Santa Rosa named Lovejoy’s Greenhouse. She enjoyed multiple trips to Disneyland and participated October 3, 1937 - May 8, 2023 in many activities including art classes, water aerobics, and acIt is with great sadness that we commodating Pat on her volunteer activities and meetings. She was a announce the passing of Lorna part of the activities and financial Marlene Waterman at the age of support from North Bay Regional 85. She was born in Bellingham, Washington on October 3, Center. For the last few months, 1937. She spent her early years she was under the excellent care in Washington before her family of Sutter Hospice. moved down the coast. They She loved life and everyone spent time in Oregon and different and everything in it. Her favorite cities in California before finally expression was “Be Happy”. settling in Oakland. In 1954, she She is predeceased by her parents, Warren and Esther Nye, met her husband, Phil Waterman, at her sister’s wedding. They were and her time in the classroom and survived by her sister Pat Anderson and brother Barry Nye. married shortly after and in 1955 was an extension of that. She enjoyed traveling and has been A celebration of life will be held at moved to Petaluma. Phil and Lorna had three children, Phil Jr. to many places in the U.S. and a later time. (Wendy), Julie and Keith (Gina). the world. She spent her 60th Lorna was a fantastic mother and birthday in Hong Kong. She grandmother. While she was a was also a fantastic cook and strict mother, she seemed to have baker. Her Christmas cookies and lost that once she had grandkids cheese balls were world famous. and took great joy in spoiling Her legacy of holiday meals and them. Julie was born in 1957 traditions continue to inspire close with Down’s Syndrome and this family ties. She also enjoyed January 19, 1935 - April 14, 2023 was her defining time as a mother. spending time in her garden. There were not a lot of resources Lorna was predeceased by her Born in Santa Rosa, CA in in those days and Lorna searched parents, Henry and June Stiglitz, 1935, Alfred passed away on for any programs to aid Julie in her husband of 67 years, Phil, April 14th, 2023, at his home in her development. Julie went on to and her daughter, Julie. She is Windsor, CA. His childhood was have a truly fantastic life thanks to survived by her sons and her spent on the family ranch which Lorna’s efforts and advocacy. grandchildren, Jacob, Lindsay, grew hops, prunes and grapes, Lorna worked as a teacher’s Andrew and Alexandria. We will where hard work and good fun aide in special education for many miss her very much. No services existed in equal measures. He years. Her greatest joy was to will be held at this time. attended Olivet School when it be a mother and grandmother was a two-room schoolhouse and Santa Rosa High, leaving early because, as his dad said, “you’re only going there to eat your to laugh and have fun, whether lunch”. He began a five decade February 6, 1945 - May 14, 2023 it was holding challenging Easter career in the poultry industry, egg hunts, epic water fights or starting at Fulton Processors, Passed away suddenly backyard BBQs with family and where he met a young Beverly, friends. He took his kids, and later on Sunday, May 14, 2023, who would later become his little surrounded by his loving family. grandkids, on drives throughout bride. In 1960, he would start Francis was born on Feb. 6, the county, talking about the Cameron and Mercer Trucking changing landscape and sharing 1945, in Malta. He came to the with his best friend Fred, hauling stories of his childhood. “Making US 50 years ago with his beloved live poultry. Eventually becoming wife, Theresa. Along with his the loop” could be an all day Cameron and Cameron, the com- affair at times and he continued to wife, Francis was the cherished pany branched out into hauling father of Alison (David) Boyle, make it until the end of his days. lumber and grapes and providing Al was preceded in death by his Maria Grima, Josephine Grima vineyard and lumber supplies on and Mark Grima. He was the wife of 61 years, Bev, his son, the corner of Fulton and River Ken, his parents, Bruce and Ruby devoted Nannu of Hunter, LeeAnn Roads. Al enjoyed the time visiting Cameron and his siblings Virginia, and Jagger. Francis was also a A funeral mass will be celewith everyone who drove through Bruce and Ed. He’s survived by loving brother-in-law to John Rapa brated on Tuesday, May 30th at those gates. In the 1970’s Al and and uncle to Carol (Jeff) Lucia, his children Al, Clyde, LeeAnn 12:00 noon at St. James Catholic Bev bought ten acres that had (Steve), Barbara and Gerry (Kari); Christine (Jeff) Pieper, George Church 125 Sonoma Mountain been part of the original Cameron his 14 grandchildren and 10 great Pieper, Margaret Pieper, Vincent Parkway, Petaluma, CA 94954 Ranch and planted Sunny Valley grandchildren; his sister, Dorothy Lucia and Sophia Lucia, along with interment to follow at Calvary Vineyard. Driving his Kubota with numerous extended family and many nieces and nephews. Cemetery in Petaluma. There down the rows was a familiar outside of California who he Our family would like to express will be a reception at St. James sight to many traveling on River loved dearly. Francis is preceded Catholic church immediately our heartfelt gratitude to the Rd. Just as many hours were in death by his sisters Carmen caregivers whose patience and following the interment. spent sitting under the oak tree Attard, Tessie Campbell, Emily compassion allowed Al to pass by Cameron Creek, visiting with Rapa and his brother Joseph peacefully at his home. In lieu of whomever stopped by. He was flowers, the family suggests dona- Grima. a member of the Russian River tions in his memory to the Farm Valley Winegrowers, where he Bureau Foundation of Sonoma relished being a part of the BBQ County and to Memorial Hospice. pit crew at the annual Grapes We’ll be gathering in June to to Glass and was a founding July 27, 1939 - May 9, 2023 celebrate Al’s life and to say hasta member of the Fulton 500 club. la vista. For those interested in atHe spent a great deal of his life Katherine Farley passed away tending, please contact the family hard at work but also knew how in Healdsburg, CA May 9, 2023, at bac1425630@gmail.com. after a long illness. She was 83 years old. Katherine was born and raised in New Orleans, LA and remained a loyal fan of all things Louisiana. Go Saints! Go LSU! September 14, 1935 - May 8, 2023 A long-time resident of San Philip Donald Marvier passed Francisco, Katherine was an adaway in Santa Rosa on May 8, ministrative assistant at the UCSF 2023, and is now at peace with Physiology Department. his wife of 40 years, the late June After many years of weekend Marvier. Philip was born and trips and part-time living in is survived by her husband of 30 raised in San Francisco, and is a Guerneville, Katherine and her years, John Farley, her sister Linda graduate of Sacred Heart High husband John retired full time to Karcher (Ronnie) of Chalmette, LA, School. He is lovingly survived Sonoma County 15 years ago. daughter Lisa Baggett (Brad) of by his children Cindy Russel, Keri They have lived in Sebastopol for Fairhope, AL, grandchildren Joey Vellis (Ted), and Dan Marvier the past 12 years. You could find and Isabel Baggett, and numerous (Melissa), and his 12 grandchilher scouring her favorite thrift nieces and nephews. dren. Phil will be remembered for shops every week in search of Private services will be held in his wonderful sense of humor and The Valley Catholic Church and hidden treasures. Chalmette, LA. generous spirit! Katherine was preceded in Celebration of Life following. Friends are invited to a death by her brother Robert Memorial Mass Friday, June 2, Schneider, sister, Gayle Theriot, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. Star of and brother, Tony Giallanza. She

Debbie left us one month before her 70th birthday. Her age is one example of the strong and vivacious personality she possessed. She was born at Hershey Hospital in Pennsylvania and diagnosed with Downs Syndrome. This diagnosis became a motivating factor to her family and with the help of her mother she became an example of what disabled persons could accomplish during their lives. She was enrolled in a trainable class until she was 16 and then spent two years in a Special Education Class at Lawn Elementary School which was closed and at 18 was sent to the Lebanon County Workshop. She applied for work at the B and H Pizza Co (a pizza factory) in Hershey PA. She worked there for 20 years until the company closed. She then went to work for Hershey Park in the wardrobe dept. until she and her mother decided to move to Mt. Home, Idaho to live close to her brother Barry. While still living in Pennsylvania she enjoyed many hobbies including horseback riding in a handicap division at horseshows winning many awards, miniature golf, ceramics, Bingo, crafts, swimming, fishing, and playing a musical instrument called a Boomba. After moving to Idaho, she became interested in golf. She had specially designed golf clubs that allowed her to become very good at putting and short drives. She joined the Special Olympics golf team where she won multiple awards at regional competitions in Sun Valley, ID. She loved playing the penny machines at the Casino in Jackpot, NV where she became so excited to hear the pennies dropping in the machine. Debbie and her mother joined the Red Hat Society and participated in many local events including the parades as a Red Hat Lady. They also volunteered for the Idaho State Veterans Home passing out pop-

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gained a step daughter. After his retirement he and Diane traveled and entertained with Lou as the chef most often. Lou leaves his children Steve Berl (Anita Bloch), Neil Berl (Andrea), Debra Berl (Steve Arce) and Megan Schade (Michael Ferch) and his beloved grandchildren Arieh, Joshua, Allison, Justin, Nathan, Zoe, Eliot and Tessa. Lou was a kind and generous man who enjoyed a bad joke and a good Chinese meal any time, any day. He will be greatly missed.

Bill “BJ” Cowan Bill Cowan, “BJ” sadly passed away in his home in Santa Rosa the evening of April 29, 2023 at the age of 77. Bill grew up in Marin County where he played football, and baseball at Drake High School. After high school he entered the army and served in Viet Nam and Germany. After leaving the army he had many interesting jobs around the country-- He played softball for General Motors, worked for Ohio Crain, tested fishing lures, among many others. He then returned to the North Bay and worked as a truck driver, hauling mainly wine and produce, traveling the Bay Area and all the Western states. He was a competitive bass fisherman and an avid Giants and 49er fan. He will be greatly missed by his wife, Debbie, brother, Jim and his wife Trish, his step-son, Kevin Barteaux, his wife Maria and all

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their children and grandchildren. And also his Shih Tzu, Spanky. All his friends and trucking and fishing buddies will miss his great stories and the fun and joy he brought to us all.

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LOANS CONTINUED FROM B1 Since Sri Lanka defaulted a year ago, a half-million industrial jobs have vanished, inflation has pierced 50% and more than half the population in many parts of the country has fallen into poverty. Experts predict that unless China begins to soften its stance on its loans to poor countries, there could be a wave of more defaults and political upheavals. “In a lot of the world, the clock has hit midnight,” said Harvard economist Ken Rogoff. “ China has moved in and left this geopolitical instability that could have long-lasting effects.” A case study of how it has played out is in Zambia, a landlocked country of 20 million people in southern Africa that over the past two decades has borrowed billions of dollars from Chinese state-owned banks to build dams, railways and roads. The loans boosted Zambia’s economy but also raised foreign interest payments so high there was little left for the government, forcing it to cut spending on healthcare, social services and subsidies to farmers for seed and fertilizer. In the past under such circumstances, big government lenders such as the U.S., Japan and France would work out deals to forgive some debt, with each lender disclosing

clearly what they were owed and on what terms so no one would feel cheated. But China didn’t play by those rules. It refused at first to even join in multinational talks, negotiating separately with Zambia and insisting on confidentiality that barred the country from telling non-Chinese lenders the terms of the loans and whether China had devised a way of muscling to the front of the repayment line. Amid this confusion in 2020, a group of non-Chinese lenders refused desperate pleas from Zambia to suspend interest payments, even for a few months. That refusal added to the drain on Zambia’s foreign cash reserves, the stash of mostly U.S. dollars that it used to pay interest on loans and to buy major commodities like oil. By November 2020, with little reserves left, Zambia stopped paying the interest and defaulted, locking it out of future borrowing and setting off a vicious cycle of spending cuts and deepening poverty. Inflation in Zambia has since soared 50%, unemployment has hit a 17-year high and the nation’s currency, the kwacha, has lost 30% of its value in just seven months. A United Nations estimate of Zambians not getting enough food has nearly tripled so far this year, to 3.5 million. “I just sit in the house thinking what I will eat because I have no money to buy food,” said Marvis Kunda, a blind 70-year-old widow in Zambia’s Luapu-

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Life Tributes Mary Webb

November 10, 1932 - April 9, 2023 Mary passed away peacefully at home after battling dementia for the last few years. She was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada to parents George and Ruth Panter. Mary received her Nursing Degree from the University of Toronto, and her Diploma in Nursing Education from Western University, London, Ontario. She worked for ten years as an RN in Canada, then moved to California in 1962. Mary worked at Franklin Hospital in San Francisco (Davies Medical Center) as the Intensive Care Unit Nursing Supervisor for ten years, where she met her husband, Eugene Webb, MD. Their son, Richard, was born in San Francisco in 1972. In 1974 the family moved to Sonoma along with her stepson, Eugene Webb Jr. She spent many hours volunteering at F.I.S.H. and Prestwood Elementary School, and was very involved with the community. She also greatly enjoyed playing with her grandchildren, gardening, knitting and reading. Mary was predeceased by

her husband, Eugene Webb in l994, her sister, Pat Simpson and brother Albert (Bud) Panter, and her step-daughter Barbara Webb Rother. She leaves behind her son, Richard, step-children Carolyn Webb Wagner and Eugene Webb, Jr. and many adored grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and great-grandchildren. Donations in her name would be appreciated to F.I.S.H. A celebration of her life will be held at a later date.

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People jostle one another to buy subsidized sacks of wheat flour in Quetta, Pakistan, on Jan. 12 after a recent price hike of flour in the country. la province whose welfare payments were recently slashed. “Sometimes I eat once a day and if no one remembers to help me with food from the neighborhood, then I just starve.” A few months after Zambia defaulted, researchers found that it owed $6.6 billion to Chinese stateowned banks, double what many thought at the time and about a third of the country’s total debt. “We’re flying blind,” said Brad Parks, executive director of AidData, a research lab at William & Mary that has uncovered thousands of secret Chinese loans and assisted the AP in its analysis. “When you look under the cushions of the couch, suddenly you realize, ‘Oh, there’s a lot of stuff we missed. And actually things are much worse.’”

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A vendor uses an improvised light at his fries stall in a market during a nationwide power breakdown Jan. 23 in Islamabad, Pakistan. “The economy contracts, tries suddenly much more inflation spikes up, food expensive. and fuel become unaffordAll of it is roiling domesable.” tic politics and upending Mohammad Tahir, who strategic alliances. was laid off six months ago In March, heavily infrom his job at a textile fac- debted Honduras cited tory in the Pakistani city “financial pressures” in of Multan, says he has con- its decision to establish templated suicide because formal diplomatic ties to Debt and upheaval he can no longer bear to China and sever those with China’s unwillingness to see his family of four go to Taiwan. take big losses on the hun- bed night after night withLast month, Pakistan dreds of billions of dollars out dinner. was so desperate to preit is owed, as the Interna“I’ve been facing the vent more blackouts that tional Monetary Fund and worst kind of poverty,” it struck a deal to buy disWorld Bank have urged, said Tahir, who was recent- counted oil from Russia, has left many countries ly told Pakistan’s foreign breaking ranks with the on a treadmill of paying cash reserves have deplet- U.S.-led effort to shut off back interest, which stifles ed so much that it was now Vladimir Putin’s funds. the economic growth that unable to import raw mateIn Sri Lanka, rioters would help them pay off rials for his factory. “I have poured into the streets last the debt. no idea when we would get July, setting homes of govForeign cash reserves our jobs back.” ernment ministers aflame have dropped in 10 of the Poor countries have been and storming the presidozen countries in AP’s hit with foreign currency dential palace, sending analysis, down an average shortages, high inflation, the leader tied to onerous 25% in just a year. They spikes in unemployment deals with China fleeing have plunged more than and widespread hunger be- the country. 50% in Pakistan and the fore, but rarely like in the China’s response Republic of Congo. With- past year. out a bailout, several counAlong with the usual The Chinese Ministry of tries have only months left mix of government mis- Foreign Affairs, in a stateof foreign cash to pay for management and corrup- ment to the AP, disputed food, fuel and other essen- tion are two unexpected the notion that China is tial imports. Mongolia has and devastating events: the an unforgiving lender and eight months left. Pakistan war in Ukraine, which has echoed previous stateand Ethiopia about two. sent prices of grain and ments putting the blame “As soon as the financ- oil soaring, and the U.S. on the Federal Reserve. It ing taps are turned off, the Federal Reserve’s decision said that if it is to accede adjustment takes place to raise interest rates 10 to IMF and World Bank deright away,” said Patrick times in a row, the latest mands to forgive a portion Curran, senior economist this month. That has made of its loans, so should those at researcher Tellimer. variable rate loans to coun- multilateral lenders, which it views as U.S. proxies. “We call on these institutions to actively participate in relevant actions in accordance with the principle of ‘joint action, fair burden’ and make greater contributions to help developing countries tide over the difficulties,” the ministry statement said. May 20, 1978—May 16, 2016 China argues it has offered relief in the form of extended loan maturities You are forever in our hearts and and emergency loans, and souls, and we miss you every hour as the biggest contributor of every day. You were smart, to a program to temporarfunny, and playful, a naturalist ily suspend interest payfrom birth, you knew all of the ments during the coronavibirds in flight. rus pandemic. It also says it has forgiven 23 no-interest Your family will mourn the loss of loans to African countries, your sweet creative soul every day though AidData’s Parks and will always love you. said such loans are mostly from two decades ago and amount to less than 5% of the total it has lent. In high-level talks in Washington last month, China was considering dropping its demand that the IMF and World Bank For information on how to submit a Life Tribute: forgive loans if the two lenders would make com• Visit our submission web page at mitments to offer grants www.pressdemocrat.com/news/obits and other help to troubled countries, according to various news reports. But in the weeks since there We regret that we cannot accept handwritten notices has been no announceor take submissions by phone. ment and both lenders

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have expressed frustration with Beijing. “My view is that we have to drag them — maybe that’s an impolite word — we need to walk together,” IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said earlier this month. “Because if we don’t, there will be catastrophe for many, many countries.” The IMF and World Bank say taking losses on their loans would rip up the traditional playbook of dealing with sovereign crises that accords them special treatment because, unlike Chinese banks, they already finance at low rates to help distressed countries get back on their feet. The Chinese foreign ministry noted, however, that the two multilateral lenders have made an exception to the rules in the past. As time runs out, some officials are urging concessions. Ashfaq Hassan, a former debt official at Pakistan’s Ministry of Finance, said his country’s debt burden is too heavy and time too short for the IMF and World Bank to hold out. He also called for concessions from private investment funds that lent to his country by purchasing bonds. “Every stakeholder will have to take a haircut,” Hassan said. One hopeful sign : The IMF on Wednesday announced approval of $3 billion in debt restructuring for Ghana, suggesting creditors can occasionally come to an agreement. China has also pushed back on the idea, popularized in the Trump administration, that it has engaged in “debt trap diplomacy,” leaving countries saddled with loans they cannot afford so that it can seize ports, mines and other strategic assets. On this point, experts who have studied the issue in detail have sided with Beijing. Chinese lending has come from dozens of banks on the mainland and is far too haphazard and sloppy to be coordinated from the top. If anything, they say, Chinese banks are not taking losses because the timing is awful as they face big hits from reckless real estate lending in their own country and a dramatically slowing economy. But the experts are quick to point out that a less sinister Chinese role is not a less scary one. “There is no single person in charge,” said Teal Emery, a former sovereign loan analyst who now runs consulting group Teal Insights. Adds AidData’s Parks about Beijing, “They’re kind of making it up as they go along. There is no master plan.”

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LOANS CONTINUED FROM B6 falsehoods from the authoritarian government. The hunt began in 2011 when a top World Bank economist asked Parks to take over the job of looking into Chinese loans. Within months, using online data-mining techniques, Parks and a few researchers began uncovering hundreds of loans the World Bank had not known about. China at the time was ramping up lending that would soon become part of its $1 trillion “Belt and Road Initiative” to secure supplies of key minerals, win allies abroad and make more money off its U.S. dollar holdings. Many developing countries were eager for U.S. dollars to build power plants, roads and ports and expand mining operations. But after a few years of straightforward Chinese government loans, those countries found themselves heavily indebted, and the optics were awful. They feared that piling more loans atop old ones would make them seem reckless to credit rating agencies and make it more expensive to borrow in the future. So China started setting up shell companies for some infrastructure projects and lent to them instead, which allowed heavily indebted countries to avoid putting that new debt on their books. Even if the loans were backed by the government, no one would be the wiser. In Zambia, for example, a $1.5 billion loan from two Chinese banks to a shell company to build a giant hydroelectric dam didn’t appear on the country’s books for years. In Indonesia, Chinese loans of $4 billion to help build a railway also never appeared on public government accounts. That all changed years later when, overbudget by $1.5 billion, the Indonesian government was forced to bail out

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A motorcyclist drives past sheep on a newly built road in Haripur, Pakistan, on Dec. 22, 2017. China launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013 to expand its trade and influence by building roads, ports and other infrastructure overseas. the railroad twice. “When these projects go bad, what was advertised as a private debt becomes a public debt,” Parks said. “There are projects all over the globe like this.” In 2021, a decade after Parks and his team began their hunt, they had gathered enough information for a blockbuster finding: At least $385 billion of hidden and underreported Chinese debt in 88 countries, and many of those countries were in far worse shape than anyone knew. Among the disclosures was that China issued a $3.5 billion loan to build a railway system in Laos, which would take nearly a quarter of the country’s annual output to pay off. Another AidData report around the same time suggested that many Chinese loans go to projects in areas of countries favored by powerful politicians and frequently right before key elections. Some of the

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Jumping the line As Parks dug into the details of the loans, he found something alarming: Clauses mandating

that borrowing countries deposit U.S. dollars or other foreign currency in secret escrow accounts that Beijing could raid if those countries stopped paying interest on their loans. In effect, China had jumped to the front of the line to get paid without other lenders knowing. In Uganda, Parks revealed a loan to expand the main airport included an escrow account that could hold more than $15 million. A legislative probe blasted the finance minister for agreeing to such terms, with the lead investigator saying he should be prosecuted and jailed. Parks is not sure how many such accounts have been set up, but governments insisting on any kind of collateral, much less collateral in the form of hard cash, is rare in sovereign lending. And their very existence has rattled non-Chinese banks, bond

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things built made little economic sense and were riddled with problems. In Sri Lanka, a Chinese-funded airport built in the president’s hometown away from most of the country’s population is so barely used that elephants have been spotted wandering on its tarmac. Cracks are appearing in hydroelectric plants in Uganda and Ecuador, where in March the government got judicial approval for corruption charges tied to the project against a former president now in exile. In Pakistan, a power plant had to be shut down for fear it could collapse. In Kenya, the last key miles of a railway were never built due to poor planning and a lack of funds.

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investors and other lenders and made them unwilling to accept less than they’re owed. “The other creditors are saying, ‘We’re not going to offer anything if China is, in effect, at the head of the repayment line,’” Parks said. “It leads to paralysis. Everyone is sizing each other up and saying, ‘Am I going to be a chump here?’”

‘Currency exchanges’ Meanwhile, Beijing has taken on a new kind of hidden lending that has added to the confusion and distrust. Parks and others found that China’s central bank has effectively been lending tens of billions of dollars through what appear as ordinary foreign currency exchanges. Foreign currency exchanges, called swaps, allow countries to essentially borrow more widely used currencies like the U.S. dollar to plug temporary

shortages in foreign reserves. They are intended for liquidity purposes, not to build things, and last for only a few months. But China’s swaps mimic loans by lasting years and charging higher-than-normal interest rates. And importantly, they don’t show up on the books as loans that would add to a country’s debt total. Mongolia has taken out $1.8 billion annually in such swaps for years, an amount equivalent to 14% of its annual economic output. Pakistan has taken out nearly $3.6 billion annually for years and Laos $300 million . The swaps can help stave off default by replenishing currency reserves, but they pile more loans on top of old ones and can make a collapse much worse, akin to what happened in the runup to 2009 financial crisis when U.S. banks kept offering ever-bigger mortgages to homeowners who couldn’t afford the first one. Some poor countries struggling to repay China now find themselves stuck in a kind of loan limbo: China won’t budge in taking losses, and the IMF won’t offer low-interest loans if the money is just going to pay interest on Chinese debt. For Chad and Ethiopia, it’s been more than a year since IMF rescue packages were approved in so-called staff-level agreements, but nearly all the money has been withheld as negotiations among its creditors drag on. “You’ve got a growing number of countries that are in dire financial straits,” said Parks, attributing it largely to China’s stunning rise in just a generation from being a net recipient of foreign aid to the world’s largest creditor. “Somehow they’ve managed to do all of this out of public view,” he said. “So unless people understand how China lends, how its lending practices work, we’re never going to solve these crises.”

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“The argument before the Supreme Court is not just about this one law. It is about the future of Indigenous nations.” AMY LONETREE, a professor of history at UC Santa Cruz, and a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin

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fore he realized that Chief Sunrise was not dressed remotely like a Navajo. Still, what he was missing — his culture, language, and people who looked like him — hovered around him like a heavy fog. And the discussion of how or why his parents had adopted a Native American child was off limits. “It was never, ever, a topic of conversation,” Stearns said.

CONTINUED FROM B1 In the 19th century, long after the first conquest of the tribes, federal officials routinely sent Native children to boarding schools to forcibly assimilate them. By the time Stearns was born, in 1964, those schools were being phased out, but the government continued to separate families by placing Native children in white adoptive and foster homes. After a decade of pressure from Native activists, Congress finally put an end to the removals with the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, a law that sought to keep Native children with their families, tribes, and Native communities. The future of that law is now in doubt. A white Texas family hoping to adopt a Native child has challenged the statute, arguing that it requires social-service agencies to discriminate on the basis of race. Oral arguments before the Supreme Court late last year made national headlines in a legal confrontation that, among other things, pits the desires of non-Native parents against the rights of a people targeted for extinction by European settlers. A ruling in the case is expected this spring, and could undo decades of efforts to keep Native children with Indigenous families. The origins of the landmark law can be traced to dueling advocacy groups. Their offices were just blocks from each other near Midtown Manhattan. Around the time that Chief Sunrise was offering blessings to a young Stearns, a politically active Queens College student named Bertram Hirsch had just taken a job as an assistant at the Association on American Indian Affairs, a nonprofit agency operating from an office at 28th and Park. It was 1968, and Hirsch was spending most of his workday researching the land claims of Alaska Natives at the New York Public Library. But that year, an urgent civil rights case diverted the attention of the small staff. The tribal chairman of the Devils Lake Sioux in North Dakota had called about an alarming incident. White county welfare officials had tried to remove a Native toddler from the care of the tribal grandmother who had raised him since birth, with the aim of placing him with a white doctor and his wife. “They barged in without any due process and tried to take the kid,” Hirsch recalled recently. “He was crying and hanging onto her and they still tried to take him because they said at 62, she was too old to be caring for a child. It was outrageous!” This injustice set Hirsch on a path that would define his career.

Fighting back Such treatment of Native parents and caretakers by white social workers was not uncommon, but the Devils Lake Sioux were among the first to fight back publicly. Members of the tribe, which is now called the Spirit Lake Tribe, traveled to New York for a news conference at the Indian Affairs office arranged that summer. A telegram alerting journalists to their arrival was clear about what they would report: “Child snatching from American Indian parents and coercion by starvation threat are charged against welfare agency by mothers delegation coming from a North Dakota reservation.” At the afternoon meeting before reporters, the Devils Lake group, mostly women, described the fear of tribal children, who hid in the

‘Cultural chauvinism’

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Bert Hirsch, an architect of the Indian Child Welfare Act and a lawyer who has worked in tribal law for over 40 years, at his home in Great Neck, New York. Childhood photos of Chris Stearns, an attorney and state representative who was placed at birth in foster care by his Navajo mother and later went to live with white evangelical parents in New Jersey.

A photo of Chris Stearns, right, who was placed at birth in foster care by his Navajo mother at a time when the government’s forced assimilation boarding schools for Native children had been phased out. Instead, they were separated from their Native families and communities by placing them in white adoptive and foster homes. woods or under their beds whenever they saw the approaching cars of county welfare officials. “White social workers were using their standards to judge how a child should live,” said Hirsch, who is now 76. “Were there conditions of poverty on Indian reservations? Yes — we’re talking about poor parts of the United States. But was there abuse? Almost never. But because the social workers weren’t used to seeing extended families in the same household, or seeing a little kid run around barefoot, they’d categorically declare ‘neglect.’” Over the next two years, Hirsch, who continued to work at the Indian Affairs agency once he entered New York University Law School, was asked to find out how widespread these removals were. By the end of 1969, his research revealed a stunning statistic: At that time, between 25% and 35% of all Native children had been removed from their families and communities. “It wasn’t just this isolated case in North Dakota,”

he said. “It was epidemic.” Hundreds of those removed Native children, including Stearns, had been swept up in a government program that was being run just blocks away from Hirsch’s office. In 1958, the federal government’s Bureau of Indian Affairs had contracted with the Child Welfare League of America, based in Manhattan at the time, to administer what would become the Indian Adoption Project. The project’s aim, according to internal documents at the time, was intended “to stimulate adoption of American Indian children by Caucasian families on a nationwide basis” and to evaluate them in comparison to the adoptions of other minority children. Today, such an idea sounds profoundly misguided, but it served some powerful interests. In the postwar years, the number of middle-class, mostly white parents who wished to adopt outstripped the number of infants surrendered for adoption by a wide margin. Some white couples, frustrated by yearslong

waits to adopt children who looked like them, became interested in adopting nonwhite children, and Native children proved especially appealing. Popular media promoted the idea. Glowing articles in newspapers (including The New York Times) and magazines fueled interest in the Indian Adoption Project, and similar programs that had proliferated elsewhere. A 1965 story in Good Housekeeping lauded the arrival of a Native boy at the home of a Staten Island couple; the article included the street address of the Child Welfare League of America. The agency had been so overwhelmed with queries — 1,500 from the magazine’s readers alone, more than six times the number it had received in previous years — that a civil servant claimed in a follow-up article a year later, “You’ve caused more havoc in the United States Post Office than Santa Claus!” The program was immensely popular in New York, which was already the center of a robust and lucrative adoption marketplace. Of the 395 Native children the Indian Adoption Project placed in white homes, the largest number, 74, were in New York. Another 29 were in New Jersey, including a Navajo boy who was placed in the care of Dr. Thornton Stearns and his wife, Patricia Stearns. Chris Stearns, now an attorney and Washington state representative in suburban Seattle, was born to an unmarried Navajo mother in Los Angeles who had little option but to surrender him at birth. After he spent two years in foster care, he was matched with the Stearns family of Riverton, New Jersey. Stearns recalled that his adoptive parents tried their best to give him a sense of his heritage. It would be years be-

For Hirsch and scores of Native activists demanding self-determination for tribes, the issue of Indian child removal was very much front of mind. In 1972, Hirsch became counsel for the Association on American Indian Affairs, and the stark statistics his organization had gathered led to a galvanizing moment, especially for the Native women who were behind the grassroots movement. “What was happening on Indian reservations was cultural chauvinism, pure and simple,” Hirsch said. “They weren’t doing the same thing to white poor folks.” Hirsch set to work, helping draft what would become the Indian Child Welfare Act. It established federal standards for removing Native children from their homes, and it required that priority to place them be given to Native families in order to reinforce the child’s tribal identity. After years of lobbying by Native activists, the law was passed in 1978. In the decades since, child welfare agencies have praised the law as a gold-standard practice for its role in preventing unnecessary government intrusion, protecting family relationships, and preserving cultural identity. “It is our right as Indian nations to raise our children,” said Sandy White Hawk, founder of the Minnesota-based First Nations Repatriation Institute, which serves Native people affected by adoption and foster care. Native communities, she said, have large extended families who work together to bring up children. “When a child is ripped from us, there is deep grief for everyone in our communities who has the responsibility to raise it.” White Hawk and her own relatives experienced this loss in the 1950s after she was taken from her family on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota and adopted by white missionaries. In the 1980s, she reunited with her family and tribe, and has worked as a child welfare advocate since. “This law has helped us return home,” said White Hawk, who is also the author of “A Child of the Indian Race,” a memoir. “It has helped us to reclaim our spiritual wealth as Indian people.” For Stearns, the road to connect with his Navajo self was long and uneven. Growing up in an evangelical Republican household, he had limited exposure to his culture. A painting of a Navajo boy holding a lamb hung in the living room where he was allowed to watch “The Brady Bunch,” “Sesame Street” and a handful of other G-rated shows. Music had even tighter rules. Glen Campbell was on the approved list, but John Denver was not. “His long hair made my mom suspicious,” Stearns said. Stearns said that his parents, who are both dead, never hid his adoption, and were proud that he was Navajo. On trips to New York City, the family would visit the National Museum for the American Indian in Upper Manhattan to look at the Heye Collection, which at the time had the world’s largest exhibition of Indigenous artifacts. A copy of “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” rested on the coffee table.

“They were never in it to break up a culture,” he said. “They were in it to show the love they had to a kid.” But Stearns could never breach a more personal chasm. “Whenever I asked about how I wound up with them, or who my mom was, there was just silence.” While the elder Stearnses were reluctant to discuss Chris’ past, they were clear about their desires for his future. Their dreams of his becoming a doctor, like generations of Stearns men before him, were dashed when Chris struggled in chemistry. But he did go to law school at Cornell University, where he found a Native community and politics that spoke to him. He grew his hair long, and traded the blue blazers of his youth for denim shirts. He joined Hobbs, Straus, a Washington, D.C., law firm that represents tribes, and he eventually settled in Seattle. In 2022, he was elected as a state representative from Auburn, where he lives with his wife, who is Tlingit. In the early 2000s, Stearns obtained his original California birth certificate. Decades-old secrecy laws in many states, including California, prohibit adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates. Stearns had to petition a judge to receive his, which arrived with some cryptic documents hospital social workers had written about his early days. “It was the weirdest feeling in the world, holding this 8-and-a-half-by-11 piece of paper that says, ‘This is who you are.’ I was so relieved. And I was so scared.” He learned that his mother had come to Los Angeles as a teenager from a small Navajo town as part of the Indian Relocation Act of 1956, a federal assimilation policy that encouraged Native people to leave their reservations for vocational training in cities. In Los Angeles, she worked as a dental aide and became pregnant by a Navajo man. Stearns had no luck tracing the common Navajo names on the documents, and for years let his search for his birth parents go fallow. But he recently resumed it, and hopes to find them, if they are still alive. “I guess I had a lot to work through,” he said.

Waiting on the court Stearns believes the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Indian Child Welfare Act will reverberate across America’s tribal communities. It is no accident that the word “race” does not appear in the original law; the argument at its core is built around tribal sovereignty and the preservation of Native communities. “For Native people, family is the most important thing — to be raised by your aunts and uncles along with your parents and grandparents,” he said. “That kinship, that clan system, determines everything.” Many advocates believe that the Indian Child Welfare Act case represents a grave threat to greater Native rights. Amy Lonetree, a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, is wary. “The argument before the Supreme Court is not just about this one law,” said Lonetree, who teaches Native American history. “It is about the future of Indigenous nations.” Hirsch, whose life’s work may be significantly undone in a single Supreme Court ruling, is also waiting. “Upholding it should be the goal for everyone who believes Native families should continue to exist,” he said. “And if you recognize the legitimacy of Indian tribal existence.” “But will this court?” Hirsch added. “It keeps me up at night.”

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SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2023 • THE PRESS DEMOCRAT • SECTION C

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State meet beckons for locals PREP TRACK AND FIELD » At NCS, Montgomery’s Thomsen, Sonoma Academy’s Ryan 1-2 in 1,600 By KIENAN O’DOHERTY THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Saturday’s North Coast Section Meet of Champions track and field finals saw several Sonoma County prep athletes punch their tickets to next weekend’s state championships. In what was the most

exciting finish involving local athletes — at least in the first part of the meet, which stretched into the night in the East Bay city of Dublin — Montgomery sophomore and event favorite Hanne Thomsen won the girls’ 1,600-meter race with a time of 4:51. It was after Thomsen,

however, when things really got interesting. Sonoma Academy’s Athena Ryan, who was in fifth place heading into the final 400 Hanne meters, took off Thomsen with what must have been the biggest kick of her life to take second place with a time of 4:55.

Athena Ryan

“ H o n e s t l y, I didn’t feel great out there, but I did what I wanted to do, which was win,” Thomsen said. “Just going into state, I’m ready to face the really difficult

competition.” Nathan Fifer also added to

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Extra-thrilling win

that excitement. The Montgomery senior secured second place in the boys’ high jump, winning in a jumpoff after securing a final height of 6 feet, 3 inches. Fifer, whose personal record of 6-foot-6 was set at the Stanford Invite earlier this season, is also headed to the state championships down in Clovis. Maria Carrillo’s 4x100-meter TURN TO TRACK » PAGE C4

COLLEGE BASEBALL

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SRJC’s Keenan Morris makes a diving catch against Sierra College during Friday’s game in Santa Rosa. The Bear Cubs forced a third game with a win Saturday.

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Maria Carrillo’s Gio Lucchesi slides safely into home plate as Marin Catholic’s Jake Lyall misses the tag during Saturday’s North Coast Section quarterfinal game at Marin Catholic in Kentfield. The Pumas rallied from a 5-0 deficit to win in nine innings.

Maria Carrillo stages upset of Marin Catholic with 9th-inning home run

Maria Carrillo’s Lorenzo Parker is welcomed back to the dugout after his gamewinning home run during Saturday’s North Coast Section quarterfinal game against Marin Catholic in Kentfield.

By GUS MORRIS THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

he quarterfinals of the North Coast Section playoffs Saturday saw a wild slate of games across the region. The headliner was Maria Carrillo, which outlasted third-seeded Marin Catholic in a back-andforth extra-innings victory. After rallying from a 5-0 deficit, the Pumas tied the game but were down to their last out before Lorenzo Parker hit a go-ahead solo home run in the top of the ninth for the win. The other big story from the weekend was Windsor getting upset at home by seventh-seeded Benicia. The Panthers broke things open in the middle innings to end the Jaguars’ season earlier than expected again. Ukiah also couldn’t replicate its postseason magic from last year, stymied by some stellar pitching from fifth-seeded Redwood and in Division 4, Healdsburg fell on the road. On the other side, top-seeded teams Cardinal Newman and Casa Grande both advanced to the quarterfinals in their divisions.

SRJC’s victory sets up finale

Bear Cubs recover from opening NorCal loss to force Game 3 today By RICHARD J. MARCUS FOR THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

In a perilous, must-win postseason game Saturday afternoon, the top-seeded Santa Rosa Junior College baseball team bounced back from a loss the day before with an 8-1 win powered by stellar starting pitching and heavy offensive lumber. The Bear Cubs defeated No. 5 Sierra to live another day in the California Community College Athletic Association NorCal playoffs, a best-of-three series that now comes down to Sunday’s finale. In front of a packed house of hometown partisans at Cook Sypher Field on the SRJC campus, the Bear Cubs (34-11) evened the series with the clutch victory. Sunday’s Game 3 series decider starts at noon at SRJC, with the winner moving on to the

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SSU’s dramatic rally clinched spot in NCAA finals GOLF » Men’s team overcame 14-stroke deficit in regional play By GUS MORRIS THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

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Sonoma State golfer Griffin Pace celebrates during the NCAA Division II South Central/West Regional tournament at Foxtail North in Rohnert Park.

As the final round of the NCAA Division II Regional Championship got underway at Foxtail Golf Course last Saturday, the last thing on the minds of the Sonoma State men’s team was winning. Fourteen strokes out of the lead and squarely in the middle of the pack in the team competition, the Seawolves’ collective mindset was simply placing in the top five of the 20-team field to qualify for the NCAA

Division II championships. But what followed over the next five hours was nothing short of remarkable, an afternoon and evening of golf that will be remembered within the program for a long, long time. Behind some inspired play from their entire lineup — but especially senior Griffin Pace — the Seawolves shot five-under as a team to soar back up the leaderboard and finish tied for first at the end of the final round, forcing a playoff for the regional championship. Still tied after two playoff holes, the match was called due to darkness and Sonoma State was named the winner based on tiebreaker rules. In his 20 years leading SSU,

head coach Val Verhunce had only seen one other finish like the one his team put together that day. It was 14 years ago, when the Seawolves came back from 14 strokes down in the final round to force a playoff for, and eventually win, the NCAA Division II Championship in 2009. Now, his team will have a chance to do the same this week in Ohio. The Seawolves, ranked No. 11 in Division II by Golfstat, will face 20 of the other best Division II teams at Avalon Lakes in Warren, Ohio, from Monday through Friday. “I think we have a great chance at doing something special,” Verhunce said. “It’s not TURN TO GOLF » PAGE C4

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Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City 1

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The Astros’ Yordan Alvarez watches his home run against the A’s during the eighth inning Saturday in Houston.

Alvarez’s blast lifts Houston over Oakland

Ryan Noda doubled Home run in 8th to start the fourth and breaks 2-2 tie, hands the A’s cut it to 2-1 when Brent Rooker singled A’s another loss on a grounder to center

By KRISTIE RIEKEN ASSOCIATED PRESS

HOUSTON — Yordan Alvarez hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning to propel the Houston Astros to a 3-2 win over the Athletics on Saturday. The game was tied at 2-2 with no outs in the eighth when Alvarez sent a pitch from Richard Lovelady (0-2) into the seats in right field for his team-leading 10th homer this season. The Athletics have allowed at least one home run in a franchise-record 23 straight games and have given up an MLB-leading 81 homers this year. Jose Altuve doubled in a two-run first inning for Houston for his first hit of the year after going 0 for 4 in his season debut Friday night. Altuve missed the first 43 games after fracturing his right thumb in the World Baseball Classic. Alvarez also drove in a run in the first inning and Kyle Tucker added an RBI as the Astros won their sixth straight. Hector Neris (3-1) allowed one hit in a scoreless eighth for the win. Ryan Pressly pitched a scoreless ninth for his eighth save. Oakland’s Esteury Ruiz had two hits and two stolen bases, giving him an MLB-leading 23 this season as the A’s dropped their third straight. Altuve got things going for the Astros with a leadoff double before Alex Bregman singled to send him to third. Houston took a 1-0 lead when Altuve scored on a sacrifice fly by Alvarez. There were two outs in the inning when Bregman stole second base. He scored on a single by Tucker that made it 2-0.

field. Ruiz singled with no outs in the sixth before collecting his 22nd stolen base when he swiped second. Martín Maldonado made an error on the play to allow Ruiz to reach third. Oakland tied it when Ruiz scored on a sacrifice fly by Noda. The Astros had a chance to take the lead in the seventh when they had runners on first and second with two outs. But Bregman grounded out on the eighth pitch of his at-bat to end the inning. Ruiz singled with one out in the eighth. He stole second base and reached third on another error by Maldonado after a strikeout by Noda. But he was left stranded when Neris retired Rooker. Oakland starter JP Sears settled down after his rough first inning, allowing just one hit over the next five innings. He struck out seven and walked one.

Trainer’s room ■■ Athletics: LHP Ken Waldichuk was feeling better Saturday after leaving Friday night’s start in the sixth inning with a mild left calf strain, and manager Mark Kotsay said he’s hopeful that the injury won’t cause him to miss a start. … RHP Drew Rucinski was placed on the 15-day injured list Saturday, retroactive to Wednesday, with a stomach illness. RHP James Kaprielian was recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas to take his spot on the roster and is scheduled to start Sunday.

Up next Houston’s Framber Valdez (3-4, 2.84 ERA) opposes Kaprielian (0-3, 10.17) in the series finale Sunday.

NOTES

Yanks cut struggling outfielder Hicks ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Yankees cut struggling outfielder Aaron Hicks before Saturday’s game against the Cincinnati Reds. Hicks was designated for assignment to make room for outfielder Greg Allen, who was acquired in a trade with Boston. The 33-year-old Hicks is batting .188 with a homer and five RBIs in 28 games this season. He agreed to a $70 million, seven-year contract with New York in February 2019. Hicks broke into the majors with Minnesota in 2013. He was traded to New York in November 2015. He is a .230 hitter with 101 homers and 356 RBIs in 898 games. Yankees manager Aaron Boone described his talk with Hicks as “quiet” and “somber.”

“This is family,” Boone said. “You go through everything with these guys. Obviously, with Aaron, some ups and downs. He’s had some really good seasons. It wasn’t an easy conversation to have, but one we felt was necessary.”

Nats’ Corbin wins consecutive starts

Patrick Corbin won consecutive starts for the first time since last summer and Lane Thomas had a go-ahead, two-run single in the fifth inning that led the Nationals over the Tigers 5-2 Saturday and stopped a fourgame losing streak. Jeimer Candelario homered and hit a run-scoring double for Washington, which fell behind when Petaluma’s Spencer Torkelson hit a two-run homer in the first.

Kansas City AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Witt Jr. ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .230 Pasquantino 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .257 Perez dh 4 1 3 1 0 0 .288 Melendez rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .221 Garcia 3b 4 0 0 0 0 3 .246 Pratto lf 3 0 2 0 1 1 .329 Fermin c 3 0 0 0 1 1 .281 Massey 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .211 Eaton cf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .059 a-Olivares ph-cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .226 Totals 32 1 7 1 2 8 Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Anderson ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .246 Benintendi lf 3 2 1 0 1 0 .279 Robert Jr. cf 3 2 1 0 0 1 .267 Moncada 3b 3 1 1 2 1 1 .318 Vaughn 1b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .234 Burger dh 3 0 2 3 0 1 .292 Alberto 2b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .222 Haseley rf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .235 Zavala c 2 0 1 0 1 0 .164 Totals 28 5 6 5 3 9 Kansas City 100 000 000 — 1 7 1 Chicago 200 003 00x — 5 6 0 a-pinch hit for Eaton in the 7th. E—Fermin (3). LOB—Kansas City 6, Chicago 3. 2B—Pratto (6), Perez (11), Robert Jr. (13), Burger (6). HR—Perez (10), off Giolito. RBIs—Perez (26), Moncada 2 (9), Burger 3 (23). CS—Witt Jr. (3). Runners left in scoring position—Kansas City 4 (Witt Jr., Fermin 2, Garcia); Chicago 1 (Haseley). RISP—Kansas City 0 for 8; Chicago 2 for 5. GIDP—Anderson. DP—Kansas City 2 (Garcia, Massey, Pasquantino; Massey, Witt Jr., Pasquantino); Chicago 1 (Zavala, Anderson, Zavala). Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lyles, L, 0-8 5 4 5 4 3 5 91 7.15 Cuas 1 1 0 0 0 2 18 4.58 Taylor 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 6.46 Staumont 1 0 0 0 0 2 12 3.21 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Giolito, W, 3-3 6 6 1 1 1 4 89 3.62 Crochet ⅓ 1 0 0 1 0 15 0.00 Lopez, H, 4 ⅔ 0 0 0 0 1 11 6.98 Kelly 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 2.92 Graveman 1 0 0 0 0 2 9 3.26 Inherited runners-scored—Cuas 3-3, Lopez 2-0. PB—Zavala (3). Umpires—Home, Phil Cuzzi; First, Shane Livensparger; Second, Dan Bellino; Third, Ryan Wills. T—2:21. A—23,984 (40,241).

Arizona 4, Pittsburgh 3 Arizona AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Rojas 3b 2 1 0 0 0 2 .258 a-Rivera ph-3b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .333 Marte 2b 4 1 2 1 0 1 .280 Carroll lf 4 0 2 1 0 1 .281 Walker 1b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .256 Gurriel Jr. dh 4 1 1 0 0 0 .307 Smith rf 4 1 1 2 0 2 .244 Fletcher cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .349 Moreno c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .311 Perdomo ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .313 Totals 35 4 8 4 0 12 Pittsburgh AB R H BI BB SO Avg. McCutchen dh 4 0 1 0 0 0 .267 Reynolds lf 3 1 0 0 1 0 .289 Suwinski cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .237 Santana 1b 3 1 1 0 1 0 .242 Hayes 3b 4 0 1 3 0 0 .240 Marcano ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .246 c-R.Castro ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .257 Bae 2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .254 Palacios rf 2 0 1 0 0 1 .267 b-Joe ph-rf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .260 Hedges c 3 1 1 0 0 1 .167 d-Delay ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .333 Totals 33 3 7 3 3 7 Arizona 100 001 200 — 4 8 0 Pittsburgh 003 000 000 — 3 7 0 a-lined out for Rojas in the 7th. b-flied out for Palacios in the 7th. c-walked for Marcano in the 9th. d-struck out for Hedges in the 9th. LOB—Arizona 5, Pittsburgh 6. 2B—Suwinski (7). 3B—Hayes (3). HR—Marte (6), off Keller; Smith (3), off Stephenson. RBIs—Marte (18), Carroll (15), Smith 2 (16), Hayes 3 (16). SB—Marte (4), Rojas (5), Carroll (11). CS—Bae (5). Runners left in scoring position—Arizona 2 (Gurriel Jr., Walker); Pittsburgh 3 (Hayes 2, Marcano). RISP—Arizona 1 for 4; Pittsburgh 1 for 6. Runners moved up—McCutchen. Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Pfaadt 5⅓ 6 3 3 2 3 85 7.65 K.Nelson, W, 4-1 1 0 0 0 0 1 12 1.50 Adams, H, 1 ⅔ 0 0 0 0 0 11 0.00 Chafin, H, 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 13 3.57 M.Castro, S, 4-5 1 0 0 0 1 3 19 2.61 Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Keller 6 3 2 2 0 8 84 2.44 Stephenson, L, 0-2, BS, 0-1 ⅔ 3 2 2 0 1 18 3.09 Hernandez ⅔ 1 0 0 0 1 8 3.00 Moreta ⅔ 0 0 0 0 1 5 2.18 Bednar 1 1 0 0 0 1 22 0.53 Inherited runners-scored—Hernandez 1-0, Moreta 1-0. HBP—Keller (Rojas). Umpires—Home, Ben May; First, Jeff Nelson; Second, CB Bucknor; Third, Chris Segal. T—2:35. A—22,876 (38,753).

Texas 11, Colorado 5

Washington 5, Detroit 2 Detroit AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Vierling rf 4 1 1 0 0 0 .231 Baez ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .234 Greene cf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .289 Torkelson 1b 4 1 2 2 0 0 .239 Ibanez 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .217 Schoop 3b 3 0 2 0 0 1 .227 b-Maton ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .154 Cabrera dh 2 0 0 0 1 0 .177 1-Baddoo pr-dh 1 0 0 0 0 0 .250 Haase lf-c 3 0 1 0 0 1 .259 Rogers c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .179 a-McKinstry ph-lf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .271 Totals 33 2 6 2 1 6 Washington AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Thomas rf 4 1 3 2 0 1 .292 Smith 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .268 Meneses dh 4 0 0 0 0 2 .287 Candelario 3b 4 1 2 2 0 0 .253 Dickerson lf 3 1 1 0 0 1 .267 Garrett lf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .243 Ruiz c 3 0 1 1 0 0 .235 Vargas 2b 3 1 1 0 0 0 .313 Abrams ss 3 1 1 0 0 0 .240 Call cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .224 Totals 32 5 9 5 0 5 Detroit 200 000 000 — 2 6 0 Washington 000 121 01x — 5 9 1 a-flied out for Rogers in the 7th. b-struck out for Schoop in the 9th. 1-ran for Cabrera in the 7th. E—Dickerson (1). LOB—Detroit 5, Washington 3. 2B—Abrams (7), Dickerson (1), Thomas (7), Candelario (13). HR—Torkelson (4), off Corbin; Candelario (6), off Faedo. RBIs—Torkelson 2 (20), Candelario 2 (19), Thomas 2 (23), Ruiz (16). Runners left in scoring position—Detroit 1 (Vierling); Washington 1 (Garrett). RISP—Detroit 0 for 3; Washington 3 for 7. Runners moved up—McKinstry, Meneses. GIDP—Cabrera. DP—Washington 1 (Abrams, Vargas, Smith). Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Faedo, L, 0-2 5 5 3 3 0 4 72 4.60 Holton 2 2 1 1 0 1 14 2.53 Vest 1 2 1 1 0 0 16 1.98 Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Corbin, W, 3-5 6 6 2 2 0 3 74 4.47 Edwards Jr., H, 7 1 0 0 0 1 1 21 2.41 Harvey, H, 8 1 0 0 0 0 1 14 3.15 Finnegan, S, 9-11 1 0 0 0 0 1 10 5.51 PB—Ruiz (4). Umpires—Home, James Hoye; First, D.J. Reyburn; Second, John Libka; Third, Clint Vondrak. T—2:03. A—31,721 (41,376).

St. Louis 6, L.A. Dodgers 5 Los Angeles AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Betts rf 5 1 1 0 0 1 .250 Freeman 1b 3 1 2 0 0 0 .323 Martinez dh 4 1 1 3 0 1 .240 Muncy 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .213 Vargas 2b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .240 Peralta lf 4 1 2 0 0 1 .216 Heyward cf 4 0 2 1 0 0 .207 Taylor ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .185 b-Outman ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .261 Barnes c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .094 c-Smith ph 0 0 0 1 0 0 .314 Totals 35 5 9 5 0 5 St. Louis AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Nootbaar cf 3 0 0 1 0 1 .267 Goldschmidt 1b 3 2 1 0 1 1 .301 Gorman dh 3 1 2 3 1 0 .302 Arenado 3b 4 0 2 0 0 1 .268 Contreras c 4 0 1 1 0 0 .250 Donovan rf-lf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .241 DeJong ss 2 1 0 0 0 2 .267 Burleson lf 2 1 1 1 0 0 .231 a-Yepez ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .241 Mercado rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .429 Edman 2b 3 1 1 0 0 0 .273 Totals 29 6 8 6 2 7 Los Angeles 000 003 002 — 5 9 0 St. Louis 120 000 03x — 6 8 0 a-grounded out for Burleson in the 7th. b-lined out for Taylor in the 9th. c-sacrificed for Barnes in the 9th. LOB—Los Angeles 5, St. Louis 3. 2B—Freeman (17), Peralta (5), Vargas (12), Heyward (6), Burleson (6), Edman (7). HR—Martinez (6), off Mikolas; Gorman (13), off Gonzalez. RBIs—Martinez 3 (24), Heyward (9), Smith (24), Contreras (25), Burleson (11), Nootbaar (15), Gorman 3 (39). SB—Contreras (4), DeJong (2). CS—Arenado (2). SF—Smith, Nootbaar. Runners left in scoring position—Los Angeles 3 (Betts, Barnes, Muncy); St. Louis 2 (Donovan 2). RISP—Los Angeles 4 for 10; St. Louis 3 for 7. Runners moved up—Edman. GIDP—Arenado. DP—Los Angeles 1 (Taylor, Vargas, Freeman). Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Syndergaard 5 4 3 3 1 4 80 5.88 Almonte 1 1 0 0 0 0 9 8.53 Bruihl 1 0 0 0 0 1 7 2.31 Gonzalez, L, 1-1 ⅓ 2 3 3 1 1 9 2.31 Cyr ⅔ 1 0 0 0 1 14 0.00 St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Mikolas 7 6 3 3 0 2 100 4.77 Helsley, W, 2-2 1 3 2 2 0 2 26 3.38 Gallegos, S, 4-5 1 0 0 0 0 1 18 2.08 Inherited runners-scored—Gallegos 2-1. IBB— off Gonzalez (Goldschmidt). HBP—Syndergaard (DeJong), Helsley (Freeman). Umpires—Home, Paul Emmel; First, Nic Lentz; Second, Jeremie Rehak; Third, Chad Fairchild. T—2:30. A—45,177 (44,494).

N.Y. Yankees 7, Cincinnati 4 (10)

Colorado AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Blackmon dh 5 1 2 0 0 1 .276 Profar lf 5 1 3 0 0 1 .243 Bryant rf 1 0 0 0 2 0 .288 Toglia 1b 2 1 1 0 0 1 .231 Diaz c 4 1 0 0 1 1 .326 McMahon 3b 3 1 1 0 0 1 .231 Doyle cf 2 0 1 1 0 0 .246 Grichuk cf-rf 4 0 0 1 0 0 .328 Moustakas 1b-3b 4 0 2 1 0 0 .235 Castro 2b 4 0 2 2 0 2 .289 Tovar ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .212 Totals 38 5 13 5 3 8 Texas AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Semien 2b 5 3 3 0 0 0 .299 Seager ss 4 2 3 2 0 0 .360 J.Smith ss 0 0 0 0 1 0 .211 Lowe 1b 5 2 3 2 0 0 .270 Garcia rf 4 2 1 1 0 0 .259 Thompson rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .163 Jung 3b 4 1 1 0 1 1 .257 Grossman lf 4 0 1 3 0 0 .254 Duran dh 3 1 2 2 0 0 .315 a-Miller ph-dh 0 0 0 0 1 0 .196 Taveras cf 3 0 1 0 1 0 .288 Leon c 4 0 0 0 0 2 .138 Totals 37 11 15 10 4 3 Colorado 000 100 031 — 5 13 1 Texas 440 012 00x — 11 15 0 a-walked for Duran in the 7th. E—McMahon (4). LOB—Colorado 10, Texas 7. 2B—Blackmon (11), Toglia (1), Castro (6), Semien 2 (11), Seager (6). HR— Duran (7), off Abad; Seager (2), off Abad. RBIs— Castro 2 (14), Grichuk (5), Moustakas (11), Doyle (12), Lowe 2 (29), Grossman 3 (26), Duran 2 (23), Garcia (49), Seager 2 (9). SF—Grichuk, Grossman. Runners left in scoring position—Colorado 6 (Grichuk 3, Tovar 3); Texas 2 (Lowe 2). RISP—Colorado 5 for 14; Texas 6 for 12. Runners moved up—Diaz, Seager, Jung. GIDP—Blackmon, Garcia, Grossman. DP— Colorado 2 (Castro, Tovar, Moustakas; McMahon, Castro, Moustakas); Texas 1 (J.Smith, Lowe). Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Freeland, L, 4-5 2 9 8 5 0 0 56 3.88 Bird 2 1 0 0 0 1 21 2.61 Abad 1 5 3 3 1 0 44 10.13 Bard 1⅔ 0 0 0 2 1 31 0.82 Hand ⅓ 0 0 0 1 0 9 3.24 Johnson 1 0 0 0 0 1 8 5.00 Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gray, W, 4-1 5 5 1 1 2 6 93 3.02 Ragans 2 1 0 0 0 1 29 5.59 Hernandez ⅔ 2 3 3 1 0 18 7.02 King 1⅓ 5 1 1 0 1 25 2.70 Inherited runners-scored—Bard 1-0, Hand 2-0, King 2-2. WP—Hand. PB—Diaz (2). Umpires— Home, Lance Barrett; First, Charlie Ramos; Second, Alfonso Marquez; Third, Ramon De Jesus. T—2:57. A—34,443 (40,000).

