Daily Republic: Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Supes add ‘teeth to the bark’ of wind, tourist home policies

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FAIRFIELD — The value of Travis Air Force Base to Solano County, the nation and the world was once again paramount in the decision-making of the Board of Supervisors.

The board, on a 4-0 vote with Supervisor Erin Hannigan absent from the afternoon session, approved a General Plan amendment tightening restrictions on future wind-power projects that would negatively impact the air base.

That decision Tuesday, with no opposition or even much discussion, preceded consideration of a zone text amendment establishing new and tougher standards and regulations for short-term rentals – and, specifically, short-term vacation rentals.

The board introduced the ordinance that now prohibits the so-called tourist homes – short-term vacation rentals – in rural residential zones, and except for the Agriculture Suisun Valley ag tourism-driven zone, also prohibits them in the very high fire hazard zones as defined by the state Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention. The Suisun properties in very high fire zones will be considered on a case-by-case basis with water availability, road access and other fire protection elements being critical in those decisions.

Supervisor Wanda Williams, who represents the Suisun Valley area, said short-term rentals are businesses and should be treated as businesses,

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Fire at migrant center in Mexico near U.S. border kills at least 40

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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — A fire at a migrant detention facility just south of the U.S. border killed at least 40 people in one of the deadliest tragedies in years involving foreigners apprehended while trying to reach the United States, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.

Mexico’s National Migration Institute said the blaze started shortly before 10 p.m. Monday in the sleeping area of its office in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso. Sixty-eight men were staying in that part of the one-story building, according to the government-run institute.

It appeared the fire was sparked during a protest by migrants who had learned they were going to be deported, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at a morning news conference. “In the door of the shelter they put some mattresses and set them on fire,” he said. “They never imagined that would cause this tragedy.”

The Mexican Attorney General’s Office said the list of dead and injured included 28 Guatemalans, 13 Hondurans, 12 Salvadorans, 12 Venezuelans and one citizen each from Colombia and Ecuador. No specific breakdown was provided of those who died. Officials were notifying consulates for help in identifying the victims.

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New details have emerged from Monday’s shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, that left three children and three adults dead when an assailant targeted a Christian school, making it the latest American community to be rocked by the despair and trauma of gun violence, as police search for a motive.

At a news conference Tuesday, Metro Nashville police Chief John Drake said authorities learned through interviews with the assailant’s parents that the shooter had legally purchased seven firearms from five local gun stores. Three were used in the attack at the Covenant School, Drake said.

The parents said the shooter, whom authorities identified as 28-year-old former student Audrey Hale, was “under doctor’s care for emotional disorder,” Drake said. “Law enforcement knew nothing about the treat-

ment (the shooter) was receiving, but the parents felt (the shooter) should not own weapons.”

Drake said the assailant’s parents believed that the shooter had sold their only weapon and were unaware other weapons were hidden within the home. The attacker left their parents’ home Monday carrying a red bag and dismissed questions about what was inside, Drake said. The shooter’s mother told police that because she didn’t know her child had additional firearms, she “didn’t think any differently.”

“If it had been reported that (the shooter) was suicidal or . . . was going to kill someone, had that been made known to us, then we would have tried to get those weapons,” Drake said. He did not explain what that would entail or how that might work legally.

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FAIRFIELD — A memorial is growing on a chain link fence at Grange Middle School to honor Terra Star Jackson, 11, who was hit by a car Thursday morning near the school and taken off life support Sunday night.

The Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District is offering mental health services to staff and students at all schools, said Lindsey Michels, district spokeswoman.

There were no crossing guards on duty at the school.

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makeshift memorial is set up for Terra Star Jackson outside Grange Middle School in Fairfield, Tuesday.

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Viangly, a Venezuelan migrant, cries next to an ambulance in which her husband, who was injured in a fire, is being transported after a fire at the immigration station in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, Tuesday.

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Terra Star Jackson is seen in a picture from the GoFundMe page for her memorial.

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Fairfield alum gets nursing degree from South Dakota State

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Tolento of Fairfield graduated following the summer and fall 2022 semesters at South Dakota State in Brookings, South Dakota. Tolento graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Nursing.

Local alumni awarded Seton Hall University Fall 2022 Dean’s List

Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., is pleased to announce the following students who qualified for the Fall 2022 Dean’s list and to congratulate them for their outstanding academic achievements.

The local students who made the Fall 2022 dean’s list are Jennifer Giron of Benicia and Adriana Kumta of Fairfield.

Fairfield alum makes dean’s list at RIT

Logan Upchurch of Fairfield was named to the fall semester dean’s list at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.

Upchurch is in the computing security program. Students must have a grade-point average of 4.4 or better to qualify.

Georgia Tech fall 2022 graduates announced

The Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta presented degrees to approximately 5,620 undergraduate and graduate students during the Institute’s 263rd Commencement exercises Dec. 16-17, 2022, at Bobby Dodd Stadium.

Among the graduates from Solano County were Mark Delarosa, Vacaville; Hunter Schaufel, Fairfield; Lindsey Lubin, Fairfield; and Lakshay Seth, Fairfield.

Local alumni named to Biola dean’s list

Seven alumni from Solano County highs schools were among the 1,700 students named

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Leaven Kids moves ahead on mobile tutoring van

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to the fall dean’s list at Biola University in La Miranda.

The locals are, from Fairfield: Anna McGinty, majoring in Liberal Studies Elementary Education; Stefanie Owens, majoring in Nursing; Amelia Weiss, majoring in Nursing; Tatum Wurzbach, majoring in Business Administration; and Hailey Wurzbach, undecided; and from Vacaville: Hannah Cornwell, majoring in Liberal Studies Elementary Education; and Victor Quintana, majoring in Cinema and Media Arts. Students must have a grade-point average of 3.6 or higher to qualify.

Locals make dean’s list at Maryland Global

A host of Solano County high school alumni were among the more than 9,800 University of Maryland Global Campus students named to the fall semester dean’s list.

The alumni from Solano County are, from Fairfield: James Asuncion, Silvia Brestak, Vinard Ian Junio, Kristian Spicer, Alan Ebanks, Kendall Essman, Kenyon Heyward, Kyle Ramaker, Anthony Rodriguez, Garrette Bon Joseph Sison, and Frantz Vilfort; from Suisun City: Dylan Coonts, Trenton Doucet, Nickolas Franklin and Bryan French; from Vacaville: Philip Agyekum, Rebekah Beachem, Kelacia Cherry, Jaquil Currie, Lizbeth Duran-Bolo, Angela Etheridge, Brian Leung, Jose Maldonado, Alexander Merchak, Daniel Pierce, Anthony Villalobos and Wendy Zhao; and from Dixon: Daren Le, Carrie Weddle and Christian Cruz.

Students must have a grade-point average of 3.5 or better to qualify.

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Education nonprofit Leaven Kids announced it ratified plans to fundraise, purchase and deploy a mobile, self-contained tutoring unit, which will feature 10 workstations, computers, radios, STEAM technology and WiFi. This initiative will serve as an extension of Leaven Kids’ existing programming, allowing it to expand its reach to students living in rural communities who are not already being serviced by its brick-and-mortar learning centers.

“Leaven Kids is committed to implementing new and creative solutions to best address the achievement gap that exists among students living in communities heavily impacted by high rates of poverty, elevated gun violence, and limited afterschool resources,” said Len Augustine, Leaven Kids director and former Vacaville mayor. “The proposed mobile tutoring unit will provide a cost-effective and highly responsive tool for Leaven Kids to

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Leaven Kids announced it ratified plans to fundraise, purchase and deploy a mobile, self-contained tutoring unit, which will feature 10 workstations, computers, radios, STEAM technology and WiFi. The mobile classroom will be named in honor of late Fairfield Mayor Harry Price.

reach young students who live in neighborhoods just beyond our existing operational footprint. This capability will allow us to more effectively tailor our resources to meet the needs of the region, while simultaneously remaining adaptable to the everchanging needs of our students across a greater geographical area.”

The mobile tutoring unit will be named in honor of late Fairfield Mayor Harry Price, who was a founding member and vocal advocate of the Leaven Kids mission. The Leaven Kids

Naming and Stewardship Subcommittee drafted a formal proposal earlier this year, which was reviewed and ratified by the board of directors. This effort was led by Leaven Kids Board of Directors vice president and retired four-star Air Force Gen. Maryanne Miller.

“Mayor Price was never one to sit idle,” Miller said. “He was always moving and serving our community. The proposed mobile tutoring unit will make after-school educational resources more readily accessible to students

living in rural communities, allowing them to benefit from our services without being constrained due to their geographical location. This exciting investment in the educational development of children aligns closely with values that Mayor Price promoted during his time with Leaven Kids.”

The Price family was also heavily involved in the decision to name Leaven Kids’ proposed mobile tutoring unit in honor of Price.

“As a lifelong teacher and public advocate of early childhood education, my dad was a firm believer that every student deserves a chance to fulfill their utmost potential,” said Pam Winaker, Price’s daughter. “Establishing a strong educational foundation is an important first step when setting our children up for success. The mobile tutoring unit proposed by Leaven Kids perfectly captures this mission that my dad cared for so deeply by ensuring that every young student

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SCC Public Safety Officer saves a life at recreational basketball game

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FAIRFIELD — Luz

Daniels, a Solano Community College Department of Public Safety officer, was credited with saving a life Sunday night during a recreational basketball game.

A 53-year-old man suddenly collapsed on the court at the Fairfield campus gymnasium, according to a Facebook post from the department.

“There was panic amongst the players and spectators since this person was not breathing and had no pulse,” the post said.

Daniels was working in the gym at the time and sprang into action. She ran over to the man and did her initial assessment, determining he did not have a pulse and was not breathing.

Daniels called over the radio to dispatch for a CODE 3 ambulance response before she began performing CPR.

Knowing the ambulance could take some time to arrive, she enlisted another person to assist her perform a two-person CPR. After a few cycles,

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she reassessed him to see if there was breathing or a pulse but there was still nothing.

The Automated External Defibrillator was deployed. After the fourth

AED cycle, the man’s heart began beating very faintly again.

Daniels and others continued to do CPR until the fire department arrived. Fire rushed him to North-

Bay Medical Center for emergency procedures.

Daniels spoke to the man’s wife late last night and apparently he will live, the post said.

Students were evacuated from a

HVAC fire forces students from Rio Vista elementary classroom

RIO VISTA — Students were evacuated from a D.H. White Elementary School classroom after an HVAC unit caught fire on the roof of the building.

“There wasn’t a lot going on except a classroom filled up with smoke,” Rio Vista Fire Chief Jeff Armstrong said in a phone interview.

There were no injuries.

The students had

already been cleared from the room by the time Engine 55 and Battalion 55 arrived on scene, about 3 minutes after the 1:04 p.m. alarm went off.

“While en route, dispatch provided an update that a 9-1-1 caller advised classroom No. 9 was filling up with smoke from an unknown source. Upon receiving this information, Battalion 55 immediately augmented the response to a ‘First Alarm.’ This level response brings four

engines and/or a ladder truck, a chief officer, and an ambulance to scene,” Armstrong said in a statement.

The next step was to confirm the room was vacant.

The investigation then revealed a small fire had occurred in the heating and air conditioning unit on the roof.

“The fire was confirmed out and fire crews assisted maintenance staff in rendering the building safe

Two killed, 3rd wounded in Vallejo shooting

VALLEJO — Two men were killed and one other wounded in a shooting Sunday night in the 500 block of Tennessee Street, the Police Department reported on Monday.

The police responded to the scene about 10:52.

“Upon arrival, officers located three adult male victims suffering from at least one gunshot wound. One of the victims was transported to a nearby

hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. The second victim was transported to a nearby hospital, where he is being treated for his injury. The third victim was pronounced (dead) by medical personnel at the scene,” the police said in a statement.

“The motive and circumstances involving this shooting are under investigation at this time,” the police stated.