New York AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Torres 2b 5 1 2 0 0 1 .253 Judge dh 4 1 4 3 1 0 .299 Rizzo 1b 5 1 2 3 0 1 .303 LeMahieu 3b 5 0 1 0 0 2 .258 Bader cf 5 0 1 0 0 1 .279 Bauers rf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .184 a-Cabrera ph-rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .203 Higashioka c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .200 Volpe ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .211 Kiner-Falefa lf 4 1 1 1 0 1 .202 Rortvedt c 4 2 2 0 0 2 .500 Allen rf 0 1 0 0 0 0 --Totals 41 7 13 7 1 9 Cincinnati AB R H BI BB SO Avg. India 2b 4 1 1 0 1 2 .289 Casali c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .150 McLain ss 3 1 0 0 2 3 .267 Fraley lf 4 0 1 1 1 0 .276 Steer 1b 5 0 1 1 0 1 .253 Stephenson dh 3 0 0 0 1 3 .245 Senzel 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .254 Myers rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .198 Barrero cf 3 1 1 0 0 2 .233 Fairchild cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .212 Maile c 3 1 1 2 1 0 .282 1-Newman pr-2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .237 Totals 34 4 5 4 6 14 New York 001 030 000 3 — 7 13 0 Cincinnati 101 200 000 0— 4 5 0 a-popped out for Bauers in the 6th. 1-ran for Maile in the 9th. LOB—New York 6, Cincinnati 7. 2B—Rortvedt (1), Judge (8), India (13). HR—Kiner-Falefa (2), off Weaver; Rizzo (11), off Gibaut; Maile (3), off Brito. RBIs—Judge 3 (32), Kiner-Falefa (4), Rizzo 3 (28), Fraley (32), Steer (17), Maile 2 (5). SB—Fraley (6), Bader (3). CS—Fraley 2 (2). Runners left in scoring position—New York 3 (Bader, LeMahieu, Cabrera); Cincinnati 4 (Steer, Fraley, Stephenson 2). RISP—New York 4 for 10; Cincinnati 2 for 8. Runners moved up—Rizzo, Torres. GIDP—Rizzo. DP—Cincinnati 1 (India, McLain, Steer). New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Brito 4 4 4 4 4 6 84 5.58 Marinaccio 2 0 0 0 1 3 27 4.09 King 2 1 0 0 0 3 33 2.10 Holmes, W, 2-2 1 0 0 0 1 1 16 3.44 Weber, S, 1-1 1 0 0 0 0 1 10 3.68 Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Weaver 4⅓ 8 4 4 0 4 73 6.54 Young ⅔ 2 0 0 0 0 8 2.70 Farmer 1⅔ 0 0 0 0 2 13 3.22 Sims 1⅓ 0 0 0 1 2 21 3.55 Diaz 1 0 0 0 0 1 15 2.12 Gibaut, L, 3-1 1 3 3 2 0 0 17 3.80 Inherited runners-scored—Young 2-1. Umpires—Home, Pat Hoberg; First, Emil Jimenez; Second, Nestor Ceja; Third, Brian O’Nora. T—2:59. A—41,374 (43,891).

Tampa Bay 8, Milwaukee 4

Seattle 7, Atlanta 3

Milwaukee AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Yelich lf 4 0 1 1 0 0 .252 Winker dh 4 0 0 0 0 2 .236 Adames ss 4 1 1 0 0 0 .212 Tellez 1b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .242 Anderson rf 3 1 1 2 1 0 .236 Caratini c 4 0 0 0 0 3 .250 Miller 3b 4 1 1 1 0 2 .341 Turang 2b 3 1 2 0 0 0 .254 Taylor cf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .170 Totals 32 4 6 4 2 10 Tampa Bay AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Diaz 1b 4 1 3 3 0 0 .333 1-Raley pr-1b 1 1 0 0 0 0 .245 Franco ss 5 1 1 0 0 0 .283 Ramirez dh 4 1 1 1 0 1 .317 Arozarena lf 2 0 0 0 2 1 .309 Paredes 3b 3 0 0 1 1 0 .275 Bethancourt c 4 1 2 1 0 1 .232 Walls 2b 2 2 1 1 2 0 .274 Margot rf 4 1 2 1 0 1 .245 Siri cf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .228 Totals 33 8 10 8 5 6 Milwaukee 001 200 010 — 4 6 0 Tampa Bay 130 200 20x — 8 10 0 1-ran for Diaz in the 7th. LOB—Milwaukee 3, Tampa Bay 6. 2B—Turang (4), Walls (5). HR—Miller (2), off Eflin; Anderson (7), off Eflin; Ramirez (7), off Lauer; Diaz (11), off Lauer; Bethancourt (7), off Lauer. RBIs—Miller (8), Anderson 2 (24), Yelich (24), Ramirez (20), Diaz 3 (27), Bethancourt (15), Margot (11), Paredes (30), Walls (19). CS—Turang (3). Runners left in scoring position—Milwaukee 2 (Miller, Winker); Tampa Bay 2 (Margot 2). RISP—Milwaukee 1 for 5; Tampa Bay 3 for 8. Runners moved up—Taylor, Siri. GIDP—Franco. DP—Milwaukee 1 (Tellez, Adames, Tellez). Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lauer, L, 4-5 3 6 6 6 2 2 71 5.48 Wilson 3 2 0 0 0 1 39 2.92 Cousins ⅔ 2 2 2 3 2 36 4.26 Megill 1⅓ 0 0 0 0 1 14 0.00 Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Eflin, W, 6-1 7 4 3 3 0 8 85 3.45 Thompson 1 2 1 1 0 1 20 6.60 Kelly ⅓ 0 0 0 2 0 20 4.76 Adam, S, 6-9 ⅔ 0 0 0 0 1 7 2.75 Inherited runners-scored—Wilson 1-0, Megill 3-0, Adam 2-0. WP—Thompson. Umpires—Home, Adam Hamari; First, Nick Mahrley; Second, Vic Carapazza; Third, Jerry Lane. T—2:39. A—19,954 (25,025).

Seattle AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Crawford ss 4 0 2 1 1 1 .252 France 1b 5 0 0 0 0 3 .259 Rodriguez cf 2 2 0 0 3 1 .209 Kelenic rf 5 2 2 0 0 1 .287 Suarez 3b 4 2 2 3 0 1 .231 Hernandez dh 4 1 1 1 1 1 .244 Trammell lf 3 0 1 1 0 1 .147 T.Murphy c 4 0 1 0 0 2 .235 Caballero 2b 3 0 0 1 0 3 .264 Totals 34 7 9 7 5 14 Atlanta AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Acuna Jr. rf 4 2 2 0 0 1 .347 Olson 1b 4 1 2 2 0 1 .243 S.Murphy c 4 0 1 0 0 2 .274 Riley 3b 3 0 1 1 0 0 .253 Rosario lf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .238 Albies 2b 3 0 0 0 1 2 .261 Ozuna dh 4 0 2 0 0 2 .200 Arcia ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .321 Harris II cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .177 Totals 33 3 8 3 1 13 Seattle 000 320 200 — 7 9 0 Atlanta 200 000 010 — 3 8 3 E—Arcia (1), Acuna Jr. 2 (3). LOB—Seattle 8, Atlanta 5. 2B—Olson (9). HR—Suarez (5), off Yates; Olson (13), off Gilbert. RBIs—Trammell (10), Caballero (6), Crawford (17), Suarez 3 (25), Hernandez (24), Olson 2 (34), Riley (22). SB—Rodriguez (8). SF—Caballero, Suarez, Riley. Runners left in scoring position— Seattle 3 (France, Suarez, Caballero); Atlanta 3 (Rosario, Ozuna, Harris II). RISP—Seattle 4 for 11; Atlanta 0 for 4. Runners moved up—Kelenic. GIDP—T.Murphy, Arcia. DP—Seattle 1 (Suarez, Caballero, France); Atlanta 1 (Albies, Olson). Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gilbert, W, 2-2 6 4 2 2 1 9 87 3.81 Brash 1 1 0 0 0 3 23 4.50 Topa 1 2 1 1 0 0 15 2.95 Sewald 1 1 0 0 0 1 10 3.48 Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Chavez 2⅓ 1 0 0 1 3 42 2.21 Tonkin, L, 3-2 2 6 5 2 2 2 50 2.59 Jimenez 1⅔ 0 0 0 0 3 23 4.02 Yates 1 2 2 2 2 2 30 4.02 Luetge 1 0 0 0 0 2 12 7.04 Minter 1 0 0 0 0 2 11 7.40 Inherited runners-scored—Jimenez 1-0. HBP— Chavez (Trammell). WP—Brash. Umpires—Home, Edwin Moscoso; First, Chris Guccione; Second, David Rackley; Third, Edwin Jimenez. T—2:46. A—40,250 (41,149).

AMERICAN LEAGUE West Division W Texas 28 Houston 26 Los Angeles 24 Seattle 22 A’s 10 Central Division W Minnesota 24 Detroit 20 Cleveland 20 Chicago 18 Kansas City 14 East Division W Tampa Bay 34 Baltimore 30 New York 28 Boston 25 Toronto 25 NATIONAL LEAGUE West Division W Los Angeles 29 Arizona 26 Giants 21 San Diego 20 Colorado 19 Central Division W Milwaukee 24 Pittsburgh 24 Chicago 20 St. Louis 20 Cincinnati 19 East Division W Atlanta 28 Miami 24 New York 23 Philadelphia 21 Washington 19

L 17 19 22 23 37 L 21 23 24 29 33 L 13 16 20 20 21

Pct .622 .578 .522 .489 .213 Pct .533 .465 .455 .383 .298 Pct .723 .652 .583 .556 .543

GB — 2 4½ 6 19 GB — 3 3½ 7 11 GB — 3½ 6½ 8 8½

WCGB — — 2½ 4 17 WCGB — 5 5½ 9 13 WCGB — 3½ ½ 1 1½

L10 7-3 9-1 4-6 5-5 2-8 L10 5-5 5-5 4-6 5-5 4-6 L10 5-5 7-3 7-3 4-6 4-6

Str W-2 W-6 W-2 W-1 L-3 Str L-2 L-1 L-1 W-2 L-2 Str W-2 W-2 W-3 W-3 L-3

Home 15-8 13-11 11-9 10-12 5-20 Home 14-8 10-10 9-12 11-13 6-17 Home 21-3 15-8 16-10 15-11 13-8

Away 13-9 13-8 13-13 12-11 5-17 Away 10-13 10-13 11-12 7-16 8-16 Away 13-10 15-8 12-10 10-9 12-13

L 18 20 24 25 27 L 21 21 25 27 26 L 17 22 23 24 27

Pct .617 .565 .467 .444 .413 Pct .533 .533 .444 .426 .422 Pct .622 .522 .500 .467 .413

GB — 2½ 7 8 9½ GB — — 4 5 5 GB — 4½ 5½ 7 9½

WCGB — 2 2½ 3½ 5 WCGB — ½ 3½ 4½ 4½ WCGB — — 1 2½ 5

L10 7-3 6-4 5-5 2-8 5-5 L10 4-6 4-6 3-7 7-3 4-6 L10 4-6 7-3 6-4 5-5 4-6

Str L-1 W-1 L-1 L-3 L-2 Str L-3 L-1 L-1 W-1 L-3 Str L-1 W-1 W-3 W-1 W-1

Home 17-7 14-10 14-11 11-14 10-12 Home 13-8 11-10 11-11 10-15 12-11 Home 11-10 14-11 10-9 12-8 9-15

Away 12-11 12-10 7-13 9-11 9-15 Away 11-13 13-11 9-14 10-12 7-15 Away 17-7 10-11 13-14 9-16 10-12

AMERICAN LEAGUE Saturday’s Results Houston 3, A’s 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City 1 Washington 5, Detroit 2 Baltimore 6, Toronto 5, 10 innings Tampa Bay 8, Milwaukee 4 Texas 11, Colorado 5 N.Y. Yankees 7, Cincinnati 4, 10 innings Seattle 7, Atlanta 3 Minnesota at L.A. Angels, late Boston at San Diego, late Cleveland at N.Y. Mets, ppd. Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees (Severino 0-0) at Cincinnati (Greene 0-3), 8:35 a.m. Detroit (Wentz 1-3) at Washington (Gray 3-5), 10:35 a.m. Seattle (Kirby 5-2) at Atlanta (Shuster 0-2), 10:35 a.m. Baltimore (Kremer 5-1) at Toronto (Gausman 2-3), 10:37 a.m. Cleveland (Bibee 1-1) at N.Y. Mets (TBD), 10:40 a.m., 1st game Milwaukee (Peralta 4-3) at Tampa Bay (Beeks 1-2), 10:40 a.m. Kansas City (TBD) at Chicago White Sox (Lynn 2-5), 11:10 a.m. A’s (Kaprielian 0-3) at Houston (Valdez 3-4), 11:10 a.m. Colorado (Seabold 1-0) at Texas (Heaney 2-3), 11:35 a.m. Minnesota (Lopez 2-2) at L.A. Angels (Ohtani 5-1), 1:07 p.m. Boston (Kluber 2-5) at San Diego (Wacha 4-1), 1:10 p.m. Cleveland (Bieber 3-2) at N.Y. Mets (TBD), 4:10 p.m., 2nd game Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 3:10 p.m. Texas at Pittsburgh, 3:35 p.m. Toronto at Tampa Bay, 3:40 p.m. Detroit at Kansas City, 4:40 p.m. Houston at Milwaukee, 4:40 p.m. Giants at Minnesota, 4:40 p.m. Boston at L.A. Angels, 6:38 p.m. A’s at Seattle, 6:40 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Saturday’s Results Miami 1, Giants 0 Washington 5, Detroit 2 Arizona 4, Pittsburgh 3 Tampa Bay 8, Milwaukee 4 Philadelphia 12, Chicago Cubs 3 Texas 11, Colorado 5 N.Y. Yankees 7, Cincinnati 4, 10 innings St. Louis 6, L.A. Dodgers 5 Seattle 7, Atlanta 3 Boston at San Diego, late Cleveland at N.Y. Mets, ppd. Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees (Severino 0-0) at Cincinnati (Greene 0-3), 8:35 a.m. Arizona (Kelly 4-3) at Pittsburgh (Contreras 3-4), 10:35 a.m. Chicago Cubs (Steele 6-1) at Philadelphia (Walker 3-2), 10:35 a.m. Detroit (Wentz 1-3) at Washington (Gray 3-5), 10:35 a.m. Seattle (Kirby 5-2) at Atlanta (Shuster 0-2), 10:35 a.m. Cleveland (Bibee 1-1) at N.Y. Mets (TBD), 10:40 a.m., 1st game Milwaukee (Peralta 4-3) at Tampa Bay (Beeks 1-2), 10:40 a.m. L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 6-3) at St. Louis (Flaherty 3-4), 11:15 a.m. Colorado (Seabold 1-0) at Texas (Heaney 2-3), 11:35 a.m. Miami (Luzardo 3-2) at Giants (Wood 0-0), 1:05 p.m. Boston (Kluber 2-5) at San Diego (Wacha 4-1), 1:10 p.m. Cleveland (Bieber 3-2) at N.Y. Mets (TBD), 4:10 p.m., 2nd game Monday’s Games Texas at Pittsburgh, 3:35 p.m. Arizona at Philadelphia, 3:40 p.m. St. Louis at Cincinnati, 3:40 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 4:20 p.m. Houston at Milwaukee, 4:40 p.m. Giants at Minnesota, 4:40 p.m. Miami at Colorado, 5:40 p.m.

Houston 3, A’s 2

Miami 1, Giants 0

A’s AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Ruiz cf 4 1 2 0 0 2 .286 Noda 1b 3 1 1 1 0 2 .221 Rooker dh 4 0 2 1 0 0 .292 Langeliers c 4 0 0 0 0 2 .221 Peterson 3b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .216 Laureano rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .211 Bleday lf 3 0 0 0 1 2 .240 Kemp 2b 3 0 1 0 0 1 .172 Allen ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 .200 Totals 32 2 7 2 1 11 Houston AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Altuve 2b 3 1 1 0 1 2 .143 Bregman 3b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .224 Alvarez lf 3 1 1 2 0 0 .292 J.Abreu 1b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .218 Tucker rf 4 0 1 1 0 1 .281 Pena ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 .253 McCormick cf 2 0 1 0 1 0 .258 Julks dh 3 0 0 0 0 1 .254 Maldonado c 3 0 1 0 0 2 .186 Totals 30 3 7 3 2 8 A’s 000 101 000 — 2 7 0 Houston 200 000 01x — 3 7 2 E—Maldonado 2 (4). LOB—A’s 5, Houston 6. 2B— Noda (9), Altuve (1), McCormick (6). HR—Alvarez (10), off Lovelady. RBIs—Rooker (31), Noda (15), Alvarez 2 (41), Tucker (33). SB—Bregman (1). SF— Noda, Alvarez. Runners left in scoring position—A’s 2 (Bleday, Rooker); Houston 4 (Maldonado, Bregman, Julks 2). RISP—A’s 1 for 4; Houston 2 for 6. Runners moved up—Laureano. LIDP—Allen. DP—Houston 1 (Altuve, J.Abreu, Altuve). A’s IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sears 6 5 2 2 1 7 92 4.99 Martinez 1 1 0 0 1 0 24 5.57 Lovelady, L, 0-2 1 1 1 1 0 1 14 2.13 Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Brown 6 5 2 2 0 9 97 3.38 Stanek 1 0 0 0 1 0 12 4.11 Neris, W, 3-1 1 1 0 0 0 1 20 1.33 Pressly, S, 8-8 1 1 0 0 0 1 10 3.26 Umpires—Home, Mark Carlson; First, Tripp Gibson; Second, Jordan Baker; Third, Brennan Miller. T—2:35. A—35,475 (41,000).

Miami AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Berti 3b 4 0 1 1 0 2 .268 Soler dh 4 0 1 0 0 2 .230 Arraez 2b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .387 Cooper 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .254 De La Cruz lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .291 Wendle ss 3 0 0 0 1 2 .122 Fortes c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .209 Hampson rf-cf 3 1 0 0 1 2 .235 Edwards cf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .273 Burdick rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .194 Totals 31 1 5 1 3 11 Giants AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Estrada 2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .310 Flores dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .248 Conforto rf 4 0 0 0 0 4 .210 Davis 3b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .279 Haniger lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .194 Wade Jr. 1b 2 0 0 0 1 0 .260 Schmitt ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 .372 Bailey c 3 0 1 0 0 0 .333 Johnson cf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .167 Totals 29 0 3 0 1 10 Miami 000 000 010 — 1 5 1 Giants 000 000 000 — 0 3 2 E—Fortes (6), Davis (3), Wade Jr. (3). LOB—Miami 7, Giants 4. RBIs—Berti (9). SB—Estrada (12), Hampson (3), De La Cruz (2). S—Edwards. Runners left in scoring position—Miami 4 (Hampson 2, Cooper, Berti); Giants 2 (Estrada, Davis). RISP—Miami 1 for 10; Giants 0 for 2. Runners moved up—Edwards, Fortes. GIDP— Wendle, Arraez, Haniger. DP—Miami 1 (Berti, Arraez, Cooper); Giants 2 (Davis, Schmitt, Wade Jr.; Schmitt, Wade Jr.). Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Garrett 6⅓ 1 0 0 1 8 76 4.60 Chargois, W, 1-0 ⅔ 0 0 0 0 0 8 0.00 Scott, H, 7 ⅔ 2 0 0 0 0 15 4.29 Floro, S, 5-7 1⅓ 0 0 0 0 2 20 2.49 Giants IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Webb 6 4 0 0 2 7 91 2.91 Junis 1 0 0 0 0 2 15 4.88 Ty.Rogers, L, 0-4 1 1 1 0 1 0 15 2.22 Doval 1 0 0 0 0 2 23 2.18 Inherited runners-scored—Floro 2-0. IBB—off Ty.Rogers (Arraez). Umpires—Home, Hunter Wendelstedt; First, Brock Ballou; Second, Ryan Blakney; Third, Marvin Hudson. T—2:16. A—31,993 (41,915).

Baltimore 6, Toronto 5 (10) Baltimore AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Mullins cf 4 1 1 1 1 1 .263 Rutschman c 4 0 1 0 1 0 .279 Santander rf 4 0 1 0 1 1 .265 McKenna rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .306 Mountcastle 1b 4 2 0 0 0 1 .243 Frazier 2b 4 2 3 0 0 1 .244 Henderson 3b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .192 a-Ortiz ph-3b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .227 c-Hays ph-lf 2 0 0 1 0 1 .299 O’Hearn dh 5 1 3 4 0 1 .300 Vavra lf-3b 5 0 2 0 0 0 .263 Mateo ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .244 Totals 39 6 11 6 3 9 Toronto AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Springer rf 4 2 2 3 1 1 .234 Bichette ss 5 0 0 0 0 3 .313 Guerrero Jr. 1b 4 0 0 0 1 1 .303 Belt dh 2 0 0 0 1 2 .250 b-Kirk ph-dh 2 0 1 1 0 1 .225 2-Biggio pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .129 Chapman 3b 5 0 1 0 0 2 .300 Jansen c 5 1 1 1 0 1 .202 Varsho lf 5 0 0 0 0 2 .206 Espinal 2b 3 1 3 0 0 0 .205 1-Merrifield pr-2b 1 1 1 0 0 0 .270 Kiermaier cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .322 Totals 40 5 10 5 3 14 Baltimore 011 000 030 1 — 6 11 1 Toronto 000 021 200 0 — 5 10 0 a-flied out for Henderson in the 6th. b-singled for Belt in the 7th. c-struck out for Ortiz in the 8th. 1-ran for Espinal in the 7th. 2-ran for Kirk in the 10th. E—Frazier (2). LOB—Baltimore 9, Toronto 9. 2B— Mullins (10), Espinal (2), Chapman (19). 3B—Frazier (1). HR—Mullins (7), off Manoah; O’Hearn (2), off Romano; Springer (6), off Rodriguez; Jansen (5), off Baker. RBIs—O’Hearn 4 (11), Mullins (35), Hays (15), Springer 3 (19), Jansen (23), Kirk (12). SB— Espinal (2), Merrifield (13), Springer (7), Kiermaier (5). S—Frazier. Runners left in scoring position—Baltimore 3 (Ortiz, Mountcastle, Rutschman); Toronto 6 (Chapman, Varsho 3, Kirk, Bichette). RISP—Baltimore 2 for 10; Toronto 2 for 15. Runners moved up—Santander, Kiermaier. GIDP—Henderson, Vavra. DP—Toronto 2 (Guerrero Jr., Bichette, Guerrero Jr.; Chapman, Bichette, Guerrero Jr.). Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Rodriguez 5 4 2 2 1 6 91 6.21 Baker 1 1 1 1 0 1 17 2.86 Baumann ⅔ 2 2 2 1 2 21 4.24 Irvin ⅓ 1 0 0 0 0 7 10.38 Cano 1 1 0 0 0 0 13 0.38 Bautista, W, 3-1 2 1 0 0 1 5 31 1.17 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Manoah 5⅔ 6 2 2 1 5 85 5.15 Mayza ⅓ 0 0 0 0 0 3 1.12 Richards, H, 2 ⅔ 1 0 0 1 0 18 4.50 Swanson, H, 10 1 1 2 2 1 1 16 3.52 Romano, BS, 10-13 1 3 1 1 0 1 32 3.32 Garcia, L, 1-1 1⅓ 0 1 0 0 2 14 4.29 Inherited runners-scored—Irvin 2-1, Mayza 2-0, Swanson 2-0, Romano 2-2, Garcia 1-0. HBP—Manoah (Mountcastle). Umpires—Home, Dan Iassogna; First, Gabe Morales; Second, Nate Tomlinson; Third, Adam Beck. T—3:32. A—41,611 (49,282).

Philadelphia 12, Chicago Cubs 3 Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Hoerner 2b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .304 Mastrobuoni ss 1 0 0 0 0 1 .194 Swanson ss 3 1 1 2 0 1 .264 Tauchman cf 1 0 1 0 0 0 .500 Happ lf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .296 Madrigal 2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .250 Suzuki rf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .286 Rios 3b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .095 Mancini dh 3 0 0 0 1 0 .259 Wisdom 3b-lf 4 0 0 0 0 3 .228 Mervis 1b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .217 Gomes c 3 0 1 0 0 1 .293 Morel cf-rf 3 2 2 1 0 1 .381 Totals 32 3 6 3 1 13 Philadelphia AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Stott 2b 4 1 2 2 0 0 .284 Castellanos rf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .299 a-Harrison ph-lf 0 0 0 1 0 0 .200 Harper dh 3 1 2 1 2 0 .328 Realmuto c 4 0 0 0 0 0 .290 b-Stubbs ph-c 1 1 1 0 0 0 .214 Schwarber lf 2 2 1 4 2 1 .176 Guthrie rf 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 Bohm 3b 5 2 1 0 0 2 .263 Marsh cf 4 0 0 0 1 2 .266 Clemens 1b 4 2 2 2 1 2 .229 Sosa ss 4 2 3 1 0 0 .282 Totals 35 12 13 11 7 8 Chicago 000 002 010 — 3 6 1 Philadelphia 602 020 11x — 12 13 0 a-sacrificed for Castellanos in the 7th. b-tripled for Realmuto in the 8th. E—Wisdom (6). LOB—Chicago 3, Philadelphia 8. 2B—Morel (3), Harper (5), Sosa (6). 3B—Stubbs (1). HR—Swanson (4), off Nola; Morel (7), off Brogdon; Schwarber (11), off Taillon; Clemens (4), off Taillon. RBIs—Swanson 2 (18), Morel (13), Schwarber 4 (23), Clemens 2 (8), Sosa (11), Stott 2 (16), Harper (6), Harrison (6). SF—Stott, Harrison. Runners left in scoring position—Chicago 1 (Swanson); Philadelphia 3 (Castellanos, Marsh, Realmuto). RISP—Chicago 1 for 5; Philadelphia 4 for 12. Runners moved up—Stott. GIDP—Mervis, Harper. DP—Chicago 1 (Mervis, Mastrobuoni); Philadelphia 1 (Sosa, Clemens). Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Taillon, L, 0-3 2⅓ 6 8 6 3 1 62 8.10 Rucker 2⅓ 4 2 2 2 2 62 3.93 Estrada 1⅓ 0 0 0 1 3 21 0.00 Fulmer 1 2 1 1 0 0 12 7.58 Burdi 1 1 1 1 1 2 23 9.00 Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Nola, W, 4-3 7 4 2 2 1 10 98 4.31 Brogdon 1 2 1 1 0 1 15 2.70 Marte 1 0 0 0 0 2 11 15.00 Inherited runners-scored—Rucker 3-2, Estrada 1-0. WP—Burdi. Umpires—Home, Erich Bacchus; First, Laz Diaz; Second, Mike Estabrook; Third, Andy Fletcher. T—2:47. A—42,508 (42,901).

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT • SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2023

Giants lose heartbreaker to Miami BASEBALL » Only run scored is unearned; loss ends four-game winning streak for SF By HENRY SCHULMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — Braxton Garrett and three relievers combined on a three-hitter Saturday, and the Miami Marlins scored an unearned run in the eighth inning on Jon Berti’s single to beat the San Francisco Giants 1-0. Miami (24-22) improved to 15-2 in one-run games but has been outscored 211159 this season. The Marlins won for the fifth time in six games and stopped the Giants’ four-game winning streak.

San Francisco starter Logan Webb pitched six shutout innings for his first no-decision this season. Webb had completed at least seven innings in his three prior starts and four of his past five but was pulled as a precaution after 91 pitches with discomfort in his right side. Webb said he believes it’s not serious and does not expect any diagnostic tests. Miami scored in the eighth against Tyler Rogers (0-4). Garrett Hampson reached on third baseman J.D. Davis’ fielding error, Xavier Edwards sacrificed

pitch of the day. The lefthander walked one and struck out eight for the second straight start, matching his season high. San Francisco did not get another hit until the eighth, when Patrick Bailey punched a two-out single through the right side against Tanner Scott for his first major league hit. Bryce Johnson reached on a bunt single, and Dylon Floro relieved and got Estrada to ground into the GODOFREDO A. VÁSQUEZ / ASSOCIATED PRESS third out. The Marlins’ Garrett Hampson scores on a single by Jon Berti “Everything was workas Giants catcher Patrick Bailey is unable to make the play ing, for the most part,” during the eighth inning Saturday in San Francisco. Garrett said. “I think the worst pitch I made was the and Berti followed with a Garrett allowed one hit first one in the game, just a single past first baseman in 6⅓ innings, a single to sinker up.” LaMonte Wade Jr. Thairo Estrada on his first Marlins manager Skip

BASEBALL CONTINUED FROM C1 Here’s a full breakdown of Saturday’s quarterfinal games.

Division 2 No. 1 Casa Grande 4, No. 9 San Marin 2: A 2-2 game until the fourth, the host Gauchos took the lead for good in the bottom of the frame behind RBI hits from Austin Steeves and Danny Mercado, who both led the offensive charge Saturday. Steeves had a pair of hits, including a double, and two RBIs while Mercado finished 3-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored. Alex Cruz also doubled with an RBI. Jeffrey Rice was clutch out of the bullpen, allowing just two hits and a walk with three strikeouts over his 3⅔ innings of relief to earn the win. Jordan Giacomini entered with two outs in the seventh to earn the save. Casa Grande (21-5) will host No. 5 Redwood (19-8) in the semifinals Wednesday. No. 7 Benicia 9, No. 2 Windsor 1: A scoreless tie until the fourth, the Panthers broke things open with four runs in the inning and then slammed the door with five more in the top of the seventh. The Jaguars (19-8) scored their lone run in the fifth and threatened for more with the game still in striking distance but were unable to capitalize on their chances. They finished with eight hits but also committed five errors for the game. None of the nine runs Windsor pitchers allowed were earned. Jaxon Leo allowed four unearned runs in 3⅔ innings of work while striking out six and allowing five hits. Jon Bettiga struck out three with a walk and five unearned runs over the final 3⅓ innings. At the plate, Elijah Hackathorn had a pair of doubles, Seth England had an RBI and Noah Strozewski had two hits, including a double. No. 5 Redwood 8, No. 4 Ukiah 4: The Wildcats’ defense of their Division 2 NCS title ended in the quarterfinals as they ran into a buzz saw in Giants starting pitcher Rex Solle. Redwood’s ace limited Ukiah (16-7) to just four hits while striking out 13 and walking two in a complete-game outing.

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Maria Carrillo’s Cooper Wood delivers a strike in the ninth inning of Saturday’s North Coast Section quarterfinal game at Marin Catholic in Kentfield. The Giants (19-8) led 2-0 after the first inning, extended their lead to 5-0 after five and then blew the game open with three more runs in the sixth to win going away. Ukiah scored all four of its runs over the sixth and seventh innings. Luke Schat had two hits with an RBI and Trevor Schlafer doubled with three RBIs to lead the Wildcats at the plate. No. 6 Maria Carrillo 8, No. 3 Marin Catholic 7 (9 innings): For the second straight game, the Pumas snuck past a team from Marin in extra innings. Lorenzo Parker had himself a monster game. He not only delivered the go-ahead hit — a solo home run in the top of the ninth — but finished the game 2-for-4 with a double and four RBIs. The Pumas (15-9) trailed 5-0 early but chipped away in the later innings. A four-run fourth cut it to 6-4 and then solo runs in the fifth and sixth tied the game at 6-6, until the Wildcats broke the tie with a solo run in the bottom of the sixth.

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Maria Carrillo came back in the top of the seventh and tied the game on a fielder’s choice off the bat of Jason Dalby to force extras. Cooper Wood was clutch out of the bullpen. He allowed just two hits and struck out three to keep Marin Catholic off the scoreboard for the final three innings. Maria Carrillo will return home for the semifinals Wednesday, when they’ll host No. 7 Benicia (15-10-1).

Nate Niehaus broke up the no-hitter with an RBI single in the fifth and then scored two batters later when Landen Rota reached on an error. Jack Lazark and Dante Overholser followed with back-to-back singles to make it 3-0. Newman (25-1), which is ranked No. 10 in the state by CalHi Sports, will host No. 5 Bishop O’Dowd (15-12) in the semifinals Wednesday. The Cardinals beat the Dragons 8-2 earlier in the season.

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No. 1 Cardinal Newman 3, No. 8 Saint Mary’s-Albany 0: The Cardinals didn’t manage their first hit until the fifth inning in a surprising start against the visiting Panthers, but went on to score all three runs in the frame while starting pitcher Mason Lerma kept his team in the game with a complete-game shutout on the mound. Lerma, a UC Davis commit, allowed just two hits with no walks and six strikeouts to improve to 9-0 on the year.

No. 3 Arcata 6, No. 11 Healdsburg 2: The Greyhounds’ season came to a close up in Humboldt on Saturday afternoon as they fell behind early and couldn’t muster a late rally. Host Arcata (22-6) led 3-1 after one and 5-2 after three and then added an insurance run in the fifth. Healdsburg (15-12) had a chance late, loading the bases in the seventh inning, but the Tigers got a strikeout to end the game. Gavin Valls had two hits and scored twice and Jack

Schumaker said Garrett’s aggressiveness led to the outstanding results. “Ninety percent firstpitch strikes always helps,” Schumaker said. “His two-seamer was really good. It opened up his change-up and opened up his cutter. He checked every box. It was a wellpitched game today.” Floro finished the Marlins’ second shutout this season, getting four outs for his fifth save. San Francisco was blanked for the fifth time. J.T. Chargois (1-0) got two outs for the win. Bailey, the Giants’ firstround pick in the 2020 amateur draft, made his first major league start.

BASEBALL Saturday’s quarterfinal results Division 2: (1) Casa Grande 4, (9) San Marin 2 (5) Redwood 8, (4) Ukiah 4 (7) Benicia 9, (2) Windsor 1 (6) Maria Carrillo 8, (3) Marin Catholic 7, 9 innings Division 3: (1) Cardinal Newman 3, (8) Saint Mary’s 0 Division 4: (3) Arcata 6, (11) Healdsburg 2 Tuesday’s semifinal games Division 3: (5) Bishop O’Dowd at (1) Cardinal Newman, 5 p.m. Division 5: (8) Athenian at (4) St. Vincent, 5 p.m. Wednesday’s semifinal games Division 2: (5) Redwood at (1) Casa Grande, 5 p.m. (7) Benicia at (6) Maria Carrillo, 5 p.m. SOFTBALL Saturday’s quarterfinal results Division 5: (3) Clear Lake 6, (6) Berean Christian 5 Tuesday’s semifinal games Division 2: (3) Alameda at (2) Casa Grande, 5 p.m. Division 4: (4) Fortuna at (1) Cardinal Newman, 5 p.m. Division 5: (3) Clear Lake at (2) Cloverdale, 5 p.m. Domenichelli recorded an RBI. The Greyhounds were limited to just four hits on offense and committed five errors in the field. Only one of the six runs Domenichelli allowed on the mound was earned. Over his five innings of work, he walked one and struck out two with six hits. You can reach Staff Writer Gus Morris at 707-304-9372 or gus. morris@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @JustGusPD.

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THE PRESS DEMOCRAT • SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2023

Koepka on top after tough day PGA CHAMPIONSHIP » LIV golfer surges into lead by one shot at Oak Hill course By DOUG FERGUSON ASSOCIATED PRESS

PITTSFORD, New York — Brooks Koepka says he thrives in majors because they’re the toughest tests. The PGA Championship was every bit of that on a rainy Saturday at Oak Hill, and so was Koepka. Koepka was at his best even during occasional downpours, and he surged into the 54-hole lead for the second straight major. He had a 4-under 66 — the low round at Oak Hill for the second straight day — and led by one shot over Viktor Hovland and Corey Conners. Now he has to finish it off. Koepka failed to do that last month at the Masters when he had a two-shot lead, played it safe and shot 75 and Jon Rahm tracked him down to win by four. “I know what I did,” Koepka said. “I promise I won't show up like that tomorrow.” The last player to have the low score in the second and third rounds of a major championship was Tiger Woods in the 1997 Masters, which he won by a record 12 shots.

Koepka, who was at 6-under 204, won’t have it that easy. Conners played Oak Hill like a U.S. Open — that’s what this PGA Championship feels like — by opening with two birdies and 13 pars that kept him in front for so much of the wet, grueling day. And then one swing changed everything. He was in a bunker right of the 16th fairway when he hit the ball so thin that it disappeared into the lip of the soggy turf. It was plugged deep in the sod, and Conners had to drop it in gnarly rough on top of a mound framing the bunker. He did well to advance that toward the green into more thick grass and took double bogey. Conners, in control for so long, had to settle for a 70. Hovland overcame mistakes early with three birdies in a five-hole stretch around the turn. But then the Norwegian failed to take advantage of the scoring stretch — Nos. 13, 14 and 15 — and took bogey from the bunker on the 18th hole for a 70. He will be in the final

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Brooks Koepka hits his tee shot on the fourth hole during the third round of the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club on Saturday in Pittsford, New York. Koepka holds a one-shot lead over Viktor Hovland and Corey Conners. group of a major for the second time. Hovland was tied with Rory McIlroy at St. Andrews last summer and closed with a 74. Missing from all this activity was Scottie Scheffler, the No. 2 player in the world, who started with

two straight bogeys and didn’t make a birdie — his only one of the round — until the 14th hole. He shot a 73, but is still very much in the mix. So is Bryson DeChambeau, who played with Koepka and took double

bogey on the sixth hole for the second straight day. He ground out a 70 and was three shots behind. McIlroy was about like the weather — promising and then bleak — during a wild round that ended with a par save for a 69. He was

among only seven players under still under par, but still five shots behind the four-time major champion Koepka. Asked if there was a 65 at Oak Hill, McIlroy said he would have to keep mistakes off his card.

GOLF CONTINUED FROM C1 going to just be what we do; that’s the only thing we can control. The other side of that which, very similar to what happened last week, it’s going to depend on what other teams do. ... I do know that these guys are all hyper focused right now.”

Spring turnaround The standard for success at SSU has been high since Verhunce started with the program in 2003. This season’s regional title is the third in program history and this will be the Seawolves’ ninth trip to the NCAA championship tournament during his tenure. The Seawolves were well on pace to get back to this point at the conclusion of the fall season, when they won one tournament and placed no worse than sixth in their four others. But the spring season presented some challenges. A few key players began to struggle, and the team followed suit. They placed no better than fifth in their first four tournaments of the spring before placing second out of 20 teams in the NCAA West Regional Spring Preview at Foxtail North in midApril. Back on track? Not quite. They followed that second-place finish by taking fifth out of eight teams at the conference championships, a result they all considered disappointing. Then, everything flipped during a practice round just days before regionals began. The team found a spark in sophomore Alec Padilla, who had a round for the ages at Foxtail North, carding 10 birdies with a bogey and two doubles to shoot five-under 67. Verhunce and assistant coach Jess Stimack had been searching for a player to step up and seize the fifth spot in their lineup. Padilla, who had shot under 80 just once in the only tournament he appeared in this season, had done just that, and the timing couldn’t have been better. “Jess and I were looking at each other and talking about how we were waiting for something like this to happen,” Verhunce said. “I think the fact that he went out and shot that score gave us a tremendous amount of confi-

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The Sonoma State men’s golf team, left to right: Griffin Pace, Alec Padilla, Jules Lavigne, Aidan Oliver and Colin Huang. dence that we had our best five in the lineup at that point.” Padilla wasn’t the only Seawolf to rise out of the woodwork late in the season. The emergence of senior Jules Lavigne during the spring was also integral to their success. He hadn’t made a single lineup during the fall, but a swing tweak — going back to playing his natural draw versus a cut — turned his game around. Lavigne, along with Pace, earned NCAA Division II All-West Region honors last week.

Regional magic All of it led up to a special weekend in front of friends and family. Pace led the way with 68 in the first two rounds, but the Seawolves sat in sixth heading into the final round. Even heading into the final nine holes, SSU hadn’t moved on the leaderboard. But then, Pace got hot. He had lost the individual lead with a double bogey on No. 6, then got a “crazy up and down” to save par on No. 7, pared No. 8 and birdied No. 9. He proceeded to birdie holes No. 11-15 to shoot back into the lead. “You never know when you’re going to get hot,” he said. “It’s the best thing to tell a golfer and the worst thing to tell a gambler.” He finished out with three straight pars to shoot his third 68 of the weekend and claim the individual title at 12-under par for the tournament. As a team, SSU shot even par on holes Nos. 1318 in the final round. In the first two rounds they were 23-over par. “There has been a little bit of, I’d say, kids playing for themselves and not for each other, and I think that’s the thing that really sparked what happened the last round,” Verhunce said of the turnaround.

Like his teammates, Pace had no idea where the team stood as he played No. 18. When he heard they were in contention for a playoff, he thought it was for the final qualifying spot, not to win the whole thing. Jordan Lee of Western Washington, the No. 3-ranked player in Division II according to Golfstat, forced the playoff with birdies on Nos. 16 and 18. In the playoff, it was Pace — who else? — who played the hero. He birdied both holes to keep the playoff alive. But by the third hole, the sun had long set and darkness forced the round to end. The tiebreaker was decided by the uncounted scores from the first three rounds. Only the four best scores of the five from each team are counted, leaving SSU with a tiebreaker score of 236. Western Washington’s tiebreaker score? 238. By a margin of two strokes, SSU took the regional title.

On to NCAAs Over his career at SSU, Pace has only seen one Seawolves team as confident as this year’s team is heading into NCAAs. In the fall season of 2019, SSU won three of their four tournaments but never got a chance to compete at NCAAs since COVID ended the season in March. “We went to nationals in 2021 and we weren’t as confident as we are now,” said the senior from Irvine. “This team is better than that team, absolutely. And I’ll say that to everyone who was on that team, too. I just think that the way our team dynamic is, you can’t get in our head because we all have each other’s backs. “I think this is one of the best teams Sonoma State has ever had.”

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Maria Carrillo’s Kate O’Malley takes the handoff from Sydney Moore on their way to winning the 4x100-meter relay during the league championships earlier this month in Rohnert Park. The relay team finished second at Saturday’s NCS meet with a time of 48.51.

TRACK CONTINUED FROM C1 relay team of Bailey Bronston, Elianah DeMange, Sydney Moore and Kathryn O’Malley finished second with a time of 48.51. O’Malley, in the anchor position, put on the afterburners, getting ahead of St. Mary’s Sofia Jackson to secure second place. The Pumas finished just behind Pittsburg. Other local athletes competing in the day’s first finals did not secure places at state, but still finished relatively well among the field of competitors. In the boys’ shot put event, Cardinal Newman duo Jake Joerger and Devon Bertoli were the top local performers,

finishing eighth and 10th, respectively. Joerger rebounded nicely after his first two throws to hit 50 feet, 3 inches, while Bertoli, a freshman, had a high mark of 47-04.5. Cloverdale’s Agjes Nerguti also featured, throwing a 37-09.50. Right next to the shot put competition was the girls’ discus event. Maria Carrillo’s Rachel Reynolds won her flight with a throw of 100-04, which good enough for ninth place. Santa Rosa’s Sofia Henderson was right behind her with a mark of 99-11. Ukiah’s Airiana Adams threw a 90-10 to take 13th. In the girls’ long jump, Carrillo’s Allison Tito took eighth place, with a high mark of 16-08. For more from Saturday’s meet, see pressdemocrat.com/sports, and find full results on the NCS website at cifncs.org/ sports/track

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THE PRESS DEMOCRAT • SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2023 NBA Playoffs

CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Western Conference: Denver 2, L.A. Lakers 0 Game 1: Denver 132, L.A. Lakers 126 Game 2: Denver 108, L.A. Lakers 103 Saturday: Denver at L.A. Lakers, late Monday: Denver at L.A. Lakers, 5:30 p.m. x-Wednesday: L.A. Lakers at Denver, 5:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 26: Denver at L.A. Lakers, 5:30 p.m. x-Sunday, May 28: L.A. Lakers at Denver, 5:30 p.m. Eastern Conference: Miami 2, Boston 0 Game 1: Miami 123, Boston 116 Friday’s Result: Miami 111, Boston 105 Sunday: Boston at Miami, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday: Boston at Miami, 5:30 p.m. x-Thursday: Miami at Boston, 5:30 p.m. x-Saturday, May 27: Boston at Miami, 5:30 p.m. x-Monday, May 29: Miami at Boston, 5:30 p.m. Friday’s late game

CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Western Conference: Vegas 1, Dallas 0 Friday’s Result: Vegas 4, Dallas 3, OT Sunday: Dallas at Vegas, Noon Tuesday: Vegas at Dallas, 5 p.m. Thursday: Vegas at Dallas, 5 p.m. x-Saturday, May 27: Dallas at Vegas, TBA x-Monday, May 29: Vegas at Dallas, TBA x-Wednesday, May 31: Dallas at Vegas, TBA Eastern Conference: Florida 1, Carolina 0 Game 1: Florida 3, Carolina 2, 4OT Saturday: Florida at Carolina, late Monday: Carolina at Florida, 5 p.m. Wednesday: Carolina at Florida, 5 p.m. x-Friday: Florida at Carolina, TBA x-Sunday, May 28: Carolina at Florida, TBA x-Tuesday, May 30: Florida at Carolina, TBA

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Miami 111, Boston 105 FG FT Reb MIAMI Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS Butler 40:38 12-25 3-3 2-8 6 1 27 Love 14:33 0-3 0-0 1-5 2 3 0 Adebayo 38:05 7-17 8-8 2-17 9 5 22 Strus 26:47 3-6 3-4 0-1 0 2 11 Vincent 40:06 2-8 4-4 0-2 0 1 9 Martin 32:08 11-16 0-0 3-4 0 2 25 Robinson 20:45 6-9 0-0 0-1 1 1 15 Lowry 17:03 0-5 0-0 0-1 5 1 0 Zeller 9:55 1-3 0-0 3-6 0 1 2 Totals 240:00 42-92 18-1911-45 23 17 111 Percentages: FG .457, FT .947. 3-Point Goals: 9-26, .346 (Robinson 3-6, Martin 3-7, Strus 2-5, Vincent 1-4, Butler 0-1, Lowry 0-3). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 5 (Butler 2, Lowry, Martin, Zeller). Turnovers: 10 (Butler 3, Lowry 2, Adebayo, Love, Martin, Vincent, Zeller). Steals: 9 (Butler 3, Vincent 2, Love, Lowry, Martin, Robinson). Technical Fouls: Butler, 6:22 fourth. FG FT Reb BOSTON Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS Horford 29:00 1-5 0-0 0-4 2 4 2 Tatum 42:24 10-20 11-12 1-13 8 4 34 Williams III 23:12 5-5 3-4 1-3 1 2 13 Brown 37:49 7-23 1-2 3-4 3 3 16 Smart 32:51 2-5 2-2 0-4 3 1 7 Brogdon 26:03 4-9 4-4 0-4 2 2 13 Williams 25:34 4-6 0-0 1-2 2 3 9 White 23:07 4-6 0-0 0-1 1 1 11 Totals 240:00 37-79 21-24 6-35 22 20 105 Percentages: FG .468, FT .875. 3-Point Goals: 10-35, .286 (White 3-5, Tatum 3-10, Williams 1-2, Smart 1-3, Brogdon 1-5, Brown 1-7, Horford 0-3). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 9 (Brogdon 2, Horford 2, White 2, Williams III 2, Williams). Turnovers: 15 (Tatum 5, Smart 3, Brogdon 2, Brown 2, Williams III 2, White). Steals: 2 (Brogdon, Williams III). Technical Fouls: Williams, 6:22 fourth. Miami 24 30 21 36 — 111 Boston 25 25 33 22 — 105 A—19,156 (18,624). T—2:22.

WNBA Standings Western Conference W L Las Vegas 1 0 Los Angeles 1 0 Dallas 1 0 Seattle 0 1 Phoenix 0 1 Minnesota 0 1 Eastern Conference W L Chicago 1 0 Connecticut 1 0 Washington 1 0 New York 0 1 Atlanta 0 1 Indiana 0 1 Saturday’s Results Dallas 85, Atlanta 78 Las Vegas 105, Seattle 64 Sunday’s Games Washington at Connecticut, 10 a.m. Indiana at New York, 11 a.m. Chicago at Phoenix, 1 p.m.

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American League BOSTON RED SOX — Traded CF Greg Allen to N.Y. Yankees in exchange for RHP Diego Hernandez and placed him on the active roster. CLEVELAND GUARDIANS — Assigned RHP Triston McKenzie to Columbus (IL) on a rehab assignment. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Reinstated LHP Amir Garrett to the active roster. Optioned RHP Jackson Kowar to Omaha (IL:). MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed INF Jorge Polanco on the 10-day IL, retroactive to May 18. Recalled INF Edouard Julien from St. Paul (IL). Agreed to terms with RHP Austin Brice on a minor league contract. NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned SS Oswald Peraza to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Signed OF Greg Allen and selected him to the active roster. Designated OF Aaron Hicks for assignment. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Recalled RHP James Kaprielian from Las Vegas (PCL). Placed RHP Drew Rucinski on the 15-day IL, retroactive to May 17. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Selected the contract of RHP Austin Adams from Reno (PCL). Placed LHP Anthony Misiewicz on the 15-day IL. Transferred C Carson Kelly from the 10-day IL to the 60-day IL. CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with RHP Teddy Stankiewicz on a minor league contract. Place OF Henry Ramos o the 10-day IL. Recalled OF Will Benson from Louisville (IL). LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled RHP Wander Suero from Oklahoma City (PCL). Placed LHP Julio Urias on the 15-day IL, retroactive to May 19. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed RHP J.B. Bukauskas on the 15-day IL, retroactive to May 17. Recalled RHP Colin Rea from Nashville (IL). Assigned 1B Luke Voit to Nashville on a rehab assignment. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Optioned RHP Erich Uelmen to Lehigh Valley (IL). Recalled RHP Yunior Marte from Lehigh Valley. Claimed RHP Dylan Covey of waivers from L.A. Dodgers. Transferred 1B Darick Hall from the 10-day IL to the 60-day IL. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Assigned RHP Vince Velasquez to Indianapolis (IL) on a rehab assignment. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Designated CF Adam Engel for assignment. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Reinstated RHP Chad Kuhl from the 15-day IL. Optioned RHP Hobie Harris to Rochester (IL).

Football Canadian Football League EDMONTON ELKS — Signed WR Raphael Leonard. WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed WR Brandan Beaulieu and RB Kevon Latulas. Released WRs Dominick Fiscelli and Michael Young Jr.

Soccer Major League Soccer D.C. UNITED — Loaned M Jackson Hopkins to Loudoun United FC of the USL Championship League for the 2023 season.

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SRJC CONTINUED FROM C1 CCCAA state playoffs next weekend in Folsom. SRJC put the ball in the hands of starting pitcher Hekili Robello (W, 9-3) and he delivered with a dominant complete game, giving up just one run and six hits while striking out eight Wolverines. “Robello was great today,” SRJC head coach Damon Neidlinger said. “Not only did he get the win, but he also went a complete game and saved our pitching for tomorrow.” Robello mixed a low-90s fastball with his slider to effectively keep Sierra hitters off-balance. He didn’t walk a batter, which helped limit the Wolverines’ traffic on the bases. Robello gave up only one extra-base knock and threw 113 pitches in going the distance. “Robello was very effective today,” SRJC assistant coach Tom Francois said. “You can’t ask for more than that from a guy in a complete game. He was in the zone — he was spotting it up.” The Bear Cubs offense generated early runs against Sierra ace starter Torres Jaccob Torres (L, 9-1). Torres was undefeated with an ERA below 2.00 coming into the game but SRJC lit him up, nonetheless. “Our offense was very competitive,” Neidlinger said. The Bear Cubs scored solo runs in the first and second innings and then tacked on two runs in both the fourth and fifth innings, chasing Torres and posting a 6-0 cushion for Robello to work with

At Foro Italico, Rome Purse: EUR 7,705,780 Surface: Red clay (seedings in parentheses): Men’s Singles, Semifinals Holger Rune (7), Denmark, def. Casper Ruud (4), Norway, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-2. Daniil Medvedev (3), Russia, def. Stefanos Tsitsipas (5), Greece, 7-5, 7-5. Women’s Singles, Championship Elena Rybakina (7), Kazakhstan, def. Anhelina Kalinina (30), Ukraine, 6-4, 1-0, ret. Women’s Doubles, Championship Storm Hunter, Australia, and Elise Mertens (4), Belgium, def. Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff (1), United States, 6-4, 6-4.

WTA Trophee Clarins At Lagardere Paris Racing Club, Paris Purse: $115,000 Surface: Red clay (seedings in parentheses): Women’s Singles, Semifinals Diane Parry, France, def. Varvara Gracheva (2), Russia, 6-0, 6-2. Caty McNally (6), United States, def. Katie Volynets, United States, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2. Women’s Doubles, Semifinals Vera Zvonareva, Russia, and Anna Danilina, Kazakhstan, def. Nadiia Kichenok, Ukraine, and Alycia Parks (1), United States, 5-7, 7-6 (2), 14-12.

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Western Conference W L T Pts GF GA Seattle 7 4 2 23 20 11 Los Angeles FC 6 1 4 22 21 9 FC Dallas 6 3 3 21 15 12 Saint Louis City SC 6 4 1 19 22 13 San Jose 5 4 3 18 16 16 Portland 4 5 4 16 18 19 Minnesota United 4 5 3 15 11 14 Houston 4 5 2 14 10 10 Vancouver 3 4 5 14 16 14 Austin FC 3 5 4 13 12 18 Real Salt Lake 3 6 3 12 10 20 Colorado 2 5 6 12 10 18 Sporting Kansas City 2 7 4 10 9 17 LA Galaxy 2 8 3 9 10 23 Eastern Conference W L T Pts GF GA Cincinnati 9 1 3 30 21 14 Nashville 7 3 4 25 19 9 New England 7 3 3 24 19 14 Philadelphia 6 4 3 21 20 14 Atlanta 6 4 3 21 25 21 D.C. United 5 5 4 19 19 16 Orlando City 5 4 4 19 16 16 Columbus 5 5 3 18 25 17 Charlotte FC 5 6 3 18 19 25 New York City FC 4 5 4 16 15 16 New York 3 4 7 16 10 12 Inter Miami CF 5 8 0 15 14 17 CF Montréal 5 8 0 15 12 22 Chicago 3 4 5 14 15 18 Toronto FC 2 4 7 13 13 17 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Saturday’s Results Earthquakes at Los Angeles FC, late Nashville 2, Charlotte FC 1 Cincinnati 3, Columbus 2 D.C. United 3, LA Galaxy 0 Orlando City 3, Miami 1 New York 2, CF Montréal 1 Philadelphia 3, New England 0 Toronto FC at Austin FC, late Atlanta at Chicago, late Houston at FC Dallas, late Real Salt Lake at Colorado, late Sporting Kansas City at Saint Louis City SC, late Minnesota at Portland, late Seattle at Vancouver, late

GP W D PSG 35 26 3 Lens 35 22 9 Marseille 36 22 7 Monaco 36 19 8 Lille 36 18 9 Rennes 35 18 5 Lyon 36 17 8 Clermont Foot 35 15 8 Lorient 35 14 10 Nice 35 13 12 Reims 35 12 14 Montpellier 36 14 5 Toulouse 35 12 7 Strasbourg 35 9 11 Brest 35 9 11 Auxerre 35 8 10 Nantes 36 6 15 Ajaccio 35 6 5 Troyes 35 4 10 Angers 35 3 5 Saturday’s Results Montpellier 3, Nantes 0 Lille 2, Marseille 1 Sunday’s Games Ajaccio vs. Rennes, 4 a.m. Nice vs. Toulouse, 6 a.m. Brest vs. Clermont Foot, 6 a.m. Reims vs. Angers, 6 a.m. Troyes vs. Strasbourg, 6 a.m. Lorient vs. Lens, 8:05 a.m. Auxerre vs. PSG, 11:45 a.m.

NWSL W L T Pts GF GA Washington 4 1 3 15 11 7 OL Reign 4 2 1 13 12 6 Gotham FC 4 2 1 13 7 6 Portland 3 1 3 12 18 10 San Diego 4 3 0 12 12 10 North Carolina 3 3 2 11 8 9 Houston 2 2 3 9 5 6 Angel City 2 3 3 9 11 13 Louisville 1 2 4 7 9 9 Orlando 3 4 1 10 7 12 Kansas City 2 5 0 6 9 14 Chicago 1 5 1 4 11 18 Saturday’s Results Angel City 0, North Carolina 0, tie Orlando 2, Washington 1 Louisville at Kansas City, late San Diego at Houston, late Sunday’s Games Chicago at Portland, 2 p.m. Gotham FC at OL Reign, 3 p.m.