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and clearing smoke from the classroom,” the chief’s statement said.

The department and the school also confirmed all students were accounted for, the chief said.

Mutual aid was provided by the Isleton and Suisun City fire departments, and by Medic Ambulance. The Rio Vista Police Department also responded and assisted in traffic control.

Dodd’s stream management, raffle bills

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FAIRFIELD — Legislation that would expand measuring water flows in the state’s streams on Tuesday cleared the Senate Natural Resources Committee.

“Water is a precious resource in California and we must ensure it is managed correctly,” Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, said

in a statement. “Unfortunately, our stream monitoring systems need help. This bill would help upgrade our equipment, improving our ability to track where our water is going as we deal with the continuing effects of climate.”

A second bill authored

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by Dodd, Senate Bill 650, removes the Jan. 1, 2024, sunset so 50-50 raffles can continue at major league sports stadiums as an “important fundraising tool for nonprofits.” It passed the Senate Governmental Organizational Committee, which

The stream legislation, co-sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund and The Nature Conservancy, is designed to “improve the information state water scientists receive and prepare for extreme conditions such as floods and drought.”

The statement said that 70% of the state’s streams

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D.H. White Elementary School classroom after a HVAC unit caught fire on the roof. Daily Republic Staff

Benicia shines, Vallejo improves, rest of Solano fails tobacco test

FAIRFIELD — Solano County and five of its cities – including Fairfield, Suisun City and Vacaville –received failing grades in the State Of Tobacco Control 2023 report released by the American Lung Association.

Benicia, however, received an A and Vallejo went from an F in the previous report card to a C.

The report card grades municipalities based on having ordinances in three categories: smoke-free outdoor air, smoke-free housing and reducing sales of tobacco products.

Bonus points are awarded for ordinance language for emerging tobacco issues such as retailer location restrictions, sale of tobacco products at pharmacies, minimum price of cigarettes and the size of cigar packs.

“Protecting residents from others’ secondhand smoke is important and was made even more important during the pandemic when families were staying at home more,” Robin Cox, chief for Health Promotion and Community Wellness Bureau within the county Public Health Division, said in a statement.

“Given the overall lack of affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay Area, many people do not have options to ‘just move’ away from a neighbor’s smoke that enters their apartment through windows, doors, balconies, shared heating/air conditioning, vents and electrical systems,” Cox said.

Dixon and Rio Vista also received failing grades, as did the unincorporated area of the county.

The American Lung Association tracks how elected board and government agencies implement tobacco control policies, such as

tobacco retailer licensing, smoke-free apartments, condominiums, common areas, smoke-free outdoor dining and services areas.

“California has proven that local tobacco control policies save lives,” Tracy Nachand, Tobacco Prevention and Education Program project director, said in the county statement.

“Tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure continue to cause people to die prematurely and are completely preventable. Local policy makers can take steps to protect Solano residents through adopting protections such as those

More than $7M in state, federal road funds coming to Solano

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County is getting $7.5 million in state and federal transportation infrastructure dollars.

The California Transportation Commission announced the distribution of $1.1 billion “for projects to repair and improve transportation infrastructure throughout the state.”

ers between Interstate 80 and Lyon Road. Also included in the county’s share is $2.4 million to upgrade bridge rails and complete the bridge deck overlay on Highway 128 near Winters.

measured in the ALA Report Card; these are essential to improving the public’s health and quality of life,” Nachand added.

The Tobacco Prevention and Education Program conducting public opinion polls in multiple cities in Solano County to assess which cities may be ready to consider either a smokefree, multi-unit housing ordinance or a comprehensive smoke-free public places ordinance.

In addition, the program is working with other agencies and organizations on a town hall meeting to discuss a Tobacco Retail License in Vallejo.

Air district offers funding for mobile pollutant sources

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FAIRFIELD — The Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District has more than $4.29 million available for projects that reduce mobile source emissions and particulate matter.

“The application period is currently open for on-road and off-road vehicle replacement projects, clean vehicle infrastructure and the purchase of replacement low-dust harvesting equipment,” the district said in a statement.

The funds are provided through the Carl Moyer

Program, the Funding Agricultural Replacement Measures for Emission Reductions Program, the Community Air Protection Incentives Program through California Climate Investments, and the U.S. EPA Targeted Airshed Grant Program. An open house on the 2023 Solicitation is set for 4 to 6 p.m. April 18 at the air district office, 1947 Galileo

DEATH NOTICE

Walter James

Grap, 88, was born on November 22, 1934 and passed away peacefully at home on February 21, 2023. His final resting place is at the Vacaville-Elmira Cemetery

Joseph Keefe

Court, Suite 103, in Davis. This in-person event will include an overview of the incentive programs, provide participants the opportunity to ask questions and receive help with completing applications.

The deadline to submit an application is

4 p.m. May 19.

Information is available at www.ysaqmd.org/ incentives. Applicants will be notified by July 28 about tentative funding awards. The district includes all of Yolo County and parts of Solano, including Vacaville, Dixon and Rio Vista.

David Curl

David H. Curl Jr., 32, of Vacaville, died March 12, 2023 from a sudden illness. David was born August 29, 1990 in Vallejo, the son of David Sr. and Wanda (Martin) Curl. He attended the Vacaville and Travis Unified School Districts and graduated from Travis Alternative Education High School in 2008. David enjoyed watching and playing many sports including ba s ketball, football and baseball.

The total includes $533 million from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act 2021, and $190 million from the state SB 1 funds – the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017.

Solano’s share includes $3.8 million to rehabilitate Highway 12 and upgrade guardrails near Suisun City; and $1.7 million to install concrete barri-

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are not equipped with measuring devices and hundreds of others fail to provide key data including temperature and sedimentation.

“In addition, many of the active gages do not provide real-time reporting,” the statement said

The bill (SB 361) would require the State Water Resources Control Board and the Department of Water Resources “to reactivate, upgrade and install new stream

The largest shares are going to Santa Clara County with $46.38 million, of which $29.3 million targets Highway 82 through Mountainview, Los Altos and Palo Alto; plus $23.98 million to Sonoma County, including $15.8 million for work on Highway 121 near Shellville at the intersection of 121 and Highway 116. San Mateo County is set to get $12.6 million and Alameda County is set to get $12.3 million. Contra Costa County will get $4.75 million; Marin County $3.6 million for Highway 37 work; and Napa County will receive $2.93 million.

gages, and develop plans to fund their long-term maintenance. The bill also requires DWR and the Water Board to identify gaps in the network of weather stations and other water data infrastructure to ensure accurate and comprehensive data collection.”

“A comprehensive stream gage network is essential for water management in California,” Kirk Klausmeyer, director of data science for The Nature Conservancy, testified before the committee. “I’m asking you to vote aye and get our water managers out of the dark.”

Joe was born on July 5 1948 to Clarence and Dorothy Keefe in St Paul Minnesota to the delight of his sister Carolyn. After being raised in St Paul he joined the U.S. Navy on June 20th 1968. Upon being honorably discharged on April 24 1970 from Moffett Field California he decided to hang around the bay area a while before moving to Fairfield. Joe loved to watch his adopted area sports teams the A’s, 49ers and Warriors at the local pizza parlor with his friends. Joe was preceded in passing by his father, mother and his sister. He will have military funeral honors graveside at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery on April 19, 2023 at 2:30.

David Jr. had a deep love for his family and friends but seemed to have a special bond with the elderly especially his grandparents. He was proceeded in death by his paternal grandparents Clyde Sr. and Juanita Curl and his aunt Yvette. David Jr. is sur vived by his parents David Sr. and Wanda of Vacaville; his sister Alana Curl of San Francisco. He also leaves his maternal grandparents, Phillip and Melva Hopkins of Fairfield. He is also survived by his girlfriend, Brooklyn McGee of Vallejo and several aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

Funeral arrangements are being handled by Bryan-Braker Funeral Home in Fairfield. The viewing and funeral service will be Thursday, March 30, 2023 at Shiloh Baptist Church, 185 Chandler St Vacaville. Viewing will be from 10-11 am with the funeral to be held from 11-1 pm. Interment will be at the Vacaville-Elmira Cemetery immediately following the funeral service.

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Arrangements entrusted to Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, Fairfield. You may sign our guestbook at www.bryanbraker.com.

(Jim)

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solano County and five of its cities, including Fairfield, suisun City and Vacaville, received failing grades in the state of Tobacco Control 2023 report released by the american lung association.

Supes approve 5-year Housing Plan, plus annual programs County extends Solano360 negotiation rights with IRL

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors on Tuesday extended for the fourth time the Exclusive Negotiating Rights Agreement with Industrial Realty Group LLC for the Solano360 development of the Solano County fairgrounds property in Vallejo.

This change takes the agreement out to Aug. 1.

The agreement was first reached on Jan. 19, 2021. There is no cost to the county.

In other action, the board:

n Recognized Martha Sandoval, and office

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assistant with the Assessor-Recorder’s Office, upon her retirement with more than 35 years with Solano County.

n Recognized Mylinh Wells, supervising deputy probation officer, upon her retirement with 33 years with Solano County.

n Recognized April 3-9 as National Public Health Week in Solano County.

n Recognized April 2 as Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A., 2023 in Solano County.

n Approved $1,000 from the District 1 General Fund account to benefit the Florence Douglas Center.

Moody’s top economist joins Rep. Thompson in online event

FAIRFIELD — Mark Zandi, Moody’s Analytics chief economist, will join Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, for an online town hall meeting on Wednesday.

THOMPSON

“For the first half-hour, Rep. Thompson will be joined by Mr. Zandi. For the remaining time, Rep. Thompson will answer questions on general topics,” Thompson’s office said in a statement.

The event begins at 6:30 p.m.

For a Zoom link or to watch live, go to www.facebook.com/RepMikeThompson

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While the police said that the identifications of the victims “are being withheld pending next-

of-kin notification by the Solano County Coroner’s Office,” the department has actually told the Coroner’s Office not to release any information. These are the fourth and fifth homicides in Vallejo in 2023.

FAIRFIELD — A fiveyear plan on how the county will serve the housing needs of the low-income and very-low-income families was approved Tuesday by the Solano County Board of Supervisors sitting as the county Housing Authority board.

The plan includes the fiscal year 2023-24 Annual Plan that lays out the policies, procedures and strategies to accomplish the goals of the larger five-year plan and the Moving to Work Supplemental Plan.

Tamara Colden, assistant director of Vacaville Housing and Community Services, which oversees the county Housing Authority, said the county has 368 vouchers, of which 68% – or 250 – are in use. The goal is to bring that total to 295 or 80% of all the vouchers.

The biggest issue is that the county receives a set amount of funding from the U.S. Housing and Urban

Development, and depending how much is allocated to each voucher, based in large part on rental costs, that pool of money does not stretch out to cover all available vouchers.

Additionally, Colden said, there is not enough price-ranged housing available. However, the agency is hoping to launch an outreach and recruitment effort to attract more landlords into the programs.

The HUD Housing Choice Voucher Program provides rent subsidies for Solano County households with annual incomes below $54,300. The total annual contribution is about $3.27 million. The authority covers Dixon, Rio Vista and unincorporated Solano County.

The Moving to Work Supplemental Plan provides greater flexibility in its administration of the programs by customizing programs and reducing administrative costs. That flexibility opens up housing options that may not other-

wise qualify, Colden said.

In other action, the board:

n Approved the fiscal year 2022-23 Property Tax Administration Fee to recover the cost to administer property taxes from cities and local agencies. The total to be collected is $3.28 million, which is $516,227 less than in 2021-22.

n Approved a $259,006 contract with CentralSquare Technologies to move Finance Enterprise to CentralSquare’s cloud environment.

n Approved the District Attorney’s Victim Witness Unit to accept a $196,906 California Office of Emergency Services grant for the Victim Advocacy and Outreach Program for underserved or unserved populations through Dec. 31; and approved an appropriation transfer increasing expenditures by $25,666, offset by a $25,666 increase in State Other Revenue; and added one full-time equivalent, limited-term Victim

Museum Guild offers garden tour in May

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VACAVILLE — The Vacaville Museum Guild will host a garden tour in May.

The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 13. Tour participants may pick up their garden guide brochure beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Vacaville Museum courtyard, 213 Buck Ave.

Seven gardens will be featured this year – from downtown to away from town, from intimate to

grandiose, and from lowwater to lush and ready for a party. Complimentary light refreshments will be served at that time, raffle prizes will be displayed, The Vaca Valley Garden Club, and the Solano County Master Gardeners will be on hand, as will the Willis Jepson chapter of the California Native Plant Society, to talk about plants and answer gardening questions. A special feature will be a garden ornament crafted by Dr. Ken Hunter up for silent auction.

Tickets are $30 and will be on sale beginning March 31.

Tickets may also be purchased online, or by ringing the doorbell or calling the museum at 707-447-4513 during office hours, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday. To purchase tickets online go to vacavillemuseum.org and click on News or Events. A service fee will be charged for tickets purchased by credit card or online. All those who attend must purchase a ticket, including children. All sales are final.

Witness assistant through Dec. 31.

n Approved an agreement with the California Department of Health Care Services, effective July 1, to participate in the Medi-Cal County Inmate Program; and approved an administrative services agreement with the California Department of Health Care Services from July 1 through June 30, 2026.

n Certified the maintained mileage of Solano County roads as 576.207 miles as of Dec. 31, 2022.

n Accepted the 2022 Annual Biosolids Land Application Report from the Department of Resource Management.

n Ratified the proposed consensus ordinance on behalf of the Cordelia, Dixon, Montezuma, Suisun and Vacaville fire protection districts, which adopts the 2022 California Fire Code together with local amendments.

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Pregnant co-worker smokes cigarettes on her break – should I intervene?

Dear Annie: I am a waitress, and there is a lady I work with who is six months pregnant.

Every time she takes a break, she goes in the back and smokes cigarettes and sometimes she smokes weed. She has been smoking ever since I started four months ago, and I kind of knew that she was pregnant, but I never said anything until she told me.

I'm a mind-your-own-business kind of person, but I have witnessed a family member who suffered from asthma and died from it. Although it may not be the primary cause (or maybe it is; I'm not sure), I know smoking while pregnant increases the chance of the baby to have breathing problems.

She goes to the doctor for prenatal care and stuff, but every time she takes a break, my heart sinks and I feel guilty. Should I say something to her; if yes, what can I say?

Or should I just let her be? — Social Responsibility

Dear Responsibility: Of

course smoking is dangerous to the baby, and you are right to be concerned. I suspect the pregnant mother knows this as well. If you condemn her, there is a good chance that it will backfire. She will be angry with you and not change her behavior. So you are in a tough spot.

I would suggest getting to know her as a friend as much as possible and telling her how excited you are about her pregnancy. Gradually, point out that inhaling tobacco smoke and marijuana can cause more damage to babies than doctors realized in the past. You might want to check out the information on the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, particularly the following links, which you can share with your fellow waitress when you feel the time is right: https://www. cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/ tips/diseases/pregnancy.html and https://www.cdc.gov/ marijuana/health-effects/pregnancy.html. Good luck! Dear Annie: My heart went

Horoscopes by Holiday Mathis

ARIES (March 21-April 19).

People expect you to anticipate their needs, and amazingly, you do. Your deep knowledge of your role, an understanding of your competition, and an idea about people's standards and experiences allows you to be nearly psychic in your ability to serve.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

What's important about detailed work is knowing how granular to get. Knowing too many specifics wastes your time and taxes the attention of others, especially in teaching or storytelling. A sprinkle goes a long way.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

When you compare yourself to others, it will seem like you got in on the game too late, but that's a social illusion similar to walking into a room full of people mingling and thinking they all know one another, which is usually not the case.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

There are those who come off as cool because they're very comfortable in a situation, and then there are those who seem cool but are actually just self-centered, oblivious and incurious. Warmth is better. Go for warmth.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

You'll lead with your lion heart. You can feel tremendous empathy for those who are nothing like you. Furthermore, you'll celebrate the successes of others with sheer joy and appreciate efforts and talents you don't fully understand.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

If you don't know what to say, don't worry because you

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don't need to. You're better off leaving a silence and letting the other person, or life itself, lead the way. Be ready to pivot. The best relationships are constantly changing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Regret is a rejection of the person you were and the choices you made – a rather unkind way to treat your former self. You have always done your best with the circumstances and knowledge you had at the time.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).

There's nothing more tedious than arguing with someone who needs to be right. Don't stick around to be drained. Let them be right and move on to work and play with people of flexible mind and far less ego.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21). Maturity has brought you to the realization that while you may admire a person, your

out to the young mother who was heartbroken on Valentine's Day due to the untimely loss of her precious baby girl who had been named Valentine. I appreciate your feelings, for we also experienced the loss of our precious daughter. However, she was 28, and the loss was 12 years ago. Time doesn't diminish our love for her.

I would suggest that on that day, her birthday, you and your family establish a unique way to honor her. On Valentine's Day, create a scholarship in her honor, volunteer at the local food bank, or make a contribution to a local Boys and Girls Club, YMCA or to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. If there are tears that day, let them be tears of joy –and memory. You won't regret it. — Been There Dear Been There: I am sorry for your loss. You are continuing to honor your baby girl by bringing joy to other people. How beautiful. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

strong feelings stem from not only what you know of the person but also what they represent to you. Reflection on it leads to self-discovery.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19). Invite a person into your world one experience at a time. Too much too soon would ruin the journey, which is varied, nuanced and takes time to enjoy. Getting to know you is more like fine dining than fast food.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18). The group needs a sense of certainty and will stay on purpose when the leader provides this. Even if you don't know what you're doing, execute tasks as though you do. You'll figure it out en route.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Celebrate your success. Skipping this part of the cycle would be a mistake. Even the smallest win should be acknowledged because doing so creates hope, momentum and an attitude of optimistic confidence and competence.

CELEBRITY PROFILES:

Happy solar return to comedy genius Amy Sedaris, the Mandalorian's scrappy spaceport proprietor and the creator of dadaist masterpiece "At Home with Amy Sedaris." This searing Aries talent has an unusually diverse astrological chart, which may explain her ability and desire to play a wide range of characters. Sedaris has many astrological energies to draw from including Mercury in artistically and emotionally flexible Pisces. Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com.

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that should have been omitted. However, along with many full deals, there are several single-suit combinations to demonstrate what is possible in this fascinating game.

Today’s deal is in one of the defense sections. Take the East seat. Against six spades, your partner leads the club 10. Declarer wins in hand with the queen, cashes his spade ace and plays a spade to dummy’s king, partner following both times. Now comes dummy’s singleton heart. How do you defend?

After North’s transfer bid, South jumped to three spades to show a maximum with four-card support – a superaccept.

You are faced with a perennial problem. When a side-suit singleton is led from the dummy, should you win with the ace or duck? Usually it is right to play low smoothly.

ALMOST ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

Let’s take a second look at the excellent book by Englishmen Terence Reese and David Bird, “All You Need to Know About Play,” available at Amazon. Of course, it doesn’t contain everything you need to know, and, in my opinion, it has some material on rare squeezes

Of course, if the ace is the setting trick, take it. More often, though, what might be lost on the roundabout normally comes back with interest on the swings. Maybe the declarer has a king-jack combination he must guess correctly, or perhaps the deal is like this one. If you win with the heart ace, declarer has two discards for dummy’s diamond losers, whereas if you duck, sacrificing one heart trick, your side receives two diamond tricks in return.

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Adele isn’t saying goodbye to her Las Vegas residency any time soon.

The “Hello” singer on Sunday added 34 concerts to her “Weekends with Adele” resi dency, which was previously sched uled to conclude with Saturday night’s show at The Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace.

The new performances will take place at that same venue between June 16 and Nov. 4, organizers announced Sunday.

The official confirmation came hours after Adele teased to her audience that the residency would go on and that a concert film would follow.

“Playing to 4,000 people for 34 dates is not enough, and I know

that,” Adele told the crowd Saturday, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “So I am coming back for a few weeks in June, and I’m going to release it to make sure anyone who wants to see this show can see it.”

The Londonborn Adele – a 16-time Grammy winner known for hits such as “Rolling in the Deep” and “Easy on Me” – began her Vegas residency last November. The first leg also included 34 concerts.

Adele originally planned to begin her residency in January 2022 but postponed it days before the first scheduled concert, saying it wasn’t ready.

“We’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and Covid,” Adele announced at the time.

Pickles Brian Crane

Zits Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis

Candorville Darrin Bell

Baby Blues Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

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Crime logs

FairField

SUNDAY, MARCH 26

12:19 a.m. — Battery, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON

BOULEVARD

2:37 a.m. — Reckless driver, WESTBOUND INTERSTATE 80

6:39 a.m. — Drunken driving, 3000 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

7:45 a.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80

8:12 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1300 block of WOOLNER AVENUE

11:27 a.m. — Trespassing, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET

12:04 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1400 block of MICHIGAN STREET

2:23 p.m. — Trespassing, 2000 block of CADENASSO DRIVE

2:30 p.m. — Battery, 1000 block of WEBSTER STREET

3:36 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 300 block of MISSOURI STREET

3:49 p.m. — Forgery, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

4:26 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, MANCHESTER DRIVE

7:13 p.m. — Commercial burglary, SHUMWAY PLACE

9:58 p.m. — Forgery, 3000 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

10:39 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2200 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

11:20 p.m. — Shots fired,

LINEAR PARK PATHWAY

1:33 p.m. — Forgery, 2700 block of PARKVIEW TERRACE

11:43 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

MONDAY, MARCH 27

12:49 a.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 200 block of EAST

TABOR AVENUE

1:07 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 1500 block of WEST

TEXAS STREET

6:27 a.m. — Drunken driving,

3200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

6:37 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 700 block of WEBSTER STREET

8:21 a.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, 700 block of OHIO STREET

9:31 a.m. — Trespassing, 1100 block of CLAY STREET

10:55 a.m. — Trespassing, DEL

PRADO CIRCLE

11:27 a.m. — Reckless driver, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

12:15 p.m. — Grand theft, 100 block of HAWTHORN DRIVE

12:40 p.m. — Forgery, 2900 block of AUTO MALL PARKWAY

1:41 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS

Fairfield Mayor Catherine Moy, who serves on the Solano Transportation Authority board, said the agency is already working on changes where the young girl was struck.

STA, as part of its Safe Routes to School, is installing blinking lights on the crosswalk to increase visibility and revamping the crosswalk area.

“It will be in the smaller area of the crosswalk,” Moy said. “This will slow traffic because drivers automatically slow down in smaller lanes.”

The school district is responsible for crossing guards, not the city, Moy added, saying she has reached out to school trustees.

More crossing guards are needed, Michels said.

Elena Lindsey McGraw-Ogans, 32, of Fairfield, was arrested and booked into Solano County Jail on Thursday. She posted bail and was released. Her court date is 8:30 a.m. May 16.

STREET

2:17 p.m. — Forgery, 900 block of PIERCE STREET

2:35 p.m. — Vandalism, 1000 block of ILLINOIS STREET

2:40 p.m. — Forgery, 2400 block of DAWN WAY

2:58 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 5100 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE

3:45 p.m. — Forgery, 2400 block of FLATLEY CIRCLE

3:59 p.m. — Trespassing, 2500 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

4:08 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 2400 block of PEACH TREE DRIVE

4:26 p.m. — Reckless driver, 5200 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE

4:39 p.m. — Battery, 200 block of EAST ATLANTIC AVENUE

4:54 p.m. — Vehicle theft, SAN MARCO STREET

5:33 p.m. — Battery, 4300 block of CENTRAL PLACE

7:27 p.m. — Robbery, 2500 block of SUNRISE DRIVE

8:02 p.m. — Trespassing, 2200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET

8:20 p.m. — Battery, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD

11:03 p.m. — Drunken driving, CORDELIA ROAD

SuiSun City

SUNDAY, MARCH 26

1:02 a.m.

for Gun Safety, a gun violence prevention organization, Tennessee does not currently have an extreme risk law, also known as a red flag law, which allows law enforcement and family members to petition for a court order to temporarily prevent someone in crisis from accessing guns. It does have a law that prohibits gun possession by people who have been involuntarily committed or are found to be a danger to themselves or others, but the bar for that is incredibly high, said Jonathan Metzl, the director of the Department of Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University and an expert on gun violence and mental illness.