English Premier League GP W D Man City 35 27 4 Arsenal 37 25 6 Newcastle 36 19 12 Man United 36 21 6 Liverpool 37 19 9 Brighton 35 17 7 Aston Villa 37 17 7 Tottenham 37 17 6 Brentford 37 14 14 Fulham 37 15 7 Crystal Palace 37 11 11 Chelsea 35 11 10 Wolverhampton 37 11 8 Bournemouth 37 11 6 West Ham 36 10 7 Nottingham Forest 37 9 10 Everton 37 7 12 Leeds 36 7 10 Leicester 36 8 6 Southampton 36 6 6 Saturday’s Results Brentford 3, Tottenham 1 Man United 1, Bournemouth 0 Fulham 2, Crystal Palace 2 Liverpool 1, Aston Villa 1 Wolverhampton 1, Everton 1 Nottingham Forest 1, Arsenal 0 Newcastle vs. Leicester, ppd Sunday’s Games West Ham vs. Leeds, 5:30 a.m. Brighton vs. Southampton, 6 a.m. Man City vs. Chelsea, 8 a.m. Monday’s Game Newcastle vs. Leicester, Noon Wednesday’s Game Brighton vs. Man City, Noon Thursday’s Game Man United vs. Chelsea, Noon

L GF GA Pts 4 92 31 85 6 83 43 81 5 67 32 69 9 52 41 69 9 71 43 66 11 67 49 58 13 49 45 58 14 66 62 57 9 57 46 56 15 54 51 52 15 39 48 44 14 36 41 43 18 31 53 41 20 37 70 39 19 38 52 37 18 37 67 37 18 33 57 33 19 46 71 31 22 49 67 30 24 31 66 24

Germany Bundesliga GP W D L GF GA Pts Bayern 33 20 8 5 90 37 68 Dortmund 32 21 4 7 78 42 67 RB Leipzig 33 19 6 8 60 39 63 Union Berlin 33 17 8 8 50 38 59 Freiburg 33 17 8 8 50 42 59 Leverkusen 32 14 7 11 55 44 49 Wolfsburg 33 13 10 10 56 46 49 Eintracht 33 12 11 10 56 51 47 Mainz 32 12 9 11 51 49 45 Cologne 33 10 12 11 48 52 42 Monchengladbach 32 10 9 13 48 53 39 Bremen 33 10 6 17 51 63 36 Hoffenheim 33 10 5 18 47 56 35 Augsburg 32 9 7 16 42 58 34 Bochum 33 9 5 19 37 72 32 Schalke 33 7 10 16 33 67 31 Stuttgart 32 6 11 15 40 55 29 Hertha Berlin 33 6 8 19 40 68 26 Saturday’s Results Hoffenheim 4, Union Berlin 2 Hertha Berlin 1, Bochum 1 Schalke 2, Eintracht 2 Bremen 1, Cologne 1 RB Leipzig 3, Bayern 1 Sunday’s Games Mainz vs. Stuttgart, 6:30 a.m. Augsburg vs. Dortmund, 8:30 a.m. Leverkusen vs. Monchengladbach, 10:30 a.m.

midway through the game. “Our hitters showed up today,” Francois said. “They knew what they had to do, and they really got the job done.” Leading the Bear Cubs’ attack were a quartet of hitters: Bryce Cannon (2-for-2, double, three walks, RBI, four runs, stolen base), Joe Brown (2-for5, solo homer, RBI, 2 runs), Spain LaLiga Connor Charpiot (2-for-4, GP W D L GF GA Pts 35 27 4 4 65 15 85 solo homer, RBI, run) and Barcelona Madrid 34 22 5 7 70 32 71 34 21 6 7 60 27 69 Aidan Lombardi (3-for-5, Atletico Sociedad 35 19 8 8 47 32 65 double, RBI). Villarreal 35 18 6 11 54 36 60 Betis 34 16 7 11 43 38 55 SRJC rapped out 12 hits Athletic Bilbao 35 14 8 13 46 39 50 with five walks and cashed Girona 35 13 9 13 55 50 48 34 13 8 13 32 36 47 in eight runs while leaving Osasuna Sevilla 34 13 8 13 44 49 47 10 runners on base — a Rayo Vallecano 34 12 10 12 41 45 46 Mallorca 35 12 8 15 33 40 44 vast improvement from Almeria 35 11 6 18 46 61 39 35 10 9 16 40 50 39 Friday’s 9-4 loss, when the Celta Vigo Cadiz 35 9 11 15 28 50 38 Bear Cubs could only plate Valencia 34 10 7 17 38 41 37 Getafe 35 8 11 16 31 44 35 four of 17 base runners. Valladolid 35 10 5 20 30 62 35 34 7 10 17 42 60 31 The sole run for Sierra Espanyol Elche of Rocklin (33-13) came on Saturday’s Results35 4 8 23 27 65 20 a groundout in the fifth but Villarreal 2, Girona 1 Bilbao 2, Celta Vigo 1 was harmless, given SR- Athletic Almeria 3, Mallorca 0 Getafe 1, Elche 1 JC’s large lead. 2, Barcelona 1 During the regular sea- Sociedad Sunday’s Games son in the Big 8 Conference Rayo Vallecano vs. Espanyol, 5 a.m. vs. Osasuna, 7:15 a.m. — won by co-champs SRJC Atletico Valencia vs. Madrid, 9:30 a.m. and San Joaquin Delta Sevilla vs. Betis, Noon Games College of Stockton — the Tuesday’s Celta Vigo vs. Girona, 10:30 a.m. Bear Cubs were 2-2 against Sociedad vs. Almeria, 10:30 a.m. Sierra, for a combined Valladolid vs. Barcelona, 1 p.m. head-to-head record of 3-3 Italy Serie A GP W D L GF GA Pts so far this year against the Napoli 35 26 5 4 70 25 83 Juventus 35 21 6 8 54 28 69 Wolverines. Inter 35 21 3 11 66 37 66 Playing at home Sunday Lazio 35 19 8 8 54 28 65 Milan 36 18 10 8 60 42 64 with the momentum of AC Atalanta 36 18 7 11 59 43 61 35 17 8 10 45 33 59 Saturday’s win could give Roma Monza 36 14 10 12 46 46 52 the favored Bear Cubs the AC Bologna 36 13 11 12 48 45 50 Turin 35 13 10 12 37 39 49 edge in the tiebreaker. Fiorentina 35 13 10 12 47 40 49 Francois said SRJC has Udinese 35 11 13 11 45 43 46 36 12 8 16 44 56 44 not named a starter for Sassuolo Empoli 35 9 12 14 32 45 39 35 8 14 13 43 56 38 Sunday, and will be pitch- Salernitana Lecce 35 7 11 17 30 43 32 ing by committee. Spezia 35 6 12 17 30 56 30 36 7 9 20 29 55 30 The Bear Cubs’ goal is Verona Cremonese 36 4 12 20 32 66 24 to win their fourth CCCAA Sampdoria 36 3 9 24 22 67 18 state championship in pro- Saturday’s Results Bologna 5, Cremonese 1 gram history (The previ- Atalanta 3, Verona 1 ous titles were in 1952, 2005 AC Milan 5, Sampdoria 1 Sunday’s Games and 2016). Lecce vs. Spezia, 3:30 a.m. To do that, they must win Turin vs. Fiorentina, 6 a.m. Napoli vs. Inter, 9 a.m. Sunday — or the fantastic Udinese vs. Lazio, 11:45 a.m. season the Bear Cubs have Monday’s Game Roma vs. Salernitana, 9:30 a.m. put together will be over. Empoli vs. Juventus, 11:45 a.m.

L GF GA Pts 6 84 35 81 4 59 27 75 7 66 37 73 9 69 54 65 9 62 42 63 12 60 38 59 11 61 44 59 12 39 45 53 11 49 47 52 10 42 34 51 9 42 37 50 17 60 58 47 16 48 55 43 15 48 55 38 15 39 50 38 17 32 57 34 15 35 53 33 24 22 66 23 21 42 77 22 27 29 77 14

GOLF PGA Championship At Oak Hill - East, Rochester, N.Y. Purse: $15 million Yardage: 7,394; Par: 70 Third Round Brooks Koepka, United States 72-66-66 — 204 Corey Conners, Canada 67-68-70 — 205 Viktor Hovland, Norway 68-67-70 — 205 Bryson DeChambeau, United States 66-71-70 — 207 Justin Rose, England 69-70-69 — 208 Scottie Scheffler, United States 67-68-73 — 208 Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland 71-69-69 — 209 Michael Block, United States 70-70-70 — 210 Justin Suh, United States 69-68-73 — 210 Eric Cole, United States 67-74-70 — 211 Tommy Fleetwood, England 72-71-68 — 211 Stephan Jaeger, Germany 72-70-69 — 211 Min Woo Lee, Australia 73-67-71 — 211 Shane Lowry, Ireland 73-67-71 — 211 Victor Perez, France 70-72-69 — 211 Cameron Davis, Australia 71-70-71 — 212 Ryan Fox, New Zealand 68-73-71 — 212 Kurt Kitayama, United States 70-71-71 — 212 Patrick Reed, United States 72-71-69 — 212 Patrick Cantlay, United States 74-67-72 — 213 Hideki Matsuyama, Japan 72-71-70 — 213 Keith Mitchell, United States 69-71-73 — 213 Taylor Pendrith, Canada 70-69-74 — 213 Sepp Straka, Austria 69-71-73 — 213 Adam Svensson, Canada 70-70-73 — 213 Sahith Theegala, United States 71-71-71 — 213 Keegan Bradley, United States 68-72-74 — 214 Hayden Buckley, United States 69-74-71 — 214 Tyrrell Hatton, England 77-68-69 — 214 Chris Kirk, United States 70-75-69 — 214 Matthew NeSmith, United States 70-70-74 — 214 Cameron Smith, Australia 72-72-70 — 214 Beau Hossler, United States 71-70-74 — 215 Dustin Johnson, United States 67-74-74 — 215 Collin Morikawa, United States 71-70-74 — 215 Mito Pereira, Chile 72-69-74 — 215 Thomas Pieters, Belgium 69-76-70 — 215 Chez Reavie, United States 76-68-71 — 215 Xander Schauffele, United States 72-72-71 — 215 Alex Smalley, United States 73-72-70 — 215 Harold Varner III, United States 70-71-74 — 215 Dean Burmester, South Africa 73-71-72 — 216 Adam Hadwin, Canada 70-73-73 — 216 Lucas Herbert, Australia 75-69-72 — 216 Tom Hoge, United States 74-70-72 — 216 Nicolai Hojgaard, Denmark 76-67-73 — 216 Kyoung-Hoon Lee, South Korea 73-68-75 — 216 Jon Rahm, Spain 76-68-72 — 216 Adam Scott, Australia 68-74-74 — 216 Jordan Spieth, United States 73-72-71 — 216 Sam Stevens, United States 71-72-73 — 216 Max Homa, United States 71-72-74 — 217 Thriston Lawrence, South Africa 75-69-73 — 217 Denny McCarthy, United States 75-70-72 — 217 J.T. Poston, United States 72-70-75 — 217 Patrick Rodgers, United States 70-75-72 — 217 Callum Tarren, England 71-67-79 — 217 Thomas Detry, Belgium 74-71-73 — 218 Tony Finau, United States 72-73-73 — 218 Padraig Harrington, Ireland 72-71-75 — 218 Sihwan Kim, United States 75-68-75 — 218 Pablo Larrazabal, Spain 69-75-74 — 218 Adrian Meronk, Poland 75-69-74 — 218 Yannik Paul, Germany 76-69-73 — 218 Matt Wallace, England 73-70-75 — 218 Zach Johnson, United States 74-71-74 — 219 Lee Hodges, United States 75-70-75 — 220 Rikuya Hoshino, Japan 75-70-75 — 220 Phil Mickelson, United States 73-72-75 — 220 Justin Thomas, United States 72-73-75 — 220 Joel Dahmen, United States 74-69-78 — 221 Taylor Montgomery, United States 75-70-76 — 221 Taylor Moore, United States 74-69-78 — 221 Kazuki Higa, Japan 72-73-77 — 222 Ben Taylor, England 72-72-78 — 222 Mark Hubbard, United States 71-74-79 — 224

NASCAR Cup Heat Race 1 Lap length: 0.62 miles (Start position in parentheses) At North Wilkesboro Speedway, N.C. 1. (1) Daniel Suarez, Chevrolet, 60 laps, 0 points. 2. (3) Joey Logano, Ford, 60, 0. 3. (5) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 60, 0. 4. (10) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 60, 0. 5. (4) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 60, 0. 7. (2) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 60, 0. 8. (8) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 60, 0. 9. (7) Austin Cindric, Ford, 60, 0. 10. (6) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 60, 0. 11. (11) Erik Jones, Chevrolet, 60, 0.

NASCAR Cup Heat Race 2 Lap length: 0.62 miles (Start position in parentheses) At North Wilkesboro Speedway, N.C. 1. (1) Chris Buescher, Ford, 60 laps, 0 points. 2. (2) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 60, 0. 3. (3) William Byron, Chevrolet, 60, 0. 4. (8) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 60, 0. 5. (7) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 60, 0. 6. (6) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 60, 0. 7. (9) Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 60, 0. 8. (5) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 60, 0. 9. (4) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 60, 0. 10. (10) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 60, 0.

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Arsenal loss hands EPL trophy to Man City Manchester City clinched a third straight English Premier League title Saturday after second-place Arsenal lost at Nottingham Forest 1-0 to cap its end-ofseason collapse. City holds an unassailable four-point lead, with Arsenal — the once-longtime leader — having only one game remaining. It is City’s seventh league crown in a 12-year period during which the Abu Dhabi-owned club has changed the face of the English game. Pep Guardiola’s squad has its sights on becoming just the second team to capture the Premier League-FA Cup-Champions League treble, and still has two finals to play.

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Rybakina wins in Italy; men’s final set

Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina won the Italian Open on Saturday when Ukrainian opponent Anhelina Kalinina retired injured early in the second NASCAR Truck Series Tyson 250 set of the rain-delayed final. Lap length: 0.62 miles Rybakina was leading 6-4, 1-0, 15-0 when Kalinina (Start position in parentheses) At North Wilkesboro Speedway, N.C. called for a trainer and grasped her left leg. Then she 1. (8) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 252 laps, 0 points. decided that she couldn’t continue. 2. (3) Ty Majeski, Ford, 252, 35. 3. (15) Matt DiBenedetto, Chevrolet, 252, 39. Holger Rune will face Daniil Medvedev in the men’s 4. (2) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 252, 48. 5. (14) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 252, 0. final Sunday. 6. (1) Corey Heim, Toyota, 252, 48. The 20-year-old Rune rallied past Casper Ruud 6-7 (2), 7. (18) Matt Crafton, Ford, 252, 30. 8. (24) Chase Purdy, Chevrolet, 252, 31. 6-4, 6-2 and Medvedev performed a little celebratory 9. (12) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 252, 0. 10. (7) Grant Enfinger, Chevrolet, 252, 31. dance after beating Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-5, 7-5 in a semi11. (4) William Byron, Chevrolet, 252, 0. final that was suspended twice in the first set for a total 12. (32) Chris Hacker, Toyota, 252, 25. 13. (33) Stewart Friesen, Toyota, 252, 29. of nearly 4½ hours due to rain. 14. (16) Daniel Dye, Chevrolet, 252, 23. 15. (6) Bret Holmes, Chevrolet, 252, 22. 16. (9) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 252, 0. 17. (11) Kaden Honeycutt, Chevrolet, 252, 20. 18. (31) Tanner Gray, Toyota, 252, 19. 19. (22) Lawless Alan, Chevrolet, 252, 18. 20. (10) Hailie Deegan, Ford, 252, 17. 21. (27) Taylor Gray, Toyota, 252, 16. 22. (34) Kris Wright, Chevrolet, 252, 15. 23. (21) Jake Garcia, Chevrolet, 252, 14. 24. (5) Colby Howard, Chevrolet, 252, 20. 25. (13) Christian Eckes, Chevrolet, 252, 12. 26. (17) Tyler Ankrum, Toyota, 250, 13. 27. (35) Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, 250, 10. 28. (28) Josh Williams, Ford, garage, 221, 0. 29. (30) Conner Jones, Ford, electrical, 219, 8. 30. (20) Nicholas Sanchez, Chevrolet, 213, 7. 31. (26) Timmy Hill, Toyota, 211, 6. 32. (36) Zane Smith, Ford, accident, 204, 17. 33. (19) Ben Rhodes, Ford, accident, 202, 4. 34. (23) Rajah Caruth, Chevrolet, accident, 200, 3. 35. (25) Dean Thompson, Toyota, accident, 182, 2. 36. (29) Johnny Sauter, Ford, electrical, 153, 1. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 68.763 mph. Time of Race: 2 hours, 17 minutes, 25 seconds. Margin of Victory: 0.974 seconds. Caution Flags: 12 for 81 laps. Lead Changes: 6 among 5 drivers. Lap Leaders: C.Heim 0-43; C.Hocevar 44-59; W.Byron 60-69; C.Heim 70-101; K.Larson 102-224; B.Wallace 225-237; K.Larson 238-252 Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): K.Larson, 2 times for 138 laps; C.Heim, 2 times for 75 laps; C.Hocevar, 1 time for 16 laps; B.Wallace, 1 time for 13 laps; W.Byron, 1 time for 10 laps.

FOOTBALL USFL North Division W L T Pct PF PA Philadelphia 2 3 0 .400 90 130 New Jersey 2 3 0 .400 96 87 Pittsburgh 2 4 0 .333 82 108 Michigan 2 4 0 .333 96 130 South Division W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 4 1 0 .800 135 111 Birmingham 4 2 0 .667 171 117 Houston 3 2 0 .600 142 129 Memphis 3 3 0 .500 119 119 Saturday’s Results Memphis 22, Pittsburgh 0 Birmingham 27, Michigan 13 Sunday’s Games New Orleans at Philadelphia, 9 a.m. New Jersey at Houston, 1 p.m.

HOCKEY

U.S. still unbeaten at world championship Switzerland rallied from a goal behind to top Canada 3-2 in a clash of two undefeated teams at the ice hockey world championship Saturday in Riga, Latvia. Earlier in the day, the United States shut out Denmark 3-0 in Tampere to stay perfect. Alex Tuch scored one goal and added two assists to earn the U.S. a fifth victory in five games. The Americans lead Group A with 15 points and have secured a spot in the quarterfinals. The top four teams from the two eight-team groups advance to the knockout stage.

MOTORSPORTS

Suarez, Buescher to lead All-Star Cup race Daniel Suarez and Chris Buescher will start on the front row for Sunday night’s All-Star race at North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Carolina after winning their respective 60-lap heats. Suarez beat out Joey Logano in the first heat at the .625-mile renovated track on a night in which NASCAR experimented with its wet weather tire package for the first time on the Cup Series cars following a light, but steady rain. Buescher won the second heat after leading all 60 laps as drivers started on slick tires before NASCAR had them switch to the wet weather tires for the second half of the race after some drizzle. Joey Logano and Austin Dillon will start on the second row. The 21 drivers who qualified for the 200-lap All-Star race were divided into two heats as part of a unique format for this year’s race. — Associated Press

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WEATHER REPORT

TODAY IN WEATHER HISTORY

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MONDAY

TUESDAY

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WEDNESDAY

MENDOCINO COUNTY: Mostly sunny inland today; times of clouds and sun at the coast. Partly cloudy tonight.

Fort Bragg 64/51

Ukiah 87/51 Mostly sunny

Not as warm

Fog to sun Gualala

REGIONAL OUTLOOK: Intervals of clouds and sunshine today; low clouds, then perhaps some sun at the coast. Patchy clouds tonight. Mostly sunny Monday; however, areas of low clouds and fog at the coast; pleasant near Santa Rosa and the bay.

69/51 NORTHERN COAST: Wind north-northwest at 15-25 knots today. Wind waves 2-4 feet with a north-northwest swell 5-9 feet at 7-second intervals. Visibility clear.

EXTENDED: Tuesday: clouds to start, then sunshine returns. Wednesday: cool with low clouds and fog, then sunshine.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY: Wind from the west-southwest at 8-16 knots today. Waters a light chop on the bay. Visibility generally clear.

SATURDAY LOG 24-hour totals Hi/Lo Ending at 4 p.m.

Rain

Season Last year To date To date

Bodega Bay Boonville Calistoga Cazadero Cloverdale Fort Bragg Guerneville Healdsburg Lakeport Middletown Petaluma Rohnert Park Santa Rosa Sea Ranch Sebastopol Sonoma St. Helena Ukiah Windsor

0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

31.77 48.18 45.33 57.10 50.53 46.28 53.93 43.21 33.89 47.53 33.44 33.16 41.83 40.78 47.63 33.64 39.82 38.70 49.38

55/49 77/50 77/45 79/48 84/49 61/50 73/47 71/48 86/52 84/55 64/50 65/51 71/49 58/49 66/46 74/48 79/47 89/49 74/47

17.14 28.68 26.60 35.34 23.51 32.97 29.58 22.95 20.64 26.09 18.04 23.23 25.51 22.17 28.78 17.41 23.11 18.80 27.89

Last qtr. June 10

New June 17

Record low: 37 in 1933 Average rainfall since Oct. 1: 30.70 inches Saturday Hi/Lo Prec. 84/47 0.19 94/67 96/68 T 92/51 97/73 0.15 87/63 74/53 59/52 T 59/52 0.01 92/63 71/51 73/62 74/63 67/60 85/53 60/51 88/47 98/73 T 62/53 T 97/77 T 77/59 89/50 91/63 69/52 86/57 0.01 80/54 67/55 T 67/61 59/51 63/54 68/55 67/53 70/52 75/61 68/58 68/54 68/50 66/60 84/53 90/48 71/41 0.03 77/37 0.11 69/53 76/45 0.27

Today Hi/Lo Sky 80/43 t 94/69 pc 93/70 pc 85/54 t 100/71 s 91/63 s 82/54 pc 60/49 c 59/48 c 93/65 pc 83/52 pc 73/61 pc 76/58 pc 68/59 pc 88/57 pc 64/55 pc 80/48 t 100/76 s 69/52 pc 95/76 s 78/58 pc 86/48 pc 92/65 s 73/53 pc 84/58 s 86/55 s 65/53 pc 68/61 pc 65/53 pc 68/54 pc 78/53 pc 68/52 pc 74/52 pc 72/63 pc 68/57 s 64/52 pc 66/52 pc 67/58 pc 89/55 pc 87/51 t 66/39 t 73/34 t 73/53 pc 75/51 t

First qtr. May 27

Calistoga 83/55

Santa Rosa 79/49

Sonoma 79/51

Sebastopol 77/47

San Rafael 74/52

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

As night falls, the waxing crescent moon, Venus and Mars form an evenly-spaced line in the west poking out through the eastern side of the setting Winter Hexagon. This line points toward bright Regulus, the heart of Leo the Lion, about 30 degrees away. Venus sets at 11:50 p.m. Mars sets at 12:41 a.m. Jupiter rises at 4:35 a.m. Saturn rises at 2:20 a.m. Source: Morrison Planetarium, California Academy of Sciences

San Francisco 68/54

SAN FRANCISCO: Low clouds breaking for some sun today. Partly cloudy tonight. Oakland, 69/52.

PACIFIC JET STREAM

Mt. Shasta 80/48 Eureka 59/48

Redding 92/65 Chico 91/63

Sacramento Tahoe 86/55 66/39 San Francisco 68/54 Yosemite San Jose 75/51 78/53 Monterey 64/55

5:54 a.m. 8:21 p.m.

Bakersfield 94/69

Death Valley 105/90

San Bernardino 85/57

Santa Barbara 68/57

LAKES & RIVERS

Palm Springs 95/76

Los Angeles 76/58

The main jet stream will begin to dip southward into the Northwest Sunday while weak ridging holds across California. The jet stream will dig farther south Monday.

San Diego 68/61

NATIONAL FORECAST

Lake Pillsbury Capacity: 74,933 acre-feet. Storage: 57,049. Water supply pool: 74,993, 76.07% Elevation: 1,900 feet. Release: 682 cfs. Russian River At Hacienda Bridge: 4.17 feet; 579 cfs.

Source: Sonoma County Water Agency Operations Department readings as of 7 a.m. Saturday

Clear Lake 7.43 feet Rumsey. (The Rumsey scale starts at 1,318.26 feet above sea level.)

Source: USGS

INDEX

Ultraviolet: 10 0

11+

Low

Mod.

High

The higher the AccuWeather UV IndexTM number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Shown is the highest value of the day.

AIR QUALITY Pollution: 35 0

Low

50 100 150 200 Mod.

High

0-50 Good 51-100 Moderate 101-150 Unhealthy (SG) 151-200 Unhealthy 201+ Very Unhealthy Source: Bay Area AQMD www.sparetheair.org

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Today Tomorrow City Hi/Lo Sky Hi/Lo Sky Albuquerque 76/55 t 80/57 pc Anchorage 57/42 s 56/44 pc Atlanta 81/66 pc 77/64 t Atlantic City 77/52 pc 75/53 pc Baltimore 81/58 s 82/57 pc Bismarck 83/50 pc 86/58 s Boise 88/53 t 75/48 s Boston 73/57 pc 60/50 s Buffalo 70/48 s 68/50 s Burlington, Vt. 72/46 pc 66/42 s Cheyenne 73/45 t 72/47 c Chicago 77/56 s 77/57 s Cincinnati 77/55 s 78/55 s Cleveland 74/52 s 74/54 s Columbia, S.C. 78/60 t 81/61 pc Dallas-Ft. Worth 79/63 c 84/66 pc Denver 74/49 pc 76/51 pc Des Moines 77/56 s 80/56 pc Detroit 79/54 s 77/54 s El Paso 88/65 t 94/65 c Fairbanks 70/50 pc 60/41 r Flagstaff 66/36 t 69/38 pc Hartford 73/53 pc 74/49 s Helena 84/54 pc 75/46 t Honolulu 86/75 pc 86/76 pc Houston 81/67 c 87/65 s Indianapolis 77/57 s 79/57 pc Jackson, Miss. 83/62 pc 83/64 s Kansas City 76/55 s 79/58 s Las Vegas 94/75 s 94/75 c Little Rock 77/59 pc 81/62 pc Louisville 79/57 s 82/59 pc Medford, Ore. 77/49 pc 75/49 pc Memphis 80/61 pc 82/64 pc Miami Beach 89/76 t 90/76 t Milwaukee 74/55 s 72/54 pc Mpls-St. Paul 78/56 s 79/60 pc Nashville 79/57 pc 82/60 s New Orleans 85/75 pc 84/72 pc New York City 75/60 pc 72/53 s Oklahoma City 75/57 pc 78/60 c Omaha 80/52 s 81/56 s Orlando 91/74 t 87/70 r Philadelphia 81/60 s 79/56 s Phoenix 99/76 s 100/75 s Pittsburgh 75/48 s 76/54 s Portland, Ore. 71/52 c 68/51 pc Providence 74/55 pc 69/45 s Raleigh-Durham 79/54 sh 82/57 pc Reno 82/55 t 85/55 pc Richmond 79/54 c 83/56 pc St. Louis 79/58 s 81/60 s Salt Lake City 87/64 t 85/64 t San Antonio 78/63 pc 85/66 c Santa Fe 68/47 t 72/48 t Seattle 63/48 c 63/47 pc Spokane 75/48 t 64/44 pc Tampa-St. Pete. 92/77 t 89/72 r Tucson 93/67 s 96/66 s Washington, D.C. 80/59 s 82/58 pc Wichita 74/57 pc 73/62 sh s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, r-rain, sf-flurries, sn-snow, t-thunderstorms, i-ice, T-trace

INTERNATIONAL

Fresno 93/65

San Luis Obispo 68/52

Lake Mendocino Capacity: 116,500 acre-feet. Storage: 99,414. Water supply pool: 111,000, 89.56% Elevation: 755.39 feet. Release: 169 cfs.

SANTA ROSA PLAIN: Increasing amounts of sunshine today. Patchy clouds tonight. Rohnert Park, 77/49.

Crescent City 60/49

5:55 a.m. 8:20 p.m.

Lake Sonoma Capacity: 381,000 acre-feet. Storage: 262,380. Water supply pool: 244,833, 107.17% Elevation: 457.48 feet. Release: 93 cfs.

RUSSIAN RIVER/COAST: Intervals of clouds and sunshine today. Partly cloudy tonight. Forestville, 80/48.

Napa 79/52 LAKE COUNTY: Times of clouds and sun today. Partly cloudy tonight. Sunny Monday. Tuesday: Vallejo clouds yielding to sun. 73/53

Petaluma 77/49

STATE FORECAST

Today Sunrise Sunset Monday Sunrise Sunset

Middletown 85/58

Healdsburg 83/52

Bodega Bay 62/49

SUN & MOON

RECORDS FOR SATURDAY

CALIFORNIA

Guerneville 79/50

Date Time High Time Low May 21 2:18 p.m. 4.5’ 7:09 a.m. -1.0’ --6:52 p.m. 3.2’ May 22 12:21 a.m. 5.8’ 7:50 a.m. -0.8’ 3:10 p.m. 4.4’ 7:40 p.m. 3.3’

*Season runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30 Lakeport temperatures temporarily unavailable.

SANTA ROSA Average temperatures: High 75, Low 48 Record high: 96 in 1935

Cloverdale 87/54

BODEGA BAY TIDES

Full June 3

SONOMA/NAPA: Increasing amounts of sun today. Partly cloudy tonight. Mostly sunny Monday. Tuesday: clouds to start, then sunshine returns.

Lakeport 86/56

110 25

NATIONAL

TODAY’S FORECAST

TODAY

City Alturas Bakersfield Barstow Bishop Blythe Chico Concord Crescent City Eureka Fresno Livermore Long Beach Los Angeles L.A. Airport Marysville Monterey Mt. Shasta Needles Oakland Palm Springs Pasadena Paso Robles Redding Redwood City Riverside Sacramento Salinas San Diego San Francisco S.F. Airport San Jose San Luis Obispo San Rafael Santa Ana Santa Barbara Santa Cruz Santa Maria Santa Monica Stockton Susanville Tahoe Valley Truckee Vallejo Yosemite Valley

(for the 48 contiguous states)

Photo by GREGG MANGAN / Ukiah

SANTA ROSA

Decreasing clouds

Nation’s hottest and coldest

On May 21, 1894, Salton, Calif., reached 124 degrees, the hottest temperature recorded in the United States in May.

Showers T-storms

Rain

Flurries

Snow

Ice

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Tomorrow Hi/Lo Sky 91/78 t 69/55 c 71/59 t 64/55 r 93/70 pc 101/84 pc 81/58 pc 80/57 t 66/60 c 97/77 s 83/54 pc 90/71 s 90/74 t 70/54 pc 61/49 sh 81/58 pc 73/55 t 89/70 pc 92/79 t 90/82 t 67/57 pc 79/66 pc 67/42 s 81/57 c 76/68 pc 70/56 pc 66/49 pc 72/52 t 92/81 t 104/79 pc 80/59 pc 73/43 pc 64/49 pc 111/87 pc 77/49 pc 72/55 t 78/66 c 74/55 t 76/56 pc 73/57 c 88/78 t 69/47 pc 66/46 pc 74/66 pc 77/50 s 63/53 pc 77/56 t 75/48 pc

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Baffert’s National Treasure claims Preakness HORSE RACING » Colt, trainer’s victory end Mage’s Triple Crown bid By STEPHEN WHYNO ASSOCIATED PRESS

BALTIMORE — Bob Baffert’s National Treasure won the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, ending Mage’s Triple Crown bid in the trainer’s return from a suspension — and just hours after another of his 3-year-old horses was euthanized on the track. Baffert headed to the winner’s circle on the same day that his colt Havnameltdown went down with a fatal left leg injury in an undercard race. Baffert said he and his team were in shock. “This business is twists and turns, the ups and downs,” Baffert said, choking back tears. “And then, to win this — losing that horse today really hurt. ... It’s been a very emotional day.” The fatality was another dark moment for a sport already reeling from the deaths of seven horses at Churchill Downs in a 10-day span leading up to the Kentucky Derby. Derby winner Mage finished third in the Preakness after going off as the 7-5 favorite. His

JULIO CORTEZ / ASSOCIATED PRESS

National Treasure, background, with jockey John Velazquez, edges out Blazing Sevens, with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr., to win Saturday’s 148th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. defeat means there will not be a Triple Crown winner for a fifth consecutive year. National Treasure, the 5-2 second choice, held off hardcharging Blazing Sevens down the stretch to win the $1.65 million race by a head. Jockey John Velazquez won the Preakness for the first time in his 12th try. “It’s been a while,” Velazquez said. “The success that I had in

other races, not having won this one — it was definitely missing, so special to have it.” Baffert had a roller-coaster day in his return to Pimlico Race Course from a suspension that kept him from entering a horse in the Preakness last year. The thrill of victories by National Treasure in the Preakness and Arabian Lion in an earlier stakes race contrasted with the agony of

Havnameltdown’s death. Jockey Luis Saez was conscious and transported to a local hospital for treatment. A team of veterinarians determined Havnameltdown’s left front leg injury to be inoperable. Black barriers were propped up on the dirt track while the horse was put down. All the while, 2Pac’s “California Love” blared from the infield speakers at what is intended as an annual daylong celebration of thoroughbred racing. By evening, Baffert was celebrated for winning the Preakness for a record eighth time, breaking a tie with 19th-century trainer R. Wyndham Walden. In 2018, Baffert matched Walden with seven wins at the Baltimore race with Justify, who went on to become the sport’s 13th Triple Crown winner — and Baffert’s second, after American Pharoah ended a lengthy drought for the sport in 2015. This was Baffert’s first Preakness in two years because of a ban stemming from 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit’s failed drug test that led to a disqualification in that race. Medina Spirit was Baffert’s most recent Preakness horse, finishing third. Baffert didn’t arrive in

Baltimore until Thursday this week, seeking to keep a lower profile than usual given the questions that have dogged him and clouded his reputation. A Hall of Famer and a longtime face of horse racing, Baffert sought to move past his suspension when asked Friday. “We just keep on moving forward,” he said. “We have other horses to worry about. A lot of it is noise, so you keep the noise out and continue working.” While horse racing deaths in the U.S. are at their lowest level since they began being tracked in 2009, adding another at the track hosting a Triple Crown race will only intensify the internal and external scrutiny of the industry. Those inside it have said they accept the realities of on-track deaths of horses while also acknowledging more work needs to be done to prevent as many as possible. In that vein, new national medication and doping rules are set to go into effect Monday. The federally mandated Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, which already regulated racetrack safety and other measures, will oversee drug testing requirements for horses that should standardize the sport nationwide for the first time.

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PENNGROVE » Sculptor, stonemason inspired by ancient masters to create awe-inspiring art

PHOTOS BY KIM CARROLL

Man of

Renowned stonemason and sculptor Edwin Hamilton, who has twice exhibited at the famed Venice Architecture Biennale, works at an unassuming rural studio in Penngrove. Hamilton, below right, uses a chisel to work on a piece. He also uses striking hammers and giant cranes and saws to create his stone sculptures.

stone By AUSTIN MURPHY THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

hey looked like Paul Bunyan’s dinner plates, stacked in a back lot at the Wheeler Zamaroni stoneyard just south of Santa Rosa. The vast discs were pieces of a 400-ton limestone boulder sliced into sections by a giant industrial-scale saw. Later this year, they’ll become part of a massive stone sculpture conceived by Edwin Hamilton of Petaluma. Hamilton is a renowned stonemason and sculptor — he’s twice exhibited at the famed Venice Architecture Biennale — with a long-

time home base at an unassuming rural studio in Penngrove. Among the large-scale works greeting visitors there is “Berengei,” a representation of a gorilla hewn from basalt collected “right over there,” Hamilton said, pointing east to nearby Sonoma Mountain. Finished works dot the gardens, while masonry tomes and hand tools fill a small cottage Hamilton built around the framework of an existing century-old water tower. Scattered on a table near the woodstove are stones comprising the mini-arches he’s taken to his daughters’ school — Hamilton and his wife have a 13- and 9-yearold — to teach them and their

classmates about keystones and buttresses. Part of his purpose, as Hamilton sees it, “is to keep the torch lit,” to keep his craft alive and thriving, to pass it on and, while he’s at it, add his own interpretation. Hamilton’s four-decade journey in the practice of shaping and placing stone got off to a humble start. In his early 20s, Hamilton worked as a basic stonemason, building walls and pathways for landscape projects. He moved into fine art and sculpture later in his career.

“The longer I do this, the more interesting the opportunities have become. I can’t wait to see what’s next.” EDWIN HAMILTON,

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stonemason and sculptor

Conde Nast Traveler: New local hotels among best WINE COUNTRY » Healdsburg’s Madrona, Napa’s Stanly Ranch among 24 recognized in U.S., Canada

By KATHRYN REED FOR NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL

he Madrona in Healdsburg and Stanly Ranch in Napa are two of the 24 hotels in the United States and Canada to make Conde Nast Traveler’s Hot List of new hotels. “We chose both The Madrona and Stanly Ranch, Auberge Resorts Collection because they are excellent across the board, regardless of their locations. That said, both really brought something new to their re-

spective areas,” said Rebecca Misner, the magazine’s senior features editor. “The Madrona stood out for its vibrant, eclectic decor and its intimate setting in a region that has, recently, seen the arrival of a number of big brand, large-scale resorts. Stanly Ranch, which opened in the southern sweep of Napa where there aren’t a ton of high-end resorts, is a master class in modern, but warm design and its spa and its wellness offerings are — in a part of California known for great spas — truly

impressive." Both properties are featured on the website. The Madrona was also singled out in the May-June print edition of the publication. This is the 27th year the magazine has curated a list containing the best new hotels. “For Hot List in general, we choose hotels that we believe are fantastic. We of course also think about what different properties are adding/bringing to their specific locations and what will set them apart from their competitive class,” Misner said. For the Auberge Resorts

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TURN TO HOTELS » PAGE D8

A dining area at The Madrona in Healdsburg, which made Conde Nast Traveler’s Hot List of new hotels partly due to its “vibrant, eclectic decor.”

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Pushing the boundaries of absurdity ‘Black Lady Sketch Show’ brings more laughs to Season 4

mentators. A: “Baptism Runs on Dunkin’” is hysterical and disturbing. Once you get over the shock of what’s By LORRAINE ALI happening, you get into LOS ANGELES TIMES it. But at first you’re like, WHAT!? The (idea) was There is no show on tele- from one of our amazing vision quite like “A Black writers who’s also a proLady Sketch Show.” Now ducer on the show, Corin in its fourth season, Robin Wells. We like to merge Thede’s fearless comedy worlds to create really series slices and dices pop absurd situations, so she culture, race issues, dating was like, ‘What if it’s the woes, feminism, religion NBA slam dunk contest, and more into 30-minute but with deacons baptizing blasts of fantastically babies at church?’ I was twisted humor. like, ‘100% yes.’ Co-executive produced The script was perfect by Issa Rae, the show is when it came in, but I renowned for pushing the wanted to get at least one boundaries of the absurd real NBA player in there with its cast of featured because I thought that players Gabrielle Dennis, would be hilarious. Our Skye Townsend, Tamara director, Bridget Stokes, Jade, DaMya Gurley and her manager is friends Angel Laketa Moore. The with Derek Fisher. We show also features weekly don’t make people audition guest stars including Rae, for the show. We just send Angela Bassett, Sam Rich- offers, so we sent him an ardson and Tracee Ellis offer and he was like yeah, Ross. Airing weekly, the I want to do more stuff like new season expands upon this. I’d also been dying to the madness with such get Tahir Moore, who’s a eloquently titled episodes famous internet comedian. as “Peek-a-Boob, Your We like to have a mix, from Titty’s Out.” We spoke A-list casting like Angela with Thede, television’s Bassett and Gabrielle first Black woman director Union to all these amazing and Black female head internet comedians that writer of a sketch comedy we love, like Tahir and show, about what it takes KevOnStage. to bring the show and its For the sketch, Chloé litany of characters to life. Hilliard, who’s one of (One note: This interview our co-head writers and took place several weeks a great stand up, had the before the writers’ strike.) basketball skills to play Q: Thank you for your pastor Trudyo Werd. Oh, willingness to break and Kimber Zak (Thede) down the anatomy of is back. She’s been around a sketch, or several since Season 1. She’s sketches. the “famed” announcer A: I will talk about any who commentates on the sketch and tell you all everyday life things. And the juicy details, because she has a new partner, there’s so many great Skip Appeal, a church lady stories. It’s like shooting a who’s very saved. new short film every day Q: The setup is amwith the best guest stars, bitious. A basketball the best actors, the best court in a church, a writing. choir, bleachers. Q: How about “BapA: I remember Derek tism Runs on Dunkin’”)? saying, ‘Do you guys get It’s structured like an to have this much fun NBA Slam Dunk conevery day?’ We were like, test, but the competiyes! Tahir lost his voice tion is between church from singing with the deacons. Their goal is to choir. Chloé was pulling baptize the most babies out crazy dunks. That in a quarter, and the sketch is really indicative “game” is replete with a of the fun we have on the court, hoop and comshow because it was so

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two for the show. I definitely didn’t want to call a bunch of girls in for this. So I thought, my niece can do this! And everybody’s like, has she ever acted? No, she’d be a nepo baby. But I knew she would be good, and she was. Plus I knew I could boss her around and get what we wanted out of her, so it was really fun. Angel Laketa Moore plays her mom. I told her to just go out there and be that overbearing mom. Go crazy. And she did. It was actually a bit triggering. Q: One of my favorite sketches is “Black Table Talk” with its host, the “world-renowned philosophizer” Dr. Hadassah Olayinka Ali-Youngman, prePh.D. This season, she interviews “Euphoria’s” Colman Domingo, and it’s brilliant. A: Colman and I are friends, so I wrote a script for him. We don’t usually write scripts for celebrities, but because he’s playing this hyper-realized version of himself, I wrote a script specifically for him. I wanted her to go head to head with a man, which she never really does. I needed somebody who’s a good actor, who can go toe to toe with her and won’t back down. Colman is perfect. Q: It truly feels like an unscripted interview. A: The scripted version (of the sketch) is like three pages: a basic setup, intro and a couple of the jokes. But after that, we ripped that baby up and we just went. Bridget was sitting two feet from us and I could see her shoulders shaking the whole time. She broke some takes because she was laughing so loud, but he never broke, he never relented. When I start singing “Wade in the Water,” and he starts harmonizing and

he sounds so beautiful, it actually made me laugh. I mean, why would he even join in this? He did such a good balance of fighting me, but also playing along. That’s what it really takes to do that sketch. You can see my back kind of doing this (shaking slightly) and it’s because I’m trying to hold it together. Then there’s the Afro-Latino joke — one of our writers whispered it to me. She said, ask him if he’s Afro-Latino, and where’s Afro-Latinia? Seventy percent of what you see was not in the script, and was done in one take because I don’t believe in redoing. When a joke works in the moment, a second take is never going to work. Q: Carol Burnett also follows that philosophy, and her sketch comedy is timeless. A: Carol Burnett was a massive influence. Watching her variety show, you could tell they’re capturing something that they’ll never get again. There’s a sketch she did with Robin Williams that is a master class in improvisation. Their brains are going at lightning speed. They ping-pong off each other. It’s just unbelievable. And the cool thing about it is that when they did break, which was very rare, it was fun. It popped the bubble in a fun way. But we don’t break on the show, at least that the audience will see, but I think it’s obvious when we’re on the edge of it. We have the advantage of editing the show for months and figuring out how to craft each moment, but we don’t do it so much that that spontaneity is lost. We leave room (for audiences) to play the game of Was It Improv or Scripted? People would be shocked because there are so many moments that were improvised moment, that never

hit a piece of paper. Q: A great example of improv is with the character Chris (Thede), who returns to the fold in the Episode 4 sketch, “Spacing Out.” He’s incapable of answering “yes” or “no” in critical situations. When pressed, he’s a font of nonsensical word association. “Yes” turns into “yerp,” “yeti” and “yellow.” A: I was excited to have Chris back. He’s complicated, but he’s also a (boy toy). We haven’t seen him since Season 2 and he now has a much improved hairline. We actually pulled in a barber who does all the men in Hollywood. We definitely go off script in that sketch, as we do with a lot of sketches. But with Chris, sometimes it can be a 17-minute take. I’ll know what the run is going to be: say a bunch of “Y” words, and then, a bunch of “M” words, so I’ll go and go and go. The writers will also have a list ready, and so they’ll just read out like 10 more, and I’ll use the ones I like. So it’s the script, getting thrown live jokes as we’re as we’re shooting and me improvising. The crew is just dying because they don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth. I know when I see the boom (mic) dip, it’s like because (the operator) is doubled over laughing. My job is just to break whoever is around me. Q: Even more impressive are the totally scripted moments that feel spontaneous. A: Yes. It’s a testament to the acting when people think scripted jokes are improvised. That’s great acting. Comedians don’t get enough credit for how hard the work of the acting is. We put on a new persona every day and make you believe it, all to make you laugh.

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Alice Kilgore has shown a commitment to the community and a neighborhood-friendly approach at her Torches restaurant, which serves classic American dishes in Petaluma.

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Fried chicken salad with roasted corn, avocado, tomatoes, egg, bacon and sunflower seeds with house dressing and a bowl of chowder at Torches in Petaluma. A chicken pot pie topped in flaky puff pastry is one of the signature dishes Alice Kilgore has carried over from the former 256 North Restaurant.

fundraising steak-and-lasagna dinner for volunteer firefighter Garrett Angel “Taco” Paiz, who Where: 256 Petaluma Blvd. N., hen Alice Kilgore was killed in 2017 while fighting Petaluma bought the former 256 the Nuns Fire in Napa County. When: Noon to 11 p.m., TuesdayNorth Restaurant in Proceeds from the $20-a-plate Friday, 4 to 11 p.m. Saturday Petaluma last year, she immemeal supported a student (kitchen open until 9 p.m.) diately paid tribute to an eatery attending a local firefighter Contact: 707-559-3631, she loves, and to the local fire academy. torchespetaluma.com department. This commitment to the The first nod was to Sax’s community and neighborCuisine: American Joint, a nearby American diner hood-friendly approach is a Price: Moderate-expensive, with classic fare like burgers, a breath of fresh air for the forentrees $17-$35 BLAT sandwich and a chickenmerly more upscale 256 North, Summary: Under new ownerfried chicken salad. which, to me, always felt offship, the restaurant has found a You can find Kilgore’s version kilter with its sports-bar vibe. more appropriate casual menu of these classic Americana Before, we ate housemade for its bar setting. dishes at her new restaurant, lobster ravioli in organic spinTorches. ach cream while sitting next to Kilgore also wanted to recoga big wraparound centerpiece nize the Petaluma Fire Department (where she bar stocked with TV sets. Now, we can cheer on has family connections) and the first responders our favorite teams — sorry, Warriors — with she calls “heroes.” Just after opening last September, she held a TURN TO TORCHES » PAGE D4

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revor Gallagher knows his sauces. A veteran sandwich maker at Pacific Market in Santa Rosa, the 32-year-old realized the popular deli was missing something on its meat-meets-bun lineup. So eight years ago, he developed the prototype for his Saucy Bubbs DTF (Downtown Fever) sauces, mixing up batches of the creamy, sweet and savory spread for his signature creation, the Downtown Fever sandwich. Also known as the No. 16 at the Pacific Market deli,

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t’s a bit of a rarity to find a happy hour that’s offered not just during the work week, but on the weekends, too. That’s why the (nearly) daily happy-hour menu at Seared stood out in our search for the best happy hours in Sonoma County. And a bonus: Their happy-hour menu maxes out at $9.50. How can you pass that up? Seared is a beloved steak-and-seafood spot in downtown Petaluma, open every day but Monday. And, yes, every day they’re open, they have happy hour, TURN TO SEARED » PAGE D6

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Devilishly good, these deviled eggs topped with serrano ham are a must-have during happy hour at Seared in Petaluma.

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Trevor Gallagher appears in cartoon form on the bottles of his Saucy Bubbs DTF (Downtown Fever) sauces.

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TORCHES CONTINUED FROM D3 game-day specials like nachos ($5), Buffalo wings ($11) and Revision Brewing Co. Disco Ninja IPA ($7). Kilgore has a personal affection for the restaurant. A longtime 256 North employee, she eagerly took over when then-owner Jan Rosen decided to retire from the business she opened in 2017. Rosen was best-known for her very successful J.M. Rosen’s Cheesecakes wholesale bakery, launched in 1983, and catered to celebrity clientele like Frank Sinatra and Ronald Reagan. So Kilgore kept some of Rosen’s recipes, offering the chef’s original signatures like chicken pot pie topped in flaky puff pastry ($21), chicken Marsala scattered with mushrooms over linguine ($23) and wild mushroom and spinach risotto ($24). We can still get one of my favorite indulgences, too, prime rib with all the fixings of salty jus, horseradish cream, mashed potatoes and veggies ($29 for 12 ounce, $35 for 18 ounce). These days, though, the offerings are more comfort-casual. Kilgore is Torches sole operator, with no business ties to Rosen, and is slowly rolling out more changes to reflect her own personality. That means that nice prime rib also shows up as a French dip, thin sliced on a sourdough roll ($10 a la carte; $17 with fries, onion rings or a diner-style salad of romaine, iceberg, tomato, carrot, cucumber, red onion and kidney beans). Try the wood-fired pizzas, baked to a proper bubble-charred crust and generously topped with options like a Meat Lovers combo of hand-sliced pepperoni, chunky sausage and thick-cut bacon ($22). Or settle in for a fine fish and chips, the cod dipped in beer batter, fried to a good crunch and rounded out with slaw and fries ($20). As for the name, “Torches” seems obvious when you consider the above firefighter connection. However, Kilgore also said that Rosen’s “dream and desire was to set an employee up and pass the torch.” The famous Rosen cheesecake, of course, is still on the menu ($9). Carey Sweet is a Sebastopol-based food and restaurant writer.

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Chef Amanda Sales keeps the Torches kitchen running smoothly May 16 in downtown Petaluma.

Torches serves shrimp scampi, above, and prime rib, at right, with all the fixings of salty jus, horseradish cream, mashed potatoes and veggies ($29 for 12 ounce, $35 for 18 ounce). Most of the offerings at the downtown Petaluma restaurant are more comfort-casual fare, which means that nice prime rib also shows up on the menu as a French dip.

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SEARED CONTINUED FROM D3 from 3:30 to 6 p.m. You can make a reservation during this time or opt for a spontaneous walkin. Don’t stress too much about waiting for a table or a spot at the bar, because the happy-hour menu is available throughout the restaurant. Seared is also big on using locally sourced ingredients, which you’ll see on their happy-hour menu, with local beer and wine and bites with ingredients such as Valley Ford cheese. It’s clearly popular locally, having won the Best Steak and Best Happy Hour at the 2019 Petaluma People’s Choice Awards. The happy-hour menu has a little something for everyone and changes depending on what’s available “to provide the freshest ingredients possible,” according to their website. They offer half a dozen cocktails ($8), a variety of house wines ($7), a handful of canned and bottled beers ($3.50) and plenty of draft beers ($6). Some of the standouts among the happy-hour drinks are the Scrimshaw beer from Fort Bragg and the Lagunitas IPA; the Spiced Rum Punch with hints of passion fruit and orgeat syrup; the New Orleans classic Vieux Carre with Benedictine and Peychaud’s and Angostura bitters; and the Cucumber Martini, a cucumber vodka drink with elderflower liqueur. Additionally, they feature the classics like a PBR beer, margarita and Negroni. We tried the Cucumber Martini, which had a refreshing and cool tang, and the Old Fashioned, a classically smooth sip. While sipping our spirits, we browsed the “Eats,” with a total of eight bites to try. Of course, we sampled almost all of them: the Prime Rib Dip ($9.50),

Kung Pao Prawns ($9.50) and Filet Mignon Skewers ($9.50) are both served at happy hour with lime and infused with flavors such as ginger and soy sauce at Seared in Petaluma.

Seared’s Daily Tacos ($8.50) on the happy hour menu feature a colorful slaw atop fresh, grilled cod and corn tortillas. Mac ’N Cheese ($7.50), Mini Wedge Salad ($8.50), Deviled Egg ($5.50), Daily Tacos ($8.50), Filet Mignon Skewers ($9.50) and Kung Pao Prawns ($9.50). We added the Nueske’s Bacon to the macaroni ($3) and passed on the calamari ($8.50). In true Seared fashion, the Daily Tacos featured a grilled fresh cod with a bright passion-fruit

slaw. These burst with flavor with every bite and felt like a lighter option among the other food on the menu. The tacos arrived at the same time as the Deviled Eggs, which were stacked tall with the filling, chives and serrano ham. Both items come with two of each, so they’re easily shareable. The Nueske Bacon makes an appearance on

Any macaroni and cheese connoisseur knows the importance of diving your fork into the dish and pulling it away with the noodles attached by strings of hot cheese. This dish delivered. The Kung Pao Prawns, atop soba noodles, packed a lot of flavor into every bite. The five large shrimp were perfectly crispy despite being covered in sauce and lime juice. Seared does a fabulous job balancing their dishes with spices and citrus flavors, and this dish exemplifies that. The Prime Rib Dip came on excellent toasty baguette-style bread. Soggy bread is always a worry with a prime rib dip sandwich, but this bread kept its integrity of crunch. It comes with a subtly spiced horseradish aioli, Jack cheese, caramelized onions and shaved prime rib, with au jus to dip, of course. It’s Seared’s happy hour Mac ’N Cheese ($7.50) is made with large enough to share and cavatappi, which might be the best noodle for the dish. We packed full of tender and recommend adding the Nueske Bacon. juicy prime rib. The star of the show, in The Winter our opinion, was the Filet Old fashioned Mignon Skewers. Herbiat Seared is vores, we apologize, but if smooth, with a you order anything on this warm, spiced happy-hour menu, let it be kick. During the skewers. Three skewhappy hour, ers are stacked with flawSeared offers lessly cooked filet mignon half a dozen soaked in a soy marinade. cocktails ($8), A ginger aioli is drizzled a variety of across the dish, which lies house wines atop a papaya salad. The ($7), a handful meat is filled with flavor of canned and so good you want to savor bottled beers every bite. ($3.50) and With low prices and plenty of draft plenty of options, you’ll be beers ($6). impressed by the portions as well as the punchy PHOTOS BY flavors in each dish and LONNIE HAYES drink at Seared. The atmoTHE PRESS DEMOCRAT sphere is ideal, too, with a few of the happy-hour Next came our more high-top, booth and bar items, like the Mini Wedge filling options, and we counter seating. Salad. Blue cheese lovers wondered if our eyes were Happy hour from 3:30 will love this salad, topped bigger than our stomachs. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through with Pt. Reyes blue cheese, Most portions on the menu Sunday. Seared, 170 Petawatermelon radish, crispy were pleasantly large, luma Blvd. N., Petaluma; shallots, cherry tomato despite low prices. 707-762-5997. and bacon. It’s pretty The Mac ’N Cheese sizable, with a heaping was covered in perfectly You can reach intern amount of bacon, and it’s gooey Valley Ford HighLonnie Hayes at lonnie. the main vegetable on the way 1 cheese, with hints hayes@pressdemocrat. Eats menu. of garlic and herb flavors. com.

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HOTELS CONTINUED FROM D1 Collection, the Napa hotel was one of three properties to be recognized by Conde Nast. Other hotels recognized included Susurros del Corazón in Punta de Mita, Mexico, and Wildflower Farms in Hudson Valley, New York.

The Madrona “It’s a very coveted award to receive. I think it is like the Holy Grail, the Oscars of the travel industry to be on this list, or like the Grammy Award for best new artist,” said co-owner Jay Jeffers. “People who are Conde Nast fans and readers trust it. It is an endorsement from somebody who is iconic in the travel industry.” The hotel was purchased in 2021 by a group of investors including Jeffers’ brother Kyle Jeffers, and general partner Cory Schisler. This is Jay Jeffers’ first foray into hotel ownership. He’s a top residential interior designer based in San Francisco and has designed penthouses for the Ritz-Carlton Residences, Lake Tahoe. The recognition from Conde Nast comes on the heels of Travel + Leisure magazine in April including The Madrona on its It list of the top 100 best new and renovated hotels. The Madrona is new and old all at once. The mansion was built in 1881 and in a previous incarnation was known as the Madrona Manor. After a $6 million renovation, it reopened in April 2022. Jeffers paid tribute to the property’s history by including at least one relic from a previous owner in every room. He and his team cataloged about 750 items of furniture and art, of which nearly 300 were kept, including a piano and other antiques. Jeffers, who considers himself a hotel aficionado, wanted to include things he likes when he travels. That’s why there are full-length mirrors on every floor of The Madrona next to the elevators, to get one last peek at yourself before heading out. There are also spaces above each guest room armoire to stash a suitcase out of sight.

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Conde Nast Traveler selected The Madrona to be on its Hot List of new hotels because of “its vibrant, eclectic decor and its intimate setting in a region that has, recently, seen the arrival of a number of big-brand, large-scale resorts.”

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The entryway in the newly remodeled The Madrona in Healdsburg. It was also important to Jeffers that the Madrona restaurant be a gathering spot for locals beyond special occasions, which is why the prix fixe menu no longer exists. Chef Jesse Mallgreen, who had made the Michelin-starred restaurant a dining destination, left in April to take over as executive chef at Jordan Vineyards & Winery. Conde Nast, in the magazine, wrote that “with just 24 rooms and bungalows spread across six historic buildings on eight gorgeously landscaped acres, the experience is unexpectedly intimate and the vibe insidery.”