Police used female pronouns to refer to the attacker, whom they previously said identified as transgender. Kristin Mumford, a public affairs officer with the Metro Nashville Police Department, said the attacker was “assigned female at birth” but that the agency is “also aware of social media profiles in which the shooter used male pronouns.” A LinkedIn profile under the shooter’s name that has since been taken down listed he/ him pronouns.

Drake said police are still searching for a motive.

The updates came after police on Tuesday released body camera footage worn by two of the officers who responded to the shooting.

The shooter was fatally

shot by officers in an encounter that was captured on the footage. The body camera shows that within about 3 minutes and 20 seconds of parking at the school, officers located and killed the shooter.

The entire incident lasted about 14 minutes, with the first call coming in at 10:13 a.m. and officers engaging the shooter at 10:27 a.m., Drake said. He commended officers’ response, saying it was “really quick.”

“They heard gunfire and immediately ran to that and then took care of this awful situation,” Drake said. In one body camera video, worn by Officer Rex Engelbert, officers arrive at the Covenant School and are met outside by an employee.

“The kids are all locked down, but we have two that we don’t know where they are,” the employee tells Engelbert. She also tells him someone “fired into my window” and that “they are upstairs,” pointing toward the school’s second floor. Another employee hands Engelbert keys to the building as the first employee tells officers gunshots were heard in Fellowship Hall, located at the end of the ground floor. “Upstairs, there are a bunch of kids,” the first employee says.

Footage then shows several officers clearing the hallway and various rooms on the ground floor before running to the second floor. Fire alarms ring through an otherwise empty hallway decorated with student artwork and St. Patrick’s Day projects. Volleys of gunfire can be heard as officers dash up to the second floor,

where they meet additional officers. The pops of gunfire grow louder as police rush toward the noise and around the corner to a common area near a second-floor window. There’s the sound of broken glass, which police said came from the attacker shooting at police cars arriving on campus, and Engelbert, armed with a rifle, opens fire on the assailant. Officer Michael Collazo fires four more shots as he and another officer approach the assailant and yell at them to stop moving and get their hands away from the gun. The video blurs out the shooter’s face and their body on the floor.

Police also released Collazo’s body camera video that shows several officers who first rushed to the second floor to find the door locked. They make their way through the ground floor, clearing the building as they go, until they reach the second floor and hear the crack of gunshots. “Shots fired, shots fired, move!” Collazo orders. It’s on the second floor where Collazo regroups with Engelbert, and the two officers fire the fatal shots that killed the shooter.

Drake said he was not sure whether either Engelbert, a four-year veteran, or Collazo, who had nine years on the force and worked as a paramedic on the SWAT team, had been in similar situations previously.

“I was really impressed, with all that was going on, the danger, that somebody took control, and said let’s go, let’s go, let’s go,” he said. The responding officers are now “trying to decompress, trying to

make sense of all this,” he added later.

Authorities have said that the assailant left behind a “manifesto” that contained various writings, including other possible locations along with a map of the school and how the shooter would enter. Mumford said that one of the additional locations was a mall, but declined to specify which mall.

The shooter, who was killed by police, was described as a 28-yearold woman armed with at least two assault rifles and a handgun.

The shooter had “multiple rounds of ammunition,” was “prepared for confrontation with law enforcement,” and was believed to have acted alone, Drake said.

Surveillance footage released by Nashville police Monday night shows the assailant driving to the campus in what police said was a Honda Fit. At around 10:11 a.m., the attacker, who police said was armed with assault-style weapons and a handgun, shoots through a set of glass doors and ducks through them to enter the building. The footage then shows the shooter prowling the empty halls with a weapon drawn.

The police identified the three children killed in the attack as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all age 9; and the three adults as head of school Katherine Koonce, 60; Cynthia Peak, 61, a substitute teacher; and Mike Hill, 61, a custodian. Drake said the shooter “randomly targeted” the six victims.

It is up to Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams whether to upgrade the main charge to felony DUI causing death, or possibly murder.

Barbara Jackson dropped her twins shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday. She said her daughter crossed the street to chat with friends and was hit in the crosswalk.

“The family decided to donate Terra’s organs so her heart can help another child live,” a GoFundMe page said. “That’s what she would have wanted,” said her mother on social media.

“We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of one of our students, Terra Star Jackson, who was involved in an accident last week,” the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District said in a statement on Monday. “Our school and community mourn the loss of a bright young soul, and we extend our sincerest condolences to her family during this trying time.”

The STA website offers at home activities for Safe Routes to School at https:// sta.ca.gov

Firefighters and military personnel swarmed the site, near the Stanton-Lerdo International Bridge, and extinguished the flames. Rescue workers laid the bodies in rows outside the facility, covering them with foil thermal sheets. “This one’s alive! This one’s alive!” emergency workers shouted as they spotted movement on one of the bodies, according to the local news outlet Diario de Juárez. Sirens wailed as ambulances raced to hospitals with survivors. Video shot by news outlet Norte Digital showed one woman with a baby weeping and pounding on the door of an ambulance that hadn’t yet left the site. “Pedro! Pedro!” she cried.

According to a local official, the immigration building in Ciudad Juárez holds both migrants who have been detained on their journey through Mexico and people expelled by the U.S. Border Patrol under Title 42, a pandemic-era policy that allows swift removal without the opportunity to ask for asylum.

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the situation, said it was not clear whether any of the fire victims had been sent back across the border by U.S. agents.

A statement Tuesday from U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it was allowing those who were injured to be “transported via ambulance from Mexican to U.S. medical facilities for treatment.”

The stark images of the disaster highlighted the suffering of migrants who endure kidnapping, extortion and heartbreak as they try to reach the United States. “Those who blame the victims of the fire obscure the fact these deaths are an indictment of the policies and structures implemented at large by both governments,” the nonprofit Hope Border Institute noted in a statement.

By midmorning

Tuesday, a small shrine of flowers and white candles had been created along a wall of the cream-colored facility. Nearly three dozen migrants, mostly from Venezuela, protested outside a perimeter fence about the lack of information about their relatives and friends. “Justicia!”

they yelled.

Stefania Arango, 25, of Maracaibo, Venezuela, said she had arrived in the city two weeks ago with her 32-year-old brother, Stefan. He was detained Monday during a sweep by immigration authorities of downtown areas where migrants had been begging, selling candy and washing windshields. Arango said Mexican authorities confirmed several hours later that he was being held in the immigration facility.

Yet she knew nothing Tuesday about his fate. “I have my heart broken into two pieces,” she said. “I’m afraid that he’s dead.”

Another Venezuelan migrant, Katiusca Márquez, 23, was also seeking news about a brother. Both had been detained Monday afternoon, though authorities let her go because she had her young son with her. Her sibling, José Orlando, 30, was not so lucky.

“We crossed the jungle in several countries and we’ve survived everything,” she said. “And nothing has happened up until today.”

An investigation into the cause of the blaze is underway. The migration institute said it “energetically rejects the acts that led to this tragedy,”

without providing details. Some activists expressed skepticism about the government’s explanation of how the fire started, noting that migrants are frequently targets of abuse while in custody.

Migrant apprehensions at the U.S. border have spiked to record levels in the past two years, and U.S. officials have warned that those who cross without permission could be quickly returned to Mexico or to their homelands.

The Biden administration is working with Mexico to roll out new border restrictions in the coming weeks that would discourage migrants from making illegal crossings into Mexico and then into the United States. U.S. officials say they will accept tens of thousands of migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua as long as they apply online to enter legally.

The administration has also proposed a temporary rule that would make it more difficult for migrants to cross the border and immediately request asylum in the United States, an idea that has drawn criticism from advocacy groups and some leading Democrats.

with the same safety and other standards required of other lodging businesses. She also strongly advocated for protecting existing residents.

She said protecting 10 people is the same as protecting 30.

In the end, she sided with her colleagues after certain changes were made, including a five-year review of the required use permits, including a review of code and criminal enforcement calls. That was added despite already having annual business license reviews, which if revoked or not renewed, would prohibit operation of the rentals as well. Board Chairman John

Vasquez was concerned the extra time and cost could sway homeowners to run the businesses without going through the county processes, a problem already in the county. However, added enforcement elements are designed to prevent that, too.

The homes also are restricted to a maximum of 10 adults.

The vast majority of the public comments favored the county’s efforts to better regulate the tourist homes and hold the property owners accountable for, among other issues, noise and keeping their properties fire safe.

Sandy Beach is not part of the ordinance at this time. A fire suppression capacity study is ongoing. When that is completed, the issue of short-term rentals will be

taken up again.

There was a mix of opinions on that, with some Sandy Beach homeowners wanting to have the option available to them, and others calling on the county to make sure the enforcement teeth are as equally sharp as in the ordinance introduced for the rest of the county.

The wind project amendment, among other provisions:

n Prohibits the development of new commercial wind energy generation facilities north of Highway 12.

n Explicitly requires that any proposals for new or modified commercial wind energy generation facilities provides line-of-sight analyses demonstrating that each new or modified turbine within the facility is not within the line-of-sight of

the base’s Digital Airport Surveillance Radar.

n Explicitly recognizes that larger commercial wind energy generation facilities can and do have adverse impacts on the surveillance radar and thereby negatively affect the operations and mission of Travis Air Force Base.

n Retains existing General Plan policies that generally encourage the development and use of renewable energy sources, but clarify as county land use development policy that the protection of the operations and mission of Travis Air Force Base takes priority over the development of new commercial wind energy generation facilities or the modification of existing facilities to increase their production capacity.

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has access to the love, support, and mentorship needed to be successful in school and in life.”

With the formal approval from the board of directors, Leaven Kids, one of the fastest-growing nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations in the northern Bay Area, will work to secure the remaining funds needed to purchase and deploy the mobile tutoring unit. It has already raised roughly 25% of the funds needed through memorial donations for Price sent in lieu of flowers. The mobile classroom will have the ability to rotate between multiple neighborhoods within the surrounding region, both to maximize the number

of students reached and to establish a foundation for future brick-and-mortar sites depending on community interest and available resources. The fundraising, purchase and deployment of the mobile tutoring unit will fill an urgent need for accessible after-school and summer programming for students living in historically underserved communities. This is yet another example of how Leaven Kids is addressing barriers to access and promoting equitable services by bringing evidence-based educational programs directly to neighborhoods where students live. Members of the public who are interested in donating to the Leaven Kids mission can email hello@leavenkids.com or visit leavenkids.org for more information.

Welcome to China Palace!

China Palace has prepared specialty dishes of Peking, Szechuan and Hunan cuisine for the past 23 years and is personally prepared by owner Pat Chang. Their menu includes traditional Chinese dishes along with daily lunch specials. China Palace was voted “Best Chinese & Ethnic restaurant in Solano County” in a 2002 Daily Republic Readers Poll.

Customer comments:

China Palace 715 Jackson St. • (707) 422-5019

“Best Chinese Food Around, Hands Down!”, “The owners are amazing, everything is so FRESH!” The family owned restaurant is operated by Pat & Lisa Chang and they are very happy to be part of Fairfield’s Downtown District. Take Out Only!

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Williams an All-American on uneven bars for Cal

FAIRFIELD —

Maddie Williams, a product of the DreamXtreme Gymnastics Center of Vacaville, recently was named an All-American by the Women's Collegiate Gymnastic Association.

Thompson closing in on career mark in his full season return

SAN FRANCISCO — When Klay Thompson was nearing his return in January 2022 after missing 2 1/2 years of action, the Warriors medical staff told coach Steve Kerr it would take about a year or so for Thompson to fully get back to where he once was.

Fourteen months later, Thompson is closing in on a career mark – the latest sign of how far he’s come since he suffered backto-back devastating injuries.

Thompson entered Monday leading the league in made 3-pointers and is just three shy of tying his regular-season career high of 276, set in 2015-16. After going 5 of

11 from deep in Sunday’s close loss to Minnesota, Thompson has made 273 treys in 64 games, converting on 40.7% of his attempts from beyond the arc. Pacers guard Buddy Hield is right behind Thompson with 271 3-pointers.

In Kerr’s mind, Thompson will never lose his scoring touch.

“He’ll be able to [bury 3s] until he’s 90,” Kerr recently said. “He’s always going to be able to shoot.”

And he’s come a long way from where he was just a few months ago.

Thompson spent the first part of the season searching. He wanted to be the player he was before he crumpled to the floor with a torn ACL in the 2019 NBA Finals and then ruptured his Achilles tendon 17 months later. Thompson felt

the outside pressure and heard the doubters who questioned whether he could ever get back to his All-Star form.

He was frustrated with his situation. Not only was he on a minutes restriction and unable to play in both sides of back-to-backs, but his trusty shot wasn’t falling. Thompson made only 38 of his first 115 attempts from deep in the first 12 games of this season. The rough start led to Thompson’s emotions boiling to the surface — in a rare outburst, Thompson experienced his first career ejection after getting slapped with two technical fouls while jawing with Phoenix’s Devin Booker.

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Shanahan eager to watch Lance, Darnold grow as Purdy recovers

Cam Inman

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SANTA CLARA —

Kyle Shanahan accepts the fact the 49ers could be without Brock Purdy into October as the regular season starts without him.

Or perhaps Purdy races back to full health by training camp, which is the hope general manager John Lynch expressed Monday.

Regardless, the task at hand is to prepare Trey Lance for the starting quarterback role he held a year ago, even if Purdy showed enough last season to reclaim the job once his surgically repaired elbow heals.

“With Brock being hurt, it does open (the job) up, and it does give him a chance,” Shana-

han said Tuesday at the NFL owners’ meeting in Phoenix. “I don’t know how Brock’s going to

come back. I don’t know exactly when he’s going to come back, so I don’t have the exact answer for that.

“But right now because he is hurt, it is nice to focus on Trey, it is nice to focus on Sam (Darnold), and see how they do in OTAs and most likely see how they’re playing leading us into training camp because I think it will take some time for Brock.”

Purdy had his torn ulnar collateral ligament repaired with an internal brace March 10, and Shanahan echoed general manager John Lynch’s words Monday in saying the 49ers will have a

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The Cal sophomore from Vacaville was solid on the uneven bars throughout the season for the No. 7 Golden Bears and finished the regular season ranked No. 8 in the country with a 9.955 national qualifying score. She was one of four Cal athletes to earn honors. Williams was a first-team All-American for the first time in her collegiate career.

Student-athletes with the top eight National Qualifying Scores (NQS) for the regular season (with ties), for each event plus the all-around earned All America honors.

Williams, teammate Nevaeh DeSouza (Fair-

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field, DreamExtreme) and Cal will be competing at the NCAA Regional Semifinals in Pittsburgh Friday.

Track and field

Sophomore Maya Holman (Vacaville) of Cal Poly won two events at the recent Mark Conover Classic in San Luis Obispo. She took first in the women's long jump (5.73 meters) and the women's javelin (40.4 meters).

Junior Quinton Alexander (Vanden) was second in the men's invitational 800 meters (1:52.06) at the Conover Classic for Cal Poly.

Sophomore Daysha Ford (Rodriguez) had the highest finish among Sacramento State athletes during the Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner Kersee Invitational at UCLA. Ford was fourth in the 400 meters (55.44).

Senior Jaiden Moody (Vanden) finished fourth

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Hancock delivers signature win for Wood baseball

DaIly r epublIC Staff DRNEWS@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

VACAVILLE —

Devon Hancock pitched seven solid innings and struck out five Monday as the Will C. Wood High School baseball team knocked off visiting Vanden 6-2. Hancock allowed eight hits and just two earned runs. Michael Torres was 2-for-3 with an RBI for the Wildcats. Ian Morales and Jarren Ford each had a double and an RBI. Manny De La Torre also had an RBI single.

Austin Hammerschmidt went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI for Vanden. Dalen Shipp had two hits and Bryce Alcantara added a double. DJ Andersen pitched five innings for the Vikings and had one inning of relief help from JoJo Torres.

Wood scored three runs in the first inning to take the early lead and added three runs in the sixth. Vanden was held to single runs in the second and sixth inning. The Wildcats improved to 2-4 overall and 2-2 in the Monticello Empire League. The Vikings are now 6-2 overall and 3-1 in the MEL.

The teams have moved their Wednesday game to 4 p.m. Thursday at Vanden because of the weather. Friday's 4 p.m. game is still scheduled to be played at Wood.

Rodriguez outduels

Fairfield in 3-1 win

FAIRFIELD — The Rodriguez High School baseball team scored three times in the second

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Giants’ cult hero Romo exits with a one-of-a-kind legacy

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One last hop out of the bullpen.

One last blast of “El Mechón” on the Oracle Park soundsystem.

A few more sliders, for old times’ sake, and a classy exit befitting a Giants legend.

Sergio Romo didn’t have much in the tank when he entered the seventh inning of the Giants-A’s exhibition game on Monday night. He admitted as much.

But he gave everything he had for the Giants one last time.

“A couple of weeks ago, when I was sitting on the couch, they presented me with this opportunity. It didn’t matter how I felt physically. I knew it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass,” Romo said. “I can honestly say that, not just tonight, but my whole career, I emptied the tank. I gave it everything I had, every time.”

And it was that attitude that made him a fan

favorite throughout his improbable and exceptional 15-year career.

“I took a lot of pride in challenging hitters,” Romo said. “I know I never lit up the radar gun, but I always find a way to throw my ’95 to 100’ through my slider . . . . I looked at if they had bad luck that day, because they had to face me. And I wasn’t afraid to show them why.”

Consider us lucky though – we were able to watch Romo pitch for a decade and a half.

While an exhibition game against the A’s couldn’t have been more different than Game 4 of the 2012 World Series and Romo’s final at-bat with Miguel Cabrera, Monday night proved the love and appreciation between the righty reliever and Giants fans is still strong.

Thirty-thousand-plus packed into the park on a brisk Monday night.

Even though Romo allowed three baserunners and a run, recording zero outs in his final outing as a

pro, the standing ovations he received were deserved and 15 years in the making.

Giants fans ensured Romo was treated right as he ended his career.

“The reception I got just running out to the bullpen. The reception I got running out to the mound, walking off… Rather fulfilling moments,” Romo said. “It’s hard not to think it’s a dream.”

“To sit there and think that this is something a lot of people thought

I deserved… To find a way to accept that, I’m still kind of struggling with that.”

But when you are a critical part of three World Series championship teams (one of nine Giants to be on all three title-winning squads), and you do it with Romo’s flair and charisma, you deserve the hero’s exit. This man closed a World Series clincher. He was an All-Star. He locked down 84 games for the Giants and provided

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Golden State Warriors’ Klay Thompson gestures after scoring a three-point basket against the Los Angeles Clippers during the first quarter of their NBA game at the Chase Center in San Francisco, March 2.

Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group/TNS file (2022) San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan leaves the field after their 33-17 NFL win over the Miami Dolphins at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Dec. 4, 2022.

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Ravens and QB Lamar Jackson?

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BALTIMORE — Lamar Jackson, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and rapper Meek Mill. As if the situation surrounding the Ravens’ star quarterback hasn’t had enough bizarre twists and turns already.

It took yet another one Monday afternoon when Kraft told reporters at the NFL meetings that Meek Mill texted him a few days earlier saying that the disgruntled Baltimore quarterback, who earlier in the day took to Twitter to reveal that he told the Ravens earlier this month that he wants out, would like to play for the Patriots.

“Meek Mill texted and said, ‘Lamar Jackson wants to come to the Patriots,’ ” Kraft said, adding that he’s also fond of the team’s current starting quarterback Mac Jones. “I said, ‘That’s [coach] Bill Belichick’s decision.’ ”

Kraft helped the rapper get out of prison in 2018, and that same year Meek Mill mentioned Kraft in one of his songs.

Whether the Ravens can get out of their jam with Jackson, though, is an altogether different problem.

Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta has said repeatedly that he wants Jackson to be the team’s long-term quarterback. Coach John Harbaugh has echoed those sentiments and on Monday said he’s building the offense along with new offensive coordinator Todd Monken with the idea that Jackson will be

under center, though he conceded that the team is also making contingency plans.

“I don’t know what direction it’s going to go,” Harbaugh said. “I don’t have a crystal ball. I can’t tell the future. But I know whatever happens is going to be good. It’s going to be OK.

I have my hopes. I love Lamar Jackson.”

He’s not the only one, of course.

Though the Ravens franchise-tagged Jackson earlier this month, the 2019 NFL Most Valuable Player is free to seek an offer from another team because the tag is nonexclusive.

While no team has come forward publicly with an offer yet – and another one on Monday added to the list of organizations that have said they are not pursuing the 26-year-old superstar, with Commanders general manager Martin Mayhew saying Washington is moving forward with its quarterbacks, Sam Howell and Jacoby Brissett — Indianapolis Colts general manager Chris Ballard had an intriguing reaction to the news.

“Anytime a special player is available, which he is, you’ve got to do the work,” Ballard told reporters at the meetings. “I’m not going to get into deep discussions on where it’s at or what we’re doing or what we might do. But what I’ll tell you is he’s a really good player, really special player. But you never know how any of this will work out.”

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The Oakland A’s outfield that takes the field Thursday night against the Angels will look a lot different from the 2022 Opening Day group.

Cristian Pache, one of the big names involved in the trade that sent Matt Olson to the Atlanta Braves, was informed that he didn’t make the cut for the A’s big league roster. The outfielder could be traded or designated for assignment and exposed to waivers, where all other teams will have the opportunity to claim him.

Manager Mark Kotsay said Monday that “there are some teams interested” in Pache.

“This kid still has a big future in this game, in my opinion,” he said. “He’s a plus defender and I think the offensive side, it always takes longer to develop. Unfortunately

for us, where we’re at, we kind of ran out of time with that.”

The 24-year-old can remain in the A’s organization if he clears waivers and the team sends him to Triple-A Las Vegas.

Pache was a fresh face who embraced the fanbase immediately through social media upon his arrival in

Oakland last season. He started in center field on Opening Day last season, showing off his defensive upside at the position.

But his bat never came around. He slashed .166/.218/.241 with a .459 OPS in 91 games (260 plate appearances) with the A’s last season.

Ramón Laureano will

anchor a new-look outfield that should feature Esteury Ruiz – acquired in the trade that sent Sean Murphy to the Braves –and Aledmys Diaz along with Brent Rooker and Conner Capel on the bench. Capel, 25, was claimed off waivers last season and batted .308 with a .875 OPS in 59 games with Oakland down the stretch.

Rooker, 28, had a strong spring training. He spent time with the Minnesota Twins, San Diego Padres and Kansas City Royals over 81 games and three Major Leagueseasons.

Stephen Piscotty and Chad Pinder, last year’s corner outfield starters on Opening Day, have both left the A’s organization. Piscotty is set to open the season in Sacramento on a minor-league deal with the Giants while Pinder, after being released last week by the Reds, has signed a minor-league contract with the Nationals.

Billionaires bid to purchase Commanders

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PHOENIX — The process of finding a new owner for the Washington Commanders has entered a new phase.