Stanly Ranch Auberge The Auberge Resort Collection’s Stanly Ranch, which

opened in April 2022, is the hotelier’s third property in the Napa Valley after Auberge de Soleil, Rutherford, and Solage, Auberge Resorts Collection in Calistoga. The Auberge’s Calistoga Ranch location burned in the 2020 Glass Fire. “We were so honored to be included on this prestigious list. After months of hard work opening the property, it was wonderful to receive such an exciting recognition,” Stanly Ranch General Manager Ed Gannon said. The property has a mix of 135 cottages, rooms and suites. “Stanly Ranch offers an incredible array of unique experiences and exclusive activities that enhance the guest’s stay. This hotel is not just a Wine

Bear Restaurant at Stanly Ranch in Napa, one of 24 hotels in the United States and Canada to make Condé Nast Traveler’s Hot List of new hotels. Country resort, it is a property that showcases the adventure and exploration that Napa has to offer,” Gannon said. “Whether it’s a tour of the onsite grange, fishing in the Napa River or a pasta-making class with our executive chef, Stanly Ranch offers programming that you can’t get anywhere else.” The hotel’s name comes from Edward Stanly, who purchased the 2,558-acre parcel in 1856 from Nicholas Higuera, who got the land in grant from the Mexican government in 1833. Today, Stanly Ranch Auberge is 712 acres, with a resort, ranchland and vineyards. Conde Nast published this online about Stanly Ranch: “Standout amenities include Guatemalan heated robes, yoga

mats and Theragun massage tools. Bay Area food lovers make the trek here just to dine on chef Garrison Price’s ingredient-focused meals at the resort’s Avroko-designed restaurant, Bear; others prefer to sip Rosé at the French countryside-inspired Basin Bar.”

Hotel demand to rise This year, demand for hotel rooms is expected to surpass pre-pandemic levels, according to the American Hotel & Lodging Association. And recession and inflation are two words that don’t seem to be affecting luxury travel. A one-night stay at The Madrona starts at $750, while at Stanly Ranch, it’s $1,300 a night and up.

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BITE CLUB CONTINUED FROM D3 it’s built on a soft roll with cheddar, Buffalo chicken, lettuce, jalapeño, bacon and DTF sauce. “I like making food,” said Gallagher, a larger-than-life character who appears in cartoon form on the bottles of his sauces, now available in local stores. There’s the Original (showing him with his signature white pick in his curly hair), the Garlic DTF (Gallagher is portrayed with vampire teeth and a cape) and Spicy Habanero (flames curl around him). A friend made the logo and characters, he said. With no formal culinary training, Gallagher learned the sauce business on his own, using a commercial kitchen to make large batches and sell them at local stores, including Molsberry’s

STONE CONTINUED FROM D1 He draws inspiration, according to a recent artist’s statement, from “simple forms found in the natural world, re-imagined in complex assemblages.” Whether it’s been an Incan fortress in Peru or the astounding York Minster cathedral in England, he has been gobsmacked by ancient stonework he’s encountered in Europe and South America, massive cathedrals and great walls painstakingly shaped by hand and often fit together without mortar. On the northern outskirts of Cusco, Hamilton recalled, one 120-ton stone “fit with a 60-ton stone, then a 40-ton stone on top of that. And they’re fit better than anything I’ve ever done. And they had no steel, no diamond saws, no pneumatics. It’s mind-blowing.” After a dozen or so years traveling and learning stone masonry, he’d acquired the skills that allowed him to enter the realm of sculpture. Now, whether he’s working in masonry or sculpture — each feeds the other, he said — his goal is to capture the soul-stirring wonderment he experiences in the presence of the grand works of the ancients.

The universe provides The longer Hamilton works in stone, the larger the projects that come his way. One early commission, first outlined by the late artist Anna Valentina Murch in the dust on the windshield of Hamilton’s pickup, took shape in four “very large chunks of granite,” the biggest of which was 12 tons. It took him a year to finish the four large granite water vessels, which now sit outside the civic courthouse in Queens, New York. At the time, Hamilton reflected, he was working with what he thought were “enormous” stones. Now, he said, motioning to those Paul Bunyan-size sections at Wheeler Zamaroni, “I’m doing a project that is truly on the scale of the ancients.” The project is also a secret. Hamilton was required to sign a non-disclosure agreement by the party commissioning the project. “This is my moonshot,” he said with a rueful smile, “and I can’t say anything about it.” Bigger projects are sure to follow. In 2019, he was elected to the prestigious London-based Royal Society of Sculptors, which technically makes the current King Charles III his patron. “Not bad for a kid from Beaver Falls,” Hamilton said. Born in the western Pennsylvania town that gave the world Joe Namath, Hamilton attended high school in New York, where he was an all-state offensive tackle. That’s right — before he became a mason and artist, pushing the boundaries of his field, Hamilton excelled at a different activity that also required

TREVOR GALLAGHER

Trevor Gallagher appears in cartoon form on the bottles of his Saucy Bubbs DTF (Downtown Fever) sauces. Market (522 Larkfield Center, Santa Rosa) and Pacific Market (1465 Town and Country Drive, Santa Rosa and 550 Gravenstein Highway N., Sebastopol). His sauces also show up on the

menu at Ausiello’s Fifth Street Bar (609 Fifth St., Santa Rosa). “I just love trying new things. Me and my mom like making food together at home,” he said. As a Chik-fil-A sauce devotee,

I can confidently say Gallagher’s sauce has a similar mustardbarbecue-mayonnaise essence. Still, there’s something more craveable about this fresh, unprocessed-to-death sauce. For more than a week now, I’ve been squeezing it onto everything, including macaroni and cheese, french fries, vegetables, grilled pork, fried fish, crackers and cheese, pizza and even a Fig Newton. Like the perfect black cocktail dress, it goes with everything. “This sauce is so versatile, it’d even go great on a toothbrush,” he said. Our hands-down favorite is the garlic version, with freshly pureed garlic that kicks up the sauce to 11. The spicy habanero sauce has a fresh chile flavor with a tingly zing. Find more details and order online at thesaucybubbs.com. NEW ICE CREAM AND

BURGER SPOT: A combination ice cream parlor and burger bar is coming to 109 Plaza St. in Healdsburg (formerly The Brass Rabbit). The two-for-one space, according to co-owner Iggy Garat, will combine his mother Angela Mendoza’s Petaluma-based Angela’s Ice Cream business with his own startup concept, Iggy’s Organic Burgers. “It’s a well-balanced equation,” said the Argentinian-born Garat, whose grandparents brought the McDonald’s franchise to Argentina in the 1980s and stoked his passion for American hamburgers. “For me, the perfect meal is an incredible smash burger with chutney-like ketchup,” he said. Unique sauces such as homemade ketchup, spicy Thousand Island dressing and mint chutney will be on the condiment menu at Iggy’s, he added. Look for any early-June opening.

brute strength, occasional finesse and plenty of pushing. Football, he recalled, “was my thing.” College, it turned out, was not his thing. After two years at UC Davis, he migrated to the Bay Area in 1982. “Like a lot of folks, I was just kind of searching,” said Hamilton, who ended up in west Marin County. There he befriended a blacksmith who opened Hamilton’s eyes “to the world of craft, and people working with their hands,” and introduced him to a pair of local stonemasons. Right away, he was smitten. The offensive lineman in him loved the heft of the stones, “the physicality” of the work. Seeing how serious and talented he was, his mentors urged him to travel in Europe. In 1984, he flew to London and started hitchhiking. When motorists asked where he was going, Hamilton would reply, “I don’t know. Where are you going?” Hamilton was thumbing around the Outer Hebrides isles of Scotland when he was picked up by a London actor who’d starred in a hit TV show and, flush from that windfall, had purchased a home in the area. When the thespian found out his hitchhiking passenger did stonework, he invited the American to stay. “I ended up spending four months on the Isle of Harris,” Hamilton recalled. “And I built a bridge for him.” Like striations running through a slab of a granite, this pattern has repeated itself throughout Hamilton’s adulthood: He opens himself to new projects and experiences, and the universe provides. A few months after leaving the Hebrides, he knocked on the door of a fellow stonemason, an old friend of one of his Bolinas mentors, who was reconstructing a centuries-old French farmhouse. “I showed up there penniless, and they put me to work,” Hamilton PHOTOS BY KIM CARROLL said. Each morning, he Sculptor Edwin Hamilton stands next to slices of a 400-ton limestone boulder at the Wheeler Zamaroni stoneyard just south pushed a wheelbarrow of Santa Rosa. The discs, cut by a giant industrial-scale saw, will be part of a massive — and secret — future stone sculpture. into a nearby field, loading it with stones. “You bring Petaluma it back, you’re making sculptor Edwin your own lime mortar and Hamilton that’s what you’re building works on a the house from. piece using an “It’s of the earth. It’s one electric tool at of the oldest methods of the Wheeler construction humankind Zamaroni has ever come up with.” stoneyard just south of Santa Centuries-old tools Rosa. Hamilton True, Hamilton works also uses giant with giant cranes and saws cranes and and even a pneumatic saws to create hammer to “texture” a his stone piece of granite. sculptures, but But for a large percentfor much of his age of his work, he uses work, he uses the same tools stonemathe same tools sons have wielded for censtonemasons turies: a striking hammer have wielded and a set of chisels. His for centuries: hammer is a Stanley, neara striking ly 30 years old. His chisels hammer and a are made by the Trow set of chisels. & Holden Co. of Barre, Vermont. “This is one of my favorites,” he said, holding up a you hit your finger this strident whine of diaHamilton’s designs. in the process of opening hammer called a malpegway” — with the sharper mond sawblades cutting The projects now coma fabrication workshop at gio — a combination of the end — “it’s worse.” rock. Nearby, a pair of ing in the door are getting Wheeler Zamaroni. Italian words “bad” (mal) He had to periodicalcraftsmen, Rolando Cruz bigger, more monumental. “The longer I do this, the and “worse” (peggio). ly raise his voice in the and Jairo Quintas, each To execute such work more interesting the op“Because if you hit finger stoneyard to be heard over a finely skilled artist in properly, he needs more portunities have become,” this way” — with the blunt the rumble and beephis own right, used drills space. In addition to his Hamilton said. “I can’t face — “it’s bad. And when ing of forklifts and the and chisels to help shape studio in Penngrove, he’s wait to see what’s next.”

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Outdoors

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Shrimp boats along the Darien River offer picturesque scenery. Fishing is a major industry in Darien. MARY ANN ANDERSON / TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

DARIEN » Georgia town offers history, scenery, shopping, shrimp

Georgia Wild Shrimp and Grits at Skipper’s Fish Camp are rich and creamy, made with a local delicacy.

Disarming charm By MARY ANN ANDERSON TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

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Downtown Darien is filled with shops and restaurants along Broad Street, a major tourist area. Waterfront Wine and Gourmet features Georgia and international wines.

riving north into Darien on U.S. Highway 17, I pass over a long bridge that crosses the Darien River, an offshoot of the Altamaha River considered Georgia’s wildest and most beautiful. To the right, clustered shrimp boats bob slightly in shimmery water, as if they are curtsying, their riggings capturing the filtered light of a spring day. With dappled clouds in the background, the picturesque scenery is striking. Darien, at its heart a fishing village, is on the more southerly end of the long quarter-moon-shaped crescent of Georgia coast that curves inland from Savannah to St. Marys. Surrounded by wide swaths of saltwater marsh, in season either as golden as Midas’ touch or as pale green as seafoam, the prairies unfurl into Altamaha Sound, with long fingers of Spartina grass rippling in endless waves. The marsh is a secret garden, a labyrinth

of water, mud and peat continually ebbing and flowing and camouflaging a hidden world of terrestrial and marine creatures of herons and wood storks, crabs and shrimp, alligators and otters. The town proper of Darien, threaded with mighty oaks drizzled with Spanish moss, is the alpha and omega of the Altamaha River, the first community on its journey inland from the Atlantic and the last before it fans out to where the Altamaha Sound laps gently toward the ocean. U.S. Highway 17, the old coastal highway that’s a throwback to romantic road trips, slices through Darien before it runs north to Virginia and southward to Florida’s Gulf Coast. Textured with an amazing depth of history, mesmerizing unspoiled nature and local seafood restaurants, Darien gives you an authentic taste of saltwater with fresh oysters, fish and its most famous denizen, Georgia Wild Shrimp. The shrimp TURN TO DARIEN » PAGE D12

VENTURING OUT » MARK YOUR CALENDAR

Hear classical music or meditate in wild MAY 21

Bodega Bay: Meet at the Jetty

Day Use Amphitheatre at Doran Beach to learn through a hands-on presentation about the diversity of nature on the coast’s rocky shoreline, from sea stars to sea urchins and more. The Doran Beach tide pool talk takes place from 11 a.m. to noon and is free and family-friendly. Bring water, snacks and sunscreen and wear layered clothing and a hat. Parking is $7 or free with a Sonoma County Regional Parks membership. Find more information at bit.ly/3IeZwlE. MAY 27

Bodega Bay: Looking for

something a little outside your comfort zone? Try a night hike at Crane Creek Regional Park during sunset. The 2-mile Sunset Saunter begins at 7:30 p.m., leaving from the park’s parking lot. See a familiar landmark in a new light, and maybe catch some of the animals that roam the park during the night. $10 for Sonoma County residents, and $12 for visitors from outside

the county. Find more information at bit.ly/42Vskrh. Glen Ellen: Catch a unique piano performance — outdoors, through wireless headphones. Jack London State Historic Park will host the performance by pianist Hunter Noack in his “In a Landscape: Classical Music in the Wild” concert series. Noack will play a 9-foot Steinway grand piano, which will be on display. Attendees will listen through wireless headphones and can sit anywhere they’d like. Bring picnic blankets, snacks, lawn chairs and more for the best comfort. Attendees 21 and older can get a complimentary glass of Kenwood wine. The show begins at 5:30 p.m. and continues until 7 p.m. Tickets are $40, and parking per vehicle is $10. Purchase tickets and find more information at bit. ly/3OcmMUZ. Santa Rosa: Start your weekend with a morning of meditation-based yoga by a lake. The beginner-friendly class at Spring Lake Regional Park guides attendees through med-

other yoga props you want to use, such as yoga blocks, straps or a blanket. Dress comfortably and bring your own water. Asanas Outside Yoga takes place from 9 to 10 a.m. Parking is $7 or free with a Sonoma County Regional Parks membership. Attendance is $10 per person for Sonoma County residents and $12 for visitors from outside Sonoma County. Find more information at bit. ly/3Mvpp3g. MAY 29

Kenwood: Get the family to-

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Attend an outdoor piano performance on Saturday, May 27, at Jack London State Historic Park. itation exercises (dhyana) and posture sequences (asanas),

with a variety of breathwork (pranayama). Bring a mat and

gether on Memorial Day for a group hike at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park. The hike will cover 2 miles and climb 400 feet and is suitable for all ages. Along the trail, participants will learn about the park, its history and its flora and fauna. Meet outside the Visitors Center before the hike, which starts at 10 a.m. Free. Find more information at bit.ly/3BsAFH7. You can reach intern Lonnie Hayes at lonnie.hayes@pressdemocrat.com.

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DARIEN

IF YOU GO For more information, contact Discover Darien at discoverdarien. com or call 912-437-6684. Darien is located about halfway between Savannah, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida. Both cities have international airports served by most major carriers. Major roads are Interstate 95 and U.S. 17. Annual events include the Blessing of the Fleet, a spring festival honoring the shrimping and fishing industry; a Fourth of July celebration; and the Darien Fall Festival featuring classic car shows, boat tours and street vendors.

CONTINUED FROM D11 flourishes in the warm waters of the sound, soaking in the nutrients of the rich Spartina grass, related to sugar cane, and a primary reason the crustaceans are so plump and sweet. You won’t need to walk far in Darien to find shrimp fried, broiled or boiled. The Guale Indians were here first, and then the Spanish in the 1560s. The Spanish built missions along the coast but only a smattering of colonists and missionaries settled before the British took a foothold in the Georgia soil. Nearly three centuries ago, Scottish Highlanders, under the leadership of Gen. James Oglethorpe, the British general credited with establishing Georgia, meandered down the coast from Savannah to establish a port city. Darien eventually became the second oldest planned city in Georgia, after Savannah, with its grid-like streets, azalea-lined and shaded, neatly laid out in squares. The disarming charm of Darien casts a long spell. Darien, beautiful and quiet, has a nice small-town feel as no factories or big businesses exist here. While it was once a thriving port and financial hub, its buildings date only from the Civil War, as the town, with its wonderful old colonial architecture, was burned in 1863 by Union troops. Today’s Darien, with its population of about 1,500, not only pays homage to its seafaring past but also caters to visitors who come for the history, natural beauty, shrimp and shopping in its eclectic tiny downtown.

Where to eat Most folks, when they think of Georgia eats, think of fried chicken, pork chops and grits. You can certainly get that and more at wildly popular Sweet Tee’s Log Cabin Restaurant or B&J’s Steaks and Seafood. Sweet Tee’s buffet usually includes meats and vegetables but also extras like deviled crab or fried fish, and at B&J’s, also primarily a buffet, you can order off the menu Georgia Wild Shrimp and other bounties of the sea. Both Skipper’s Fish Camp, on the Darien River, and Mud-

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At the Darien-McIntosh County Visitor Center lives Altie, Darien’s sea monster who reportedly has been seen for years in the Altamaha River. The Visitor Center is an important first stop for anyone visiting Darien. cat Charlie’s, overlooking the Altamaha, are casual yet a little more upscale and offer indoor and outdoor dining with a selection of cocktails. Local favorites are the shrimp, plus crab, flounder and oysters. If you’re game, go for the gator tail at Mudcat Charlie’s, with its taste a mashup of chicken and fish. For the quintessential coastal dish of rich, creamy shrimp and grits, I recommend the Oaks Club at the Oaks on the River, a boutique hotel on the Darien River. It’s the newest addition to the Darien skyline and is the city’s tallest building, commanding three stories. It is posh by Darien’s standards, with stunning views of the marsh. The shrimp gumbo and catch of the day are excellent choices. The showpiece Cedar Bar is carved from one single cedar tree from nearby Harris Neck Island.

What to do While you’re likely to love Darien, it doesn’t take long to see it all, given that it’s so diminutive, so plan for a few days to explore nearby gems as well. Start with a pedestrian-friendly, self-guided walking tour of the town. Pick up a map at

the Darien-McIntosh County Visitor Center and then hit the bricks. Along the way, amble along the waterfront dotted with tabby ruins — tabby is so-called “coastal concrete” made of lime, oyster shells and water — before visiting nearly two dozen points of interest, each marked with a plaque, including the First African Baptist Church, the 1836 St. Andrews Episcopal Church, the Old City Cemetery dating to 1736 and the Grant House, the only residence to survive the 1863 destruction by federal troops. Round out the history tour with a stop at Fort King George, established in 1721. It was the first English settlement in Georgia before Scottish Highlanders took it over in 1736. Scattered on the site is a museum and replicas of the blockhouse and barracks. The Oaks on the River partners with Georgia Tidewater Outfitters, or you can book on your own, for cruises aboard the Delta Belle, a 30-foot catamaran. Options include a wine tour with wines from Waterfront Wine and Gourmet, nature tours of the Altamaha River sound or private charters that take you to remote beaches, far stretches of the sound or excellent birding sites.

The painted bunting and roseate spoonbill are among the coast’s most vibrantly-hued birds. Also take a tour on the Captain Gabby, a 42-foot hand-built wooden trawler. With room for up to six guests, the tours can last a few hours or even overnight. The experiences are personalized, including kayaking, paddleboarding, fishing, birding and photography and give you a chance to get close with nature. Within a few minutes’ drive of Darien are Ashantilly Plantation, built about 1820 by coastal planter Thomas Spalding; Butler Island Plantation, dating to the late 1700s and initially owned by Revolutionary War Major Pierce Butler; and Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation, a former rice plantation that’s now a state park. Tours of Ashantilly, open only during events, can still be arranged by calling the home, while Butler Island can be explored by foot or car. Hofwyl-Broadfield is open for regular hours. Sapelo Island, one of the pearls in the necklace of barriers islands that speckle Georgia’s coast, is six miles from Darien. The state-protected island probably hasn’t changed

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much in a thousand years. The forested island is still unspoiled and uncrowded with mazes of mostly unpaved roads and remains the home of one of the last Gullah communities along the coast. Get to Sapelo only by ferry or private watercraft. Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge, about a half-hour’s drive north of Darien, was once a rice and cotton plantation and later Harris Neck Army Air Base. Here, hundreds of once-endangered wood stork come to build their nests and raise their young. Some 350 species of birds visit seasonally, and at the height of its population, the refuge transforms into a chaotic orchestra of avian song.

Where to stay Cradled by the high bluffs of the Darien River and freckled with ancient oaks, the Oaks on the River, with 53 rooms, is the talk of the town, just opened in November. It’s luxuriously appointed with hardwood floors, pretty rugs and a waterfront pool. The resort’s spa offers locally themed treatments including the Ashantilly Facial and Sapelo Massage. If waking to the aroma of freshly ground coffee brewing entices you, stay at Open Gates Bed and Breakfast on Vernon Square in the heart of Darien. Shaded by oaks and magnolias, the five-bedroom Italianate inn, beachy, colorful and airy, was built in 1876 and is filled with antiques. A full breakfast is included with Southern goodies like biscuits, waffles and the Darien Shrimp Delight, a panko-encrusted shrimp cake similar to eggs benedict.

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Tool pushes limits of outdoor cooking By STEVEN RAICHLEN NEW YORK TIMES

n the early 2000s, Roger Dahle attended an outdoor pancake breakfast cooked on a commercial flattop at his local Rotary Club in Utah. “I love cooking breakfast outdoors, but you couldn’t buy an outdoor griddle for home use,” Dahle said. So the entrepreneur set out to create one. He experimented with a variety of cooking surfaces, settling on the same material used in woks: carbon steel. He mounted it on a cart like a gas grill, with propane to fire the burners, and named it Blackstone, after a favorite local restaurant. “People originally bought the Blackstone to cook breakfast,” Dahle said. “They quickly discovered you could use it to make Philly cheese steaks and smash burgers.” Stand-up outdoor griddles, which eliminate the unpredictable heat control and flare-ups of live-fire cooking, are designed to take their place next to — or even replace — the barbecue grill. These griddles are enjoying a heyday as more grilling companies jump into the market. In February, the pellet grill manufacturer Traeger introduced a rugged 34-inch outdoor griddle called the Flatrock, which the company says is geared for cooks at all levels. “It’s perfect for hot and fast meals Monday through Thursday,” said Jeremy Andrus, the CEO of Traeger. Weber, whose name is virtually synonymous with the charcoal kettle grill, now sells standalone 28-inch and 36-inch griddles and a number of inserts designed to turn a

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French toast cooks on a flattop outdoor griddle. Grilling manufacturers have turned to griddles, which let backyard chefs tackle projects grates can’t handle. charcoal or gas grill into a griddle. Blackstone offers more than 30 different models, including a four-burner griddle with a stainless steel cabinet, a 36-inch griddle with a built-in air fryer, electric griddles, tabletop griddles and portable griddles. Once you get past the housing, the outdoor griddles are pretty similar. They start with a thick carbon steel slab that is heated by burners connected to the familiar backyard propane tank. So what are outdoor griddles good for? Breakfast foods you simply can’t grill, like eggs, hash browns and pancakes. Any food traditionally cooked on a griddle, like arepas and gorditas. Fragile foods, like flounder or cod fillets. Small foods — shrimp, mushrooms and green beans — that are tedious to grill, and even smaller foods that are impossible to grill on a grate, like fried rice. Even foods you’d never dream of grilling, like noodles and crepes.

A family walks on a boardwalk through a flooded Sentinel Meadow April 28 in Yosemite Valley.

Flooding risk shuts down Yosemite campgrounds

Merced River unusually high as extended hot temps melt record-setting snow By AMANDA BARTLETT TRIBUNE WIRE SERVICE

t least three campgrounds at Yosemite National Park will be closed starting Monday due to forecasted flooding of the Merced River as temperatures warm up, park officials said. The Lower and North Pines Campgrounds and Housekeeping Camp are among those affected by the closure so far, but park officials said additional closures are possible. Last month, most of Yosemite Valley was closed to the public due

to a similar flood risk, which occurs when the Merced River at Pohono Bridge is expected to rise above 10 feet, making the valley unsafe for visitors. Warmer weather has already begun to melt the park’s record-setting snowpack, which measured at more than 240% of the average as of April 1 and was brought on by this year’s historic barrage of storms. However, unlike last month’s forecast of flooding, “the extended forecast calls for warm weather indefinitely,” the park service said in a tweet. “As of May 1, the park had more than double the average amount of snow for this time of year. The combination of extended hot weather and abundant snow means the

Merced River may remain above flood stage for some time.” The National Weather Service’s office in Hanford said the river could rise as high as 12.6 feet by Wednesday, and that a flood watch will be implemented Sunday evening and remain in effect through at least Friday. Yosemite Valley, Wawona and the Mariposa Grove will still be accessible by entering Yosemite via Highways 41 and 140, park officials said, noting that reaching the Mariposa Grove necessitates a 4-mile round-trip hike with 500 feet of elevation change. Hetch Hetchy and Hodgdon meadow will also remain accessible from the west side of Highway 120, but Tioga, Glacier Point and Mariposa Grove are closed.

2023 AGSTRAVAGANZA

The SRJC Foundation Ag Trust shares our sincere thanks and appreciation to our Sonoma County community for your generous support of agricultural education at Santa Rosa Junior College. More than 400 community leaders gathered for the 2023 AgStravaganza event held at Shone Farm on Saturday, May 13th to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Agriculture/Natural Resources Department and to honor local lawyer and Ag advocate Pat Emery. Great fun was had and significant funds were raised to benefit SRJC Ag students and programs, including $60,000 to establish the new Patrick Emery Honorary Ag/NR Scholarship Fund.

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EXPLORE SONOMA COAST » There are plenty of ways to beat the heat at beaches, parks

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Keep cool on the coast A visitor takes a selfie while cooling off in the water on May 17 off Pinnacle Beach at the southern end of Bodega Bay.

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A lady bug sits on seaweed on Pinnacle Beach at the southern end of Bodega Bay. The beach is also home to tidal pools.

he Sonoma Coast is the ultimate escape hatch. When temperatures hit triple-digits in the Highway 101 corridor and points east, it’s always 15 to 20 degrees cooler on the coast. When life gets hectic and crazy, a few hours by the ocean can soothe the soul. Heck, even if you just feel like driving through spectacular scenery for even more spectacular views, our home county’s 76 miles of coastline are simultaneously welcoming, challenging and ever-changing. With summer right around the corner and summer temperatures already here, now is a great time to gas up the vehicle and plan your escape to the western-

most part of the Sonoma County. Solid mainstays of any agenda include tidepooling at Pinnacle Gulch, taffy-tasting at Patrick’s of Bodega Bay, thrill-seeking at the Sea Ranch, and marveling about the power of nature at Salt Point State Park. Tidal pools are the little puddles of water left behind on rocky beaches at the lowest tides of the day. In Northern California, most of these tidepools support self-contained ecosystems comprising sea anemones, hermit crabs, tiny fish and more. Peak viewing is during low tides in summer. Sonoma County has many beaches that accommodate this pastime. The best of the best: Pinnacle Gulch, a sliver of beach TURN TO EXPLORE » PAGE D17

“Never turn your back to the ocean step lightly … watch out for the slippery rocks.” KRISTINA STANTON, park program supervisor for Sonoma County Regional Parks

Local actor finds dream role in musical PETALUMA » Adventurous ‘Tuck Everlasting’ character an exciting opportunity By DAVID TEMPLETON PETALUMA ARGUS-COURIER

olly Belle Hart, of Petaluma, has been thinking a lot about living and dying. This is no teenage existential crisis, however. It’s just part of an actors’ job when they are cast as the iconic Winnie Foster in a production of “Tuck Everlasting: The Musical.” Based on Natalie Babbitt’s 1975 novel “Tuck Everlasting,” the 2015

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musical version had its North Bay premiere at Spreckels Performing Arts Center, with Hart playing the lead in a cast that also includes Petaluma’s Larry Williams, Nico Alva and Ron Lam. The show opened May 5, and ran through today. It tells the story of an unhappily over-protected 11-year-old girl living in a small New Hampshire town in 1890, who encounters the mysterious Tuck family, hiding in the woods. The Tucks, she learns, are over 100 years old, even Jesse, who appears to be just 17. That’s how old he was when his family unknowingly drank from a secret spring over 80 years earlier, only

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later realizing that the magic waters made them immortal, impervious to sickness and death. The two bond over their mutual sense of isolation, and Winnie must eventually make a choice as to whether she will join the Tucks on their immortal journey, or let nature take its normal course of growing, aging and saying goodbye. Hart, who was last seen in Spreckels’ “A Little Night Music,” and previously in Cinnabar Theater’s all-girl adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, confirms that playing TURN TO HART » PAGE D17

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Petaluma’s Molly Belle Hart as Winnie Foster in Spreckels’ “Tuck Everlasting: The Musical.”

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The James’ Drug Store, H.A. Jepsen Jewelers, Polly Ann Bakery and the Mattei Brothers store in Petaluma in 1923.

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Sonoma County in 1923 Bootleg drinking, new car driving and King Tut mania were all the rage 100 years ago By SKIP SOMMER PETALUMA ARGUS-COURIER

he year of 1923 saw a busy world. WWI was just over. The flu pandemic was as well, the Great Crash was still six years away, bank deposits were up, the phonograph and radio were transforming home life and the first cross-country airmail flight had been made in just 34 hours. Our Daily Courier Editor, Homer Wood, commented, “The age is living with dizzying rapidity. The world is bent upon intensive living.” And California was in the lead. Two men named Walt and Roy Disney opened the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Hollywood, where they began to make popular animated films — though Walt was still a few years away from inventing his most popular creation, Mickey Mouse. Warner Bros. was incorporated that year, and the iconic Hollywood sign went up, just as Cecil B. DeMille’s silent epic “The Ten Commandments” was released and went on to gross $4 million! (That’s $69 million in today’s bucks). The 18th Amendment prohibiting alcohol was three ONLINE years old then, but Sonoma To see more archive photos honoring Sonoma County was still producing wine “for medicinal and County’s history, go to sacramental” purposes pressdemocrat.com/ (yeah, sure). There were news/towns about 250 small family vineyards and presses and 2.75% beer was still out there as Sonoma County led the nation in hops production. Sonoma and Napa Counties also led our State in illegal bootlegging. Santa Rosa and Petaluma were still “Farm Towns” in 1923, with prunes, wine grapes and poultry and eggs leading the way. Petaluma’s Chicken Pharmacy was opened that year serving over 19 hatcheries and 9 feed mills and we shipped-out, on our creek, 22 million dozen eggs. The advent of the automobile brought a lot of changes too. “Filling stations” were popping up everywhere, although many shops and schools still had hitching posts out-front. At the Niles Auto Dealership here, one could buy a new Overland sedan for $860 bucks, while our Zartman Co. was still selling a horsedrawn manure spreader for $190. Elsewhere, the discovery in Egypt of King Tut's Tomb had the newspapers all-a-twitter. The young King had been a product of the 18th Egyptian Dynasty of 1549 to 1292 B.C. and his tomb’s opening uncovered over 5,000 items including gilded couches, chairs, shrines and thrones. Our Editor Wood chortled that “King Tut might have been in the poultry business!” as the discovery of “hatching hovels” — a kind of Egyptian egg incubator — were also uncovered. Local shops were quick to advertise “King Tut jewelry” as well. The Hotel Petaluma was under way, with completion of construction scheduled for the following February. It was said it would feature a full-sized mirror on every bath door. There was also local commentary over the impact women were having in the political scene. Our Editor Wood opined, “There is no longer any doubt of the ability of the gentler sex to grasp politics.” In the area of style and fashion, Dibbles Outfitters was selling “airy, fluttering frocks of

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The auto vs the horse in 1909.

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Sonoma County’s bootleg-busting lawman Marcus ‘Mike’ Flohr, who served as sheriff from 1931-1934. COURTESY OF M. HARRSCH / WIKIPEDIA

In 1923, in the area of style and fashion, Dibbles Outfitters was selling “airy, fluttering frocks of sheer, delicately tinted fabrics” starting at $5.

King Tut’s tomb, in 1923, became a huge worldwide sensation when details of its discovery became known. Sonoma County was no exception, with locals noting the uncovering of “egg hatching hovels” along with the dead ruler’s treasures.

sheer, delicately tinted fabrics” starting at $5 and Cockburn & Berger was advertising College Girl Corsets, announcing that “the scientific law of corseting has been discovered after 40 years of the study of styles for all figures.” And, for the gentleman, The Wardrobe at 43 Main St. (“under the Town Clock“) was stocking “Golf Hose” starting at $1.50, as well as union suits and Stetson Hats. Petaluma was hosting another Egg Day Parade that year, proclaiming our town,“The greatest poultry center in the world” and our Chamber of

Commerce promoter Bert Kerrigan urged everyone to “eat one more egg than usual on Aug. 18th.” Names in the 1923 news included Sun Yat Sen, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, U.S. President Cooledge and gangster Baby Face Nelson. Locally, G.P. McNear, Frank Doyle, Ezekial Denman and Walter Proctor. Finally, our County Sheriff Mike Flohr found himself extremely active that year, routinely smashing illegal barrels of booze and pouring the liquid into the Petaluma Creek — where desperate folks actually scooped it out drank it.

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California Poppy are found on the path on Pinnacle Gulch Trail on the way to the beach at the southern end of Bodega Bay.

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A sandpiper hunts at low tide May 17 on Pinnacle Beach at the southern end of Bodega Bay.

EXPLORE CONTINUED FROM D15 reached by a half-mile access trail in the Bodega Harbor neighborhood in Bodega Bay. The trail is maintained by Sonoma County Regional Parks and there is a small parking lot at the trailhead. Kristina Stanton, park program supervisor, said part of what makes Pinnacle Gulch tidepools so exciting is the diversity of life. She noted that colorful nudibranchs, or sea slugs, are great finds, and said it’s always fun to spot a sculpin, which is a tiny fish. Another mainstay of local tide pools: hermit crabs, which can grow much larger in the wild than they do at home. Stanton said tidepooling requires participants to abide by a special code. “Never turn your back to the ocean step lightly, and watch out for the slippery rocks,” she said. “Do not pry animals off the rocks. If you do pick up an animal from a tide pool return it right where you found it. Please do not collect any plants or animals without the correct licenses and permits. Make sure to leave no trace.” Another pointer for tidepooling: the early bird gets the worm-like sea creatures. According to Stanton, the weather is usually a little overcast in the morning and then clears to blue sky. Usually the wind will pick up a bit in the afternoon, so morning low Patrick’s Salt Water Taffy has been a staple since opening in 1960 in Bodega Bay. tides are the best. tavern is a temple to taffy — that gooey and guava, pickle, coconut curry, banana split, In the name of taffy sticky sugar-based snack that comes in doz- cherry coke, chicken and waffles, chili manIf you’ve driven on Highway 1 through ens of different flavors, sticks to the back of go, hot cinnamon, peanut butter and jelly, Bodega Bay, you undoubtedly have seen your teeth and the roof of your mouth, and pumpkin pie and watermelon. Patrick’s of Bodega Bay. The shop has been tastes like summer. Yes, because the shop is so small, the serving up sweet treats since 1960. Patrick’s of Bodega Bay has been making queue can become unbearably long on busy On the outside, the tiny taffy and souvenir taffy in Bodega Bay for 63 years. tourist days. But repeat visitors such as store looks like it could be Barbie’s home or Today, depending on the day of the week Michelle Woolrich of Walnut Creek said perhaps a vacation home — it’s with pink (and at the whims of the candy-makers), a these sweet treats are well worth a 15- to and white stripes. visit might land you face-to-face with flavors On the inside, however, the touristy such as honey lavender, pineapple orange TURN TO EXPLORE » PAGE D18

HART CONTINUED FROM D15 Winnie Foster — especially as written in this lavish Tony-nominated musical — has been a dream come true. “Winnie has an ex-

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tra-special place in my heart,” she said. “Throughout the rehearsal process, I felt so connected to her and the story. Playing Winnie is also very nostalgic. I get to do cartwheels, climb trees and play with a toad!” Hart said that although there are many fantastic

hidden cabin to go to the town fair, requiring them to sneak past the watchful Angus Tuck. “When Nico wakes me up, after the attic song, I never know when he’s going scare me,” Hart added. “The jumpiness there is real! I couldn’t ask for a better partner in crime.” Of course, though Winnie’s character effectively carries the show — spending a huge amount of time on stage, singing with friends or members of energetic and motivated to make and dancing — there are groups. Others will follow your improvements in your work, your several moments when health and how you deal with lead because you’re energetic, Hart gets to wait in the your pet. This proactive energy proactive and keen to introduce wings, watching a scene improvements into the situation can also be used to solve old from out-of-sight until problems. Tonight: Check your around you. Tonight: You’re her next entrance. One of finances. happy. her favorites to observe CAPRICORN (Dec. 22LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) from offstage, she said, is HHHH This is a powerful day Jan. 19) HHH Those of you for you. People admire you bewho are involved in sports will the scene when Constable cause you appear to be success- be high energy and active today. Joe (Chris Schloemp) and ful and competent. Meanwhile, Ditto if working with children. his deputy Hugo (Chase you personally have strong Those involved in the arts, espe- Thompson) sing a particcially the entertainment world or energy to use in a positive way ularly entertaining song the hospitality industry, will get to improve whatever you’re stuff done! Tonight: Good times. titled “You Can’t Trust a involved in. Tonight: Solitude. Man,” expressing their AQUARIUS (Jan. 20VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) suspicions about a sketchy HHHH You have lots of drive Feb. 18) HHHH This is the and energy to travel and explore perfect day to do something carnival barker known today. You also might use this to make home improvements as The Man in the Yellow energy to study, learn or take or to improve where you live. Suit, who is in search of advantage of opportunities in This same energy might even the Tucks’ secret fountain improve family relationships. You medicine, the law, publishing or of youth and will stop at have lots of drive and motivathe media. nothing to locate it. The tion to get things done today. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) scene she mentions is one Tonight: Get organized. HHHH This is a good day to get to the bottom of issues PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) of the lighter moments in HHHH Your communication related to shared property, the show, swapping puns skills are tops today, which is taxes, debt, inheritances or and words that rhyme why you’ll be persuasive. Obanything that you own jointly with “yellow.” with someone else. You have the viously, that makes this a great “The two of them are mental energy to deal with these day for those who teach, sell, both incredibly talented matters. Stick up for yourself and market, act or write. Your energy and funny,” said Hart. is strong and positive, and your protect your own interests. “The kick line at the end SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) words are like gold! Tonight: will have your stomach HHH Today you might be deal- Play! ing with someone who comes on hurting from laughter.” pretty strong! They know what Asked to reveal the Day rating: they want, and they intend to biggest challenge she’s Dynamic HHHHH get it. Why not enlist their help faced during the run-up to in making improvements at your Positive HHHH opening night, Hart said home or promoting your reputa- Average HHH it was mainly a matter of tion? Tonight: Explore! So-so HH controlling her emotions. ©2022 King SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Difficult H Features Syndicate “My biggest challenge Dec. 21) HHHH You can get a lot done today. You’re has been getting over the 05/21/2023

A sea anemone clings to a rock at low tide on Pinnacle Beach at the southern end of Bodega Bay.

Low tide uncovers muscles clinging to rocks on Pinnacle Beach.

Clustered thistle line the path on Pinnacle Gulch Trail on the way to the beach.

moments in the show, she does have her favorites, onstage and off. “For me, my favorite moments onstage are whenever I and Jesse get in trouble!” she said, allowing that she especially enjoys the scene when Winnie and Jesse attempt to sneak out of the Tuck’s

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Molly Belle Hart plays Winnie Foster, and Nico Alva plays Jesse Tuck in Spreckels’ “Tuck Everlasting: The Musical.” nerves of what people are going to think,” she admitted. “Winnie Foster’s character means a lot to me, and I want to make sure I do her justice.” That said, it’s hard to stay nervous when you are surrounded by a supportive cast and crew, she allows. “With amazing pep talks from our wonderful director Emily Cornelius, all the tips and tricks from our stage manager Hannah Jane Dakin, and just knowing the cast has my back, it made me feel so much better going into opening night,” she said. Regarding her onstage shenanigans with fellow Petaluma actor Nico Alva, as eternal teenager Jesse Tuck, she added, “I always know I can confide in my partner in crime! When I’m onstage, I know the nerves will all melt away.” At the heart of “Tuck Everlasting: The Musical,” of course, as in the book on which it is based, Hart

said that working on this show has given her a lot to think about in terms of what it means to be alive, and what it might be like to live forever. “It would be comforting to not fear death,” she noted, “but it might be more terrifying to know that you’ll always outlive everyone.” As to whether she’d drink the magic water or not, if given the chance, Hart said she’s still weighing the pros and cons of that philosophical question. “I’d like to say I would chose not to drink the water, but I’m sure a character like Jesse would be able to convince me to live forever,” she said. “If I was in Winnie’s shoes, I’m not sure I could leave him alone forever. It would make me too sad, especially because they both know what it’s like to be lonely before they meet each other.”

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EXPLORE CONTINUED FROM D17 20-minute wait. “You might find a few other places that sell taffy out here but there’s only one Patrick’s,” she said, noting that her favorite flavor is chocolate mint. “To me it’s not a trip to the coast without stopping here.”

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In the northern part of the county coastline, up toward the Mendocino County line, the recently refurbished Sea Ranch Lodge has re-established itself as the place to be for culture and culinary excellence. Since the facility reopened in October 2021, locals and visitors alike have flocked to new public spaces such as the Dining Room, Solarium, Bar + Lounge, the Cafe, BBQ 42000 and the General Store. It also topped the list of Sonoma County’s most beautiful buildings, according to Press Democrat readers. Part of what makes the experience so special is the vibe — the Sea Ranch Lodge sits atop a bluff with sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean. The programming also is turning heads; over the course of each month the Sea Ranch Lodge offers various art lectures, wine tastings, family nights and more. This spring the facility is offering nature walks, private yoga classes, star gazing, cocktail classes and golf activities. According to General Manager Kristina Jetton, several other programs have people very excited.

a 17-room hotel is expected to open after July 1.

EDITOR’S NOTE Our Sunday Towns highlights the people, places and events that make the North Coast so vibrant. We feature a different community in each issue. In the coming weeks, look for stories on Mendocino County, the Sonoma Coast, Windsor, Lake County, Sonoma Valley, Cloverdale, Healdsburg, Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Rohnert Park and Sebastopol. Want to suggest a story? Contact Towns Editor Elissa Torres at elissa.torres@ pressdemocrat.com.

Salt Point State Park, beyond

For outdoor lovers, one of the best-kept secrets in the entire county is Salt Point State Park. Salt Point is one of the largest state parks on the Northern California coast, which means there’s ample ground for visitors to the Sonoma County coast to explore. All told, there are 20 miles of hiking trails, six miles of coastline and an underwater park for divers. Professional foragers, hobbyists and Indigenous harvesters take to the Perhaps the fan favorite is Jazz park to forage for mushrooms. Night, held on the second and fourth The park is rife with history — Thursday of each month. This sandstone from Salt Point was used recurring event features Harrison in the construction of San FrancisGoldberg and friends playing favorco's streets and buildings during the ite tunes for a solid 2-hour set. mid-1800s, and if you look closely at Three new programs for this year some of the rocks along the shoreare Vinyl, Wine & Dine, during which line you can still see bolts where a local DJ spins records while guests ships anchored while rock slabs enjoy a winemaker dinner with the were loaded onboard. According to winemaker from one of several local park rangers, quarried rocks also wineries; Tuesday Trivia Night, are still strewn along sections of the where teams gather and compete bluffs. fiercely; and a new lecture series Geology nerds say Salt Point State through which local experts share Park also is a source of tafoni, a hontheir knowledge on topics from eycomb-like natural phenomenon art and architecture to nature and that is common along the sandstone history. near the ocean's edge at Gerstle Jetton noted these programs have Cove and Fisk Mill. been “delighting guests,” and that Park Rangers swear by Gerstle “visitors enjoy walking the trails, Cove for camping — the campdriving down the rugged Sonoma ground is situated atop the coastal Coast and taking pictures of the bluffs on the ocean side of Highway dramatic coastline, venturing into 1 and offers 30 family campsites. the tide pools, spotting seals, and be- Each boasts a fire ring, picnic table, ing out in the wide-open landscape, and food locker. They also come away from city life.” standard with nature’s own sound More changes are afoot at Sea machine of crashing waves — a Ranch Lodge later this summer, as mainstay of a Sonoma Coast escape.

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Alec and Hilaria Baldwin attend The Museum Gala at the American Museum of Natural History last year in New York.

Baldwin joins film on Kent State shootings A month after prosecutors dropped criminal charges against Alec Baldwin in the fatal “Rust” shooting tragedy, he’s joined the cast of an upcoming film about the 1970 Kent State shootings. The movie, written and directed by Karen Slade, depicts the tragic events of May 4, 1970, when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on an anti-Vietnam War student protest at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine others. Baldwin will play Kent State University President Robert I. White, per the Hollywood Reporter. The film will also star Clancy Brown, Zachary Gordon, Christopher Ammanuel, Andrew Ortenberg and Jacqueline Emerson.

Depp: ‘Don’t have much use for Hollywood’ The day after “Jeanne du Barry” opened the Cannes Film Festival in France, co-star Johnny Depp swept in late to the film’s press conference with choice words for those who objected to his presence at the festival, the press and Hollywood. The teary-eyed Depp of the previous night, the one basking in fan love and Johnny ovation applause, was replaced with Depp Johnny Part Two: Ready to Rumble. He referred to his highly publicized legal wrangling with ex-wife Amber Heard and what was said about him as “fantastically, horrifically written fiction,” and losing the role of Grindelwald in “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” and more. “Did I feel boycotted by Hollywood?” he said, echoing one question he was asked. “You’d have to not have a pulse to not feel that. Do I feel boycotted now? No, I don’t feel boycotted by Hollywood, because I don’t think about Hollywood. I don’t have much use for Hollywood.”

‘General Hospital’ star arrested after crash “General Hospital” star Haley Pullos was reportedly arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after allegedly colliding with oncoming traffic on a freeway in Pasadena. The 24-year-old actor was driving on the freeway April 29 when she allegedly swerved, cleared the dividing barrier and crashed into a car going Haley the opposite direction at about 60 mph, Pullos according to a police report obtained Wednesday by TMZ. The driver of the other car survived the crash but was hospitalized with severe injuries.

Birthdays R&B singer Ron Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 82. Former Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., is 72. Actor Mr. T is 71. Actor Judge Reinhold is 66. Rapper Havoc (Mobb Deep) is 49. Rock musician Tony LoGerfo (Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real) is 40. Actor Sunkrish Bala is 39. Actor David Ajala is 37. Actor Ashlie Brillault is 36.

ACROSS 1 Large dog breed 8 U.K. movie award 13 Card-table declaration 18 Unit equivalent to 4.184 joules 19 Awards for ad campaigns 20 Thawing 22 Thought experiment that asks whether an object remains the same object if its parts are replaced one by one 24 Person living between Liberia and Ghana 25 Participate in a pledge drive 26 The false killer whale resembles it 27 Italian nickname 28 Canada’s House of Commons has 338 of them, in brief 29 “Nothing but net!” 31 Place to run some tests 33 Acorn-loving duo 36 Hither and ____ 37 Run into the ground 40 Actress Ullmann 41 Home of Grace Hopper College 42 The artist François Boucher said that it was “too green and badly lit” 44 ____ Redivivus (firstcentury myth about an emperor’s reappearance) 46 Use crayons 48 Restaurant pickup option? 51 Hong Kong action hero who frequently collaborated with John Woo 56 Oily sauce 57 ____ funny 59 Family nickname 60 “The way I see it ...,” via texts 61 Métro area? 64 Comedian Margaret 66 Hebrew for “head” 68 Chef/food writer Samin ____ 70 Brinks 71 Ostentatious behavior 74 Selection of appetizers in Greek and Turkish restaurants 75 Prestige 77 “Buona ____” (Italian greeting) 78 Human, e.g. 79 Augurs 80 Drummer’s setup 81 Jersey call 83 Singer Amos

85 Award-winning sci-fi author Bacigalupi 87 Dramatic action-movie effect 90 Pail for feeding pigs 95 Invited over 96 ____ Pet 98 Available for rental, to Brits 99 Stylish 101 Mo. for Canadian Thanksgiving 103 Alertly responsive (to) 106 Accomplished 107 Loafers, e.g. 110 One-pip card 111 County between London and the North Sea 113 Movement for a finger or a tail 114 King, in Portuguese 115 Flour variety with a palindromic name 117 Bone at the base of the spine 119 Emily Dickinson’s hometown 121 Thought experiment that asks whether an object remains the same object if its parts are replaced one by one 125 Legally void status 126 City that hosts an annual Pirate Festival

127 First president of the Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots 128 Secretly surveil 129 Go quietly 130 “Obviously not, ya goof!” DOWN 1 Rap battle participants 2 “That feels good!” 3 Donned, as a silky dress 4 Literary theme, from the Greek 5 Steam trains, in the 19th century 6 World Cup org. 7 In fine ____ 8 Abbr. in ancient dates 9 “I forgot to mention ...” 10 More intense 11 Have an emotional impact on 12 Attack 13 Gloater’s words 14 Part of bps 15 Member of a kingdom that spans the globe 16 Object for binding contracts 17 Meaning 20 Denies knowing anything about 21 ____ Rachel Wood of “Kajillionaire”

23 Learn through the grapevine 29 Harmonize 30 “That’s wild!” in a modern spelling 32 Twin bed? 34 Salsa variety, casually 35 “Rats!” 38 November honorees 39 Meeting, informally 43 Hoity-toity 45 Astronaut Ellen of shuttle missions 47 Prevaricating 49 Between-the-shoulderblades annoyance 50 Some Pacific salmon 52 “____ luego” 53 Like ceramics 54 Blow away 55 Reusable shopping bags 58 Like a bellowing crowd 61 Demure kisses 62 Come in handy 63 Half of a leaf 65 Have because of 67 Mudhole wallower 69 Less-than-demure kiss 71 Came to attention, say 72 Bucking beast, informally 73 ____ tide 76 Portrayer of Princess Diana on “The Crown” 79 Ones making mistakes 82 Idleness 84 “Oh, really?”

86 Instrument in Joan Tower’s “Island Prelude” 88 Produce speedily, with “out” 89 Move slowly 91 ____ Mangeshkar, Indian singer known as the “Queen of Melody” 92 Fast-food offering that may come with a toy 93 Lake that’s home to South Bass Island 94 “Ideas worth spreading” spinoff 97 Can spare a few moments 99 Thwart the interrogators 100 Good way to be regarded 102 Makes crispy 104 Bay Area sch. 105 Tidy up 107 Septet in a Christmas carol 108 Digs in a forest 109 Patriot Allen 112 Food served with gari and wasabi 116 Dad, in Korean 118 Rosalind of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” 120 Scrabble rating system 122 Durable wood 123 Link, of a sort 124 Challenge for a cleaner

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips

Poolgoers leave towels to claim shady locale Dear Abby: The other day I went to the pool in my neighborhood and found there were four lounge chairs with towels on them indicating they were “reserved.” They are the best chairs in the pool area because they are covered by a small roof and protected from the sun. I then had to use another chair that only partially covered me. It wasn’t until three hours later,

when I was about to leave, that a couple carrying party items showed up to claim the chairs. Would it have been OK to move the “reserved” chairs to another area and put mine under the roof, and then put them back when I leave? What if the people come and I’m still there? — All Wet in Florida Dear All Wet: What those neighbors did was rude. Yes, it

would have been OK for you to sit in the shade, protected from the sun. If the entitled folks who tied up the chairs (for hours) came down to use them within 15 minutes, you could have moved. But under the circumstances, you should not have given up yours. Write Dear Abby at P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles 90069 or www.DearAbby.com.

TELL ME ABOUT IT Carolyn Hax

Grandparents can’t spend the day with toddler Dear Carolyn: My wife and I live almost 900 miles away from our son, his wife and their 21/2-year-old daughter. Since we retired shortly after our granddaughter was born, our hope was to spend time with them at least four times a year. We recently stayed at their home and offered to take care of our granddaughter while they both worked. Our son insisted their daughter needed to go to day care to keep her in her routine and for socialization. We only asked for one day, but he said as the parent, his decision was final. We were offended that we could not spend time going to a park, the library and out for lunch so our granddaughter could get to know us a little better. We have decided to rethink our travel plans in the future, as we feel that our presence in our granddaughter’s life isn’t that important to them. To add injury to insult, we chose to live where we grew up so that both of our sons would have lots of interaction with both sets of their grandparents. Now we are being denied quality time with our granddaughter. How do we communicate our disappointment to the parents? — Offended Offended: As the last item on your agenda, I hope. If that. Do you really want to lead with “disappointment”? Before your trip, you had other good openers to discuss your grandpa role: your hopes of visiting often, your excitement at getting

to know your granddaughter, your tentative plans for their review. These are all still good options. Post-visit, though, your best opener is to express pride in how well they’re raising their child. Trust me on this. Pointing out how they failed you sets a terrible tone and precedent. Maybe I’ve misread the situation; maybe you or your wife did involve your son in developing your plans. But the debris field after your expectations hit reality suggests you made assumptions along the way. I do understand your hurt and surprise. A grandpa park outing is straight-up Norman Rockwell. Plus, you wouldn’t be the first to get lulled into thinking that what you did to accommodate your parents is just what families do, reflexively. But they’re entitled to their own ways. Plus, some kids respond badly to disrupted routines and make their already tired parents pay dearly for it. So don’t repeat your mistake of deciding what you want and then expecting your son and his wife to deliver it, or else. Treat the problem of your disappointing visit as something for you to fix. Instead of taking offense, take the hint to respect the rhythms of their household, even if you don’t like the way they run it. Context also is key. If you have friction with your son and/or daughter-in-law, or steep philosophical differences, or if there are health issues affecting you, your wife, the couple or the child, then

no park or library till you reckon with that. Remember, too, they live far away, are balancing two jobs and child care (apparently) without local support, and took a path to parenthood that went through the wringer of a pandemic. The fastest way to become irrelevant to them is to make their lives even harder. So I suggest you admit to your son you made assumptions before the visit that put them on the spot during it, and apologize. Then state your goal as getting to know your granddaughter on his and his wife’s terms. Then work with the answer you get. Before you bristle too hard to embrace this: Do you want to be relevant, or right? Flexibility fits in while offense sits fuming at home. Email Carolyn at tellme@washpost. com and follow her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/carolyn.hax SOLUTION TO TODAY’S CROSSWORD

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Travel GETAWAY » Tips for a successful journey

TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Safest places to go solo

The 2022 Solo Female Travel Trends Survey showed that 65% of women who travel alone worry about their personal safety.

Best cities, countries for women traveling alone By MIA TAYLOR TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

olo travel among women has been growing exponentially over the past decade. During the four years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, searches for the term “solo female travel” had increased si-fold, according to data from the Solo Female Travelers Club. And that search volume recovered in 2022 once the pandemic became less of a concern. But even as women increasingly embark on travel alone, safety remains a top concern. The 2022 Solo Female Travel Trends Survey showed that 65% of women who travel alone worry about their personal safety. A new report from travel insurance provider Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection (BHTP) and GeoSure Global, aims to address such concerns. The report identifies the world’s 11 safest cities and countries for women traveling alone. And there’s one country in particular that appears among the top 11 more than any other.

“Women who are traveling alone and consider safety a top priority should look into Western Europe, Scandinavia and Canada, as these regions topped the list of safest cities and countries for women.” BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY TRAVEL PROTECTION,

from 2022 survey on solo female travel trends

The runaway winner of the BHTP ranking is Switzerland. In particular, Basel, Switzerland, nabbed the No. 1 spot for safest city in the world, while the No. 3 slot went to Bern, Switzerland, and No. 4 is held by Zurich, Switzerland. Other destinations that made it into the top include Toronto, Ontario, at No. 2 and Lisbon, Portugal at 5. Orebro, Vasteras and Uppsala, Sweden, all tied for the No 6 slot, while Stockholm came in at 7. Rounding out the list were Monaco; Salzburg

and Innsbruck, Austria (tie); Pamplona and Oviedo, Spain (tie) and finally Cannes, France. “Women who are traveling alone and consider safety a top priority should look into Western Europe, Scandinavia and Canada, as these regions topped the list of safest cities and countries for women,” BHTP said when issuing its ranking. The travel insurance provider added that the safest countries for women traveling alone comes as no surprise given that the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Canada, Sweden and Switzerland were all included in BHTP’s separate ranking of the Top 10 Safest Countries for travel in general. In a blog post about their safety ranking for women traveling alone the company further explained that “certain cultures around the world objectify women and/or treat them as less than equal. Violence against women is not held to the same standards as violence against men in some countries, sometimes with tragic results.” However, the BHTP added that their new ranking is in “no way meant to deter women from traveling.” “In fact, just the opposite. We want to empower women to feel safe when traveling by offering valuable information and facts for their travel-planning decision making, and ultimately their protection,” says the company’s blog post.