According to multiple reports, a group led by Josh Harris and Mitchell Rales – and including Lakers legend Magic Johnson – has submitted a fully financed bid for the franchise, now owned by the embattled Daniel Snyder. ESPN, citing an unnamed source, has reported the group has met Snyder's $6 billion asking price.

ESPN also is reporting that Canadian developer Steve Apostolopoulos has submitted a bid of $6 billion.

Thrun to debut for Sharks Thursday

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SAN JOSE — Defenseman Henry Thrun, who signed an entry-level contract with the Sharks over the weekend, will make his NHL debut on Thursday, coach David Quinn said.

Thrun arrived in San Jose on Monday, two days after he signed a twoyear deal with the Sharks that expires after the 2023-24 season. Thrun, though, arrived too late to be able to practice with the Sharks, and was ruled out for tonight’s game at SAP Center against the Winnipeg Jets.

Thrun, 22, skated with the Sharks on Tuesday morning and is slated to play Thursday when the Sharks host the Vegas Golden Knights.

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Wingers Andreas Johnsson and Evgeny Svechnikov could miss the rest of the regular season with lower body injuries, Quinn said.

Johnsson was injured when he blocked a shot in the Sharks’ game on March 20against the Edmonton Oilers. Svechnikov hasn’t played since he was hurt in San Jose’s game with the Seattle Kraken on March 16.

Quinn said he didn’t have a health update on forward William Eklund, who was injured in a San Jose Barracuda on March 22 game against the Colorado Eagles.

The Sharks have eight games remaining in the regular season after Tuesday’s game at the Shark Tank against the Winnipeg.

Speculation about new owners has been percolating since November, when Daniel and Tanya Snyder announced they had hired Bank of America to begin the process of potentially selling part or all of the team.

The anticipated sale of the Commanders, which requires approval of three-quarters of the other 31 clubs, is a major topic at the annual league meetings. The Denver Broncos were the last NFL franchise to change hands, selling for a record $4.65 billion in August.

The widely unpopular Snyder is at the center of multiple investigations into the running of his team. According to a congressional report released in December, Snyder "per-

mitted and participated" in the club's pervasive and toxic work culture, worked to dissuade and intimidate witnesses from cooperating in a 14-month inquiry and claimed more than 100 times in testimony that he could not recall answers to basic questions.

In July 2021, the NFL fined the then-Washington Football Team $10 million and required that Snyder relinquish day-to-day operations of the franchise for several months after an independent investigation found the club's workplace "highly unprofessional," particularly for women. At that point, the team had been under investigation for a year stemming from dozens of sexual harassment allegations.

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Oakland Athletics’ Cristian Pache (20) stands in the dugout during their game against the Kansas City Royals at the Coliseum in Oakland, June 19, 2022.

Maddie Meyer/Getty Images/TNS file (2020) Lamar Jackson (8) of the Baltimore Ravens reacts after the game against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium, Sept. 25, 2022, in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

Putin ups the ante with nukes in Belarus

Let’s all hope that Chinese President Xi Jinping sees this outrage as a personal affront and gives his “friend” in Moscow a good talking to at once.

Only days ago, Xi was paying Russian President Vladimir Putin a visit – to discuss their collaboration, but also to talk him out of nuclear escalation and into a peace process with Kyiv. This weekend, Putin did the exact opposite.

In perhaps the most insidious of his many nuclear threats against Ukraine and the West, Putin announced that he would station tactical nukes in Belarus, his fellow dictatorship and vassal state just to the west. From there, even missiles and jets with shortish ranges could strike targets in Ukraine or central Europe.

Disingenuously as ever, Putin claims that this move won’t breach Russia’s obligations under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. His logic is that he, rather than Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, would retain control over the warheads and the missiles that would carry them. That makes it alright, apparently.

In reality, Putin is once again ignoring – or perhaps relishing – the bitter irony of the perfidious path he followed to this moment in history. In the so-called Budapest Memorandum of 1994, both Ukraine and Belarus – as well as the third former Soviet republic then in possession of nukes, Kazakhstan – agreed to surrender their atomic arsenals in return for security guarantees from Moscow.

So much for Russian security guarantees. These days Putin claims Ukraine isn’t a nation at all, and must be subjugated or destroyed. And he regards Belarus as a personal fief destined eventually to be merged into a “Union State” with – obviously – Putin at its head.

The lesson for wannabe tyrants and aggressors everywhere – from North Korea to Iran and beyond – is plain. Only nukes can offer them insurance against nuclear blackmail from ruthless aggressors like Putin, and can simultaneously serve as instruments of extortion in their own tool kits. Yes, Putin has just launched a new era of proliferation.

His escalation is especially odious because it rhymes with his suspension last month of New START, the only remaining arms control treaty to limit strategic nukes. (Tactical warheads, which can have relatively “small” yields, are intended for use on the front to win battles, where strategic nukes are designed for deployment against the enemy’s homeland as a means of apocalyptic deterrence.)

As ever, Putin is using the full repertoire of the KGB methods he learned in his early career, distorting reality to create narratives that Russians and “useful idiots” in other countries will spread. Sending nukes to Belarus is only a proportionate answer to British plans to give Ukraine shells made of depleted uranium, he suggests. But the depleted uranium cannot cause fission and shells containing it are not nuclear weapons.

Putin is also trying to conflate his own plans in Belarus with the long-standing U.S. practice of stationing nuclear bombs in Allied nations such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Turkey. But those arsenals – whatever their merits at the time – date to the Cold War. Neither Washington nor any other capital in control of nuclear weapons would dream of placing such warheads closer to Russia in the current state of tension.

So Ukraine is right to call an immediate session of the United Nations Security Council. Russia has a seat on it, but so does China, which should use its new clout with Putin to talk him out of this madness. Better yet, Xi should pick up the phone right now and remind Putin just where their friendship ends.

And Belarusians – including the top brass of the army – should contemplate agitating against their dictator once again, to stop Putin from dragging them into disaster with him.

Ukraine and the West, meanwhile, must not let Putin spook them into hysteria. The Russian president has become so unpredictable and reckless, so deranged in his view of the world and his own destiny in it, that only steely resolve and calm strength can deter him from making a bad situation immeasurably worse.

Andreas Kluth is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering European politics. A former editor in chief of Handelsblatt Global and a writer for the Economist, he is author of “Hannibal and Me.”

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Joe Biden’s budget calls for more plundering of the American taxpayer

Farmers know a thing or two about stewardship.

If they don’t take care of their land, eventually it will cost them their livelihoods. Unlike farmers, who work to steadily build a better future, Vikings would plunder villages, taking all they could carry away before moving on to their next target.

President Joe Biden’s budgets take the latter approach, going after more and more of the American people’s hard-earned treasure every year.

Last year, his budget sought an additional $2.5 trillion in taxes beyond the $55.8 trillion in revenue that was forecast to be collected over 10 years. His latest budget is even more rapacious. The president is calling for $65.2 trillion in taxes and other revenues – nearly $7 trillion more than his last mega-budget.

Yet even with all the extra spoils, Biden’s budget would somehow manage to spend $17 trillion more than it would collect. This would shackle the American people with an additional $120,000 in federal debt per household by the end of the decade.

While the left portrays America’s billionaires as a bottomless well of tax revenues, the government could confiscate every penny of wealth from all the billionaires on the Forbes 400 list, seizing their companies’ assets and bankrupting them overnight, and that would barely cover half of Biden’s newest round of proposed increase in taxes. It wouldn’t even cover 5% of Biden’s total 10-year budget.

Clearly, all of Biden’s tax hikes can’t be limited to the very rich. Inevitably, they will reach the doorstep of

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Listen, I don’t want to sound authoritarian, but I hereby announce that the coming week is “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Week” and that everyone 16 or older is required to sing its lyrics in public at least once a day. After all, the oomph of this delightful ditty has been making millions feel bubbly for decades, and now its Disney owners are banning it from their domain.

The Disney bosses featured the song in two “Magic Happens” parades a day in Disneyland until the Covid-19 virus hit hard. They are now finally restoring the parades using a Peter Pan song as a substitute. The reasoning is that the snappy, peppy “Zip” tune and lyrics were first sung in a 1946 Disney movie, “Song of the South,” which was racist.

The singer, however, was James Baskett, the first Black actor to win an Oscar. He was not racist and neither is the song, which won an Academy Award. What’s more, few likely know much if anything about the 1946 movie and wouldn’t think the song objectionable if they did. At the end of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln told some musicians he wanted to listen to the Confederacyboosting song “Dixie,” one of the best tunes he had ever heard, he said. What’s next for dizzy Disney? Cutting off the ears of Mickey Mouse as a signal to never listen to the “Zip-aDee-Doo-Dah” merriment?

every working American. The Biden budget document repeatedly boasts it is “fiscally responsible.” The truth is, it is unsustainable, and it would doom the middle class to massive future tax increases. Biden’s budget would allow across-the-board tax hikes by permitting most of the Trump individual tax cuts to expire. However, the biggest taxpayer raids would directly target upper- and upper-middle-income taxpayers. The collateral damage would be devastating and widespread, reducing investment, stifling entrepreneurship and leaving fewer good jobs for all Americans.

Biden’s proposed tax hikes on the upper middle class are a foreboding sign for the middle class. In the days of the Vikings, if a richer nearby town was hit with repeated raids, surrounding villages had even more reason to fear they could be the next target.

Biden’s raid on taxpayers would hit in several waves.

Under Biden’s plan, federal taxes on wages for upper- and upper-middle-income Americans would rise from 37% to 44.6%. If they invested some of their after-tax wages in stocks, they would face a 28% tax on any profits at the corporate level (up from 21%) and up to 44.6% tax at the investor level (up from 23.8%).

And that’s just the federal income taxes. Factoring in inflation and multiple layers of state and local taxes, many investors would be left with none or almost none of their investment gains after the government ransacking. It’s insulting that Biden refers to this as their “fair share.”

Small businesses – and those who

rely on them – wouldn’t escape the wrath of Biden’s new taxes. Currently, small business active income is exempt from the net investment income tax, a surtax applied to investment income. Biden’s plan would extend this tax to directly hit most small business income and would raise the surtax from 3.8% to 5%.

Even death may not protect businessowners from Biden’s new taxes. The president’s proposal would nearly triple the number of taxpayers subject to the 40% death tax in 2026. If the deceased owned a business, the tax would apply to any increase in the value of a business since it was started or acquired. These changes would punish families for experiencing tragedy and force more owners of family businesses and farms to liquidate their assets to pay the steep taxes.

When businesses and farms are ruined, it’s not just the owners who suffer. Store clerks, janitors, and laborers will struggle to put food on the table when their employers are forced out of business.

For too long the president and Congress have treated taxpayers as though they should be allowed to keep only what the government decides, as though taxpayers serve at the pleasure of the government. This is precisely backward.

The government exists – at the consent of the governed – to defend us against threats to life, liberty and property, not to take our liberty and property in a less violent way.

Preston Brashers is a senior policy analyst focusing on tax policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Hermann Center for the Federal Budget.

It may seem that I myself am making too much out of too little. I would reply that this example helps demonstrate the fallacy of woke overreach. Consider some saying that not punishing shoplifters is justice, that fewer police means less crime or that biological men identifying themselves otherwise should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. What’s really incredible is failing to see that weakness in the guarding of our southern border helps kill hundreds of migrants and tens of thousands of drug-consuming Americans. Woke philosophy means being irrelevant to the point of absurdity on issues big and small. Its grandiose intent is to exhibit a moral sensitivity that’s insensitive while imagining wickedness that isn’t wicked and shielding the future from common sense. The agents of this silly swagger can themselves do harm by misleading others and damaging something worthy.

Concerning the issue of “Zip-aDee-Doo-Dah” defamation, I would like to say first that Walt Disney filled the childhoods of masses of us with the triumphs of virtue seen in such lovable characters as Bambi, Cinderella, Snow White, Pinocchio and Johnny Appleseed. “Song of the South” was upbeat in all the wrong ways, as in nostalgia for plantation life during Reconstruction. The movie combined two techniques to accomplish its entertainment pur-

poses, animation along with excellent nonanimated performances by Black actors who themselves were disturbed by the cheerful depiction of hateful slavery.

Yes, the company has a right to suddenly prohibit this popular song in its own parades out and about and in its park where the company also redid a ride referencing the movie. That’s their business and does not mean the song will therefore wither, die and go away, never to be heard again. I do, however, think the scowling attitude could diminish its presence and that a practice such as this one encourages similar virtue pretenses that undermine the understanding of right and wrong and give malevolence more of a chance.

While I have no way to enforce my Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Week, and will personally refrain from exhibiting my crackly voice, I would suggest those who do not know the tune seek it out on the internet and listen several times. In the meanwhile, here are some lyrics:

“Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-deeay / My, oh, my, what a wonderful day / Plenty of sunshine headin’ my way / Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-adee-ay! / Mister Bluebird’s on my shoulder / It’s the truth, it’s ‘actch’ll’ / Everything is ‘satisfactch’ll’ / Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay / Wonderful feeling, wonderful day!”

Jay Ambrose is an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service. Readers may email him at speaktojay@aol.com.

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‘Great Expectations’ a dismal remodel of a Dickens tale

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X, in partnership with the BBC, has made a dreary, dismal and not very Dickensian miniseries out of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations.” And while that seems to be in some measure the point, it is, all the same, dreary and dismal and does not count so much as an adaptation as a remodeling.

Steven Knight, who created the dark period crime drama “Peaky Blinders,” has taken the novel down to the studs and erected something quite different in its place. The outlines are vaguely recognizable, but the rooms are all different: The windows have been changed into doors and the doors into windows, and the walls have been painted black – the better not to see anything with.

This version, which premiered Sunday on FX and Hulu, begins with its main character, Pip (Fionn Whitehead), about to hang himself – nothing you’ll find in the book – announcing in no uncertain terms that This Is Not Your Great-Great-GreatGreat-Grandfather’s “Great Expectations,” or really anybody’s, because it is not really “Great Expectations.”

You’ll sometimes hear things along the lines of, “If Beethoven were alive today, he’d be writing film scores,” or “Da Vinci would be all about AI.” But it’s no great stretch to suggest that if Dickens were around now, television would be just his meat. His novels – with large casts of colorful major and minor characters in A and B and C stories and on down the alphabet – were published serially; he knew his way around a cliffhanger, loved a big reveal and wrote dialogue that fits well in an actor’s mouth. There are reasons that apart from Shakespeare, no writer in English has had his works so often – and often memorably – translated to the screen. There are obviously

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reasons for making this “Great Expectations,” but they have more to do with the TV business than with Dickens.

Affairs start more or less as they do on the page. Pip, who lives with his semi-abusive, much older sister Sara (Hayley Squires) and her sweet-natured blacksmith husband Joe (Owen McDonnell) in a village on the coastal marshes of Kent, encounters Magwitch (Johnny Harris), an escaped convict, in the churchyard and is frightened into fetching him food and a file. After a tussle with his nemesis and fellow convict Compeyson (Trystan Gravelle), Magwitch is recaptured and transported to Australia.

Through the offices of Mr. Pumlechook (Matt Berry), Pip is enlisted to become the playmate of Estella (Shalom Brune-Franklin), the adopted daughter of local crazy rich lady Miss Havisham (Olivia Colman). Miss Havisham has not left her house, or stepped out of her wedding dress, since she was abandoned at the altar many years before, and she is raising Estella to become a heartless destroyer of men. Estella toys with Pip and treats him rudely, which only makes him love her all the more and regret his low status. As fate would have it, Miss Havisham’s lawyer, Jaggers (Ashley Thomas), arrives to say that Pip has become the beneficiary of an anonymous windfall, and off he goes to London to become “a gentleman” – the fool.

After that, it’s anybody’s guess. Characters are remade beyond recognition. Odds and ends from the book – references to Cairo, the business of marine insurance – get new weight and a different context. Knight has taken the novel’s Gothic elements and smeared them over whatever was light

or comical or ironical in the original. In their stead, we get guns and knives, drugs and perversions, public urination and – authentically enough –horse poop.

Not trusting that a person losing his moral compass in the pursuit of status is drama enough – or perhaps just feeling that it had already been done – Knight has chosen to embroil Pip in crime and corruption under the influence of Jaggers, a minor character in the book who becomes a major one here. (“I am known to be evil,” says he.) There are nods to systemic exploitation – Miss Havisham’s inherited fortune comes from “opium, indigo and slaves” – and some random expressions of feminism and activism. (Pip’s childhood friend Biddy, played by Laurie Ogden, will declare near the end, “I’m a Chartist now,” referring to the working-class protest movement. But she has, paradoxically, been given little to do within the series itself.)

No one doubts that Olivia Colman is a great actor; I expect to see her nominated for some or another award for her Miss Havisham. I love Matt Berry, who, as much as any actor alive, was born to play characters from Dickens. Thomas has great vocal authority; it’d be nice to hear him read Shakespeare. Still, I wouldn’t pass final judgment on any actor by their work here. Most are unable to rise above the stylistic miasma of the production – Whitehead sounds narcotized even when Pip isn’t on drugs – or the entirely new words they’ve been asked to say. (“That is the reason I have decided not to blow your f–brains out right here in this alley,” is most definitely not Dickens.) Even Jaggers’ titlespawning announcement of Pip’s “great expectations” has been erased in favor of “I’ll teach you first to be a rat, then a snake, then a vulture, then with blood dripping from

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Bridge

A DECEPTIVE SUIT COMBINATION

The Greek sage Chilon of Sparta claimed that the three most difficult things are: to keep a secret, to forget an injury and to make good use of leisure. Well, anyone who plays bridge regularly is doing the last. It can also be important to keep a secret, not revealing which key cards you hold.

There are certain suit combinations

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that always seem to cause injury – declarer ends up falling to defeat when, with better balance, he could have stayed on his feet. One is highlighted in today’s deal.

South is in three no-trump. West leads the spade five, East puts up the queen and declarer wins with the king. How should he hope to bring home nine tricks?

First, check out those top tricks. Here South has seven: one spade (on the lead), two hearts, two diamonds and two clubs. So he needs two more tricks.

Clearly, despite some tempting red-suit cards, declarer will play on clubs. With only J-x of spades remaining, he wants to keep East off the lead. So South leads a low club and puts up dummy’s king. Then he plays a low club toward his hand. However, with this layout East wins a club trick and returns his last spade, letting West cash four tricks to defeat the contract.

Let’s go back to trick one. Suppose declarer ducks East’s spade queen. How can that hurt him? Answer: it can’t. No switch causes South pain, so let’s assume East returns his second spade, West winning with the ace and playing a third spade. Now declarer concedes a club trick to East and soon afterward claims nine tricks.

Let’s hope you don’t forget this injurious misplay.

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Sudoku by Wayne Gould

3/30/23

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

Yesterday’s solution:

Olivia Colman, left, as Miss Havisham and Tom Sweet as Young Pip in FX’s “Great Expectations.”

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Cannon reflects on his ‘growth’ since 2020

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Nick Cannon said his 2020 brush with cancellation over antisemitic remarks was a “growth moment” that he has since incorporated into a different attitude – with a podcast to prove it.

“I’m going to be super honest with you, man,” the performer and father of 12 told AllHipHop recently. “That process was a growth moment for me, on so many levels as a man.”

The host of “The Masked Singer” temporarily lost his “Wild ‘N Out” hosting gig with MTV over remarks he made while interviewing former Public Enemy member Professor Griff – real name Richard Griffin – for his “Cannon’s Class” podcast in July 2020. (Work on Cannon’s daytime talk show was also delayed until 2021, though that show lasted only one season.)

During that Cannon’s Class episode, the performer called Black people “the true Hebrews” and discussed antisemitic conspiracy theories with Griffin, who was kicked out of Public Enemy in 1989 over anti-Jewish remarks. Cannon and Griffin are both Black.

Amid the backlash that followed, and while he was angry about the “Wild ‘N Out” situation (he got that job back in February 2021), Cannon worked to learn about the Jewish experience. The

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your beak I will teach you how to be a gentleman.” OK.

If we decouple the series from its source, what then? Many viewers won’t have read the book or seen any earlier adaptations. On its own merits, it’s still a gloomy, violent slog, insistent on the eeriness of most every scene, including ones that don’t merit the treatment.

It’s laden with spooky sound effects, a moody, discordant score and postproduction coloring to erase any trace of natural light. The series

podcast episode was also unpublished.

“I want to assure my Jewish friends, new and old, that this is only the beginning of my education,” he tweeted as part of a lengthy apology thread in 2020. “I am committed to deeper connections, more profound learning and strengthening the bond between our two cultures today and every day going forward.”

One result of his learning experience, Cannon told AllHipHop, was “Solutions: 2 Hate or Not 2 Hate,” a podcast that came out this year featuring the rapper-actor and Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League. The five-episode podcast included conversations between Cannon and Greenblatt, with input from Black ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith, Jewish comic Alex Edelman and Black academic Michael Eric Dyson “It’s really talking about the equation of our two communities from two different perspectives,” Cannon said. “We voice our side, or the perspective as a Black man, and then he voices his side from a Jewish man. Just even that alone is helpful and educational for both communities.

“And again, because that’s the thing, we can sit up here and be enraged, but if we don’t engage, what are we really doing, if we can’t even learn from one another?”

becomes sillier as it becomes more serious, wending its way to a bizarrely cheerful conclusion – given the dour preceding hours – that shares only a fire with its literary antecedent. None of the character development feels earned. The narrative threads are clumsily engineered; their tying up feels pat. In the sense that the filmmakers seem to have accomplished exactly what they set out to do, I suppose you could call this “Great Expectations” a success. For “Peaky Blinders” fans, it may be just the Dickens they’ve been waiting for. And they are welcome to it.

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FAIRFIELD-SUISUNUNIFIEDSCHOOLDISTRICT NOTICEINVITINGQUALIFICATIONSANDPROPOSALS

NOTICEISHEREBYGIVENthatFAIRFIELD-SUISUNUNIFIEDSCHOOLDISTRICT, actingbyandthroughitsBoardofEducation,hereinafterreferredtoastheDistrictwillreceivesealedproposalsfromqualifiedBidders,upto,butnolaterthanMay2,2023,10:00 a.m.localtimeandwillnotbeopenedpublicly,fortheawardofcontractsforthefollowing: RFQ-P:#2181-24

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InterestedBiddersarereferredtotheFairfield-SuisunUnifiedSchoolDistrictPurchasing Departmentwebsite,https://www.fsusd.org/page/warehouse-and-purchasing,forallcommunication,instructions,andforms.TheRFQ/Ppacketwillbepostedby4:00p.m.on March29,2023.AllquestionsregardingthisRFQ/Pwillbeaccepteduntil4:00pmon April12,2023,andmustbesubmittedviaemailto:MelissaIriarteatmelissair@fsusd.org –usingthesubjectlineof“RFQ/P#2181-24Questions”.ItistheresponsibilityoftheBiddertocheckthewebsiteforaddendaand/orupdates.

SealedBids/Proposalswillbereceivedonorbefore10:00a.m.,May2,2023,attheofficeofthePurchasingDepartment,3rdfloor,2490HilbornRoad,Fairfield,California.One originalandoneelectronicversion(usbdrive)responsemustbesubmittedinasealed, clearlymarkedenvelope.Allproposalsmustbereceivedandtimeanddatestampedin thePurchasingofficebytheaboveduedateandtime.Proposalsreceivedafterthedue dateandtimewillbereturnedunopenedtotheBidder.Noexceptions.Faxedoremailed proposalswillnotbeaccepted.