With travel insurance, devil is in the details say, trip cancellation. My inbox is flooded with messages from travelers whose similarly reasonable-sounding claims were denied either because of a policy’s fine print By SETH KUGEL or because the documentation NEW YORK TIMES process became so mind-bendingly bureaucratic that they ear Tripped Up, simply gave up. I had booked a 10-day, After looking into your case $4,424 tour to Cuba for and others, here’s a warning I last November, but Hurricane think should accompany every Ian hit the island in late Septem- travel insurance policy: ber, knocking out the power grid “Most travel insurance covers and causing widespread destruc- you against specific hazards tion. The tour organizer canlisted in the policy’s fine print, celed the trip, citing health and excluding countless scenarios safety issues, and refunded our you’d never think of and that money. I had bought my airfare could ruin your trip through ($1,504) separately, so I assumed no fault of your own. If you my GoReady Pandemic Plus are covered, you might have insurance policy would cover it. to persuade doctors, hospitals, But when I called the company, airlines, cruise lines and others an agent told me that because to provide documentation well the Havana airport was open, beyond what you consider and the hotel I planned to stay in necessary or rational — all in was habitable, it was not worth the aftermath of a vacation gone filing a claim that would surely terribly wrong.” be denied. If travel insurance To be fair, most vacations go doesn’t cover this, what does it off without a hitch, most hitches cover? are covered and most claims are — Khatiba, Sebastopol paid out with minimal hassle. Dear Khatiba, But there are plenty of excepYou are forgiven for thinking tions, and their stories reveal that the “trip cancellation” porthat people often expect too tion of your policy would cover, much from their policies.

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Destruction from Hurricane Ian led a tour operator to cancel a 10-day excursion to Cuba, leaving a woman with a useless $1,500 plane ticket. “Many travelers don’t read up on the insurance,” said Jason Schreier, CEO of GoReady, an online travel insurance retailer. “They believe that if anything happens on their trip that creates an unexpected expense, and it’s not their fault, that the travel insurance company will foot the bill.” In your case, a conscientious tour operator canceled the trip and reimbursed everyone on it. Your plane tickets were thus rendered all but useless:

Even if you had wanted to fly to Cuba for a solo trip in the wake of a hurricane, it is not clear you could have. The U.S. government still prohibits most tourism to Cuba that does not include a “full-time schedule” of “exchange activities.” It seems logical that you should be reimbursed. But the fine print of the GoReady Pandemic Plus policy says otherwise. You were covered for natural disasters only if certain criteria were met: Airports had

to be closed “for 48 consecutive hours,” for example, or your hotel rendered “uninhabitable.” Even if either situation had been the case, you may not have been covered, at least not fully, since the airlines gave you a $425 credit, potentially invalidating that much of the claim. Insurers will not pay out claims if a travel provider offers a credit, although they may make an exception if there is little chance the traveler would ever use it, such as with a regional airline. Still, your case is frustrating. We all understand why policies might exclude injuries suffered while, say, mountain climbing. But it is exasperating that just because a situation is not explicitly spelled out, it is excluded. That is one reason some people purchase more expensive Cancel for Any Reason, or CFAR plans. Travel insurance is often necessary, prudent and often just a good idea. But temper expectations, read the fine print and call the company before the trip with questions. If something happens, document the heck out of it. And when you get home, warm up that scanner and prepare to create and upload more PDFs than you thought possible.

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NORTH BAY » JOB CUTS

What happens if nation defaults?

Missing payment would be ‘catastrophic,’ ‘horror scenario,’ experts say By JOE RENNISON NEW YORK TIMES

T THE PERSONNEL PERSPECTIVE

“My experience with employers going through layoffs is that they agonize over it,” said Karen Alary, managing partner of The Personnel Perspective in Santa Rosa.

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“We do not approach (layoffs) lightly, knowing how difficult they are for everyone involved,” said NorthBay Health VP and Human Resources Chief Jim Andersen.

“Culture starts during the recruiting process and good companies maintain it all the way, even through separation,” said Sarah Grimstead, a regional VP with Insperity.

‘Compassionate layoff’ HR professionals reveal the right and wrong ways to let go of employees By KATHRYN REED FOR NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL

eing laid off is seldom good news for anyone, but how that news is delivered can make a world of difference for everyone involved. “Coming from a place of empathy and compassion goes a long way,” explained Karen Alary, managing partner of The Personnel Perspective in Santa Rosa. “It matters how you handle the people side, not just the people losing their jobs, but those remaining as well. It’s a loss for everyone — emotionally, socially, and for those being laid off, financially. They are all interconnected.” The Personnel Perspective is a management consulting firm specializing in human resources, leadership development and training, and recruiting; with clients throughout the Bay Area, but mostly in Sonoma and Napa counties. “My experience with employers going through layoffs is that they agonize over it,” said Alary. “It is never easy. Compassion is very important.” “Compassionate layoff” is the in phrase for this approach to telling people they are about to join the ranks of the unemployed. But not every human resources person has gotten that memo. A survey done by JobSage, a platform for employees, found that 65% of those laid off said their employer could have handled the situation better. That number increased to 80% for on-site employees. Those with the worst layoff experience worked in advertising and media, hospitality, and engineering. Some other stats from the survey:

■■ 35% did not feel cared for at all ■■ 32% said timing of the termination was bad, such as before a holiday ■■ 21% were not allowed to ask questions ■■ 24% were given space to process the news ■■ 73% received zero severance pay Letting people go in a group setting, especially virtually, is the epitome of an uncompassionate layoff. Even so, in an era when remote work is common for many workers, a virtual parting of the ways is inevitable. Even those, though, can be face-to-face and don’t have to be in a mass Zoom meeting to maintain a compassionate approach to a difficult conversation. Last summer NorthBay Health laid off 189 employees at its Fairfield and Vacaville locations. “In more than half the cases last July, employees were offered similar jobs in other locations in the system, and most of them accepted those jobs,” Vice President and Human Resources Chief Jim Andersen said. “In the cases where there was not a similar job or the employee was unwilling to step into a different role, job counseling, resume writing and mental wellness counseling were available.” The Solano County health conglomerate’s financial situation has improved to the point it is now reaching out to some of those workers to bring them back onto the payroll. “Truly, layoffs were the last choice on our lengthy list of budget recovery initiatives. We do not approach them lightly, knowing how difficult they are for everyone involved, especially the affected employee and their families, as well as those

TIPS FOR LAYING OFF WORKERS ■ Create a policy before you need it. ■ Understand the state and federal laws pertaining to staff reductions. ■ Provide a letter of termination that states last day of work, severance, paid time off compensation, and eligibility to be rehired. ■ Explain how an employee can seek future references. ■ Let all workers know about impending layoffs as soon as possible. ■ Make sure you know what the duties of each employee are before letting them go. ■ Have a plan to redistribute workloads. ■ Make the announcement in person, preferably one-on-one. ■ Provide job search services, such as professional development coaching, networking, and resume help. ■ Offer to help people activate resources such as COBRA health insurance. Source: Monster.com who remain in an often more challenging reality,” Andersen said. “Compassionate care is part of our mission statement, and we make every effort to be as compassionate as possible. Representatives from our human resources team met with employees in person, when possible, to discuss the layoffs and options available. In many cases, employees who received a termination notice were given two months to complete work while they searched for another job, either within

he U.S. debt limit has been reached and the Treasury Department is finding ways to save cash. After it runs out of maneuvers, what once seemed unfathomable could become reality: The United States defaults. What happens next? The far-reaching effects are hard to fully predict: from shock waves in financial markets to bankruptcies, recession and potentially irreversible damage to the nation’s longheld role at the center of the global economy. The probability of a default remains low, at least based on opposing lawmakers’ assurances that a deal will be done to raise or suspend the debt limit and the long odds implied by trading in certain financial markets. But as the day approaches when the United States begins to run out of cash to pay its bills — which could be as soon as June 1 — investors, executives and economists around the world are gaming out what might happen immediately before, during and after, hatching contingency plans and puzzling over largely untested rules and procedures. “We are sailing into uncharted waters,” said Andy Sparks, head of portfolio management research at MSCI, which creates indexes that track a wide range of financial assets, including in the Treasury market. Some corners of the financial markets have already begun to shudder, but those ripples pale in comparison to the tidal wave that builds as a default approaches. The $24 trillion U.S. Treasury market is the primary source of financing for the government as well as the largest debt market in the world. The Treasury market is the backbone of the financial system, integral to everything from mortgage rates to the dollar, the most widely used currency in the world. At times, Treasury debt is even treated as the equivalent of cash because of the surety of the government’s creditworthiness. Shattering confidence in such a deeply embedded market would have effects that are hard to quantify. Most agree, however, that a default would

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AUTO INDUSTRY » ELECTRIC VEHICLES Mitch Smedley’s Ford E-Transit van at his plumbing business April 13 in Blue Springs, Missouri. So far, commercial light vehicles are a small portion of all electric cars and trucks sold, but in many ways batterypowered vehicles are well suited for work fleets. CHASE CASTOR NEW YORK TIMES

E-vans gain momentum after production problems Businesses reap benefits of lower maintenance and fuel costs for fleets By NEAL E. BOUDETTE NEW YORK TIMES

ot long after buying a Ford E-Transit van for his plumbing business in November, Mitch Smedley sat down with some receipts and a calculator to figure out how much the electric vehicle was saving him on fuel expenses. A few minutes of number

crunching showed he was spending about $110 to $140 a week on fuel for each of the four older, diesel Transits in his fleet. Then he worked out how much electricity he was using to charge the electric model to drive the same distance — about 300 miles a week. The cost: about $9 a week. “I knew there was going to be some savings because our electricity here is very inexpensive,” said Smedley, whose business is based in Blue Springs, Missouri, just east of Kansas City. “But I was amazed when I

worked it out. It makes it really, really cheap to operate.” In the auto industry’s transition to electric vehicles, passenger vehicles have led the way. In the first quarter of 2023, sales of EVs were up 45% from a year earlier, to 259,000 cars and trucks, according to Cox Automotive, a research firm. Tesla remains the largest seller by far, while General Motors, Ford Motor, Hyundai, Volkswagen and others are selling multiple electric models. Cox expects TURN TO E-VANS » PAGE E2

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E-VANS CONTINUED FROM E1 the annual EV sales total in the U.S. market to top 1 million this year for the first time. So far, commercial light vehicles are a small portion of all electric cars and trucks sold, but in many ways battery-powered vehicles are well suited for work fleets. Since trucks and delivery vans often travel limited distances or established routes each day, they don’t need large and expensive battery packs. Most can get by with enough energy to travel about 100 miles before they need a recharge. One factor that makes electric cars significantly more expensive than internal combustion models is that consumers want the ability to travel 250 or 300 miles on a single charge because they fear being stranded far from any place to plug in. Commercial vehicles are typically parked overnight in lots where they can be easily charged and ready to go with a full battery in the morning. Electric trucks also require less maintenance than traditional vehicles. They don’t need oil changes and have no transmissions, mufflers or fuel pumps that can wear out or break down. And they don’t burn fuel when idling. More so than consumers, commercial fleet owners look closely at the total cost of owning and operating vehicles over several years. That means they are often willing to accept a higher initial price to buy an electric truck to save money over time through lower fuel and maintenance costs. Yet, commercial EVs have had a slower start in sales, in part because of the troubles of several companies that had hoped to make them. Startups like Lordstown Motors,

The portable charger for Mitch Smedley’s Ford E-Transit van.

PHOTOS BY CHASE CASTOR / NEW YORK TIMES

Mitch Smedley, who bought a Ford E-Transit for his Missouri plumbing business, said he spent hundreds a month on fuel for his diesel Transits, while it costs $9 a week to charge the E-Transit to drive the same distance. Arrival and Canoo have struggled to start or ramp up production, as has Workhorse, a small manufacturer of commercial trucks. Rivian, a startup backed by Amazon, had hoped to sell thousands of electric vans to the online retailer by now but has fallen far short of its goals. The delays created an opening for Ford and GM, two of the country’s largest automakers, to bring out their own battery-powered work trucks. The E-Transit, a derivative of Ford’s Transit commercial van, is available in various sizes and can be used as a delivery van, a shuttle bus, or as a work truck for contractors, repairmen, plumbers and other small businesses. Ford sold about 6,500 E-Transits last year. In March, the U.S. Postal Service ordered 9,250 E-Transits that are supposed to go into service by the end of 2024. GM created an indepen-

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individual savers, pension funds, insurance companies and central banks. If the Treasury DepartCONTINUED FROM E1 ment wants to change the be “catastrophic,” said date it repays investors, Calvin Norris, a portfolio it would need to notify manager and interest rate Fedwire the day before strategist at Aegon Asset a payment is due, so Management. “That would investors would know the be a horror scenario.” government was about to default the night before it Markets begin to unhappened. ravel There is more than $1 The government pays trillion of Treasury debt its debts via banks that maturing between May 31 are members of a federal and the end of June that payments system called could be refinanced to Fedwire. These payments avoid default, according to then flow through the mar- analysts at TD Securities. ket’s plumbing, eventually There are also $13.6 billion ending up in the accounts in interest payments due, of debt holders, including spread out over 11 dates;

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Mitch Smedley’s electric truck can power equipment, eliminating the need to transport a generator. He also gets premium parking spots reserved for electric vehicles when he attends sports events at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. dent division, BrightDrop, to make a larger vehicle tailored for package and cargo delivery. BrightDrop produced a test fleet of about 500 battery-powered vans that were delivered to customers in 2022 and started commercial production of its Zevo 600 model at a plant in Ontario this year. Along with the truck,

BrightDrop has developed an electric cart to enable drivers to haul many packages from the truck, reducing the number of trips the driver makes back and forth. One version of the cart is refrigerated for deliveries of produce and groceries. Large delivery companies have been clamoring for electric trucks for

years. Amazon hopes to buy as many as 100,000 vans from Rivian and is considering an electric Ram ProMaster van that Chrysler’s parent company, Stellantis, is supposed to start making this year. UPS has ordered 10,000 electric vans from Arrival, a startup company based in Luxembourg that has operations in Britain. Ar-

that means 11 different opportunities for the government to miss a payment over the course of the next month. Fedwire, the payment system, closes at 4:30 p.m. If a payment due is not made by this time, at the very latest, the markets would begin to unravel.

chosen to renege on some payments but is expected to keep paying other debts. Fitch Ratings has also said it would slash the government’s rating in a similar way. Such ratings are usually assigned to imperiled companies and government borrowers. Moody’s, the other major rating agency, has said that if the Treasury misses one interest payment, its credit rating would be lowered by a notch, to just below its current top rating. A second missed interest payment would result in another downgrade. A slew of government-linked issuers would also likely suffer down-

grades, Moody’s noted, from the agencies that underpin the mortgage market to hospitals, government contractors, railroads, power utilities and defense companies reliant on government funds. It would also include foreign governments with guarantees on their own debt from the United States, such as Israel. Some fund managers are particularly sensitive to ratings downgrades, and may be forced to sell their Treasury holdings to meet rules on the minimum ratings of the debt they are allowed to hold, depressing their prices. “I would fear, besides the first-order craziness, there’s second-order craziness, too: Like, if you get two of the three of the major rating agencies downgrade something, then you have a bunch of financial institutions that can’t hold those securities,” Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said at an event in Florida on Tuesday night. The financial system’s plumbing freezes up, making trading more costly and difficult. Importantly, a default on one government bill, note or bond does not trigger a default across all of the government’s debt, known as “cross default,” according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, an industry group. This means that a majority of the government’s debt would remain current. That should limit the effect on markets that rely on Treasury debt for collateral, such as trillions of dollars worth of derivatives contracts and short-term loans called repurchase agreements. Still, any collateral affected by a default would need to be replaced. CME Group, a large derivatives clearing house, has said that while it has no plans

‘Craziness’ for bondholders

Joydeep Mukherji, the primary credit rating analyst for the United States at S&P Global Ratings, said that a missed payment would result in the government being considered in “selective default,” by which it has

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Summit State Bank Promotes Charlene Richman to Senior Vice President Summit State Bank (NASDAQ: SSBI) promotes Charlene Richman to Senior Vice President. “Charlene’s extensive background in both the banking industry and bank operations has made her an exceptional fit as Compliance & BSA Officer. Her ability to streamline processes and expand her knowledge has allowed her to serve as a mentor to the Compliance/BSA team. The constantly evolving regulatory landscape in banking requires a strong leader, and we are fortunate to have Charlene on our team to fill this role,” said Brian Reed, President and CEO of Summit State Bank.

Charlene has been with Summit State Bank for over 16 years, starting her career at Summit as a Branch Operations Specialist. Since then, she has continued to grow with Summit, advancing her career from Branch Manager in 2017, to BSA and Compliance Officer in 2018. Charlene has received the North Bay Business Journal’s Forty under 40 award and is an alum of Leadership Petaluma. She has volunteered for Petaluma Ecumenical Properties, Rebuilding Together Petaluma and Rohnert Park, Petaluma Animal Services Foundation and the Petaluma Chamber of Commerce. Charlene lives in Santa Rosa with her husband and two sons. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, traveling, and attending sporting events.

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rival has suffered financial troubles and production delays. FedEx plans to buy only battery-powered vans starting in 2030 and hopes to operate an all-electric fleet by 2040. It has been testing 150 BrightDrop trucks, is taking delivery on 350 more and has reservations for an additional 2,000. Smedley, the plumber in the Kansas City area, has noticed benefits from his E-Transit besides fuel savings. At job sites, the truck can power equipment like drain-cleaning machines, eliminating the need to lug around a generator. He began taking the van to Kansas City Chiefs football games — he has season tickets — so he can use its electric outlets for tailgating parties. The truck also secures him premium parking in the spots at Arrowhead Stadium reserved for electric vehicles. This year, Smedley decided to add a second electric model to his fleet, a Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck. He has also continued tracking the savings he’s reaping from the E-Transit. “When I look at the cost over five years,” he said with a laugh, “it’s almost like getting a free van.”

to do so, it could prohibit short-dated Treasuries from being used as collateral, or apply discounts to the value of some assets used to secure transactions.

Confidence shaken Foreign investors and governments hold $7.6 trillion, or 31%, of all Treasury debt, making them vital to the favorable financing conditions that the U.S. government has long enjoyed. But after a default, the perceived risk of holding Treasury debt could rise, making it more costly for the government to borrow for the foreseeable future. The dollar’s central role in world trade may also be undermined. Higher government borrowing costs would also make it more expensive for companies to issue bonds and take out loans, as well as raise interest rates for consumers taking out mortgages or using credit cards.

Half a million lost jobs Economically, according to forecasts by the White House even a brief default would result in half a million lost jobs and a somewhat shallow recession. A protracted default would push those numbers to a devastating 8 million lost jobs and a severe recession, with the economy shrinking by more than 6%. These potential costs — unknowable in total but widely thought to be enormous — are what many believe will motivate lawmakers to reach a deal on the debt limit. “Every leader in the room understands the consequences if we fail to pay our bills,” President Joe Biden said in a speech on Wednesday, as negotiations between Democrats and Republicans intensified. “The nation has never defaulted on its debt, and it never will,” he added.

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Week Ahead

Housing market update

New home sales The Commerce Department seasonally adjusted annual rate delivers data on April newly 800 thous. constructed home sales Tuesday. est. 683 650 Economists forecast that sales 622 648 623 582 slowed last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 650,000 homes from 683,000 in March. 400 The housing market has cooled since the Federal Reserve began raising its main borrowing rate a year ago in its fight to bring down 0 inflation. That substantially raised N D J F M A borrowing costs in an already ’22 ’23 expensive housing market. Source: FactSet

Measuring inflation

Fed insight

Consumer spending The Commerce Department on seasonally adjusted percent change Friday delivers its April snapshot 0.6 of U.S. consumer spending and 0.6% inflation. Economists expect the 0.4 personal consumption expendiest. 0.3 0.3 ture price index, a gauge of inflation that’s closely monitored 0.2 0.2 by the Federal Reserve, to warm 0.2 0.1 up in April after cooling for several months. Inflation remains a big 0.0 concern, with persistent pressure N D J F M A on consumers raising worries ’22 ’23 about a recession in 2023. Source: FactSet

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday releases minutes from its policy meeting earlier this month. It raised its key interest rate by a quarter point in May. It has been raising rates at a feverish pace since 2022 to fight inflation. Inflation has shown signs of cooling, but analysts are growing increasingly worried about a possible recession. The latest minutes could provide more insight into the central bank’s plan moving forward.

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16.3

258,245

0.5

4,000

Applied Matls

AMAT

71.12 0

132.06

126.95

10.86

9.4

30.4

8.5

42,770

1.0

3,900

Autodesk Inc

ADSK

163.20 6

235.01

200.89

6.44

3.3

7.5

1.4

6,368

...

Bank of Marin Bncp

BMRC

12.89 2

36.78

16.45

1.63

11.0

-50.0

-42.9

679

6.1

3,800

BioMarin Pharma

BMRN

70.73 5

117.77

91.90

-2.03

-2.2

-11.2

16.6

4,784

>99

...

3,700 3,600

COMPANY

FRIDAY CLOSE

StocksRecap

52-WK RANGE LOW HIGH

$CHG %CHG %CHG %RTN 1WK 1WK YTD 1YR

WK VOL’000s PE YLD

Calix Inc

CALX

31.59 4

77.44

45.96

2.76

6.4

-32.8

28.2

3,234

...

Chevron Corp

CVX

132.54 4

189.68

155.23

0.12

0.1

-13.5

-7.2

34,676

3.9

Cisco Syst

CSCO

38.61 8

52.56

49.13

2.42

5.2

3.1

-2.9

134,538

3.2

Clorox Co

CLX

120.50 8

178.21

166.36

-2.77

-1.6

18.5

9.5

4,624

>99

2.8

Constellation Brds A

STZ

208.12 6

261.32

235.29

7.54

3.3

1.5

-6.8

7,229

1.4

eBay Inc

EBAY

35.92 5

52.23

43.48

-1.43

-3.2

4.8

-4.5

29,121

>99

2.3

Electronic Arts

108.53 6

142.79

125.66

0.19

0.2

2.8

-2.2

13,130

0.6

Enphase Energy Inc

ENPH

150.45 1

339.92

162.37

-5.18

-3.1

-38.7

3.6

15,264

...

Equinix Inc

EQIX

494.89 9

762.51

723.58 -15.65

-2.1

10.5

14.1

1,868

1.9

Fair Isaac Corp

FICO

357.60 0

766.15

755.79

11.96

1.6

26.3

97.4

954

...

Franklin Rescs

BEN

20.24 4

34.37

24.49

0.00

0.0

-7.2

-0.8

11,203

4.2

Gap Inc

GPS

7.48 1

15.49

7.78

-0.12

-1.5

-30.1

-34.6

44,850

7.7

HP Inc

HPQ

24.08 4

40.79

30.54

1.64

5.7

13.7

-21.0

29,982

3.4

Hewlett Pack Ent

HPE

11.90 5

17.25

14.33

0.50

3.6

-10.2

-11.7

73,705

3.3

Intel Corp

INTC

24.59 3

44.93

29.93

0.98

3.4

13.2

-32.2

177,155

1.7

Intuitive Surgical

ISRG

180.07 0

312.65

313.61

8.34

2.7

18.2

36.9

6,453

...

Juniper Networks

JNPR

25.18 5

34.53

29.54

0.46

1.6

-7.6

-5.8

16,714

3.0

Keysight Technology

KEYS

130.07 5

189.45

157.19

11.92

8.2

-8.1

12.3

8,806

...

Lumentum Hldgs

LITE

42.00 1

96.46

46.69

4.47

10.6

-10.5

-49.1

6,231

>99

...

Luther Burbank Corp

LBC

7.82 2

13.82

8.79

0.54

6.5

-20.9

-30.7

177

5.5

McKesson Corp

MCK

298.69 0

401.78

397.67

7.70

2.0

6.0

21.0

4,241

0.5

Meta Platforms Inc

META

88.09 0

247.09

245.64

11.83

5.1 104.1

19.7

107,544

...

NETGEAR Inc

NTGR

13.30 1

26.79

13.97

0.10

0.7

-22.9

-31.5

1,198

...

Netflix Inc

NFLX

164.28 0

379.43

365.36

25.47

7.5

23.9

78.4

40,923

...

Nvidia Corporation

NVDA

108.13 0

318.28

312.64

29.24

10.3 113.9

66.1

239,293

0.1

Oracle Corp

ORCL

60.78 0

102.46

102.84

4.99

5.1

25.8

40.7

41,633

1.6

PG&E Corp

PCG

9.64 9

17.68

16.61

-0.84

-4.8

2.2

38.8

98,831

...

Redwood Trust Inc

RWT

5.47 1

10.44

5.82

0.17

3.0

-13.9

-33.0

5,464

... 14.4

Ross Stores

ROST

69.24 7

122.45

104.76

0.25

0.2

-9.7

12.9

18,829

Salesforce.com Inc

CRM

126.34 0

213.88

210.36

8.55

4.2

58.7

27.9

26,465

Summit St Bk CA

SSBI

12.36 6

17.92

15.50

-0.01

-0.1

-1.9

4.5

SunPower Corp

SPWR

10.29 1

28.42

9.57

-1.13

-10.6

-46.9

-32.1

Tesla Inc

TSLA

101.81 4

314.67

180.14

12.16

7.2

46.2

Viavi Inc

VIAV

8.52 2

16.00

9.68

0.52

5.7

Visa Inc

174.60 8

250.58

233.31

1.93

0.8

12.20

-26.38

48.87

39.28

-6.07

MON

TUES

WED

THUR

FRI

W E E K L Y INDEX Dow Jones industrials Dow Jones trans. NYSE Comp. Nasdaq Comp. S&P 500 S&P MidCap Wilshire 5000 Russell 2000

HIGH

LOW

33652.90 14077.45 15421.80 12731.73 4212.91 2490.11 41553.03 1800.52

33006.19 13621.44 15128.62 12263.35 4109.86 2416.41 40501.19 1736.16

1.3

...

3.1

29,230

...

-31.5

572,379

...

-7.9

-35.4

6,447

...

12.3

14.9

25,049

0.8

Careful consumers:

Consumer sentiment tumbled in May amid heightened recession fears.

2.30

1.9

2.4

23.2

4,080

...

40.03

2.54

6.8

-3.1

-4.7

123,042

3.0

WestAmer Bcp

WABC

35.52 1

63.86

38.28

0.60

1.6

-35.1

-29.5

1,200

4.4

Williams-Sonoma

WSM

101.58 2

176.89

114.79

0.86

0.8

-0.1

-8.1

5,463

3.1

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.68% Friday. Yields affect rates on mortgages and other consumer loans.

NATL CONSUMER RATES AVG

-0.02 -0.02 +0.01 +0.02 +0.07 +0.07 +0.03 +0.05

1.06 1.50 2.11 2.63 2.84 2.87 2.85 3.06

WK 6MO 1YR AGO AGO AGO

48 month new car loan 7.03 r 7.03 Money market account 0.53 s 0.52 PRIME FED 1 year CD 2.50 s 2.47 RATE FUNDS $30K Home equity loan 9.14 s 9.13 .13 LAST 3.25 30 year fixed mortgage 6.99 s 6.84 .13 6 MO AGO 3.25 15 year fixed mortgage 6.38 s 6.13 .13 1 YR AGO 3.25

6.93 0.49 2.39 9.10 6.88 6.25

FUELS CLOSE Crude Oil (bbl) 71.71 Heating Oil (gal) 2.37 Natural Gas (mm btu) 2.59 Unleaded Gas (gal) 2.58 METALS Gold (oz) Silver (oz) Platinum (oz) Copper (lb) Palladium (oz) Aluminum (ton)

WKLY WKLY CHG %CHG %YTD +1.67 +2.38 -10.7 +.06 +2.58 -29.7 +.32 +14.30 -42.1 +.15 +6.24 +5.0

WKLY WKLY CLOSE CHG %CHG %YTD 1978.70 -35.80 -1.78 +8.7 23.92 -.07 -.30 +0.2 1075.70 +8.70 +.82 +0.2 3.72 +.01 +.16 -2.2 1531.80 +10.00 +.66 -14.4 2300.00 +61.75 +2.76 -4.6

WKLY WKLY AGRICULTURE CLOSE CHG %CHG %YTD Cattle (lb) 1.66 +.01 +.80 +7.0 Coffee (lb) 1.89 +.06 +3.53 +13.2 Corn (bu) 5.55 -.79 -12.44 -18.3 Cotton (lb) 0.87 +.06 +7.69 +4.0 Lumber (1,000 bd ft) 501.50 +162.50 +47.94 +44.8 Orange Juice (lb) 2.58 +.15 +6.36 +25.1 Soybeans (bu) 13.07 -1.28 -8.90 -14.0 Wheat (bu) 6.05 -.20 -3.12 -23.6

6.58 0.29 1.94 7.88 6.87 6.23

9,000

P E R F O R M A N C E WK WK CLOSE CHG %CHG MO 33426.63 13909.54 15324.32 12657.90 4191.98 2455.89 41325.07 1773.72

126.01 126.35 77.96 373.15 67.90 23.16 687.53 32.87

0.4 0.9 0.5 3.0 1.7 1.0 1.7 1.9

t t t s s t s t

Close: 12,657.90 1-week change: 373.15 (3.0%) F

YTD QTR %CHG t t t s s t s t

1YR %CHG 9 | 9952 6.9 9 | 761 3.1 8| 6532 1.6 9 | 999954312 11.5 9 | 9975312 7.5 9 | 7532 3.0 9 | 987541 6.4 | 0.0

0.8 3.9 0.9 20.9 9.2 1.1 8.5 0.7

chief economist for Comerica Bank, in a note. “On the other hand, if the government defaults, it won’t be pretty.” A significant pullback in spending could mean an even rougher-than-anticipated year for a wide range of businesses from clothing and accessories retailers to the travel industry. The last time consumer sentiment took a similar month-to-month tumble in June of 2022, the S&P 500’s consumer discretionary sector tumbled 10.9%. That sector, which has held its ground so far in 2023, includes retailers like Home Depot and Starbucks, along with hotels and other travel-related companies.

Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment

’22

’23

Damian J. Troise; Alex Nieves • AP

Sources: University of Michigan; FactSet

Notes on data: Price-earnings ratio unavailable for closed-end funds and companies with net losses over prior four quarters

5.29 5.35 5.02 4.26 3.69 3.67 3.65 3.90

Nasdaq composite

125.74

5.27 5.33 5.03 4.28 3.76 3.74 3.68 3.95

FRI

THUR

48.84

3-month T-bill 6-month T-bill 52-wk T-bill 2-year T-note 5-year T-note 7-year T-note 10-year T-note 30-year T-bond

WED

132.15

Commodities

TUES

91.53 9

U.S. crude oil and natural gas prices slipped less than half a percent, while heating oil fell 1.7% and wholesale gasoline rose slightly. Gold and silver closed higher.

Consumers are growing increasingly hesitant to spend as the persistent burn from hot inflation raises the likelihood of a recession this year. Consumer sentiment hit its lowest point this month since late in 2022, according to a closely-watched survey from the University of Michigan. The downturn comes amid sustained cost pressures, with the added concern about the possibility of a default on U.S. debt because of squabbling in Washington. “In Washington’s past fiscal games of chicken, sentiment recovered within a few months of the crises ending,” said Bill Adams,

35.25 4

1YR AGO

MON

Consumers signal caution

VMW

NET CHG

-30.94

10,000

S&P 500

Close: 4,191.98 1-week change: 67.90 (1.6%)

WFC

CLOSE PVS

157.52 188.27

11,000

Wells Fargo & Co

TREASURIES

-22.16

12,000

4,100

VMware Inc

Interestrates

13,000

80.47

Foreign Exchange The U.S. dollar strengthened versus the Mexican peso, but fell against the British pound and euro. The greenback also weakened versus the Japanese yen and Swiss franc.

WKLY %CHG.

1YR. AGO

USD per British Pound 1.2450 Canadian Dollar 1.3508 USD per Euro 1.0808 Japanese Yen 138.10 Mexican Peso 17.7525

+.0001 +.01% -.0054 -.40% -.0045 -.41% +2.40 +1.77% +.1543 +.88%

1.2498 1.2798 1.0598 127.74 19.9124

EUROPE/AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST Israeli Shekel 3.6506 Norwegian Krone 10.8780 South African Rand 19.4346 Swedish Krona 10.5285 Swiss Franc .8997

-.0235 -.64% +.1905 +1.78% +.1025 +.53% +.1392 +1.34% +.0018 +.20%

3.3782 9.6674 15.8348 9.8979 .9705

-.0025 +.0494 -.0265 +.626 +.0071 -16.04 -.21

1.4160 6.7133 7.8470 77.658 1.3800 1263.42 29.70

MAJORS

WKLY CHG.

ASIA/PACIFIC Australian Dollar Chinese Yuan Hong Kong Dollar Indian Rupee Singapore Dollar South Korean Won Taiwan Dollar

1.5034 7.0076 7.8154 82.853 1.3454 1327.14 30.60

-.17% +.71% -.34% +.76% +.53% -1.19% -.68%

MarketPulse ‘TACO TUESDAY’ TRADEMARK TIFF FLARES ANEW Declaring a mission to liberate “Taco Tuesday” for all, Taco Bell is asking U.S. regulators to force Wyoming-based Taco John’s to abandon its longstanding claim to the trademark. Too many businesses and others refer to “Taco Tuesday” for Taco John’s to be able to have exclusive rights to the phrase, Taco Bell asserts in a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filing that is, of course, dated Tuesday. The filing is one of two from Taco Bell involving “Taco Tuesday.” One contests Taco John’s claim to “Taco Tuesday” in 49 states, while a similar filing contests a New Jersey restaurant and bar’s claim to “Taco Tuesday” in that state.

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER HIT BY CYBERATTACK The Philadelphia Inquirer says a weekend cyberattack caused the biggest disruption to its operations in 27 years and prevented it from publishing its Sunday print edition. The cyberattack caused the largest disruption to the publication of Pennsylvania’s largest news organization — the company publishes The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News — since a blizzard in January 1996, the company reported. Weekend editor Diane Mastrull said Monday that the newspaper had been dealing with an “extraordinarily busy weekend,” with three nights of Taylor Swift concerts, the Philadelphia 76ers’ game 7 playoff game and mayoral candidates making their final pitches to voters.

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8.9 7.0 7.0 0.8 6.4 5.8 5.2 4.3 0.5 0.1 4.5 4.6 3.0 5.0 5.0 5.7 3.1 4.7

38.7 20.2 20.3 10.7 -3.2 -6.8 9.1 13.9 -0.1 21.0 11.9 13.1 17.7 11.8 16.0 1.7 13.0 13.7

9.5 20.2 20.6 1.9 9.6 1.9 7.7 11.5 -0.8 9.1 4.5 11.2 12.1 14.0 14.2 10.7 7.9 10.8

15000 15000 2500 2500 10000 5000 1000 100k+ NA 15000 2500 1000 2500 2000 2000 2000 100k+ NA

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ProFunds UltJapanInv T. Rowe Price EmergEurope BlackRock UcnstndEqInvA m Fidelity Select Semicon Fidelity Select Biotechnology T. Rowe Price SciandTech Loomis Sayles GrY Fidelity Select Leisure Fidelity Advisor BiotechnologyI Causeway IntlValInstl Rydex EuropeAdvtgH b Columbia SelLgCpGrIns ProFunds BtchUltrSctInv Fidelity Select Technology Fidelity Advisor TechnologyA m Virtus SlvnLgCpGrStkA m Rydex NASDAQ1002xStrH b ProFunds UltNASDAQ100Inv

UJPIX TREMX MDEGX FSELX FBIOX PRSCX LSGRX FDLSX FBTIX CIVIX RYEUX UMLGX BIPIX FSPTX FADTX STCIX RYVYX UOPIX

8.9 -3.5 1.5 7.7 0.4 3.9 3.1 1.5 -0.5 1.3 0.6 2.6 0.1 4.8 5.0 2.8 7.0 7.0

16.7 2.5 2.5 4.2 2.8 4.7 4.7 1.7 3.3 0.8 0.1 2.0 6.7 6.1 6.0 5.6 10.5 10.6

BiggestFunds

Best Funds One Year

Best Funds One Month 16.7 10.6 10.5 7.7 7.6 7.5 7.4 7.3 6.8 6.7 6.7 6.4 6.4 6.3 6.2 6.2 6.2 6.2

OUTDOOR DINING MAY SEE MORE DOGS Just in time for the summer dining season, the U.S. government has given its blessing to restaurants that want to allow pet dogs in their outdoor spaces. But even though nearly half of states already allow canine dining outdoors, the issue is far from settled, with many diners and restaurants pushing back against pooches’ increasing presence. The Food and Drug Administration’s updated food code, issued late last year, says restaurants can have dogs in outdoor areas if they get approval from a local regulator.

38.7 38.5 28.1 26.1 25.4 25.1 24.9 24.7 23.6 22.2 21.5 21.0 21.0 20.8 20.6 20.6 20.3 20.2

9.5 -24.1 11.9 22.6 3.7 10.1 12.4 10.9 6.5 4.7 5.4 8.9 9.1 15.5 16.8 12.8 20.6 20.2

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PCT RETURN 1WK 1MO 1YR RANK 5YRS*

VFIAX FXAIX VTSAX VGTSX VIIIX AGTHX VINIX VBTLX ABALX FCNTX VWENX VTHRX VTTHX AMECX VTTVX VITSX AWSHX PIMIX

1.7 1.7 1.7 0.6 1.7 2.7 1.7 -1.4 0.5 2.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 -0.1 0.2 1.7 1.3 -1.0

1.1 1.1 0.8 -0.2 1.1 2.5 1.1 -0.6 0.1 3.3 0.7 0.2 0.2 -2.0 0.1 0.8 0.0 0.1

9.3 9.3 8.1 6.2 9.3 8.5 9.3 -2.0 2.8 12.4 5.8 4.0 4.6 0.9 3.2 8.2 5.6 2.4

2 2 3 5 2 4 2 2 3 3 1 1 2 5 1 3 5

11.0 11.0 10.0 2.5 11.0 8.6 11.0 1.0 6.2 10.2 7.2 5.1 5.5 5.7 4.7 10.0 9.3 2.5

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SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2023 • THE PRESS DEMOCRAT • SECTION F

Reparations debate begins in Sacramento By GEORGE SKELTON

ov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature will soon receive a sweeping set of recommended reparations for African Americans whose ancestors suffered economically from slavery and racial discrimination. Then what? Then the governor and lawmakers will need to emerge from cover, face the public and devise a better response

than we’ve been hearing: “I’m waiting for the final report of recommendations.” The report will be sent to the state Capitol by July 1. That’s the deadline for the California Reparations Task Force — created by Newsom and legislators — to finish its two years of often-acrimonious work. This will be a tough one for every politician and policymaker who tries to create a balance between providing some realistic semblance of justice

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Richard Retecki is a retired land use and coastal planner for Sonoma County and the California Coastal Conservancy. He lives in Sebastopol.

overcome voter skepticism that has been reflected in polling so far.” There hasn’t been a public opinion poll on what California voters think about reparations that I know about. But the Pew Research Center conducted a nationwide poll in November, and the response TURN TO DEBATE » PAGE F4

George Skelton is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

What California needs is a war on addiction

By RICHARD RETECKI

TURN TO COASTAL » PAGE F4

other preliminary recommendations, such as enactment of a single-payer health care system that has been rejected twice by the Legislature. One person willing to speak on the record was Democratic political consultant Steve Maviglio, a veteran Capitol operative. “Democrats need to tread carefully on this one,” he told me. “There needs to be an aggressive educational component about the recommendations to

OPIOID CRISIS » BATTLE LINES DRAWN

A coastal protection threat at its birthplace an you imagine a fourlane freeway running from Petaluma to Jenner, built to service high-density subdivisions blanketing the scenic blufftops between Bodega Bay and the Russian River, and permanent closure of a swath of shoreline to block off access by the public? These were just a few of the environmental threats the Sonoma Coast faced in the 1970s. Outspent financially and confronted by an aggressive billboard campaign underwritten by corporate oil and development interests, California’s voters and state Legislature simply Richard said “enough” Retecki and set in motion an orderly process to ensure that the California coast would survive in perpetuity. California’s voters had just adopted Proposition 20 — the statewide coastal initiative — in 1972, largely in response to a series of disastrous schemes targeting the Sonoma Coast. By 1976, state legislators had made coastal protection permanent. Returning from military service in Vietnam, I had the privilege of being retained to draft Sonoma County’s first Local Coastal Plan under California’s innovative coastal zone management law. The document became a model for coastal plans in other shoreline counties. As we identified looming threats to sensitive coastal parcels of unusual environmental value, it became logical to flag those special places for extra protection. A living document, the Sonoma County Local Coastal Plan thus emerged as the public archive of institutional memory that tells us which locations are most in need of special protection. That’s why maintaining this part of the document remains essential even now. In February, the Sonoma County Planning Commission, after careful deliberations that included several duly noticed public hearings, unanimously adopted a continuation of the existing language in our Local Coastal Plan, including these long-standing parcel-specific protections. Those of us who spent much of our lives working to protect the coast are dismayed and shocked that the Board of Supervisors would even consider overturning the well-thought-out recommendations of their own Planning

without breaking the state bank. And there’ll be some who just flat-out think that major reparations are unreasonable but hesitate to say it publicly. “I’m a hard ‘no,’ ” one influential Sacramento Democrat told me. When asked whether I could quote him, he responded: “Oh, sure, and then I’ll be called a big racist and get all kinds of crap.” It wasn’t so much the cash reparations that bothered this person but a long wish list of

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Nearly 6,000 people died of fentanyl overdoses in California in 2021. Experts say many users seek out the powerful drug.

New starting point, way of thinking needed in combating drug problem By ANITA CHABRIA

or weeks, there has been an uproar in the California Legislature about fentanyl. Republican lawmakers, though few in number, have led a surprisingly successful revolt around a handful of bills that largely focus on increasing criminal penalties for dealing the synthetic opioid. They have managed to push some of these measures forward despite the efforts of progressive Democrats to focus on a non-punitive public health response. It’s a rare bit of alignment between moderate Democrats and Republicans in a Legislature increasingly skewing left of left and where there is little upside in crossing party lines. This might seem like a good thing, a

way to argue our way to the best middle ground in a state where nearly 6,000 people died from fentanyl overdoses in 2021, about 16 people per day on average. Nationally, 107,000 people died of overdoses or accidental poisoning last year — one every five minutes. But efforts to frame this debate as a battle of the so-called softie harm reductionists — think passing out meth pipes on skid row — against the practical law-andorder types is a waste of time and lives. On Wednesday, the Legislature will hold a mega-hearing to air these two views. But the reality is neither of those approaches will work on their own, and no combination will either. We need a new starting point and a new way of thinking. This can’t be another war on drugs. It needs to be a war on addiction. A war

not on the supply — and suppliers — of fentanyl, but on the demand for it. “It’s just really clear now from 50 years of trying to stop the supply, it doesn’t work,” David Goodman-Meza, an infectious disease doctor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, told me. Goodman-Meza is piloting a mobile pharmacy in Los Angeles to bring addiction treatment to the places people need it most. “Cartels want to bring drugs because we have a massive demand for them,” he points out. To understand why neither arrests nor needle exchanges will ever stop opioid TURN TO ADDICTION » PAGE F4

Anita Chabria is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

America’s gun lobby is not invincible By FRANCIS WILKINSON

t’s easy to believe nothing has changed. It’s easy to believe that nothing even can change given the grip of gun culture on the U.S. Supreme Court and the Republican Party. Republican politicians coast to coast have put themselves wholly at the service of the gun industry and the gun fanatics who enrich it. And the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has codified gun obsession with ever more tendentious opinions that shatter not only precedent and reason, but a good many human bodies, too. Yet as we sort through the recent

gun massacre in Texas, and await the next gun massacre elsewhere, while taking in stride the gun murders, suicides and shootings too routine to merit public attention, it’s worth noting that the political landscape is far from static. The politics of gun violence are different today than they were a few years ago, both for better and for worse. It’s hard to imagine, for example, any Democratic senator voting, as four did just one decade ago, against TURN TO GUN » PAGE F3

Francis Wilkinson is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion.

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT • SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2023 A PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER

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Eric Johnston, Chief Executive Officer NEWS Richard A. Green, Editor John C. D’Anna, Senior News Director / Investigations

OPINION Jim Sweeney, Editorial Director Judy Coffey, Editorial Board Community Member Mick Menendez, Editorial Board Community Member

EDITORIAL

Being gay does not make blood unsafe for donation

he Food and Drug Administration has revised its rules to allow more gay and bisexual men to save a life by donating blood. That ends four decades of stigmatization and brings the rules in line with current medical science. It also has the potential to bolster blood banks as summer shortages loom. In the 1980s, AIDS was a new, mysterious disease spreading most intensely among men who engaged in sexual activity with other men. It was a frightening time, and health care professionals lacked the tools to successfully screen for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Out of an abundance of caution — and probably some discrimination against the LGTBQ+ community — the FDA prohibited men who had ever had sex with another man from donating blood. The FDA updated that rule over the years, but always men having sex with men were targeted. The most recent iteration, for example, forbade donations from men who had had sex with another man in the previous three months. HIV remains a risk today, but medical researchers and the public now understand the virus much better. There are ways to minimize the chance of contracting it (wear a condom), and quick, accurate tests can screen for it in blood supplies. HIV does not discriminate between gay, straight and bisexual nor between men and women. Some behaviors are riskier than others, and it is those that blood donation centers like the Red Cross need to screen for. Blood is blood, whether the donor is gay, straight, Black or white. Hence the new rules. Rather

than singling out men having sex with men and forcing them to abstain for three months if they want to give blood, the new individualized risk assessment asks all donors if, in the preceding three months, they had a new sexual partner or more than one partner and had anal sex. If they have, they can come back in three months. Men who are in an ongoing, monogamous relationship with another man will be allowed to donate blood without first abstaining from sex for three months, just like anyone else. Other disqualifiers like having sex with someone known to be HIV positive and intravenous drug use remain in effect. And the Red Cross and other organizations will continue to test blood for HIV before it is used, which provides an additional layer of safety for patients and health care providers. The FDA’s decision comes at a good time. During summer months, demand for blood typically increases. People participate in outdoor activities, drive more and travel more. All of those things lead to accidents that in the worst cases put someone in an emergency room in need of a transfusion. The new rules expand the pool of eligible donors, and now is a great time to visit a blood drive. If people turn out in May, hospitals and blood banks can build their reserves for the coming need. Then, in two months, at the height of summer, donors can give again. Few things are more selfless than giving blood, literally a part of oneself, so that another person you’ll never meet might live. There’s no need to discriminate against gay men in saving lives.

Few things are more selfless than giving blood.

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LET THE PUBLIC SPEAK Crosswalk close calls EDITOR: I was the mail carrier on Hoen Avenue in Santa Rosa for a couple of years. I bid off that route mainly because of the crosswalk issue (“Tragedy a reminder of dangerous crosswalks,” May 3). While I didn’t cross at the one mentioned at Arroyo Sierra Circle, I did cross at Cypress Way, which has a flashing pedestrian sign. After three really close calls, I called the police, who assured me they would meet me out there and watch me cross the street. They never showed. The one that scared me most was when I was halfway across the street and in the lane of a truck when I realized he wasn’t slowing down. I stepped back into the middle of the street, and he just shrugged at me like “sorry, I got places to go” and sped off. I was so shaken that I had to take a 10-minute break to calm down. The police need to do more sting operations where they themselves are crossing the street. The flashing lights, in my opinion, are useless if drivers don’t care and only want to get where they are destined to go.

YANCY JORDAN Santa Rosa

Orwell’s pacifism EDITOR: Columnist Bret Stephens quotes George Orwell’s views on pacifism out of historical context (“Conservatives curious case against aiding Ukraine,” May 4). Until 1939, as a committed pacifist, Orwell opposed the war against fascism. He considered it an extension of capitalist imperialism: “The mildest democracy, so called, is liable to turn into fascism when the pinch comes.” This could describe America today. In 1937 Orwell joined the most radical pacifist of left-wing groups in England, the Independent Labor Party. But after 1939, with the Hitler-Stalin pact, he considered pacifism had become objectively pro-fascist for the rest of the war.

Stephens leaves out a central qualifying sentence in the 1942 passage he quotes from Orwell: “Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one.” Orwell’s pacifism is still relevant for those who seek alternatives to war on ethical grounds. But the so-called American conservatives Stephens is concerned about either support the U.S. proxy war against Russia or reject it as fiscally irresponsible. After the war, Orwell wrote that fascism had lost all concrete meaning, becoming a verbal means of vilifying one’s enemies. This is also true of American political discourse today.

JACK WIKSE Santa Rosa

Students wreak havoc EDITOR: Let me get this straight: Several students were “shocked” at the expletives used in a Snapchat post made by Crystal Morgan after seeing the destruction to her office done by rabid students participating in “fugitive night” at Sonoma Valley High School (“School staffer on leave after viral video,” May 13)? That’s what they are shocked about in this whole gruesome tale? The shocking part of this story is a pack of 200 students wreaking havoc in the town of Sonoma with, if not deadly weapons, certainly weapons that can cause great damage, whether to living beings or physical property. I stand 100% behind Morgan and pray she does not lose her job over this.

MARTHA JOHNSON Santa Rosa

‘Cream to the top’ EDITOR: The middle class was once larger and a more dependable tax base. That was until corporations transferred jobs to Mexico, China and Indonesia. Now the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class shrinks. Wealth controls the economy, and the government has abandoned the prosperity we, the middle

class, enjoyed. To achieve a fair tax plan would require a fair economy. As the middle class shrinks, so does the rebound necessary to achieve that goal. Corporations just raise prices; our options are nil. Even the money the government spends to protect us ends up in the pockets of the wealthy. It’s a cream to the top economy, not a trickle down economy.

J.W. HALE

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Society, outgunned EDITOR: Contrary to the oft-spoken adage that “an armed society is a polite society,” an argument could be advanced — with evidence — that an armed society may not be a society at all.

DAVE DELGARDO Cloverdale

Let’s all pay the piper EDITOR: In addition to paying our income taxes, every person should help pay the national debt down by paying the piper. By paying an additional 10% of their gross income after single people deduct $50,000 and married couples deduct $100,000 from their gross income, this money could help to reduce the national debt. This way no one pays so much that it will seriously hurt their present standard of living. Everyone has benefited from the past great economy, now everyone must tighten their belts and start to pay the piper. Other ways to increase revenue include eliminating the current long-term capital gains tax, which primarily benefits the wealthy, saving them often over 15% of their taxes, while it seldom benefits the average taxpayer at all. All income should be taxed the same as our wages are taxed, and companies that deduct expenses to expand their business in other parts of the world should then pay income taxes here for their profits made there.

LEONARD RIEPENHOFF Santa Rosa

California pork ruling invites economic warfare I

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almost entirely the behavior of non-Californians, only 4% of whom currently comply with California’s post-2018 breeding standards. To comply, breeders overall must spend hundreds of millions of dollars — or they will be excluded from California’s consumers, who comprise 13% of the national market for pork. It is logistically unfeasible to isolate pork destined for California from that destined for the other 49 states. The Constitution’s commerce clause vests in Congress all power “to regulate commerce … among the several states,” and a court-created doctrine (the “dormant commerce clause”) prohibits states from discriminating against or unduly burdening interstate commerce. In its May 11 ruling upholding California’s law, the court engaged in hairsplitting about possible benefits from

states’ possibly permissible burdens on interstate commerce. The court should instead have endorsed an amicus brief supporting the challenge to California’s law. Written by Michael McConnell of Stanford Law School, the brief said: “States have authority only to regulate activities within their own jurisdiction.” And: “States generally may not punish people for deeds done in other states.” And a state “cannot block interstate commerce for the purpose of coercing or influencing the way people behave in other states.” (California said requiring breeding sows to be confined as California now prefers will benefit the state’s public health. But the state offered no evidence of bad health effects from pork derived from pigs born to sows confined in ways that now offend California.) McConnell warned that if the court allows California’s law to stand, the state can use its market power to impose its politics on non-Californians “in countless other ways.” He enumerated a few:

“It could block importation of goods not made in compliance with California’s labor laws, or by companies that select board members in ways that are lawful where they operate but not lawful in California. It could attempt to reduce water pollution in Minnesota by banning the importation of certain paper products into California — even though that paper would cause no more pollution in California than any other. Indeed, it could enact a comprehensive system of nationwide Environmental Social, and Governance (ESG) regulations, enforced by blocking interstate commerce from flowing into California when it comes from companies that do not comply.” In a partial, and puzzling, concurrence with the court’s siding with California, Justice Brett Kavanaugh cited a brief filed by 26 states that warned: What if a state prohibits the sale of fruit picked by noncitizens? Or prohibits the sale of goods produced by workers paid less than $20 per hour? Or prohibits the sale of goods from producers that do not pay for employees’

birth control or abortions? Or that do pay for those? California, which became a state in 1850, gained congressional seats in every decennial census through 2000, and did not lose a seat until it lost one after 2020. Today, so many Californians are fleeing the state’s high poverty rate (the nation’s highest), and high taxes, crime, housing costs and homelessness, the American Redistricting Project predicts that after the 2030 Census California will lose five seats. On May 11, the court ratified California’s itch to export the progressivism — the moralistic micromanaging of life — that partly explains the state’s accelerating export of residents. Eventually, the court should acknowledge that James Madison was, as usual, right: The practice of states restricting commerce with other states is “adverse to the spirit of the Union, and tends to beget retaliatory regulations.” And it violates Madison’s Constitution, which was written in part to prevent this. George F. Will is a columnist for the Washington Post.

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PAUL KRUGMAN

Attack of the pharma phantoms

rad Setser of the Council of Foreign Relations testified to a Senate committee recently about global tax avoidance by pharmaceutical companies. This issue may not have loomed large on many people’s radar screens, and with everything else going on, you may wonder why you should care. But there are at least two reasons you should. First, at a time when people are once again angsting about budget deficits — much of the angst is insincere, but still — it’s surely relevant that the U.S. government is losing a lot of revenue because multinational corporations are using accounting tricks to avoid paying taxes on profits earned here. Second, now that it’s looking increasingly likely that Donald Trump will be the Republican presidential nominee, it seems relevant to note that his one major legislative success — the 2017 tax cut, which was supposed to bring corporate investment back to America — was, in practice, an “America last” bill that encouraged corporations to move even more of their reported profits, and to some extent their actual production, overseas. About pharma: The U.S. health care system, unlike health systems in other countries, isn’t set up to bargain with drug companies for lower prices. In fact, until the Biden administration passed the Inflation Reduction Act, even Medicare was specifically prohibited from negotiating over drug prices. As a result, the U.S. market has long been pharma’s cash cow: On average, prescription drugs cost 2.56 times as much here as they do in other countries. Strange to say, however, pharmaceutical companies report earning hardly any profits on their U.S. sales. Setser notes that 2022 was an exceptionally profitable year for six major pharma companies, but the pattern — large revenue in the U.S. market, with very low reported profits — has been consistent over time. How do the pharma giants do that? Mainly by assigning patents and other forms of intellectual property to overseas subsidiaries located in low-tax jurisdictions. Their U.S. operations then pay large fees to these overseas subsidiaries for the use of this intellectual property, magically causing profits to disappear here and reappear someplace else, where they go largely untaxed. And whereas factories and office buildings have specific locations, intellectual property pretty much resides wherever a corporation says it resides. If Apple decides to assign a lot of its intellectual property to its Irish subsidiary, causing a huge surge in Ireland’s reported gross domestic product, nobody is currently in a position to say it can’t. How do we know that big overseas profits mainly reflect tax avoidance rather than economic reality? That’s easy: Look at where the profits are being reported. As Setser also pointed out, the great bulk of U.S. corporations’ reported overseas profits are in tiny economies that can’t possibly be major profit centers but do offer low taxes on reported earnings. Which brings us to the Trump tax cut. The core of that tax cut was a reduction in profit taxes, based on the premise that America’s relatively high official corporate tax rate was causing large-scale movement of capital overseas. But that corporate capital flight, it turns out, wasn’t real; it was a statistical illusion created by tax avoidance. By the way, this isn’t just a U.S. problem. The International Monetary Fund estimates that about 40% of global foreign direct investment — investment that involves control of foreign subsidiaries, as opposed to portfolio investment, such as purchases of stocks and bonds — is actually “phantom” investment driven by tax avoidance that doesn’t correspond to anything real. It’s not surprising, then, that the Trump tax cut never delivered the promised investment boom. As it happens, right now we actually are seeing a boom in manufacturing investment — but that’s being driven by the Biden administration’s green industrial policy rather than across-the-board tax cuts. But wait, it gets worse. One particularly ill-drafted feature of the 2017 tax law, with the acronym GILTI (I am not making this up), ended up giving corporations an incentive to shift actual production as well as reported profits overseas. As Setser points out, GILTI is probably a major factor in a recent surge in U.S. imports of pharmaceuticals. Now, there are some very well thoughtout proposals to address corporate tax avoidance. Unfortunately, they’re almost surely moot as long as the House is controlled by a party that wants to deny the IRS the resources that it needs to go after tax evasion. But you should still bear in mind that cracking down on tax avoidance could significantly reduce budget deficits. And you should also bear in mind that the Trump administration’s only major domestic policy initiative was a flop. Paul Krugman is a columnist for the New York Times.