AllproposalsmustconformandberesponsivetothisRFQ/P,andallnecessarydocumentsmustbeenclosed.Fairfield-SuisunUnifiedSchoolDistrictreservestherighttorejectanyandallproposals,towaiveanyinformalitiesorirregularitiestherein,andtoaccepttheproposalinwhole,orportionsoftheproposalthat,intheopinionoftheDistrict,is inthebestinterestoftheFairfield-SuisunUnifiedSchoolDistrict.

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49ers

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better gauge of Purdy’s recovery timeline after three months.

Shanahan noted that Purdy’s full recovery could take from “six to eight months, that’s all I know, and I’m pretty good with that.

“We’ll see in three months. He could be ready for camp (in late July) or not, and we possibly say, ‘Hey it’s going a little slow, it might be Week 1 or as late as Week 4,’ but it’s all just estimations. We’ll see what happens.”

With Purdy avoiding an extensive UCL reconstruction and Tommy John surgery, the 49ers weren’t pressed to pursue a more heralded quarterback than Darnold.

Shanahan cited the 49ers’ current three quarterback options and their scarce salary-cap space as why the 49ers are not interested in Lamar Jackson, the Baltimore Ravens’ franchise-tagged quarterback who is at a contract impasse.

“Everyone knows Lamar’s skillset. Lamar’s a stud. I’m sure he’ll work it out there. Lamar’s a great player,” Shanahan said. “We have three quarterbacks who are good with us right now, and we’re set with where our roster is salary cap-wise.”

No matter how well Lance or Darnold perform, Purdy established himself as a bona fide starter by winning eight games upon replacing an injured Jimmy Garoppolo, before getting hurt early in the NFC Championship Game loss at Philadelphia.

“Trey’s a great person, but he’s also smart and knows what he saw. He

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in the 200 meters (25.07) for Mount Olive at the Adidas Trojan Challenge on the school campus in North Carolina.

Baseball

Sophomore Tanner

Fonoti (Rodriguez) pitched up his second win over the season for Sonoma State. He threw 5 1/3 innings, allowed six hits, one earned run, two walks and struck out three in a 3-2 win over Chico State.

Redshirt sophomore

Hunter Dorraugh (Vacaville) went 2-for-3 at the plate with two RBIs and a double for San Jose State in a 7-6 loss to Sacramento State. Dorraugh had two hits and an RBI in a 4-3 win over Saint Louis.

Redshirt freshman Griffin Harrison (Vacaville) delivered a two-out RBI double that landed just fair inside the right field line in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift Sacramento State to a 7-6 win over San Jose State.

Redshirt senior Aaron Rund (Vacaville) picked up his second save of the season for nationally ranked Campbell.

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A brief social-media hiatus and a one-on-one chat with Draymond Green, as well as the general support of his coaches and teammates, helped Thompson find his zen on the court once again. He stopped chasing his shot and started playing within the flow of the offense.

His increased patience was followed by immediate results.

In his 52 games since that mid-November talk with Green, Thompson has averaged 23.2 points while shooting 45% from the field and 42.3% from 3-point

knows the level Brock played at, so he understands that,” Shanahan said. “I’ve talked to Trey the same way I’m talking to you guys right now, so he gets it. Trey’s just excited to be healthy, to come in and get those reps, and show us what he can do.”

Lance’s recovery is “going well” regarding his right ankle, which sustained a fracture and ligament damage Sept. 18 in the 49ers’ home opener. A follow-up procedure Dec. 30 removed stabilizing hardware from that ankle.

“He’s been traveling around, working with some quarterback coaches, throwing the ball and I’m excited getting into Phase 1 (of the offseason program) so we can start working together,” Shanahan said.

The 49ers’ offseason program opens April 17, with organized team activities beginning a month later with on-field practices and coaching.

“Brock played in eight games and won all of them and played at an extremely high level. We’re very excited to have that level of a player as a quarterback,” Shanahan added.

“We believe Trey can be that. I think he would have done that last year if he stayed healthy.

“The good thing for him, with Brock being hurt, he has an opportunity to try to regain that and everything. That’s also why we brought in Sam, because we can’t be set for sure on Brock because we never know how the injury will go. We think it will go well. We’re optimistic about it, but right now it’s on hold, so it opens up an opportunity for Trey and for Sam to come in and show us what they have.”

He pitched four innings, allowed three hits, one earned run and one walk to go with four strikeouts as the Camels held off East Carolina 2-1.

Freshman Jack Metcho (Rodriguez) had a couple of strong starts at third base while Pacific had some big losses. Metcho was 2-for-4 with two RBIs in a 19-4 loss to Portland. He was 2-for-3 in a 14-5 loss to Portland.

Softball

Sophomore outfielder Tai Wilson (Vanden) went 4-for-5 with two RBI for Seattle University in an 11-9 win over Stephen F. Austin. She was 2-f0r-4 with a triple and an RBI in a 4-2 win over SFA.

Senior outfielder Brook Mitchell (Vacaville) had a 2-for-3 game and scored three runs for Army in a 9-6 win over Holy Cross.

Freshman outfielder Mia Santos (Vanden) picked up a pair of hits for Chico State in a 5-0 loss to Cal State San Bernardino.

Freshman Kate Tobola (Rodriguez) went 3-for-3 and drove in three runs for Dominican in a 6-3 win over Hawaii-Hilo. She also had two hits in an earlier 6-5 loss to Hawaii Pacific.

range. He’s eclipsed the 40-point mark three times and notched his third game with 12-or-more 3-pointers – something not even Stephen Curry has accomplished.

But Thompson is most proud of the fact that he’s available and been one of the Warriors’ most reliable players this season, logging the second-most minutes on the team (2,115.)

Kerr said Thompson’s durability alone this season is worth celebrating.

“The fact he’s playing back-to-backs now, playing heavy minutes, he’s just put in so much work to get to this point,” Kerr said.

“To overcome two injuries and now play at such a high level, everybody’s thrilled for him.”

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the critical outs in countless more contests. At 5-foot-11 and 185 pounds and lacking a powerful fastball, he still took down the biggest players in the game.

“I was a power pitcher without power stuff,” Romo said.

He did it with a big personality, too. He was an everyman hero – the life of a team of lovable and winning misfits.

“That support I’ve had my career. It was always uplifting to me. It always motivated me and gave me fuel to be a little bit bigger than I thought I was, to do more things than I thought I could,” Romo said. “Tonight was just another example of the support that I had. It never wavered. It didn’t matter what jersey I wore after [leaving San Francisco] it still felt like people were pulling for me, playing against their team, you know?”

“I’m so thankful for it all. This is my storybook ending for a fairytale career. What a fitting way to go out with Orange and Black.”

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inning and made it stand in a 3-1 win over visiting Fairfield on Monday.

Denzel Dilly drove in two runs with a hit for the Mustangs. Kyle Sandner had the other RBI and closed out the game with one inning of pitching for the save. Grant Genter pitched five strong innings and also got relief help of one inning from Evan Broschard.

Christian Rambeau pitched six solid innings for Fairfield. He allowed seven hits, three earned runs and notched one strikeout. Devin Knox had two hits and Juan Martinez delivered a double for the Falcons.

Rodriguez improved to 6-3 overall and 3-1 in the Monticello Empire League. Fairfield is now 6-6 overall and 0-4 in the MEL. The teams have already pushed back Wednesday's game to 4 p.m. Thursday

But all great things must come to an end.

And for the Giants, Romo’s retirement and his “storybook ending” carried a deeper context.

This team’s era of greatness – call it a dynasty if you insist –was played in effectively a different sport. Baseball’s dead-ball era has been over for a while time. This modern game is about speed.

And not just in the velocity of pitches and hits, but in the actual pace of the game, too.

Before Romo even threw his first pitch on his special day, home plate umpire Nick Lentz hit him with a two-ball penalty for a pitchclock violation.

Romo just wanted to savor his final entrance and take in the love from the fans. The poor guy was chased out of the contest.

The Giants organization – keen to milk every last drop of nostalgia out of the title teams –finds itself in a similar place, struggling to get up to speed.

The World Series pennants plastered on the left-field wall were once a popping orange. They

at Fairfield because of the weather. Friday's game is still scheduled for 4 p.m. at Rodriguez.

Vacaville scores late to win big at Armijo

FAIRFIELD — The Vacaville High School baseball team scored seven runs in the final two innings to spoil a solid pitching outing by Armijo's Luis Urias in a 10-0 win for the Bulldogs Monday. Urias went five innings and had 12 strikeouts. He allowed just three hits and one earned run. Vacaville's Jaiden Oldwin, meanwhile, threw a onehitter over six innings with eight strikeouts.

Vacaville improved to 4-6 overall and 2-2 in the Monticello Empire League. Armijo fell to 3-5 overall and 2-2 in the MEL. The Bulldogs led 3-0 after fifth innings before scoring three runs in the sixth inning and four more in the seventh.

have been sun-bleached over the last decade. They’re now a light peach – a faded relic of a bygone era.

With Romo’s retirement, only Madison Bumgarner is now the only active member of all three Giants World Series-winning teams, and he’s out to pasture (with his horses, of course) in Arizona.

And as Romo left the game Monday – handing the ball to Hunter Pence on the mound in a fantastic surprise orchestrated by the team – it was impossible not to notice that he wasn’t hugging Bruce Bochy, Buster Posey, Brandon Belt, and Bumgarner in the dugout, but rather coaches and players with no connection to those title teams.

Outside of Brandon Crawford, the current Giant players thanked Romo for his indelible contributions to something they didn’t experience.

Yes, only one San Francisco World Series winner is still on the Giants. And while it’s too early to think about Crawford’s goodbye, it’s must also be noted that the Giants have been

Brenden Murphy was 2-for-3 at the plate with a triple and two RBI for Vacaville. Lawrence Westbrook was 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Eli Blurton worked in relief of Oldwin and struck out three batters.

Chad Lewis had the lone single for the Royals.

Vacaville and Armijo are scheduled to resume their series Wednesday in Vacaville at 4 p.m., weather permitting. Friday's series finale will be back at Armijo at 4 p.m.

Softball

Atayde leads

Vacaville softball

VACAVILLE —

Xochitl Atayde fired six strong innings in the circle and had 17 strikeouts as the Vacaville High School softball team earned a 7-1 win over California in San Ramon in a nonleague game Monday.

Atayde allowed just six hits and one earned run.

saying a lot of goodbyes as of late. For a few seasons, those goodbyes were the only thing to look forward to all season.

The hope is that this season is not highlighted by Romo’s exhibitiongame exit – as lovely a night as it was. The idea is that this 2023 Giants team is a squad closer in spirit to the befuddling 2021 Giants, improbable winners of 107 games, or, if things really break their way, the 2010 Giants – misfits who surprised the world and won it all, with Romo playing a massive role.

Perhaps these Giants can capture the spirit of Romo, who was overlooked on every step of his baseball journey, but won, consistently, with heart, tenacity, and by using whatever advantage he could find.

If the 2023 Giants can do that, this group of generally anonymous players will become local heroes, one day befitting of a sendoff like Monday’s.

A sendoff that was befitting of a legend.

Dieter Kurtenbach is a sports columnist for the Bay Area News Group.

She was also 2-for-2 at the plate with an RBI. Hayden Kyne had two hits and Paige Witte doubled. Vacaville improved to 4-1. The Bulldogs were scheduled to play at home Tuesday against Rodriguez in a Monticello Empire League game.

Boxing

Vanden senior off to state Golden Gloves

FAIRFIELD — Vanden High School senior Isaiah Serrano, 18, has qualified for the California Golden Gloves beginning Saturday in Concord at the Community Youth Center, 2241 Galaxy Court. Serrano, who trains at the West Coast Hitters boxing club in Fairfield, defeated Jayden Tran of Cali Boxing and Fitness on Sunday in a Senior Male Novice bout at 112 pounds in Concord. He won the NorCal title last weekend against the only guy in his regional flyweight class.