OPINION

CARTOON GALLERY

GUN CONTINUED FROM F1 a proposal for expanded background checks. It’s even harder to imagine such a vote in the wake of a massacre of children. In essence, while gun fixation has taken over one party (and that’s bad), it has been run out of the other party (and that’s good). Polarization on guns has followed a track similar to polarization on other issues. But it also received a stiff shove from the National Rifle Association. Mark Pryor, then a Democratic senator from Arkansas, joined with Republicans in 2013 in opposing background checks on people who buy firearms online or at gun shows. The NRA rewarded Pryor’s cravenness with a seven-figure advertising buy supporting Pryor’s Republican opponent, who won. The NRA, once bipartisan, is now exclusively a GOP interest group, as are other militant gun organizations. Gun zealots have increased their power with Republicans. But they have lost allies elsewhere. Meanwhile, the “gunsense” lobby is larger, better funded and more potent than at any time in history. It eagerly courts bipartisan allies, seeking to move Republicans incrementally when they can be moved at all. The most successful organizations lobbying for gun safety laws didn’t exist in the 20th century. States including California, Connecticut, Hawaii and Washington have strengthened their gun restrictions, from red flag laws to ammunition background checks to a ban on semi-automatic rifles. And the steady accumulation of academic research on gun violence has obliterated the gun lobby’s claims of social benefits flowing from widespread gun possession. A similar vein of research on the history of gun regulation would likely shame the Supreme Court if the court were capable of such reactions. Gun violence is complicated. But our current mayhem is partly a result of the gun lobby getting its wish — a nation awash in guns, with red states providing virtually any violent, unhinged man with ready access to lethal arsenals. The gunman who murdered at least eight and injured seven May 6 in suburban Dallas reportedly bought guns from “private sellers.” In Texas, such sellers don’t need to conduct a basic background check before selling firearms to a homicidal Nazi. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott mumbled his traditional postTexas-massacre remarks about “mental health.” It’s the default rhetoric of the pathetic and weak. (“We’re not going to fix it” is the manly, forthright response, although that truth wasn’t well received when a Republican congressman from Tennessee recently delivered it.) The sick beauty of the gun industry’s business model is that it’s self-perpetuating. Gunmakers sell guns, which lead to more gun violence, which increases fear, which encourages people to buy more guns, which leads to more gun violence. If lawmakers don’t intervene, you can keep that cycle spinning for a long time before you bleed out a nation of 330 million. Yet the gun-mad dystopia promoted by gun culture remains a nightmare vision to most Americans. A recent Fox News poll of registered voters shows giant majorities for a menu of gun regulations, including a ban on “assault weapons” and a 30-day waiting period to purchase firearms. Public opinion is unstable. But what the Fox poll shows is that Americans right now prefer Canadian gun laws to Texas gun laws. Turning that public sentiment into a mass mobilization for life is the task at hand for the gun-safety movement. It will require new levels of public awareness, and political pressure, with the goal of isolating true-believing gun radicals from the “thoughts and prayers” cynics, opportunists and frauds who only pretend to be crazy. With every massacre, guns are becoming a more defining issue. Either the U.S. will institutionalize fear, turning public spaces into state garrisons to counter the threat from armed and dangerous men, or the U.S. will bolster freedom by curtailing the forces of gun violence and intimidation. Something’s got to give: The status quo is increasingly untenable.

OPINION

DAN WALTERS

California labor battle rages after 20 years

n Oct. 7, 2003, California voters decided to recall their governor, Gray Davis, less than a year after giving him a second term and replace him with action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Five days later, in one of his last acts as governor, Davis signed Senate Bill 796, the Private Attorneys General Act, or PAGA, a unique-to-California law empowering workers to file class-action lawsuits against their employers, alleging violations of state laws governing working conditions. Davis’ signature gave unions and personal injury attorneys a longsought victory in their quest to gain the upper hand in employment disputes by supercharging what they contended was lackadaisical enforcement of labor laws by the state Labor Commissioner’s Office. It was also Davis’ way of thanking unions and trial attorneys for standing by him during his two campaigns for governor and the recall election. Business groups, of course, were and remain steadfastly opposed to PAGA, contending that it gives rapacious lawyers a hunting license to hector employers with suits or the threat of suits that are expensive to defend and even more costly to lose. In the two decades since PAGA was created, there have been two parallel efforts by the contending forces. Unions and attorneys have sought to increase PAGA’s reach while employers have sought to undo what the Legislature and Davis had wrought. In 2018, the state Supreme Court indirectly expanded PAGA’s potential impact by greatly restricting employers’ classification of workers as independent contractors exempt from state labor laws. The Legislature then codified the decision a year later with Assembly Bill 5, converting millions of contractors into payroll employees, and ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft responded by persuading voters in 2020 to exempt them from the new classification law. The battle continued last year, when the Legislature passed and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills to expand PAGA’s potential scope, one authorizing workers to essentially refuse to work if they believe conditions are unsafe, and a second requiring employers to disclose wage scales for current and potential employees. As those laws were being drafted, however, California employers scored a partial win in the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that workers who had signed preemployment agreements to arbitrate disputes with their employers could not use PAGA to pursue their claims. These skirmishes have set the stage for two more PAGA battles, one in the state Supreme Court this year and one at the ballot box next year. The state’s Supreme Court this month heard oral arguments in the case of an Uber Eats delivery driver who filed a PAGA suit alleging that he was unlawfully denied reimbursement for his expenses. In their questions to lawyers, the justices seemed to agree that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on arbitration did not preclude the driver from using PAGA. Meanwhile, however, a coalition of California business and employer groups, calling itself Californians for Fair Play and Accountability, has submitted enough signatures to place a measure on the 2024 ballot that would repeal PAGA entirely and bolster state labor law enforcement. Employers allege that PAGA has been a vehicle for lawyers to claim millions of dollars in fees while doing little to help workers settle legitimate grievances. However, even were the initiative to gain voter approval and PAGA to vanish, the long-running conflict over the relative powers of workers and employers would continue. Given that lawyers and unions often have more clout in the Capitol than employers, one can be certain that ballot measure passage would generate a new flurry of legislation. The stakes for the combatants are just too large to be ignored. Dan Walters is a columnist for CalMatters.

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ADDICTION

less and evolving inventory is to decrease demand. Which brings us to the last thing you need to know: Treatment works. For the first time in a drug epidemic, we CONTINUED FROM F1 have multiple options for medication-asoverdoses, you need to know several sisted treatment, the ability to fill those things about why this drug epidemic is brain receptors with safe pharmaceutical different from crack or heroin or anything replacements such as methadone and that has come before. buprenorphine so that the physiological First, there are two fentanyl crises: the and psychological cravings for opioids can urban street catastrophe; and the suburbe stunted. Medication-assisted treatment ban nightmare. Street users often come isn’t a magic bullet. For many people from lives of trauma and poverty, using it’s a form of maintenance — a way of U.S. ATTORNEYS OFFICE FOR UTAH living with addiction. Sadly, one of the illegal drugs to compensate for mental illness or the upheavals of instability. By the California lawmakers will hold a hearing best places to get the treatment is in our time they are living unsheltered, increasprisons, where more than 16,000 people Wednesday on fentanyl. ingly in once-quiet residential neighborare receiving it. hoods, the answers to their addictions are professor, Humphreys advised both the Until recently, the federal regulations complex. But society’s perception of them George W. Bush and Obama administraon these replacement drugs made it hard often is not. They are seen as complicit in tions on drug policy. for doctors to offer them. The Biden adtheir decline, petty criminals and a public None of that is to argue we shouldn’t en- ministration removed those cumbersome nuisance. force the laws we have, he said, nor should rules, but most doctors still don’t want to We tend to think of suburban users dealing go unchecked. get involved in addiction treatment for without that stigma — kids experimenting But Goodman-Meza and Humphreys a variety of reasons. The low Medicaid or using recreationally, as young people agree that enforcement alone will never reimbursements are a big part of this have always done, but now with higher stop the fentanyl epidemic because it problem, because as Goodman-Meza puts stakes. focuses on supply. Historically, we frame it, doctors will only do what they have to It is terrifying to every parent, myself drug crises as driven by dealers — from El do, or what they are paid to do. included, that the web is an open marketChapo to the guy on the corner with a ZipSo medication-assisted treatment replace for fentanyl-laced pills — the first loc bag. If we can disrupt the trafficking, mains scarce. drug epidemic of the digital age. Young arrest the traffickers, we stop the drugs The underlying reason for the scarcipeople are dying at alarming numbers, from reaching the users and we win. ty remains stigma: our collective, if not and the story is too often the same: until That may have had some truth in the overtly stated, belief that addiction is a the fatality, many parents have said they days of poppy and coca fields, when crops weakness rather than a chronic disease, had no idea their child was using. took time to grow and confiscated shipand relapses — or replacements — are It is the justifiable pain and outrage of ments were harder to replace. But “kilo moral failures. Those who treat addiction those families that has ignited demand for chasing” doesn’t work with fentanyl, know abstinence may be a goal but not stiffer penalties, similar to the calls from Humphreys said, because it is easy to a reality for many. Treatment involves a suburban crime victims in the 1990s that make it anywhere and so powerful that a lifetime of work, and possibly medication, led to three-strikes laws enacted in the little bit can be cut into huge profits. just as it does for diabetes, heart disease or wake of the murder of Polly Klaas of PetaAnd the recipe for street fentanyl is depression. luma. These families have a desire to turn morphing into more potent combinaThe stability that effective treatment grief into accountability so that others tions — including the upsurge in fentanyl can bring is also good for public safety. don’t suffer the same fate. mixed with the animal tranquiler xylaIn reality, it’s the crimes that stem from But our existing laws already lock deal- zine, which prolongs the high but makes addiction that plague society, not the ers up for decades. In 2020, a Contra Costa overdoses harder to reverse. addiction itself. mother was charged with murder in the That’s another thing we need to unSo a commitment to universal treatfentanyl death of her toddler, not because derstand about this epidemic: Fentanyl ment, on demand, wherever users are, she meant to kill him, but because proseis not a secret poison hidden in illegal should be at the center of our policies — a cutors argued she should have known the drugs by unscrupulous dealers. Fentanyl public health offensive on par with how fentanyl she possessed could be fatal. is the drug an increasing number of users we ultimately responded to COVID-19 or Since then, it’s become common for want precisely because it is stronger than AIDS — because it helps both individuals prosecutors to bring serious felony heroin or meth. and communities. charges in illegal opioid cases based on “They know they are using fentanyl,” Let law enforcement use existing laws that same argument. said Goodman-Meza. to dismantle the big players and protect Adding more years to prison sentences Legislators love to wave around sugar vulnerable neighborhoods. Let harm rethrough more enhancements, as Repubpackets claiming a few grains of fentanyl ductionists use every tool they can — from licans are calling for, will do just what it is enough to kill. And for an inexperienced supplies to safe consumption sites — to did during the crack epidemic: fill pristeenager who doesn’t have a tolerance, save lives in the short term. Then move ons with the lowest levels of disposable that might be true. But it is equally true the conversation, and the fight, to the bigdealers without impacting the larger drug that dealers are giving buyers what they ger picture: building a system of addiction trade. want — a high that is longer, stronger treatment that reduces the demand for “The typical street corner dealer is not and cheaper than what was available last illegal drugs. well-educated, doesn’t make much more week, so enslaving even the threat of Because ultimately we all want the money than a fast food worker,” Keith death isn’t a deterrent. same result: for our loved ones to survive Humphreys told me. Now a Stanford The only real way to battle that limitwhatever the cartels throw at us next.

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was mostly negative — 68% of adults were opposed to paying descendants of slaves in some way. Just 30% supported it. Within racial and ethnic groups, 77% of Black people favored the idea. But only 18% of white people did, along with 39% of Latinos and 33% of Asian Americans. For those who did favor reparations, cash was the least popular option. The most popular idea — by 82% of those surveyed — was educational scholarships. One task force recommendation is that all state residents eligible for cash reparations be entitled to free tuition at California universities. That certainly has merit. It could be a first step toward providing free tuition for all Californians — regardless of income — at the University of California and state university system. Don’t dismiss that concept so quickly. Free tuition was the state’s policy for generations until the 1970s when Sacramento got cheap and the universities became greedy. Free tuition had long been a California attraction and helped provide the state with an educated workforce that built the economy. California voters are more liberal than Americans as a whole, so they may be more receptive to reparations than most of the nation. But I suspect it will be a hard sell. It will require strong backing from the governor, and so far he hasn’t said much. What he did say recently got him in trouble. He seemed to dismiss the idea of cash payments, an impression his office later tried to erase.

Commission to benefit one particular East Coast developer whose bulldozers are aimed at sensitive natural habitat right above the oceanside bluffs near Timber Cove. The developer’s plan is to then keep the public away from the coast for part of the year and build an event center and multiple highend rental houses. No single corporate entity is entitled to undermine our vested right to easily access a protected public shoreline. Under normal conditions, local elected officials would simply follow a transparent public process that leads to the continuation of these necessary public protections for the Sonoma Coast instead of arbitrarily considering erasing them for private benefit. The well-established process of updating our Local Coastal Plan has never before been controversial, and its thoughtful renewal has served us successfully for over 40 years. The protection of our coast relies on it, our regional economy likewise depends on a protected coast, and we all enjoy the visible proof of the positive results of this durable plan each time we visit our coast. We cannot allow outside influences to prevail at the tragic cost of lessening protection of our magnificent coastline. Rigging the system destroys the public good. When their final vote on our Local Coastal Plan comes up, the Board of Supervisors need do nothing more than approve it while keeping these essential parcel-specific protections intact.

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Supporters of reparations for descendants of enslaved African Americans listen during a May 10 news conference at the state Capitol. “We should continue to work as a nation to reconcile our original sin of slavery and understand how that history has shaped our country,” he said in a statement. “Dealing with the legacy of slavery is about much more than cash payments,” Newsom said. “Many of the recommendations put forward by the task force are critical action items we’ve already been hard at work addressing … while investing billions to root out disparities and improve equity in housing, education, health care and beyond.” But wait! Was he saying that reparations should be a national endeavor — spearheaded by Congress and the president — not the lone project of a state, particularly one that was not part of the Confederacy? A lot of Californians probably would agree with that. After all, the federal government under President Ronald Reagan in 1988 apologized for the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and gave survivors $20,000 in reparations. Califor-

nia was probably the loudest advocate of that shameful detainment. The task force suggested cash payments of a lot more than $20,000 for descendants of slaves. It hasn’t recommended a specific amount but has placed harm from slavery and racial discrimination from $150,000 to more than $1 million a person. So, we could be looking at tens of billions of dollars in payouts. Or more. Good luck with that. The governor just projected a $31.5 billion budget deficit for the next fiscal year. “I’d like to see something in this year’s budget,” says state Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, a task force member and vice chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus. “The budget reflects our values. If it’s not in the budget, it doesn’t really exist. “I’m totally committed to making sure this is real, not aspirational,” he says. “We’ve got to put meat on the bones.” But he also says, “reparations shouldn’t solely be a check.” He’d like something

similar to the postWorld War II GI Bill, which helped veterans buy homes. “Zero down payments for first-time homebuyers and low interest rates. Generational wealth is passed on through property,” Bradford says. Until the late 1960s, Black Californians — and often Latino and Asian Americans — were denied access to housing in many white neighborhoods because of racial restrictions. When I mentioned that California was admitted to the union as a free state — not a slave state — Bradford responded: “That dog does not hunt. We were a free state in name only.” Southerners brought their slaves to California and kept them until slavery was abolished during the Civil War. The state had no laws that made it a crime to keep someone enslaved. Nothing brings out the worst in politicians and people like a fight over race. The upcoming tussle at the state Capitol over reparations can have a happy ending for everyone, but only if there’s realistic compromise.

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Represent the Humane Society of Sonoma County at upcoming community events to help increase outreach. Volunteers must be good at working with people, be able to sit and stand for long periods of time, be on time and have some knowledge of the programs offered by the organization. For more information, go to pdne.ws/42VbSHx. For questions, contact Katie McHugh at kmchugh@humanesocietysoco.org.

Dozens of silent auction artworks and cat accessories, including a cat tower were up for bid during the Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County benefit.

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Help needed at Pond Farm

Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods in Guerneville is looking for volunteers to work at the Pond Farm, located near the Stewards Volunteer Center above Armstrong Redwoods. Tasks vary but have previously included writing the Pond Farm volunteer manual and designing interpretive walks. No previous experience is needed. Volunteers are required to complete an online orientation and fill out a new employee onboarding packet. Go to pdne.ws/3pwU2Mr. Questions: contact 707-869-9177.

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at lovers gathered in Santa Rosa on May 13 for an afternoon of food, wine and fun benefiting Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County. Nearly 400 people attended the afternoon For the Love of Cats fundraiser at the Friedman Event Center, which included live and silent auctions, caricatures and an animal communicator. Tickets cost $50 in advance, $60 at the door. The event raised $100,000 for the Santa Rosa-based organization. The money will go toward the group’s work to spay and neuter, vaccinate and foster unowned cats in the county. Back after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the benefit opened with a silent auction featuring art, crafts and cat accessories donated by local artists and businesses. Attendees sampled wine and cider from Healdsburg’s Cartograph Wines, Selby Winery and Forgotten Felines of Sonoma Moshin Vineyards, Fulton’s Fogline County volunteer Jill Ramirez Vineyards, Geyserville’s Pedroncel- wears the latest in cat fashion. li Winery and Windsor’s Tilted Shed Ciderworks. Vegetarian appetizers by Preferred Sonoma Caterers and local cheeses donated by Bellwether Farms, Miyoko’s Creamery, Marin French Cheese Co. and Laura Chenel were also available. Guests could get their caricature drawn by Sonoma County artist Suzanne Carson, and get 5-minute sessions with Bay Area animal communicator Barbara Reed. “People really love her,” said Pip Marquez de la Plata, the nonprofit’s executive director, about Reed. “You tell a little bit about your animal, if it has an issue or if you want to know what it’s thinking, and she reads you and the animal.” A live auction included a paella dinner prepared by chef and Ramekins Culinary School kitchen manager Susan Pruett and a weeklong trip to New Orleans. A Fund-a-Need followed in which attendees raised paddles to donate $10-$5,000 to fund a variety of specific needs including sponsoring cat clinics and paying for microchips. “Everyone had a great time, they learned a lot about the organization and appreciated the amount that we’ve stepped up to do more,” Marquez de la Plata said. For more information, go to forgottenfelines.com.

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White privilege skewered Kuang’s satirical thriller ‘Yellowface’ takes on racism in publishing world, beyond By ALEXANDRA ALTER NEW YORK TIMES

verything about R.F. Kuang’s novel “Yellowface” feels engineered to make readers uncomfortable. There’s the title, which is awkward to say out loud, and the cover, which features a garish racial stereotype — cartoonish slanted eyes imposed on a block of yellow. Then there’s the story itself. In the opening chapters, a white author steals a manuscript from the home of a Chinese American novelist who has died in a bizarre accident, and plots to pass it off as her own. What follows is a twisty thriller and a scorching indictment of the publishing industry’s pervasive whiteness and racial blind spots. If people in the literary world bristle at Kuang’s withering depiction of the book business — or cringe in recognition — well, that’s exactly the point, she said. “Reading about racism should not be a feel-good experience,” she said. “I do want people to be uncomfortable with the way that they’re trained to write about and market and sell books, and be uncomfortable with who’s in the room, and how they’re talking about who’s in the room. “And it’s also functioning on a different level for writers of color,” she added, “to think about how we are moving through those spaces, and the traps that are set for us.” Kuang, a bestselling fantasy writer and doctoral student in East Asian languages and literature at Yale, said this while sitting in a sunny office at the headquarters of her publisher, HarperCollins. It was late April, and she had just signed 2,000 copies of “Yellowface” — which William Morrow, a HarperCollins imprint, will release Tuesday — to ship to 250 independent bookstores. The location was oddly fitting for a conversation in which Kuang pondered how her novel might be received within the industry she brutally satirizes. Judging from the largely ecstatic early responses to the novel, the literary world seems to enjoy being skewered. HarperCollins bought the book for a mid-sixfigure sum, and is sending Kuang on a 10-city North American tour. Barnes & Noble is releasing a special edition of the novel, with an essay about Asian American representation in literature by Kuang. Independent booksellers have chosen it as their top “Indie Next” pick for June. The novel has drawn praise from industry outlets like Booklist, Publishers Weekly and Kirkus, which lauded Kuang’s unflinching accuracy: “Yes, publishing is like this; finally someone has written it out.” For Kuang — who at 26 has built a devoted following for her deeply researched and thought-provoking fantasy novels — publishing a scorched-earth satirical takedown of the publishing industry was creatively and professionally risky. She’s keenly

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The author R.F. Kuang on May 3 at the Boston Public Library in Boston. In “Yellowface,” Kuang draws on her own experiences to tackle issues like cultural appropriation and representation. aware of how she has benefited degrees in Chinese studies from from publishing’s hype machine, Cambridge and Oxford. She loved with its social media marketing the camaraderie and the erudite campaigns and breathless book atmosphere, but she was uncomdeal announcements on industry fortable with the elitist culture websites. At the same time, she of academia. The experience has started to chafe inspired her fourth novat the ways in which el, “Babel,” a historical she and her work have fantasy set in mid-1800s been promoted and Oxford, about a powerful sometimes pigeongroup of translators who holed as “diverse.” can wield language like a “I have participated magic spell. in all of this, but I’m Kuang got the idea for also starting to get “Yellowface” in early very tired of it,” she 2021. It was a few months said. “It’s not just after protests had people who think you erupted following the don’t deserve your “Yellowface,” By R.F. police killing of George audience or your Kuang, William Morrow, Floyd, and publishing, place in publishing along with other indus$30 who will say, ‘Well, tries, was wrestling with you’re only there because you’re issues of diversity and represena token diverse author.’ You also tation. Kuang was skeptical that get this rhetoric from people who those conversations would lead to are trying to support marginalaction. ized voices,” she said. “I hate the It was easy for Kuang to conjure feeling of being read just because the caustic, blithely racist voice somebody’s trying to tick off a of her narrator, June Hayward diversity checkbox.” — a struggling novelist who is Kuang, whose parents immiconsumed by bitterness toward grated to Texas from Guangzhou, her former classmate Athena Liu, China, when she was 4, started an industry darling who writes writing her first novel as a way bestselling novels that draw on to reconnect with her family’s cul- Chinese culture and history. In ture and history. June’s warped view, Athena only While studying history at succeeded because publishers Georgetown University, Kuang wanted an Asian American autook a year off and went to live in thor on their list. Beijing, and began writing epi“I’ve been living with June’s sodes of a fantasy story that she voice in my head for a really long sent to her father. Those chapters time,” Kuang said. “You start inbecame her debut novel, “The ternalizing a lot of the insecurity Poppy War,” a martial arts-inand doubt about your place in the fused Chinese military history room. I’m constantly questioning, that drew on the Second Sino-Jap- do I deserve the space I’m taking anese War. She sold it to Harperup? Do I deserve this audience?” Voyager as part of a trilogy, and it After Athena dies suddenly was nominated for the 2019 World in June’s presence, choking on Fantasy Award for Best Novel. pancakes while drunkenly celeAt the same time her fiction brating a Netflix deal, June steals career was taking off, Kuang imAthena’s work in progress, a mersed herself in Chinese history novel about Chinese laborers who and language, and got master’s were sent by the British to the

Allied Front during World War I. She sends it out as her own, and publishers swoon: June gets the six-figure advance and spot on the bestseller list that she feels she deserves. She’s also unsettled by accusations that she was profiting from the pain of Chinese laborers and guilty of cultural appropriation, and is haunted by an anonymous account on Twitter that accuses her of stealing Athena’s work. June’s publisher tries to head off scandal. A book publicist gently prods her about her ethnic heritage — “You’re not ... anything else?” the publicist asks after clarifying that June isn’t Asian. A Korean American editorial assistant suggests that June hire a sensitivity reader to make sure her depiction of Chinese workers isn’t offensive. June refuses, and then gets slammed by critics for being “inauthentic.” While writing the first draft, Kuang drew on her own insecurities and experience of being an Asian American author in an overwhelmingly white industry. “With Athena, I’m trying to work through my worst nightmares about what I could become,” she said. “She is that token Asian author who is prized because of her ability to be a cultural broker. And because her career is founded on being the one who is able to explain Chinese history, Chinese Americans, to white readers, she’s also very threatened by any other Chinese American writer in the room. “ For Kuang, who is under contract to publish three more novels with HarperCollins, writing about her worst professional anxieties has been an exorcism of sorts. “Part of what made me write ‘Yellowface’ was I finally had to trap it down on the page,” she said. “Now all that nastiness is between the covers.”

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orking in communion with the land is not only essential to many local families, it is a tradition that has united generations. For some, those roots were established through the Bracero Program in the 1940s when INSIDE farmworkers from Mexico came ■■Santa Rosa’s El Coqui continues to the United States to fill the to thrive near need for agricultural workers. downtown / L2 ■■Napa’s Latinx Because of that program, Wine Wine Summit Country is now home to many prioritizes Latino entrepreneurs, farminclusivity / L9 ers, pioneers and families, who ■■ Lake County continue to tend to the land on eateries get support from their own terms and on their community / L12 own acreage. The art of grape ■■Hospitality growing and wine making can workers are essential to local be found at nearly 40 Latinotourism / L15 owned wineries in the North ■■List of Bay. On top of contributing to Latino-owned the world-renowned reputation wineries in the North Bay / L23 of the wine region, Latinos are vital players in the local business and restaurant scenes, which include luxurious, world-class accommodations and award-winning fine dining.

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El Coqui sobrevive, prospera By JEREMY HAY THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

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El Coqui co-owners Chef Jackie Roman, left, and Tina Jackson smile April 17 in the dining room of their restaurant on Mendocino Avenue in Santa Rosa. The restaurant has been open for 14 years.

Pioneering restaurant survives, thrives Owners of Santa Rosa’s El Coqui have been serving hungry patrons Puerto Rican classics since 2009

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ackie Roman steered a flat cartload of supplies off the street and into El Coqui, the downtown Santa Rosa Puerto Rican restaurant she co-founded in 2009. Abruptly, she planted herself in front of the cart, using her body to shield it from a reporter’s view. She absolutely was not kidding. “I don’t want people to know what I use,” said Roman, a husky-voiced New York City native who spent her childhood

summers in Puerto Rico learning how to cook from her abuela. She acknowledged — grudgingly — that the jars and boxes on the cart contained proprietary ingredients but would disclose nothing more. Maybe that’s what it takes to open Sonoma County’s first Puerto Rican restaurant during the Great Recession and still be around 14 years later: being tough-minded about sharing your trade secrets. Certainly, it took guts and gumption to plunge into an TURN TO EL COQUI » PAGE L4

IF YOU GO Jackie Roman and Tina Jackson founded Sonoma County’s first Puerto Rican restaurant, El Coqui, in 2009. The downtown Santa Rosa business has been open for 14 years. Location: 400 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa More information: 707-542-8868, elcoqui2eat@aol.com Website: elcoqui2eat.com Instagram: instagram.com/ elcoqui2eat

ackie Román sacó un carrito lleno de suministros a la calle y entró a El Coqui, el restaurante puertorriqueño del centro de Santa Rosa que cofundó en 2009. De repente, se paró frente al carrito usando su cuerpo para protegerlo de la vista de un reportero. No bromeaba en absoluto. “No quiero que la gente sepa lo que uso”, dijo Román, una neoyorquina de voz ronca que pasó los veranos de su infancia en Puerto Rico aprendiendo a cocinar de su abuela. Reconoció -a regañadientes- que los tarros y cajas del carrito contenían ingredientes patentados, pero no quiso revelar nada más. Tal vez sea eso lo que hace falta para abrir el primer restaurante puertorriqueño del condado de Sonoma durante la Gran Recesión y seguir activo 14 años después: tener una mentalidad firme a la hora de compartir los secretos del oficio. Desde luego, hay que tener agallas y sentido común para sumergirse en una industria que no perdona en el mejor de los casos. En 2007 o 2008, Román, entonces vendedora de suministros para restaurantes, y su amiga íntima y cofundadora de El Coqui, Tina Jackson, entonces directora de un banco, estaban en el lago Sonoma con su familia y amigos. A todos les encantaba la cocina de Román, así que, por supuesto, se empezó a hablar de abrir un restaurante con ella y Jackson. “Yo estaba como OK, lo que sea”, dijo Román, de 55 años, sentada en el espacio al que se expandió recientemente El Coqui, justo al lado de su antigua casa en la esquina de la Avenida Mendocino y la Calle Quinta. “Solo estaba jugando”. “Sólo fue una charla de palabrería”, dijo Jackson, graduada de la preparatoria Rancho Cotate. Sin embargo, este par de mujeres pasaron de “tal vez deberíamos ser restauranteras” a mirar locales vacíos, con la idea de abrir un bar deportivo o una pizzería. En Craigslist, se enteraron de que un restaurante en Petaluma estaba cerrando y compraron todas sus mesas, sillas y frigoríficos utilizando tarjetas de crédito, algo que generalmente no se aconseja cuando se está pensando en abrir un restaurante. “Una locura”, dijo Jackson, de 51 años, recordando con una sonrisa. TURN TO PROSPERA » PAGE L5

El Coqui serves traditional Puerto Rican dishes with a twist, such as a cod fish fritter, clockwise from left, served with rice and beans. The Cubano sandwich is made with pork, ham, Swiss cheese and pickles on a flattened French roll piled with plantain chips. A sandwich made with marinated chicken thighs and served with plantain chips. The dish in front is canoa con carne molida made with sweet plantains filled with Angus ground beef, smothered in Monterey Jack cheese.

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“Everything that I’ve learned made me who I am now, here, for El Coqui. To give that piece of a taste of Puerto Rico to Sonoma County.” JACKIE ROMAN, chef and co-owner of El Coqui in downtown Santa Rosa

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Jackie Roman, chef and co-owner of El Coqui in Santa Rosa, prepares an order of pork chops April 17 at the Mendocino Avenue restaurant.

EL COQUI CONTINUED FROM L2 industry that’s unforgiving at the best of times. Sometime in 2007 or 2008, Roman, then a restaurant supplies salesperson, and her close friend and eventual El Coqui co-founder, Tina Jackson, then a bank manager, were hanging out at Lake Sonoma with family and friends. Everyone always loved Roman’s cooking, so talk, of course, turned to her and Jackson opening a restaurant. “I was, like, OK, whatever,” Roman, 55, said, seated in the space El Coqui has recently expanded into, which is next door to its longtime home on the corner of Mendocino Avenue and Fifth Street. “It was just playing around.” “It was just b******* talk,” said Jackson, a Rancho Cotate High School graduate. Nevertheless, the pair of perhaps-we-should-be-restaurateurs started checking out empty storefronts — nursing an idea that maybe they’d open a sports bar or a pizza place. On Craigslist, they learned about a Petaluma restaurant that was closing and bought all Chuletas, pan-fried pork chops with avocado, is served with black its tables, chairs and refrigera- beans and rice. tors using credit card transfer balances — something generally recommended against when you’re just musing about launching a restaurant. “Crazy,” said Jackson, 51, looking back with a smile. Furniture and refrigerators in hand, Jackson said she eventually looked at her business partner and said, “Just take the sports bar out and focus on what you do best and be yourself. This is what you cook at home, this is what you do.” “And then,” Roman said, “it was real.” El Coqui opened in June 2009 with a line around the block.

Jayuya roots in Santa Rosa The restaurant’s walls are painted burnt orange and display a portrait of Tito Puente, the famed Puerto Rican Latin jazz composer, as well as license plates emblazoned with the names of Puerto Rican locales, and illustrations of the Puerto Rican tree frog the restaurant is named for. They chose the name because the frogs chirp or whistle, rather than croak, and “they kind of bring the rain forest there alive,” Jackson said. On the walls are also other scenes from the Caribbean island’s markets and streets. Conga drums sit on a shelf behind the bar. A Puerto Rican

Jibarito con picadillo is a seasoned ground beef sandwiched between layers of green plantains with tomatoes and Monterey Jack cheese. It is served with avocado, rice and beans . flag decorates the door to the restroom. And, on one afternoon, Héctor Lavoe’s “El Dia de mi Suerte” — My Lucky Day — was playing. It’s not known whether they were on the cart of ingredients, but one thing Roman did share is that every three or four months she gets 100 pounds of aji dulce — a bright red Caribbean pepper — shipped from a Puerto Rican farmers’ market to make her sofrito, typically a blend of ingredients including onions, garlic, cilantro and

browned peppers colored with annatto seed. Along with plantains that Roman sources from Ecuador, sofrito is the foundation of Puerto Rican cuisine. “Without that, you can’t really have the taste of Puerto Rico,” said Roman. It’s not spicy, though, because, as Roman is quick to point out: “Puerto Rican food is not hot. Puerto Rican food is a lot of flavor.” Her grandmother lived in the village of Jayuya, on Puerto Rico’s highest mountain,

on land filled with acres of mangoes, coffee, avocados and tomatoes. Her house, which is featured in a mural decorating the restaurant’s expanded space, had wooden shutters and no electricity. Meals were cooked outside over a fire — on an outdoor stove called a fogon — and everyone showered under a nearby waterfall. “It connects me very spiritually,” Roman said, recalling her youth and reflecting on her present. “Everything that I've learned made me who I am now, here, for El Coqui. To give that piece of a taste of Puerto Rico to Sonoma County. I always tell people, you know, ‘Maybe this was my inheritance.’ I guess this is what they left me behind because out of all the brothers and sisters, I was the only one in the kitchen.”

Tough critics and loyal fans Jackson runs El Coqui’s front house, manages the finances and the staff of 17 full- and part-time employees. The back of the house belongs to Roman. Her kitchen, with a 10-burner stove and two ovens, is tight quarters. On a Monday afternoon, two line cooks and a dishwasher stayed busy between the lunch rush and dinner hour. An Uber Eats order for her ever-popular pollo al horno — baked chicken thighs — came in through a machine on a shelf above the stainless steel prep station that keeps the staple rice and beans hot. “Este para llevar,” Roman said to one of the cooks, “This is to-go.” Then it was on to another menu staple, a sweet plantain stuffed with picadillo — a ground beef combination of 10 not-to-be-disclosed ingredients. She nonchalantly slices the plantain down the middle, leaving it just barely attached, and places it in a deep fryer next to the stove. Then, it will be ladled full of picadillo and topped with melted Monterey Jack cheese. Called canoa (canoe, in English), it has dedicated fans — even beyond the roughly 250 Puerto Rican natives who, according to the U.S. Census, call Sonoma County home. “Oh, my God, have you tried the canoa, which is the sweet plantains with the Angus? Oh, my God, it is amazing,” said Marisol Morales, an Orlando, Florida, resident, who first tried El Coqui in 2018 and now visits two or three times a year. “It makes me feel like home,” said Morales, 50, who is Puerto Rican and, like Roman, was raised in New

York but spent her childhood summers on the island. “To find a place that actually lives up to its name and its reputation was shocking, because usually you go to these places that are like, ‘It's authentic, this and that,’ and when you taste it, no, it's not. Especially when you're Puerto Rican, you know. But this place actually was really, really good. It brought me so many memories of my family.” As with Morales, Puerto Ricans are some of El Coqui’s biggest fans. They can also be its toughest critics, Jackson said. “Straightaway it’s to the authenticity question, you know, is the food authentic? You know, ‘My grandmother didn’t cook red beans. My grandmother cooked black beans. Pink beans,’ Jackson said. “So right away, if I feel like I’ve got a tough customer, I'm like, ‘OK, I can’t send the white owner over, you know? Go get Jackie so she can go be Puerto Rican, please.’ And then, sure enough, by the time those customers are leaving … now it’s the best Puerto Rican food they’ve ever had.”

No signs of slowing down The bonds that Roman and Jackson have cultivated with their customers have helped them thrive. Once a month, Roman drives to Pinole, where a former Puerto Rican customer lives in an assisted-living facility. There, she caters a meal for the East Bay residents. Roman and Jackson also make monthly visits to a group of several dozen Puerto Rican women in the North Bay who dubbed themselves the Hermanitas Club — the little sisters club — and when they were younger, used to gather at El Coqui. “We sing all the Puerto Rican songs, we do jokes,” Roman said. “They’re dancing in their wheelchairs,” Jackson added. For El Coqui’s owners, the work rarely stops. This year, the restaurant grew with the addition of the neighboring space, which they use for overflow and special events like banquets and birthday parties. “The fact of the matter is, it’s 24 hours,” Jackson said. “Twenty-four,” Roman said. “A lot of times we’ll leave here at 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 p.m. and we’ll get home…” Jackson said. “And another two to three…” Roman added. “Hours, you know,” Jackson said. “Then it's, ‘OK, well, I didn't do this. I've got to order this.’ And she's got to call in TURN TO EL COQUI » PAGE L5

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“Todo lo que he aprendido me hizo ser quien soy ahora, aquí en El Coqui. Para darle ese pedazo de sabor de Puerto Rico al condado de Sonoma”. JACKIE ROMAN, chef y copropietaria de El Coqui en el centro de Santa Rosa

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Los copropietarios de El Coqui, Chef Jackie Roman y Tina Jackson, en el comedor de su restaurante en el centro de Santa Rosa,en Mendocino Avenue.

PROSPERA CONTINUED FROM L2 Muebles y frigoríficos en mano, Jackson dijo que al final miró a su socia y le dijo: “Quita el bar de deportes y céntrate en lo que mejor sabes hacer y sé tú misma. Esto es lo que cocinas en casa, esto es lo que haces”. “Y entonces”, dijo Román, “se hizo realidad”. El Coqui abrió en junio de 2009 con una cola que daba la vuelta a la manzana. Las paredes del restaurante están pintadas de naranja quemado y muestran un retrato de Tito Puente, el famoso compositor puertorriqueño de jazz latino y salsa, así como placas de vehículos con nombres de lugares de Puerto Rico e ilustraciones de la rana arborícola puertorriqueña que da nombre al restaurante. Eligieron el nombre porque las ranas gorjean o silban, en lugar de croar, y “dan vida a la selva tropical”, dice Jackson. En las paredes también hay otras escenas de los mercados y calles de la isla caribeña. Los tambores de conga están en un estante detrás de la barra. Una bandera de Puerto Rico decora la puerta del baño. Y sonaba “El día de mi suerte”, de Héctor Lavoe. No se sabe si estaban en el carrito de los ingredientes, pero una cosa que Román sí compartió es que cada tres o cuatro meses recibe 100 libras de ají dulce -un pimiento caribeño de color rojo brillante- enviado desde un mercado de agricultores puertorriqueños para hacer su sofrito, normalmente una mezcla de ingredientes que incluye cebollas, ajo, cilantro y pimientos dorados coloreados con semillas de achiote. Junto con los plátanos, que Román consigue de Ecuador, el sofrito es la base de la cocina puertorriqueña. “Sin él, no se puede sentir el sabor de Puerto Rico”, afirma Román. No es picante, porque, como ella se apresura a señalar: “La comida puertorriqueña no es picante. La comida puertorriqueña tiene mucho sabor”. Su abuela vivía en el pueblo de Jayuya, en la montaña más alta de Puerto Rico, en un terreno lleno de hectáreas de mangos, café, aguacates y tomates. Su casa, que aparece en un mural que decora el espacio ampliado del restauran-

EL COQUI CONTINUED FROM L4 for the produce order for the delivery. And then we’re going to look at the reports and then, of course, everything’s

quien vive en una residencia asistida para personas mayores. Allí les lleva comida a los Jackie Roman y Tina Jackson residentes del Este de la Bahía. fundaron el primer restaurante Román y Jackson también puertorriqueño del condado de visitan mensualmente a un Sonoma, El Coqui, en 2009. El grupo de varias mujeres negocio del centro de Santa Rosa puertorriqueñas del Norte de abrío sus puertas have 14 años. la Bahía que se autodenominan el Club de Hermanitas y Dirección: 400 Mendocino Ave., que, cuando eran más jóvenes, Santa Rosa solían reunirse en El Coqui. Más información: 707-542-8868, “Cantamos todas las canelcoqui2eat@aol.com ciones puertorriqueñas, haceWebsite: elcoqui2eat.com mos chistes”, dice Román. “Bailan en sus sillas de rueInstagram: instagram.com/ das”, añadió Jackson. elcoqui2eat Para las propietarias de El Coqui, el trabajo rara vez se te, tenía persianas de madera detiene. Este año, el restaurany no había electricidad. Se te creció con la adición del local cocinaba al aire libre en un contiguo, que utilizan para fogón y todos se duchaban en eventos especiales como banuna cascada cercana. quetes y fiestas de cumpleaños. “Me conecta espiritual“El hecho es que trabajamos mente”, dice Román, recordan24 horas al día”, dice Jackson. do su juventud y reflexionando “Veinticuatro”, dijo Román. sobre su presente. “Todo lo que “Muchas veces salimos de he aprendido me hizo ser quien aquí a las 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 soy ahora, aquí en El Coqui. de la noche y llegamos a casa Para darle ese pedazo de sabor ...”. Jackson comentó. de Puerto Rico al condado de “Y otras dos o tres ... ”, Sonoma. “Siempre le digo a la añadió Román. gente: ‘Quizá esto fue mi heren“Horas, ya sabes”, dijo Jackcia’. Supongo que esto es lo que son. "Entonces piensas, ‘bueno, me dejaron porque de todos los Los huéspedes disfrutan de una noche en el comedor de El Coqui el yo no hice esto. Tengo que pedir hermanos y hermanas, yo era esto’. Y tienes que llamar para 13 de abril en Santa Rosa. la única en la cocina”. pedir los productos. Y luego Se llama canoa y tiene nas, solo para ver si puedo vamos a ver los informes y, Muchos clientes muchos seguidores, incluso probar algo más, y escuchas el por supuesto, ahora todo está Jackson dirige la parte más allá de los 250 puertor‘Mmmmm’ y el ‘Oh, Dios mío, automatizado en tu teléfono, por delantera de El Coqui, gestiona riqueños que, según el censo esto es tan rico’. Y me enorlo que empiezas a recibir todas las finanzas y la plantilla de 17 de EE.UU., viven en el condado gullece porque Soy puertorlas alertas. Las transacciones empleados de tiempo completo de Sonoma. riqueña”. Así como pasa con de tu tarjeta de crédito acaban y parcial. La parte trasera de la “Dios mío, ¿has probado la Morales, los puertorriqueños de ser procesadas. Entonces, 'Es casa pertenece a Román. canoa, que son los plátanos son algunos de los mayores medianoche y dejas el teléfono. Su cocina, con 10 fogones dulces con carne? Es infanáticos de El Coqui. Tam¿Me entiendes? Son 24 horas. Aly dos hornos, es un espacio creíble", dijo Marisol Morales, bién pueden ser sus críticos guien llama y dice: ‘No creo que reducido. residente de Orlando, Florida, más duros, dijo Jackson. vaya a ir a trabajar mañana’”. Un lunes por la tarde, dos que fue por primera vez a El “En definitiva, se trata de Roman dice: “Soy propicocineros y un lavaplatos se Coqui en 2018 y ahora lo visita la autenticidad, ¿la comida es etaria-chef. Pero soy parte del ocuparon de todo desde la hora dos o tres veces al año. auténtica? Ya sabes, ‘Mi abuela equipo pase lo que pase ... Sólo pico del almuerzo a la de la “Me hace sentir como en no cocinaba frijoles rojos. por ser dueña, no estás por cena. casa”, dice Morales, de 50 años, Mi abuela cocinaba frijoles encima. Somos iguales. Todos Un pedido de Uber Eats de una puertorriqueña que, como negros. Frijoles rosados’”, dijo somos iguales, ¿verdad? Así es su siempre popular pollo al Román, se crio en Nueva York, Jackson. “Así que enseguida, como me siento. horno llegó a través de una pero pasó los veranos de su si siento que tengo un cliente “Me ves ahí atrás. Estoy fremáquina situada encima en infancia en la isla. “Encontrar difícil, digo: ‘Vale, no puedo gando. Estoy haciendo. Estoy la estación de preparación de un lugar que realmente hace mandar al dueño blanco, ¿sacocinando. Estoy haciendo acero inoxidable que mantiene honor a su nombre y a su repbes? Ve a buscar a Jackie para todo. Estoy preparando. Estoy calientes el arroz y los frijoles. utación fue impactante, porque que pueda ser puertorriqueña, aquí dos o tres de la mañana, “Este para llevar”, le dijo normalmente vas a estos sitios por favor. Y entonces, efectisi tengo que hacerlo”, dijo. “Y Román a uno de los cocineros. que dicen: ‘Es auténtico, esto vamente, para cuando esos tengo que venir a las seis de Luego pasó a otro plato bási- y lo otro’, y cuando lo pruebas, clientes se van ... ahora sí es la la mañana, cinco de la mañaco del menú, un plátano dulce no, no lo es. Especialmente mejor comida puertorriqueña na para empezar a cocinar, relleno de picadillo, una combi- cuando eres puertorriqueña. que jamás hayan probado”. lo hago, también, porque no nación de carne molida con 10 Pero este lugar es realmente tengo miedo. Nada me va a ingredientes no revelados. muy, muy bueno. Me trajo tan- ‘Nada me va a frenar’ detener, excepto cuando esté a Ella corta el plátano por la tos recuerdos de mi familia”. Los lazos que Román y dos metros bajo tierra”. mitad, dejándolo apenas junto, “Me recuerda a Ponce, dijo, Jackson han creado con sus y lo coloca en una freidora al refiriéndose a la segunda clientes les han ayudado a Puede comunicarse con el eslado de los fogones. A continu- ciudad más grande de Puerto prosperar. critor del personal Jeremy Hay ación, lo llena de picadillo y Rico.” Hay vida, hay música, Una vez al mes, Román al 707-387-2960 o jeremy.hay@ lo cubre con queso Monterrey ambiente. Me gusta escuchar conduce a Pinole a donde un pressdemocrat.com. En Twitter Jack fundido. los comentarios de otras perso- antiguo cliente puertorriqueño @jeremyhay.

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automated now on your phone, so you start getting all your phone alerts. ‘Oh, your credit card transactions just batched’ (were put through by the credit card company). Then, ‘It's midnight, put it away.’ You know what I mean? It’s 24 hours. Somebody’s calling and

saying, ‘I don’t think I'm going to make it to work tomorrow,’ you know?” Roman said, “I'm an ownerchef. But I'm part of the team no matter what. … Just because you’re an owner, you’re not higher. We’re equal. We’re all the same, right?

That’s how I feel. You know what I’m saying? “You see me back there. I’m scrubbing. I’m doing. I’m cooking. I’m doing everything. I’m prepping. I’m here, 2 or 3 in the morning, if I have to,” she said. “And I have to come in at 6 in the morning, 5 in the morning

to start cooking, I do it, too, because I’m not afraid. Nothing’s going to slow me down except when I be six feet under.” You can reach Staff Writer Jeremy Hay at 707-387-2960 or jeremy.hay@pressdemocrat. com. On Twitter @jeremyhay.

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Familia Robledo construye un gran imperio By JENNIFER SAWHNEY THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

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Some members of the Robledo family, from left, Jenaro, Everardo, Vianna, Angelo and Lazaro, together on April 18 at Robledo Family Winery in Sonoma.

Generations built an empire in Wine Country Sonoma’s Robledo Family Winery started it all; now there are more businesses solidifying their local legacy

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n a gusty spring day in Sonoma, the gates to Robledo Family Winery sat wide open, inviting visitors to the first tasting room opened by former vineyard workers on their own land. Surrounded by olive trees, sheep and goats chew grass in a pasture adjacent to a vineyard. Three flags fly vigorously from flagpoles stationed steps away from the tasting room. They are: an American flag, a Mexican flag and a flag bearing the Robledo family crest. “We love the United States. Our heritage is from Mexico.

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Reynaldo Robledo Sr. pauses in 2018 inside Robledo Family Winery in Sonoma. Robledo Sr. and his then-wife, Maria, founded the TURN TO ROBLEDO » PAGE L8 internationally recognized winery together in 1997.

n un ventoso día de primavera en Sonoma, las puertas del viñedo Robledo Family estaban abiertas de par en par, invitando a los visitantes a la primera sala de degustación creada por ex trabajadores de viñedos en su propia tierra. Rodeados de olivos, las ovejas y cabras mastican hierba en un prado adyacente al viñedo, tres banderas ondean vigorosamente desde astas situadas a unos pasos de la sala de degustación: una bandera estadounidense, una mexicana y otra con el escudo de la familia Robledo. “Nos encanta Estados Unidos. Nuestra herencia es mexicana ... Es lo que somos. Representa lo que somos”, afirma Everardo Robledo, Director General de la Bodega Familiar Robledo. Es uno de los nueve hijos de Reynaldo Robledo padre y María Robledo, quienes fundaron la bodega, reconocida internacionalmente, en 1997. Las banderas son el símbolo de una historia que abarca generaciones y traspasa fronteras. La Bodega de la Familia Robledo es sólo uno de los muchos negocios que poseen y gestionan los miembros de la extensa familia Robledo, cuyos antepasados llegaron por primera vez al condado de Sonoma en 1942 procedentes de Michoacán, México, a través del Programa Bracero. De 1942 a 1964, el programa federal trajo a millones de hombres mexicanos muy necesitados para trabajar en EE.UU. con contratos laborales de corta duración, como el bisabuelo, el abuelo y los tíos abuelos de Everardo y sus hermanos. Reynaldo padre, el mayor de 13 hermanos de Atacheo, Michoacán, llegó unos años después de que terminara el programa, el 25 de febrero de 1968, con varios miembros de su familia. Dijo que al día siguiente de su llegada empezó a trabajar en Christian Brothers Winery en Napa, ganando 1 dólar con 10 centavos la hora. El trabajo agrícola lo llevó a los numerosos huertos frutales y viñedos de los condados de Sonoma y Napa. Esto hizo que dominara nuevas formas de injertar, la habilidad de unir partes de dos plantas diferentes para formar una sola, que empleó en viñedos de toda la región vinícola. En 1982, enseñó a otros sus técnicas en Niza, Francia. En 1984, Robledo padre y su ahora ex mujer, Maria, compraron 13 acres en la región vinícola de Carneros, en el condado de Napa, en donde produjeron las primeras botellas de vino de la TURN TO IMPERIO » PAGE L7

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Wine corks from Robledo Family Winery in Sonoma. The business sells bottles of cabernet sauvignon, red blends, pinot noir and rosé.

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“Honramos a nuestros antepasados con el producto que tanto les costó elaborar en los años 40 ... Ahora lo producimos en una botella de vino”. VANESSA ROBLEDO, quien ahora brinda servicios de gestión de vinos para el negocio de su madre, Maria de la Luz Vineyards, que vende uvas a bodegas locales

IMPERIO CONTINUED FROM L6 familia en 1992. “Fue nuestro nuevo comienzo”, dice Everardo, que entonces tenía 9 años. Añadió que se esperaba que él y sus hermanos ayudaran. “La gente siempre se pregunta: ‘¿Por qué las personas tienen tantos hijos?’ Pero en México existe la creencia de que ‘Sí, voy a tener muchos hijos para que ayuden a cultivar’, porque venimos de una familia agrícola en México ... ”, dijo Vanessa Robledo, la cuarta hija. “Mis padres tenían muchos hijos y esperaban que trabajáramos”. Maria trabajaba a menudo en los viñedos “en su tiempo libre”, dijo Vanessa, cocinaba para su familia y los trabajadores por muchos años. “Me siento muy orgullosa de ellos”, dijo.

La influencia de una familia Hoy en día, los miembros de la familia Robledo operan principalmente negocios relacionados con el vino bajo su paraguas familiar: bodegas, un negocio de administración de viñedos, un negocio de administración de bodegas y un negocio de olivos en los condados de Napa y Sonoma. “Admiro a mi familia porque creo que ya tenían una visión. Nacieron con esa visión porque nunca tienen problemas para aprender cosas”, dice Reynaldo padre, sentado en una gran mesa de madera dentro de la sala de degustación que lleva su apellido. Al otro lado de la mesa se sentó Everardo, acompañado por su hijo, Ángelo, de 21 años, y su hija, Vianna, de 23, quienes trabajan en la bodega de Sonoma. Everardo, junto con sus padres y hermanos, ayudó a inaugurar la sala de degusta-

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Algunos miembros de la familia Robledo, de izquierda a derecha, Jenaro, Everardo, Vianna, Angelo y Lazaro pausan el 18 de abril en Robledo Family Winery en Sonoma. Reynaldo Robledo Sr. y Maria Robledo fundaron el negocio en 1997, que tienen reconocimiento internacional.

ciones en 1997, cinco años después de producir la primera botella de pinot noir en 1992. La familia plantó más viñedos después de la primera cosecha, que incluyó chardonnay, y empezó a vender su vino a clientes locales y restaurantes antes del lanzamiento formal de la bodega. Lleva dirigiéndola desde 2007 aproximadamente. Reynaldo padre y María también fundaron Robledo Ranches en 1984 -el mismo año en que compraron la primera parcela de 13 acres- y Robledo Vineyard Management en 1994. En la actualidad, Robledo Family Winery posee unos 450 acres de terreno en los TURN TO IMPERIO » PAGE L8

VISITAS En la década de 1940, la familia Robledo vino a los Estados Unidos y comenzó a trabajar en los viñedos. Hoy, la familia ha establecido la primera bodega en los Estados Unidos fundada por trabajadores de viñedos mexicanos en su propia tierra. Reynaldo Robledo Sr. y su ex-esposa, Maria, comenzaron la producción comercial de vino a partir de las uvas de su finca en 1997 desde su bodega del Valle de Sonoma. Dirección: 21901 Bonness Road, Sonoma Horas: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., lunes a sábado; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. domingo Más información: 707-939-6903, robledofamilywinery.com

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“How we honor our ancestors is through the product that they worked so hard to labor back in the 1940s. ... We now are producing it in a bottle of wine.” VANESSA ROBLEDO, who provides wine management services for her mother’s business, Maria de la Luz Vineyards, which sells grapes to local wineries

ROBLEDO CONTINUED FROM L6 ... It’s just who we are. It represents who we are,” said Everardo Robledo, the CEO of Robledo Family Winery. He is one of nine children of Reynaldo Robledo Sr. and Maria Robledo who founded the internationally recognized winery together in 1997. The flags are markers of a story that spans generations and crosses borders. The Robledo Family Winery is just one of many businesses owned and operated by members of the sprawling Robledo family whose ancestors first arrived in Sonoma County in 1942 from Michoacán, Mexico through the Bracero Program. From 1942 to 1964, the federal program brought millions of much-needed Mexican men to work in the U.S. on shortterm labor contracts, like the great-grandfather, grandfather and great-uncles of Everardo and his siblings. Reynaldo Sr., the eldest of 13 siblings from Atacheo, Michoacán, arrived a few years after the program ended on Feb. 25, 1968, with various family members. He said the day after he arrived he started work at Christian Brothers Winery in Napa, earning $1.10 an hour. Farmworking brought him to the many fruit orchards and vineyards in Sonoma and Napa counties. This led him to master new ways to graft, the skill of joining parts of two different plants to form one, which he employed at vineyards across Wine Country. Then, in 1982, he taught others his techniques in Nice, France. In 1984, Reynaldo Sr. and his now ex-wife, Maria, purchased 13 acres in the Carneros wine-growing region in Napa County that produced the family’s first bottles of wine in 1992.

Planting roots in Sonoma “It was our new beginning,” said Everardo, who was 9 years old at the time. He added he and his siblings were expected to help. “People always wonder, ‘Why do people have so many kids,’ but in Mexico, there's the belief that ‘Yes, I’m gonna have a lot of kids so they can help farm,’ because we come from an agricultural family in Mexico,” said Vanessa Robledo, the fourth oldest. “… My parents had a lot of kids, and they expected us to work.” Maria often worked in the vineyards “in her spare time,” Vanessa said, and cooked meals for her family and vineyard workers over the years. Maria was essential to the winery’s growth, cooking homemade Mexican food, like ceviche or chile rellenos, to

IMPERIO CONTINUED FROM L7 condados de Sonoma, Napa y Lake. Producen entre 15 mil y 20 mil cajas de vino al año y unas mil 200 toneladas de uva anuales, de las cuales algunas se venden a otras bodegas, explica Reynaldo padre. Es una de las 43 bodegas de propiedad latina en California, según Alex Saragoza, profesor de estudios étnicos de la Universidad de Berkeley. La bodega familiar tiene una lista de galardones que incluye unas 30 medallas de oro y dobles medallas de oro de concursos nacionales y locales. En 2003, la ciudad de Sonoma nombró el 25 de octubre día de la Bodega Familiar Robledo. Durante la administración Obama, Reynaldo padre se reunió con el presidente Obama en la Casa Blanca. Además, en el museo Smithsonian en Washington, D.C. se exponen recuerdos de la familia Robledo, entre ellos uno de los sombreros negros de vaquero de Reynaldo padre. Recientemente, su cabernet sauvignon Selección Reserva 2021 recibió el premio al “mejor” en el condado Lake

keep them busy,” he said Everardo believes agricultural work comes naturally to him and serves as a reminder of the generations that preceded him. Though he admits he didn’t understand them as a child, he said he now appreciates his parents’ strict lessons. “What I wanted to do was for my children to not have time to be on the streets. I kept them busy. I wanted them to dedicate themselves to their studies and that they wouldn’t go out,” said Reynaldo Sr. His plan worked. “We had to be the ones that did our own labor. And I think that that’s the key thing (as) to why our family succeeded is that, you know, we all did it. VANESSA ROBLEDO We all worked,” Vanessa said. PBS Vanessa Robledo is the fourth Vineyards surrounded Samantha Brown, left, hosted a segment at Robledo Family Winery oldest child of Maria and Vanessa and her siblings for her series “Places to Love” on PBS. Reynaldo Robledo Sr. throughout their childhood. pair with wines for up to 400 some are sold to other winerNow, her daughter, nieces visitors a day. Though Maria ies, Reynaldo Sr. said. and nephews grew up in the IF YOU GO left the family business to run It is one of 43 Latino-owned midst of an industry larger her own vineyard after the wineries in California, acthan the one from her youth, In the 1940s, the Robledo family divorce, she’s happy to see her cording to Alex Saragoza, an whether it meant riding came to the United States and children continue to thrive. ethnic studies professor at four-wheelers or tractor began working in the vineyards. “I feel very proud of them,” UC Berkeley. equipment, frequenting the Today the family has established she said in Spanish. The family winery has a family-owned cellars, moving the first winery in the United list of accolades that include boxes of merchandise with States to be founded by Mexican Establishing family name about 30 gold medals and douforklifts or joining in on harvineyard workers on their own Today, members of the ble-gold medals from national vest in the vineyards. land. Reynaldo Robledo Sr. and Robledo family operate mostly and local competitions. Vanessa said her daughter, his ex-wife, Maria, began comwine-related businesses under In 2003, the city of Sonoma Jocelyn, 24, was the reason mercial wine production from their family umbrella: winernamed Oct. 25 Robledo Family she continues to push herself. their estate grapes in 1997 from ies, a vineyard management Winery Day. She is also one of her mother’s their Sonoma Valley winery. business, a winery manageDuring the Obama adminbiggest supporters. Location: 21901 Bonness Road, ment business and an olive istration, Reynaldo Sr. met As a single mother, Vanessa Sonoma tree business in Napa and President Barack Obama at said she didn’t take Jocelyn Sonoma counties. the White House. In addition, to the vineyards as frequently Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday to “I admire my family beRobledo family memorabilia as her parents brought her. Saturday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday cause I believe they already is on display at the SmithsoInstead, she took her daughter More information: 707-939-6903, have a vision. They were born nian Institution, including to business meetings, which robledofamilywinery.com with that vision because they one of Reynaldo Sr.’s black seems to have been the right never have issues learning cowboy hats. move. By the end of May, things,” said Reynaldo Sr., Most recently, the winVanessa and Jocelyn plan to sitting at a large wooden table ery’s 2021 Selección Reserva alongside his youngest sibling, launch a business together. inside the tasting room bearcabernet sauvignon received Adrian Emiliano. Angelo, Everardo’s son, ing his surname. the Best of Lake County in the The company sells olive works at the winery and is Across the table sat Eve11th annual North Coast Wine trees across, California and taking college-level courses rardo, who was flanked by his Challenge in early April. ships over 20 varieties nation- to learn more about the wine son, Angelo, 21, and daughter, One of the most memorable wide, Adrian Emiliano said. industry. Vianna, 23, who both work at experiences for the family Vanessa, who left the Adrian Emiliano, who has the Sonoma winery. was in 2008, when former male-dominated family three children, intends to Everardo, alongside his par- Mexican President Felipe business in 2007, now provides teach them “to work hard, to ents and siblings, helped forCalderón visited the Roblewine management services for get a good education and the mally launch the tasting room dos’ Sonoma tasting room, her mother’s business, Maria sky’s the limit,” much like in 1997, five years after they Everardo said. de la Luz Vineyards, which the lessons his parents taught produced the first bottle of sells grapes to local wineries. him. Beyond wine, grapes pinot noir in 1992. The family Jenaro, the fifth eldest, Each of the family members planted more vineyards after Crucial to the family busiruns a vineyard management agreed on the power of family, the first harvest, which includ- ness’s growth was adapting to company, which also tends heritage and moving ahead. ed chardonnay, and began to change — whether strategical- to his mother’s Napa County Vanessa believes the family’s sell their wine to local custom- ly, agriculturally or personal- vineyard. Sons Luis, Franancestry carries them into ers and restaurants leading up ly striving for better, Reynaldo cisco and Lazaro work at the their futures. to the winery’s formal launch. Sr. said. family winery in sales and “How we honor our ancesHe’s been running it since As each of his children help with various aspects of tors is through the product about 2007, he said. learned the stories of their the company. that they worked so hard to Together Reynaldo Sr. and forefathers who worked in labor back in the 1940s. ... Future possibilities Maria also started Robledo the vineyards before them, We now are producing it in a Ranches in 1984 — the same they learned the same basic Maria taught her children bottle of wine,” she said. “It's year they purchased the first skills — tying vines, pruning, the morals her parents in like the complete full cycle of 13-acre plot of land — and Ro- harvesting — before each RoMexico taught her: to be hum- the wine industry, you know, bledo Vineyard Management bledo child established their ble, to be honest with oneself, and I think that is the magic in 1994. own path. to keep growing. that my ancestors represent in Today, Robledo Family The eldest Robledo child, “I showed them the best of that wine.” Winery owns about 450 acres Lorena, co-owns Mi Sueño me,” she said. of land in Sonoma, Napa and Winery with her husband, For Reynaldo Sr., he knows You can reach Staff Writer Lake counties. They produce Rolando Herrera. he was tough on his kids Jennifer Sawhney at 707-52115,000 to 20,000 cases of wine Reynaldo Jr., the second old- growing up. 5346 or jennifer.sawhney@ annually and about 1,200 tons est, owns the Olive Tree Farm “I think it was not pleasant, pressdemocrat.com. On of grapes per year, of which in Sonoma, which he operates because what I wanted was to Twitter @sawhney_media.

durante la décimo primera edición anual del Desafío del Vino de la Costa Norte a principios de abril. Una de las experiencias más memorables para la familia fue en 2008, cuando el ex presidente mexicano Felipe Calderón visitó la sala de degustación de Robledo en Sonoma, dijo Everardo.

Más que uvas, vino Para el crecimiento de la empresa familiar fue crucial adaptarse a los cambios, ya fueran estratégicos, agrícolas o personales, según Reynaldo padre. A medida que cada uno de sus hijos escuchaban las historias de sus antepasados que trabajaron en los viñedos antes que ellos, aprendían las mismas habilidades básicas -atar las vides, podar, cosechar- antes de que cada hijo de Robledo estableciera su propio camino. Lorena, la mayor de los Robledo, es copropietaria de la bodega Mi Sueño junto a su esposo, Rolando Herrera. Reynaldo Jr., el segundo hijo, es propietario de Olive Tree Farm en Sonoma, que opera junto con su hermano menor, Adrián Emiliano. La empresa vende árboles de olivos en toda California y envía

más de 20 variedades a todo el país, explica Adrián Emiliano. Vanessa, que abandonó el negocio familiar dominado por los hombres en 2007, ofrece ahora servicios de administración vinícola a la empresa de su madre, Maria de la Luz Vineyards, que vende uvas a bodegas locales. Jenaro, el quinto hijo, dirige una empresa de manejo de viñedos, que también se ocupa del viñedo de su madre en el condado de Napa. Los hijos Luis, Francisco y Lázaro trabajan en la bodega familiar en ventas y ayudan en diversos aspectos de la empresa.

de sus padres. “Lo que yo quería era que mis hijos no tuvieran tiempo de estar en la calle. Los mantenía ocupados. Quería que se dedicaran a estudiar y que no salieran”, dice Reynaldo padre. Su plan funcionó. “Nosotros teníamos que hacer nuestro propio trabajo. Y creo que esa es la clave de por qué nuestra familia tuvo éxito. Es que todos lo hicimos. Todos trabajábamos”, dijo Vanessa. Los viñedos rodearon a Vanessa y sus hermanos durante toda su infancia. Ahora, su hija, sus sobrinas y sus sobrinos crecen en medio Posibilidades futuras de una industria mucho más Maria les enseñó a sus hijos grande que la de su juventud, la moral que a ella le inculya sea montando en cuatrimocaron sus padres en México: tos o en tractores, frecuentanser humilde, ser honesta consi- do las bodegas familiares, movgo misma y seguir creciendo. iendo cajas de mercancía con “Les mostré lo mejor de mí”, montacargas o participando en dice. la cosecha en los viñedos. Reynaldo padre sabe que fue Vanessa afirma que su hija duro con sus hijos. Jocelyn, de 24 años, es la razón “Creo que no fue agradable, por la que sigue esforzándose. porque lo que quería era man- También es uno de los maytenerlos ocupados”, dijo. ores apoyos de su madre. Everardo cree que el trabajo Como madre soltera, agrícola le sale natural y le Vanessa dijo que no llevaba sirve para recordar a las gena Jocelyn a los viñedos con eraciones que le precedieron. tanta frecuencia como sus Aunque admite que de niño no padres lo hacían con ella. En las entendía, dice que ahora su lugar, llevaba a su hija a aprecia las estrictas lecciones reuniones de negocios, lo que

parece haber sido una decisión acertada. A finales de mayo, Vanessa y Jocelyn planean lanzar un negocio juntas. Ángelo, el hijo de Everardo, trabaja en la bodega y está haciendo cursos universitarios para aprender más sobre la industria vinícola. Adrián Emiliano, que tiene tres hijos, pretende enseñarles “a trabajar duro, a recibir una buena educación y que el cielo es el límite”, de forma muy parecida a las lecciones que le enseñaron sus padres. Todos los miembros de la familia coincidieron en el poder familiar, la herencia y la superación. Vanessa cree que el origen o procedencia de la familia los embarca hacia el futuro. “Honramos a nuestros antepasados con el producto que tanto les costó elaborar en los años 40 ... Ahora lo producimos en una botella de vino”, afirma. “Es como el ciclo completo de la industria vinícola y creo que esa es la magia que representan mis ancestros en ese vino”. Puede comunicarse con la escritora del personal Jennifer Sawhney al 707-521-5346 o jennifer.sawhney@pressdemocrat.com. En Twitter @sawhney_media.

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Elevando las voces Latinx en el vino By DEREK MOORE FOR THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

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Gabriela Fernandez is the trade and marketing events manager for the publicly traded Duckhorn Portfolio, which includes Migration Winery at Duckhorn Vineyards in Napa.

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Creators of Latinx Wine Summit bring community together to share professional and personal experiences By DEREK MOORE FOR THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

t Migration Winery in Napa Valley’s famed Carneros wine region, Gabriela Fernandez exuded confidence, matching a gold “Latina” pendant she wore proudly around her neck. And why not? At 30, Fernandez is ascending the ladder of an industry that fails at times to advance opportunities for its Hispanic and Latino labor force — much less recognize their historical contributions. There are about 45 Latino-owned wineries in California, including roughly 20 in Napa Valley. Born and raised in Napa Valley, Fernandez embodies these contradictions. She is the trade and marketing events manager for the publicly traded Duckhorn Portfolio, which includes Migration Winery. Prior to that, she helped launch the U.S. market for Spain’s Felix Solis Avantis, among the world’s largest wine producers. And yet, when Fernandez pops into one of Duckhorn’s TURN TO LATINX » PAGE L10

Roberto Melara is the wine educator and on-site representative for Jackson Family Wines. He samples wine April 21 in the Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate and Gardens tasting room near Santa Rosa.

n Migration Winery, en la afamada región vinícola de Carneros, en el Valle de Napa, Gabriela Fernández derrochaba confianza, la misma que se reflejaba en un pendiente de oro con la palabra “Latina” que lucía orgullosamente alrededor del cuello. ¿Y por qué no? A sus 30 años, Fernández está escalando en una industria que a veces no logra ofrecer oportunidades a la mano de obra hispana y latina, y mucho menos reconocer sus contribuciones históricas. En California hay unas 45 bodegas propiedad de latinos, entre ellas una docena en el Valle de Napa. Nacida y criada en el Valle de Napa, Fernández encarna estas contradicciones. Es gerente de eventos comerciales y de mercadeo de la firma Duckhorn Portfolio, empresa que cotiza en bolsa y que incluye Migration Winery. Antes de eso, ayudó a lanzar en el mercado estadounidense a una de las mayores productoras de vino del mundo, la española Félix Solís Avantis. Sin embargo, cuando Fernández entra a una de las salas de degustación de Duckhorn con su característica chaqueta de tienda de segunda mano, a menudo recibe miradas extrañas de los clientes. “No sé cuántas veces me ha pasado”, dice. “Uno pensaría que dejaría de ser impactante, pero la parte loca es cuán impresionante es cada vez. Te preguntas, ‘¿Qué es exactamente lo que te hace pensar que no soy eso?’” Fernández habló sobre el tema durante una emisión del 10 de diciembre de 2020 de “Big Sip”, una serie de podcasts que presenta en la emisora de radio 99.3 FM La Vid de Napa. La serie destaca, en sus palabras, a los “pioneros, arriesgados, líderes y visionarios negros y morenos” del mundo del vino, la gastronomía y el arte. Sus invitadas en el episodio titulado “Nunca es demasiado tarde” fueron María Calvert y Lydia Richards, ambas de 34 años y cofundadoras de Hispanics in Wine, una organización nacional sin ánimo de lucro que promueve las contribuciones hispanas y latinas en las industrias del vino y la hostelería. “Ahora mismo”, dijo Fernández en el podcast de 2020, “la conversación es tan predominante que necesitamos amplificar las voces negras. Necesitamos amplificar las voces morenas. Necesitamos amplificar a toda la gente de color, a las mujeres, a la comunidad LGBTQ+ ...” Y prosiguió: “A las personas que normalmente no han tenido la oportunidad de operar en estos espacios y decir: ‘Oye, me encanta formar parte de esta industria y merezco existir y ser mostrada en esta industria también’”. TURN TO VOCES » PAGE L11

Roberto Melara attended the Latinx Wine Summit as the bilingual wine educator for Jackson Family Wines. Pictured is Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate and Gardens in Santa Rosa.

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“We have to work twice as hard and come through twice as prepared just to be viewed as starting off on the same playing field, and that’s exhausting in and of itself.” GABRIELA FERNANDEZ, who feels, on occasion, the sting of feeling like she has to prove herself as a young Latina over and over again

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Miriam Puente, owner of Honrama Cellars, stands in front of angel wings from Guadalajara, Mexico, on April 21 in the Sonoma tasting room.

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now setting their sights on spring 2024 for an even larger gathering. “There were so many people CONTINUED FROM L9 of Hispanic and Latin descent tasting rooms wearing her it almost felt weird,” Richards, trademark thrift-store jacket, with Hispanics in Wine, said she’s often greeted with quizzi- of the 2022 summit. “I couldn’t cal looks from guests. believe there hasn’t been an“It’s almost like you are met other organization or commuwith a, ‘Oh, but where’s the nity that’s done this.” actual wine educator?’ Oh, I’m Originally from Panama, sorry, am I not skilled enough Richards is a certified sommeto be that person who carries lier whose passion for wine the knowledge for you? I can’t was sparked while living in tell you how many times that’s Paris. After moving to New happened,” she said. “You York, she worked in public would think it would stop being relations and marketing in a shocking, but the crazy part is number of industries before just how shocking it is every pivoting to a career in wine. time. You wonder, ‘What exactDismayed by the lack of dily is it that makes you think I’m versity at trade events, Richards not that?’ ” and Calvert launched Hispanics Fernandez riffed on the in Wine on Instagram to spotGabriela Fernández, a Napa radio personality who hosts the “Big subject during a Dec. 10, 2020, light the contributions of this Sip” podcast, is a main driver of the Latinx Wine Summit. broadcast of the “Big Sip,” a underappreciated demographic. podcast series she hosts on The women now advocate on a ous generations. ing high school in St. Helena. Napa’s 99.3 FM The Vine radio larger scale with the nonprofit For instance, Melara said Her father, Juan, was a station. The series highlights, under the same name. he knew little of the Bracemigrant farmworker who in her words, the “Black and ro Program, which brought worked his way up over three Becoming part of the scene millions of Mexican workers decades to become cellar masbrown trailblazers, pioneers, risk takers, leaders and visionCalvert, originally from to the United States to address ter at Calistoga’s Clos Pegase aries” in the wine, food and art Ecuador, is a public relations a labor shortage during World Winery. While impressive, his worlds. consultant who advises startWar II. daughter feels he could have Her guests on the episode ups and established brands “I was like, in shock,” he gone further in his career if titled “It’s Never Too Late” across the country. She divides said. “You don’t know how given the chance. were Maria Calvert and her time between New York many times I cried when I “Unfortunately, he’s never Lydia Richards, both 34 and City and Washington, D.C. was listening. It was the same been given the opportunity co-founders of Hispanics in Richards recently relocated immigrant experience I had. I to advance beyond that since Wine, a national nonprofit that to Santa Barbara after accept- was reflecting on that.” he doesn't have a high school promotes Hispanic and Latino ing a job as a public relations As a boy, Melara’s family diploma or a college diploma, contributions in the wine and manager with Jackson Family fled El Salvador’s death squads and English is his second lanhospitality industries. Wines. for a safer life in California. guage,” Fernandez said. “But “Right now,” Fernandez Richards knows from expeOver time, he built a successhe knows the ins and outs and said on the 2020 podcast, “la rience how hard it is to break ful career in the hospitality details of the entire winemakconversación — the conversa- into the wine industry. She industry, including stints at ing process as great as anyone tion — is so profoundly being noted the expense of learning Guaymas in Tiburon, Sazon with a degree.” highlighted (that) we need to the trade — whether as a wine- Peruvian Restaurant in Santa Fernandez’s first taste of the amplify Black voices. We need maker, marketer or manager Rosa and at Alexander Valley’s wine business was at the age to amplify brown voices. We — and the relative low pay River Rock Casino, where he of 15 when she worked a few need to amplify all people of to start. But she’s proof that was the beverage manager. hours a week in the office at color, women, the LGBTQ+ with hard work and a humble Caymus Vineyards, where her Feeling seen by each other mother was — and still is — community.” attitude, success can blossom She continued, “People like buds on a vine. It just may Still, Melara, 59, has had to the human resources director. who normally haven’t had an not happen overnight. fight against stereotypes. He Fernandez earned a busiopportunity to operate in these “Wine is seen as incredibly described one recent incident ness degree with an emphasis spaces and say, ‘Hey, I love overwhelming to learn. People in which he took a small in marketing at St. Mary’s Colbeing a part of this industry come with assumptions that group of vineyard workers to lege in Moraga. But instead of and I deserve to exist and be it’s too complicated,” she a tasting room as part of their following her heart, she took shown in this industry, too.’ ” said. “But it’s like any other new employee orientation. As a job in corporate loss prevenindustry. You get trained and the group walked in, Melara tion, thinking that was more Sharing experiences you realize you don’t know perceived that guests at one of in line with what was expected The conversation continued everything.” the tables were staring at the of her as a first-generation in subsequent days over Zoom, The 2022 wine summit men with suspicion. American. during the height of the panincluded break-out sessions “They were like, ‘What are Her passions for wine and demic, and included Angela Mc- on building a legacy in wine, these people doing here?’ Like, family eventually led her back Crae, the founder of Uncorked persevering through challeng- we didn’t belong here,” Melara home. In addition to her work and Cultured, a Harlem-based es such as pandemics and an recalled. with Duckhorn, she produces media publication that connects allyship panel on diversity, Melara made a point of and hosts the morning show Black people to wine, wellness, equity and inclusion. At the introducing himself to the on Napa’s MegaMix Spanish culture and adventure. conclusion of the day, guests guests. He told them the wine language radio on 1440 AM / The four women eventually enjoyed a La Grand Cata wine they were enjoying was made 96.9 FM. Recently, she moved landed on a big idea: bringing tasting featuring more than by men just like those he had in with her partner in Sacratogether Latino members of 30 Latino and Hispanic wine brought to the winery. mento, which means her days the wine industry from across producers. “They put their glasses begin early and often end late. the country to share personal Roberto Melara, who down and started clapping,” Fernandez said she feels and professional experiences, attended the summit as the he said. pressure to be successful and bond with one another and, ul- bilingual wine educator for Fernandez described similar to always be “excelling.” But timately, feel seen and heard. Jackson Family Wines and frustrations as the eldest of more and more she’s trying to The Latinx Wine Summit who has four decades of expe- two children born to a father find grace for herself. debuted in 2021 and was held rience working in the beverfrom Mexico and a mother “It’s taking time for yourvirtually due to the pandemic. age and hospitality industry, from El Salvador. She grew self and unplugging, and if The December 2022 event drew said he was surprised at how up near Lake Berryessa, in it doesn’t go as fast as you more than 200 people to Napa’s much he learned about the eastern Napa County, before want it to, that’s OK, because RD Winery. The women are history and sacrifices of previ- moving to Angwin and attend- you’re still pushing the needle

forward,” she said. “It’s a marathon, Gabby. It’s not a race.” Despite her strong work ethic and rapid ascent in Napa Valley’s rarefied wine world, she still feels, on occasion, the sting of feeling like she has to prove herself as a young Latina over and over again. “We have to work twice as hard and come through twice as prepared just to be viewed as starting off on the same playing field, and that’s exhausting in and of itself,” she said. Thanks to events like the Latinx Wine Summit and growing awareness around equity and inclusion, the old ways of thinking and doing business in the wine industry are evermore dying on the vine, replaced by a new vigor and vision. One shining example of this new reality is 2022 summit presenter Miriam Puentes, who co-owns Sonoma’s Honrama Cellars with her husband, Juan. The winery celebrates Miriam’s father, Honorio Ramirez Mata, who brought his family to the United States from Mexico so he could find work in California’s fields, including Napa Valley’s vineyards. Charlie Wagner, of Caymus Vineyards, hired Ramirez Mata and eventually elevated him to cellar master of the storied winery. Ramirez Mata died in 1998 before producing his own label. Puentes and her husband decided to honor that legacy by starting Honrama Cellars in 2008. She said she was gratified to share the family’s story with wine summit guests. “It means a lot,” she said. “We are representing not just ourselves, and not just future generations, but the generations who were here before and built this amazing wine country. They were lost in the shadows.” At Honrama Cellars on a recent sun-dappled morning, Alejandra Martin poured glasses of 2017 cabernet sauvignon for Mike and Mechelle Tuttle, who were visiting from Colorado Springs. The wine retails for $48 a bottle. The couple are retired from the U.S. Army. Mike is a federal disaster resource specialist; Mechelle is a United Airlines pilot who flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner on international routes. Martin shared the story of Ramirez Mata coming to America, how he used to practice English in his truck after a hard day’s work at Caymus Vineyards, his untimely death and his daughter carrying on with his legacy. “That is the American dream,” Mike Tuttle said, raising his glass as a toast.

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“Tenemos que trabajar el doble y estar el doble de preparadas sólo para que nos consideren que empezamos en el mismo campo de juego, y eso ya es agotador de por sí”. GABRIELA FERNÁNDEZ, que siente, en ocasiones, el escozor de sentir que tiene que probarse a sí misma como una joven latina una y otra vez

VOCES CONTINUED FROM L9 La conversación continuó en los días siguientes a través de Zoom, durante el punto álgido de la pandemia, e incluyó a Angela McCrae, fundadora de Uncorked and Cultured, una publicación mediática con sede en Harlem que conecta a la población negra con el vino, el bienestar, la cultura y la aventura. Las cuatro mujeres llegaron a una gran idea: reunir a miembros latinos del sector vinícola de todo el país para compartir experiencias personales y profesionales, estrechar lazos entre ellos y, en definitiva, que se sientan vistos y escuchados. La Cumbre Latinx del Vino debutó en 2021 y se celebró virtualmente debido a la pandemia. El evento de diciembre de 2022 atrajo a más de 200 personas a la bodega RD Winery de Napa. Las mujeres tienen ahora la vista puesta en la primavera de 2024 para una reunión aún mayor. “Había tanta gente de ascendencia hispana y latina que casi se sentía raro”, dijo Richards, de Hispanics in Wine, sobre la cumbre de 2022. “No podía creer que ninguna organización o comunidad hubiera hecho esto antes”. Originaria de Panamá, Richards es una sumiller certificada (persona encargada de los vinos y licores en restaurantes de lujo) cuya pasión por el vino se despertó mientras vivía en París. Tras mudarse a Nueva York, trabajó en relaciones públicas y mercadeo en varios sectores antes de dedicarse al vino. Consternadas por la falta de diversidad en los eventos comerciales, Richards y Calvert lanzaron Hispanics in Wine en Instagram para destacar las contribuciones de este grupo demográfico subestimado. Las mujeres ahora abogan a mayor escala con la organización sin ánimo de lucro que lleva el mismo nombre.

Una parte de la escena Calvert, originaria de Ecuador, es una consultora de relaciones públicas que asesora a empresas emergentes y marcas establecidas en todo el país. Divide su tiempo entre la ciudad de Nueva York y Washington, D.C. Richards se mudó recientemente a Santa Bárbara tras aceptar un puesto de gerente de relaciones públicas en Jackson Family Wines. Richards sabe por experiencia lo difícil que es entrar en la industria vinícola. Destaca lo costoso que resulta aprender el oficio, ya sea como enólogo, comercializador o gestor, y lo relativamente poco que se paga al principio. Pero ella es la prueba de que, con trabajo duro y una actitud humilde, el éxito puede florecer como los capullos de una enredadera. Pero eso no ocurre de la noche a la mañana. “El vino se ve como algo increíblemente abrumador de aprender. La gente viene con la idea de que es demasiado complicado”, afirma. “Pero es como cualquier otro sector. Te formas y te das cuenta de que no lo sabes todo”. La cumbre del vino de 2022 incluyó sesiones sobre la construcción de un legado en el vino, la perseverancia ante retos como las pandemias y un panel de aliados sobre diversidad, equidad e inclusión. Al final de la jornada, los invitados disfrutaron de una degustación de vinos de La Grand Cata, en la que participaron más de 30 productores de vino latinos e hispanos. Roberto Melara, que asistió a la cumbre como educador bilingüe de vinos para Jackson Family Wines y que cuenta con cuatro décadas de experiencia trabajando en el sector de las bebidas y la hostelería, dijo que le sorprendió lo mucho que aprendió sobre la historia y los sacrificios de las generaciones anteriores. Por ejemplo, Melara dijo que sabía poco del Programa Bracero, que trajo a millones de trabajadores mexicanos a Estados Unidos para hacer frente a la escasez de mano de obra durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. “Estaba en estado de shock”, dijo. “No sabes cuántas veces lloré mientras escuchaba. Fue la misma experiencia de inmigrante que yo tuve. Estaba reflexionando sobre ello”. Cuando era niño, la familia de Melara huyó de los escuadrones de la muerte de El Salvador en busca de una vida más segura en California. Con el tiempo, construyó una carrera exitosa en la industria de la hostelería, incluyendo períodos en Guaymas en Tiburón, el restaurante peruano Sazón en Santa Rosa y en el River Rock Casino en Alexander Valley, donde fue gerente de bebidas.

‘No es una carrera’ Aun así, Melara, de 59 años, ha tenido que luchar contra los estereotipos. Describe un incidente reciente en el que llevó a un pequeño grupo de trabajadores de un viñedo a una sala de degustaciones como parte de su orientación como nuevos empleados. Cuando el grupo entró, Melara percibió que los comensales de una de las mesas

Roberto Melara es el educador de vinos y representante en el sitio de Jackson Family Wines. Hace una pausa el 21 de abril en la sala de degustación Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate and Gardens cerca de Santa Rosa. satisfecha de poder compartir la historia de su familia con los asistentes a la cumbre del vino. “Significa mucho”, afirma. “No sólo nos representamos a nosotros mismos, y no sólo a las generaciones futuras, sino también a las generaciones que estuvieron aquí antes y construyeron FOTOS DE CHAD SURMICK / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT esta increíble región vinícola. Se perdieron en la sombra”. Gabriela Fernández es la gerente de eventos comerciales y de mercadotecnia en En Honrama Cellars, una mañana reciDuckhorn Portfolio, que cotiza en bolsa, se incluye Migration Winery en Duckhorn ente bañada por el sol, Alejandra Martín Vineyards. Es una personalidad de la radio de Napa que presenta el podcast ‘Big Sip’ sirvió copas de cabernet sauvignon 2017 y una de las principales impulsoras de Latinx Wine Summit. a Mike y Mechelle Tuttle, que estaban de miraban a los hombres con recelo. bre de 2022, Miriam Puentes, copropivisita desde Colorado Springs. El vino “Decían: ‘¿Qué hace esta gente aquí? etaria de Honrama Cellars, en Sonoma, cuesta 48 dólares la botella. Como si no perteneciéramos a este junto con su marido, Juan. La pareja es jubilada del Ejército de lugar”, recuerda Melara. La bodega rinde homenaje al padre Estados Unidos. Mike es especialista Melara se presentó a los invitados. de Miriam, Honorio Ramírez Mata, qui- federal en recursos para catástrofes; Les dijo que el vino que estaban disen trajo a su familia a Estados Unidos Mechelle es piloto de United Airlines frutando era elaborado por hombres desde México para poder encontrar y vuela el Boeing 787 Dreamliner en como los que él había traído al viñedo. trabajo en los campos de California, rutas internacionales. “Bajaron sus copas y empezaron a incluidos los viñedos del valle de Napa. Martín compartió la historia de la lleaplaudir”, dijo. Charlie Wagner, de Caymus Vinegada de Ramírez Mata a Estados Unidos, Fernández describió frustraciones yards, contrató a Ramírez Mata y cómo solía practicar inglés en su camiosimilares siendo la mayor de dos hijos acabó ascendiéndolo a jefe de bodega. neta después de un duro día de trabajo en nacidos de padre mexicano y madre Ramírez Mata murió en 1998 antes de Caymus Vineyards, su prematura muerte salvadoreña. Creció cerca del lago producir su propia etiqueta. y su hija continuando con su legado. Berryessa, al este del condado de Napa, Puentes y su esposo decidieron “Ese es el sueño americano”, dijo antes de mudarse a Angwin y cursar la honrar su legado creando Honrama Mike Tuttle, levantando su copa para preparatoria en Santa Helena. Cellars en 2008. Puentes se mostró muy brindar. Su padre, Juan, era un trabajador agrícola migrante que se abrió paso durante tres décadas para convertirse en jefe de bodega en Clos Pegase Winery de Calistoga. Si bien es impresionante, su hija siente que podría haber llegado más lejos en su carrera si le hubieran dado la oportunidad. “Desafortunadamente, nunca se le ha permitido avanzar más allá de eso, ya que no tiene un diploma de escuela secundaria o un diploma universitario, y el inglés es su segundo idioma”, dijo Fernández. “Pero él conoce los enADDRESS: tresijos y los detalles de todo el proceso de elaboración del vino tan bien como 93 Stony Circle cualquier persona con un título”. El primer contacto de Fernández con Santa Rosa el negocio del vino fue a los 15 años, cuando ella trabajaba unas horas a la semana en la oficina de Caymus Vineyards, donde su madre era -y sigue siendo- la directora de recursos humanos. Fernández obtuvo un título en negocios con énfasis en mercadeo en St. Mary's College en Moraga. Pero en lugar de seguir su instinto, taceptó un trabajo en prevención de pérdidas corporativas, pensando que estaba más en línea con lo que se esperaba de ella como estadounidense de primera generación. Su pasión por el vino y la familia la llevaron de vuelta a casa. Además de Royalty Camp su trabajo con Duckhorn, produce y June 26th-30th presenta el programa matinal de la raOnce Upon a Time dio en español MegaMix de Napa, en el 1440 AM / 96.9 FM. Hace poco se mudó July 3rd-7th con su pareja a Sacramento, lo que sigAround the World nifica que sus días empiezan temprano July 10th-14th y a menudo terminan tarde. Fernández dice que siente la presión Survivor Camp de tener éxito y estar siempre “sobreJuly 17th-21st saliendo”. Pero cada vez más intenta Sports Camp encontrar la gracia para sí misma. July 24th-28th “Es tomarse tiempo para uno mismo y desconectarse, y si no marcha tan Vacation Bible School rápido como quieres, no pasa nada, GAMES July 31st-Aug. 4th porque sigues empujando la aguja hacia delante”, dice. “Es un maratón, CRAFTS Gabby. No es una carrera”. A pesar de su fuerte ética de trabajo FIELD TRIPS y su rápido ascenso en el enrarecido & FUN! mundo del vino del Valle de Napa, todavía siente, en ocasiones, que tiene que probarse a sí misma como una joven latina una y otra vez. “Tenemos que trabajar el doble y estar el doble de preparadas sólo para que nos consideren que empezamos en el mismo campo de juego, y eso ya es agotador de por sí”, afirma. Gracias a eventos como la Cumbre Latinx del Vino y a la creciente conciINTERESTED? 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family has operated the market and restaurant since 2009, and now has eight employees, not including the members of the family who work there. The market section of the store offers fresh fruits and vegetables, beverages, meats both cooked and raw, the makings for tamales and tortillas, a spice rack that is the envy of any chef, including a variety of chiles and bottled hot sauces,

n el condado Lake, los restaurantes de propietarios latinos llevan décadas ofreciendo a sus clientes hambrientos platos auténticos, desde comidas regionales vinculadas a sus países de origen hasta reconfortantes platos clásicos, pasando por todo lo demás. En cada restaurante hay sabores frescos que transportan a los visitantes a una tierra de color, cultura, historia y orgullo que recorre el camino que han hecho sus propietarios hasta llegar a donde están hoy. Algunos negocios empezaron como empresas familiares, mientras que otros fueron adquiridos cuando ya estaban establecidos en la comunidad. Aunque los menús varían, todos estos restaurantes tienen en común que cuentan con el respaldo de clientes fieles que vuelven por más. Middletown, la puerta de entrada al condado Lake, parece una postal perfecta rodeada de montañas y enclavada en el valle de Loconoma. No hace mucho, tanto el Monte Santa Helena como la Montaña Cobb estaban cubiertos de nieve a principios de la primavera. Yuxtapuestos al paisaje nevado con nubes blancas ligeras, los árboles de pera sin fruto están en plena floración resplandeciente. Delicadas flores se dispersan con elegancia frente a las antiguas fachadas del pueblo, algunas con el mismo aspecto que tenían en 1870, cuando el pueblo comenzó con una taberna y un hotel. El Mercado y restaurante mexicano Rosales se ha convertido en un lugar de paso obligado para muchos lugareños. Armando Rosales y Verónica son los hermanos propietarios que lo dirigen junto a su padre, Armando Rosales sénior, el chef. La familia ha operado el mercado y el restaurante desde 2009, y cuenta con 8 empleados, sin incluir a los miembros de la familia que trabajan allí. La sección de mercado ofrece frutas y verduras frescas, bebidas, carnes cocidas y crudas, ingredientes para tamales y tortillas, un estante de especias que es la envidia de cualquier chef, incluyendo una variedad de chiles y salsas picantes embotelladas, queso Cotija, dulces mexicanos y chips especiales como Takis, así como muchos otros suministros de pícnic. También ofrecen panes recién horneados y repostería tradicional como conchas, pochitos y más entregados desde Vallejo. Además, tienen servicio de comida para eventos. “Nos gusta que nuestros clientes prueben comidas nuevas y tradicionales”. dijo Rosales hijo. Los hermanos Rosales afirman que les encanta llevar el negocio. Disfrutan las visitas de los clientes habituales y de los recién llegados que pasan por el condado Lake.

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Esther Rosales and her husband, Armando Rosales Jr., own and operate Beulah’s Kitchen in Middletown. Their family also owns Rosales Market and Mexican Restaurant.

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n Lake County, Latinoowned restaurants have been offering hungry patrons authentic dishes for decades, from regional dishes tied to home countries to classic comfort foods, and everything in between. Tucked into each restaurant are fresh-made flavors to be savored in establishments that transport visitors to a land of color, culture, history and pride in the owners’ journey to where they are today. Some businesses began as family ventures, while others were taken over after they were already established in the community. Although the menus vary, a common thread among all the businesses is that they are backed by loyal customers who keep coming back for more. Middletown, the gateway to Lake County, looks postcard-perfect surrounded by mountains and nestled in the Loconoma Valley. Not too long ago, both Mount St. Helena and Cobb Mountain were cloaked with snow in early springtime. Juxtaposed with snowy scenery and cirrus clouds, fruitless

Jesus Mendez brings customers their food April 28 at La Chilanguita Mexican Restaurant in Clearlake. Mendez, along with his wife, Denisse Herrera, and her parents, Alicia Montalvo and Galdino Marín, opened the restaurant on Lakeshore Boulevard. pear trees are in full resplendent bloom. Delicate blossoms disperse elegantly in front of the town's old storefronts, some looking as they did in 1870 when the town first began with a saloon and hotel. Rosales Market and Mexican Restaurant has become a one-stop shop for many locals. Armando Jr. and Veronica are siblings and owners who run both the market and restaurant along with their father, Armando Rosales Sr., the chef. The

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Veronica Rosales cleans up the dining room area on April 28 at Rosales Market and Mexican Restaurant in Middletown.

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“We love explaining our menu and the meaning behind it to our customers who have never tried those foods and they get excited when we suggest a dish.” DENISSE HERRERA, who owns La Chilanguita Mexican Restaurant with her husband and parents

PATRONS CONTINUED FROM L12 Cotija cheese, Mexican candies and specialty chips like Takis, as well as many other picnic supplies. They also offer fresh baked breads and traditional pastries such as conchas, pochitos and more delivered from Vallejo. Plus, catering. “We like to introduce our customers to new and traditional foods,” Rosales Jr. said. The Rosales siblings said they love running the business. They enjoy visiting with regulars and newcomers who come through Lake County. Veronica hopes to expand on the catering aspect of the businesses by opening her own catering company for the community. The community stepped up and supported the family-owned businesses when they offered curbside pickup while restaurant dining rooms were shuttered during the height of COVID-19 in 2020. Along with food offerings, the atmosphere is something special. The walls of Rosales Market and Mexican Restaurant are cheery, ornamented with Mexican art that depicts their proud culture with piñatas and paintings. One artwork depicts the colorful “Danza de los Viejitos,” a traditional folk dance in Michoacán, Mexico, that celebrates and honors the elders of their heritage. “We appreciate our old people and were taught to value elders and continue their work,” Veronica said. The siblings have always been hard workers. Growing up, they attended Middletown Unified School District from grades K-12, then helped out the market and restaurant when their parents owned it. The family moved to the Los Angeles area in 1989 from the state of Nayarit, Mexico, when the siblings were tiny tots.

IF YOU GO In Lake County, Latino-owned restaurants have been offering hungry patrons authentic dishes for decades, from regional dishes tied to home countries to classic comfort foods, and everything in between. Tucked into each restaurant are fresh-made flavors to be savored in establishments that transport visitors to a land of color, culture, history and pride in the owners’ journey to where they are today. Rosales Market and Mexican Restaurant Location: 21178 Calistoga Road, Middletown Hours: 8 a.m.- 8 p.m., Sunday to Thursday; 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday to Saturday More information: 707-987-9416, facebook.com/people/RosalesMarket/100039106196205 Beulah’s Kitchen Location: 21147 CA-29, Middletown Hours: 7 a.m.-1:45 p.m., Friday to Tuesday; closed Wednesday and Thursday More information: 707-987-0473, yelp.com/biz/beulahs-kitchenmiddletown-2 La Chilanguita Mexican Restaurant Location: 15165 Lakeshore Drive, Clearlake Hours: 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Thursday to Tuesday; closed Wednesday More information: mexicanrestaurantclearlake.com Studebakers Coffee House & Deli Location: 3990 Main Street, Kelseyville Hours: 6 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday to Friday; 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday More information: 707-279-8862, studebakerscoffee.com They finally settled in Lake County in 1996. The family wanted to open a restaurant to give the community a taste of

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Itzia Rico is the owner of Studebakers Coffee House & Deli in Kelseyville.

Esther and Armando Rosales Jr. operate Beulah’s Kitchen in Middletown. Nayarit, where they are known for seafood dishes. Their parents and ran the businesses for 13 years before their children took over in May 2022. The tastes of the Rosales’ home country are found in their dishes. The dine-in restaurant has ample seating and take-out is available. The Mexican dishes they serve include pozole, tortilla soup, quesabirrias, tacos and enchiladas. Their menu also includes grilled cheese, garlic fries and onion rings.

The family also runs a second establishment, Beulah’s Kitchen, just down the road and next door to the Middletown Art Center. The restaurant serves American breakfast and lunch only. Matriarch of the family, Esther Rosales runs the quaint and small wood-shingle eatery. Her sister Betty Caldera and her sons work at Beulah’s as well. “It’s great that everyone loves our food,” said Armando Sr. “We can’t go anywhere without someone recognizing us and giving a good word.”

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La Chilanguita Mexican Restaurant, in Clearlake, is situated near the waters of the famed and full Clear Lake. The restaurant’s name, La Chilanguita, is slang and means “a woman raised in Mexico City,” something both owners relate to. The owners are Denisse Herrera, her husband, Jesus Mendez, and her parents, Alicia

Montalvo and Galdino Marín. All four actively participate in the business. Herrera’s parents are in charge of prepping and cooking most of the food, while Mendez fills in as a cook and waiter when needed. Herrera handles all of the business side of the operation like paperwork, promotion and finances. She also prepares and cooks food, plus is a server. “The chef is my mother. She is Latina born in Mexico City, and the food she cooks for our restaurant is culture brought from her hometown,” Herrera said. Herrera’s parents made the move from Mexico City to Lake County to join other family members in 1996. Mexico City is located in a valley called the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt where the landscape is surrounded by volcanoes and mountains, which undoubtedly made the family feel at home with Lake County’s Mount Konocti volcano nearby. TURN TO PATRONS » PAGE L14

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teachers, counselors, principals and peers come in and support us. That’s an amazing feeling.” CONTINUED FROM L13 Herrera said the most popuThe restaurant is painted lar dishes are the Quesadillas spring green on the exterior, so de Masa, Quesadilla de Tinga visitors can’t miss it. Mexican and the Quesadilla de Hongos music plays quietly in the con Rajas. The handmade corn background, and the many quesadillas are stuffed with large windows give the space meat or veggies, deep fried an open feel. The walls of La and garnished with lettuce, Chilanguita are festooned with queso fresco, sour cream and the Mexican flag, T-shirts, salsa. They are also wellsombreros and Mexican-style known for their gorditas and paintings. There’s one piece huaraches. The menu includes that depicts Mexican artist appetizers, salads, soups and a Frida Kahlo. kids’ menu. The restaurant, a fairly Herrera’s two girls, Itzia, 7, recent culinary addition to the and Diana, 5, sometimes visit county, made its grand opening the restaurant and will greet during the height of the global customers that stop in. pandemic. Luckily the owners “Through all this I pray they were able to shift away from grow up to learn what hard indoor dining. work and dedication is and “We opened Nov. 26, 2020. that they know that whatever Three days after we opened they put their mind and whole we were told to shut down all heart into, they will be able to indoor dining due to COVID succeed,” Herrera said. “I hope rising in our area. So we relied this business we created can on patio dining and a lot of tobe something they can run togo orders,” Herrera said. gether in the future so that they The owners stayed strong may also continue giving back and found loyal customers. and providing employment to “It has been an amazing our family and community.” experience from the beginning Studebakers Coffee seeing how much support we House & Deli have received throughout the community. Since our food is The vibe at Studebakers more Mexico City style food, Coffee House & Deli is conwe thought we would only get vivial and cozy. Meals can be Latino customers, but surenjoyed al fresco for those prisingly and amazingly it has craving some spring sunshine been the other way around,” or inside the compact, but Herrera said. “We love explain- comfortable, coffee house. It’s ing our menu and the meaning a hive of activity layered with behind it to our customers who the sounds of conversation, have never tried those foods espresso steaming and beans and they get excited when we grinding. There’s the aroma of suggest a dish.” baked goods wafting about the The support goes beyond establishment as owner and customers supporting La Chimanager Itzia Rico’s mother, languita Mexican Restaurant Maria Perez, bakes cookies and with their wallet; local leaders prepares food for the deli. are also singing their praises. Locals grab a cup of joe to “I have had the privilege of go. Some visitors buy a sanddoing various interviews and wich and beverage after a hike being a guest speaker for clubs at nearby Mount Konocti or like the Rotary Club and the after camping in Kelseyville’s Chamber of Commerce. I have Clear Lake State Park. received so much support from “She has golden hands. She them as well,” Herrera said. “I can cook anything,” said Rico feel like we have been support- of her mother’s baking. ed not only as business owners Rico and her parents made but also as Latinos in our the move to California from community, and being raised Michoacán, Mexico, when she in Lake County since I was was 4. She was living in Boon3 years old, I’ve had previous eville before moving to Lake

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Siblings Lannette and Rob Huffman cool off with beverages April 28 at Studebakers Coffee House & Deli in Kelseyville. Itzia Rico purchased Studebakers in 2007. County in 2005. “We inherited the successful menu from the original Studebakers owners, Nancy Yost and Louann Bauer, who named the business, then sold it to Russ Shupert. Russ taught me to enjoy coffee, since I wasn't allowed to drink it when I was young,” Rico said of her time working as an employee of the coffee house and deli in 2007. At the time, Rico was attending Mendocino College and living in Booneville while trying to decide which career path would be best for her. She decided that the restaurant business was a good fit for her, so Rico purchased Studebakers Coffee House & Deli in 2007 using her savings and with help from her parents, who refinanced their home to help buy the eatery. During the first 10 years of her then-new business her two sisters, Sulema and Aide Perez, worked alongside her. Sulema still helps out wherever she's needed, and Rico’s goddaughter, Sandra Cruz, has co-managed the business since the pandemic began. Rico also

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hires local students. “I feel that being a business owner allows me to get to know our community. If it weren’t for me working here I wouldn’t have gotten to have such a deep connection,” she said. “I’ve loved watching our local youth grow up. It’s rewarding.” Rico’s reason for adhering to the original menu, rather than prepare Mexican food, was to avoid competition or overlap with Carmelita’s Cocina, a Mexican restaurant just down the street that is owned by her husband’s cousins, George and Marcy Arredondo. Vibrant local art garnishes the walls, including work from Lake County artist Annette Higday. The deli has mugs, hats and shirts available to purchase. Rico’s brother, Rafael Perez, is the barista. The business has about seven to 10 other employees. “My brother Rafael has just been a huge part of helping me to be able to continue. He's a huge support. Anything I need him to do, last minute, or paperwork, he’s always smil-

ing. He’s just amazing. I feel blessed,” she said. Items on the Studebakers Coffee House & Deli menu include breakfast burritos, and croissants with egg, ham and cheese. There are bagels with egg, tomato, spinach and avocado, and lots of fresh baked goods. For lunch, they have salads and sandwiches like the grilled chicken sandwich, grilled cheese and a pancetta custom sandwich. Each of these four establishments has its unique attributes ranging from decor to food, while the common denominator throughout them all is community and family support. Each business highlights the hospitable establishments created and run by Latinos in Lake County, whether it is Middletown, Clearlake or Kelseyville. Through new beginnings in a new country to the hardships that came with the pandemic, it’s heartening to know these businesses, and the stories behind them, contribute to the hospitality industry in Lake County.

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ty,” said John Solis, 37, assistant manager of housekeeping at Vintners Resort in Santa Rosa. “We make this industry better.” Solis got his foot in the door

n el último recuento, el condado de Sonoma contaba con unas 6.600 habitaciones de hotel y 2.500 espacios recreativos disponibles para los huéspedes que desean pasar la noche, según Turismo del Condado de Sonoma. La mayoría de expertos del sector coinciden en que estos lugares no podrían seguir abiertos sin los latinos. Aunque no existen cifras oficiales sobre el desglose étnico de los trabajadores de hostelería en el condado, las personas de ascendencia latina trabajan en casi todas las funciones: gerentes generales, asociados de recepción, conserjes, limpieza, servicio de alimentos, técnicos de lavandería, masajistas y más. Dicho de otro modo, los latinos se han convertido en una parte fundamental del negocio turístico del condado. Cuando no están supervisando las operaciones cotidianas de hoteles y alquileres vacacionales, ayudan a dar forma al sector manteniéndose al tanto de las últimas tendencias, ofreciendo nuevas ofertas o ideas para generar más negocios y prestando un servicio único. “No importa cómo se mire, somos una gran parte de la industria hotelera en este condado”, dijo John Solis, de 37 años, subgerente de limpieza en Vintners Resort en Santa Rosa. “Nosotros hacemos que esta industria sea mejor”. Solís entró a la industria hotelera cuando empezó a trabajar en Montage Healdsburg, donde comenzó como coordinador, y luego fue ascendiendo hasta llegar a un puesto directivo en el que supervisaba a un grupo de 46 personas y estaba a cargo de 150 habitaciones. “Nunca imaginé que esta fuera mi pasión. Llegar a dirigir un equipo como una máquina bien engrasada”, dijo. “Por encima de todo, mi objetivo final es ofrecer a los huéspedes la mejor experiencia posible. Esto me llevó a trabajar en Vintners Resort”. Solís se incorporó al equipo de hostelería de Vintners Resort en octubre de 2022, como parte del esfuerzo del complejo por aumentar su personal tras la disminución del turismo en todo el condado a raíz del COVID-19. Dijo que se enorgullece de hacer lo mejor para que los visitantes tengan una gran experiencia cuando se alojan. “Me gusta ofrecer un servicio que

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Rosa Salgado is director of housekeeping at all three Piazza Hospitality properties in Healdsburg: the Hotel Healdsburg, h2hotel and Harmon Guest House.

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t last count, Sonoma County had around 6,600 hotel rooms and 2,500 recreational spaces available for overnight guests, according to Sonoma County Tourism. Most hospitality industry experts agree these places couldn’t stay open without Latinos. While there are no formal numbers on the ethnic breakdown of hospitality workers in the county, people of Latino descent work in just about every capacity: General managers, front desk associates, concierge, housekeeping, food service, laundry technicians, massage therapists and more. Put differently, Latinos have become a critical part of the county’s tourism business. When they’re not overseeing day-to-day operations of hotels and vacation rentals, they’re

Brian Montanez is the co-founder of Beaux Maison Estates, a vacation rental management company. He pauses April 20 in Sonoma. helping to shape the industry by staying on top of trends by offering new specials or ideas to generate business, and delivering one-of-a-kind service. “No matter how you think about it, we are a huge part of the hotel industry in this coun-

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Maribel Garcia works on April 21 at Hotel Healdsburg. Garcia is part of the hotel staff overseen by Rosa Salgado. Salgado said she speaks Spanish almost all the time at work, since almost all her employees speak it as their first language. She added that five team members are bilingual, which is helpful when interacting with guests.

HOTELS CONTINUED FROM L15 of the hospitality industry when he started working at Montage Healdsburg where he started out as a coordinator, then he worked his way up to a management position where he was in charge of a group of 46 people and oversaw 150 rooms. “Little did I know that this would be my ultimate passion. To get to run a team like a well-oiled machine,” he said. “Above all my ultimate goal to give guests the most perfect experience that one can get. Thus this led me into working at Vintners Resort.” Solis joined the hospitality team at Vintners Resort in October 2022 — he was part of the resort’s push to staff up following the countywide tourism slowdown from COVID-19. He said he takes great pride in making sure visitors have a great experience when they stay. “I like to provide the service that makes guests go, ‘Wow!’ as soon as they enter the room,” he said. “I believe we Brian Montanez is the co-founder of Beaux Maison Estates, a vacation rental management company. He said he wouldn’t have even work as if we’re leaving our considered starting the business without support from members of the local Mexican community. names there. We provide the best possible service we can Piazza Hospitality properdepartment at Piazza goes and her 18- and 15-year-old handle pool issues. They are provide for every guest we ties in Healdsburg: the Hotel beyond their responsibilities sons Omar and Angel strip on call for emergencies. come across. We strive for Healdsburg, h2hotel and Harat work. During summer, for linens from rooms across all “The Latino workforce is the quality.” mon Guest House in 2014. She instance, the team and their three properties. Her sister, heart of any successful lodgSolis, whose parents hail runs the laundry program. families get together for barYemi Saldago, also works in ing or culinary operation in from Monterey and Zacatecas, She also pitches in to support becues where they make carne the Healdsburg hospitality Sonoma County — I guarantee Mexico, has a pretty straightservers and managers at two asada. And every time one of industry: She is a line cook at the most integral staff memforward routine. He arrives of the company restaurants: her employees returns to their the Madrona. ber of any vacation rental or every morning by 7:30 a.m., Pizzando at Hotel Healdsburg native Mexico, they bring her “Our family is grateful for hotel is of Spanish descent or turns on the computer in his and the Rooftop at Harmon back fancy tequila. these opportunities,” she said. immigrated here from Mexioffice and takes a look at data Guest House. “There are big examples and “We feel a real connection (to co,” he said. that shows occupancy rates, “I work wherever I’m small examples — our culture these hotels).” Montanez added that he emarrivals and departures. From needed,” she said. “I feel it is is part of it all,” Salgado said. braces his Mexican heritage Running vacation rentals to establish a stronger bond there, he assembles what he my job to provide guests with Overall, Salgado is responcalls his “strike force team” to a great experience here. I love sible for cleaning 131 total Vacation rentals also repwith his Spanish-speaking flip rooms in a timely manner. helping people.” rooms: 56 at Hotel Healdsburg, resent a growing part of the colleagues, using their first The team comprises 30 Overall, Salgado has worked 36 at h2hotel and 39 at Hartourism industry in Sonoma language even if he doesn’t people — most of whom are at Piazza for more than five mon. As part of the high-touch County, and Latinos have a properly conjugate the verbs. Latino — who work on the 78 years. She was hired as a housekeeping services Piazza huge impact in that segment “It may sound small, but I rooms and suites at Vintners busser at Spoonbar! and trans- provides, Salgado’s team of the market, too. There are can tell it brings us closer,” he Resort. ferred almost immediately also offers turndown service over 2,000 permitted vacation said. “They want to hear more Once Solis has drawn up to housekeeping, where she at 6 p.m., which includes an rentals in Sonoma County, of my family background assignments, he calls a team received on-the-job training adjustment of the bedsheets, according to county data. vice versa. We'll share stories, meeting to review specific and rose through the ranks. as well as bedside chocolates Brian Montanez, 34, has favorite musicians, athletes requests. One guest might Today she oversees a team or cookies. worked in the hospitality and even recipes. Tacos de want feather pillows, another of 36 — including several In her capacity as head of industry for 16 years. He used nopales are now a staple in my may want extra drinks. After women who have been housethe laundry program, Salgado to be general manager at El household.” providing team members with keepers since Hotel Healdsmakes sure towels and linens Dorado Hotel and Kitchen on As Montanez looks to build a pep talk, Solis dispatches the burg opened in 2001. are removed from rooms daily. the Sonoma Plaza. His family his business and bring in more group to get to work. Most of Salgado, whose family is They are transported to an is originally from Mexico. He multimillion-dollar homes these communications are in from Acapulco, Mexico, said off-site facility on Grove Street recently started a long-term into his portfolio, he said he Spanish. she speaks Spanish almost all where they are washed and vacation rental management doesn’t expect to grow without “We speak more Spanish the time at work, since almost returned to their respective company named Beaux the help of Latino workers. than English,” Solis said. “It’s all her employees speak it as properties. Maison Estates, and said he “Working alongside my Latilike a bond we have. It’s part their first language. She added Salgado isn’t the only mem- wouldn’t have even considered no counterparts goes beyond of the experience. It’s how we that five team members are bi- ber of her family to work for doing so without support from just getting the job at hand do what we do.” lingual, which is helpful when Piazza; all four of her children members of the local Mexican done,” he said. “Building these interacting with guests or work at the hotels, as well. community. bonds through common interRunning the show translating communications Her 17-year-old daughter Specifically, employees of ests and culture is important. In Healdsburg, Rosa Salgado from the front desk or compa- Lupita works as a host at Pizthe new company clean and The town of Sonoma was built has a similar story. ny management. zando, her 23-year-old daughrestock vacation homes in the on Mexican heritage and so Salgado, 40, is director of The connection between ter Jasmine works at the front Beaux Maison program. They are many relationships in our housekeeping at all three Salgado and the housekeeping desk at Hotel Healdsburg, manage landscaping. They industry.”

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“No importa cómo se mire, somos una gran parte de la industria hotelera en este condado. Nosotros hacemos que esta industria sea mejor”. JOHN SOLIS, 37, subgerente de limpieza en Vintners Resort en Santa Rosa

PERSONAS CONTINUED FROM L15 haga que los huéspedes se queden boquiabiertos nada más al entrar en la habitación”, dijo. “Creo que trabajamos como si dejáramos nuestros nombres allí. Prestamos el mejor servicio posible a cada huésped con el que nos cruzamos. Nos esforzamos por la calidad”. Solís, cuyos padres provienen de Monterrey y Zacatecas, México, tiene una rutina bastante sencilla. Llega todas las mañanas a las 7:30 a.m., enciende la computadora en su oficina y echa un vistazo a los datos que muestran la ocupación de habitaciones, las llegadas y las salidas. A partir de ahí, reúne lo que él llama su “equipo de fuerza de ataque” para cambiar las habitaciones de manera oportuna. El equipo está compuesto por 30 personas, la mayoría de las cuales son latinos, y trabajan en las 78 habitaciones y suites de Vintners Resort. Una vez que Solís ha entregado las asignaciones, convoca a una reunión de equipo para revisar las peticiones concretas. Un huésped puede querer almohadas de plumas, otro desea bebidas extra. Tras animar a los miembros del equipo, Solís envía al grupo a trabajar. La mayoría de estas comunicaciones se realizan en español. “Hablamos más español que inglés”, dice Solís. “Es como un vínculo que nos une. Forma parte de la experiencia. Así hacemos lo que hacemos”.

Dirigiendo el espectáculo En Healdsburg, la historia de Rosa Salgado es parecida. Salgado, 40, es la directora de limpieza de las tres propiedades de Piazza Hospitality en Healdsburg: el Hotel Healdsburg, h2hotel y Harmon Guest House. Ella dirige el programa de lavandería. También ayuda a los camareros y gerentes

de dos de los restaurantes de la empresa: Pizzando en el Hotel Healdsburg y Rooftop en Harmon Guest House. Todas las propiedades de Piazza son famosas por su servicio al cliente y Salgado es una parte importante de ello. “Trabajo donde me necesiten”, dice. “Siento que mi trabajo es ofrecer a los huéspedes una gran experiencia. Me encanta ayudar a la gente”. Salgado lleva más de cinco años trabajando en Piazza. Fue contratada como ayudante de camarera en Spoonbar y transferida casi de inmediato al servicio de limpieza, donde recibió capacitación y ascendió de rango. Hoy supervisa un equipo de 36 personas, entre ellas varias mujeres que han sido amas de llaves desde la apertura del Hotel Healdsburg en 2001. Salgado, cuya familia es de Acapulco, México, dice que habla español casi todo el tiempo en el trabajo, ya que casi todos sus empleados lo hablan como primera lengua. Añadió que cinco miembros del equipo son bilingües, lo que resulta útil a la hora de interactuar con los huéspedes o traducir las comunicaciones de la recepción o la dirección de la empresa. La conexión entre Salgado y el departamento de limpieza de Piazza va más allá de sus responsabilidades laborales. En verano, por ejemplo, el equipo y sus familias se reúnen para hacer barbacoas en las que preparan carne asada. Y cada vez que alguno de sus empleados regresa a su México natal, le trae un buen tequila. “Hay ejemplos grandes y pequeños: nuestra cultura forma parte de todo ello”, afirma Salgado. En total, Salgado es responsable de la limpieza de 131 habitaciones: 56 en el Hotel Healdsburg, 36 en el h2hotel y 39 en el Harmon. Como parte de los servicios de limpieza de alto nivel que ofrece Piazza, el equipo de Salgado también

empresa de gestión de alquileres vacacionales de larga duración llamada Beaux Maison Estates, y dijo que ni siquiera se habría planteado hacerlo sin el apoyo de los miembros de la comunidad mexicana local. Específicamente, los empleados de la nueva empresa limpian y reponen casas de vacaciones en el programa Beaux Maison. Ellos manejan la jardinería. Se encargan de los problemas de la piscina. Están de guardia para emergencias. “La fuerza laboral latina es el corazón de cualquier operación gastronómica o de alojamiento exitosa en el condado de Sonoma. Les garantizo que el miembro integral del personal de cualquier alquiler de vacaciones u hotel es de ascendencia hispana o inmigró aquí desde México”, dijo. CHRISTOPHER CHUNG / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Montanez añadió que adopta su herencia mexicana para Rosa Salgado es director de limpieza en las tres propiedades de establecer un vínculo más Piazza Hospitality en Healdsburg: el Hotel Healdsburg, h2hotel y fuerte con sus colegas hispanoHarmon Guest House. hablantes, utilizando su lengua proporciona un servicio de tres hoteles. Su hermana, Yemi materna, aunque no conjugue limpieza a las 6 de la tarde, que Saldago, también trabaja en la correctamente los verbos. incluye un arreglo de sábanas, hostelería de Healdsburg: Es “Puede parecer poca cosa, así como dejar chocolates o cocinera en el Madrona. pero me doy cuenta de que nos galletas junto a las camas. “Nuestra familia está acerca”, dice. “Quieren saber Como responsable del proagradecida por estas oportuni- más de mi familia y vicevergrama de lavandería, Salgado dades”, afirma. “Sentimos una sa. Compartimos historias, se asegura de que las toallas verdadera conexión (con estos músicos favoritos, deportistas y la ropa de cama se retiren hoteles)”. e incluso recetas. Los tacos de diariamente de las habitanopales son ahora un plato Casas de vacaciones ciones. Se transportan a unas estrella en mi casa”. instalaciones externas en la Los alquileres vacacionaMientras Montanez busca calle Grove, donde se lavan y les también representan una construir su negocio y traer se devuelven a sus respectivas parte creciente de la industria más casas de millones de propiedades. turística en el condado de dólares a su portafolio, dijo Salgado no es la única Sonoma, y los latinos de igual que no espera crecer sin la integrante de su familia que forma tienen un gran impacto ayuda de los trabajadores trabaja para Piazza, sus cuatro en ese segmento del mercado. latinos. hijos también laboran en los Hay más de 2.000 alquileres “Trabajar junto a mis paihoteles. vacacionales permitidos en sanos latinos va más allá de Su hija Lupita, de 17 años, el condado de Sonoma, según hacer el trabajo que tenemos a trabaja como hostess o redatos del condado. cargo”, dijo. “Crear estos lazos cepcionista en el restaurante Brian Montanez, de 34 años, a través de intereses y cultura Pizzando, su hija Jasmine, de lleva 16 trabajando en el sector comunes es importante. La ci23 años, trabaja en la recepde la hostelería. Fue director udad de Sonoma se construyó ción del Hotel Healdsburg, y general del Hotel y Cocina El sobre la herencia mexicana y sus hijos Omar y Ángel, de 18 Dorado, en la plaza de Sonolo mismo ocurre con muchas y 15 años, retiran la ropa de ma. Su familia es originaria de relaciones en nuestra inducama de las habitaciones de los México. Hace poco creó una stria.”

¡Siga a la familia Lopez mientras aspiran por hacer que su nuevo hogar sea más eﬁciente energéticamente!

MANA NA R EL PO

R AH ORRA

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Hermanas Cejas siguen una pasión por el vino By SUZIE RODRIGUEZ FOR THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

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Armando Ceja with his daughters Ellie, left, and Belén on April 19 at Heirs of My Dream Winery and custom crush facility in Sonoma. The winery has 32 acres dedicated to chardonnay and pinot noir grapes.

Ceja sisters are grateful passion was passed down Siblings run Heirs of My Dream Winery, a custom crush operation that produces wine for local makers

you keep moving forward to make people in the past proud of you the way you’re proud of or more than half a centhem. I love that I get to follow tury, three generations what they’ve done.” of Sonoma’s Ceja family Belén feels the same. “My have played a growing role in grandparents, my parents — the local wine industry, transi- they worked so hard ... and gave tioning over the decades from us so much. Continuing in their grape harvesters to vineyard footsteps is an inspiration.” owners to winery owners and Heirs of My Dream Winery winemakers at Ceja Vineyards. — the family calls it Heirs The family’s story of success Winery for short — is serenely has been propelled not only nestled on 40 acres of prime by hard hands-on work and Carneros property, with 32 unflagging determination, but acres planted to chardonnay also by strong family support and pinot noir grapes. The site and shared dreams. offers stunning vineyard views That’s why third-generation that stretch for miles toward sisters Belén, 35, and Ellie, 30, San Pablo Bay, plus a kidneynamed their Sonoma Carneros shaped lake, garden areas enterprise Heirs of My Dream with plenty of seating and an Winery. unusual diversity of wine“I feel so lucky to share in my centered experiences. family’s dream in this way,” ElHeirs of My Dream Winery lie said. “You respect all those generations of hard work, and TURN TO SISTERS » PAGE L19

By SUZIE RODRIGUEZ FOR THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

IF YOU GO Heirs of My Dream Winery is serenely nestled on 40 acres of prime Carneros property, with 32 acres planted to chardonnay and pinot noir grapes. The Sonoma site offers stunning vineyard views that stretch for miles toward San Pablo Bay, plus a kidney-shaped lake, garden areas with plenty of seating and an unusual diversity of wine-centered experiences. Heirs of My Dream Winery is first and foremost a custom crush operation, producing wine for a variety of customers who don’t have their own winemaking facilities. Location: 22985 Burndale Road, Building B, Sonoma Hours: 7 a.m.- 3 p.m., Monday toSaturday; closed Sunday More information: 707-721-1780, heirswinery.com

or más de medio siglo, tres generaciones de la familia Ceja de Sonoma han desempeñado un papel cada vez más importante en la industria vinícola local, pasando por décadas como recolectores de uvas, a propietarios de viñedos y de bodegas a enólogos en Ceja Vineyards. La historia de éxito de la familia se ha visto impulsada no sólo por un duro trabajo práctico y una determinación inquebrantable, sino también por el fuerte apoyo familiar y los sueños compartidos. Es por eso que las hermanas de tercera generación Belén, de 35 años, y Ellie, de 30, nombraron a su empresa en Sonoma Carneros Heirs of My Dream Winery (Bodega Herederas de Mi Sueño). “Me siento muy afortunada de compartir el sueño de mi familia de esta manera”, dice Ellie. “Respetas todas esas generaciones de trabajo duro y sigues avanzando para que tus antepasados se sientan orgullosos de ti como tú te sientes orgullosa de ellos. Me encanta poder seguir lo que han hecho”. Belén piensa lo mismo. “Mis abuelos, mis padres... trabajaron tan duro ... y nos dieron tanto que seguir sus pasos es una inspiración”. Heirs of My Dream Winery, llamada por la familia Heirs Winery para abreviar, se encuentra serenamente ubicada en 40 acres de propiedad de primer nivel en Carneros, con 32 acres plantados con uvas chardonnay y pinot noir. El sitio ofrece impresionantes vistas de viñedos que se extienden por millas hacia la Bahía de San Pablo, un lago en forma de riñón, áreas de jardín con muchos asientos y una diversidad inusual de experiencias centradas en el vino. Heirs of My Dream Winery es, ante todo, una bodega que ofrece una operación personalizada de molienda de uva para producir vino para clientes que no tienen sus propias instalaciones. Uno de esos clientes es Philip Staehle, fundador y enólogo de Enkidu Wine, ganador de medalla de oro en el “Desafío del Vino de la Costa Norte” de 2020. “Es maravilloso trabajar con Belén y Ellie”, dijo Staehle. “Básicamente me han permitido hacer todo el trabajo que quiero en mis vinos. He tenido mucha más libertad en Heirs Winery que en cualquier otro centro de prensado”. Belén es la directora de producción de vino, trabaja estrechamente con los clientes de prensado personalizado, mientras que Ellie dirige los eventos y supervisa el mantenimiento de la bodega. Así es como funciona oficialmente, en cualquier caso ambas hermanas son conocidas por trabajar en lo que se necesite. La bodega tiene cinco empleados de tiempo completo -siete, incluidas Belén y Ellie- y contratan de tres a cinco trabajadores por temporadas. Pero la Bodega Herederas de mi Sueño también se ha convertido en un destino con varias posibilidades ofreciéndole a los visitantes diversas experiencias en múltiples lugares. Por ejemplo, en la degustación colectiva se pueden probar vinos de TURN TO CEJA » PAGE L20

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“My grandparents, my parents — they worked so hard ... and gave us so much. Continuing in their footsteps is an inspiration.” BELÉN CEJA, director of wine production at Heirs of My Dream Winery in Sonoma

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Ellie Ceja, from left, Armando Ceja and Belén Ceja stand near tanks April 19 at Heirs of My Dream Winery and custom crush facility in Sonoma.

SISTERS CONTINUED FROM L18 is first and foremost a custom crush operation, producing wine for a variety of customers who don’t have their own winemaking facilities. One such customer is Philip Staehle, founder and winemaker of Enkidu Wine, which was a gold medal winner at the 2020 North Coast Wine Challenge. “It’s wonderful working with Belén and Ellie,” Staehle said. “They’ve basically enabled me to do all the work I want to do on my wines. I’ve had much more freedom at Heirs Winery than at any other press facility.” Belén is the director of wine production, working closely with custom crush clients, while Ellie heads up events and oversees the winery’s upkeep. That’s how it works officially, at any rate: both sisters are known for pitching in wherever they’re needed. The winery has five full-time employees — seven, including Belén and Ellie — and they hire three to five workers seasonally.

Scientific, but eventually returned to the wine industry. In 2005, Amelia Ceja was named Woman of the Year by the California Legislature for her many contributions to the wine industry.

Getting into grape growing

In 1982, two generations of Cejas — Pablo and Juanita, Armando and Martha, Pedro and Amelia — pooled savings to buy a small parcel of land in Napa’s Carneros wine region, marking the family’s start as grape growers. The first vines were planted in 1986, and the first harvest, in 1988, sold to Domaine Chandon of Chandon in Yountville. The group purchased other small vineyard properties in the ensuing years, sometimes with other family members involved. In 1992, they bought land in Sonoma’s Carneros wine region off Arnold Road where they planted chardonnay and merlot vines. Here, five years later, they founded Ceja Vineyards. Ceja Vineyards’ first commercial wine production began in 1997, and the first bottles went on sale in 2000. The first year’s ROBBI PENGELLY / SONOMA INDEX-TRIBUNE, 2020 production made 750 cases of wine. Today the business Ellie, left, and Belén Ceja walk through their vineyard next to the Burndale Road facility in Sonoma. Supporting other owners averages 6,000 cases per year, But Heirs of My Dream a vodka martini and caviar though the number fluctuates Winery has also grown into pairing, or tour the distillery. depending on harvest condia multi-layered destination, Finally, Ceja Vineyards, tions. offering visitors diverse expeknown for premium estateToday the group owns a riences in multiple venues. grown wines, is housed combined 107 acres in Napa For example, in the tasting in its own building on the and Sonoma counties. These collective, you can sample property. It’s not unusual for figures do not include the wines from two labels proa tasting from the impressive 40-acre Burndale/Highway 12 duced by Heirs Winery: Enkiwine portfolio to be led by property that houses Heirs of du Wine and Honrama Cellars. one of the owners. There is My Dream Winery, which is “It’s such a beautiful feeling a handsome garden area to owned by Armando and Marhere,” said Miriam Puentes, enjoy, and visitors come away tha Ceja and their two daughHonrama Cellars’ co-owner. knowing a good deal about ters, Belén and Ellie. “It’s in the middle of wine why the Carneros wine region As for that inherited family country magic. We conduct produces such quality grapes. dream, it has changed over tastings, tell people about our time. Working the land history, walk them through “For my parents,” Armando the crush pad and out the back The Ceja family’s journey said, “their dream is common where they can see hills in from grape harvesters to Heirs BETH SCHLANKER / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT to every person who migrates the distance and walk into the of My Dream Winery started from their native land. They Ellie Ceja and her father, Armando, sample wine April 19 at Heirs of vineyards.” in 1952. That year patriarch wanted to build a better future My Dream Winery in Sonoma. “This is a great venue for Pablo Ceja traveled 2,500 miles for themselves and their many reasons,” Staehle said. from his ancestral home in leftover grapes that weren’t at Napa’s Vintage High School. family. I migrated at a young “We work collaboratively with Aguililla, Michoacán, to Calbeing used. He worked at Kenwood Vineage, so that got instilled in me. Honrama (Cellars), helping ifornia as part of the Bracero “My bond with the land yards in both winemaking and I don’t think it changed for me each other out. Visitors love Program, a guest-worker was definitely there from the vineyard management, and so much as got a little better the outdoor area. We have agreement between the United beginning,” he said. “And it then joined Christian Brothfocused. One has more control a hospitality coordinator States and Mexico. He made remains there today. I love ers Winery (now known as over thoughts, desires, the and wine club manager who the long journey back and being outside in the fresh Christian Brothers Retreat & ability to execute.” manage things here 95% of the forth for 15 years until 1967, air, working with the land. I Conference Center). “Not many people get to time, but when I’m here I like when his wife, Juanita, and learned from the ground up: Their first child, Belén, was share in something their to do tours, make it a hands-on their children joined him in planting, grafting, pruning, born in 1987, and Ellie arrived grandparents and parents experience.” Napa Valley. harvesting, shovel work, ferfive years later. The two sisters built,” Ellie said. “Working Nearby, in its own section After school and on weektilization. I truly enjoyed the have a brother, Julian, who with my parents, my aunts of the main building, is the ends the Ceja children worked viticulture — and, later, the is not involved in the wine and uncles, and now my sister art-filled Hanson of Sonoma in the vineyards alongside winemaking.” industry. — it’s a dream come true.” Distillery, which specializes in their parents. One of those Armando went on to gradPedro Ceja, Armando’s oldBelén is grateful to be an grape-based organic vodkas. children, Armando Ceja — uate from UC Davis in 1985 er brother, also worked in the heir to the dream. “I’m living These range from the original who would become Belén and with a bachelor’s degree in vineyards as a child, where, my dream every day, my pure vodka to infused organic Ellie’s father — began learnenology. He married Martha at 12 he met his future wife, passion for the wine industry. flavors such as Meyer leming about the vines at the age Brambila, whom he had met Amelia Morán. After graduat- Every time I tried to venture on, habanero, mandarin and of 7. By the time he was 18 he’d through friends when he was ing from Napa Valley College, out in a different way, the wine more. Visitors can enjoy a produced his first barrel of a junior at St. Helena High Pedro became an electrical industry pulled me back. I love vodka sampling, bliss out over cabernet sauvignon with some School and she was a student engineer at Thermo Fisher what I’m doing.”

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“Me siento muy afortunada de compartir el sueño de mi familia de esta manera”. ELLIE CEJA, dirige eventos y supervisa el mantenimiento de la bodega en Heirs of My Dream Winery en Sonoma

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de otros miembros de la familia. En 1992, compraron terrenos en la región vinícola Heirs of My Dream Winery se ende Carneros, en Sonoma, junto cuentra serenamente ubicado en a Arnold Road, donde plan40 acres de propiedad de primer taron vides de chardonnay y nivel de Carneros, con 32 acres merlot. Aquí, cinco años más plantados con uvas chardonnay tarde, fundaron Ceja Viney pinot noir. El sitio de Sonoma yards. La primera producción ofrece impresionantes vistas de comercial de vino de Ceja viñedos que se extienden por Vineyard comenzó en 1997 y millas hacia la Bahía de San las primeras botellas salieron Pablo, un lago en forma de riñón, a la venta en el año 2000. El áreas de jardín con muchos primer año se produjeron 750 asientos y una diversidad inusual cajas de vino. En la actualidad, de experiencias centradas en el la empresa produce una media vino. Heirs of My Dream Winery de 6.000 cajas al año, aunque la es, ante todo, una operación de cifra fluctúa dependiendo de trituración personalizada, que las condiciones de la cosecha. produce vino para una variedad En la actualidad, el grupo de clientes que no tienen sus proBETH SCHLANKER / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT posee un total de 107 acres en pias instalaciones de elaboración los condados de Napa y SonoArmando Ceja se sienta con sus hijas Ellie, a la izquierda, y Belén Ceja de vino. ma. Estas cifras no incluyen la en Heirs of My Dream Winery y en las instalaciones de trituración propiedad de 40 acres en BurnDirección: 22985 Burndale Road, personalizada el 19 de abril en Sonoma. dale/Highway 12 que alberga la Building B, Sonoma produce uvas de tanta calidad. trabajando la tierra. Aprendí bodega Herederas de mi sueño, Horas: 7 a.m.- 3 p.m., lunes a desde la base: plantar, injertar, propiedad de Armando y Marsábado; cerrado domingo Trabajando la tierra podar, cosechar, trabajar con la tha Ceja y sus dos hijas, Belén Más información: 707-721-1780, La trayectoria de la familia pala, abonar. Disfruté mucho y Ellie. heirswinery.com Ceja, iniciando como recolecto- de la viticultura y, más tarde, En cuanto a ese sueño familres de uva a tener la bodega He- de la elaboración del vino”. iar heredado, ha cambiado con rederas de Mi Sueño, comenzó Armando se graduó de el tiempo. en 1952. Ese año, el patriarca enología en la Universidad de uarse de Napa Valley College, “Para mis padres”, dice Pablo Ceja viajó 2.500 millas California Davis en 1985. Se Pedro se convirtió en ingeniero Armando, “su sueño es común desde su hogar en Aguililla, Mi- casó con Martha Brambila, a eléctrico en Thermo Fisher Sci- a todas las personas que choacán, hasta California como quien había conocido a través entific, pero finalmente regresó emigran de su tierra natal. parte del Programa Bracero, de unos amigos cuando él a la industria vinícola. En 2005, Querían labrarse un futuro un acuerdo de trabajadores cursaba el penúltimo año de Amelia Ceja fue nombrada “Mu- mejor para ellos y su familia. invitados entre Estados Unidos secundaria en la preparatoria jer del Año” por la asamblea Yo emigré muy joven, así que y México. Hizo el largo viaje St. Helena y ella era alumna legislativa de California por sus me lo inculcaron. No creo que de ida y vuelta durante quince del Vintage High School de numerosas contribuciones a la cambiara tanto para mí así que años, hasta 1967, cuando su Napa. Trabajó en Kenwood industria vinícola. me pude enfocar un poco mejor. mujer, Juanita, y sus hijos se Vineyards, tanto en la elabUno tiene más control sobre Cultivo de uva reunieron con él en valle de oración del vino como en la los pensamientos, los deseos, la Napa. administración de los viñeEn 1982, dos generaciones de capacidad de ejecución”. Después de la escuela y los dos, y después se incorporó Cejas -Pablo y Juanita, Arman“No mucha gente llega fines de semana, los hijos de a Christian Brothers Winery do y Martha, Pedro y Amea compartir algo que conCeja trabajaban en los viñedos (ahora conocido como Cenlia- juntaron sus ahorros para struyeron sus abuelos y sus junto a sus padres. Uno de esos tro de retiros y conferencias comprar una pequeña parcela padres”, dice Ellie. “Trabajar niños, Armando Ceja -que se Christian Brothers). de tierra en la región vinícola con mis padres, mis tíos y ahoconvertiría en el padre de Belén Su primera hija, Belén, nade Carneros, en Napa, lo que ra mi hermana ... es un sueño y Ellie- empezó a aprender soció en 1987, y Ellie llegó cinco supuso el inicio de la familia hecho realidad”. bre las viñas a los siete años. A años después. Las dos herman- como viticultores. Las primeBelén está agradecida de los dieciocho ya había producias tienen un hermano, Julián, ras vides se plantaron en 1986, ser heredera del sueño. “Estoy do su primera barrica de caber- que no trabaja en el sector y la primera cosecha, en 1988, viviendo mi sueño cada día, net sauvignon con algunas uvas vinícola. se vendió a Domaine Chandon mi pasión por la industria del sobrantes que no se utilizaban. Pedro Ceja, hermano mayor de Chandon en Yountville. vino. Cada vez que intentaba “Mi vínculo con la tierra de Armando, también trabajó en El grupo compró otras aventurarme por un camino estuvo ahí desde el principio”, los viñedos de niño, donde a los propiedades de pequeños diferente, la industria del vino afirma. “Y lo sigue estando hoy. 12 años conoció a su futura esviñedos en los años siguientes, me llamaba. Me encanta lo que Me encanta estar al aire libre posa, Amelia Morán. Tras grad- a veces con la participación hago”.

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CONTINUED FROM L18 dos marcas producidas por la Bodega Heirs: Enkidu Wine y Honrama Cellars. “Es una sensación hermosa la que da este lugar”, dijo Miriam Puentes, copropietaria de Honrama Cellars. “Está en medio de la magia de la tierra del vino. Hacemos catas, le contamos a la gente nuestra historia, los acompañamos por la zona de prensado y salimos por la parte de atrás donde pueden ver las colinas en la distancia y caminar hacia los viñedos”. “Es un gran lugar por muchas razones”, afirma Staehle. “Trabajamos en colaboración con Honrama Cellars, ayudándonos mutuamente. A los visitantes les encanta la zona al aire libre. Tenemos un coordinador de hospitalidad y un gerente de club de vinos que está a cargo el 95% del tiempo, pero cuando estoy aquí me gusta hacer visitas guiadas y convertirlas en una experiencia práctica”. Muy cerca, en una sección del edificio principal, se encuentra la destilería Hanson of Sonoma, llena de arte y especializada en vodkas orgánicos a base de uva. Estos van desde el vodka puro original a sabores con infusiones como limón Meyer, habanero, mandarina y más. Los visitantes pueden disfrutar de una degustación de vodka, deleitarse con un vodka martini y caviar, o visitar la destilería. Por último, los viñedos Ceja, conocidos por sus vinos de calidad superior, se encuentran en su propio edificio. No es raro que una degustación del impresionante portafolio de vinos sea dirigida por uno de los propietarios. Hay un bonito jardín para disfrutar, y los visitantes salen con un gran conocimiento sobre por qué la región vinícola de Carneros

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“Nos encanta explicar nuestro menú y el significado que hay detrás a nuestros clientes que nunca han probado esas comidas y se emocionan cuando les sugerimos un plato”. DENISSE HERRERA, ella es propietaria del restaurante mexicano La Chilanguita con su esposo y sus padres

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CONTINUED FROM L12 Verónica espera ampliar el servicio de comidas para eventos y público en general abriendo su propia empresa para la comunidad. Muchas personas se hicieron presentes y apoyaron a los restaurantes familiares cuando éstos tuvieron que entregar la comida en las aceras durante el cierre de sus comedores, debido al avance de COVID-19 en 2020. Además de la oferta gastronómica, el ambiente es algo especial. Las paredes del Mercado y restaurante mexicano Rosales son alegres, decoradas con arte mexicano que representa su orgullosa cultura con piñatas y pinturas. Una de las obras de arte representa la colorida “Danza de los Viejitos”, un baile folclórico tradicional de Michoacán, México, que celebra y honra a los ancianos y su herencia. “Apreciamos a nuestros mayores y fuimos enseñados a valorarlos y a continuar su trabajo”, dice Verónica. Los hermanos siempre han sido muy trabajadores. Mientras crecían, asistieron a las escuelas del Distrito Escolar Unificado de Middletown desde kínder hasta el grado 12, y luego ayudaron en el mercado y el restaurante cuando sus padres eran los dueños. La familia se mudó a la zona de Los Ángeles en 1989 desde el estado de Nayarit, México, cuando los hermanos eran muy pequeños. Finalmente se establecieron en el condado Lake en 1996. La familia quería abrir un restaurante para darle a la comunidad un sabor de Nayarit, conocidos por sus platos de mariscos. Sus padres llevaron el negocio durante trece años antes de que los hijos tomaran el control en mayo de 2022.

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Denisse Herrera hace guacamole fresco el 28 de abril en el restaurante mexicano La Chilanguita en Clearlake. Herrera, su esposo Jesús Méndez y sus padres Alicia Montalvo y Galdino Marín abrieron el restaurante en Lakeshore Boulevard. de madera. Su hermana, Betty Caldera, y sus hijos también trabajan en Beulah's. “Es estupendo que a todo el mundo le guste nuestra comida”, dice Armando padre. “No podemos ir a ningún sitio sin que alguien nos reconozca y hable bien de nosotros”.

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El restaurante mexicano La Chilanguita, en Clearlake, está situado cerca de las aguas del famoso y lleno lago Clear. Armando Rosales Sr. transporta suministros el 28 de abril entre El nombre del restaurante, Beulah’s Kitchen y Rosales Market and Mexican Restaurant. Los dos La Chilanguita, es argot y están a menos de una cuadra el uno del otro en Middletown. significa “mujer criada en la La familia además maneja Los sabores del país natal de Ciudad de México”, algo con un segundo establecimiento, los Rosales se encuentran en lo que se identifican sus dos sus platillos. El restaurante es Beulah's Kitchen, ubicado propietarios. justo al final de la calle y al amplio y cuenta con servicio Los propietarios son Denisse lado del Centro de Arte de Mid- Herrera, su esposo Jesús de comida para llevar. Los dletown. El restaurante sólo platos mexicanos que sirven Méndez, y los padres de ella sirve desayunos y almuerzos incluyen pozole, sopa de tortiAlicia Montalvo y Galdino lla, quesabirrias, tacos y enchi- americanos. La matriarca de Marín. Los cuatro participan ladas. Su menú también ofrece la familia, Esther Rosales, es la activamente en el negocio. Los queso a la plancha, papas fritas encargada de este pequeño y pintoresco negocio con tejados con ajo y aros de cebolla. TURN TO LAKE » PAGE L22

En el condado de Lake, los restaurantes de propietarios latinos han ofrencido a los clientes hambrientes unos platos authénticos durante décadas, que incluye platos regionales vinculados a sus países de origen hasta comidas reconfortantes clásicas, y todo lo demás. Escondidos en cada restaurante hay sabores recién hechos para saborear en establecimientos que transportan a los visitantes a una tierra de color, cultura, historia y orgullo en el viaje de los propietarios hasta donde están hoy. Rosales Market and Mexican Restaurant Dirección: 21178 Calistoga Road, Middletown Horas: 8 a.m.- 8 p.m., domingo a jueves; 8 a.m.-9 p.m. viernes a sábado Más información: 707-987-9416, facebook.com/people/RosalesMarket/100039106196205/ Beulah’s Kitchen Dirección: 21147 CA-29, Middletown Horas: 7 a.m.-1:45, viernes a martes; cerrado miercoles y jueves Más información: 707-987-0473, yelp.com/biz/beulahs-kitchenmiddletown-2 La Chilanguita Mexican Restaurant Dirección: 15165 Lakeshore Drive, Clearlake Horas: 11 a.m.-9 p.m., jueves a martes; cerrado miercoles Más información: mexicanrestaurantclearlake.com Studebakers Coffee House & Deli Dirección: 3990 Main Street, Kelseyville Horas: 6 a.m.-4 p.m., lunes a viernes; 7 a.m. - 4 p.m. sábado; 7 a.m.-2 p.m. el domingo Más información: 707-279-8862, studebakerscoffee.com

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Betty Caldera, a la izquierda, y Margarita Guerrero preparan y sirven el desayuno para clientes hambrientos el 28 de abril en Beulah’s Kitchen en Middletown.

LAKE CONTINUED FROM L21 padres de Herrera se encargan de preparar y cocinar la mayor parte de la comida, mientras que Méndez hace de cocinero y camarero cuando es necesario. Herrera se encarga de toda la parte administrativa del negocio, así como la promoción y las finanzas. También prepara y cocina la comida, y es camarera. “La chef es mi madre. Ella es una latina nacida en Ciudad de México, y la comida que prepara para nuestro restaurante es cultura traída de su ciudad natal”, dijo Herrera. Los padres de Herrera se mudaron de Ciudad de México al condado Lake para reunirse con otros miembros de la familia en 1996. Ciudad de México se encuentra en un valle llamado Cinturón Volcánico Transmexicano, donde el paisaje está rodeado de montañas, lo que sin duda hizo que la familia se sintiera como en casa con el volcán Monte Konocti del condado Lake. El restaurante está pintado de verde primavera en el exterior, por lo que los visitantes no pueden pasarlo por alto. La música mexicana suena tranquilamente de fondo y los numerosos ventanales dan al espacio una sensación de amplitud. Las paredes de la Chilanguita están adornadas con la bandera mexicana, camisetas, sombreros y cuadros de estilo mexicano. Hay una obra que representa a la artista Frida Kahlo. El restaurante, una adición culinaria bastante reciente al condado, hizo su apertura durante el apogeo de la pandemia mundial. Por suerte, los propietarios pudieron buscar alternativas para dejar de ofrecer cenas al interior del local. “Abrimos el 26 de noviembre de 2020. Tres días después nos dijeron que cerráramos todos los comedores interiores debido al aumento del COVID en nuestra zona. Así que dependíamos de las cenas en el patio y de muchos pedidos para llevar”, explica Herrera. Los propietarios se mantuvieron firmes y encontraron clientes fieles. “Ver el apoyo que hemos recibido de toda la comunidad desde el principio, ha sido una experiencia increíble. Como nuestra comida es más del estilo de la Ciudad de México, pensábamos que sólo tendríamos clientes latinos, pero sorprendente y asombrosamente ha sido al revés”, dijo Herrera. “Nos encanta explicar nuestro menú y el significado que hay detrás a nuestros clientes que nunca han probado esas comidas y se emocionan cuando les sugerimos un plato”. El soporte va más allá de que los clientes apoyen el restaurante con sus billeteras, sino a través de la promoción que hacen los líderes locales. He tenido el privilegio de hacer varias entrevistas y de ser oradora invitada de algunas

Itzia Rico es la dueña de Studebakers Coffee House & Deli en Kelseyville. Clear Lake de Kelseyville. “Tiene unas manos de oro. Sabe cocinar de todo”, dice Rico sobre la repostería de su madre. Rico y sus padres se mudaron a California desde Michoacán, México, cuando ella tenía 4 años. Vivía en Booneville antes de llegar al condado Lake en 2005. “Heredamos el exitoso menú de las propietarias originales de Studebakers, Nancy Yost y Louann Bauer, que dieron nombre al negocio y luego lo vendieron a Russ Shupert. Russ me enseñó a disfrutar del café, ya que no se me permitía beberlo cuando era joven”, Esther y Armando Rosales hacen una pausa en Beaulah’s Kitchen. El dijo Rico de la época en la que restaurante solo sirve desayuno americano y almuerzo. trabajaba como empleada de la organizaciones como el Club gan su mente y todo su corazón cafetería y charcutería en 2007. Rotario y la Cámara de Comerpodrán tener éxito”, dijo HerPor aquel entonces, Rico escio. También he recibido mucho rera. “Espero que este negocio tudiaba en Mendocino College apoyo de ellos”, dijo Herrera. que hemos creado pueda ser y vivía en Booneville mientras “Siento que nos han ayudado no algo que sepan dirigir juntas en intentaba decidir qué carrera sólo como dueños de negocios, el futuro para que también ten- sería la mejor para ella. Consino también como latinos en gan la oportunidad de seguir cluyó que el negocio de restaunuestra comunidad y al haber retribuyendo y dando empleo a rantes era una buena opción, crecido en el Condado Lake des- nuestra familia y comunidad”. por lo que compró Studebakers de que tenía tres años de edad, Coffee House & Deli en 2007 he tenido maestros, consejeros, Studebakers Coffee utilizando sus ahorros y con House & Deli directores y compañeros que el apoyo de sus padres, que vienen y nos apoyan. Es una El ambiente de Studebakrefinanciaron su casa para sensación increíble”. ers Coffee House & Deli es ayudarle a comprar el negocio. Herrera comentó que los agradable y acogedor. Las Durante los diez primeros platos más populares son las comidas se pueden disfrutar al años de su entonces nuevo quesadillas de masa, quesadilla aire libre para los que desean restaurante, sus dos herde tinga y la quesadilla de hon- un poco de sol primaveral o manas, Sulema y Aidé Pérez, gos con Rajas. Las quesadillas en el interior de la cafetería, trabajaron a su lado. Sulema de maíz hechas a mano se relcompacta pero cómoda. Es un sigue ayudando allí donde lenan con carne o verduras, se hervidero de actividad en el se necesite y la ahijada de fríen y se adornan con lechuga, que se mezclan los sonidos de Rico, Sandra Cruz, codirige queso fresco, crema agria y la conversación, el café expreel negocio desde que empezó salsa. También son famosas sus so humeante y los granos moli- la pandemia. Rico también gorditas y huaraches. La carta dos. El aroma de los productos contrata a estudiantes locales incluye aperitivos, ensaladas, horneados recorre el estabque necesitan trabajo. sopas y un menú infantil. lecimiento mientras María “Siento que ser propietaria Las dos hijas de Herrera, Pérez, madre de la propietaria de un negocio me permite Itzia, de 7 años, y Diana, de 5, y gerente, Itzia Rico, hornea conocer a nuestra comunidad. visitan a veces el restaurante galletas y prepara comida para Si no fuera porque trabajo y saludan a los clientes que la charcutería. aquí no habría llegado a tener pasan por allí. Los lugareños toman una taza una conexión tan profunda”, “A través de todo esto rezo de café para llevar. Algunos vis- afirma. “Me ha encantado para que crezcan y aprendan itantes piden un bocadillo y una ver crecer a nuestra juventud lo que es el trabajo duro y la bebida tras una caminata al cer- local. Es gratificante”. dedicación, y que sepan que en cano monte Konocti o después La razón de Rico para ceñirse cualquier cosa en la que ponde acampar en el parque estatal al menú original, en lugar de

preparar comida mexicana, fue evitar la competencia con Carmelita's Cocina, un restaurante mexicano ubicado justo al final de la calle y que es propiedad de los primos de su esposo, George y Marcy Arredondo. Las paredes están decoradas con vibrantes obras de artistas locales, como Annette Higday, del condado Lake. En la tienda se pueden comprar tazas, gorras y camisetas. El hermano de Rico, Rafael Pérez, es el barista. El negocio tiene entre siete y diez empleados más. “Mi hermano Rafael me ha ayudado mucho a seguir adelante. Es un gran apoyo. Cualquier cosa que necesito que haga, de última hora o papeleo, siempre está sonriendo. Es increíble. Me siento bendecida”, afirma. El menú de Studebakers Coffee House & Deli incluye burritos de desayuno y cruasanes con huevo, jamón y queso. Hay bagels con tomate huevo, espinacas y aguacate, y un montón de productos frescos horneados. Para almorzar, tienen ensaladas y sándwiches como el de pollo a la parrilla, queso a la parrilla y el sándwich personalizado de panceta. Cada uno de estos cuatro establecimientos tiene sus atributos únicos, desde la decoración hasta la comida, mientras que el denominador común de todos ellos es el apoyo comunitario y familiar. Cada negocio destaca la hospitalidad de los establecimientos creados y dirigidos por latinos en el condado Lake, ya sea Middletown, Clearlake o Kelseyville. Desde los comienzos en un nuevo país hasta las dificultades que vinieron con la pandemia en curso, es alentador saber que estos negocios y las historias detrás de ellos, contribuyen a la industria de la hostelería en el condado Lake.

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Bacchus Landing is open for wine tastings on Tuesdays and Wednesdays by appointment only, and Thursday to Monday walk-ins are welcome.

Latino-owned wineries in the North Bay By ELISSA TORRES

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ine Country is home to some of the oldest wineries in California with roots dating back to the 1800s. While some are still owned and operated by family members who inherited a passion for wine, others have changed hands or stopped producing altogether. With that comes new opportunities for new wineries, vineyards and producers to thrive. There are more than 30 Latino-owned wineries in Sonoma, Mendocino and Napa counties with websites that proudly share that they are “living the American dream.” Family biographies trace lineage back to home countries while describing the journey from humble beginnings and big dreams as farmworkers to getting their foot in the door while working at wineries and educating themselves on all things wine-related. All are proud of their accomplishments and their products and look ahead to future generations taking over the family business. Here’s a list of Latino-owned wineries in the North Bay. If any are missing from this list, please email: elissa.torres@pressdemocrat.com. SONOMA COUNTY

Aldina Vineyards: In 2012, siblings Francisco and Monica Lopez created their own label with what was once a hobby vineyard planted by their father in Healdsburg in 1999. They produce chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon and rosé. They also have a wine club. It is open for wine tastings, by appointment only. aldinavineyards.com Alma de Cattleya: In 2011, Bibiana González Rave created her first label, Cattleya, as an homage to her home country, naming it after the national flower of Colombia. Her latest venture, Alma de Cattleya, she says represents the soul of the land that gives life to her wines as well as her own soul put into each drop of wine that makes it to the bottle. The Santa Rosa winery produces sauvignon blanc, chardonnay, pinot noir, cabernet sauvignon, red blends and rosé. They also have a wine club. It is open for wine tastings, by appointment only. 888-597-2297, almadecattleya.com Bacchus Landing: Al and Dina Lopez, with their children, Francisco and Monica, founded Bacchus Landing in Healdsburg. After taking a viticulture class at Santa Rosa Junior College, Al planted cabernet sauvignon grapes around the family estate. He then made small batches of wine to share with family and friends. Then, in 2012, the family created Aldina Vineyards. It is open for wine tastings on Tuesdays and Wednesdays by appointment only, and Thursday to Monday walk-ins are welcome. 707-395-0697, bacchuslanding.com

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Monica Lopez is the general manager of Bacchus Landing and proprietor of Aldina Vineyards.

Cattleya Wines: Bibiana González Rave began her first wine venture in 2011 with her own label, Cattleya Wines. The business sells bottles of chardonnay and pinot noir. It is open for wine tastings, by appointment only. 888-597-2297, cattleyawines.com Ceja Vineyards: In 1983, the Ceja family pooled

their resources and bought 15 acres of land in the Carneros wine region in Sonoma. The founded Ceja Vineyards Inc. in 1999. In 1986, they planted 13 acres with pinot noir grapes. Today, there are 113 producing acres and the next generation of Ceja children are entering the family business. The business sells bottles of pinot noir, chardonnay, TURN TO WINERIES » PAGE L24

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Linda Chavez of Chavez Family Cellars, left, Dorothy Rodella of Exchange Bank, and Suzanne Harris, community impact director for United Way of the Wine Country, attend the Latino Business Leadership Awards at the DeTurk Round Barn in Santa Rosa. Chavez Family Sellers is located in Healdsburg. The business sells bottles of cabernet sauvignon and sauvignon blanc.

WINERIES CONTINUED FROM L23 sauvignon blanc, red blends, cabernet and merlot. They also have a wine club. It is open for wine tastings, by appointment only. 707-255-3954, cejavineyards.com Chavez Family Cellars: Chavez Family Cellars is a small artisan wine company located in Healdsburg. In 2006, after six years of making wine in their garage, the family launched their brand. The business sells bottles of cabernet sauvignon and sauvignon blanc. 707-431-9920, chavezfamilycellars.com Enriquez Estate Wines: Eduardo and Ana Enriquez, along with their daughter, Cecilia, came from New Jersey to California for a ski trip in Tahoe. After realizing there was no snow, the Enriquez family decided to rebook in Wine Country, which they had never visited before, and fell in love with the area. In June 2011, Cecilia moved to Petaluma and learned about winemaking from some of the best winemakers in Sonoma County. Operations moved to Forestville where Cecilia produces about 1,000 cases of wine annually on the company’s 8.5-acre vineyard property. The business sells bottles of pinot noir, rosé and other blends. The property offers overnight accommodation and food. It is open for wine tastings, by appointment only. 707-347-9719, enriquezwines.com Fathia Wines: In 2019, Pedro and his wife, Jenny, Rodriguez acquired Fathia Wines in Kenwood. During the pandemic, they grew from producing 350 cases a year to 500. The tasting room is just down the road in Glen Ellen, with vineyard views. The winery sells bottles of cabernet sauvignon, pinot noir, rosé, chardonnay and sauvignon blanc. They also have a wine club. It is open for wine tastings, by appointment only. 707-282-9419, fathiawines.com Guerrero-Fernandez Winery: The Windsor winery’s CEO Olga Fernandez runs the tasting room which features a wine tasting bar created with wine barrel staves by winemaker Martin Guerrero. The two own and operate the business together. The business sells bottles of pinot noir, merlot, sauvignon blanc, cabernet sauvignon, zinfandel and merlot. They also have a wine club. It is open for wine tastings, Friday to Sunday. 707-953-7956, gfwines.com TURN TO WINERIES » PAGE L25

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Cecilia Enriquez pours 2014 Sonoma Coast Tempranillo wine at Enriquez Estate Winery in Forestville.

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Pedro Rodriguez is the owner of Fathia Wines in Kenwood. During the pandemic, they grew from producing 350 cases a year to 500.

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Olga Fernandez, started Guerrero Fernandez Winery in Windsor with her husband, Martin, in 2004. Carlos Chavez, center, of Chavez Family Cellars, talks with Kathy O’Connor and Clay Green near Santa Rosa. BETH SCHLANKER THE PRESS DEMOCRAT, 2014

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Cousins Lisette Lemus Gragg, from left, Letty Lemus Rodriguez, Sylvia Lemus, Cynthia Lemus Castillo, Esther Lemus, Sandra Lemus, Rachel Lemus Valenzuela, Linda Lemus and Louise Lemus Quintero banded together, with six other cousins, to make their own local wine brand, Lemus Family Wines.

WINERIES CONTINUED FROM L24 Heirs of My Dream Winery: Belén and Ellie Ceja are the third generation of Ceja family members in the wine business. They created an ultramodern custom crush facility in Sonoma’s Carneros wine region to provide production opportunities for small-batch winemakers and wineries. Permitted to produce up to 32,000 cases annually. Belén is the director of wine production, working closely with custom crush clients, while Ellie heads up events and oversees the winery’s upkeep. The Sonoma property has 40 acres of pinot noir and chardonnay vines. 707-721-1780, heirswinery.com Lemus Family Wines: Fifteen cousins in the Lemus family bonded over their love for wine and in 2020, they started Lemus Family Wines in Sonoma County. The family, from Santiago Conguripo, Michoacán, Mexico, are now in Sonoma County. They produce chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon. lemusfamilywines.com Ludor Wines: Salvador De La Cruz Jr.’s career in the wine industry started at 9 years old when he moved to the United States in 2000 from Mexico. He began working in the vineyards with his father, Salvador De La Cruz Sr., who had been working them since the 1970s. De La Cruz Jr. attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where he studied viticulture and oenology. After earning his degree, he worked at wineries in Sonoma, Napa, New Zealand and Australia. The older De La Cruz is the viticulturist, the younger De La Cruz is the winemaker at Ludor Wines in Sonoma. They produce cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay and rosé. They also have a wine club. ludorwines.com Matanzas Creek Winery: Matanzas Creek Winery in Bennett Valley has been a haven for wine enthusiasts and lavender lovers since 1991. They produce sauvignon blanc, merlot, chardonnay, red blends, pinot noir and rosé. They also have a wine club. It is open for wine tastings and visits to the lavender gardens by appointment. matanzascreek.com

MONROY WINES

Adolfo Hernandez and his wife, Nohelia, who grew up in Healdsburg, started Monroy Wines around 2018. They produce sauvignon blanc and cabernet sauvignon.

Monroy Wines: Adolfo Hernandez and his family, from Guatemala, moved to Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, in the 1980s, then in 1997, the family moved to California. Hernandez went on to graduate from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, with a degree in molecular biology and began a career as a chemist in organic pesticide production in the Central Valley. Then he made the switch to winemaking at Clos Du Bois in Geyserville. Hernandez and his wife, Nohelia, who grew up in Healdsburg, started the business together around 2018. They produce sauvignon blanc and cabernet sauvignon. monroywines.com Ordaz Family Winery: The Kenwood winery produces chardonnay, merlot, pinot noir and rosé. They also have a wine club. 707-933-6905, ordazfamilywines.com Prohibido Wines: Cesar Reyes was born in El Salvador and has been working in the wine industry for over 22 years. He attended Santa Rosa Junior College, where he studied viticulture management.

A view of the Carneros winegrowing region straddling Sonoma and Napa counties.

PROHIBIDO WINES

Cesar Reyes has been working in the wine industry for over 22 years. He founded Prohibido Wines in Sebastopol.

Reyes founded Prohibido Wines and produced its first vintage in 2016 in Sebastopol. The brand produces cabernet sauvignon and pinot noir. 707-217-4595, prohibidowines.com TURN TO WINERIES » PAGE L26

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REYNOSO FAMILY VINEYARDS

JW Reynoso, from left, Elena Reynoso, Joe Reynoso and Paige Reynoso work at Reynoso Family Vineyards in the Napa Valley. They produce cabernet sauvignon, syrah and sauvignon blanc.

WINERIES CONTINUED FROM L25 Robledo Family Winery: The Robledo family came to the United States in the 1940s to work in the vineyards. Since then, the family has established the first winery in the United States to be founded by Mexican vineyard workers on their own land in Sonoma. Reynaldo and Maria Robledo began commercial wine production from the estate grapes in 1997 at the family winery in Sonoma Valley. Their son, Everardo Robledo, is CEO of the winery. The business sells bottles of cabernet sauvignon, red blends, pinot noir and rosé. They also have a wine club. It is open for wine tastings, by appointment only. 707-939-6903, robledofamilywinery.com Reynoso Family Vineyard: Joe Reynoso is the oldest of 15 children. His father, Amado, was a migrant worker in the Central Valley. In 1994, Reynoso purchased 550 acres in the Napa Valley and his grapes have been sold to some of Sonoma’s top wine producers. Reynoso Family Vineyards currently farms 155 of the 550 acres, keeping only a tiny percentage of the finest grapes on the estate for their own wines. They produce cabernet sauvignon, syrah, and sauvignon blanc. They also have a wine club. It is open for wine tastings, by appointment. reynosowines.com MENDOCINO COUNTY

César Toxqui Cellars: César Toxqui moved to Ukiah from Puebla, Mexico, when he was 16 years old. From there he worked at local vineyards in the North Bay and studied viticulture at Sonoma State University. He continued to learn and work at other wineries. In 2010 he opened a tasting room

in Hopland and in 2018, he began putting down roots for his own small family-owned winery in Redwood Valley. The Hopland tasting room closed in 2022. They produce rosé, white wine, petite sirah, zinfandel, cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay and red blends. They also have a wine club. It is open for wine tastings Monday to Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. 707-391-8411, toxqui.com

in chemical engineering from the University of Morelia Michoacán. He then returned to California to start working in the wine industry. In 2008, his Encanto Vineyards produced its first pinot noir. They produce sauvignon blanc, cabernet sauvignon, pinot noir and red blends. They also have a wine club. It is open for wine tastings, by appointment only. 707-333-0617, encantovineyards.com

NAPA COUNTY

Gustavo Wine: Gustavo Brambila was born in San Clemente, Jalisco, Mexico, and in 1957, moved with his mother and brothers to join his father in Oakville where he worked as a vineyard worker for Louis Bartolucci Vineyards. Brambila went to the University of California, Davis, where he got his degree in fermentation sciences. He began his career in 1976 working at various wineries, then in 1996, he launched Gustavo Thrace brand. In 2002, he designed and developed the first downtown wine tasting room in Napa. In 2013, Gustavo rebranded to Gustavo Wine. They produce cabernet sauvignon, merlot and pinot noir. They also have a wine club. Call or book online for wine tastings. 707-666-2222, gustavowine.com

Bazán Cellars: The roots of Mario Bazán go back to 1973 when Bazán immigrated to the Napa Valley from his native Oaxaca, Mexico. He honed his skills working up from a general laborer to grape grower. He and his wife, Gloria, purchased their family estate in 2005 and started developing their vineyard at the base of Atlas Peak. They produce cabernet sauvignon and sauvignon blanc. They also have a wine club. It is open for wine tastings Thursday to Sunday. 707-927-5564, bazancellars.com Delgadillo Cellars: Winemaker Ignacio Delgadillo Sr. started in the wine industry in 1975 at Freemark Abbey Winery in St. Helena, where he became a cellar master. Along the way, he has consulted as a private vineyard contractor and established a successful custom wood packaging business. Then, in 2001, Ignacio and his son, Ignacio Delgadillo Jr., created their own label, Delgadillo Cellars in Napa. They produce cabernet sauvignon and rosé. They also have a wine club. It is open for wine tastings, by appointment only. 707-963-1729, dcellars.com Encanto Vineyards: Enrique Lopez was born in a small village in Michoacán, Mexico. He first came to the United States at age 11 and began helping his family harvest crops, starting with garlic in Nevada. Returning to Mexico, he graduated with a degree

Herencia Del Valley: In 2007, Angelica and Guillermo founded Heritage Vineyard Management, a viticultural company that currently maintains over 800 acres of premier vineyards throughout Northern California. In 2012, with access to some of Napa’s best grapes and the support of their own team, Angelica and Guillermo founded Herencia Del Valley in Napa, a family-owned company to make and sell their own wines. They produce sauvignon blanc, merlot, cabernet sauvignon, zinfandel and chardonnay. They also have a wine club. It is open for wine tastings, by appointment only. 707-253-8466, herenciawines.com TURN TO WINERIES » PAGE L27

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MALDONADO FAMILY VINEYARDS

Maldonado Family Vineyards is a small family-owned winery in Napa. Owner and winemaker Hugo Maldonado, left, comes from a vineyard management background and works alongside his father, Lupe Maldonado.

VIADER VINEYARDS

Delia Viader is the proprietor of Viader Vineyards and Winery in Deer Park.

HONRAMA CELLARS LLAMAS FAMILY WINES

Oscar and Lola Llamas opened Llamas Family Wines in Napa in 2009. They produce cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay and sparkling wine.

VINOS UNIDOS

Chief of operations Bob Jauregui, left, and founder and winemaker Gerry Martinez pause at Vinos Unidos in Napa.

WINERIES

Quintessa: Agustin Huneeus is the proprietor for Quintessa, in the Napa Valley. Huneeus began working in the wine industry more than 50 years ago in his hometown of Santiago, Chile. They are open for wine tastings, by appointment only in St. Helena. They also have a wine club. 707-286-2730, quintessa.com

CONTINUED FROM L26 Honrama Cellars: Juan Puentes met his wife, Miriam Ramirez, in 1999. Puentes and Ramirez both had dreams of owning their own business. Honrama Cellars was created in Napa and their first vintage was produced in 2008. They produce pinot noir, sauvignon blanc, cabernet, cabernet sauvignon and rosé. They also have a wine club. 707-628-2743, honramacellars.com

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Rolando Herrera and his wife, Lorena, are co-owners of Napa’s Mi Sueño Winery. The two founded the business in 1997.

Justicia Wines: Rafael Rios is the owner of Justica Wines in Calistoga and is a partner at a Napa Valley law firm where one of his specialties is vineyard and winery-related law. They also have a wine club. justiciawines.com Llamas Family Wines: Oscar Llamas was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Each year he spent eight months traveling the farmworking circuit with his family, moving from California to Washington to Oregon. The other four months were spent with his family in Mexico. He settled in Napa Valley in the early 1990s. Llamas and his wife, Lola, founded Llamas Family Wines in Napa in 2009. They produce cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay and sparkling wine. It is open for wine tastings, by appointment only. 707-287-5780, llamasfamilywines.com Madrigal Family Winery: Jacinto Madrigal came to the Napa Valley from Mexico in 1938 to farm apples, pears, walnuts and grapes in the orchards between St. Helena and Calistoga. His son, Jess, went on to pursue winegrowing and started a vineyard management business which today farms 800 acres of premium vines. In 1995, Chris Madrigal, Jacinto’s grandson, founded the Madrigal Family Winery in Calistoga. They produce cabernet sauvignon, petite sirah, red blends and zinfandel. They also have a wine club and have virtual tastings. 707-942-8619, madrigalfamilywinery.com Maldonado Family Vineyards: In the Napa Valley, you’ll find Maldonado Family Vineyards, a small Mexican American family-owned winery. Owner and winemaker Hugo Maldonado comes from a vineyard management background, working alongside his father Lupe Maldonado. They produce chardonnay. They also have a wine club. Call for information on wine tastings. 707-942-1376, maldonadovineyards.com Mi Sueño Winery: Mexican immigrant Rolando Herrera and wife, Lorena, whose family has deep roots in Napa and Sonoma counties as grape growers, founded Napa’s Mi Sueño Winery in 1997. They produce cabernet sauvignon, red blends, pinot noir, syrah and chardonnay. They also have a wine club. Book in-person or virtual tastings online. 707-258-6358, misuenowinery.com

Juan Puentes and Miriam Ramirez produced their first vintage in 2008 for Honrama Cellars in Napa. They produce pinot noir, sauvignon blanc, cabernet, cabernet sauvignon and rosé.

VOCES CELLARS

In 2002, Fernando Candelario launched Voces Cellars in the Calistoga area. The wines are produced in small, boutique batches with grapes sourced locally in the Napa Valley.

Palmaz Vineyards: Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Julio Palmaz moved to the United States in the late 1970s to pursue medical research. His passion for wine emerged as he completed his residency at the University of California, Davis. Taking inspiration from famous French wineries and using the latest in wine science, Palmaz played an integral role in designing Palmaz Vineyards’ gravity-flow winery in Napa, which doesn’t use mechanical pumps during the winemaking process. The gravity-flow design minimizes the turbulence that damages wines’ molecular structure. The winery is owned and operated by Julio, his wife, Amalia, and their three children. They produce cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay, riesling, muscatel and rosé. They also have a wine club. Book in-person or virtual tastings online. 800-592-2306, palmazvineyards.com Piña Napa Valley: The family’s history of growing grapes and making wine stretches back to their great-great-great-grandfather, Moses Stice, who settled in the Napa Valley in the 1850s. His grandson, Lafayette Stice, learned winemaking at the Harris Winery (now Martin Estates) and then went on to make wine at Brun and Chaix Winery (now Ladera). He finished his wine making career as the director of winemaking at Inglenook Winery in Rutherford. A few generations later, John Piña Jr. and his wife, Arline, started Piña Vineyard Management in the 1960 and their four sons started Piña Napa Valley in 1979. They produce cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay. They also have a wine club. 707-738-9328, pinanapavalley.com

Scalon Cellars: Jesus Espinoza and Cruz Calderon became friends while working at Caldwell Vineyard in Napa Then, in 2010, the two decided to go into the wine business together and created Scalon Cellars in Napa. They produce cabernet sauvignon, red blend, cabernet franc, merlot, syrah rosé and sauvignon blanc. They are open for wine tastings, by appointment only. 707-666-2245, scaloncellars.com Tres Perlas: Salvador Renteria came from Jalisco, Mexico, to Northern California where he began working in the Napa Valley wine business in the 1960s. In 1987, Salvador and his wife, Luisa, established Renteria Vineyard Management in Napa Valley which their son, Oscar Renteria, and his wife, Denise, helped run. Then, Oscar bought land and created Tres Perlas, which is inspired by his three daughters. The first vintage was produced in 1997. They produce rosé, chardonnay, pinot noir, cabernet sauvignon and cabernet franc. They also have a wine club. 707-253-7686, tresperlas.com Vinos Unidos: Gerry Martinez is the founder and winemaker of Vinos Unidos or United Wines in Napa. He moved with his family to the Napa Valley from Mexico at 12 years old. Martinez’s father worked in the vineyards. As he grew up, Martinez began working in wineries around the area. He and two others own and operate the business. They produce cabernet sauvignon, red blends, pinot noir, rosé and sauvignon blanc. They also have a wine club. Book online for wine tastings and pairings. 949-482-9930, vinosunidos.com Viader Vineyards and Winery: Born in Argentina, proprietor Delia Viader came to the United States as a postgraduate student. She moved to California and set her sights on Napa Valley and winemaking. In the early 1980s, she bought Viader Vineyards’ current Howell Mountain property in Deer Park, and the company is now a multigenerational family business. They produce cabernet, cabernet franc and red blends. It is open for wine tastings, by appointment only. 707-963-3816, viader.com Voces Cellars: In 2002, Fernando Candelario launched Voces Cellars in the Calistoga area. The wines are produced in small, boutique batches with grapes sourced locally in the Napa Valley. They produce zinfandel, cabernet sauvignon, petite sirah, red blends, cabernet franc, merlot, pinot noir and rosé. They also have a wine club. 707-225-2474, vocescellars.com

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